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'1 Section 2 TRAVEL RESORTS sports the Indianapolis Star SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1958 Rathntann On Pole As Records Fall QUALIFICATIONS DAY Yesterday' crowd of mor than 100,000 persons who went to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway were treated to a day filled with action and new records. On the left, Pat O'Connor of North Vernon, Is greeted by his pit crew after he had qualified in the Sumar Special No. 4 at 144.823. Chief Mechanic Ray Nichels leans on the racer talking with his driver. In the center photo, Dempsey Wilson rests in the 'busy pit area after pushing his Hall-Mar Special around the 2Vi-mile oval for four laps at 145.975 for four laps after Ed Elision (right) had earlier broken Pat Flaherty's 1956 records for both one and four- laps.

Eighteen cars qualified yesterday, all travelining over 142 mph, and competition resumes today ot 12 noon. (Star Photos by Frank H. Fisse) qualifying speed of 142.029. On the right, the No. 1 and Noj 2 men at the Speedway get together after delighting the -crowd with record-breaking journeys.

Dick Rathmonn (left) piloted his McNamara Special into the pole position at the record-breaking time of Speedway Qualifiers Tim Tam Takes Preakness FIRST ROW No. 5 (John Zink Special) No. 97 (McNamara Special) No. 16 (John Zink Special) Speed 144.764 146.056 'J Time 1:01.64 1:01.72 St 1:01.64 rL 4 1:01.62 Speed fJ Time 146.341 f'-awf'j :02.17 145.749 fjff 1:01.62 46.508 kVtv'i 1:01.71 145.114 Silky 8th With 12 In Field Speed 146.009 145.820 146.009 146.056 Time 1:01.50 1:01.75 1:01.43 1:02.02 10-Mile Standard Broken; Elisian Ups 1-Lap Mark 145.843 145.396 Totals Totals Totals 4:06.62 143.974 urn. :06.70 145.926 4:07.40 143.396 Baltimore (AP) Tim Tarn burst between the ED ELISIAN DICK RATHMANN JIMMY REECE Concluded From Page 1 pace-setting Lincoln Road and Talent Show at the head of the Pimlico stretch more starting spots available when time trials resume at 12 SECOND ROW No.

4 (Sumar Special) No. 14 (Bowes Seal Fast Special) No. 45 (Gerhardt Special) yesterday and rolled home noon today. The weather fore cast again calls for thunder a brilliant winner of the I 1 1 showers and a high of 80 $133,950 Preakness Stakes Time degrees. But Silky Sullivan, who The 18 qualifiers yesterday flopped badly in the Kentucky y' i 4J 101.96 averaged 143.853.

The average for the 33-car starting field Speed Time sPed 1 rTN. I Time Speed 145.325 1:02.33 144.393 1:02.07 144.998 145.255 iii 102.12 144.881 J. 1:02.01 145.138 144.928 1:02.05 145.044 VTj I 1:02.22 144.648 144.023 AST 1:02.08 144.974 il 1:02.52 143.954 Derby, won by Tim Tam two weeks ago, again disappointed Occupants of the fourth row, besides Foyt, are Jack Turner of Seattle, in the Massaglia Hotels Special (143.438) and Rodger Ward' in the Wolcott Special 143.266. Between Goldsmith and Wilson in the sixth line is Gene Hartley of Indianapolis in the Hoyt Machine Special (142.. 231).

GOLDSMITH, TURNER and Hartley each made the field on their second atempt after using up one There were seven other unsuccessful attempts, one each for Johnny Thomson of Boyer-town. in the D-A Lubri ast year was 142.507. his thousands of admirers and Three rookies qualified for wound up eighth in a field of the first time A. J. Foyt of a dozen 3-year-olds contesting rVil Totals Maryland's greatest horse race JtSJ Totals 4:08.48 144.881 4:08.82 144.683 TIM TAM, the Calumet hope BOB VEITH for another triple crown hero, JOHNNIE PARSONS thus became the first Derby winner to cop the Preakness PAT O'CONNOR THIRD ROW No.

9 (Bowes Seal Fast Special) since Citation another Calu meteer got the job done in No. 1 (Belond AP Special) No. 33 (Jones and Maley Special) Houston, Tex in the Dean Van Lines Special, Paul Goldsmith of St. Claires Shores, in the City of Daytona Beach Special and Dempsey Wilson of Lawndale, in the Hall-Mar Special. FOYT WAS the speediest of the trio at 143.130, to gain the outside starting position in the fourth row- Goldsmith, a former NASCAR driving champion, hit 142.744 for the inside spot in the sixth row.

Wilson's average of 142.029 1948. Citation then went on to cants Special, Jud Larson of. Miami in the No. 44 John Zink Special, Al Herman of Center Valley, in the Robbins sweep the elusive triple by crabbing the Belmont stakes in New York. This was the sixth Preakness Special, George Amick of Venice, in the Demler Special, Elmer George of Speedway City in the Hoover MIKE'S OKAY Mike Magill spun three times and hit the wall yesterday on the first day of qualifying at the Speedway but he was unhurt.

Mike signals he's okay in the garage, following the only close call on a day jammed with action. (Star Photo by Frpnk H. Fisse) Time Speed fSi Time Speed Time Speed ifflT 1:02.11 144.904 ffjl fC 1:9212 144.881 fj.psJM? 1:02.86 143.175 JJ 1:02.61 143.747 C4! 143 977 iffl H4.000 fJ 144-671 rSTfl 1:02.38 144.277 1:02.41 144.208 'fQ 1:02.75 143.426 lN 1:02.95 142.971 jT1 1:02.37 144.300 victory for Calumet Farm and set a record. Tim Tarn's victory Motor Express Special, Freddie Agabashian of Alamo, in broke for Calumet a tie with G. L.

Lorillard, who had won was the slowest or the tirst five Preaknesses between 'T1 Totals day qualifiers, so he is No. 1 Totals 4:09.96 144.023 Totals 4:10.14 143.919 1 2 -K U. 1878 and 1882. 1 :u.08 144.190 on the "bump list" at present with the outside spot in the The crowd went for Tim Tam in a big way at the pari JOHNNY BOYD JIMMY BRYAN sixth row. mutuel windows, and he was Qualifying Try 'Slowing A ffair One former winner, Johnnie Parsons (1950) of slightly better than even money, paying $4.20 for $2.

His place price was 2.80 and Van Nuys, made the FOURTH ROW No. 8 (Wolcott Special) No. 25 (Massaglia Hotel Special) No. 29 (Dean Van Lines Special) starting field. Parsons, usual ly regarded as a slow quali show payoff, $2.20.

Lincoln Road blazed away fier, was one of the day's By BOB COLLINS Pat O'Connor, who ex on the front end as usual be BUT HE DID NT do It big and he no sooner finished than talk started that the record, still so very new, was fore succumbing to Tim Tarn's presses himself as well as any one who drives race cars ior LrN I Time Speed Time Speed fm i-S 1:02.48 144.046 hf 1:02.82 143.266 Vj 1:02.74 143.449 ijr i 1:02.82 143.266 K3t lV I 1:03.01 142.834 1:02.58 143.816 I vfVJ 1:02.75 143.426 4f 1:03.06 142.721 in jeopardy. Time Speed 1:03.21 M2.383 VBm 1:02.87 142.925 Vf 1:02.53 143.931 r- 1:02.81 143.289 the City of Memphis Special, and Bob Christie of Grants Pass, in the No. 65 Federal Engineering Special. ELISIAN'S, the day's second qualifier, bettered both of Flaherty's marks but Rathmann came along less than an hour later to wrest the four-lap standard away from his racing buddy. Larson appeared on the verge of losing his "ride" in the only unqualified Zink.

Eddie Sachs of AHentown, was riding in it at closing trme. Of the cars pulled in by their crew before completing qualifying attempts, all were averaging 142 or less. Through a mistake a 142 first lap by Thomson was announced as a 144 circuit to the crowd. Owner Art Lathrop of the No. 75 D-A Car said his crew had "a flock of watches" on relentless stretch drive, and paid $4.80 and $3.40.

Gone Fishin' returned $4.80. a living, said it for all of them Elisian turned a top lap of with "I always try too hard when I'm qualifying and end 146.508 with a four-lap aver age of 145.926. WITH ISMAEL Valenzula, up going slower." Texas-born booter of Mexican But Ed was not happy. He 3 7 It was a fine day for rac parentage in the pilot's seat, Totals 4:11.28 143.266 Totals 4:11.52 143.130 inn i.iuh ine and the drivers were Tim Tam overhauled the Sun whirling around the Speedway A. J.

FOYT RODGER WARD JACK TURNER esterday at record-breaking paces. major surprises with a effort in the Gerhardt Special. Parsons hadn't been able to get over 141 in practice. His effort gained him the outside spot in the second row. ALONGSIDE HIM is Bob Veith of Oakland, who hi.

144.881 in the Bowes Seal Fast Special No. 14, and Pat O'Connor of North Vernon, the 1957 pole-sitter, who contented himself with a 144.823 average yesterday in the same Sumar Special. Jimmy Bryan of Phoenix, the three-time national driving champion, put Sam Hanks' 1957 winning car, the Belond AP Special, on the pole of the third row. A second Bowes car, the No. But the real hot shots the guys who were looking for FIFTH ROW No.

15 (Novi Special) No. 43 (Chapman Special) ig casino on the opening day No. 26 (Bob Estes Special) said tersely. "I feel great we're in the race." Elisian, along with a lot of other people, felt the record would not last the day. O'Connor, a man who knows his way around the track, tried and missed with a time of 144.823.

Johnny Boyd went 144 023. Jimmy Reece, Elisian's teammate in the John Zink Stable, came close with And already, with the day of qualifications were wear ing a thinly disguised look of Thomson and all of them isappointment when they caught the lap in the 142 bracket. completed their qualification runs. ny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road about an eighth of a mile out. A crowd of 36,912, second largest for Old Hilltop, was shouting loudly for the favorite, and Tim Tam never disappointed his backers as he stormed to the wire a length and a half ahead of Lincoln Road.

The Llangollen Farm's Gone Fishin', a Virginia-bred and only horse other than Silky Sullivan who could not claim Kentucky as a birthplace, wound up in third place, three and a half lengths behind Lin-of Edward J. Potter coin Road and a nose in front Pi ion. Time Speed Time Speed IMr I Time Speed fZSl 1:02.65 143.655 1:03.06 142.721 i 12.473 Qpf 1:02.85 143.198 ljif 103.00 142.857 143.130 'f "I l42-676 5l 142-993 143,335 JTH 1:03.11 142.608 0 1:02.82 143.266 1:03.30 142.778 AFTER ALL, a man and a machine had come within 75 hundreds of second of hitting the magic 150 MPH mark just hardly started, those who dream of the unattainable, Speedway Time Chart the day before. Totals 4:12.14 142.778 were revising their estimates loiais iinau 4 1 4:11.69 143.033 A 4:11.82 142.939 Totals 4:11.69 143.033 9 driven by Johnny Boyd, is in the middle with a 144.023 But it's the same here as in of the pole speed downward ny other sport. A guy can effort and the Jones and Maley drastically.

DON FREELAND BILLY GARRETT shoot the eyes out of basket Special of Tony Bettenhausen THEN IT WAS Dick Rath- 05 OS 05 7 practice and hit nothing PAUL RUSSO SIXTH ROW No. 24 (Hoyt Machine Special) mann turn and Katnmann of Tinley Park. is on the outside with 143.919. ut the front of the rim in had come closest to Elisian in practice with a lap over 147 game. Put pressure on a man and No.

31 (City of Daytona Beach Special) No. 71 (Hall-Mar Special) A MAJOR disappointment TIM! AND SPECS 13 5711 13 7 1 02 IJ6.WI0JT 137 20,1:03 137 41 ll OJ 5 137 41 1:07 4 137 :02 3 137 (311:02 1 131 04 1:02 I 138 25 1 07 13 4 1:01 13 M'l 01 13t 19 1 01 7 139.10 1:01 139 32 01 139 54 4 MPH. to many of the throng of sun dd such sundry items as his This, it arbitrarily was de very life and if he doesn't get cided, was the man who could 1 05 6 1 OS i 1 05 4 1 05 1 05 3 I 05 1 I 05 I 1 05 1 04 1 04 I 04 7 1 04 4 1 1 .04 4 1 04 3 1 04 I I 04 I I 04 1 03 just a little tense he doesn't baked speed fans was the performance of the No. 15 Novi Special which Paul Russo qualified at a moderate for the middle spot in the qualify for the human race. beat Elisian if he was to be beat.

143 01 143 31 143 54 143 77 144 00 144 23 144 4 144 (.9 144 93 145 14 145 49 145 43 145 17 144 19 144 34 144 51 144 147 04 147 30 147 54 147 7 141 03 144 IT 141 31 144 74, 1 44 01 144 7 149 59 149 71 '50 139 75 0' 3 -Time Speed Sfi Time Speed 1 Time Speed if 142.135 BS1 1:03.42 141.911 I 1:03.47 141.799 'J 1:0286 M3'175 '-ftfn 141,889 fp" I l42-292 1:02.90 143.084 I 1:03.26 142.270 A 1:03.34 142.090 Xl 1:03 12 12.586 1:03.00 142.857 h'-'D 1:03.41 141.933 Ed Elisian, the man who THE MAIN Chance Farm's Jewel's Reward, Kentucky Derby favorite, was a disappointed seventh as the Crab-tree Stable's Noureddin finished fifth and Ada L. Rice's Talent Show came home iixth. The time for the mile and three-sixteenths was a so-so compared with the Preakness and track record of 1:54 set by Nashua in 1955. But the strip, although labeled fast, was a bit deep and Tim Tam never does any more than he has to In winning. 1:01 139 97 Rathmann, turned his first fifth came within the scant 77 hundreds of second of the one- 1 40 1 9 140 41 lap just over 146, dipped down into the 145 bracket on the 1 01.1 1:01 1 00 100 1:00 7 Beside him are Don Free- 140 3 140 15 141.07 1 03 minute lap (1:00.75, 148.188 mph) the day before, was the land of Speedway City in the i4i i 1 03 1 1 03 141 Si 1 Lf I "i Wi 1 Totals ri.f.iNl 4:12.20 142.744 OI? 4:13.11 142.231 I I XlV.

fe 1 Bob Estes Special (143.033) Totals 4:13.47 142.029 second qualifier yesterday. As 1 00 4 second lap, then cranked two more just over 146. This average. 145.974. whipped Elisian.

But Ed retained the one- 141 73 expected, he smashed Pat and Billy Garrett of Burbank, in the Chapman Special 1 03 1 03 4 3 OJ I 1 1 imm i wiawr GENE HARTLEY 141 142 411' 14? 3i' 14 Flatherty's one and four-lap PAUL GOLDSMITH DEMPSEY WILSON (142.77S). lap record with that 146.508. qualification records. 1 .01.