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27 ocal fans will benefit when CBS picks up auto raein ABC hardly could have asked for more in its 17th and final telecast of the Daytona 500 on Sunday. There were crackups aplenty and even the possibility of bloodletting among the sport's royalty. The sport is limited on television in this areas, on the premise that not enough viewers care. Ch. 5 did not even carry Sunday's Daytona 500, second in prestige only to the Indy, although Ch.

9 in Manchester, N.H., and Ch. 12 in Prov-idence'dkr. The, Daytona and four other lesser events associated in the contract will switch to CBS next year, which may be nice for the minor but militant auto racing fans in the area because Ch. 7 is more faithful to CBS sports programming than Ch. 5 is to ABC.

AuWracing holds several appeals for the networks. It generates a predictably substantial audience, around 10 million homes for the Daytona on Sunday, twice that of the NBA on CBS. Auto racing also is easy to sell, with Arledge tried to reassure the Congressmen by noting that he insisted on a rule that the announcer attend the actual auto race that he later would be broadcasting. How to go, Roone. Among minor mysteries from last week's heavyweight title telecast is why CBS chose anonymous Bob Halloran to conduct postfight interviews, which he did so ineptly.

The answer is that Halloran was considered a friend of Ali and that he alone may have been able to acquire a postfight interview in case Ali preferred to remain silent, as he had been-before the fight. Halloran has a southeastern Massachusetts background. After working in Miami for several years he now is a sportscaster for WCBS-TV in New York. Brent Musburger expresses no regret for his on-air attacks on pre-fight critics of the legitimacy of the Ali-Leon Spinks bout. "The press present in Las Vegas said it was like leading a lamb to slaughter and kept blaming it on said, then insisted that because of Spinks' limited experience, no one had a good idea on how the fight would develop.

Nielsen has adjusted upward its Super Bowl XII ratings so now that game has been declared the most watched telecast in history on a network, slipping ahead of the' final Roots program. A total of 102 million persons watched the game for at least five minutes. More on NFL TV audiences, the regular season was second highest since the three-network concept began in 1970. And the Monday night series achieved a record average. Maybe Howard Cosell does have appeal It is refreshing to know that "Celebrity Challenge of the Sexes," the CBS effort for a weekly prime-time wet T-shirt program, is being pummeled by opposite programming and should soon disappear The shortage of sports events for an anthology series, now that all three networks have such a weekly show, has prompted NBC's Sports World to offer a simulated jousting exhibition next Sunday.

As a history lesson it might be educational, but sports? SporTVieuJACK CK AIG automotive sponsors appreciative of the kind of audience that tunes in. And auto racing is uniquely a year-round sport, and able to shift from live to taped coverage without a big dropoff in viewers. A revelation about TV deceit on ABC's auto racing coverage surfaced in the Congressional hearings last November. The announcers on taped races, it turned out, do not do the broadcast live from the pite but from ABC's offices in New York The device is called voice layover and is intended to allow the announcer to show expertise. But Roone Arledge, head of sports at ABC, told the committee that he was dubious about the advantages in the editing technique.

"There is a possibility that the broadcaster will anticipate a little too much, of becoming a little too smart for his own good," Arledge commented. 1 1 Boston Evening Globe Tuesday, February 21, 1978 LirjKl Boat Skew ii thi East! Wdmen earn some respect for US Ski team 22nd Annual NEW ENGLAND SKI MT. ASCUTNEY VERMONT 2-Vt hours from Boston. 1-69 North to 1-91 south to exit 9. 27 trails slopes, short lift Ifne, 802-484-7711 BOAT For Malmquist, who stood 6th after the jump, there was also the possibility of going out and bagging the race.

Walter is not exactly the strongest crosscountry skier in Vermont, let alone the USA, let alone the Nordic combined field at Lahti. He finished 26th By Mont Montgomery Globe'Staff LAHtl, Finland The US ski team, in two events 'yesterday, went back out and skied themselves into respectability the team of girls, mere babes in the woods at international competition, fin SHOW ever been off a 90. He hasn't been picked yet for the 90-meter team of four, but he should make it. The four girls that skied five kilometers yesterday will be the US our-by-five-kilometer cross-country team. Looking at their results in the individual five, they should beat the dickens out of three other countries, West Germany, France and Canada.

That leaves Russia, Finland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Norway and Sweden in front of them. in the race, singlehandedly defeating the entire Japa- Hour: Weekday Sat. 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. Suns.

1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Admission: Adults $2.50 Children under 12 $1.25 ished in the middle of the pack in the women's 5- nese contingent and one German and one Norwegian, For the care and feeding of a sports fan, read The Sports Pages of The Boston Globe COMMONWEALTH PIER EXHIBITION HALL 170 Northern Boston 542-8828 kilometer race: Alison Spencer, 23rd; Lynn Von- and ended up the two-day program in the 20th spot. derheidjp25th; Beth Paxson, 27th; and the tiny one, One may ask if that's important, and the answer is Betsy Hjmes, well back at 38th out of 44 starters. yes, twice.

If-it was a respectable day for the US, it was In the '76 Olympics, Walter was two things he was ecstasy for Finland: Helena Takalo first, and Hilkka not yesterday he ended up in the miserable low Riihivliori second, ahead of the overpowering Rus- 40's at Innsbruck, and looked like dog meat during sians. ZOZ the cross-country half of the event. I mean, you want- If thegirls, who are so young (average age 20) are ed to close your eyes when he went by. Going up within striking distance of greatness, two kids from hills, he looked like a spider that had been stepped on, Galanes and Walter Malmquist, went but not stepped on quite hard out aitCfroved something to themselves yesterday in Yesterday, though some distance off the pace, he the 15 kilometer running half of the Nordic combined looked like a skier over the whole course, not fast, not event. Galanes ,21, of Brattleboro, was by far the worst the hill Sunday, not only last, but dead last after tHe" jumping.

He could have gone out yesterday' and sWfdnhe toughest race of his life and ended up a lousy -274h out of 31 combined skiers. He could have gone out and dragged every last bit of energy out of his deprived his brain of oxygen, filled himself with gsrinT all for a terrible placing. Thatrts, of course, exactly what he did, finishing a close second in the foot race, 22 seconds back, and all for nothing except pride. Jim Galanes may have chokedjan, the jumping hill, but he proved himself a resilient, tough, competitor on the second day. the toughest, but not bad for a kid that just hasn't put in the hours you can play over your head while losing, after all.

Malmquist, three hours after the cross-country race was over, picked up his jumping skis, got in the elevator, and rode up to the top of the 90-meter jump and started practicing for next Saturday's special jump. The tower of the jump, and the landing hill of the jump, are all artificial, all built up in the air on pilings. It requires considerable nerve just to stand on the damned thing, let alone slide down it. It requires exceptional nerve to start skiing the hill with muscles turned rubbery by a race. And it was, yesterday, only the second time in his 21 years that he's Radial Blems At Pair Savings mm 1 STEEL KLTE) RADIAL BIW AnAA STEfl.

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