Bristol Herald Courier from Bristol, Tennessee • 9

Little Maynard Rupp Takes Dragway Win W' Drysdale Wins 10th 9 Page Monday June 7 1965 4 1 Triumph out Gentile acquired from Kan League race stole some of the' Milwaukee rf: aka i 1 Tt OP I post at Ptiiladel Sub AL Today's unusual in that the i 4 4 Out 10 1 Win Over Cards 1 5 0 5 0 3 1 2 2 2 3 3 2 1 0 3 0 5 5 5 5 5 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 6 0 0 Minnesota Chicago Cleveland Baltimore Detroit Los Angeles Boston New York Washington Kansas City 3 2 1 0 3 0 1 0 3 1 0 4 0 0 Pet 1000875833750714525500429375375286286286167000 3 4 4 4 4 1 2 31 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 Los Angeles Milwaukee Cincinnati San rancisco St Louis Houston Pittsburgh Philadelphia Chicago New York Bristol Stops Hendersonville wi sr By GENE THOMPSON Ray Belcher staked to an early lead pitched State Liners to a 4 1 victory over Hendersonville on Rotary ield yesterday in a Tri State League game Bristol picked up a scant six hits off a pair of Carolina hurl ers bunched them ef fectively to produce its runs Alex Arnold back home from ST LOUIS (AP) Claude Raymond making his first major league start after 140 games as a reliever sailed to a 10 1 victory over St Louis Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader The second game was called with the score tied 1 1 after 4Vz innings because of rain Raymond who checked the Cardinals on seven hits re ceived home run support from Lee Maye Jim Gentile and Jim Wynn Maye hit a three run shot as the Astros erupted for five runs in the first inning against Ray Sadecki who went down to his fifth defeat against two victo ries 1 4 0 1 0 2 2 4 11 Brijes Central Christian Central Holston Sinking Springs Virginia Avenue Tennessee Avenue irst Christian irst Baptist State Street Anderson Street Weaver's Union Lynwood Bible Green Springs irst Presbyterian Sunrise North Bristol Drag Racing ans: rom One Seat To Another 3 4V 6 7 7 Wi 9Vi 12 CIRCl ML I lli I IIISiilhilAl tsI SS 41II 6 6 6'61 8 9 11 12 Uli SPRINGNATIONALS Champions Top uel Maynard Rupp Harper Woods Mich Chrysler 759 20316 Top Gordon Collett Portsmouth Ohio Chrysler 847 18594 Top Stock Mike Schmitt Ridgecrest Calif ord 1232 10718 Match Dave Strickler York Pa Dodge 1131 13005 Competition Itie) Glenn Blakely Pete Shadinger 1005 14150 Street jOe Cunningham Columbus Ohio 1318 8704 ab 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 DOING All four wheels are off the track as this Hurst Under experimental car goes through its paces at Bristol International Dragway The car which has its hemi motor in the backseat was one of the during the Springnationals which were concluded here yesterday NHRA Declares Springnationals Runoff Deadlock Because of a possible timing error the National Hot Rod As sociation declared a tie in the Springnationals runoff for com petition eliminator honors yes inger wno were umea at ivua seconds and 14150 miles per hour down the strip Duplicate prize money was paid both racers by the NHRA a track spokesman said cars they race But Nancy in sists she handles the SA and the SA best while her husband is tops with the Stock mus tang The only reason she maneuver the Mustang as well says Nancy is that "a four speed and I reach third Another reason may be her straight arm style of driving an obvious adaption from the clas sic road race posture real reason I drive like that she argues because comfortable and I can really push the gas pedal all the way Colts Lions Trade BALTIMORE (AP) ull back Joe Don Eooney and a draft choice were traded by the Baltimore Colts to the Detroit Lions for linebacker Dennis Gaubatz However cheered by a parti san crowd of 17175 the third largest turnout in County Stadi um in the Atlanta bound final season the Braves bounced back to win the series 3 1 won 32 26 27 27 25 26 24 23 21 20 Today'! oniv i nv nR AGRfrnnnrv Mpformack shown here with her trophies is the only woman dragster in the country She was the first trophy winner at Bristol's first Springna tionals Aptly Named SARATOGA Wyo (AP) The star runner on the Sara toga high school track team ab bl 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 10 3 0 10 3 0 2 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 vimp mt Tunirr Snrinttnntinnak Kin? Mavnard Rudd top fuel eliminator here ik nirpie with three heautv oueens who were on hand to VCovClUdj Im wilUWH Sil 111V VflllAivi 1 greet him They are left to right dragway queens Kay Hawthorne and Linda Osborne and Miss Tennessee Rita Munsey ER BB so i 4 0 5 0 Pct Behind 615565551529500 481480469429 385 Pct Behind 674 596 545 540 532 500 489 449 423 256 "The Prussian" Speeds To Top uel Eliminator Honors At 20316 mph Bristol ZBurn'tteis 4 Lowe 3b Arnold cf Green lb HBurnette If 2 Jessee 2b 1 raves rf 0 Trivette rf 0 Wagner 0 Cole Belcher I Totals 0 LOS ANGELES Wills ss Gilliam If Johnson cf airly lb Ros'boro Lefebvre 2b errara rf T'cewski 3b Drysdale ST LOUIS ab bi i 5 2 2 0 rlOOo Ct 4 2 0 0 Brock If 5 2 2 1 White lb 4 12 2 Boyer 3b 0 0 0 0 5 12 3 Groat ss 3 113 Gagliano rf 2 111 Maxvill 2b 3 0 10 Sadecki 3 0 10 Skinner 4 0 0 0 Briles ranc'na ph Shannon ph I ANGELES I Wills ss Gilliam If LJ'nson cf airly lb Lefebvre 2b Moon rf Kennedy 3b Valle Reed errara ph Shenandoah College weighed in with a single and lusty double as he made his initial appear ance for Bobby Liners Zack Burnette punched out a pair of singles to share the bat ting laurels with Arnold Rangy Tommy Green who sparkled in basketball and was a sophomore hurler in baseball at the University of Richmond likewise joined the State Liners for the game Green went hitless at the plate but made a com mendable play on Bob ground shot down the first base line in the final canto Belcher in wrapping up the vivctory gave Hendersonville only three singles and fanned six while walking three Leadoff batter Carroll Eilenburg had two of bingles Bristol travels to Saltville Tuesday night and is booked at Greeneville on riday The State Liners are sched uled to play Kingsport here next Saturday night but since that club has been dropped from the circuit there is a possibility that front running Greeneville may come to town instead Greeneville is managed by Brumley Greene who onee pitched for the Bristol Twins of the Appalachia League H'd'sonvlll! ab Eilenburg 3b 4 1 Hollifield ss 2 0 Pryor ib Davis lb Com rf Miller If Dalton 2b Gudger cf McBee rf Vaughn Totals Hendersonville Bristol Hollyfield 2 Dalton Gudger Bur nette 2 Trivette Wagner Belcher Pryor Burnette Burnette Ar nold Wagner Burnette Pryor Belcher 3 Davis 1 Belcher 6 Davis 3 Harris 2 Davis 6 in 7 Pryor 0 in 1 Davis (Green Burnette) Carrier and Houston 2:04 only one lap error had been made in scoring 2670 ear trips around the oval Start a drag racer toward the finish line and he stop for anything other than a me chanical catastrophe until through the trap Larry Dixon of Carrollton Ohio for instance had barely gotten his Dodge stocker off the line when the hood flew up and did a couple of flips over the back of the car Dixon continued on down the strip and then wondered why the timers failed to get his elapsed time and top speed One of the oddest cars in the Springnationals must be a real irritant to the Volkswagen fac tory people (they insist their cars run better if people fool around with them) The car in question is a VW that Gene Moris a Mary land wrench wizard loaded with a Chevrolet engine that must outweigh the body The little stormer ripped off a top time of 1349 seconds with a speed of 11264 mph His miles per gallon of fuel figure is said to be considerably less than usual for a VW The trophy that was given the Springnationals champions is a miniature duplicate of the speed 1 2 2 4 33 000 000 010 1 020 100 4 ER BB SO 6 4 sas City for $100000 riday and vaunted thunder as Wynn hit consecutive homers inj Drysdale Jim Gilliam and Lou the seventh inning Johnson homored in the opener was his first for Houston and his Gilliam also homered in the 11th of the season was nightcap his ninth HOUSTON Morgan 2b Gaines rf Bond If Gentile 1b Staub 1b 3b Maye cr Wynn cf Brand Lillis ss Raymond I Alt 15 19 20 23 22 27 24 27 30 32 Games Detroit (McLain 1 3) at Los Angeles (Chance 4 4 or Newman 6 3) night New York (Bouton 3 5) at Kansas City (Talbot 3 3) night Cleveland (Tlant 3) at Minnesota (Grant 5 0) night Chicako (Buzhardt 4 1) at Boston (Lon borg 4 3) night Only games scheduled Springnationals Shorts: Dra? racine crawds are hard to estimate partly because they come and go from 7 am to 5 pm and never occupy one spot for very long Buster Couch NHRA division director and chief starter was standing on the starting line yesterday trying to figure out just how many people were in the two stands Estimates varied widely Couch turned to his righthand man Jerry Coley owner of the Phenix City Ala strip and asked him for an opinion Coley who was stand ing beneath a 10 gallon hat drawled Jim and Bill and Jane and Morris Metcalf the NASCAR scorer from Winston Salem came to the Springna tionals yesterday because he's seen league drag racing and wanted to see the big After watching the draggers attack the NHRA records Met calf reported what must be one nMnlz nirnlnc1 Jli 3LVVA Uiviw at South Boston the other he said "We started 41 cars on a three eights of a mile track and had 21 of them running at the finish of the cars were run uhnrt ij sMwid Ians and things got pretty confusing there way sign at the 11 entrance for a I to the track couldn't have been too bad It unusual in that it the however Metcalf and company first known drag racing trophy re checked the top ten cars at that have a scaled down the end of the race and fonnd racei on it Standings YHfirdiy't RMUlts Pittsburgh 5 3 New York 3 0 Los Angeles 4 4 Milwaukee 06 Philadelphia 2 10 Chicego 1 9 Houston 10 St Louis 1 2nd game poned rain Cincinnati 6 Ssn rancisco 0 Lost 20 20 22 24 25 28 26 26 28 32 Games Los Angeles (Koufax 2 3) phia (Burlette 0 2) night Only game scheduled AMERICAN LEAGUE Yesterday's Results sszyywyyfffll39ped6c Los Angeles 3 Baltimore 0 Cleveland 10 Detroit I Minnnwitx 11 Washinofon 2 Boston 9 3 Kansas City 4 4 2nd game 11 innings New York 4 12 Chicago 1 0 Won 31 23 24 27 25 27 23 22 22 tention of the largest crowd ever assembled on the east coast for a drag race most of the afternoon Cheers or Petty But popular NASCAR stock car champion Richard Petty gave them something to cheer about with a victory in the altered category Ply mouth Barracuda ran 131 in 1062 seconds to outclass the field Tom Hoover of Minneapolis Minn gave the large throng a scare during a round oi me fuel runoffs when his speedy rail exploded into flames Mem bers of the rescue squad quickly extinguished the blaze and Hoover was uninjur ed red arndon a fuel driver from Toronto Canada received minor injuries when his rail blew a clutch and ground to a halt against the infield pit guard rail Speedway officials estimated an attendance of 55000 for the four day $30000 event ab bi 5 13 1 i3120 4 0 0 1 4 0 11 4 12 0 3 2 2 3 10 0 0 3 110 4 0 10 3 0 0 0 10 0 0 35 6 12 i Los Anaeles 1w vM 4 Milwaukee 120 021 Wx 4 LeMaster DP Los Angeles 1 LOB Los Angeles 6 Milwaukee 9 Alou? Gilliam (2) Oliver 2 (3) Aaron Alou Mathews Alomar an ED DR Cft ir Reed 1 1 1 13 1 2 6 2 3 0 9 1 1 wen Sadowski faced 1 man in tn 17175 Church League Standings 6 7 6 5 5 4 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 0 Nancy McCormack Is 'Unopposed In Springnationals' Beauty Class i that husband Jim has won 34 line against the opposite sex sue eApicuiis is nci thrill of them get very in dignant when I beat them They throw keys and slam and generally come back to apologize and tell me what a good race it Nancy has found however that all of drag racing fun an awful lot of work But also terribly Her femininity clearly shows when it comes to mechanical work She the carbe rator jets and cut off and leaves the big greasy work to her and the five other male members of the Per ordmers their hometown rac ing association I It must be a club with flexible Most of the males rules cotne to the line against They count Nancy as a find it hard to believe her sys member except when it fpm works And coming to the comes traphy inmting time miss DpVAULT I 17 Nancy McCormack a perky trophies Mougn sne notes io blonde from Milford Mich is keep peace and make for a the nride of the Perordmers happy the scourge of the stock Both drive all of the three MITRA thpv rape Kilt AnPV in automauc ciass Twenty seven times a trophy winner the best looking driver in the Springnationals made it 28 yesterday by making a solo runn 1617 seconds at 8466 miles per hour She was unopposed her class and unhappy about it would rather lose by an the mother of two said win like that or by two car lengths I like to Her record backs her A five year veteran she started dragging because her husband was and she I going to sit at The first three times out she drove off with the trophies in her class and has been improv ing since quick to admit however 8 4 Rupp Givesormula or Victory reflected Mayn ard Rupp pretty good way to celebrate an A year ago the grinning 24 year old was making his first race in a AA fuel dragster Yesterday he was winning hisfirst major event the Spring nationals 4 the fastest my car has ever run and my first victory since I started competing in the nationals events in Rupp added Rupp attributed his over by racing standards success to a lot of study hard work and th fad he and his pit crew changed his engine Saturday night put in a whole new engine last he said about it was perfect ut there The engine is one of a vir tually extinct series a 1956 Chrysler third in a four year set of hemispherical head en gines that is regarded as the best ever made for drag racing bored It from its 354 cubic inch displacement to 360 Rupp said big ord of kind of scares me so I never let up on my gas pedal until hit the finish The track Rupp said real good a little slippery in places but it may have been that I had more The victory was third over Kalitta The first time he downed the fastest driver was time ago in a California The second time was Sat urday at Bristol International Dragway when he out accel erated Bounty in time trials after Kalitta blazed to a 20978 mph run the unofficial record A fulltime racer Rupp be gan driving the swift fuelers after spending two years in a AA gas dragster and three years' before that behind the wheel of a gasser making 'him one of the earliest start ing racers ever also one of the earli est finishihg as Connie Ka litta learned yesterday Shannon ph 10 0 0 Totals 38 10 12 10 Totals 34 1 7 1 Houston 500 010 400 10 St Louis 100 000 000 1 Sadecki DP St Louis 1 Houston 5 St Louis 8 Brock (2) White McCarver Groat Gentile Morgan Maye (3) Gentile ID wynn IP Raymond W2 2 9 7 Sadecki L2 5 1 3 4 Taylor 12 3 1 Briles 5 7 Schultz 2 By Raymond (Groat) by (Gaines) 2:29 Dodgers Braves Split Twin Bill MILWAUKEE (AP) Los Angeles ace Don Drysdale be came the major first 10 game winner blanking Mil waukee 4 0 Sunday before the Braves rebounded for a double header split by defeating the Dodgers 6 4 with the help of two homers by Gene Oliver Drysdale who has lost only three games checked the Braves on six hits and struck out eight in earning his eighth triumph in the last nine starts and snapping four game winning streak i The Dodgers retaining their three game lead in the National Gilliam's first game homer came on the first pitch after Maury Wills was thrown out in an attempted steal of third The nightcap homer was hit on the first pitch after Wills was trying to steal second irst Game MILWAUKEE abrhbi 5 0 2 0 Alou If 2 2 2 1 Mathews 3b 4 12 2 Aaron rf 4 0 2 0 Jones cf 3 0 0 0 Torre 4 0 0 0 Oliver lb 4 0 0 0 Bolling 2b i A 0 A Inmar 4 111 Klimch'k ph 1 0 0 tarty pn Kelley nh Wo'd'ard ss 0 0 0 0 DelaHoz ss 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 4 Totals 31 6 AA9 A4A AAA 4 W'U 000 000 000 0 Johnson DP Los Angeles 2 Los Angeles 6 Milwaukee 6 1 Wills 2 Aaron Gilliam (1) Drysdale (2) Johnson (4i Roseboro IP ER BB SO I Drysdale W10 3 9 6 0 0 1 8 Kelley L0 1 5 1 4 4 2 5 SadoWskl 2 1 0 0 0 3 Niekro 2 1 0 0 0 1 By Drysdale de la Hoz 2:20 Second Game MILWAUKEE ab bi 4 111 AIOU If 4 12 2 3b 4 0 11 Aaron rf 2 0 0 0 Jones cf 4 0 0 0 Torre 3 110 Oliver lb 4 0 0 0 Cline cf 4 1 1 Bolling 2b 0 0 PO AIomar ss 2 0 0 0 Lemast'r 1 0 0 0 O'Dell 1 00 0 33 4 6 4 Totals 1 01 la in me inieiiidnuudi uvuguc Brewer was the victim of the Los An jPeosw geles bombardment in the first Lemast'r 3 5 Sadowski gdiiie Gilliam a 'veteran who re cently was reinstated from the coaching ranks hit his first homer in the third Drysdale cracked his second of the season and No 22 of his career in the fifth kafAra Tnhncnn flftAl' JI walk to Gilliam hit his fourth'has an appropriate name homer I He is Tom Runner abrhbi 4 0 0 0 4 12 0 4 0 3 0 4 0 0 1 40 10 3 0 10 3 0 0 0 Oliver drove in three runs i ol with his spcond and third homer i ooojas southpaw Denny Lemaster srp gained his third victory eignt T'cewski ph uecisiuns wiui icua ncip Billy and Bob Sadowski Rookie southpaw Dick Kelley called up last Thursday after posting a 9 1 record with Atlan io in tho Tntprnafinnal LpaPlie Bristol Herald Courier Astros Pound Local Regional National Sports By RUSS DeVAULT Little Maynard Rupp caught inT lor the green light for the second ay in a row Mserday at Bristol International Dragway and ra off with top fuel eliminator honors in the inaugural SPI run a surprising shake up in dragdoms hierarchy was made at the end of a day of smoking NHRA ac tion and took him down the quarter mile in 759 seconds at a speed of 20316 miles per hour Kalitta who lives only a few miles from Harper Woods Mich home followed out of the a milli second later than he should have and find the power to close the gap The late starting Kalitta did post a faster terminal speed 20594 in a slower 782 seconds however giving him that and a $1000 second place check for consolation victory viewed by some 25000 nersons netted him $3000 plus mer a 1 awards Top gas eliminator in the first major drag racing event ever held in the Southeast was Gordon Collett of Portsmouth Ohio out started Pete Robin son of Atlanta Ga to beat him to the finish line Both drivers had identical elapsed 847 seconds and 18594 mph but first move away from the line made the difference Collett pocketed $1000 for his showing and in addition aveng ed a loss to Robinson who like Rupp won class honors Satur day to earn the right to sit out battle through the bracket Schmitt Strickler Win In the stock car division na tional champion Mike Schmitt of Ridgecrest Calif and Dave Strickler of York Pa sped to top stock and eliminator titles Schmitt the AA stock auto matic class winner put faster moving Robert Borkes of Springfield Ohio out of the race with an elapsed time of 1232 fuAm VtltK TTafH of Camden NJ who moved off Glenn Blakely and Pe a the line too soon and fouled In the competition eliminator 1 bracket a dual winner was an nounced after NHRA officials said a possible malfunction of the clocks made it impossible 1 to determine an official winner 1 Glenn Blakeley and Pete Shad inger went through the competi tion to make it into the final runoff when both recorded identical elapsed times of 1005 and speeds of 14150 Joe Cunningham of Columbus Ohio drove a model ord powered by a 1964 Chevrolet engine to victory in the Street eliminator class Cunningham registered an elapsed time of 1318 at 8704 miles per hour The fuel runoffs held the at I 1 I '11 I III 1 1 1 1TB II I' I i I 1 I I I 'll I II l'lli 41 I'1 WI WMm ir 9 A BWE li ri JMT Mi I uLb 4 I i 4 rr bh mii1 1 1 1 "'o! jTjfifffl1 1 1 i iui ir iinf? in I i ii'n''" i 1 jf 11 urtii.