European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 26, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Crash aftermath april 1978 the stars and stripes Page 23 Indianapolis Apas authorities continued tuesday the grim task of new pcs ing names with mutilated bodies the us Auto club started reorganizing staff s replace seven top officials killed in the la Start for the Inck Zapolis 500 just Days sunday nights devastating crash touched Nearis every division of the chief Sanction ing body for automobile racing of tit the United the Pilot of the air plane reported severe air turbulence shortly before the crash and witnesses said the 10seat Navata chieftain smashed nose first into a Muddy Cornfield in Rush 25 Miles South East of the bursting into virtual 1 disintegrated on digging a Ater eight feet deep and 10 feet in Diame wreckage was strewn Over 100 Yards around the and burned pieces of the victims mangled bodies were put in bags and taken to area funeral Tracy Austin on Way to beating soviet Ace Austin tops Russ As takes Weisman series a teenager Nicy Austin whipped russian Ace Nata Jib Rodina 61 in women singles to give be United states a 3026 Victory in the fete of the fou Day Weisman cup Ameri Tennis the squad took the fou Day series ul99 after winning 8072 in the three Day rat last year in Russia for a cumulative we of it was the americans cons ecu Triumph for the cup series which in other american victories on the final 5 came in women doubles As team Cap in Bulie Jean King and Julie Anthony de Irina Shevchenko and Zetena go Azurova 61 and King and John Whit captured the mixed doubles w Over Alex Vadim Borisov won the mens singles 76 Victory Over Whitlinger and com with Tim Kakulia to defeat Ben test and Whitlinger 62 in Kakulia and Shevchenko Defeated test and Anthony in mixed doubles a 200 c Sac starts to reorganize its staff to replace 7 aides killed in plunge Tea a hire if id Tom chef Steward for the Indianapolis 500 lost some very Good friends and rang has lost some very Good Federal aviation admins Tafton officials said their probe was in Complete and declined further witnesses said the weather was dear on us ground at the time of toe but a tonal weather service forecasters on duty sunday night said a line of severe thunderstorms accompanied by Hail was moving across the path of the plane before me it is not uncommon for winds to reach 100 mites an a weather service spokesman if the plane got within the storms gust the extremely Strong turbulence could have forced the plane he Warren an Faa official in said Mullendore radioed the control Tower at Indianapolis International Airport As be reached Ita radar scanning area and told of the seven turbulence he was a controller instructed him 10 descend to 5jxm which Mullendore apparently the Pilot then asked to go even lower because of the severity of the the Pilot changed his heading to a More Westerly course and obtained permission u drop to officials control Tower personnel said they never received a response after informing mul Lendore he could drop to the lower in sure it want a mechanical Mal said Bob a Nephew of the Pilot and a Pilot with the same charter it must have been severe Ive Down this air plane a lot of hours it was a Good Well equipped and had it have been the Pilot lie was an experienced he had Over flying its really a Shock when you Are the last person to see them said George Veteran Auto i saw a of them leave Trenton Mercer Airport and said i was supposed to Fly la Pat Patricks plane to but he dropped me off in the night was cancelled because of bad weather Roundup of Tennis action Borg nobs easy Victory Over Connors in Japan Tokyo up Sweden Bjorn Borg rolled to an easy 62 Victory Over american Jimmy Connors in the final of a Tennis tournament at Toyogi National a crowd of saw the Rangy swede Shell Connors with his powerful backed up by a steady ground Borg opened the match by breaking con nors serve in the first that set the pattern for the Borg also broke Connors service in the fifth and seventh games of the first in the second be took Connors serv ice two More nobody 1s not even con nors i played real Good i just make in the match for third Manuel Orantes of Spain overcame Guillermo Vas of 76 Connors failed 12 times during the match to return borgs powerful borgs performance included three serv ing Connors won Only one Point on his serve and doubted faulted on one asked about borgs Connors said he serves pretty Well All of the Borg said that his strategy was to play Connors he makes a lot of errors in his fore hand and that is the Way that 1 tried to play the swede Borg earned prize Money White Connors got for Bis second place Orantes won Vilas got for Gottfried triumphs Houston a Brian Gottfried mastered the exaggerated spin shots of Roma Nian we Nastase for a in the finals of the world championship Tennis tournament at River Oaks in the second and fourth games with crowd leasing shots at break Points in both it took me a while to get used to his Gottfried weve played before but Hes never played like Gottfried referred to Nastasee unconventional Racquet which allows him to put added spin on his shots Ashe finally wins one Santa a fourth seeded Arthur Ashe won his first tournament in two years As he Defeated Bernie Mitton of South Africa 62 in the finals of the Santa Clara Valley grand prix Tennis tournament monday the 34yearold who won at Rotterdam in March lost the first set on a 57 tie breaker without losing his but came Back to break Miltona serve five times in the last two it was the first professional final Ever for the 23yearold he credited ashes net charging tactics for keeping the pressure on the Victory was Worth to while Mitton took Home in the doubles Brothers Gene and Sandy Mayer Defeated Hank Pfister and Brad Rowe Sudzina wins Penn Marathon for second time Philadelphia up Marty Sud i a steel Mill truck monday won the 26mile Perm relay Marathon for the second Lime in three years with a time Mark Oglen of Georgetown University finished in second clocking White Peter Bortolotti of Penn state came in third with a time of some 331 runners entered the seventh annual Marathon which began at the Phila Delphia Art museum and continued around the Schuylkill River returning to the of first won the Marathon in other runners who placed in the top 10 and their times were Fred Savitz of Jeff Penn Ralph Penn Jim College in Charles Bob and Bartholomew twin also of Malone Joy a Junior at Clark High school in was the first woman to clocking jays shift players Toronto a outfielder Alvis Woods has been optioned to Syracuse and outfielder Sam Ewing has been recalled from the International league farm the Toronto Blue jays announced monday Aba East finals Start sunday if bullets oust spurs in time new York up National basketball association announced monday night that the Eastern conference playoff finals will Start in Philadelphia on sunday afternoon in the event that Washington eliminates san Antonio in either five or six eol forehand and the put on his shots with a specially Strung Rac que that has the four Middle strings unto set the but by the third bullets Lead the spurs 31 in the Besto seven the fifth game was scheduled far san Antonio tuesday night and the sixth game in Washington Friday Philadelphia had expressed the desire to Start the next series on thursday Wigfal 11 uie Bullet won tuesday but thai request was denied last August we circulated a list of pos sible playoff dates to All said an Aba spokesman we have sub sequently Learned that Philadelphia Home court the spectrum is not available on one of the dates on our original or the next available Date is sunday and we eel that it would be unfair to penalize an innocent by insist ing that they play Day earlier on thurs Day we did offer Philadelphia the Opportunity to Start at Heine on thursday if they would agree la Puy the second game on Washington court sunday but that frs management
