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THE MIAMI NEWS, TWsday, May 31, 16 11A HILL'S VICTORY NOW OFFICIAL Clark Crew Admits Error ft 1 'Ssi I The total purse and prize division will not be announced until the traditional victory dinner tonight. Clark won $166,621 last year. on 40 minutes of the race, compared with only 13 minutes in 1965, Hill's average speed of 144.317 m.p.h. was far off Clark's record 150.686. only one lap of finishing when the race was declared ended.

Johncock was fourth. With the yellow caution light Con't From 1st Sports Page Wichita Falls, oil leak, and Stewart oil pressure failure. Stewart almost added the In dianapolis 500 to his May 22 4, 1 TO Monaco Grand Prix victory, leading the field by more than a lap at one time before his Lola-Ford failed with 25 miles to go. Hill also drove an English-American hybrid Lola-Ford, owned by John Mecom Jr. of Houston.

Ruby made America's best showing. He took the lead from Clark three times in the first three-quarters of the race, twice when the hard-pressed Scot went into spins both times without hitting anything and once by outrunning Clark on the mains tretch. Jim McElreath, Arlington. finished third in a Ger-hardt-Ford. Rookie Mel Kenyon of Davenport, Iowa, who lost most of his left hand in a racing accident last year, was awarded fifth place, highest for an Offen-hauser-powered car, and lacked Aaeociated Press Wire photo Two Wheels Fly Skyward Froin Racer Crashing Into Wall At Left TV The Absurd hm.

W-f .54 l-r-aJ Con't From 1st Sports Page jokes, as it became obvious that the announcer was completely helpless and lost. With 10 minutes to go, the broadcaster said that a driver coming back on the track still had a chance to finish in the top 10. "Because there are less than 10 cars running," he said, and the gulp was almost audible. Laughter. With three laps left to go in the 20O-lap race, it was quite clear that the announcer had no idea if Hill or Jimmy Clark was ahead.

"So a very interesting situation develops," he sighed. More laughter. He persistently identified cars incorrectly in the confusion, eventually referring to one driver as "Clark, uh, Jimmy, uh Jackie Stewart." And the audience was soaking it al up, even cutting its laughter abruptly short at times, it seemed, to hear the next gag. The video portion of this five-hour presentation was as well-ordered as the audio was confused. There were superb pictures and taped re-runs of the 16-car jam-up at the start of the race, as well as the lesser accidents that followed.

Even on a 2'i-mile track, the pictures were much sharper than those which normally are offered on closed circuit from boxing matches, and these made the long race endurable. The outstanding pictures resulted from first-lap accident, where there was immediate comic relief from a clear shot of driver A. J. Foyt scrambling over a 10-foot fence to get away from the bouncing tires. The day's outstanding speech did not come from a closed-circuit employee, but from driver Dan Gurney, who was in a towering rage from getting knocked out of the race at its beginning.

"All the drivers had accelerators," said Gurney, normally a yep-nope kind of talker, "and they all had brakes. If they all had minds too, we'd still be running." Once Graham Hill's hearing was restored or he had exhausted the available lipstick the man with the microphone finally got the winner back on the air, and his first question showed that he had not been standing idly by. "It was phen-nomenal, was it not?" asked the announcer. "It was, indeed," agreed Hill. Graham didn't know the half of it.

He would have to have seen the closed circuit to know what a phenomenal thing it was. The announcers were very fortunate that only four cars finished, and not 33. If four cars distracted the announcers to the point of utter confusion, 33 would probably have rendered them speechless. Which might have been better, after all. Clark Sets Lorie Record In '500' Race INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

(AP Only one speed record was set in yesterday's accident-scarred 500-mile auto race. Jimmy Clark, the defending champion, turned in a lap clocked at 159.179 miles an hour, official time charts showed today. He set the new speed mark on the 18th lap shortly after passing Mario Andretti of Nazareth, the early leader. FSV Start Title Defense On Thursday Special To The, Miami Newi TALLAHASSEE Florida State's Seminole baseball team, winner of 36 of 47 games during the regular season, opens defense of the district 3 baseball crown in Gastonia N.C. Thursday.

It will be the eighth appearance for the Seminoles in the district tournament. FSU won the double elimination tourney last year after dropping the opening contest to Mississippi State. State will be the Tribe's first opponent again this year. The Seminole specialty this year has been hitting and plenty of it. Seven of the eight FSU starters ended the regular season batting over .300.

Leading the Seminole hit parade was centerfielder Mike Martin, who finished the season with a .364 average. Behind Martin is shortstop Gary Sprague, who ended the year a .360 mark. Jim Lyttle, the Seminole's talented right fielder, is one of the nation's most sought after bonus prospects. His ability is attested to by his .345 batting average and 12 home runs. The sophomore standout also had 48 RBI's to his credit.

Catcher Randy Brown was team leader in stolen bases with 24 thefts. His .315 batting average was just one point above that of former Miami-Dade standout Pete Sarron. Sarron. the Tribe's firse baseman, had four home runs and six doubles. Leading pitcher for the Seminoles was sophomore Wayne Vincent.

The Alabama lefty picked up 11 victories against a single loss to his credit Vincent chalked un 118 strike-outs to set a new FSU record, and a 1.39 earned run average. Behind Vincent is senior lefty Eddie Howell who has a less spectacular 6-3 won-loss mark, but has a 1.64 ERA to add to his record. Marv Stringfellow, a junior, got off to a rocky start with a bad arm early this year, but hns comf on strong toward the end of the season to record a 6-4 record and a 2.22 ERA. The fourth Seminole starter is Marty Brooks, who has achieved a 3-0 record and a 2.40 ERA. Jim Helm sophomore righthander also has chalked up a 3-0 record, but he has seen only limited action.

His ERA however is a sizzling 1.23. FLORIDA STXTE STATISTICS HITTING (WON 36. invr lit HR RM Ave. M. Martin, rf 15 40 4 41 (If -J id Cloverleaf Team Captures Junior Title 4 h'-'T Dade's Arnold 'Unbelievable' With 18 Pitches A Graham Hill Waves After Victory HILL GOT STARTED BY ANSWERING AD INDIANAPOLIS A bandy-legged former clockmaker who was willing to work for nothing so he could learn the auto-racing business, Graham Hill, won the Indianapolis 500-mile race with the same measured, calm detachment he brings to all his nices.

Although there was a frightening accident seconds after the grind began, and although he was seventh after 300 miles, Hill continued to drive his race working hard, staying out of trouble, taking minimum risks at a steady fpeed. At 6 feet and 180 pounds, with long blond hair that flops over his ears, a long nose that dwarfs his thin f3ce and a well-trimmed blond mustache, Hill would pass for an R.A.F. squadron leader. From the time he was 16 years old, a dropout working in the London offices of S. Smith and Sons, clockmakers, Hill continually thought of the path he should take to glory.

It was not as a clockmaker. "A clockmaker," he said years later, "is usually a little old man with white hair and thick spectacles, very studious and clever, if sometimes a bit cross-eyed. I don't think I should have been caded a clockmaker." One day in 1952, after turning 23, he answered an ad for a racing-driver school. Here was his chance. But it cost 5 shillings (70 cents' to use the track facilities.

He couldn't afford the 70 cents so he hired himself out as an unpaid mechanic to the man who ran the school. Hill was on the dole, collecting 22 shillings a week, and he used the money to pay his busfare to and from work. With more nerve than knowledge, he said later, he joined the famed Lotus car builders as a mechanic for two years and quit when he was refused permission to compete. Four months later, he was asked back. Since then he has reached the heights, be it in a Ferrari, a Lotus or a B.R.M.

He has 'been among the world's outstanding drivers and in 1962 captured the world title by compiling the most points in the torturous Grand-Prix races that make up the championship. Hill, who was born Feb. 15, 1929, has a noticeable limp as well as back trouble both stemming from a motorcycle accident when he was 20 years old. He says he never even drove an automobile until he was 23. His humor is wry and dry and is even more pointed because of his very correct, very British accent.

Recently, when driving a rented American car in Indianapolis, he stepped down on the power brakes too sharply and almost hit the windshield. He turned slowly to the passenger and said, things ARE a bit dangerous don't you think?" Hill's striking features immediately call attention to him, yet he has remained amiable and, on occasion, makes himself the butt of his own joke. He once described a less-than-adequate machine he was driving this way: "It's too big, too heavy, too slow and the driver at the wheel is a lunatic." Hill, who lives in the London suburb of Mill Hill with his wife, Bette. and young sen and daughter, occasionally sneaks out at night to practice on the deserted roads. He even practiced on the Indianapolis Speedway the day after he qualified for the 500.

The news surprised the regular "Indy" drivers. Yesterday, he brought off the biggest surprise of all, winning the 500 on his first try. Marr Makes It Tough For Nation's Golfers Spracue, 175 42 i3 4 23 .30 Lyttle, rf 203 54 70 12 4 .345 Rinil.v l.rcv.vn, 143 47 45 4 42 .315 Pete Sarron. In 159 35 50 4 2 .314 I). Fernandez.

21) 188 36 57 4 49 .303 jT. ThoT'1 's. If 165 33 50 7 40 .303 I.M. Hopkins, 3h 137 35 40 4 31 .292 I'l I HI.X, Name, Throws (. I.

IP BB SO ERA Ilm Helm, 3 3 0 21-i, 7 It 1.23 Wayne V. I. 14 11 1 110 7 118 1.39 Ed. Howell, 13 6 3 74i 34 71 l.M Marty B'kii, 12 3 0 42' i 14 37 2 30 M. Str'f 'lw.

13 4 69' 3 19 75 2.22 Steve 7 3 0 24 14 16 3.3 7 1 0 13't 14 7.07 Cdurh 5 1 2 2 12 23 7.27 OTHERS 14 2 1 34' 16 16 5 29 GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. When Joe Arnold came up to bat at the start of the sixth inning yesterday, the recorded organ music at Lincoln Park Stadium was playing, "You Can't Be True, Dear." It was a most appropriate theme song for young Arnold. He's been unbelievable lately. Arnold, who didn't start pitching until Miami-Dade's 16th game of the season is now the ace of the staff. Yesterday Joe extended his scoreless streak to 23 innings with his second shutout in the National Junior College tournament here.

This includes a 13-inning whitewash of Phoenix in the tourney's first round. Arnold won three games and saved another in the state tournament but he didn't make the all-state team. He won one of three games in the Region 8 playoff and already is 2-0 here. Joe has completed nine of 12 starts, has seven shutouts among his 11-1 record, has yielded just 11 runs in 105 innings and leads the pitching staff with an 0.60 earned run average. "It's gotten psychological now," says captain Jim Wilk.

"When Joe pitches we just know the other team won't score." A variety of pitches, including three variations of the curve ball, accounts for Arnold's success. Joe has so many pitches you'd expect catcher Bob Stinson to need two hands for signals. Arnold grins when he says he can throw 18 different pitches. "Trade secret," he says, "I'm not telling what they are. Actually, I just throw a fast ball, three kinds of curves, slider, screw ball, sinker ball and knuckler during a game.

That's all." The 35 scouts here are busy taking notes. Joe started out in baseball as a catcher and just fooled around as a pitcher. "We had pitching contests all the time in Savannah," he says, "and we'd mess around with different pitches. I didn't start pitching seriously until I went to Lake Worth High, and that was out of necessity." Arnold wouldn't be pitching for Miami-Dade today if the original Falcon staff had come through as expected, way back about 38 games ago. "He was superb today," said Mainieri.

"He fights every hitter, and he dares them to hit He's got a live arm. A real competitor." The ballots for the All-America team haven't been counted yet the team is due for release next week from Grand Junction and Arnold has a good chance. By now, he's a sure bet for all-tournament. AL LEVINE Lutz-Lott Bout Is Postponed boxing bout scheduled for tonight at Miami Beach Audit-rum between Don Lutz and lordon LrK has been postponed because of ai injury to Lutz. Promoter Chris Dundee said todav the next program at the Beach would be in two weeks.

By TOM BIRKS Sport Writ" of The Miami Nfn Competing in the championship rolloffs at the Bowlerama Lanes yesterday, the Clover-leaf Lanes No. 2 team won the title in -the Greater Miami Junior Traveling League. The aggregation from John Smith's establishment, composed of Dave Patrick, Bernie Har-rold, 'Barry Bacaris, Mickey Sweeney and Mike Monte defeated the Airport Lanes team, Bowling for the Airport were Terry Chapman, Don Marx, Curt Moore, Jim Dier-sing and Terry de Rousee. In the semi-finals, Cloverleaf defeated Imperial Lanes No. 2, and the Airport team turned back the Cutler Ridge, Don Marx led the scoring with an excellent 232-672.

Bobby Smith rolled 235-617, Dave Pat- Ethel Glaseo Leads By 36 At Pompano Special To The Miami News POMPANO BEACH Ethel Glasco, one of South Florida's top-ranking women bowlers, had a 36-pin lead over a classy aggregation of the nation's top professionals as the second half of the $5,800 Women's Professional Bowling Association tournament went into its second half at Glasco's Pompano Bowl here today. The wife of sponsor Ray Glasco took the lead at the end of the first block of five games with a 1,076, and then stayed in front all the way with a 1,032 block for a 2,108 aggregate. Robbie Frey, shooting for top money, started out with a 254 game, but finished behind Mrs. Glasco with a 1,037 for her first effort. She then tacked up a 1,972 total to keep her in the second spot.

There are two squads today at 1 and 7 p.m., and there could be quite a few changes before a champion is crowned late tonight. Among the big names who couldn't make the top 10 are Shurley Garms, Betty Kuzynski, Chicago's 1965-6 National Bowler of the Year; Evie Teal, Miami's 1964 National BPA. All Star finalist and Jean Wilson. The 10-game high scorers: Ethel Glasco Robbie Frey Betty Kuzynsky Betty Mivelaz Rose Weinstein Georgiana Da-kins Virginia Askland Loa Roxberger 1.936; Judy Edel Hazel Verdes 1,929. rick 224-604 and Karl Kiin 213-603.

The University Bowl team, composed of Susan Bell, Nancy Pram, Patty Dodd and Sandy Smith, on the championship of the girls division, by defeating the Imperial Bowl team by a 2.271-2.076 score. Bowling for Imperial weic Jeana Steers, Phyllis Laurie Knap and Susan Robison. Susan Pell, former Miami News chamnion, recorded 2' 2-552 for hieh score. Sucan Robison turned in 202-513. Fowling in the final matches of the Southern Division of the Junior Traveling League over the weekend, Libba Bethea's two youngsters Posted good scores for Cutler Ridge.

Pleas Bethea rolled- 235-575 and Dave Bthea Dick Norstrom posted 235-539. The Go Go's, an aggregation from the Niters League at the Carol City Lanes, was crowned champion in the Champion of Champions rolloff at Imperial Bowl over the weekend. It had a 2,994 score. The University Bowl Fox Tours team finished second with a 2,983 total. In the Men's Division at Cutler Ridge, it was the Bee T.

V. quintet from Bowlerama which proved successful by compiling a 3,127 aggregate. Tony's Sand-baggers from the Airport Lanes took down second money with 3,119 and third place went to the University Bowl Transmitters, which bowled 3,116. The Hollywood Diet Bread team won the title of the Pjn Pusters League at the Carol City Lanes. It was composed of Pauline Graham, Aurura Bernstein, Gladys Sweeney and Olene Furlong.

Bo's Window Cleaners finished second. Janet Cole, who has been very consistent all season, posted 164 for high average. Mary Leal turned in a 234-623 for high game and set. Fort Lauderdale's Butch Gar-hart who competes in the South Florida Classic League at the Cloverleaf Lanes, finished the season in that establishment, and then trekked over the weekend to Atlanta, the home town of Bob Bradley, and won the Carling Open Classic. In repeating his victory of last year, Gearhart racked up a total of 6.884 actual and bonus pins, in winning 24 of his 32 head-to-head matches.

He picked up $2,000, the same as last year. He had to defeat a host of the nation's top-ranking professional stars. Bill Allen of Orlando, a top( member of the P.B.A. tour, finished second with a total of 7,761 pins. DON BRUMFIELD Brumfield Captures Another Thn AitKH-latrd FrMt Everything's coming up roses for Don Brumfield these days.

The 23-year-old jockey from Nicholasville, rode Kauai-King to victory in the Kentucky Derby and The Preakness and it looks as if he will win the Eelmont Stakes with Kauai King on Saturday and become the first to sweep the Triple Crown in 18 years. It seemed for awhile that Brumfield might be faced with a difficult choice Memorial Day after he won the $137,900 Jersey Derby astride Creme dela Creme at Garden State Park. But Don's good fortune stood up. He didn't have to choose between Kauai King and Creme Dcla Creme in the Belmont. Ira Hanford, trainer of the Jersey winner, eased Brum-field's mind.

"We will not go in the Belmont," Hanford said. Instead Crome dela Creme will be shipped to Chicago for the' Arlington Classic. "I'm glad I don't have to make that Brumfield said. "Both Kauai King and Creme dela Creme are great horses." It was Creme dela Creme's seventh victory in eight starts and avenged his only defeat by a nose to Indulto in the Withers Mile at Aqueduct. This time he beat Indulto by two lengths although running wide at the head of the stretch where he led by four lengths.

Brumfield has been up on the Bwamazon Farm colt in all of his races. Creme dela Creme shared the holiday headlines with Bold Lad, who made it four straight with an imposing 2'i length victory in the $113,600 Metropolitan Handicap at Aqueduct. Mrs. H. C.

Phipps 4-year-old sped the mile in 1:34 1-5 despite the heavy impost of 132 pounds and became the favorite to sweep the handicap triple of the Metropolitan, Suburban and Brooklyn. Betoken and Tota Nell scored in the split divisions of the Polly Drummong Stakes at Dela-ware Park and Maris won the Round Table Handicap at Arlington Tark in other holiday features. Experience Hard To Beat As Seixas Wins In Tulsa JEFFERSON STORES OPEN EVERY DAY For Your Shopping Convenience DAILY 10 to 10 SUNDAY lOto 7 Everyday Low Prices 3 Convenient Credit Plans Marr iumppd to a three-stroke lead with a birdie on the first hole and an eagle on the 500-yard, par 5 second. Two Wood shots put him 35 feet from the pin and he made the first putt. Then he shot par until a bogey 5 on the 465-yard ninth.

Player rushed on the course a'ter spending the night-in Columbus with Jack Nicklaus and was four strokes down after the first nine. Player got to within one-stroke when Marr took a bogey on the 12th, but he fell behind again with a bogey on the 15th. Player picked up one stroke on the 10th when his approach shot hit a rake on the fringe of the green and bounced 50 feet to within three feet of the flag. The Firestone Club is the site of the PGA National Championship July 20-23. AKRON, Ohio (AP) Dave Marr has given some 100,000 golfers a tough score par 70 to shoot at if they want to earn a Beat The Champion certificate from the PGA.

All entrants must record a score of one-under-par, including handicap, to beat Marr. who fired a 33-3770 at the Firestone Country Club layout yesterday to win National Golf Day's Round of Champions by one stroke over Gary Player. Marr, PGA titleholder, toured the front nine of the par 70 course in two-under, but was two over on the last nine to break even. Player, U. S.

Open champ from South Africa, finished 37-3471 and kept hitting to his left on the front nine. "I have no excuses," he said. "I just played a lot of junk." knocking off top-seeded Chuck McKinley of Port Washington, N.Y.. in Sundsay's semifinal round. Mrs.

Bille Jean Moffitt King of Long Beach, top-ranked among women players by U.S. Lawn Tennis Association, won the women's singles title yesterday. Mrs. King, first seed, defeat-ed Mrs. Carol Hanks Aucamp of St.

Louis, No. 2 seeded, 6-0, 6-1. Seixas teamed with Ham Richardson of Dallas and won the men's doubles by downing McKinley and Jim Osborne of Hawaii 1-6, 6-4, 6-0. TULSA. Okla.

(AP) Tennis veteran Vic Seixas, who won the Tulsa Invitational crown Monday, is living proof that experience is hard to beat. The 42-year-old former Wimbledon and U.S. singles champion from Philadelphia captured the title by outplaying collegian John Pickens of Tuscaloosa, 6-3, 6-4. Seixas broke the Rice University student's serve In the second game of the first set for a 2-0 lead and was never headed. It was the first appearance in the Tulsa Invitational for Seixas, who limits his tennis to a few tournaments a year.

He earned his spot in the finals by Jefferson DEPARTMENT KENDALL N. MIAMI BEACH FT. LAUDERDALE 77.

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