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Sportscene 3 Horse Racing 5 Classified 6 Comics 14 Features 15 section sports 4 Monday, June 30, 1975 Foyt's Pocono Victory Is Short But -TT3: Wi a. 1 Sweet mil jS i 1 5' Dallenbach's crew does some relaxing himself during rain delay By BILL SIMMONS nowrer Statt Writer LONG POND, Pa. The rain did its best to dampen Pocono International Raceway's parade yesterday, but A. J. Foyt's victorious smile was enough to raise a rainbow over the running of the fifth annual Schaefer 500-mile race.

The showers helped cause a two-hour delay in the start of the race and slowed things to a snail's pace around the 200-mile mark. And a downpour ended the chase after 170 of the scheduled 200 laps around the trioval. It made no difference to Foyt. "It doesn't matter how you get there, just so you get there," Foyt said, referring to Victory Lane. "Sometimes you win races you don't deserve to win and sometimes you lose when you shouldn't.

It all evens out in the end." There'll be no evening out for this victory. He was in control most of the way, gambling when he had to and playing it conservatively when that tack was called for. But it was his gamble in the closing stages that paid off in a record jr. and a member of Wally sixth 500-mile race victory that earned him approximately $84,000 and pushed his career winnings past the $2.5 million mark. "I saw that cloud coming up," said Foyt, who had gotten the lead for the sixth and final time on the 132d lap.

"I turned up the power and gambled on the weather. I didn't want to be second or third like I was at Indy and get caught (by the rain) again." So, with the storm moving in, Foyt increased the turbocharger boost pressure in his Gilmore-Coyote-Foyt and began widening his lead over Associated Press A. J. Foyt relaxes after his victory McGraw Makes Mets Believe Luzinski, Brown, Johnstone Help Phillies Sweep Pair Tug Puts Fun Back in Fun City I NEW YORK Tug McGraw, the crazy kid who used to live in the neighborhood, came "home" yesterday to prove to his old friends nothing had changed. Except his uniform, of course.

Inside that blue jersey with the red on front beat the same heart of gold, flowed the same adrenaline, stood the same adorable nut who did more than anybody else to put the fun in the place they call Fun City. Since last December, when the Mets sent him to the Phillies, Tug must have been waiting for this day, must have been plotting ways to make The Return of Scroogie an event to remember. "When he's out there, he might climb up the backstop," Dave Cash said. "There's no telling what Tug will do." Especially here. At Shea Stadium.

Where Tug first made them believe. He entered yesterday's first game in the seventh inning and the place came alive. So what if the Mets were three runs behind? McGraw was back and the people were smiling again. What a wonderful ability that is, to make people smile. He entered the way a star should enter to cheers and music.

It was just like old times: Tug McGraw on the mound and Jane Jarvis, the gal who plays the Shea organ, pounding out a medley of Irish songs. Out in left field a big sign went up. "A day without Tug is a day without sunshine," it said. Was McGraw psyched? You'd better believe it. Stick him in an intra-squad game and the adrenaline starts pumping.

Put him in Shea Stadium against the Mets for the first time in Special to The Inquirer CHUCK ISAACS Pocono's Victory Lane for the second time in three yQars very slowly. "I saw what happened to all those guys at Indianapolis (several cars crashed in the rain deluge that ended that race) and I wasn't taking any chances," Foyt said. "Under conditions like that, this became a five-mile-an-hour track." Before then, it had been a 180-mile-(See POCONO on 4-D) Mechanical problems fail to discourage Tom Sncva. Sthry, Page 4-D. nn.

bounced one to the left of the mound. Underwood gloved the ball and had a force play at third but hesitated, then turned and made a hurried throw over first. Rusty Staub scored and the other runners wound up at second and third on what was scored as a hit and error. John Stearns was walked intentionally, but the rattled Underwood then walked Seaver on four pitches to1 walk in a run. After a force at the plate, Underwood hit Felix Millan on the foot to make it 3-0.

The Phils had only one scratch single until the fifth when pinch-hitter Mike Rogodzinski led off with, a walk. A two-base wild throw trying to double him off first after a line drive sent Rogodzinski to third and he scored as Bowa grounded out. Johnstone then homered over the right field wall to make it 3-2, and it stayed that way until the ninth. A one-out walk to Tommy Hutton and Mike Schmidt's single to left finished Seaver. Reliever Bob Apodaca then was hit by Johnny Oates' cne-hop single to the mound for the hit that loaded the bases and saw the pitcher carried off the field on a stretcher with lacerations and a possible broken nose.

(See PHILLIES on 2-D) i 4 hit in nose by John Oates single Wally Dallenbach. When the rain brought the yellow caution flag out for the eighth and final time on the 168th lap building a rainbow over the end of the speedway Foyt had a 15-sec-ond lead and his fifth victory in seven starts this year was virtually assured. Two laps later, the red flag was displayed to stop the race and, within moments, the checkered flag officially ended it. As the record crowd of 110,000 scattered for cover, Foyt wheeled into Brown paced a 13-hit attack with a homer, double and single and knocked in three runs. Then, in the second game as a pinch-hitter, Brown drew the walk with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning that tied the game and forced extra innings.

While the Mets never threatened in the nightcap's late innings, the Phillies had the winning run in scoring position in the ninth, and in the 10th and 11th against southpaw Tom Hall before Luzinski, the National League's home run leader, hit a 3-2 Hall pitch into the left field upper stands for the game-winner. Johnstone singled home a big insurance run in the seventh inning of the first game as a pinch-hitter, then hit his fifth homer in the sixth inning of the second game when the Phillies scored their only runs until the ninth. The second game started out as a mound duel between Met ace Tom Seaver and Phils' rookie Tommy Underwood, and a bad fielding play by the latter in the fourth inning led to all three Met runs. In that Met fourth, a questionable error on a bad-hop grounder to shortstop and Dave Kingman's single to left brought up Jack Heidemann, who i Is i 'j if 1 i i -y! By FRANK DOLSON iT his life and his feet might never touch the mound. He retired the Mets in order in his first inning, wheeled and headed for the dugout, beating his glove against his leg, the way he always does.

Whoops. Wrong dugout. The adorable nut in the blue uniform with the red on front was heading for the dugout he'd occupied all those other fun-filled years. Leave it to Tug. Anything to keep those smiles going.

Anything to put a little more fun in the game. "I knew he was going to do it," catcher Bob Boone said. "He's a goofy Ernie Banks. A great baseball promoter. I've been out with him here the last few days.

Everybody knows him and loves him." Even the people who root for the OTHER team. The man is more than a big league pitcher. More than one of baseball's best relievers. He's a performer. A showman.

He adds a dimension to a game that occasionally gets too businesslike, too matter of fact, for its own good. He's a well-paid pro who (See DOLSON on 2-D) mm tthituirr Wiir Smite KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -Muhammad Ali, who has tried to hypo a few fights in his time, continued to maintain yesterday that he would retire after tonight's heavyweight championship fight here with Joe Bugner. Bugner looked intent and fit while going through a light workout while Ali sparred three hard rounds with former World Boxing Association champion Jimmy Ellis. After sparring, Ali said that "(George) Foreman is better than (Jjt) Fiazicr I beat them both. There's nobody left to fight." After Ali's workout, Frazier, resplendent in white pants with red.

white and blue suspenders, came into the Nepira training stadium where he and Ali engaged in a pbyful verbal sparring match that the 1,500 fans loved. The scheduled 15-round fight will si.irt ahout in p.m. (EDT) 9i0 a.m. (Tuesday) in Malaysia. The can be seen on closed-circuit at two in the area the Philadelphia Arena and the Cherry Hill Arena tickets are $10; Centrum tickets $8 and $10.

Ali-Bugncr will be the final third of 7 By ALLEN LEWIS Inaiurtr Staff Wnltr NEW YORK The Phillies have some problem spots this season but right field isn't one of them. The two players now being platooned at the position Ollie Brown and Jay Johnstone are each batting over .350 this season. The righthanded-hitting Brown and the lefthanded-hitting Johnstone played key roles as the Phillies bounced back yesterday to beat the New York Mets, 9-6 and 4-3 in 12 innings, before 45,723 at Shea Stadium. The second game thriller saw the Phillies tie the score in the ninth inning with two out and win it in the 12th on Greg Luzinski's 19th homer of the season, his only hit of the dou-bleheader. In both games, relief ace Tug McGraw also starred.

In his first games against his ex-mates, the lefthander retired nine Mets in succession to save the opener, then set down 15 of the 16 batters he faced to win the nightcap. But Brown and Johnstone gave both Luzinski and McGraw their opportunities to shine. In the opener, in which rookie Larry Christenson barely lasted five innings to win over southpaw Jerry Koosman, 1 i Associated Press TUG McGRAW shoots a auick look at the Mets' dugout where he almost ended up yesterday. a championship tripleheader on closed-circuit TV. The other two bouts, which will originate from Madison Square Garden in New York, will feature middleweight champion Carlos Monzon against Tony Licata and light heavyweight champion Victor Galindez against Jorge Ahumada The Monzon-Licata bout will go off about 8:15.

Ali, who will weigh 225 for the fight, spoke with reporters for 25 minutes yesterday during which time he did not appear serious. He was playing to the crowd, and when he hit a note they liked he would sing, I smell the blood of an Englishman." "It's going to be a slaughter," Ali said. "I have something planned for the first round that's going to put fear into their hearts. I have a surprise, an that'll shock the world like the Japanese at Pearl Harbor." Much of ATs barbs appeared lor the crowd. He was a contrat to the 0-punJ Bugner who speaks ucll and enunciates clearly.

In picture. Buener looks hard but in real life he looks a voung 25 vcars old. i i 4 a i JJ -J Ali (Ho-Hum) Maintains He'll Quit After Tonight 4 14 fLL Joe Burner's yona exercises help him against Ali? Trainer and teammate attend Mets pitcher Bob Apodaca, who was.