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
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backs and got rid of die ones there,”
Page! said. “On Monday they traded
for Gary Hogeboom. On Tuesday
they drafted Jack Trudeau, and on
Wednesday they told us we were out
of there.”
Trudeau will be the Colts’ starter
Monday, backed by Hogeboom.
Cleveland picked up Pagel in ex
change for a ninth-round draft choice,
but it was his misfortune to arrive just
as Bemie Kosar was coming into his
own. In two seasons with the Browns,
Pagel threw a total of three passes,
completing two of them.
Until last week. With Kosar side
lined by a sprained right elbow suf
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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
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