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i i 71 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1971 Neither wind nor rain "slab's bettors at By BOB ADAIR I Courier-Journal Times Stiff Writer It could have been an Indian raid in the rain. Riders were whipping, the steeds were charging and the 5,569 Revenge while Drakes Creek saved third in the $3,500 Kentucky Cardinal Purse on the first of 51 racing sessions at the little thoroughbred track off Cecil Avenue. Fans ignored a tornado alert, the early showers which became a steady torrent and "sentries" In the form of picketing pari-mutuel employes, stationed at the gates. While the attendance was short of the 6,638 who established the record for a Miles Park opening last year, officials were highly pleased.

"The most unpleasant thing of all was the weather," said general manager John Battaglia. "We had a few early problems, which can be expected when a meeting begins, but otherwise it was a great night" The pari-mutuel handle Was $283,777 compared to thr $324,687 wagered on the first night program ever conducted at the track last year. Supporters of Tom-A-Hawk Hill might have considered it a bit unpleasant, too, when they had to sweat out a foul claim. However, they were gratified when the stewards allowed the result to stand. Tom-A-Hawk Hill, owned by Mc-Farling, Sommer and Parlow, paid $12 after his 4 12-furlong spin in :53 35 under a rousing ride by Lupe Rivera, who was a replacement for regular pilot R.

A. (Cowboy) Jones. The track by then was sloppy. Bill's Revenge, piloted by Pete Sciar-retti, almost caught up with the winner, but the foul claim was lodged by defending jockey champion Leroy Tauzin, who rode Drakes Creek. Tauzin charged that Tom-A-Hawk Hill interfered with his mount entering the turn, but the stewards found insufficient evidence of foul.

The riding star of the program was Dave Niblick, who booted in three of the nine winners. His last one, Bally Bolero in the ninth race, circled her field. Feminine speedster Siren Call, a 6-year-old daughter of Missile owned by settlers on Miles were screaming as though the result meant their lives, not just their money. Such was the scene last night as appropriately named Tom-A-Hawk Hill streaked to victory by a nose over Bill's Miles" i Mary Bryan and trained by K. E.

Bryan, turned it on in the Pago Pago Purse, zipping the 4 12 furlongs in :51 45 to outsprint six rivals. Ralph Borgemenke came here from River Downs especially for the ride and had her in front all the way, just as the majority of fans anticipated. Siren Call turns on Siren Call reached the wire three lengths before Judy Gay, with Bergaboo third and Double Pro fourth. Winning for the third time in nine starts this year, she paid $3.60. The honor of riding the first winner of the meeting went to Louisvillian Mike Cook.

He was aboard Sonja Herman's Stanley who came from just off the pace to cover seven furlongs in 1:27 35 and pay $15. Stanley a 6-year-old gelding, combined with F. H. Lanning's 4-year-old filly, Nancy Knox ridden by Danny Beauchane for a daily double payoff of $196.80. Nancy Knox ran the 6 12 furlongs in 1:21 45.

The first favorite to come through was Robert Newsome's 3-year-old filly, New Somer, in the 4 12-furlong third race. Niblick guided her to a :5213 clocking at a $5.40 return. An oddity of that race, bringing a few chuckles from seasoned fans, was that the inexperienced mutuel stand-ins accepted some wagers on Ima Champ although she was scratched before betting on the race began. The odds board once showed, in fact, that she was less of a hazard than a couple of the actual starters. 7 1 5C 7 i I 7rs -Saao 5c-ti UA WW C3 PARK 1 111 1 ihiiiw m.m, wx wii-m I Nyet! Unbeaten Russians deny victory to Kentucky five PAINTS VILLE, Ky.

(AP) The unbeaten Russian national basketball team pulled away in the last three minutes last night to post a 98-87 victory over a smaller Lexington AAU team. Good outside shooting by Cecil Tuttle and Phil Argento kept the Kentuckians within three points at halftime, 40-37, and the Lexington club went ahead briefly in the second half. Alexsander Belov scored 20 points for the Russians. Argento tallied 22 and Tuttle 20 for the Kentuckians. RUSSIA (981-A.

Belov 21., Paulauskas li, S. Belov 14, Zharmukhamedov 12, Ydefhko 12, Boloshev 10, Sidiskln 5, Kovalenko 2, MHoserov 2, Tammlst 1, Tomson 2. LEXINGTON AAU (7)-Argento 22, Tuttle 20, Casey 12, Davis Obrovac 8, Adams Baeslar Strauss Ration 0, Kirk 0. Halftime Russia 40-35. Attendance 4,000.

Stiff Photo by Charity Ponet They're off and running THOROUGHBREDS thunder past the Miles Park clubhouse in the second race as the night racing season gets under way before 5,569. Simply Charrnin (2) leads, but Nancy Knox (not shown) won. DEAN EAGLE Charlie Finley may have last laugh next October Pender got the jump again and led at 50 yards. But ureen acceieruieu os only Jim can do and won in 9.2 seconds It wasnt wind-aiaeo enner. any tViino ho wac ninninff into the wind.

Green won the final in 9.4 but it was an anticlimax. This weekend, Green runs in the Call nrn ia PeTavs nn Saturdav at Compton Finley has cut loose with players and cash recently to strengthen the Athletics. He obtained Mike Epstein from Washington in a deal that could be most beneficial. Given new surroundings, Epstein might cut loose with power that would help attract some of the San Francisco fans. Finley bid unsuccessfully for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1954, was an also-ran in trying to get Detroit in 1956, was unsuccessful against Bill Veeck in bidding for the White Sox in 1958 and lost in 1960 in an attempt to get the Los Angeles franchise in the American 1 'lr his first outdoor venture against the west coast elite.

Junior meet planned Jack Ridge, former assistant at Big Cnrinct nnH nnu nrn at Danville Country Seven years ago, Charles 0. Finley tried to talk American League club owners into letting him move his Kansas City Athletics to Louisville. Finley is eloquent but not eloquent enough to persuade AL directors to approve his transfer to a city that had neither the baseball park nor the business fiber. Finley moved to Oakland, where he has been plagued with minor-league type attendance. Finley fights on.

His club has a solid 7 12-game lead in the Western Division of the American League. One wonders what would have happened had he been permitted to move to Louisville. At least, Finley would have been out of the shadow of San Francisco, which has a firm grip on the Western Division of the National League. Finley has been criticized sharply for deals that sometimes appear to have been made out of emotion and not logic; Baseball needs help, promotion-wise, but many of Finley's exploits were amateurish. At least, he has tried instead of shrugging "what was good enough for baseball in 1910 is good enough for me." 11 pilots in 10 years Club, is playing host to the Central Kentucky Junior invuationai io ana under) on July.

I and 2. There is no nnnlifvincr Thursday's low 16 SCOreS make the championship' flight on Fri day. Win or not, the Cincinnati Reds will naco tho half-million mark in attendance i iJI Zsn during the next home stand that opens Friday night. The special occasion wiu be the sports ceieonty nome run con oct A JJ4 VS i ri77n Chris Dundee, Miami boxing promoter; says "the most logical fight today is League. A short time later, he became sole owner of the Kansas City Athletics and there never has been a dull moment since.

Thanks to his own decisions (he won't let anybody else make them) his club is well on its way to his lifetime ambition of having a pennant winner. Take a bow, Charlie and don't think Louisville didn't want that club, even though it knew it wasn't big enough to handle it. Green to be fastest? University of Kentucky senior Jim Green continues to go on his way quietly if not successfully in becoming the "world's fastest human." He won the 100-yard dash two weekends ago in Philadelphia amid the fanfare of Marty Liquori's "dream mile" victory over Jim Ryun. That the fanfare went to Liquori didn't faze Green. For he got a measure of revenge in the semifinals.

In the same heat was Olympian Mel Pender who'd defeated Green with an amazing start in the Mason-Dixon Games 70-yard dash last February. So Green took his first meeting since that race with Pender quite seriously. Muhammad All vs. James jsuis dui Tjorhort MnViammarl Ali's manaeerl fears that Ali wouldn't take Jimmy Finley's handling of managers has been assailed. He has hired and fired Joe Gordon, Hank Bauer, Ed Lopat, Mel McGaha, Haywood Sullivan, Al Dark, Luke Appling, Bob Kennedy, Hank Bauer (again) and John Mc-Namara.

Maybe Finley has finally found the right guy in Dick Williams. It's about time. He was overdue. 'Finley runs the team through a skeleton front office. No one ever doubts his authority or questions his decisions.

But those who have been critical of Finley must now give him due credit. The team is doing everything right. seriously. Alls always Demumg jimmy, like saying of other fighters can't beat my sparring partner, so why should I fight Angelo Dundee, Ellis' manager and Ali's trainer, would be in Ellis' corner if they fought: "The Jimmy Ellis that fought George Chuvalo (Ellis won a 10-round unanimous decision) was Jimmy Ellis at his best. People remember that Chuvalo went 15 rounds with Ali.

Also, Jimmy fought (Oscar) Bonavena and handled him. Ali fought Bonavena and got ulcers." German cites nervousness, quits chess match with Russian star Sports on radio tonight 7:15 p.m. Rochester-Colonels, O- (99.7). 8 p.m.-Braves-Expos, WSM (6560). 8:05 p.m.-Reds-Pirates, WLW (700), WHAS (840).

8:55 p.m.-Cubs-Cardinals, WXVW (1450). 10 p.m. Miles Park race, WINN (1240). (fiCSE ODD5' mm cm Softball scoreboard Associated Press West Germany's Robert Huebner, citing frayed nerves, withdrew from the World Chess Championships yesterday before the scheduled eighth game of his quarter-final elimination match against Russian grandmaster Tigran Petrosian. Huebner, beaten by Petrosian in 40 moves Sunday after their first six games of the 10-game series at Seville, Spain, ended in draws, said his nerves were too disturbed for him to continue with any chance of success.

'In yesterday's other quarter-final action in Moscow, Soviet grandmasters Viktor Korchnoi and Yefim Geller played to a draw after 27 moves of the sixth game of their series. Korchnoi holds a 312-212 lead over his countryman. The other quarter-final series pairing American grandmaster Bobby Fischer of Los Angeles against Russia's Mark Taimanov at Vancouver, B.C., and Bent Larsen of Sweden against Wolfgang Uhl-mann of East Germany at Las Palmas, Canary Islands are to resume today. Fischer has a 3-0 edge over Taimanov and Larsen leads Uhlmann 4-2. The tournament will provide a challenger for world champion Boris Spassky of Russia.

At Seville yesterday, the British referee offered to postpone the Heubner-Petrosian game for a few days and continue play behind closed doors. But the German grandmaster refused and Petrosian was declared the winner. The games had been played in a lecture room before 200 spectators daily. At Guardian Angels: Korfhage's 8, St. Martin's Brotherhood Guardian Angels 16, Hi net Frank's Boys vs.

Joe's, rain. St. Athanaslus: Edgar's Boys 11, Huber's Bovs Knights of St John 10, GE Hawks Vitcory Memo, rial vs. Modelmen, rain. Tedav's schedule: 7 Barons vs.

Southeastern Greens; 8 Town Country vs. Fair-dale; 9 Wayne Cats vs. June's Boys. At Holy Name: Union League, Local 185 7, Local 830 5. Southtown League, Erectors 4, Okolona 1.

Tonight's schedule: 7 Clowns vs. Filters; 8 Moody Blues vs. Rumblers; Watermen vs. Dean's AC. At St.

Ignatius: IEU 10, Liberty 17. Knights Field: Firefighters 14, Reliance Realtors 24, Tobaccomen Sullivan 18, Chlckenmen 3. At Bluegrass Park: Portland AC 12, Travelers 1: Midnighters AC 12, High Grounders 11; McDonald's AC 16, Coke Station AC 9. Tonight's schedule: 7 Gasmen vs. Duffy AC; 8 Mertzmen vs.

Jiffy Club; Hikes Point vs. Wacos. At Trinity Field: Women's Independent League, Holy Familv 8, Colonelettes Cabbage Patch 13, Roadrunners Hl-lander 10, Caretakers 2. C'71 FALLS CITY BREWING COMPANY, OUISVILLE, High school tennis results Fern Creek 4, Eastern 3 No. 1 singles: Scott Eads (F) def.

Danny Gunlher 8-1; Flaget 5, Jeffersonvllle 2 Tom VanOenover (J) Arnie Cullivan 8-0; Seneca 7, Jeffersontown 0 Don Paper def. Marlon Gaines 8-0; Iroquois eirls 4, Southern girls 3 Rita Metzroth (I) def. Linda Gagel 8-0. -i rlr -a-i-ti,.