European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse May 1977 the stars and stripes Page 17 going too fast for 57 indy Winner Sam Hanks race cars Are almost missiles by Kurt Freudenthal Indianapolis up the Man who won the Indianapolis 500 20 years ago is alarmed that race cars Are be coming there going too said Sam there getting to the ragged buffing on a Cigar and relaxing in gasoline Alley behind the Speedway Oval where the 33 starting cars were being prepared for sundays big Hanks said now that a 200mileper hour Lap has become official at this famed racing something should be done to decrease the these cars Are almost missiles and in sure Sac and the Speedway will do something to decrease the horse pow he i think the spectators Are More interested in Competition than seeing race cars running at High exposing the Drivers to More Hanks conceded today Drivers arc safer than he and his colleagues were two decades our cars had front engines and we Lead to absorb All the heat in the cock he the cars were harder to our tires were much smaller we didst have fireproof suits we had no fuel cells to protect us in Case of fire today cars have safety systems that we never heard from a safety the tech Nical committees in charge have done a fantastic Hanks Hanks racing career spanned 21 years when he started racing midgets in the he did All his own he Gnu cd his racer Cross com try most of the time sleeping in his station i even mounted my own he i was afraid somebody else would mount them the wrong my entire livelihood was tied up in Back of my on a Good if you had fast won a heat and the main you walked out with sometimes it was difficult to but sooner or later we caught up with the track Hanks competed in the 500 an even downtime the hardest race i Ever ran at the Speedway was in he said i was involved in an broke a Bent the front Axle and Cut a tire in by the time i got Back into the i had slipped from fifth to i took out after the Field and finished second to Winner Pat by 19 he recalled he almost called it quits but decided to stick with the following year the Speedway be longed to he led 136 of the 200 set a Speed record of and became the first Winner to get a continued on Page 20 spores a circuit clout Short circuited Barry Foote didst quite make it All the Way around the bases on his Short Fly to the Outfield on which cardinals Mike Tyson and Hector Cruz collided Tyson got Back on his feel in time to pick up the Ball and throw it Home where Dave radar tagged the expos Catcher before he could touch the plate in his headfirst a Seaver Nemesis Mutton stars at Bat As Phillies Edge past the 54 by Illa Kaufman ii sports writer Tommy i Luton thrives where other National league batters ear to tread in the batters Box against Tom Friday the Phillies Utility in Icid a outfielder indulged once again in his favorite pastime when he touched the mets Ace for a run scoring single and a two run Homer in to a four rib performance in Philadelphia s Hutton did not discriminate among new York As he knocked in lie game Winner with an eighth inning sacrifice Fly off the mets losing Relief Pitcher skip against All no pitchers except Hutton owns a modest lifetime baiting average of 244 versus the mets Siar right the left handed Hilling Hutton sports a Darding and Hutton is perplexed Over us 1 dont have any idea Why i hit Tom Seaver so he i get some Lucky no Roundup hits off but i have had a lot of Good Hes thrown me i just got up to Bat ready to swing at anything maybe its just positive while Hutton May be thinking positive Seaver must be excused for talk ing to after a Brilliant in Wlinich he copped the Pic Lar of the month award with a 40 Seaver has failed to win a game in slut Tun stroked an rib single in the first and belted a two run Homer in the fifth his first Lime run of the Gene Philadelphia third Pitcher of the picked up his second Victory in five the mets overcame a 41 deficit with three runs in the seventh on de Krane pools Pinch hit two run Homer and John steams game tying elsewhere in the National Louis Defeated Montreal Chicago beat Pittsburgh Houston edged san Diego 4 continued on Page t Fidrych loses on error in first Start up sports writer Mark Fidrych entered the american Laguc season Friday night and everyone was up for the almost the Detroit tigers managed Only three hits and gave up an unearned run on an error to hand Seattle a 21 it was like putting a Caterpillar on an ice Cream i didst pitch Well enough to win this said whose eight hitter was enough to Enchant the lans who snowed it was just Good to be out Fidrych was the american leagues lop Rookie last year after winning 19 games in Zany and lovable style and having the leagues lowest Carn Edrun hit with a knee injury in Spring Fidrych was unable to Start an Al game Al Roundup until Friday and his pitches might have been Good enough to win if his teammates haunt been enjoying him As much As the they attacked Seattle pitchers Glenn and Mike Kuckich with the effectiveness of a Man beating on a fire by Tom pc eyzers third inning Homer provided their Only it pumps me up when the Bird Fidrych i comes in and gets a standing ova said it got everybody Seattle scored in the fifth inning when Hob Stinson went to third when Larry Milbourne Fly tipped off inn Lef Lores Glove and scored on Dave Cothru sacrifice in the fjan Meyer doubled and ated Home when Tho Fuentes booted i siting routine he Fidrych did his said Catcher Milt u you give up two or three runs youll win your Squire the fact that it was Lus first Start is to his he got better As the game went said Detroit manager Ralph Louk he threw better when they scored than when they in other Al Baltimore blanked Minnesota Cleveland stopped Oakland Boston hammered Kansas City California tripped Toronto new York downed Chicago 86 and Milwaukee edged Texas 65 indians Asl million Dollar free agent Wayne Garland tossed a four Hitler to raising his record to 25 and Rico Carty stroked three hits As Cleveland won its fifth straight Carty doubled off Vida in the second to drive in Bruce Boche and scored continued on Page is
