European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday May 29, 1977 the Star band stripes Page 21 Jacobi s car flips during 600 trials Charlotte. , api Bruce Jacobi s Stock car went sailing end Over end through the air and crashed in flames during final qualifying Friday for sunday s world 600 race. Jacob escaped with minor injuries. His Chevrolet collided with Rick Newsom s Ford coming out of the fourth turn on the 1.5-mile Charlotte motor Speedway As both Drivers attempted to qualify for the sunday race. Newsom. Of Fon Mill. . Hit the outside guard rail spun and hit the rail again according to track officials. As his car came off the Wall. Jacobi hit it from behind. The crash flipped Jacobi s vehicle several times and the car burst into flames. Jacobi was taken to Cabarrus memorial Hospital in Concord and was released after being treated for cuts abrasions and soreness. Newsom was treated at the same Hospital for what was diagnosed at the track As a cracked Bone in his foot but which turned out later to be a broken leg. The Accident which demolished both cars eliminated both Drivers from qualifying. When i came off the third turn 1 guess Rick blew in front of Jacobi said. Before 1 could do anything. I hit the Oil from his car. Then slammed into the rear end of his car and my car took off. It seemed like it went straight up. The car started doing a slow Roll in the air and when it hit the ground it started flipping i just tried to hold on. 1 Don t know How Many limes it the Indianapolis. Ind. Driver said. The crash split the front Frame and engine support on Newsom s car. And sent the engine spinning onto the track officials spectators cd reporters were on hand when the incident occurred Friday morning but Drivers who had already qualified watched the wreck. I have never seen a car go that High in the air i Ermie Pond said. The wreck occurred As Drivers who did not qualify wednesday or thursday battled for the final 10 spots in the to car Field. Buddy Arlington was the first Driver to qualify Friday getting the 31sl position with a run of 155.476 Miles per hour in his Dodge. David Sisco. In a Down the final spot in the Field with a Lap at 150.556 . Thirty one Drivers qualified Friday for the Patriot 300. An $81.215 event saturday for modified Stock cars. Darrell Waltrip. Who also will run sunday in the world 600, stole the pole position for the Patriot 300 with a sizzling track record of 163.679 . Mass Luckx porsche grabs pole stuck crashes in 1,000-Kilometer practice by Randy Barnett secs Auto racing columnist Adenau Germany is grand prix Star Jochen mass put the factory entered Martini porsche 935 on pole position Here saturday for sunday s 1.000-Kilome Ter race on the curb urging. Maps partnered by Belgium s Jacky Ida. Scored his fastest time in the final practice session one that was marred by a High Speed crash involving Germany s other Ace up Driver Hans stuck. Driving a 2-liter Bow 320. Stuck crashed in the Schwec Kreuz Section at Over Iso Miles per was the most frightening Accident Solomon Nastase win French open matches by Geoffrey Miller Paris a Harold Solomon hit his Way slowly and patiently into the last in of the French open Tennis championships saturday Westing Down 18-year-old Peter Elter of West Germany 6-4. 6-4, 6-1. In a classic Clay court display. Solomon last year s Defeated finalist and an expert on this slow surface is the top remaining american Hope for the title Worth $38,000. But the Young German kept him on court for 2 i hours. Another German Karl Meiler took top seeded Hie Nastase of Romania to five sets before a packed crowd of 12,000 on the Center court at Roland Garros before bowing 7-6,6-3.8-1,6-7,6-1. Solomon s match was a Long grim base line Battle. The Little Man from Pompano Beach fla., faced a talented youngster who played him at his own game. It was like playing against myself so Lomon said. He plays Tennis just like i do. He is going to be very Good but at the moment he does not have quite enough skill to vary the it was a Long time before Solomon s six years seniority and extra experience tipped the Scales. Solomon broke service Pembroke s Shipman wins naia discus arkadelph1a, Ark. Puli Charles Shipman of Pembroke . State won the discus Friday with a record throw of 189-3 at the naia outdoor track and Field championships. Lewis Pike of Henderson Ark stale won the 110-meter High hurdles for the second straight year in a time of 13 92. Earl Thomas of Jackson state the meet s team favorite took the 100-meter dash in 10.53.bill Waters of Point Loma i Calif. I won the decathlon with 7.365 Points despite not winning any of the final five events in the 10-event. Two Day decathlon. He had two thirds two sixths and a ninth however to protect his opening Day Lead. Twice in the first set. And each time Elter broke right Back. The German saved five set Points in the last game. Solomon gunned away from his Baseline lobbing Ana lobbing never hurrying and Seldom going Forward. The rallies some times lasted Tor 50 strokes or More and the first set took 70 minutes. Elter again trailed twice and broke Back each time in the second set. This time he saved two set Points. But the Young German finally began to falter against Solomon s relentless and nagging accuracy. Elter won Only one game in the third set and that was with the help of a suspicious line Call on game Point. Solomon looked unhappy and led the Linesman to the Baseline to examine the spot where the Ball fell. But the incident made no difference because Solomon Lead ing 3-1, won every game afterwards. It took Nastase 34 hours to get rid of Meiler. The German led. 5-3, in the first set. But Nastase came Back to win it on a tiebreaker. In the fourth set Nastase served for the match at 54 but was forced to another tiebreaker and this time he lost it. After holding a match Point at six Points to five. The Gullikson twins Tom and Tim from Onalaska wis. Ended their singles bids. Patrice Domingucz. The French ,lamed Tom. The left handed twin. 6-3. 6-1. 6-1. Right handed Tim lost to Nastase in the previous round. Now the Gullikson. Great favourites with the French crowd Are going for the men s doubles. Sweden s Rolf Norberg. Surprise conqueror of highly rated Eddie Dibbs in the previous round failed to reproduce his Fine form saturday. Brian fair he of new Zea land rolled past him 6-4.6-1,6-0. Californian Kathy May survived an Uncertain Start saturday to defeat Hanna Stra Chanova of Czechoslovakia. 7-6. 6-2, and Advance to the third round of the women s singles. She joined fellow Ameri cans Nancy Richey and Pam Teeguarden in the last 16. Third seeded Helga Mas Hoff of West Germany proved too experienced for Mary Carillon Douglaston , and won. 04,6-1,6-3. Stars in Usuff National meet Fansan 16, vaults j 6-0 for record Wichita. Kan a a 16-year-old Kansas youth outshone a Host of olympians Friday night soaring 16 feet in the pole vault to tie the world record for his age group in the . Track and Field federa Tion National outdoor championships. Jeff Buckingham of Gardner kan., who won the Kansas High school class 3a title Here last week with a 15-6 i vault missed at 164 three times before being forced into a jump off with Randy Raymond of fre Mont neb., then cleared the bar on his first wanted to win pretty bad i wanted the Gold said Buckingham. I love it the world record in the pole vault was set last year by Dave Roberts of the Florida track club with an i8-s"4 leap. Buck Ingham s Effort matched that of 16-year old Paul Wilson of Downey. Calif., in 1964.finals were held in 16 events Friday night at the Usuff meet although much of the evening was devoted to preliminaries. The two Day meet was to wind Down saturday night with 21 finals. Kate Schmidt a member of the . Olympic team last year led women record setters by throwing the javelin 200-1. Sur passing the previous Mark by 55 feet. Miss Schmidt holds the american Mark of 218-3. In men s Competition. Cliff Wiley of Kansas won the 200-meter dash with a 20.64 time and also captured his heat of the 100 meter dash in 10.2. But an expected show Down with de Preston of Arkansas state in both events failed to materialize when Preston apparently injured a knee in a 200 meter heat and failed to qualify for the finals of either event. Former olympian Al pc Urbach of the Pacific coast club won the shot put with a 67-6 Effort. Linda Montgomery of the Texas track club established a Usuff record in the women s discus with a 161-5 throw better ing her winning Mark of a year ago other women s records were set by sue latter of Michigan state with a 2 h.77 in the 800 meter run. And Andrea Lynch of the Pacific coast club with a 2.128 in the 200. I be Ever the Blond German Driver said. The car never responded. I Only had a couple of seconds to react and when i did. The car failed to do anything. It just went straight into he Guardrail. I was going at least 250 is 155 . To Lucky i was t Hurt or worse. The car is badly damaged stuck said and i doubt if it can be repaired in time or tomorrow s race. I Don t know what caused the Accident. Maybe a if stuck does Start he will be on the fourth Row across from Ford escort Driver Hans Heyer of Germany. Heyer had Best time in the 2-liter class at 8 minutes 2.3 seconds average Speed 105.64 m p a. While stuck reached 8 10.3 before the Accident shortened Hie practice. Mass s pole time in the porsche Turbo meanwhile was 7 31.9, an average Speed of 112.84 . Over the twisting. 14.2-mile curb urging circuit. Mass said he made his time under Over difficult conditions because the stupid track marshals were pouring too much powder Over Oil that some car had spilled All Over the track. They put on five times More stuff than was mass said. I Felt like running Over those sunday s 1000-Kilometer race the fourth round for the world manufacturers championship is dominated by porsche cars but Only the mass Luckx porsche is entered by the Stuttgart factory. The other top Turbo porsche Here Are private entries. Across from mass and icky on the front Row is the Loos porsche 935. Drive by Ger irony s Rolf Sto Mclen and Holland s Toino eczema is. Their time was7 36.0 third fastest was the Kremer porsche driven Wollock at France and John Fitzpatrick of England c7 37.7i fourth the Moritz ont Rcd porsche for Manfred Shurli of Liechtenstein and Helmut Kel Lenors of Germany 7 39.51 fifth another Loos porsche driven by australian Tim Schenken and englishman Derek Bell 17 40.1 sixth the Franz racing porsche driven by Finland s in Kinnunen and Jurgen Neuhaus of Germany 7 59 7. Seventh and eighth positions Are filled by the 2-liter rare or Heyer and stuck. American Driver kiddie Check or. Who was entered Here in a factory Bow 320. Will not compete because he is racing in a european formula 2 championship round in Pau. France. The starting held for sunday s 44-Lap endurance race ig24 Miles totals 77 cars. The Drivers were to be flagged off at ii . Pinero captures British pea Sandwich England a Manuel Pinero of Spain won the British pea Golf championship Over the Royal St. George s links Here saturday with a four under Par final round of 66 for a 72-Bole total of 283. Britain s Peter Oosterhuis Leader at the Start of play in the morning bad a final card of 71 for 286. . Masters Champion Tom Watson ral lied with a magnificent recovery to turn in a 66 or a third place finish at 287. There were quite a few sub Par and Par scores saturday As the wind abated on the sunbathe Seaside links and the wind polished greens had been Well watered to take some of the fire out of the putting surface. Oosterhuis had a harassing Start when he missed a four foot putt for a five. Pinero third at the Start of the Day also lost ground on the first. At the second Bow Ever he pitched up to within two feet of the cup and chipped in at the third for birdies which put him even with Oosterhuis at six Over Par. Oosterhuis parred the next three holes. But the spaniard after losing ground at the fourth birdied the Short sixth. At the turn. Ooster Tiuis out in 34, was one stroke ahead of Pinero out in 33
