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Friday, October 1, 1971

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Page Seven

Frid y, O tob r 1, 1971T H E M IC H G A N AIL

Page Seven

s,
Rick Cornfeld
Runaways-races, players,
clubs-mark Baseball '71
IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW the truth, you might think the Los An-
geles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants were kissing
cousins, not the hated baseball rivals they have been over the
years on two coasts.
The two teams, creeping to a finish in the National League's
West Division, provided what pennant race excitement there
was in this year of runaway races and runaway players. To say
nothing of runaway franchises.
The race between the two coast clubs, playing recently
as though they didn't want to win, wouldn't have been un-
usual even if their predecessors hadn't conducted the same
kind of race nine years ago. In 1962 the Giants took advant-
age of a Dodger collapse by playing listless ball, backing into
a tie for the pennant and then taking a three-game playoff.
Actually this year, people probably should have realized
that with so many players not even wanting to play, the only
pennant contenders in a tight race wouldn't want to win.
More than half a dozen players said to hell with it and
left baseball at least temporarily. Curt Flood, Alex Johnson,
Tony Conigliaro, Hawk Harrelson, Sam McDowell Ted Uhlaen-
der, Clete Boyer and now Willie Horton all left their clubs, some
with verbal blasts at the management.
The surprise, in a year in which even Tiger hurler Mike
Kilkeny threatened to follow Harrelson's path to the pro golf
tour, is that fdrmer delinquents Richie Allen and Joe Pepi-
tone made it through the season.
The most significant departure was by Angels' star John-
son, eternally the center of controversy, who won a landmark
decision that means players with emotional ills have to be
given the same consideration as ones .with physical ills.
Besides Johnson, Boyer, who refused to apologize for blast-
ing Atlanta manager Luman Harris, was given his release and
Conigliaro quit because of recurring eye troubles.
Sam McDowell, a talented but moody pitcher, and Ted Uh-
laender, involved with McDowell in a dispute over voided per-
formance bonus clauses in their contracts, later returned to the
Indians.
That's more than Danish playboy Flood's former team
will do for the City of Washington, and if the San Diego
Padres move to the nation's capital, how will it sound -
"Washington, first in war, first in peace, and last in the
NATIONAL League?"
And wouldn't it be something to see President Richard M.
Nixon throw out the first ball next year in Southern California's,
Anaheim Stadium, as has been suggested?
In a year in which most baseball news was made off the
field, it's fitting that the biggest losers be the fans of Washing-
ton, who turned out to see their hopeless team to the tune of
600,000 people, all of whom may have been demented to pay up
to six dollars, the highest prices in the nation. Did owner Robert
Short realize the gall he had to charge so much to see so little?
At least the Senators went out In style. The fans of
Washington, who have suffered through 53 losing seasons in
this century, haven't seen a pitcher lose as much as Denny
McLain in 62 years. Not since 1909, when a pair of Wash-
ington youngsters named Bob Groom and Walter Johnson
lost 26 and 25 games respectively, has any Washington hurler
lost more than McLain's 22.
That's a longer interval than it's been since the last time four
pitchers on one team won 20 games in a season. In 1920 White
Sox, Red Faber and Dickie Ker and Black Sox Eddie Ciotte
and Lefty Williams. On a pennant losing Chicago team, set the
precedent for Baltimore's amazing foursome, Dave McNally,
Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar and Pat Dobson.

Giants

catapult,
By The Associated Press
High-kicking Juan M a r i c h a 1
pitched the San Francisco GiantsI
to the National League's elusive
West Division title last night with
a masterful 5-1 victory over the
San Diego Padres in the final
game of the season.
The victory sent the Giants into
the best - of - five playoff series
against Pittsburgh, the East cham-
pion, for the National League pen-
nant. The series starts tomorrow Bil
in San Francisco. rifice
The Giants, who had frittered gave1
away almost all of an 8%V2-game Housi
lead to the pursuing Los Angeles fell o
Dodgers with a dreadful September for t
slump, had to call on the ace of penna
their staff to nail down the divi- Ra
sion crown and Marichal was f a
superb. hN
the 1N
feit vi
" 0 the S
in an
jin the
Wit
ninth
daunt O sters
field
Wolverine coach Bo Schembech- eiszi
ler showed his usual boundless ping
enthusiasm yesterday when he ad- Aft
mitted, "We'll do all right against to thi
Navy, even though we're slight pires
favorites." Ro
ged out at Earlier Schembechler surmised scorii
inning of that some of his players were ninth
the Giants probably looking forward to Mich- follow
h GiJans igan State next week, but added.
g of Juan "I'm trying to get through this
The Giants one first. We're going to work on
this game like any other game. "
Injuries are beginning to knock
out some Wolverines and Schem-
sbechler has had to make some ad-
justments. Defensive ends Larry
Johnson and Bob Rosema are both t
out with knee injuries and fourth
urn" teams, string fullback Don Coleman has
ves the mid- been moved over to that position.

to.

daily
NIGHT EDITOR:
AL SHACKELFORD
y Buckner's tie-breaking sac
fly -in the seventh innin
Los Angeles a 2-1 victory over
ton last night but the Dodger:
ne game short in their ques
the National League Wes
ant.
Mcous fans rushing onto thi
with only one out to gotgave
New York Yankees a 9-0 for
victory over Washington witl
enators ahead 7-5 last nigh
unruly farewell to baseba
e nation's capital.
h two outs in the Yankei
. hundreds of rowdy young
and adults charged onto the
to begin mobbing the play
ipping up the bases, and strip
the scoreboard.
er a public-address warnini
he crowd of 14,460, the um
called the forfeit.
cn Santo broke a tie with a run
ng single with two out in th
inning and Jim Hickmai
wed with a two-rub double a

West
the Chicago Cubs defeated the
Montreal Expos 5-3 last night.
Ferguson Jenkins went the dis-
tance for the Cubs and won his
24th game. Jenkins, who has lost
13, scattered nine hits.
Tom Seaver, striking out 13 bat-
ters to raise his own National
League record to 289 for a right-
hander, won his 20th game last
night as he rode Ken Singleton's
- two home runs to a 6-1 victory over
g the St. Louis Cardinals.
r Singleton got the first hit off
s Daryl Patterson, 0-1, when he led1
t off the fifth inning with a homer
t off the scoreboard in right center
field.
To he Pittsburgh Pirates used a
two-run double by Jackie Hernan-
- dez to defeat the Philadelphia
h Phillies 4-3 last night.
t Manager Danny Murtaugh used
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title
five pitchers in a tune-up for the
National League playoffs with Bob
Moose the second hurler, picking
up his 11th victory against seven
defeats.
Jim Brezeale's f i r s t major
major league home run ignited a
six-run uprising in the seventh in-
ning that powered the Atlanta
Braves to a 6-2 victory over the
Cincinnati Reds last night.
The Reds had built a lead on
Pete Rose's run-scoring single in
the third and Tony Perez' 25th
home run of the season in the
seventh before the Braves' rally.
California edged Minnesota 3-2
and the Chicago White Sox shaded
Milwaukee 2-1 in other AL games
scheduled.

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