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4 Monday, July 1, 1974 Philadelphia Inquirer Team McLaren's Fuel Conservation Strategy Pays Again as bad trouble as the rest of us." A spokesman for Unser said that when he came in for his last fuel stop on the 181st lap, "all we could give him was what was left in the hose about five gallons. We slowed him down to about ISO MPH just to finish the race. Running third at the time, Unser was passed by Gordon Johncock, then his STP team By BILL SIMMONS Inquirer Utaft Writer LONG POND, Pa. Johnny Rutherford admitted after he won Sunday's fourth annual Schafer 500-mile race that he hadn't set out to ''race anybody." "We had our own game plan," the 36-year-old Texan said after his Pocono International Raceway victory backed up 1974 wins at Ontario, in March, Indi mate Steve Krisiloff and wound up fifth. But the strategy proved sound.

He picked up 500 points to raise his season total to 3,100, a still comfortable margin over the fast-closing Rutherford who is second with 2,750, of which 2,300 were registered in the last month. It was a very successful day for a pair of home-staters anapolis in May and Milwaukee two weeks ago. "Fuel situation being what it is (each car in the 33-car strating field was limited to 280 gallons of Methanol), there's no point in going out fast. I wasn't trying to race anybody." But, as he revealed didn't have to. According to Rutherford, there's not another team on the United States Auto Club's champion an dfitfh-place Bobby Unser who, at 74 laps, led this race more than any other driver, were slowing considerably just trying to finish "I ran two extra laps after the checkered flag and I ran out of gas," said Caruthers, the 29-year-old former USAC midget car champ.

"I slowed runnerup Jimmy Caruthers way down at the end. We all did. Rutherfor djust wasn't in in the fourth annual Schaeffer 500. Al Loquasto of Coplay, a suburb of Easton, started 17th and drove steadily all day to finish 10th. Larry McCoy of Langhorne, started 27th and finished 11th 13 of the 33 starters were running at the finish.

The only one among the top 13 not running was Wally Dallenbach who went out with engine failure while leading on lap 188 and wound up 10th. DESIGNERS 864-7400 CALL THAT NUMBER NOW DIE DESIGN TOOL DESIGN MACHINE DESIGN HJGH SPttD PLUMBING FAMILIAR WITH CODE PIPING PETROCHEMICAL ELECTRIC DESIGN CHEMICAL FIELD HVAC DESIGNER COMMERCIAL i INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURAL FQUNOAriON ft PIPE HN HANG ERS DRAFTSMEN WITH 1 YR IXP ARTHUR- It's THE Week for Wings Phila. Team Faces 2 Top Foes Home and Home Rutherford Rallies To Win at Pocono ship trail that has figured out as well as Team McLaren how to get the most mileage at the highest speed. "Our plan was to run at a pre-set pace, keep the leaders in sight and go the last 100 miles. That's when most of these races are won, any way," he said.

He obviously knew what he was talking about. As he charged around the 2-'-mile trioval at the finish, guys like Out-of-gas drivers Mike turn to other liquid. Bill Lyon f- t'' in stock Carm Collins leads the league with 83 penalty minutes. Rick Dudley, the Buffalo Sabres' hockey winger' who also is Rochester's leading scorer, is second with 80 minutes. Thompson is Toronto's bad boy with 43 minutes Doug Favell, the people's choice, will not rejoin the Wings until Thursday at Toronto.

The former Flyers' goalie is keeping dates he made during the NHL season Wings will take part in city's Summer Fun program at noon Tuesday at JFK Plaza, 16th st. and Kennedy blvd. They'll stage a "game" against the Wingettes, the girls who make up the Spectrum's version of the Hot Pants Patrol. 1317 Filbert Piili 86 0 400 POLLY DRUMMOND STAKES THURSDAY JULY 4 AT 01 POST TIME 1:30 TUES. THRU SUN.

THRU AUGUST II EXACTASANDTRIFECTAS STAKES RACES SUNDAYS STANTON, DEL. 302 994-2521 all-around player, and Brian Thompson, who has 66 points and is an opportunist in Allan's ratings. "We'll have to make them play us five-on-five," Allan reasoned, meaning his team will have to get five men back on defense in a hurry, so the Toms will be forced to work the ball for shots, instead of getting them on fast breaks. "We'll have to come back quickly. The last time we left some men committed up the floor and that gave Toronto a lot of chances to run," Thompson said.

The defensive play of Carm and Mike Collins, Doug May-nard and Zeny Lipinski will be important in seeing that the Wings' offense, led by 75-pointer Larry Lloyd, is meaningful. WING TIPS Philadelphia's newly minted lacrosse fans have been the cause of busy days for a lot of Mohawk Indians up in Canada. They make the handmade lacrosse sticks, which will be sold to fans tonight for $10 less than half the retail price. Two weeks ago the Wings made the same offer, and sold out 250 sticks before the second period started. This time they'll have 2,500 sticks.

turtle wax Anns i iv pie lif Hiri no it Oili ililiSliES I ecia eciaS Cars for cious minute and left John more than a lap behind the pace-setting Andretti who looked at that point like he was on the way to his first major victory since the 1969 Indianapolis 500. By the 30-lap mark which is 75 miles, two top contenders were out of the picture. A. J. Foyt, the pole starter for this year's California and Indianapolis 500 who started this race from the 29th position after being stricken by mechanical problems in qualifying, tapped the second-turn wall, damaged his car's suspension and parked it after climbing up to 12th place.

And Al Unser, who had advanced from sixth to third, saw his hopes of victory dashed when he ran out of fuel and had to come in on the end of a tow rope. The same thing was to happen to Dallenbach's teammate, Gordon Johncock, while he was leading on the 78th lap and getting ready to turn the car over to a relief driver because he was. weakened by a bout with the flu. Johncock's stall brought out the second of a total of seven yellow flags and left Bobby Unser in the lead with Andretti second and Dallenbach third. Rutherford, meanwhile, still was trying to get back in the same lap as the leaders although, by then, his car was running "perfectly." Rutherford got the break he needed on the 121st lap when John Martin's car stalled on the track, bringing out the yellow just as Rutherford was heading for his fifth fuel stop.

As the field bunched up behind the pace car, Rutherford was able to make up almost a full lap and, when the green flag came out again, he was fourth behind Bobby Unser, Dallenbach and Jimmy Caruthers some 17 seconds in arrears. Andretti, still very much in contention just a tick behind Rutherford, then ran afoul of the luck that has plagued him for half a decade. As he followed Bill Simpson's Eagle into the first turn on lap 133, the engine in- Simpson's car let go and Andretti spun in the resultant oil spill and wrecked his Viceroy-Eagle against the outside wall. When the race resumed on lap 140, Rutherford was fourth, just 8.4 seconds back. In the next 10 laps, he passed both Caruthers and Dallenbach and began putting pressure on the leading Unser.

Another rash of fuel stops around a caution period for Tom Sneva's brush with the wall left Dallenbach leading, Unser second, Rutherford third and Caruthers fourth. On lap 163, Dallenbach pass ed Unser for the lead and, two circuits later, Rutherford followed into second place. They pulled away from the slowing Unser and pitted together for the last time on lap 181, only to see their anticipated closing duel evaporate in the smoke of Dallenbach's blown engine seven laps later. "Victory is always sweet," Rutherford said as he contemplated his fourth victory in seven outings this year and the seventh of his career. "The only thing that makes Indianapolis a little more sweet because of the million- 4,11, fnr there." The order of finish, with money and laps completed: 1.

Johnny Rutherford, 200 laps; 2. Jimmy Caruthers, 48,450, 199; 3. Gordon Jchncock, 31,000, 1(1; 4. Steve Krisiloff, 16.520, ivg; 5. Bo-bv Unser, 14.750, 197; 6.

Lloyd Rubv, 19'; 7. Bentley Warren, 3.550, 1S6; 8. Billy Vukovich, 7,00, 194 9. E.ron Rasmussen, 7,4:0. 192; 10.

Wally Cal-lenbach, 7,040, 189. LYON, From 1-C is very important. "My radio went dead out there once, and it was a little hairy trying to figure out where the rest of the field was. But we try to cut down on the chatter. We still do most of our communicating by sign board." Which means that Johnny Rutherford might be the world's speed reading champion because he's getting those messages at better than 200 MPH down the straightaway.

And he was giving his own special message to some of the other 32 drivers. "No, the track wasn't particularly dangerous, not as dangerous as some of the driving. There were some slow drivers out there who were very foolish. They weren't looking around, They weren't using their mirrors, and I lost a lot of time coming out of one pit stop when one driver pulled out right in front of me." "No," he added, "I wouldn't want to call any names." Johnny Rutherford doesn't have to name names. Right now he is the hottest thing on four wheels, and it's been a.

long time coming 15 years, since he first drove on a track in Dallas with a name that could only come from Texas Devil's Bowl Speedway. In 1966, Johnny Rutherford flipped over the outside guard rail and broke both his arms. Two years later, his hands were badly burned. And he's wrinkled bodies cars and his own-brushing against walls. So now he'll probably have a good old-fashioned drunk and sit down and savor all this, right, John? You'll have.

to excuse me," Johnny Rutherford said. "I gotta catch a plane. I'm due to drive the stock car race at Daytona." Sports Scripts There'll Be No Femmes Rowing on the Thames General GRABBER Built to grab in wide 70-series and superwide 60-series. The General Grabberfeatures 4-ply nylon cord construction deep-wide traction tread distinctive raised white letters. By JOHN DELL Inquirer Stat Writer This is the week to stand and fight for the Wings.

"We play the two top teams, home and home. That's really important for us," said Bobby Allan, coach of Philadelphia's first, and naturally foremost, pro lacrosse team. The Wings share second place in the National Lacrosse League with the Toronto Tomahawks, who will be in the Spectrum for an 8 P. M. stick night date tonight.

On Tuesday night the league-leading Rochester Griffins come in. Thursday the Wings go to Toronto and Saturday they will be in Rochester. "I'm very optimistic," said Allan, whose team is 1-1 with Toronto and 1-2 with Rochester. Fast-breaking Toronto took a 16-14 decision over the Wings on June 20. "We're well prepared for them this time.

We expect to play them a lot differently," Allan said. Defense is what Allan sees as the key to a different and happier ending. The Tomahawks' go-go offense is led by two righthanded shooters, Duffy McCarthy, a 68-point scorer Allan considers a good RAIN CHECK: Shoy.d our supp'y of scne P-iCft as soap Ti'e S'c-es OrrceMjve'y r-ced cerfrjet dpa ers sp apg tr-e Ge-cai il TT-iJi II ana 1 fM POCONO, From 1-C 154.361 set two years ago by Joe Leonard, it looked for quite awhile like Rutherford wasn't going to be a factor. From his No. 5 starting position, Rutherford charged up to third place behind Dallen-bach and pole starter Bobby Unser on the third lap.

But as hard-luck Mario An-dretti streaked to the lead on the 10th lap, Rutherford seemed to be sUting still. And five laps later, he was starting to. fade. By the 18th lap, he was back in fifth place. Two laps later, he was seventh.

"I knew there was something drastically wrong very early," Rutherford was to explain. "The car simply wasn't handling. When I made the first pit stop, we changed a tire and then adjusted one of the front wings." That maneuvering cost the McLaren team most of a pre- Ted Rapp, Riverton, Wins Sail By FRANK BATES For the second day in a row, Ted Rapp, Riverton, scored a handy victory in the 26th annual Governor's Cup regatta of the Riverton Yacht Club on the upper Delaware River in ideal weather and water conditions Sunday. As a result of his victory Rapp brought the famed trophy back to the Riverton club from the Chesapeake Sailing Association of Annapolis, Md. George Stewart, 1973 winner of the Governor's cup, made a bid for the cup competing in the Celebrity class when he won Sunday's final race in that division.

That victory gave him second in the celebrities with 7 points. Paul Lippman, of Penn Manor, was the Celebrity winner. Rapp again took the honors in the International Star class event over 11 starters. All of the 11 skippers competed in all three races of the series, playing an important part in Rapp's winning point score. He won all three races for 2Vi points, and the points for perfect team support brought him the cup.

The Riverton sailor was one of four skippers in the 76-boat fleet who registered perfect scores in their respective classes. Djoerd Hockstra, of Riverton, was first in all three Lightning class races over John Tiglund, of Red Dragon. John McCausland, Cooper River, was winner of all three events in the Laser class. Dick Godfrey, of Red Dragon, squeezed out three victories in the Thistle division. Steve King, Riverton, took the Comet class honors with two firsts and a second.

Mart Garragu, of Fayson Lakes, won. the Duster honors on three second places. Dr. Lewis Mills, Riverton commodore, presided at the award of trophies. Riverton; 2, John Riverton; 3, Jim Lippincott, Rivertorv; 4, Stan Lip-pincott, Riverton; 5 Dr.

Lewis Mills, Riverton. FINAL POINTS Rapp 2'; Jim Lippincott John Morton 12; Stan Llpoincott 15. CELEBRITIES Third race 1, George Stewart, Annapolii; 2, Paul Lippman, Penn Manor; 3, Stan Evan-son, Riverton; 4, Richard Sork, Riverton; 5, Arnold Histern, Raritan Bay. POINTS Lippman 3'j; Stewart 74; Evanson Sork 11; Histern 17. THISTLES Third race 1.

Dick Godfrev, Red Dragon; 2, Dan Walsh, Red Dragon; 3, C-eorge Betz, Red Dragon; 4, Dick O'Leary, Red Dragon. POINTS Godfrey 2U; Walsh Betz 10; O'Leary 11. LASERS Third race 1, John McCausland, Cooper River; 2, Gary Murga, Cooper River. Points McCausland 2'; Murga 6. LIGHTNINGS Third race 1, Dioerd Hickstra, Riverton; 2, John Yeiglund, Red Dragon; 3, Franz Schneider, Red Dragon; 4, Hugh Hutchinson, Red Dragon; 5 son Penn Manor.

POINTS Hoeksfn Teiglund 6i D. Gary Swangter 15. COMETS Third race 1, Steve King, Riverton; 2, Dick Hendrickson, Riverton; 3, W. Rutheroff; 4, Tom Lane. POINTS King 3' Hendrickson S4; Rutheroff 11.

DUSTERS Third race 1. Dick Martin, Riverton; 2, Mark Garriga, Fayson Lakes; 3, Mm Kasar, Favson Lakes; 4. Erdman Hoffman. Union Lake. POINTS Garriga Dick Martin I'll Bob Martin 12; Hoffman 12.

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