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Clark, Andretti, Foyt Top Contenders in Indy Lineup Indianapolis, Ind. More than a quarter-million speed fans will surge into the venerable Indianapolis Motor Speedway Monday, eager to see if world road racing champion Jimmy Clark of Scotland can handle a challenge from Italian-born Mario Andretti. It will be the golden anniversary 500-mile Memorial Day race. Last year it was Clark versus A. J.

Foyt of Houston, three-time American champion, in the early stages of the race, but car was no match for new Lotns- Ford and the Scot won going away. Foyt was the fastest qualifier last year, which meant the 32 other drivers could not try to pass him in the. flying start until after he crossed the starting line. Clark, running beside him in the three-car front row, burst ahead on the first turn. Andretti was the fastest qualifier this year in two weekends of 10-mile trials and again Clark sits in the No.

2 spot in a 1960 model Lotus-Ford. They were in a class by themselves in the qualifications with Andretti setting a record of 165.899 mile-per-hour in a rebuilt Brabham-Ford and Clark doing 164.144. Andretti Foyt Clark Nobody else reached 163. That could be deceptive because Foyt qualified late at 161.355 in a new Lotus-Ford hurriedly assembled from packing cases after he wrecked his original car. The new car has been torn down in the past week, leassembled and tuned meticulously.

There has been penny ante betting around gasoline alley, the speedway garage area that Foyt will be battling the leaders within 10 laps after starting in 18th place. Clark holds all the records for the race proper except in the early stages. The late Bobby Marshman established 11164 marks for 10, 20 and 30 laps which were not matched last year, when Foyt set a record for 70 laps. From there to the end of the 200-lap grind around the track the record book is all Clark, 1965, including 150.686 m.p.h. for the distance.

There will be two former winners among the starters besides Clark and Foyt. 1961 and 1964. Parnelli Jones of Torrance. 1963 winner, will start in the No. 4 spot, with Rodger Wara, of Indianapolis.

1959-62, in the 13th position. Both Jones and Ward can be contenders if their supercharged Olienhauser 4s, a new engine, holds up for the distance. Most of the other chargers in the field have special Ford V-8s, including Jim McElreath, winner of the 150-miIer at Phoenix, in March. The only'other U.S. Club championship race this year, the rain- shortened Trenton 150 in April, was won by Ward.

Jackie Stewart of Scotland, winner of the Monaco Grand Pr.x last Sunday, will be one of four European road racers in tue field. He cind Graham Hill of England. No. 2 ni the world standinngs last year just ahead of Stewart, will be among seven fir.st-time starters in the 500. Other rookies will be Gary Congdon, Garden Grove, Calil Mel Kenyon, Davenport, Iowa: Cale Yarborough.

Chai lotto, Carl Williams, Kansas City, and Larry Dickson, Marietta, Ohio, all starting well back in the field. Ward and Eddie Johnson of Richmond Heights, Ohio, will be starting for the 15th time; Johnny Boyd of Fresno, for the 12th time. The durability of some of the drivers contrasted with the mortality record. There have been 57 deaths at the 433-acie racing plant, including 33 drivers, 14 mechanics, 9 spectators and one guard, death-free competition in trials and the race last year, driver Chuck Rodce of Indianapolis was killed in a qualification up lap last May 14 The purse, including special awards by oil and accessory companies, may reach $750.000. The management, which guarantees only $150,000 but pays according to attendance.

will not announce the payoff until the traditional victory dinner Tuesday night. Standings announced at the end of the race are only tentative. All-City 3C Auto Racing 5C UNCOLN. MAY 29, 1966 8 PAGES SECTION WIRKPHOTO Sonny Jackson steals second and in the process jars the ball out of the glove of Bill Mazeroski. New Brave Loses Traded Thomas Cubs Past Old By Associated Press Before the Atlanta Braves eighth inning, but Boston held on for a 6-5 victory over the played Chicago Saturday, Senators.

Dalton Jones, Jim they traded Lee Thomas to I Gosger and Tony Conigliaro the Cubs for Ted Abernathy. homered for the Red Sox. Eight innings later, Thomas stroked a run-scoring single off Abernathy, climaxing a three-run rally and tying the game, 5-5. Four innings later Ron Santo hit a three run homer off Abernathy, giving the Cubs a 12- inning. 8-5 victory over the Brave.s Denis helped ives build a 5-2 lead, loft- i.

a sacrifice fly in the second inning, doubling and scoring in the sixth and hitting a homer in the eighth. Billy Williams provided the first four runs, doubling in two in the first and hitting a two-run homer before tying single Philadelphia blanked San Francisco, 2-0, as Ray Culp and Darold Knowles combined for a six-hitter. Cookie Rojas singled in a run in the fifth inning, and Rich Allen tripled and scored on Bill sacrifice fly Cleveland was held bitless by Dave Boswell for six innings but struck for two runs in the seventh and a 2-1 victory over Minnesota. Rocky led off the seventh with a single. Pedro double, the only other hit oft Boswell, eventually drove in two runs.

Jim King hit a grand slam homer in the Helps Mates Staiulings National Southern I Sets 440 Relay Mark Chicago .628 .558 .550 .326 .514 .433 .447 .394 .289 J'l .3 3ia 414 3 7V, 9 Salurriay's Chicago 8, S. 12 innings 2, Francisco 0 Houblon 2-2. IMUsburgh 1-5 St Louis 3. Cincinnati 1 Los Angeles 7. N'eo York I (iainea Cincinnati tJay 5-2) at St.

Louis 1 2 Pittsburgh I Law (Dicrker 2-0) Philadelphia (Short 4-4) at San Krancia- eo ikilin 3-3) New York (Ribant 1-0) at Los (Sutton 6-4) (Flacher 2-2) at Chicago (Jenkins 1-0 or Hendley 0-1) edged Pittsburgh, 2-1, in the first game of a day-night doubleheader. Sec- ond inning doubles by Kburgh IVlaye, Bob Aspromonte and Philadelphia pitcher Dave Glustl counted for the runs. The Pirates took the nighter 5-2 on homers by Willie Stargell and Bob Bailey, off Robin i lioberts. Jackson scattered five hits and drove in the first run ith a double as St. Louis defeated Cincinnati 3-1.

I Baltimore broke a tight one-run game with a four-run eighth inning outburst triggered by doubles by Brooks Robinson and Curt Blefary, beating Kansas City 9-2. Detroit defeated the California 5-4 with Dick two-run homer the seventh inning snapping a 3-3 tie. The New York Yajikees and Chicago White Sox wound up in a 2-2 tie when their game w'as called in the fifth inning beca'use of rain. The Los Angeles Dodgers w'hipped the New York 7-1. behind Sandy three-hitter.

Koufax, 8-1, .1 t-i Baltimore (Pabner 4-2) at breezed to his fifth straight (Humer 3 3 complete-game victory, ing out 10, while Jim Lefebvre 4 4 and draw 3 5) at Cleveland (Tiant 4-2 and Kelly 2 0), 2 Boston (Stephenson 2-3) at Washington (Ortega 2-2) Chicago (John 3-2) at New York (Friend 1-3) Cleveland Baltimore 23 22 California 20 Minnesota 17 New York 17 Chicago 16 Washington 17 Boston 16 Kansas City 13 knocked in three Dodger runs with two singles and a sacrifice fly. Modesto. Calif. South- crii 440-yard relay team clipped one-tenth of a second off the world record Saturday night, in 39.6 seconds at the 25th California Relays. The quartet of Harvey! Nairn, Grundy Harris, ster Johnson and George Anderson bettered the world mark set by Stanford at Fresno, iast year.

Charlie (ireene finished second in the 220- yard dash with a as Harold Busby, a UCLA freshman, won with a :20.7. Oklahoma two-mile relay team wtm in 7:23.2. Watches caught the team from Baton Rouge, in 39.7, 39.6 and 39.5 with the alternate clocking 39.6 on a cool, breezy night. Texas Southern took second in 39.9 with San Jose State third in 40.3. Lennart Hedmark of Sweden hurled the javelin feet, 10 inches, breaking the relays record set by Bud Held in 1955.

Hedmark, currently a student at Los Angeles State College after attending Penn State, beat Heid record by seven and one halt inches to finish well ahedd of Ed Red. Won Lout Pit. Bfhind' formerly of Rtce and now competing for the Pasadena Association. Red threw 259-3. His teammate, Frank Covelli, finished third at 248-11.

I Gyula Zsivotsky of Hungary, who has a world record hammer throw of 241-11 pending recognition, beat former Olympic champion Harold Connolly of the United States. Ed Burke ol the Southern California Stnders. who has 12 at fjeaten Connolly twice this season, finished third at 223-1. In the California Junior College Championchips, being held in conjunction with the relays, Dick Railsback of Pasadena and Dennis Phillips of San Mateo beitered the national jaycee pole vault record by clearing 16 feet 5V-2 inches. Railsback won the competition on the basis of fewer misses.

Distance ace Neil Duggan, a student from England attending Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, had his mile time of 4 02.7 and his two-mile time of 8 54.0 accepted Saturday a.s official junior college ords For Hesiill.s Page tC Debt Gone Now Kauai King Ford Pockethook Helps New York Fourteen years ago Michael Ford was in debt. Today, at age 41, he is a millionaire and the most talked about man in thoroughbred racing. The 6-foot-4, 190-pound Omaha, resident is the owner of Kaiial King, who needs only to win next added Belmont Stakes at to join one of the Avorld's most exclusive clubs. The King has won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. and only eight horses have put together victories in the three classics for 3-year-olds to capture the Triple Crown.

Citation was the last to do it in 1948. The odds against buying or breeding a horse good enough to w'in the Derby and the Preakness and be in line for the Triple Crown are astronomical. But Ford has done it in six years with the purchase of only 20 yearlings. Out of the 20 have come four stakes winners. F'irst there was the mare.

Mon Petite, Then he purchased Umbrella Fella for $17,000 and Royal Gunner for Between them the last two have won nearly $42,000. Kauai King cost him $42,000. about $7,000 more than he figured, and has earned $375,147, with all except $6,120 this year, while compiling an overall record of nine victories, two seconds and a third in 14 races. He started only four times as a 2-year-old. Ford has turned down a $1.5 million offer from Kentuckians to syndicate Kauai King and is considering a $2 million offer from a group of Maryland and Virginia breeders.

I definitely am not going to think about it until after the he said. call me a Ford said. am just a baby sitter for Kauai King. though 1 iiave been with the horse every day since he won the Gold Cup at Bowie, I only do what Henry Forrest Forrest, one of the top trainers in the business, handles a public stable, including Royal Gunner. His horses are stabled in Chicago but he will be on hand Tuesday when Kauai King has his final serious workout for the IV 2 miles of the Belmont.

But more about Ford. always liked animals, especially he said as he watched workouts at Aqueduct. wanted to be a veterinarian when 1 was a kid. "I never went to college When I got out of the Marines 1 had a family to support and two jobs to Inld down. 1 played baseball, basketball and football in high school.

when Dad and 1 sold our business I decided to take up hor.se racing seriously. 1 hooked up with Tom Gentry, w'ho is my chief advisor on yearlings. the son of Olin Gentry, general manager of Darby Dan Farm, and cousin of Loyd, who trains Graustark. decide on how much money I want to spend on yearlings, then comb the sale.s catalogues. Gentry does the same and when we agree we make an effort to get the colt or filly.

know we buck the big buyers so I try to find a wellbred yearling that has been overlooked. I was prepared to go to $100,000 for Royal Gunner but was fortunate. He co.st me only emphasized that all of his purchases have not been so fortunate as that Continued on Page 4C, Col. 4 Weiskopf In Lead At OC Oklahoma City Tom Weiskopf, a 23-year-old pro who left the tour for a rest earlier this year, slammed in three birdies on the last three holes to take the 54-hole lead the Oklahoma City Open Golf Tournament Saturday. Weiskopf.

with a total, was one up on Tony Lema and two ahead of Johnny Pott, the leader for the first two days. Big Jack Nicklaus and Terry Dill were right behind with 24)8s. Peter who wound i up with a 65 for the day and 211 total, set a course record for the front nine with a I blazing 29. Thomson, who was nine under par at one time and threatening to set a course bogeyed two of his I last three holes for a 65. Weiskopf said he dropped out of the B'lorida Citrus Open in March I was tired of He returned to the tour at Greensboro, N.C., two weeks later and lost a sudden playoff to Doug Sanders.

Tom Tony lyema Teri.v Dill Kermil Zarley Thomoson Frnd Marti Chuck Cocrtncy Bruce Devlin Randy Olover Gary Player Bert Yancey Harold Henning FTank Beard George Archer 69-68-69-206 70-69-69-208 72-71 71-73-65 -211 71-70-70- 1 68-72-71-211 76-70-66-212 70-74-68-212 73-72-68- 213 70-72-71-213 Bobby Nlchoii American Won Loat Pet. Behind 27 10 .730 15 .605 4' 16 379 -i 19 .513 19 .476 20 .4.39 10 20 .444 22 .4.36 11 Vi .410 12 24 351 14 Saturday's Results Cteveland 2. 1 Boston 6. Washington 5 Chicago 2, New York 2, tie, 5 innings, rain Baltimore 9. Kansas City 2 Detroit 5, California 4 (istiirs Dave Hill Day Dolan Wood Pete Fleming Cobie I range Butch Baird Bob Goalby Joe Ken Thompson I Buster Cupil Dick Crawford I Pete Brown I Tommy Jacobs I 1.0U Graham I Paul Bondjson Dick Dean Reiram Bo Wininger Billy Maxw'ell iHin Massengale Bob Verwey Ray F'loyd Christ Blocker Coody Howie Johnson 71-70-27-213 75-71-68-214 73-71-70-214 72-71-71-214 73-69-72-214 76-70-69- 215 76-70-69-215 73-72-70- 215 74-70-71-215 75-69-71 21.5 72-72-71-215 72-70-73-215 70-72-73- 215 6972-74 215 73-72-71 216 72-72-72-216 79 73-73-216 71-7975- 216 71-7975-216 73-67-76-216 76-72-69-217 7975-715-217 71-74-72-217 74-6974-217 76-72-70-218 laude King John Gross Flrnie Vosslcr xCraig 218 Jim Colliert larry Gnggs Bobby Brue Chi Chi Jim Ferrler Rex Baxter Methvln John Lotz Howell Fraser Charles Sifford Roger Ginsberg Jerry Steelsmlth Joe Carr Xnk Kdwards Homero Tom Randy Reeves young man on the way up.

Spray Handy Petri Dave Stoikton C. Fitts Ron Gtlespie Jerry Billy Johnny Allen Wright Garrett Willia Beljan 71-74-76-221 74-71-76-221 -221 71-77-75-223 ................73 74-76-223 697976-224 74-72-75-224 xRichie Norvllle Joe Walser Dick Killian x-denotes amatuer. Sunday oc I Auto Midwest Speedway, 4600 No, 27tli 8 p.m. Bafteball American Legion Midgets, AAA Rents Roberts, 6 p.m., CWA V. 8, Shemian Field (irolf Great Plains Classic, Holmes Park.

Sunday noon (7); 1 p.m. (3). Sports 500, bowling, p.m. (6-10-11); Bowling, rodeo, 3 p.m. (3).

Monday Horse Racing The Jersey Derby, 3:30 p.m. Dodgers v. Braves, m. (3). Reeves Prep Athlete of Year By DON FORSYTHE Prep Spurts Writer A high-flying young man with lofty ambitions.

Omaha Randy Reeves has left significant marks of accomplishment in fields of athletics, scholarship and leadership. Today he claims another honor, receiving the 19U(i Sunday Journal and Star High School Athlete of Year award. Little did Rasndy realize what was ahead when a couple of third-grade classmates in Scottsbluff asked him to pick up a bamboo pole and join them in a vacant lot for some pole vaulting compotitioa. Out of that makeshift beginning emerged the first, and only, high school competitor to soar 14 feet in the pole vault. For this and matching accomplishments in other areas, Randy ranks at the top of the list of standout athletes who completed their high school careers this year.

With a rare combination ol athletic and academic excellence leave Benson High School with 11 letters and the top academic ranking in a class of 774 when he graduates next week. High school competition has been more than just medals, certificates and awards for this 6-2, 180- pound youngster think that atiilelic competition has taught me a lot about self discipline, not only to train but to budget my time. Then the fraternity that boys have in being members of a he says. loss was gain when father, Harold, accepted the principalship at North high School four years ago, Randy wasted little time in making a dent in athletic circles at Benson High School. In a freshman year his winter schedule cluded competition in both gymna.stics and basketball.

He earned the lirst of his 11 letters in gymnastics, placing fifth in the rope climb in the state meet. That spring he turned his attention to pole vaulting and cleared 12-0 during tlie year and qualified for the stale meet at 11-6. wa.s scared to death in the state meet and even rn a the opening height he rec-ails. But a couple of weeks later he went on to clear in the Junior Olympics meet As a sophomore Randy earned the fir.st of three letters football, selected gymnastics as hi.s only winter and placed second in the rope climb at the state meet and in the spring raised his vault mark to 13 4 2 becoming the first Nebraska sophomore ever to top 13-0 In his junior he emphasized his versatility as he switched from quarterback to halfback In football and switched from gymnastics to basketball when the rope climb was eliminated from the state meet. He landed a berth on the varsity rosier and by mid- season had claimed a starting job on the basketball team.

in the spring he continued his improvtment in the pole vault, setting a new district record of 14-0, a new state record of 14-2 and sailing in a Junior Olympics meet. Last summer Randy was elected Governor of Corn- husker State and represented the state at Nation. Randy came into his own as a football player in his senior season, earning praise from coach Sorensen as most complete football I have had at Benson and earning ail-state backfield honors on each of the four all-state teams selected by various news media. Returning to tlie basketball court in December, he played a major role in the success of the Benson club w'hich finished 17-6 claimed the No. 4 in the final Class A ratings.

I than satisfied with a second place finish behind John Randolph in the vault at the state meet this Randy blames only himself for not doing was being to cautious. 1 leaning back and get anything out of my he indicates. Because of his athletic- Continued on Page 4C, CoL 7.