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I Sports SECTION Sunday June 8 1997 ir TOLEN CROWN I Touch Gold spoils Silver Charm's triple play BEIMONIg('STAKES lar)601-4 114 I ''''-'44 ai 4 k12717 (14 4 I 4' y' 1 e' 13 (4 1'1 4-Irt -it-ii 1 I 11 t4t1 5 4 1 (ill 4 I A i 401 1 i 11'14 I 1 '1 41 1 4 1 I I li 1 if i 4 i 0: i ''rts frilv-v-'' 4' hr 1 v' :1: A 1 1 0 4 ------4 4 r--1-- v- 4- Key moment: Jockey Chris McCarron swung Touch Gold to the middle of the track entering the stretch to launch a sneak attack on Silver Charm who never saw him Key strategy: Patience Silver Charm Free House and Wild Rush shot past leader Touch Gold on the backstretch Most horses would have panicked but Touch Gold and McCarron patiently let them go past rallying for victory BY RANDY Moss 4 Star-Telegram Staff Writer ELMONT NY A decade and two days ago Chris McCarron had a chance to win horse racing's Triple Crown aboard Alysheba but lost in the Belmont Stakes McCarron made Triple Crown history again yesterday riding Touch Gold to an upset victory in the Belmont to spoil Silver Charm's attempt at a-rare sweep Touch Gold took the early lead dropped to fourth place then surged again in the middle of the track with McCarron to overtake Silver Charm near the finish and win the mile-and-a-half classic by three-quarters of a length The crowd of 70682 third-highest ever at Belmont Park roared in approval as Sil fate was sealed "He never saw Touch Gold until about 10 jumps from the wire or he would have dug in" said a teary-eyed Stevens who had guaranteed victory "It was too late to build up another head of steam" And so history was thwarted again A dozen other horses have won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness but failed in the final leg Only one came closer than Silver Charm: Pensive defeated in the 1944 Belmont by a half-length "I wanted to pull this off so bad" said Bob Baffert who trains Silver Charm "But it was great that he showed up If he'd run fifth or sixth or way back there it would have been disastrous But the people came for a show and they got it" (More on BELMONT on Page 19C) The Associated Press ver Charm held off rival Free House through the stretch and appeared destined to become the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 But according to jockey Gary Stevens Silver Charm didn't know what hit him until his Belmont Stakes results WIN PLACE $730 330 300 Touch Gold Silver Charm Free House Luyendyk Ran n'TOP 3 FINISHERS 1 No 1 Billy Boat 2 No 14 Davey Hamilton 3 No 5 Arie Zt 7- 4 0 44 I 44: Ar! "14 6f "44? 4 10-4 us Foultit tRo Rookie Boat prevails amid smoke from Stewart's crash postrace fireworks Air i 4 i for 113 Alc (200E' -41D 1' Convinced that the sanctioning Auto Club had incorrectly his laps and that he had won reigning Indy 500 champion Luyendyk stormed into Victory Circle as Boat team owner AJ and their crewmen were beginning to celebrate a 1-2 finish of Boat Davey Hamilton Luyendyk jumped out of his car down the pit road and made his into Victory Circle Once Luyendyk said that he quietly delivered a message said that I had lapped them" said "They started to yell (More on WI on Page I6C) Star-TelegraMMARRELL BYERS AJ Foyt rear team owner for winner Billy Boat struggles with Arie Luyendyk who complained that a scorer's error robbed him of victory INSIDE More race coverage on Pages 14-16C Silver Charm center led the pack out of the fourth turn of the 129th Belmont Stakes but Touch Gold second from left surged to victory SHOW 260 240 270 Detroit sweeps to Cup Red Wings celebrate first title since 1955 From wire reports DETROIT Steve Yzerman has his ring Mike Vernon has his contract and Scotty Bowman has his place in the Red Win s2 record books Flyers I Oh and the people of Hock-Stanley Cup eytown have the Finals Holy Grail of Red Wings win hockey the series 4-0 Stanley Cup Game 1: Detroit back in their 4 Philadelphia 2 possession The Game 2: Detroit 42-year wait to 4 Philadelphia 2 see the Detroit Game 3: Detroit Red Wings hoist 6 Philadelphial the prized possession of hockey high over their heads ended last night Vernon who automatically had his contract renewed for $23 million next season with his 16-4 championship run and earned a $200000 (More on WINGS on Page 5C) Rangers' offense in slump BY JOHNNY PAUL Star-Telegram Staff Writer KANSAS CITY Mo The Rangers' inaugural visit to the con- ri ee ns of hitting-c Ro als110 Rangeromot Field occurs in nine days Their lineup needs it Right-hander Jim Pittsley further demonstrated the Rangers' offensive woes during Kansas City's 10-4 victory before 26542 yesterday at Kauffman Stadium Pittsley who entered this contest with an 0-4 record and 704 earned-run average surrendered three runs on four hits and two walks through (More on RANGERS on Page 6C) BASEBALL 0-8C PRO FOOTBALL SC PRO BASKETBALL 10C COLLEGES 10-11C GOLF 12C SCOREBOARD 20C OUTDOORS 21C Page SCORELINE (817) 390-7990 4A BY JOHN STURBIN Star-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH Billed by Texas Motor Speedway as "America's original night-time Indy-car race" the inaugural True Value 500- kilometer race came wlapped with a finish right out of a Saturday night dirt track A stroke of luck in the form of Tony Stewart's blown engine two laps from the checkered flag gave rookie Billy Boat his first Indy Racing League victory last night That only started the fireworks before an announced crowd of 128000 Leader Tony Stewart bidding for his first giit gill US scored the race Me Foyt and ran way inside "I Luyendyk AVik it a 7 gh Ais 4IN Till AS fta Star-TetegrartliCAROLYN BAUMAN Winning pitcher Bart Hail shows off the 4A championship trophy No Boswell makes big -splash with 4A title victory By DONALD EMMONS Star-Telegram Staff Writer AUSTIN The wait is finally over Boswell High School which needed 24 hours to complete the Class 4A baseball championship game won its first state championship by defeating Dallas Highland Park 3-0 yesterday before 5330 at Disch-Falk Field The Pioneers'who led 3-0 after five innings Friday before rain suspended play were forced to wait through a four-hour rain delay yesterday before finally closing the door on the Scots "I'm proud of the kids" Boswell coach David Hatcher played such wonderful defense that you could see how much they wanted to win this game" The Pioneers celebrated their championship by piling up on the pitcher's mound where left-hander Bart Hall (7-2) had limited the Scots (21-10) to two hits in the game none yesterday He struck out six and walked two The Pioneeis followed the mound pileup by executing headfirst slides on the soggy artificial lurt in center field Jarred Coursey'who stands 6foot-3 and weighs 260 drew the loudest response for his headfirst (More on BOSt1-1 on Page 17C) Foster's NBA trek ends on a high note 'with the Jazz Page 10C LSU defeats Alabama 13-6 to win the College World Series Page 10C career victory spins out less than two laps Star-TelegramKELLEY CHINN from the finish of the True Value 500 1 1 1 Third annual Sports Canvass Sound off about the teams players and personalities you love or love to hate in our survey Iva Majoll pulls upset The 19-year-old Croat surprises top-ranked Martina Hingis 6-4 6-2 to win the French Open championship Page 3C 0' Aelpf or I ti' 1 1 4-- I 90 -t i 1 tt-0 i- i it t1 if rt4- --2-7- -ti Back 010 "1kleeteopp144qr IP itC15421 I.