Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 25

COLOR Allison captures trinmph in 400 at1 By Harold Pearsoa Tien-DkfMri staff writer The race it has long been said is to the fittest Yesterday's Miller 400 was a case in point With NASCAR's big-league Winston Cup racers making their inaugural appearance at the spanking new three-quarter mile Richmond International Raceway Davey Allison was fittest fastest and given some of the strangeness of this first race the most fortunate Allison's good fortune and the bad fortune of others helped Still it was the durability and speed of his car that enabled him to literally run off from the field and win the race that was given life by the telephone command from his recuperating father start your was kind of prepared for said the 27-year-old Alabamian who was told late Saturday afternoon that his father would give the command it was still enough to send cold chills up and down my spine and I know it probably set a lot of people on fire around this place And there were a lot of people the largest gathering ever fw a sporting event in the Commonwealth an esti mated 60000 overflowing the 53103 seating capacity None showed as much sustained fire as did the young Allison and none of his peers was prepared fw what he was going to lay on them Save for some time lost changing from Hoosiers tires to Goodyears and the race's early resemblance to a highspeed demo derby the day belonged to Davey whose father Bobby sent his command from a Birmingham rehabilitation center where he is recuperating from a June 19 crash at Pocona The elder Allison won seven tunes on the old -542-mile Fairgrounds oval which ranks second to Richard Petty's 13 on the track win list Never was Allison's dominance so evident as after the race had restarted from its fourth caution of the first 95 laps There wasn't another fw 225 laps That was just what Allison wanted After winning the pole with a lap of 122850 Saturday he had hoped the entire race was under green anywhere we said Allison who won his first of the season three weeks ago at Michigan more we Continued on page 6 coL 1 Staff pftoto by Bruce Parker DOUQ DUG IN Despite completing 30 of 52 passes for 430 yards and two touchdowns Redskin QB Doug Williams had to guide a couple late drives to turn back Pittsburgh Redskins ride Air Williams prevail 30-29 Wilander wins Open marathon By John Pickett Mas writer NEW YORK Since he broke into the elite circle of top players five years ago Mats Wilander has been reluctant to make a move to become Na 1 in the world Not any more Wilander! 6-4 4-6 6-3 5-7 6-4 victory over top-seeded Ivan Lendl last night in the Open Tennis Championships clearly stamped the Swede as the best player in the world this year The four-hour and 54-minute marathon win was Wilander's third Grand Slam title of 66 Earlier the 2-year-old had captured the Australian and French Opens The only thing that kept him from winning the Grand Slam was a quarterfinal loss to Milos-lav Mecir at Wimbledon Wilander becomes the first men's player since 1974 to win three of the four Grand Slam tournaments Fourteen years ago Jimmy Connors won Wimbledon the Australian and US Opens In a rematch of last year's four-set final Wilander got the crucial service break in the seventh game of the final set and served out the match to become the first Swede to win the Open crown was a great Wilander said "I was lucky in the end to win It sort of was my turn to Wilander wasted one match point but forced Lendl to hit a backhand wide to set up the second one and delivered a service winner to Lendl's backhand that ended it Lendl 26 was attempting to become the first player to win four US titles since Bill Tilden claimed six straight from 1920-25 Lendl had won 27 consecutive matches at the National Tennis Center key to the match was at the beginning of each set I had so many chances and I make enough of my Lendl said "It's a lousy feeling It's been a tough year for me I have to look at it and accept it and go on Ifl cry over spilled milk Continued on page 16 coL 1 Late bomb helps Niners slay Giants EAST RUTHERFORD NJ (AP) Joe Montana threw a 78-yard scoring pass to Jerry Rice with 42 seconds to play as the San Francisco 49ers scored a 20-17 victory over the New York Giants Montana hit Rice on a fly pattern down the right sideline between defensive backs Mark Collins and Kenny Hill and the fleet receiver went untouched the final 45 yards The score came just 39 seconds after Giants quarterback Phil Simms hit Lionel Manuel on a 15-yard touchdown pass that gave New York (1-1) a 17-13 lead It was a score that was set up by a 32-yard punt return by Phil McConkey San Francisco (2-0) took the ensuing kickoff lost two yards on the next two plays before Montana and Rice combined to beat the Giants' prevent defense San Francisco broke a tie at 10 early in the third period when Mike Gofer kicked a 26-yard field goal The 49ers dominated the first half but left tied at 10 because the Giants were able to make the big plays Simms hit Manuel for a 12-yard touchdown pan early in the first quarter after a fumble by starting quarterback Steve Young who split the game with Montana San Francisco rebounded to take a 10-7 lead on Gofer's 35-yard field goal early in the second quarter and a one-yard touchdown dive by Doug Du Bose midway through the period Raul Allegre who missed a 39-yard Continued on page 4 col 3 rookie Chip Lohmiller bumped his third field goal of the game a point-blank 19-yarder through the uprights With 9:29 to play Washington trailed 29-20 and had made a major contribution to every Steeler scoring drive with a turnover defensive breakdown or penalty The Steelers' first two scores both Gary Anderson field goals were made possible when third-down penalties on defense turned punting situations into first-and-10s Pittsburgh also had two one-play sewing drives On the first wide receiver Louis Lipps dusted off corner-back Darrell Green and walked into the end zone on an 80-yard completion from Bubby Brister thought the play was said Green whose coverage ot Lipps was otherwise air-tight had stopped running I'd turned around and looked back upfield fw someone to tackle Maybe I gave up too soon but there's no way they called that one in the Pittsburgh's second home run play Continued on page 5 coL 1 By John Markon Timet-DWyatck staff writer WASHINGTON If the rest of the Washington Redskins' season develops along the lines of the first two games quarterback Doug Williams might have to take the big blue brace he wears on his left knee and strap it on his right arm Williams completed 30 of 52 passes for 430 yards in yesterday's 30-29 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelen at RFK Stadium Six days earlier he'd pumped it up 50 times in a loss to the New York Giants The man can go nine innings times out of said Williams that often means you're behind most of the way and won't win Today was the one time in 10 you could do it and come back I'd hate to think all the games will be this way but if that's what it takes what well The Redskins made enough mistakes and had enough of their best players limp off the field with injuries to lose two games They won this one with 12 seconds remaining when Staff photo by Bob Brown VICTORY SMILE Davey Allison cools off with Miller 400 the first Winston Cup race at the new a drink in victory lane after winning yesterday's Richmond International Raceway Richmond reaches big time with coming-out party scoreboaird Steelers 29 Giants 17 Redskins 30 49evs 20 Virginia has long deserved to have a major-league auto racing facility It now has one Six months ago Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway was a long-outdated half-mile track in the process of being massaged by a wrecking ball Yesterday afternoon 60000 people paid top dollar and endured all manner of temporary inconvenience to see the first Winston Cup race over three-quarters of a mile of fresh asphalt at Richmond International Raceway As a construction feat it ranks at the very least with the destruction of Parker Field and the building of The Diamond at the same site over the fall and winter of 1984-85 The difference is that The Diamond is primarily a Richmond metropolitan playground RIR is going to become an attraction for fans up and down the Atlantic seaboard who love auto racing and there are hundreds of thousands of them It's not so much what RIR is right now It's what it is going to be RIR is still a work in progress Its symbol for the time being is the sawhorse As one race fan put it yesterday of mud but it's real pretty Though Davey Allison won Miller 400 and made it look easy in the late stages of the race the real star of the day waa not a driver It was the setting Paul Sawyer has been promoting races around here for years and has tried to get first-class racing facilities (Stories this page) Beats 17 Jets 23 Vikings 36 Bengals 28 Oilets 38 (Stories pope C-4) Bills 9 Saints 29 Bucs 13 Brenees 34 Rams 17 Seahawks 31 Celts 13 Browns 3 Patriots 6 Eagles 24 Raiders 35 Dolphins 6 Falcons 21 Packers 10 Chargers 3 Lions 10 Chiefs 10 built in Prince George Dinwiddie and Tidewater Finally he has one right on the spot where he started selling dirt-track races for a fledgling outfit known as NASCAR Sawyer sympathizes with the struggles of many of his customers yesterday Highway and street access into RIR is limited and cannot possibly handle a sudden influx of 20000-plus cars Some rest rooms were not ready Some spectator walking areas were mudpaths weeks said former State Corporation Commissioner Junie Bradshaw would not have believed it possible to run this race today Somehow Paul and his people got it What Sawyer could not control were traffic jams and parking shortages that had fans still streaming into the gates more than 70 minutes after the race started one thing I hope this race has said Sawyer that it should show people they cant drive in here park their cars and take their seats right as they Continued on page 6 col 1 eeeeeeeeoaeaee (NFL roundup page C-4) Yankees outlast Tigers for sweep Red Sox lose AMERICAN Dave Winfield in the fourth made it 3-1 Detroit scored in the second when Larry Herndon walked Mike Heath singled and Brookens doubled INDIANS 4 RED SOX 2 Willie Upshaw's RBI single broke a tie in the eighth inning and Tom Candiotti (12-8) allowed five hits in seven innings as the Cleveland Indians beat the Boston Red Sox 4-2 to salvage the finale of a three-game series in Boston Dave Clark and Joe Carter hit allowing the Tigers to take a 4-3 lead in the top of the 18th Matt Nokes reached on a fielding error by Yankees' first baseman Don Mattingly took second on Tom Broo-kens' sacrifice and scored on rookie Tory single to center Detroit starter Doyle Alexander winless in seven starts since August 6 allowed six hits in eight innings striking out four Mike Henneman blanked the Yankees on five hits over the next seven innings New York relievers Hipolito Pena Dale Mohorcic and Dave Righetti combined to blank the Tigers on three hits over 815 innings Alan Trammell tied the score in the seventh inning with a one-out homer his 15th off Neil Allen who relieved Al Leiter in the fifth with the Yankees leading 3-1 Allen allowed Brookens' triple and Fred Lynn's single in the sixth Jack Clark gave New York a 2-1 lead in the second with his 24th home run his second since August 9 Consecutive doubles by Mattingly and From wire dispatches Claudell two-run homer in the 18th inning gave New York a 5-4 victory over Detroit yesterday and enabled the Yankees to complete a four-game sweep of the Tigers in New York The game lasted six hours and one minute the longest game by time in the league this season The 18 innings were also a league high The Tigers who led the East by four games Aug 21 have lost 17 of 20 homers as the Indians handed the Red Sox leaders in the East just their second loss in the last seven games Pinch hitter Terry Francona led off the eighth by beating out a single to the left of the mound against reliever Bob Stanley (6-4) Lee Smith relieved Stanley and gave up the single to Upshaw which scored pinch runner Paul Zuvella ORIOLES 4 BLUE JAYS 2 Dave Schmidt survived a shaky first inning Continued on page 5 coL 4 Rickey Henderson led off the 18th with a walk against Guillermo Hernandez (5-5) the Tigers' third pitcher Washington then connected on an 0-1 pitch for his ninth homer and second game-winning shot in the series Steve Shields (4-4) the Yankees' sixth pitcher was the winner despite PKIHTLS IS £8L38.