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THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY. JULY 21 1987 69 Whiffs decide By Marvin Pave Globe Staff kAWTUCKET, R.I. -'There are 37 signs that Nantucket races dot the outfield wall at 11 JL McCoy Stadium, home of 1 By Tony Chamberlain Globe Staff EDGARTOWN In freshening winds across a flat, fast sea here yesterday, both top class finishes came down to a matter of seconds after 25 miles of racing in the an nual Edgartown Regatta. Though Obsession, the 70-foot burgundy mini-maxi skippered by Steve Nichols of New York, rounded the course nearly half an hour the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox, advertising everything from pizza to cigarettes to local newspapers including the Woonsocket Call. The billboard's big letters read.

"The Call." Over the years, a lot of Pawtucket players have gotten The Call a telephone call from the Boston Red Sox. The latest was outfielder Todd Benzinger. "We've tried to educate and emphasize to the fans here that we're a development team that our goal isn't to win International League pennants, but to bring along players who can help Boston," says team owner Ben Mon-dor. The PawSox fans must have gotten the message. Entering last night's game, Pawtucket was in sixth place, 14'2 games behind Columbus, but that hasn't stopped the fans.

Attendance figures at McCoy Stadium are the best in Mondor's 10 seasons here. After 36 games, 1 10,866 fans including a standing-room- ahead of another New York boat. Morning Star, corrected time gave the blue Frers 50 the victory by a SoLOicAa margin of nine seconds. Obsession placed second. Less than one minute behind Morning Star in elapsed time and third overall came Infinity, a dark green 50-footer sailed by John Thompson of Manhasset Bay.

A third 50-footer with roughly the same rating. Springbok, also put on a close finish (fourth) behind the leaders. The three 50-footers were to gether thoughout the race, which York, by Just one second on cor- rected time over Chasing Rain- bows, a CTM 41 sailed by Jeffrey Weinsten. Elapsed time difference between the top boats was less i than half a minute. Buckaroo, despite getting fa- vorable shifts on the first leg by taking the left side of the course, rounded the first windward mark in third.

Still in a tight knot, the five boats played the windshift game on the reaches, then round- ed the leeward mark to fight it out again upwind. Buckaroo, staying centered on course as the others went left, caught Chasing Rainbows and took a slim lead at the windward mark. By the last leg, the leaders went into "the unknown" all picking different sides of the course. By the time they came to- gether, not much had changed and Buckaroo nipped across the finish in first place. In third place was Arete, a CYS 43 sailed by Charles Shumway from New York.

In IMS Class 3, Martha Jane, a 35 sailed by Mason Chrisman from Charleston, S.C., beat an-: other 35, Houqua, sailed by Bill Shore from Newport, and a Frers 51, Jalpari, sailed by Jeffrey Salz- man from New York. Jalpari was first across the line, but on cor- rected time placed third. In Class 4, Whippoorwill, a Swan 51 sailed by Robert Kuhn from USYRU, beat Annapurna, a Mirage 34 sailed by Todd Johnston of Chicago, and Fat Tuesday, a CTM 42 sailed by Dennis Boucher from the Corinthian Club Class 5 winner was John Kiley in Impression, a Pearson 37, who stayed ahead of Marvin Gordon in Blue Pigeon, and Robert Cunning- ham sailing Alien, a 34 from Beverly Yacht Club in Marion. An- other BYC sailor, Jack Desmond, finished fourth in Affinity. In Class 6, Brian Cunha from Newport sailed Trinity to a win over Richard McKenzie's Loose Goose from Hyannis and Becky 1 Davidson's Catchit, an S2.

began in light wandering south- easterlies that freshened all after only 8.200 had come to the 41-year-old park that seats 6.010 and was practically vacant for noon, finally piping up to 17 knots. But with the direction offshore, no sea built up, and the 25- 16 years in the '50s and 60s. That pace is ahead of Paw- mile Olympic course remained smooth and quick. tucket's best year, 1982, when attendance was 107,557 for 36 The race seemed to be decided games and 204,000 for the on the second weather leg. Spring bok and Infinity took the left side of the course and had changed to There are many reasons for success at the gate, including: No.

2 genoas. Morning Star, an The emergence of slugger SORC champion, stayed to the Sam Horn, who leads the league right with a No. 1 flying, and throughout the leg the boats found a few light spots and right- in homers and RBIs and "seems to save his best for the big crowds," says Mondor. A three-year, $3.1 -million city-financed Tefurbishing of Globe staff photosBill Greene Bill Broadbent works to keep one of the runways at Pawtucket's newly-refurbished McCoy Stadium spotless, while president Mike Tamburro (below) is pleased with the new seats. McCoy that this year included new field lighting, new rest-' rooms and new grandstand seats.

The remainder of the pro ject, approved by the City Coun hand shifts. Morning Star, though rated slightly lower than her two competitors, beat them boat for boat to the weather mark and the finish. In fifth spot came Vengeance, a blue Frers 46 sailed by Ensign James Duke. A second mini-maxi, Cannonball, did not start. If Class 1 action was hot, Class 2 staged an even tighter finish after a group of five boats stayed knotted together for the entire four-plus hours race.

When the spray cleared, it was Buckaroo, a dark blue Frers 50 sailed by William Koch of New cil in February, is scheduled for completion in 1988 and will in 'We Ve tried to educate and emphasize to the fans here that we're a development team that our goal isn't to win International League pennants, but to bring along players who can help PawSox owner Ben Mondor volve improvement to the roof deck and parking lot, sandblasting and painting of the facade, and a new clubhouse, locker rooms, dugouts and press box. Racing continues today for the wrapup of the Osborne Trophy. The round-island race will be run tomorrow. The scarcity of tickets at aft Fenway Park in the aftermath of last season's American League championship and the affordability of tickets ($4 for IT rosperity Race driver killed in Pawtucket from relative unknowns like Roger LaFrancois to those who made it big like Wade Boggs were painted on the stadium walls by a local artist over the. the third-turn wall.

He was com- peting in the "Outside Pole Posi- tion Qualifier" for the Winston 300 to be held Sept. 12-13. The race was red-flagged fol- lowing Cookman's "crackup and did not resume for 18 minutes. Reggie Rugglero of Forestville, went on to record his fourth victory on this year's Modi- fled Tour. Cookman a year ago had won one of the major races in the World Series of Auto Races at the same track.

According to track owner Don years. Says PawSox PR man Bill By Neil Singelais Globe Staff Prentice (Corky) Cookman Jr. of Green Farms, who was ranked among NASCAR's top 10 modified race drivers, died Sunday night of head injuries suffered when his car crashed in the early laps of a race at Thompson International Speedway in Thompson, Conn. A tragic irony was that Cook-man, 43, died while competing in a race dedicated to the memory of Charlie Jarzombek, who was killed in a racing accident earlier this year in Martinsville. Va.

Track officials said Cookman was coming off the back straightaway in the fifth lap of the 75-lap race when his car struck Wanless, "I wouldn't disagree with you that in one respect the fans who come here empathize with the players guys who have had to work hard to get to Triple-A and who might move up or some who may never move up, but give you an honest boxes, $3 for grandstand and a dollar less for senior citizens and children) at McCoy. Reduced-price tickets for groups ranging from scouts to social clubs to Little League, and clinics by Pawtucket players that have attracted as many as 1 ,200 youngsters to McCoy. "We're getting more requests for schedules this year from the South Shore towns like Quincy and Weymouth," says club president Mike Tamburro, who has been here with Mondor since 1977 after an internship in Elmira, N.Y. "We never tried to sell Paw-Sox or Triple-A baseball for what It's not," says Tamburro. "We're a development team and we don't go in for gimmicks we sell baseball at a certain level and our ticket prices now are the same as 10 years ago.

We have the lowest number of season ticket-holders in the league about 300 but it hasn't really hurt us." Mondor, a Rhode Islander who once restored and moved bankrupt mills, had one beauty of a restoration project on his hands when he took over a bankrupt baseball club in late 1976. Since then, he has pumped $743,000 of his own money into the team which has turned a profit since 1979 and has been in the black since 1981. McCoy was home to the Pawtucket Slaters of the New England League for a short time after World War II and it was pretty much vacant and un-cared for until 1966 when Cleveland moved Its Triple-A franchise here for one year. Double-A baseball lasted from 1969-72, and then the Red Sox transferred their Triple-A Louisville franchise to Pawtucket In 1973 a venture that also failed to gain fan support. By the fall of 1976, the club was In bankruptcy and Mondor was called In by a search committee to head up a new ownership team.

"I was a businessman and a baseball fan," says Mondor, who has a lease arrangement with the city through the year 2000. "We wanted to stay here long term." says Tamburro. "but although we get some financial support from the Boston club, we couldn't afford the major renovations. We had to make the city understand that and they did." Mondor, a friendly, feisty man who is as much at home talking to fans In the stands as he is Joking with writers in the press box, says the team is "riding the greatest coattails in the world the Boston Red Sox. "And we're the alternative.

We draw from southern Massachusetts and northern Connecticut as well as from around here and many of the fans sit in the stands here while listening on the radio to the Boston Red Sox." The stadium, located on Columbus Avenue in a working-class neighborhood, is very much a reflection of its family-oriented, mainly blue collar local clientele. Murals of PawSox players who made it to the big leagues night work for the money. been the site of seven racing fatalities since opening in 1938. The last previous fatality occurred in 1978 when Fred Desarrow was killed. But a lot of them have moved on to the big leagues.

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"I had a good chance to win the stage. But when Jean-Francois flatted, the other teams attacked with some of my teammates even further behind. They couldn't help him, so I had to leave the breakaway and wait for him. Then we had to basically do a team time trial to at least keep the distance stable and not lose any more time. I'm not sure what happened In the final climb." Coming over the last climb and down into the Vlllard de Lans ski resort, Delgado attacked, Roche went after him, and the two slugged it out for the final 15 miles, with Bernard a safe four minutes behind.

Delgado won the race in 4 hours 53 minutes 34 seconds, nosing Roche by three seconds at the finish, but Roche took over the yellow Jersey with a 41 -second lead over Mottet. "What happened today was a series of things, not Just the puncture or one attack," said Roche. "It was a complex series of maneuvers." As for giving up his own glory to help his teammate, Bauer said, "We have to sacrifice for the rider who Is riding the strongest. Now it's Jean-Francois, and he has the ability to win this Tour so we're willing to do anything to help him win it. "We did what we could, our tactics were perfect.

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