Wednesday, April 7, 1971

THE MICHIGAN DAILY

Page Seven



Burton, Elwood lead
batsmen to double win

MARTIN DEBUTS:

Tigers crunch

By RICK CORNFELD
Special To The Daily,

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By CHUCK BLOOM I Burton had a shutout until the
While much of the attention was seventh when Bowling Green tied
turned toward the openers in the Ithe game. Catcher Bruce Rasor
major leagues, the Michigan Wol- drew Burton's seventh walk and
verine baseball team had their shortstop Gary Hass followed with
opener yesterday afternoon against a shot up the box for a hit.
Bowling Green. The Wolverines Following a ground out and a
took both ends of the doubleheader, strikeout, five foot-five Rod Allen,
3-2 in ten innings, and 2-1, led by the Falcon's second baseman,
some stellar pitching on the part of rapped a two-strike pitch over
Wolverine hurler Jim Burton and shortstop, scoring both runners
Mickey Elwood. and tying the game.
In the first game, ace left hand- Burton worked out of jams in
er Burton of Michigan went all ten the eighthi, ninth, and tenth inn-
innings to defeat the Falcons. tngs. The ninth was especially
Though he had some control prob- tight since Bowling Green had
lems in the early going, walking back-toback singles but Burton got
14six in four innings, he didn't yield the next two batters, on a strike-
a hit until the sixth-that being an out and on a forceout.
infield hit. But in the tenth, the Wolverines
Michigan struck first with two got a single from substitute Brian
runs in the fourth. With zne out, Balaze. Captain Mark Carrow
centerfielder Mike Bowen walked. walked after Balaze stole second.
Leftfielder Tom Kettinger followed Ball four was wild allowing Ba-
with a single moving Bowen to laze to go to third. Bowen also
'third. Kettinger got caught in a walked loading the bases.
rundown but Falcon first baseman Then Falcon coach Dick Young
Bob Hill was out of position to tag made two mistakes; first, he kept
Kettinger out. his pitcher, Doug Bair, and for
Bowen seeing the opportunity, some reason brought in his outfield
scored as Hill's throw wrent to the to play shallow on Kettinger. Pos-
screen for an error, moving Kett- sibly Young thought there was only
inger to second. Then first base- one out instead of two, but Kettin-
N man Pat Sullivan stroked a single ger lined a fastball over the right-
to center scoring Kettinger with fielder's head to score Balaze with
the second Michigan run. the winner.
Rick Cornfeld
Bucs, Mets, Cubs, Cards:
Luckiest clubs in baseball
THE PITTSBURGH Pirates, Chicago Cubs, New York Mets and
and St. Louis Cardinals are perhaps the luckiest teams in
baseball. They could all be contenders in the National League's
East Division this year, but they might not even come close in
another loop.
The NL East is probably the worst division in baseball this
year. The best teams in the National League, Cincinnati and Los
Angeles, are safely lodged in the West and the Bucs, Mets, Cubs
and Cards will be allowed to fight it out in happy mediocrity.
Pittsburgh took the flag last year in what should have
been a dog fight if any of the teams had seemed to care about
winning. This year, despite the loss of former batting king
Matty Alou in a trade,. the Pirates should be improved.
The return to full strength of last season's crippled pitching
staff and the emergence of Luke Walker as a top rank hurler will
help. Dock Ellis, Steve Blass and Bob Moose, if healthy, should
have adequate seasons and the addition of Bob Johnson could
help.
The bullpen is a strong point, if Dave Giusti and Mudcat Grant
can repeat their feats of a year ago. But Pittsburgh's long suit
is its power. .There is not a weak spot in the line-up, except at
shortstop where veteran Gene Alley fractured his hand this
spring. The Bucs will have to carry hitless Jackie Hernandez at
short, but their line-up is so powerful they will probably be able
to do it.
Manny Sanguillen, the League's best catcher whenever
Johnny Bench is playing the outfield, a healthy Roberto Cle-
mente and mighty Willie Stargell will anchor a near Murder-
er's Row bolstered by the best bench in the division, with
Bill Mazeroski, Vie Davalillo, Jose Pagan and John Jeter.
If Pittsburgh's pitching falters manager Danny Murtagh.
along with the rest of the league west of the Hudson River, will
look enviously at Shea Stadium. The New York Mets have a
powerhouse staff, with Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Gary Gentry
and Tug McGraw. If erratic Nolan Ryan* ever lives up to his po-
tential-watch out!
Actually, the staff was less than fantastic last year, with
Seaver losing 10 of his last 12 starts and Koosman suffering arm
trouble.
What hitting there will be from this year's Amazings will
come from the bats of Tommie Agee, Art Shamsky, Donn
Clendenon and perhaps a revived Cleon Jones and young Ken
Singleton. The strong point is defense, however, an the heart
of the team is up the middle, with catcher Jerry Grote, short-
stop Bud Harrelson, second baseman Ken Boswell and center
fielder Agee.
If championships were won on talent alone, people would now
* be picking the Chicago Cubs to take their third straight crown.
For two straight years the Cubs went into the race with the
best team in the division, and twice they finished second. This

is manager Leo Durocher's third serious try, and it will be inter-
esting to see what he comes up with. There have been very loud
whispers that the reason the Cubs have been pennantless is the
skipper.
Chicago has the most experienced lineup in the division
and probably the most solid infield. Question marks will be
Hickman and Callison-Hickman because he has to prove his
outstanding 1970 was no fluke and Callison because he must
show he is riot over the hill.
The Cubs' starters, Fergie Jenkins, Billy Hands, Ken Holtz-
man and Milt Pappas, have more talent than any team's outside
of the Mets, but somehow they never produce up to potential.
Some say it is because Leo the Lip can't handle pitchers, but
if the starters falter, the Cubs are in trouble, with a bullpen that
almost deserves to be called a cowpen.
The St. Louis Cardinals probably have more question
marks than any other club. For example, can a team with four
or five .300 hitters (Alou, Ted 4Sizemore, Joe Torre, Lou Brock
and possibly Jose Cardenal) score runs without one big power
hitter?
Do you play Sizemore at shortstop, even though he has limited
range, in place of slick-fielding, non-hitting Dal Maxvill or at
second base in place of Julian Javier.
How long can Bob Gibson's 35-year old award winning right
arm hold out? If it doesn't, there will be a lot of weeping in owner
Gussie Busch's Budweiser, for Redbird pitching is weak. Steve
Carlton., unhampered by a long holdout this year, was effective
in the spring, but the Cards will need improvement from young-
sters Jerry Reuss and wild Mike Torrez, who last year threw a
wild pitch on an intentional pass.
The Philadelphia Phillies last year had one of the best

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In the second game, right hander DETROIT - The Billy Martin-
Mickey Elwood turned in an excel ized Tigers m a d e their regular
lent performance in Michigan's 2-1 season debut yesterday, but they,
win. The Wolverines had men at *. resembled the power-hitting Ben-:
third in each of the first four inn- : gals of old in walloping the Cleve-
ings but failed to scare because of land Indians, 8-2.
some lackadaisical baserunning. The Tigers pounded out nine
hits against a half dozen hapless:
Michigan finally scored two times- Cleveland hurlers, while Mickey
in the fifth inning on singles by sec- ¢.rCleelad'hrlesrhil"Mike
ond bsemaf Jim Koloski Bo- "~' Lolich was stopping the Tribe on
'nd baseman"J"m.Koc.: ski, Bow-just six, walking one and fanning
en, and Kettinger. Bowling Green nAnD.e
got one run back in the sixth on a Atg4.r"tsnine.
two out single by third baseman " 1 of its runs with power, manager
Tom Bennett. Martin's threatened new aggres-
Elwood finished strong getting siveness showed itself in four hit-
the last three Falcon stickers in :and-run attempts - two of them
order. He struck out eight and :..~.. a "successful - and generally fierce
walked only one. Carrow and - f ":base-running.
shortstop Mike Rafferty each had.The Tigers pounced on starter-
two hits in leading the Wolverine .' :::";and loser Steve Hargan, winner of
attack. 11 of his last 12 decisions last
After the game, Michigan coach year, for two runs in the second
Moby Benedict was beaming over x n rog.
>. ' : :::h.."Th " ,:.. ' An opening day record crowd of
his. pn. "Thed pitching kws................k...W: 54,089 seat clattering, foot stomp-
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excellent. I'm tickled pink. We {, {:,... ;.;"." ..: :... : .::::.::::;. >
could use some timely hits but the ' . "a: ing, Stroh's guzzling fans were set
i,r to life by the new Martin style of
Commentingon pitcher Peter ": play B Frehan sent Aurelio
Helt's injury, smashing his fing- y Rodriguez to third on a perfect
ers while closing a car door, Bene- MICHIGAN'S JIM BURTON lets go a high hard one in yester- hi driguez who had reached
dict said "It's serious enough, but day's opening game victory against Bowling Green. Burton, ace first by being hit by a pitch, rac-
nothing disabling. He'l be on the of the Wolverine staff, went ten innings to record the victory, 3-2. ed for second, and both second
All in all, it was a fine opening
day performance. Michigan's next
action will be Saturday against
Eastern Michigan. Game time willCubenkinscCards,
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baseman Eddie Leon and short-
stop Larry Brown broke to cover
the bag.
Leon could only turn and gaze
wistfully as the b a 11 bounded
through the infield behind him
while Rodriguez streaked f o r
third. Rodriguez scored on an in-
field grounder to Leon by Mickey
Stanley. Leon tried to tag Free-
han out before throwing to first,
but Freehan instead barreled into
him in the middle of the base-
paths, breaking up t h e double
play.
Stanley later scored on a two
out single by Lolich.
From then on, the Tigers scor-
ed their runs on power, not raz-
zle dazzle. Twice the hit-and-run
failed. Willie Horton and Al Ka-

Indians
line, who batted second in the or-
der, were both easily thrown out
stealing by catcher Ray Fosse on
aborted hit-and-run attempts.
Every man in the Tiger line-up
4made a hit, except Rodriguez. De-
troit was aided by nine bases on
balls and a hit batsman.
Besides Hargan, t h e Tigers
knocked around tall submariner
Chuck Machemehl, making h i s
first major league appearance and
Ray Lamb, and were stopped only
by young Steve Dunning and age-
less Camilo Pascual. Rick Austin
also made an appearance, retiring
one man in the eighth.
The Indians scored their two
runs with the aid of triples by Roy
Foster and Buddy Bradford.

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Double whammy

Red Sox survive Yankee rally

FIRST GAME
BOWLING GREEN
ab, r
Fox CF 3 0
Basalyga PH 1 0
Clapp 2B 1 0
Allen 2B 4 0
Bair P 0 0
Bennent 3B 4 0
Arbinger LF 4 0
Plant RF 4 0
Hill 1B 5 0
Rasor C 2 1
Meites P 0 0
Hass SS 4 1
Lessig P 1 0
WyiePH 1 0
Pettorini CF 1 0
Totals 35 2
MICHIGAN

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Carrow 3B
Bowen CF
Kettinger LF
Sullivan 1B
Rafferty SS
Lonchar C
Hornyak RF
Roberts PH - RF
Kocoloski 2B
Buss PR
Balaze 2B
Burton P
Totals

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10. SB - Balaze.
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By The Associated Press
CHICAGO - Billy Williams
lined a home run into the right
field seats in the 10th inning, giv-
ing the Chicago Cubs a 2-1 victory
over the St. Louis Cardinals in
their baseball opener yesterday.
Williams' one-out blast off a 1-1
pitch ended a pitching duel be-
tween the Cubs' Ferguson Jenkins;
and St. Louis' Cy Young award:
winner, Bob Gibson.
Jenkins yielded only three hits,3
Gibson seven.
Joe Torre pulled the Cardinals
even 1-1 with a two out homer in,
the seventh inning, the final hit
off Jenkins.
Chicago took a 1-0 lead in the
fourth i n n i n g when Williams
opened with a single and moved to
third on Ron Santo's single. Wil-
liams was cut down at the plate
on Joe Pepitone's bouncer, but
Johnny Callison's pop double down
the right field line scored Santo
from second.
Gibson got out of that jam by
trapping Pepitone off third on Jose;
Ortiz' roller to the mound and get-
ting Ken Rudolph on a liner.
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Red Sox roll
BOSTON - Ray Culp allowed
only one hit for seven innings and
was bailed out of a bases-loaded
jam in the eighth on Reggie Smith's
throw to the plate yesterday as the
Boston Red Sox edged the New
York Yankees 3-1 in a frigid
American League baseball opener.
Smith, who had three hits and
scored Boston's first run, combined
with newly acquired catcher Du-
ane Josephson to save Culp and
the Red Sox.
With the bases loaded and two
out, Horace Clarke singled to right,
scoring Danny Cater. Jim Lyttle
also attempted to score from sec-
ond with the tying run, but Jo-
sephson blocked the plate, took

daily
sports
NIGHT EDITOR:
RANDY PHILLIPS
Smith's perfect throw and applied
the tag for the third out.
Phillies err
PITTSBURGH - Dock Ellis
scattered eight hits as the Pitts-
burgh Pirates, helped by four Phil-
adelphia errors, defeated the Phil-
lies 4-2 yesterday in a National
baseball opener.
The Pirates got two runs in the
second inning with Ellis himself
driving in a run with a bunt.
Bob Robertson and Willie Star-
gell led off the second with singles.
One out later Jack Hernandez
singled to left. John Briggs fired
home to keep the run from scoring
but his throw hit Umpire Shag
Crawford on the leg for an error,
Hernandez scoring. Ellis then drove
fin Stargell.
The Pirates added a run in the
fifth, matching a run by the Phil-
lies in the same inning, which came
across on a triple by rookie Roger
Freed and a single by Tim McCar-
ver.
* * *
Twins trounced
ST. PAUL - MINNEAPOLIS -
Andy Kosco drove in four runs
with a homer, double- and sacri-
fice fly yesterday as the Milwau-
kee Brewers hammered Cy Young
Award winner Jim Perry and the
Minnesota Twins 7-2 in an Ameri-
can League baseball opener.
Kosco, a former Twin, clouted
a bases-empty homer in the third,

Bowling
Michigan
Fox CF
Alien Si
Bennett.
Platzer]
Pettorin
Hill lB
Pasalyga
Hass S S
Price P
Clapp P
Meites I
Carrow
Bowen4
Sullivan
Kettinge
Roberts
Rafferty
Mulvihil
Kocolosk
Elwood
Bowling
Michigai

Green 000 000 200 0-2 5 2
a 000 300 000 1-3 6 1
SECOND GAME
BOWLING GREEN
ab r h bi
3 0 1 0
B 3 0 0 0
B3B 3 0 1 1
LF 3 0 1 0
i RF 2 0 0 0
3 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
32 0 0 0
1 0 0 0
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P0 0 0 0
Totals 23 1 3 1
MICHIGAN
3B 3 0 2 0
CF 3 1 1 1
lB 3 0 0 0
er LF 3 0 1 1
RF 3 0 1 0
T SS 2 0 2 0
11C 3 0 0 0
ki 2B 2 1 1 0
P 1 0 0 0
Tlaots 23 2 8 2
g Green 000 001 0-1 4 3
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chased in another with a fly out |||||
in the sixth and smacked a two- . . .
run double in the eighth.
Martin Pattin, celebrating his
26th birthday, scattered nine hits
to pick up the victory. Brant .Al-
yea's sacrifice fly with the bases
full in the sixth spoiled the shutout
and Harmon Killebrew drove in a
run with a single in the eighth.
Bernie Smith drove Perry, 24-12 -associated Press
last year when the Twins won the
West Division, from the mcund WILLIE HORTON of the Detroit Tigers slides late into second base
with a bases-loaded double off the on the tail end of an aborted hit and run play. Eddie Leon of the
wall in left in the fifth. Cleveland Indians applies the tag. Horton and Al Kaline, neither
* * * known as base stealing threats, were both caught on the basepaths
yesterday as a result of manager Billy Martin's new running style
Expos soaked ofne
ofense.
NEW YORK - Tom Seavrr - -

checked Montreal on four hits yes-
Captains picked
Michigan's gymnastics squad
picked its 1971-1972 co-captains
yesterday. Selected were Ted
Marti, an all-around specialist,
and Dick Kaziny, side horse
competitor. Also selected was
senior Rick McCurdy who was
named the most valuable team
member for this past season.
terday, pitching the New York
Mets to a 4-2 victory over the Ex-
pos in a National League opener
called in the last of the fifth inn-
ing because of rain.
Seaver, working against Mon-
treal ace Carl Morton in a steady
downpour, gale-force winds and
frigid 40 degree temperature, lim-
ited the Expos to four singles, in-
cluding a two-run poke by Ron
Fairly in the third inning. The
Mets' gifted righthander struck out
four and walked four.
Morton, the league's Rookie of
the Year last season, was nicked
for a run in the first inning and
gave up two unearned markers in
the second that made the differ-
ence.
The Mets added a run in the
fourth on Donn Clendenon's wind-
blown double and a single by new-
comer Aspromonte.
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FLORIDIANS FLY
T Late Knick surge nips Bullets

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By The Associated Press Baltimore, playing without in-}
NEW YORK - Dave BeBusschere jured starting forward Gus John-
broke loose for three clutch bas- son, fell behind by as many as
kets in the final minutes, then nine points in the second quarter
Willis Reed hit a decisive jump- before closing to 58-53 at the1
ed with six seconds left, boosting half. Then the Bullets caught fire
the New York Knicks to a 112-111 under reserve Fred Carter and hit
victory over the ailing but stub- 16 of 20 field shots in the third
born Baltimore Bullets in a Na- quarter. After 19 lead changes
tional Basketball Association play- and one tie in the period Balti-
off game yesterday night. more pulled ahead 87-86 enter-
DeBusschere's tip-in provided ing the final session.
the 24th lead change in the se-
cond half and put the Knicks Colonels cornered
ahead to stay 103-102. Seconds MIAMI, Fla. - The Floridians
later he added a hook shot, then used a fast break to wear down
a minute later a jumper for a Kentucky 120-102 in their Amer-
108-105 spread. ican Basketball Association E a s t
Walt Frazier's basket for t h e Division semifinal playoffs.
Knicks with 59 seconds to go he dt the Coloes'
countered four free throws by Bal- The decision cu eoone
timore's Earl Monroe before Reed
hit the jumper for a 112-109 ad-
vantage. Bc O e fi
Jack Marin scored with two se-
conds left for Baltimore, which"
played the game under protest ed
after a dispute early in the final
quarter when the Bullets claim-
ed the 24-second clock ran out be- PITTSBURGH (R) - More than
fore the Knicks scored a basket. 200 persons, including a Pittsburgh
Frazier finished with 24 points councilwoman, defied a court or-
andDe usshee aded21 oider and picketed Three Rivers
and De Busschere added 21 for Stadium yesrteady. But some stad-
MaNew 23Y orth Monroe Bullets. 29 and ium employes ignored them a n d
went inside anyway.
i1:Sy ".:T"{AIl'. r :." ". The pickets appeared in grow -
ing numbers an hour before the

'lead in the best-of-seven series toC
2-1. Tempers flared briefly in the
third quarter after the Floridians
opened a margin as wide as 22
points. First a double foul w a s
called on Kentucky's Cincy Pow-
ell and the Floridians' Sam Robin-
son. Then Floridians center Ira
Harge and Powell were ejected for
* * *
Stars clinch

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DALLAS, Tex. - The Utah
Stars held high-scoring T e x a s
guard Donnie Freeman to only
four points yesterday night and
swept their four-game American
Basketball Association West Divi-
sion semifinal playoff with a 128-
107 victory over the Chaps.
The Stars, who won the series,
4-0, will meet the winner of the
Indiana-Memphis ABA playoff
which Indiana leads 3-0.
Utah trailed 57-54 at halftime
but rallied behind the shooting of
guard Ron Boone to blast the
Chaparrals in the second half.
Freeman, who was guarded closely
by Merve Jackson, failed to score
a point in the second half.
* * *
Nets whallop
HEMPSTED, N.Y. - The New
York Nets outscored Virginia 18-4
in the opening minutes of the final
quarter last night, then held on

PRO BASKETBALL
NBA Playoffs
Yesterday's Results
Eastern Conference Finals
Floridians 120, Kentucky 107, Ken-
tucky leads best-of-seven series
2-1'
Only game scheduled.
Western Conference Semifinals
Chicago at Los Angeles, inc., best-of-
7 series tied 3-3
Only game scheduled. s
Today's Games
No gamesscheduled.
ABA Playoffs
Yesterday's Results
East Division Semifinals
New York 135, Virginia 131, Virginia
leads best-of-7 series 2-1.
New York 112, Baltimore 111. New
York leads best-of-7 series, 1-0
West Division Semifinals
Utah 128 at Texas 102, Utah wins
best-of-7 series 4-0.
Today's Games
Eastern Division Semifinals
Virginia vs. New York at Hofstra
University
Only game scheduled
Western Division Semifinals
Indiana at Memphis
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