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CALF, Colombia (UPI)—It's against tho law of nature* for people and things to grow younger and, according to U.S. basketball coach Jim Gudger, it’s also agaiast the law of common sease.This Is the youngest team we’ve ever had and the situation seems to be getting progressively worse.” Gudger said as he put his squad through its first practice session here in preparation for4* ¥ ¥Milburn LookingFoword to GamesCALI, Colombia (UPI) Unlike some of his teammateswho feel a sense of lotdownafter a long season. 1 od Milburn is looking forwarcf tocompeting in the Pan-American games which start Friday.“I really want to be sharp for this meet,” said the world 120 yard high hurdles record holder from Opelousas, La. “This could be my last meet this season and I want to end the season as good as I can. There is a chance, though, that I’ll go to Germany for the pre-Olympic meet in September.” Milburn, who is entered in the 100 meter high hurdles and the 400 meter relay team, has won the AAU, NCAA and NAIA championships this yearlie set his wor ld standard of 13 seconds flat for the 120 high i hurdles in tho AAU championships.“I have reached part of my goal and now I’m trying to accomplish a little more,” said Milburn, a student at Southern University. “It is all leading hopefully to tho gold medal in the Olympics.“I’m physically and mentally In shape for these games and it should be exciting to run against the foreigners I haven’t come up against yet.” Milburn said international competition has made him embarrassed of the fact that hr* speaks no language except English.Friday’s opening of the Pan-American games.“We have only one guy on our team—Kenny Davis of Georgetown (Kv.)—who was a college senior last year,” Gudger said, puffing on the tail-end of a cigar. “All the rest of our boys are 21 or under. Davis, Paul Westphal (Southern California), Bob Ford (Purdue) and Chuck Terry (Cal. State at Long Beach) are the only ones who have had international experience.“It used to be we could count on the old AAU crew or the Armed Forces to provide us with a nucleus of experience from which our youngsters could draw strength, but we don’t have that anymore. The national Industrial League is defunct and the Armed Forces didn’t send anyone to our camp who could help us.”Gudger, who coaches at East Texas state, explained that while U.S. teams rarely had the services of the same player for two Olympics or two Pan Am games, other countries are developing veteran squads ’ which can remain fairly intact for a number of years. “We can’t even depend on college seniors anymore because the pros sign them quick.” Gudger said. “And with the pros beginning to go after undergraduates, we’re going to be hurting even more. There’s got to be an answer somewhere.Fortunately, to this point we haven’t had to face the reality of the situation. But In future years we will because of basketballs increasing importance in tin* world.“It’s our own technical knowhow that’s making the rest of the world so good. Our coaches are going out and helping other countries, and down here we have Carl Mi nett i working with Panama, Gene Bartow with Puerto Rico, and Fordy Anderson with Peru. The time is past when we could pick an all-star team in the States and send it out to conquer the* world.” Nevertheless, G u d g e r isproud of his team and expects that it will continue U.S. domination of the games. The U.S. won the previous five Pan-Am basketball titles, losing onlya single game to Argentina in 1955 in the process.Ability-wise and physically, this team is as good as ever, but that’s not all that’s* * * * * *u. s.SoccerPlayersShowSymptoms of GoutCALI, Colombia (UPI) — Three members of the U.S. soccer team at the Pan American games have symp-tons of gout, one of the squad’s physicians said Wednesday.Dr. John Anderson said tests showed the three had high* * *Canadian DisputeSidelines MorganNEWBERG, Ore. (UPI)—A bitter dispute in Canada over, selection of a team to represent that country at the PanAmerican Games has cost George Fox College baseball star Dave Morgan a chance to make the trip to Colombia.Morgan was a member of the Victoria, B.C. Centennials which last summer captured the Canadian National senioramateur championships. A decision was made in November, 1969, which stated the 1970 Canadian champion would represent the country at the Pan AM Games in 1971, with the addition of six all star players.Morgan, who won the Bruins’ most valuable player award for baseball while both pitching and catching last season, was to leave this week with the Canadian team for Cali, Colombia , for the start of the Games Friday. Instead, the Victoria team was bypassed for the trip.Gar Tylor, Victoria coach and president of the British Columbia Amateur Baseball Associa-ureac acid contents In their blood. He sad this was a-key indicator of gout, a severe swelling of the toes.“There was no reason to disqualify them from the team at this point,” Anderson said. The physician described the athletes as relatively young, with the oldest 34,” but he declined to identify them.Anderson commented during an interview at the first Inter-American Congress on Sports Medicine. The meeting is being held in conjunction with the Pan American games, which begin Friday.Anderson said physicians on the U.S. team have interviewed all the squad’s athletes “on their attitude and physical condition.”He said a track man, whom he did not identify, quit the team in Miami, shortly before it departed for Cali because he felt he was physically and mentally unable to fit in.”Asked whether the interviews had found over - confidence among U.S. athletes, Anderson replied:“Quite the contrary. The U.S. athletes are here to compete and they know the competition will be tough. In many cases, the U.S. team members have memorized the times and records of the people they will be facing.”Despite the warm Cali climate, Anderson sgid he had cautioned the American team from taking salt pills.involved,” Gudger said. These boys are living together under conditions they’re not used to; they’re playing under a new set of rules with a different ball and in someone else’s backyard. And let’s face it, the American athlete is a pretty pampered individual.“But I’m confident we’ll win because I still have faith in the ability of the American boy to rise to the challenge. There is pressure on us to maintain the great American record in international play, and I hope to use this as a motivation to fire them up. We welcome the challenge of representing the United States and it will be a feather in our cap to get the job done with youngsters.”Jim Chones, the 6-10 center who averaged 17.9 points for Marquette last season, will start at center for the U.S. and the rest of the starting lineup is expected to be Terry and Bob McAdoo of North Carolina at the forwards and Brian Taylor of Princeton and Westphal or Davis at the guards.McAdoo is nursing a sore ankle and, if he isn’t fit, he will be replaced by Ford.The U.S. track and field team went through its second day of workouts under sunny skies in Pascual Guerrero Stadium and the athletes continued to express their delight at the tartan surface.Top Lady GolfersThis is an unsupervised medicine,” he said. 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