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1 i Red 3y tody Heat A Hot Item TV; Ch. 10, 8:30 p.m. Delayed Broadcast. INDIANAPOLIS Iff) "If that car holds together, the rest of lis are running for show money," said Johnny Rutherford, one of the 33 starters for today's 56th Indianapolis 500-mile race. Rutherford, who will line up in the middle of the third row for the noon (EDT) start, was speaking of the Olsonite Eagle of Bobby Unser, the record-shattering, pole-sitter for the $1-million race.

Unser, 37, shot the ancient Indianapolis Motor Speedway's lap marks out of sight In time trials. His four-lap, 10-mile run around the 2.5-mile oval averaged 195.940 miles per hour. His fastest lap, 196.678 m.p.h., was more than 17 m.p.h. ahead of Peter Revson's 1971 pole record. The 32 other starters who made the lineup in four rounds of qualifying were forced into a frantic search for speed unlike anything most of them had ever experienced.

The field average was 183.655 m.p.h., compared with last year's 171.665. Revson, driver of one of the two team entries from the McLaren Works of England, qualified for the middle of the front row at 192.885 m.p.h. Mark Donohue, most recognized for his road racing exploits, earned the other front line berth at 191.408 in a McLaren owned by Roger Penske. This makes the front row an almost exact copy of last year's three except that Revson was on the pole, Donohue on the inside and Unser outside. Their combined average of almost 192 m.p.h.

this year immediately brought talk of rules changes to cut the rate by (See 500, S-C) INDIANAPOLIS in The worst heat conditions since 1953 may complicate the 56th running of the Indianapolis 500-mile auto race today. The temperature for the 33 drivers, all faster than last year's record-breaking Peter Revson in a McLaren, may be near the 91 degrees of '53. Nine drivers were treated for heat exhaustion that year and Carl Scarborough died in the infield hospital at the Speedway. Jim Rathmann, who will drive the pace car today, led part of that race 19 years ago. He recalled it vividly Friday as the drivers met for their final instructions.

UPI Speedster Bobby Unser t.prtrrBbura eimra 'OUCHO 1 XT OMAHA (UPI) She is a little woman, barely more than five feet tall. Very pretty, too. Her name is Darlene Stander and she and her husband, Ron Stander, the heavyweight fighter, were hood sweethearts who went together 12 years before they got married eight years ago. Frank, 6, and Angela, 3, are the result of that marriage and both stood close to their mother Thursday night as she sat rather resignedly on a folding chair outside her husband's dressing room at Omaha's Civic Auditorium after Joe Frazier had bloodied him up and stopped him at the start of the fifth round in their heavyweight title fight. 1 Inside Ron Stander's dressing room, whose door was closed, Dr.

Jack Lewis was doing the best he could. He took nearly 20 minutes and when he was finished Ron Stander's face looked as if it had been run over by a heavy tractor and the box score looked like this: 7 stitches down the left side of the nose 4 more down the right side 3 above the right eye 3 below A total of 17 stitches plus a broken nose. While all this was going on inside the dressing room, Darlene Stander, 27, the same age as her husband, was answering questions about him. Like: Q. "What did you think of his performance tonight?" A.

"I was proud of him." Q. "What about all that blood?" A. "I've seen Ron bleed before. The blood didn't both- "I got sick and threw up," Rathmann said. "Pat Flaherty passed out and drove straight Into the wall.

"I didn't stop until a header fell off," the Melbourne auto dealer said. "I got into another car after cooling off and the crankshaft broke while I was coming down the main stretch." Tire engineers said in 1953 that the temperature on the surface of the asphalt track was 130 degrees. Rathmann doesn't think the heat will be such a problem today. Since the 1960 winner's heyday, the engines have been moved from the front to the rear of the cars and the heat doesn't wash over the drivers. "The cars are 100 per cent cooler now," Rathmann said.

"The steering wheel used to get so hot you could hardly hold it Your feet, too." Rathmann, who has held world closed course race records at both Monza, Italy, and Daytona International Raceway, was named to drive the pace car after an amateur driver hit a photographer's stand last year, injuring more than 50 persons. Early laps today around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway may look like one of the 20-mile sprint events popular on smaller tracks. A driver receives $130 for each lap he leads, in addition to the regular purse. There is an added incentive to get in front early this year, the first in which an electro-pacer system has been used. The electro-pacer is a series of eight lighted panels all around the track, turned on whenever the yellow "hold your position" signal is flashed.

It is set at 80 miles per hour. Numbers move forward from panel to panel at that speed. For example, if a driver sees a No. 7 on the next panel when the caution light goes on, he should slow to a speed at which he continues to see No. 7 on the panels all the way around the track.

If a driver moves out of his (See HEAT, 3-C) milton jjchman. Pauses For Reflection DPI AP er me that much. I was more worried about him getting hit." Q. "Are you gonna advise him to quit now?" A. "I advised him to quit before he got into the ring this time.

He wanted to have one more fight. I wouldn't care if he got a million dollars for this fight, It wasn't worth it. I get accused of being a nag and a bitch. I took a lot of gump from his manager. I took a lot of gump from Ron when he wasn't in shape and I told him he shouldn't fight in that condition." Q.

"What about your two children here?" A. "I put my daughter on tranquilizers four months ago because her daddy wasn't home. Frank has been taking his father's absence better." The door of Ron Stander's dressing room opened and the loser emerged between his manager, Dick Noland, and his trainer, Johnny Dunne. Stander kissed his two children, then his wife. He walked to a platform farther down the corridor and began talking to newsmen through a microphone.

"I'm sorry I let a lotta people down," he said, his right eye swollen shut, his lips puffed up like a pair of crullers and his nose like something right out of W. C. Fields. Blood trickled from a spot alongside the top of his nose despite the stitches there. "I did everything I could," Stander went on.

"I wanted to come out and finish the fight, but they said no. I couldn't see in the last round. I'm not making excuses. I hope everybody realizes Ron Stander tried to control himself but found he couldn't. He had wept in the ring after the fight was stopped and he began weeping now again.

"Why is Ron crying?" somebody asked his wife, who had walked down the corridor to listen to what he had to say to the newsmen. "Because he is a little boy at heart," Darlene Stander said. "His whole reason for fighting is that he became an instant hero. His biggest purse has been $3,000. That was right here in Omaha for his fight with Manuel Ramos.

I can't cope with it. I tell him 'You're unstable, you don't know what you're "What does he say to you?" "I'm a nag. I don't know what I'm talking about." "Why do you want him to quit?" "Because he doesn't take fighting seriously." "He did tonight." "That's one fight. One fight in three years." Saturday, May 27, 1972 U.S. Title In Chess On Line A two-week tournament to determine the U.S.

women's chess championship opens Sunday at the Suwanee Hotel. The nation's 11 top women players, ranging from defend- ing champion Gisela Gresser of New York to 13-year-old Rachel Crotto, the youngest player ever to compete in a senior national invitational tournament, will meet for the title. The tournament also is a zone finals of the World Chess Federation, with the winner and rnnnerup qualifying for the Women's World Chess! Tournament and a shot at the world championship. Games will be played 15 straight days, from 2-6 p.m. The tournament is a round-, robin, with each participant playing the other 10.

The rules state that each player must make at least 40 moves in the first two hours, and at least 20 moves per hour after that. Four days have been set aside (See CHESS, 2-C) A STARRY BATTLE Isscl (left), Havlicek. ening each year. In the 1971 post-season inaugural, the NBA won by five points. Thursday the margin was only two, 106-104, and a last-second three-point attempt by Rick Barry could have changed all that.

Past Tarpons or that the Tarpons helped them with a lot of errors. It's just that the Cards scored the runs with minimum effort. Their first run scored on an infield out with the bases loaded. The third winning came on a bases-loaded walk. The fourth scored via a (See CITY CARDS, 3-C) SECTION iCLASSIFIED AP NBA: Fine Win; No Fines, Yet Times Win Services NEW YORK Larry Fleischer, attorney for the Nation Basketball Association players, said Friday the players would take "collective action" if any fines were handed out because of their participation in a game against American Basketball Association players.

Fleischer's comment was made after Bob Lanier of the Detroit Pistons, who starred for the NBA in a 106-104 victory over the ABA All-Stars Thurs Ron Stander's Face Was An Open And Shut Case For A Devastating Joe Frazier Mrs. Stander, demure in a pink pants suit with white polka dots, called Frazier "a great champ" and said she wished her husband had the "backing" he did. In his dressing room, Frazier said he considered Stander stronger than George Chuvalo, and stronger even than Oscar Bonavena. "He bleeds a lot, but if you ask me whether I think he should continue fighting, I'd say yeah," said the Did all the bleeding bother Frazier? "Blood?" he said. "It didn't bother me.

I worked in blood all my life. You know, I worked in a slaughter house in Philadelphia. I'm not makin' a joke of it." Later in the evening, champion and challenger both found themselves in the same downtown hotel together. They decided to take a cab together and once inside, they talked a good deal. Ron Stander had to be a little careful though.

It hurt so much when he laughed. Joe lyes Ali; Foreman Wants In Act OMAHA UPI Heavyweight George Foreman said he champion Joe Frazier stood would fight Frazier for "pea-ready Friday to fight Muham- nuts." mad Ali for millions, while After Frazier beat Ron day night, said if anyone is suspended or fined, "all the players will quit." Fleisher said he took exception to the word "quit," but emphasized that "there's no way the players are going to be fined. We will use all the necessary tools at our disposal, including a law suit. The ultimate weapon is a collective action." A spokesman for NBA Commissioner Walter Kennedy said, "The commissioner isn't commenting about last night's game." Kennedy had warned the NBA players they would be subject to fines for playing in the game. He said the minimum would be the amount they received for playing in the game.

The NBA players took home $3,000 each for winning, to $1,700 for the losing ABA stars. On the court itself, the NBA-ABA war finds the senior league's supremacy less- Cards Ease By TOM DUFFY Of The Timet Stiff The St. Petersburg Cardinals returned to Al Lang Field after an eight-day absence Friday night displaying a new strategy passive resistance. It's not that the City Cards didn't try during their 4-2 victory over the Tampa Tarpons Stander in a brawl Thursday night, he said he would fight Ali for The champion mentioned no date or site for a return match with Ali but he and his manager, Yank Durham, said he won't fight in New York because of a special tax and Durham said he won't take a fight in California because of personal reasons. As for his immediate plans, Frazier said he would stay in Omaha for Joe Frazier Day today and then "me and the title are going to take a long vacation." Frazier spoke Friday morning in the lobby of his hotel with Dick Sadler, Foreman's manager.

"Everybody else has had a shot at the title and now we want one," said Sadler. "George is ready and the public and press are ready for a fight with Frazier." "George will fight him for nothing," added Sadler. Foreman, winner of all 36 of his pro fights, 33 by knockout, said Thursday night after watching Frazier batter Stander, "All I want is $1, expenses and Joe Frazier." Frazier had a puffiness around his right eye Friday but otherwise was unmarked by the bruising fight which ended with Stander on his stool, his face a bloody mask, between the fourth and fifth rounds. It was called a fifth-round knockout. "He's relentless," said Stander who attended Frazier's victory party Thursday night and stopped by his hotel Friday.

"When my skin heals I'd like to fight him again," said Stander. "He's too nice a guy," said Frazier. "I'd never fight him again." awl vc mam a Slirterit Wood (7-1), K.c. mmmszm Holtimin OJ) (2-0), Rytn (1-4) Buddies Now: Champ Joe, Battered Ron IHrttri: Rooktr.