Friday, October 17, 1969 [HE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Friday, October I 7, 1 969 IHE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Nine Against 'TheWal/I A little bit of polish ... .. .goes a long way By PAIL HERTZ PEACE, BROTHERHOOD, and the Mets-and not necessarily in that order, at least not until the shock, glee and general euphoric feeling, due to the Mets (I refrain from adjectives be- cause they've all been used) winning the World Series, wears off me and the plethora of other Met fanatics around the world The World Champion New York Mets sounds a little un- believable, doesn't it. Well, I'm still worried about waking up and discovering that it was all a dream. As far as I'm concerned the feat of the Mets may have been the greatest in sports history. I realize that a great many Detroit fans will point to the Tigers' victory last October, but in spite of the fact that the Tigers' fans had waited for more years than Met fans, one should remember that the Tigers had challenged before, and were picked by many experts to win it all before the season began. The Mets victory was a shot in the dark for the Mets' fans. THE METS best finish ever was last season when they lost 89 games, but managed to avoid tenth place by one game. This year improvement was foreseen, but Met fans would have been satisfied with a third or a fourth place finish-anything beyond that would be a bonus; a world championship was in the realm of the impossible. The Mets' early run at the Cubs meant the season would be a success, but when the Mets fell 9% games out of first and plummeted to third place, just about everybody was ready to call it a season. Vic Ziegel of the New York Post wrote that the mathematics of a Met pennant were inconceivable. The New York Times' ace baseball writer, Leonard Koppett, foresaw a situation that the Yankees, then in fourth, could finish higher than the Mets That day the Mets swept a doubleheader from the San Diego Padres, proceeded to win 11 of 12 games, and the fes- tivities were on. It was as if someone was looking over the Mets, as one wit said, "God is not only living in New York (in refer- ence to the song), he's playing first, second, short, third, and three outfield positions for the Mets." EVERY JAY there was a different star-Al Weis, Tommy Agee, Ron Swoboda, Nolan Ryan, Ed Charles-and the heroics became the accepted rather than the unusual. The games were played in true Met tradition with the only difference being that the Mets won the games. Yesterday, however, I must admit that I was not the most confident Met fan on earth after the Orioles broke out to a three run lead, but you could tell everything would be alright when Cleon Jones was awarded first on "the old shoe polish play" shortly after Frank Robinson had failed to make first on a similarly disputed call. Jones said, "The turning point of the game was when the ball rolled to our dugout rather than theirs." It was inherently obvious what would happen next. Every- one knew Donn Clendenon, the next batter, would hit a homer, and then somebody else, say Al Weis, would hit a homer, his first ever in Shea Stadium, and then the team would bunch a couple of hits for the ultimate clackers. OF COURSE, it all happened, and when Cleon Jones caught Dave Johnson's drive for the final out, it was no surprise that New York exploded the way it did. The long wait was over and New Yorkers were ready. Confetti poured out of office buildings filling Times Square to a depth of one foot. Drivers honked their car horns. Mayor Lindsay, who may stand to benefit from the Mets victory, declared Monday Metsday, the fans tore apart Shea Stadium for the third time within a month, and the Met players themselves chanted "We're number one" and generally seemed to be in a state of nivvana. All was not roses for the Mets and their fans. One fan had the gall to yell "Bring on the Astros." The Mets lost to the Houston Astros 10 of 12 times this season. Another fan brought up the fact that it could never happen again; i.e., never will Met fans be able to attain the exhilirating feeling accompanying the first success ever. With this in mind, they made the most of their celebration. Thousands of kids swarmed onto the field, liberating anything not planted in the ground and some things that were. Smoke from smoke bombs poured across the field as signs went up proclaiming the message, "This is it Fans. There is no To- morrow." Even the staid world of Wall Street was affected as the Jones average rose nine points at the close of trading. NO LONGER will the Met fan be the epitome of the loser. Already the shell has begun to break; for example in my case, I predicted a Met series victory in three and made bets on a four game series sweep. Later I made a bet that the series would not go back to Baltimore. Almost any Met fan will predict a repeat performance by the Mets next year, and a few will even go so far to express confidence that the famous Met ninth innings will become less frequent. No more ninth inning heart failures, Ah! Sweet sorrow. Blitzed By The Associated Press BALTIMORE - An estimated 4.000 persons gave the Baltimore Orioles a rousing welcome last night when they returned home after losing the World Series to the New York Mets. The crowd assembled at Friend- ship International Airport well before the chartered flight landed. "Win or lose Orioles, we still love you," said one sign. "You're still No. 1 with us," another said.' One by one the players ap- proached a wire fence, behind which the crowd stood and cheer- Birds duly dazed by disaster This Weekend in Sports TODAY FOOTBALL-State News vs. Daily Libels, Ferry Field, 3:30 p.m. TOMORROW FOOTBALL-Michigan at Michigan State, 1:30 p.m. SOCCER-Michigan at Michigan State LACROSSE--Michigan at Ohio State RUGBY-Michigan at Michigan State, Miami of Ohio ed - shaking hands, waving and: Outfielder F r a n k Robinson, signing a few autographs. whose third inning homer in the "We want Boog," the chant went final game was the only run bat- up, when first baseman B o o g ted in of the Series, credited the Powell didn't appear immediately. Mets with "doing what they had! Powell stopped short of the fence to do." and raised both arms outward as "Our scouts said the Mets were the crowd roared. a good, solid ball club which The noisy outpouring of affec- could beat us in the close games," tion for the losers, long a trade- Robinson said. "That's exactly mark of Mets' fans during that what happened." If there were any turning points," he said, "I'd have to pick the' two catches by Agee and the one by Swoboda." New York center fielder Tom- mie Agee snared two Baltimore O rP drives in the third game which saved at least five Oriole runs as the Mets won 5-0. NIGHT EDITOR: In the fourth game, a diving PAT AKINScatch by right fielder Ron Swo- PAT ATKINS boda prevented the Orioles from scoring the winning run in the club's formative years, continued ninth innin and the Mets wn for some 30 minutes.2 Referring to a couple of contro- The Mets Won four straight to versial umpires' decisions in the take World Series after losing Series, one sign read: "We wuz the opener. They allowed the robbed." Another proclaimed, "Re- Orioles only nine runs and 23 hitsi place umpires with computers." in the five games. Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver Weaver said it was very dis- said yesterday, "The Mets aren't couraging to lose the Series after, lucky and they don't need grem- winning 109 games during the lings to win." regular season. Then he added: "No other pitching staff con- "I think we're going to root for tained us as well during the year," the Mets next year. If we win our Weaver said of the National league, we'd like another shot at League club that rose from ninth them." place and became world cham- Baseball commissioner Bowie pions over his Orioles, a team Kuhn visited the Baltimore locker many experts had labeled the best room, shook Weaver's hand, and in baseball. said: "The Mets beat the best! Asked what had surprised him damn ball club in sight." said the Mets "got all the breaks and we got none. I still think we have the better team. But I'm satisfied that my guys gave me 120 per cent." Many of the fans ran to another area to intercept the buses as they circled the airport terminal for the trip into the city. Bye, Bye Birdies BALT Buford 1f Blair cf F. Robinson rf Powell lb Salmon pr B. Robinson 3b Johnson 2b Etchebaren c Belanger ss McNally p Motton ph Watt p NEW Agee of Harrelson ss Jones If Clendenon lb Swoboda rf Charles 3b Grote c Weis 2b Koosman 1) Baltimore New York F -Powell, Watt. New York 6. 2B-i Swoboda. HR-McN 1, Clendenon 3, Wei McNally Watt L, 0-1 Koosmain W, 2-.0 IMORE Total YORK ab r h bi 3 1 1 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 00 0 2 1 1 2{ 1 0 0U 3 o o 32 3 5 3" --Associated Press The meek (?) inherit the earth, NO MORE DOORMATS Stichmen primed for opener ab r h bi,. 3 0 1 0 4 0 0 o By JOEL GREER who returned from last spring's 3 21 0' team , only twvo will start tomor-I 3 1 1 2 Lacrosse at Michigan has a new t .onlo im 4 1 2 look for 1969. The team is going row. Bob Gillon, the stickmen's 4 0 1 oleading scorer will anchor the at-i 4 o o o to win. In the past Michigan head I tack, and the other returnee Dick coach "Skip" Flanagan has de- McCarthy will start at defense. scribed the team as the "doormat Starting at crease attack is Hal Total 32 5 7 4 of the world." However, Flanagan Benson, a newcomer from Balti- 003 000 000-3 promises that the stickmen wilt more. Steve Hart, another rookie, 000 002 12x-5 "surprise alot of people" this year. nailed down the other attack spot.i LOB-Baltimore 3 KoosmnI, C. Jones, Part of the reason for the Wol- The other starting defensemen, ally 1, F. Robinson verine's expected improvement is are rookies Bob Zick, and Iim is 1. SB-Agee. explained by the coaching staff. Cotter. ip Ih rer bb so Substituting at defense will be' 7 5 3 3 2 6 The staff is one of the finest Dave Lousma, and Wiley Osborne." 1 2 2 1 0 1 in the country. Flanagan, original- At center midfield will be Dick Jones. T-2:14. A- ly from Baltimoe, played his col- i Dean who will be flanked on either legiate lacrosse at Rutgers and side by New Hampshire transfer earned All-America honors. Flan- Ken White and Princeton transfer agan assumed the duty of player- Chip Franks. Able middie substi- tutes include Tim Rogers, a for- mer hockey player at Providence College, Dan Lamble, a standout on last year's team, and first year man Pete Follett. Handling the goalkeeping duties will be Jay Johnson, a freshman from Kingswood, Connecticut, lie has three years of high school goal- keeping behind him. Johnson, ac- cording to Coach Flanagan, is ex- tremely quick, and has excellent reactions. Behind Johnson is Bob Mucci, who is one of the "hardest nosed ball players I've ever seen," Flan- agan explained proudly. Mucci is from Winchester, Massachusetts and, like Johnson, also played three years of prep school lacrosse. most about the Mets, Weaver Jerold C. Hoffberger, the ma- HiP-byMcNaIy,, said: "them getting more runs jority stockholder of the Orioles, 57,397. than us. We knew they had good defense and good pitching, so it looked like it might be low scoring games and we figured to get more runs. We didn't." 'Red Wings axe GOadsby; dAel returns ; DETROIT (?- Detroit Red Wing coach Bill Gadsby, was fired in a surprise announcement at the start of a National Hockey League game with Minnesota yesterday. "I'm still in shock," Gadsby told newsmen. "It'll take a couple of days before I make an official statement." IThe Detroit Wings, stunned momentarily by the firing of their coach Bill Gadsby just before' game-time, reeled to a 3-2 loss to the Minnesota North Stars. Chants of "We want Gadsby, We Want Gadsby" filled Olympia Stadium in the second period after the 11,000 fans got word of' firing, which according to Gadsby came from no apparent reason. General manager Sid Abel will act as coach until a' permanent! successor is named, the Red Wings said. Gadsby's team won ids first two games of the infant NHL season.: "This is the first time a coach! has been fired who is batting a thousand. But I guess it's just a cold cruel world," Gadsby said, In a news conference following the game, Red Wing president Bruce Norris said "We felt we weren't communicating as well as we should.r "Let's just call it a game planr that went astray," Norris said. "We felt we needed a changej for the club. I don't want to end up in the situation we were in last year when we had a chance to do something and we didn't," Norris said. I l Giria dde Pickings coach through the 1968 season, but will concentrate strictly on coaching in 1969. Coaching the defense will be With th result of today's exhibition between The Daily Libels Bob Kaman. He is presently doing and the state news forgone conclusion, Libel Heal Coach Buster his post-doctoral work in micro- Block gave his squad the day off yesterday. "We had a pretty good biology at Michigan and was an! practice last Friday," he stated, "and besides it was too cold for 'my All-Ivy stickman at Pennsylvania. boys' to go outside." Kaman also held the head coach- Ace back, Slime Nissen, testified to the team's state of readiness. ing job at Virginia Tech. "Chairman Mao teaches us to smash the imperialists and I can't Completing the coaching staff is think of anything more imperialist than the state news. wanna Bob DiGiovanni, an All-Ivy goalie kill-kill-kill. ." at Cornell. Known as the founding, Petitions available now in 1538 SAB until Oct. 17 For committee positions on the Student Organizations Committee, or else contact Rich Perlman, 769-71 37. Even squad members still in possession of their faculties are anxious to smash the bourgeoise capitalists. Dead back Paul Mc- Cartney resurrected himself from to get in on the fun. "I'd just turnc this game," he commented. 1. MICHIGAN at Michigan State 2. Illinois at INDIANA 3. Iowa at PURDUE 4. OHIO STATE at Minnesota 5. WISCONSIN at Northwestern 6. SOUTH CAROLINA at , Virginia Tech 7. TENNESSEE at Alabama 8. AUBURN at Georgia Tech 9 Colorado at OKLAHOMA the involuntary retired list justI over in my grave if I had to miss 12. California at UCLA 13. OREGON STATE at Washington 14. SOUTHERN CAL at Notre Dame 15. Colgate at PRINCETON 16. Navy at RUTGERS 17. PENN STATE at Syracuse father of Michigan lacrosse, Di- Giovanni is working exclusively with the goalkeepers. The stickmen will venture down into Buckeye country to battle Ohio State tomorrow. Ohio State is coached by a Woody Hayes type, Conrad Steele. His varsity squad has never been beaten by the{ Michigan stickmen. Steele's team, which finished' third in the Midwestern Confer- ence last season has one of the highest scoring attacks in the na- tion. WHY WASTE TIME (LEANING 1 We Can Do It Quicker and Better a QUALITY CLEANING AMPLE PARKING OPEN 7 A.M. to 6 P.M. EUREKA CLEANERS 308 N. Main St. 10. Kansas at NEBRASKA18. SM at Rice Flanagan describes the Buck- 11. TEXAS A&M at 19. OREGON at AIR FORCE eyes as a squad with an excellent Texas Christian 20. MSU news at DAILY LIBELS attack, a speedy midfield, and only average stickwork. Flanagan ex- Andy Barbas, Executive Sports Editor, 58-22 (.725) - MICHIGAN, Indiana, poses Ohio State's only weakness Purdue, Ohio State, Northwestern, Virginia Tech, Tennessee, Auburn, Okla- as its mediocre defense homa, Nebraska, Texas A&M, UCLA, Oregon State, Southern Cal, Princeton, Navy, Penn State, SMlU, Air Force, DAILY LIBELS. Of the five Michigan players Bill Cusumano, Associate Sports Editor, 58-22 (.725) - MICHIGAN, Indiana, Purdue, Ohio State, Wisconsin, South Carolina, Alabama, Auburn, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas A&M, UCLA, Oregon State, Southern Cal, Princeton, Rutgers, Penn State, SMU, Air Force, DAILY LIBELS. 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