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NASCAR disallows
time of 3 drivers
By DOUGLAS MONROE
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
(UPI) — In an unprecedented
action, Nascar officials disal
lowed the Daytona 500 qualify
ing times for A.J. Foyt, Darrell
Waltrip and Dave Marcis
because their cars were illegal
ly equipped.
Nascar said the Chevrolets of
Foyt and Waltrip “were set up
for use of fuel pressure assists,
which are not allowed.”
Marcis’ Dodge, Nascar said,
“was equipped with a non
approved radiator stoppage."
The unprecedented Nascar
action does not disqualify the
three from the race, but they
will have to re-qualify today for
twin 125-mile qualifying races
Thursday that will determine
positions 3-40 in the $342,000
classic.
Sunday’s qualifying was only
Hawks lose
3rd in row
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Atlanta Hawks had lost two
straight games, but they
thought they had a stopper
Sunday night. They were
hosting the travel-battered Los
Angeles Lakers.
When they fell behind the
Lakers 10 points—sl-41—at the
half, coach Cotton Fitzsimmons
wasn’t particularly worried.
“We know Los Angeles is not
a good road team,” he said.
“We thought they would hear
footsteps in the last half, and
they did.”
The footsteps brought the
Hawks to within four points, 81-
77, with 5:10 minutes to play.
Then Laker guard Gail Goo
drich showed some footwork.
Goodrich broke free for three
unconstested fast-break layups
in the next 90 seconds to kill
the Atlanta rally and boost the
Lakers to a 97-89 victory.
The win was Los Angeles’
seventh in 28 road games this
season and coach Bill Sherman
was almost jubilant.
“I think the key to our
victory was our rebounding
efforts,” he said.
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for the two top starting
positions.
With the times of the three
fastest cars disallowed, Ramo
Stott of Keokuk, lowa, gets the
pole position and its $5,000
prize, with his “legal” qualify
ing speed of 183.456 miles per
hour in a Chevrolet.
Terry Ryan of Davenort,
lowa, gets the outside pole and
SI,OOO with his 183.109 m.p.h.
lap in a Chevrolet.
Foyt, from Houston, Tex.,
had a 187.477 m.p.h. lap.
Waltrip, of Franklin, Tenn.,
turned his lap at 186.617 m.p.h.
and Marcis was clocked at
186.548 m.p.h. Their speeds
were at least three miles per
hour faster than Stott’s.
Nascar President Bill France
Jr. would not specify what the
“fuel pressure assists” were.
But he did say they were
“additional fuel sources for
improving the performance of
the automobile. As far as the
description of what we found, I
think we have to stop with what
we have said.”
The Nascar announcement
came shortly before 9 p.m.
EST, nine hours affter the time
trials ended. Officials began
tearing down the Foyt and
Waltrip cars at 4 p.m.
Earlier, the time of 1975
Rookie of the Year Bruce Hill
was disallowed, with officials
saying his “fuel did not meet
normal test standards.”
Stott, 41, finished fifth in last
year’s Daytona 500.
His chief mechanic, Dick
Hutcherson, said, “Nascar has
really become proficient in
keeping this an honest ball
game.”
Norris Reed, who owns Stott’s
car, said, “We’ve always raced
as a hobby, but I’ve never
cheated.”
He’s optimistic
Williams wants to erase
Ms ‘troublemaker’ image
ATLANTA (UPI) - Earl
Williams, in his best shape in
years and happy again, says he
will be trying this season to
erase a “black eye” which he
feels was given him by
Baltimore manager Earl Wea
ver.
Williams, 27, had his two
most productive years in
Atlanta in 1971-72, slamming a
total of 61 homers, driving in
174 runs and being named
rookie of the year.
Traded to Baltimore prior to
the ’73 season, he hit 22 homers
and drove in 83 runs before
seeing only limited action in
1974, “while being platooned all
the time and in and out of
Weaver’s dog house.”
Williams, who rejoined the
Braves early last season, said
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Driver A. J. Foyt (r) waits with his chief mechanic Hoss
Ellington as NASCAR makes a decision on his car. Foyt finished first in qualifying for the
Daytona 500 with Darrell Waltrip finishing second. Both cars were impounded by NASCAR
and put in a hold position while NASCAR inspected them. (UPI)
his differences with Weaver
involved primarily “a personal
ity clash,” but it was blown up
in the press. “Instead of it just
being between me and Earl, it
was all over Baltimore,” he
recalled.
“I think it’s going to take me
a little while in this game to
erase that black eye he gave
me. I think the only redeeming
thing about my whole stay in
Baltimore is that I never had
any trouble with my team
mates.”
Williams thinks Weaver
helped give him an image as a
“troublemaker,” which he says
is a bad rap. “As a matter of
fact, I never had any problems
with any managers or players
until I got there.
“I wasn’t use to being
verbally abused in front of the
entire ballclub,” he said. He
charged Weaver did not give
the same treatment to players
who had come up through the
Orioles’ system that he had
known for a number of years.
“I think he thought he had to
continually put me in my
place,” he said. “It got down to
just nit-picking.”
Williams admits he was not
in shape when he was traded to
the Braves last April. “I was
totally unprepared to play,”
said Williams. His weight,
which had ballooned to 236
pounds during his inactivity in
Baltimore, is now down to 225
and he hopes to go to spring
training next month at 220.
After going 0 for 23 when he
joined the Braves, Williams
finally got his average up to
.240 last season and finished
with 11 homers and 50 RBIs. “I
never had a real groove,” he
explained.
But he is looking for better
things this season. And he says
he has accepted the idea of
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being a catcher, which he
resisted early in his career.
“I’ve learned how to catch
now,” explained Williams. “I
didn’t know the little intricacies
before.”
The Braves finished 40 games
behind Cincinnati last season
but Williams thinks a series of
trades, a new manager (Dave
Bristol) and a new owner (Ted
Turner) have all contributed to
a new attitude in Atlanta, and
the Braves may be ready to
challenge this season.
“If we don’t win it, we’ll have
something to say about who
does,” he said.
Williams feels the addition of
Jimmy Wynn, acquired from
the Dodgers in a multi-player
deal which cost the Braves
Dusty Baker, gives the team
power and a boost in the
middle of the lineup which will
help him and Darrell Evans.
He also feels the Braves
added speed, defense and
pitching by acquiring Lee Lacy,
Jerry Royster and Tom Paci
orek from the Dodgers, Roger
Moret from Boston, Darrell
Chaney from Cincinnati and
Ken Henderson from the White
Sox.
“I wouldn’t want to say that
the players in the Braves
organization have not been
taught fundamental baseball
because they have,” he said.
“But pitching and defense have
been one of the weaknesses. On
paper we look strong.
“We have acquired some
guys who have played on good
ballclubs and know what it is
like to win and the benefits
derived from it,” he said.
The one trade which has
drawn some criticism was the
swap of former National
League batting champion Ralph
Garr for Henderson. But
Williams says Garr wasn’t
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“If a man wants to be traded,
I think he should be traded.”
And he thinks Henderson is a
solid player who’s been under
rated.
Stephenson
wins tourney
NAPLES, Fla. (UPI) - Jan
Stephenson thought all night
about how she was going to
cope with strong winds to
preserve her second-round lead
in the $60,000 Naples LPGA
Classic, but she still had no
plan when she got to the first
tee Sunday.
“I spent all night trying to
work out a strategy,” said the
dark-haired 24-year-old Califor
nian. “I came out here and I
had no idea what I was going to
do.” . '
Stephenson ran into some
bogey problems along the way
but hung on for a four-over-par
76 to gain her first victory on
the LPGA tour by one shot over
defending champion Sandra
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Olympics
mahre fourth
in downhill
By MIKE HUGHES
UPI Executive Sports Editor
INNSBRUCK (UPI) - Un
heralded Phil Mahre of White
Pass, Wash., ignored the World
Cup ski reputations of his rivals
and zoomed down the slope
with a fourth place finish today
after the first round of the
Olympic giant slalom in which
defending champion Gustavo
Thoeni of Italy gained a
commanding lead.
Europeans looked with eager
ness toward the duel between
Thoeni, his countryman Piero
Gros, and Swedish introvert
Ingemar Stenmark. Nobody
bothered to mention Mahre as a
potential medalist, but by the
end of the first round he was
ahead of both Gros and
Stenmark.
Mahre, 18, in his first season
of World Cup racing, scored a
few top 10 finishes, but the
experts ignored him in terms of
Olympic success because of his
inexperience and broken legs
which slowed his development
in 1974-75.
But young Mahre, in keeping
with the American tradition oi
ignoring the obvious, took every
risk possible as he weaved his
way through the 63 gates of the
5,050-foot course on Hoadl
mountain to clock 1 minute,
45.58 seconds.
Greg Jones of Tahoe City,
Calif., was 16th in 1:48.09.
Thoeni, holder of four World
Cup titles, started fourth, three
places ahead of Mahre among
the top 15 seeds, and set a
target time of 1:44.19 which
nobody came close to matching.
Ernst Good of Switzerland,
the first man down the slope,
clocked 1:44.60, while Heini
Hemrni of Switzerland, who
raced immediately behind Tho
eni, finished in 1:45.31 to hold
third place.
Gros, the current World Cup
leader, was one place back of
Mahre, who came to Europe as
a member of the U.S. national
“B” team, while Stenmark was
eighth.
Early in the day, Ulrich
Wehling of East Germany
retained his Nordic Combined
title by scoring 423.9 points
over the two-day competition—
-70-meter hill jumping and 15-
kilometer cross country skiing
—ahead of Irban Hettich of
West Germany and Konrad
Winkler of East Germany.
James Galanes of Bratt
leboro, Vt., in 25 th place after
the jumping, moved up to 17th
place for best finish among the
three Americans. Michael De
vecka of Bend, Ore., was 28th,
with Walter Malmquist of Post
Mills, Vt., one place further
back.
The Russian team, mean
while, was rocked to its roots
when the International Olympic
Committee disqualified Galina
Kulakova for failing a dope test
after the women’s 5-kilometer
cross country event.
Kulakova, winner of three
gold medals at Sapporo four
years ago, was ordered to
return her bronze medal which
will now go to another Russian,
Nina Baldicheva, who finished
fourth in the race.
Kulokova had complained of
flu symptoms before she
started in Saturday’s race, one
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of the three events she won at
Sapporo four years ago.
IOC sources said she was
given a medicament by her
team dqctor which contained
one of the drugs prohibited
under Olympic rules. They said
although the rules had been
broken, it was clear she had
not meant to break them and
would therefore be allowed to
take part in other events later
this week.
Gloria Chadwick,- North
American representative on the
Ladies Ski Federation, said,
“We know she has been sick,
still is feeling unwell and we
will not know until 4 o’clock
today if she plans to compete in
tomorrow’s 10 kilometer race.”
According to Prince Alexan
dre de Merode, president of the
lOC’s Medical Commission,
there were “extenuating cir
cumstances” which caused the
commission not to ban Kulako
va from the Games completely.
“She had a bad cold and at 3
o’clock in the morning she took
some nose drops from a friend
without telling the doctor,” he
said.
In today’s Nordic competi
tion, East German Ulrich
Wehling repeated his Olympic
gold medal performance in the
combined ski jumping and 15
kilometer cross country race.
Urban Hettich of West Germa
ny was second and Konrad
Winkler of East Germany third.
Wehling went out on the
cross-country course with a
comfortable lead after being
the only man to clear 80 meters
in Sunday’s jumping portion of
the competition.
Later today, Colleen O’Con
nor, who once was lucky
enough to survive a tornado in
which five of here friends were
killed, and partner Jim Milins
of Colorado Springs, Colo., were
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