From: davidb@is.morgan.com (David Birnbaum)
Subject: WORLDS Update - Wednesday, August 19
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:22:49 GMT

Yesterday I was in Tokyo so I didn't get any results to post.  So,
you get an extra long message today with three full days of results 
to chew on.  Here it is:
 
  Monday, August 17th
 
        Men              Women              Guts
  ------  ------    ------  ------     ------  ------
  USA 21  NZL  7    JPN 10  SWE 18     JPN 17  TPE 21
  FIN 18  JPN 20    AUS  6  USA 18         21      16
  AUS 17  SUI 15    JPN 18  AUS  3         21      15
  SWE 21  TPE  1                       USA 21  TPE 15
  CAN 21  GBE  8        Masters            22      20
                    ------  ------     USA 21  GER 14
                    GER 18  JPN 13         21      15
 
  Tuesday, August 18th
 
        Men              Women              Guts
  ------  ------    ------  ------     ------  ------
  USA 21  GBE  6    AUS  4  SWE 18     GER 15  TPE 21
  SUI  8  CAN 21    JPN 18  USA  6          9      21
  NZL 21  TPE  2    USA  5  SWE 18     JPN 21  GER  5
  AUS 11  SWE 21                           21      13
  USA 16  CAN 16        Masters        JPN 15  USA 21
  FIN 21  GBE  8    ------  ------         23      25
  NZL  9  JPN 21    GER 19  JPN 14
  AUS 21  TPE  3
  SWE  3  SUI  3
 
  Wednesday, August 19th
 
        Men              Women              Guts
  ------  ------    ------  ------     ------  ------
  CAN 19  AUS 14    SWE 18  JPN  7     JPN 21  TPE 17
  SUI 20  NZL 14    USA 18  AUS 11         18      21
  FIN 21  TPE  1    JPN 18  AUS  3         17      21
  JPN 21  GBR 14                       USA 21  JPN 11
  SWE 21  USA  8        Masters            21      14
  AUS 21  NZL 15    ------  ------     USA 21  GER 12
  JPN 14  SUI 13    USA 18  GER  4         21      12
  TPE  5  GBR 21    USA 18  JPN  2
  CAN 21  FIN 17                        Junior  Guts
                                       ------  ------
                                       TPE 21  JPN  9
                                           21       6
 
* whew *  OK, with that out of the way, let me highlight some of
the more exciting games.
 
Most of the Ultimate games on Tuesday were fairly straightforward. 
Japan continued on its winning ways, along with Sweden.  The USA
team made quick work against Great Britian, but ran into trouble
with the sharp Canadian squad.  In the second half, after an
already long game with impressive defense, the Canadians scored
their 15th point and cap was called with the score 15-12.  The USA,
however, cranked their offense up a notch and brought the score to
15-13.  The Canadians responded by scoring again to make it 16-13. 
With defeat seemingly imminent for the struggling USA squad, they
cranked on some very hot defense and proceeded to scrore the next
three points to tie it up at 16-16.  The Canadians worked the next
pull to within 10 meters of the goal line, when a difficult pass
was dropped by one of the Canadian handlers.  The US team quickly
converted the error to a goal and won the game 17-16.
 
The US Women's team, on the other hand, was quickly dissected by
sharp squads from Japan and Sweden.  On of the US players broke her
wrist in the game against Sweden, making the job even more
difficult for the already short squad.  Sweden seems like the team
to beat, given their work on Japan the previous day.  Excellent
passing and the ability, like the Swedish men's team, to make use
of the huck make the them extremely effective on the field.
 
Today's games were very exciting, though.  Switzerland played an
excellent game against Japan...the score was tied 13-13, with cap
at 14 already down.  Switzerland worked the disc up the field and
made a pass into the endzone to an undefended man - which was
dropped.  Japan proceeded to work the disc down the field the other
way and score the final point, ending an excellent defensive game
and preserving their undefeated record.
 
The USA team faltered badly today, being soundly beaten by Sweden
in their pool play, 21-8.  The USA team was unable to connect on
offense, turning the disc over on multiple throwing errors, along
with some sterling defense layouts by the Swedes.  Sweden showed
their form again by using the long huck as a deadly weapon, scoring
at least six times with the long backhand huck to a man breaking
deep.
 
Taipei, in their first ever tournament, proceeded to score five
points against the British team.  A very young and inexperienced
team, they are learning a lot by playing against the likes of
Sweden, Finland, and Australia.

That's it for today.  I'm moving a bit slowly...time to get to bed
myself for the game tomorrow.  In the meantime...wish you'all were
here!

Huckin' from the line,

David.
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