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Ry oy AY ow igh "16 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednestey, Mey 19, 19703 EIGHT MEDALS We'd Say Willie Weiler; Has Proved His Point By JACK SULLIVAN Canadian Press Sports Editor ALLISTON, Ont, (CP) -- Wil- helm (Willy) Weiler instinc- tively flexed the muscles on his well - proportioned 150 - pound frame and snapped: 70 medals and cups since he came to this country seven years-ago and gave up his trade as a tool and dye maker be- cause 'the crazy hours" (3 p.m. to midnight) didn't give him time to practise. He joined the army and now is the top gym- poe tae doe eh t,t a tin, th fag Ba ci, en dea tes Aci te Tk cde ka ky Me 1 Hi cl a Mi ls ti il i ia alli Rieti of Rastatt, West Germany, He trains 24% to three hours a day throughout the year and, as a naturalized Oanadian c itizen, hopes to compete for this coun- try in the 1964 Olympics in To- kyo, But there's one small! hitch, Shortly after the 1960 Olympics in Rome, the Canadian Olympic ssociation decided to drop bas- ketball, cycling, fencing and gymnastics from Canada's na- tional team for 1964. These athletes had shown practically Willy, who talks with a clipped|the strenuous 10-event decath- German accent, became riled on| lon in track and field. » question of gymnastics med: )EFENDS SYSTEM | nae | "So what!" Willy declared,| Isn't it ridiculous, he was),, fa x K "People who know gymnastics asked, when gymnasts receive doa talk ka that. | gold medals for each exercise : such as swinging on parallel| "I don't say that only one Ria. whshe' ae a gold medal should be given for 'had athletes nothing in world competition but the COA left the door open for their re-entry. If these sports proved they of international calibre, they would be included on the team, Many people will argue that Weiler has the qual- ifications, : AIMS AT TOP SIX New York Mets, Kansas City Are Drawing Crowds NEW YORK (AP)--The en- thusiasm of New York Mets and Kansas City supporters plus fan apathy in Houston and Detroit are reflected in an Associated Press survey of major league baseball attendance figures, The Mets show the largest gate increase in the big leagues. They are 85,236 ahead of 1962, their first year of operation in the National League, The Mets attendance is 296,684 for 16 home dates compared to 211,448 a year ago, Meanwhile, Houston, which also came into the National jinx and Pimlico's sharp turns f for $150,000-plus in the Preak- ness Saturday. grabs 'the second leg of the triple crown, he will be only the fifth Kentucky Derby win- ner in 19 years to win the Pim- _ classic, and the 14th since place finishers in the Derby or winners of the Preakness Prep. Downs have done nearly twice in th dil sel Chateaugay May Lose On The Turns BALTIMORE (AP)--A sizable ace Chateaugay when he races If John W. Galbreath's colt Odds seem to favor second- Runners-up at Churchill Sells Mile diliadt atl called ' e wie sw "+ ee P ~ +4 7 te * ¥ " FIGHTS LAST NIGHT try Squire, winner of this year's Prep. , Nor will Chateaugay have those sweeping Churchill Downs curves which enabled him to close from seventh to thunder Past Never Bend and favored Candy Spots on the stretch turn in the Denby, LACKS BIG TURNS Pimlico's fast, tight turns have provided more than one excuse for a Derby winner's! poor showing in the Preakness. But Jim Conway, Chateau- gay's trainer, doesn't seem wor. ried, His colt worked a mile By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York--Frankie Narvaez, 137%, New York, sume Lou Anderson, 139, New York, 2, San Antonio, Tex. -- Manny Elias, 118, Los Angeles, stopped Humberto (Lefty) Berrera, 117%, Robstown, Tex., 9. BIG IN TRADE | Britain, with two per cent of |the world's population, is the second largest trading nation. --------<--<--<-------- BROWN'S| LUMBER & SUPPLIES "Gymnastics is not a sissy's|nast in North and South Amer-|bars, vaulting and so on? In ) game. It's nothing but sweat ica, comparison, there's one gold forthe decathlon, but if a guy is) How would he do? In the 1960 and hard work." {good enough in individual events|Games the top American fin- THEY NEVER WIN, BUT League last season, has the largest deficit. The Colts' turn- stile count is 153,822 for 16 home dates, In 1962 their total for the same number of home dates was 286,471. The drop is 132,649, as well in the Preakness as Derby winners, which should be heartening news to Never Bend's owners, Never Bend _ finished behind/ Chateaugay by 1% lengths in| the Derby May 4. | LTD. "DO-IT-YOURSELF HEADQUARTERS" NEW HOMES & HOME IMPROVEMENTS Monday at Pimlico, clocking a blistering 1:37 3-5, equalling a' track record set 29 years ago, } LUB JOB ? The questioner agreed, Gym- then he should go out and try/lished 21st in the individual all- nastics has given Willy the for a gold in those. In gymnas-/round competition and Weiler chest of a weightlifter, the tics, we get a gold medal forjhas beaten him twice since arms of a village blacksmith, the individual events, meaning/then, 'I have it in the back of the waist of a ballet dancer and the catdike agility of a superb boxer, His dark eyes flash when people talk disparagingly about his chosen sport which, he says, is the basis for all sports, The 27-year-old German-born Weiler is something of a celeb- rity around the huge Camp Bor- den military base where he's an army physical training instruc- tor. He lives in a modest up- stairs flat at this nearby little town with his wife, Fay, and 24-year-old son, Frederick. | WON EIGHT MEDALS Willy had just returned home from the Pan-American Games in Brazil with eight medals--three gold, four sec- ond-place silver and one third- place bronze. The anmy had given him a couple of days off and he shucked his sergeant's uniform for a pair of blue jeans, sneakers and sweat shirt. | Medals and trophies were everywhere--hanging from the walls, in sideboards and on ta- bles. They were won over a 17- year span in competitions in Eu. rope, Canada, the United States, Mexico and South America, | THEY'RE ALWAYS IN DES MOINES, Iowa (CP) For the 16th year a Chinese has failed to win the Chinese Open Golf Tournament, Hastening to avoid any in- ternational incident, host pro- fessional Frank Donovan quickly admitted Monday a Chinese golfer has never even entered the annual affair played on the Clover Hills course in West Des Moines. "There just doesn't seem to be any Chinese golfer around,"' lamented Donovan, who goes all out to provide what he calls 'Chinese atmos- phere," Donovan conceded that Monday's festivities were a bit subdued compared with previous years, There were no stuffed dragons or Indian dancers, Indian dancers? "Well, why not, they dance kid of Chinese," Donovan said, 'But we haven't had *em back because all they did was sit around and eat hot dogs." However, there were enough unnatural hazards to amaze Dick Hart; Chicago profes- sional who said: seen anything like it, They "I've never we are the best in these, and|my mind that I might be able another for the all-round best. |to finish in the top six in some "Each medal counts for three event," he says. different routines and each rou-| Weiler won .the Norton H. tine lasts a minute to a minute|Crowe Memorial Award in 1961 and a half. It takes only 15 sec-/and 1962 as the Canadian male onds to throw the discus, jave-jathlete who has made an out- lin, shot-put and to broad jump,|standing contribution to any improvement on the field with a second-place standing in the American League, largest attendance gain in its circuit, With a 194,903 count for 18 home days, the Athletics are 65,156 ahead of last year. Kansas City, showing marked shows the ness Prep winners romped! home in the Preakness. | could do worse than take Coun-' Four of the last six Preak-| Those looking for a winner) Stop Here First | For Prompt ! Expert Service! | W. L. HOUSTON | 67 KING Ww. _ 728-7822 FULL LINE OF BUILDING 4704 436 RITSON N, (Where Pavement Ends) won't believe me back home when I tell them about the crazy things I played through," Hart told of the nine-piece brass band blaring out 10 feet behind the first tee. There were fireworks exploding on the greens, a 60-piece march- ing band parading around the course and smoke bombs which obsgured vision on many shots, Donovan, who operates the public course, started the | tournament in 1947 "'because the old joke in golf used to be that when somebody asked if you had ever won a tour- nament you told 'em, 'Sure, the Chinese Open.' "So I started a real Chinese Open. for somebody to win." P.S.: Three golfers tied for the win with 65s for the par 70 course, pole vault and high jump. 'Are the first three in these field events entitled to goid,| jsilver and bronze medals any more than we are for our in- dividual exercises? | "The decathlon guys are all- round track and field experts. They're above average, but are| they good enough to go out in the javelin, for instance, and win a gold medal over men who have specialized in this event?" 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