European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 28, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 23 500 draws near by Bruce Lowitt Indianapolis a the cars hurtled around the track once More on thursday the final Day of practice before 33 driven go at it for Good in sunday s 61strunning of the Indianapolis 500. About 100,000 fans bustled around the Indianapolis motor Speedway drawn by the dramatically High speeds of the last two weekends of qualifying by pit Crew com petition promoted by a Beer company Andy perfect weather with the cloudless skies and temperatures in the mid-80 Speed was there again. Johnny Rutherford the defending Champion whipped his Mclaren co Worth around the 2u-Mlie banked track at 194.553 Miles a hour the fastest of the Day. I m Rutherford said. Remade a few minor adjustments a Little Fine this is How she went Guys Tom Sneva who will Start in the pol position in sunday s Indianapolis 500 Auto race animatedly describes the movement of his car to Crew members thursday. He set a Speedway record with an average Speed of 198.884 . For four qualifying laps with two of them Over zoo . A aim to produce 80 heavyweight Champ Rutherford s 194.553 clocking is fastest on final Day of practice tuning and i think Well be As competitive As anyone on race , a. Foyt put on his typical glum Public face. Nope not All that Happy the three time indy Winner drawled after his Coyote Foyt was clock Dat 192.513 ., second Only to Ruther Ford. You re always looking for some More Speed for a Little Sneva the pole Sitter a a result of a 200.535 . Lap that led to a track record 198.884 qualifying average was clocked at 191.489 in his Mclaren cos Worth on thursday. Well be ready sunday he said. Well be in s brother Jerry clocked close to 180 . In his Mclaren offenhauser then commented i think Well be Able to turn that pretty consistently sunday. U we do we be got a Heck of a is one of the seven rookies in the held. He thinks one of the others Dann Ongais has an even better Chance. If he does t blow up his car he s got a tremendous Chance to win this thing Jerry Sneva said. Danny s got this thing of either winning his races or destroying his cars indy s last Rookie Winner was the late Graham Hill in 1966.other top speeds clocked on thursday s carburetion Day a name lingering from the past since indy racers Haven t had carburettors for about three decades were Bobby Unser s 192.349 ., Mario Andretti s 190.678. Gordon Johncock s 190.355,Pancho Carter s 188.482, Al Unser s 187.478 and Ongais 187.071. Jim Mcelreath s Crew won the j4.000 to prize in the pit Competition beating Wally Ballenbach s Crew in the final involved the Speed in the changing of two tires. Mcelreath s team did it in 15.09seconds to 15.92 for Dallenbach s Crew. It May be part promotion these pit Crew playoffs but on race Day the Competition is As real As the Competition on the track itself. I be won races in the pits said second Means an awful lot. How you do in the pits is so important in How you do in the Foyt has t Only won races in the pits lie s lost them there too. Last year he was in the pits about 25 seconds More than Rutherford and finished second to Ruther Ford by about 16 seconds. Bobby Unser favored Sta Teune. Nev. A Bobby Unser was listed thursday As the favorite at 4-1odds, to win the Indianapolis 500. The other Drivers in the front Row for sunday s Auto race pole Sitter Tom Sneva and Al Unser were listed at 5-1 and 6-1, respectively in the Odds posted by Harrah s Reno Tahoe indy Winner . Foyt also was listed at 6-1, with Gordon Johncock Mario Andretti and Johnny Rutherford All at 8-1.janet outline the first woman Driver to make the 500 starting Field is listed at 40-1. Mixers clobber blazers continued rom Page 21 went out there to Stop a fight. That s my re 76ers exploded in the second period building an 18-Point bulge 61-43, Al half time. They shot 54.1 per cent from the floor to an atrocious 22.2 per cent for the West pm conference Champion blazers in the first was forced by the pressing Philadelphia defense to take shots fro the perimeter and made Only five Field goals in the second had an 11-Polnt margin three times in the second Quarter the last at 49-38. With 3 31 left in the half. The mixers then outscored the blazers 12-5 to the end of the half unleashing a devastating fast Walton and Lucas the blazers lop scorers each managed just one Basket in Portland s futile second period. Portland broke fast in the third period outscoring Philadelphia m and reducing the 76ers Lead to 65-51. But the blazers could t Cut into the margin any further and wound up Only one Point better off at the end of the three periods trailing 81-64.the mixers took a 10-8 Lead on a 17-footer by Bibby. They boosted it to five Points 15 olympic boxing plan unveiled Cincinnati a Rollie Schwartz who managed . Olympic boxers to a Surprise showing at Montreal Las summer wants to reverse the tarnished image of the american heavyweight. And the internationally known boxing enthusiast has unveiled a plan designed to bring Back the heavyweight Gold medal from Moscow in 1980.Schwartz announced wednesday a 10 bout All heavyweight tournament for june 18 Al Cincinnati s riverfront sees the event As the first phase toward grooming a super heavyweight to end the Long olympic reign of Cuba s Teofllo considers the current crop of american heavyweights the most dynamic Amateur boxers in Many Many by highly regarded Greg Page of Louisville ky., the 20 heavyweights selected for next month s bouts will be embarking on the same program thai produced five Gold medals at Montreal last summer according to highly regarded fighters expected to compete in the 10, three round bouts Are Jimmy Clark and Bruce Blair the nation Al collegiate secret is Long Range training not just a year before thing said Schwartz who was National boxing chairman of the Amateur athletic Union from 1972-1976 and has spent 40 years in Amateur biggest problem is that our heavy weights turn pro. We want to give our heavyweights a lot of International Competition. If we have to rely on one or two fighters in 1980, we re going to be in Trou ble. By the olympics we want to have a minimum of eight to 10 prepared to com Pete with Stevenson Schwartz said. Somewhere in those 20 fighters is the future heavyweight Champion of the world said Schwartz. The secret is Long Range training not just a year before thing said Schwartz. The ., which ruled the heavyweight division four times in five olympics be tween 19s2 and 1968. Has not won since George Foreman s Victory at Mexico City in 1968. 10, with 6 52 left in the opening period but Portland whittled it to one Point in the next52 seconds on a tap in and an 18-foot jumper by got its Lead Back to five Points three times but the persistent trailblazers reduced the 76er Lead to one Point again on an 18-foot jumper by Walton with1 24 remaining. The mixers erupted for five straight Points on a 20-footer by Erving a Collins free throw and Steve mix s 20-Footbank shot to Lead 31-25 at the end of the shot 55 per cent from the Field to 44.4 for Portland in those first 12 the fight broke out the referees Powers and Joe Gushue jumped in to try and break it up As players from both benches and spectators from both ends of the court jumped into the it seemed that Powers and Gushue had the situation under control Lucas rushed from out of the milling crowd and clobbered Dawkins from behind. The big Philadelphia Center who carries the Nick name of King Kong squared off against Lucas in the Center of the looked Tike Muhammad All against Ken threw several punches without any damage before they were separated screaming at each other and trying to get together , the Blue uniformed Trum Security Force was Busil spectators off the court. The fans. On players and created a mob scene before the guards coaches and officials managed to get the situation under control. When order finally was restored. Daw Kins and Lucas each were allowed to shoot a free throw and then went to their respective dressing rooms. 76ers 107, Trail blazers 89 Portland s1i Lucas / m 14. Grot 4 3-110. Walton a 1 11/ to Iii t 2-3 14. Oats 37-31. Twardzik 1134. Steel 1334. 00 00 r. Jon to 10-93. Cal noun 104 3. Nepal 3 a Walker 11 j1-total 36173409. Philadelphia 1071 eng 10 0-0 20, Mcginnis s 3-413. C. Jonett 3 4410, Bibb 47is. 10 75 31. M. 4 m i. Free 1 . Dawklni34 6 b. By rank 0 0-0 0. Dual mrs 0 0-0 0. Caln legs 0 h 0 Funtow 30-04. Totali41 2 3 107. Portland 3� 17 31 25 Lua 1 30 20 2�-107 fouled out pm Adelphi. Mag univ total foul Pon land 34. Potia Deninn 74 to hmm Al Portland Walton mourns Lucas and a kit Titcom from Gamt Lorli a
