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Roanoke Times World News SCOREBOARD B2 BUSINESS B6 CLASSIIED B7 MONDAY MORNING EB 18 1991 SPORTS SPORTSUNE Regularly updated sports scores and information (703) 981 3385 SECTION Daytona 500 winner Ernie Irvan: still unbelievable to me that we did it" ato EL Cv 5 gy Zm Jr V'Ss ''y te iW tf I' 1 i Xs 1 Wak 1 I I Hf 44 4 a czW yy 7 Ty ysi 'ey I Wyy yyniyy yy 1 T7y 'yyy 'T yrA 1 yZ AP Wreck erases challengers at end of Daytona 500 By BOB ZELLER SPORTSWRITER DAYTONA BEACH la After best and brightest finished crashing Ernie Irvan the driver who himself has a smash and bang reputation won the Daytona 500 The 32 year old California na tive won stock car premier event Sunday while driving on the apron of the track with the yellow caution flag flying worried sick that his Chevrolet Lumina would run out of gas It was only his sec ond Winston Cup victory still unbelievable to me that we did Irvan said think I won the one I needed to Sterling Marlin who ran well most of the day and led twice brief ly took second Joe Ruttman an other strong contender finished third Rick Mast was fourth And Dale Earnhardt the pre race favor ite limped home in fifth as he did last year Unlike last year however Earnhardt was not a victim of bad luck This year he was a victim of his own fierce determination to fi nally win the Daytona 500 the only big race that has eluded him since his first Winston Cup event in 1975 In an accident of his own mak ing Earnhardt crashed coming off of turn two while battling side by side with Davey Allison as they pursued Irvan on the 197th lap of the 200 lap race The crash took out Allison and Kyle Petty who led 5 1 laps more than anyone else Earnhardt man Daytona 500 finish B2 aged to keep his car running and completed the race asked car owner Richard Childress on a two way radio car got out from under me and we Earnhardt ra dioed back the hell out of A bitterly disappointed Alli son who led 26 laps and believed his car was strong enough at the end to take was unhappy with Earnhardt passed him clean on the out side and I got Allison said had a shot to win the race Racing is a business where got to use your head I was using Only nine laps before Earn hardt lost it another crash took out two other strong contenders Rusty Wallace and Darrell Waltrip Wallace was pinched into the outside wall by Petty coming off the fourth turn on lap 189 Wallace hit Waltrip as Wallace spun across the PLEASE SEE IRVANB4 AP ciwrench This crash knocked Dale Earnhardt (3) out of contention on the 197th lap Allison pins crash blame on Earnhardt By BOB ZELLER SPORTSWRITER DAYTONA BEACH la or several minutes after the end of Daytona 500 Davey Allison remained holed up in his car hauler collecting his thoughts after one of the most bitter disappointments of his young career As the race reached its final laps ord Thunderbird was still running strong He was running side by side with Dale Earnhardt banging with him for second place He was just about past the 1990 Winston Cup champion ready to set his sights on leader Ernie Irvan All three of them had shown a lot of strength a lot of speed throughout 1 99 1 Speedweeks And now after a topsy turvy race all three finally had come back to the head of the pack PLEASE SEE ALLISONB4 Charges of racism problem for tennis By DANIEL MARKOWITZ THE NEW YORK TIMES On the surface last year marked a renaissance for American tennis But behind the headlines of the Davis Cup victory the all Ameri can final at the US Open and an all American final at Wimbledon there were disturb ing rumblings about racism in the game Last summer Shoal Creek Country exclusionary mem bership practices flared into a na tional embarrassment for golf forc ing a new awareness of the way the pro tour conducted its business Several blacks in the tennis com munity voiced frustration last sum mer that similar abuses had not led Daniel Markowitz a freelance writer teaches tennis to inner city youths for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to commensurate changes in the policies procedures and attitudes in the tennis establishment Arthur Ashe the former Wim bledon and US Open champion said that administrators of the US COMMENTARY Tennis Association whose man date it is to promote the game and develop young talent held latent of black potential worried that if we made our mark take over the Ashe said worried that start producing tennis players like we have basketball William Washington the fa ther and coach of MaliVai who at No 97 in the official Association of Tennis Professionals world ranking is the top ranked black American man found fault with the PLEASE SEE RACISMB7 Buckeyes nip Indiana in 2 OT AP 1 wMiim i A 1 vkWHII I xlwvaHNE A Associated Press COLUMBUS Ohio It was billed as the best college basketball game ever at St John Arena It may have ended up being one of the best ever in the Big Ten Conference Treg Lee who tied the score in the first overtime made a 10 foot jumper from the left baseline with four Georgia Tech upsets No 6 Arizona B5 seconds left in the second overtime to give second ranked Ohio State a 97 95 victory Sunday over fourth ranked Indiana and sole possession of first place in the conference was a tremendous college basketball game never been involved in a better said sec ond year Ohio State coach Randy Ayers Ayers had reason to like the outcome Indiana had a five point lead with one minute left in regulation and a four point lead at one time in the first overtime It took a last second shot by Jim Jackson who had a career high 30 points to go with 1 1 rebounds and six assists to send the game into the first overtime and basket to tie it in that period Jackson also disrupted two last second shots by Indiana in the first extra period and set up winner in the second Ohio Jim Jackson protects the ball from Calbert Cheaney PLEASE SEE BUCKEYESB5 Bonds loses arbitration case spring training is in the air B3 Ct I I 1 1.