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0 1 A Drake 2nd, Pabst 3rd in Classic 0 0 BY DICK HYLAND Times Staff Representative RIVERSIDE Bill Krause, 27-year-old ma mmmm ini A SPECTACULAR' CRASH and is about to burst Racer of Van Nuys driver Don Hulette spews smoke into flames as it goes flipping on Riverside track. 1T Ho 9ngeles QKmti CC MONDAY MORNING, SPORTRAITS Luis Beat Maury at Base-Stealing BY AL WOLF (Columnist Frank Finch is on vacation.) chinist, toyed with the toughest of international race drivers here Sunday to win the third annual Times-Mirror sponsored Grand Prix for sports cars before a record crowd of 80,000. Krause established a new race record, driving 203.25 miles at a 91.5 m.p.h. pace to finish in 10s. He bettered Phil Hill's 1959 time by minutes.

Half a lap later Krause, of Long Beach, was out of gas, stranded on the backstretch in his Maserati Birdcage. Bob Drake of Hollywood finished 32 seconds behind Krause in Max Balchowsky's home-built Old Yeller II. Au- gie Pabst, Milwaukee brew ing scion, was two seconds behind Drake in a Scarab, an other Los Angeles-built car. Hansgen Winner Walt Hansgen, eastern SCCA champion from New Jersey, won the under division of the Grand Prix in a 2-liter Maserati, fol lowed by Hollywood's Ken Miles in a Porsche RS-60. Hansgen finished eighth over-all in the Grand Prix.

What happened to the famed Lotus, racers driven by Raceway lap record hold er Dan Gurney and eight-time England champion Stirling Moss? "I knew I had them during the second lap," said stocky, 150-lb. Krause. He smiled and his" brown eyes sparkled. "I started to stand on the throttle and they Please Turn to Pg. 8, Col.

1 Chargers Pin 23-19 Loss on Broncos BY BRAVEN DYER Times Staff Representative DENVER The Los Angeles Chargers tightened the race in the Western Di vision of the American Football League here Sunday by roping the Denver Broncos, 23-19, before 19,141 partisan patrons. Ben Agajanian's famed toe proved the margin of victory even though he lost the place-kicking contest to Denver's Gene Mingo, four field goals to three, as fleet Paul Lowe scampered for two touchdowns and had another 50-yd. payoff sprint nullified by a penalty. The Broncos still top the western half of the AFL with three wins and two defeats. Los Angeles and Oak-Please Turn to Pg.

4, Col. 1 HOW THEY SCORED FIRST QUARTER Den. 3 3 3 Charters Tlma 0 Mingo, 17-vd. field goal 2 30 4 Lowe, 12-vd. run 7:11 7 Agaianian, kick.

7 Mingo. 13-yd. field 13:41 SECOND QUARTER 10 A9aianian, 1 1-yd. field goal THIRD QUARTER 13 Agaianian, 26-yd. field goal 1:54 14 Anaianian, 46-yd.

field goal .11:03 22 Lowe. 44-yd. run 14. 23 Agaianian, kick. FOURTH QUARTER 23 Mingo.

45-yd. field goat -2 23 Cermichael, 1-yd. (Hung 11:25 23 V.ingo.kick. i I 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 'I just didn't know. That would have saved ma a lot of worry," he said.

Bill's winning margin over Bob Drake in Old Yeller II was 32 seconds. However, it was as great as 53 onds before Krause "eased up" to save gas. "I carried 31 ne saia. "out never for a i minute thought I'd need it I 11 Timl Toffnri ird those other guys in Birdcages seemed to get Please Turn to Pg. 8, CoL 3 r.

gles to free himself, (4) (5) runs from flaming I5i i A OCTOBER 17, I960 2t came right back with 51 Maybe this pair should have sprinted for the United States at Rome. Ralph Houk, who'll probably take over for Casey Stengel as manager of the Yankees, was a third -string catcher for the club from 1947 through 1953 He saw action in only 91 American League games during those seven seasons and Amid all the World Series turmoil, some Dodger fans may have overlooked the fact that Maury Wills did not lead the majors in base-stealing this year. The 28-year-old shortstop swiped 50, highest total in the National League since 1923 but White Sox shortpatcher Luis Aparicio, who thefted 56 in 1959, I Colts' Moore ifhlTD's BYMAL FLORENCE Times Staff Representative BALTIMORE It was "Let Lenny Run Day" in Baltimore Sunday and the occasion served to send the Rams home still looking for their first league victory of the season. A capacity Memorial Stadium crowd of 57,808 saw halfback Lenny Moore score four touchdowns as the HOW THEY SCORED SECOND QUARTER Rami Colts Tim 0 Michaels. fie Id at Moore, S7-yd.

run 3:50 7 Myhra, placement. 13 plunge 7:5 14 Myhra, placement. THIRD QUARTER 20 Moore, 34-yd. run 4:51 21 Myhra, placement. 21 Arnett, U-yd.

run 21 Vlllanueva, placement. 24 Myhra, 10-yd. field goal .11:52 FOURTH OUARTER 30 Moore, 22-yd. pass from Unitas 12:09 31 Myhra, placement. 31 Wade, 1-yd.

sneak 13:42 31 Vlllanueya, placement. 10 Colts defeated the Rams, 31-17. The Rams extended their inglorious losing string to 12 National Football League games four this season. Just Moore Except for Moore's it was just an average offen-j sive day for the two-time world champions. In fact, the Rams discovered a middle-of-the-field offense to out-gain the Colts, 347-yd.

to 326. As promised, Ram coach Bob Waterfield started Buddy Humphrey at quarter-Please Turn to Pg. 6, Col. 5 PRO GRID STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE EASTERN CONFERENCE Pet. PH.

OP Cleveland 3 0 0 1.00 117 51 New York 3 0 1 1.000 74 Philadelphia 3 1 0 .750 110 103 Pittsburgh 2 2 0 .500 8 Washington 1 1 I .500 50 it St. Louis 1 3 0 .250 114 WESTERN CONFERENCE Pet. Pts.OP! Batimor 3 1 0 .750 114 Jr tj Green Bay 2 1 0 .47 77 47 San Francisco i I 0 .500 54 67 Detroit 0 3 0 59 TO LOS ANGELES 4 74 121 Dallas 4 0 .000 74 1j4 SUNDAY'S RESULTS Baltimore, 31; LOS ANGELES. 17. Cleveland, 48; Dallas.

7. Philadelphia. 21; Detroit, 10. Pittsburgh, 27; St. Louis, 14.

Chicago. 27; San Francisco. IS. Washington. 24, New York, 24 (Tie).

AMERICAN LEAGUE WESTERN DIVISION Pe PP Denver 3 2 H4 9 Icu.UnO 3 3 .509 113 LOS ANGELES ...1 1 94 139 n. ui A XI? EASTERN DIVISION A 1 111 BE 1 Yortt 4 2 0 :7 130; Boston 1 1 Bvffal 0 J00 40 5 Sunday's Rtwtti I OS ANGELES. Jl Denvgr. If. hrm Vort, 17: Buffalo.

11 Houston, 29; Olhts, It. IS JS4 'if 'SP 4 1 leaps from driver's seat and wreckage into the infield. Times Photo bv Larry Sharkey Pi i lU 1 1 to refuel. His pit crew advised him after the race that USCA officials had agreed to let him pull into the pits and keep his engine running during the refueling since the exhaust was a safe distance iel line. CASPER WINS GOLF TOURNEY Storj on Page 7 Luis Aparicio DASH FOR LIFE Car comes to rest right side up after four spectacular turnovers.

Hulette (3) strug- E-wnviiiy made just two pinch hitting appearances in World Series games, yet received six series checks and he's cashed two more as a coach. There'll be a hot time in the Coliseum next Sun-. day Rams vs. Bears, Bob Waterfield vs. George Halas, Los Angeles quarterbacks vs.

signal-jamming Bill George The grapevine says Big Five members are agreed that no Big Ten team will be invited to the 1961 Rose Bowl game. At Least There's No Dissension SC basketball coach Forrest Twogood faces a gargantuan task in replacing Jim White, John Werhas, Jim Hanna, Bill Bloom, Jerry Pimm and Steve Kemp He'll have to build a new team around talented John Rudometkin It'll be less nerve-racking, though, than last year's dissension. Suggested manager for the Giants or Cubs: Pee Wee Reese The Kansas City franchise is a cinch to be moved a year hence maybe to Los Angeles. Bill Mazeroski, whose homers won the first and last series games for Pittsburgh, played parts of two sea- sons at Hollywood In 1955, he wore Twink regalia in 21 games and batted a weak .170 The following Please Turn to Pf 7, CoL 7 1 rail cp I BY BOB THOMAS Times Staff Representative RIVERSIDE "I can't believe it! I finished the race." It was with that jubilant expression that young Billy Krause greet- ed the press Sunday fol- tnc greatest tri- umph in his road racing career. And it was no secret to tha record crowd of fara at the third an nn VI I nual Times-Mirror Grand Prix that Billy almost didn't finish after leading the race for 46 of the 62 laps.

If the race had been 63 laps he never would have made it to the pay window to collect the lion's share TODAY IN SPORTS BOXING Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, 8:30 p.m. of the $23,950 purse something like because he ran out of gasoline on the safety lap, barely two-miles beyond the finish line in the" 203-miler. "I knew I was in trouble with six laps to go." explained. "I figured then I had about three callons of fuel left. So all 1 could do was economize." What Billy didn't realize was that he couIJ have safely stopped in the pits 4.

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