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Monday, Aug. 29, 1966 TIMES -DEMOCRAT Davenport Bcttendorf, Iowa 6 podg ers Near Lead On Davis' Hitting Spree IN DRAG RACING SERIES Darkness y. rrr'w' lL--w, 1. 5 Prudhomme Posts rfV 5 Comeback Victory Here is the start of the final elimination race in the World Series of Drag Racing at Cordova as Don Prudhomme, of Granada Hills, on the far side, took the championship. He beat Don Garlits of Chicago.

tire quarter mile after his opposition had been disqualified from jumping the starting gun. Bleeker won $500 with a 8.7-second trip at speeds of 175.09 m.p.h. Wasson took $250 runnerup money. Lee Smith of Moline won the $350 first prize in the middle eliminator division, defeating Lee Ehlers of Rock Island in the championship run. Ehlers' prize was $200.

Howard Allen of Evandale, Iowa, won the junior eliminator crown with a victory over the Burnett-Stamary entry of Highland, in the final run. Allen drove a 1938 Chevrolet. Garlits won the first segment of the fuel dragster runoff Saturday night and qualified for the final run Sunday. In addition to the $1,000 runnerup money, he also won $200 for his Saturday victory and another $100 for the lowest elapsed time in fuel dragster competition with a 7.609-second trip down the quarter-mile strip. Prudhomme was beaten in Sunday's second round by the Marshall-Vermilya entry from El Secundo, but mechanical failure forced the winner out and Purdhomme was allowed to continue.

Close Drag Races Prudhomme had a trip on that run, compared with 7.613 seconds by the Marshall-Vermilya team. The new champion also had close calls with two-time World Series champion Kris Karamesines of Chicago and Tom Hoover of Minneapolis. He edged Karamesines by .72 seconds in the fifth round, after nipping Hoover by .07 in the fourth round. Hoover's car burst into flames at the end of his run with Prudhomme and the Minneapolis driver suffered burns on his face and arms, although he was clocked at 223.326 in the previous round to take top speed honors for the meet. Hoover's condition is listed as "good" today at Moline Public Hospital.

Hoover appeared at the 1965 World Series but did not drive because of burns received in a previous fire earlier that season. Wayne Hill of Fox Lake, powered his rear-engine "Re-Entry" to two trips at speeds of 200 miles per hour and became the first to hit that mark in a rear-engine rail. He hit 200 m.p.h. Saturday and was clocked at 202.24 Sunday. By ORRIE PUETZ CORDOVA, III.

Determined Don Prudhomme of Granada Hills, roared back from two defeats Sunday and won the $2,500 top prize in the World Series of Drag Racing at Cordova Drag-way. Eliminated in the second round of Sunday's final fuel dragster runoff, Prudhomme got a second life when the machine that had beaten him was forced out of competition. He came back from there to whip Don Garlits of Chicago for the championship. This climax to the 13th annual World Series occurred when Garlits, who had qualified for the final elimination run by winning Saturday's fuel dragster "marathon," jumped the starter's light and was therefore disqualified. Prudhomme only had to complete his run to win the $2,500 top prize.

He eased through the clocks at the end of the quarter-mile run in 7.635 seconds at speed of 180.360 miles an hour. He had run at 222 miles an hour earlier. Garlits' red-lighted run was at 7.75 seconds and a soft 160.714 miles an hour. Garlits had beaten Prudhomme in the first segment of the fuel dragster marathon Saturday night. The Chicago driver, who has won most of the country's top drag racing events but has never won here, took home $1,000 second prize money.

Tom Larkin of North Hollywood, won the Class AA gas dragster competition in one of four gas rails that toured the quarter-mile strip in less than eight seconds. New Strip Record He defeated the Gopher State Timing Association entry driven by Ron Braun of Minneapolis in the final run to earn the $1,000 prize money in that division. Larkin hit a top speed of 200.46 miles per hour in his winning run and set a new gas dragster strip record. It was the third time during the Series that the mark was lowered and earned him an additional $50 prize money. In super eliminator competition Gabby Bleeker of Evergreen Park, 111., wheeled his 1938 Austin Bantam to the championship with a victory over Curtis Wasson of St.

Louis. Wasson had captured the sentiments of the fans in his semifinal victory when he pushed his disabled Corvette the en fTrail Bucs 1 Game By MURRAY GRASS AP Sports Writer Willie Davis' current hitting "Splurge may not win the National League batting crown for him, but it could help win the National League pennant for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Davis, who had spring thoughts of winning the batting title, lashed four hits for the second consecutive day as the Dodgers defeated San Francisco 5-2 Sunday and moved to within one game of the league lead. The loss dropped the Giants Into a tie for first with the Pittsburgh Pirates, who defeated St. Louis 5-1 after losing the opener of the double-header 3-2.

On Streak Davis' homer and three singles extended his streak to eight straight hits before he grounded out in the ninth inning. Since Aug. 6, when he was hitting .268, the 26-year-6ld lefty has collected 36 hits in 96 at-bats for a lusty .375 tnark. Over-all he's now hitting .289. Elsewhere in the National League Cincinnati stopped Philadelphia 5-2, Atlanta defeated New York 8-4 and Houston edged Chicago 4-3.

Davis' first-inning homer started 20-game winner Gay-lord Perry on the way to his fourth defeat. Jim Lefebvre's fourth-inning homer broke a tie, and Davis singled in the seventh before Ron Fairly homered. Don Sutton allowed the Giants only five hits, none between the second and eighth innings. Clements Hits Roberto Clemente doubled home two runs and scored another on Donn Clendenon's double as the Pirates erupted for four runs in the sixth inning of the nightcap. Bill Ma-zeroski added a homer in the ninth.

The Cardinals jumped in front in the first inning of the first game as Ted Savage tripled in one run and scored another. Savage got the triple when center fielder Matty Alou misjudged his line drive. Jim Maloney and Don Not-tebart combined for a five-hitter against Philadelphia. Cincinnati battered Larry Jackson for three runs in the first inning and went on to their fifth straight victory. Vada Pinson homered for the Reds in the third.

-Homers by Ed Mathews and Rico Carty powered Atlanta past New York. Met errors by Ed Kranepool and Ken Boyer accounted for three more Braves' runs. John Bateman's single triggered a two-run, fourth-inning rally that sent Houston to its fifth straight triumph. Curtis Wasson of St. Louis didn't have the low elapsed time of the meet specially on this run but he did finish second in the super eliminations.

His Corvette stalled at the start, but his opponent was disqualified for jumping the light and Wasson pushed his vehicle the entire length of the quarter-mile strip. fTpts Net Meet BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) American Davis Cup aces Dennis Ralston and Clark Graebner and Australians Tony Roche and John Newcombe had some unfinished business to settle today before the championship wind-up of the 86th U.S. National Doubles Tournament. A berth in the final round against defending champions Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle of Australia was at stake as the Ralston-Graebner and Roche-Newcombe teams were directed to resume their postponed semifinal at noon on Longwood's center court.

Darkness Halts It Darkness forced officials to postpone completion of the match Sunday night with the second-seeded Americans and the third-seeded Aussies all even at two games apiece in the fifth and deciding set. Graebner and Ralston, taking the court while Emerson and Stolle were moving to victory, won the first set 6-3, but Roche and Newcombe fought back to win the next 6-3, 8-6. Then, on the brink of elimination, the Americans fought back to capture the fourth set 15-13. Emerson and Stolle, top-seeded in defense of their U.S. crown, swept past fourth-ranked Arthur Ashe of Los Angeles and Marty Riessen of Evanston, 111., 6-3, 7-9, 6-4, 6-2 and figured to have a physical edge over their opponents in the late afternoon final.

Won't Be Harmful However, Ralston and the others didn't think conclusion of the interrupted semifinal would be harmful. After completion of the men's semifinal, Maria Bueno of Brazil and Nancy Richey of Farmers Branch, will meet Billie Jean Moffitt King of Long Beach, and Rosemary Casals of San Francisco for the women's championship. Bennett Is Race Victor Shorty Bennett of Moline won the feature race in stock car competition Sunday night at Quad-City Raceway in East Moline. Heat races in the modified class were taken by Ray Guss, Jack Henson and Doug Crawford. Lyle McNall was the winner in the consolation event.

Jim LeCleir was the winner in the feature race. WEEKEND FIGHTS TOKYO Yoshlo Nakeno. 119, Tok-yo. outpointed I Won-SOK, 119, South Korea, 10. Al IIO 1 1 ft" i nnffn iii iwi 1 1 iTi 1' ii iVi i 11 2 Rookies In Falcons' By MIKE RATHET AP Sports Writer "They're a real football team." Atlanta Coach Norb Hecker said it and even he had to be among the doubters until Saturday night when his new Falcons, a cast of nand-me-downs and rookies, posted victory No.

1 in the National Football League by upending San Francisco 24-17 in an exhibition game. The Falcons not only scored their first victory but slipped in ahead of the American League's Miami Dolphins and did just what everyone was saying they couldn't. When the two leagues stocked the expansion clubs, it was generally considered that the AFL had been more generous and that the Dolphins had received stronger talent than the Falcons did from the stocking plan in the NFL. Victories, however, speak Cedar Rapids Engages Fox Cities In Playoff "VV l9 Draw Praise First Win louder than words; the Dolphins are still winless and the Falcons aren't. Hecker, meanwhile, singled out two rookies for particular praise quarterback Randy Johnson of Texas and linebacker Tommy Nobis of Texas.

Johnson, getting his first long look at quarterback, completed 13 of 21 passes for 285 yards, engineered scoring drives of 77, 87, and 79 yards and clinched the victory over the 49ers with a 35-yard scoring strike to Alex Hawkins. "I thought Randy did a beautiful job," said Hecker. "I didn't send in but one or two plays all night. Nobis? What can you say about him? He played as well as ever and that's tremendous." While the Falcons broke their winless streak, the Dallas Cowboys won their fifth without a loss by downing Detroit 20-10, Green Bay throttled Pittsburgh 17-6, Los Angeles walloped St. Louis 32-14 and Phibdelphia edged New York 24-23.

In Amerian League action, preparatory to Friday's regular season opener between the Dolphins and Oakland at Miami, Kansas City finished unbeaten after a 31-20 victory over Houston, the New York Jets upended Buffalo 34-17, Oakland humbled Denver 52-21 and San Diego crushed Boston 31-13. I lent on Takes 'Shoe Crown DES MOINES (UPI) -Left-handed Glen (Red) Hen-ton, Maquoketa, survived a strong challenge by upset-minded John Paxton, Ottum-wa, Sunday to win the Iowa state horseshoe pitching championship at the Iowa State Fair. Hcnton. who won his first title in 1961 and has defended it every year since, was forced into a best of three play-offs against Paxton, 68. Both men won five and lost one game during regulation play with Henton losing to Paxton and Paxton being beat by Art Hampton, Iowa City.

In the playoff, Henton won the first game 50-29 but Paxton took the second 50-41. In the final game, Henton threw ringers on 81 per ctnt of his shots to win 50-19. It was a disheartening defeat for Ppxton. Paxton, who won what was billed as a state tournament in 1939 at Cedar Rapids, has been trying ever since to win another. "I played nine games today and that's too many," Paxton said.

Cedar Rapids also was the overall winner for the season, finishing five and a half games ahead of Cities. Burlington was third. The Quad-City Angels were the only other team to be over .500 with a 63-61 mark, good for fourth place. The Angels lost twice at Quincy Saturday. get up and go! B'Hs Get Tag As AFL Favorite By MIKE RATHET AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) The site isn't set yet, and the date hasn't been fixed but when the National and American football leagues meet in a championship Super Bowl at the end of the year and AFL's standard-bearer will be the Buffalo Bills, coached by Joe Collier, formerly of Rock Island.

That, at least, is what it says here, now. The Bills, with a strong offensive line, a veteran defense and enough offense to cause more than an occasional ripple, should make it to the AFL throne room for an unprecedented third straight time. While the Bills seem to be the cream of the East, a three-way battle could develop in the Western Division with the San Diego Chargers right now getting the edge over the Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs. However, a major shift in personnel the much-discussed trade that would send fullback Cookie Gilchrist from Denver to Oakland could shift the favorite's role. Here's the way the entire race looks from this viewing spot.

Eastern Division 1, Buffalo. 2, New York. 3, Houston. 4, Boston. 5, Miami.

Western Division 1, San Dieo. 2. Oakland. 3, Kansas City. 4, Denver.

llamblelonian Race To Have Co-Favorites DU QUOIN, 111. (AP)-Carlisle, a big brown colt who had to learn manners, and the filly Kerry Way, whose baby tooth has been troublesome, are the unofficial favorites for the 41st Hambletonian Wednesday. A field of 10 colts and two fillies drew starting assignments Sunday for the historic race for 3-year-old trotters. It will gross $122,540, fourth largest for the event, with a winner's payoff of $60,044. Second place is worth and the prize money is graded down to $6,004 for fifth place.

A crowd of 40,000 is expected inside the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds for the big day and some 25,000 actually will see the race on the record-inducing mile oval. There is no pari-mutuel betting. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Richmond 4, Columbus 1 Toronto 5-4, Buffalo 4-2 Rochester 6, Syracuse 3 Jacksonville 7, Toledo I Sunday Results In Brag Series TOP FUEL ELIMINATOR WINNER: Don Prudhomme, Granada Hill, Chrysler dragster, 7.435 seconds and 180.360 miles an hour RUN-N Don Garlits, Chicago, (lumped starter's light), 7.750 and SPEED OF MEET: Tom Hoover, Minneapolis, Chrysler dragster, 223.336 miles an hour. LOW ELAPSED TIME OF MEET: Garlits, 7.609 seconds. TOP OAS ELIMINATOR WINNER: Tom Larkin, North Hollywood, Chrysler dragster, 8.130 and 200.444.

RUNNERUP: Gopher State Timing Minneapolis, Chrysler dragster, 723 and 168.856. TOP SPEED OF MEET: Larkin, 0W ELAPSED TIME OF MEET: Dick Pader, Heath, Ohio, Dodge dragster, 8.103 seconds. SUPER ELIMINATOR WINNER: Gabby Bleeker, Chicago, Chrysler-powered Bantam, 8.700 and 175 098 RUNNERUP: Chris Wasson, St. Louis, Corvette, 11.550 and 101.124. MIDDLE ELIMINATOR WINNER Lee Smith, 1945 Heml Plymouth, 10.092 and 132.353.

RUNNERUP: Lanum, Ehlers Denton, Rock Island, Chevrolet-powered 1923 Ford, 880 and 139.949. JUNIOR ELIMINATOR WINNER: Howard Allen, Evansville, 1945 Chevrolet-powered 1938 Chevrolet, 11.110 and 121.422. RUNNERUP: Burnett and Satmary, Highland, I t-powered 1931 Studebaker, 11.411 and 118.421. ELIMINATOR PAYOFF TOP FUEL: Winner, Runner-up, Top Speed, $100; Low elapsed time, $100. TOP GAS: Winner, Runnerup, $500; Top sgeed, $50; Low elapsed time, $50.

SUPER ELIMINATOR: Winner, $500; Runnerup, $250. MIDDLE ELIMINATOR: Winner, $350; Runnerup, $200. JUNIOR ELIMINATOR: Winner, $250; Runnerup, $150. Cardinals Set Attendance Mark ST. LOUIS (AP) The St.

Louis Cardinals established a club record for one season paid attendance of 1,456,196 with a crowd of 46,211 for Sunday's doubleheader with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The old mark of 1,430,676 was set in 1949 in old Busch Stadium Sportsman's Park the park the Cardinals called home until May 12, when they moved into the new downtown Busch Memorial Stadium. The new park seats 49,275. In 10 dates at the old park this season, the Cardinals drew 122,457 toward the new record, which was set on the club's 49th date in the new stadium. Pro Football NATIONAL LEAGUE Atlanta 24, San Francisco 17 Dallas 20, Detroit 10 Los Angeles 32.

St. Louis 14 Green Bay 17, Pittsburgh Philadelphia 24, New York 31 AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 34, Buffalo 17 Kansas City 31, Houston 20 San Diego 31, Boston 13 Oakland 52, Denver 21 By The Associated Press Cedar Rapids takes on Fox Cities at Appleton, tonight in the first game of a best-of-three playoff for the Midwest League championship. Cedar Rapids won the second half league title, while Fox Cities took the first half crown. The second and third, if necessary, games will be played at Cedar Rapids Tuesday and Wednesday nights. In Sunday's games Cedar Rapids picked up two runs in the top of the eighth inning to down Clinton 3-2.

Bob Clifton's home run in the eighth inning for Burlington provided the Bees with the one run they needed to top Decatur 54. And in Waterloo Jim Hutto blasted a pair of four baggers, including a grand slam in the third, but it wasn't enough to present the home team with the victory. Dubuque won the game 7-6. Three homers were responsible for all the Packers' runs. Ted Ford clouted a grand slam in the third, Bill Kyle followed with a two-run blast in the third and Dick Davis slammed one in the fifth with the bases empty.

Wisconsin Rapids defeated Fox Cities 3-2. Kcnyon Spins Out, Finishes In 22nd Place WEST ALLIS, Wis. Mel Kenyon of Davenport spun out on the 31st lap of the 200-mile big car race here Saturday. He finished in 22nd place, winning $200. Mario Andretti was the winner of the race which was rescheduled after being postponed Aug.

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