Spectator Killed as Dragster Slams Into Stands

A funny car drag racer went out of control during a warmup and slammed into spectators at a race track in Emmett, Ida., killing at least one person and injuring about a dozen other, deputies said.

As many as 200 people may have suffered sprains or bruises attempting to get out of the way of the racer, a state police spokesman said.

The accident occurred during a national drag race meeting.

“There was a funny car in the pit area that was doing ‘burnouts’ before it went to the line,” said Jerry Adamson of radio station KBOI. “During the ‘burnout,’ it went out of control and shot into the grandstand.”

NOrmally the wheels just spin in place during a ‘burnout’ and the car doesn’t move,” Adamson said. “But this time the tires grabbed, and it took of.” Tony Dorsett didn’t report to the Dallas Cowboys’ training camp at Thousand Oaks as scheduled. He will meet with International Revenue Service officials in Dallas next week, a club spokesman said.

Dorsett, who reportedly owes $414,000 to the IRS, will not arrive at training camp until his finances are settled, Cowboys President Tex Schramm said.

Dorsett could be fined $1,000 a day until he reports, but no decision on the fines has been made by Coach Tom Landry, a spokesman said.

Dwight Muhammad Qawi knocked out South African Piet Crous in the 11th round to win the World Boxing Assn. junior heavyweight world title at Sun City, South Africa.

Qawi, from Camden, N.J., knocked down Crous with a right hand to the head at 1:08 of the 11th round. Crous got up at the count of eight, but 30 seconds later another right put him down for the count.

Crous, who came into the fight with a 25-0 record, had taken the junior heavyweight title from Ossie Ocasio in December and defended it successfully last month against Randy Stephens.

Qawi, a former holder of the World Boxing Council title, which he won as Dwight Braxton, is 24-1-1.

Baseball fans side with the owners in the contract dispute that threatens a strike on Aug. 6, according to a New York Times-CBS News poll.

The findings, released in today’s edition of the New York Times, are in contrast to a poll taken during the 1981 strike, when the public was almost evenly divided between players and owners.

In the latest poll, 43% of the fans interviewed said they thought the owners were more in the right, and 25% sided with the players.

Zola Budd won her first British Amateur Athletic Assn. outdoor title when she set a championship record of 8 minutes 50.5 seconds in winning the 3,000 meters at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium.

Budd never was challenged during the race as she moved to the front after 50 meters and gradually increased her lead.

Dennis Firestone of Australia led the final four qualifiers for the Michigan 500 Indy-car race, but had his fast lap disqualified during a routine technical inspection at Michigan International Speedway.

The race, which was postponed for a week after two accidents last Saturday cast doubts over the use of new radial tires, was re-scheduled for today.

Firestone, driving a new Lola T-900 racer, ran a lap averaging 204.941 m.p.h. on the 2-mile, high-banked oval, apparently giving him the 24th starting spot in the 30-car lineup. But inspectors found the sidepods of the car did not maintain the legal clearance from the ground when tested. He will be allowed to start the car in the race but will join a group of fast drivers relegated to the back of the field by various legalities.

Actor Paul Newman broke a qualifying record and went on to win Race 5 in the Pocono Sports Car Grand Prix at Pocono International Raceway.

Newman, driving a Bob Sharp Nissan 300ZX Turbo, covered his fastest lap on the 2.8 mile tri-oval in 1 minute 33.63 seconds for an average speed of 107.657 m.p.h.

Earlier in the day, Newman broke the Sports Car Club of America qualifying record by covering a lap in 1:30.22. The record was 1:34.62.

Unsigned veterans John Riggins, Mark Moseley and Dave Butz were among the missing as the Washington Redskins’ veterans assembled at their summer camp at Carlisle, Pa.

Safety Curtis Jordan also did not report.

About 70 people were injured in rioting that erupted during an amateur soccer match in Calcutta, United News of India reported.

Police opened fire on mobs that rampaged through the city’s Salt Lake Stadium and surrounding areas, and it was not immediately known if anyone was killed in police gunfire.

The match, between two local amateur clubs, was called off due to the violence.

Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, presented the Olympic Order to retired Soviet soccer player Lev Yashin.

Yashin, 55, played for the Soviet national team from 1954 until 1970, appearing in the final stages of three World Cup tournaments and winning an Olympic gold medal as a member of the Soviet Union’s team at the 1956 Games. He retired to become a member of the Soviet sports committee.