Johnson, fellow Americans falter in tough Olympic gym competition oouin Korea (AP) — Perfection on the parallel bars gave the Soviet men a huge lead in Olym pic gymnastics Sunday while the Americans’ imperfections all but doomed their chances for a medal. Vladimir Artemov scored a per fect 10 5h the parallel bars, enabling him to outscore his world champion teammate, Dmitri Bilozerchev. Val eri Lyukin was right behind them as the Soviets posted the top three over all scores. With such a solid lead heading into Tuesday’s optional program, the Soviets appeared certain of winning their fourth Olympic team title. And their 1-2-3 standing made it unlikely that anyone else could win the indi vidual all-around title. The U.S, team’s hopes of defend ing its title evaporated after three mistakes by former Nebraska gym nast Scott Johnson, who is the only veteran from the sauad that won the gold medal at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. The Soviets boycotted the Los •Angeles Games. At the end of compulsory events, the Soviets had 295.700 points, fol lowed bv East Germany with 293.450 and Japan with 292.650. China was 4th with 291.400 points. The Americans were in last place, 12th with 285.900. Johnson, at 27 the most experi enced U.S. gymnast, committed er rors on the high bar and pommel horse, and missed his landing after the rings routine. “1 tried to max out and that’s where the mistakes came in,” Johnson said. “I tried ndt todet the team down.” Other American gymnasts also bungled their routines. Of the 36 indi vidual scores by the six Americans, 16 were below 9.50. But Johnson took the blame. ‘’We only had three misses today, and they were all mine,” John said. "I'm not the happiest guy, but still I’m a two-time Olympian.” The best American performance was by national champion Charles Lakes of Chatsworth, Calif. He fin ished 35th individually with 57.900 points. Lakes’ best mark was a 9.80 for his high bar routine. He also had a 9.70 in the floor exercises and 9.60s in the other four events. Artemov was the only gymnast who received a perfect mark in the compulsories. He is the world record holder on the parallel bars. Artemov also got a 9.95 for his floor routine, 9.90 in the high bar and the rings, 9.85 in the vault and 9.80 on the pommel horse. His individual total of 59.400 was just ahead of Bilozerchev’s 59.350. Bilozerchev, a two-time world champion and the favorite to win the individual all-around title, had four 9.90s. He got a 9.950 on the rings but fell to 9.80 in the vault, when he stumbled after landing. Lyukin, with four 9.90 scores, was 3rd at 59.150. Lyukin had a 9.85 on the horse, but faltered in the vault and got a 9.70. East Germany was prcroeiled by Sven Tippelt with three 9.90s and two 9.80s. Sylvio Kroll pot a 9.90 for his floor routine, but slipped slightly on his vault landing for a 9.85. Japan was paced by Yukio Iketani, who nad three 9.90s. China, which won the silver medal in Los Angeles, suffered from mis takes by Li Ning, the 1984 all-around bronze medalist, and a series of other erratic performances. Missouri ‘wilts' in 31-7 setback KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Houston quarterback David Dacus let the scoreboard do his talking. Dacus combined with Andre Ware to pass away Missouri 31 >7 in a non conference game Saturday. “They got a few sacks and were whooping it up a lot, but by the time they were whooping it up, there were 24 points on the board,” said Dacus after the Cougars blitzed Missouri for a 24 0 lead with 9:53 left in the first half. In other Big Eight games, Baylor shut out Iowa state 35-0, No. 4 Okla homa crushed Arizona 28-10, Colo rado upset No. 19 Iowa 24-21, No. 6 Auburn routed Kansas 56-7, and Tulane kept Kansas State winlcss 20 16. Nebraska, 2-1, and Oklahoma State, 1-0, were idle. Houston, 2-0 after winning back to-back games on the road for the first time since 1984, attempted 56 passes against the Tigers, the most against a Missouri team since Air Forccpassed and San Diego State passed 53 times in *960 and 1979. Dacus and Ware each threw two touchdown passes, and James Dixon caught three scoring passes, lying another Missouri record. Tom Ban deras of Nebraska caught three touch down passes against the Tigers last year. “They were playing far off us,” Dixon said. “I don’t know if they were afraid of our speed. When our offense is clicking, they can’t concentrate on one of us, they have to concentrate on all of us.” Missouri coach Woody Widen hofer, who entered the season with high optimism despite seeing his teams win a total of nine games the last three years, said the Tigers wilted in the face of the Cougars’ attack and the 90-degree heat “You can’t keep a defense on the Held all day in 90 degrees and expect them to keep making big plays,” Widenhofer said. “Everybody talked about their defense. They’ll be talk ing about their offense now. It was ex - plosive.” It was business as usual for Baylor and coach Grant Teaff at Ames. “Sure, I thought we could stop them like that,'’ Teaff said. “It’s a major part of our game plan, and we do it to most teams.” Charles Perry scored three touch downs as Baylor, 3-0, took a 21-0 lead, then capitalized on two Iowa State fumbles in the closing three minutes. Iowa State f umbled a punt at itsown 15and Anthony Ray scored on a 1-yard jn.TheCycl' les, 1-1,then fumbled fhc kickoff; their own 10, leading to a 2 yard scoring run by Ray. “You saw a great lesson in college football today,” Iowa State coach Jim Walden said. “It was a clinic.” Jamcile Holieway hurt his elbow against Arizona at Norman, but still had enough to lead the Sooners. Okla homa, 2-0, was at its 21 and leading 14-10 when Holieway broke a 34 yard run on third-and-2. One play later, he threw a 43-yard touchdown pass to Eric Bross to dispose of Ari zona, 2-1. “Jamelle Holieway had a great game, as we expected he would,” Coach Barry Switzer said. “His exe cution was outstanding on the first three or four plays.” Holieway had 148 yards in total offense to move into 2nd place on the career chart at Oklahoma with 4,392 yards, trailing Jack Mildren’s mark of 4,831. “When we were down in their end of the field we couldn’t score,” said Wildcats coach Dick Toney. “When they were in our end, they could. That’s the whole story of the game.” Sal Auncsc may have won himself a quarterback job after engineering a drive with 5 1/2 minutes to play that gave Colorado its victory over Iowa at Iowa City. “Obviously, to come back and put a drive like that together and get the victory is tremendous testimony to the resolve, poise and leadership we had out there,” Coac h B i 11 McCartney said. Auncsc guided the Buffaloes, 2-0, on an 85-yard drive, and scored from 1- yard out. Iowa, 1-2, iost its home opener for the first time in six years. Auburn’s victory had Coach Pat Dye thinking his team is close to ready. “We are close to being ar. explo sive team,” Dye saidas his team went 2- 0. “We can’t get ovcrexciied. We don’t know how good a football team we are yet.” Auburn scored on its first four possessions. “That’s the worst Saturday I’ve ever been through,” said Jay hawks coach Glen Mason after falling to 0-2 in his first year. “We can’t give up a touchdown every time they touch the ball.” Browns’ Pagel gets 1st start tonight j CLEVELAND (AP) - Quarter back Mike Pagel finds it ironic, though not very sentimental, that his first start since 1985 will come against the team that gave up on him that year. “The majority of that team has changed, personnel-wise, so it’s no big deal,” said Pagel, who on Monday night will become the Cleveland Browns’ third starting quarterback in - three games as they play host to the Indianapolis Colts. Pagel was a fourth-round draft choice of the Colts back in 1982, when they were still in Baltimore, and he beat the odds as a rookie by stealing the starting job from first-round pick Art Schiicnter. Pagel went on to start 47 of the Colls’ 57 games over the ' ■ new! fdoraeasonfft during which they ■ v wett !6*fr4;bofofcamd son ‘frft* the1 ftc ifbrtifce rt ‘ ankle lale in the third quarter last Sunday against the New York Jets. Suddenly, Pagel was a starter again. He looked surprisingly good in the fourth quarter against the Jets, com pleting 7 of 14 passes for 73 yards. Like the other two quarterbacks, however, he was unable to produce a touchdown. The Browns have now gone two games without getting into the end zone, the first time that’s happened since Mike Phipps was their quarterback in 1973. “The Jets put a lot of pressure on us and got into defenses that are weird and strange,’’ the 28-year-old Pagel said. “We adjusted to it, but usually too late." Pagel, at 6-foot-2, 210 pounds, is , more suited to scrambling than either ' jfer r~ iitrrm/v jhg j *Wlv!Wiutl Waif Remember family or friends with Special Occasion, Get Well or Memorial cards. 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