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a. COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. UESDAY MORNING, MAY 25, 1971 7 Tom-A-Hawk Hill survives 1 inquiry, wins Ky. Cardinal JOHNNY REAGAN STADIUM MURRAY VCk SPORTS ARENA Mmr CARUSIE CUTCHIN UNIVERSITY I STADIUM TENNIS COURTS was Robert Newsome's 3-year-old filly, New Somer, in the 412-furlong third race. Dave Niblick guided her to a :52 15 interfered with his mount entering the turn, but the stewards found insufficient evidence of foul.

Siren Call turns on By BOB ADAIR Courier-Journal Times Stiff Writer A crowd of 5,569 ignored a tornado alert and driving rain last night to attend the first of 51 summer 1971 racing sessions at Miles Park. While the attendance was far short of the 6,638 who established a record for clocking at a $5.40 return. An oddity of that race, bringing a few chuckles from seasoned fans, was that the inexperienced mutuel employees 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.

Nyct! Feminine speedster Siren call, a -6-year-old daughter of Missile owned by Mary Bryan and trained by K. E. Bryan, turned it on in the Pago Pago Purse, zipping the 412 furlongs in :5145 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 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 riddng the first winner of the meeting went to Louisvillian Mike Cook. He was aboard Sonja Herman's Stanley who came from just off the 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 dairy double payoff of $196.80. Nancy Knox ran the 6 12 furlongs in 1:21 45. The first favorite to come through a Miles Park opening last year, officials were highly pleased. "The most unpleasant thing of all was the weather," said general manager John Battaglia. "Otherwise, it was a great night." Supporters of Tom-A-Hawk Hill, winner of the featured $3,500 Kentucky Cardinal Purse, might have considered it a bit unpleasant, too, when they had to sweat out a foul claim.

However, they were gratified when the stewards let the results stand and Tom-A-Hawk Hill, ridden by Lupe Rivera, paid $12 after his 412-furlong spinjn :53 35 on the sloppy oval. Tauzin claims foul T. i Bill's Revenge, piloted by Pete Sciar-retti, was only a nose back of the winner, -but the foul claim was lodged by defending jockey champion Leroy Tauzin, who rode third-place Drakes Creek. i Tauzin charged that Tom-A-Hawk Hill 51 1 i Unbeaten deny victory to Kentucky five PAINTSVILLE, 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 () A. Belov 2b Paulauskas 1, S. Belov 14, Zharmukhamedov 12, Ydefhko 12, Boloshev 10, Sidlakln 5, Kovalenko 2, Miloserov 2, Tammlttt 2 Tomson 2.

LEXINGTON AAU f71 Araento Vt. Tuttla 70. Casey 12, Davis 9, Obrovac 8, Adami Baesler Strauss Patton 0, Kirk 0. Halftime Russia 40-35. Attendance 4,000.

i mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ArVr1, i J'f i wtmmalmxm-tmrvw -ni wtttrm I Amateur Owens is tops in golf qualifying field for Open at Lexington Special to The Courier-Journal LEXINGTON, Ky. Amateur John Owens of Lexington led 28 players with a 36-hole total of 150 in a local qualifier for the U.S. Open Championship yesterday at Idle Hour Country Club. Owens, who plays out of Idle Hour, edged Gordon Leishman, the Idle Hour pro, by one shot. Owens and Leishman qualified for sectional competition at Cincinnati Clovernook on June 7.

Also earning berths in the Clovernook field were amateur Harcourt Kemp of Louisville, amateur Elliott Phillips of New Albany, and professionals Jim O'Hern and Carl Owen of Louisville. Owen earned the sixth and final berth by defeating pro Moe Demling of Louisville on the first hole of a sudden death playoff after they tied at 155 in regulation play. Most noticeable casualtyiyajrBdj Musselman of Louisville. The State Ama mmmmi Staff Photo by Billy Davli Staff Photo by Charley Pence Murray State's stadium progresses slowly ship, with the football team gaining occupancy in 1972. When completed, the stadium will Murray a fine sports complex including the Sports Arena for basketball, Johnny Reagan Field WORK continues on Roy Stewart Stadium at Murray State, but not very fast.

Originally it was to be ready for football this fall. Now, however, the first event at the stadium likely will be next spring's Ohio Valley Conference track NANCY KNOX won the second race at the Miles Park opening last night and winning jockey Dan Beauchane was all smiles. So were some of the fans who bet on the filly which paid $28.40. German, citing nervousness, quits chess match with Russian star for baseball and. tennis s.

i ins teur champion had rounds ou76-82 and X7'1 Jiff -cS in 150 (a) John Owens, (73-77); 151 Gordon Leishman (76-75); (a) Harcourt Kemp (75-76); 152 (a) Elliott Phillips (74-78): 154 Jim O'Hern (75-79); 155-Earl Owen (78-77); Mo Demling (78-77); (a) Marvin Lear (178-78); 157 Kyle Minor (81-76); Bob Simpson (77-80); 158 (a) Bill Musselman 15 Bert Crogan (82-77); Bill Goldsmith (80-79); (a Jim Hut-son (79-80); 160 George Bernard in (82-78); 161 Bob Baldwin (80-81); George Engle (82-79); (a) Stacy Russell (77-84); (a) Mike Thorp (83-78); 161 Bob Nelson (81-82); Jim Barber (80-83); 164 Paul Cllne (80-84); (a) Bryan Griffith (82-82); 166-Clint Wright (83-83); 167 Gen Yandell (80-87); 169 (a) Rick Antoloylch (77-92); 170-(a) Dave List (86-84); 172 (a) Bill King (86-86). a Denotes amateur. Sports on radio tonight 7:1 5 p.m.-Rochester-Colonels, I O- (W.7). 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. 8 p.m.-Braves-Expot, WSM (6560). 8:05 p.m.-Redi-Piratei, WLW (700), WHAS (840).

8:55 p.m.-Cubs-Cardinals, WXVW (1450). 10 p.m.-Milei Park raco, WINN (1240). DEAN EAGLE Charlie Finley may have last laugh next October 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 1 to trying to get Detroit in 1956, was unsuccessful against Bill Veeck in bidding for the White Sox in 1958 and 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 6hadow 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 Pender got the jump again and led at 50 yards. But Green accelerated as only Jim can do and won in 9.2 seconds. It wasn't wind-aided either. If anything, he was running into the wind. Green won the final in 9.4 but it was an anticlimax.

This weekend, Green runs in the California Relays on Saturday at Compton, his first outdoor venture against the west coast elite. Junior meet planned Jack Ridge, former assistant at Big Spring and now pro at Danville Country Club, is playing host to the Central Kentucky Junior Invitational (18 and under) on July 1 and 2. There is no qualifying. Thursday's low 16 scores make the championship flight on Friday. Win or not, the Cincinnati Reds will pass the half-million mark in attendance during the next home stand that opens Friday night.

The special occasion will be the sports celebrity home run contest. Chris Dundee, Miami boxing promoter, says "the most logical fight today is Muhammad Ali vs. James Ellis but Herbert Muhammad (Ali's manager) fears that Ali wouldn't take Jimmy seriously. Ali's always belittling Jimmy, like saying of other fighters 'they 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." mm odds 1S71 FALL CITY RE WINS COMPANY, UOUISVILU.KY.-rCOoeA, lost in 1960 in an attempt to get the Los Angeles franchise in the American 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 Pender seriously.

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 jnust now give him due credit. team is doing everything right. 4.