utherford beats heat, wins race
United Press International
Johnny Rutherford survived 100-
degree heat, and a pit collision to
outduel Gordon Johncock yesterday
and win the Texas 200 by nine sec
onds.
Three caution flags slowed
Rutherford’s winning speed to
164.191. Johncock, who was racing
wheel to wheel with Rutherford
with 20 laps left, slowly slipped back
to finish second.
Johncock said he had to drop back
from his challenge of Rutherford be
cause the high speeds were having
an effect on his car.
Bobby Unser put his Drake-Offy
automobile into the wall on the sec
ond turn suffering a foot injury that
Victory goes to Texan
as only 10 cars finish
Battalion photos by Curt Schwake and Betsy Kelly
he faces of Johnny Rutherford, the winner, and A. J. Foyt,
ne of many losers, tell the story of the American Parts 200
esterday at Texas World Speedway.
:M’s Cornelius earns
lot on AAU squad
United Press International
NDIANAPOLIS — The
ifeur Athletic Union Sunday an-
Icecl Indiana University will
the Soviet-Canadian-American
’thlon-pentathlon meet next
Bell, head track coach at In
will serve as meet director for
ug. 13-14 event.
USA men’s team includes
AAU champion and 1976
fOhmpian Fred Dixon, Closter,
Dixon won the national title
9-10 at Bloomington, with a
■total of 8,037.
lers chosen for the team were
lals runnerup John Warkentin,
ita, Calif; Roger George, Clovis,
if; Bobby Coffman, Houston,
! John Whitson, Albuquerque,
Jeff Bennett, Edmonds,
Rex Harvey, Highland,
tf.; and Fred Samara, Tenafly,
it4nda Cornelius, of Fort Worth,
Texas A&M, heads the women’s
jlm for the pentathlon. She is 1977
e® Champion.
itijhe other women are Patsy
ker, Ylem, Wash.; Kerry Zwart,
La Cescenta, Calif, and Terri Seip-
pel, Dayton, Ohio.
This event will be the third in the
USA-USSR series. The USSR won
against the USA and West Germany
in 1974 in Tallinn, Estonia.
A U.S. team finished first ahead
of the Soviets and Poles at Eugene,
Ore., in 1975 in decathlon, but be
hind the USSR and Canada in pen
tathlon, which was added to the se
ries that year.
United Press International
Hard driving Johnny Rutherford
seems to be in the habit of getting
into spats with his fellow drivers.
But he also has this habit of win
ning.
Rutherford did both yesterday.
He was involved in a pit row colli
sion with Dick Simon that left Si
mon’s car smashed and Simon’s
temper overheated. And Ruther
ford survived the mishap to outlast
Gordon Johncock by nine seconds
and win the Texas 200 auto race,
moving him into second place in the
USAC standings.
“I know his car is faster than
mine,’’ sputtered Simon shortly
after the pit collision midway
through the race. “But that doesn’t
give him the right not to look where
he is going.’’
The right rear of Simon’s car was
crumpled to the extent that he
could not continue.
“I didn’t intend to do it,” said
Rutherford, who was exiting from
the pits when the cars collided. “I
looked in the mirror when I started
Bethea
reports to
Oilers
United Press International
NACOGDOCHES, Tex. — An
attorney representing Elvin Bethea
in his cattle feedyard contract dis
pute with the Houston Oilers said a
grievance will be filed with the NFL
and National Football League
Players Association.
According to attorney Major
Lowe, “Elvin Bethea is not asking
for a new contract or asking that his
present contract be renegotiated.”
The problem concerns a pact Be
thea entered with Oilers’ owner
K. S. “Bud” Adams Jr. last
November. Bethea believed mis
sing the first week of the Oilers
training camp would loosen the
feedyard profits of Ada Resources,
Inc., which is owned by Adams.
Bethea, 31, allegedly was led to
anticipate a $100,000 profit from the 1
business during a three-year period.
He reportedly has lost $600 so far.
Add $3,000 more in losses, be
cause his six-day hold out could cost
him that much ($500 per day). Head
coach Bum Phillips will levy the
fine, and he said he will not make
his punishment of Bethea public.
The Oilers players were given
Sunday off from practice, but Be
thea stayed around to work.
T’m glad to be in camp,” he said.
“I was sitting around the house,
working in the yard, then running
for a while. It was getting to me,
being in Houston when everybody
else was up here.”
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out, but I didn’t see him. I sure
didn’t do it on purpose. I hardly felt
the impact. I was shocked to see his
car limping off. ”
Rutherford of Fort Worth, Tex.,
and Johncock of Phoenix almost al
lowed a dispute to erupt into a fight
earlier this year, but yesterday they
were merely trying to outrace each
, other on a hot afternoon that was
| filled with minor incidents.
Bobby Unser ran his car into the
second turn on the two-mile, high
banked Texas World Speedway oval
and had to be taken to a nearby hos
pital for treatment of a foot injury.
Later in the race Tom Sneva
started out on the track with the fuel
hose still attached to his car and he
was penalized a lap for that infrac
tion.
After such notables as A.J. Foyt,
Wally Dallenbach, Al and Bobby
Unser and pole sitter Danny Ongais
had left the race early, it settled
down to a scramble between
, Johncock and Rutherford.
They were running side by side
with 20 laps to go, but Johncock
slowly dropped back.
“Actually, after I got in front, I
still thought Gordon was leading
and I was second,” said Rutherford.
“I was wound up trying to catch
him. I finally figured out my crew
was telling me to cool it. ”
“Once he got by me I knew I
would never be able to catch him,”
said Johncock. “The front end of my
car started jumping and I was get
ting close to the wall. I just didn’t
have enough horsepower.”
After Rutherford and Johncock
came Pancho Carter, Johnny Par
sons, Sneva, Rick Mears and Jim
McElreath. Only 10 cars were run
ning at the finish.
Sneva easily maintained his
USAC drivers lead with 3,220
points, but the 400 points gathered
by Rutherford moved him from
fourth place past Dallenbach and
Foyt, into second with 2,200.
Battalion
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was treated at St. Joseph’s hospital.
A.J. Foyt, Wally Dallenbach,
pole sitter Danny Ongais and Al
Unser all dropped out early.
Pancho Carter was third, followed
by Johnny Parsons, Tom Sneva,
Rick Mears, Jim McElreath, Larry
Dickson, Bobby Olivero and Tom
Bigelow. They were the only 10
drivers running at the end of the
race.
“Everything really ran well,” said
Rutherford. “Actually, I thought
Johncock was ahead and I was run
ning second and I was all wound up
trying to catch him until I finally
figured out my crew was yelling for
me to ‘cool it.’”
Midway through the race Ruther
ford was exiting from the pits when
his car collided with Dick Simon’s.
Rutherford’s car sustained no dam
age and went on to run smoothly,
but the right, rear section of Simon’s
car was smashed.
“I checked the mirror and didn’t
see anybody,” said Rutherford. And
as I pulled out I all of a sudden
Simon came along.
“I didn’t see him. I sure didn’t
mean to hit him.”
Simon, immediately after the ac
cident, was in a foul mood — yelling
at Rutherford’s pit crew.
“I know his (Rutherford’s) car is
faster than mine,” said Simon. “I
know he can outrun me on the
track. But he still ought to look
where he is going.”
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