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Banner-Graphic photo tsy Lester Wilson The car of rookie Jovy Marcelo smashes backward into the wall of Turn 1 during practice Friday. Rookie driver killed Friday in Indy crash
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Rookie Jovy Marcelo of the Philippines became the first driver in 10 years killed at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Marcelo, one of more than a dozen drivers trying to find enough speed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500, sustained head and chest injuries and was pronounced dead at 4:35 p.m. EST Friday after being taken by ambulance to Methodist Hospital. THE ACCIDENT occurred in practice as Marcelo was accelerating after a warmup lap at 172.328 mph. He spun driving into Turn 1 on the oval and smashed into the wall. The 27-year-old driver didn’t regain consciousness. He is the first driver fatality at Indy since Gordon Smiley was killed instantly in a crash during
Greencastle boys on top of WCC track
SPENCER The Greencastle boys’ track team took first place and the Lady Tiger Cubs second in the West Central Conference high school meets Friday at Owen Valley High School. The Greencastle boys racked up 93 points to edge out Edgewood, who tallied 92 points. The North Putnam boys totalled 36 points while Cloverdale had 24 and South Putnam 23. The Tiger Cubs won five conference championships in the
Clemons leads Boston over California, 3-0
By The Associated Press You can’t blame hitters for having an empty feeling when they see Roger Clemens’ name on the lineup card. Clemens (5-3) pitched a four-hit-ter Friday night for his second straight shutout, leading the Boston Red Sox over the California Angels 3-0. “I’m just glad I don’t have to play against him,” Boston manager Butch Hobson said. “I was able to just sit back and watch.” CLEMENS (5-3) beat Jim Abbott (2-5) for the third time in four career decisions, striking out six and walking one. “I threw a lot of fastballs,” Clemens said. “Nothing different. I was just trying to get guys out. I’ve got to keep looking forward and see what happens.” Clemens, who pitched his sixth complete game of the season, got his third shutout this year and the 32nd of his career. “It didn’t matter if it was Jimmy Abbott or whoever,” Rodgers said. “The Rocket was pretty good. There was not much we could do. They just flat outpitched and outhit us.” IN OTHER GAMES, Detroit beat Kansas City 8-2, Cleveland beat Minnesota 5-0, Seattle beat Toronto 2-1, New York beat Oakland 3-2, Baltimore beat Chicago 2-0 and Milwaukee beat Texas 7-3. Abbott pitched a six-hitter for his second complete game, walking five and striking out one. He allowed an RBI groundout to Bob Zupcic in third, an RBI single to Tony Pena in the seventh and Ellis Burks’ third home run in the eighth. Tigers 8, Royals 2 Tony Phillips hit a three-run homer, but Detroit shortstop Alan
qualifying 10 years to the day Friday in 1982. A spectator was killed by a flying tire during the 1987 race. MARCELO IS THE 40th driver and 65th person to die from injuries sustained at the speedway since it opened in 1909. Marcelo, who was married and the father of one, was trying to become the first driver from his country to race at Indy. The search for speed continued after Marcelo’s crash, with plenty of activity during the final 90 minutes on the last full day of practice for the May 24 race. “This kind of an accident always affects you,” said a somber Didier Theys of Belgium. “These cars are very safe, but if you hit your head “IT’S VERY HARD to put that
meet. Cloverdale and North Putnam each picked up one championship. In the girls’ competition, Danville overwhelmed first place with 138 points. The Greencastle girls were second with 81 Vi points. South Putnam picked up 29 points, Cloverdale 13 points and North Putnam 8 Vi. Full results and stories will appear in Monday’s BannerGraphic.
Trammell fractured his right ankle when he landed on the bag wrong while beating out an infield hit in the first. He will be sidelined for at least six weeks. Bill Gullickson was hit in the right thumb by a line drive in the first at Royals Stadium and came out before the start of the second, but X-rays were negative. John Doherty (2-0) gave up one run and five hits in 4 2-3 innings. Curt Young (1-2) was tagged for five runs and six hits in two innings. Indians 5, Twins 0 Charles Nagy (4-2) pitched a sixhitter for his second career shutout, and Carlos Baerga and Mark Lewis drove in two runs each as Cleveland stopped visiting Minnesota’s five-game winning streak and its own five-game losing streak. Scott Erickson (2-4) gave up two runs and four hits in 5 1-3 innings. Mariners 2, Blue Jays 1 Dave Fleming (5-1), who has all three of the Mariners’ victories in their last 16 games, won his fifth consecutive decision, allowing a run and six hits in seven-plus innings as Seattle stopped an eightgame road losing streak. Mike Schooler pitched the ninth for his sixth save. Todd Stottlemyre (4-3) allowed two runs and three hits in seven-plus innings as the Blue Jays lost for just the third time in 12 games. Yankees 3, Athletics 2 Scott Kamieniecki (1-1) outpitched Bob Welch (1-2) as New York won its third straight and sent visiting Oakland to its third consecutive loss. Steve Farr pitched the ninth for his sixth save. Roberto Kelly hit a two-run homer in the first and the Yankees Continued on Page A 5
out of your mind, especially when you know that person.” Theys added. “It’s very hard to make a compromise when you jump in a car the day after. You say to yourself, ‘I need to be safe and I need to be fast to be competitive and make the show.’ That’s very hard to make that compromise.” Antonio Ferrari of Italy, who owns the car in which Marcelo was killed, was close to tears as he left the Euromotorsports Racing garage several hours after the accident. “He was so good guy,” Ferrari said in his halting accented English before walking quickly away. FELLOW CAR owner Dale Coyne, who was in the second turn watching one of his drivers practice, saw Marcelo removed from the 1991 Euromotorsports Lola and said, “Everybody’s bothered by
Knicks, Bulls battle comes down to Sunday
CHICAGO (AP) supposed to be like this. By now, the defending champion Chicago Bulls were supposed to have eliminated the New York Knicks in the second round of the NBA playoffs and be ready for the Eastern Conference finals. But with the Knicks’ 100-86 victory Thursday night in New York to even the best-of-7 series at three wins each, it all comes down to one game Sunday. THE BULLS have the homecourt advantage, but the Knicks are oozing with confidence and momentum. “The seventh game, at home or on the road, whatever, that’s what it’s all about,” Knicks coach Pat Riley said. “You’re there and you’ve got to play focus, concentrate.
Daly sees Olympic superstars as equals
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) During the past several months, Chuck Daly has pondered many things about his job as coach of the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team. One thing has dominated his thoughts more than any other his first meeting with the superstars who will make up the team. “I HAVE seriously thought about not standing at a podium, but sitting at the table so we’re all on the same level,” Daly said Friday. “Because that’s what’s going to have to be. “This is going to have to be a very unified effort, both physically and mentally. We’re going to have to listen and discuss. That meeting, if it could be filmed, would be priceless, I have a feeling.” Daly’s job seems like a cinch. Take 11 of the NBA’s greatest players, along with the college player of the year, fly over to Barcelona and come back with the gold medal that eluded the United States in 1988.
Three-way lead shared in senior golf classic
KINGWOOD, Texas (AP) Larry Mowry again is hoping to string together some good rounds on the PGA Senior Tour while fellow pro Harold Henning is just hoping his frayed siring doesn’t break. Mowry, Henning and Gibby Gilbert shared a one-stroke lead going into today’s second round of the Doug Sanders Kingwood Celebrity Classic. Each fired a 5-under-par 67 in Friday’s opening round.
this. Jovy was a nice kid with a lot of enthusiasm.” Marcelo had run only five laps Friday, none faster than the lap prior to his crash. The fastest lap Marcelo had turned since practice opened May 2 for the May 24 race was 216.878 on Thursday. The native of Quezon City attended college in the United States at Brigham Young and St. Mary’s (Calif.) and received a degree in business management from Armstrong University in Berkeley, Calif. MARCELO, DRIVING for the Euromotorsport Racing team, finished 14th in his Indy-car debut in the season-opener at Surfers Paradise in Australia. He then finished 19th at both Phoenix and Long Beach. It was the 14th crash of the month.
“I’ve been in enough sevengame series and it’s always the adage that anything can happen,” said Riley, who guided the Los Angeles Lakers to four championships. “It’s one game now, no tears, no regrets. We have a team that believes it can win.” THE BULLS entered this series having defeated the Knicks 14 straight times, including a threegame playoff sweep last year. Another sweep was not out of question considering the Bulls had the best record in the league (67-15) and the Knicks (51-31) had lost five of their last eight regular-season games. Then the Knicks had to survive a rugged five-game series with the Detroit Pistons while the Bulls swept the Miami Heat in three
DALY ACKNOWLEDGES he will be overseeing “no question, the greatest array of talent ever put together. But having an array of talent and putting together a team is a whole different process. “We will be the favorite, we should win the gold and I think we will win the gold. But I don’t think it will be without a little trepidation.” What’s to worry about with the likes of Michael, Patrick and Magic in the lineup? The European talent, for one thing. Daly said he was “stunned and a little scared” by what he saw at the European Championships. “AND WHEN YOU look at the 40-minute game instead of the 48-minute game, this is my major concern,” he said. “The best international teams shoot 20 to 30 3s. If you start knocking down those shots in a 40-minute game, a lot of things can change.” The Olympic team will only
ONE SHOT BACK were Bobby Nichols, who was tied for the lead until a bogey on No. 18, and Larry Ziegler. Jim Dent, Butch Baird and Bob Charles were two behind at 69. For Mowry, the performance is another step in the rebirth of a career that’s been hampered since 1989 by vertigo. “It’s wonderful to see your name on the (leader) board,” he said. “I’m enjoying the things I used to
Bird leads Celts into
7th game with Cavs
BOSTON (AP) Thanks to LanY Bird, who let his on-court activities speak for him, the Boston Celtics got what they wanted, a seventh game against the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference semifinals. With Bird scoring 16 points and 14 assists in 37 minutes, the Celtics beat Cleveland 122-91 on Friday night to force a decisive game at Richfield Coliseum Sunday afternoon. “I WOULDN’T anybody else in a big game than Larry Bird,” said coach Chris Ford, one of many who spoke for Bird, who left Boston Garden without comment Bird, making his first start since April 3, had 10 assists by halftime, including four passes that led to Robert Parish’s 8 points, helping Boston to a 34-22 lead after the first quarter. “Larry has the great ability to pass the ball, and he got the Chief into the game early,” said Kevin McHale, whose 16 points in the second quarter helped Boston to a 62-53 halftime lead. BOSTON CONTINUED to build on the lead in the second half, pushing it as high as 35 points late in the game. Getting to Game 7 is familiar territory for Bird, McHale and Parish, who have helped put the last three of 16 NBA championship banners into the Boston Garden rafters. Over the history of the franchise, the Celtics are 17-3 when they play a seventh game, including 3-1 on the road. “I’ve been in a lot of do or die situations in my career,” said McHale, who wound up with 22 points. “We’re not ready to die. We’re not ready to go home for the summer.” THE ONLY OTHER Game 7
games. But the Knicks opened with a surprising victory in Chicago and have had the Bulls reeling since. Even in their victories, the Bulls have not been impressive. “WE WERE MORE aggressive last year than we are at the same point this year,” Michael Jordan said. “I can’t give an explanation why. Two days gives you time to think about what’s at stake and what we have to do to lay everything on the court.” “You’ve got to hand it to their ability to rise to the occasion,” said coach Phil Jackson, not sounding as confident as he did when the Bulls held a 3-2 edge. “It’s do-or-die, we have to play for our lives,” Scottie Pippen said. The Knicks sound more positive. “Going into the series, we gave
practice six days before going to the Tournament of the Americas in Portland, which begins June 27. The top four teams from that tournament qualify for the Barcelona Games. During those practices and the tournament, Daly and his staff will try to develop a rotation and figure out playing time for the star-studded team. “YOU’VE GOT TO continuously sell and talk about acceptance, tolerance, sacrifice, being part of it,” he said. “We’ll have to address it.” He recalled a conversation he had with Magic Johnson in December. Johnson told Daly the players needed to do things together off the court and “heal the wounds” that develop among players during the rugged NBA season. He said Johnson could wind up playing a major role away from the court He said Johnson has been a leader in the league throughout his career, and called
take for granted.” MOWRY, 47TH on the Seniors money list this year, had five victories from 1986-89, when his world literally began spinning. Doctors determined he had been doing too much golf, too much flying on small planes and had too much stress. One physician told him he was finished and should find another way to make a living. “I literally had tears in my eyes,” he said.
played by the Cavaliers was in 1976, a first-round victory over Washington. Cleveland then lost to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals. But most of Cleveland’s current roster was playing in elementary or high school. “We’ve done a lot of Game 5s in the first round, but this will be our first Game 7” as a team, said Mark Price, who had 14 points and five assists. John Williams, who led Cleveland with 18 points, said he expected Sunday to be “a dogfight again. “WE KNOW THAT if we lose, we go home, and if they lose, they go home,” said Williams, the only player on Cleveland’s front line who was close to his playoff average of 14 points. Chalk it up to Boston’s renewed defense, which limited the Cavaliers to 38.8 percent shooting, well off the 53-percent of the first five games. "Our big guys did a good job clogging the middle. We did everything right,” said Reggie Lewis, who led Boston with 26 points, including 10 each in the first and third quarters. BOSTON’S DEFENSE limited Brad Daugherty, who had 28 points in Cleveland’s 114-98 win Wednesday night, to 11 in Game 6. Larry Nance, whose shooting hurt the Celtics badly in Games 4 and 5, was limited to 6 points. “Their whole team played well defensively,” said Craig Ehlo, who had 13 points, 11 in the first half. The Celtics-Cavaliers series has not featured the same physical play displayed in the other Eastern Conference semifinal between Chicago and New York, which is also headed for a seventh game on Sunday.
them all the respect due them as defending champions,” Mark Jackson said. “But we always had confidence we could beat them.” JACKSON HAD 15 assists Thursday night while Patrick Ewing with 27 points, John Starks with 27 and Xavier McDaniel with 24 shared the scoring load. They got hot in the fourth quarter that saw the Bulls go scoreless for six minutes after having taken a 70-68 lead. “We felt all along we could beat these guys,” McDaniel said. “We have to play the same type of basketball we have been.” “Everybody has stepped it up big time,” Ewing said. “That’s the difference this year in this team. It’s not just myself or someone else. It’s everybody.”
him “a special individual who has come along in our lifetime.” JOHNSON RETIRED from the NBA this season because he contracted the virus that causes AIDS. Daly acknowledged he has wondered whether that issue will become a distraction. But he said he doesn’t anticipate it will be a major problem. “I think he wants to be considered as a definite part of this team, doing everything the rest of the people do, and that’s how we’ll go about it.” Daly said his objective is simply to restore faith in U.S. basketball. The United States hasn’t won a major international title since the 1986 World Championships. “I DON’T LIKE it when I see a lot of other countries jumping around, celebrating about beating our particular club in a sport that is really ours and that we have now shared with the world to the point where they’ve developed,” he said.
He finally sought out a balance disorder specialist who prescribed medication which has eased the disorienting illness. “I’M JUST ABOUT back now, but there are no pills for confidence,” he said, noting that his 67 was something a doctor couldn’t order. Mowry shot a blistering 30 on the front nine, the lowest nine-hole score in the five-year history of the Sanders tourney.