4 19 GOOD BROTHERS Purolator MERCURY UPI Photo David Pearson Relaxes as Wood Brothers, Glen and Leonard, Watch Atlanta Trials BMWs Swap Lead at Sebring at Sebring car's engine, causing a fourminute pit stop that dropped him to second place behind the other BMW. Then, only minutes before the halfway point, anothher oil-hose broke and drained the engine of oil. Stuck drove the machine more than five miles with an empty engine and it broke down as he headed for his pit. "She's kaput," was the way Stuck explained it as he watched the team's other car, driven by Britisher Brian Redman, take over the lead as the race completed its first six hours. 1 And a sizeable lead it was.
The No. 2 BMW held an advantage of more than three lapsover 15 miles- over a Porsche Carrera, driven by George SEBRING, Fla. (AP) Hans Stuck Jr. says there's an old German adage that runs something like this: "The sun is under the line." As he translated it to racing language Saturday, it means, count your chickens before they're hatched." Driving one of a pair of German-made BMWs in the 12-hour Sebring sports car race, the tall, lanky 24-year-old secondgeneration driver had set the pace in the first few hours before 41,671 sun-baked fans. Then, trouble struck.
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(AP) Pole-sitter Richard Petty and David Pearson, who missed that spot because of a malfunctioning clock, are primed for another head-to-head skirmish today in the Atlanta 500 stock car race. Thirty-six. drivers will take the green flag at 12:30 p.m. EDT for the 500-mile test at Atlanta International Raceway, with Petty hoping to end a jinx in this race he has never won. The $121,000 event over the 1.52-mile asphalt track will be televised (ABC) to most of the nation, being joined in progress at midafternoon" Petty claimed the No.
1 spot in his Dodge in Friday's run for the pole by' averaging 159.029 miles per hour, but all unofficial clocks recorded the Mercury-driving Pearson at a faster clip on his initial time trial lap, which was voided because the official timing device malfunctioned and recorded no time for Pearson. Dragster Facility Destroyed BURLINGTON, N.C. (AP) The Sox and Martin auto racing facility. was heavily damaged by a fire of undetermined origin early Saturday. Bobby Martin, half of the famed drag racing team, estimated $300,000 in damage to the building and equipment inside.
No one was injured in the blaze, which was reported around 4:30 a.m. by a neighbor, according to Chief Herbert Wagoner of the F.M. Holt Volunteer Fire Department. Newsmen at the scene said about one-third of the 200.1 by 125 foot building was destroyed by flames, including the office, parts department and trophy room. The garage area appeared to have escaped the flames.
Agent Fred Tucker of the State Bureau of Investigation said the SBI mobile crime laboratory would examine the ruins to determine whether arson or breaking and entering might be involved. Ten units and approximately 60 men from four fire departments battled the flames for more than an hour before bringing the fire under control. The drag racing firm is located about two miles south of Burlington. Martin and Ronnie Sox, who arrived on the scene shortly after the fire was reported, are among the top drag racing drivers in America. Tar Heels, Terps Play for Title DURHAM, N.
C. (AP) North Carolina and the University of Maryland will meet today for the championship of the rain-plagued Hero's Invitational Lacrosse Tournament. North Carolina's Tar Heel crushed Ohio State, 12-0, and Maryland edged the Maryland Lacrosse Club in sudden death overtime Saturday. to earn the finals berths. Today's play has been shifted back to North Carolina's artificial turf in neighboring Chapel Hill' because of muddy conditions on the Duke University field where Friday and Saturday matches were played.
The championship match was set for 3:30 p.m. following the consolation meeting of Ohio State and the Maryland Lacrosse. Club. consolation games Saturday. Air.
Force downed Duke, 10-7, and Penn State Dartmouth, 17-3. SPORTWAVES Parson's 158.285 speed on his second lap placed him fourth in today's starting field. behind Bobby Allison's Matador, 158.932; and Buddy Baker's Ford, 158.808. That quartet of drivers figures in the favorite's role; while defending champion Cale Yarborough, a four-time winner of the race, starts in the 12th position after qualifying his Chevrolet at 156.183. Four other Chevrolets will be in position to make a possible run at it, two of which, are scheduled to be driven by Indytype aces A.
J. Foyt and Johnny Rutherford, last year's Indianapolis 500 champion. Foyt flew 4- early. Saturday after spending two days in Texas with his mother, who was ill. He will be in the 10th starting spot.
His car was qualified at 156.504 by Jackie Rogers. Rutherford will start sixth after qualifying at 157.652, lin- Jacksonville L'. ing up beside Lennie Pond. who had a 158.102. Donnie Allison is the other Chevrolet threat, having qualified at 157.253.
Petty has won the Dixie 500 race on this same track four times, but for some reason has never been able to catch the checkered flag in the spring race. He is the all-time stock. car racing king with 170 victories, including two on short tracks this year, and career earnings of $1.85 million. Pearson. who won both races here in 1973, is still looking for his first victory of the season, placing in the top 10 only three times in five "Petty has really got his car: running good," said Bobby Allison, who says more than a half dozen drivers have a shot at the victory.
'including myself, Petty, Donnie, Cale, Buddy, (Darrell) Waltrip and Benny Parsons. Foyt probably would have a shot at it, too. Hensley Wins Kingsport 200 KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) check for being the track's 1974 Hensley, driving a 1969 champion. Chevelle, took the $5,500 King- Jack Ingram, Asheville, N.C., sport 200 stock car race Friday a three-time late model sportnight at the.
Kingsport Inter- man winner, led throughout the national Speedway. race until his engine blew with 50 laps to go. Besides the $1,000 winner's Gene Glover, Kingsport, check, the Martinsville, finished second. and driver was also presented with Bradley Teague, Johnson City, a helmet and another $1,000 was third. Open Palmer Charges, Then Fades to 73 JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
(AP) Arnold Palmer was blasted out of the lead by a triple bogey and obscure Mike Morley emerged as the pacesetter after Saturday's third round of the $150,000 Greater Jacksonville Open Golf Tournament. Palmer, the 45-year-old living legend of the fairways, had come from three strokes off the pace and held the lead all alone until he hit his tee shot out of bounds on the par-three 11th hole. He wound up with a horrendous six. It dropped Palmer out of the top spot, and threw the tournament into a multiple-man scramble which was finallysolved by the skinny Morley. Morley, never a winner and never even an exempt player in five years of tour activity, matched the record on the 143-yard Deerwood Country Club course with a brilliant, seven-under-par 65.
His 54-hole total was 208, eight under par. Palmer, grimly determined to break the longest victory famine of his fabled career; was one shot back after a struggling 73. He was at 209 with Tom Shaw, Jerry. McGee and surprising Jerry Pate. Pate, a 21- year-old Alabama native and current U.S.
amateur champion who is competing against touring pros for the first time, had a 71: McGee shot. the same score in the mild, hazy weather. Shaw was tied for the lead until he bogeyed the final hole for a 72. The bulky group at 210-just two shots back--included Ben Crenshaw, hometown hero Steve Melnyk, Mac McLendon, Bob Dickson, Larry Hinson, Wally Armstrong and big Barney Thompson. Thompson, a non-winning tour sophom*ore who held the second-round lead, blew to a 77.
Armstrong had a 66, Melnyk, Crenshaw and Hinson shot their 69s, Dickson and McLendon had That left 11 players locked within two strokes of each other at the top going into today's final round of this chase for a $30,000 first U.S. Open champion Hale Irwin could do no better than a 72 and was well back at 217. Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller and Lee Trevino are not competing. Palmer, although a non-winner for two long seasons, still ranks as golf's greatest a drawing card. and he was trailed by TODAY'S TV 1 P.M.
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He holed a 20-foot birdie putt on the eighth and took sole control of the lead with a chip to five feet and another birdie on the ninth. He remained there until the the only hole counted," Palmer said- -where he pulled his long iron tee shot onto a condominuim lawn. It was out of bounds. He got his next in a bunker, reached the green in four and two-putted. It was a triple-bogey's six.
But he birdied the next from four feet, was within one shot of the lead and parred home. Morley highlighted his round with a 165-yard five-iron shot for an eagle two on the 15th hole. He once dropped a 25-foot par-saving putt after hitting into the water and didn't have a five on his "I've never won before so I guess I can't really expect to win this time," Morley said. JACKSONVILLE. Fla.
(API Thirdround leaders Saturday the $150,000 Greater Jacksonville Open Golf ment on the par-72 Deerwood Country Club course (a -denotes amateur): Mike Morley 72-71-65-208 a- Jerry Pate 70-68-71-209 Arnold Palmer 68-68-73--209 Jerry McGee 70-88-71-209 Tom Shaw-: 70-67-72-209 Wally Armstrong 71-73-66-210 Larry Hinson. 71-70-69-210 Steve Melnyk 74-67-69-210 Ben Crenshaw 68-73-60-210 Mac. McLendon 67-72-71-210 Bob Dickson Barney Thompson 67-66-77-210 Jim: Marshall 71-71-69-211 Jim Simons 72-71-68-211 Bob Charles 73-72-66-211 Mike Wynn 70.72-89-211 Tom Weiskopf 71-71-49-211 Larry Ziegler 73-89-69-211 Joe Inman 70-60-73-211 Fred Marti 70-73-60-212 Andy North 71-71-70--212 Mike Hill 73-69-70-212 Tom Jenkins Lee Elder 68-73-71--212 Babby Cole 60-69-74-212 Peter Costerhuis 77-66-75-213 Bob Eastwood 73-70-70-213 Chuck Courtney 74-69-70-213 Mike McCullough 73-71-69-213 Tex Simon 89-76-68-213 Dale Douglass 72-69-72-213 Dave Stockton 69-69-75-213 Lou Greham: 74-69-71-214 Dan 72-70-72-214 DeWitt Weever 72-70-72-214 Bobby Wadkins Bob Stanton 75-70-70-215 John Toepel 75-71-69-215 Bobby Mitchell 72-71-72-215 Grier Jones 65-76-71-215 Gil Morgan 70-74-71-215 Dave Barber 73-73-69-215 Ray Floyd 71-69-75--215 Jim Dent 68-71-76-215 Randy Erkine 73-71-72-216 Ken Still 72-74-70-216 Don January 73-71-72-216 Hubert Green 71-71-74-215 Ron Cerrudo 73-72-71-216 Perry Leslie Danny Edwards 72-70-74-216 I.
