4 Saturdav September 12. 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven 11IF7 THICIANDY ae ee Cards, By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Bob Gibson fired a five-hitter-for his 21st vic- tory of the season, pitching St.1 Louis to a 5-2 victory over New York last night that dropped the , Mets out of their share of the Na- tional League's East Division lead. The loss dropped New York into second place in the hectic NL East race, one-half game behind Pittsburgh and one-half g a m e ahead of Chicago. Both the Pi- | rates and Cubs had yesterday off., Joe Hague started the rally in the fourth with a single and Joe, Torre walked. Jose Cardenal's double into the left field corner drove in two runs and then Car- denal moved to thid on a wild! on thisc bump pitch and scored on Carl Taylor's single. Ted Simmons walked and then pulled a double steal with Taylor. When Jerry Grote's throw sailed into center field, Taylor scored the fourth run of the inning. Mets out of first daily. sports : .> ,.......... ...r' ........ . ...s,... . Major League Standings ;. AMERICAN LEAGUE East NATIONAL LEAGUE Blue blazes NIGHT EDITOR: KANSAS CITY - Vida Blue, a ELLIOT LEGOW 21-year-old left-hander with only 42 major league innings behind I Kelly him, stopped Kansas City on one smashed a grounder into right hit - Pat Kelly's two-out single field, then went on the record his in the eighth inning -as th second victory and first complete Oakland A's blanked the Royals game in the majors. 3-0 last night. Blue, making his second start since the A's recalled him from Bengals bounced the minors eight days ago, sty- DETROIT - Mike Epstein rip- ped a home run and rookie right- Sn d that hander Bill Gogolewski picked up his first major league victory last Baltimore New York Boston Detroit Cleveland Washington Minnesota Oakland California Kansas City Milwaukee Chicago W 93 81 f 75 74 69 67 West 87 79 1 76 1 56 53 51 L 51 63 69 70 76 76 56 65 66 87 89 93 Pet. .647 .562 .520 .518 .476 .469 .610 .549 .535 .390 .373 .353 GB 12 18 19 241/ 251/2 31 33 361 / Pittsburgh New York Chicago St. Louis Philadelphia Montreal Cincinnati Los Angeles San Francisco Atlanta Houston San Diego East W L 76 67 '76 68 75 68 69 76 66 79 62 81 West 93 53 77 65 75 68 71 75 69 75 55 89 Pct. .531 .527 .524 .476 .454 .434 .637 .542 .524 .486 .480 .382 GB - 72 102 132 14 22 23 37 Yesterday's Results Baltimore 3, Boston 2 Cleveland 3, New York 2 Washington 4, Detroit 2 Minnesota 6, Chicago 0 Oakland 3, Kansas City 0 Milwaukee at California, inc. Today's Games Milwaukee at California, night Oakland at Kansas City Chicago at Minnesota Washington at Detroit New York at Cleveland Boston at Baltimore, night Yesterday's Results Montreal 1, Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 5, New York 2 Houston 3, Atlanta 2 Cincinnati at San Diego, inc. Los Angeles at San Francisco, inc. Only games scheduled Today's Games Philadelphia at Montreal St. Louis at New York Pittsburgh at Chicago Atlanta at Houston, night Cincinnati at San Diego, night Los Angeles at San Francisco The Werd Bunch, vintsae'70 i eric siegel TIE LAST time the Pittsburgh Pirates won the Nationali League pennant, Richard Nixon was a lame duck vice I president. That was back in 1960, and the stars of the team were Vernon Law, baseball's ,upreme preacher-pitcher; Elroy Face, a 5-5, 150 pound guitar-picking fork ball relief pitcher who won 18 games; Roberto Clemente, a young rightfielder; Forrest H. "Smokey" Burgess, the best bad ball hitting catcher west of1 Yogi .Berra; and a bunch of scrappers like Billy Vernon, Don Hoak, Dick Groat and Bill Mazeroski. Oh, yes, and a pitcher named Vinegar Bend Mizell, and what else can you say about a guy whose first name is Vinegar Bend and who later went into politics in North Carolina? The '60 Pirates were, on the whole, what baseball people like-to call "flakey" The flakiest thing they"did all year, and the one they are most remembered for, was beating the New York Yankees in the World Series, four games to three. This despite being out-scored 55 to 27 and losing the three games by scores of 16-3, 12-0, and 16-0. The only members of the original Wierd Bunch who are still around are Clemente, Mazeroski and a mediocre, parttime pitcher named Joe Gibbon. And, of course, manager Danny Murtaugh, who returned this spring after being out of baseball with illness since 1964.l The Bucs, though, have their fair share of new ] "flakies". The catcher, Manny Sanguillen, used to teach Sunday School in Panama and still carries around a Spanish translation of a Billy Graham book. Richie Hebner, the third baseman, digs graves in the off-season, and talks about it like he was a night-club performer. Clemente, who has had everyone in Pittsburgh, especially the front office, wondering during the past 10 years about his visits to the chiropractor, while opposings teams wondered about his batting average, has topped his alleged hypochondria with the now-infamous story of his kidnapping. And the Pirates also lay claim to the smallest utility in- fielder in the majors, 5-4 Freddie Patek. This in itself isn't that odd, but it is interesting to note that 10 years ago they claimed the smallest relief pitcher in Face. Then there is the running battle between Murtaugh and Mazeroski about the propriety of spitting chewing sto- bacco on the artificial turf. Murtaugh says it stains the turf; Mazeroski says it doesn't. But even with this flakey cast, the wierdest happenings don't even involve the players. An example, for those who need one, was the demolition last week of the Bucs' $100,000 auto- matic tarpaulin. It seems the tarp, which operated electrically and was supposed to rise from the ground and roll itself across the field, got stuck and forced the suspension of a game that the Pirates were leading 4-1. When you're battling for the pennant, you don't like to throw away 4-1 games like that, even in Pittsburgh. Then, too, there is the oddity of Three Rivers Stad- ium, the Pirates' new home with no new roads leading up to it. And last month there was a power blackout when the Dusquene Power Company shut off electricity around the stadium because of a four-alarm fire. The lights didn't stay out, though, and Tom Seaver hurled the Mets to a 10-2 victory. The pennant drive has had Bob Prince, the voice of the Pirates whose pollution of the air is second only to that of the steel mills, talking about the "Buc Fevah" since last June. That Prince is pushing the Pirates is really no surprise, since he is bankrolled by Buc GM Joe Brown. (A suburban newspaper blasted Prince in an editorial last month for promoting future Pirates games instead of re- porting the current play-by-play, which may be something of a first itself.), A little more surprising to some people is that the Pirates are still in the thick of the race, with essentially the same cast which finished third last year. A lot of the Mets-Cubs-Cards advocates picked Pittsburgh as a dark- horse, but you got the feeling that it was half-hearted. They're all hitters but their pitching staff, with the excep- tion of Dave Giusti, would have trouble holding the line against a bunch of rambunctious Little Leaguers. But at least their pitching staff is honest. "Only in America," said Bucs' pitcher Steve Blass earlier this year, "can a guy look at a map and place Cincinnati in the West and St. Louis in the East. I don't know who did it, but whoever wins this division ought to vote the guy a full playoff share." m um.v..--o NEW IN ANN ARBOR Scores night as the Washington Sena- tors stopped Detroit, 4-2, extend- ing the Tigers' losing steak to four games. Epstein slammed his 18th hom- er in the second inning off loser! Joe Niekro, 12-12, and the Sena-I tors added a pair of runs in the' fourth on run-scoring singles by Ed Brinkman and Paul Casanovar * * * --Associated Press VIDA BLUE, Oakland's young lefthander recently recalled from the minors, pitched a one-hitter last night as the Athletics defeated Kansas City, 3-0. The Royals' only hit was a single by Pat Kelly, with two out in the eighth. Yankees loss lowered Baltimore's TA OBA TO PUNT: magic number to seven in the American League East race. I f*n * .........-- 0 Birds fly Sox shut out BALTIMORE - Mark Belanger MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL - rapped a run-scoring single in the Harmon Killebrew unloaded h i s 13th inning, giving the Baltimore 41st homer and Frank Quilici his Orioles a 3-2 victory over t h e second last night as the Minne- Boston Red Sox last night. sota Twins drubbed the Chicago The victory, coupled with t h e White Sox 6-0. PA4R-THREE GOLF Different strokes for different folks 1me, game is ff By JIM KEVRA Finally, in its omnipotent bu- reaucracy, the Michigan Athletic Department has made a move to help the average student. Knowing about the constantly crowded con- ditions on the Michigan golf course and the scarcity of open fields for practice areas, the Ath- letic Department has reopened the old Michigan par 3 golf course. The par 3 course is located on Main Street, only about a drive and a three wood from the regula- tion course, and, while it is not the greatest course in the world, it does allow a golfer to polish up his short game at a reasonable price, fifty cents for students and faculty and a dollar for everyone else per nine holes. At present, the course is open only on weekends but there is sel-: dom much of a wait to tee off. For an experienced, skillful golfer, the course doesn't provide too much of a test. Most of the holes are merely a pitch aIi d a putt but there are a fewinterest- ing tests. The fifth hole is a downhill parI three of about 140 yards (although; the hole is listed at about 152 yards, one soon finds out that the yardages marked are about 10 per cent too high) to a slightly ele- vated green with trees to the right and behind the green. In addition, there is a trap to the left of the green making accuracy the prime incentive. SIX IS ABOUT the same length and comes back up the hill. The tee shot is partially blind with only the top of the flagstick show- ing. The green, although trapped to the left, is fairly wide open making club selection the biggest problem. But the best hole on the course is number, eight, only about 100 yards long. The hole is quite sim- ilar to the twelfth hole at Birm- ingham Country Club (located just outside of Detroit), home of\ the 1953 P.G.A. Championships and other major tournaments. From the tee, one must either hit a high wedge between two trees to a sloping green or try to -un a low run-up shot' under the branches. Either way, the shot presents plenty or problems. The course could stand a few improvements (like a little water on the tees and the fairways) but the greens are in respectable shape and will hold a well hit shot. Also, the\ competition on the par three course is less rabid than' on the regular course making it a perfect place for a non-golfer (if any still exist) to learn the sport. So, the next time you find the U of M regulation golf course full up, like during the I.M. Golf Tour- nament this weekend, take your wedge, putter, and six-or-seven- iron to Main Street (across from Pioneer High) and test your short game against a par of 27. By ELLIOT LEGQWE A game-winning field goal at-t tempt in the last seconds. Ai blocked punt setting up a touch-x down. A kickoff reutrned all thet way for a score. These are some of football's' most dramatic moments, ard they1 are also the few remaining exam-t ples of the importance of thel foot to football.- Since the offensive and defen-, sive units are usually out on the field, they get much more atten- tion from the average fan than do the speciality teams. But the lat- ter are equally important to a9 team's success. There are three facets to the kicking game, punting, p 1 a c e kicking, and kicking off, a n d Michigan will use a different spec- ialist for each assignment. Wolverine coach Bo Schembech- ler has selected Paul Staroba as his punter, Tim Killian as his place kicker, and Dana Coin to handle the kickoff chores. Staroba is replacing, graduated senior Mark Werner as the Mich- igan punter. Although Staroba has never punted in a regular season game, Schembechler is satisfied with his performance in practice.! Bo feels the punting will be all: right. Staroba has more consist- ancy now than at the .beginning of practice. However, Schembech- ler is worried about the Michi- gan punt coverage. The team defending against a punt always has the option eith- er to try to block the kick or set up for a long runback. The punt- ing unit must be able to antici- pate the defense's moves. "We teach them to read it (the de- fense) at the line," Bo explained. . Behind Staroba, who first ex- perimented with punting in prac- tice last fall, will be reserve full- back Fritz Seyferth, who also has never punted in a game for the Wolverines. The place kicking job, the only offensive part of the kicking game, will be handled again by exper- ienced senior Tim Killian. Last year Killian split the job with the now departed Frank Titas. Killian concentrated on the field goal kicking while Titas handled the PAT chores. The kickoff is one of football's most dangerous plays. In fact, the Wolverines omit the kickoff from their scrimmages for fear of an injury on an open field run. Schembechler also views the kick- .ot'ba 1l off as one of the games m o r e crucial plays., "If we can keep them down on the 20 or 25 we're in good shape, but if they can run it back to the, 35, one first down and they're al- ready threatening." For the second season Dana Coin will have the responsibility of forcing the opposition to take over deep in their own territory. 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