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The Scene 3 Horse racing 4 Obituaries 6 Business 7 TelevisionRadio 8 section Monday, June 28. 1976 By FRANK DOLSON Al Unser rally wins at Pocono Inquirer sports Jff 1 4. further back in his Sinmast-Wildcat-DGS. The sleek blue and white car, which Unser brought from almost five miles back to victory, is more of a Formula One Grand Prix machine than a typical Indy racer. Its heart is a brutally powerful and versatile English Cosworth engine modified to, stringent United States Auto Club specifications.

"Both the engine and the car worked beautifully all day except when I developed a miss the last few laps," said Unser, 37, after his first Championship Trail victory in almost two years boosted his career total to 29. Well, almost beautifully. Unser had mid-race problems that led noto only him but most of the more than 100,000 sun-drenched spectators to dismiss him as a serious (See POCONO on 3-C) By Bill Simmons inquirer Auto Editor LONG POND, Pa. One race doesn't make a revolution. It doesn't even make a season.

But after Al Un-ser's convincing victory in yesterday's Schaefer 500, the market for four-cylinder Offenhauser engines should become quite bearish. "It's a simple fact that eight-cylinder engines work better than four under the current regulations and that's why we're here," said 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner Parnelli Jones, a co-owner of the American Racing Wheels team for whom Unser drives. Unser's winning time was 143.622, second slowest in Schaefer 500 history, held down by 10 caution periods (a total of 49 laps). His time was 3.2 seconds better than Mike Mosley in a Sugaripe-Eagle-Offy with Wally Dallenbach 5 seconds Associated Press No self -pity for Liquori EUGENE, Ore. These are the Olympic Trials that will be remembered best for those who didn't make the team for sprinter Steve Williams, shot putter Terry Albritton, pole vaulter Dan Ripley, intermediate hurdler Jim Bolding and, of course, for Martv Liquori.

An injured leg had knocked him out of his trial heat, forcing him to stop midway through the race, and in the agonizing minutes that followed he felt the frustration, the anger that so many others had felt. Not for long, though. Marty Liquori is better equipped to handle what happened here than most athletes. "I worked really hard for this," he said the next day. "I think of the times I was in Chicago on business and got up at seven in the morning and ran.

I think of the amount of money I gave up, passing up broadcasting jobs so I could run The worst part is listening to the sound of your parents' voices and your wife's voice when it's over." But it was a foot race he didn't win, a sports event, not a matter of life and death. 'No complaints' "Jumbo (Marty's coach in Villa-nova, Jumbo Elliott) called at 7 o'clock the next morning," Liquori Salt Walther, severely burned at Indianapolis in 1973, escaped this fire unhurt yesterday defeats Cards oones am Phils stretch lead over Pirates to 9A -J WV. A'XiR X-X r.w i fr if 1 (Lynn McGlothen) started me off with his fast ball right down the middle, and I was kind of looking for something breaking. "I hit it real good. It really jumped up in the air and I knew it was gone when I hit it," added Boone, who began the season as a platoon catcher and has been the Phillies' most pleasant surprise as the regular.

When the Phillies open their four-game series tonight in Montreal, Boone will carry a .314 batting averages with 33 runs batted in, 13 more than he had all last season when he batted just .246. The big blow by Boone capped a six-run fourth inning as the Phillies came from behind to post their 10th win in their last 13 games. Before the homer, Greg Luzinski singled home the tying run, Dick Allen brought in the lead tally with a sacrifice fly, and Jay Johnstone hit a ground-rule double before Garry Maddox was nicked by a 1-2 knockdown pitch thrown by loser Lynn McGlothen (6- The third grand slam homer hit by a Phil this season landed in the left field seats and marked the sixth time this season they have scored six (See PHILLIES on 2-C) By Allen Lewis nijiirer So Writer For someone in the public eye, being the son of a famous father is often an unbearable ordeal. Before he's through, however, Phillies' catcher Bob Boone may be better known than his dad, Ray, who played 13 big league seasons as catcher and irfielder. The son certainly enhanced his public image yesterday when he hammered the first grand-slam homer of his professional career as the Phillies beat the St.

Louis Cardinals, 6-2, before 31,489 at Veterans Stadium. The win increased the Phillies' Eastern Division lead in the National League to 9Vi games over Pittsburgh. Besides being his initial grand slam, it was only Boone's third homer of the season and 19th of his four-year major league career. In contrast, Ray Boone hit 151 homers in his career and hammered over 20 four times. "My dad used to hit them all the time; I guess there's nothing hereditary about it," said the smiling Boone after catching winner Jim Lon-borg and relief star Ron Reed in the oppressive heat.

"It was a high curve ball. He Philadelphia Inquirer EARNEST S. EDDOWES WHAT DOES a non-starter do while awaiting a chance to play? If he's with a winning and contented team like the Phillies, and his name is Bobby Tolaji, he tapes a baseball to a bat and chides first baseman Dick Allen. lili a said. "He told me, 'Take it like a man.

Keep it it perspective." It was was the same feeling I had. If anybody should have no complaints, it's me. I have my wife, my material possessions, a new home And if he has no Olympic medal to show for all those years of world-class running, that's hardly the end of the world. "If anybody pities me now, which I think a lot of people do, I think they should stop and put it in perspective, too," Marty said. "I had a much tougher experience this winter than I had here.

My wife had a miscarriage." It would be ridiculous to pity Marty Liquori for what happened Friday afternoon, or what happened four years ago when a foot injury prevented him from even trying out for the team. He is not the first outstanding runner to be denied a gold medal in the Olympic Games, and he was surely not the first star athlete to fall at these Trials. Four-year wait "I don't think it's ever been as bad as it's been here," Marty said. "Track and field's a sport where you can be a little off and not make the team." And then face a four-year wait for the next chance. "It's easier for me to accept at this point in my life," he said.

"In 1968 and 1972 I believed if you won an Olympic medal it was going to help you sell more life insurance, or whatever. You get older you realize an Olympic medal is not going to make that much difference. You see people like Beamon (Bob Beamcn, the record-breaking Olympic long jump champion of 1968). He still has to work eight hours a day. Maybe in a small town it would make a differ It takes a lot of heat to start Ozark boiling a struggle.

Often I couldn't get a jot in winter and my wife had to go to work. But baseball is still more thai a game to me; it's something to pn mote, it's something played by good people, it's the best product that ever existed. If there was any way tha I'd embarrass this organization oi baseball, I'd leave with no hesitation "Maybe this is why many timet I've refrained from blowing my stack. There have been temptations along the way, but I've tried not tc do it. I'd go home, try to forget about it.

You never forget about it, but I'd come back the next day to try ana prove they're wrong, to prove other wise. This is the way I am. "It takes a long time to get mt upset. I think about it, I think about it, and if it's a persistent thing, maybe it grows on me and I can', stop it. "Like that incident here thought that it was just enough Maybe I misconstrued the question; 1 thought they wanted something con troversial from me about (Dick) Allen.

They'll never get that frora (See OZARK on 5-C) Second of two articles By Skip Myslenski Inquirer Stall Writer Danny Ozark is normally a placid person, stoic in the face of the criticism and the controversy that have surrounded his tenure as manager of the Phillies. But last April 25 he exploded, chasing writers from his office and the team's locker room, kicking objects in the clubhouse, cursing, and publicly threatening to punch one temerarious soul in the nose. Here he discusses the incident, his personality and the repercussions he has noticed. "My wife says I'm too easy going," Danny Ozark will say. "Some of my players may say I'm too easy going.

But I'm that way intentionally. I don't believe in being a dictator. I believe in hearing people out. "And baseball means too much to me to embarrass it in any way. It's been my livelihood, and I've been compensated in many ways.

It's been --r ti 1 1 al -A') ltfjj i ence, but I don't feel in my life it's really that important. "I've seen so many 'bums' win Olvmpic gold medals, and so many great athletes not make it; get tripped like Jim Ryun (in Munich). Once you get older you don't really have faith in the Olympic Games as a test of who's best. The wrong time "Billy Mills (the tO.OOO-meter gold medal-winner in 1964) recently made a speech at the Track and Field Hall of Fame. He said that Ron Clarke beat him before the Games by 20 seconds and after the Games by 30 seconds.

He said he felt he was put in the Hall of Fame on the basis of one day." One great day, one great race at me But one or two bad days or bad injuries at the wrong time can't offset all the positive things that a Martv Liquori has accomplished. "The important thing to me now Is the way I come back from this," he said. "If I take it hard I would consider that the worst thing that can happen to me." He will not take it hard in the weeks to come. He will not explode with anger and frustration while watching the Olympic Games. He will not even give up serious competitive running.

"If I wanted to quit now, I couldn't," the 26-year-old star who didn't make the U.S.. Olympic team said. "I couldn't go out on a bad note. I couldn't let the last headline be a losing one." Marty Liquori's running career deserves a better finish than that. Finley bows to Kuhn, returns 'Oakland Three to action Baseball roundup run homer at Chicago in a record tying, eight-run second inning as New York won for its fourth straight vie tory.

Expos 4, Pirates 3 Tim Fol drove in three runs with a double anc a single and veteran Wocdie Frymar registered his 100th major league wit for host Montreal. Reds 4, Astros 2 Pete Ros drove in two runs and Cesar Geron imo scored twice and got three hit! for visiting Cincinnati. Dodgers 12, Giants 8 Run-scor ing singles by Ellie Rodriguez ant Manny Mota broke a 6-6 tie in th' fifth inning, helping Los Angeles (See BASEBALL on 2-C) he came back and said, 'Joe Rudi's in left field. Miller said he had told Oakland that Rudi, Fingers, and Blue would've become free agents through breach of contract had the team struck. The last time a major league team struck was in 1912, when the Detroit Tigers protested the suspension of Ty Cobb for fighting with a fan by sitting out a game against the Philadel phia Athletics.

Detroit fielded a team of sandlotters for one game and lost, 23-2. National League Mets 13, Cubs 3 Mike Phillips homered for the third successive game and Ed Kranepool hit a two- actions are in the best interests of baseball. If having Fingers, Rudi, and Blue play against the two teams that already own them is in the best interests of baseball so be it." Thus, for now, ends the tangle over the three players, which began when Finley tried to sell them for $3.5 million to the Yankees and Red Sox on June 15. Kuhn subsequently voided the sale; Finley refused to play the trio; and the A's, operating with a 22-man roster compared to the 25 used by their opponents, threatened to strike. Miller said, despite his counsel, the strike almost came off.

"I was talking to the player rep (Jim Todd) "and he had been telling me, 'We're prepared to leave. Then he heard a cheer andsaid, 'Just a Then From Inquirer Wire Services At 4:32 p.m. Eastern Time yesterday, the near-mutinous Oakland A's agreed to face the Minnesota Twins after A's owner Charles Finley lifted his ban on playing Joe Rudi, Rollie Fingers, and Vida Blue. The A's then beat their swords into baseball bats and pounded the Twins, 5-3. Fingers worked 3 1-3 innings of shutout relief.

Rudi went hitless in four at bats and played the entire game in left field. Blue was not used. Finley's last-minute capitulation on the use of the three players averted the strike, which would have been the first in major league baseball by a single team in 64 years. The A's, acting against the advice of Plavws Association executive di- rector Marvin Miller, had voted 13-9 to strike if Finley did not relent in the last minutes before the game was to begin. In a prepared statement, Finley said, "Since all the members of the American League have agreed not to protest any of the games in which these players will appear, I have decided to acquiesce to Commissioner (Bowie) Kuhn's directive regarding the playing of the three players already sold by the Athletics.

"At the same time I strongly dispute afld protest his decision that is Another former Villanovan, Dick Buerkle, won the Olympic trials 5.000. Part 3C.