The Indianapolis News from Indianapolis, Indiana • 26

Monday, May 27, 1974 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Pate 25' Two-Way Street? A LOQUACIOUS CHAMP John Not Short On Words bottle of ice cold milk. Still having a hearing problem after 500 miles, Rutherford was oblivious to shouts from photographers above him and after a polite kiss for the race queen he returned to share his joy with his wife. More questions. "Any anxious moments?" "Yes, I picked up something in one of the tires and it caused a handling problem for a while," he replied. Following his 7-minute stop in Victory Lane, Rutherford was escorted to the pace car with Tony Hulman for the victory lap.

pear with the "500" Festival princesses and queen. Then the waiting for that one powerful moment when the winner wheels In. "Any close calls?" he was asked. "Yes, one close one. I must apologize to Billy Vukovich.

Coming out of Turn 2 1 pulled in front of him and slid down inside of him, which was pretty exciting for him," he said. A pit crew member said, "How about the milk?" Rutherford said, "Sure, it's Victory Circle isn't it?" and took a long pull at the traditional By ART HARRIS Although Johnny Rutherford said he "only wanted to lead onp lap the last one" he must have been practicing what to say in Victory Lane for all 200 laps. Never one to be caught short for words, the personable Texan in his Uth 500-Mile Race unloaded with loquacious replies to questions after rolling onto the checkered carpet. His attractive blond wife, Betty, beat him into the winner's circle where McLaren team manager Teddy Mayer lifted her off the ground with an embrace. Rutherford wheeled his once bright orange No.

3 up the temporary ramps into the highly pressurized moment and reacted much the same as all winners, "So, this is it?" Victory Lane is put together when the race hits about 160 laps and crews go to work asssembling the temporary stand. The checkered carpet is tacked down, police move in with instructions to move out everyone but designated personnel and enough cameras to stock a photography store ap f'fa1' i 'JS r3n i ML 4 mtitetiimmtMmmii Photo by Jot Portish. ft rim A Jan Opperman (51) spins as another car goes underneath. Johnny Rutherford pulls around A. J.

Foyt in crucial pit stop. AP. Thompson's Jump To Pros Not So quirer that said Thompson had met with officials of the Philadelphia 76ers YELLOW LIGHT TIMES MERRILL'S Cafeteria OPEN NOON 'til 7 p.m. MEMORIAL DAY IN THE EASTGATE SHOPPING CENTER PHILADELPHIA (AP) -North Carolina State University basketball coach Norm Sloan has said published reports Ail-American junior David Thompson is going to turn professional are untrue. "David was very upset when he read the story," Sloan said.

Sloan was referring to a story in yesterday's Philadelphia In Photo by Jtrry Noltna. TIME 10:00 5:11 3:00 times, far TIME LAPS 3:20 5:30 121-12t 3:70 134-137 3:53 154-155 Yellow lioht on 7 21 LAPS 2- 63 tl- 70 7- 77 W- 1 TOTALS; 34 minutes. Pancho Carter (II) spins and Jim McElreath slips past. Jan 'Northwest' Hero il'here it lay, suffering wine bottles. apiong the discarded chicken bijnes, empty beer cans and Mctop.

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It was a semi-control spin. "I must have looped it four or five times. I just wanted to make sure I stayed away from the wall. I didn't want to be like a fly -splat!" The skillful maneuvering on lap 85 left the Parnelli car 10 feet from the wall and brought the viewers in the Northwest Vista to their feet in applause. Opperman fin Crlfat taste, gently medicated to Many cars would have looked appropriate in the dump-like setting on the grass of the northwest turn if they had been through what Car 51 has just been through.

But the red and white sat there without a scratch. Car 51 belonged to rookie driver Jan Opperman the hero of the "northwest passage." Opperman was the turn's only "victim" yesterday during the 500-Mile Race and, even so, he escaped its metal-shredding walls. "I must have run over something," explained the balding driver from Beaver netp saiisry rooacco crav One thing about sports cars. About the only luggage you can carry is your house key. That might explain why so many people are giving up the classic ing.

So, to stop smoking i stlrl with BAN-SMOKt Gum today at Hook's, i- OnlyJ.35 fit BAN.SM0KEgcuhmeZgn ished 21st. Unscratched and unshaken, Opperman wanted to continue. "They (the cleanup crew) asked me what I wanted to do and I told them I wanted to go back to the pits for new tires. (All four had gone flat because of the 300-foot skid.) They picked me up and then, for some reason, let me down inside the fence on the grass. When they put you there, you're out of the race.

They must have had some reason," he added, seemingly discon-cerned. "The car was really running good, too," said Opperman, "I didn't want to get out of the car." Z.D. Weather OK With Bolin BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) Turdue's Jeff Bolin was one of the few competitors that wasn't bothered by the wind at the Central Collegiate Conference outdoor track championships over the weekend and the only one to set a conference record. Bolin, a senior and co-captain of Purdue's track team, broke the long jump record set by famed Olympian Jesse skis, antiques, junque, what have you. But that's just the beginning.

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