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Tuesday, June 22, 1976 Philadelphia Inquirer 3-C 5 1 field 500 Pocono lottery decides The Scene In regional and world sports 1i authorized representative from every team. They failed to meet the 6 p.m. deadline with the petition. At the draw, Pocono Board Chairman Joseph Mattioli said, "Schaefer and Pocono could have been liable in a lot of ways, so we wanted to have every team sign that petition. We are squeamish about anything that is not totally legal." And about the way the field was finally filled, he said: "We went round and round with a lot of little driver groups.

We tried to be as fair as possible; and this was a lot more equitable than me just picking numbers and sending two drivers home. I'm not going to play God." A. J. Foyt had been the fastest in every practice session over the 2V2-mile trioval, and he picked the No. 5 starting berth; but two other faster drivers were less fortunate.

Johnny Rutherford, who won the Indianapolis 500 last month, drew No. 15, and Al Unser drew No. 16. The remaining 19 numbers were then selected, with the order determined first by point standing this year, then by car number for the drivers who had earned no points. The most serious effort to change the format devised was made by a group of non-preferred drivers who wanted all 35 cars to be allowed to start.

They were given the option of having a petition signed by an will start 22nd in a car that turned in the slowest practice runs. The luck-of-the-'draw front row will comprise Johnny Parsons, Billy Vukevich and Mario Andretti neither Parsons nor Vukovich has ever been on the front row for a 500-mile event and the No. 1 and No. 2 starters can thank Dick Simon and Al Loquaste for their positions. Simon and Lequasto were the only drivers to make qualification attempts Sunday before rain ended that session.

Both could have insisted on starting there on race day. Instead, both waived that right although Simon will receive the 500 that was put up for the pole winner and were put in a group with 14 other preferred starters. This group includes former national champions, 500-mile race winners and top 10 in points this year and last. The 16 drivers took part in the first phase of the draw, with Simon getting the No. 4 spot and Loquaste the No.

9 position. By Paul Reinhard Special to The Jmiuimr LONG POND Problems, especially those associated with rain, are nothing new to the Schaefer 500 at Pocono. But the U. S. Auto Club championship event wrote an historic chapter yesterday when the field for the sixth annual race had to be filled by lot.

Well, almost. Thirty of the 33 starting spots for Sunday's race were locked in after a draw that followed a second qualifications rainout. The final three spots won't be filled until Thursday's carbueretion runs. Five drivers Larry Dickson, Bill Puterbaugh, Jan Opperman, Bob Harkey and Bobby Olivere will make two-lap qualification runs to determine which three qualify. While these five may have come out on the unlucky end, Janet Guthrie benefitted immensely.

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Then, 14-year-old Nicole Kramer moved into the lead as Harshbarger dropped back and Babashoff remained second after 600 meters. At 700 meters, the 160-pound Babashoff forged ahead, and from then on it was a sprint to the world record, with Kramer finishing second at 8:42.29. Also qualifying for the United States team was Wendy Weinberg, 17, of Baltimore, third among the eight finalists at 8:45.12. Going into this meet, the American record was 8:46.51, by Heather Greenwood of Fresno, Calif. Harshbarger owned the Olympic trials record of 8:53.83.

Greenwood finished eighth last night and Harshbarger fourth. Babashoff splits for her world record, the third established in these trials, were: 7:36.31, and her finishing time of 8:39.63. At 700 meters of the metric half-mile race, Kramer was just .30 seconds behind Babashoff and helped push her to the world mark. Earlier in the sixth day of the trials, Brian Goodell, a high school -student from Mission Viejo, broke the world record for the men's MANACtMlNI City. St-te Zip nnenat is a memner of hp ancunr.i r.rm.n n( r.

MM 1l lH SWIMMING, From 1-C 800-meter record when Bobby Hackett of New Rochelle, N. reached that point in 8:01.54 while setting a torrid pace. Goodell, 17, from Mission Viejo, took over 200 meters later and bettered both the established world record of 15:20.91 by Tim Shaw and the pending mark set last February at 15:10.89 by Steve Holland of Australia with a time of 15:06.66. Camille Wright of Louisville, set the 13th and final American record of the trials with a time of 1:01.84 in the women's 100-meter butterfly. Wendy Bogliol of Ocean Township, N.J., who held the record at 1:02.14, finished second in 1:02.07.

Third place went to Lelei Fonoi-moana of Lakewood, who swam 1:02.11 and also qualified for the Olympic team. Joe Bottom of Santa Clara, who already had qualified for the team, won the men's 100 butterfly in 54.97, slower than Mark Spitz had qualified in 1972, when the star of the Olympic Games qualified with a 54.56. Gary Hall of Cincinnati became the oldest member of the Olympic team at 24 when he finished second in 55.05. Third place and a spot on the team went to Matt Vogel, 18, of the University of Tennesee at 55.25. Goodell commented: "I figured it would take a world record to win, but making the Olympic team is better than a world record.

I swam the race exactly the way I wanted to. I did see Bobby Havkett ahead of me early in the race. I wasn't worried, but I kept an eye on him. "When you hear the crowd, it makes you want to go fast for them. But I wasn't sure I was under the record." Hackett finished second in 15:12.75 with Paul Hartloff of Santa Barbara, third in 15:13.76.

The three top finishers all qualified for the Olympic team. Holland had held the world record for 800 at 8:02.91, and Hackett's time will go into the record book despite the fact it came during a split in a longer race. Earlier in Olympic Trials, Goodell had set a world record in the 400-meter freestyle. His split times for each 100 in the metric mile race were: 59.14; 14:07.57, and his finishing time of 15:06.66. Bothe Babashoff and Goodell swim for the same swimming club, the Mission Viejc Navadores.

"They opened the door and we can do better," Babashoff said of the record time set by the East German woman. She proved it on the final night of the trials. In the qualifying for the 800 last Philadelphia Inquirer J. KINGSTON COLEMAN ANDRE THE GIANT and Spectrum bookkeeper Verna Connelly aren't dancing, just measuring hands. The Giant is 7 feet 4 inches tall, a French professional wrestler who will fight Chuck Wepner in Shea Stadium Friday night.

He was here yesterday to promote the Spectrum's closed-circuit showing of the fight. Update: Kids 1, Yankees 0 The Yankees, who have had so much trouble with unruly fans that their bullpen chauffeur must drive a hardtop sedan, attempted to do something about it yesterday. The American League East leaders rescinded 5,000 free tickets given to underprivileged youngsters through Consolidated Edison as part of the utility's baseball program. Better they should take on Bowie Kuhn. Con Edison obtained a State Supreme Court order directing the team to honor the tickets.

The Yankees said they would abide by the court decision, but blamed a large part of their increasing crowd control problems on youngsters in the Con-Ed section. "It is strange," replied Con-Ed's Russell Holt, "that essentially the same crowd conduct was acceptable when the Yankees were playing in the old stadium and at Shea Stadium, and when they were not so successful in the standings or at the gate." Touche. In case you were wondering what congressmen do when not consorting with their "secretaries," be informed the Democrats defeated the Republicans, 5-4, yesterday in the annual Congressional baseball game in Baltimore's Municipal Stadium. Rep. Ron Mottl of Ohio doubled in the winning run, struck out the last two Republican batters, and picked a runner off base.

Mottl, a former Notre Dame athlete, pitched in the Phillies' farm system in 1955. Hard Times: Don't fence him in The stories of the difficulties of amateur athletes are legion, but this is ridiculous NCAA decathlon chamnion Ed Miller was working out last week at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, preparing for the Olympic Trials, when he was arrested for trespassing. Miller, who had hopped the fence to the enclosed track, explained his position to the security guard who stopped him and related that he formerly attended Diablo Valley and was an assistant coach there last spring. When the unsympathetic officer got tired of Miller's persistent plea, he slapped the cuffs on the athlete and booked him. A hearing is set for July 12, five days before the Olympics open.

Miller, ever the athlete, got his workout by running home a four-mile trek. Walter Poenisch is 62 years old but an obvious challenge to Shirley Babashoff. Poenisch yesterday completed a 25-hour, 125-mile swim in the shark-infested Gulf Stream off Key West, breaking his own world record for long-distance ocean swimming. "I would have gone on," Poenisch said, "but my shark cage broke in the waves." A grandfather of seven, Poenisch was asked if he would continue his demanding hobby. He said he didn't know, but his wife wanted him to stop because SHE is getting too old.

The 62-year-old grandfather's wife is, alas, 29. He must know something we don't. Quotable: How about a bargain on a mule? Oakland A's owner Charley Finley, laughing all the way to bank after selling three players for $3.5 million: "I'm just sorry I didn't sell more." Don McKee si i i I it fin -I 1 w-t I 400-meter freestyle in 3:53.08, and John Naber, a University of Southern California junior, swam 2:00.64 in the 200-meter backstroke, erasing the world mark of 2:01.87 set by East Germany's Roland Matthes in 1973. The 400-meter freestyle world record had been 3:53.31 by Tim Shaw of Long Beach, last year. Shaw also qualified for the Olympics in the 400 free.

The sixth straight capacity crowd of more than 2,000 watched the wrap-up of the trials at the Belmont Plaza pool. A total of 27 men and 24 women were to be chosen off their performances to comprise the U. S. Olympic team at Montreal next month. We still have Free Personal ChecMnaatThe Provident.

Come ana get it! The Provident' PROVIDENT NATIONAL BANK Memow DiC Redskins sign Falcons' Sullivan Associated Press WASHINGTON The Washington Redskins of the National Football League yesterday announced the signing of quarterback Pat Sullivan, who had played out his option with the Atlanta Falcons. Sullivan won the Heisman Trophy in 1972 while playing at Auburn University, and had been with Atlanta since turning pro. Shine captures hurdles berth Ml ml 1 1 i UJf MOM ENOV. When gin was invented in He-Hand it was called Genever. When gin was perfected in England it was I wanted it." Not even the blistering early pace Boston College's Keith Francis covered the first lap in 50.1 could alter Wohluter's plans.

The day's only other final, the women's 100, was taken by Tennessee State's Brenda Morehead in 11.08, a hundreth of a second off Wyomia Tyus' 8-year-old American TRACK, From 1-C did remarkably well to come as close as he did. "Mo regrets," he said except that he had to run the biggest race of his life in the difficult inside lane. Hometown hero Mac Wilkins, a bearded Oregon grad vote, won the discus, as expected, with a heave of 224 feet, 2 inches, the first of his seemed more interested in needling runnerup John Powell, whose world record he broke earlier this year "Things change fast," he told Powell while a circle of newsmen listened "How does it feel to go from best in the world to just another thrower? 'Don't be a sore loser," Wilkins went on. You weren't a good winner, anyway, were you?" "I can appreciate his talent," Powell would say later. I can't help but be jealous of him because he does have superior ability.

He's awfully consistent. He has to be the favorite (in Montreal)." A pause, then: "I'm sure he picked himself." T7. win the 800 and he did it with a style and an ease that have come to be expected of the slender Chicago Track Club runner whose 72 Olympic hopes ended in a fall. "I did exactly what I wanted to do." Wohluter said. "I fell into second place and I took the lead when J'l fit "'f' TRACK NOTES: Jay Silvester, who'll be 39 in August, became a four-time Olympian by throwing the discus 212-5.

It provided him. with a platform from which to deliver another lecture on the widespread and unfortunate use of anabolic steroids, a muscle-building har-mone drug by the world's weight-men, who will have to go off the drug at least four weeks before the Montreal Games or face disqualification. "Ninety-nine to 100 percent of all throwers in the world who are world class use steroids," Silvester said. "Ethically, I won't defend their use to anyone." Sharon Dabney, Bartram High's 400-meter hopeful, breezed past her opening test, taking McTear: He'll compete ftp SSffilHi I 11 SMI LONDON DISTIlLEfl DRYGIN KOBRANn COBPOBATld mm ,3 I I I a Z' ZZ second in her heat in 53.78 Among the "old-timers" who couldn't make it to the finish line in McTear had just crossed the finish line and was easing up when, seemingly in great pain, he reached over, clutching his left thigh. "I didn't know what it was," he said yesterday, "but it didn't hurt that bad when it happened." Steve Williams, America's top-ranked sprinter, who broke down Saturday, wasn't as fortunate.

As expected, the injured Williams was unable to compete in the 200-meter heats. Frank Dolson Special to The Inquirer EUGENE, Ore. Schoolboy sprint sensation Houston McTear, carried off the track after finishing second to Harvey Glance in Sunday's 100-meter finals, apparently will make it to the Olympi' Games, after all. Dr. Leroy Walker, the U.

S. Olympic track coach, and others had expressed fear that the 19-year-old Flo-ridian tore a mus-le in left lee. but McTear insisted yesterday, "I'll be ready in about week." time in the 400-meter hurdles was Ralph Marin, the silver medalist in Munich. "It was enjoyable while it lasted," he said after winding up sixth yesterday. "I didn't want it to end like this, but there are no tears." mnm itum tnuww W)HND.

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