European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 16, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 25 Rondeau makes history in lemans win be mans. France a Hometown hero Jean Rondeau conquered rain and porsche Armada sunday to win the 48th be mans 24-hour race making history at the first Driver to win the classic in a car of Hown construction. Rondeau. 34. Was partnered by 1978 win Ner Jean Pierre Jaussaud. 43, who held olt a last hour charge by belgian Jacky icky in a revamped porsche 908 speedster. Icky come out of retirement to partner West German Reinhold Jost in a try for a record fifth win Here. After the race he said he would not try again. Another of Rondeau s care come in third in what he described As the culmination of five years Effort. The co Worth powered engines built Here have shown excellent reliability since their first appearance in 1976, with frequent finishes in the top 10.fourth was another French Independent a Peugeot Turbo powered amp driven by the French duo of Guy of Raquelin and Christian Dorchy. Dick Barbour of san Diego who with britons John Fizpatrick and Brian red Man set a blistering Early Pace to Lead Thefield much of the first 10 hours wound up fifth after a series of engine problems. The winning Rondeau covered 338 laps of the Long circuit 2,859.7 Miles at an average Speed of 119.169 Mph. The Winner finished some 14 Miles ahead of icky. De spite two hair raising spins in the rain storms that hit the closing hours of the race. In spite of numerous accidents no one was hurl and 25 of the 55 starters finished. Rondeau s winning car was an improve version of the original 1976 Model. The race opened in a downpour saturday afternoon and Barbour sent out the experienced Fitzpatrick to build up an Early Lead. The Lead changed regularly among a handful of cars As they pitted for fuel All on i he same Lap of the 8.5-mile circuit. Rival team managers appealed to Barbour to ease off the Pace saying they Woald All suffer but be stuck to his win or bust Leader boards showed Barbour. The winning Rondeau three time Winner Henri Pescarolo of France. Icky or the porsche 93s of France s Bob Wollek in the Lead. Icky was the first to fall Back losing 13 minutes changing a broken fuel injection drive Belt. Wollek had the same problem shortly afterwards then soon after dropped out entirely with engine failure. Pescarolo lost his Chance to equal icky s four wins Here when his Rondeau broke a valve. Amigos rally Routs beards Kaiserslautern. Germany the Mannheim Amigos broke Loose for six runs in the seventh inning to defeat the Kaiserslautern red beards 10-4 Here sunday in German american league baseball action. The second game of the double header was rained out. Richard Jackson a bases loaded single plated two runs. Peter Jacobson drove in another with a sacrifice Fly and Gordon Turner singled in a pair of runs to highlight the big Frame As the winners expanded a 4-1 Lead to 10-1. Then Hung on ask town got three runs in the Bottom of the Frame. Unbeaten Jim Benson with help from Don Stair limited the losers to four hits. Benson yielded three safeties in 6 frames struck out 10 and walked one to get his third win. Loser James Curry 0-2 gave up 14 hits and All 10 runs. All 16 of the Amigos hits were singles with All but three players in the lineup get Ting at least two safeties. Mannheim improved to 6-2 to up its Northern division Lead Over runner up Frankfurt to one full game. dropped to 2-7. Evert Mcenroe capture . Tourneys compiled by Klint Johnson assistant sports editor Tennis chm Evert Lloyd and John Mcenroe showed their Affinity for Green grass and Money sunday by triumphing in a pair of England grass court Tun cups before Wimbledon. Evert outlasted evonne Goola Gong Cawley 6-3, 6-7, 7-5, in atrocious conditions at Chic Baum older Nefs Usa eur soccer semifinal Grafe Woehr. Germany Jac ques Levo and Joe Meader worked their offensive magic for All three Baum older goals to lift the v corps champions to a 3-1 Victory Over the seventh army training come in a Usa eur soccer quarterfinal game Here had two goals and an assist and Meader scored once and assisted once As Baum older triumphed and advanced to a semifinal Date with either setae or Stutt Gart. That game is scheduled for next sat urday at plays at Berlin in the other Usa eur semifinal. Following a scoreless first half Jose Cas Tro put seventh at ahead three minutes after intermission when he scored from my acc in front of the Baum older goal. Levo tied it for Baum older in the 58th minute with a Solo Effort from 15 Yards out. Six minutes later Levo put the visitors ahead to stay with a 10-Yard shot assisted by looped a 15-Yard scoring shot Over the head of 7th at goalie Samuel Myers who had come out from the goal Mouth. An excellent pass from Levo set up Meader i goal with 15 minutes left. Player coach Mike Scott Alex Estrada and Durly Arrendendo were Baum older defensive standouts. Kenneth Ottey and Richard nurse sparkled on offence for the winners along with Levo and Meader. Cory Knowles and Maurice pens sparked 7lh at offensively and Bob Kandler and Tom Rhodes were defensive standouts. Baum older goalie Sergio Torre recorded seven saves including three on very hard shots. Myers made ii saves. Baum older had nine Corner kicks and 7th at two. Sports wire he Star and Mcenroe breezed past austra Lia s Kim Warwick 6-3, 6-1 in the Londo Queen s club final. Evert collected her 19th straight Victory and vi0.000 at chichi Star in conditions which both women described As the worst they had Ever played in Gal Force winds that blew diagonally across court. American Lethander Mcenroe dominated Warwick As he had the entire Field to take Home si7,500. The unseeded Warwick had upset second seeded Vitas Gerulaitis in the semifinals. At Brussels Peter Macnamara of Australia won the singles final of the International championships of Belgium by beat ing the tournament s 1979 Winner Balas Paroczy of Hungary 7-6, 6-3, 6-0. Mcnamara who was seeded third reached the final by upsetting Eddie Dibbs of the us. 6-2, 2-6,6-2, in the semifinals. Baseball Chicago cubs slugger Dave Kingman was socked with a stiff Fine and the whole team got a ultimatum on absenteeism saturday. Cubs general manager Bob Kennedy fined Kingman a Day s pay that s a Kinsman sized pen ally of $1,250 for missing Friday s 7-6 loss to Ain t nobody that s going to leave this club again said Kennedy. Everybody will travel with the club unless there s a death in the King Man had received permission to go to his san Diego Home on thursday s open Date. He phoned manager Preston Gomez Early Friday and said he would be at the game but never showed up. Ron Perry jr., As Handy with a Basket Ball As he is with a Bat has signed a contract with the Chicago White sox. Perry was a standout shortstop and basketball guard at holy Cross University. He was a third round draft selection by both the White sox and the Boston cel tics of the Aba. Golf Dale Lundquist fired a sizzling 6-Undcr Par 66 for a four stroke Lead Over Beth Daniel and Pat Bradley in the Lyga tournament at Danvers mass. Lundquist s 12-under 204 total is the Lyga s Best third round score this sea son. Patty Shiehan of san Jose state shot a 2-under-Par 72 to hold off a last round charge by Patty Rizzo of Miami and win the individual title in the Aikaw championships at the University of new Mexico. Shiehan had a four round total of 286 three ahead of Rizzo who finished with a 71. Boxing Muhammad Ali has lost a few fights in the ring but he remains undefeated in the courtroom in More than a dozen Legal bouts. That s because i am always in the right he said. All s latest Legal Victory came in a s20-million slander suit in new Orleans. A . District court jury of four women and two men Alt White ruled he did not defame two promoters who accused him of denouncing them As racists. Jeffie Burnett of los Angeles knocked Down former lightweight Champion Victor Galicz of Argentina twice in the sixth round in route to a unanimous 12-round decision in a cruiserweight elimination bout at Anaheim Calif. Records fall in Wuerzburg Power lifting Wuerzburg Germany an Thony Lowry of Schwa unfurl led the assault on the record Book Here Over the weekend at the Wuerzburg open Power lifting tournament. Six Usa eur records were set and another lied in men s compete set new Marks in the 1-18 Pound class with a 500-Pound dead lift and a 1.180 total. Oswald Rod Riquez of Schwabach set a record in the same class with a 430-Pound squat. Other men s records were set by bad kissing in s Percy Davis with a 360-Pound Bench press in the 181 Pound class Wiesbaden s Carlos Greene with a 660 dead lift in the 220-pi und class and Schweinfurt s Rick Jordan with a 531 squat in the Ovcr-220 division. Greene s 1.575 total lied the Usa eur record at 220 pounds. Bonnie Wilcox a dependent from bettered three women s Marks in the 97-Pound class with an 85-Pound Bench press a 205 in the dead lift and a 415 total. Esther Smith of wild Flucken set a new re Cord in the women s 165-Pound class with a 130-Pound Bench press. Angels place Bruce Kison on 21 Day disabled list Anaheim. Calif. A the califor Nia Angels announced that right handed Pitcher Bruce Kison has been placed on the 21-Day disabled list because of a nerve problem in his right Elbow. Frankfurt wins Frankfurt the Frankfurt Amer ican Rugby team ran its season record to 48 19 with a 48-3 Victory Over the Nuernberg american Rugby club Here sunday. Nuernberg now has an 18-12 record. Frankfurt Blanks Neu Isenburg Frankfurt Fred Little threw for one to and plunged for another As Frank Furt blanked Neu Isenburg 30-0. In a Ger Man american league football game that could have been considerably closer except for key fumbles by the losers. Neu Isenburg fumbled the opening kick off and Frankfurt recovered on the miters 15 with Little scoring from the one just two minutes into the game. Bennett Davis capped a 45-Yard drive later in the Quarter scoring from the one and William Whitehead ran for the two Point Pat and a 14-0 first Quarter Lead for the winners. Frankfurt s second half ads came on Ivory Canon s five Yard run in the third Quarter and a 42-Yard Little to Thaddeus White pass in the final stanza. Davis ran for the Pat after the first score and Carson converted after the second to. Neu Isenburg which played Frankfurt on even terms in the Middle two quarters ran out of time at the Frankfurt eight just As the first half ended and lost another promising Opportunity in the third Quarter when it fumbled the Ball away deep i Frankfurt territory. The Victory kept Frankfurt on top in the North division standings with a 6-1 record. The losers arc now 1-6. Elsewhere in the a a league cowboys 12, Bison 8 Munich quarterback Wayne Cephas scored two touchdowns to Lead Munich Over Straubing As 1,500 fans turned out to see Munich up its South record to 4 2 and pull within one game of division leading Ansbach. Cephas scored in the second Quarter on runs of 9 and 38 Yards. Straubing. Now i 4, got on the Board in the third period on a 30-Yard run by Moses and a conversion run by Andrew Mcneil
