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The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 6

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SECOND Championship Auto Racing Teamswhich in two of the past three years encouraged its members to stay away from Indy car races at Pocono international Raceway, has taken over both the sanction of and the promotion of the sport at the Long Pond facility for five years, it was announced yesterday. John Frasco; chairman of the board of CART, announced the new agreement yesterday in Hampton, where CART was running a 200-mile race. The 1 982 Pocono race the 1 2th annual 500-mile Indy car event at the track, but the first under CART sanction -will be on Aug. 1 5y previously an open date on the CART calendar. The Pocono 500 was a part of the original Triple Crown of Indy car racing, which included the Indianapolis 500 and the old California 500.

before the Ontario Motor Speedway was closed down. That race has been replaced by a 500-kilometer event at Riverside International Raceway. Mario Andretti. a Nazareth resident and favorite at the Pennsylvania track, said, "This is my home track, so to speak. The continuity of the Pocono 500 under CART is happy news to all race fans in the east This is something they will be able to count on." A bitter feud between CART and the U.S.

Auto Club wound up putting Pocono, a traditional USAC track, in the middle. Members of CART, which was organized by dissident car owners and drivers late in t978, boycotted the Pocono race in 1 979, A multi- million dollar lawsuit against CART and several of its directors ensued and additional millions were asked by Pocono after CART members failed to show up for the 1981 race. However, Frasco said that under terms of the new agreemenC'aJI pending litigtion be-, tweert the two parties has been concluded and Frasco said terms of the litigation settlement would not be disclosed, noting that part of the agreement itself is a degree of confidentiality' Discussions have been going on between Frasco and representatives of the Pocono track sporadically since late in 1 980, but the final agreement was hammered out during the past week. SUNDAY CALL-CHRONICLE SPORTS SCORES 8206550 TELEVISION OUTDOORS DEATHS SECTION MAY 2, 1982 gifted Longshot comes all the way from dead last for victory By ED SCHUYLER JR. AP Sports Writer fVV Was t-tr history.

The record is 163,628 for the 100th Derby in 1974. "I remember last year when I rode Woodchopper, and I got trapped inside and couldn't get out," said Delahoussaye, who finished second behind Pleasant Colony in 1981. "With 19 horses in there, I figured I'd be better off losing a little ground, to stay in the dear," said the jockey, who kept the winner off the pace yet perhaps a little closer to the pace than in some of his previous races. 1 Gato del Sol was last going into the first turn, but Delahoussaye had him about seventh and outside in the early run down the backstretch. Gato del Sol made his decisive move on the turn, then took command in the final eighth of a mile, winning in 2:02 2-5 and paying $44.40, $19 and $9.40.

It was the first Derby triumph for both Delahoussaye and owners-breeders Arthur B. Hancock III and Leone J.Peters. Live Oak Plantation's Laser Light paid $12.17 and $9.20. Another neck back was Harbor View Farm's Reinvested, at $4.40 to show. He beat fourth-place Water Bank by 2 12 lengths.

The three favorites Air Forbes Won, who had won his first four career starts; El Baba, the winner of the Louisiana Derby, and Santa Anita Derby winner Mutter- irig were in contention for much of the IVi miles, but faded in the torrid stretch duel. Muttering finished fifth, Air Forbes Won seventh and El Baba 11th. Of course, there were traffic problems, and to many of the jockeys, the race might have seemed a demolition derby rather than the Kentucky Derby. "This was a crazy race," said Miguel Rivera, who finished 14th on Royal Roberto. "It was like running, what do you call it? Like running bumper cars.

It might be the most beautiful race in the world, but it must be the craziest race in the world." a LOUISVILLE, Ky. Gate- del Sol, a survivor in a year when many top candidates were knocked out by injury or illness, proved to be a winner, too, in yesterday's Kentucky Derby. The 108th Derby at Churchill Downs might have been a different story if Timely Writer, Hostage, Linkage and a few others were there. But they weren't, and the story was Gato del Sol. As usual, Gato del Sol had to come from far back.

But unlike his other races this year, he came all the way from dead last, leading a cavalry charge through the stretch to get to the wire 2 Vi lengths ahead of Laser Light for his first victory of the year. He will never score a more important one. In his last start before the Derby, in the Blue Grass Stakes, Gato del Sol came from off the pace but didn't come close to getting the job done. He finished second, 5V2 lengths behind Linkage, whose trainer, Henry Clark, skipped the Derby and pointed the colt toward the Preakness. A showdown in the Preakness May 15 between Gato del Sol and his Blue Grass conqueror might not come about, however.

Trainer Eddie Gregson, who before the Derby had described Gato del Sol as "very smart he's a survivor," said immediately after the race: "I don't think we're going to the Preakness. We'll discuss it later." "I would like to go to the Preakness, but I'm going to leave that up to Mr. Gregson, the trainer," said jockey Eddie Delahoussaye, who steered Gato del Sol through the traffic of a 19-horse field. "Oh, this feels so good to win a race like this," said Delahoussaye, who guided Gato del Sol home before a throng of 141 the second largest crowd in Derby 0 i wmm Sri le t- ftssociarea Kress Gato Del Sol, with Eddie Delahoussaye aboard, heads down the stretch in the lead. See GATO Page C8 1 By GEORGE VECSEY Of the New York Times "That's why I'm here," Williams told people yesterday.

"To honor the Yawkey family, a great tradition." The management rounded up 36 heroes from the pre-World War II days and the World Series losses in 1946, 1967 and 1975. But the main reason the old green park quivered was 63-year-pld Theodore Samuel Williams, 'a? little bulkier than in his playing days, but as -vital as when he was batting .406 in 1941, and maybe a bit mellow, too. Red Sox' Williams: good field, no hit strong to fish and keep his own hours. He was one of a kind, the last of the .400 hitters, who had crashlanded a Navy jet during the Korean War, and he set his own standards. When the invitations went around for the old-timers promotions that proliferated in the 60s and 70s, Williams declined.

He seemed to regard the games as confining as neckties. The Red Sox never asked him to an old-timer game because they never held one, until yesterday, when the franchise celebrated the 50th anniversary of the club's purchase by the late Tom Yawkey. him. The fans sensed that this would be the last time they would cheer Williams in a Red Sox game, so they stood and cheered as he jogged off the field, but true to his fashion, he never tipped his cap. He had not swung a bat in Fenway Park under game conditions, until yesterday.

He did tip his cap in 1969, when he returned as manager of the Washington Senators. By then, he was a folk hero, a self-proclaimed Teddy Ballgame, a John Wayne who could hit home runs. He lasted four years as a manager, until the itch grew too BOSTON The last time Ted Williams swung a bat in Fenway Park was on Sept. 28, 1960, a cold, nasty afternoon with the season winding down. Only 10,453 fans were watching when Williams lashed a pitch from Baltimore's Jack Fisher straight into the icy breeze for his 521st and last home run.

Most fans were cheering when he went out to left field for the next inning, and they cheered even more when Carroll Hardy was sent out to replace See TED Page C8 1 1 IV. i 1st Si! 1H 7Seirs Ml at buzzeif 26 records shattered in 32nd Emrey Relays The 32nd William "Pop" Emrey Relays yesterday was almost like the Kentucky Derby with 67 teams competing and 26 records falling by the wayside. C13 By MIKE O'BRIEN AP Sports Writer Footballs fill air as spring drills end Penn State, Lehigh and Lafayette were among the collegiate schools playing their annual spring football games yesterday and their coaches got a look at how good or bad their squads -will be in the fall. C12 JSP i MILWAUKEE Sidney Moncrief 's shooting hand was numb after a third quarter bump to his elbow, but the Milwaukee Bucks' All-Star guard didn't let it affect his game-winning shot. Moncrief banked in a 10-foot jump shot at the buzzer, lifting Milwaukee to a 92-91 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers yesterday and giving the Bucks new life in the National Basketball Association playoffs.

Moncrief finished with 20 points and Mickey Johnson had 21 for the Bucks, who trail the 76ers 2-1 in the best-of -seven Eastern Conference semifinal series. Game four is to be played here at 1 p.m. (EDT) today. "It really would have been tough to come back if we had lost today," Moncrief said. "There never was any doubt in our minds that we could beat Philadelphia, but this was a big boost to our confidence because they're playing so well and they're deeper than we are." "Sid pumped new blood, new energy into us with one shot," Johnson said.

"Now we really believe we can beat them." Maurice Cheeks led Philadelphia with 19 points, including two free throws which put the 76ers ahead 91-90 with five seconds left. After a Bucks' timeout, Moncrief passed inbounds from mid-court to center Bob Lanier at the top of the circle. Lanier handed off to Moncrief, who drove around the right side of the lane and dropped in his winning basket of the glass at the buzzer. "It was one of our special out-of-bounds plays," Moncrief said. "We isolated Bob and I tried to get a 1 A i Ackerman wins award 2nd time Thea Ackerman of Saucon Valley last night received her second Marion Brown Grace Award during the annual Bethlehem Banquet of Champions in Moravian's Johnston Hall.

C10 few Associated Press Bucks' Sidney Moncrief prepares to launch game-winning shot over 76ers' Julius Erving. See SIXERS PageC8 IT 7T.

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