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UUVJ LIS 5 AT Rookies Snare Of Top 10 Places Smiling Scot Home Free! Mario Andretti Finishes 3d In Al Dean Entry By MICHAEL J. QUINN Tiny Mario Andretti became a racing giant as he led four other rookie drivers to top 10 finishes in yesterday's 500-Mile Race. It was one of the greatest showings by rookies since First Foreigner To Score Since '16; Parnelli 2d By DAVE OVERPECK Scotsman Jimmy Clark became the first foreigner to win the 500-Mile Race since 1916 yesterday asJhe guided his Lotus-Ford to a record-smashing triumph before a record crowd of more than 250,000 fans. The little Scotsman finished the 500 miles in 3 hours, 19 minutes and 5.34 seconds for an average speed of 150.686 miles an hour. Clark's average speed surpassed the old record of 147.350 miles an hour, set last year by A.

J. Foyt. iroiifrr wm r-wr- i 'tiitS'Sr JC whMnv -rfs .7 -frjgP I'M- W- ii f'l Mf -m tr If "wVV 7f 1 SV iv; Kf) x. 1 the race began in 1911. Andretti, only 66 inches tall, finished third, but almost went home to Nazareth (Pa.) with second place money in his pocket as Parnelli Jones "sputtered" around the last Track Doctor Didn't Take Single Stitch By CAROLYN PICKERING They didn't take a stitch at the track hospital yesterday, And, for the first time in anyone's memory, including that of head physician Dr.

Thomas A. Hanna, not a single driver required even a checkup during the 500-Mile Race. So, all the news was the happy kind at the tiny field hospital where men and women in white yearly toil to save lives without getting so much as a glimpse of the classic. Dr. Hanna, overjoyed at the "safest race we've had," said he felt the day's successful running was mute evidence of the advantage of the rear-engine cars which, he feels, "are safer than the heavier equipment." HEAD NURSE Barbara Webb said even the entourage of drunken customers, who normally file into the hospital after being involved in fights, was down to a new low.

She said a "portable" jail a big bus manned by deputy sheriffs had taken several loads of potential patients to jail before the race got underway. While there were no big tragedies at the hospital, the staff was anything but idle. A 235-pound woman with a sick stomach was brought in and it took three men to carry her to a waiting cot. THERE WERE the usual blistered feet and sunburned noses and a good many upset stomachs. The height of audacity was expressed by a pair of enterprising teen-agers who strolled in not for any treatment but to inquire of Miss Webb whether they could cabbage onto tickets for seats vacated by ailing spectators.

The helicopter, ready for Turn to Page 1 1, Column 3 Top Ten 1 Jimmy Clark 2 Parnelli Jones 3 Mario Andretti 4 Al Miller 5 Gordon Johncock 6 Mickey Rupp 7 Don Branson 8 Bobby Johns 9 Al Unser 10 Eddie Johnson the mainstretch in the second lap. Clark was in front again by 6 inches when they crossed the finish line the third time and stayed there until he made his first pit stop on the 67th lap. FOYT HELD the lead for nine laps before finally stopping for fuel on the 76th circuit. The four-time national driving champion's tank was bone dry when he pulled in and Clark gained valuable seconds while Foyt's car was being restarted. The eventual winner lapped A.J.

shortly after the latler returned to the track, but Foyt quickly moved back around Clark a couple of laps later. When Foyt finally retired, Clark was a minute and a half ahead of Jones in second. When Parnelli made his second of three refueling stops, Jimmy went two laps ahead. His lead eventually reached 2 minutes and 18 seconds on the 164th lap. From then on, Clark was cruising.

He was barely running 140 miles' an hour when he took the checkered flag. JONES JUST DID hold on to second place over Andretti. The 1963 winner was short on fuel the last five laps and was swerving his car back and forth to swish just a little more alcohol into the 'injec. tors on the 200th lap. He beat Andretti to the flag by 6.40 seconds and ran out of fuel completely on the 201st circuit.

He stalled out at the head of the home stretch and had to push his mount to the pits. Rookies dominated the final six spots in the first 10. Rookie Gordon Johncock brought the first Offy and the first roadster, the Wein Turn to Page 1 1, Column 1 lap on a nearly empty fuel tank. "That lap cost me about $25,000," Andretti said. But, the friendly native of Trieste, Italy, was not at all unhappy as he received congratulations from chief mechanic Clint Brawner and Al Dean, owner of Andretti's Dean Van Lines No.

12 Ford-powered, rear-engine car. A mob of other well-wishers clung to the, fence and swarmed his garage area, screaming their congratulations. Andretti seems a cinch to win the Stark and Wetzel rotfkie of the year trophy which will be announced tonight at the Victory Banquet. Other rookies to finish in the top 10 were Gordon John-cock, fifth in the No. 76 Weinberger Homes Offy roadster; Mickey Rupp, sixth in the No.

81 G. C. Murphy Stores Offy; Bobby Johns, eighth in the No. 83 Lotus Ford and Al Unser, ninth in the No. 45 Sheraton-Thompson rear-engine Lola-Ford.

Al Unser started in the middle of the last row. RUPP, nursing a blister on his right foot also was "one happy fella." Rupp praised his pit crew for working through all of the two nights to replace an engine after Saturday's carburetion tests. "It's just amazing how they worked on my engine. We surprised a lot of people, I guess," Rupp said. Rupp said a faulty spark plug kept him from finishing higher in the field.

The plug had to be replaced on Rupp's third pit stop and cost precious seconds. Johns, described by Lotus team crewman Allen Moffitt as "a quiet bloke and my idea of an American gentleman," drove a beautiful race. But Bobby told crew members he was "losing power" during an early pit stop. Johns had high praise for the strategy of Colin Chapman and the efforts of his winning crew. ANDRETTI attracted the largest number of fans in the garage area after the race.

The pint-sized racing dynamo draped an arm over his sister, Mrs. Anna Maria Burley of Pine Lakes, N.J., and explained to the fans how close he came to second place. "I'm a little tired from handling the car. I had a little play in the wheel as you can see," Andretti said as he raised a set of blistered Clark was 1 minute, 58.97 seconds almost two laps ahead of second place Parnelli Jones in the Agajanian-Hurst Lotus-Ford. The last foreigner to win the race was Dario Resta in 1916 when the race was sched- uled for 300 miles.

The last foreign winner of a 500-miler at the Speedway was Rene Thomas in 1914. Clark's victory was the first ever for a rear-engine car in this the most important of all automobile races. The triumph of Ford's 485-horsepower V-8 engine also broke the 18-year-old stranglehold of the Offen-hauser in this race. Not since George Robson guided a Sparks six to victory in the 1946 race has the Offy been beaten here. Clark probably will pick up almost $200,000 including in lap prizes out of a prospective purse of close to $600,000 at tonight's Victory Dinner in the Egyptian Room of the Murat Temple.

HIS 190 LEADING laps out of a possible 200 is the third highest in Speedway history. Billy Arnold led 198 laps in 1930 and Bill Vukovich was in front on 195 of 200 in 1953. The race was a complete victory for Ford. The Ford engine captured the first four spots as Mario Andretti finished third in the Dean Van Lines Special and Al Miller took fourth in Jerry Alderman's Lotus-Ford. The race was the safest since 1934 with only 11 minutes and 40 seconds of yellow light time.

THE ONLY CAR eliminated in an accident was Bud Tingel-stad's American Red Ball Special. Tingelstad, running fourth at the time, lost control in the third turn when he lost his right rear wheel and hit the outside retaining wall on the 119th lap. Tingelstad climbed out unhurt and walked to the pits. In the only other incidents of the day, Lloyd Ruby in the Golden 7 Special and Len Sutton in the Bryant Sweet Sixteen Special spun in the third turn on the 19th lap. Both brought their cars under control and continued in the race, finishing 12th and 11th, respectively.

CLARK'S VICTORY never was in doubt after the 116th lap when defending champion Foyt left the race with transmission trouble. Foyt was running second at the time, less than a lap behind Clark. Actually the 1963 world's road racing champion was in control almost from the start. He grabbed the lead in the first turn and held it until pole sitter Foyt slipped in front on (Star Phota by Frank H. Fijse) CLARK ACCEPTS ADULATION IN VICTORY LANE and Chief Mechanic Dave Lazenby At Right Of Victor I JIMMY CoIin.Chapman WINNING REMOVES Clark May Not Again bring all your people over and keep them for a month." As far as the race itself went, Ciark says it wasn't quite the piece of cake it looked.

"No race is easy when you're out there driving it," he said admit I expected more of a competitive race than we had. People talk so much around here all month that you get to believe a lot of things. "I WAS HONESTLY surprised at how well it went. I've tried and tried to think of some trouble we might have had but we just didn't have any. Everything went arrorai.ig to schedule.

'The only time I was worried was when we made our Turn to Page 1 1, Column Humanity Gets Merrily Smashed CHALLENGE world's driving championship. "I just can't say right now whether I'll be back," said the man who' won his first 500 with a record, speed of 150 686 miles an hour in what looked like a one-man trophy dash as the rest of the i field sort of melted away before the onslaught of the blazing sun and Clark's green screamer. "IT DOES TAKE a bit of but were unable to reach ex-, cise police. The morbid got maudlin as they waited in vain for an encore of last year's spectacular coming out of the northwest turn, in which two of the drivers perished. The infield around the northwest turn did seem to fill fastest with the fallout of the ul a i explosion which began when the track opened at 5 a.m.

"I don't really want anything to happen," said a cute teen-age lass, "But if it does, Turn to Page 19. Column 1 Try 500 the edge off by winning this he said. "The challenge was hers for me to win this race. Not to prove anything to myself but to a lot of other people. There's so much said out i here during the month of May.

"Now that I've won the thing, the race has lost something, I'll, admit. Let's just say I'll have to wait until later before deciding. I almost didn't come back this year, you know. First I wasn't going to thn I decided to come. "I don't like the length of it not the 500 miles but the entire month.

It would be much better if it were set up like grand prix racing, where you'd come in and practice a couple of days and then run the thing. That's the way the rest of the championship races are run over here anyway. Why not this one? "THIS WILL BE the biggest payday of my life if Colin (Chapman) will give me some of it. At least I got a $20 allowance for today. We'll be at the Victory Dinner to accept our money." "Yes we will." chimed in Chapman, the man who built the Lotuses driven by Clark and Bobby Johns (eighth place).

"We had to win this race to stay in business. It's unbelievable what it costs to build a car for this race and By RAY MARQUETTE It will take more than the biggest payday of his life to bring Jimmy Clark back to the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. The wiry litle guy with, the steady nerves of a bomb demolition expert admitted quite frankly yesterday afternoon that he'll return to the Speedway, next May if, he's sitting irt pretty good shape the race toward "the was a total of 40 arrests last year. persons, arrested by excise police were freed on bond and didn't have transportation. Excise police ordered cars of many of those arrested towed away, but evidently left no record with city police or sheriff's deputies as to where the cars were taken or how they could be recovered.

Police and the sheriff's office' received numerous complaints from released persons who wanted their cars back, Spectacle During Annual Infield Full i'age Of Picture Page 10 Other Stories And Picture Page 12, 30, 31, 32 The Weather Joe Crow Says: The newest drink at the Speedway is a "Parnelli Jones" a t's a Scotch chaser. Indianapolis Warm, humid with scattered thunder-showers likely today and tomorrow under generally cloudy skies. Indiana Partly cloudy, warmer and humid with scattered thundershowers throughout the state today and Inside Today's Star GEMINI GETS GREEN LIGHT-Countdown preparations begin for ambitious space flight Thursday. 3 U.S. OFFERS NATO PlAN-McNamara suggests bigger nuclear share among North Atlantic allies.

3 OAS WEIGHING NEW DOMINICAN pushing for three-man negotiating team to replace Mora as junta chief asserts he will not give up palace. Page 5 rose bouquet), often drinking, sometimes even watching the race. THEY WERE obviously unconformed, but they made surprisingly little trouble yesterday for their neighbors or for the assorted battalions of police who got as hot as they did, but usually did not resort to the same liquid remedies. There still was a total of 107 persons arrested, most of them on charges of violating the 1935 Alcoholic Beverage Act. About 90 per cent of the arrests were by state excise policemen.

In contrast, there By HARRISON J. ULLMANN Humanity's morbid and merry had their annual monster mash in the infield of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway yesterday. The total crowd was estimated at more than 250,000. The merry got merr i 1 mashed in a massive effort to keep the nation's breweries from idleness. The merry were proof that not all of us are conformists yet.

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