Jolmes wins autocross in go-kart
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By STEVE GOBLE
Contributor
It was the hour of the go-kart.
Hie prestigious cars, the Jaguar,
j240-Zs, the Lotus — and the
•SO-prestigious cars, the Vol-
tagens, the Vega, the Pinto —
jld not break the one-minute
irlin Sunday s autocross in park-
lot 56, west of the railroad
OKS.
Mike Holmes, in a go-kart, huz-
jand skidded through the course
allat 56 seconds. Some members
the sports car club dido t find the
tlsvery funny.
“It’s not even a car, some com
plied. Others muttered darkly,
dhinted that the go-kart might be
itlawed from future events.
Despite the muttering, Holmes
ioh home two gold-engraved beer
mugs — one for winning his class
(he was the only entry in the under-
three-liter modified) and another
for turning in the top time of the
day.
Other winners in the 22-entry,
eight-category event were:
—Charles Hahn in a Datsun
240-Z, 1:01. He won a run-off with
Mike Young, also in a 240-Z, after
they tied in regular competition.
Hahn s best time was 1:00.1 and
Young’s best was 1:00 flat. A margin
of two-tenths of a second was re
quired for a clear-cut win, so the
men had to run again. Other entries
in the class included an AMX, an
E-type Jaguar and a Lotus JPS.
V Chris Thornton in a Triumph
TR4, 1:03.5. Also entered was an
Opel GT.
V Pat Langston in a Triumph
Spitfire, 1:02. She beat two Fiats, an
X-19 and an 850.
V William Bryan in a Camaro,
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Mike Holmes in 56-flat.
1:03.2 He beat an AMX.
V John Pellett in a Pinto, 1:01.7.
Also entered was a Vega stationwa-
gon.
V Fraser Border in a Volkswa
gen Super Beetle, 1:00.6. he beat
three other Beetles.
V Kyle Johnson in a modified
Camaro, 1:02.3. Johnson’s was the
only entry in the modified big-
engine class.
An antocross is an event run on a
short racetrack which is alxmt half
turns and twists.
“The whole idea of autocrossing is
to have roadracing competition for
streetable vehicles, ” Fraser Border,
one of the organizers of the event,
said.
“It s run, usually, on a small park
ing lot — it doesn’t require an ex
pensive track. It allows competition
and improves driving skills and
makes better and safer street driv
ers.
“As far as times to the thing go,
there’s more to the driver than the
car itself.”
Of course, there's alway s the go-
karts.
Fraser explained that the low-
speed, multi-cornered antocross
track is a sitting duck for a go-kart,
the go-kart is so much smaller than
an automobile that it can treat the
antocross track like a race track. A
car has to be much more precise in
its maneuvers on the narrow autoc
ross track, he said.
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The World Series was postponed
for the third day in a row . . . wet
grounds . . . new starting time 8:30
tonight Boston time . . . that s 7:30
here . . . Green Bay entered their
contest with Dallas 0-4, Dallas was
4-0 . . . Dallas was a two TD favo
rite, a first for them this season but
were handed a Golden loss . . . talk
about jinxes ... it was in the
Starrs . . . and then there s that
other pro team in Texas . . . it s
been awhile since Dallas has taken
two wins from George Allens crew
in one season and Houston made
the wins look better . . . Saying
I m no Broadway Joe Texas quar
terback Ted Constanzo has told a
newly organized fan club to find
someone else. “They shoukln t hav e
started it without talking to me, lie
said . . . the club was organized by
a group who was mad at Marty
Akins. Prexy Doug Baker said “This
was his last year and he blew it, in
reference to the Oklahoma loss
. . . Baker noted that “a quarter-
hack will come to this school as a
great passer and by the time he
comes out he can t throw the ball
five yards." Constanzo agreed but
Sports
Shorts
added “a lot of quarterbacks in col
lege don’t get a chance. . . . Both
Constanzo and Head Coach Darrell
Royal turned down invitations to
speak to the club. “I am definitely
not going," said Roy al, “I will have
nothing to do with any thing that s
anti. . . . anti? . . . Marty Akins
and Earl Campbell have been
cleared to plav this weekend against
Rice it they re not sore . . . and if
they are? . . . Roy al proposed that
facemasking penalties should be
either 5 or 15 yards depending on
the severity of the infraction. 15-
y aiders hurt the Longhorns against
both Oklahoma and Arkan
sas . . . Royal said the penalties for
facemasking were needed because
“medically it s not good to let it hap
pen . . . U. S. now leads the
medal count at the Pan Am games
with a gold-silver-bronze count of
59-50-23 . . . closest challenger is
Cuba with 34-30-19 . . . The ARA
disbanded the renamed Memphis
Sounds (Baltimore Claws) and then
had the seven remaining non-
Benedict Arnold franchises follow
two early pirates and ask to he
moved into the NBA ... the sea
son starts in three day s . . . here s
some poetry from an Aggie-ex in
California . . . Rich May 68 . . .
The Drought Hath Ended
Thirtij-six years since number one,
Eighi since a Cotton Bowl berth:
A defense so mean
And a player named Bean
Will soon show Air M’s worth.
But this year's success means so
much more
Than those of yesterday:
Sorry folks
So more jokes.
The Afifiies are here to stay!
ABA moves
to disband
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The American
Basketball Association, four days
away from opening its 1975-76 sea
son, dropped one franchise Monday
and moved to force a merger of the
other nine with the established Na
tional Basketball Association.
The Baltimore Claws, who played
last season as the Memphis Sounds,
won’t play this year under any
name. The ABA announced Mon
day that the franchise was being
disbanded, its players dispersed
among the schedule shuffled to re
flect the change.
And, in a surprise move, the ABA
had seven of its teams follow earlier
moves by New York and Denver
and send telegrams to NBA Com
missioner Larry O Brien asking to
be admitted into the NBA. Both
Denver and New York, acting with
out ABA approval, bad applied for
membership in the NBA as expan
sion franchises on Sept. 24.
The developments came as the
ABA headed into its ninth season.
The league had hoped that its new
commissioner, Dave DeBnsschere,
would be able to land a television
contract or force a merger.
The telegrams sent to O Brien
said that each of the seven clubs —
Kentucky, Virginia, St. Louis, In
diana, San Antonio, San Diego and
Utah — would like to join the NBA
for the 1976-77 campaign.
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCT. 21, 1975
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