The Indianapolis Star from Indianapolis, Indiana • Page 37

FRlbAY, MAY 19, 1972 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR- PACE 35 1 Pacers M. To Wit Mm Game Of Crown Malloy To Die Defeat Nets, 100-99 After Trailing By 20 33d Driver At Speedway seconds left and it was obvious likely to win, even predestined to lose, this one was it. bubbled. "And the beauiy of the thing is the car will run quick all day in the race I know it will." On the morning of the first, day of qualifications, he stood in the rain and nervously wondered when it would let up. Sunday, as practice opened, he joined the search for speed and was running in the high 180s when something caused his car to veer sharply to the right as it went through the third turn and it smashed into the outside wall almost head-on.

The car was so badly mangled by the impact that it look more than 10 minutes for rescue workers to put out a fire and pull him out of what 0 Sky mm if By DAVE OVERPECK Only one basketball game was scheduled for the Coliseum last night. The Indiana Pacers turned it into a doubleheader. The lidlifter was a nightmare, the nightcap was a dream, a living, breathing, ever-loving dream. Since the American Basketball Association refuses to subdivide its championship games, last night's twin bill counts as one and dreams take precedence over nightmares. This dream came to its climax with Freddie Lewis on the foul line and nine seconds on the scoreboard clock.

At that point the New York Nets led the fifth game of the best-of-seven set 99-98. LEWIS HAD three chances to put a 9-inch basketball through an 18-inch hole twice. His first effort worked very hard and managed to elude the cylinder. The next two were dead center. That made it 100-99.

It didn't change in the few ticks remaining. So now the scries stands 3 games to 2 in favor of the Pacers. They're one step away from their second ABA championship in years. That last stride can come tomorrow afternoon at Uniondale, L.I., with thp whole nation watching via the Columbia Broadcasting System's television facilities ip F.VER there was a game the Pacers seemed un ricr, Salt a 1 1 reached 175.302 mph in his No. 77 Davton Steel Wheel car then promptly lost a piston -and teamate Bud Tinglestad had a lap at 175.097 mph in the No.

33 Dayton team car California to build towards better 1973. Another deletion in the ranks was the official withdrawal of the Smokey Yunick Eagle to be driven by David Ilobba that never did make it to the track. to at least 10,09 customers the Nets would be going to Barry for the win-or-lose shot. They did. Barry got a good pick underneath and shoo free from Roger Brown.

He was clear for a 15-foot shot on the 1ft base line and Tom Washington's pass from half court out of bounds was on the button. EXCEPT Barry looked away before the ball got there. He was already looking for the basket when the ball slid through his hands and out of bounds with 6 seconds re maining. The hero's mantel for this one was shared by Lewis and Kel ler. Both finished with 22 points to top the attack.

Keller had eight assists, Lewis five. Each played a big hand as the Pacers outscored New York 23-8 to tie the game at 60 with 5:46 remaining in the third quarter. Keller hit three straight three-pointers in that surge. Lewis was the thief on three basket-producing larcenies. For the game, Freddie was the bandit on five heists that produced Indiana baskets.

THIS WAS a game in which the Pacers were forever coming back. After that 40-20 gap in the second quarter and before that 99-95 deficit at the end came a seven-point hole in the opening moments of the fourth quarter. But the Pacers simply wouldn't die. Barry, despite the goat horns he collected i nthe final seconds, led all scorers with 33 counters and John Roche added 22 for New York. INDIANA (100) Mln.

FG FT A PF TP McGinnis 11 -10 4- 14 1 17 Brown 44 J-I4 2- 4 3 1 4 12 Daniels 34 7-15 3- 3 1 2 i 17 Mount IS 1- 7 2- 2 0 0 1 4 Lewis 47 Mt 3- 5 4 5 3 J2 Keller 34 1-15 2- 2 4 1 3 22 Hilltnan 21 2-4 C- 1 i 4 4 Notolicky 10 1- 4 4 4 0 1 2 Totals 3-2 1 4-30 581 24 1 00 '-Includes 4 teams rebounds. NEW YORK () Min. FG FT A PF TP Barry Washing ton 45 13-7? I-IO 4 3 33 34 4- 2- 2 13 2 4 10 Paulti 44 14 0- 2 15 3 0- 3 15 Roche 38 10-20 3- 3 3 22 14 Tavlor 24 1-5 3-3 8 Moore 4 1- 1 0- 0 2 0 1 3-1511 Zeller 1 0-0 O-l 0 0 2 0 Baum 15 J- 1- 1 4 0 2 Melcttionni 24 0- 5 4- 5 2 4 5 4 Totals 3-84 20-28 53'lf 24 ft 4 team rebounds. ndiana 15 21 J4 100 inouna 15 22 34 ii New York 33 1 20 27 3-Point Shooting: Indiana McGinnis 1-1. Lewis 1-2, Keller 4-8; New York Barry 1-3.

Technical Foul: Indiana Coach Leonard. Errors: Indiana 17. New York 20. Attendance: 10.079 They were positively brutal in the first half. They were awful, gruesome, pathetic.

Name any sin in the game of basketball and they committed it. At one point in the second quarter, they were down 20 points, 40-20. In the first quarter, they were 5 of 22 from the field. In the second stanza, they were 1 of 11 no kidding at the ful line. Dearborn Gym would have put them in a league.

By halftime, they should have been down 45 points, but the Nets weren't playing par ticularly great ball themselves So the intermission spread was "only" 52-37. More to the point, the Pacers should have been ready for the embalmer when Rick Barry hit two free throws at :27 for a 99-95, Nets' lead. BUT THE Pacers already had loked at the Grand Can yon. hour points didn really look that big. First, Billy Keller took look at th clock, saw it was under 20 seconds and fired from 30 feet.

He collected his fourth three-pointer of the sec ond half to cut it to 99-98 with 17 seconds remaining. Then the Nets made a big mistake. The ball came in to Ollie Taylor. As a ball-handler, he doesn't exactly bring Marouis Haynes to mind. Lewis was on him.

After the game, Freddie described how he did it. "I try to get a guy looking for me on one side an dthen beat him back to the other," be said. ''He was still looking for me on his right and he turned right back into me on the left I batted the ball and it went right between his legs to Lewis went straight for the hoop with a ball. He tried to dunk it and took a hard rap from Taylor on the arms. THE PACERS asked for goal-tending on the play and should have gotten it since both Taylor and Rick Barry had their hands in the nets on the dunk.

But referee John Vanak wouldn't buy anything more than the foul. After Freddie hit the go-ahead free throws, the Pacers still weren't out of the woods. The Nets took a timeout with 8 ytsi jc McGINNIS FOUL Tom Washington of the New York Nets is fouled in the first quarter of the game last night with the Indiana Pacers. Committing the foul is George McGinnis, who was double-teamed with Bill Paultz joining Washington. (Star Photo by Charles A.

Berry) HOItllY VXSER'S EAVI.E Gives Grant Hot Ride had been the cockpit of one of the most beautiful race cars at the track. NO ONE may ever know what caused the accident now.vA check by USAC technical committee people re vealed no clues with the rear suspension and wing fully intact. He was flown by helicopter to Methodist Hospital where doctors immediately started working on his multiple injuries from an impact crash that veteran Speedway officials called the worst they'd ever seen. A fighter all the way, the former football and baseball player who chose auto racing as his way of life, continued the struggle to live. RAY MARQUETTE SISTE01 CAR TO Gurney By RAY MARQUETTE The field "lost" at least one car yesterday and gained another at the Speedway with patient Jerry Grant landing one of the most coveted rides in the place.

Dan Gurney said Grant, who has driven in five Indianapolis races, will attempt to qualify the "Mystery Eagle" that Bobby Unser has already tested up to 180 miles an hour and that is a sister to the No. 6 Olsonite Eagle Bobby U. apparently has put on the pole. "I TOLD JERRY he could try to qualify it," said Gurney. "We may name it the All-American Racers Special or the C.

V. Enterprises Special. No, Chris Vallo (the mystery man of money from Northern Indiana) hasn't bought the car but I can call it that if I want to, can't For Grant, who missed last year's race, the ride is pure ice cream on top of his cake. Everyone in Gasoline Alley has been speculating for more than Iwo weeks who'd get a ride in the purple Eagle that has so much promise. A new engine was expected to arrive here last night and Gurney hopes to have Grant out on the track for practice today.

MERLE BETTENHAUSEN is the one who probably lost his chance at making his first 500 when he lost control of Jimmy Malloy and his smiling face will no longer be seen around the race tracks. The popular and talented 36-year-old driver died yesterday morning in Methodist Hospital of injuries reeeived In a crash during a practice lap at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last Sunday. Malloy, who would have been 37 next Tuesday, is the 33d driver to lose his life at the Speedway an3 the first since Mike Spence on May 7, 19G8. FOR MORE than four days, the Denver resident was unconscious with injuries so severe there was never really much hope that he might recover. But his parents and wife remained at his bedside until the final moments.

"This is the year when I have a car I thoroughly understand and one that is good enough to win Indianapolis," Malloy had said the day before his fatal crash. "I know what I can do with the car and, believe me, it's a winner. I'm ready for the race right now." Instead, his dreams of reaching the top of his chosen profession have been snuffed out. But, like any other man who chooses racing, he wouldn't have had it any other way. MEMORIAL services for Malloy will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in Conkle Speedway Funeral Home where friends may call after 6 p.m.

Funeral services and burial will be held later at Denver. Survivors include the widow, Mrs. Mary I. Malloy; two sons, Jim and Pat Malloy; a daughter, Cheryl Malloy; and the parents, Mr. and Mrs.

James H. Malloy all of Denver. The family requested that memorial contributions be made to the United States Auto Club Benevolent Fund. MALLOY HAD such a burning desire to go racing that when the itch became intolerable, he swept the papers off his Denver office desk, split the $100 he had in his pocket witfi his wife and said, "I'm going racing." It wasn't easy for the smiling guy to climb to the heights of United States Auto Club racing because it seldom is easy. He began by running sprint cars in the East always looking for a championship ride.

It wasn't until 1908 that he passed his rookie driving test and drove the Jim Robbins car in the next two 500s, Rn- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION EASTERN DIVISION Pel. GB Evansville 14 13 .552 Omaha 16 Iowa 13 4 INDIANAPOLIS 10 IB .357 5" WESTERN DIVISION Pel. GB Wichita 23 7 .77 taw '5 Tulia II -5M Oklahoma Citr 11 21 .344 13 AMERICAN LEAGUE EASTERN DIVISION Pel. GB Cleveland 15 .625 Detroit II 10 .600 Baltimore 13 12 .520 Vi Boston .391 S'l New York IS .375 Milwaukee 7 15 .311 7 WESTERN DIVISION Pet. GB Minnesota 17 7 .701 Oakland 15 I .625 2 Chicago 15 10 .600 Vt Tim II 15 .423 7 Kansas City 11 16 .407 7Va California II 16 .407 7'a NATIONAL LEAGUE (I West Coast qarn not included) EASTERN DIVISION Pet.

OB New York 21 7 .750 Philadelphia 15 12 .556 5W Pittsburgh 14 12 .53 6 Chicago 14 13 4'i Montreal 13 15 .444 I St Loull 10 20 .333 12 WESTERN DIVISION Pet. GB I Houston 17 10 30 i.Loi Angelas Cincinnati San Dleio 13 Atlanta 1J San Frenclsco I lijjli Sclioo I I.um-I.uII Franklin Central 001 040 2-7 11 2 Ni'w mllh. Crist and j.rFelf nun nin i i i 0 030 0-3 i 0 C.rmtl 000 000 0-0 5 I Hoendon. Cooper (5) and dTlier, Elliot 4 Hre ano hois, Vlk ChMtira SiTl. A.n.hi I1 and Angellcchloi Kny 070 k.ndll Mono (4), OHIM 7I i and Haves.

Nnrlhwait 100 000 01 4 I Bm.r 210 000 -J 4 0 tYa.ls, Bohall (51 tnd Hand. Dals 15)1 Paeli ana Cochran. i a Olsnu. Altuck. MtltJ Bod, Shatter (1) and Beverly) inn and Uriy, lonetrlch (41 Wa.hlnnton JOJ 00- 1 1 plan a 42 41 -14 10 Mellon Day (.11 Oonlayi lohnson and Dudley 0 HR-kumichmldt.

(BR). li IniHum. 10 Run Rule I Indianapolis Baptist 000 00- 0 0 I Latin Krhdol 41-14 1 wlmnltr. Skagos (3) nd Williamsi Sclioldlef and Riester. at 175.097 mph in his regular No.

37 Caves Buick mount, then spent most of the afternoon shaking down the No. 16 Thermo King Gerhardt. but nothing is definite on his getting a ride in the late Jim Malloy's backup machine that he had driven in races at Phoenix and Trenton this year. Jim McElreath has landed himself a ride, running 176.956 in the 73 Gilmore Eagle, Ar-nie Knepper got his own No. 90 C.H.E.K.

Special on the track for the first time and Bruce Walkup continued driving the No. 97 car that is a backup for Mike Mosley. Bobby Unser ran some fuel tests and brought consternation in the ranks when he shut off power for the No. 6 Olsonite Eagle but said the engine didn't let go; it wasn't picking up fuel properly. Jim Hurtubise lost a piston in his No.

56 Mallard while trying to get to the 180 bar- the No. 35 Kingfish coming out of the fourth turn. "I think we had the wing too "flat" said Merle, the younger brother of already-qualified Gary. "Anyway, I wasn't going too fast but when I came off the fourth turn, the car just got away from me and away I went. Call it a driver error.

"I'm afraid it. probably washed me right of the race." He did one complete spin, slid 460 feet then rammed the inner wall with the left rear, bounced the left front into the concrete and slid another 420 feet along the wall and back onto the middle of the race track. THE CAR WAS badly damaged and probably can't be rebuilt in time for the final weekend of qualifying. From the STP camp, Vince Granatelli said he doesn't see how the Lola wrecked by Art Pollard Monday can be rebuilt in time for the race or who might drive it. "We're trying to get the McNamara ready to run," said Vince, "but I don't know who'll be driving it, either.

"I tried to buy another car, but couldn't get that done, so we're still up in the air." If the Lola can't be rebuilt, or a driver found, il will have to be withdrawn, of course, even though Poilard had already qualified it. LEE KUNZMAN had a lap JIMMY MALLOY ishing 22d his first year and Uth in '69. IN 1970, as the field came out of the fourth turn and sped down to take the starting flag, the suspension broke in his car and he darted wildly throng the pack after tapping the outerwall and he didn't hit another car. Last year Malloy got a break when Dan tapped him to qualify the backup Olsonite Eagle. With little practice in the machine, he won ll)th starting position, traveled the full 500 miles and finished fourth.

Bitterly disappointed when Gurney decided to concentrate on one car until Swede Savage recovered from injuries, Malloy campaigned the rest of the way in the Norris Ea-fcle then got the biggest break of his life when Gary Bettenhausen decided to move away from the Don Gerhardt operation and join Roger Penske's McLaren stable. EARLY THIS spring, he got his first ride in the new Eagle that Gerhardt had purchased and, during Goodyear tire tests at Indianapolis, dodged snowflakes long enough to average 185 miles an hour for a 20-lap test run. "This is the best car I've ever been in," he bubbled with a wide smile. "I'll have time to get used to it and we'll be ready to go when Indianapolis opens. This is a car that can win the race and if I'm ever goin to do good for a full season, this will be the one." He came to the Speedway, helped push the Thermo King car through technical inspection and immediately joined the speed derby, winning top-day honors for quickness on 5 of the first 7 days the track was open, working up to a best speed of 188.048 miles an hour.

"HOW SWEET it is," he YESTERDAY'S RESULTS INDIANAPOLIS low Omaha 3. Evansville 2 (12 innings). Tulsa 7. Wichita 6. Oklahoma City Denver 4.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 7, Boston 2. California 4, Oakland 3 (12 Innings). Only games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 2, Montreal 1. Cincinnati San Francisco 5.

Chicago 6, St. Louis 4. Houston a. Anqia 3 (11 innings). Only games scheduled.

TODAY'S SCHEDULE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Indianapolis at mwa, night. Tuha al Wichita, night. Oklahoma City al Denver, night. Evansville at Omaha, ninht. NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago (Jenkins 3 3) at St.

Louis (Spinks 2-1), night. New York (Capri 1-1) at Philadelphia (Selma 1-3), night. Montreal (Stoneman 3-3) al Pittsburgh (Mcose 1-2), night. Houston (Wilson 1-2) al Los Angiles (Osteen 4-1), night. Cincinnati (McGlothlin 0-3) at San Diego (Klrby 3 2), night.

Atlanta CNickro 5 3) at San Francisco (Cumberland 03), night. AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland (Perry 42) at Detroit (Cain 0 21, night. Oakland (Odom 20) al Kansas City (Splittorlf 2-3), night. California (Ryan 23 or Fisher 10) at Chicago (Wood 6 2), night. Minnesota (Kaal 4 01 al Texas (Oogo-lowiki 2-1), night.

Baltimore (McNally 4-2) al Milwaukee (Parsons 2-2), nighl. Bnslon IPeltln 0-4) at New York (Slot-llemvro 3 3), night. Jim IVicr A cor pis Terms Willi Lakers Los Angeles (AIM The Los Angeles Lakers yesterday an-noiiiKTil signing of Louisville guard Jim Price, who hist month had broken off contract talks mid Indicated he was going to play in the American Basketball Association. The 6-f(iot-3 Price, former Indianapolis Tech star, a second team Associated Press All-American, signed three-year contract for an undisclosed salary with (lie National Kaskcfhall Association loam. 1 sss I Htmte nrMttnM only 455 Finn Amalcur Softball MUNICIPAL Craqr-n Oil 38.

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Merchants Sportsman Post 7 10, (JAW 33 Ryan's MotoranM 18, Local 135 3. 7 is your first drink. One sip and you'll taste why believes in word-of mouth advertising. 1 jjr4lteMl PICKS UP PIECES Owner Grant King looks at the wreckage of his No, 35 Kingfish demolished at the Speedway yesterday In Merle Bettenhausen'i spin coming out of the fourth turn. Bettenhausen rammed the inner wall but escaped without injury.

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