European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday june 19, 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 21 Andretti takes pole spot Watson 2nd fastest in swedish up trials ande Storp Sweden up Mario Andretti of the Nazareth pa., pressed his  Lotus to the limit saturday to capture the pole position for sunday s swedish grand prix the eighth in the world championship series. Andretti. 37, covered the 2.48-mile scandinavian raceway in 1 minute 25.404 seconds for 105.198 Miles per  american with wins in the . West and Spain to his credit posted the time on his 89th Lap in the second Day s practice  s race Over 72 laps and 179.76 Miles was set to begin at 1 30  Watson of Northern Ireland in a Brabham will be sharing the front Row with Andretti. Watson was unable to improve his time of 1 25.545, fastest in Fri Day s practice but it was enough for second  knew i could beat Watson s time if the car worked As it should. I drove As fast As could for a lot of laps before it finally  the dark haired american Veteran said afterwards. Watson 31, was pleased with his Effort even though beaten in the last minute. Sharing the front Row at the Grid is a goo position although of course i hoped for the pole position he  Champion James Hunt of Britain in a Mclaren and world championship Leader Jody Scheckter of South Africa in a Wolf were to share the second Row on the Grid. Hunt improved his Friday time by almost half a second to 1 25.626, while Scheckter s Best Effort of 1 25.681 was set Mario andr Cettl. Succeeds on 89th Lap in the first Day s  stuck of West Germany in a Brab Ham moved from eighth to fifth place witha time of 1 26.127. Stuck was to be in the third Row with Frenchman Patrick depart Ter in an Elf Tyrrell who clocked his Best time of 1 26.209  s Gunnar Nilsson in a  Lotus with 1 26.227 earned a fourth Row spot with Frenchman Jacques Laffite in a uglier who clocked 1 26.259.saturday morning s practice was hampered by some rain but the track was Dryad clean for the final session when Andretti surged past Watson in the Lime keep ing to earn the pole position. Hunt said afterwards. I Haven t won single Point during the last four grands prix. But i m hopeful for this , Winner on the scandinavian raceway in 1974 and 1976, smiled and said Why not a third time for me the 27 year old South african headed the stand Ings with 32 Points going into sunday s race. He was one Point ahead of Austri Annik Lauda in a Ferrari while Carlos Reutemann of Argentina in the second Ferrari was third with 23. The Ferrari team apparently had prob lems during practice. Reutemann Quali fied with Only the 12th Best time of 1 26.542and Lauda 15th at 1 26.828. La. Or Atlanta May be last cities nations to bid for future games Prague a the cities that bid later this year to stage the 1984 olympic games possibly los Angeles or Atlanta, be the last cities to do so. In the future National olympic com Mirrlees May be the bidders and May spread the games  plan was approved in principle Friday by the International olympic com Mittee Ioc. But nobody was prepared to say exactly now it is expected to  new idea was prompted by the growing Cost of staging the games. The have become so expensive that the Ioc fears it is approaching a stage where Rocity will be Able to afford them. It Means one of the fundamental principles of the olympics is being changed Mien Baron Pierre de Couberth revive the olympics in 189g, they were intended to be staged in a City just As the ancient games in Greece were. It has been a part of the rules Ever  for the 1984 games have to be submitted by next oct. 31. The . National committee is expected to give its backing to an american City to bid for the games and most Ioc members expect it to be los Angeles. Juantorena clocks top 400, 2 yanks win in East Berlin meet Berlin a Cuba s Alberto Juanlow Rena clocked a 1977 world Best of 44.98 seconds in the 400 meters at a track and Fiel meet in East Berlin the East German news Agency adn  in the meet the double olympic Gold medallist also won his other specially the 800 meters in 1 46.1 minutes adn  Tully the . Pole vault Champi on won his event at 17-feet, Inch before crowd of 7,000 fans. But american Tom Woods was beaten inthe High jump by East Germany s Rolf Beilschmidt who cleared 7-5 feel for a National record. Woods was runner up at 7-4. Willie Banks of the . Won the triple jump with a leap of 53-9, and Wolfgang Kolmsee of West Germany was second at534. Other american cities which have shown interest Are Miami. Washington d.c., Chicago and new York  had posted its intention of bid Ding for the 84  Ioc approved one major change for 1984. Whatever City gets the games will not have to Haggle with television Compa Nies. The Ioc itself will negotiate for the television rights. Moscow has sold the rights for the 1980games to the National broadcasting com Pany Abc for $35 million. The Deal had to be approved by the Ioc which takes a Corvette meet set for Belgium Solothurn. Switzerland the vettes of Switzerland arc besting the Vette euro meet 77 for european an american Corvette car enthusiasts with a schedule of events arranged from june 30 to july 3.the four Day meeting will take place in Belgium with social get together set june 30 and july 1 in Liege and rally drag racing racing and contours d elegance events scheduled for the nearby race track at zolder on july 2 and 3. Trophies and certificates will be awarded to winners of the various  engineers from the Corvette department of general motors in Detroit will also be present at the  Lauter the Swiss Corvette club s representative for Germany said that All interested american Corvette owners Are invited to the four Day gather ing but he urged those planning to attend to Register before the june 25 deadline to assure hotel reservations in Liege. Those planning to attend should write Lauter at Hermann fins Strasse 19, 5000 Cologne 50 or Call him at Cologne civilian 0221-392602. Expos sign Young draft pick Montreal up the Montreal expos announced Friday the signing Orrigh Thunder Bill Gullickson 18, of Orland Park iii., the club s no. 1 pick in the recent free agent draft. Proximately one third of the Revenue and distributes much of the Money to help olympic sport around the world. Sweeping changes in the future of the olympic movement were proposed by Maurice Iler zog of France a former Mountaineer who conquered the Annapurna Peak in the  wants to see one member on the Ioc from each country. At present the Ioc chooses its own members to be its ambassadors one from most countries but two from several nations which have stage the olympics. It has 85 members but recognizes 133 National olympic  said also he wants to see an age limit for members but added he had no yet decided what the limit should be. The Ioc at present includes Reginald Honey of South Africa who is 90 and several Menin their seventies and Eigl his. The Ioc heard Herzog s views but there was no discussion. Islanders sign 2 of Europe s finest players Uniondale Dpi the new Yor islanders Friday signed two of Europe s finest hockey players from the swedish National team Goa Hender Goran Bogosta and defens Eman Stefan person. To Multi year contracts. Bogosta recently named the first Tea mall Star goalie of the world tournament in Vienna has five victories Over the soviet Union s National team to his credit. In being named the first team goaltender atthe world Competition he finished ahead of Vladislav Tretiak Russia s world Cassne minder. Who had previously been rated As Europe s no. 1 , 43, a 6-foot-l. 179-Pound native of Appelbom Sweden led his country to two upset victories Over Russia and compiled a 1.25 goals against average  defens Eman Persson. 6-1, 187, was selected by the is Landers in the 14th round of the 19h Amateur draft. He is a Veteran of two world championships with Sweden and has played on two straight first division Cham Pion clubs with Barynas. Persson was voted Best defens Eman in Sweden during a31-game season last year. The opposition failed to score while he was on ice in nine of the 10 games he played in Vienna. The two players Are Arch rivals i Sweden where Bogosta plays for leks and. Which won the swedish championships in1974 and 1975. Islander general manager Bill Torrey said this is the first time that a contend ing National hockey league team assigned europen players. When Toronto signed Borje calming the Leafs were not playoff team. We feel we have increased the depth four goal ending and defensive situations. The very presence of Bogosta and Persso will be a Challenge to our other goaltenders and defens men. But it does not Meanie will Trade Billy Smith or Chico  the islanders sent coach Al Arbour to Sweden two weeks ago to interview both players and their families and make the clearly understand their potential situations with the club. Both know they arc no necessarily guaranteed spots on the team and realize the Quality of Competition they la face for roster spots. Because of having risen in the stand Ings in recent years we find our drafting position dropping and therefore Felt the answer was to find other geographic locations to tap Talent. In Bogosta and Persso Nwe have Young All Star Quality  Torrey said. Canucks tire of waiting for Pulford rehire Kurt Vancouver a Orland Kurten Bach is Back As coach of the Vancouver canucks because the National hockey league team could t wait for Bob Pulford to make up his mind about the , who coached the canucks for 45 games last season signed a one Yea agreement Friday with general manager Jake  decided two Days ago that i would t wait for Bob Pulford to make up his mind Milford told a news conference. He gave me no indication that he was going to favor  Milford named general manager of the canucks on May 31 when Phil Maloney was fired by club president Bill Hughes said two weeks ago Pulford was his first Choice for the Vancouver  and Pulford both resigned their positions with the los Angeles Kings of thenal late last month. Kurtenbach severed relations with the canucks three weeks ago when Hughes re fused to Tell him whether he had a future with the team. "1 know Kurt might feel badly that hews my second  said Milford but i explained to him that in this business behave to live with those kinds of decisions and that i might also have been second or third  Pulford. Through agent Alan Eagleson said last week in Montreal that he was negotiating with several clubs. Pulford said he was interested in a dual position As coach and general . 41, said he also had been negotiating with other teams but my Home is Here and i wanted to  he took Over As coach of the canucks on dec. 22, 1976, and guided the team to a 16 19-10 record just missing the playoffs inthe smythe division. The canucks took Kurtenbach from the new York rangers in the nil s expansion draft in 1970 and named him team  retired As a player in 1974