The Charlotte News from Charlotte, North Carolina • 7

An Army Here Comes Arnie former national PGA champi on had to put on a birdie-birdie finish for a 69 and a 135 total that left him one stroke clear of Palmer Pearce Forrest Fezler and Gary Groh Pearce had a 69 with a grab-bag set of borrowed clubs His regular set has been stolen Groh who would have a piece of the lead but tor a whiffed putt in the opening round took another 63 Fezler the only one of the leaders to play in the strong blustery trade winds that sent grimly determined to regain some of the form and flair that made him the most popular player the game of golf has ever known to regain the magic that won him 61 tour titles And he got close in second round of the $220000 Hawaiian Open matching the best round of the day with a five-under-par 67 that vaulted him to within one stroke of hallway leader A1 Gciberger- The slender Geiberger a By BOB GREEN AP Golf Writer HONOLULU Hawaii ijv -Young Eddie Pearce kepi hearing those joyous veils the happy shouts the cries ot glee rolling out ot the gallery that was trailing a couple of holes behind him It was Arme's Army this time an army heavily tla vored with Ouental and Po lynesian lecruits delightedly watching their man do his thing the 22 year-old Pearce said with a big snnlc referring to the man who has been his longtime idol doesn't someone tell him to Bui Arnold Palmer now 45 and a non winner lor two long frustrating years has no intention of retiring He's Sports -Sot Feb 1 1975 The Charlotte News HAT'S OFF Arnold Palmer doffs cap to gallery on 18th green after holing putt for 67 in Hawaiian Open (AP Wirephoto) Johnny Miller the young man who swept the first two tournaments of the year and is challenging Nicklaus tor the ioje of the premier performer is not competing round will be tele vt'Cd at 6 pm on Channel 18 round will be seen at 5 Lee Trevino the PGA king and a former Hawaiian Open chummon tailed to quality tor the tmal two rounds Palmer scored Ins last tour victory in the 1973 Bob Hope Desert Classic lie didn't win Iasi year once misled three oil is 8 in The Tai Heels edged Clem son here earlier in the year but had to overcome a 16-point Tiger lead to do it The nnal s-ore was 74-72 cuts in a row and generally suttered through his worst season in two decades as a touring pro year I just kind of wandered off and got involved with a lot of things other than Palmer said guess I let my mind wander from gull too made lip my mind that this year Pm gonna concentrate on golf gonna quit dilly-dallying around gonna play more golf Whether the results will be good or bad I say one thing 1 can be sure of The effort will be Toe ellort was highly productive He dropped 15 and 20 toot continued On Page zb Cot 7 were very lorlunale to win that Carolina Coach Dean Smith says deserved to win it have to play much better to even stay in the game atternoou scoics soaring birthed his iat three holes for a share of second at 136 JACK NICKLAUS the defending champion dropped from two strokes oft the pace to seven behind with a disjp pointing 74 for 142 missed one gietn and made double bogey on the hole" Nicklaus said "and I three putted twice That's not too good For two rounds 1 over par on the par live holes That's pretty much the story of my tournament right North Tar IJecK try to stay atop the Atlantic Coast Conference standings when they lace the tough Clemson Tigtrs in a key game at Clenwon tonight Tip BOTTOMS UP Chrysler (21) as Gull Horton) By SrN OLSON News Stall Wrilcr Tie garni hud been uva lor 15 minutes and iht laiis had almost tmisied implying out on the coliseum canymg thoughts of Cnunotlc'a 2-! Victory over Hampton with them So why was Cheket Wav ve Chryslei still in unilorm out on the ice on Ins hands and knees with a half-dozen coliseum worker''1 If uu knew the wav things h'Ve hem going for Ch'Vs lately have understood Inst a cnnlael lens dining nty last moaned the wite-haired youngster alter-waitl we never did tint! Fears Tigers 49ers Smith At Home All three of the Mecklenburg County colleges will have something to prove when their basketball teams take to tne courts tonight Two of them will be at home as faces Adelphi in the campus gym and Johnson Smith battles Livingstone in Hartley-Woods gym and the other Davidson is in Morgantown West Virginia to lace West Virginia All three games start al 8 pm INCC be trying to prove anything t0 Adelphi The outcome of (lie game is not particularly doubtful it one notices that Panthers were declawed by Catawba Thursday night But Coach Bill Foster hopes that the National Invitational Tournament selection committee is paying atlention while his troop try to pad their 14 2 record and eight-game winning streak And he ligures they just might he since Adelphi is from Garcuii City 1 rigid up there in committee's neck ot the woods I'NCC figures that with the NCAA expanding to a 32-tram held this year the NIT may be looking tins way DAVIDSON wants only to prove that it is not as bad as it appeared in a 113-76 loss to Duke here Wednesday night The Wildcats may have trouble doing so The Mountain ccrs are 10 7 this year and tough on their home court JCSU would like a victory tonight The Bulls were bombed last night 110 83 on the road by Winston Salem State ending a lour game winning streak SMITH 83 Coooer It Weaver 9 Terry 9 Massey Gil ram 2 Stewart 4 Entzminqer 10 Wallace 1 McMorris 2 Adams 2 McCImton 3 Douglas 6 Whitmire 4 lnst9n-salem "0 Paulin 26 Helton 22 Johnson 2 Conle Pe hues 13 Terry 16 Brown Gibson 2 Murrell 3 Martin 5 Belton Halftime Winston-Salem 49 Smith Hampton's Terry Moran (5) is upended by Dale Smcdsmo (8) controls puck in game last AfC play having edged Wake Forest al Winston baian aiJ puwi rlnl Marj land at Caliege Park The Tar tlceis now nuld undisputed possession ot in si Place the At vvilli a 5 1 record alter beating Wake forest for a second lime in (Impel Hill Wednesday night The score was 1(11-9) C'amtma is 11-4 overall and is ranked Phil iiafioiialiv Clemson also has been going stiong in reei nt ucAs and boasts a home cuiu win over Mai kind 81-82 The T'gets ol Coach Tiles Ii are 10 7 overall and 4 2 ill the ACC race is certainly a mu i game lor Us at this singe a tho sajs Sm th Clemson has tu mendoii-team PI lying on llicr 'imie court Ibis season is no dnu cm than going on ih mad I i North Carolina State Mn land or Kentucky 1 tunk we are pi iving better turn th in we win in Tail uary but evidently I km on is also '1 h' 1 1 Imr a (U12 long p( i in vvei ks Ho 7-i ivne i i Rollins I ho iiili'o between Rollins and talen al Milch Kupi liak iv bo a highlight ot thi1 mie WAKE OREST is the only other ACC learn in at bon In night Moving nama Tali in Wuision il lteinoon action vvr In and hot Si i i mil Mai viand nine ahedided in i la-li at I pm IbdnJi a lilcvised game (Channel ji Stale' is iinked No 2 nt nation Wat land No When they met earlier ths -ei-ini al AI ii li nd the Taiapms won a i unavvev cl rv At 3 (abri 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it men US Ooen Freestyle Skmu Champion ShlDS 3 30 in Channc1 vn i tics US Germany nationa' qymnastics content raoed at Univt-r i-tv Park Pa 5 pm Channel 18 Hjvva ien Golf Final round at HonciU'U 7 pm Channel 18 No-mi Slom Htahi qhts of last vnek State-DuFe and S'atr Mary -r basketball games on home com Carolina however lias been pertornung extremely well on foreign courts in recent weeks The Tar Heels already have two big road wins in Charlotte's Wayne night (Photo by Elmer They had cut Southern Hockey La ague lead from 20 points to 12 and smelled bkiod Chrysk got the Gulls off on the wrong foot deflecting in a Donnie Biennan shot from the leit point early the second period to snap the scoreless lie "It went right between (goallendir Andv) Gills he said with a gpn "and it sure fe't good Ii also gave the Checkers a lead they never rclmquis ted So the slump was broken that mean bad link couldn't bang around a little longer and it did After the goal he had ano'n-er dcllection try but that one hit the post And earlv the third period the 5-8 175- poundcr actually popped the puck in the net only to have the goal disallowed because linemate Ned Koizack was in the crease Still the Checkers held on although Charlotte shotstonper Gaye Cooley lost his on a Curt Braekenbury goal with just 58 seconds left to play And Chrysler despite his less-than-awesome physical stdture led the hard-hiding Checkers in that department popping Gulls with hip-checks a la Gary Wood felt that I could contribute that way even if I Continued On Page 2B tot 1 The Speedway Shootout All right Charlotte Motor Speedway stockholders in one corner we oiler Richard Howard president and general manager and in the opposite corner Burton Smith board chairman of the race track corporation This is a continuation of a bout that began more than a year ago under wraps and which erupted into full-fledged verbal combat between the good portly country boy and former Marine Howard and ex-paratrooper and wealthy Madison Ave type Smith during the corporation's stockholders meeting Thursday The count is even but the fight over Smith won round one last year when after purchasing 25 per cent of the stock of the speedway he helped found in I960 he came charging back into the picture as board chairman Howard it would appear evened the count this week when with the election of North Carolina Motor Speedway President DeVVitt and Easley' SC businessman Ralph Ellenberg to the board he regained control by a scant 4-3 margin though officers be elected for 30 days The power struggle consumed nearly 10 hours Charges and counter charges of mismanagement investigations law suits and dividends that have been simmering for months erupted in elevated blood pressures and hot tempers What it boils down to is a personal conirontation between Howard who has successiuily guided the speedway corporation from rocks to liches during the past 11 years and Smith the man who started it all and returned to find he like the way now being run Each Other BASICALLY Howard who came to meeting with his letter of resignation in his pocket yet hoping he would not have to tend it charges that Smith wants to make the speedway the Indianapolis of stock car racing without regard for expenditures or people Smith on the other hand charges that the corporation has become too much Richard and not enough the stockholder that it is progressing loo slowly and that the general manager needs to be replaced Smith who has made millions in the automobile and insurance business since he and Curtis Turner founded the track and it plunged into bankruptcy shortly thereafter has insisted he has no desire to operate the track personally but that like to see it in the hands of more competent people Howard says Smith has attempted to clean house by conducting investigations at speedway expensc to Miow that the otficers and personnel were crooks Both ligures are accused ot double-crossing the other "I haven't been running the said Howard being run lrom Illinois Last year at the board meeting we approved a slate of directors Then Burton put his votes on a fourth man to get a 4-3 edge on the Smith charged this week that Howard had broken his promise to loliow the slate by championing Elienbeig instead of dneclor Gene Etird who was defeated lied and so did Ur Fred Wilson (who resigned Wednesday night) when they promised to vote ior the slate then laled to do Smith said Howard counters that Smith pressured staffers such as Guy diaries tne company business manager and Bob Latford the former public relations director to lesign hired insiders "to look over our spent money too lust on improvements at the expense of dividends and to dig up any kind of dirt to make me look he said have worked diligently during the past year to dean up a lot oi things connected with the speedway to prepare a good set ol books a beheveable audit We will continue to do that and any change will require an answer to the (Smith and two other close associates were re-elected) "Auditors have uncovered irregularities many in fact in the management of lunds These are the reasons for changes have been Smith said At Odds Over Rightway Co HOWARD SAID he could no longer tolerate the pressure of Smith's rule hence his plans to resign Thursday unless power is switched "Nobody except my wife knew the torment I was going Howard said want to walk away from the stockholders but I was prepared to let Bruton run the show try to run the speedway conservatively because I was once a poor boy It got to the point we were spending three dollars to make one We made improvements that were needed but too quickly like $200000 each for additional seats and a road course held a hammer over my head about Right-way Investment Co in which I was involved with some lormer directors The company went bankrupt It was reported to the stockholders in 1966 and 1967 If they had fei- they had been wronged they could have sued then" Howard said Jfoward went on to say audits and attorney fees have amounted to some $35000 "about three times higher than they ve ever Smith retaliates by saying consulting his attorneys about a possible class action suit over the Rightway deal He says 1710U() shares of CMS stock worth about onlimicd Oil Page 215 04 I ide To Victory Election Of Officers Postponed New CMS Director No Yes Man il A lulv ottered to loan me one nl lieis Sore Wav no and a iiineh-111-' sk'r1 right Cut tea ly it 11- no kiugiiing titer lust the way things seem to jo when vou're in a slump And coming inlo last buith with omushinj Hampton Chrysler Wds indeed umping Tut' scrappy little center had not scored a goal 11 two reeks "I hail had some tmuh 1 he aid as hi unlaied Its skates Hitting a goal po-is and crossbar tilings like that But it's cleptcssing It gets you down of yesterday here talking with both rivals Howard and Smith emphasized that "I am neither nor man 53 years old and own a unporalion (Ellenburg Enterprises) that consists ol seven businesses my own man "Although I really re sent being grouped with Howard 'in published rifwrtsi I want to set the record game wc lost to Grcen-bcno Tuesday (5-4' lor instant We were ahead 4 3 and I had a chance to make it live and blew it You leel like you lei down the cm and you wonder tl thinking 'll had la made that one have VST NIGHT though he made one and he picked a great time to score at least from standpoint Himpton had come to town riding an eight-game winning steak Iresh trom a 3-U thrashing of Roanoke Valley in Roinokc Die night boloie straight that I intend to do hdt I think is best for the corporation and the stockholders have already been told that never be able to live up to my position that be on the hot seat by not joining one side or the other But maybe starting a trend What like to see is a board without any factions one working for the benefit of the El lenburg said ELLENBURG praised Howard lor the job he has done with the speedway as prest deni and general manager like Richard Howard done a fabulous job as pro mnter and diplomat and pioud running it because I think the speedway would be in nearly as good shape without him Anybody who makes a decision is Continued On Page 2B Col 5 1 1 am neither Howard's nor Smith's man I'm 53 years and own a corporation that consists of seven businesses I'm my own man' Ellenburg By HOB MYERS News Staff Writer The Charlotte itor Speedway board of directors has postponed election of officers for 30 ddvs according to Ralph Ellenburg Ellenburg an Easley businessman is one oi two new directors elected to the board during long and stormy meeting of stock holders The meeting marked a showdown between a group headed by Richard Howard current president and general manager and Bruton Smith the board chairman in which He rd appeared to have won the edge and regained control Ellenburg however a key director on the split scven-man board said he will not represent a faction but the best interest of the stockholders instead Atur his eleitiun Ellenburg DO YOU KNOW WHERE 15000 WILL BUY 1 00 Suit S60 Sport Coot S20 Pair Slacks (2) $12 OO Career Club Shirts (2) $30 OO Jarman Shoes (2 $7 OO Golden Clasp Ties (2 Pair Socks by Burlington CALL WOOD WATTS At DOMER'S MEN'S SHOP 394-8373 asked the boaid to delay election of olfieeis lor 30 days sr he could ai quaint himseli with the situation dv'a want to transact business nr vote on something I knew nothing suid Ellen burg not saying in favor of changing anything just wanted time to study and analyze the situation and the boaid agreed to irA Ellcnbuie who spent most.