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11-TMT MO«GA.VTfm\ POST Monday Afternoon Aug. »WestRompsThird VictoryROME (UP!) —Oscar Robertson, basketball's fabulous “Big 0,“ scored 22 points today to lead the U.S.basketball team to a 107-63 romp over Hungary in what coach Pete Newell called the Yanks* best performance so far in the Olympics.A crowd of about 4.000 saw the Americans scoreGerman LeadsIn Divine Againtheir third win of theWlPOill«p■tournament in a game that «ty, who scored l? points, Terrystarted at § a m (4 a m , t.di), j Diachmger of Denver, Colo. andHeadmuch earlier than the American f Purdue University, and LesterMen’s Divplayers are accustomed to playing Lane of the Whictta, Kan , Vick*1 ers. an A A.U. team. While theyROME (UPOI?As usual the Americans tnjoved a big height advantage and were in action during the second i Kramer, GermanyBlondeDresdenmarksman- half they really ran the Hungari- DollHup*et favoredhad much betterahip than their rivals, but general- ragged and rolled up SI pop* nf Santa Ana, Calif,Iv it was Robertson, the Univer- points.mBoxmty of Cincmnati star, and Big Jerry Lucas of Ohio State who I B**ed Stales dominated the game, j DtsdungerRobertaon provided most of the Robertsonaction in the first half as he hucas arnred eight of his nine field j Wrst goals en route to his total of 12 I-***Lucas took over in the! BellamyImhoffSmithpoints,second half and racked up 1® field Boorergoal* after having scored only Hakiorson one during the first chapter, point total was 21,The Hungarians had only one A matte tall man, center Laslo Gahanyi who is 6-6, so they couldn't do Hungary much as the giraffes from the Banhegyi United States constantly swept the Bohaty hoards on rebounds. But the Euro GahanyiTotalsJudikpeans had a spectacular passing Greminger game and like soccer player*; Zsiroa they were flipping the ball Ternesvari length of the court.But their shooting percentage Simon was poor. The Yanks made good Rem re on 56 per cent of their ahots.The best combination used fey j GJattwas composed of Lucas, Robertson. Jerrv West of Cabin Creek,Foi.kTotalsHalftime score; United States 4ft GrPT46-731414-S322101*142173-42IT2ft.02433-43ftIft!ftft1fti2.1ft42.1o-626Ift.ft2245 117-11226177GFPtjI4-53141nft324022ft1004243*52U4ft.1313ft1-121ftft.0ftft4ft-0ft110-ft12Ift1225*132ft2163springboard diving, tookaway from her American rival again today in the Olympics' II-meter h i gh diving elimination roundsMiss Kramer, a 17-vear-ofd German schoolgirl shooting for a rare Olympic double, took a I W point lead over the statuesqueMrs Pope m the sun sea redOlympic Pool before a gallery of less than 1.000 sun-baked spectators. The temperature was near 10ft degrees.Miss Kramer’s total at the end of four elimination dives, which cut the field to 12 for Tuesday s final dives, was 56JO points. The 2S-year-old M rs. Pope piled up 54.70 points with her best effort a 16 10 score on a forward oneW. Va., and West Virginia Univer-j Hungary 54.and one half somersault ooe-twis* pike runningThe other U, S. entrant, freckled Mrs. Juno Irwin, 31 vear-ofd mother of four from Glendale, Calif., placed sixth in the eliminations with 51 ftft points while Canada's Irene MacDonald, a 27-vear-old sccrefarv was mnnint
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Morgantown Post
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Mon, Aug 29, 1960
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