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ickets ToT Cost v.v, More In' 1981 Section 2 The Indianapolis Star SUNDAY, MAY 25, 1980 another chance to qualify when she lost an engine in her Texaco Star Lightning on the final day of time trials. The Ray Marquette Scholarship, awarded by AARWBA and the Olsonite Corp. to honor the memory of the late sportswriter for The Indianapolis Star, went to Thomas Collins, an Indiana University senior from Indianapolis who aspires to be a motor sports writer. THE FOURTH annual Cecil C. Peck Award for race car fabrication went to Roger Beck, Harold Sperb and Alec Greaves from the Patrick Racing Team for their work in constructing Tom Bag-ley's Kent Oil Wildcat.

Other awards riven at the meetine wmM Speedway President John Cooper told the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association at breakfast Saturday that Indianapolis Motor Speedway is committed to increasing the purse for the 500-Mile Race. And when the ticket order blank came out for the 1981 race a little later, it was obvious where the Speedway is going to start generating more cash for the kitty. Yep, ticket prices are going up again. Penthouse seats will be $65 in 1981 -up $10 and most grandstand pews will be increased $3. General Admission will remain at $10.

Despite bad weather, slow speeds and an economy rapidly moving toward the intensive care ward, Cooper said pre-race attendance at the Speedway was down less than 5,000 this year. Last Sunday's final day of time trials, which drew a much larger than usual crowd, saved the day. AARWBA presented three of its annual awards at the breakfast. The Angelo Angelopolous Award, named for the late sportswriter for The Indianapolis News, goes for sportsmanship and, in a departure from tradition, Financial was given to Johnnie Parsons Sr. for the way he conducted himself through his long association with racing.

Normally, the award has been given for a single act of sportsmanship during the running of the 500-Mile Race. The Jigger Award, named for driver Jigger Sirois and awarded for hard luck, went to Janet Guthrie, who had three laps in at better than 184 miles an hour on the first day of qualifying and was waved off by her crew. Slow speed in the field proved to be 182.463. Janet never got included the Jim Malloy Award from Thermo King Auto Air-Conditioning to Mario Andretti and the Dale R. Mueller Award from STP to John Martin.

The Malloy Award is given to the driver who best exhibits the spirit and qualities of Malloy, who was killed here in a practice accident in 1972. The Mueller Award goes to the 34th-fastest qualifier and is named after the president of the St. Louis Auto Racing Fan Club (one of the nation's biggest and most active) who died in a fall from the roof of the grandstand at Springfield, 111., in 1966. SPONSORS COME and sponsors go. Some do well and get little publicity for their money.

Some do poorly and reap all the ink they could hope for. There are also those who put up their bucks, get no' notice and don't make the race. In the last category comes George, the T-Shirt Man, a St. Louis entrepreneur who 1) has the good sense not to exDect AWAKE DOWN THERE, JIM? A.J. Foyt ond their 31 fellow drivers got serious for a few playfully flips Jim McElreath's hat before the minutes later to think about the 64th running of annual drivers meeting Saturday morning at the the 500-Mile Race.

(Star Photo By Jerry Clark) Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The veteran Texans Four Owners Opted For One-Year Truce anybody to remember how to pronounce his last name, let alone spell it, and, (2) has made himself wealthy in a very short time by hustling inscribed T-shirts at race tracks. George put some money back in the business this May by backing the No. 59 LightningOffy from the Hoffman Racing stable. The team lost an engine and Lee Kunzman wasn't able to get the George the T-Shirt Man Special up to speed.

But George isn't discouraged. "I had fun being involved with the car, even if our luck wasn't good," said the first-time sponsor. "I'd like to do it again next year and maybe things will go a little better then." HL'EY ABSALOM, the mechanical whiz from the London suburbs, is back at the Speedway but only as a spectator. The man who wrenched Al Unser's winning effort in 1978 and who helped guide Janet Guthrie into the show a year ago, has taken a short vacation from his J.R. HONORED Polesitter Johnny Rutherford accepts the Budweiser Pole Award from Dick MacDonald, the company's superintendent of special events.

The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner received the award during Saturday morning ceremonies at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Star Photo) See TICKETS Page 4 hwnoN ok 40 LAPS 80 LAPS 60 LAPS 100 LAPS 120 LAPS 160 LAPS 140 LAPS 50 UPS 200 LAPS 180 LAPS NO. DRIVER-CAR QUSgNG i Rick Mears 187.490 I Penske-Coswnrth BillVukovich 182.741 J. Watson-Offy A committee has been appointed to devise a new systrm regarding compensation and free agentry. Translation: The two sides will simply continue to negotiate, but now the two primary antagonists, Miller and owners' representative Ray Grebey, will not actually be at the table.

ONE PROBLEM IN REACHING this partial meeting of minds was the absence of leadership from Kuhn. Again, we recreate a scene between a deeply worried and financially strapped owner and Kuhn just days ago. "Bowie, we're getting no leadership in this," says the owner. "Lead, Bowie Take charge, Bowie. We ithe owners) are desperate for it It's going to be on your tombstone: Bowie Kuhn, the Commissioner When Baseball Died "Forget the rest.

Just remember one thing What you do now will be your epitaph." During the last three negotiating sessions. Thursday and early Friday morning, Bowie was in the middle. At 3 a he called Williams at his Potomac (Md home, awakening one of Williams' children. "Dad's asleep," said the youngster. "Well, he'll want to wake up," said Kuhn.

"I GOT TERRIFIC NEWS," the ecstatic Kuhn blurted to the groggy Williams. "It's settled. Let me tell you the terms." "Great, great," said Williams. "I don't care about the terms right now. I've got people to call." And that has been the mood throughout baseball since the settlement: Joy at a crisis averted and realization that the particular terms are irrelevant since they simply represent a delaying tactic.

"I have made my views known throughout baseball," Williams said Friday. "I wasn't bashful. Perhaps some people would say that I was obnoxious. "I was insistent. I kept hearing other owners say, 'I hear what you're It made me furious.

I told them, 'I don't question your hearing. I question your comprehending "I felt that a strike would be devastating to the game and would have a crushing economic impact on me," said Williams, 100 percent owner of the Orioles and 100 percent bearer of a multimilhon-dollar loan at an interest rate two points above prime at the time of purchase. "I REFUSED TO BELIEVE that false pride and intransigence could prevent people from reaching out and shaking hands on an economic issue. There was no principle involved, but a lot of people were reacting and digging in as though some great idea were at stake. "Both sides should win Oscars because, as of last night (Thursday night), I saw no reason for hope not the slightest hint of movement on either side." The group of four, of which Williams was one "My staunch allies," he calls the others helped bring about one key gesture on the part of management.

When we finally said, last week, that the status quo could be maintained for the remainder of this year and that we See OWNERS, Page 4 Bv THOMAS BOSWEIX 1M THI WASHINGTON POST Washington In the final days and hours before baseball reached its last-minute labor settlement, four worried and disgruntled owners were perhaps the strongest voices arguing for what baseball now has: A temporary truce until the end of this season. Edward Bennett Williams of Baltimore, Peter O'Malley of Los Angeles, John McMullen of Houston and, at the end, George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees finally mollified their fellow owners and forced Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to get off his duff and enter the negotiating fray. Perhaps two incidents best symbolize the behind-the-scenes turmoil and mounting sense of imminent crisis as these baseball "liberals" and their few allies tried to convince baseball's ownership to abandon its tactic of precipitating a players strike. First, we recreate a confrontation between two owners one very old and very angry, the other much younger and determined to be dispassionate. "WE'RE BEING absolutely inflexible.

Our negotiating position is locked in concrete," protests the younger owner. "We must show some movement. "The worst thing we can do is try to win a strike by breaking the players' union and destroying I union leader) Marvin Miller. That's an awful, poisonous idea. Nobody wins a strike.

We're destroying our own product and doing ourselves irreparable institutional damage." "Let's take it (a strike) now, instead of next spring. I'm ready to take it now and tough it out," says the old owner. "Good G-, what do you mean. Take it now'?" says the incredulous younger owner. "Do you know what you're saying? "If somebody's going to nuke you (unlease a nuclear attack), do you say, 'Okay, nuke me now, I'm ready.

It's better than nuking me next asks the younger owner. "What we're facing is devastation for several franchises. Hell, if we do it your way, maybe we'll get lucky and we can get nuked now and keep on getting nuked right through next spring." WHAT BASEBALL'S OWNERS have accomplished with the current agreement is the equivalent of putting off the next potential attack by the players until the spring of 1981. The owners have agreed to maintain the current free-agent status quo through this season. Largely for cosmetic purposes, the owners have been given on paper the right to institute next spring the system of partial compensation that they have been seeking.

That new system, however, exists only on paper, because the players, under Friday's agreement, have not given up their right to strike over the issue of free agentry. When a union has not given up its right to strike over an issue, then, in fact, it hasn't given up anything. Johnny Rutherford 192.256 4- Chaparral-Cosworth Altnser 186.442 if LR-01-Cosworth Jerry Sneva 187.852 i Lola-Cosworth Dick Simon 182.788 Vollstedt-Offy rv Tom Sneva 185.290 McLaren-Cosworth ir Pancho Carter 186.480 HI Peaske-Cosworth -I i Bobby L'nser 189.994 I Penske-Cosworth til Mario Andretti 191.012 lm Penske-Cosworth 1 4 A.J. Fovt 185.500 14- Pamelli-Cosworth Johnny Parsons 187.412 Lightning-Offy is George Snider 185.385 Pamelli-Cosworth Dennis Firestone 183.702 I McLaren-Cosworth SPORTS IIKDEX ilf Gordon Johncock 186.075 Weekend TV Sports TODAY BOWL I NO 11 30 CKnni 4 BASE BALI 1 Dm. Left Anfltt Oortflexi Chicaeo Cub.

Channel I SOCCER wv, Detroit Minnesota. CKannai 2 p.m., Chtnrwl 20. AMERICA'S ATHLETES 2 30 Channel TENNIS 3 Italian Ooen. Channel 20 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS 3 30 World Gymnastic; world Acrobatic Diving Championships. Channel 6 5PORTSWORLD 3 em, ight Heavvwe0hf BOiing (James Seott-jerrv Martin); National Co-legiate Swimming Championship.

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Channel 6 and Channel 10 15 Race Revtew. Channel 13. Big Fish Contest ...10 Golf Scene 9 Harness Highlights .11 Lines 4 Shots 10 Prep Pourri 6 Scoreboard 12 Scouting The Outdoors .10 Kentucky IS'ames All-Sturs Page 6 The Dodgers Success Tale Page 8 1 Peaske-Cosworth eyt Tim Richmond 188.334 1 Peaske-Cosworth yty JimMcElreath 186.249 JtJ Peaske-Cosworth Danny Ongais 186.606 P6B-Cosworth ey Dick Ferguson 182.880 Peaske-Cosworth nn Billy Engelhart 184.237 -) McLaren-Cosworth Spike Gehlhausen 188.344 jQ Penske-Cosworth qq Jerry Karl 183.011 OO McLaren-Chevy tf romtsagiey -fU Wildcat-Cosworth 49 TomBigelow 182.547 Lola-Cosworth GregLetfler 183.748 t- Lola-Cosworth I uary cenennausen isz.4w 40 Wildcat-DGS Mike Mosley 183.449 'H) Eagle-Chevy Roger Rager 186.374 DO Wildcat-Chevy Gordon Smiley 186.848 tt Phoenix-Cosworth 4 Bui nmiiington iw.ztz "i Parnelli-Cosworth 9- Larry Cannon 183.252 Wildcat PCS Don Whittinglon 183.927 Peaske-Cosworth where the arm was amputated. The Toylorsville (N.C.) driver was listed in "very guarded" condition with massive head injuries and chest injuries. Story on Page 2.

(UPI Photo) NASCAR VICTIM Junior Crouch, left arm severed, lies unconscious in his modified Chevy after a four-car accident in a 300-mile race at the Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway Saturday afternoon. Crouch was taken to a local hospital. ff Hurley Havwood 183.561 77 Light ning-Chpyy V-6.