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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Tuesday, May 6 27, 1980 What's happening on the national scene, state and local sports, columns and opinions Sports lol Was It Rutherford or Car That Won? Indy Argument: - Whenever INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) an innovative machine is unveiled in auto racing there is an immediate argument whether it's the car or the driver that puts the vehicle in victory equal. Then we'll find out who the 6ood drivers are." Most car owners are keeping busy in an effort to discover the secret ingredient thst makes the Chaparral superior to the rest of the field. Jim McGee, chief mechanic for Roger Penske's trio of Mario Andretti, Bobby Unser and Rick Mears said his PC-9'- s are "still in the developmental stage. We're planning new body work and a new suspension system." Pancho Carter also feels he has a workable car, not good enough to catch Rutherford but a vehicle capable of lane. Johnny Rutherford was smooth and sophisticated in his handling of Jim Hall's Chaparral that won Sunday's Indianapolis 500 mile race and earned the driver his third victory at the mecca of auto racing. Rutherford also won the opening race of the 1980 se&SA at Ontario last month and was easily the favorite to win the Indy classic. Third-plac- finisher Gary e have been runner-u- p instead of Tom Sneva. Binford denied the protest. "It was a clear cut case of procedure followed as customary and there was no question an infraction took place. Carter presented no new facts beyond those known at the time the one lap penalty was assessed." Carter and his chief mechanic, John Capels, maintain that Bob Cassidy, the steward in the pace car, waved Pancho on when the yellow light flashed after a 58th accident. They claim Cassidy signalled Carter to pass instead of holding his hand still as a finishing second. Carter, who was sixth Sunday, filed a n, who charged up from next to last on the starting grid, said he had a good car, "but I hope we get back to the point where the cars are more Rutherford at the end," Capels said. "They subtracted a lap from us as a penalty for passing the pace car and that was the difference between a second and sixth place finish and also the loss of between $70 000 and $90,000 in prize money." In post-rac- e happenings Monday, rookie Hurley Haywood was moved up from 19th to 18th and Bobby Unser dropped a notch to 19th place. There was also a total of $2,100 in fines levied against drivers. A.J. Foyt was fined $300 and Rick Mears, Jerry Sneva, Bill Vukovich and George Snider $100 each for missing last Thursday's driver's orientation meeting. Foyt also missed last year s session, so his penalty was greater. Bill Whittington was assessed $300 for failing to attend Saturday's driver's 'Don't pass' sign. protest Tuesday with chief steward Tom Binford that he had been wrongly assessed a lap penalty in a caution light passing of a pace car and that he could In denying Carter's protest, Binford said circumstantial evidence backed up the ruling. "We were less than 20 seconds behind Foyt steamed. "I wasn't anybody at 181 miles an hour. Whoever cheats the best runs the fastest. "I won't be back next year unless something is done about that hogwash rule. You don't come out here for an endurance race. If that is the case, you race." might as well make it a Rutherford, whose next stop is received a $400 gang penalty Milwaukee on June 8, was frustrated at for having six men over the wall or four the number of caution lights in the pit stops. race. looks to runnUsually Foyt torard "It's exasperating to sit out there ing at Indianapolis year after year, but 1981 niay find the Texan absent for the with a lead like we had on two or three first time since his rookie year of 1958. occasions and have it wiped out by Foyt is extremely critical of the somebody smacking the wall or breakUnited States Auto Club ruling that ing down and stopping on the track." But that's all part of the game for dropped the manifold pressure from 50 Rutherford and he'll take a victory to 48 inches this year. "It was pitiful out there Sunday," anytime he can get one. meeting. The crew of Mike Mosley, who finished 32nd, was fined $600 for two pit infractions Sunday $500 for the board man crossing pit lane during the race and $100 for a crewman failing to wear a fire retardent uniform. George Snider's crew received a $100 fine for leaving a tire unattended and Don Whit-tingto- Rutherford Pockets Record Prize - INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The Indianapolis Motor Speedway handed out a record $1,186,700 to the racers in the 64th Indianapolis race, with winner and three-tim- e champion Johnny Ruther- 0 500-mi- le ford taking $318,019.63. Rutherford won the race easily in his "Yellow Subp marine" Chaparral, leading 124 laps of the event. It was Rutherford's third championship, fol- lowing his 1974 and 1976 wins. Between the .IMS awards, the Citizens Speedway -,.'Committee lap prises and multiple corporation accessory awtraic a total of $1,502,425 was handed to drivers and teams pt Indianapolis this month. This year's IMS prize offering was $230,470 more than the previous record amount given in 1979. Fifty-si- x companies and corporations offered $265,725 in accessory prizes this year. Rutherford won $166,724.25 from the IMS, $23,600 in lap prizes and almost $128,000 dollars in accessory prizes. He also won one of the pace cars, from Pon-tiafive trophies, three plaques and one ring. Rutherford's amount was a new record for a winning driver, surpassing Al Unser's 1978 prize winnings by $28,000. Unser earned $290,363 in his third Indianapolis championship that year. 200-la- c, Last year's winner, Kick Mears, picked up the 1980 race and his $270,401. Mears finished fifth in paycheck dropped by $225,000. The difference between first and 33rd place in prize e winnings in 1980 was $293,000. Larry Cannon, the finisher, took in $25,000. Second-plac- e finisher, Tom Sneva, who started in 33rd spot Sunday, earned $128,944. Though there were four accidents in the race Sunday, including a crash which left rookie Bill Whittington with a broken leg, most drivers said this year's race was a clean one. Only one driver protested the final standings. Pancho Carter was second in actual order of finish but was penalized one lap for p?ssing the pace car while running first during a yellow flag lap. The penalty pushed Carter back to sixth place, where he collected $36,904.25 from the IMS, $46,000 less than Sneva picked up from the Speedway. In last-plac- total prizes, Carter earned less than Sneva earned. $39,174.62, almost $90,000 As the top finishing rookie and "Rookie of the Year," Tim Richmond earned $43,446.61. Richmond finished ninth in his first year at the Speedway. 85 Countries Accept Olympic Invitation - "tfrrttCJEto Milwaukee's Jim Gantner snares a line drive, one of three fine defensive plays he made. Trio of Beanball Incidents Mar -- 5 6 Victory Over Angels Ranger's By United Press International Lookout! "It's a shame the game had to go like that," Texas third baseman Buddy Bell said Monday night after the Rangers nipped the California Angels 5 in a game marred by three beanball incidents. "A lot of time your emotions just take over and you can't do anything about it." Dan Ford actualCalifornia right-fieldly decided the game in the eighth inning by dropping Pat Putnam's fly ball to allow three runs to score. But the controversy began long before that. Bell was ejected in the sixth when he charged the mound after flying but because he thought pitcher Bruce Kison had thrown at him on the previous pitch. After the pitchers were warned by plate umpire Bill Haller, Ranger reliever Bob Babcock was thumbed on the first pitch he threw in the the seventh because the pitch went behind batter Ford. Kison then drilled Johnny Grubb in the eighth and both players went to the showers after Grubb wrestled Kison to the ground. Both benches and bullpens emptied in both the Bell and Grubb incidents. Bell seemed convinced Kison was throw- , "Absolutely not," he said. "I had no idea he was going to come out to the mound. I was trying to work him inside. He's entitled to his reaction. I never faced Bell before this year. Maybe they were throw-- ; " ing at him during the Oakland series 6-- 1 er ing at him. "I've been in this league nine years and I ought to know when someone is throwing at me," he said. "You can tell. All I know is that there have been a lot of balls thrown at us the last few weeks. It wasn't anything premediated, it was just a spur of the moment thing." Kison denied he threw at Bell. , ' Grubb, looking back on the game, realized Kison was probably not throwing at him, but he admitted he wasn't thinking of that at the time. "You wouldn't think he'd be throwing at somebody when it put the tying run at the plate," Grubb said. "But that wasn't going through my mind at the time. I think I just got caught up in the way the game was going and when I got hit I just Lst my head, Hopefully we can get back to baseball." It was the 10th consecutive home loss for California. The starters have failed to go the distance fa 17 straight games and Kison lost his shot when he was ejected. "I don't think Kison should have been thrown out of the game," California manager Jim Fregosi said. "What they were trying to do was regain control of the game. They (Texas) were the ones doing the fighting. It was their guys charging the mound." Yankees 13, Tigers 5 Rick Cerone drove in six runs with his first career grand slam and two singles to it attack. Cerone pace New York's fifth singled home a run to cap a five-ru- n that put the Yankees ahead singled home a run in the seventh and hit a grand n slam to highlight a eighth. Tom was the winner and Dan Underwood, took the loss. Schatzeder, 15-h- 6-- 3, six-ru- 4--3, 2-- 5, Brewers 11, Mariners 1 Gorman Thomas and Ben Oglivie cracked home runs to pace an it attack that included nine for extra bases in spark-in- g Milwaukee to its fourth straight vice tory and snapping Seattle's earned Mike streak. Caldwell, winning 2 the f victory. A's 4, Royals 1 in ': Matt Keough pitched a three-hitt' going the distance for the eighth time and Dave Revering drove in two runs with his seventh homer. Keough, pounded for seven hits in 3 3 innings a week ago against Kansas City, walked one and struck out six. ; Orioles 7, Indians 3 Eddie Murray drove in four runs, two ." with homer in the seventh. Len a two-ru- n took the loss and Scott : Barker, went 62-- 3 innings for the J McGregor, Tim Stoddard finished and picked victory. :' up his eighth save. " Blue Jays 3, Red Sox 1 Damaso Garcia, Alfredo Griffin and Bob Bailor singled in runs with two out in . the ninth to drop reliever Dick Drago to pitched 2 3 innings Jerry Garvin, in relief. White Sox 6, Twins 3 Alan Bannister and Greg Pryor had ' three hits apiece to lead a it Chicago '. attack. Steve Trout, got the win with s the help of Ed Farmer's 13th save. Ken A Landreaux, who leads the league with a .358 average, singled In the seventh to ex- -' tend his hitting streak to 27 games, longest in the majors this year. 18-h- four-gam- 4-- 2, er 6-- 4, 5-- 3, 3-- ' : 2--2. 2-- 2, 12-h- 2--4, Cards Top Mets to Snap loss Skein By United Press International After dropping 10 straight games to fall into last place in the National League East, the St. Louis Cardinals hitched up their pants and snapped their losing streak Monday by beating the New York Mets, 8-- ... - " " The Cardinals, the best hitting team in the NL, finally put together some clutch hits as Manager Ken Boyer juggled the atlineup. George Hendrick ted a it tack with a pair of homers and three runs batted in and Keith Hernandez and Ted Simmons, playing in left field instead of behind the plate, each drove in a pair of runs. "We just went through a rut every team does," Hernandez said, in trying to explain the Cardinals' losing streak. "But the only way to break it is just to go out and play every day and it will torn 13-b- "You just can't give in to it. You have to go out there and keep battling. Hitting is ' ' contagious." Bob Forsch, who went the distance to get the victory, said the club was determined the losing streak was going to end Monday. ? "Today everybody just decided they had had enough of this and we were going to win," said Forsch. Elsewhere in the NL, Montreal blanked Los Angeles beat Cincinnati, Chicago, then lost 54, Philadelphia edged PittAtlanta nipped San Francisco, sburgh, and Houston topped San Diego, Expos 4, Cubs 0 and Steve Rogers pitched a three-hitte- r Chris Speier had three hits, including a two-ru- n triple, to pace the Expos to vic4--0, 7-- 4--1. 2-- 1. ' tory. Dodgers Reuss. Jerrv 4-6--0, - Reds 5 limited the Reds to 9-- four hits and Ron Cey hit a solo homer in helping the Dodgers to victory in the first The InterLAUSANNE, Switzerland (UPI) national Olympic Committee announced Tuesday that 85 national Olympic committees have accepted invitations to compete at the Moscow games, 29 have declined and 27 others have failed to reply. Four other committees are not in good standing with IOC rules and were thus barred from accepting or declining. ' The big standouts among the countries boycotting Moscow, were the United States, West Germany, Canada, Japan and Kenya as well as China. The 85 acceptances for Moscow were three fewer than the' 88 countries which took part in the 1976 games in Montreal, which was boycotted by 29 African hations. The African boycott took place because New Zealand,; which participated in the 1976 Olympics, refused to cancel a tour of a national rugby team to South Africa, which has not been allowed to participate in the Olympics since 1976 over its apartheid politices. The IOC published its official tabulation on the basis of information received Tuesday morning from the Moscow organizing committee. Just after releasing its list, the IOC had to make sweeping changes because of a cable received from Moscow which moved seven national committees from the original "declined" list to the list of those which failed to reply. The first IOC list had 85 acceptances, 36 refusals and 20 failures to reply at all. IOC officials said there was considerable trouole" with the cables from Moscow because the lists of nations had been spelled according to the Russian BYU fight-marre- r 5-- 3, ficial original tabulation. The IOC said the four national committees whose constitutions are not in conformity with the rules are those of Taipei, Iran, Mozambique and Quatar. It said IOC president Lord Killanin will hold a news conference o:i the situation in Dublin this Thursday. The IOC executive board, meanwhile, will meet in Lausanne on June 9 and 10 "to review the overall situation." The IOC also said it has received requests for recognition from a further 12 countries which will be discussed at the executive board session. Although the deadline for acceptances was May 24, the IOC and the Moscow organizers have said late requests to participate will be considered. In Moscow, a senior Soviet Olympic official said today President Carter's boycott drive has failed and assured countries late in applying that they will still be eligible to participate in the Moscow Games. Vladimir Popov, executive vice president of the Soviet Olympic Organizing Committee, told a meeting of Olympic officials from embassies in Moscow that although the deadline for participation expired at midnight Saturday, the figures published today "are not final." Popov's statement appeared to be aimed at countries such as West Germany which, having decided to boycott the games to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, now feel isolated and appear to be wavering in favor of a reversal. ' Orem CagerGets National Honor Fare Well In Road........ Race i. Chris McMullin of Orem High School was one of 75 athletes nation-wid- e to be named to the SALT LAKE CITY -Three BYU distance runners were among the top five finishers in the an- annual National Coaches' Federation High School basketball team sored by the Converse Shoe nual Salt Lake City Memorial Day Classic road race Monday. Ric Rojas of Harvard run in a won the record time of 29:35.3 with BYU's Ed Eyestone, Phil Peterson and Doug Padilla finishing second through fourth, respectively. The previous record for the race was s, 30:54. Provoan Paul a former BYU runner, was fifth. Jean Benoit eclipsed the previous women's record by nearly three minutes, clocking 34:21.8. Finishing second was Alta High School senior Cheryl Howlett, who will be attending BYU next of in language. Runners sponCom- pany. starter McMullin, a three-yea- r who helped the Golden Tigers to finish in the state a second-plac- e 6.2-mi- le A tournament, joins a team led by Charlie Sitton of McMinnville, Ore., the national most valuable player. v was the McMullin; who is only Utah player so honored. 6-- 4, CHRIS McMULLIN Cum-ming- and a game. George Foster's grand slam by performance pitching Paul Moskau in the nightcap earned the Reds a split. Phillies 7, Pirates 6 fall. Larry Bowa singled with the bases The race was run from loaded and none out in the ninth inning to the PhilBrigham Young the run and drive in the winning give d contest. monument to Liberty lies a victory in a Park. Over 3,000 runners Braves 2, Giants 1 participated. two-run Larvell Blanks delivered a single with two out in the eighth inning to Rookie of Year lift the Braves to victory. 'INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Astros 4, Padres 1 Tim Richmond, 24, of Enos Cabell, Jeff Leonard and Art Howe second-innin- g in of Ashland, Ohio, Monday runs support in drive who ended a personal night was named the J I Richard, three-gam- e losing streak by striking out Rookie of the Year at the 64th Indianapolis 500. seven in seven innings. nine-strikeo-ut French which is the IOC's ofMoscow then came up with its amended listing just as the IOC had released the alphabet instead Jack In & Co-Ci- ty Jill Blanks Evergreen Softball Headliner By KAYLENE NELSEN Herald Correspondent AMERICAN FORK Jay Young drove in two runs and Earl Laycock drove in another as Jack & Jill Lanes downed Evergreen Tuff 0 in Softball League play Monday. In other games Barratt's downed Peck's beat Beal's 13--8 and Joe's Tingey's downed Stratton's 12-Both J&J and Evergreen had six hits, but Young's two-ru- n single in the first and Laycock's sacrifice fly in the third provided the winning margin. - Co-Cit- y 3-- 5-- 2. Barratt's 1 Barratt's hurler Steve Berry started 5-- slowly, giving up a run in the first, but got stronger as the game progressed. Barratt's went ahead for good with two runs in the bottom of the first. Peck's 13-- 8 Peck's scored six runs in the third inning for an 3 lead and was never 8-- headed. Tingey's 12-- 2 four runs in the scored Tingey's third, five in the fifth and three in the sixth, those coming on singles by Dot) Hadfield and Lynnwood Carter and a Kim Cooper sacrifice. Action continues Wednesday Lehi's Veteran Field with games 6:30 and 8 p.m. at at |