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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1979
Busy weekend at TWS
Indy cars roar into B-CS
By SEAN PETTY
Battalion Sports Editor
One of the busiest race tracks in
the world shifts into high gear this
weekend as the LubriLon Grand
Prix comes to College Station’s
Texas World Speedway.
The race will feature the Indy-
type cars in a 200-mile affair. The
Grand Prix will be the highlighted
race but, by no means is it the only
thing the folks at the Speedway are
offering Saturday and Sunday. It
will be a triple-header of racing with
the Texas Race of Champions (stock
cars), the Mini-Indy cars and the
Indy-type cars in the big race.
Some of the top names in Indy car
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racing are expected to run this
weekend. The list of notables is
headed by Houstonian and local
hero, A.J. Foyt who will be trying
for his 66th Indy car win and third
straight Indy car win in Texas. Foyt
enters the Grand Prix as the defend
ing champion but will have stiff
competition from Gary Bet-
tenhausen who he edged out by a
mere three-hundredths of a second
in the Coors 200 here in April.
The rest of the field inlcudes
Johnny Parsons, Roger McCluskey,
Bill Vuckovich, Jim McElreath,
Tom Bigelow, Jerry Sneva, Dana
Carter, Tony Bettenhausen (Gary’s
brother), Dick Simon, Sheldon
Kinser, Cliff Hucul, Jerry Karl,
Frank Weiss, Roger Rager, Larry
Dickson and Phil Threshie.
The Mini-Indy cars provide rac
ing fans 100 kilometers of excite
ment. The smaller cars which reach
top speeds of 150-plus m.p.h. on the
high banks of TWS can sometimes
change leads four or five times a lap.
There may even be five or six cars
going across the finish line at once
by race’s end.
Dennis Firestone will be back to
try and win his second Mini-Indy
race in a row at TWS. He needs the
win to increase his lead in the
Robert Bosch VW Mini-Indy
Championship. Firestone will be
challenged by the defending Lubri
Lon Champion, Harry MacDonald.
The third race will be the Texas
Champions Invitational Stock Car
Classic. The 50-mile race will fea
ture the top Stock car drivers from
all over Texas including Jimmy
Finger, Freddy Fryar, John Rezek,
Rich Rap, Slick Yeomans and Larry
and Jerry Schild. -
And if that isn’t enough racing for
you, there will be a Charity Celeb
rity Volkswagen Economy Race be
fore the races start. Volkswagen
Rabbits will be used by sports, tele
vision, radio and news media per
sons in an attempt to win money for
their favorite charity. It’s all for fun
and charity and includes top racing
celebrities from Houston, San An
tonio, Austin, Dallas, Baytown,
Killeen and Bryan-College Station.
There will be such racing kings as
Dave Ward from KTRK in Houston,
the Houston Chronicle’s John Hol
lis, Alonzo Bradley of the Houston
Rockets, Chantal, a female disc joc
key from KLIF radio in Dallas and
Bryan-College Station’s own David
Walker from KBTX.
And if you could possibly want
anything more, there will be the
Brazos Valley Backyard Bar-B-Cue
Championship with infield activities
like race tire rolling, beer drinking
and wet T-shirt contests, a 25
beer “Happy Hour” and a
Country-Western concert in the
evening. All of this will take place
on Saturday, the day of time trials
and qualifying for Sunday’s races.
On Sunday, the VW Celebrity
Economy Challenge will start at
noon followed by the Texas Cham
pions Invitational Stock Car Classic
at 1 p.m., the Mini-Indy 100 km
race at 2 and the 200-mile LubriLon
Grand Prix for Indy cars at 3.
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What’s unleaded going for here these days
men!
Pit crew members scurry to get Tom Sneva
out of the pits and back into the race in a few
precious seconds. With Indy cars that go close
to 200 m.p.h., there is no time to waste. The
Indy cars will be back at Texas World S[
way this weekend for the 200-mile Lubril
Grand Prix. There will be three races ii
Sunday starting at noon.
Things getting hot in Dom
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United Press International
HOUSTON — The operator of
the Astrodome may apply to the
federal government for an exception
to President Carter’s 78-degree
minimum thermostat setting be
cause that setting would cause
baseball fans to be uncomfortably
warm, the president of the operat
ing company said Wednesday.
William E. Odom, president of
Astrodomain Corp., said careful
studies during the past few months
indicate that during Astros games
fans felt 78 degrees of heat when the
thermostat was set at 76.
We re not looking for a way
around the regulation,” Odom said.
“We are looking for a way to keep
the reputation of the Astrodome as a
comfortable stadium.”
Because the Astrodome is county
owned, Astrodomain Corp. has re
ceived an order from Harris County
to raise its thermostat to 78 degrees.
We have not adjusted upward,”
Odom said.
Earlier, however, the corporation
did comply with a county order to
raise the setting to 76.
“The the rmostat setting,” he
said, “does not necessarily mean that
that is what the temperature will be.
An indoor stadium is influenced by
how many people show up for a
game, by what the temperature is
outside and by whether the sun is
shining on the roof during the time
that we start pre-cooling.”
Four persons with thermometers
check the air temperature con
stantly during the pre-game cooling
period and during a game, Odom
said.
"Generally what we are doing is
trying to shoot for an average tem
perature of 78 degrees," he said.
The studies led him to believe
that a 78-degree thermostat setting
would exceed the temperature at
which fans would feel comfortable.
“We may be applying for an
exemption. The regulations do allow
for exemptions," he said.
He added, however: "I don’t have
much hope for it.”
The Astrodome’s air conditioner
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has a capacity of 6,600 tors jution a]
pointed out that it was I5yei »hin it
and not capable of being“fine-i
as ones in newer office ixj
are. The air conditioner isi
shut off, although on
there are no games, comenti
tours, the temperature is alio*
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Depending on outside »6
influences, Odom said, “wen
decision two to four hours i:
vance of the btLseball gameinl
that we will bring the temper
down to 76 before peoplearai
they arrive, the temperature 1
make its way up to 78 i
sometimes higher.’’
The Astrodome is tall enod
fit an 18-story building insidej
cause warm air rises, fans s
high feel warmer than fanssittj
field level. Odom said there*
much as a “3-to-3 degree il
ence.”
“There are times, he said, I
it is quite warm in the stadia
say the fans are disgruntled ah
But thev understand it.’
—
Shepard thinks Oklahoma s 0.1
United Press International
NORMAN, Okla. — Darrell
Shepard, a highly sought prep quar
terback two years ago, is transfer
ring from Houston to Oklahoma, it
was announced Tuesday.
Shepard, of Odessa, Texas, said
he wanted to play in bowl games
and to join his brother, Woodie
Shepard, on the Sooner team.
The NCAA ruled Darrell Shepard
ineligible for post-season contests
after a controversy over his acquisi
tion of a new sports car shortly after
he signed with Houston in 1977.
The NCAA said he could play in
bowl games if he went outside the
Southwest Conference.
“I decided last week to come to
OU. It was because I couldn’t play
in bowl games and the fact that I had
a chance to play with my brother,”
Shepard said.
Woodie Shepard played for OU in
1976, quit in 1977 and returned this
spring. He threw a 49-yard pass to
spark the winning touchdown drive
in the 1976 OU victory over Ne
braska.
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Shepard said he realized(1
a crowded quarterback
ing J.C. YVatts, Kelly
Rod Pegues.
But he said he would bei
OU started passing more and
the I-formation. He was a!
praised I-formation quartet
high school.
Head coach Barry Switzei
Shepard would begin worta
quarterback and might also bt
sidered for kickoff returns am
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United Press International
HOUSTON — Jose Cruz drove in
one run and scored two others to
support the 12-strikeout pitching of
J.R. Richard Wednesday night,
sending the Houston Astros to their
fourth straight victory, a 6-4 deci
sion over the Chicago Cubs.
Richard, who raised his record to
8-11, broke a personal four-game
losing streak and picked up his first
victory since June 30. He carried a
1 uiisurs.
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two-hitter and a 6-1 lead into the
eighth inning but the Cubs scored two-run homer in the first
three runs, the first coming on a and Rick Bosetti drove in thref ^
single by Ivan Dejesus that chased with a single and ahomer\b : r fj,
Richard. day night, pacing the Torontt
Scott Thompson then greeted re- Jays to an 8-3 decision ovfl
liever Joe Sambito with a run- Texas Rangers.
scoring single and with the bases
loaded, Larry Biittner walked to
force in a run. Samhito struck out
Steve Ontiveros and Jerry Martin to
end the rally and struck out two bat
ters in the ninth to earn his 12th
save.
The Astros tagged three Cubs’
pitchers for 12 hits. Cruz’s run
scoring double and Enos Cabell’s
run-scoring single gave Houston its
first two runs in the first.
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went to third on Roy Ho»
grounder and scored when! |
John Johnson, 4-12, uncorkedi 8 lY
pitch. Rico Carty drew a wall DUC
ting the stage for Velez’s lOtlil* I
of the* year. fr\ a
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sixth home run of the seas®
tending Toronto’s lead to 4-i ifor
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