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TTTT pAUt 1 USAC LOSES CALIFORNIA 500 IHt INUiANArOLlS MArt Ontario Hitches Ride On CART indicated he plans to compete in all of the remaining Indy-car races. None of the USAC teams have switched over, but since thtrr final race on the current USAC schedule (Aug. 12fc Milwaukee) is almost a month before Ontario, this poses 4 pair of interesting questions. Will USAC try to replace Ontario; with another track? And if no more races are added, wilr I'SACers be allowed to compete without penalty even though their season would be over" "We've got some irons in the fire and if it makes sense, we'd like to run another race," answered USAC President" Dick King. "As for the second question, I can't say until 4 Under the Formula One system, every lap turned by a team is recorded during certain time periods (there'll be four over two days at OMS) and the fastest stands as their qualifying speed.

However, the OMS management is retaining the 33-car lineup and that would appear to be a major stumbling block, as it was last month at Pocono when USAC fielded just 26 machines. There are only 21 true CART members and there's been no more than 23 cars at any CART race in 1979 so it stands to reason that CART could have trouble coming up with as many competitors as L'SAC had for the Music 500. "We'll have 33 if I've got to run four cars," responded Roger Penske, acknowledging the fact his sometime shoe, Mario Andretti, has no Formula One commitment that weekend and could be an added starter. 'if we weren't confident of having at least 33 cars we wouldn't have set that figure," replied Russo. "I know some of the CART teams will be fielding two cars, but I've got to believe some of the USAC guys are gonna run." AS WAS THE CASE AT Indianapolis and Pocono, Ontario will be an invitational event.

"At Ray's suggestion, we will also accept any qualified USAC teams," stated CART President Pat Patrick. Both groups were together at Indy, but, other than Danny Ongais, nobody has attempted to "play both sides of the fence." Ongais, a CART regular, ran at Pocono and has Last March, OMS served as the host for USAC's initial venture with reduced boost and its reduced roster of name drivers. The crowd, never very healthy before on this date, was about average but the race was a bit puny. Bob Russo. the public relations director at OMS who aided Smartis in the mediation attempts, was asked if this was a major factor in the decision.

"Yes. I'd have to say it definitely influenced our decision," he replied. "We just didn't feel we could take a similar situation and apply it the California 500. I think it's pretty obvious how much competition there is out liere for the entertainment dollar and we feel we need as much going for us as possible." Since Smartis and Russo took over for OMSOC (Ontario Motor Speedway Operating Company) in 1976, the crowds have increased each year. Although they've never been as large as the inagura! Cal 500 (there were more than 100.000 people then), the figures the past two years have been near 75.000.

"DURING OUR TIME BACK in the Midwest, we talked a lot with Jerry O'Connell (owner of Tom Sneva's car) about what we could do to draw more people this year, regardless of who we went with." continued Russo. "He suggested we try the grand prix qualifying format and it sounded like a good idea so we are." know more of the particulars. King said he wasn't as surprised with the announcement ai1-he was disappointed. "We've stuck by Ontario when things By ROBIN MILLER A J. Foyt clinched his seventh United States Auto Club national championship Monday, but not in the usual manner.

Foyt was- assured of his crown when the Ontario Motor Speedway announced its California 500 Sept. 2 would be held under the auspices of rhampionship Auto Racing Teams instead of USAC the governing body of the "Indy of the West" since its inception in 1970. This decision leaves USAC with just two races remaining on its 79 schedule and since Foyt has won four of the five USAC shows, there is no way for him to lose his lead over Billy Vukovich. But this is little consolation to USAC, as Ontario has now joined Trenton, Phoenix. Michigan and Atlanta as tracks taken over by CART in the wicked war for Indy-car supremacy in this country.

"WE FEEL THE DECISION to go with CART is in the best interest of the race as well as the fans," said Ray Smartis, the president of OMS who spent the past month trying to negotiate a peace settlement between the two adversaries. 'i think we owe it to the fans to provide the best field of cars and drivers available and under the present circumstances. I don't think that's possible with USAC." were rough for them and it's unfortunate they did Dof remember he said. "IT'S A TWO-WAY STREET," retorted Russo. "wa've generated several million dollars for them and we were Jthe guinea pigs last March and took our lumps." The only other pressing question concerns the Motor Speedway.

Last month, IMS President Joe Cloutier announced that teams competing in the USAC races at Pocono and Ontario would be granted "automatic invitations" to the 1980 Indianapolis 500. A revision of that order could be in the works. 1G-YEAR-OLD DEFEATS 'THE GRAND DAME9 7 King Conquered By Austin Fromholtz broke service at the start of the second set, but then the match turned around. Navratilova began to play her serve-and-volley game with more confidence and finally was a convincing winner. EVERT LLOYD beat Turnbull from her baseline in a match that lacked variety.

Evert Lloyd is the only semifinalist who has not yet lost a set. Cawley, who could be the first mother to win Wimbledon in 65 years, was a winner all the way against Wade. The British player served eratically and knocked up a steady stream of half-court lobs that fed the Australian's smash. In 18 years of playing at Wimbledon, Wade, 34 next week, had never lost a set to love before. The men had a day off from singles before today's quarterfinals.

The lineup: defending champion Bjorn Borg vs. Tom Okker; Jimmy Connors vs. Bill Scanlon; Adriano Panatta vs. Pat Dupre, and Roscoe Tanner vs. Tim Gullikson.

Austin serenely fired away to stave off those threats. ON MATCH POINT, King made a despairing trip to the pet and failed with a backhand volley. Afterwards, King said she did not go to the net often enough. "I stayed back when I should have been more aggressive," she said. "Physically I could have played three more sets today, but mentally I could not sustain anything." Austin had been coached by King for Wightman Cup matches but had never played against her in a tournament before.

"I just had to keep control of myself and get out of my mind that she has won everything there is to win," Austin said. Navratilova was in some trouble at first. Fromholtz, a 23-year-old lefthander from Sydney, started strongly by winning the first nine points of the match and dropped only three points on service in the first set. IN THE SECOND set. Austin lost her service three times but broke back each time.

In the tiebreaker. King kept her nose ahead throughout and won it seven points to five. King then jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the third, but Austin broke back with fine backhand returns and evened the set at 2-2. The match teetered in the balance during the vital fifth game, in which King served and had the initial advantage to win the game. But each time as she pushed forward eagerly for the kill, Austin passed her at the net.

Finally the game went to Austin. After missing the baseline with lobs throughout the match, she hoisted a perfect one that dropped on the line and left King stranded up court. The youngster's confidence was sky-high and King did not win another game. The last few rallies were played from the baselines and Austin's steadiness was decisive. King had two break points, but r.Z 1 ta.f-- ('H 1 v1 4 "4 I i i i Wimbledon.

England (AP) Schoolgirl Tracy Austin mastered Billie Jean King, the grand dame, 6-4, 6-7, 6-2, in a tennis classic Monday and reached the Wimbledon semifinals for the first time. "It was one of the best wins of my career," the 16-year-old Californian said after a pulsating two-hour battle that swaved back and forth and enthralled the 17,000 fans at Center Court. Defending champion Martina Nav-ratilova came back from a slow start to defeat Dianne Fromholtz of Australia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-0. Austin will face Navratilova in Wednesday's semifinals. Chris Evert Lloyd outstroked Australia's Wendy Turnbull, 6-3, 6-4, and Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia snuffed out Britain's hopes by hammering Virginia Wade, 6-4, 6-0.

NOW IT'S TRACY Austin against three experienced stars who have all won the title. Evert Lloyd has won it twice, Navratilova and Cawley once each. The 35-year-old King won the Wimbledon women's doubles title with Karen Hantze in 1961, the year before Austin was born. She has won the singles crown six times. She played with all the guile she has learned in 19 years of Wimbledon campaigning.

She volleyed with her old authority and had her young opponent scampering in vain after angled shots and heavily spun drops. But in the end, Austin's steadiness and quiet temperament won the day. While the "old lady" fussed and fumed over line calls and shouted encouragement to herself and beat the ground with her racket, the kid on the other side of the net never lost her cool. All three sets see-sawed with breaks and counter-breaks. King saved three set points before Austin sealed the first set with a superb crosscourt backhand.

'7wriLl3S (AP LIMrptwK) BILLIE JEAN KING DEJECTEDLY PONDERS HER WIMBLEDON FATE 16-Year-Old Tracy Austin Defeats Six-Time Champ, 6-4, 6-7, 6-2 in the Pan-American Games Monday at San Juan, P.R. Winning time for the 100-kilometer race was Photo) Trips Hang Onto Lead By Downing Tribe, 6-2 STETINA'S TEAM FIRST United States cyclists George Mount of Berkley, Tom Sain of Bisbee, and Indianapolis' Wayne Stetina (left to right) cross the finish line for a gold medal TOTAL 15 PAX AM MEDALS U.S. Tankers Take Big Lead; three batters. Corcoran, on base through a fielder's choice, finally raced in from third on a wild pitch for the first run. THE SECOND belonged to Stegman, who was on third when Grace bobbled a chopper off the bat of designated hitter Joe Lis.

Grace came right back with a brilliant second-inning stab to retire Corcoran, his foul catch while sliding almost into the dugout being one of two defensive gems by the Tribe. Center fielder Mickey Duval produced the other in the midst of Evansville's final rally when he made a tumbling grab On top, 3-2, as the result of first baseman Tim Corcoran's sacrifice fly in the third, the Triplets drove Moore to cover and hammered reliever Shelly Burnside hard for the clinching trio. Second baseman Rick Peters, later hurt in a home plate mishap, and Corcoran slashed one-out singles in the seventh and the former tallied when left fielder Don Lyle dropped Dave Stegman's smash in front of the scoreboard. Peters suffered a leg injury upon crashing into Werner and was replaced by Mark DeJolin when the side finally was retired. Ere that happened, however.

Burnside gave up a two-run double to third baseman Tom Brookens before the onslaught died as former Michigan State football star Kirk Gibson fanned for the third time. Evansville, which now has taken 10 of 13 games from the Tribe, scored almost enough to win without a hit in the opening frame as Moore walked two of the first By AX STULTZ Battling to retain their American Association East lead which had dwindled to one game over Springfield, the Evansville Triplets grabbed a series-opening, 6-2 victory from Indianapolis Tuesday night at Bush Stadium. Two waiks, a wild pitch by loser Dave Moore (2-9i and Mike Grace's error in the first mning boosted the Trips in front, 2-0, and Fernando Arroyo, just back from a stmt with the parent Detroit Tigers, went on to earn his third decision against one loss. Arroyo checked the Indians on two hits and two runs through six innings with ex-Tribe submariner Bruce Taylor finishing up to post his third save. TAYLOR WAS tapped for singles in the seventh and eighth by Don Werner and Arturo DcFreites.

and issued a walk in each frame, but was in no immediate danger of being removed since Evansville had locked it up with a three-run burst in the top of the seventh. Comprising the winning cycling fouf-J, some were Wayne Stetina of Indianapolis, George Mount of Berkeley (Calif Tom Sain of Bisbee (Ariz.) and Tom Doughty of Hobart In men's basketball, Mike Woodson' scored 24 first-half points and the United" States survived the ejection of Coach Bobby Knight to breeze past the Virgin Islands, 136-88. Woodson, the most valuable player on Knight's Indiana UnS' versity's team the past two seasons, led the United States by scoring at will off fast breaks and outside jumpers before injuring his ankle early in the second' half. Knight was ejected after arguing a call with less than seven minutes left and his team leading, 110-75. of Al Greene's sinking liner while running Lunduist, a 1979 graduate of Jonesboro (Ga.) High School, edged Greg Winchell of Long Beach (Calif.) in 1:03.22.

THE AMERICANS WON their first gold medals of the opening day of the swimming and diving when 19-year-o'd Denise Christiansen, in her first major international competition, upset Janet Ely Thorburn of Dallas for the springboard diving title. The first medal available Monday was in a new sport roller skating and Ken Sutton of Muskegon, set the tone for the day by taking the 500-meter speed skating event. The U.S. then registered a major international upset by winning the gold medal in the 100 kilometer cycling time trial over heavily favored Latin American competition. liui speea in the ngnt-center gap.

Greene was the first batter to face Burnside who then walked Lis before Brookens settled the issue with his screaming two-bagger. Larry Rothschild hurled one-hit ball through the last two frames, but the Indians couldn't cause Taylor more than minor difficulties. Werner singled and Randy Davidson walked in the seventh but Taylor fanned Jim Arline, pinch-hitter Tom Mutz and I Oester. Duvai waucea out Lyie banged into a double play in the eighth which made DeFreites' two-out single and the right hander's wild pitch meaningless. Taylor then fanned Werner and got both Arline PARTY REGULAR SPRINT SHOW STOCK CAR 50-LAP FEATURE GIGANTIC FIREWORKS SHOW TONIGHT, JULY 3rd Paragon Speedway PARAGON, INDIANA and Davidson on grounders in the ninth Bmmvm Mil ana lump I Jli inn mwit 9 JLMJIIL llwmvpwwnwfMwMnPillPW tJ J.

f' S0 San Juan, Puerto Rico (UPI) The sensational United States swimming and diving team, led by its teen-aged queen, Tracy Caulkins, put the swimming world on notice it ranks as a super power by sweeping all six gold medals Monday night in the opening day of competition of the Pan American Games. Caulkins, the 16-year-old from Nashville (Tenn.) who has a chance for six gold medals when she competes in four individual events as well as the relays during the Games, won gold medals in the 200-meter individual medley and the 400-meter medley relay. U.S. athletes won 10 gold medals and five silver Monday, the first day of competition, and scored impressive victories in men's and women's basketball and women's Softball. CAULKINS' FIRST GOLD came when she swam to a three-second victory over Canadian Nancy Garapick in the 200-meter individual medley.

Her time of 2:16.11 was a Games record, as were all the swimmers' times, but still was more than two seconds off her own world mark of 2.14.07 set in Berlin in 1978. Caulkins then swam the second breaststroke leg of the medley relay, which also included Linda Jezek of Los Altos (Calif Jill Sterkel of Hacienda Heights (Calif.) and Cynthia Woodhead of Riverside (Calif The team won in 4:13.24, smashing the U.S. Pan Am record of 4:22.34 set in 1975. Canada was second in 4:20.16 with Mexico third in 4:30.59. The United States came close to being upset in the men's 100-meter backstroke.

The two American swimmers. Bob Jackson of the University of Arizona and Clay Britt of Texas, did not qualify fast enough early Monday to win the desirable fourth and fifth lanes. But Jackson still defeated favored Arantes in a Pan Am record time of 56.66 from lane three. Canada's Steve Pickell was third and Britt became the first American swimmer to miss a medal when he finished less than one-tenth of a second behind Pickell. Rowdy Gaines of Auburn University opened the night's swimming by winning the 200-meter freestyle in 1:51.22 over Dave Larson of the University of Florida, one of two 1-2 finishes by the Americans.

The American men also went 1-2 in the 100-meter breaststroke when Steve WERNER, clubbing at a brisk .418 clip recently with 18 hits in his last 43 appearances, capped the Indians' lone HAVE FUN AND SAVE ON 1 2 PRICE BOWLING SPECIALS! surge with an RBI double. Arroyo had two out and DeFreites on first in the fourth frame when the Tribe ruined his shutout bid. Arroyo wild-pitched, permitting De- JULY 4, 9:00 A.M. 'til Midnite reites to reach second and he registered when Grace beat out a hit to third and Brookens threw wildly past first base. PVBA llf AAni A kin That was the Indians' first safety and their only other off the winner followed immediately as Werner connected for BOWLING CENTERS INDIANA BASKETBALL CAMP AT TAYLOR UNIVERSITY 2 SESSIONS STILL OPEN JULY JULY 15-20 22-27 two sacks down the left field line.

With Jerry Manuel having walked and i "tsr Hit, i scored on Corcoran's sacrifice belt to Lyle in the top of the fourth, the Indians still trailed, 3-2, and they were through tor the evening. EXPO BOWL M6S S. Emerson Ave, WOODLAND BOWL I-46S N. Keystono With Springfield losing its series open er to Iowa visiting Oaks, Evansville moved two lengths ahead of the pack and will send Dan Petry against the Indians Directors: Don J. Odle Marion Crawley 421 BOWL 71st ST.

tonight. U.S. 421 Petry, 4-3, has recorded three of his A PAINFUL RUN Evansville's Rick Peters screams in pain after colliding with Indianapolis catcher Don Werner in Monday night's seventh-inning action. Peters, who had to be removed from the game, managed to jar the ball loose from Werner and score after the Indians' Don Lyle dropped a fly ball. The Trips' Al Greene is in the background.

(Star Photo By Jeff Atteberry) triumphs over the Tribesmen who will us un. k. mm in nil in. ill Write: Phone: counter with Jay Howell (6-4). Howell is 1-0 against the Trips, having blanked them, 3-0, at Evansville on June 6.

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