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14 June 1, 1970 gfallatofigg Btmnrrat The Greatest Day In My Life Unser 1L 3 Tm Is 3' INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Al Unser, auto racing's newest glamour boy, got out of his motel bed at 8 a.m. Sunday, ate breakfast with his wife, his mother and his two children just like any other day in the year. He showed up at noon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, kicked his way through the debris left by 300,000 people, and Wins Indy Loot A Unser visited with crewmen who had helped him win a dramatic wire-to-wire victory the day before in the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race. A few hours later he stepped on stage of the Murat Shrine Temple and accepted the biggest single check ever paid to the winner of a motor-sports "This has to be the greatest single day in a race driver's life," the handsome, dark-haired member of a racing family from Albuquerque said modestly. "The guys back there in the garage made it possible." He also had some sentimental words for Parnelli Jones, winner of the 1963 Memorial Day 500.

Jones is co-owner of the P.J.-Colt turbocharged Ford that performed so flawlessly for Unser Saturday. What Unser didn't say but what he admits privately is that a vear of seasoning under Jones' Carty Rips Phils On Three Homers conceded the pole position. He won that honor on the first day of qualifying at 170.221 m.p.h. and went into the race the odds-on favorite over such worthies as three-time winner A.J. Foyt, 1969 champion Mario Andretti.Unser'sbrotherBobby, Dan Gurney, Johnny Rutherford and three-time world driving champion Jack Brabham.

Rutherford, who started in the middle of the first row, got to the first turn ahead of the field but Al passed him on the back stretch to set the pattern for the race. From that point on, it was Al Unser against the field. Unser so dominated the race from the first lap that there were only three other leaders Foyt, Mark Donohue and Lloyd Ruby for a combined total of nine of the 200 laps. The average race speed was 155.749 m.p.h., held down by 27 minutes under the caution flag. It was Tony Hulman's 25th anniversary as owner of the speedway and he responded by helping pay a purse of $1,000,002.22 history's biggest for any single sporting event.

Donohue collected $86,427.49 for a second place finish he was almost two miles behind Unser while Gurney received $58,977.49 for third. Gurney had finished second the two years previously. Donnie Allison, a 30-year-old ex-farm boy from Hueytown, made his first race ever in open cockpit machinery a successful one by coming in fourth in one of Foyt's Coyote-Fords. He was paid $35,002.49, but more importantly was voted rookie of the year honors. It was the biggest five days in Allison's career.

A big time stock car driver on the South's high speed ovals, he had won a 600-miler the Sunday before and pocketed almost $40,000. lUl 1 1 1 fat ir n'- FRUSTRATION New York Yankee manager argument with the umpires in the Yanks' loss yes-Ralph Houck appears to be pulling his hair out by terday to Minnesota. Houck conversed with four the roots, but he really knocked off cap during an umpires on a call but to no avail. (AP Wirephoto) Chisox Give It To Boston 22-13 A two-run ninth-inning double by Ted Savage lifted the Brewers past the Tigers, who contin Englehorn Takes O'Sullivan Open (Continued from Page 13) baseman Joe Morgan booted Dave Boswell's leadoff grounder to open the gates. Ron Swoboda delivered five runs in the opener with two homers and a bases-loaded walk as the Mets rolled to victory behind unbeaten Ray Sadecki.

Jim Wynn homered in each game for Houston. Tony Perez' 18th homer of the season, a two-run wallop in the seventh inning, carried the Reds past the Expos, who have dropped eight in a row. Lee May hit two homers and Hal McRae one for the Reds, helping southpaw Jim Merritt become the majors' first 10-game winner. The Dodgers took their third straight from St. Louis on Billy Grabarkewitz' two-run homer in the 11th.

Trailing 6-1, Los Angeles exploded for five runs in the seventh to knot it. Johnny Callison knocked in three runs with a homer and a Dodgers 8 Cards 6 LOS ANGELES ab bi ST. LOUIS ab bi Wills ss Motalf WDaviscf WParkerlb Grbkwitz3b Crawford rf Lefebvre2b Brewer Sudakisph Penap Hallerc Vance Normanp 3 110 4 10 0 5 111 5 2 3 1 5 2 2 4 6 0 3 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 110 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cardenalcf Javier 2b Brock If RchAllenlb Torre3b Haguerf Simmonsc Ramirez ss Davalilloph Maxvill ss Torrezp AAcCoolp Linzyp CTaylorph Abernthyp Culverp Leeph 5 0 10 6 12 1 6 13 0 5 0 2 1 4 0 11 5 2 2 1 5 110 4 12 2 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 Gabrielsnph 10 10 Pascualp 0 0 0 0 Sizemore2b 2 0 10 Total 43 8 13 7 Total 45 6 15 6 Los Angeles .010 000 500 0 28 St. Louis ....200 310 000 006 Wills, Abernathy. DP Los Angeles 1, St.

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A 17,166. single as the Cubs flattened San Diego behind Ferguson Jenkins, who survived homers by Nate Colbert, Bob Barton and Al Fer-rara on the way to his fourth victory against seven setbacks. Cubs 7 Padres 4 SAN DIEGO ab bi Campbell 2b 4 0 0 0 CHICAGO ab bi Kessingerss 4 2 2 0 Beckert2b 5 12 1 Huntzss 3 0 0 0 Arclass Gastoncf Ferraralf Colbert lb OBrownrf Spiezio3b Barton Corkinsp DRobertsp AAurrellph Herbelp 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 111 4 2 2 1 4 0 0 0 3 0 10 4 111 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 BWillamsIf Hickmancf Callisonrf Santo3b WSmithlb Hiattc Jenkinsp 5 111 4 110 4 12 3 3 12 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 11 3 0 0 0 Total 33 4 5 3 Total San Diego 010 00 Chicago 202 1 1 Santo. DP San Diego Diego 4, Chicago 9. 2B-Kessinger.

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ER BB SO 5 5 5 2 1113 110 0 4 3 2 9 WP D.Roberts. 2:20. A 22,193. Reds 6 Expos 4 MONTREAL ab bi Hahnlf 4 12 0 Dayph 10 0 0 Sutherlnd2b 5 0 0 0 Staubrf 4 12 2 Phillipscf 4 0 3 0 Batemanc 3 12 0 CINCINNATI ab bi 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 2 2 2 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Roserf Tolancf Perez 3b Bench LMaylb McRaelf Stewart If Helms2b Concepcnss Merrittp Carrollp Gullet Granger Fairlylb Laboy 3b 10 0 0 3 111 10 0 0 Staehleph Boccabllalb 3 0 11 Faireyph Winess MJones ph Brand ph McGinnp HReedp Morton Baileyph 10 10 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 Total 37 4 12 4 Total 31 6 8 6 Montreal 000 220 0004 Cincinnati 110 200 20X 6 Sutherland, Concepcion. DP Cincinnati 2.

LOB Montreal 7, Cincinnati 4. 2B Staub, Rose, Hahn, Laboy. 3B Phillips. HR L.May 2 (14), McRae (5), Staub (6), Perez (18). SF Perez.

IP McGinn 3 5 H.Reed 4 3 Morton 1 0 Merritt (W.10-3) 7 1-3 11 Carroll 1 1 ER BB SO 4 4 0 2 Gullet 1-3 0 Granger 1-3 0 save Granger. WP McGinn. 2:15. A 10,279. record 8:46.1.

James' 440 win made him the first to win the event three consecutive years since Pitt's John wing has made him one of the world's best drivers, with untold wealth and glory ahead of him. He hooked up with the brilliant Jones last year prior to the Memorial Day race, but missed the lineup when he broke his leg while frolicking with a motorcycle in the garage area. After his leg mended, however, the 31-year-old drove Jones' car to six championship victories in 11 races, finished second three times, third once and fourth on another occasion. He came into this year's 500 with the best current record of any driver, and he came to the speedway with the best car among the 80 or so entries. During a month of preparation, Unser consistently turned the top practice laps and had the least problems with his machinery.

From the first week of practice on he was virtually Allison Is Top Rookie INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) Donnie Allison of Hueytown, was voted the rookie-of-the-year Sunday for the 1970 Indianapolis 500-mile race. Allison, 30, finished fourth in the Memorial Day race won by Al Unser. Allison is the first NASCAR driver to win rookie-of-the-year honors for the Indianapolis race and will receive $1,000. George Bignotti, chief mechanic on Unser's team, received the $3,000 mechanic-of-the-year award.

Woodruff 1937-1939 and gave the Villanova star 12 IC4A gold medals, equalling the record of Barney Ewell in the early 1940s. if' Harper, Russ Snyder, Steve Hovley and Danny Walton, but still trailed 6-5. However, Mike Hegan, who hit a two-run homer in the second, opened with a double and was sacrificed to third. Hank Allen walked before Savage connected. A single by Graig Nettles, a sacrifice and Ted Uhlaender's RBI single accounted for Cleveland's winning run against Oakland in the ninth inning.

Reggie Jackson and Bert Campaneris homered for the A's, Ray Fosse for the Indians. Fosse also scored the tying run in the eighth when he doubled and raced home on Roy Foster's single. gone to MIKE'S TEXACO SERVICE STATION 556 W. Tenn. St.

Phone 224-7989 PAINT SHOP SPECIAL Complete Paint Job $40 Only and up (Continued from Page 13) their second straight victory over the Orioles. Tatum came on in the sixth when Wright complained of a sore arm after Boog Powell homered and Paul Blair singled. Blair was struck in the face by a pitch from Tatum in the eighth and suffered a broken nose. McMullen hit a two-run homer off loser Dave McNally in the second and added a run-scoring single off Dave Leonhard in the fifth. The Twins maintained their 26-game lead over California in the AL West when Harmon Kil-lebrew socked his second home run of the game in the 10th inning to beat the Yankees.

That broke up a relief duel between Minnesota's Stan Williams, 5-0, and New York's Lindy Mc-Daniel, 4-1. Roy White and Pete homered for the Yanks. Ward Angels 6 O's 1 BALTIMORE CALIFORNIA ab bi ab bi Rettenmdlf 5 0 0 0 Alomar 2b 2 0 10 Belangerss 2 0 0 0 JTatumcf 3 0 0 1 DMayph 1 0 0 0 Johnstonecf 0 0 0 0 MLopezp 0 0 0 0 Fregosiss 4 2 2 1 Crowley ph 10 10 AJohnsonlf 4 12 1 FRobinsnrf 5 0 10 McMulln3b 4 12 3 JPowelllb 3 111 Re'Jldsrf 10 0 0 Blair cf 3 0 2 0'epoz rf 3 0 2 0 Palmer pr 0 0 0 0 Spencerlb 4 0 0 0 Salmon ss 0 0 0 0 Azcuec 4 0 0 0 BRobinsn3b 4 0 10 Wrightp 2 2 2 0 DJohnson2b 4 0 10 KTatump 10 0 0 Etchebrnc 10 0 0 Hendrcks 2 0 0 0 McNallyp 10 0 0 Motion ph 10 0 0 Leonhard 0 0 0 0 Buford2b 2 0 10 Total 35 1 8 1 Total 32 6 11 6 Baltimore 000 001 0001 California 022 020 0 0 6 Alomar, Etchebarren. LOB Baltimore 11, California 5. 2B Wright.

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Tatum (Blair). WP K. Tatum. PB Etchebarren, Hendricks. 2:28.

A 15,183. ued to have bullpen problems. The Brewers scored three times in the eighth on hits by Tommy third place at 211. Kathy Whit-worth, the LPGA's all-time leading money winner, also had a 72 Sunday and was fourth at 213. Sunday's best rounds were a our-under-par 68 by Donna Cap-oni and a 69 by former tennis champion Althea Gibson Darb-en.

Mrs. Darben tied Sharon Miller for fifth at 216. Miss Cap-oni was deadlocked at 217 with Joann Carner and Sandra Palmer. Miss Englehorn won $2,250 and Miss Masters $1,730. Although Miss Englehorn had no long putts until the winner, she had three from inside six feet for birdies on the fifth, 10th and 11th holes and she two-putted after reaching the green in two on the par five 15th.

She three-putted for a bogey on the 12th after missing the green on the first. X-Shirley Englehorn, $2,250 71-68-71210 Margee Masters, $1,730 69-71-70210 Mary Mille, $1,415 68-71-72211 Kathy Whitworth, $1,1 10 70-71-72213 Althea Darben, $860 76-71-69216 Sharron Miller, $860 71-69-76216 Donna 73-76-68217 Joann Carner, $590 76 69-72 217 Sandra Palmer, $590 73-72-72217 Judy Kimball, $430 72-74-72218 Beth Stone, $430 77-70-71218 Vivien Sauders, $430 72-70-76218 Sandra Spuzich, $301 71-76-72219 Kathy Ahern, $301 72-75-72219 Amie 75-72-72219 Murle Lindstrom, $301 72-72-75219 Won playoff on first extra hole. WILLIE ROOMS I 369 Office Plaza Tallahassee, Fla. Phone 877-3121 (bma) WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) It took an extra hole, but Shirley Englehorn finally finished higher than second in the O'Sullivan Open golf tournament.

"I almost collapsed," she said after rolling in a 20-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a sudden death playoff Sunday with Australian Margee Masters. "It was the only long putt I knocked in all day." What made it even more ironic for Miss Englehorn, who had been the runner-up in both previous O'Sullivan Opens, was that she had bogeyed that first hole in both the second and third rounds of the 54-hole tournament. Miss Englehorn, who had been tied with Mary Mills for the lead going into Sunday's final round, shot a one-under-par 71 Sunday over the Winchester Golf Club course. Miss Masters, who had started out one stroke behind, was two under par with a 70. Both finished at 210 six under par.

On the first extra hole, however, she drove into the rough and hit her second shot into a trap. She had missed a three-foot putt for a birdie on the 17th that would have given her the title. Miss Mills, who had led after Friday's opening round, bogeyed both par three holes on the back nine, shot a par 72 and wound up one stroke behind in Villanova Track Winner The final standings: 1. Al Unser, Albuquerque, N.M., Colt-Ford, 200 laps, 155.749 m.p.h. 2.

Mark Donohue, Media, Lola-Ford, 200 laps, 155.317. 3. Dan Gurney, Santa Ana, Ea-gle-Offenhauser, 200 laps, 153.201. 4. Donnie Allison, Hueytown, Eagle-Ford, 200 laps, 152.777.

5. Jim McElreath, Arlington, Coyote Ford, 200 laps, 152.182. 6. Mario Andretti, Nazareth. Mc-Namara-Ford, 199 laps, 150.492, running when race stopped.

7. Jerry Grant, Seattle, Eagle-Offenhau-ser, 198 laps, 149.894, running. 8. Rick Muther, Laguna Beach, Hawk-Offenhauser, 197 laps, 149.113, running. 9.

Carl Williams, Grandview, Mc-Laren-Offenhauser, 197 laps, 149.073, running. 10. A. J. Foyt Houston, Coyote-Ford, 195 laps, 150.508, stopped by broken transmission gear.

11. Bobby Unser, Albuquerque, N.M., Eagle-Ford, 192 laps, running but with broken turbochar ger. 12. Sammy Sessions, Nashville, Eagle-Ford, 190 laps, 143.578, running. 13.

Jack Brabham, Sydney, Australia, Brabham-Offenhauser, 175, laps, ene seized 14. Dick Simon, Salt Lake City, Utah, Vollstedt-Ford, 168 laps, running. 15. Ronnie Bucknum, Capistrano Beach, Calif, Cecil-Ford, 162 laps, wrecked. 16.

Mel Kenyon, Lebanon, relieved by Roger McCluskey, Tucson, Coy-ote-Offenhauser, 160 laps, 150.214, wrecked. 17. Wally Dallenbach, East Brunswick, N.J., Eagle-Offenhauser, 143 laps, 155.719, magneto failed. 18. Johnny Rutherford, Fort Worth, Eagle-Offenhauser, 135 laps, 156.663, broken header.

19. Lee Roy Yarbrough, Columbia, Eagle-Ford, 107 laps, 106.854, turbochar-ger failed. 20. George Snider, Bakersfield, Coyote-Ford, 105 laps, 152.597, broken suspension. 21.

Mike Mosley, Indianapolis, Eagle-Offenhauser, 96 laps, 158.078, cracked block after coolant leak. 22. Peter Revson, New York, McLaren-Offenhauser, 87 laps, 159.070, blown engine. 53. Bill Vukovich, Fresno, Brabham-Offenhauser, 78 laps, 154.592, clutch failed.

24. Joe Leonard, San Jose, Colt-Ford, 73 laps, 160.310, magneto failed. 25. Roger McCluskey, Tucson, Scorpion-Ford, 62 laps, 155.817, broken suspension. 26.

Gary Bettenhausen, Tinley Park, Gerhardt-Offenhauser, 55 laps, 114.121, dropped valve. 27. Lloyd Ruby, Wichita Falls, Mongoose-Offenhauser, 54 laps, 157.636 m.p.h., cracked axle case and resulting fire. 28. Gordon Johncock, Mount Pleasant, Gerhardt-Offenhauser, 45 laps, 160.626, blown engine.

29. Bruce Walkup, St. Paul, Mon-goobe-Offenhauser, 44 laps, 156.006, timing gear failure. 30. Art Pollard, Medford, King-Of-fenhauser, 28 laps, 163.439, blown piston.

31. George Follmer, Arcadia, STP Hawk-Ford, 18 laps, 157.736, engine failure. 32. Greg Weld, Kansas City, Gerhardt-Offenhauser, 12 laps, 156.713, blown engine. The 33rd driver, Jim Malloy of Denver, in a Gerhardt-Offenhauser was thrown into the wall by a broken radius rod on the parade lap and did not start officially.

0 FSU 'Steals' Way To World Series (Continued from Page 13) tournament. FSU's four hurlers permitted just 13 hits in three games too. Ammann's opening game two-hitter was the second lowest number of hits allowed in a District 3 game by a pitcher, and the five runs FSU allowed was the second lowest by a team which won in three games. Now it's on to Omaha where Florida State faces Arizona at 5:30 on June 13. Stallings thinks it will be just like Gastonia.

"A lot of pressure," he said. "Playing in a tournament like we just did will help us since some district have playoffs between just two teams." "We have stood the pressure all season," continued Stallings. "We haven't gone out and slaughtered many teams. The 5-4 game was typical of a lot of games we won just as tight." Incidently, the trip to Omaha will be the second straight for assistant trainer Doug May. He was with Ole miss a year ago when it won the district title, also in three straight.

Business Men's Assurance Co. Life Health Hospitalization Annuities 9 Group DOG MCffM PHILADELPHIA (AP) Villanova 's runners took back the IC4A outdoor track and field title from Maryland's muscle men. Coach Jumbo Elliott's Villano-vans outscored the Terrapins from the Atlantic Coast Conference 60-52 Friday and Saturday for their 10th IC4A outdoor title in the past 13 years. The Wildcats retired their second IC4A cup five victories retired a cup. The annual battle between the two Eastern track powers one or the other had won the title or been runnerup in the previous five years narrowed the final two events of the two-day meet.

Maryland led 52-50 with only the mile relay and the pole vault remaining. Maryland failed to qualify for the mile relay, and was favored in the pole vault with Buddy Williamson. The Terrapins counted upon Perm or Morgan State to beat Villanova in the relay. Penn, however, fell by the wayside when its leadoff man pulled a muscle. Morgan State tried, but lost by an eyelash at the wire to the irrepressible Wildcats.

Villanova topped it off by getting its only field event points of the meet in the pole vault, while Maryland's Williamson failed to place. Behind Villanova and Mary land came C.W. Post with 18 points, William and Mary 17, Yale 16, Morgan State and Pitt 16 each and Cornell and Penn 13 apiece. Villanova won the mile relay, although Elliott's strategy almost cost the Wildcats the race. He lifted James from the relay team in hopes the mighty burner would win the 220, substituting Marty Liquori in the relay.

James, however, ran a disappointing third in the 220, and Liquori, bushed from his earlier sub-four-minute mile victory, lost the mile relay lead on the second lap with a 49.2 Hardge Davis and Lamotte Hyman, however, regained the lead and held off Morgan State for the key victory. Liquori won the mile in 3: 58.5, James the 440 in 46.2, Dick Buerkle added the three mile, 13:34.2, to his six-mile triumph, and Andy O'Reilly took the 880, 1:49.7, Des iCormack the str plechse in meet at Monticello Ihdt the road. HIT IT BUG! SOUTHERN AIRWAYS RACING NIGHTLY AT 8 (EXCEPT Sundays) MATINEES EVERY SATURDAY AT 2 For Reservations Call 576-1 165. or Your Travel Agent.

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