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Show Star Waits Contest By Dick Rosetta Tnbune Sports U nter SPINGYILLE Most Utah auto racing fans who are anxiously awaiting Tuesday's USAC Midget Championships Raceway are familiar with Merle Betten-hausemerely because ot his last name a mighty popular one in high speed racing But when Bettenhausen pulls his USAC midget onto the s " de Raceway here Tuesday at about 5 pm. for practicing, hell be recording another in a seres of races on the comeback trail since he at Suntana n four-tenth- Driver Sets Marks in Speed Duel WATKINS N Y. GLEN. Mark (AP) Donohue, moody and apparently uptight from numerous frustrations tins year, oierwhpmeu a select field Sunday to win the $75,000 Can-AChallenge Cup race at Watkins Glen. The Donohue, one only showing major triumph on his record after putting together a $300,000 season last year, so dominated uie third ouung of the nc'n road racing senes that he led in both segments of the race. 101-mi- 30-la- p fn the process, he knocked dow.i Jackie Stewarts old race lap mark of 119 610 m.p.h. with a clocking of 122.096 m p.h. during his 15th tnp around the 3.337 mile layout Coming back an hour and a half later, he started the second segment with at least a full lap margin over everybody except Bntisher David Hobbs, who had placed second earlier the in heat. And Hobbs, himself, barely escaped being lapped. v Keeps Boiling Despite this cushion, the Brown University graduate from Newtown Square, Pa . kept his adrenalin boiling and poured on the gas. He ran that 100 miles at an average speed of 118.783 m p h. Hobbs, cruising along with few worries from those behind him, finished strongly enough to claim second place overall. a He drove year-olMcLaren-Chevrole- t. the same car Fcter Rev son drove in the d Can-A- senes last year. Wins Net Battle - e I lie VIENNA (AP) highlighted Romanias Davis Cup victory over New Zealand with a tnumph Sunday over Bnan Nas-tas- 4-- 1 6-- 6-- 6--0 Fairhe. " , . ,, " V itV:C ' iV n & 1 iA V L 1 v I Every time I get near a race car I get excited, he says whiie confidently showing off how well he can use his artificial arm There's no doubt but what I can do it. even with one We are arm, he explains domg it with the hook part of the arm. . . by screwing it off and making a connection that snaps into a fastener on the Bettenwheel," steenng What Ill really need is some way to hold the arm firmly on the wheel. You need thei for body balance. Heck, try driving a car on an expressway and taking a turn at speed with one hand. You can feel the centrifugal force pulling you then. So you need to press m with the other hand or arm just for balance, Bettenhausen continued. It wasn't easy for Merle to overcome the loss of one of the nght his bankbooks" arm Sometimes, just after 1 left the hospital I'd get up in the middle of the night and go into the kitchen for a little USAC Midgets head into turn three in last years Springville abreast race. Midgets, Tuesday rviurn for big, to Suntana race test. 40-la- Middle Fork Has No Terrors For Idaho Boating Brothers By Bob Johnson Tnbune Correspondent - IDAHO SALMON, Guth brothers of Salmon been running the Middle of the Salmon River they were m their teens. The have Fork since They first started operating the Idaho Primitive Area nver under the guidance of them father, Howard W. Guth. The elder Guth started packing hunters and fishermen into the Middle Fork out of Stanley Basin in 1944. In 1954 he bought into the Middle Fork Lodge at Thomas Creek with Dr. H. E. Dean and Ken Roundy, both of Burley. It was in 1954 that Howard Guth tried Ins hand at floating the Middle Fork from Thomas Creek and Norm and Bill joined in The family, including Mrs Gulh, operated Middle Fork Lodge until llt6 on Today, Norman, 35, and William R. (Bill). 33, run the nver eight times in a season. The rest of the year they are jet boatmg with steelhead fishermen in the spnng and fa!!, leading big game hunts in the high Salmon River country or conducting camera safari trips Tuesdays didn't feel at ease until after Id made 20 or 30 tnps, Bouton said He it seems, was m the Playboy Club in the middle of the lunch hour Now I know Norman said. where all the rocks are and what I have to do if the boat doesnt make it." Howard Guth, left, and sons, Norman, center, and Yi'illiam, display big salmon they caught recently. Guths are veteran boating familv. As an AMC for you. dealer, we believe we can do more Judge for yourself Check it out on the chart Wise. Long Layoff has not pitched Wise. since Wednesday night when he lost to San Francisco He has a 3 10 earned average 13. he came within one out of getting his second against Cincinnati Joe Morgan ended the bid with a two-ou- t single in tin' ninth It was between Wise and of the Osteen Claude 1 said Anderson Dodgers, went with Wise because hes had more rest Anderson said he expected to Jim Catfish" Hunter, start (or the American Bill Russell Substitute e seConcepcion suffered a vere dislocation and a broken fibula bone in his ankle while i v . the callable book is jus' a compilation ot articles about nice, old muguine baseball managers by wnleis hut the publishing lompnni i call mil that if they had Bouton do a little b't of wutmg himself and stuck his name on the tucket, hey Ashe Meets Connors In Net Tilt BROOKLINE, MASS. (AP) Veteran Arthur Ashe of Miami and 20-- car-olJimmy Connors of Belleville, the finals Sunday night $60,000 U S in the Pro Tenrus Championships at Longwood v d The two have never played eaeli other before. Ashe is 10 years older than the unseeded Connors, who knocked out the tournaments No. 1 seed, Stan Smith, in the opening round last Tuesday and now comes up against the No 2 seed, Ashe Ashe defeated Clark of New York City, in one Graeb-ne- r 7-- semifinal and Connors Cliff 6-- in The final in the singles will be played Monday night. In their firot set. Ashe broke Graebner's service m the second game, Graebner broke in the fifth game and Ashe broke his opponent again in the sixth game to win the set. In the second set, Ashe broke Graebners service in the seventh game after the New Yorker had survived three break points earlier. All told. Ashe had eight aces defeating Graebnet He pile lie'll one due Every new AMC car is backed by American Motors exclusive Buyer Protection Plan. material or workmanship This guaranfor 12 months from the date first used or 12,000 miles, whichever comes first All we require is that the car be properly maintained and cared for under normal use and service in the fifty United States or Canada, and that guaranteed repairs or replacement tee is good the car is First Class Boulton Hew to CahtomiJ lirst class, was met by a limousine given expensive food and drink, treated like a celebrity. Then, when the talk show was over, he flew (o Indianapolis, where the Oklahoma City 89ors were scheduled to play the hometown team. It was raining, Bouton I got to the hotel. It said was delimtely not a major league hotel I walked up three flights of stairs to get to my room The place was real-Idismal. And all this rain And 1 walked in, and there a kid was my roommate, named Richie Chiles, a young .ciwstk mi s(twill JU7H dUUHU. and I looked around the room, and out the window at Indianapolis m the rain, and I knew that it was the end of the line. 1 picked up the phone and called New York, where 1 have been given a TV offer Id turned down before, and I said I was ready to come to work, I was ready to get out of baseball Even if he loses it all, even if Bouton loses his present success the same way he lost his pitching skills, he flunks that he will be able to handle it Down Periods If youve had down periods in your life, you know that you can deal with them again, Bouton said. I was 6 years old, and I had pimples all over my face, and I had braces on my teeth, and my family moved from a small town in New Jersey to south suburban Chicago. I knew no one at the new school and it was huge, there were 3,700 kids, and I never felt so tost in my life Pius American Motors s the only manufacturer that has a plan to provide a free loaner car if your car is tied up overnight for guaranteed repairs Plus Special Trip Interruption Pro- tection. If your car needs guaranteed repairs 100 miles or more from home, Amencan Motors will nay all reasonp able extra expenses for food and lodg-mg-u- 0 S150. American Motors builds good strong cars Backs tnem with a good strong guarantee And we AMC dealers make it good Good reasons to buy an AMC car this time Your AMC Fi Dealer be made byanAmericanMotors dea'er All-Sta- r 6-- 0 vote-gette- San waa the r Francisios Matador SEE YOUR AMCPlDEALER-WHE- RE YOU GET A GOOD DEAL AND A GOOD DEAL MORE. SpartanAmerican, Inc. Starr American Halslrom Motors Inc. 5299 So. State Murray 535 So. Main Salt Lake City 598 E. State Rd. American Fork Sets Golf Deadline sliding into third base in the Reds victory. He is expected to be1 lost for weeks, the club said Concepcion Hornet r secon-(Headin- g behind Oins Speier Deadline for entnes tn the Coca Cola Open at Bonneville is Tuesday at 6 pm, Dick Kramer, pro, announced Sunday The medal play event will be played over 36 holes Saturday and Sundav I Ray Citte Inc. 4175 Riverdale Rd. Morris Motors Ogden. Provo 1131 No. 5th W. then went to get dicsscd m a liny room with leaking pipes and no caipetiiig and bent nails instead of real lockers From the ball paik he went to the1 j rpot when he caught a High! to I os ngeles, at Jhi expense of a television station, to appear on a talk how Jo discuss "Ball Four " June Concepcion was enjoy me season in the nmoi-wit- h a .287 batting aiero and 46 runs batted in lie had three hits and stole his 22ml base of the season pnor to the seventh inning accident vvlvi' he blamed on catching in the ground 15-- Broken Bone When 1 thought of famous people, people on the television or in movies, I always just assumed that they came from a completely different place than 1 did I never considered the fact that I might be any kind of big shot. Hell, I never even saw myself as a big league ballplayer. Major league players were simply not from my neighborhood. The guy down the street Bouton looks on all of this with a certain amount oi Rail Four ironv Just alter became a best seller, he was sent down to the minor leagues because his manager at llousto. lought Ins arm was cone lie reported to Oklahoma City, where he was assigned to pitc h for the local team the s'Vi Comes Close On 11-- League Anderson also announced the addition of Bill Russell of Los Angeles as a replacement for Cincinnati shmistop Dave Concepcion, was injured Sunday who against Montreal. it American Motors Corporation guaran- a s Readable Bonk tall j -- -- 1 tees to you that, except for tires, it will pay for the repair or replacement of any part it supplies that is oefective in last year, threw m 1971 against Cincinnati while pitching for the Phils. He was Philadelphia traded to St Louis for Steve Carlton last year 1 When you buy a new 1973 car from an American Motors dealer, Russell was fifth in the fans balloting behind Don Kessinger of Chicago and Bud Harrelson of the New York Mets Kansas City. Anderson made the decision Sunday attemoon after waiting to hear if Wise saw any action in 5the St. Louis-LoAngeles game c This simple, strong guarantee spel's it out All-St- 16-1- Now ol course Bouton is one ot the people who never lived on hi- - block His name .done is worth money to hut a new bwk. h.nuhsois, called Managed Good, But has B.oy Did They Plav Bad, a cover line that avW'nt ten and diteil tn Jim Don ton Author of Bull 'out ' " would ell books Bouton, as matter of fact, points (his out tn tus pielaee Who backs your new car bast? Your A10 dealer waits you to judge. p Game at r People who attain sudden, big success olten are the target of aii kinds of iesenliiienis from other people, and Bouton is no exception Many ballplayers despised him when he did well with "Ball Four, and now many newsmen talk behind his back because he has become a TV news star so quickly What saves Bouton. though, is the fact that he never thought he would be moving in this world of never Polo (lie lo got Grounds Life' was as cleanlv divided as that Then woie the people on mv street, and then theie were the people m the movies and on TV and in the In ; leagues " fifth-seede- Wise Gains N.L. Starting Call in 25 wirier Ex-- T "Even now. I'm looking eliminated around the room and making Richey of Dallas. mental notes on how strange the other e - Boutons present is piettv good Just as his professional baseball playing days wire beginning to fade, he wiote Ball Four" whuh quuklv became the biggest-sellinsports book in history He used the success of "Ball Four to land a spoil seasting mb with ABC television in New York Then lie got into movies, with a featured part m The Long Goodbye " Now he is thinking alxmt running for Congress At a time m life when most professional athletes begin to be by the public. Bouton is becoming a genuine Amencan Famous Face Mental Notes 1 No Upsets The biggest question was Neither Norm nor Bill have why me? I couldnt answer ever upset a boat, they report. that so I figured maybe it was The Guths run the Middle time to give myself a nudge and do something to better Fork with sweep boats, made for them to their utilize my talents. I sure as especially specification by a national heck know myself better now firm. There are only seven of wreck the before I did than them in existence. One was Bettenhausen philosophized. sold by the Guths to the Forore thing for est Service and the other two I know sure that my desire is a to other boatmen. thousand times greater than The rubber boats are deflatever before, he added. ed and, along with the other That Bodes Trouble gear and supplies, are flown That remark bodes trouble into the Middle Fork from for the rest of the USAC field Salmon the day before each Tuesday night and the rest of departure. Passengers follow the field mcludes five USAC early the next morning. championship drivers, one of Indian Creek whom will be Salt Lake Citys most of our tnps "We start own Dick Simon. at the Indian Creek airstnp, Gary Bettenhausen, Jimmy Norman said. It saves us all Canithers, Mel Kenyon and the dnving to Dagger Falls, Lee Kunzman are the others. 20 miles upstream from IndiQualifying will begin at 7 an Creek, and the problem of p.m. at Suntana (five miles transporting vehicles back to south . of Provo just off the Salmon We start flying in the boats exit from Spnngville-PnrI .5). The trophy 8 pm. will and gear at 4 a.in. and by 10:30 are back in town getting officially get the racing rollgrocenes. ing. The drivers will complete Both Guths are pilots and the big night with a have their own planes main event 11 glamor The Guths have run the "wild nver so many times it them any doesn't scare more. cry. CinCINCINNATI (AP) cinnati Reds' Manager Sparky Anderson Sunday named St. Louis pitcher Rick Wise to start for the National League 1: 1 bt-t!- Needs Balance Bv Bob Greene i age Sun Times Writer "You cant CHK GO afford to delude yourself about time passing by," said Jim Bouton who until lecentlv made his living b throwing knuiklehalls in the mnior leagues There will be a day when walk am an eld nun. and a ball and a seboolyaid just comes flying over the fence and some kds inside will yell and 'ttuovv it heie Blips try to throw it to them amt Ihey'll laugh bei.ui'C I'm so old and 1 throw a baseball so You have to keep funny things like Hut in mind when you start thinking about how good the piesenl is " W rote Book ( But since life is living, and the only way the son of one of the most famous names in the racing game Tony can even think about living is to drive a race car. e he wasnt about to let a thing like a missing limb slow him down. 100-mi- Speed Marks Setting new speed marks as he stormed around the tough circuit in a Sunoco turbocharged Porsche, Donohue broke in front of the other starters in the first segment and won it with ease. His speed was 119 096 miles per hour. Life Smiles on lost his right arm in a grinding race nearly one year ago it Michigan International Speedway Just a Little Thing hausen, younger brother of Gary, explained. I've driven a race car with one hand before. When we were running Midgets down in New Zealand the last time, I was w'ay ahead in a race and thoe people down there were like wild things, So. I took my nght arm and reached up to hold onto the roll bar and drove the last 10 laps or so with my left hand only. I was showboating and the people went nuts. Merle recalled. 1973 Jim Bouton 'Arrives One-Arme- d flag-to-fla- g Salt Lake Tribune. Monday. July 2J. Tftp Suntana Event u UXaP 1 |