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Adroit jfcttVttss Inside This Section Joe Tails Page 2 The Inside of Sports Page 4 Pool Section Pages 7-11 Want Ads Pages 12-23 SECTION Sports Want SUNDAY. MAY 15, 1966 Ads I IMacer rrn 11 rmm 10 Rodee Bits Wall; 165 for Andretti BY BOB LATSHAW Free Press Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS The frantic search for speed around the Indianapolis Speed- a 1" way tooK its ton oi men ana macmnes Saturday. Chuck Rodee, a veteran pilot, died in Methodist Hospital two hours after he skidded into the outside retaining wall in the first turn during practice. A.J. Foyt crashed his Coyote-Ford, but escaped in of 54.11 seconds in his Brawner-Fprd powered creation.

Rodger Ward, a two-time winner of the 500, was the first to qualify and he accepted a 159.468 mph average as good enough to make the field. This was the 15th time that Ward has qualified for the race. He missed last year's event after 14 straight appearances. Foyt was out for one attempt in his Ford-powered car and was clocked at 161.783 for the first lap, but pulled into the pits dissatisfied with the way the car was performing. Later he smashed into the wall on the short south straightaway and hit the concrete wall of the No.

2 turn. The car was damaged so badly that Foyt will not attempt to repair it. He'll try to jury as the car was a complete washout. Three other mishaps marred a record- breaking first day of qualifications for Memorial Day's 500-Mile Race. Even though the track was shut down three times because of crashes and another time when a car spilled oil around two turns, 18 cars qualified.

I NJL" MOST NOTABLE achievement was the terrific 10-mile qualification by Mario Andretti, USAC driving champion and Rookie of the Year here last year. qualify a new Lotus-Ford that he had for a spare. Clark and Dan Gur-ney also failed to finish their initial trials when the speed didn't seem good enough at near 160 mph. "I 1 Tl IV. Andretti established records for both i ii nnn one and tour laps wnen ne nit xoo.a miles an hour on his first lap and completed the four-lap test at an average Free Press Photos by DICK TRIPP 165.899 miles an hour.

"jFWi sophomore driver from xiasiixiga, 41101- ified the Detroit-owned Weinberger Homes Rodee Chicago's Don Buford barrels into Tiger catcher Orlando McFarlane with logical results both go flying White Sox 'Hammer. Tigers, 13-3 Foyt's records for the two distances were 161.958 for one lap and 161.233 for four laps. Jimmy Clark waited until just 20 minutes before the track closed down for the day to turn in the second fastest time of the day. Clark had only one lap under 164 miles an hour as he averaged 164.144 for the 10-mile test. The defending champion in the 500, Clark will set in the middle of the front row, between Andretti and George Snider.

into center as Buford scampered to third. Lolich struck out Agee and Romano sent a fly ball to Al Kaline in short right. Kaline's no-hop throw to the plate apparently had Buford headed off, but McFarlane let the ball get away from him and the runner came across. Freese followed with his homer and it was 3-0. THE TIGERS gave signs of life in their first when a walk uneasy first inning and set them down on six hits.

Don Buford, Tommy Agee and Freese each' had three hits' In the Chicago offensive, with Freese knocking in four runs with a homer and single besides his foul-line double. Buford started things rolling in the first with a hit to deep short. Floyd Robinson then bounced one at Cash, but his throw to second hit Buford in the helmet. The ball skipped A double by Lumpe and Jim Northrup's single got one back for Detroit in their sixth, but the barrage continued against Pena in the seventh. Singles by Peters, Agee and Romano brought in Bill Mon-bouquette for the Tigers.

Freese also singled to make the score 10-2. CHICAGO KEPT going off Wickersham in the ninth, with Turn to Page 2C, Column 6 to Wert, a single to Lumpe and a double play by Cash got over a run. "It would be well to be But the next time they scored, Chicago was six runs ahead. A single by Agee and a walk to Romano preceded Freese's double in the sixth. After the departure of Lolich and Cash, Pena gave up a triple to Bill Skowron and Danny Cater squeezed across the fourth run of the inning.

During the day four other drivers had surpassed Foyt's mark. Snider did it first Special at 161.059. Johncock is rated as one of the brightest rookies to come along, driving solidly, if not spectacularly. Jim Robbins' rear-engine Ford was put into the race by Bill Foster at a disappointing 159.490 mph, giving Detroit a pair of entrants so far. RODEE WAS a veteran driver plagued by bad luck and crashes.

His misfortunes started in 1958. He flipped in a car during a 100-miler at Trenton, N.J. That crash put him out for the season. He started his Indianapolis career the next year when he passed his driver test, but didn't qualify. He qualified the Dunn Engineering Special in 1960 but was bumped from the field by a faster car.

In 1962 Rodee was caught behind several spinning cars and wound up with no place to go but into the wall. That ended that after 18 laps. After being bumped from the field in Turn to Page 5C, Column 1 when he averaged 162.521. Lloyd Ruby (162.808) and Parnelli Jones (162.908) were the drivers who exceeded Foyt's record performance. STRANGELY, ANDRETTI wasn't sat isfied with his performance.

He had tuned up earlier Saturday with a lap at 168.5 MPH and thought the car could go even better than that. Mickey Out 3-4 Weeks Stanley Breaks Hand On his first lap, Andretti toured the 214- mile oval in the almost unbelievable time BT GEORGE CANTOR Fre Press Staff Writer The Tigers handed Chicago three runs in the first inning Saturday. Drunk with power, the White Sox went on to produce 10 more on their own and buried the Tigers, 13-3. It was the biggest run output of the year for the powder-puff Sox attack and the 15 hits they collected also set a sea-eon mark. "Oh well, if you've got to have a bad day it's good for everybody to have it at the same time," philosophized Charlie Dressen.

And the Tigers had their lapses well synchronized. SLIP-UPS BY Norm Cash and Orlando McFarlane opened the gates for Chicago on Mickey Lolich. And Lolich, who deserved better treatment, was batted out in the sixth on a line double by Gene Freese that landed right on the right field line. The hit also brought about Cash's exit from the game when he argued a little too physically with first base umpire Bob Stewart over the wisdom of the call. He was the first Tiger to be ejected this year.

The Sox went on to score four times in the inning to salt away the game. Then they added three apiece in the seventh and ninth for good measure off Orlando Pena and Dave THE TIGERS will make a decision on a replacement for Stanley early next week. Under the new rule, Stanley must remain on the disabled list for a minimum of 15 days. He may be taken off at any time thereafter. The White Sox have injury troubles too.

Shortstop Ron Hansen was sent home after the game when he irritated a pulled muscle in his leg. Hansen received the Injury last week when he stepped on a ball during batting practice. He was originally scheduled to play Saturday, but was taken out of the lineup before game time when he reported the entire leg was stiff. The Tigers were notified that former trainer Jack Ho-mel's wife died Friday in Sonoma, after a long BY GEORGE CANTOR The Tigers placed Mickey Stanley on the disabled list Saturday after the young outfielder broke a bone in his left hand in an accident at home. Stanley's hand was placed in a cast Saturday morning and doctors estimate he will be lost to the team for three to five weeks.

Stanley said he slipped on the front steps of his home Friday afternoon after washing his car, and fell with his weight on the little finger of the hand. THE IN JURY didn't bother him when he came to the park, and he played the final two innings of the game, handling the final putout of the game. However, the hand started to swell in the lockerroom and Stanley notified Charlie Dressen of the injury. He spent the night in the hospital and was sent home in the morning. Also hospitalized overnight was Bill Freehan, who was hit on the back of the head by Tom McCtaw's bat on a missed strike during the game.

Freehan was given precautionary rays but his only injury was a red lump above his right ear. He may be able to pinch hit by Sunday's game. "I never saw McCraw's bat," Freehan said Saturday. "He nearly got me a few innings before with that backlash of his. But I was busy catching the ball and next thing I knew I was flat on the ground." Freehan had nothing worse than a headache by Saturday.

AP Photo I GARY PETERS, meanwhile, toyed with the Tigers after an Chuck Rodees car leaves a "fireball" on the wall Mickey Stanley Olympic-Sfyle Park Outdated Why Detroit's New Stadium Should Have Dome 9 This is the last bt a series by Free Press Sports Writer Bob Pille on Detroit's problems in quest of a new sports stadium: pffe, Pille hold it together in safety and good appearance successfully for only another decade or so. The movers and shakers who get things done around town are more and more convinced of this. These leaders also are inclined toward the reasonable Lion and Tiger thinking that an Olympic stadium isn't "all-purpose" enough to include football and baseball. Track and soccer and assorted other pursuits yes. Baseball and football no.

Three Olympic-type stadiums Philadelphia's Kennedy, Chicago's Soldier Field, Los Angeles' Coliseum sit as testimony to this. Philadelphia has the Army-Navy football game, Chicago has the College All-Star game and another football game or two, and that's about it for. those white elephants. THE COLISEUM DOES better, with collegiate UCLA and Southern California and the professional Rams in football and with track a big item in the neighborhood. But the Coliseum, with that leftfield screen right behind the shortstop, was unmasked as a baseball Two committees around town both doing more about a stadium than anybody realizes say it less directly but with action as well as words.

The Mayor's Committee, and the Board of Commerce sub-committee of its sports committee, were both appointed well before the last Olympic pitch was made less than three weeks ago in Rome. Neither leaped into furious action, awaiting the outcome of that bid for the 1972 summer Olympics. WHAT THEY DID, however, was. quietly based on no Games for Detroit and consequently no need to build an Olympic stadium. The Board of Commerce group headed by Nick Kerbawy, ex of the front offices of the Lions and basketball Pistons, is making token attempts to cling to the Olympic vision.

Among its stacks of data is a preliminary sketch of a three-stage stadium by Lou Rossetti of Giffels and Rossetti- The arena would be left open at one end in the Turn to Page SC, Column 4 BY BOB PILLE Forget the Olympics Abandon the dream of Detroit glory sold for three decades by a small, untiring band? Decide that the Olympic Games are beyond our grasp for this generation and perhaps longer? Painful as it is, this is the fact to be faced if Detroit is to have the new stadium domed, they say that the Tigers and Lions want and will soon need. Dependable and memory-filled Tiger Stadium, with its basic structure standing since 1912, is getting old and tired. WELL MAINTAINED as the old ball park is, the Tigers say they can fight the rearguard action to monstrosity when the Dodgers had to play there four seasons while Walter O'Malley was fighting the Los Angeles taxpayers for his land and then building in Chavez Ravine. "We have to eliminate Olympic thinking," Lion general manager Edwin J. Anderson says flatly.

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