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10 Part IllThursday, April 6, 1989 LAKERS MUGS DODGERS CHARGERS BUY SELL TICKET TIME 17141 132-M00 (111) 440-1700 (213 202-0053 818) 713-1033 UMO am ft. bcaa ir in mummm Service Charge Included forced to play two exhibition games in three days. But both took place at nearby Yankee Stadium. The Jets lost the first to the New York Giants, 16-14. They lost the second to the Raiders, 41-17.

One of the few options available to the Chargers would be holding out front-line players from the second game. "We will do nothing to jeopardize our team," Ortmayer said. Added Henning: "That San Francisco game may be less than aesthetic." CELLULAR PHONES lum before the upcoming April 23 draft But he said the addition of Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State's Heisman Trophy winning running back, to the draft will strengthen the value of the Chargers' No. 8 pick. Sanders is certain to go before the Chargers' pick, which means the Chargers will get a better player than they would have if Sanders had waited another year.

Henning said it also means the Chargers are more likely than they would have been to trade up or down from the No. 8 spot They will trade up if they think they can acquire a player they desperately covet They can trade down if another team makes them an offer they can't refuse for the No. 8 slot about switching right guard McKnight to center. All of which means the Chargers will probably have new faces at left tackle and right guard next season. "We needed to get a nucleus of offensive lineman," Henning said.

Smith, who gained 204 yards for the Redskins two Super Bowls ago before slumping in 1988, will be the big first-down back the Chargers have been looking for if he regains his form. But even that may not be enough if Navy lieutenant Napoleon McCallum's expected transfer to San Diego comes through and if the Navy allows McCallum to moonlight for the Chargers. Henning said he doesn't expect to know anything more on McCal BEST QUALITYLOWEST PRICE HANDSFREE OPERATION 3 YEAR WARRANTY EXPANDED SPECTRUM 'CALL TIMERS AND MORE. SERVICE BY: CELLULAR $599 INCLUDES INSTALLATION AND ON GLASS ANTENNA CONTACT THE AUTOIMAGE NEAREST YOU WEST LOS ANOELE3 REDONDO BEACH DOWNEY PASADENA 8040 FlrMkvw Blvd. 5S0S.L (213)S61-7S7S (118)793-5373 12082 WW EM.

(213)207-2077 2615 ArttM Blvd. (213)370-3747 JUUL-iiUUL frfi ft) rfi rn IkKlPtUI iiJCPtUlw" 1 rOMPUETEBRH Continued from Page 1 recent NFL decision to limit the number of players any team may have on its training camp roster to 80. The Chargers are tentatively scheduled to begin training camp July 22. Given the normal training camp toll, and any additional injuries the Chargers might sustain in their exhibition opener against Dallas, it wouldn't be surprising if the Chargers were down to 70 or fewer healthy bodies for the Rams. Berthelsen said he had not consulted with Gene Upshaw, the NFLPA's executive director, on the matter.

And he said questions about the association advising the Charger players to take action a boycott, for instance were "premature." McKnight termed the scheduling "unbelievable," but added, "there's really no option we have right now." Berthelsen said the timing of the schedule release was interesting because it came one day before Art McNally, the NFL's supervisor of officials, testified in Washington, D.C., about the extensive safety measures the league has taken on behalf of the players. But Ortmayer said the league, which does not handle scheduling for the exhibition season, was not to blame. The uncomfortably close juxtaposition of the dates, Ortmayer said, stemmed from lack of cooperation from the California Angels and the San Francisco Giants in their stadium-sharing agreements with the Rams and the 49ers. Ortmayer said the Chargers offered to pay the Angels and the Giants for any added operating or maintenance expenses that might have resulted from an agreement that would have given the Chargers more time between games. Instead, the Angels chose to exercise a clause that prohibits any event from taking place at Anaheim Stadium 36 hours before a scheduled Angel game.

Jack Teele, the Chargers' director of administration, said there was a similar hangup between the Giants and the 49ers. McKnight stressed the importance of that time of year for players hoping to earn roster spots. "A guy's going to do whatever it takes to get on the field, even if he has to take a shot of cortisone," he said. "You've got to feed your family." But, McKnight added, "We play a violent game. When you play a game on Sunday, your body doesn't really begin feeling better until the following Thursday night or Friday morning." Henning was an assistant with the Jets in 1976 when they were Package uj I PRICE jTLrt.

mow-" Sifting through the Chargers' losses and gains from the recently completed free agency period that expired at midnight Saturday: When the dust had cleared, the Chargers had lost five players left tackle Ken Dallafior and offensive lineman Chris Gambol (both to Detroit), running back Kevin Scott and tight end Anthony Jones (both to Dallas) and linebacker Randy Kirk (Phoenix). Dallafior started the last 13 games of 1388 at left tackle for the Chargers after a neck injury ended John Clay's season. "But he was just a guy," was the way one Charger spokesman put it after the Lions signed him. The Chargers valued Kirk highly for his value as a deep snapper, but they didn't protect him because he was too small to be an everyday linebacker. Henning said he hopes tight end Andy Parker, an unprotected Raider free agent, will replace Kirk as deep snapper and contribute at his position.

Besides Parker, the other 10 unprotected free agents signed by the Chargers included Raider kicker Chris Bahr, Redskin tight end Joe Caravello, Ram linebacker Jim Collins, Phoenix defensive back Lester Lyles, Atlanta tackle Brett Miller, Indianapolis tackle Joel Patten, Washington running back Timmy Smith, Washington defensive back Johnny Thomas, Cleveland tackle Larry Williams and Washington wide receiver Eric Yarber. Green Bay (20) signed more unprotected players than any other team. Neither Super Bowl loser Cincinnati nor Super Bowl XX winner Chicago signed a single player. Houston (15) lost the most players. Super Bowl champion San Francisco, oddly enough, lost the fewest (two).

The Chargers' main target in the free-agent market was offensive linemen. They started four free agents and a fourth-round rookie in the line last year. Dallafior is gone. Center Don Macek, who spent the last 11 games on injured reserve with a bad shoulder, has been working out regularly in the Chargers' weight room, but Henning has talked more than once WINSTON 3 WOKM I NOWOPfN I NOW WOPVt I HOWOKH rnjiftt'ftt can rvprii NOWOKN I HOWOP0I LAXE ELSSi EAXERSFiELD 7M MMen In Rd. (Ml WN Lam (S ofBUnMdOossnjftJ (ComarcfAaty 33-1M4 S33-10S1 comarcf A 833-101 303 Watt 3M3 CaJon Mvtf.

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In all of sports history, only one other man, also a Jones Bobby had ever quit at the height of his powers in this way. People thought it was a grandstand stunt Parnelli was only 34 years old. Parnelli would be back. An Indy 500 at the time without Parnelli Jones was as unthinkable as a U.S. Open without Jack Nick-laus.

Parnelli was a part of auto racing lore, the kind of driver they made movies about. How could he park the Offy and go away and leave the game to A.J. Foyt, the Unsers, the foreigners? It was un-American. That was 22 years ago. I had lunch with Parnelli Jones the other day.

The flat fighter's face is still the same. The eyes still take in everything without glasses. The stomach is flat He still looks as if he belongs on the pole. Parnelli did not give up racing altogether. He drove the occasional off-road race, a few Trans-Ams.

But he never stepped into an Indy car again after 1967. Why? "It was a combination of things," he said. "The danger? I don't think so. You learn to live with the danger. Danger is exciting.

You know, people who live with danger tend to appreciate the other things in life more. They see how quickly it can all be taken away. "I think it was more that I was winning that 1967 race so ridiculously easy yet I did not really savor the feeling. My first win was like the highest moment of my entire life. I couldn't sleep the night I won.

This time, it was like, "Well, I've done this Was the fact that he lost the race so shatteringly a factor in his decision? "Well. I'll tell you: the race had been called by rain after 18 laps. It was re-started the next day with the parade lap, pace lap and all the warmups. That bearing quit with only three laps to go and I figured, without those extra re-start laps, it would have held together for the checkered flag." Had the turbine won, would he have remained in racing? "I suppose. I would have been defending my championship.

But I was anxious to get on with my business career. Agajanian and my partner. Val Miletich. had put me in real estate deals. I had my tire business.

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Nobody was ever quite sure he could write me off." Parnelli, who got his nickname when a friend fixed him a fake I.D. under the name Parnelli Jones so he could race when he was only 16 years old. resisted the lure of the track even though contemporaries Foyt and Al Unser still tee it up at the Brickyard in or near their 50s. Parnelli will be on the track at Long Beach this month but not in the Grand Prix. He will drive in the Toyota Pro-Celebrity Race on Saturday.

April 15, the day before the main event. Parnelli will take the wheel against a field of disc jockeys, running backs (Walter Payton), anchor men. movie stars and the sons of race drivers. One of these will be Parnelli Jones' son, PJ. The race is 10 laps or about 190 fewer than Parnelli was used to, and it will be 16.70 miles.

484 fewer than his rides of more than 20 years ago. The pros have to give the celebrity drivers a 30-second head start, which means they will get to see one of the most terrorizing sights on a race track Parnelli Jones in their rear-view mirrors. Not to worry. He wont be there long. As the Indy racers of the "60s could tell you.

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