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Boby Unwr OUonltt em Oily llJ.Jft mpk I By RAY MARQUETTE It took Gary Bettenhausen three days to force himself to keep his foot off the brake pedal but when he finally did, he popped eyeballs from one end of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway pit row to the other. 1 All the Tinley Park (111.) hot shoe did was turn a lap at 190.315 miles an hour yesterday in the No. 7 Sunoco McLaren to claim top speed honors of the pre-race practice period and deliver a hefty psyche job to the xt i 41 It SVJ in r- rrwdumm 1 mi i iJia1ltCvl 1 hi i competition. Overshadowed by Gary's rapid run was a 188.324 mph lap by Peter Revson in the No. 12 Gulf McLaren almost 9 miles an hour faster than Peter's official Speedway record and the second best effort of the season.

ONLY ONE man has ever been clocked faster at the Speedway (190.8 mph) and Bobby Unser was still waiting for a fresh engine to put in his No. 6 Olsonite Eagle and had to gnash his teeth and watch the hot dogs run. Jim Malloy, who was knocked from first to third in the speed derby, wasn't around either. He turned a lap at 185 In the morning, then headed for an autograph session, missing his usual late-afternoon dash to claim top "We made quite a few changes from Saturday but we're using the same rear wing we had been using. "IT'S REALLY unbelievable to go 190.

I swear I didn't work any harder to get the 190 than I did at 183. The fastest I went last year was 173 in a practice lap and that's one heck of a jump." Revson must have felt something like little boy best. While Bettenhausen was turning his 190 lap, Peter was clocked at 187 mph in his McLaren and went almost unnoticed. "You go 187 and it's nothing," he shrugged. "It's just history." So Peter went out a little later and turned the 188.324 mph lap.

THERE WERE quite a few smilin' faces around. Mike Mosley broke in a fresh engine for his No. 98 Vivitar Watson and cranked his best time of the season at 185.874 mph. And A.J. Foyt made a few changes in his No.

2 ITT-Thompson Coyote and raised the best READY FOR RECORD RUN-Gary Bettenhausen gets ready to hop into his Sunoco Special at the Speedway yesterday just prior to making his run of 19,0.315 miles an hour, the first man to break the 190 barrier this irionth. Gary makes a finaT check along with his crew before taking off on the run. (Star Photo By Jerry Clark). speed with his No. 16 Thermo King Eagle.

Bettenhausen was all smiles after his quick run. "I didn't even know how fast I'd gone until I came into the pits," he grinned. "They'd given me the board calling me in after my fast lap. I really had a good one going the next time around. They say I came out of the fourth turn in 38 seconds before I slowed down and came into the pits.

"I DIDN'T touch the brakes on my fast lap; you can't or it costs you a couple of miles an hour. But it's a hard thing to make yourself keep off it. used to using both pedals and it's instinctive. I kept getting closer and closer to it and this time I stayed off It. The screw wasn't turned very much, either.

One turn could give us a lap at 192. TIRE CHANGE Hywel Absalom (left) along with other crew members tries to kick off a tire of the- car Peter Revson drove in a practice, run at the Motor his Mallard. "The best I did last year was 169 in a practice lap. I'm just learning how to go fast with the other car. I could have gone 180 but I'm just as happy to gain a little each day; I want to win this race, not wear out the car." Three of the 24 cars getting in practice time were making their first appearances Carl Williams in the No.

95 Vatis, Jigger Sirois in the No. 50 Navarro Rambler and Lloyd Ruby in the new No. 52 Lola. Lee Brayton completed his 160 mph phase in the driving test and got in one lap of the Speedway yesterday. Revson turned in a 188-plus mark for his day's effort after the crew got a new tire properly fnstalled.

(Star Photo By Jerry Clark). final. Bill Simpson has six laps in this 20-lap refresher, too. JOE LEONARD took his No. 1 Samsonite Parnelli out for some work with the dihedral side wings removed, just like wing clipping process on' teammates Al Unser and Mario Andretti.

Al didn't get out after breaking an engine Saturday and Andretti's car also was getting a new power plant installed. Just to complete the day's diary, the track was shut down at 9:38 a.m. as a rabbit came hopping across the asphalt. speed by a turbocharged Ford to 184.049 mph. An then there was Jim Hurtubise, discovering all kinds of goodies.

Not only did he run his No. 56 Miller Coyote up to 179.176 mph but also shoved his beloved Mallard around the track at 170.164,mph, the fastest he's ever had the machine and, as far as anyone remembers, marking the best time ever at Indy by a front-engine machine. "IT'S SOMETHING else," said Herk, of PIT PASS By 5-ftU 3pes4at foff BIGGEST TOPIC OF CONVERSATION along pit .1 -ii i i mn ou Indians Corral(es) Iowa, 6-3 row wnen Liary jseiiennausen lurneu ms xvv.oi jrnile-an-hour lap was the rear wing on the No. 7 'Sunoco McLaren. For the record, the height of the wing cannot exceed 32 jlnches from the lowest part of the car's tub and it can not extend back farther than 42 inches from the center line of the Kear wheels.

A lot of the people with their eyeballs popping, figured the wing on Gary's car was both too high and extended back too far. way," said Roger Penske, the car owner. "The wing Jvas perfectly legal in both height and the 42-inch length." I Once a car receives its temporary sticker from the USAC technical people to run the race track, it is not inspected again fcntil it is lined up for qualifying, i nirTTS'MWAiTSE'M's happv rirffl. he had to be ex Pat Helps End Home Drought By MAX GREENWALD Four straight hits after two were out in the eighth inning yesterday gave the Indianapolis inaians tour runs and a 6-3 conquest over Iowa. tra pleased that he didn't go sprint car racing this weekend.

jLweek ago yesterday he flipped his sprinter at Terre Haute and demolished it. "I hadn't planned on running this weekend, anyway," grinned the Tinley Park (111.) driver. "And I decided that De- Jubilant Tribesmen rushed on to the field after the game to congratuate teammates as the victory ended a Bush Stadium drought. It was the first home triumph after seven setbacks. slammed his first Indianapolis homer in the seventh, singled Locklear across to make it 3-3.

Corrales doable then bounced to the right-field wall as Skidmore fa lUi wn- A new battery down from Cincinnati started the game for the Indians with Jim Mer- ritt pitching and Pat Corrales 1 MARK DONOHUE WAS BACK AT the track yesterday after flying to Lime Rock, to drive the pace car for (the Trans-American race. He was eager to get in some worK on the race track but was stymied when a spark plug broke land the engine had to be torn down to get the pieces out. BOB NETOLICKY OF THE Indiana Pacers and Rick Barry, JBill Paultz and Bill Melchionni of the New York Nets wore drawing a lot of attention as they wandered through the pits and Gasoline Alley. "I think I'm going to have to change my profession and go irace driving," said Netolicky, who spends as much time as -w CnopHuaV. catching.

The southpaw hurled five innings and left trailing 3-0. Merritt, a 20-game winner as the Reds won the 1970 pennant, said "I have to show I can pitch and get ipossioie every iviay visuiug uic j- back np there." Corrales Dick Kenworthy belted a double to rightcenter and Jim Hoff singled for the remaining unearned tallies. BeeBee Richard led off in the first with a single but the Oaks' starting pitcher, Dave Hamilton, then retired 16 Tribesmen in a row. With two out in the sixth, Ed Armbrister ended the lefthander's spell over the. Tribe.

Richard also singled and Locklear did likewise to score Armbrister. Roger Cain then made a sensational diving catch of Al Crawford's poke Into left-center to prevent at least two Tribe runs. Skidmore opened the seventh with his off-field homer remarked "you don't like to come down but there was something they (the Reds) had to do np there." it A SPECIAL PRIZE has been "donated" to either Peter Revson or Roger Penske. The guy whose team qualifies fastest will receive a cartoon series of pictures that had everyone rolling in the aisles yesterday. JIM MALLOY DROPPED from first to third place on the In the Tribe lineup for the first time since 1968, Corrales nTffi doubled in the eighth to drive speed totem pole yesterday and he wasn't even at the race track to keep his car in.

While a couple of other guys were in the tie-breaking run. CLOSE PLAY AT FIRST Tom Spencer of th Indianapolis Indians loses an eyelash decision on a play at first base in the second inning yesterday. Iowa first baseman Rene Lachemann makes a long stretch to take the throw from short. (Star photo by Charles A. Berry) Marcel Lachemann, winner over the Indians in the two previous games, was on the LADDER SAFETY mound at the start of the de cisive eighth.

ec ed NOW! the Oaks ninth to in the be the Gene Locklear sent a boun climbing over him, Manoy was Dusy maning an auiugicp. pearance. I NO TWO RACE DRIVERS are any closer than Gary Bet-tenhausen and Billy Vukovich. Since Billy's car was being worked on and he couldn't run yesterday he headed for the golf course, naturally. I "Gary completely destroyed my golf game," said Vuky.

"I was on the second hole when I heard about his 190 lap, so I packed up my clubs and left the course." eighth and cer to third but Manny Trillo fel1 as he threw to first and it went for a two-base error. dirt for Cook's liner in the fourth. Curtis Bertram, 1502 Mont-ca'm Street, was the winner of the pony as the turnout was 3,971 for Pony Day. The Iowa series will close tonight with Mel Behney (1-1) pitching for Indianapolis against Chris Floethe (0-0). over the wall in right.

Merritt gave up a run In the second on a hit by Doug King, Tom Cook's double to leftcenter and Cain's sacrifice fly- Adrian Garrett's homer to the rightfield sign in the third his fourth of the season followed Hamilton's Infield hit Then came the four hits. Roe Skidmore, who had winner. Tribesmen also contributed some fielding gems. Al Crawford made a diving grab of Ron Clark's low drive in the seventh and George Runk went into the TYPE I INDUSTRIAL LADDERS IN STOCK! accounted for the other mar IGoolagong Guarantees Disputed By Malless 4-WHEEL JSIE kers off Merritt. Pat Jacquez pitcher out of a bases-full jam in the sixth and Steve Blateric then Bonded Lining 1-NOOR SERVICE ftLl BANK she's taking guarantees against Clay Court or any other By BOB WILLIAMS i ft ti tl rn.it INDIANAPOLIS Grand Prix rules? hrj.411-' 1 IOWA AS II ACCEPTED Has Indiana's most ABRHBI American tournament.

"We've never paid a guar i 0 Rkhrd.M "They're expected by the USLTA to play in our national 0 0 Trillo. 3 LcHMr.lf Stan Malless rushed the net 1 last night to answer Billie Jean King's charge that Wimbledon Garrett.rf antee for the Clay Court, not championships and failure to Evonne Goolagong King, II CuUtn.lt R.Lmn.lb Cook.c M.Lann.o do so without cood reason completa tins of Typa I and Typa II Louisvillt safety ladders for delivery today. even to Nancy Richey when she was defending champ, and 4 1 4 1 0 0 4 3 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 3 1 1 0 might be embarrassing. They iwon play anywnere wunoui a guarantee and her threat Crwfrd.rf Skdmrt.lb Corralas.c Spancar.cf Jacquez. Moll, 2b Run 3b Frousn.ph Blalerlcp AAarrltt.p Ambratrf we're not going to start now." Calivcf could be suspended if they try PlttJ.JHf (to skip the U.

S. Clay Court Malless called it a power Hamjltrt.p Dusan.c to play anywhere else the week of the Clay Court," he '''''wi jchampionships here in August play on the part of the Virginia Totals 35 3 1 Slims, to force Goolagong to jlf Goolagong Is in the draw. mm join the women's circuit. Ac Total! 35 11 Iowa til in at a Ranked second in the world Indianapolis 14 a 4 behind the 20-year-old Austra Trillo. DP lowa 1.

LOB Iowa 1. added. "If they nse that for an excuse to skip the Gay Court or any other American tournament, it will be a poor excuse." Malless disclosed that Goola lia sensation, even though she lOUISVILLt Indianapolis 5. 2B Cook 2. Corratos.

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J-J) 1 4 4 0 0 0 AAerrltt 5 A 1 3 0 3 earn $100,000, Billie Jean made Jhe explosive statement after she won the $20,000 Virginia Blims tournament Saturday at cording to Malless, they held a meeting about it during the tournament here last week. "Some of the girls came to me at the I i and begged me not to take Goolagong so a they could come to the Clay Court tournament," be explained. "I'm not going to deprive Indianapolis of a chance to see gong coach already has an Jacquez 2 2 0 0 2 Blateric (W, 1-31 .21001 1 75 U.S.A. Standard Instituta'a Misty todss. Matt ladder rsqulrsmsntt tiyill aafity codes with a louiivtlls laddsr Irom the hbp By Jecnuei (Cook 2:11.

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WP ginia Slims tour." fTTTT) penses trom tne Australian chairman of the Clay Court tournament and secretary of the United States Lawn Tennis Association, said last night "I resent the implication that Goolagong will. Bivent 1141. IP Mutii ra-ii m.o.cfiurcnmoncojnc. 6433 East 30th Street. Indianapolis, Indiana 46219 flLsffffiphona (317)547-3411 He said "They've been chas Tennis Association for playing Pall Creek A's (11 1C1 30 14 IS 1 Wait Siders .401 101 no IS IS 1 I l.r ThMatM f- mm .1 in Cleveland the same way we I wnw 1 in and O.

Orlaer. ing Goolagong ever since she won Wimbledon. Why should Ill lit 1071 pay expenses for our Davis ef Siders 014 II I 3 Trwnpsm. Kattka 14k and LuImi Mm. hey want to accept her if receive a guarantee from the cup ana wigntmanum teams.

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