The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 May 1964 — Page 4

Page 4 SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1964

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA

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Facts, Figures Of Today s 500 Race

INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Facts | and figures on the 48th annual 500-mile Speedway auto race: Place — Indianapolis Motor

Speedway

Field — The 33 fastest cars in qualifications.

Defending Champion nelli Jones.

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Race record — 143.137 miles per hour; Jones, 1963. Top favorites — Jimmy Clark, Bobby Marshman, Pamelli Jones. Rodger Ward, A. J. Foyt. Starting time — Noon, EDT. Total purse — $500,000 estimated, with about $155,000 to the winner. Probable attendance—300,000

estimated.

Weather — Partly cloudy and cool, high in 60s. Radio coverage — Speedway network of more than 500 stations plus Armed Forces overseas network. Television — Closed-circuit coverage in more than 100 cities; radius of 250-mile blackout around Indianapolis, except

Chicago.

Spinout At 20 Is For From 160 Nine years ago this summer a young fireball from Pottstown, Pa., made one of the most embarrassing debuts in auto

racing history.

He spun out at the Reading [ (Pa.) Fairgrounds while running 20 miles per hour in last place of a "slow heat race.” “I must have set some sort of track record,” says Bobby Marshman laughingly today. “I don't think anybody ever spun 1 out going that slow. But I was only 18 and very nervous.” Tomorrow the former Speedway rookie of the year (he shared the honor with Pamelli Jones in 1961) shoots for the biggest single prize in sports— victory in the 500-mile Race and a possible $200,000 pay-off.

Speedway Race Tires Are Babied During the month of May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway tires are treated like babies, their every move being charted and checked. The temperature of the tires — all across the tread—are taken immediately after a driver comes in from a practice run, just like a baby, or any I other human being, if a tire has an excessive temperature something is wrong in the way the driver is driving or the way the car’s chassis is set up. Temperatures normally run at an average of about 200-225 degrees during the race. Anything over 275 degrees is critical, according to tire engineers.

48 Persons Die In Accidents By United Pren International A United Press International, count at 2:30 p.m. EDT showed that 48 persons had been killed in traffic accidents since the start of the holiday at 6 p.m. Thursday.

CITY LEAGUE YETS TROPIIYS FOR LOCAL KEGLERS

Three Straight Wins Blue Crown Spark Plug Specials win three consecutive 500Mile Races. Maun Rose drove one of them to victory in 1947 and again in 1948. Bill Holland was at the wheel of the winner in 1949.

Six-Cylinder Victor The last six-cylinder car to win the 500-Mile Race was George Robson’s Thome Engineering Special in 1946.

35 States To See 500

Brickyard

Pickpockets Active At Parade Pickpockets are at work in Indianapolis. Police have warned residents and thousands of visitors arriving here for today's 500-Mile Race to bew r are of the sleight-of-hand artists. An El Paso. Tex., man, William E. Boys, told police his pocket was picked last night as he viewed the 500-Festival parade from a reserved seat on the south side of Monument Circle. Another victim last night was Joseph McGowan, 4555 N. Delaware, who told police two men “sandwiched” him as he boarded a North Meridian bus on the Circle. Missing was his wallet containing $90 and important personal papers, he said.

31 Drivers Killed Since First Race Thirty-one drivers have lost their lives on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since the 2 1 imile track had its first race in

1909.

The total of drivers, mechanics, track personnel and spectators who have died at the track stands at 54. This year no drivers were killed during practice or in qualification attempts although there were several spectacular | accidents. One death attributed to the Speedw’ay was that of an 11j year-old boy who w r as not Inside the grounds.

The 500-Mile Race will be shown on closed circuit television tomorrow for the first ! time. theaters, auditoriums and It will be shown in 136 sports arenas in 35 states, the District of Columbia and Can- | ada at a cost of $1 million. Revenue from the production is expected to be between S3 and $4 million. The seating : capacity of these 136 sites is between 600,000 and 700,000. Tickets are selling from $3 to $10. Residents of Indiana and parts of Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky will not be able to see the telecast since this area has been blacked out.

An estimated 3.2 million bricks w r ere used to pave the Speedway in 1908 and 1909. Today only a strip of brick a yard wide remains at the finish | ! line.

Six-Wheeler Is 12th In 1948 Billy DeVore drove a six-wheel car to 12th place in the 500. It was called the Pat Clancy Special.

First place winners in the Doubles Bowling tournament were Ann Atkins and Cathy Atkins with a combined score of 1127. Photo by Martin Kruse

Shown above are the 1st place winners in the AllEvents in the Women’s City Association Bowling tourna ment. Left to right: Dorisanne Albright, 1701 with handicap: Wilma Pelfrey, 1499 actual pins. Photo by Martin Kruse

Front-Drive Winner The last front-drive car to win the 500 w r as Bill Holland’s Blue Crown Special in 1949.

BROWN BOMBER DETROIT UPI — Former heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis was floored a total of 10 times during his career.

Grudge Battle PARIS UPI — The men's singles finals of the French International tennis championships shapes up as a grudge battle between Italy’s Nicola Pietrangeli and Manuel Santana of Spain. In 1961, Santana ruined Pietrangeli’s bid for a third straight title here with a fiveset finals victory.

Slow Driver In Trial Is 'On Bubble' On the final days of qualifications, the slowest cars in the Leld are likely to be “bumped” by faster qualifiers. The car in the most danger of being eliminated is “sitting on bubble” in the lingo of the pit crews. If it is bumped, the bubble bursts.

Meaning Of Flags At Speedway What do the flags mean? The most famous of the flags used at the Speedway is the checkered flag, and it means "You have finished the race.” If a driver gets the checkered flag before anyone else, it also means he has won the race. The green flag (or light) starts the race and indicates the course is clear. The yellow flag (or light) means drive with caution and maintain position. Other flags used are: Black —- Stop for consultaton. Bright blue with diagonal orange strips — Car is attempting to pass you. White — You are starting last lap. Red — Stop: Race is halted.

SMART BASEBALLER LOS ANGELES UPI — Infielder Marv Breeding of the Los Angeles Dodgers earned a bachelor of science degree in physical education at Howard College in Birmingham, Ala.

LEFTY SHORTSTOP PHILADELPHIA UPI —The Philadelphia Phillies used a left-handed shortstop named Bill Hulen in 73 games during the 1896 season.

BUSY BOXER CHICAGO UPI — In 1912, Johnny Coylon defended his world bantamweight boxing championship in 20-round bouts twice within a space of two weeks.

First place winner in the singles of the Bowling Tournament was Nancy Wallace with a score of 603. Photo by Martin Kruse

The two ladies pictured above are Mrs. Lynn Mark, president of the Greencastle Women's Bowling Association and Mrs. Glee Conyers, secretary-treasurer of the Association. These ladies had charge of the business meeting at the Bowling Banquet Wednesday evening. Photo by Martin Kruse

5 PENALIZED BY RACING BOARD

PATENT LONDON, UPI — British Army Major Walter C. Wingfield cf Nantclwyd, Wales, patented the Greek name of “Sphairistike” in 1874.

FIRST ACROSS DOVER. Eng. UPI — Capt. Matthew Webb of Great Britain was the first person to swim the English Channel, in 1875.

NICKNAMES COLUMBUS, Ohio UPI — Jack Nicklaus, the Masters and PGA champion, is known to his pro golf rivals as “Baby Beef” and “Ohio Fats.”

The first U.S. canoe club was founded in 1871.

COLUMBUS, Ohio UPI —The Ohio Racing Commission penalized five persons Thursday in the last session of a five-day hearing on alleged race fixing at Scioto Dow r ns harness track near here. The commission also denied a 1964 license to Samuel Call!, , North Vernon, Ind., who was one of those named by the U.S. Trotting Association as being involved in the case. The commission said Calli did not apj pear for a hearing. It appeared the hearings may result in several rules changes for Ohio tracks, including filming of all harness races.

Car No. 1 Holds Winning Record The “winningest car number” for the 500-Mile Race is No. 1. Five times cars carrying this number have won the race. The most recent was in 1961 when A. J. Foyt drove the No. 1 Bowes Seal Fast Special to victory. Cars No. 2 and 16 have w’on four times. Nos. 3, 4, 8 and 11 have won # three times each and car Nos. 6, 7, 12, 23 and 32 have been two-time winners. Racers with numbers between 36 and 97 never have won the 500. The same is true for No. 10.

Two Held In Lieu Of Bond LOUISVILLE, Ky. UPI — John Cleveland, 31, Vincennes, Ind., and Oscar Davis Jr., 32, Louisville, were held in lieu of $10,000 bond today pending a

further hearing in connection with an Indiana bank robbery. Their arraignment on fugitive charges was continued Thursday until Monday. Federal bank robbery charges were filed against them Thursday at Indianapolis in connection with the $17,718 holdup Wednesday of the Freelandville, Ind., branch of the Security Bank and Trust Co. of Vin-

cennes.

Local police arrested the men Wednesday night about six hours after the robbery. Officers Thursday said they found more than $9,500 in the motel room where Cleveland had registered under an assumed name.

New Lake For Indiana Soon

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — A new lake in Crawford and Perry S Counties of about 500 acres is

director Jack Booher. , They authorized the expenditure of $175,000 to buy land for the proposed lake created by damming Stinking Fork of Little Blue River. But the State Flood Control and Water Resources Commis-

headed for creation as a result s i 0 n, which is in charge of the of action taken Friday by Gov- project, doesn’t like Stinking ernor Welsh and state budget Fork for a name and refers to

it as the Sulphur Springs Project. Total cost is estimated at $1.4 million. A future reservoir included in the commission’s proposed 196567 budget calls for $1.6 million for Brookville Reservoir, and $4.3 million for the Eagle Creek flood control project in Marion County and smaller projects.

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HEART FUNDERS—This happy foursome razzes it up a bit before teeing off in Ardmore, Pa., for benefit of the Heart Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania. From left: Ray Bolger, Arnold Palmer, Jimmy Demaret, and former President Eisenhower. It cost some pa* teona UOO and soma $50 to aaa Ilea and Amie wan 3 and 2..

THAT TFX—Here are two models of that TFX plane whose contract to General Dynamics caused a congressional investigation. Top: The wings being moved from fully extended to swept back position. Lower: In flight. It is a two-man tactical fighter for USAF and Navy, powered by two Pratt and Whitney turbo-fan engines. It will carry either convenUopal or nuclear weapons.

THAT SMILE IS THEIR REWARD—Eighteen-month-old Dean Mienem, Waukon, Iowa, has survived a series of open heart operations to repair a hole in his heart, during which he was given a 50-50 chance to live. He is one of the youngest children in the world with a plastic patch in his heart. That smile is reward enough for scores who helped keep him alive.