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48 Friday, July 7, 1972 Philadelphia Inquirer Pocono 500 Resolved Too Late, For Sport to Escape Black Eye BILL SIMMONS On Motor Sports al systems Cornell Bids For Coma as Ktead Coach By JOHN DELL Of The Inquirer Staff Cornell officials expect to know within a week if Tony Coma is going to be their basketball coach. They have offered the Cheyney State coach the job, mainly because they have decided he is the man who can bring harmony to their black players as well as produce a respectable team. "I really can't say anything about it," Coma commented about a report the job was offered to him after former NBA star and 76ers coach Dolph Shayes had turned it down. Coma is expected to again visit Cornell this weekend for further talks. Sources close to Coma say two considerations are mak Saturday, July 8, and Sunday, July 9, at 20th and Market Philadelphia.

Telephone: 215-LO 9-3040. Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. fying had been lost to rain and the situation was explosive. WHEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT was made, tempers erupted.

Many things were said that shouldn't have been, which no doubt will return to haunt those who said them. Not only were Dr. Mattioli's reasons questioned but Marvel, a native of Indianapolis and a long-time member of the racing establishment, was ostracized for backing his boss. And driver Jim Hurtubise, one of the sport's most-popular figures, was publicly humiliated. Wally Dallenbach tried to reason with Bettenhausen, John Mahler and other adamant opponents of postponement.

His logic was answered with stony silence. Dallenbach's chief mechanic, Vince Granatelli, made many enemies when he said, "Greed can be the only reason for wanting to go on with this race now." Sadly, there never could have been a Schaefer 500 on July 2. If raceway management hadn't called it off, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources would have ob THE POWER STRUGGLE that raged through flood stricken northeastern Pennsylvania last week has ended. Pocono International Raceway emerged victorious and the vanquished United States Auto Club is, for the most part, happy with the outcon e. "The right thing -was done, but not in the right way," USAC Executive Director Bill Smyth said Thursday following the announcement that Pocono's second annual Schaeffer 500-mile race for Indianapolis cars has been rescheduled for Saturday, July 29.

Smyth and his top assistant, USAC director of competition Dick King, battled Pocono management in private and later in public over the track's unalterable decision to postpone the race from its originally scheduled date of July 2. Nine days a jo, Pocono's chief executive officer, Dr. Joseph Mattioli, and thu raceway's general manager, Bill Marvel, announced their decision in the face of a USAC threat to revoke all sanctions for races and nullify a five-year contract. "We didn't have any decision to make," Dr. Mattioli, a Philadelphia dentist, said at the time.

"Logistically, we were unable to provide the necessary services to handle an anticipated crowd of 100,000." Smyth and others, including driver representative Gary Bettenhausen, a member of Roger Penske's Sunoco racing team, questioned Mattioli's motives, hinting at some self-serving purpose. THE HARD FACTS WERE THERE. Unfortunately, Smyth and King did not feel the nearby floods were sufficient reason to cancel the nee since the raceway and all access roads escaped damage. And Mattioli and his associates failed to present their case to satisfaction. "I was fully aware of the devastation in the surrounding area," Smyth said.

"Ail I asked for during the entire hassle was for any official of state, county or local government to request a postponement. If that had happened, I would personally have turned on the yellow light. But no request ever came." Smyth was, in the main, taking a stand that would most benefit the drivers and car owners. With but few exceptions they wanted to avoid the added expenses of going home and having to return for several more days. Add this to the fact that just about everyone's nerves were on the ragged edge after eight of 10 days of practice and quali- Our Systems Programming operation, located in southern New Jersey, is interested in hiring imaginative Systems Programmers with software development or maintenance experience on 360, Spectra 70, UNIVAC 9000 or similar, equipment.

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Jersey 08077; We are an equal opportunity sporting event while thousands of people Jess than 25 miles i 'salary than he would get as away had lost everything to the flood. 'k Cornell, head coa'eh. And he Sadly, the episode will not soon be forgotten. The situation xoulift remain a department has been resolved to everyone's satisfaction but it will leave a head at Cheyney with no loss black mark on motor racing for a long time to come. of salary if hp' decides to-step "We go at it pretty good sometimes," Smyth said.

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FRANK DOLSON Stan Smith Beats Kodes, Gains Final i Continued from 1st Spts. Page final in his quest for the $13,000 prize. Newcombe, who won a World Championship Tennis tournament at St. Louis last, week, watched the match from the press box. He and 31 other professionals who compete on the WCT tour were barred from playing this year because of a dispute between Continued from 1st Spts.

Page company)," Les said. "He told me, 'Don't leave your phone this weekend. You're getting But the call never came. Keiter would have jumped at that opportunity. However, he was smart enough to keep his feet firmly on the ground the day Irv Kosloff, the owner of the 76ers, told him he had finally found the man he wanted as general manager.

"Great," said Keiter. "Who is it?" "You," Kos told him. "I nearly fainted," Les said. "It was one of the few jobs in sports I ever turned down." So it was that Jack Ramsay took the 76ers' job and Keiter stayed with Channel 6 until 1970. Now Ramsay is in Buffalo and Keiter is in Honolulu.

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SMITH LOOKED in bad trouble when hj was broken to 30 in the seventh game of the second set but he again hit back to level at 4-4, gaining the break w.th a deep lob which caught the chalk. The set was in its 10th game when the picture changed completely. Kodes saved a break point with a service winner to make it deuce. As he was about to serve a couple of birds flew down from the Royal Box. Kodes checked.

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