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Cog Angeles Slimeo 2 Part III Monday, November 1987 Wallace Gets the Win, but Not the Cheers Riverside Crowd Thrills to Bitter Duel Between Earnhardt and Bodine Morning Briefing Coach Has Somebody to Shoot BySHAVGLICK Times Staff Writer 'siilipi After watching the Milwaukee Bucks take the Soviet national team apart, Utah Jazz Coach Frank Layden got an idea. He told Peter May of the Harford IV JAYNE KAM1N-ONCEA Los Angeles Times A crew member, taking a cue from New York Giants, douses Winston Western 500 winner Rusty Wallace. RIVERSIDE For 27 years the Winston Western 500 has been listed as a road race on the NASCAR schedule, but Sunday it was more than that. For one memorable 20-mile stretch in mid-race, Geoff Bodine and Dale Earnhardt turned the twisting 2.62-mile course into a short track banging and leaning on each other as if they were swapping paint on a banked bullring back in the Carolinas. Both driving Chevrolets, Bodine and Earnhardt switched places seven times at the front of the 42-car field during that short stretch.

And when they weren't passing, they were running side by side through tight turns that weren't meant for two cars at a time. Both cars were predominately yellow, but before they were through, it was difficult to tell which shade of yellow belonged on the sheet metal of which car. Cruising along behind them, far enough to keep out of trouble, was Rusty Wallace, in the Pontiac of drag racing champion Raymond Beadle. After Earnhardt ran his car into the ground and its engine expired, and Bodine's tire began to go flat, Wallace cruised home the winner of the most exciting stock car race ever held here. A crowd announced as 64,500, which Riverside officials said was the largest in the track's history for a stock car race, was on its feet for most of the Bodine -Earnhardt show.

After Earnhardt dropped out, Bodine appeared to have too much horsepower for the rest of the field until a leaking tire sent his car careening off the road into a gigantic mud puddle at Turn 1. "I must have run over something, that's why I slowed up," Bodine I went straight for the mud bog. It might have been a good thing, too, because it might have kept me from hitting the wall." Bodine, his windshield splattered with mud, had to limp all the way around the track before he could pit for a new tire and a clean windshield. By that time he was back in 10th. "Geoff Bodine just handed it to me but I felt I had a good chance to catch him," Wallace said.

Wallace, 31, from Fenton, finished 1.73 seconds ahead of veteran Benny Parsons, with Kyle Petty and his father, Richard, third and fourth. Two other veterans, Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip, were fifth and sixth, respectively. Wallace collected $47,725 for being in the right place at the right time. He also had the best view of the Bodine-Earnhardt duel. "They both have certain feelings about each other," Wallace said.

"They probably feel more strongly about each other than anyone else in the rest of the field. Courant: "We should let the Rus- Frank Layden sians in the league. They'd help the Clippers. And they'd do it for nothing. Just for the per diem.

"They really were awful. And you tell me we the NBA actually draft those SOBs? We've got to find these scouts, get the CIA and shoot them." There was no joy in Indiana when the Pacers drafted Reggie Miller and passed up Steve Alford. Said Boston Celtics President Red Auerbach: "Reggie Miller is going to have to be a super-duper great player, because every time he misses a shot, the fans will get on the club's case 'Why didn't you take Steve So far, Miller hasn't missed many. In two games, the 6-7 guard from UCLA has scored 21 points on 8-of-13 shooting. Alford, with Dallas, has scored 8 points, hitting only 3 of 12 shots.

He was 0 for 6 Saturday night. Says Indiana personnel director George Irvine of Miller: "He's got great height for his position, he's a good athlete and he's proven to us he not only can shoot, but he can make the plays. And he defends better than we thought he would. The pro game is better suited to his game." Add Pacers: Last year, they outraged the natives when they drafted Auburn's Chuck Person and passed up Scott Skiles, one-time Indiana high school star. Skiles went to Milwaukee where he sat out most of the year with an injury.

Person was the NBA rookie of the year. Trivia Time: Name the only pitcher to win World Series games in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. (Answer below.) Kansas City quarterback Frank Seurer, former Edison High School and University of Kansas star, has recovered from a preseason automobile accident and is hoping the Chiefs give him a shot this year. John Hadl, who coached Seurer with the L.A. Express, thinks he can make it.

He said the only reason he replaced Seurer with Steve Young was because of Young's big contract. "Steve's a good athlete, too," Hadl said, "but he doesn't have Frank's arm. The players out there really liked Frank. His leadership qualities flowed naturally." St. Louis Manager Whitey Herzog said he had all of the team's postseason games on videotape.

"I won't watch them until I get old," he said. "I just want to have them on my shelf. "My kids taped them and they do a hell of a job. They take out all the commercials and streamline them. They even take out the Budweiser commercials." Tommy Kane, leading receiver for unbeaten Syracuse, is a native of Montreal who wanted to play baseball and basketball when he came to the United States.

He was coveted by Syracuse basketball Coach Jim Boeheim, but the Orangemen already had signed Pearl Washington, so Boeheim recommended him to football Coach Dick MacPherson. Originally, Kane's best sport was hockey. As a teen-ager, he played on a team with Mario Lemieux, now a star with the Pittsburgh Penguins. "I was the only black in the league," he said. "Finally, the verbal abuse was too much, and I quit." Trivia Answer: Jim Palmer of the Baltimore Orioles.

Quotebook Randall (Tex) Cobb, actor and boxer, asked if success will change him: "I sure hope so." the championship wrapped up." One of his most spectacular fun moments came when he was chasing Bodine up through the esses, a series of switch-backs. When Bodine was setting up to lap Rick McCray, Earnhardt shot across the dirt and came bounding back on the pavement in front of the startled Bodine. Shortly after that, Bodine passed Earnhardt in the sweeping highspeed Turn 9, but the feisty Earnhardt wouldn't back off. The two cars raced door handle-to-door "Neither one of them gave in. They did a good job and people were standing on their feet cheering them on.

That's great, but I'm just glad I wasn't there." Earnhardt, who makes no secret of his dislike for Bodine, admitted he was in a position to go for broke after having clinched his second straight Winston Cup championship two weeks ago. "I was just warming up," he said. "It's too bad the car broke. I was really having a lot of fun. That's what you can do when you have handle up through the narrow first turn and on up the hill to Turn 6 before Bodine began to pull slowly ahead.

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