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KOKOMO (Ind.) MORNING TIMES, Tuesday, May 10, 1966 9 is serious Sadecki means ML flag for Giants it. 0 1 Krhnpnriipnst said that Oene- Curt Flood ST. LOUIS (UPI) --Former St. Louis Cardinal pitching great Dizzy Dean said Monday that the acquisition of southpaw Ray Sadecki "will give" San Francisco the National League pennant. Dean said that the Giants needed to improve its pitching staff, and that Sadecki "has accomplished this." Dean said that he was surprised to see that the Cardinals traded Sadecki, who, he said, will wind up among the top five pitchers in the league Muncle Burns takes golf crown PERU An infraction of the rules cost Elwood a possible first place and Peru a third place in the Central Indiana Conference golf meet held Saturday in Peru.

Elwood, which tied with Muncie Burris for first place, was disqualified when one of its players left with his parents before signing his scorecard. Peru's disqualification was caused when a team member reportedly allowed a spectator to carry his golf bag a short on one of the holes, cording to the rules no player is allowed tc have a caddy. The medalist for the day was G. Ryan of Muncie with a 3736,73, followed by J. Scott of Elwood with a 74 on rounds of 40 and 34.

Eric Noble led the Peru team with 78 on scores of 40 and 38, and Chuck Craycraft of Peru finished second for Peru with Team scores, excluding Elwood and Peru were: Burris, 312; Huntington, 345; Wabash, 345; Hartford City, 351; and Alexandria, 432. Can they catch A.J.'s "Coyote" VIEW FROM THE PRESS BOX By Dick Ralstin Editor History will list A. J. Foyt, Jr. as one of the all-time greats in American automobile racing.

This 32-year old Texan's feats in oval racing are already legendary. Since his "rookie" year at Indianapolis, 1958, Foyt has won the famed '500' twice and is the only driver ever to win the coveted United States Auto Club's national driving crown four times. One thing making him one of the greats in racing is his ability as a mechanic. Not only can he drive fast, Foyt knows things to do in the innards of a race car's chassis and engine to make it go even faster. But like Caesar, one of the all-time greats in Roman chariot racing, Foyt is an ambitious man.

For this year's he has joined the ranks of the race car builders, and therein lies a tale. To understand this budding builder's dreams let's turn the pages back to 1964. The rear engine race car was fast being recognized as the coming tiling in American racing, everyone was jumping on the bandwagon. Everyone that is except A. J.

Foyt, Jr. A J. picked 1964 to stump the so-called experts, and he had a ball doing it. Staying with what he liked to call "my antique Foyt won 10 of 13 championship races that year. The new rear engine, lite-weights would go like the wind, and then fail before the end of the race.

Anthony Joseph would sail by, driving his and take the checkered flag He tried one of the new cars in the Milwaukee 200 and was" beaten for the first time in seven starts he failed to finish. But deep in his heart, Foyt knew he and his antique were fighting a losing battle. The Trenton 200, Sept 27, 1964, proved he had better switch than fight. Foyt forced the tired old roadster around Parnelli JoneS, driving one of the new Lotus-Fords, and held the lead for five- laps. But the strain was too much, old-faithful failed.

J. set on the pit all and watched Parnelli and his Lotus "funny car" rewrite the Trenton record book and win with ease. That was the last time Foyt ever drove the roadster, and for a time during the 1965 season it looked as if he had won his last race. His switch to the funny car was less than a howling success. For the first five championship races, A.

J. was forced, by mechanical problems, to be a spectator as the winner received the checkered flag. His Ford-powered Lotus was fast, four of those five races he was the fastest qualifier, but wouldn't run Hong enough to reach the pay window. He finally managed to finish six races on the "championship trail" and won five. Foyt had the sixth one in the bag until he ran out of gas on the last lap of the Hoosier Grand Prix and coasted across the finish line in fourth place.

The torrid Texan figured he had to finish to win and if the foreign cars couldn't stand his heavy foot, he'd build a rear engine that would. A. J. had ideas of what he wanted and he and his chief mechanic, Johnny Pouelsen, knew how they wanted the ideas put together. They found needed help with design problems in the person of Klaus Arning, a suspension engineer with Ford Motor Company.

Arning helped work out the suspension angles and get the design on paper. Then Foyt and Pouelsen carried their bundle of blueprints to Eddie Kuzma and Lujie Lesovsky. These two master builders made the racing dream a reality. Foyt will admit they borrowed heavily from the highly successful model 38 Lotus in designing the new car, but he'll also tell you his car is stronger than the Lotus. When it came time to christen his brainchild, A.

J. made sure no one would ever confuse it with one of the foreign models. He had the name "Coyote" lettered on the nose piece. Knowing Foyt and his fiercely competitive pride, you can bet he didn't build the Coyote to finish second. But the first week of May, spent testing at the Speedway, was less than spectacular.

Mario Andretti touched 163.3 m.p.h. in his year-old Brawner-Brabham-Ford; Jimmy Clark hit 159 in his new Lotus-Ford; Lloyd Ruby reached 158-plus with his Gurney-built American Eagle and rookie Carl Williams joined the 160 club driving a Gerhardt-Ford. J. and his Coyote struggled at 156, with only a few laps in the 157 Foyt arrived at the US AC awards banquet May 6, he was to receive a ring for his second-place finish in the national point standings, more than an hour late. After USAC president Tom Binford had "tossed" Foyt his ring, the tardy driver said "Sorry I'm late, but when you have problems like I've had In 'the 6 days between now and the first day of qualifying, Saturday Foyt will continue testing and trying.

He has two immediate goals; put the Coyote on the pole race day and drive into victory lane when the race is over. I'll give you odds he wouldn't take second place money if it was offered to him before the race. by the end of the season. Sadecki was traded Sunday man-for-man for San Francisco's Orlando Cepeda. General Manager Bob Howsam of the Cardinals said that Cepeda's "hitting punch" was needed in the lineup.

Dean told UPI that the value of the trcde to be seen, "if Cepeda's knee is sound." Cepeda injured his knee and was sidelined most of last season. Prior to the trade, however, Cardinal physician Dr. I. C. Middleman had examined Cepeda's knee.

Howsam said that Dr. Middleman's report "was favorable." Cardinal Manager Schoendienst said, "If he (Cepeda) had been well enough to play the outfield the deal would never have gone through." Former Cardinal great Stan (The Man) Musial, Cardinal vice president, had said of the Cepeda-for-Sadecki trade, "bad knee or not, he (Cepeda) is still one of the best hitters in the league." During the two game series with the Cardinals, won by the Giants, Cepeda hit a grand slam home run, and he doubled home two runs in Sunday's game. Schoendienst said that Cepeda "is just as exactly as what we needed." He said Cepeda "will add extra power between Curt Flood and Charley Smith." Sadecki had a 20-11 season in 1964 when the Cardinals won the World Series. Now you know, 'cause Army said so WASHINGTON (UPI) The Army has told Congress it rejects for physical reasons professional athletes like Joe Namath and Charley Taylor to spare the government from paying injury claims for years to come. It also turns them down in fairness to the player.

Both Namath, quarterback for the New York Jets and Taylor, a halfback for the Washington Redskins, were rejected because of physical defects. Some congressmen have asked why young men hardy enough to stand the rigors of professional football are not healthy enough to serve in the military. Army witnesses at a recent hearing before a House appropriations subcommittee were asked the same question. In testimony released Monday, the Army officers cited a report by the' surgeon general's office on one unnamed "well-known football player." The report said his case was reviewed by several of the most prominent orthopedic consultants in the country who concurred with the Army decision to reject the player. "To accept an individual of this type would make the government partially liable for payments of compensation for many years to come," the report said.

The federal government pays out millions of dollars a year to veterans who received permanent injuries in the service. In an effort to keep this expense down, it tries to keep out of the military those men who already have defects that can be further aggravated. ORLANDOCEPEDA and Red Schoendienst discuss Cepeda's future with the Cardinals. Some say the other half of the trade, which sent pitcher Ray Sadecki to the Giants, assured San Francisco the National League pennant. (UPI Telephoto) Hoosiers may have 'all-star' line up Just what they wanted i Tigers get Johnny Pocfres DETROIT (UPI) --The Detroit Tigers got just what they wanted Monday a seasoned left-handed pitcher, Johnny Podres.

The next question is: What will they do with him? "I might use him in the bullpen or I might use him as a spot starter," Charlie Dressen said Monday afternoon, minutes after the announcement of purchase from the Los Angeles Dodgers had been made. "I'll just have to wait and see how he throws," Dressen said. After about 10 days of negotiations with the Dodgers, Detroit acquired Podres for an undisclosed amount of money and a player to be named later. The most pressing need for the 33-year-old southpaw would appear to be in the bullpen. That was the confirmed weakness in the Tiger armor inthe pro-season speculation, which ranked Detroit as the team tc beat in the American League.

The Tigers have no left- handed relief pitchers at all-unless you want to count Hank Aguirre, who is currently listed as a spot starter rather than a bullpen pitcher. So there's a demand for Podres in the bullpen. But the Tigers also have only one regular starter who pitches from the left side--young Mickey Lolich. So there is a good case for using Podres in the starting rotation, if he still throws like Dressen thinks he does. "I've seen what lefthanders can do in this league," Dressen said.

The Podre-Dressen combination is not a new one. The veteran Tiger manager was Podres' first manager in the. big leagues with Brooklyn in 1953. "I pitched him in his first game in the World Series when he was 20 years old," Dressen said. "But he got better after that--lie was only a kid then." "We took him down to Vero Beach and taught him a change of pace.

But he ran into that back trouble and that hurt him a little," Dressen added. Podres lost the first World Series game but after that he has never been a loser. In the 1955 series, he was the hero, winning two games including a 2-0 shutout of the New York Yankees in the game that won the series for Brooklyn. He won another in 1959 and added his fourth in 1963. Podres compiled a 7-6 record last year with a 3.43 earned run average.

His career record in the majors is 136-104. The Tigers will get their first look at Podres when he joins them in Cleveland where they will open a four-game series with the Indians Tuesday. Mickey Lolich (3-1) is slated to oppose John O'Donoghue (2-0) or Gary Bell (1-1) at Cleveland. BLOOMNGTON, Ind. (UPI) A fourth member of the Indiana high school all star basketball team has decided to attend Indiana University this fall.

Ken Johnson, 6-6 center for Anderson High School, Monday signed his tender. Johnson, who will wear No. 6 when the Indiana all-stars meet a team from Kentucky in June, averaged 21.7 points per game and scored 544 points in his senior year, a record for Anderson. He also was an all-state high school football end. Jim Cadwell, 6-5 Michigan City forward and winner of the Trester award, has announced orally he will attend IU.

Cadwell, who was one of the stars on Michigan City's title team this year, will wear No. 2 on the Indiana all-star team. Other members of the Indiana all-star team who have signed to attend Indiana University are Mike Noland, 6-6 center for Indianapolis Howe, who is wearing No. 4, and Mike Niles, 6-4 guard for Warsaw, who wars No. 10 for the all-stars.

Cassius quiet in London Jimmy hits 162.984 Scof's day af Indy INDIANAPOLIS Defending '500' champion Jimmy Clark served notice to one and all yesterday that he hasn't forgotten the way around the 2 1 Indy race course. The flying Scot pushed the No. 18 Lotus- Ford past the United States Auto Club's unofficial timer for an average speed of 162.984 miles per hour. This was the fastest speed turned in by any of the 23 drivers who made practice runs in the chilled winds blowing Monday at the Speedway. A.

J. Foyt and his "Coyote" topped 159 m.p.h. for the first time and rookie Carl Williams, who joined the 160-club Sunday, had laps in the 159 range. George Snider turned a lap at 158,029 before his rear- engino Ford suffered bearing trouble and had to be towed to the garage area. Don Branson had the Leader Card No.

91, originally assigned to Johnny Rutherford, circling the track 156.986 and Parnelli Jones touched 156.413 m.p.h. in his supercharged Offenhauser. Time is becoming an important factor to the drivers figuring to shoot for the pole position, which goes to Saturday's fastest qualifier. Mario Andretti has to be rated one of the favorites, his 163.3 m.p.h. Sunday is high for the month, but Clark and several others will give the little Italian stiff competition.

Speeds run in practice indicate the one lap record, 161.985, and four lap qualifying record, 161.233 m.p.h., set by Foyt last year will be broken by this year's pole winner. The "experts" are saying, barring bad weather, it will take 164 m.p.h. or better to sit on the pole this year. One thing is certain, the closer qualifying time comes, the more frantic the search for those last few miles per hour. LONDON (UPI) --A nervous- looking and subdued Cassius Clay was- accorded a warm welcoming by adoring fans Monday when he arrived in the British capital to begin final preparations for the May 21 defense of his heavyweight title against Londoner Henry Cooper.

Clay's airliner touched down hours late at London's Heathrow Field because of unseasonal fog. The jet craft was diverted to Shannon, Ireland, where the champion spent an hour at the terminal before London was cleared for in-coming aircraft. The 24-year-old champion, looking nervous and speaking in barely a whisper, was hurtled through immigration controls. Several members of the airport staff broke off from their duties to shake his hand. Clay, trainer Angelo Dundee and sparring partner Jimmy Ellis were greeted by promoter Harry Levene and matchmaker Mickey Duff.

Asked to predict the outcome of his fight against the 32-year- old Cooper, Clay said: "I am making no predictions this time. I don't need to holler and write poetry now that I am the champion. I am just a fighter here to do a job." Despite Clay's to make a prediction, he said he admired Cooper's nerve to get in the ring with him. "When Cooper hit me and knocked me down in our last fight (in June, 1963) it was a hard punch and I felt it," he said. "It was the hardest punch I've ever been hit with." Clay, who refused to answer questions unless addressed by his Black Muslim name of Muhammed Ali, declined to comment on the Viet Nam war.

"I will tell you all about my plans for the fight at my news conference tomorrow. I do not wish to discuss my private affairs," he said. Clay, dressed smartly in a dark suit, white shirt and dark bow tie left the airport in a black Rolls Royce for the 15- mile drive to his downtown hotel. A large crowd was gathered outside his hotel and the resident manager telephoned for police reinforcements to clear the area. They did not arrive in time and Clay had to push his way into the building as the crowd cheered and patted his back.

Clay acknowledged the cheers briefly and then made his way to the elevator without saying a word. Levene confirmed that 20,000 tickets have been purchased for the fight at Arsenal's Highbury soccer stadium in North London. The city fathers have agreed to a crowd limit now of 45,000 fans at the stadium which was built to accommodate 73,000 fans for soccer. They originally placed a 34,000 limit for the fight. Cooper, meanwhile, continued with his preparation and began final sparring sessions.

"Our one fear is of going over the top," trainer Danny Holland said. "We may have to hold him back during the next two weeks so that he will be at his absolute peak a couple of days before the fight. The only trouble we have with Henry is that he sometimes gets too good too soon." "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!" 7T Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!" "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!" "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch! "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than Tareyton smokers would rather fight than "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!" "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!" "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switrt "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!" "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switchT UNANSWERED QUESTIONS about his new Coyote' have A. J. Foyt wondering what to do next.

Foyt and his crew have made many trips from garage No. 23, at the Speedway, to the track for test runs without finding the right combination for the desired 160-plus m.p.h. A. J. reached the 159 mark for the first time this year during yesterday's practice session.

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