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INDY RALLIES FOR G5 TRIUMPII OT Shot Keys Chex By BILL PICKETT "I WAS JUST Standinc there." Piziins. ipSDIItS ki said. "I watched McNamee try to freeze it and Cameron was all over him. The puck came off the boards and I just slapped at it and was happy to see it in the net." Indianapolis, which upped its East Division-leading mark to 14-6-5, was forced to come from behind throughout. Fort Worth got on the board at 2:56 of the first period when Giallonardo rapped home a rebound from Don Ashby.

The Checkers retaliated at 6:21 on an unassisted tally by Alex McKendry, his 11th of the season. McKendry was forced to retire after the second period with a shoulder injury troubling him, but not before he assisted on Neal Hawryliw's Amusements The Indianapolis Star friday, december 7, 1979 PAGE 41 JL Zeis I I' a I kr i Cv -Mf: 'i? riff-- Garth MacGuigan's goal at 5:50 of overtime carried the Indianapolis Checkers to a come-from-behind triumph over Fort Worth at Market Square Arena Thursday night, the third overtime contest in three outings here in whiclj those teams have been involved. The Checkers hold'the advantage, winning the first encounter here, l-o; and losing Tuesday night, MacGuigan's winning tally came as a result of an aggressive effort by defense-man Mike Hordy, who carried the puck across the blue line, angled to the left corner and passed out front where Mac-Guigan rammed it past Texans' goalie Michel Plasse. "I GOT THE PUCK to the line," Hordy said, "and when the defense went one way I went the other into the opening. I got to the corner and heard Garth shouting to me so I just fired it out front." "I just saw he had an opening to get it to me," MacGuigan explained.

"I was open for a second and I hollered for the puck. I got it at the right of the goal and just let the shot go. It slid along the ice and went in." The game, which saw the most goals of any game of the season here, all of which were scored by different players, was One of the more rugged encounters the Checkers have played. Hard checking on both sides and a pair of brawls featured the second and third periods. MacGuigan sat out five minutes in the middle stanza with Fort Worth's Mario Giallonardo after they battled in the Checkers' end, and as the horn sounded ending the third period, Kevin Devine and Andy Spruce dropped their gloves and went at it.

Indianapolis never had the lead in regulation time, yet never trailed by more than a goal. It was another good effort along the boards by the Checkers which sent the tilt into overtime. McNamee tried to freeze the puck behind the Texans' net as time was running out and Fort Worth holding a 54 lead. But Checkers' center Dave Cameron dug the puck off the boards and before anyone realized it, Ed Pizunski, parked to the right of Plasse, had the disk on his stick and flipped it into the net, giving the Checkers a new lease on life with but 1:57 to play. sevemn goat at of period two, which got Indianapolis even at 3-3.

Gary Dillon had pushed the Texans in front, 2-1, 31 seconds after McKendry's first-period goal, but Checkers Captain Hector Marini grabbed the team scoring lead with his 12th of the year at 8:54 and tied the game at 2-2. McNamee, flying down the left boards, surprised Jim Park from 40 feet with a slap which once again put the Texans ahead. That tally came at 11:08 and gave the visitors the advantage going into the first intermission. After Hawryliw's goal, Rey Comeau put the Texans in front, 4-3, but Cameron got that back for the Checkers at 16:21. Again, though, Fort Worth came back in a hurry.

This time it took but 23 seconds before Mike Gillis, who scored the game-winner Tuesday night here, put the Texans ahead for the final time, 5-4, at 16:44. "WE PLAYED BETTER tonight than we did the other night," Coach Bert Michel LaChance (4) and an unidentified teammate race in to pick up the uncontrolled puck, while Ed Pizonksi (behind MacGuigan) prepares to help out for the Checkers. (Star Photo By Jeff Atteberry) HEAD OVER HEELS Indianapolis Checkers defenseman Garth MacGuigan (7) tumbles over a squatting Mario Giallonardo (3) of Fori Worth while trying to bring the puck up the ice in the first period of play Thursday evening at MSA. Texan PASSED MYSTERY COURSE 5 More Lobos Suspended Firecracker 400 To Indianapolis? Orlando, Fla. (UPI) Bill France the president of Daytona Beach International Speedway, said Thursday he has opened negotiations to move the 1980 Firecracker 400 from Daytona Beach to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

"I'm not bluffing," France said from Us New York hotel room in a telephone interview with the Orlando Sentinel Star. France met Wednesday with John Cooper, president of the Indinapolis Motor Speedway, to open "preliminary discussions" on the move. Both men are in New York to attend a driver of the year banquet Friday. "We've had some discussions," France said. "I don't want to make a commitment yet.

At the moment, we're looking at a number of options. The July 4 Firecracker 400 is the second most important annual event held at Daytona. Last week France said he also was considering moving the track's premier event, February's Daytona 500, to one of two California tracks in 1981 if he does not get relief from a lease-hold tax. When France leased the land on which the track is built from the city of Daytona Beach, he was promised a lease-hold tax exemption by city officials. The exemption was removed by a special 1973 state law.

Since that time, he has made partial payment on the tax under protest and has unsuccessfully fought to regain the exemption in the courts. France considers the lease-hold tax a violation of his long-standing agreement with Daytona Beach. "Time is running out," the 70-year-old France said Thursday. "My life is probably too short to worry about dealing with people who don't honor their agreements." He said Cooper was "very receptive" to the idea of holding the Firecracker 400 in Indianapolis. "Cooper told me he would welcome a big NASCAR race up there on the 4th of July," said France.

"They would make money and we would make more money than holding it in Daytona. They have 250,000 seats and we have 72,000 and they're in the middle of a lot more people." 1 pointed out, "but they got the same number of goals. We're not playing all that well the last couple of times out, but we toughed it out tonight and got the victory." 1 Marshall, who dressed and pulled his share of shifts on defense because of injuries to his squad, may be without the services of McKendry against Cincinnati tonight (7:30, WIFE), and Marini took a stick over the nose and got two stitches late in the third period Thursday night. Defenseman Tim Lockridge sat out the game with a sprained ankle, but center Billy Carroll, who has been out a month with a bad knee, saw action. The Texans, playing much better than their 6-16-2 record indicates, failed to move out of fifth place in the West Division.

SCOKt PgRIODS FortWorth Indianapolis 2-2-1-16 FIRST PERIOD: Fort Worth. Giallonardo 4 (Ashbv), 2. Indianapolis, McKendry 11 unassisted), 3, Fort Worth, Dillon 5 (McNarne. LaCI ance), 4, Indianapolis, Marini 12 (Sklodt. Lowder.

milk), 5, Fort Worth, McNamee 2 (Ashbv, Soruce). 11:01. Penalties: Ashby (FW), hooking, Dlllonl (FW), Interference, Marshall (I), high sticking, 9:20. SECOND PERIOD: Indianapolis, Hawryllw 7 (McKendry, Cameron), 7, Fort Worth, Comeau 6 (Dillon, Henderson), 8, Indianapolis, Cameron (Hawryllw, Pizunski). Fort worth, Gillis 5 (Trognlti, Pyart), 16:44.

Penalties: Regler (I), hooking, McNamee (FW), fighting, Cameron (I), boarding, double roughing, Giallonardo, fighting, MacGuigan, flghtjng, Spruce (FW). holding, Giallonardo (FW), tripping, 17:57. THIRD PERIOD: 10, Indianapolis, Pizunski 6 (unassisted), 18:03. Penalties: Cameron II), tripping, Regler (I), Interference, LaChance (FW), hooking, 16:45. OVERTIME: II.

Indianapolis, MacGuigan 6 (Hordy, Sklodt) 5:50. No penalties. SHOTS ON GOAL FortWorth 38 Indianapolis ll-la-7-4 38 Goaltenders: Fort Worth-Plasse. Indlanapolls-Park. Officials: Referee-Ken Pierce.

Llnesman-BIII Morrlsey, Dick Butova. Art: 3,320. Albuquerque, N.M. (AP) Five more University of New Mexico basketball players, including three starters, were declared ineligible Thursday after school officials learned the students were credited with a course they never took. Another was suspended temporarily, leaving the team with nine players, including two football players and three student walk-ons recruited Wednesday and Thursday.

Athletic Director John Bridgers said Larry Belin, Larry Hubbard, Andre Logan, Paul Roby and Larry Tarrance were ineligible. He said Jerome Henderson was suspended while officials check his transcript. BRIDGERS SAID BELIN, Hubbard, Logan, Roby and Tarrance each received three credits for an extension course offered by Ottawa, University on the campus of Los Angeles Valley State College in Van Nuys, but had never been enrolled in it. The players said in a signed statement Thursday that they had no knowledge of how the credits got on their transcripts and that the credit hours should be removed. University officials also said they did not know who was responsible for obtaining the credits for the players, "The players recognize the action they have requested will make them ineligible to play basketball for UNM," the five players said in a news release, Belin, Logan and Roby were starters.

Belin, a 6-8 senior from Detroit, was an All-Western Athletic Conference selection in 1978-79. He was the team's top returning scorer and rebonnder. Logan, a 6-7 senior forward from New York, was a co-captain this year. Roby is a 6-5 senior from Saginaw, Tarrance a 6-6 junior from Montgomery, Hubbard a 6-9 junior from Columbus, and Henderson a 6-10 junior from Los Angeles. Henderson will miss at least one game while university officials check whether he attended the Ottawa course, as he has claimed.

UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS said last week that Craig Gilbert, a junior from Santa Barbara, was ineligible because of junior college transcript problems. The university began checking the eligibility of the remaining players after the FBI announced it was investigating possible bribery and mail fraud in connection with Gilbert's transcript. Coach Norm Ellenberger and his top recruiting assistant, Manny Goldstein, were suspended indefinitely last week by Davis after the the allegations were made public. Bridgers said Thursday the Lobos would forfeit Tuesday's 112-100 win over West Texas State because all the players except Tarrance saw action. Belin was the leading Lobo scorer with 29 points.

The forfeit leaves the Lobos, who dropped their season opener to Colorado last Saturday, 0-2 on the year. Seven Lobo players were interviewed by the university's admissions office earlier Thursday and were asked to sign waivers so the university could verify their grade transcripts and check attendance records and grade books at other colleges they had attended. The university's basketball program, its top revenue sport, has been rocked by developments that began last week with the disclosure in an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court that Goldstein had Gilbert's transcript doctored. at Cwbiai ihvidwvJie, SAlf PRICES GOOD THROUGH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1979 Porsche, Ongais Make Indy Car Effort Official "RAY-O-VAC" ALKALINES LAST 6 TIMES RAYO'VAC LONGER THAN AMERICA'S LEADING SELLER! DANNY ONGAIS Piloting Porsche At Indianapolis And Rejoining USAC JLS MORE ENERGY ELEMENTS ARE PACKED INTO ALKALINE ENERGY CELLS, SO YOU GET MORE LIFE OUT OF THEM! RAY-O-VAC ALKALINES ARE COMPACTED UNDER AN INCREDIBLE 1 0,000 POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH.

EVEN AFTER FOUR YEARS OF DOING NOTHING THEY STILL HAVE MORE THAN 85 OF THEIR ORIGINAL ENERGY. STOCK UP ON THESE INCREDIBLE BATTERIES NOW AND SAVE! By ROBIN MILLER The official word was handed down Thursday night in Stuttgart, West Germany: Porsche is making a three-year blitzkreig on Indy-car racing. With driver Danny Ongais and most of the Europe-' an motorsports press in attendance, Dr, Ferdinard Porsche unveiled his company's plans for their first venture in the oval-track wars of America. "For the first time in 57 years, we here at Porsche have decided to compete in the prominent Indianapolis 500," said the owner of the historic factory. "It is a great challenge and we have a desire to meet this challenge.

"WE WANT TO GET the name of Porsche before the public." The announcement came as no real surprise since Ongais spent last week testing for Porsche at the Ontario Motor Speedway and there is to be a press gathering Tuesday morning in New York City to present the new team. Besides revealing a minimum three-year program, Porsche also made it known his effort would be run out of California with Ted Field's Interscope Racing and they would compete in the United States Auto Club's championship series. The return of international flavor to Indy is some much-needed relief in the face of all the turmoil between USAC and Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) and this is a big shot in the arm for USAC's dilapidated division. Ongais, one of Indy car racing's most exciting performers when he's not talking, was the only CART regular -to run Pocono last summer and therefore qualifies as the lone man with an "automatic invitation" to the '80 Indy classic. He began testing the turbocharged six-cylinder Porsche engine at Phoenix last October and first visited OMS with it last month.

Reports on the speeds turned in last week have ranged from 189 to 199 miles an hour, but The Star has learned the times fell way shy of those figures. "THE PORSCHE PEOPLE ARE very excited about this project but they don't have any visions of coming to Indy and smoking everyone off," stated Jim THE ALKALINE ENERGY CELL IS A SPECIALLY DESIGNED POWER SYSTEM THAT CAN LAST LONGER IN ANY DEVICE THAT PUTS A HEAVY STRAIN ON ORDINARY BATTERIES. FOR RADIOS, CASSETTES, CALCULATORS, CAMERAS, FLASHLIGHTS AND TOYS. TO HELP END BATTERY BUYING CONFUSION THE BATTERY BUYING GUIDE TELLS YOU RIGHT ON THE BATTERY LABEL WHICH TYPE IS BEST TO BUY FOR THEIR PARTICULAR USE. IF ANY DEVICE USING THIS BATTERY IS DAMAGED BY LEAKAGE, SEND THE BATTERY AND THE DEVICE PREPAID TO, RAY-O-VAC DIVISION, ESB INCORPORATED, MADISON, Wl 53703.

WE WILL EITHER REPAIR OR REPLACE THE DEVICE AND BATTERIES AT NO ADDITIONAL COST. Cook, USAC's marketing director who attended the press conference at the Stuttgart International Hotel. "They're getting in for a niinimurn of three years and they more or less just want to get their feet wet this first year. "In listening to Danny and the engineers talk, it appears they're not all that elated with the tests so far but they can see some potential." Ongais. and his owner, Field, have campaigned a Porsche 936 the past couple of seasons in IMSA (International Motor Sports Association) endurace events.

Recently, Porsche produced a very successful Can-Am engine and introduced a turbo-charged flat-6 at LeMans. It was believed a 2.6-liter (Formula One uses 3.0) engine will be utilized for the Indy project but Cook claims that they are still looking at the different options at the moment. Regardless of what propels him, Ongais will be steering a modified version of the Parnelli chassis he's driven since starting his champ car career in 1977. Roman Slobodyjnski, the designer who created the Eagle and the Lightning, is drawing up a new car that should be completed around mid-season. With the demise of Drake Engineering, the Of-fenhauser engine's father, it would appear the English-built Cosworth may have some competition down the road.

ij PERFORMANCE rVRATEDBATTERE, AMlne .1 PACK OF TWO "AA" SIZE BATTERIES PACK OF TWO SIZE BATTERIES PACK OF TWO SIZE BATTERIES PACK OF ONE 9 VOLT BATTERY JJV NASCAR SnOW AT RIVERSIDE Gurney To Drive Stocker TOUR- Los Angeles (AP) Dan Gurney, one of America's top racing drivers until his retirement in 1970, said Thursday that he was going to "indulge a whim" and drive in the Winston Western 500 stock car race at Riverside next month. "I don't consider this coming out of retirement," Gurney, 48, said at a press conference. "A lot of other drivers have done something like this. I can think of Jack Brabham, Mike Hailwood and Stirling Moss off the top of my head." Gurney, a native of Riverside, was the first driver in American racing history to win in four major categories NASCAR stock cars, USAC championship cars, SCCA sports cars and Formula One. just a fan of auto racing, and this sort of thing appeals to me," he said.

"There's a mixture of nostalgia and the clinical point of view. I wonder just how well I can do against today's stock car drivers. "I suspect I may be underestimating some of them." Gurney will return in style at the Jan. 13 race at Riverside International Raceway, driving a 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo prepared by Rod Osterlund in Charlotte, N.C. Another name from stock car racing's past.

Bill Stroppe of Long Beach, will supervise Gurney's pit. "When you stop doing something the way I stopped racing, just stopped cold one day, it's such a massive change that you get to thinking, 'Now isn't there some way to do just a little of this?" Gurney related NOW 4 GREAT STORES AT YOUR SERVICt NORTH SOUTH EAST WEST HIS KORTH NI0HW1T II It IT KEYST01E IT tHELIT SHtOtUMO UF8YITTE 10. "I'VE BEEN THINKING about this for years. I'm 4.