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Monday, July 5, 1971 Pace 22 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS rwiP Donohue Makes His Pocono Mark i 4 K-f -ml? I I in 1J, MM I Xi Joe Leonard Mark Donohue S. vx ixXxNXX xv XXu. xX "WSO xx. sia xk.v I VSxx XX ss-Ix xXxv xx M- vv nA' xN SXN- XX XX x-v Xx "XXxx xxxx Wl vd XX xX XX i XV VxZixTrxx -x xx A pole, a line and a hook attract crowd to the fishinq hole. By BOB RENNEft, Sports Writer MOUNT rOCONO, Pa.

Winning a 500-mile race has become the true Mark of a champion! And the inaugural Pocono 500 saw Mark Donohue etch his mark in the history books alongside Ray Har-roun and Jim McElreath in a race that could possibly influence the rules of the Indianapolis 500. Pocono's bunch-up rule under the yellow caution lights made Donohue's dramatic 1.6-second victory over Joe Leonard a spectacular and stimulating 3 hours and 36 minutes of racing rather than a runaway which it very well might have been under Indianapolis rules where cars hold their positions under the yellow. "It's heart-breaking to have a lead of 10-12 seconds and see it go back to zero under the yellow," Donohue confessed, "but it's for safety's sake and it was voted upon by the drivers. But, it does make it tough on the racers. It's not just 'a' race, it's 10 little races." There was one immense dissenting vote for the rule from Roger Penske, the owner of Mark's Sunoco Special McLaren No.

66. "It makes it a sideshow, a carnival," Penske claimed, "it's Mickey Mouse. It penalized the top cars." But, the 75,000 happy fans on hand for the first race at Pocono's tri-oval seem certain to disagree with Penske. And Indianapolis Speedway owner Tony Hulman and many of his top brass witnessed what the bunch-up rule can do to jazz up the excitement over 500 miles. When it got down to the final run to the flag with the yellow on for laps 183-189 due to oil on the track, Leonard was right behind Donohue and wily A.

J. Foyt was third only a couple seconds further back. The bunch-up rule was responsible for this lean, lovely, likeable finish as Donohue steadily pulled ahead of the field under the green only to have his lead dwindle to less than a second under each of the seven yellow lights during the race. And the four mandatory pit stops Indianapolis has three also played a part in the excitement as it gave the fans more of the top dogs having to catch up, which is the real point of racing anyway. When you realize that after his I vx: I I 1 I Xx- pit stop, Donohue fell back to as much as 43 seconds behind the leader it's easy to see how the combination of the two rules rekindles interest in the race at every stop among the leaders.

Actually, Donohue almost blew his whole afternoon on the 191st lap when he slowly kept inching out of the groove, perilously closer and closer to the wall in the second turn allowing Leonard to sneak by underneath to take the lead with just nine short laps from the finish. And Leonard then proceeded to about five cars lengths ahead, too. "I was really surprised at myself," Donohue laughed. "I just plain goofed, I guess I forgot there was oil out there. I was first through and I went into it cautious, so cautious I lost control when I lost blower, pressure for an instant.

The car wouldn't respond coming off the turn, but luckily I got it going again." Despite his lead at that point, Leonard felt he couldn't hold it: "I looked in my mirror and saw he was still there and knew I couldn't hold him off. He was just too much for us." Donohue got the lead back on the main straightaway on lap 194 and stayed there to cart $88,924.24 of the $365,000 purse for his average of 138.649 mph slowed down by the 47 laps of yellow. Foyt, enjoying his closest brush with a 500-victory since 1967, had his problems all afternoon or he might have been more of a challenger: "I lost a gear and that hurt my chances." Both the Unser brothers challenged ea.rly but both went to the sidelines Al with a broken oil filter and Bobby with a broken turbo-charger wheel. No one else could really challenge Donohue until Leonard made his charge at the finish. Let's Go To Camp A boy's dream comes true every morning he wakes up on the rolling acres near Bainbridge and contemplates another exciting day of rubbing elbows with Billy Keller, Bobby Hooper, Mel Daniels, Roger Brown or other top athletes.

It's Bobby Leonard's All-American Sports Camp and it's located just 30 miles west of Indianapolis on U.S. 36. The coach of the Indiana Pacers wanted the best and most comprehensive sports camp he could develop when he began his project more than a year ago, and that's what he's accomplished. t-x (S. itxxVxAxf IAh xn xi It 1 j- feff McMahan (left) and Kevin Brown play kick ball.

I PxSsBSSx rf x- a i ix i Hmf -m Not a Shadoiv of a Doubt You'll look and feel your best in a TAILOR-MADE LEON SUIT Carefully measured, styled and tailored especially for you! no McLarens FOR SALE MOUNT POCONO, in buying a 1972 McLaren race car for the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race? If so, torget it! Although they have been the smash hit for the 1971 race season so for none will be available next year. That's the word from Teddy Mayer, team manager for McLaren. "No, we don't have any to sell for next year and we don't plan to sell any. We're only going to build three or possibly four new cars like we did this year and they'll only be for our team," said Roger Penske, owner of Mark Donohue's winning car. Mike Wood cools off.

In a Hurry! OPEN A SAME DAY I' LEON ACCOUNT 1 i ALTERATIONS on r.ly.to.w.,r Mert 1 garments, rented No Carrying Charge The NEWS Photos By Jim Young t. rt Tin- iiT a-xV" Howie Rabb (left) and Tony White at Leonard's specialty. A horseback ride through the woods is popular. LEON TAILORING GO. Stewart-Chasers Sick 809 N.

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The Scot led a remarkable 1-2 victory for his long-time manager Ken Tyrrell. France's Francois Cevert, at 26, in only his second year of Formula One racing, showed himself to be the best of the new breed in coming home second, despite an exhaust pipe break that gave him anxious moments in the last five laps. Le CASTELLET, France (AP) "I've got a glandular fever thing," said Jackie Stewart after leading the French Grand Prix from the start to the checkered flag yesterday. "It's a question of getting very tired, and headaches and swollen glands but it didn't show up in the race today." It certainly didn't. No one ever looked like getting close to the 1969 world champion, By WAYNE FLSON, Sports Editor ON INDIANA'S LARGEST STOCK OF CHRYSLER CORP.

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59.59 PER MONTH DUNLOP i0mk MADISON, Ind. Race fans are about the same everywhere, on the land, sea or air. The 100,000 or so who flocked to the Ohio River banks yesterday to watch the Aladison Gold Cup Regatta were no exceptions. They ate mountains of fried chicken, drank oceans of beer and soda pop and got acres of skin sunburned. It was almost like a qualifying day at the Speedway, or at the Hoosier Hundred, or, for that matter, at the National Drags.

Oversized girls wore undersized whatcha-Biacallits, and long-haired, bewhiskered members of the "in" generation wore STP T-shirts and multicolored shorts. And it was difficult at times to tell them from their elders. But most were speed devotees. They wanted to see the world's greatest hydroplane drivers in one of the world's great races. This was no average race, mind you.

The Gold Cup is like the Kentucky Derby to the horsey set, the Hambletonian to the sulky people and. of course, the Indianapolis 500 to lhe Ford-Offy crowd. i The first competition for the Gold Cup, officially known as the American Power Boat Association Challenge Cup, began in 1904 on JV'ew York's Hudson River. Madison, a city of only 11,867 and smallest on the 1971 hydroplane race schedule, got the Gold Cup race bidding against much bigger cities, like Detroit. But this Hoosier river town handled the big league assignment like a real pro.

Raring jsn't new to Madison, of course. They've been taring boats here since 1911 (same yyir, incidentally, the Indianapolis 500 got started.) The current scries of races began in 1948. TIRES The Indiana Governor's Cup has been presented since '52. Yesterday's winner, hometown entry Miss Madison, with Jim McCor-mick piloting, got the Gold Cup. The racing itself is a bit different.

For instance, auto racing fans had a little trouble getting used to the flags. Races actually are started by a clock and if a driver hits the starting line before the clock registers "zero" he has to take an extra lap. How about that, USAC fans? Before the starting gun, green means all clear and yellow means the race has been postponed. However, once the starting gun has sounded, green means one lap remaining to be run. The checkered flag is the same everywhere, of course.

An emergency situation is signalled by emergency crews, 10 of them around the 2 '2-mile course, who fire red flares. When the red flares, which emit red smoke, are fired it means cool it and cool it in a hurry. The fields are somewhat limited; only 10 boats raced yesterday at Madison and two sank one in a spectacular accident which was covered so well by the emergency crews that driver Leif Borgersen barely got wet. The mortality rale among these hydroplanes, which cost upwards of $100,000 and are powered by big 12-cylindcr aircraft V-type engines, is rather high. Many engines last less than one 15 mile heafe and none is ever raced more than an houyjlhout being overhauled.

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