The Atlanta Journal from Atlanta, Georgia • 47

Thursday March 9 1967 Atlanta Journal 47 AIR'S DIXIE 400 TO ADD DOLLARS AND MILES PRO REPORT miles per URMAN BISHER 15 Daughtry SAC's MVP To a fashion minded man zmani Don the hard rub the soft and ran the famous from Wash performing 81 217 138 63 159 15? 62 160 167 58 149 159 52 179 193 40 155 210 851743468453253 562 453 440 392 392 camp azio is trying for a starting infield spot with the A He played with Vancouver last year 8 9 Paul Peek IV I Rnsrdifli Behind 1 28i ALBANY Mack Daughtry Albany brilliant guard has been elected most valuable player in the Southeastern Ath letic Conference The 6 3 junior was named on six of seven ballots He scored 607 points this season for a 218 average Daughtry made 517 THE NOTEBOOK: (Big Daddv) Garlits man who created high speed drag racing performs Sun day at Atlanta Speed Shop Dragway near Covington marking his first appear ance in Atlanta in four years Garlits in his hemi powered fuel dragster the Charger will at tempt to break Jimmy (Ok mark despite handling prob lems in the same tests There will be at least 18 and possibly 20 factory backed race cars in the At lanta 500 far more than ever before the upcoming Atlanta 500 A oyt the famed In dianapolis 500 winner (twice) and victor in the Atlanta 500 drove a ord in tire tests here last week to a new unofficial track record of 150420 hour oyt did it on ber disdaining qualifying tires with a high chassis identi cal to his setup for race day the speeds would undoubt edly been two miles an hour faster with low chassis and or soft tires Paul Goldsmith in a 1967 Ply mouth nudged near the 150 per cent of his field goal at tempts' as good right now as any backcourt man in college with the exception of Provi Jimmy Walker and Winston Saletn's Earl coach Bob Rainey says tona 500 is scheduled for Sunday April 2 It will of course remain pre mier race Its purse in 1968 will be even larger will cost a little more Weaver said Thurs day the fans are de manding the longer dis tances the larger races We believe we have the finest show's in auto racing so the increase in mileage and purse of the Dixie is Weaver and AIR Super intendent Alf Knight are busi ly readying the vast prem ises for the finest and fastest race in the history lahoma Kid) Nix's track rec ord of 214 mph (7:31 sec onds elapsed time) for the quarter mile In addition to Garlits the terror of Tam pa la Atlanta Speed Shop will have a full pro gram of stock and fuel drag sters at the Sunday shew Shug Campbell's Yel low River Drag Strip off' the Covington highway will have a tremendous show Sunday week March 19 with famed drivers as Arnie (The arm er) Beswiek and his Pontiac GTO and Malcolm (The Lip) Durh'ini Negro dragster ington DC of 500 miles with a result ing richer purse The sanction from NASCAR President Bill rance is sure to come This then will make it offi cially the Dixie The trend has been to longer races largely due to demands by the multitude of and the ever increas ing speeds of NASCAR car drivers NASCAR is the world's largest race sanc tioning organization The $77000 Atlanta 500 the first big following the recent Day Philadelphia Boston New ork Cincinnati Baltimore xSan rancisco 41 LOUIS I Angeles hictiRo Detroit By BILL ROBINSON Atlanta International Race way wall host' not one but two 500 mile NASCAR clas sics in 1967 It is not yet official but AIR President Nelson Weaver Thur sday asked NASCAR to increase the mileage of the $70000 Dixie 400 Sunday Aug Robinson scheduled for 6 to a distance National Basketball AsoHation By The Associated Press Eastern Division won 63 55 36 34 IT 34 33 29 29 4 Lost 19 41 41 SA Division 32 41 42 45 4S Clinched flivisinliil tit Ip WPfltiPcd Ifociitie Philadelphia 115 Boston 113 overtime St Louis 106 lx) Anxeles 104 Detroit 120 Baltimore 113 riday Games Baltimore at Chicago Detroit at Txrv Angeles St IxHils at San rancisco NA'IIONAI HOCKEY LEAGUE Pts GA cnicago 36 14 9 1 New York 27 23 9 I Toronto 26 10 Montreal 24 25 10 1 Detroit 24 32 4 Boston 15 36 10 Wednesday's RrsuPs Toronto 6 Montreal 4 Detroit 3 New York 1 Chicago 3 Boston 1 Continued rom Page a season in Canada There was no sympathetic wait for them They said they w'ere in shape Woosnam opened up with a scrimmage to find out 11 men on 10 The field was slippery Quick stops and sharp turns developed into pratfalls sometimes in puddles of water or muddy depressions Send in some baseball observers from spring training in lorida and the player representatives would be considerably easier to deal with bn the pension fund Woosnam drove them directed them from his position as a halfback in terminology understandable but strange to the Amer ican ear The player who captured the eye was Ron Newman the cockney 'from Gillingham for when he ran his blond hair flying in the wind he looked like a small boy on a leash being led by a fleeing ball It was over now press conference was vastly unattended No scrambling no poison questions He was cor dial He said conditioning was the 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