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Hot S ummer Day 9
pea t for car races
by RICHARD OLIVER
Sports Editor
Everyone was a winner Sunday at
Hot Summer Day Autocross
^enges. There was good food,
pod friends, and oh yes, a little car
jyjng, too.
fte autocross, sponsored by the
US a&M University Sports Car
U and held at the Olsen Field
irking lot, attracted some 40-50
aectators. Following the racing, a
pjbecue was held.
Of the eight categories racing, A-
itock racer Mike Holmgreen posted
die best mark of the day with a
104.40 time.
Hie autocross track took up all of
aiepart of the Olsen Field parking
dt 50 pylons are set up, and the
Burse is plotted with long sweeping
ones similar to a race track. It is
fliroximately half a mile in length.
Each autocross, however, is de
nned differently. Some courses are
luch tighter than others, and others
wser.
The racers run through the course
tree on each try, and they race indi-
ndually against a competitor’s time.
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Winners in Sunday s races are:
A-stock class—Holmgreen 1976
Corvette, 1:04.40; B-stock—Carl
Cramm, 1978 Trans-Am, 1:04.60, C-
stock—Richard Watson, 1978 Dat-
sun 280-Z, 1:04.80; E-stock—Thad
Dulin, 1972 VW Chia, 1:07.52 F—
stock—Ken Kolodzie, 1967 Impala,
1:09.14; G-stock—Paul Dotson,
1974 Honda, 1:07.09; H-stock—
Mike Love, 1976 Pinto, 1:04.83; and
Modified—Jack Foy, 1969 Mustang
1:04.57.
The club sponsors four autocrosses
a semester, and each one is different.
Once a semester, they hold a “Aggie-
cross” race at Texas World Speed
way, and they work out at TWS dur
ing races held there.
J. Bittle, who is organizing the car
club this summer, said anyone is
welcome to join the club, which cur
rently has 130 people in it. He said
the club offers races, partying, and
fun.
The next autocross will be held
July 20, and there will be an organi
zational meeting July 18 in Rudder
Tower. Anyone interested in joining
can call 693-6620, or 846-9086 for
information.
Astros slam Cubs, 6-2
;ain on idle Dodgers
United Press International
HOUSTON — Denny Walling’s
[hits in two games means nothing
improve his status as a Houston
itros regular if he does not produce
the plate the next three games,
dhe knows it.
He also likes it that way.
"We have so much talent on this
am that you can’t expect to be in
elineup if you don’t hit — for even
short time,” Walling says.
The strong left-handed hitter cur-
itly is spraying line drives almost
erytime at bat, and he expects to
art every game in which a right-
mded pitcher opposes the Astros.
If you mess up three, or four or
redays, it would probably be time
rareplacement,” he added.
Walling’s use at first base in place
the slumping Art Howe is just one
ample of manager Bill Virdon’s un
rated movement of his regulars, a
fey that has irked a few players
i! paid off in a current six-game
inning streak.
In Monday night’s 6-2 win over
(Chicago Cubs, the ,247-hitting
fros rapped 14 hits, including 13
to creep to within one-half
me of division-leading Los
i?eles. Houston’s six hits in the
cr-run third inning was the most in
k inning this year.
still say,” right fielder Terry
ilsaid, “this ball club is a much
tter hitting ball club than it has
owed.”
Ihe Astros play 12 of their next 18
®es at the Astrodome where they
(17-7 so far this season,
hihl, left fielder Jose Cruz and
fd baseman Enos Cabell are the
b Astros fielders who remain in
lineup following a week’s slump.
Despite the fact we haven’t been
tong that well, we’ll be in first
ft this month,” Puhl said,
ifour-man pitching rotation, from
fchVirdon has not varied this sea-
l has carried the Astros to where
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Astroi
Ken Forscfo
they are despite inconsistent hitting,
and Monday Ken Forsch, Randy
Niemann and Frank LaCorte com
bined to limit the Cubs to five hits.
Forsch, 7-4, pitched hitless ball
for five innings but said he was not
surprised when Virdon made a quick
decision to relieve him after he gave
up three hits in the sixth inning.
“No, I wasn’t surprised. When Bill
makes up his mind to take you out,
there’s no conversation. Once he hits
the chalk line on his way to the
mound, you’re out of the ball game,
Forsch said.
Virdon said he relieved Forsch be
cause, “I just didn’t think that he was
throwing well,” but catcher Alan
Ashby said the manager strives to
give the often-injured Forsch rest
whenever he can.
“The timing was right to take Ken
ny out,” Ashby said. “Bill said at the
time, and I don’t think there’s any
thing wrong with me repeating it,
that we’ve got a little lead and things
look good to get him out of here and
give him some rest for his next start.
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Jack Foy aims his modified class Mustang around one Summer Day Autocross, sponsored Sunday by the trical engineering major at Texas A&M.
of the curves on the Olsen Field course for the Hot Texas A&M Sports Car Club. Foy is a freshman elec- suff photo by Lee Roy Leschpcr jr.
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