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SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1980- THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE 23 STAN SMITH'S TENNIS CLASS PRO CAGE It HITS POLE Iks. A. rrrrm nr Kills Furlow Crash Cleveland (AP) Terry Furlow, an Utah Jazz basketball player known as an outstanding shooter and "described by his coacn as "troubled," was killed Friday in a car crash. Furlow, 25 years old, died in-; stantly when the car he was driving veered off 1-71 in suburban Linndale and crashed head-on into a steel utiii-i ty pole, police said. HSi neiiner umr3 on ine Terry Furlow sgn the driver tried to brake, said police.

It took members of the Cleveland fire department 35 minutes to extricate the body from the luxury foreign car. Furlow was pronounced dead at about 3 30 a.m. "IT'S REALLY A TRAGEDY," Jazz Coach Tom Nissalke said when contacted by telephone at his Houston home Friday. "Terry was very obviously a troubled young man and for some reason he was ETJN WIDE BALLS VU1TH LESS PRCb OM LOB THE.IVI TO G'VE vou tinie: TO RECOVER GOOO POSITION RACING ROUNDUP Midgets Six ex-champions are in the lineup and the entire pack is chasing Jerry Weeks as the United States Auto Club's annual "Night Before The 500" midget race unfolds this evening at the new look Indianapolis Raceway Park. Mel Kenyon, Larry Rice, Bob Wente, Sleepy Tripp, Rich Vogler and Steve Lotshaw will be representing the former midget kings when hot laps begin at 5:30 p.m.

on the fast 58-mile oval. But Weeks, a determined young man who gets faster every season, is atop the point standings in the Mike Saligoe Mini-Performance Streicher Volkswagen. Even though he's yet to triumph in 1980, Weeks' consistency has totaled him 95 points. THERE'S A logjam behind Weeks with Jeff Heywood, Lonnie Caruthers and the elder Wente all knotted at 87. Caruthers won at Haubstadt and Lotshaw, the defending champ riding No.

5, flicked up a win during the indoor series ast winter. Tripp, a two-time titlist who currently ranks sixth, posted a victory last month at The Speedrome and is a man to be reckoned with in Don Edmunds' coil-springer. Vogler. whose initial bid to make the Indy 500 fell victim to mechanical failure, has one win under his belt (Anderson) and will probably be the man to beat in Bob Lockard's Badger roadster. i uo fi wit owe wee ON -SLOW- -MOVING SHOT, THIS ERRORS At IRP Stookers At Speedrome Stock car drivers from Indiana, Michigan and Kentucky converge on The Speedrome tonight for a $7,200 First National Outlaw Stock Car Championship.

Beech Grove's Kenny St. John owns the track record at The 'Drome and a house cleaning performance (he did it earlier this month) would be worth $2,200. The program includes 100 laps of feature competition 50 on the ovaJ and 50 on the Figure-8 layout. Time trials open at 6 30 with racing at 8. General admission is $5 for adults and $2 for children 6-11.

Little 500 At Anderson The 32d running of the Little 500 sprint car classic goes this evening at Anderson Speedway. Defending co-champ Wayne Reutimann is expected to be one of the favorites along with two-time winner Jeff Bloom and USAC drivers Mack McClel-lan. Bob Frey and Lennie Waldo. Other name drivers competing for a share of the $32,000 payoff are qualifying-record hofder Bob Seelman, Jan Opper-man, Robert Smith, Ed Lute, Ed Angle and Bobby Black. There will be a special ceremony prior to the 8 o'clock green flag.

The Dean Van Lines roadster, driven to the Indy 500 pole twice by the late Eddie Sachs, will be on display. Clint Brawner, the veteran chief mechanic who tuned for Sachs, will be in attendance. Qualifying for the 33 starting spots began Friday and will continue today until 1 p.m. Sprints At Paragon Veterans Bob Kinser, Mike Johnson, Dick Gaines and Bobby Adkins head the field for tonight's weekly sprint show at Paragon Speedway. The "super modifieds" will be sharing space with the hobby stocks in a program that's scheduled to start at 6 p.m.

It 1 MLt. MOVE TEAM TO CALGARY Skalbania Are Lonnie Caruthers Jerry Weeks Kenyon, the six-time midget master from Lebanon, has captured this particular event three times and Wente, Tripp, Vogler and Jeff Nuckles are all former winners. STAN FOX, a tough little charger from Milwaukee, is making his comeback tonight following an accident last March in California that left him with a broken arm. The Clermont circuit, located just five minutes from the outskirts of Speedway, has had a complete facelift by Bob Daniels and his NHRA crew and the new seats, lights and P.A. system make the 16 admission fee quite digestible.

Qualifying is set for 6:30 and the first heat is set for 8 o'clock. The main event will be 50 laps. The sprint races were rescheduled for Monday with hot laps at noon and racing starting at 1 p.m. Thirty-five cars qualified, a USAC spokesman said, and qualifications will stand. Most of the Indianapolis 500 drivers trying for the sprints said they would compete Monday, the spokesman said.

GOLFLAND GRAND SUMMER OPENING SUNDAY MAY 25th WACTKI UUI 1 MINI UTT HALF PRICE NEXT TO CORKY'S RESTAURANT NOW OPtN SUNDAYS! mtiLwuwMTN mum STAR NEWS Quick-Acffon WiNT AOS Get Ftsl Results "fjmjk 'Go9 8 1 "You for Police say a witness said Furlow was driving about 55 mph. The Cuyahoga County coroner, who ruled death was caused by a fractured spinal column, was performing chemical tests on the body. The 6-4, 190-pound athlete was No. 2 all-time scorer for Michigan State. In 1976, he was a first-round draft pick of the Philadelphia 76ers and was traded to Cleveland on Oct.

3, 1977. Furlow was then traded to the Atlanta Hawks in January 1979 for Butch Lee and later to Utah, where he played in 55 games as guard. With the Jazz, he shot .476 from the floor, making 364 of 765 field goals attempted and 23 of 73 three-point plays he attempted. He averaged 16 points a game with a high point game of 37. "He was known as an outstanding shooter," a Cavaliers spokesman said, adding that in the 1978-79 season Furlow averaged 12 points per game for Cleveland and Atlanta.

"Terry was not an ordinary fellow," said Jazz player representative Allan Bristow. "Sometimes your life kind of catches up with you." Flames Pac-lO Officials Meeting Pacific-10 Conference officials meeting here this weekend aren't expected to take any punitive action against five league members who are being investigated for a variety of possible rules violations. The schools are University of Southern California, UCLA, Oregon State, Oregon and Arizona. Most of the possible indiscretions involve credit tampering. Lloyd, Austin Net Victors Chris Evert Lloyd" and Tracy Austin scored singles victories Friday to lead defending champion United States to a 3-0 triumph over the Soviet Union in the Federation Cup women's team world championship quarterfinals.

Lloyd, the American No. 2 singles player, started with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Olga Zaitzeva, and then 17-year-old Austin, the No. 1, gave the United States an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the best-of-three competition with a 6-0, 6-1 rout of Olga Morozova in a 38-minute match. Names In The Games Three of the top eight seeded players were ousted Friday in the first full day of singles competition in the NCAA tennis championships: Tennessee's Mel Pur cell, seeded fourth, was defeated by UCLA's Marcel Freeman 6-0, 6-4; Tony Giammal-va, the sixth seed from Trinity, was beaten by North Carolina State's Andy Andrews 6-4, 6-3, and UCLA's Robbie Venter, No. 8, fell to Michigan's Matt Horwitch 6-2.

6-3 Tom Gale led Friday's final round of qualifying for Sunday's World 600 stock car race with a speed of 161.764 mph in his Ford to earn the 31st starting position for the $377,225 race Emery Moore bead, a starting wide receiver in 1977 and starting fullback in 1979 for the New York Giants, was traded Friday to the Denver Broncos Three Indiana University baseball players Larry Blackwell, Jim Caplis and Jay Grochowsld have been named to the All-Big 10 Conference baseball second and third teams for 1980 Monday Rain Date On Hoosier Sprints VANCOUVER REAL estate millionaire Nelson Skalbania announced Friday he has purchased the Atlanta Flames National Hockey League club and will move the team to Calgary for the 1980-81 season. Skalbania, who purchased the club at a reported $16 million, said the team will play in the 6,500 seat Calgary Stampede Corral for the next two years but hopes to move into a new $35 million sports complex that the city wants to construct by 1983. Skalbania is the former co-owner of the Edmonton Oilers and was owner of the Indianapolis Racers of the now defunct World Hockey Association. Skalbania, who at 42 has already made millions buying and developing real estate, said the price of a ticket for next year will be $21, by far the highest in the NHL. Skalbania said the Flames franchise has three outstanding assets the franchise can be moved to any North American city without NHL approval, is a strong contender and is not bound by existing television arrangements.

Atlanta Flames owner Tom Cousins, who dejectedly announced Friday the sale of the National Hockey League club to Skalbania, cited losses of nearly $3 million and the lack of a television contract to subsidize the financially troubled club as the primary reasons for the sale. Part of the financial problem, he said, was the due to the $2.5 million payroll. When the Flames launched their first season as an expansion team in Atlanta in 1972-73, he said the payroll was only $300,000. Islanders Go For 'Kill' Todav islanders uo ror loaay In their two previous playoft series, the New York Islanders pulled within a victory of eliminating an opponent only to lose at least once before finishing the job. Now, against the Philadelphia Flyers, they have continued the pattern.

Their lead cut to 3-2 in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup final, the Islanders go for the kill again today at the Nassau Coliseum where they have lost only one of their last 17 National Hockey League games against Philadelphia. "We're scared," said New York left wing Bob Bourne. "I was afraid before Thursday night's game and I'm still afraid about Saturday. But if we play like we did in Game Five, just do a little better job of stopping them, we're going to come away with it." Barber In 4-Way Golf Tie Veteran Miller Barber, who finished second one year ago to Tom Watson, fired a course record 6-under-par 66 Friday to tie Don Pooley, Peter Jacobsen TRADITIONAL don't have to go 500 miles GREAT WESTERN wear" Heavy rains turned the State Fairgrounds' mile dirt layout into a quagmire Friday night, washing out the S. Auto Club's Hoosier Sprints.

Bin 10 Track Meet Led By Michigan Champaign, 111. (AP) Michigan placed first and second in both the long jump and the run Friday to take an early lead over defending champion Indiana in the Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Michigan, which has won more titles than any team in the conference, finished the first day of the meet with 42 points to Indiana's 20. Illinois was a close second with 18 points, followed by Purdue, Minnesota and Northwestern. Dan Heikkinen and Brian Diemer of Michigan were first and second in the run, and teammates James Henry and James Ross were, fist and second in the long jump.

Michigan qualified 17 athletes for Saturday's finals. Michigan State placed 12 in the finals, Indiana 8 and Indiana 6. Illinois won the other final on Friday as Kyle Jenner placed first in the discus. never able to get his life together." Nissalke said the team knew Furlow had a history of problems when he joined. "But he played so well his first two months we were very encouraged be may have found the right situation," he said.

After the National Basketball League's All -Star break, during which his contract was not renegotiated, Furlow suffered a lower back injury, missed team meetings and was late several times for practice. "But he was going to figure in our plans this year," the coach added. "We had put him on the protected list for the Dallas draft May 28." Furlow played both forward and guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1977-78 and part of the 1378-79 season. He reportedly was at Cleveland to attend a party for former teammate Foots Walker. POLICE ARE TESTING a powdery white substance found in Furlow's pocket, said Linndale Police Chief Robert Fousek.

Fousek also said police are testing the contents of a cigarette found in the car. uvs Sports in Brief and Ed Ftorl for the second-round lead in the $350,000 Memorial Tournament. Pooley and Jacobsen shot their second straight 69s and Fiori carded a 68 to create the four-way tie. Third-year pro Fiori was all alone in the lead until he bogeyed the tough, par-four 16th hole. The four leaders stood at 6-under-par 138 and held a one-stroke lead over John Fought; former PGA champ John Mahaf-fey, who shot a 67; former U.S.

Open winner Hubert Greco, who had a 68; and first round co-leader Bruce Uetzke, who shot even-par 72 to go with his opening 67. Caponi-Young Ties Barrow Donna Caponi-Young bogeyed her last hole Friday, allowing Barbara Barrow, who fired a 4-under par 68, to tie her at 138 for the halfway lead in the Ladies Professional 'Golf Association's $100,000 Corning Classic. Donna Horton-White, who with rookie Sue Fogleman matched Young's day-old course record Friday with a 6-under par 66, moved to within one stroke of the leaders going into Saturday's third round. Lori Garbacz was 3 strokes back after her 2-under par 70 tied her with Sandra Spuzicb with two-round totals of 141. Jury Indicts Ellenberger Former University of New Mexico basketball Coach Norm Ellenberger.

who 80M 0" "ext federal ,3 scandaJ was indicted Friday by a state grand jury on 22 counts that mostly involved travel vouchers. The Bernalillo County jury also indicted former assistant coaches John Whl-senant on 12 counts and Manny Goldstein on eight counts, all relating to travel vouchers. New Mexico To Plead Case The University of New Mexico will send to the NCAA an 800-page manuscript which answers charges levied by the collegiate athletic governing board. Lobos officials will meet with the NCAA Infractions Committee in Chicago June 19 to plead their case on the 92 charges. Engine Defective In Crash A defective engine part caused the March 14 crash of a Polish ariliner that killed 87 persons on board, including members of the United States amateur boxing team, Polish officials said Friday.

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