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PAGE 8 After the Ball Jerry Evans (15-2) in Miami Main Event By Bob Barnet JERRY EVANS, a husky young man who twice won Muncie Golden Gloves open-division championships, has compiled a handsome 15-2 record as a professional light heavyweight and now fights under the name of Irish Jerry Evans. The former Muncie athlete, who now boxes out of Miami, will square off against Vernon McIntosh in the 10-round main event at Miami Beach Auditorium Tuesday night. Jerry feels that this is a "must" fight for him, as the winner has been promised a shot at Mark Tessman, sixth ranked among the world's light-heavyweights, on the Muhammed Ali-Jimmy Ellis card July 26 at the Houston Astrodome. Evans, who boxed as an amateur and started his pro career under the guidance of Muncie Star Golden Gloves coach Jack Hall, was forced to take a layoff of several weeks because of eye cuts suffered in a Miami Beach bout last winter. Jerry is a boxer who cuts easily around the eyes and probably would have moved up faster had it not been for this handicap.

His only two losses came when bouts were stopped because of eye cuts. Jerry was leading on points in both engagements when the referee called a halt because of the cuts. Evans has a lot of friends in the Hoosier state and all will be pulling for him Tuesday night against 1 McIntosh. A chance against Tessman on that Astrodome card would pave the way to some big paydays. Jerry Evans is long overdue for a break because he's a fine guy and a hard worker.

NO SERIOUS CUTS IN LAST BOUT In his last bout April 28, Jerry won by a technical knockout over tough Paul Kasper in the seventh round of a scheduled 10- rounder at Miami Beach Auditorium. Jerry came through the bout without serious trouble from cuts. Writing of the bout in the Miami Herald, staffer Gary Long had this to say: "Encouraging for Evans, who has had two plastic surgery operations over his left eye, was the fact that his lone cut, alongside the troublesome left eye, was a small one. 'Just a Jerry said, 'and it was from a That's common for afighter with Evans' wade-in, style." Long's story revealed that Evans won the first five rounds handily and was far ahead on points when the referee stopped the bout. Jerry writes that he would like a return bout with Florentino Fernandez, one of the two boxers who has beaten him in 17 pro bouts, but this seems unlikely, as doctors have told Fernandez, a top-ranked light heavy, that he should quit the game.

Evans is under the management of Angelo Dundee, internationally-known trainer and handler who has appeared in the corners of a number of world champions, including Cassius Clay. A 100 PER CENT TRY Evans' success as a professional pleases all Hoosiers who followed his career as an amateur. He always gave his best and was, and is, a gentlemanly athlete who has the pride of the firstclass professional. He is now 24 and a victory Tuesday night, followed by a good performance against Tessman, probably would bring him national ranking. He was well-liked in these parts because he never stopped swinging and never asked who he was going to fight.

I wish we had had a hundred like him in The Star's Golden Gloves program. A HELPING HAND Fishermen will be interested in a project designd to create artificial fishing reefs off the Georgia coast. The raw material won't be hard to find, as the reefs will be made of old automobile tires. Under the program of the Georgia Game and Fish Commission, a stack of seven or eight tires will be tied together with steel rods and a concrete base. These units will be sunk at the desired locations.

Fish biologists believe that, about 30 days after the tires are sunk, organisms will begin attaching themselves to the tires. Coral, sea fans and sea urchins will come first, then crabs, shrimp and shellfish. Next will come small bait fish looking for physical cover and food. These in turn will attract game fish. The project initially will cover six and one-half acres of the ocean floor.

Assisting the state agency is the Firestone Tire and Rubber plant at Albany, which has donated 1,100 tires and paid shipping costs to the project site at Brunswick, Ga. The artificial reefs are necessary because the coast at this point has a clean sand bottom with almost no cover or food for game fish. More than 100 acres of the ocean floor will be covered eventually and biologists expect the area to be a fisherman's paradise within five years. It's always nice to read of a project in which man does something to help nature, rather than the other way around. THANKS, GENTLEMEN AND LADIES Note to Muncie-area swim coaches: Don't forget that noon Tuesday, July 6, deadline for entries for The Muncie Star Junior Swim meet July 12.

Entry lists, including names and correct ages of all contestants, along with the events in which they will participate, must be delivered to the sports department of The Star by that time. SPURT AS MOVING UP Former Muncie boxer Jerry Evans, above, will meet Vern McIntosh Tuesday night at Miami Beach Auditorium in a main-event bout. (See Bob Barnet's "After the Ball" 'column.) THE MUNCIE STAR, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1971 Madison Boat Wins Cup Victory Is First for Home-Owned Hydroplane, Pilot MADISON, Ind. (AP) by Jim McCormick of tory Sunday before a hometown at the 63rd Gold Cup hydroplane The boat, owned entirely Madison and operated by deciding fourth heat by ond-place Atlas Van Lines of Owensboro. McCormick, 43, a plumbing and heating contractor who says he is not a fulltime professional driver, won his first major unlimited hydroplane race in a 20- year career of boat racing.

MISS MADISON won the 15-mile final heat with an average speed of 101.522 miles per hour. She lead right from the start and turned in her fastest lap of the third time around 103.687 miles per hour. The victory was worth slightly more than $7,000 for Miss Madison, with all proceeds going back into the boat. Second place was worth more than $4,500. Defending champion Miss Budweiser, driven by Dean Chenoweth, of Xenia, Ohio, finished third in the championship heat but held on to its lead in this year's national standings.

MISS MADISON, fourth in the standings going into the race, had 1,400 points for the day and moved into second place. The Gold Cup Trophy was presented to Miss Madison crew chiefs Tony Steinhardt and I Bob Humphrey as well as McCormick by band leader and former Gold Cup winner Guy Lombardo. Atlas Van Lines II led the way into the championship heat by winning two heats and finishing second in another. Miss Madison was right behind with one first and a pair of second-place finishes. The rest of the final heat was made up of Pride of Pay 'N Pac, Towne Club and Miss Budweiser.

Notre Dame and Miss Timex were eliminated from competition and three other boats were lying on bottom of the Ohio River course. THE COURSE was 2.5 miles long with each heat covering six laps. Each of the boats completing the final heat ran 60 miles in four heats, 15 miles more than in any of the other nine races this season. The victory gave Miss Madison the dual title of both the Gold Cup and the Indiana Govlernor's Cup as the boat won for the first time since 1965. THE FIRST of the three sink- Gold Cup Results HEAT 1 (1) Atlas Van Lines II, Terry Sterrett, 95.322 mph; (2) Miss Madison, Jim McCormick; (3) Towne Club Beverage, Fred Alter; (4) Miss Timex, Ron Larsen (Smythe Smoother Mover, Bob Miller, did not start).

HEAT 1 A Heat 1A started and cancelled due to accident involving Hallmark Homes. Restarted following Heat 1B. (1) Atlas Van Lines Bill Muncey, 103.191 mph; (2) Pride of Pay 'N Pak, Billy Schumacher; (3) Notre Dame, Billy Sterett (Miss Budweiser, Dean Chenoweth, did not finish; Hallmark Homes, Leif Borgersen, flipped and sunk in first start.) HEAT 2 A (1) Pride of Pay 'N Pac 99.100 mph; (2) Atlas Van Lines II, (3) Towne Club, (4) Miss Timex. HEAT 2 (1) Miss Madison 99.100; (2) Miss Budweiser, (3) Atlas Van Lines (4) Notre Dame. (Atlas Van Lines I was cocked one lap and dropped from first to third after an official inquiry.) HEAT 3 A (1) Atlas Van Lines II, 100.278 mph, (2) Miss Madison, (3) Notre Dame, (4) Pay 'N Pac.

(Notre Dame awarded third place when Pay 'N Pao docked one lap after official inquiry. HEAT 3 Heat 3 A started and cancelled due to accident involving Atlas Van Lines I. Restarted following heat 3B. (1) Miss Budweiser, 93.766 mph, (2) Towne Club, (3) Miss Timex. (Atlas Van Lines I sunk after first start of het 3A).

CHAMPIONSHIP HEAT (1) Miss Mdison, 101.522 mph; (2) Atlas Van Lines II; (3) Miss Budweiser; (4) Pride of Pay 'N Pac; (5) Towne Club. GOLD CUP TOTAL POINTS (1) Miss Madison and Atlas Van Lines II (tie), 1,400 points; (3) Pride of Pay 'N Pac, (4) Miss Budweiser, 925; (5) Towne Club, .827. -The Miss Madison, driven Owensboro, flashed to viccrowd of about 110,000 race. by the community of unpaid volunteers, won the nearly half a lap over the secII, driven by Terry Sterett ings occurred in the first heat. Leif Borgersen of Seattle, driver of the Hallmark Homes, was thrown into the water as the boat pitched onto its right front side, then titte back to the left, crashing into the water nose first.

Borgersen received only minor injuries. The Smythe Smoother Mover became the second victim of the day before Heat 1B even began. The thunderboat's supercharger exploded, opening a large hole in the bottom of the craft which wallowed, then sank in the middle of the race course. The third of the 10 qualifiers to be shelved was the Atlas Van Lines driven by Bill Muncey of Seattle. Muncey was dueling the Miss Budweiser on the backstretch a early in heat 3A when the right sponson- protective device-flew away.

Muncey attempted to float the boat toward shore, but it sank in about 20 feet of water. on U6 WE DID Hydroplane driver Jim McCormick (left) is congratulated by his crew aboard the Miss Madison after the hometown- boat won the Gold Cup Sunday afternoon on the Ohio River. The victory was the first for McCormick and Miss Madison. (AP Wirephoto) Beats Petty by 4. Seconds Bobby Isaac Cops Firecracker er 400 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.

Only 11 seconds separated the feel like today I just outran the race to take advantage of right side came up about a foot (UPI)-Bobby Isaac charged four Chrysler-powered cars as everybody." larger carburetor openings. with about six laps lef. from the 21st starting position they swept under the checkered Isaac the second The first 200 miles were run "My chief mechanic was posted in his Dodge to a slim four- flag, completing the 400-mile fastest time, but had at record speeds and the first telling me to take it easy but I second victory over Richard chase over the high-banked caution flag appeared on the qualifying to start 21st because he missed was still pushing it as hard as I Petty's Plymouth Sunday in the turns of the 2.5-mile Daytona the first two days of qualifying 85th lap when Tiny Lund could," said Isaac. "The hood 13th annual Firecracker 400 International Speedway. after owner Nord Kraus- skidded 800 feet down the wall probably cost me 15 to 20 miles car stock car race.

THERE WERE lead (kopf initially said he would not in his 1969 Mercury. Lund was per hour by coming up." 31 changes taken to a local hospital with the enter the Dodge in the race. fractured ribs. Donnie Allison, who started Isaac nursed his car through among seven drivers in possible on the pole in his Wood the last few laps with the right race which was slowed for 10 Krauskopf, who has been Isaac took the lead 25 laps Brothers Mercury, finished fifth side of his hood flapping in the laps by two caution flags. squabbling with NASCAR over from the finish after a series of after losing a lot of time in the breeze after a hood pin broke.

Isaac's winning speed was the new restrictor pit stops by the leaders carburetor who the 161.943 miles per hour, com- plate requirement, finally en- never gave it up. He and pits changing tires. Bobby Petty, won Daytona pared with the Firecracker tered the car Friday with a pulled Allison, seeking his sixth 500 here earlier this year, record instead of away to a margin straight major victory, was comfortable finished four seconds back. of 167-247 m.p.h. set by new "wedge" engine but Petty began Cale.

Yarborough in 1968 in a the regular "hemi" engine. when making Isaac's up sixth. Petty's teammate, Buddy Ba- Mercury. ground rapidly An estimated crowd of 65,000 ker, was third in a Dodge and ALL THE first four finishers hood latches broke. watched the race under cloudy, Pete Hamilton finished fourth "I can't say enough about my switched to the wedge engine in ISAAC SAID the hood had been threatening skies but there was in a Plymouth.

crew," said the elated Isaac. Chrysler-powered cars for loose for several laps but the no rain. Trevino's Birdie Wins Canadian Open Playoff MONTREAL -Lee foot birdie putt on the first off Sunday and defeated Canadian Open Golf The brash and cocky weeks age captured the U.S. strokes off the pace in the par 67 and tied Wall at 275. Wall, at 47 the oldest man in the field here, had a final-round 69 and blew a chance to score his first victory in five years when he missed from eight feet on the 72nd hole--a putt that would have won it outright for him.

The $30,000 first prize pushed Trevino's leading money winning total for the year to 869 and put him within close range of Billy Casper's $205,000 record single-season total. WALL, in his 23rd year on the pro tour, collected $17,100 for second place. Trevino, now winner of four titles this season and nine in his brief five-year professional career, now has won two tional titles in the last three weeks and has dead aim on next week's British Open at Southport, England, starting Wednesday. The flambayant character, certainly the dominant figure in the game this year, put the pressure on the quiet, gentlemanly Wall from the start. Trevino knocked in a up his putt.

hole of a play- Wall stepped to the putt that Wall in the would have won courageous missed. sudden it outright, but They went to the 15th, a 410- Championship. Mexican-American, who two yard par four, for the start of Open title, came from two the sudden-death playoff. Wall final round with a five-under- put his second into the gallery and Trevino was on in two, some 10 feet away. Playing one two-some in front Wall chipped just by the hole, of the frail-appearing, graying the ball running over the low veteran, Trevino holed out a side of the hole.

wedge shot for an eagle two on TREVINO then banged in the the first hole. cup and threw his cap high in But Wall, his spectacles glis- the air as he became the first tening in the bright, warm sun, man to win both the American watched and listened to the in and Canadian Opens a single huge roar in patient silence, year since Tommy Armour responded a turned the trick in 1927. and with birdie It was a two-man race all the putting woes, had a 71 for 287, way. far back in the field. Phil Rodgers took third alone Palmer, 41 and the game's with a 69 for 281.

Two strokes all-time leading money winner, further back was R. H. Sikes, announced immediately after 68-283. Bob Rosburg was alone finishing that he would not in fourth at 284. compete in the British Open.

"I owe myself a rest," PalmLou Graham, Terry Wilcox Archer were er said. "I'm not satisfied with and big George my game. It just wouldn't be next at 285. Archer had a 69, Wilcox 73 and Graham 75. fair to go over there playing way I'm playing right ARNOLD Palmer, troubled with that again gave him a lead.

The 1959 Masters champion and Player of the Year held it until they came down the stretch on the par-72 Richelieu Valley Golf Club course. THEN, on the 16th, a short par four, the stocky, swarthy Trevino rifled iron within six feet of the flag and made the putt for the bird that knotted them at 13 under par. Trevino hit a beautiful iron to six feet on the final hole but missed the putt. Then it was Wall's turn. He came out of the rough to five feet and waited again while his playing partner, Bob Rosburg, Leads for 73 Laps Hometown Driver Wins Raintree 100 By JIM BLACK STAR SPORTS WRITER NEW CASTLE "Fireball" Gene Prosser of New Castle made off with the first prize of a $1,000 bill by winning the 1st annual Raintree 100 at the Mt.

Lawn Speedway here Sunday night. Prosser started from the pole position and led 73 of the 100 laps. He was the fastest qualifier of the night pushing his 1969 Chevelle around the three-tenths mile track in 16.92 during qualifications. An overflow crowd estimated at 3,300 watched a show which also included three super-six heats, a super-six trophy dash and a 25-lap feature race for the super-six's. PROSSER'S WIN in the latemodel stock, 100-lap race was not an easy job.

The New Castle veteran had to repeatably fight Trevino Art Wall Phil Rodgers R.H. Sikes Bob Rosburg Georeg Archer Terry Wilcox Lou Graham Dewitt Weaver Rod Funseth Lee Elder Arnold Palmer Labron Harris Kermit Zarley John Lister Gay Brewer Fred Marti Dick Rhyan Billy Maxwell Steve Reid Kono Bob Charles Gene Littler Don Bies Pete Brown Dale Douglass x-won playoff Final Scores $30,000 73-68-67-67-275 17,100 70-67-69-69-275 10,650 72-72-73-60--281 7,050 71-71-73-68-283 6,150 71-72-67-74-284 4,875 72-74-70-69--285 4,875 72-72-68-73-285 4,875 67-71-72-75-285 3,900 69-75-70-72-286 3,900 67-73-71-75-286 3.150 73-70-73-71-287 3,150 70-76-70-71-287 3,150 70-72-68-77-287 2,550 70-78-69-71-288 2,550 75-71-68-74-288 2,550 71-73-68-76-288 2,025 70-78-73-68-289 2.025 76-69 2,025 71-74-71-73-289 2,025 71-75-70-73-289 1,354 74-75-70-71-290 1,354 71-71-76-72-290 1,354 70-75-72-73-290 1,354 69-76-72-73--290 1,354 1,354 73-72-71-75-290 PROSSER WAS unchallenged from this point and finished three-fourths of a lap in front of Hinshaw. In the super-six wualifications Tommy Thomas, Richmond, set a new track record this division. He toured the track in :19.29 to break his old record of :10.41. He also won the vive-lap trophy dash.

Bill Miller, New Castle, won the super-six feature and heat races went to Miller, Jim man, Selma, and Bob Schroeder, Muncie. GAME POSTPONED DUNKIRK- Eastern Indiana Baseball League game involving the Dunkirk Watson's and Muncie Texaco, scheduled for Sunday at Dunkirk, was postponed at the request of the Muncie team. NO PAYMENTS TILL FALL Don't -Improve Room Additions New Baths New Roofs Paneling Attic Rooms Basement Rooms Garages Car Ports Awnings Chain Link Fence Installed We can make nice rooms out of your attic or basement. 25 years in All carpenters, Insured business All Work Guaranteed FREE ESTIMATES--PHONE 289-4466 25 YEARS OF REMODELING Morris Co. EXPERIENCE 2819 S.

Elm St. off Alex Burke, New Castle, in the first half of the race. He eventually fell behind Burke, but took the lead for the final time late in the event when Burke had to make a pit stop. Shorty Hinshaw, Mooreland, was second and Herb Rose, Anderson, finished third. Don Skaggs took fourth, Ellis Herbert fifth and Dick Hinshaw sixth.

Twenty-one cars started the race and only the first three were running on the same lap when the checkered flag was waved. Prosser took the lead going into the first turn as the green flag was dropped and Burke fell in behind him. The two raced bumper-to-bumper fmr the first 24 laps. Then Prosser opened up a five-car length advantage when Burke got held up as the two leaders started to lap slower cars. PROSSER KEPT the advantage until the race was stopped after 40 laps.

Starter Rick Sweigart had to halt the field in order that an ambulance could cross the track to take a spectator in stands to the hospital. The race was restarted and this time Burke didn't let Prosser get too far in front. Going into the short turn on the 53rd lap Burke pulled even with Prosser and came out of the turn with a car length lead. It looked like it was going to be smooth sailing for Burke the rest of the way, but he was struck down by fate on the 79th lap. As he was trying to lap Ellis Herbert, Burke brushed Rushville drivers car and in the process his right front tire blew.

He continued in the race for two laps, but had to stop for a tire change and didn't get back in the event until the 91st lap. ALL 3 ROSS' STORES OPEN TODAY 'TIL 6 P.M. 12th Hoyt Ave. 2100 White River Blvd. 2507 Wheeling Ave..