European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes sunday september 25,1977 Bonnett wins pole spot for old Dominion Martinsville a. A Neil Bon Nett smashed the qualifying record Friday at Martinsville Speedway and won the pole position for sunday s 23rd annual old do minion 500 grand National Stock car race. Bonnett driving a Dodge turned in a fast Lap on the .525-mile track of 87.637 Miles an hour breaking the previous old Dominion 500 qualifying Mark of 86.484 Mph set last fall by Darrell Waltrip in a Chevrolet. Waltrip took the outside front Row spot also bettering his old Mark with a Speed of 86.989 Mph. Bonnett picked up $1,000 and Waltrip $500 from the purse of $100,800 one of the largest for a Short track on the National association for Stock car Auto racing Cir Cuit. Defending Champion Cale Yarborough was third in a Chevrolet followed by Rich Ard Petty in a Dodge and Bobby Allison in a Matador. First 20 spots close Twenty positions for sunday s 1 . Edt race were determined Friday with less than a second separating Bonnett from the no. 20 qualifier Elmo Langley. The final 10 spots in the 30car Field were to be decided saturday morning with the afternoon devoted to time trials and an $11, 290, 15-Lap Lascar National Champion ship modified race which has drawn 42 entries. Bonnett won his first grand National race less than two weeks ago by capturing the capital City 400 at Richmond va., and said Friday the team is really starting to the Winner of sunday s race will earn $16,250. The Leader of each 100-Lap segment of the race will get $1,000. Chambers has minor knee surgery Chicago a minor knee surgery on Wally Chambers was successful Friday but the future of the Chicago bears Star defensive lineman remained Uncertain. Or. David Bachman the surgeon said he performed an arthroscopy or Flushing of particles on the right knee. A spokesman at Northwestern memorial Hospital said Chambers was in Good Condi Tion after surgery and would remain in the Hospital during the weekend. Chambers who saw limited action in the bears 30-20 Victory Over Detroit in a National football league opener last sunday will miss sunday s game at St. Louis. Asked if Chambers might play next sunday in a Home game against new or leans Bachman said i Hope before the operation Chicago coach Jack Pardee said there s a Chance hell be 100 per cent healthy for the rest of the similar operation Bachman performed a similar proce Dure on Chambers after he banged his knee on the turf in last january s pro bowl and chipped cartilage from beneath the Kneecap. He was playing basketball the week after the operation. Pardee said at the end of the year it will have to be evaluated again to see if some sort of surgery could prevent it from happening again. One thing hell have to keep it Good and Strong or it will deteriorate bears Trainer Fred Caito said an arthroscopy involves a half Inch incision in the knee through which a Needle like Tele scope is there Are Loose particles inside fluid is squirted in and the pieces Are flushed out he said. Mike Hill gains stroke Lead in Ohio after 36 Nicklaus fails to make Cut by Norm Clarke Mason Ohio a Mike Hill grimly bidding to snap out of the worst slump in his career fired a five under Par 65 Friday to take a one stroke second round Lead Over defending Champion Ben Crenshaw in the $150,000 Ohio Kings Island open. But the shocking development of the Day came when Jack Nicklaus failed to qualify struggling to rounds of 73 and 72. It was the third time in a year Nicklaus failed to qual Ify after going six years without being Cut. I could t putt said Nicklaus who needed to finish at least second to reach $300,000 in earnings for the third time in his career. It was his final tour appearance of 1977. Hill who has vowed to his family he will quit if he does t average $25,000 a year in 1977-78, overtook first round co leaders Tom Kite and Bill Calfee who trailed by two strokes Hill with a Little More than $20,000 in earnings this year started the Day two strokes Back but quickly made up ground on the Tough Back nine where he opened his round. Last year i led Here after two rounds but i m playing better than i did last year said Hill younger brother of tour Veteran Dave Hill. He credited a revamped Back swing Fortis subpar rounds of 68 and 65. I be tried something different each week said the38-year-old Hill frustrated by his declining game after averaging More than $40,000per year on the tour for the last nine years. Crenshaw wearing a Bright red Golf shirt Given to him by a Cincinnati reds official fired his second straight round of 67to Challenge for his second tour Victory of the year. Crenshaw said he was helped out of his slump by some advice from former Golf great Jackie Burke. He told me sometime ago son you re just going to have to get Back in the Chicken pen and Kite whose hot Putter cooled after an grudge match at Pittsburgh see Erra Cher Battle Heads nil schedule by Joe Carnicelli up executive sports editor the Oakland raiders take on the steel ers at Pittsburgh sunday in what has become perhaps the most bitter rivalry in the National football league. The Steeles and the raiders have met in the last three acc title games and the winners have gone on to win the super bowl each time the raiders last year and the Steeles the two years before that. There have been dramatic finishes charges and counter charges of foul play and even a suit by Raider safety George Atkinson against Pittsburgh coach Chuck Noll for slander. Noll won that courtroom Battle this summer. The players know each other Well. We be played Oakland so often 1 Don t think we even have to look at the films this week said Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw. The clubs met twice last season and Oakland won both games. The first was a dramatic last second Victory in the season opener and the second was an easy Victory in the acc title game Over a Pittsburgh team reduced to just two Reserve running backs. Despite the usual bad blood the steel ers who will have an enthusiastic crowd of More than 50,000 backing them at three Rivers stadium sunday Are downplaying the importance of the game. Oakland is the world Champion and you Don t get to become world Champion with out being a Good football team said defensive tackle Joe Greene. When we play Oakland it s always a Good physical Ball game. But Oakland is Only one win or one loss although i prefer a win and i d much rather win the one against them Down the Road than the one sunday if i had a we can t put our whole season on the line just because it s Oakland said Middle linebacker Jack Lambert. We be got too Tough a division and we can t put everything on Oakland. There re 12 More games to play and we have to beat clubs like Cincinnati Houston and Cleveland or we re nowhere. This is just one the Only thing this game s going to prove is who s better on sunday said wide receiver Lynn Swann whose concus Sion last season led to Noll s charges of a criminal element in the National football league and Atkinson s subsequent Law suit. I really believe for us to go any where this season we be got to be at least 5-1 in our division and win some outside of it. It s important to beat everyone especially Oakland and if i beat number 43 Atkinson a couple of times it la be like icing on the cake like the foam on the Beer. It would be terrific to score one Over old Don t think about Lynn Swann countered Atkinson whose forearm smash knocked Swann unconscious. I think about Pittsburgh. I imagine the Steele fans Are going to let me hear about it but it won t Hurt my concentration. What happened took place in the first game last year. That s a Long time ago. We be since played them for the acc the raiders have won 14 consecutive games including Post season and the series Between the clubs stands at 5-5. Pittsburgh s Only loss in the last 12 games was the 24-7 defeat by Oakland in the acc title game. Both teams opened with in continued on Page 21 opening round Birdie Binge described Fri Day s round a to hum Day. I Only made two birdies and that s not enough for this Golf Calfee who vaulted out of obscurity witha career Best 66 thursday matched Kite for the second straight Day and said the performance will do a lot for my conf leaders Mike Hill 68-45-133 Ben Crenshaw 67-67134 Tom Kite 66-69-135 Bill Calfee 66-69135 Craig Stadler 68-68136 Gary Groh .69-67136 Tony Cerda 68-68136fred Marti 70-67137 Bill Pelham 69-68137jerry Pate 70-67137 Sam Adams 70-67137tim Simpson 69-69138 Andy North 69-69138 Jim Dent 69-69138 Bob Zender 68-70-138 Mac Mclendon 70-68138leonard Thompson 69-70139 Mark Hayes 69-70139 Duke Butler. 72-67139 Pete Brown 71-68-139 Rod curl 70-69139 Alan Taple 70-69139howard Twitty 72-68140 Bill Rogers 70-70140 Terry Diehl 70-70140 George Burns 71-69140 Don Pooley 68-72140 ton Hinkle 73-67140 Lanny Wadkins 71-69140 Bob Wynn 69-71140 Tom Barker 71-70141 re Caldwell 73-68-141 Bobby Mitchell 69-72141 Mason Rudolph 73-68141 Miller Barber 72-69141 Allen Miller 68-73141 Butch Baird 72-69141 John Schroeder 71-70141 Bobby Walzel 73-68-141 Dwight Nell 70-71141 Barry Jaeckel 72-69141 Ron Cerrudo 69-72141 George Cadle 69-72141 Bob Mann 71-71142joe Kunes 73-69142 George Johnson 70-72142john Lister. 70-72142 Mike Sullivan 68-74142mike Mccullough 71-71142 Mike Reid 73-69142 Dan Sykes 72-70-142 Orvllle Moody 71-71142 Bill Kratzert 71-71142 Kermit Zarley 72-70-142 de Dougherty 71-71142 Steve Melnyk 75-67142 Greg Pitzer 75-68143 Roger Maltbie 72-71143 Tommy Aaron 69-74143 Bob Murphy 73-70143 Bobby Stroble. 72-71143 Jack Spradlyn 68-75143 Bui Miller 73-70143 Joe Porter 72-71143 Barney Thompson 74-69143 Lynn Lott 73-70-143 Randy Erskine 71-72143 fuzzy Zoeller 73-70-143 j. C. Snead 72-71143 Wally Armstrong 71-72143 Gibby Gilbert 72-71143 Dave Newquist 71-72143 Keith Fergus 72-71143 Bobby Nichols 69-74143jeff Mitchell 71-72143 Austin paces Field by one shot after 2nd round at round Hill by Bill Martin Alamo Calif. A High rolling Debbie Austin capitalized on key chips and Potts and raced to a one stroke Lead Friday Midway through the $100,000 ladies professional Golf association tournament at the round Hill country club. Austin already a Winner five times this year chalked up a five under Par 68, giving her a two round total of 140, six under Par on the 6,324-Yard course. Austin had six birdies including a 60 foot Chip in and one bogey As she Over took first round Leader Joanne Carner who hit three balls out of Bounds and fell Well Back with a 69-78-147. Amy Alcott birdied six out of seven holes Midway through her round and finished with a 68, putting her one shot behind Austin. Kathy Whitworth and Jane Blalock were tied at 142, while Mary Homer and Kathy Postlewait were in at 143."i played the Back nine in four under but i was scrambling a lot said Austin who had been a no Winner for nine years prior to this season s victories. This really in t my kind of course. But after i made a couple of birdies i started to relax a Little and i got Loose. I m not really pleased with the Way i played but i seem to shoot Good numbers Austin Sank an eight footer two 10-foot ers and a 20-footer for birdies salvaged a pair of pars with chips to within three feet and birdied the 18th by wedging out of a Sand trap to within two feet of the pin. Judy Rankin the tour s leading Money Winner who had been a doubtful starter after suffering a Back injury thursday struggled to a 39-3877 Friday and just made the Cut with a two round total of 152. The Cut for the final two rounds was set at 153 for the Low 60 players. The leaders Debbie Austin 72-68140 Amy Alcott 73-68141jane Blalock 72-70142 Kathy Whitworth 70-72142 Mary Homer 71-72143 Kathy postlewait73-70143 Debbie Massey 73-71144 Mary Mills 71-73144 Sandra Post 70-74144 Mary Lou Crocker 73-72145 Hollis Stacy 72-73145 Laura Baugh 76-70116jo Anne Carner 49-78147 Shelley Hamlin. 72-75147pam hug flans 74-73147 Pat Meyers 74-73147 continued on Page to
