Page 8-Sunday, April 8, 1979-The Michigan Daily DETROIT ERRORS AID RANGERS, 8-2 Texas I* I - i By PETE BARBOUR Special toThe Daily DETROIT - What a letdown. Before an opening day crowd of 43,708, 'the Texas Rangers spoiled manager Les Moss' debut yesterday by routing the Tigers, 8-2. WHILE THEi Rangers won by six runs, Detroit blunders in the fifth and sixth innings opened up what was a tight game. With the score at two apiece in the fif- t;Texas scored two runs without the benefit of a hit. after getting one man out, starting pitcher Dave Rozema hit Texas second baseman Bump Wills with a pitch. Then John Grubb lined a ball to fairly deep cienterfield. CENTERFIELDER Ron Leflore ran back and stumbled the moment he tried t make the catch. Leflore's error per- mitted Wills to score and Grubb to take third. Al Oliver's sacrifice fly brought in. Grubb and the Rangers took a two- run lead.. In the sixth, shortstop Alan Tram- mell's error on a Buddy Bell grounder, combined with a passed ball by Lance Parrish, led to another Ranger run. Catcher Jim Sundberg's sharply-hit single brought Bell home and further extended a margin which the Tigers touldn't overcome. Leflore's performance in the opener couldn't have done much for his con- fidence. While committing the three- tase error, Leflore went zero for four, inicluding a double play in the third. CONSEQUENTLY, the crowd heaped rpuch abuse on him throughout most of the game. Fans in the upper deck bleachers in center threw garbageat Lhef lore, and he was hailed with sar- dastic comments. Actually, things looked brightest for tpe Tigers'before the game evenbegan. 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Tiger c Though the Tigers closed the gap to 2- 1 in the second, they could have easily scored another run. WITH ONE out and runners at first and third, Phil Mankowski singled to right, scoring Jerry Morales. Parrish slid into third base beating the throw of rightfielder Richie Zisk. The ball eluded third baseman Bell and rolled near the Tiger dugout. Coach Dick Tracewski waved Parrish' home and the Rangers easily trapped him between home and third. Parrish almost scored, though, as Jenkins tagged him just before reaching home plate. Had Parrish stayed at third, he would have scored on Tim Corcoran's fly ball to center- field, which ended the inning. pener Detroit tied the game in'the fourth as Kemp lined a leadoff home run into the rightfield seats. The tie was short-lived, however, as Texas pulled away in the. fifth, sixth, and seventh innings. AFTER THE three unearned runs in the fifth and sixth, the Rangers knocked reliever Sheldon Burnside out of the game with a three-run surge in the seventh. Pinch hitter Pat Putnam's double accounted for two of the Texas runs. Righthander Aurelio Lopez finished the game for Detroit as he limited the Rangers to two hits. Jenkins went the distance in notching the Rangers' first win while Rozema absorbed the defeat in his 51% innings' work. Out of the Blue By Geoff Larcom Women in' lockePrrooms . . ..a few solutions FOR THOSE UNAWARE, there's been more than this midwestern madness we call "spring" to gripe about as this year's pro baseball season finally swings into action. On March 9th, a month before opening day, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn issued a set of suggestions to the 26 major league clubs concerning the ad- mission of female reporters toteam's clubhouses this year. Although the matter was left, for the most part, to the clubs' discretion, Kuhn urged clubs to equalize access as much as possible for all reporters. Kuhn's edict came as a result of a year and a half long court battle, in which the commissioner unsuccessfully attempted to preserve the rules for- bidding female reporters' admission to major league clubhouses, on the basis that changing them would be an infringement of the ballplayers' privacy, while at the same time tarnishing the image of the game. The conflict began when Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke (now Melissa Lincoln) took to court her being barred from the clubhouse of the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees during the 1977 World Series. Ludtke and her employer, Time Inc., won a victory of sorts lastApril when it was ruled women could be barred from locker rooms only if men were as well. I say victory of sorts, because the ruling is more of a setback to male reporters than a gain for women. Iaving enjoyed the privilege of postgame clubhouse interviews for so long, male spontwriter aren't about to give an inch in this regard. Any change from the status quo will be greeted with screams of protest, protests that story quality will suffer if immediate access is not allowed, that the emotion that accompanies the game's end will have died out once the players have dressed. Step in the right direction While those points are valid, the fact remains that sdmething must be done to remedy the inequalities women reporters have suffered in the past. While their male counterparts roamed freely in the clubhouse gathering quotes and inside information from various sources, women have had to con- tent themselves with one or two interviews with a harried athlete outside the clubhouse, who was often sucked dry of news after being questioned inside already. Add to that the pressure of an impending deadline, and you see the situation has been far from ideal. Thus, Kuhn's order has to be looked upon as a step in the right direction. Yet Kuhn did not specify that women were to be allowed in clubhouses while the players are dressing, only that they were to be treated as equals. The problem here is that anything less than equal admission to locker rooms following a game is unsatisfactory. One alternative, a separate inter- view room, is inadequate in that situations such asthis are often artificial. Players and coaches tend to hold back more when brought into a room full of reporters and placed in front of a mike. Responses will be more vague and guarded. A further blow to women reporters would be the bitterness of their male counterparts should such a policy be instituted. Women would be looked upon as the cause of the male reporters losing previously unchallenged reporting rights. A better procedurewould be to open the dressing rooms immeditely af- terthe game ends, while requesting that players remain in uniform for that 15 to 20 minute period. The dressing room would then be closed to the media for a half hour so the players could shower and dress in private. Business, not pleasure You could even resort to what the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League did. The Cosmos gave each of their players a bathrobe to wear after the game and let all reporters in right after the game. Yet from this corner, it seems that solutions of this natfure aren't even necessary. The issue of ballplayers' privacy, along with the sexual overtones resulting from admitting women reporters, is irrelevant. To suppose that a woman reporter would enter a clubhouse for any reason other than completing her work in the best possible manner is preposterous. Following a game, a female reporter is far too more concer- ned with pulling together a decent story prior to her deadline to care about ogling naked athletes. In addition, a major leatgue clubhouse is surely one of the most sexless places a man and a woman could meet. The air is stale, other reporters are milling about, and the language heard within is hardly romantic. Then there's the question of the players' right to privacy. Do women reportery have the right to see tnen in the nude? Here it should be noted, a ballplayer already endures a considerable annoyance in the form ofthe many male reporters who pester him following the game. In many case, a player might feel more at home answering a question posed by a woman. It's admittedly a touchy issue, one which will take much time in being fully resolved. But the piecemeal solutions proposed, which would damage the rights male reporters now have, won't do. Only equal admittance right after each game is.the fair solution for all concerned, and that, as the preseason furor has indicated, won't come easy. Tumbler Creek goes AP Photo TIGER CATCAHER Lance Parrish glances back at a pursuing Buddy Bell in a second inning rundown in yesterday's opening day game. Parrish was attempting to score on a Phil Mankowski hit, but fell and was tagged out. Little else went right for the Tigers as they fell to the Texas Rangers, 8-2. Detroit will get a chance to gain revenge against the Rangers this afternoon. A caine-raising captain named Queeg Caught his crew in a bit ofiintrigue. After serious scrut'ny He put down the mut'ny ' By popping for lunch at The League! ).R G. ; -TeMichigan Next to Hill Auditorium Located in the heart of the campus, it is the heart of the campus .. . 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The Yankees added a run in the ninth on Thurman Munson's sacrifice fly off Reggie Cleveland. Clcieland 3, Boston 0 CLEVELAND - Lefthander Rick Waits checked Boston on just one hit-- Jerry Remy's leadoff single in the sixth inning - and Mike Torrez walked in the winning run as Cleveland stopped the Red Sox 3-0 yesterday in the Indians' home opener. Torrez, who gave up four hits in 72/ SUN-WED open til 1 am THURSDAY til 2 FRIDAY and SATURDAY til 3 am innings, also pitched no-hit ball through the first five innings. Boston got a runner as far as third only once in the game, but Waits got out of the jam when Dwight Evans was caught in a rundown between third and home. Baltimore 6, Chicago 3 BALTIMORE - Rick Dempsey snapped a sixth-inning tie with a two- run double and scored on Al Bumbry's single, keying a four-run rally that gave the Baltimore Orioles a 6-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox yesterday. Dempsey bounced a ground-rule double over the center-field fence. Bumbry, who walked to force in a fifth- inning run, then singled to finish LaGrow. Mike Flanagan, a 19-game winner last season, earned the victory with three innings of relief from rookie Sammy Stewart. .Minnelsota 3, Oakland 1 OAKLAND - Butch Wynegar's two- out double to left-center field drove in two runs in the top of the 12th inning and gave the Minnesota Twins a 3-1 victory over the Oakland A's yesterday. Wynegar's hit was his third of the game and Minnesota's 13th. The double off Jim Todd scored Roy Smalley, who had walked, and Jose Morales, on base on a fielder's choice. The victory went to Mike Marshall, who replaced starter Roger Erickson in the 10th inning. r I HOUSING DIVISION COUZENS HALL RESIDENT STAFF APPLICATIONS FOR SPRING/SUMMER 1979 on to NC Special to The Daily BATON ROUGE - Bob Creek, Michigan's sole remaining competitor' for the NCAA gymnastic finals, was in a three-way tie for fourth place {,9.525) in the high bar competition. Indiana State's Kurt Thomas was leading the f AVAILABLE STARTING APRIL 3, 1979 IN 1500 SAB Rd POSITIONS INCLUDE: RESIDENT DIRECTOR AND RESIDENT ADVISOR Resident Advisor positions require a minimum of 55 credit hours. Graduate status preferred for s the Resident Directors positions.' QUALIFICATIONS: (1) Must be a registered U. of M. student on the Ann Arbor campus in good academic standing during the period of employment. (2) Must have completed a minimum of 55, credit hours. (3) Preference will be given to applicants who have lived in residence halls at Uni- versity level for at least one year. (4) Undergraduates must have a 2.5 cumulative grade point average at the time of application. (5) Proof of these qualifications may be required. Current staff and other applicants who have an application on file must come to this office to update their application form. Staff selection and placement shall be determined in the following order: 1. Current staff in Couzens Hall who hove been reap pointed Representatives of UNITED TELEPHONE COMPANY of Ohio will be recruiting in Ann Arbor on Thursday, April 19. We are interested in interviewing present college graduates or June graduates with the follow- ing degrees: 1. Bachelors or Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. 2. Bachelors or Masters Degree in Business Admin- istration or Industrial Engineering. AA finals event with a 9.7 score. Other Michigan gymnasts in the. tournament were Jim Varilek and Nigel Rothwell. Varilek finished fif- teenth with a score of 18.3 in the floor exercise. Rothwell, competing in the all around event, finished seventeenth with 103.9 points. Nebraska was leading going int the finals, with Oklahoma 'and Indiana State in second and third respectively. Mich. 'A'21, London 3 '. Mich. 'B'56, London 4 Michigan's Rugby club continued its t winning ways yesterday as the A squad defeated London, Ontario by a 21-3" score and the B side swamped London's B team 56 to 4. Both the A and B teams are un- defeated in three games this year. Next weekend the ruggers travel to Northwestern with high hopes for the Big Ten conference tournament.