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40 PRLSS Sunday. November 1981 MOTORSPORTS WORLD Andretti plays waiting game Sports Briefs the International Auto Sports Federation (FISA) in Paris by Doc. 8. He said no second driver had yet been decided either. Darrell Waltrip says he wants to be the leader'of the "new wave" of racing drivers, and if his performance in 1981 is any indication of what's to come, NASCAR may have another Richard Petty on Its hands.

Associated Press Analysis While his world churns in turmoil around him. Mario Andretti is playing a cool waiting game. Andretti, the only man ever to win a Formula One world championship, an Indianapolis 500 and an Indy car championship, appears to be at a pivotal point in his career. 'j; -O! rT COCAIN USE SURFACES IN WALTON TRIAL PORTLAND, Ore. A Multnomah County circuit judge declined Friday to suppress public disclosure of testimony by former National Basketball Association center Bill Walton, possibly about cocaine use.

Judge Charles Crookham earlier decided Walton must submit a pretrial deposition answering certain questions about possible cocaine use or face dismissal of his $5.6 million lawsuit. Walton is suing Dr. Robert Cook, physician for the Portland Trail Blazers. The suit claims Cook was negligent in treating an injury to Walton's left foot, and the result was a broken bone that prematurely ended Walton's NBA career. The suit also Is against the Oregon City Orthopedic Clinic.

The questions regarding possible cocaine use were asked by a lawyer representing Cook and the clinic. The same lawyer opposed the request for suppression of the pretrial deposition. The request was filed by Walton's lawyer. Crookham said he rarely grants so-called protective orders and does not consider such an order appropriate to Walton's suit. Walton, a law student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, received the injury in 1978.

Crookham's earlier order resulted from Walton's unsuccessful attempt to avoid answering the questions asked by defense counsel. Walton said he would willingly answer more general questions, however, and would testify that cocaine use had not influence his basketball playing or his recovery from the injury. BASEBALL SWAP KEMP FOR LEMON DETROIT High-priced slugger Steve Kemp says he thought his days as a Detroit Tiger were numbered, but he didn't know they would end so soon. "I had a feeling that I might be traded this winter. It's still a shock even though I expected it," Kemp said Friday from his California home after the Tigers announced they had traded him to the Chicago White Sox.

Coming to Detroit in the deal is outfielder Chet Lemon, a right-hander who hit .302. had nine homers and 50 runs batted in in 1981. Kemp, who joined the Tigers in 1977, has haggled with Detroit management in recent years over his desire to win a long-term contract. In September, the team offered him a five-year pact for $750,000 a year, but published reports said Kemp was seeking more. Tiger spokesman Dan Ewald denied the trade was related to Kemp's demands.

But Detroit General Manager Jim Campbell said, "We were practically certain we weren't going to be able to sign Steve, so we just wanted to get a player, and it was a matter of which player would be better suited" for Manager Sparky-Anderson's team. Kemp, 27, won a $600,000 arbitration award from the Tigers for the 1981 season. The left-handed hitter would have become a free agent if the Tigers had not signed him before the end of the 1982 season. Lemon is a two-time American League all-star. He has a lifetime batting average of .288 and has hit .300 or more in three of his last four seasons.

Darrell Waltrip wants to be the leader of the new wave ot racers. Mario Andretti is at the crossroads of a long racing career. the race last May. The next morning NEW YORK It apparently took the setting aside of some big egos and the overcoming of a few unusual engineering problems, but a spectacular weekend of auto racing has been scheduled next October in Las Vegas. Championship Auto Racing Teams announced its 1982 schedule Monday, featuring the first-ever Indy car-Formula One doubleheader at Caesars Palace.

John Frasco, CART board chairman, said the Indy cars will run a 200-mile event on October 17, in conjunction with the second-annual Caesars Palace Formula One Grand Prix on October 16. He noted the CART race will be run on an oval track between one and 1-miles in length, utilizing portions of the existing 2.2-mlle road course built last summer on 75 acres encompassing a parking lot and a stretch of empty land next to the hotel-casino complex. "This has never been done before running Indy cars and Formula One cars on the same weekend at the same facility, so you can imagine the sizeable hurdles there were to get over," Frasco explained. "Not to mention the array of egos involved." Although he would not get specific, Frasco, who put the deal together with Caesars Palace Vice President Bill Weinberger, apparently was referring to the fact that logistical problems forced the Formula One people to run their race on Saturday, making it in some eyes a preliminary to the CART race. French Grand Prix driver Patrick Tambay has signed to drive for the Theodore team in the 1982 World Championship season, Theodore team manager Jo Ramirez said Tuesday.

In a telephone interview from the team's British hcadquaters. Ramirez said the team would continue to run only one car in the series. He said Tambay had been prefered over Britain's Geoff Lees and Swiss Marc Surer for the drive. The Theodore team is owned by Hong Kong millionaire Teddy Yip, for whom Tambay has driven in the past. Tambay, 32, a former Can-Am champion in North America, drove this year for the French Talbot-Ligier team but was unexpectedly replaced by American Eddie Cheever for 1982.

Tambay drove for Ensign in 1977 and for McLaren in 1978 and 1979. He is yet to win a Grand Prix. Australian former world champion Alan Jones still has not told the Williams team whether he will accept a major offer and withdraw his decision to retire. Charles Creighton Stuart, a Williams' spokesman, said the team had given Jones until Dec. 7 to decide, because nominations for drivers for the 1982 season have to be given to Waltrip sped to 12 victories this season, the most since Petty bagged 13 in 1975, the last of the "King's" golden years as the unquestioned ruler of the high-banked asphalt.

Waltrip also won 11 pole positions, an all-time racing record $693,342, and his first Winston Cup driver championship. At age 34, Waltrip already has won more Grand National stock car races (39) than all but 10 drivers in the history of the sport. i Waltrip is, today, the man to beat, week in and week out. With Petty 44, Bobby Allison 43, Cale Yarbor-ough pursuing a limited schedule at 41 and David Pearson semi-retired at 46, Waltrip is the new ruler. Petty, Pearson, Yarborough and Allison the four winningest drivers in history will soon retire.

Their departure from the sport will sadden those who have followed them for so many years. And, for that reason, the emergence of the outspoken Waltrip, considered a young interloper by many of the old-guard fans, has not been welcomed with open arms. He has his own fans, but it probably will take a few more years, a few more retirements and a few more victories before Waltrip wins the recognition commensurate with his accomplishments. "Guys like Cale and Petty and David Pearsons brought the sport this far. I want to take it into the future." There is no certainty to his driving future what he will do, where he will do it or how he will fare once he decides.

The dimutive Italian-born driver is coming off three straight years of disappointment on the glamorous Formula One circuit that he owned as recently as 1978. He is upset and incensed by the handling of the 1981 Indy 500, which was first given to him on an off-track ruling, then taken away the same way. And Andretti is furious with those in the media who keep insisting in print that he has decided to retire. As of this week, the 41-year-old resident of Nazareth, does not have a contract to drive either an Indy car or a Formula One car in 1982. Yet he seems in no hurry to tie up loose ends.

He could come back to drive the Indy car trail full-time, something he hasn't done since 1974, or continue to split his time between Grand Prix racing and the Indy car scene a grueling round of travel, testing and racing at places scattered all over the world. "Right now I'm just keeping everybody guessing," Andretti said with a smile. "The press seems to know better than I do what I'm gonna be doing next year." "You know, that really upsets me," Andretti continued in a more serious vein. "Every time I look around, somebody is writing or saying, 'Andretti is 'Andretti says he will I'm talking to people, but that kind of talk has messed up some of my options. "Somebody who might be interested in doing some dealing sees or hears that story and figures 'Why bother? What's the use if he's not coming "But I'm talking to a few people.

One thing I will not do is repeat the last three seasons. I don't want to jump into a situation where I will not be competitive. I'm taking my time and keeping my options open. I've made no decisions yet." Andretti, who won the Indy race in 1969, was five seconds behind Bobby Unser at the end of TATE STOPS GARDNER IN 2:25 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. It took John Tate, the former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion, only 2:25 to stop Chuck Gardner in the first round of a Friday night bout.

Gardner, a bearded and balding 29-year-old from Minneapolis, got in a few early jabs, but Tate soon had him on the ropes with repeated punches to the head. After stumbling, Gardner fell in the corner, the victim of the Knoxville boxer's right uppercut. The victory raised Tate's professional record to 24-2, and was his fourth straight victory. Gardner, who was as tall as Tate at 6-foot-4 but outweighed him by a pound at 245, fell to 15-6. SILVEYVILLE WINS MEADOWS DERBY SAN MATEO Silveyville, ridden by Danny Winick, took the lead at the start and raced to victory in Saturday's $112,000 Bay Meadows Derby.

The winner finished three-quarters of a length ahead of Sunshine Swag, closing fast under Bill Mahomey. Tempo's Tiger was third. Rock Softly fourth, and the favored horse, Always a Cinch, fifth. Silveyville was timed in for the mile and a sixteenth event run over a soft turf course. The winner carried 120 pounds, second highest behind the 121 assigned to Always a Cinch.

Always a Cinch, ridden by D.W. Marr, was racing on grass for the first time, appeared to tire over the soft going and was never a threat. Silveyville paid $8.80, $4.40 and $3.20 to backers and picked up $67,000 of the purse for owner Kjell Ovale. The bay colt registered his third straight stakes victory on grass and increased his lifetime earnings to $199,080. MERE) GO 1 mm size P155I80R13 tubeiess whitewall plus 11.52 Fed.

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