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6 section Scoreboard 2 Baseball 3 Horse racing 6 Sports in brief 6 sports Monday, June 26, 1978 Al Unser has easy time at Pocono for 'triple' Associated Press By Bill Simmons Inquirer Auto Editor LONG POND, Pa. Al Unser claimed his own little piece of history yesterday when he won the eighth annual Schaefer 500 before a record crowd of 110,000 at Pocono International Raceway. He now has won three straight 500-mile events, dating back to last September's California 500, a feat never before accomplished in the history of the United States Auto Club. If that isn't enough, the fact that he's done it with a new car that, just a few months ago, was an unknown factor and with a new team that, just a few months ago, was an unknown entity, makes it a feat without "It's a great feeling," Unser said after posting his second Schaefer victory in three years and boosting his career total to six, second only to A. J.

Foyt. "I guess you'd say we have a very good team going. For a new team to have the success we've had, when we get it all together, we'll either have to be terrific or a flop." The former is a whole lot more likely than the latter. Consider that, despite the newness of the team, they have built three cars because of two crashes in recent months and still have had enough to outrun the best on USAC's Championship Trail. Unser, 39, of Albuquerque, N.

took the lead for the fifth and last time when Johnny Rutherford pitted for fuel on lap 190. He went on to win by 24.4 seconds over Rutherford, who passed a sputtering Tom Sneva for second place on the final lap. He completed the 3'2-hour grind at an average speed of 142.261 m.p.h. that was far off the record pace of 156.701 by Rutherford in 1971. That was due to 10 caution periods for various spins, blown engines and minor accidents that kept the caution flag out for 49 of the first 113 laps.

The remaining 87 were run at full speed and virtually without incident. As was the case four weeks earlier in the Indianapolis 500, Unser ran back in the pack in the early going, then charged to the front around the (See POCONO on 6-C) 500 Drivers Jim McEIreath of Arlington, and Tom Bagley of State College crash at Pocono "1 11 0 Miies anc iiilSiiwiM Argentina captures World Cup Rallies in overtime, beats Holland, 3-1 Christei ison beat By Larry Eichel Inquirer Statt Writer Another early lead. Another victorious Another day. Another win. strated yesterday, running their record at Veterans Stadium to an awesome 28-9.

So easy, that they actually got a man to third against Cub reliever Bruce Sutter, who, in 30 innings over three seasons, has never given them an earned run. "We hit four shots off him," Danny Ozark said. "I think, with the exception of Bake McBride's they all came off that jigamaroo." Jiga-maroo, presumably, means Sutter's infamous split-fingered fastball. Ah the joys of home. But this home-stand is history as the ball players say, and ahead looms a nine-day 11-game journey to Montreal, Chicago and Xew York.

"We have a big task ahead of us," said captain Mike Schmidt, "that's to get that record on the road (8-20) back up to .500. You've got to play .500 on the road to win the division, at least in my book. "Like I've said, we're the only team in the Eastern Division that can run away with it and, so far, we haven't. It's as simple as that. We can still do it.

But it takes victories (See PHILLIES on 5-C) homestand. The Phils beat the Cubs, 4-2, yesterday, sweeping the four-game set and opening up a two-game lead in the National League East. Could it possibly have been as easy as it looked? "It seemed like it was very easy," said Larry Christenson, who pitched the distance, "just laying the ball in there and letting them swing the bat and hit the ball. The way the Cubs were hitting in this series, I more or less challenged them the whole game, and they didn't really start to sting the ball until the ninth inning. "I don't usually pitch this way, but we were throwing fastballs right down the middle.

Even if I got behind 0-2, 1 was going right at them. I got a lot of easy groundl balls, easy fly balls. That's just the way the game was." It has been easy for the Phils at home this season, as they demon From Inquirer Wire Services BUENOS AIRES Argentina, powered by Mario Kempes on offense and saved several times on defense by goalkeeper Ubaldo Fillol, won the World Cup soccer championship yesterday with a 3-1 overtime victory over Holland at River Plate Stadium. The Argentinans, who led by 1-0 for nearly 50 minutes of the game before the Dutch tied it at 1-1 on a header by Dick Nanninga 9 minutes before the end of regulation time, rallied their forces in overtime and got goals from Kempes, his second of the game, and Daniel Bertoni to win the Cup for the first time. The Dutch, who four years ago attacked throughout the second half of the World Cup championship game against West Germany but failed to get a tying goal, were placed in the same position once again, and this time tied it.

But they were unable to get another goal in regulation time, and the Argentinians reasserted themselves in the overtime. Holland, taking the field with eight players who appeared in the 1974 title game, committed several early fouls, seemingly in an attempt to rattle the Argentinians by convincing them that they were in for the rough treatment that they said they had expected from the Dutch. After that, however, the fouls, more frequent than they ought to be in soccer's quadrennial summit game, about evened out. Holland had the best of the play for the first 10 or 15 minutes, but after that the pressure swung Argentina's way and finally produced a goal in the 37th minute. Osvaldo Ardiles, the Argentine mid-field star, received the ball in the left edge of the penalty area and sent a crisp pass to Kempes in the penalty arc.

Kempes slalomed between two Dutch defenders and got his left foot out to put the ball sharply past Dutch (See WORLD CUP on 4-C) Philadelphia Inquirer J. KINGSTON COLEMAN Bowa slides into 2d for a double under airborne Cub Ivan DeJesus in the 7th inning Larry Phils sleep-walking through 1-team pennant race By FRANK DOLSON The Cub manager looked up from the hoagie that had just been placed on his desk. "They're not apart," he replied. "As soon as they start hitting we'll be all right. Maybe you'll tell me how they (the Phillies) pulled together after their road trip.

A few base hits, that's how." OK, managers got paid good money to whistle through the darkness of four-game blowouts. The fact remains that the Phillies are in the only division in the big leagues that doesn't have a legitimate challenger. (See DOLSON on 5-C) A Yankee-Red Sox series, or a Reds-Dodgers series, this wasn't. The Cubs tried to play the best team in the division maybe the only team in the division with a lineup riddled by injuries and slumps. It didn't work.

"Happens to everybody," shrugged a strangely docile Herman Franks following yesterday's 4-2 Phillie win. "Nothing you can do about it. We got a lot of injuries." "What are you going to do to pull the team back together?" a writer asked. ing out in second place late yesterday afternoon is typical of the caliber of the challenge the Phillies face this season, no wonder they've had so much trouble getting started. Bearing down from start to finish in this National League East race is like running a 3:53 mile when the second-fastest guy in the field can't break 4:10.

I mean, how fast do you think Affirmed would have run in the Belmont Stakes if the only beast chasing him was Elsie The Borden Cow? And so the long-awaited confrontation between the top two teams in the National League East, this early summer showdown between the Phillies and the Cubs, is history. In four games, the Phillies scored 22 runs on 39 hits; the Cubs managed six widely scattered run on 29 hits. Three nights ago, when the series began, there were unmistakable symptoms of pennant fever sweeping the Vet. Yesterday, when it ended, eye-witnesses came up with a new diagnosis: sleeping sickness. Frankly, all of us the fans, the y-y Sports editor press, everybody owe the Phillies an apology.

If the Chicago team that came tip-toeing into town in first place Friday night and went limp Pat Bradley stops Lopez at Hershey Holmes no longer in shell Heavyweight title capped emergence rj 1 4 lib from his neck attest to his special status. Though he has spent the morning UOlllg LcicVttuUli UltCi' viC'vVS, tiiOuh he will spend the evening doing radio interviews, he is still affable, and for an hour he is gregarious, loquacious direct with his answers. The replies are often quick adages that reflect basic truths and principles the man holds. He is from a poor background, and so he is asked about the money he stands to earn, and he says: "I'm not worring about money. It hasn't crossed my mind and I wish it didn't cross your mind.

Even now money doesn't mean that much to me. It's something you need to live, but life is much more important, to be respectful to everyone. If you're not that, the money's not worthwhile." He was a rambunctious youth, and so he is asked how he remembers himself, and he says: "I was crazy. I gave my mother a bad time, I gave See HOLMES on 4-C) (Second of two articles) nt i Inquirer Staff Writer EASTON, Pa. Ten days have passed since Larry Holmes earned his share of the world heavyweight title, and on this afternoon he is scheduled to appear at the office of Charles Spaziani, his attorney.

The office is in a white row house across the street from the Northampton County Courthouse. It is simple, unpretentious, without frills, accurately reflecting in style both the lawyer and the boxer. Files of papers are stacked randomly on the couches, and fight posters hang from and lean against various walls. A pair of toy poodles scamper about, slaloming blithely around a visitor's legs. There is one secretary, and next to her desk are the dogs, dishes, one filled with food, the other with water.

Offers have flowed into these rooms since Holmes' ascent into boxing's pantheon, and now, while waiting, Spaziani begins to enumerate them. Three major auto manufacturers have called, and so have several large breweries. Many clothing manufacturers have shown interest, and large food chains have made requests for appearances. And always there have been realtors, each with the home of Larry Holmes' dreams. "But success hasn't spoiled him," Spaziani says.

"A week after he won the title, he's doing the same things he's done for years. He's a sound person. Basically sound and good." Larry Holmes walks in at this point, greets everyone, then settles into a chair. He is dressed unaffectedly, in a t-shirt, shorts and track shoes and only the gold bracelet on his right wrist, the gold ring on his left pinkie and the gold boxing glove hanging By Fred Byrod Special to The Inquirer HERSHEY, Pa. Golf's new wonder woman, the magic in her putter ICinpOl OA iijr uimuj iwui w.vi day.

The five-tournament victory skein of 21-year-old Nancy Lopez ended as Pat Bradley danced off with a runaway victory in the Lady Keystone Open with a 67 for a 10-under-par total of 206 at Hershey Country Club's West course. Lopez missed three putts of five feet or less and holed nothing longer than eight that for a bogey six as she took a repeat 74 for 221. It was the first time this year that the rookie pro from Roswell, N.M., failed to better par at least once in a tournament. Nancy tied for 13th in her 15th tournament of the year, seven of which she had won. For those interested in miscellaneous statistics, the 15 strokes by which she trailed Bradley was her biggest deficit, but not her most distant finish of the year.

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