The Atlanta Journal from Atlanta, Georgia • 47

URMAN Sports Editor Carrying Safety Too ar HAMPTON Ga Well the National Safety Council has lost another bout with the reckless driver The margin was decisive With 20000 witnesses in the stands the NSC still have won a case in court BISHER orty guys set out for a Sunday afternoon escapade at Atlanta Inter national Raceway vowed and deter mined to break every speed law in Henry County They not only did they broke it three or four times and everyone of the reckless devils came back alive They just come back alive They made it look safe enough for a little old lady school teacher I kept expecting to look up and see one of cars in the middle of the thing with on the back It was so safe that six drivers went to the field hospital to see if something was wrong They put out their tongue The doctors took their nulse count and their temnerature and asked them if been feeling bilious lately and they said no just hot It was the kind of race that people will go home and not talk about for years It was the kind they could have run by mail You know the race car fan The true blue one is the kind throw up his hands in horror at the suggestion that at the track for thrills for death and destruction insist that the art of the thing the skill of man as he deftly guides his machine at break neck speeds A Sweep by Petty Enterprises Nonsense I can prove him wrong The smallest crowd ever saw at AIR was here to watch Richard Petty guide the traditional blue Petty Enterprises Plymouth for 500 miles around a mile and a half course in three hours 29 minutes and 53 seconds You break that down and it comes out to an average of 142712 miles per hour which will get a fellow a ticket in downtown Mc Donough But at that speed and on a track almost all turn spend five seconds a lap on a Petty says) the drivers came out worse than the cars It was so ridiculously safe there was only one crunched fender That also belonged to Petty Enterprises Pete Hamilton let his blue No 40 slip into the car driven by rank Warren of Au gusta but still managed to get back onto the track in time to fin ish sixth recall Pete Hamilton as the callow young fellow with the Harvard accent and the ivy covered background who came down from Massachusetts and won the Daytona 500 and the Tal adega race And still young enough and fresh enough to go around painting his fraternity symbol on water tanks A Point Made the Hard Way Now what could be more artistic than Richard Petty driving 500 miles at a rate of 142 miles per hour and only one caution flag and not a bump or a bruise? always heard race drivers smugly say safer out there than it is on the Drat it Ted Horn told me that once and wound up dead on a highway the next week just another National Safety Council sta tistic Which is going to an extreme to prove a point say This was one day they proved it in reverse Even your Aunt Hattie who stand the sight of blood and loud noises would have approved this race orty drivers started out and the only time the race was flagged yellow machine not man was the cul prit A red Lorenzen had just turned over to Dave Mar cis after 290 laps blew an engine Even then they have had to slow the race but they thought it best with an eye to neatness to send somebody out to clean up the garbage spread over the track There's Something About a Race And still with all this artistry taking place and body soul SUNDAY RACE ALMOST CALLED ederals Move By JIM HUNTER There almost wasn't a Dixie 500 Sunday ederal agents moved in on the 1 mile super speedway to exact forced collection of delin quent taxes which according to one source cancelled the race for a period of The source said when ederal agents appeared acting on a lien filed some time ago in the Henry County courthouse the race was called off until the Raceway turned over $35900 as a partial payment on the delin quent taxes The Internal Revenue Service issued a statement concerning its agents being at the race International Race way produced action of a differ ent nature Sunday Officers of the ederal Collection and Intel ligence Division (IRS) were present at the Dixie 500 but not as spectators IRS went to the races of ficially to exact enforced collec tion of delinquent taxes the I a 1 Revenue Service some time ago filed a lien in Henry County Courthouse against the Atlanta International Raceway for delin quent employment and corpora tion taxes beginning with the pe AIR in on riod June 1968 and continuing through April 30 1970 federal tax delinquency concerns taxes withheld from salaries corporate taxes and federal unemploy ment taxes for a total of The Journal learned the Race way had owed both state and federal back taxes totaling some $65000 A source close to the sit uation said the state taxes had been paid a week prior to the race Raceway officials refused to comment on the appearance of the federal agents One official said trying to do is get things straightened out and operate this race track 'the way it should be It was learned that Richard I Howard the vice president and general manager of Charlotte See Page 4 Milanin journal PORTS Monday August 3 1970 1 alcon Veterans Begin Workouts Staff Billy Downs a Jr 0 'jjRWT1 Ek i lit Raw DIXIE 500 WINNER RICHARD PETTY SHOWS EECTS SPEED AND HEAT BEORE LASHING VICTORY SMILE Plymouth Driver Gulps Oxygen ollowing Record Run and Then Reveals His amous Victory Lane Grin RICHARD DOMINATES DIXIE Van Brocklin Anxious To Make Up Time By DARRELL SIMMONS The early report Monday morning from the Atlanta alcon training camp in Johnson City Tenn was came in nobody That situation will be changed drastically by Monday night and for the good of everyone in volved in alcon football By Tuesday the alcons will be a full team on the training camp practice field for the first time this preseason Late Monday morning the an nouncement came that the strike of National ootball League veteran players had ended and that these players were expected to report imme diately to training camps The alcon vets who had been working in organized practices on their own in Atlanta halted a morning practice session and began preparing for the trip to Johnson City In the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains they will find head coach Norm Van Brocklin awaiting with a revised training schedule expected to emphati cally make up for lost time GOING to put in more Van Brocklin said by telephone when told of the end of the strike here to play football getting to work today on a schedule and will have it available later 16 workouts behind right now BILLY LOTHRIDGE the al cons player representative has functioned as official spokesman for the veterans group while practicing in Atlanta He was contacted at his home early Monday afternoon just before departing for Tennessee Speaking for the veterans as a group Lothridge said I can say is that glad that going all ready to go and play football glad that everything is finally set John Mackey Baltimore Colts tight end who is president of the players association had this statement through an associa tion spokesman in New York: I would like to say on behalf of the negotiating team and myself that we are ex tremely proud of the 1300 menu bers of the NLPA Because of their full support during our dispute we were able to con Petty an Easy Rider By RON HUDSPETH Most of the best excitement came after the last of the 27500 had left Atlanta International Raceway Sunday afternoon A young girl obviously over joyed by too much hot sun and drink led police a merry chase through a nearby cornfield be fore being subdued It was the best race Richard Petty a lanky fellow with a big fiashy grin who has pulled the same stunt 110 times before turned other race the Dixie 500 into a monotous procession not unlike traffic on an Atlanta express way Petty and his blue Plymouth SuperBird dominated things so completely that in the process he ran the fastest 500 mi es ever on a mile and half super speed way PETTY zoomed to the check red Lorenzen ''a I ered flag and $19600 payoff at a record 142712 mile per hour speed It was some of the quick est money he ever earned Hin dered by only one caution flag the entire affair took only three hours 29 minutes and 53 sec onds So easy was the 111th Grand National win of career that the 33 year old driver from Randleman NC almost apologized really running that he said just slowed up more than I figured they would so I took off guess any win is real ly easy but my combination was a little bit better than any body else out Still Petty was happy about his first trip to the victory cir cle at a super other See PETTY Page 4 elude our negotiations with the NL owners in time to play all of the season believe more than ever that the NLPA is totally uni fied in our goals and beliefs But in a situation like this there is no winner only agreement The NLPA has worked hard to settle this dispute so that the public could enjoy the 1979 sea son without delay The strike is over and all 1300 ball players will report to their camps im mediately play The agreement of the players and owners means that the 10 See STRIKE Page 2 and machine blending in beautiful swift harmony hardly more than 20000 people did homage to the occasion Watching Richard Petty drive a race has become a stock car classic Whether he is confirmed as the greatest driver of the age or not he is confirmed as the biggest winner He has won more automobile races than Sam Snead has won golf tournaments This was 111th lifetime 10th of the year Basically the race is the Dixie 500 Petty won it before in the year 1966 but then it was the Dixie 400 That day there were blown engines all over the place and the only wreck was red and he was just before retiring for the first time A rare and intriguing contrast are Petty and Lorenzen Why he retired Lorenzen says is that he had become a bundle of nerves unable to be excited about driving a race car any longer He is back because he has run out of ways to keep himself inter ested in life and this is it again Through it all Petty has raced for 12 years Big tracks county seat tracks Anybody who chooses to crank up an engine and floor it with him Thursday night he races on a dirt track in Columbia but why? heard of the farmer who could buy his vegetables cheaper than he could grow he said he always has had his own garden and go on having one because a habit a habit with me the way I live out there because habit forming the way I live If you get down to the real reason out there because I like to INJURED INGER SIDELINES CARTY Cepeda ORLANDO CEPEDA Ellis No 1 Target 4 V' Revenge on Ellis Promises By WILT BROWNING want to get a piece of said Atlanta first base man Orlando Cepeda as he displayed an angry bruise just above his left ankle a souve nir of an exchange of brush back pitches between the Braves and Pittsburgh Pi rates Rico Carty had an even more dramatic souvenir a splint which he wore on the ring finger of his left hand Carty will remain in Atlanta Monday when the Braves fly away to Houston Los Angeles and San Diego for a week long road trip The exchange took place in the early innings before the two teams settled down to an other baseball slugfest won by the Pirates 10 7 a long time to wait to get even but I will get said Cepeda who said his grudge against Pittsburgh pitcher Dock Ellis will last the winter meeting was the last of the season between the two teams The incident started in the top of the second when Atlanta pitcher Jim Nash apparently knocked Pirate second base man Dave Cash down after a three run homer by John Jeter that put Pittsburgh in front to stay Cepeda then was hit by Ellis as he led off the bottom of the second for the Braves The At lanta first baseman charged the mound but was caught from behind by catcher Manny Sanguillen No blows were exchanged An inning later after three straight singles by the Braves Ellis hit Carty with a pitch Carty will be out of action seven to 10 days with a chipped bone in the ring finger of his right hand umpire (Ed Sudol) came all the way over to the bench to talk to me about said Manager Luman Harris who had been called to home plate along with Pirate skipper Danny Murtaugh for a conference after Cepeda had been hit said that under any See PIRATES Page 3 NORTH PICKS GREGORY LAMBERT MACON Ga The North All Star football team chose captains Sunday night and the results were surprising It has been the custom in the past to name tri captains for the All Star game to be played in Macon riday night but Andy Johnson re ceived so many votes that he was named captain and Jim Gregory of North Springs and Rand Lambert of Athens were named co LITSCH NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE WEST DIVISION Won Lost Pct GB Cincinnati' 74 34 685 Los Angeles 60 44 577 12 ATLANTA 50 55 476 22W San rancisco 49 55 471 23 Houston 46 59 438 26M San Dieeo 42 65 393 31 EAST DIVISION Pittsburgh 58 48 J47 New York 56 48 538 1 54 51 514 Philadelphia 49 54 476 712 St Louis 47 58 448 10H Montreal 46 60 434 12 RESULTS Pittsburgh 20 ATLANTA 10 New York 4 San Diego 2 Philadelphia 6 6 San rancisco 5 1 Montreal 6 Chicago 4 St Louis 14 Houston 7 RESULTS Cincinnati 4 Chicago 3 11 innines Pittsburgh 10 ATLANTA 7 St Louis 3 Houston 2 Los Aneeles 6 Montreal 3 San Dieeo 3 4 New York 0 2 Philadelphia 7 San rancisco 6 GAMES ATLANTA (Reed 3 4) and Niekro (9 13) at Houston 'Dierker 9 9) and Blasingame (0 0) twi night Pittsburgh (Monse 7 6) at Montreal (McGinn 6 7) night Chicago (Jenkins 12 12) at New York (Koosman 5 5) night St Louis (Torrez 7 9) at Philadelphia 2 9) night San rancisco (Pitlock 2 3) at Los An geles (Singer 8 3) night Cincinnati (Simpson 14 3) at San Dieeo (Kirby 5 13) night ATLANTA at Houston night Pittsburgh at Montreal night Chicago at New Yorit St Louis at Philadelphia night San rancisco at Los Aneeles night Cincinnati at Sn Dieeo nieht WEST DIVISION EAST DIVISION Won Lost Pct GB Minnesota 64 36 640 California 59 46 562 7 Oakland 59 46 562 7 Milwaukee 39 67 368 28 Karu as City 38 67 362 28V Chicago 38 70 352 30 Baltimore 66 39 629 Detroit 57 47 548 8V4 New York 57 47 548 8j Boston 53 50 515 12 Cleveland 51 55 481 15Mi Washington 47 58 448 RESULTS New York 4 Milwaukee 1 12 innings Cleveland 3 Chicago 2 Oakland 5 Washington 0 Baltimore 9 Kansas Citv 1 Minnesota 12 Detroit 4 10 innings Boston 8 California 0 RESULTS California 8 Boston 3 Cleveland 4 7 Chicago 2 8 Milwaukee 9 New York 5 Washington 6 0 Oakland 2 1 Baltimore 10 Kansas Citv 8 Minnesota 4 Detroit 3 GAMES California (Mav 5 7) at Oakland (Hun tre 15 8) night Milwaukee (Pattin 7 8 and Krausse 10 11) at Minnesota (Perrv 15 9 and Hal! 5 4) 2 twi nieht Kansas Citv (Johnson 3 7) at Chicago (Miller 4 5) night Washington (Bosman 9 8) at Detroit (Kilkenny 5 1) night Only games scheduled GAMES California at Oakland night Milwaukee at Minnesota night Kansas Citv at Chicago night Washington at Detroit nieht New York at Cleveland night Boston at Baltimore night WINDUP iHEROOR DINNER fhe'beststecJks' inTovvn' plbsSan' rdnci seb 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