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Saturday. )un 30, 197S THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Pag IT LS4C On Trio In Pocono 500 if foi, Peter Revson Dick King The twp infield tunnels served as river beds and it rained again last night. Five drivers who weren't in the Indianapolis lineup will be in tomorrow's field rookie Johnny Parsons, Rick 'Muther, rookie Tom Bigelow, Sam Posey and Jim Hurtubise. In front will be a familiar looking car the orange-colored McLaren. Only the McLaren drivers have switched positions.

Tomorrow it will be Pete Revson, who started in the seventh spot at Indianapolis on the pole with teammate Johnny Rutherford on the in- -side of the third1 row. Rutherford was the' No. 1 qualifier at Indianapolis. Revson's performance, like Rutherford's, was a record-setting one. The sport's most eligible bachelor, despite the fact he preferred to be racing in this weekend's French Grand -Prix and tried to get out of competing in the Pocono event, qualified at an average speed.

of 190.648 miles per hour in his four-lap, 10- mile run. Bobby Unser was the old record-holder with 190.210 mph. The biggest question facing the field tomor-1 row concerns fuel. After Indianapolis' fiery series of mishaps, USAC acted quickly to cut on-board fuel tanks to 40 gallons (from 75) and total fuel allowed from 375 to 340 and cut the size of the cars' wings slightly. Mechanics will be forced to detune for better gas mileage, but just how far is the question.

Indianapolis' 500 ended after 332'2 miles. -Pocono would like to go a little farther. By LYLE MANNWEILER Assistant Sports Editor MOUNT POCONO, United States Auto Club, considered by some the greatest auto racing sanctioning body for central Indiana, gets a chance to prove once more It can handle a 500-mile race of national stature. USAC, which has been severely criticized for its handling of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race last month, will present its Pocono 500 tomorrow under the watchful eye of a growing number of critics. After the Indianapolis debacle, the East Coast press all but canceled the city, let alone the race.

Tomorrow, before the New Yorkers, the Bostoners, the Philadelphians and the Washingtonians, 33 of the finest racing drivers in the world will try to do what they couldn't' just 33 days ago. Or 32 days ago. Or 31! Pocono's third 500 will start just like previous ones and Just like the one which produced 16 hospital patients at Indianapolis this year (driver Salt Walther and 15 spectators). Eleven rows of three abreast are expected to take the green flag at noon (WIBC) with a little better results. First, the main straightaway at Pocono International Raceway's tri-oval (shaped similar to a triangle with three straights) is 15 feet wider than the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's (65-50).

Second, according to one USAC official, they've guaranteed the drivers that just because the pace car pulls off the track after the second parade lap, it doesn't mean the green 1 35-GALLON Ul FUEL TANK If it flag will be displayed. It was a point emphasized at today's public and private drivers' meetings. USAC's usual championship car officials, headed by director of competition Dick King, will try their hand at this 500. Starter Shim Malone will be located above the track level. Indianapolis' recent tradition of having the starter at track level has been among the many criticisms voiced since the Memorial Day running.

Rain, which proved Indianapolis' downfall, is proving to be Pocono's problem, too. Last Sunday's scheduled second day of qualifying was postponed because of rain, and yesterday's scheduled pit practice was postponed until today for similar reasons. Three inches of rain fell in less than a half hour in some areas of eastern Pennsylvania, leaving knee-high water in some garage areas. John, Reds Get A Lift Tom Carroll Going Good For Tribe CINCINNATI (AP) A leaping catch in right center, quarter-inch sponge in the left The ball hit his glove, the shoe of Johnny Bench proved wall attd his a 1 then to be all the lift the Cincin- rolled away. nati Reds needed last night.

"Whatever it hit out there, By LESTER KOELLING All the bad things that happened last year are changing to good this season for Tom Carroll, the 20-year-old pitcher of the Indianapolis Indians. Arm miseries and other ail- wins eighth New Look Tom Carroll game. ments sidelined Carroll for almost two months in 1972 at Three Rivers where he wound up with a 6-10 record although changes made to championship cars since the Indianapolis 500. They were put into effect for tomorrow's Pocono 500. Andretti will start on the outside of the front row.

MOUNT POCONO, Pa. This top view of Mario Andretti's No. 1 1 Par-nelli shows through diagrams the Murcer Wins, Loses 'Greaseball' Battle Bench, hobbled by; a pulled calf muscle which forced him out of the lineup for four games, returned with a single and three-run homer in the Reds' 4-0 victory over San Diego. Doctors had advised the club that Bench needed three weeks of complete rest to recover from the injury. "Can't do that," countered Cinciimatl manager Sparky Anderson.

"We've got to have him in there if at all Barely able to run, Bench slapped a single the first time up; and broke up a pitching duel with his 15th homer of the year to cap a seventh inning outburst. Bench slowly jogged around the bases, causing teammate Pete Rose remark: "AS: long as he hits 'em like that, I don't anyone would care if he crawled." Rose gave Cincinnati a 1-0 lead with two out in the seventh when he slammed his second major league inside-the-park home run. San Diego right-fielder Clarence Gaston tried for a line drive and that kept me out of action for two Carroll says there's no traced of last year's arm miseries now and his blazing fast ball, a pitch that rises up on the batters, bears that out. But Tom still is working on the mechanics of his delivery on which manager Vera Rapp made some adjustments ear lier in the year. "Tom has adjusted very well," said Rapp," and he's going to get better as the season goes on.

He was scared this spring," thinking about the-' changes, but. he has overcome-all that and just now is be-l coming a real good, Carroll, a native of N.Y., who was Cincinnati's No. 6 draft choice in the summer of 1970, admitted that the substantial lead the Indians gave him made his pitching assignment a bit easier. "With that lead (6-0 through four innings) I made up my mind' to challenge the hitters by trying to throw nothing but strikes," said Carroll. "That's why I stayed with my fast ball." The only blemish to Car-r oil's performance was a it hit the right thing," said Rose; whose two hits give him 8 in his last at-bats, ending a momentary slump.

The slugging of Rose and Bench supported the seven-hit pitching of Jack Billingham, who posted his 10th victory against five losses. "I had my best stuff in a long while," said Billingham. "I've been having my troubles in the last month. Hope I'm back in the groove." He walked none and struck out five in notching his fourth shutout of the year. Reliever Mike Corkins, 3-5, took the loss.

He replaced Rich Troedson after Troedson blanked the Reds for six innings. Corkins' troubles started with Rose's homer, continued when he nicked Joe Morgan with a pitch, walked Dan Driessen and ended with the first pitch to Bench. "My leg does not bother me at all swinging," said Bench, who boosted his league-leading runs-batted-in total to 58. "I might have to wear a sponge the rest of the year." it's not. going to heal playing.

"I wouldn't consider not playing and resting it," Bench added. The Reds open a four-game series with front-running Los Angeles today. The Reds, who have won five of the nine games against the Dodgers this year, see it as a crucial confrontation. Trailing by 10 games, Cincinnati is aware it's reaching the point of no return. Stewart Sets Record Time In France LE CASTELLET, France (AP) Jackie Stewart wasted little time in proving who was king of Le Castellet and the man to beat in tomorrow's 54-lap, 194.6-mile French Grand Prix.

Holder of the one-lap record and 1971 winner of this event, Stewart sliced more than 2 seconds off his mark in setting the fastest time in the first practice session yesterday. He was timed in 1:48.37. His Tyrell-Ford a France's Francois Cevert, was second and it looked like 1971 all over again, when the duo finished one-two. Stewart trails reigning Grand Prix champion Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil by two points in his bid for a third world title and a victory would add nine points to his total. Fittipaldi was slightly off the pace yesterday for sixth fastest time." posting a 3.38 earned run average.

He had only one full-route performance in 18 starts and gave up 106 hits in 104 innings. Last night, the 1 right-hander won his eighth game with the Indians in 13 decisions and went the route for the fourth time during a 7-1 Tribe victory over Tulsa. He gave up. only three hits, walked two and Struck out four. "Yes, I'd have to agree that it was my best effort of the season," said Tom after the game.

"There were other times when I thought I was more overpowering, but tonight I had better control of my pitches and was getting ahead of the batters. I just stayed with my fast ball." Carroll's problems began early last year and lingered on through the season. "About a month before spring training I got a job with a construction company, thinking the heavy work would strengthen my mus cles," related Tom. "But it only tightened them and I never could get loose. It lasted all season.

On top of that, I was hit on the ankle by a A FORGOTTEN BOILERMAKER HAWAII 0-0 FOR PURDUE WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) St. Joseph, Illinois State and Bowling Green have been added to the 1973 74 basketball schedule by Purdue. The Boilermakers will play St. Joseph on Dec.

3, Illinois' State Dec. 22 and Bowling Green, Feb. 26, all at home, Purdue athletic director George King said the Big 10 ruled the Boilermakers' scheduled appearance in the Rainbow Classic in Honolulu would not count towards the maximum 24 game schedule permitted by the league. first-inning home run by Terry Hughes. The Indians made sure ot-this victory early.

They, scored in the first on a hit Ken Griffey, his steal of sec- ond and an error, and added-three more in the third on Joel Youngblood's homer and another four-bagger by Ed Armbrister, this one with Griffey on base. The homer equaled Ed's last year's total of seven. Bobby Young drove in a run with a double in the fourth and scored himself on Youngblood's single, and in the seventh Jim Driscoll doubled to score Roe Skidmore. An RCA Family Night dou--; ble-header is scheduled to-, night (6:30) with Pat Osburn" and Dick Baney pitching for the'-Indians, and a' 2 p.m. contest' tomorrow will wind up the sev ries.

Sprinter Burton Can't Make Carmel, But Russia Is OK greas- Gaylord Perry is he ing the By HERSCHEL NISSENSON NEW YORK (AP Bobby Murcer met up with Bowie Kuhn and Gaylord Perry yesterday and came away $250 poorer and one home run richer. His first meeting was with baseball commissioner Kuhn, who nicked Murcer's $100,000 wallet to the tune of $250 for the New York outfielder's charges earlier in the week that neither Kuhn nor American League president Joe Cronin "have the guts" to enforce a rule prohibiting pitchers from loading up the baseball with a foreign substance. Perry, who beat the Yankee, 4-2, Monday night in Cleveland, was the pitcher Murcer had in mind. Last night, Murcer tagged him for a two-run homer as the Yanks erupted for six runs in the fourth inning and whipped the Indians, 7-2. Roy White hit solo homers in the fourth and seventh while Gene Michael capped the big inning with a three-run double.

Murcer's shot put New York on top, 3-2, and he gave it the full treatment. He shot his right arm skyward in what might be termed a "Yankee power" salute as he rounded first base, then waved his batting helmet at the cheering fans as he trotted to the dugout. "The home run was satisfying because it put us ahead," he dead-panned afterward. "It looked to me like a hanging greaseball. It didn't do much.

First he threw me a fast ball, then a greaseball which he got over the plate a little bit. "He threw me a couple of greaseballs that broke pretty good, but he didn't throw as many tonight as he did in Cleveland. Then, he threw it on almost every This was the first time I've seen him mix his pitches up fast ball, slider and greaseball. v. "Listen, I don't dislike Gaylord at all; I just don't want him throwing an illegal pitch." The Yankees abandoned plans to train two closed-circuit television cameras Dn Perry, but an ABC-TV crew did zero in on the Cleveland right-hander.

Perry used up his repertoire of fidgets in the first inning alone. Before his first pitch he. rubbed his pitching hand under his left armpit Before the inning was over, he had gone to the bill of his cap, his forehead, the right side of his face, behind his right ear and the back of his neck. When Murcer came up for the first time, Perry gave him the full routine. He took off his cap and stared toward the plate while slowly rubbing up the ball.

That time, Murcer grounded out. The Yankees generally agreed that Perry couldn't keep his pitches low after the first three innings. "He didn't have a good fast ball," said White, "and he was throwing a lot of high pitches. That's probably why he got hurt. I think both my home runs came off change-ups or maybe one change and one slider.

But both were high pitches." "He said I ought to bo a little more discreet in my comments," Murcer said of his meeting with Kuhn. "I told him a lot of things are said in the locker room after you lose a close game. We'd just lost a game which I felt wc should have won." But lie refused to back down on his greaseball charges against Perry. "Yes, he throws a greaseball," Murcer said, "and he's not alone. Since he's been in the icague there been an increasing number of pitchers trying to' throw it.

"It looks like it's already been legalized. I've felt the stuff he puts on the ball, but I don't think thjt umpires wantpio feel it." By DICK DENNY You can't blame Larry Burton for feeling forgotten, which he does. A year ago the Purdue University sopho Chisox Nip As, Return To Top more burst onto the track scene like an unknown meteor-hot and flashy. Recruited by the Boilermakers as a football player, Burton was talked into trying out for track, which he had not participated in before because his Burton ica, Burton is caught in a dilemma. He wants to compete in top-flight events, but he's strapped financially to support a family.

One thing he wants made clear. "I'm not, trying to make a fortune out of track. The only thing I would have wanted is the entrance fee ($1 an event) and expense money. "I guess it's just one of those coincidences. I just wasn't aware of the meet.

Coach (Dave) Rankin didn't say anything and nobody from the meet contacted me. "Purdue paid for me last year, but nobody told me anything about it this year. No doubt about It, if -I had been able to get financial help, I would have run. "I'm had hamstring trouble in the season and I didn't run the 220 in the NCAA meet, because I didn't want any more trouble. But I'm in shape.

"It's just that I couldn't have swung it on my own financially. School was out May 5, but I was still running and it was hard to find a job. I didn't start work until after the NCAA meet (June 7-9 in Baton Rouge, La. where he placed sixth In the 100) and I hadn't even gotten a paycheck last week." 'Jerry York, chairman of the. Carmel Classic, said, "I would like to have had Larry, lie's an excellent runner.

I talked to Dave Rankin before and after the meet, and he simply said Larry was working. Apparently Larry had no one sponsoring him or apparently no money from Purdue." Burton expects to be running again before the summer's over. "I'm going to the World Games (they'll be in Moscow) tryouts at Amherst College in Massachusetts in August and they've already taken care of my arrangements," he said. Perhaps Burton can run In Russia, if not Carmel. Earl A Tiger In Tigerland DETROIT (AP) EarlV on good terms with Earl at least for the' moment.

But he isn't on good terms with the Detroit Tigers. Earl Williams, transplanted National League catcher, belted two home runs and drove in four runs last night to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 9-2 American Leapc victory over the Tigers. Afterwards both Williams-, and Oriole manager Earl Weaver found themselves an- swering more questions about Williams' one-day suspension last Sunday than about his he-; roics last night. Both said the same thing: "That's over and done with." "There were a bunch of Uttla things," Weaver said In ex-1 plaining the suspension, "things like showing up lata for practice, missing team buses, etc." "These guys are amazing," manager Chuck Tanner of the White Sox said. "They never give up.

They play every game like it's the last one of their life." The victory went to Stan Bahnsen (10-6) who survived a shaky start until the relief pitchers saved it for him. Chicago handed Oakland lefthander Ken Holtzman (11-8) his fifth consecutive loss. Holtzman gave up nine hits including six in the second and third innings when Chicago scored three times. Luis Alvarado had two sin-Rles, scored a run and drove in another and Carlos May hud three sIl and scored a run. What proved to be the decisive run was an eight-inning homer by Kd Herrmann.

It was his fifth of the season. Tho defeat dropped the A's lo second place In the West race. OAKLAND (AP) The topsy-turvy American League West baseball race has a new leader today and nobody can quite figure out why. The Chicago While Sox, a 4-3 winner over the Oakland A's last night, popped back into the lead by four percentage points. i "I don't understand how we do It," Chicago relief pitcher Terry Forstor said.

"We've had Injuries all season long but still hang in there." (The Sox lost slugger Dick Allen Indefinitely with a hairline fracture of his leg Thursday night.) Forstor was a contributor lo lust night's victory. He pitched twit innings of relief before giving way lo Cy Acos-tu with the tying run on third base and two out In the ninth Inning. Acosta struck out pinch-hit' tor Joe Rudl on lour 'pilches to end the game. high school in Virginia did not have a team in that sport, by a gridiron teammate, Carl Capria. Burton's rise was sensational.

He won the NCAA 200-meter title, took the Carmel Classic 100-yard dash crown in :09.4, qualified for the U.S. Olympic team and finished fourth in the 200 at Munich. Last Sunday, when Ted Edwards of the Chicago Track Club, was claiming his 100 title in the second Carmel Classic with a time of :09.7, Burton was at home in West Lafayette having a barbecue with his wife, Ida, and 2-year-old son, B. J. Why? That's what Burton would like to know.

"It's really strange, but nobody told mo anything about it," he said in a -telephone interview. "It's kind of an insult. I'm sitting here and there's a meet right down the street." Burton said he would have been happy to run at Carmelhad he known about the meet and had -he been helped financially. Lice so many amateur 'athletes-In AmerV.