European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 27, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 27, 1992 the stars and stripes Page 21 Reynolds falters in 400 bid Des Moines Iowa a Butch Reynolds comeback stalled again saturday when he failed in a second bid to qualify for the . Olympic trials. Reynolds recently cleared to run in this country while appealing a two year suspension from track won the 400 meters in the 83rd Drake relays with a Strong finish. But the Early Pace was too slow and his time of 45.92 seconds fell Short of the 45.80 he needed to qualify for the trials in june. He also ran 45.92 in a meet in California last weekend. Dronko relays a the race Tempo Wasny to there a said Reynolds the world record Holder in the 400. A we thought the whole Field was going to run a lot faster than  Reynolds ran in Windy 40-degree weather after a potential rival in the 400, Michael Johnson easily won the 200. Johnson is ranked no. 1 in the world at both distances but Hasni to decided if hell try to qualify for the olympics in both or just one. Suspended in 1990 after testing positive for steroids Reynolds outran Danny Harris the olympic Silver medallist in the 400 hurdles in saturdays race. Harris finished second in 46.11 seconds. Brooks faded to fifth. Johnson beat former Drake Star Kevin Little and Texas Elpaso Sola Pade Adenike to win the 200 in 19.9, extending his unbeaten Streak at that distance to 28 meets. He Hasni to lost in the 200 since May of 1990. Adenike was second in 20.2 seconds and Little was third also in a hand timed 20.2. The hand times were used because the electronic timing device failed. Gwen Torrence the no. 1-ranked american woman in the 100 and 200, beat two Strong rivals in the 400. She passed Lillie Leatherwood and Natasha Kaiser in the final two turns to win in 50.95 seconds. Kaiser was second in 51.40 and Leatherwood third in 52.27. Also saturday Len Sitko anchored Illinois to its second relay Victory of the weekend Baylor reclaimed the title in the 1,600 relay and Wisconsin raced to a second meet record in the women a division. Members of the Santa Monica track club from left cart Lewis Floyd heard Leroy Burrell and Mike Marsh celebrate their win. Lewis anchors Santa Monica to world record in 800 relay Philadelphia apr the Santa Monica track club set a world record in the 800-meter relay and Arkansas and leu each won two major menus relays saturday in the 98th Penn relays. Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell the worlds highest ranked sprinters led Santa Monica to a world record of 1 minute 19.11 seconds in the olympic development 800-meter relay. The Santa Monica quartet of Mike Marsh Burrell Floyd heard and Anchorman Lewis broke the Mark of 1 19.38 set in 1989 by a Santa Monica team composed of Burrell heard Lewis and Danny Everett. Arkansas leading almost from Start to finish won the 6,000-meter relay by about 40 Yards its eighth Victory in the event in 11 years. On Friday Arkansas won the distance Medley also for the eighth time in 11 years. Arkansas which gained a slight Lead Penn relays on the final Lap of the first leg and then pulled away during John Schiefert a second leg was clocked in 15 minutes 1.62 seconds. Wisconsin finished second in 15 08.86, with Villanova third in 15 09.86. A John did a tremendous Job a coach John Mcdonnell said. A the broke the race wide open. You never expect to come Here and win easy but i Felt kind of confident after the second let i knew i had two Good milers at the  Schiefer said he was tired but determined to give Niall Bruton a was much room As i  Bruton who anchored the distance Medley team and ran the third leg in the 6,000 team was selected top male athlete of the meet. Villanova a Carole Zajac who set a collegiate record of 32 23.09 for 10,000 meters on thursday was named the meets top woman athlete. Leu ran off with the sprints winning 400-meter relay in 39.70 and the 800-Mcter relay in 1 22.02. On Friday the leu women won the 400-meter relay and the shuttle hurdles. Villanova won the menus 3,200 saturday in 7 21.93 to go with its 6,000 Triumph Friday. Washington state left with three individual winners Joseph Kap Kory in the 5,000 13 44.37mark Mcdonald in the 400-meter hurdles 50.29and . Guo the 10,000 29 00.05 a Tennessee quartet of Shane Lacy Tony Lee Marwin Kline and Tony Prilla won the sprint Medley championship in 3 14.47 Over North Carolina which finished in 3 14.86. Prilla ran the 800 Anchor leg in 1 45.6. Clemson shuttle hurdle team of Duane Ross Nathan Fields Anthony Knight and Larry Ryons won in 56.7.Scherr, Koslowski a retire for titles Las vegas apr for 220-Pounders Bill Scherr and Dennis Koslowski one olympic medal May not be enough. Both wrestlers won Bronze medals in the 1988 olympic games and both came out of retirement to win titles in the . Open wrestling championships saturday night at the Las vegas convention Center. Scherr 31, competing in his first tournament since winning a Gold medal in the Goodwill games nearly two years ago beat Kirk Trost of Ann Arbor Mich., 30 and posted a 6-0 record in the tournament. A i wrestled Here just to see where i am physically a Scherr said. A a in a not anywhere near where i need to be to compete for the olympic team. I can make up the ground if i put my mind to it but i Haven t made that decision  Koslowski 32, of St. Louis Park minn., who returned to Competition a year ago after a three year absence won by disqualification when his opponent Chris Tironi of Albany ., was assessed a third and final caution for passivity after the two had wrestled eight scoreless minutes. The meet produced eight first time champions out of 20 weight classes in the past cause for concern in . Open wrestling olympic year. But the wrestlers rated no. 1 nationally did no to have to compete in the meet to retain their rating under a new olympic qualifying system established last year by Usa wrestling the sports National governing body. Fourteen top rated wrestlers skipped the meet including defending olympic Gold medallist and five time world Champion John Smith. They await the olympic trials in june. The freestyle tournament ended with heavyweight Bruce Baumgartner the 1984 olympic Gold medallist beating Tom Erikson of Stillwater okla., for his 11th straight . Open title. Baumgartner was the Only one of 10 defending freestyle champions to defend his title successfully. Winning their first . Open freestyle titles were Jack Griffin of Iowa City Iowa 114.5 John Fisher of Ann Arbor Mich. 136.5 Matt Demaray of Madison wis. 149.5 Greg Elinsky of Philadelphia 163and Dan Chaid 198. Dennis Hall of Neosho wis. 125.5 Rodney Smith of fort Benning a. 149.5 and Travis West of Portland Ore. 163 were first time winners in the Greco roman meet. Greco roman heavyweight Matt Ghaffari of Chandler ariz., the world Silver medallist last year beat David Koplovitz of Albany ., 1-0 in the title match. Ghaffari also finished third in the freestyle meet. Shawn Sheldon also a 1991 world Silver medallist lost 5-0 to Hall in the 125.5-Pound final. Sheldon was wrestling a weight above his regular 14.5-Pound class. West avenged a loss in last years 149.5-Pound final by beating Andy Seras of Schenectady ., 5-0, All of his Points coming on a High arching throw nearly three minutes into the match. Both will return to 149.5 pounds for next months Greco roman trials at Albany  A one of the reasons i moved up to 163 was that i knew Seras would be there a West said. A i wanted to prove i could beat him. When i hit the five Point throw i think he knew the match was  the Winner at 114.5 pounds Mark Fuller of Gilbert ariz., will try for his fourth straight olympic berth next month at 105.5. Buddy Lee of Quantico va., the 136.5-Pound Greco roman Champion and Kendall Cross of Stillwater okla., who won the freestyle title at 125.5, were voted the meets outstanding wrestler awards