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A-C. Friday, June 24,1977 Philadelphia Inquirer You can win more than Near-crash slows down Guthrie to make a second attempt late in the i day. This time he clocked 189.195 to earn rh third starting nnsirion I PLAY THE INQUIRER'S NEW" LONG POND, Guthrie, the first and, so far, only woman driver to challenge the bastion of big-league auto racing, went for a ride yesterday that was considerably more exciting if less satisfying than the one by A. J. Foyt.

Guthrie, the -39-year-old physicist and former astronaut candidate, lost control of her Bryant Lightning-Of-fenhauser during an early qualifying run for Sunday's Schaefer 500 and just missed the second-turn wall at Pocono International Raceway. "I had a 184 (miles per hour) lap in mind," said Guthrie, who finished 24th here last year in her first United States Auto Club 500-mile race. "But when I went over those (second, turn) bumps, it got away. And when I landed on the last bump, it was gone. All I could do was turn right and lock (the brakes) up." The car spun and missed the outside wall by "two feet, maybe a foot and a half." "It was a lot closer than I would have liked.

Once is enough with that wall stuff," she said, referring to her collision with the wall during practice at Indianapolis in May. This time, all that was needed was a new set of tires and Guthrie came back later in the day much more reservedand qualified 22d fastest with a speed of 176.074 mph. "None of that hot' lap stuff this time," she said. "I just wanted to be sure I got in the field." Things i were much more difficult for Mario Andretti and Tom Sneva, teammates on the Roger Penske team. Sneva's troubles began late Wednesday when the engine failed in his Norton McLaren-Cosworth.

There were no spare engines on hand, and the Penske people had to have a pair flown in from McLaren Engines in Detroit. "We didn't even have a motor until 4 o'clock this morning," Sneva said after qualifying at 189.016, fourth fastest. "The guys had to work all night to get it ready." It was a good thing they got two engines, because the engine in An-dretti's Cam-2 McLaren-Cosworth failed in the same manner just as he completed the first of his two qualifying laps early yesterday. The crew went back to work and changed engines in time for Andretti "To tell the truth, I'm surprised I ran 189 on that second lap because I really muffed it," he said. "I thought I'd get over 190, and I tried a little too hard." But the real hard luck fell on 49-year-old veteran Jim McElreath, whose late attempt to wrap up the 33d and last starting position went awry because of engine problems.

Had he qualified at any speed, the field would have been filled and time trials over. Now, he will face competition from maybe two others for that final spot in a iy2-hour qualification session this morning. Bill Simmons A new contest ft Xk 15 Foyt unhappy at Pocono after pole is booed everyday! Here's your chance to pick up some extra cash and have fun doing it! Just enter The Inquirer's new "Scramble-Gram" contest. A new game appears every day and you can enter as often as you like. Here's how to play: Each game contains a number of words, reading from left, right, diagonally or up and down.

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Next it was Andretti's turn, and the 37-year-old local favorite from Nazareth gave it his best shot with two laps at better than 189. But he and the Cam-2 McLaren-Cosworth POCONO, From 1-C Revson, but it was enough to beat the 189.255 by Rutherford five hours earlier, Rutherford, who was erratic because of a minor handling problem and turned laps of 187 and 191, figured that somebody would come along later in the day and at least give him a challenge; "No, I'm' not at all that confident (of winning the pole)," Rutherford who had qualified at 189.016 shortly after Rutherford's midday run. But Foyt and Andretti pushed In-dy's first official 200 mph traveler back to the inside of the second row with the fourth-fastest speed. "No complaints," the affable former school principal said. "We gave it our best shot, and now we can get ready to go racing." But just as he obviously had planned, the day belonged to Foyt.

Through it all, however, he declined to say he would definitely be on the track Sunday. "One other thing," Foyt added. "I never said I'd either qualify or race. I didn't lie to anyone about that never." came up three one-hundreths of a second off Rutherford's pace and he had to settle for No. 3 outside on the front row.

"I'd rather be on the outside than in the middle," Andretti said philosophically. "But to tell the truth, I'm just glad we're in the race with a good spot after all the engine trouble we had." Al Unser ran after Foyt and his effort proved anticlimactic. The defending Schaefer 500 champion could manage no more than J85.854 for seventh position, behind his team-' mate, rookie Danny Ongais. Another guy who was holding his breath in that hectic final hour was Andretti's teammate, Tom Sneva, $1,000 Grand Prize (Awarded to entry drwn at random from among all daily winners at end of contest period.) RULES Suburban Two plans unique grid schedule "Size of school population was the biggest reason to make the move," said Lansdowne-Aldan Athletic Director Charles Forbes. "Plus, in Che last five years, we had won only two Suburban Two games.

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