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Billy Cunningham, Coach of the Year cr! ''il, Billy Cunningham, who led the Philadelphia 76ers to the championship of the nt. 0 National Basketball Associ- :40. 0'7 4 I ation, has been selected s'''-- NBA Coach of the Year by -9'. The Sporting News. Cunningham was chosen by the -1 weekly publication's NBA correspondents after lead- ing the 76ers to a four-Cunningham game sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA championship series.

The 76ers are the first team ever to lose only one playoff game en route to the NBA championship. In announcing the award yesterday, the St. Louis-based publication also noted that Cunningham won 300 games faster than any other coach in NBA history and 65 games during the 1982-83 regular season. 'Any way I can get sem' 7,11,,.. Tom Sneva drove into victory lane, but Al Unser 1.

4 Sr. drove home with the first-place trophy yesterday in the Rex Mays 150 at West Allis, Wis. Sneva was ,64, r' eating a hot dog two hours after the race when he learned his Texaco Star had been disqualified from the race. CART officials had Unser checked Sneva's car and found the right side pod a fraction of an inch too low. Unser was getting ready to leave when he was called back to give his victory speech to what was left of the media.

"At my day and age, I'll take 'em any way I can get 'em," said Unser, whose last Indy-car victory was 36 races ago Oct. 20, 1979. Texas Star owner Dan Cotter of Chicago pulled two 650 bills out of his pocket to file a protest officially. The case will be heard by a neutral panel. No glamour, just birdies ,4.,,.

1 Patty Sheehan has won 4 an LPGA Championship, LI five other tournaments and almost $380,000 in less ,3,1, than four seasons. Yet she 41, 401 does not consider herself as or 44 one of the game's current 3s, glamour names. "I don't think of myself as a super- 34 star. I'm just out here to 3, play golf," Sheehan said Ballesteros yesterday following her two-stroke victory over Hall of Famer Sandra Haynie in the LPGA Championship at Mason, Ohio. Sheehan made five straight birdies and shot a 6-under-par 66 for a 9-under total of 279 On the 18th hole Seve Ballesteros made a 12-foot putt for an eagle-3 and a two-stroke victory over Craig Stadler and Andy Bean in the Manufacturers Hanover-Westchester Classic at Harrison, N.Y.

Ballesteros, who represents Miami's Doral Country Club, finished with a 1under-par 70 to give him a 276, eight under par Miller Barber sank a 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole to take a one-stroke victory over Gene Littler yesterday in the $250,000 Senior Tournament Players Championship at Canterbury Golf Club in Cleveland. Barber shot a final-round 68 to finish with a 10-under-par total of 278 for 72 holes. Connors wins while Mac beefs Jimmy Connors turned on his best grass court tennis yesterday to defeat John McEnroe, 6-3, 6-3, to win $32,000 and retain his title in the Stella Artois Grand Prix at London's Queens Club, the last important tournament before Wimbledon. McEnroe, never ahead in the match, said Connors should be favored to win Wimbledon again, too. What else is new? McEnroe had an exchange with courtside photographers.

As he walked to his chair, he turned a television camera around. When a press photographer complained to the umpire, McEnroe shouted, "What did you say to him? You're a sickly bunch." Billie Jean King defeated Alycia Moulton, 6-0, 7-5, yesterday to retain her title in the $90,000 Edgbaston Women's Cup at Birmingham, England. King and Sharon Walsh won the doubles, 6-2, 6-4, over Elizabeth Sayers and Beverly Mould. Longhorns' unlikely heroes Slumping hitters Kirk Killingsworth and Jose Tolentino came to the rescue for top-ranked Texas, giving the Longhorns their fourth national collegiate baseball title. Texas rallied from a 2-0 deficit against Alabama to win the final game, 4-3, Saturday night at Omaha.

Designated hitter Killingsworth, who hit for a .225 average this season, scored two runs and had two hits Including a triple to score Mike Brumley with the go-ahead run in the Texas seventh. Tolentino, who had only two hits in 17 previous CWS at bats, also had two hits, including a drag bunt single that scored Killingsworth with the game-winning run. Texas coach Cliff Gustafson's 1975 team was the last Texas champion. The Longhorns also won in 1949 and 1950. Texas' sweep of its five games marks the first time in the 37-year history of the CWS that two teams have won back-to-back unbeaten titles.

Miami won five straight a year ago. Stadium guard charged with murder A Catania, Sicily, stadium guard fired nine shots from an automatic shotgun at a group of rock-throwing soccer fans who had been taunt ing him yesterday, killing one and wounding several others. A police spokesman said that more than 30 people were shot or sustained cuts and bruises as many of the 12,000 persons seated in the area fled Cibali Stadium. Police said the guard, Angelo Grasso, had been arguing with young fans who were creating a disturbance outside his home next to the stadium. The police account said when the youths were they began to hurl rocks and insults at Grasso, who then ran home and returned with a shotgun and opened fire without warning.

Grasso, 54, was charged with murder. Compiled from The Miami News wire services end other sources. D.M. Po Wick The Miami News (amid Ong qhe Weekend statistics. Page 2C Jim Kelly's debut.

Page 4C Stars clinch playoffs. Page 4C SAM BLAIR The Dallas Morning Hews Dave Dixon, the dream merchant who gave us the United States Football League, glowed when he talked about it one year ago. "This idea is a he said, explaining why he thought so many millionaires had been buying franchises in the new spring-summer league. "The American public has a love affair with football that's unparalleled in history anywhere in the world." Dixon forecast high television ratings for the USFL, citing a national research report he had commissioned. It showed 76 per cent of the people surveyed preferred to watch football over any other sport from March through July.

Cynics suggested surveys frequently tell the customer what he wants to hear, but Dixon smiled and shrugged. "Does someone only chew gum in summer. only eat peanuts in spring. only Wait for the Travers for a 3-year-old decision Sunny's Halo not in best form. Page 3RG Russell Bishops sports car flips after a collision during the Formula Ford portion of yesterday's al.

Joe Rose Cup race at Portland, Inter STEVEN CRIST The Neer York Times Wows Wyk ELMONT, N.Y. The 115th Belmont Stakes may not have yielded a superhorse or even an obvious 3- year-old champion, contrary to what happened last year when Conquistador Cie lo ran off with the race by 14 th lengths in outstanding time. However, Saturday's race did suggest that this unspectacular bunch of 3- year-olds was finally coming to hand and might provide better contests later in the season. The Travers could be the definitive contest among the 3-year-olds. Sunny's Halo, the Kentucky Derby winner who ran out of the money in yesterday's feature at Arlington Park, is expected for the race, as is Barberstown, who put himself in the middle of the 3- year-old picture with his strong third-place finish in the Belmont.

4 Saturday, Caveat was clearly much the best in winning, and his margin probably would have been more than 312 lengths had he not been Jostled with Au Point on the stretch turn. The incident, which resulted in an obligatory inquiry that the stewards quickly dismissed, dominated post-race discussions yesterday around Belmont stables. Monday, June 13,1983 Analysis make love in fall?" he said. "That's ridiculous. Football is football." Now, in the final month of its first season, the USFL hardly looks like a 10.

Low TV ratings and poor attendance in some cities indicate football isn't an all-consuming creature this time of year. All of this, however, is relative. The ratings and attendance are puny compared with what the NFL pulls in the fall and winter. Compared with what the American Football League did in its first year, 1960, the USFL looks good. The new league isn't a zero, either.

It definitely has done some things right. Enough, perhaps, to be rated a 3 or 4. The lightning-bolt signing of Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker off the University of Georgia campus made everyone pay attention at the start. Luring potential NFL No. Is like Craig James, Kelvin Bryant and Trumaine Johnson into the league without waiting for the established league's draft also earned some salutes.

What really is impressive, though, is the way the USFL lately has signed players drafted by NFL clubs. Sure, some were middle- and late. round choices, but there were some top ones, too. Running back Gary Anderson of Arkansas, a first-round choice by San Diego, quickly signed with the Tampa Bay Bandits. And quarterback Jim Kelly of Miami, although picked in the first round by Buffalo, accepted an offer from the Houston Gamblers.

The league also has been selective in hiring NFL free agents. Some clubs have signed one to fill a specific need, like Tampa Bay's taking guard Fred Dean from the Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins, but the USFL hasn't gone wild in the free-agent marketplace. Of 252 such NFL players available, less than 10 per cent have found work in the new league. And there have been no stories about clubs failing to meet payrolls or pay bills. This surfaced quickly in the woebegone World Football League.

Time will tell if the USFL will last, but it is much better conceived and far better financed than Gary Davidson's flim-flam WFL show in 1974. Associated Press national Raceway. Bishop, of Spokane. was hospitalized with possible back injuries. Gregg McCarron, Au Point's jockey, continued to blame Angel Corder Jr.

for hindering Au Point by steering Slew 0' Gold in from the outside, which forced LAHR Pincay Jr. to take Caveat through a narrow opening inside Au Point on the rail. Pincay and Woody Stephens, Caveat's trainer, also thought that Corder was at fault. Stephens went so far as to say that, had Slew 0' Gold beaten Caveat, the stewards would have been forced to disqualify Slew 0' Gold. The stewards did not see it that way, not even mentioning Slew 0' Gold in their official explanation of the inquiry.

In any case, the incident turned out to have had no bearing on the order of finish. Stephens has no illusions about Caveat, who failed to win in his first 11 starts on the dirt and came within one race of being turned into a grass horse and held out of the Triple Crown races. Stephens had planned to run him in the Wood lawn Stakes on the grass at Pimlico on the day of the Kentucky Derby, then changed his mind when Caveat ran a promising second to Sunny's Halo In the Arkansas Derby. Even after that, however, Stephens thought that Chumming was the stronger half of his Derby entry, and kept Eddie Maple, his regular stable rider, on that colt instead of on Caveat. Maple has been bumped off two consecutive Belmont winners, this year because of 3 Section It's interesting that the first USFL championship game July 17 will be played in Denver.

On the surface, the choice made sense because of a favorable mid-summer climate and the fact that the Denver Gold has drawn the largest crowds in the league. More significant, perhaps, is that it will be played in a city without major-league baseball. The new guys should have a healthy respect for America's Pastime by now. Teams in four of the largest markets are suffering from the presence of baseball. The Philadelphia Stars, with the best record in the league, have averaged fewer than 20,000 in the same stadium where the Phil lies can pull almost 35,000 after coming home from a horrible road trip.

And which team ranks second to Denver in attendance? Tampa Bay, another town without big-league baseball. So the owners who bought Dave Dixon's dream can find some satisfaction when they check the scorecard. They have done some things right. It's better that the jury still is out than to be tried by a hanging judge. U-M loses Orlando Artiles to the A's Baseball reports, Page 5C CHARLIE NOBLES Assistant Sports Editor The University of Miami baseball program suffered a blow Saturday when junior Orlando Artiles, the team's leading 1983 hitter, signed a bonus contract with the Oakland Athlet- Artiles, a left- I handed batter who hit .367 4 with 17 home runs for the Southern Re- Arti les gional runnerup Hurricanes, flew yesterday to Medford, where he expects to undergo a mini-spring training for 10 days before being assigned to a club.

On the advice of his agent, the only thing Artiles would divulge about his contract is that he received a five-figure bonus. "The only reason I got drafted in the 16th round is they were scared of my (right) knee," said Artiles, who hurt it on Miami's trip to California. "I was limping around in the playoffs and I think that hurt me. They saw that and said, 'Hey, something might be They didn't want to take me in the second or third round and find I've got to have surgery and lose a season. "As it was, I still got a good bonus.

I'm happy." U-M head coach Ron Fraser took Artiles' loss stoically, accustomed as he has been through the years to losing some of his top players after their junior seasons. "We lose 'em so often after their junior years," Fraser said. "We get three or four every year. One year we had five. You'd like to see a kid like Orlando stay.

But if he got big money and it was worth it, then you're with him. He's got to do what he has to do." Fraser gives Artiles, 20, a "good" chance to reach the majors. "He's always been a real good hitter. He's got power and he'll keep getting better the more he plays." Artiles, who played at Coral Park High and Miami-Dade South before enrolling at U-M, said reaching the professional level in baseball is a dream come true for him. "Since I started in high school, I've been trying so hard to get drafted and play pro ball," he said last night from his Medford hotel room.

"I had a great season this year so I figured, hey, it's time to make my move." The knee that gave him such a problem in the regional tournament is coming along fine, he said. "I ran the 60 in 6.7 today, so I think it's going to be OK," he said. "It hurts in the morning when I wake up, but it's nothing serious." Arti les doesn't particularly like Please see ARTILES, 5C Stephens faith in Chumming and last year because he cracked his ribs in a bad spill on the eve of Conquistador Cielo's victory. In the flush of victory, Stephens told a national television audience that he and Pincay were the first jockey-trainer team to win consecutive In fact, that has happened at least twice before Lucien Laurin and Ron Turcotte with Rive Ridge and Secretariat in 1972-73, and Sam Hildreth and Earl Sande with Zev and Mad Play in 1923-24. Stephens said that Caveat had come out of the race without a scratch and would make his next appearance in the Dwyer Stakes at Belmont July 2.

Slew 0' Gold, who ran second as the favorite, turned in an excellent mile and a quarter in 1:5935, but then clearly tired and was no match for Caveat. The big son of Seattle Slew is still growing, and his handlers think his best days are ahead of him. He may be given some time off, with the Haskell Handicap at Monmouth late next month and the Travers at Saratoga Aug. 13 his possible next starts. Barberstown was making only the fourth start of his career and his second as a 3-year-old.

His trainer, Ray Bell, said that the horse would prove to be the best of the bunch by the fall. He will run next in the Swaps Stakes at Hollywood Park July 27, a race that is also on Sunny's Halo's agenda. 1 i 1 l'' fr' rieg. 11 correspondents after lead- 1 Billy Cunningham, Coach of the Year '1, Billy CuTnnhie amngMhaim, i wNheow ,.::..:...21., led the Philadelphia 76ers National Basketball Associ- SAM BLAIR ation, has been selected The (ter to the championship of the ::1 NBA Coach of the Year by .11 in :4 The Sporting News Cun- ningham was chosen by the weekly publication's NBA ing the 76er -s to a our- Cunningham game sweep of the Los An- r'''o 1101R53 Monday, June 13,1983 ck ilhe Section On a scale of 10 give it a 3 or 4, but give it some credit too Weekend statistics, Page 2C Jim Kelly's debut. Page 4C Stars clinch playoffs, Page 4C Deltas Morning Hews Analysis make love in fall'?" he said.

"That's ridic- ulous. Football is football." Now, in the final month of its first lately has signed players drafted by NFL It clubs. 's interesting that the first USFL championship game July 17 will be Sure, some were middle- and late- played in Denver. On the surface, the round choices, but there were some top choice made sense because of a favorable ones, too. Running back Gary Anderson mid summer climate and the fact that of Arkansas, a first round choice by San the Denver Gold has drawn the largest season, the 'USFL hardly looks like a 10.

Diego, quickly signed with the Tampa crowds in the league. More significant, Dave Dixon, the dream merchant who Low TV ratings and poor attendance in gave us the United Stakes -ciFootbailti scoomnseumciitni League, glowed when he talked about one year ago. 'es indicate football isn't an all creature this time of year All of this, however, is relative. The round by Buffalo, accepted an offer from the Houston Gamblers. This idea is a he said, explain- ratings and attendance are puny corn- The league also has been se ing why he Bay Bandits.

And quarterback Jim Kelly perhaps, is that it will be played in a city of Miami, although picked in the first without major-league baseball. selective in thought so many millionaires pared with what the NFL pulls in the fall hiring NFL free agents. Some clubs have The new guys should have a healthy respect for America's Pastime by now. Teams in four of the largest markets are suffering from the presence of baseball. V1 gees Lakers in the NBA championship series.

had been buying franchises in the new and winter. Compared with what the signed one to fill a specific need, like spring-summer league. "The American American Football League did in its first Tampa Bay's taking guard F.redvgaesahn. The Philadelphia Stars, with the best The 76ers are the first team ever to lose only one public has a love affair with football year, 1960, the USFL looks good. from the Super Bohu wtt the hamupiS oFn hasn't fewer than 20,000 in the same stadium record in the league, have averaged playoff game en route to the NBA championship.

that's unparalleled in history anywhere The new league isn't a either. It ington skins, In announcing the award yesterday, the St. in the world." definitely has done some things right. gone wild in the free-agent marketplace. where the Phillies can pull almost 35,000 Louis-based publication also noted that Cun- Dixon forecast high television ratings Enough, perhaps, to be rated a 3 or 4.

of 252 such NFL players available, less after coming home from a horrible road 1 ningham won 300 games faster than any other for the SFL citing a national research The lightning-bolt signing of Heisman than 10 per cent have found work in the trip. coach in NBA history and 65 games during the report he had commissioned. It showed Trophy winner Herschel Walker off the new league. And which team ranks second to Den1982-83 regular season. 76 per cent of the people surveyed pre-University Georgia campus made And there have been no stories about ver in attendance? Tampa Bay, another ferred to watch football over any other everyone pay attention at the start.

Lur- clubs failing to meet payrolls or pay town without big-leagu baseball. sport from March through July. Cynics ing potential NFL No. Is like Craig bills. This surfaced quic kly in the woe.

So the owners who bought Dave Dix- suggested surveys frequently tell the James, Kelvin Bryant and Trumaine begone World Football i League. 1 i Time on's dream can find some satisfaction 'Any way I can get sem' customer what he wants to hear, but Johnson into the league without waiting will tell if the USFL will last, but when they check the scorecard. They Dixon smiled and shrugged. for the established league's draft also much better conceived and far better fi- have done some things right. It's better 'toes someone only chew gum in earned some salutes.

What really is im- nanced than Gary Davidson's flim-flam that the jury still is out than to be tried ----1" Tom Sneva drove into only eat peanuts in spri.ng. only pressive, though, is the way the USFL WFL show in 1974. i l'4 victory lane, but Al Unser by a hanging judge. lane, Sr drove home with the '1 :04,04,,.. ii 4, first-place trophy yesterday in the Rex Mays 150 at ti.1...::!Ili.i.l.::(:.:.04 West Allis, Wis.

Sneva was eating a hot dog two hours 4517'N' loses after the race when he 1.. Orlando learned his Texaco Star had been disqualified from the Artlies race. CART officials had '67 Unser checked Sneva's car and 0, V. 1. fOund the right Side pod a fraction of an inch too to the Ai low.

Unser was getting ready to leave when he )6- Baseball reports, Page 5C what was left of the media. "At my day and age, Ill take 'em any way I can get 'em," said Unser, whose last Indy-car victory was 36 races ago rL''''" was called back to give his victory speech to CHARLIE NOBLES 0.............,. t'" Oct. 20, 1979. Texas Star owner Dan Cotter of I 'f'-'' Ct, Assistant Sports Editor i- Chicago pulled two 850 bills out of his pocket to file a protest officially.

The case will be heard by The University of Miami baseball program suffered a blow Saturday ..,1 a neutral panel. Irk.g.sr-.4','4,-- when junior Orlando Artiles, the team's leading ..,,,01 No glamour, just birdies 1983 hitter i li" sighed a bonus I4-i contract with the 'f Patty Sheehan has won Oakland Athlet- 4 an LPGA Championship, Artiles, a left- I five other tournaments and 't -A- almost $380,000 in less II': handed batter ,.0.7..,0 hit 1 than four seasons. Yet she i who a .367 17 home 4 -4k. .....44,1 does not consider herself as runs for he :1 one of the game's current Southern Re- Artiles )'-'''' '''i' glamour names. "I don't ::,,,.,,,,,4 Donal runnerup Hurricanes, flew think of myself as a super- yesterday to Medford, where 3-140, star.

I'm just out here to he expects to undergo a mini-spring -f play golf, Sheehan said training for 10 days before being Ballesteros yesterday following her assigned to a club. two-stroke victory over Hall of Famer Sandra On the advice of his agent the only thing Artiles would divulge Haynie in the LPGA Championship at Mason, Ohio. Sheehan made five straight birdies and about his contract is that he re ceived a five-figure bonus. shot a 6-under-par 66 for a 9-under total of 279 On the 18th hole Seve Ballesteros made a "Th I reason I ot drafted in ,.,.,1,,,:.. the 16th round is they were scare 12-foot putt for an eagle-3 and a two-stroke vic- of my (right) knee," said Artiles, tory over Craig Stadler and Andy Bean in the 4:,...

who hurt it on Miami's trip to Cali- 'A-s. Manufacturers Hanover-Westchester Classic at ,.:1 ,44 fornia. "1 was limping around in the Harrison, N.Y. Ballesteros, who represents Mi- 4.::.3..,.... to kAs, ---4.

la offs and I think that hurt me. ami's Doral Country Club, finished with a 1- l'', Nrel, They saw that and said, 'Hey, some :,,,:4,:, -Ai, S' 2: under-par 70 to give him a 276, eight under par thing might be wrong They didn 71.0".,.: want to take me in the, second or Miller Barber sank a 10-foot birdie putt on 4 third round and find I ve got to the final hole to take a one stroke victory over have surgery and lose a season let t. Gene Littler yesterday in the $250,000 Senior 1.4...0,-. T.f....-:".: As it was, I still got a good Tournament Players Championship at Canter- 4 Ron Fraser took bonus. I'm happy." bury Golf Club in Cleveland.

Barber shot a final- .1,...., U-M head coach round 68 to finish with a 10-under-par total of ''f l' tv 's' Artiles' loss stoically, accustomed 278 for 72 holes. as he has been through the years to losing some of his top players after "We lose 'em so often after their Connors wins while Mac beefs their junior seasons. junior years," Fraser said. "We get Jimmy Connors turned on his best grass court three or four every year. One year tennis yesterday to defeat John McEnroe, 6-3 we haive.

You'd like to see a kid 6-3, to win 832,000 and retain his title in the Stel- li ke Orlando stay. But if he got big la Artois Grand Prix at London's Queens Club, money and it was worth it, then the last important tournament before Wimble- 1'. k49. -z; i you're with him. He's got to do don.

McEnroe, never ahead in the match, said what he has to do." Connors should be favored to win Wimbledon Fraser gives Artiles, 20, a "good" again, too. What else is new? McEnroe had an chance to reach the majors. "He's always been a real good exchange with courtside photographers. As he hitter. He's got power and he'll walked to his chair, he turned a television cam- era around.

When a press photographer corn- plained to the umpire, McEnroe shouted, "What 1v4 A Andes, who played at Coral Park ..,.:::...1.,.,,,:,: .:.::,,,:.,,...2..4 better the more he did you say to him? You're a sickly bunch." 4: 7 ,.1. ,..7:,:,.., High snd Miami-Dade South before Billie Jean King defeated Alycia Moulton, 6-0, 16 enrolling at U-M, said reaching the 7-5, yesterday to retain her title in the 890,000 $: wamf professional level in baseball is a Edgbaston Women's Cup at Birmingham, Eng- -i 17k.t." 4nlici dream come true for him. land King and Sharon Walsh won the doubles Since 1 started in high school 1.,..::: Alt, 6-2, 6-4, over Elizabeth Sayers and Beverly I've been trying so hard to get Mould 1.: 4 drafted and play pro ball," he said last night from his Medford hotel room. "I had a great season this Longhorns' unlikely heroes io ,4,,. year so I figured, hey, its time to ..4 .:4: 4, 4.

:7 0 4, 4 make my move." Slumping hitters Kirk Killingsworth and Jose tot 4 The knee that gave him such a Tolentino came to the rescue for top ranked i .4,...,,,,, Texas, giving the Longhorns their fourth national problem in the regional tournament collegiate baseball title. Texas rallied from a 2-0 is coming along fine he said a-- "I ran the 60 in 6.7 today, so I deficit against Alabama to win the final game, 7. 7 ..:,.:4,,.,,,,. ...4, think it's going to be OK," he said. 4-3, Saturday night at Omaha.

Designated hitter It hurts in the morning when I Killingsworth, who hit for a .225 average this sea- Associated Press wake up, but it's nothing serious." son, scored two runs and had two hits including a triple to score Mike Brumley with the go-ahead Russell Bishop's sports car flips after a collision national Raceway. Bishop, of Spokane, Artiles doesn't particularly like run in the Texas seventh. Tolentino, who had during the Formula Ford portion of yesterday's was hospitalized with possible back injuries. only two hits in 17 previous CWS at bats, also al. Joe Rose Cup race at Portland, Inter- Please see ARTILES, 5C had two hits, including a drag bunt single that scored Killingsworth with the game-winning run.

vur Texas coach Cliff Gustafson's 1975 team was the ai-t for the Travers for a 3 a 1 decision last Texas champion. The Longhorns also won In 1949 and 1950. Texas' sweep of its five games marks the first time in the 37-year history of the Sunny's Halo not in best form, Page 3RG Gregg McCarron, Au Point's jockey, continued to Stephens' faith in Chumming and last year because he CWS that two teams have won back-to-back un- blame Angel Corder Jr. for hindering Au Point by cracked his ribs in a bad spill on the eve of Conquista- beaten titles. Miami won five straight a year ago.

's victory. steering Slew 0' Gold in from the outside, which dor Cielo STEVEN CRIST forced Laffit Pincay Jr. to take Caveat through a nar- In the flush of victory, Stephens told a national The Neer York Times News Service row opening inside Au Point on the rail. Pincay and television audience that he and Pincay were the first Stadium guard charged with murder ELMONT, N.Y. The 115th Belmont Stakes may Woody Stephens, Caveat's trainer, also thought that jockey-trainer team to win consecutive In not have yielded a superhorse or even an obvious 3- Corder was at Gold beaten Caveat, the stewards Laurin and Ron Turcotte with Riva Ridge and Secre- ult.

Stephens went so far as to say fact, that has happened at least twice before Lucien 0 A Catania, Sicily, stadi fa um guard fired nine year-old champion, contrary to what happened last that, had Slew shots from an automatic shotgun at a group of year when Conquistador Cielo ran off with the race by would have been forced to disqualify Slew 0 Gold. tariat in 1972-73, and Sam Hildreth and Earl Sande rock-throwing soccer fans who had been taunt- 14 th lengths in outstanding time. However, Saturday's with Zev and Mad Play in 1923-24. Ing him yesterday, killing one and wounding sev- race did suggest that this unspectacular bunch of 3- The stewards did not see it that wa not even tioning Slew 0' Gold in their official explanation wthout a scratch and would make his next appearance in the Dwyer otn of men- Stephens said that Caveat had come out of the race i 'eral others. A police spokesman said that more year-olds was finally coming to hand and might pro- have than 30 people were shot or sustained cuts and vide better contests later in the season.

inquiry. In any case, the incident turned ou had no bearing on the order of finish. Stakes at Belmont July 2. Gold, who ran second as the favorite, bruises as many of the 12,000 persons seated in The Travers could be the definitive contest among the area fled Cibali Stadium. Police said the the 3-year-olds.

Sunny's Halo, the Kentucky Derby Stephens has no illusions about Caveat, ho failed Slew 0 turned in an excellent mile and a quarter in 1:5935, guard, Angelo Grasso, had been ar ea- guing with inner who ran out of the money in yesterday's ay to win in his first 11 starts on the dirt and came within but then clearly tired an was no match for Caveat. at Arlington Park, is youn ure fans who were creating a disturbance out- expected for the race, as is one race of being turned into a grass horse and held out The big son of Seattle Slew is still growing, and his Barberstown, who put himself in the middle of the 3- of the Triple Crown races. Stephens had planned to run handlers think his best days are ahead of him. He may side his home next to the stadium. The pol ice ac- year-old pi ct ur count said when the youths were they with his strong third-place finish in him in the Woodlawn Stakes on the grass at Pimlico on be given some time off, with the Haskell Handicap at the Belmont.

the day of the Kentucky Derby, then changed his mind Monmouth late next month and the Travers at Sarato began to hurl rocks and insults at Grasso, who 4 Saturday, Caveat was clearly much the best in win- when Caveat ran a promising second to Sunny's Halo ga Aug. 13 his possible nog starts. then ran home and returned with.a shotgun and ning, and his margin probably would have been more in the Arkansas Derby. Barberstown was making only the fourth start of opened fire without warning. Grasso, 54, was than 312 lengths had he not been Jostled with Au Point Even after that, however, Stephens thought that his career and his second as a 3-year-old.

His trainer, charged with murder. on the stretch turn. The incident, which resulted in an Chumming was the stronger half of his Derby entry, Ray Bell, said that the horse would prove to be the best obligatory inquiry that the stewards quickly dismissed and kept Eddie Maple, his regular stable rider, on that of the bunch by the fall. He will run next in the Swaps a a Compiled from The Miami News wire services end other sources. dominated post-race discussions yesterday around Bel- co D.M.

Poljack It instead of on Caveat. Maple has been bumped off Stakes at Hollywood Park July 27 a race that i also on mont stables. two consecutive Belmont winners, this year because of Sunny's Halo agenda. 0 4-. 00'i 110.