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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Saturday, February 4, 1978

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Page 21 24 hours of Daytona Ongais captures pole Slot by Jerry Carrett Daytona api Danny who unofficially shattered the track record during testing earlier this came up with thursdays fastest time in qualifying and won the pole Posi Tion for the saturday Start of the 24 hours of Daytona endurance co driving with businessman sportsman Ted Field in the twice around the clock pushed his Turbo porsche to an average Speed of Miles an hour around the Daytona inter National Speedway Road speeds were held Down dramatically by a steady last Ongais tested the same Black porsche with the big Zero on its Side slews owners confirm triple Crown Winner will continue racing Mickey Louch sat out last season Lolich comes to agreement with padres san Diego map unhandled Pitcher Mickey Lolich came to an agreement thursday with the san Diego a for the National league base Ball club sat out last season after two years with the new York he ranks sixth in strikeouts among Active pitchers with and third in victories with tile padres recently signed Gaylord who ranks second among Active pitchers with is wins and fourth in strike outs with who won eight games and lost 13 in his last Active is expected to join the padres at their Spring Camp terms of the contracts were not Dis closed i ale a Upil the owners of triple Crown Champion Seattle slew con firmed thursday night that they have decided to continue racing their Colt instead of retiring him to we decided wednesday said Mickey Taylor by Telephone from key Bis Taylor and Jim Hill decided to keep the horse in Competition after slew showed marked improvement following a mysterious illness thai put a halt to the Colts train ing schedule three weeks bengals face packers Cincinnati the Cincinnati bengals will meet the Green Bay packers in an exhibition game at Milwaukee Bengal officials have the two clubs do not meet in regular season play in rams reaction varied Over new coach Allen los Angeles api Many players pressed Surprise to the selection of George Allen As the los Angeles rams we head football a lot of us thought that it just didst my to add up for him to gel said buns safety Bui Simpson of chosen wednesday to succeed Chuck Hes a defensive and George is supposed to want a cer Tain amount of control of the and with the Way Carroll likes to that just didst seem Simpson referred to Carroll Rosen owner of the who officially if ked Allen to coach his National football Hue learn exactly three weeks after Rax signed a six year contract to coach it Buffalo its definitely going to have a psycho jul Tel reaction on said offensive tackle Doug Well either win All Trampler moves to Garden York a Bruce Winer director of boxing at the Orlando has been appointed assist matchmaker at Madison Square our games or Well lose All of there wont be a 77 id love to have had Hay Malavasi the rams1 defensive coordinator so it would make for a smooth continued then i wanted Dan Reeves Dallas cowboys assistant to Tell you the i wish it was still Chuck two players who played for Allen seemed pleased by the i got along Fine with said Center Rich 1 was one of the few rookies Hes Ever he treated me like a i played for him and 1 was Happy said guard Tom if i play for him ill be Happy Hes a linebacker Isiah Robertson was momentarily speechless upon hearing about in kind of said thought it would be Malavasi or first i want to see what Allen has to say and what his philosophy ill just Hove to play it by in just glad we have a said guard Dennis 1 know Hes Good his background shows the owners have been negotiating with breeders the past few weeks Over a Syndi estimated As High As Sis but the timing was off As the Breeding season begins 15 with most of the top mares already were just going to begin said we lost the Winter Campaign in Florida but Well continue with our in july or August we can Start planning autiere we want to stand him at who has not raced since his loss to Tobin in the swaps stakes july 3 in Hollywood was scheduled to return to racing opening Day at three Days before the race slew came Down with a High fever and a Low White cell count and was it was the second Lime the who was ratings first undefeated triple Crown had been scheduled to return to the races but suffered a setback because of ill after a two month Layoff following the loss in the Colt contracted a cough which forced him out of the fall Handicap classics at slew was then shipped to Hialeah Early in december and the owners decided to change relieving Billy Turner of his responsibilities and turning the Colt Over to Young Doug under Peterson the Colt trained Brilli Antly in pre Perallon for his 4yearold debut in the Tallahassee Handicap Jan thai race was to be a prep race for the f Hialeah Challenge cup on in which he would have met Many of his Oes in last years triple Crown including Challenge cup Winner run Dusty Havlicek named to Allstar team new York a John the Boston celtics durable guard Forward competing in his Ibuki and last National basketball association was named thursday by Aba commissioner Law rence Obrien to replace injured Pete Maravich of the new Orlens jazz in sundays Allstar the Aba scoring who was to have started on the Eastern Confer ence will be sidelined at least a week by a knee injury suffered tuesday night in a game against the 37yearold Havlicek will be appear ing in 13th Allstar tying the Aba record shared by Wilt Chamberlain and former Boston teammate Bob i can think of no player who exemplifies the meaning at All Star More than Obrien he is truly one of the greatest players in the history of our league and it is Only fitting that he make an appearance in this game in his final Aba at Mph on a dry Jacky who wont be competing this year due to an Arm impairing holds the official record of despite its the Ong Airfield entry is not expected to be around sunday at the est finish because of questions aver the reliability of its one of the favourites is Likely to be the second fastest the porsche Turbo of Bob Wollek of Germany and Frenchman Henry their qualifying Speed was thursdays qualifying session set the lop id starting spots in what is expected to be a 70car starting the Bow 3201 of Ronnie Peterson of Sweden and britishers David Hobbs in third place was the Only no porsche in the first a Ferrari Daytona and an older Nobilec Cutlass were Ullh and 12th respect two time Indianapolis Sod Winner Johnny co driving with Dick Barbour and Germany Manfred was eighth defending Champion Hurley Haywood did not compete thursday because his porsche Turbo did not arrive at the track in times recorded thursday can be improved upon Friday when qualifying con but the starting order of the first 19 will not be Lover join Advance in Tennis tourney api top seeded Bjorn Borg of playing Hist Selene Defeated Harold Solomon and Rod Laver of Australia ousted Mark Cox of England m thursday on the Richmond Stop of the world team championship in other second round John Newcombe of Australia beat Jose Hague res of Spain 82 and Eddie Dubbs Defeated Zeljko Franulovich of Yugoslavia who Defeated defending Champion Tom Okker of the Netherlands in the first round of play won the first three games of his match with break ing Solomons service in the second Solomon broke bores serve the Only time in the match in the fifth game to make in 32 but Borg broke right Back for a 42 Lead and served out the in the second who came to the net occasionally to put away a broke Solomons serve in the third and seventh games for the easy Cox broke layers serve in the final game of the second set when he made four forced but the 39yearold two Lime grand slam Winner recovered in the third set by breaking Cox in the seventh game to Lake a 43 Laver had no Trou ble holding his serve the last two times to Clinch the who came to the net often alter his big traded service Breaks in the first two games of his match with i Dibbs opened by winning the first five games of the match to set the rout in he also won the first three games of the second Sel and had very Little trouble putting away who made a number of in the quarterfinals Friday Borg was to go against Dib a against 2 seed Vitas Gerulaitis against Ken Rosewall of Australia and 7 seed Corrado Bara Szutu of Italy was matched against Peter Fleming of Chat i  
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