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- Griffin Daily News Friday/ Mar. 24,1972
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Bobby Allison (1> and Bobby Isaac relax after capturing
first and second pole positions.
Bow they stacked up
HAMPTON, Ga. (UPI)-With
Bobby Allison of Hueytown,
Ala., assured of the pole
position, stock car drivers set
their sights today on the
remaining spots in Sunday’s
$113,000 Atlanta 500 stock car
race.
Allison set a qualifying record
in heading a group of 15 drivers
who qualified Thursday. Twen
ty-five more will qualify today
and Saturday.
Allison’s average speed of
156.245 miles per hour over the
1%-mile oval broke the old
record for cars running with
restrictors on their carburetors,
set last Auguest by Buddy
Baker.
Close behind was Bobby Isaac
of Catawba, N.C., who grabbed
the outside position on the front
line with his Dodge at a speed
of 156.066 m.p.h.
The other top qualifiers: 3-
Richard Petty, Plymouth; 4-A.
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J. Foyt, Mercury; 5-David
Pearson, Ford; 6-Donnie Alli
son, Chevrolet; 7-James Hilton,
Ford; 8-Jim Vandiver, Dodge;
9-Denny Parsons, Mercury; 10-
Buddy Baker, Dodge; 11-Mark
Donohue, Matador; 12-Leroy
Yarborough, Ford; 13-Frank
Warren, Dodge; 14-G.C. Spen
cer, Plymouth; 15-Larry Smith,
Ford.
Babe Ruth
sign-ups set
Babe Ruth League sign-ups
will be held tomorrow and on
the following Saturday, April 1,
at the Community Center in
Municipal Park.
Players must have a birth
certificate, be with one of his
parents, and pay a $lO sign-up
fee.
NBA
Standings
By United Press International
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Divsion
W. L. Pct. GB
x-Boston 54 26 .675 ...
New York 47 32 .595 6%
Philadelphia 30 50 .375 24
Buffalo 22 57 .278 31%
Central Division
W. L. Pct. GB
x-Baltimore 37 42 .468 ...
Atlanta 34 46 .425 3%
Cincinnati 28 51 .354 9
Cleveland 23 56 .291 14
Western Conference
Midwest Division
W. L. Pct. GB
x-Milwaukee 61 19 .763 ...
Chicago 55 25 .688 6
Phoenix 48 32 .600 13
Detroit 25 54 .316 35%
Pacific Division
W. L. Pct. GB
x-Los Angeles 67 13 .838 ...
Golden State 50 30 .625 17
Seattle 47 33 .588 20
Houston 31 48 .392 35%
Portland 18 63 .222 49%
x-CUnched division title.
Thursday’s Results
(No games scheduled)
Friday’s Games
Baltimore at Cincinnati
Golden State at Atlanta
Houston at Cleveland
Buffalo at Detroit
New York at Milwaukee
Chicago at Philadelphia
Phoenix at Los Angeles
(Only games scheduled)
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Cincinnati
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They are the best
HAMPTON, Ga. (UPI) —
Richard Petty, Bobby Allison,
A.J. Foyt, and Bobby Isaac are
to stock car racing what Jack
Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary
Player and Billy Casper are to
golf.
They are the best. Oh, they
won’t win every time out but
you can bank on it that they’ll
probably be right up there
among the front runners.
That’s why the crowd faded
away Thursday after Petty
made his qualifying run. There
were still a lot of cars trying
for the first 15 spots for
Sunday’s 40-car Atlanta 500
race. But the fans knew that
once the glamour boys had
made their run, the pole
position was set.
This time it was grabbed by
Allison, who won the Atlanta
500 two years ago and a
quarter of a million dollars last
year. And, as might have been
expected, Isaac, Petty and
defending champion Foyt fi
nished 2-3-4.
Allison, who finished in the
top five in three of the five
previous Grand National races
I ABA
standings
By United Press International
East
W. L. Pct. GB
; x-Kentucky 63 16 .797 ...
Virginia 43 36 .544 20
New York 42 38 .525 21%
Floridians 34 45 .430 29
Carolina 33 48 .407 31
Pittsburgh 24 56 .300 39%
West
W. L. Pct. GB
1 x-Utah 58 23 .716 ...
Indiana 45 34 .570 12
Dallas 39 41 .488 19
Denver 32 48 .400 25
Memphis 26 54 .325 31%
x-Clinched division title
Thursday’s Results
Floridians 126 Pittsburgh 115
Utah 137 Memphis 117
(Only games scheduled)
Friday’s Games
Kentucky at Pittsburgh
New York vs. Virginia
At Norfolk
Floridians vs. Carolina
I At Greensboro
Denver vs. Indiana
At Anderson, Ind.
Memphis at Dallas
(Only games scheduled)
Scores
By United Press International
National Invitation Tournament
(Semifinals)
Maryland 91 Jacksonvl 77
Niagara 69 St. John’s 67
NCAA Tournament
(Semifinals)
Florida St. 79 No. Carolina 75
UCLA 96 Louisville 77
staged by NASCAR, whipped
his Chevrolet around the 1.522-
mile oval at Atlanta Interna
tional Raceway at an average
speed of 156.245 mph—and try
that with your average Chevy
on the open road and see what
happens.
The 35-year-old Hueytown,
Ala., resident wasn’t particular
ly surprised. After all, everyone
connected with stock car racing
knows that his Junior Johnson
prepared Chevy is one of the
hottest cars in racing at the
moment—and he made better
time than that the previous day
during trial runs.
However, it was a track
record so far as running with a
carburetor restrictor which has
been a NASCAR requirement
the past year or so and which
has cut a few miles off for just
about everyone.
But, shucks, Isaacs, who won
the last Grand National race—
at Rockingham, N.C. two weeks
ago, also broke the record with
his 156.066 timing and Petty,
who has won two races this
year and won a third of a
million dollars last year, was
Florida State, UCLA matched
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Bill
Walton, UCLA’s jolly red giant,
and his young teammates will
play for the Bruins’ sixth
straight NCAA basketball title,
as expected, Saturday.
But the opponent will be
Florida State and not North
Carolina.
The eight-point underdog Se
minoles provided the only
surprise of the NCAA semifin
als Friday night, knocking off
No. 2-ranked North Carolina,
79-75, before Walton devastaged
Louisville, 96-77.
So it will be UCLA—the No.
1-rated team in the country and
undefeated in 29 games—
against No. 10 Florida State for
Cool eagers moving up
NEW YORK (UPI)-Tom
McMillen of Maryland and Al
Williams of Niagara are worlds
apart in size, background and
amount of publicity, but their
ability to remain calm when
the pressure builds was in
strumental Thursday night in
their respective schools’ ad
vancing to the finals of the 35th
annual National Invitation
Tournament.
McMillen, a highly publicized
6-foot-ll sophomore from Mans
field, Pa., stemmed a Jackson
ville rally in the second half
when he scored eight points
during a two-minute stretch to
lead Maryland to a 91-77
Sports Briefs I
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
Tech and Duke meet again to
day in college baseball and
pitchers from both teams were
hoping for better luck than
they had Thursday when the
Yellow Jackets outslugged the
Blue Devils 21-10.
Joe Rogers got five hits and
Ray Giuliani added four hits to
pace Tech, which erupted for
eight runs in the seventh in
ning after leading by only 9-7.
The winning pitcher was Mike
Sorrow.
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - The
University of Georgia tennis
team goes after its 65th straight
home court win today against
South Carolina. On Thursday
the Bulldogs shut out Michigan
State 9-0 for their 64th win in
a row.
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI)-Buck
Baker, who played as a sopho
more on the University of Geor
gia’s 1968 Southeastern Confer
ence football championship
team, has returned to school
after a stint with the Marine
Corps.
Coach Vince Dooley said
Baker, a 6-4, 250-pound tackle,,
has two years of eligibility left.
Baker was named to the Ma
rine all-star team.
At race in Hampton
the championship Saturday at 2
p.m. PSTon national television.
“Best Ever”
“I think this is the best
UCLA team ever,” said Louis
ville Coach Denny Crum, a man
who should know. Crum helped
recruit the ingredients for the
Walton Gang, including the red
haired sophomore himself, as
UCLA Coach John Wooden’s
chief assistant for three years
before taking the Kentucky post
this season.
The 6-foot-ll Walton, winner
of the Naismith Award as
college basketball’s Player of
the Year, scored 33 points and
collected 21 rebounds. He had
24 of his points and 16 of his
victory. The big sophomore led
his team with 25 points and
grabbed 12 rebounds.
Williams, a 5-9 guard from
Hempstead, N.Y., who came
into the tournament with hardly
any advanced billing, demon
strated his coolness by sinking
two free throws with five
seconds left to give Niagara a
69-67 victory over St. John’s. As
a result of Williams’ pressure
shots Niagara, whom many
expected to be knocked out in
the opening round, is in the
finals of the NIT for the first
time in eight tries.
McMillen’s Heroics
McMillen’s heroics in the
opener came after Jacksonville
had chopped a nine-point deficit
to three with 12:33 remaining in
the game. In the next two
minutes the sharpshooting for
ward canned three straight 18-
foot jump shots and hit on two
three throws to give the
Terrapins a 60-49 edge with
10: Iff remaining.
Jacksonville never got closer
than seven points after that as
McMillen and sophomore center
Len Elmore kept the Dolphins
off the boards. Elmore, a husky
6-9, finished with 23 points and
pulled down 14 rebounds as
Maryland outrebounded the tall
Dolphins, 45-37.
“I was hitting fairly well,
although I thought we could
have done a little better
inside,” said McMillen, who hit
on 10-of-17 field goals attempts,
with eight of his baskets
coming on long jumpers.
Williams Takes Off
Williams’ chance to be a hero
was almost nullified by his
Coach Frank Layden, who was
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only 2-10ths of a mile per hour
off the former mark with his
155.544.
Having Foyt, who won the
other two Grand National
races, finish fourth in the
qualifying delighted NASCAR
officials. You see, A.J. belongs
to a rival racing group, USAC,
and it really burns the
NASCAR folks when he quali
fies for one of their races and
then beats their drivers at their
own game.
“I suppose I shouldn’t say it,
but having A.J. Foyt starting in
the No. 4 position is a break for
us,” said an Atlanta Interna
tional Raceway official who
would prefer to remain anony
mous.
“Our fans come out here to
cheer people like Richard
Petty, Bobby Allison and Bobby
Isaac and having those three in
the top three positions is going
to help our gate. It’s not that
they don’t like Foyt, it’s just
the Stock car purists consider
him more of a sports car
driver.”
There were a lot of other
familiar names among those
rebounds in the opening half as
UCLA built up an eight-point
advantage.
Larry Farmer added 15
points, all in the second half,
for the Bruins while sopho
mores Keith Wilkes and Greg
Lee finished with 12 and 10,
respectively.
Jim Price kept Louisville in
the game with 30 points.
It was supposed to be UCLA
and North Carolina in a
rematch of the 1968 finalists.
But Ron King and pint-sized
floor leader Otto Petty put the
Seminoles there instead of the
Tar Heels.
King had 22 points and the 5-7
Petty came off the bench to
getting ready to call out when
the little guard saw an opening
and took off for the basket with
10 seconds left. He drove
around to the right baseline and
went up for a shot with five
seconds left when he was hit by
the Redmen’s 6-9 Greg Cluess.
St. John’s called time out
with the hope it would rattle
Williams into missing one or
both of his free throws. But
Williams split the net perfectly
with each shot and the
Redmen, who were now out of
timeouts, were forced to take
the ball the length of the court
before getting off their final
shot.
t Bill Schaeffer, the Redmen’s
top scorer in the game with 23
points, came dose to sending
the contest into overtime but
his shot bounced off the rim at
the buzzer.
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first 15 qualifiers Thursday.
David Pearson, who has won
more money racing over the
years than any other driver
except Petty, qualified fifth and
pole-sitter Allison’s brother
Donnie was sixth.
That’s a story in itself.
Sunday will be Donnie Allison’s
first race this season. He
switched to television commen
tating when he was left without
a car by Ford’s withdrawal
from stock car racing. Although
Bobby is racing for Junior
Johnson, he also has prepared a
Chevy of his own and he
decided to try it out in the
Atlanta 500.
“Picking a driver for the car
came natural,” said Bobby
Allison. “My brother was the
best race driver around without
a ride."
And is that little bit of
circumstance causing Bobby
Allison to have mixed emotions
about Sunday’s race?
“Naw,” retorted Bobby. “I’d
like to see Donnie finish second
but I’m going to be out there
trying to get first for myself."
direct the Tallahassee speed
sters’ attack, ending up with 10
points.
Florida State, which came
into the final round of four with
five losses against 26 wins, had
to hold off a furious second-half
North Carolina rally, though.
The Seminoles padded a 13-
point halftime lead to 23-59-36
—with six minutes gone in the
second half.
Although Robert McAdoo
fouled out with 9:48 left, the
Tar Heels managed to get to
within five points with 6%
minutes left. They were within
three with five seconds left.
McAdoo had 24 points and
Dennis Wuycik added 20, 15 of
them in the second half, for
North Carolina.
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