BRIEFLY : HAMILTON GETS FIRST WINSTON CUP WIN.Bobby Hamilton For his son, a Busch Series driver, see Bobby Hamilton, Jr.. For the American football player, see Bobby Hamilton (football player). Charles Robert "Bobby" Hamilton, Sr. won the Dura-Lube 500 at Phoenix International Raceway Phoenix International Raceway, or just PIR, is a one mile tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona. It opened in 1964, as the new home of major open-wheel racing in the Phoenix area, replacing the track at the Arizona State Fairgrounds as an automobile racing venue. on Sunday, earning his first Winston Cup victory and giving car-owner Richard Petty Richard Lee Petty (born July 2, 1937) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup Series driver. "The King," as he is nicknamed, is most well-known for winning the NASCAR Championship seven times (Dale Earnhardt is the only other driver to accomplish this feat),winning a record 200 races his first win in 13 years. With a record raceway crowd of 104,000 on its feet and shouting its approval, Hamilton's No. 43 Pontiac, decked out in the traditional Petty Blue and STP STP or standard temperature and pressure, standard conditions for measurement of the properties of matter. The standard temperature is the freezing point of pure water, 0°C; or 273.15°K;. Red colors, led the final 30 laps on the one-mile oval. ``We've come close before this, but we didn't quite have it together,'' said Petty, who was the driver when a Petty Enterprises Petty Enterprises is a NASCAR racing team based in Randleman, North Carolina. The team is owned by Richard Petty and his son Kyle Petty, who oversee the operations of two NEXTEL Cup Dodge Chargers: the #43 Cheerios/Betty Crocker Dodge, driven by Bobby Labonte, and the #45 Marathon car last won, in October 1983 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. ``Today, they had it all together and this really feels good.'' Meanwhile, series points leader Terry Labonte Terrance Lee Labonte (born November 16, 1956, in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a former NASCAR driver. Labonte was introduced to the sport through his father, who had worked on racecars as a hobby for his friends. was able to ignore his injured hand and drive to the brink of his second Winston Cup championship, finishing a strong third. FOOTBALL Four athletes from Southwestern Oklahoma Southwest Oklahoma is a geographical name for the southwest portion of the state of Oklahoma, typically considered to be south of the Canadian River, extending eastward from the Texas border to a line roughly from Weatherford, to Anadarko, to Duncan. State, including a football player who scored the winning touchdown in the Bulldogs' 19-15 victory over East Central Oklahoma on Saturday, died in a traffic accident in a driving rainstorm early Sunday. BASEBALL Harry ``Handsome Harry'' Shuman, a former relief pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates, died of heart failure. He was 81. Shuman was stricken Friday while working at his desk at the Democratic City Executive Committee office in downtown Philadelphia. TRACK AND FIELD Isaac Garcia, a physical education instructor in the Mexican Navy, won the Marine Corps Marathon in Arlington, Va., in 2 hours, 15 minutes, 9 seconds. HOCKEY Nancy Deschamps scored on a rebound at 11:30 of the third period to give Canada a 1-0 victory over the United States in the final of the inaugural Three Nations Cup women's hockey tournament in Ottawa. SKIING Steve Locher of Switzerland won his first World Cup race in three years, capturing a men's giant slalom in Soelden, Austria. Locher was timed in 2 minutes, 3.20 seconds on a course that dropped 1,184 feet through 42 gates on the first run and 45 on the second. He led after the first run with 58.56. ?13Daily News Wire Services |
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