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By ELLIOT LEGOW
SEVEN YEARS AGO, in only their third year of existence, the
California Angels attained a surprising third place finish in a
ten-team American League under manager Bill Rigney. Rigney
was praised profusely for his efforts at developing an expansion
squad of rejects and youngsters into a serious contender and was
adjudged in Southern California as a baseball mind equal to that
local favorite, Walter Alston.
But Rigney's and the Angels' success was short-lived and the
Californians dropped back into the second division and watched
the New York Mets beat them out as the first expansion team to
capture a pennant.
N Now, behind the Angels, skipper Lefty Phillips are finally
ready to make their first place drive and will be battling none
other than old friend Bill Rigney and his Minnesota Twins for
the twin prizes of a pennant in the American League West
and a short post-season drubbing by the Baltimore Orioles..
Phillips has a strong cast of performers on his side, including
several big names acquired by the Angels in off-season wheeling
and dealing. The outfield, which has often been a California weak
point, now has strength and (depth with the big bats of Tony
Conigliaro and Alex Johnson and the golden glove of Ken Berry
for starters.
One of the AL's most underrated infields combines great
fielding and good bats in the persons of Jim Spencer, Sandy Alo-
mar, Jim Fregosi, and Ken McMullen.
Along with this competent offense and solid defense is a
young, promising pitching staff which is no longer quite so
green or uncertain. Lefty Clyde Wright blossomed from a one-
game winner to a 22 game Winner in one season and leads the
way. Complementing him are Tom Murphy, Andy Messer-
smith, and Rudy May.
Murphy may have been an over-achiever last year with his
16-13 mark but Messersmith is considered a solid 20-game threat
now that his arm miseries are past.
up in his arctic retreat in the Twin Cities, Rigney has won
two Western Division titles but has some worries about an aging
pitching staff this season.
Any team that can start a lineup with Tony Oliva, Harmon
Killebrew, Cesar'Tovar, and Rod Carew is sure to score a lot
of runs. But stopping the other teams from scoring more will
be more difficult for young arms Bert Blylevan and Tom Hall,
and vet Jim Perry.
Blylevan looks like a real star in the making and Perry has
finally made it to the top of his profession after long lean years
in the bullpen. Hall has not proven himself, yet, however, and
Rigney will have even more trouble finding a fourth starter now
that Luis Tiant, Dave Boswell, and Bill Zepp have all left him
due to sore arms, possessive wives, and what not.
Rigney does have a great bullpen in reserve and lefty Ron
Perranoski and righthander Stan Williams are sure to get the
chances to top last year's impressive totals of 17 wins and 49 saves
in relief.
Besides the Angels and the Twins, Finley's Follies, the
Oakland A's, also will have plenty to say about the race in the
West. With Dick Williams, his 13th manager in twelve years,
Finley is relying on discipline to bring his team to the top after
several discouraging seasons.
The same faces that have been promising pennants to Finley
for three or four years now are back again this season for Wil-
lianis to knock around. A starting mound staff full of colorful
name like Catfish Hunter, Blue Moon Odom, and now Vida Blue
has been promising things for years, but haven't yet come
through.
But maybe this will be the year for the A's pitchers and if
it is Oakland could go all the way to the playoffs. Reggie Jackson
swung a mean bat in the exhibition season (ten homers and 29
RBI's) and if he can return to his homer hitting ways of 1969 the
Athletics could be tough on offense too.
Besides Jackson the Athletics have the bats of Felipe Alou
and Rick Monday in the outfield and Campy Campanaris, Sal
Bando and Don Mincher around the infield.
With three teams nearly matched at the top there's not
much of a chance for a dark-horse to sneak in to first and espe-
cially not when the rest of the division consists of Kansas City,
Chicago, and Milwaukee.
New faces Mike Andrews, Rick Reichardt and holdover slug-
gers Carlos May and Bill Melton give new White Sox manager
Chuck Tanner a good offensive threat but a pitching staff led by
Tommy John and Ken Bradley isn't exactly pennant material.
The Royals have good young hitters in Lou Piniella, Amos Otis,
and Joe Keough, but Bob Lemon is another manager who's
searching for pitchers.
' Milwaukee is not even close to mediocrity. All they have is
base stealer Tommy Harper and dozens of retreads and rejects.
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By The Associated Press
Boston was about to wrap u,
second victory of the new Am
can League season yesterday w
Cleveland Gomer Hodge sma
-"a two -out, two-run single in
ninth inning to give the nd
a 3-2 decision.
The Red Sox got two early r
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gle tally in the eighth.
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infield outs set the scene for H
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f Hodge, who had doubled as a
p its j pinch hitter and scored in the
neri- eighth inning, singled off Ken
ihen Tatum to score Ray Fosse and Lou
,ked Camilli.
SthneWillie Stargell slammed a two-
run double and Luke Walker held
Philadelphia to five hits as the
runs Pittsburgh Pirates shut out the
Sie- Phillies 2-0 last night.
sin- Woodie Fryman and Walker
were tied up in a scoreless duel
two until Stargell's double in the sixth,
odge which bounced over right fielder
vic- Roger Freed's head. Roberto Cle-
best mente had singled and Bob Rob-
since , ertson walked before Stargell's hit.
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Professional League Standings

daily
sports
NIGHT EDITOR:
ROSEBUD
runs as the Montreal Expos whip-
ped the New York Mets 6-2 yes-
terday behind the strong pitching
of Steve Renko.
Renko, a former Mets' farm-
hand, scattered 10 hits, including
a fourth inning home run by Cleon
Jones, in beating New York for
the third time in four career de-
cisions.
Jack Hiatt, an ex-Cub, drove in
the first two runs with doubles and
Jack Billingham fired a four-hitter
last night as the Houston Astros
trounced Chicago 7-3.
Mack Calvin's 35 points and Ira
Harge's rebounding ignited the
Miami Floridians to a 129-117 vic-
tory over Kentucky last night that
evened their American Basketball
Association Eastern Division semi-
final playoff at two games apiece.
The Montreal Canadiens, ted by
39-year-old Jean Beliveau, spotted
mighty Boston a four-goal lead then
roared back in a fantastic third per-
iod to edge the Bruins 7-5 last
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night, squaring their best-of-7 Na-
tional Hockey League playoff series
at one game apiece.
With Bobby Hull and Stan M:kita
each scoring twice, the Chicago
Black Hawks stmpeded the Phil-
adelphia Flyers 6-2 last night to
take a 2-0 lead in the National Hoc-
key League Stanley Cup playoffs.
Paul Henderson scored twice as
the Toronto Maple Leafs iefeated
the Rangers of New York 4-1 last
night in an NHL Stanley Cup play-
off game. The game was marred by
fights, including one that emptied
both benches. Referee Lloyd Gil-
more handed out 160 minutes in
penalties, including 10 majors, four
misconducts, and four game mis-
conducts. The incident that sparked
the brawl was Leaf goalie Bernie
Parent's mask being thrown into
1the crowd by Vic Hadfield of New
York. The Leafs blitzed New York
r for two goals less than a minute
apart in the first period and held
on the rest of the way.

AMERICAN LEAGUE
East

Baltimore
Detroit
Cleveland
Boston
Washington
New York
Chicago
California
Kansas City
Minnesota
Milwaukee
Oakland

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YVAN COURNOYER (12) of the Montreal Canadiens fires the puck
over sprawled Boston Bruins goalie Ed Johnston for the first tally
of the first period in last night's Stanley Cup playoff game. Mon-
treal took the game by a 7-5 count.

'71 OPENERS


Nenters head south

Cleveland 3, Boston 2
Kansas City at California, inc.
Today's Games
Kansas City (Rooker 0-0) at Oak-
land (Blue 0-1), night
? Minnesota (Hall 0-0) at Chicago
(Bradley 0-0)
Detroit (Niekro 0-0) at Baltimore
(Cuellar 0-0), night
New York (Peterson 0-0) at Wash-
ington (McLain 0-0), night
Only games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East
W ' L Pct. GB
Pittsburgh 2 0 1.000 -
Montreal 1 1 .500 1
New York 1 1 .500 1
Chicago 1 2 .233 1%
St. Louis 1 1 .500 1
Philadelphia 0 2 .000 2

West
Atlanta 2 0 1.000 -
San Francisco 2 0 1.000 -
Houston 3 1 .750 -
Lot Angeles 1 2 .333 1 2
San Diego 0 2 .000 2
Cincinnati 0 2 .000 2
Results
Houston 7, Chicago 3
Montreal 6, New York 2
Pittsburgh 2, Philadelphia 0
San Francisco at San Diego, inc.{
Today's Games
San Diego (Combs 0-0) at Los An-
geles (Singer 0-1), night
Chicago (Pappas 0-0) at Houston
(Griffin 0-0), night
Pittsburgh (Moose 0-0) at Atlanta
(Jarvis 0-0), night
Only games scheduled.
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By JIM McFERSON
Spring oozed into the Midwest
just in time to provide Michigan's
tennis team with a balmy week-
end for their Big 10 season debut.
Led by yearling coach B r i a n
Eisner, the squad toked off yester-
day to get in a day of practice
on the courts of Illinois' up and
coming squad.
After tussling with the top
heavy Illini today, inca matchethat
Eisner calls pretty close, the M-
men will buzz over to S o u t h
Bend, Ind., to battle the Boiler-
makers of Purdue.
"This is a real critical week-
end," Eisner comments, "we're ex-
pecting a couple of fine matches."
Season openers are always crit-
ical, but Eisner emphasizes t ha e
two matches more than usual, be-
cause he predicts a multi-team
race for the Big Ten crown, which
has fallen almost routinely to
Michigan in previous years.
"We had a real struggle with
Illinois at Notre Dame," says Eis-
ner. Michigan won 6-3 in that
match at the Irish Invitational.

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three singles players forming one
of the toughest trios in the con-
ference, but the Wolverines should
finish on top without too much
trouble.
Purdue, though much improved
over last year, won't be able to
match Michigan's racketmen.
Their No. 1 player, Jim M a n s-
field, who reached the semis last
season in the conference tourney,
will add some pyrotechnics up top,
but it's all Wolverines the rest
of the way down.
Twice blessed by the goodtime
spring weather and two fairly easy
openers, it looks like Eisner's gut-
sy courtmen are setting off tow-
ard another conference crown.

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