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J y. j '' Mfwnii 2 II The Salt Lake Tribune Sunrlav June 2' 1 p -- '" ""Pi-- ry I ."..1 ,, -- 'aiy yl"y r yi ' Clanipctt Earns '' p By Ray Herbat Tribune Sports Writer After expending all that energy during a n second inning, the Salt Lake Gulls and Spokane Indians apparently took the juice out of Derks Field Saturday night and there was not enough power left to turn on the outfield lights Thus, the scheduled rune inrung game between the Gulls and Indians was suspended after three innings with Spokane leading 5M5 The completion of Saturday nights powered out game will be played Sunday starting at 6 p m That game will go the full nine innings, but Sunday s contest will he only seven innings in length Sunday's nightcap pitchers will be Ralph Botting for the Gulls and Randy Stein Botting, who was the PCLs first nine game winner, will seek his 10th victory in 14 decisions Stem brings a 6 record into the game Bob Ferris started on the mound for the Gulls Saturday night hut failed to survive Spokanes nine-ru- n inning The Indians paraded 13 batters to the plate m the second inning and scored those nine runs on 10 hits and a hit batsman Craig Eaton relieved Ferris and, before he put out the fire, Eatonserved up a home-ru- n ball to former Gull Steve Stroughter The Gulls nearly answered that Spokane rally with one of their own in the bottom of the second Golf Crown FFT3RIE REAOl rri - Rob a Brigham Young stu dent who porfoi mod well in the Masters and I S Ojien do Calif C 1 a m pel 2 t feated Jimmy Kane, 6 and 4 Saturday to rapture the California Amateur Coif Champ- even par over the Pebble Beat h Course He was one limit r and took a par in r und Ihn-- e hole advantage over Kane San Mateo Calif , a two time Oklahoma State (Hampton from Oral Roberts He won six of seven holes on the outgoing nine of the afternoon round and coasted to v irtory despite giving hat k two holes with a bogey on the 12th and a huard on the 3th where he hit his second shot into bushes Clampett closed out the match at the 14th by reaching the bunker m front of the green in two shots and blasting to within 18 inches of the cup for his third birdie of the afternoon round si V V 7 'i H'l a- " f' , inning ' ri i ( V v ", xt i' ,'y i ' ii 5" i A Yi 1C; v ;v v. ri h : Tribune staff photo bv Ravel Call The Spokane Express has been halted by Gull catcher Dan Whitmer at Derks. Kim Bonneille The 15th annual Na tional Hot Rod Association World Championship Points Series moves into Bonneville Raceway Park next Saturday and Sunday with a pnze fund of $50,000 at stake for Division Five racers Prior to this season, the MIRA festival was always a Division Seven affair but consolidation of divisions has made for a change Bonneville Bob Ipson President reports the biggest entry list in history with 16 top fuel cars and 10 funny cars preentered There will he racing in all NHRA categories both pro and slock classes Gates will open Saturday at noon with qualifying running until 11 p m Bracket qualifying runs from noon to 3 p m on Sunday and the eliminations for all prizes begins promptly at 6 p m Sunday Ipson said advanced tickets to the two day event could be purchased at all F G Ferre and Son stores or through the track at 1 484-173- stealers If there is any advantage to be gained for either team bv Saturday's power outage it would hav e to go to the Gulls, who faced this same situation just 11 A's The outfield lights days ago in Ogden against the failed then at John Affleck Park and the scoreless game w as suspended also after three innings The Gulls came back the next night to win the and then take the completion of the suspended game seven inning regular game for a doubleheader sweep llen, the PCL stolen out stealing, base leader, is tagged by Jeff Bertoni. Madsen, Dastrup Net Race Wins Dusty Dastrup and Bill Madsen, familiar figures in victory circle m prior years, but not this season, got a taste of triumph Saturdav night at Bonneville Raceway Park in rolling to main event victories before more than 3 200 fans Dastrup. last years pro stock champion, roared lap to take his past Larry Hanna on the next second maui event of the year But Dastrups victory will do little to elevate him in the point standings as he seeks a second straight crown Clayne Burmngham. the division poiuts leader going into the night, finished a respectable fifth and also placed in the heat race and in would seem qualifying The points loser for the night to be Wick Goodrich who was following Burmngham m the main jn the points, but Wick faded to sev enth Madsen, who has had trouble hooking up his rear oval m the first engine to Bonneville's one third mile half of the season, started on the pole of the main main event and led from wire-t- o wire in the But coming on strong at the end was young Mike Nish, who finished second and closed the point gap on his dad, Terry , w ho w as sixth in the main ev ent Merlin Bey non, who won the fast heat, was third m Keith the main, followed by the McArthur and Joel Terry and the elder Nish Chris winner, and Hendricks last year's blew an Nish in to lecond points, Terry running engine and was forced from the main The drivers went through their final tuneup prior to Fridays July 4th spectacular w hich w ill he replete with a fireworks show at Bonneville to-la- Pierce Wins Playoff for Amateur Crown Bv R C Roherg Tribune Sports Writer K YS ILLF. Andv Pierce of Salt Lake (ltv rolled in a five foot par putt on the first hole of a sudden death plavoff to win the Davis County Amateur golf ( hampionship Saturday Pierce had to birdie the final two holes m regulation play to earn the plavoff spot alongside Bountiful's George Rat kham Pierce drove his tee shot off the first hole in the plajoff and watched anxiously as it settled into a fairway hunker 'T knew I was in real trouble when I saw the hall nearly resting up against the lip, Pierie said afterwards with a smile But I hit a great recovery shot and it saved me The recovery shot he was talking that landed alxiut 20 about was a feet from the hole From there, Pierce chipjied to within five feet and canned the pressure putt Rackham, meanwhile, hit a thunderous tee shot down the right side of the hole He pulled his par 4 second shot ov er the green and chipped to within 3 feet of the hole for an 365-yar- d apparent easy par But that wasnt the case Rackham watched helplessly as the ball went past the hole and with it the championship Pierce sank birdie putts of eight and six feet on his two finishing holes during his regulation round The pin placements today were extremely tough, and the two shotgun starts didnt help any Rackham started his regulation round with a bogey, but remedied that with a four foot birdie putt on the third hole He scrambled to save par at No 7, then proceeded to ram m a eagle on the next hole But perhaps the most disappointed player in the tournament was Ogdens Vance Christ lansen Christiansen was sailing along in easy fashion at 4 under par heading into the final two holes, and appeared on the verge of winning the championship But those two holes proved to be the most troublesome for the Utah State University senior But the championship wasnt in the cards for him on this day Christiansen drove his tee shot down the fairway at No 17 and knocked his second shot just off the edge of the green He tapped his third shot to about eight feet, but his return putt for par rimmed the cup and trickled away several feet He had to settle for a bogey 5 And the bad luck continued Christiansen again lofted his tee shot position, but this time lus approach sailed over the pm and landed several feet off the back side of the m good green Christiansens third shot landed some 10 feet away from the hole and his attempt for par came up short I felt as if I gave the tournament away, Christiansen said dejectedly I missed a lot of easy afterwards shots, but that's the w ay things go some times Pierce nearly didnt make the playoff after shooting a early first round He bogeyed two of three holes on the back side and had to come up with pressure putts on three of the last five holes for birdies Cromwell Grabs Lead Special to The Tribune SPRINGVILLE Ogden golfer Ken Cromwell fired a three-unde- r par 68 heie Saturday to take the lead of the annual Art City mateur golf tournament which is being played at the Hobble Creek golf course Cromwell took a one shot lead over Salt Lake golfer Rex Underwood and Spanish Fork star Kelly Jensen, who came in with 69s Several golfers had a good shot at the first-roun- d two-und- er title coming into Sundays final round Tom Costello and Rick McGarry fired 70s while Jeff Green, Ron Hitchcock and Greg Cut worth all had 72s to stay in contention In the Division Two class, for golfers with handicaps of 12 to 20, Richard Lowe took the early lead with a 73 The tournament, one of the more popular amateur tests on the Utah circuit, ends Sunday with an round at the scenic Hobble Creek course super-modifie- LE CASTELLET, France fUPI) Jacques Lafite modified Ligier, held off a challenge from the d Renaults and the Williams Saturday to take the pole position for Sundays French Grand Prix m a turbo-charge- Lafitte was clocked m minute. .38 88 seconds Fellow Frenc hman Rene Amoux took the othe spot on the front line of the grid at 1 59 49, W but only at the cost of burning out the new engine of his white and yellow Renault 1 Amoux and Renault teammate Jean Pierre Jahouille blew five engines in practice and the team sent an urgent call for more spare parts to be flown in to the Paul Richard Race Circuit Salt Lake Drag Racer Follows in Fathers Tire Tracks return road as the crew towed the racer back By Dick Rosetta Tribune Sports Writer to the pits In the summer of 1965, Salt Laker Ken Madsen was reveling in he glory of a National Hot Rod Association Division Seven A gas championship at Bonneville Raceway Park His son Mark was sitting in the cockpit of the dragster in victory circle gleefully turning the steering wheel to and fro Earlier in the day, Mark had backed the winning dragster off the trailer as Papa Ken and partner Ron Smith prepared for battle Two years later, young Mark would he at the wheel of the dragster down the So, with racing coursing through his veins in those formative years, it comes as little surprise that Mark Madsen will be in the thick of the Super Pro action next Saturday and Sunday when the annual edition of the NHRA World Championship Senes unfolds at Bonneville at 6555 W 2100 South Its dad that leads the cheers now Mark's the dnv er And hes a good one In the final tuneup for the NHRA Regional, young Madsen whisked to the Sujier Pro 1 title June 21 at Bonnev llle I know Mark has gotten into this because of me. the 43 year-olelder Madsen admitted "There was 1 d never any doubt . from the time he w as five to the time he was eight and sinning the slot car state championship at the Cottonwood Mall He got a trophy for that which was taller than he was Then, he was one of the first high school kids to get seriously involved in the bracket drag program at Bonneville four years agoithat was while Mark was a Cottonwood High student) My wife, Marilyn, and I have never discouraged him because drag racing was good, clean fun for us and it has been fun for him," Ken said Mark, now a successful businessman (he works with tile alongside, naturally, his father), had his first car to tinker with when he was 15 "It was an old. blown-ou- t 1965 Ford Mustang I sold that and got a 1940 Ford pickup on which we rebuilt the engine, chromed it, painted it and sold it to buy a 1928 Model A from Dr George Wilson " The youngster did not let grass grow under any of the wheels Recalls Firs Racer His first racer was the 1940 Ford pickup But that was way too slow I bought a 1970 Dodge Demon from Rex Pcarmain (who was running the Iron Horse" top fueler with Dan Richtns at the time a car which gained national notoriety), and then a faster car, a black Firebird which I raced at Bonneville " But Mark had recurrent thoughts on drag racing and they always centered on that gas dragster his So. when the Econo dragster Dad used to drive came up for sale from Randy Gates, 1 decided it was time that 1 quit driving the same car on the street and on the strip I bought the Econo dragster To go fast in drag rat ing takes patience hard The Econco dragster was work and money introduced to afford guys who werent well heeled the chance to race like the hot dogs in top fuel It was that wav at the start hut now they're going so muih faster (Madsen is at 9 60 and 140 miles per hour for the quarter mile) that it costs a lot of money to keep up ' Mainly, it s just the parts for the engines and transmissions the good pistons cams and hendwork and the intake manifold That s what makes them go fast 1 have a low bucks motor (he calls it a street strip motor') compared to other guys Eve seen guys spend more for their stiect cars than I have in my Fcono dragster Captures First Place A et. I won the $250 first pi ie the other night It was a not'" Matk exclaimed He was only going to wakh the NHRA Regional before that race He k. Im ready to go get 'em now I ve done better in two ra es this year than I did all of last year What makes it even better is that I know the car is capable of about 9 to and 145 mph Its one fiddling giant experiment fiorn week to week with the ( arhuietor ( hanging the jetting changing the spark plugs adjusting the distributor We just keep coming bai k for more " really injected sliced into Marks blood-stieahis four years on the irew of the I Iron Horse" top fuel crew Peatmain Kuhtns can t h gin to tell you what learned from those guys Theyve been big txxisters for mv career Mavhe some day I 11 te guul ng one of those monsters through the lights full v understands his son s enthusiasm He mind flashes bai k to the mid (0s ev ervtime they talk about drag rac mg Aeah remember Don Garlits ( onme Kalletta The Surf is and Jim Dunn And I lemt mlier Dannv Ongais tlieuiv whowuit fiomtop f u to funnv t at s and thi n on to 'l,e Indv 5un You know what Things havent changed all that much Oh. they go faster," Ken confessed, but theyve refined the clutches so much, that anything is possible We used to have to smoke the tires all the way down the strip to keep the horsepower up Now , if they smoke the tires any at all, theyre dead ducks Mark is out there running 9 50s at 140 mph We used to get into the 10 80 bracket at about 135 But you gotta remember the car weighs about 1.350 pounds now against our cars of about 1 650 ' But we get 'em on one count," Ken grinned We paid 29 cents for a gallon of fuel Now they have to cough up $3 50 for a gallon Changes Over Years It has been a long haul since 19h5 and a lot of W e used to be changes have been implemented started with a flagman Now they have sophisticated timing trees At the end of the strip, we used to have a guy on each side of the strip determining who won the spectator side, or the tower side Heck, one year, I tied five different times with Sonny Schoenfeld Now, they have timing lights that can determine a finish to the nearest of an inch and to the thousandth of a second one-quart- Yes, a lot of innovative people have contributed a heap of progressive ideas on the dragstnp m the last 15 years And a lot of enthusiastic, fun loving men of speed have implemented those ideas ov er the quarter mile For the Ken Madsen clan that joumev has now spanned two generations and Ken and Mark hope two decades of NHRA championships Overheated Transmissions Die Twice As Fast! Tens o thousands ot automatic transmissions (ail every year simply because they overheat This eressive heat breaks down the transmissein fluid necessary tor cool mg Unfortunately the transmission oil cooler located in the radiator does not aUrys do a good oh In snarled traf fir airflow is dei reased and heat goes up Tt on when your car overheats the transmission suffers Your transmission tan even ovetheat with stop ai d go downtown driving An oum e ot prevention is worth a pound ot cure When s the last time you had your transmission checked Treat it right take advantage ot this Inter date preventative mamtenam e spei ial n( w Transmission Maintenance Special Change transmission f'tjii Adiist bands' Clean screen Replace pan ga ket Complete road test 1 K-- of MIKV drag Madsen ins, t at Two generations top lrft d Frenchman Captures Pole in Grand Prix was Ken TV-- r Bertoni and Kubski to end the inning of The Gulls continued to thwart the running game who lead-- , the Allen, Kim Indians the aggressive was cut Pacific Coast League with 49 stolen bases, down attempting to steal in the first oim? bv Whitmer for the second time in the senes vvhitmer would he has thrown out four straight Spokane What rams' y y v 'w7 p - MIRA Meet Set for Salt Lake scored five runs making it 14 tallies in on four hits, a walk and an that second inning error The Gulls picked up one more in the bottom of the third when Fernando Gonzalez socked his seventh homer of the season leading off the second Triples by Gil Kubsta and .Scott Moffitt highlighted second inning Jay Peters Salt Lakes five-ru- n doubled in the inning and Rick Oliver singled to prolong the rally Staked to a 0 lead, Spokane starter Bob Stoddard was unable to hold the comfortable margin and was removed in the third after Moffitt and Dan Whitmer followed Gonzalez homer with successive singles Rick Anderson replaced Stoddard and walked Oliver to load the bases before settling down to retire Jeff 9-- 1 565-yar- d jpv 4-- ionship Clamix tt of nearby C armel alley, shot the morning y Gulls, Tribe Suspended 'kO n yrTiiiy, races to He gional while his son lower light eves weekend at Bonne- 5. 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