Show Pbto wool Standard-Examin- LONG BEACH Calif (AP) — Using Monday April 5 1982 5B er great caution to protect a large lead through the last 10 laps of the Toyota Long Beach Grand Prix Niki Lauda of Austria bounced and skidded to his first Formula One victory in nearly four years Sunday Lauda 33 driving a McLaren racer for only the third time since his return r retirement won the from a 18th Grand Prix race of his career He easily outlasted new Grand Prix point leader Keke Rosberg of Finland and the Williams team in the finishing course through the laps on the 213-mil- e of Beach streets Long 14660-secon- d two-yea- s V - : ::: - 2$ “I’m right on schedule” said Lauda Asked how this victory rated among his career triumphs which places him list five behind fourth on the Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina Lauda replied ‘‘The latest one is always the best” There were complaints by several drivers including Lauda and Rosberg about the course which was reshaped from previous races because of the construction of a hotel within the sections of circuit Some newly-lai755-larace asphalt broke up as the progressed That caused both leaders to slow down by 15 to 20 mph compared to speeds in the early part of the nearly " all-tim- Rosberg however was unable to do much better He kept creeping closer but he never really made a serious challenge Gilles Villeneuve of Canada was third in a turbocharged Ferrari more than one minute behind the winner Riccardo Patrese of Italy was fourth in a Brabham and Michele Alboreto of Italy was fifth driving a Tyrell Italian Andrea de Only Cesaris and his Alfa Romeo had been able to match Lauda for the first half of the race De Cesaris protected the pole position he won in qualifying until Lauda took the lead on the 15th lap just when the leaders began to get into traffic De Cesaris then slipped behind by about nine seconds before crashing his car on the 34th lap The youngster who was not injured climbed out of the car with the rear end in flames “I think something broke There was lots of smoke coming from the back I don’t know why yet” de Cesaris said after a long walk back to his pits “The car was running perfectly” Another early dropout was former world champion Mario Andretti who came out of retirement to compete as Rosberg's teammate in a Williams endurance test for the exotic cars And only 11 of the 26 starters were running at the finish ‘‘I slowed down because it was important to win” said Lauda who last picked up a victory in the 1978 Italian Grand Prix ‘‘The (time) difference didn’t mean a thing” he added speaking of his final margin of victory over Rosberg “There was no racing for the last 20 laps It was everybody just trying to save themselves amd finish the race” said Rosberg who took over the point lead after three rounds of the Formula One series with 14 points That’s one more than Alain Prost of France who lasted just 10 laps in his turbocharged Renault and two points ahead of Lauda “If you were five centimeters off the line you crashed” Lauda said of the asphalt torn up by the cars on new sections of the revamped course “I think it is not a good idea to resurface the course just before a race” Lauda averaged 814 mph far below the record of 8847 mph set by Brazilian Nelson Piquet in a Brabham in 1980 on the old course Lauda kept turning laps in 1 minute 35 seconds or less most of the race then slowed to laps of 1 502 to 1:583 in the final six trips around the wo-ho- ur e d p 22-year-- : course amhardf DarSsngfon champ DARLINGTON SC (AP) — Stock car driver Cale Yarborough says that race just isn’t sometimes a 500-mi- y :"T- 'Hums 'x' " "' a ' jT & v M v '!!' ' A 44 long enough but Dale Earnhardt wouldn’t have wanted it to be any longer According to the Yarborough things might have been different in Sunday’s Rebel 500 NASCAR Grand National race at Darlington International Raceway if he’d just had “another few : - E s $4(2 5' 5 i iLA" '' v ' ' I k" ‘SV v h -- - ri? jm yards” $ toK'ih fej - ' 9 ' -- sS For the last 36 laps of the event Yarborough waged a battle with Earnhardt But despite Yarborough’s final charge at the finish line Earnhardt won by less than a “If I had passed him in turns one and two he would have gotten me back in three and I wouldn’t have had a chance to pass back” Yarborough said in describing his final-lastrategy “So I figured to try him on four and it nearly worked” he said “I just ran out of space Another few yards and I would have had him” Yarborough came in low off the 367-la- p bumper-to-bump- A n le - ”& M2- car-lengt- h 44 s'-- s ’ f- i - - Lj v ' -4 Su :V v '’? : J4?c ' r -- v ' VV p ’" A? f J '‘ 4 - ja T v v X- - ::¥i: aS?' yvS V "?' j” rtVl?M‘ MIHWJUIPll"'f T? ixr p ' United Press International Niki Lauda is given the checkered flag as he wins Sunday's Long Beach Grand Prix tys It’s time time f© Except for predictions of some very baseball weather the major-leaguseason was all set to open this afternoon in Cincinnati and Baltimore with both cities crowds to expecting capacity or conditions brave the The National Weather Service set an 80 percent chance of rain or snow in Cincinnati and high temperatures only around 40 A 60 percent chance of rain or wet snow was forecast for late in the day in the Baltimore area The Reds opened the National League season against the Chicago Cubs with the ceremonial first pitch thrown out jointly by astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly who piloted the second flight of Columbia last November A sellout crowd of 52392 was expected at Riverfront Stadium for the game Mario Soto started for the Reds opposed by un-springli- ke 2-- to lead the Sunday night Indianapolis Checkers to a 7-- 0 by blanking Indianapolis before 10502 fans in the Salt Palace Clinching the crown gave the Eagles the No 1 seed in the upcoming playoffs Saturday’s clincher marked the fourth time in the last eight years 2 victory over the Salt Lake Golden Eagles in the two teams’ Central Hockey League regular-season finale that the Eagles have captured the The victory raised the Checkers’ regular-seaso- n prize the Emory Salt Lake City fell Jones Cup record to mark to a final Prior to Saturday’s game a host of of now defense individual awards were presentSalt Lake opens its CHL Adams Cup championship ed to several of the Golden Eagles’ cn Wednesday when the Golden top players Eagles host Oklahoma City at 7:30 Perry Anderson now playing for pm in the Salt Palace The two the Eagles’ parent team the St teams play again Friday at 7:30 Louis Blues of the NHL was game named the Screamin’ Eagles’ pm at SLC ein the second first-roun- d of their Booster Club’s Most Popular playoff matchup Player as well as winning Most In Sunday’s game the Checkers Inspirational Player and Rookie of 0 the a first lead after piled up the Year honors period and led 2 after the second Richie Hansen the team’s leadstanza scorer with 108 points was Stoyanovich scored the first goal ing voted the club’s Most Valuable of the game at 4:48 of the first Bobby Crawford won the period He got his second goal on a Player g title and the KSTU-Tpower play at 19:27 of the second Three-Sta- r award for the 42-33- 47-30- -5 -5 best-of-fiv- near-capacit- high-banke- d oval’s last turn and made a run for the victory on the g effort track apron But his came up just short Earnhardt of Kannaplois NC said he knew he had won when “I couldn’t see him out my left window” “Dale was tough” Yarborough said “He drove a real good race and deserved to win” It was Earnhardt’s first Grand National victory in 40 outings dating back to the Atlanta Journal 500 in 1980 It was his first ever in the Rebel 500 and earned him $31450 His average speed was 123554 mph “Everybody kept saying it was a dust-raisin- matter of time” Earnhardt said after- ward “But this one was a long time in coming” Finishing behind Earnhardt and Yarborough in the lead lap were Bill Elliott and Benny Parsons One lap back Tim Richmond finished in fifth and Terry Labonte was sixth Earnhardt the lap leader of the season repeated that per six-race-o- ld formance Sunday by holding down the front position ten times for a total of 182 passes around the track “The traffic was pretty hard today” Earnhardt said “I think that made the big difference — I didn’t run into too much traffic” Storm delays gelande finals SNOWBASIN — Some snowy wintry weather conditions postponed Sunday’s very un-springli- ke scheduled finals of the world champ-ionshi- p ski jumping gelande until today competition A heavy snowstorm dumped more than eight inches of new powder on the Snowbasin resort here Sunday morning which combined with subsequent low visibility forced officials to reschedule the finals for this morning again today United Prss International to “Play ball!” — maybe e INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Steve Stoyanovich netted a pair of goals er 1366-mil- e y Doug Bird of the Cubs The Orioles beginning what is expected to be their last season under manager Earl Weaver started the American League’s year as hosts to the Kansas City Royals Dennis Martinez drew the starting assignment for Baltimore against Dennis Leonard of Kansas City The wintry weather conditions were symbolic of the memories many baseball fans 1981 season which have of the strike-broke- n the players will try to erase beginning in the opening games today and Tuesday In Tuesday’s NL openers it will be Montreal at Pittsburgh and San Francisco at world champion Los Angeles in day games and the New York Mets at Philadelphia St Louis at Houston and Atlanta at San Diego at night The AL’s Tuesday pairings are Cleveland at Milwaukee Toronto at Detroit Texas at the New York Yankees and Boston at the Chicago White Sox in day games and California at Oakland and Seattle at Minnesota at night If the fans are willing to forget about last year all indications are that baseball will again set a record for attendance in excess of n 40 million Most clubs report ticket sales ahead of or even with last year’s figures pre-seaso- The home openers will be spread over a y period with Seattle the last club to at home on April 16 open Six managers will be serving their first tour of duty while another five will be starting their first full season with their club after 12-da- taking over during 1981 Two teams the Cubs and Phillies will be opening under new management The Chicago Tribune Co bought the Cubs from Bill Wrigley and have made wholesale changes in the front office and on the playing field A group headed by Bill Giles who had been the Phillies’ executive vice president purchased the Phils from Ruly Carpenter In another front office change John Schuerholz succeeded Joe Burke as Kansas City’s executive vice president and general manager Burke was elevated to the Royals’ presidency UPI’s annual survey tabbed Montreal and Houston as division winners in the NL and the Yankees and Oakland as division winners in the AL with the Expos and Yankees picked as likely opponents in the pre-seaso- n World Series 4-- 6-- V goal-scorin- period Indianapolisn player e who displays the top the game performance during Matts Hellin Mike Hordy Other awards went to Bert Also scoring for were Darcy Regier Gath Mac-Guiga- ? czacxpi rocd't! on-ic- and Kelly Davis Wilson who was honored as Mr Don Luce and Gary Eades scored Hustle Denis Houle the Unsung the Golden Eagles’ two goals Hero Award and Claude Julien The Eagles clinched the regular-seaso- n named the Most Valuable CHL title on Saturday night Defenseman ofh sides near terms in umpir5 dispute NEW YORK (AP) — Major Lea- the negotiations Salaries improved pensions and gue baseball hit by an umpires’ strike seven years ago apparently Ithe policy of rotating assignments will not undergo such upheaval in for the playoffs and World Series 1982 were the basic issues Some owners Asfeel baseball should assign its best The Major League Umpires Mac-Phasociation and presidents Lee umpires to the most important of the American League and games rather than deciding the Chub Feeney of the National Leaassignments by rotation toin the met The agreement expired at the gue predawn hours 1981 seaday trying to agree on a new con- end of the strike-marre- d son Umpires were paid for the tract Richie Phillips counsel to the time the players were out The umps staged a seven-wee- k umpires said the meeting began at 6 pm Sunday “We’re still fighting strike of their own in 1979 The over some basic concepts” he said leagues hired substitute umpires during a midnight break in the that year promoting some from negotiations But he said both sides the minors and filling in with colwere close to an agreement and it lege and semipro umps seemed unlikely that there would That strike ended May 18 with a be any disruption to the start of the three-yea- r contract that provided 1982 season significant gains in salaries exa pense allowances and permitted Phillips also had scheduled news conference today “to anumpires to take nounce the situation” in terms of il in-seas- on t United Press International Ground crews work Sunday to clear the three inches of ice and snow from the tarpaulin covering the infield at Milwaukee County 4 Stadium following Saturday's storm The Brewers are scheduled to host Cleveland in their season opener Tuesday |