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si i moiim.m;, sin i 0 ill 1H OF 71 Ml 1 1 il 1 LM JL Dragsters TVW It) 15, 000 1 70-Plu Hit Speeds 1, 174 By 'Katilla A Sets Early Pace 4 4 IU A's Bealen, 3-1, As Howard Hits Two-Run Triple Now York (AP) Ralph Terry pitched a seven-hitter and became the first American leaguer to register 20 victories as the league-leading Yankees defeated Kansas City yesterday, 3-1. At Hi iccwav Y. By BILL EGGERT Connie Katilla, 24-year-old racer from ML Clemens, Mich, yesterday zoomed down Indianapolis Raceway Park's quarter-mile strip at 174.08 miles an hour indicating some fabulous speeds for today's hotcar eliminations in the annual National Championships Drags. 1 Okye 4. 1 Reds' 10-5 Win Hurled By Niixhall 44' Ar'-.

4TT4, 4 4 4 "4t 'VT t- 4 4 vy Silk MW.i;MwtiiWitfMttlli 1 vette engine with GMC supercharger. It's an entrant in the modified sports car class. At right, Mickey Thompson (left) fraternizes with Connie Katilla, Mount Clemens, who hit 177-plus yesterday in the AA Dragster class with his Bounty Hunter. (Star Photos by Bob Dougherty) ACTION AT THE DRAG RACES A couple of unidentified (but busy) mechanics appear to be getting devoured (left photo) as they work under an Alfa Romeo owned by Don Gist of Lake Worth, as the national championship drag races began yesterday at Raceway Park. The machine is powered by a Cor- Muncey And Schleeh Sel Pace In Regalia 3 ark Chevrolet.

His e.t. was 16.18 and top speed was Sti.82. The first woman champion in the nationals was Roberta Leighton of Ridgecrest, Cal. whose El Camino Chevrolet won the class stock division with an e.t. of IS.

36 and a top speed of 75.2S. Because of the rain 10 of the basic stock finals were not run off as well as the class A sports car finals. According to National Hot Rod Association field director Ed Eaton these will be decided tomorrow afternoon. OTIIltt NATIONAL champions yesterday were: Class stock Tom Panke, Rochester, Chevrolet, 14.31 e.t. and 98.25 mph.

Class Stock Wiley Cos-sev, Baldwin Park, 1962 Chevrolet, 15.05 e.t., 97.50 mph. Class stock Dennis Maurer, Denver, 195S Chevrolet, 15.01 e.t., 93.95 mph. Class stock Kermit 1962 Watts, Austin, Minn. Chevrolet, 14.95 e.t., 92.52 mph. Class I stock Don Cope, Quakerstown, Ford, 16.

C9 e.t., 79.83 mph. Class stock Paul Hat-ton, Wayne. 1939 Buick, 17.98 e.t., 75.37 mph. Class stock automatic Don Bennett, Clinton, 15.85 e.t., 92.30 mph. Class stock automatic Paul Williams, Massillon, Pontiac, 15.45 e.t., 89.10 mph.

Class stock automatic Don Roberts, Pasadena, 1956 Pontiac, 16.04 e.t., 84.90 mph. Class sports Dick Murray, Youngstown, 1955 Thunde.bird, 13.94 e.t., 103.09 mph. Class sports 0 a 1 Gumm, Paran Heights, 1959 Corvette, 16.08 e.t., 92.78 mph. Class sports Ken Met-calf, Lancaster, 1961 Corvette, 14.31 e.t, 98.25 mph. Class sports Bruce Morgan, San Gabriel, 1962 Corvette, 15.54 e.t., 101.12 mph.

Class sports Fred Baker, Mound, Volvo, 1821 e.t., 75.44 mph. Please! i "4 1 4 'f is The victory, coupled with Minnesota's 5-4 loss to Boston, boosted the Yankees' first-place lead to four games over the Twins. Elston Howard snapped a 1-1 tie with a two-run triple in the sixth inning. The big catcher, victim of sparkling catches in deep right field in his first two times at bat by outfielder Gino Cimoli, slammed a 450 foot drive over center fielder Bobby Del Greco's head, scoring Mickey Mair-tle and Hector Lope with the winning runs. BILL FISCHER was the A starter and loser.

The A's gave him a 1-0 lead in the fouith when Jerry 1. hit his 10th homer of the season. The Yankees tied the score in the fifth, Terry driving the run with one of his three singles. Bill Skowron had opened the inning with a double. Terry, who never had won more than Hi games before this year, a 1 one and struck out five.

He has lost 10. Fischer was tagged for nine of tlw Yankees' 10 hits before he gave way for a pinch hitter in the seventh. John Vatt finished for the A's, striking out five in two innings. The defeat was the seventh of the season for Fischer, who has won four. Kansas City New York ohlnb I Charles.

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Skowron. Howard. HR-Lurnpe SB-Mantie, IP BR SO F.srher (L, 4 7) 6 9 .3 3 0 I Wyott 1 I 0 0 I 5 Terry (W, 20 10) ...9 1 I 7 5 U-Hurley, Flnherty, Runge, Carragon. Timers To (Jive V) Derm Affiliation Detroit (AP) The Detroit Tigers announced yesterday they will sever their working agreement with their Denver farm club in the American Association at the end of the current season. Denver has been a Tiger farm for the last three seasons.

PfUjl, A i ft San Francisco (AP) Cincinnati's comeback pitcher Joe Nuxhall yesterday won his fourth straight without defeat as the Reds blasted a' victory over the Giants with a 1 hit attack. Vail, i Pinsnii returned to the Cincinn.it i lineup after two days resting his injured leg and hit safely in all five times at bat a double and four singles. The setback washed out any San Francisco hope of gaining on first-place Los Angeles. Cincinnati jumped on San Francisco's 17-game winner, Juan Marichal, with four rum on five hits in the opening inning. The Reds nicked him for two more in the sixth inning, including Marty Keough'1 solo homer.

CM. I. IT) I from San Diego a month ago, the Nuxhall baffled the Giants with his southpaw slants and did not allow a runner to reach third until Harvey Ktienn homered with Jose Pagan on base in the seventh. Don Biasingame, an ex-Giant, opened the Cincinnati attack in the first with a single. Before Marichal could retire the side, i and Keough had doubled and both (iordie Coleman and Leo Cardenas singled.

That was enough to hand Marichal his 10th loss. Cincinnati San FranciKO ah rhi nh rhi 4 3 1 5 0 0 .3 0 0 5 2 1 3 0' ienn II Blnsintirinie.2 Rohinson.rt Pinson.r Coleman I keouih.lt Cardenas ss Fdwar ixal.p Brosnon.p Totals I Davenport, 3 0 Ways.r I 1 i Ccpeda.l 3'F- AlOll.rf I Oryno 3' Pafrin.ss 0, Miller 7 0 Mnrrhiol.D I 0 2 0 I 0 McCormic.k 0 I 0 41 16 Niemon 0 0 0 Dnflalo.p Mlllert.p Boles Totals 0 0 1 I 38 10 'Popped nut (or Angled tor Mil MrCarniK In seventh, ler in ninth. inr.mnatc 400 002 210-I0 San Ran-isio 000 000 203- nsmuame, r- Alou. Rr.hinson. PO-A-C ini innrli Sun F-ranrtsio 27 11, OP-Carrieruis, Blasmnoine ond Coleman.

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S-Nunali. IP BB SO Nuxol 4 0) 9Ji 10 5 4 .3 5 Brnsnan 'j 0 0 0 0 9 Wnrlchal IL, 1 101 5' i 6 A 1 4 AArXormnk V.i 5 2 2 1 1 Ouftalo 1 2 2 2 10 Miller I 0 0 0 0 8 WP-Du'ltiln U-Rurkhnrt, Walsh, Con. Ion. Pelekoudns. 45 A I -i --liAiiMt All 7 7 3 Katilla, whose AAdragster is hauled by a 1 95S supercharged Chrysler engine, also had the lowest elapsed time of 8.77 seconds.

Katilla and five other drag racers bettered last year's low e.t. and top speed that won the Top Eliminator prize for Pete Robinson of Atlanta, Ga. INTERMITTENT i z-zles bothered the schedule of events but it didn't keep an es- Another Photo On Page 3 timated crowd of from cheering for their favorite stock cars to victory. Other screeching dragsters clocked at 170 miles an hour or better were Jim Nelson of Carlsbad, in the Drag-master Dart, 1962 Dodge injected; Don Garlits of Tampa, supercharged Dodge; George Van of Bristol, 3057 Chrysler injected engine; 1961 world champion Jack Chrisman, Long Beach, Pontiac. The muggy, heavily moist -ured weather provided excellent, carburetion conditions.

And that plus good traction accounted for the top speeds. An indication that the drivers were winding up their engines accounted for eight broken flywheels. Garlits broke two rear axles in his "Swamp Rat" dragster. The entrance gates to Raceway Park were opened at midnight last night although today's program won't start officially until the 7 a.m. time trials.

The hot-car eliminations will start at 11 a.m. and the fast stock car eliminations will start at 2 p.m. Twelve of the basic stock car classes were decided yesterday and included in the winners were two Hoosiers and a woman driver. David Starnes, 21 -year-old deliveryman for the Schlool Furniture Company in Craw-fordsville, Ind. won the class sports championship with his Volkswagen with an elapsed time of 21.64 seconds.

His top trap speed was 59.60 miles an hour. JERRY YATES, 19 years old of Franklin, won the class stock automatic title with a Quiet, t'f TjLjT- .3. i nTTMHMliia, Tribe Could Clinch Loop Flag Today Louisville, Ky. (Spl The Indianapolis Indians will have an opportunity for an unprecedented second straight American Association pennant this afternoon. The Tribe will meet Louisville in a douhleheader and a sweep will give Indianapolis the 1962 championship no matter what runnerup Omaha does at Denver.

Any chance to wrap up honors last night was lost when the tilt between Louisville and the Indians was postponed because of rain. This contest will be played as part of a twilight-night doubleheader tomorrow. SOUTHPAW TAYLOR Phillips of Indianapolis (8-4) and Federico Olivo of the Colonels (12-10) were slated as last night's pitchers and probably will work today. The other probables are Herb Score, another lefthander, of Indianapolis (9-7) and Connie Grob (14-8). Due to the inclement, the bus trip for Indianapolis fans was delayed.

The two buses will leave Victory Field in Indianapolis at 9 a.m. today for the twin bill which will start at 1:30 m. Toledo Whips Slielmvjrmi, r. 7 In Inhibition Toledo, O. (AP) Tom Taber scored three times and ends Curtis Cotton and John Ku-prok had two touchdowns for Toledo last night as the United Football League Tornadoes crushed Sheboygan of the Central League, 68-3, in an exhibition game.

Taber scored on pass plays of 62 yards from Bill Canty and 12 yards from Doug Mai-son and added a 24-yard touchdown run. Canty also threw scoring passes of 42 yards to Cotton and 22 and 5 yards to Kuprok. Cotton's other touchdown was on a 22-yard pass piay from Mai. son. Toledo amassed 275 yards rushing to Sheboygan's minus 20 yards.

Kurt Duecker kicked a 28-yard field goal in the third quarter for Sheboygan. Toledo intercepted eight passes including five interceptions If Jim Hilles, who ran one back for a 13-yard touchdown. theboyqofl Toledo I .14 t- 17-28 Roh Gilliam of Seattle; Miss and driven by Bob Miller of Seattle; Thunderbolt, driven by Bud Sale of Detroit, and Such Crust, driven by Fred Alter of Detroit. Bill a 1 1, who was slated to drive Gale stood idle because his boat did not get to Madison. In the 2S0 class hydroplanes, Bill Kiddy of Alexandria, Ky drove Embassy 6G.914 mph to win the first heat and Paul Schroeder of Cincinnati, ran (.2.849 mph in Scavenger.

In the 7 litre, Chrysler Queen, driven by George Byers of Columbus, turned a 64 562 race leading Miss DcSoto, driven by his uncle, Frank Byers of Columbus, and Baby Doll, driven by Mario Maraldo of Detroit. In the 2W.s, Jim Fyle of Washington, D.C., won with First Lady at 77.5 mph and Joseph F. Moulis of Fox Lake, drove 48.6 mph to win in the ski runabouts. RAINS DELAYED the start by a couple of hours but the small boats ran fast and took up the slack, finishing just before a second downpour. 1 Ar 4 A 4 1 4" 1 By JIM THOM Star Staff Writer Madison, Ind.

Tahoe Miss and Miss Century 21 easily outran their closest pursuers yesterday in the first two elimination heats for unlimited hydroplanes in the Madison Regatta. Miss Century 21, driven by Bill Muncey of Ser.tile, already holds this year's Diamond Cup, the Seattle Gold Cup and thj Detroit International Trophy, and threatens to retire the Indiana Governor's Cup this afternoon by winning it for the third straight year. Her average speed was yesterday. TAHOE MISS, driven by Col. Russ Schleeh of March Air Force Base, ran an average of 99.77S.

Miss Madison, the Ohio River city's own hydroplane, driven by Marion Cooper of Louisville, ran second in the first heat, being left a mile and a half behind Miss Tahoe. The second heat was closer with Miss Bardahl, driven 10154 mph by Ron Musson of Seattle. Other unlimiteds placing were Fascination, driven by A 4 VA( 1 I 4W 4,4 UltWiiteKa LA. Steals Way To Win Over Braves Los Angeles CAP) Maury Wills and Jim Gilliam pulled a double steal, then scored the deciding runs on a single by Willie Davis as the Los Angeles Dodgers came from behind in the seventh inning last night and defeated Milwaukee, 5-3. The victory put the league-leading Dodgers 3'2 games ahead of the second-place San Francisco Giants, who were beaten earlier yesterday by Cincinnati.

Lefthander Johnny Podres, who struck out 11 before being lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh, picked up his 12th victory in 22 decisions. The loss went to rookie lefthander Denny Lemaster (1-3) who went the distance for the Braves. FRANK HOWARD produced an insurance run for the Dodgers in the eighth when he slammed his 23d homer with the bases empty. With two out in the Dodger seventh, Wills doubled and Gilliam walked. Then they pulled their double steal and Willie Davis scored them with a sharp single to center.

Wills' steal was his 74th of the season. He is only six short of the National League record, set in 1911 by Bob Bescher of Cincinnati. The Dodgers scored their first two runs in the fourth on a basesloaded single by Ron Fairly. But the Braves tied it in the fifth. Lee Maye walked and scored on a triple by Del Crandall.

Crandall came home on a single by Frank Boiling. the Braves took a 3-2 lead in the sixth when Tommie Aaron and Eddie Mathews singled and Hank Aaron scored brother Tommy with a sacrifice flv. Milwaukee nh rhi Los Angeles Samuel. a oo rbi Wills. T.Aaron, If, Itj 4 3 0 4 I 0 Gilliam, 2b 3 2 0 Mathews, 3t 3 I 0 Davis.tf T.Davls,3b Howard.

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2 30 A-38 715 pad. Wins Swim Sprint Melbourne(UPI) Australia's Dawn Frascr last night won the vlctorian winter 110 meters swim championship in 1:02.4. i 'it? A ff' 4 PROS OF THE SULKY Two of racing's top drivers, Sanrirs Russell (left) and Johnny Simpson (right), talk shop as they await the Grand Circuit show which opens tomorrow at the Indiana State Fair. Rusrell drove A.C.'s Viking to a Hamblctonian victory last week and Simpson got second place in the Hambu with Isaac. Story and other picture on Page 4, SCORES HEAT VICTORY Tahoe Miss, driven by Russ SchTeeh, roars past the finish line yesterday to win the first neat of the unlimited hydroplanes' race for the Governor's Cup ot Madison.

The Nevada boat defeated the home-owned Miss Madison'in this heat race. In th background is the Ohio River bridge connecting Indiana ond Kentucky. (AP Wirephcto) Terri Russo, 10 years old, cups her hands over her ears to close out the noise af the national drag races yesterday. Young Miss Russo really is used to the roar of the engines, though, since her dad, Bob Russo of Los Angeles, is public relations director for the National Hot Rod Association, (Star Photo by Bob Dougherty) I.