HEADLINES

No. 3 for Spitz; El Monte Girl Upsets Gould

Another individual event. Another gold medal. Another world record. Mark Spitz, who had won the 200-meter butterfly the day before and anchored a triumphant relay team, came back with a victory in the 200 freestyle. That was expected. Unexpected was Australian Shane Gould’s third-place finish in the women’s 100 freestyle. She was beaten by two Southern California teen-agers, gold-medalist Sandra Neilson, 16, of El Monte, and silver-medalist Shirley Babashoff, 15, of Fountain Valley.

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Fans Stage Near Riot After Soviet Boxer Beats American

A 3-2 decision for battered and bloodied Soviet light-middleweight Valeri Tregubov over American Reggie Jones in the opening bout for both would turn out to be the most controversial of the tournament, the announcement greeted by the tossing of a banana, a can and other debris into the ring and 15 minutes of booing and catcalls.

“Never have I seen a rowdier or longer protest at an amateur boxing event,” Donald Sanders of the London Daily Telegraph said. “But then the decision ranks high among the bad ones I’ve seen.” The International Amateur Boxing Assn., fired the referee and warned 16 judges that their scores would be closely scrutinized, but that didn’t help Jones, a Marine lance corporal.

*--* MEDALS Country G S B T United States 5 6 4 15 East Germany 3 2 4 9 Soviet Union 2 3 2 7

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QUOTE

“I’m as interested in sex as anyone. But these athletes have more important things to do here. There are things going on in the Olympic Village that are against my Puritanical old man’s view of life.”

--U.S. track coach Bill Bowerman, on tales of cavorting in the athletes’ village