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Monday. March 5. 1M4 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Mike Mosley Killed In High way Wreck SxcM Tin Mat FALLBROOK, Calif. Quiet Utile Mike Mosley, who started last year's Indianapolis KO-Mile Race in the middle of the front row, was killed in a highway accident Saturday night The 15-thne starter at Indianapolis was returning to hi Fallbrook home with his son, Michael II, from a three-wheel motorcycle race. The trailer containing the cycle became loose on the highway near Bonanza, Calif.

The Mosley van flipped several times. Both father and son were tossed from the vehicle and reportedly the van landed on the elder Mosley and exploded into flames. Mosley, who lost his ride in the Kraco MarchCosworth at the end of last season, was killed instantly. "Some campers who were near the accident rushed over and pulled Michael (the son) away," said Mos-ley's wife, Alice. The younger Mosley was treated for bruises and shock and released from a nearby hospital.

A memorial service for Mosley, who was 37, will be held Wednesday at the Assembly Of God Church in Fallbrook. Cremation will follow. In lieu of flowers, Mrs. Mosley requests that donations be made to establish a memorial to her husband by the Championship Drivers Association. Mosley, a native of Oklahoma City, had moments of elation and great disappointment during his final season as an Indy car driver last year.

He started the year by charging out to a seemingly unbeatable lead in the Atlanta 200 only to have his point standings and had season winnings of 8139,668. Mosley first came to the Speedway in 1967 and passed his driver's test His father was a mechanic for AJ. Watson. One of the most quiet unassuming drivers around, he qualified for his first 500 in 1968 and quickly proved his foot did a lot of talking. He drove from 27th to eighth place in a Watson car.

In 1971 and 1972, he was involved in fiery crashes coming out of the fourth turn. On April 25, 1971 he won his first Indy car race, a 200-miler at Trenton, NJ. He won five races in 167 starts. In 1974, he set a United States Auto Club record by starting last at Phoenix and winning. In 1975, he won at Milwaukee, then announced his retirement He moved from Clermont Ind to Fallbrook and ended his retirement the next spring.

His best finish at Indianapolis was third in 1979 when he completed 200 laps and placed just behind winner Mears and runner-up A.J. Foyt He also had the fastest lap of the race, 193.216. In 1981, he placed Dan Gurney's stock block Eagle in the middle of the front row, but then was the first to drop out of the race with a broken radiator. The next year he failed to make the race for the first time in 14 years but rebounded strongly last May. Mosley was extremely popular' with his fellow drivers.

As he grew older, he became more open with the media and proved to be an articulate speaker. He was one of the sport's most polite individuals, always thanking interviewers and calling them "sir." The By WAYNE FUSON Sparta Editor TPHERE are those among us who think Indianapolis, like the jilted suitor, may have been left waiting at the proverbial church by Sir Robert Irsay. There is no doubt that Indianapolis has courted Sir Robert and his Baltimore Colts. The city not only offered Us hand in marriage, but its dowry included pocketiuls of gold as well as its new indoor playground, the til million Hoosier Dome. The prenuptial arrangements were made with deliberate care by representatives of the "bride" and Sir Robert It appeared all was in readiness last Thursday night David Frick, the former deputy mayor who has been handling the city's affairs in the matter, and a team of Irsay negotiators went to Chicago, where they laid the contract which is said to be 70 pages, at Sir Robert's feet Even the "best Irsay's fellow National Football League owners, gave their blessing to his marriage to Indianapolis even if it was in a left-handed way.

(What they did was to say that if he wanted to move the Baltimore CoKs to Indianapolis there wasnt a darned thing they could do about it) Football fans in Baltimore last week had all but given up the ghost So had Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer. But the longer Sir Robert leaves Indianapolis waiting on the church steps, the better those in Baltimore feel. "Welcome to the club," said a fellow from Phoenix. Friends in Memphis and Jacksonville, Fla, expressed similar words of sympathy. Football fans in those three cities, you see, also have been left waiting at the church by Sir Robert He indicated to them, too, that he might move the Colts to their city.

The NFL owners admit they are powerless to stop franchises from moving since Al Davis packed up his Raiders and shuffled them from Oakland to Los Angeles without the NFL's permission and then won the blessing of the courts. But some have privately told Sir Robert they disapprove of such goings-on. One of those was Dan Rooney, owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers. It so happens that he has been a proponent of Indianapolis getting an expansion NFL team and has Fifteen Starts At Indy -Mike Mosley car lock in gear on his final pit stop. He placed 13th.

Then at Indianapolis, Mosley recorded the top speed the day before qualifying and on the morning of the trials he was clocked at 201896 miles per hour, quicker than anyone including rookie Teo FabL The 5-foot-7 Mosley was the third driver out once qualifications began and turned four laps at 205.662 mph, with his best circuit of 205.997 his first one. This held the pole against challenges from veterans Rick Mean, Al Unser Sr. and Tom Sneva. But 45 minutes after he went onto the track, Fabi was sent out and stormed around the Speedway at a record-breaking average of 207.395 to push Mosley down a spot in the front row. Inthe race, Mosley was running well until he crashed on the 170th lap and finished 13th.

He rebounded by placing fifth at Milwaukee and fourth at Cleveland and he added a fourth in the Poco-no 500. He crashed both cars in practice at Mid-Ohio and finished the season with a dismal 24th at Phoenix. Mosley placed 14th in the final PPG-CART Indy Car World Series Martina Navratilova John McEnroe 82,500 in fines earlier in the tournament At one point he stormed to the linesman's chair. "Any reason why this guy is in the chair?" he said. "Because he made 16 bad calls in my first match?" Vi WAH UtMV t.l1.JZ- 1 1 mimmmmm I tv- Navratilova Wins In 3 U.S.

A IMPORT SERVICE It ft I II Church been a dose friend of Indianapolis businessman Bob Welch. Welch, of course, has been busily working towards that goal for a decade or so. From what everybody says about Irsay, that surely isn't the reason he's not jumping at the chance to come to Indianapolis. Matter of fact even those people in Baltimore who want the Colts to stay in that city the worst way, cant imagine how he could jilt Indianapolis because of the sweetheart deal it offered him. Last night it was reported that he may be leaning towards staying in Baltimore.

Why oh why, Sir Robert? As has been said so often, Indianapolis has a new domed stadium which has everything that Baltimore's old, outdoor Memorial Stadium does not There is an untouched wealth of fans here who would welcome the Colts (and Sir Robert) with open arms. In Baltimore they treat him like an unwelcome, illegitimate child. They stay away from his games in droves. Last year, the Colts sold only HOOD season tickets. Indianapolis observers figure he could sell 40,000 here.

Has all this been worth it? Certainly. The Hoosier Dome desperately needs a regular tenant everybody knows that Maybe the Colts, once one of the proudest in the NFL, aren't the toast of the league right now. But any NFL team would be like a Prince Charming to Indianapolis. There are those who will tell you that we should wait on an expansion team. Wait my eye.

There's an old saying that goes "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and that sure applies in this case. The welfare of the city is what is at stake here. And the Colts could mean millions and millions of dollars to the Indianapolis economy. Frick remained in Chicago over the weekend and continued to seek Sir Robert's hand. That means, of course, that Indianapolis isnt out of it Not completely at least So let's be positive.

Where there is light there is hope. And, like Yogi Berra keeps saying, it's never over until it's over. they believed me and convinced me. They were so confident they were going to do it again. "When we took first and fourth in the 200 breast stroke (junior John Waldman won with the fastest Big Ten time ever recorded and freshman Mark Eaton was fourth), it broke Iowa's momentum.

"Our guyV.had 100 percent best performances (for the season) and 90 percent best lifetimes. The only thing that came closest to this was in the 1976 Olympics. The best word to describe it is fantastic." Hobie, of course, is Hobie Bil-lingsley, whose "Hobie's Heroes" took a third (Paul Lenihan), fifth (Jay Waterbury), ninth (Eric Murff) and 12th (Mike Taylor) in the 3-meter diving. That performance pushed the Hoosiers into a lead Iowa could not have overcome even if the Hawk-eyes had been able to win the concluding 400 free relay, which they did not They finished second to Michigan. Indiana was third.

"We wanted to be a part of the victory," said Billingsley. "We got all four divers in the finals and we needed some great preformances from hungry kids, 'and we got them." Marge, of course, is Marge Counsilman, Doc's wife who is as much a part of the LU. swimming and diving success probably as anyone Aunt Fanny? Well, there was no real Aunt Fanny, but if there had been, she probably would have scored points for the Big Red, too. After going nearly a year without a victory on the LPGA Tour that she once owned, Nancy Lopez didn't want to lose this one. She also didnt want another shot in the ribs from her caddy.

Saturday, Hiss Lopez was accidentally struck with an S-iron as her caddy. Roscoe Jones, pulled it out of the golf bag. Yesterday, after Miss Lopez had bogeyed three consecutive holes down the stretch, Jones issued a reminder. But she survived her caddy and' her faltering play with two closing parr to post a threestroke victory over Pat Bradley in a tour nament at Costa Mesa, Calif. tfffifOUT! Bobby Allison finally finishes.

AP. Waiting Game Pays Off ROCKINGHAM, C. (UPI) -Bobby Allison played a waiting game in the Carolina 500, a tactic that paid off in his first triumph this year and 80th career victory. "We knew we were at a disadvantage at the start because we were so far back," said Allison, who began the 492 lap race at North Carolina Motor Speedway yesterday in 15th place. "We knew there would be an awful lot of traffic and a lot of good race cars.

"About 80 or 90 miles into the race, we had the attitude our program would be okay if we didnt rush things." Allison, whose fourth victory at the 1.017-mile track earned him 833,150, gradually worked his way into the top five and then took the lead during a pit stop series. When the race ended, Allison had led five times for 118 laps, including the final 54. He averaged a record 122.931 miles per hour in a race slowed by six caution flags for a total of 42 laDs. The old record was 121.727 I mph set by Allison in March 1979. There were 23 lead changes among six drivers.

Allison's victory moved him into third on the all-time victory list. Richard Petty and David Pearson are the only drivers ahead of him with 198 and 105 wins, respectively. The 46-year-old Allison, driving a Buick, finished 2.4 seconds ahead of Terry Labonte's Chevrolet Lake Speed was third in a Chevrolet followed by Richard Petty in a Pontiac, one lap back, and Buddy Baker in a Ford, four laps off the pace. The race was the first Allison has finished in the young 1984 season. There were only two caution flags during the first half of the race, but three of the four yellow flags in the final stages eliminated three frontrunners.

Tun Richmond was running in the top five when his Pontiac smacked the third turn wall, spun across the track arid hit the inside wall Bowling Winner TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) For a guy who came within three pins of missing the finals in the 8200,000 Toledo Trust Professional Bowlers Association National Championship, Bob Chamberlain did okay for himself. The 35-year-old Pontiac, native averaged 240 over four games Saturday to win the 1984 title and 838,000 first prize. The fifth-seeded Chamberlain, making his first appearance in the finals, beat Dan Eberl of Tonawan-da, N.Y, 219-191 in the title game Moosiers Surprise Even Counsilman "taylt Alliance Best selling American ear line launched in 1983" and the ALL NEW JQQRE TC3C? 34" All WOIK WITHIN 1 HI. OHM DAK.T 4 MT. I BASED on 48 mo.

lease w500 down and $125 security deposit. Total pymts. of S5S08 8 Stock A24S PeFMoT Plus Tax E)V UnHttf PfWS iBttvfMtiMtl Some other time, perhaps, in another place, the experiment may be tried once again. The next time, though, it would be wise not to invite Martha Navratilova to the party. The idea yesterday was to see how women tennis players would fare if they were called upon to play a best-of five match, something they hadnt done since 1902.

Women are virtually on a par with the men when it comes to prize money, and this was just another way to spread the equality one step further. Good idea, wrong setting. As well as Chris Evert Lloyd played, and she did play extremely well for the first two sets, and despite the fact that Miss Navratilova called the 57th career meeting between them "the highest level quality of tennis both of us have ever played," it requires even more than a super effort these days to take a set from Miss Navratilova. The result was a 63, 7 5, 64 victory for Miss Navratilova in the final of the 8500,000 Virginia Slims championship in New York. Although both women said they 'were prepared, both mentally and physically, to battle for up to 314 hours, Miss Navratilova required only an hour and 52 minutes to earn the top prize of 8125,000, a record for a women's tennis tournament She also picked up $22,500 Saturday for sharing the doubles crown with Pam Shriver.

John McEnroe had more trouble with a linesman than with his opponent combining powerful serves with backhand smashes to bury Tomas Smid, 60, 6-4, and win the $200,000 Madrid, Spain, Grand Prix tournament McEnroe, ranked No. 1 in the world, gave his Czechoslovakian opponent no openings in the first set yesterday, breaking his serve three times and winning three straight games without giving up a point But during the "second set when he had made several unforced errors, McEnroe once again displayed the anger and antics that cost him Komets Win FORT WAYNE Ind. (UPI) -The Fort Wayne Komets won their 11th straight International Hockey League game as Rob Motz scored three goals in a 2 win over Toledo. VA fcr 48 By DICK DENNY The message board on the Indiana University swimming and diving team van in the parking lot at the Natatorium said it alL Just minutes after the Hoosiers had won the Big Ten meet Saturday night for the second consecutive year in the facility on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, the following words flashed in red on the board: "Congratulations on Indiana winning 22 Big Ten championships. Is there a Doc-tor in the house? You bet your Aunt Fanny there is and he brought Hobie and all the boys and Marge, too." Doc, of course, is James "Doc" Counsilman, who took his 22nd conference victory in the last 24 years as coach at I.U.

"Nobody figured we had any kind of chance at the beginning of the season," said Counsilman, whose team overcame Iowa's 39 Vi-lead to claim the crown with 6404 points. Iowa was second with 590 points and Michigan third with 526 Purdue finished sixth with 199 points. The three-day event which drew bigger crowds than a year ago (Saturday night's attendance was nearly qualified 24 individual swimmers and eight relay teams for the NCAA meet later this month at Cleveland State. "I told the guys at the beginning of the season we could win the Big Ten," continued Counsilman. "I lied to 'em.

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