Saturday, September S, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Saturday, September 5, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Kuhn to question McLain; Tanner named Pale hose pilot By The Associated Press f NEW YORK - Detroit pitcher Denny McLain was ordered yesterday by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to appear in New York next Wednesday for a hearing on his probationary status and not to report to the Tigers until then. The commissioner, in issuing his statement did not use the word suspended in taking the action against McLain but, until a hearing is held, the problem-plagued hurler cannot pitch. McLain was suspended earlier this season by Kuhn and placed on a probationary status, after investigation disclosed he had at- tempted to become a partner of gamblers allegedly involved in book- making operations. *CHICAGO Chuck Tanner, manager of the Hawaii Islanders in the Pacific Coast League, was named manager of tbe Chicago White Sox yesterday: Tanner, 41, an eight-season minor league manager in the Cali- fornia Angels' system, was 'hired by Stu Holcomb, new Sox general manager, to replace Don Gutteridge. Gutteridge was dismissed Wednesday. 'Cubs] By The Associated Press CHICAGO - Randy Hundley's two-run single with the bases loaded in the seventh inning broke a 3-3 tie yesterday and led the Chicago Cubs to a 7-4 victory over the New Yorkr Mets in a key strug- gle in the torrid National League East race. The victory shoved the Cubs into a virtual tie for first place with the Pittsburgh Pirates. It also moved the Cubs 11/2 games ahead of the third place Mets. Hundley also doubled across the first Cubs' run in the second in- ning of the tense opener of a three-game set before a Wrigley Field Ladies Day crowd of 39,981, including 29,327 paid. In the decisive seventh, a walk, Joe Pepitone's single, a bases- filling intentional walk by reliever Ron Taylor set the stage for Hundley's big blow. Pinch-hitter Scheffler -hurt1 Lance Scheffler, Wolverine running back, will miss today's scrimmage because of a badly bruised leg. There is a possi-4 bility of clotting, but Coach Bo Schembechler said Scheffler's condition is "not serious." beatV Paul Popovich's sacrifice fly scored the third run of the inning. Art Shamsky's three-run homer# off Cubs starter Bill Hands fash-1 ioned a 3-3 tie after New York starter Nolan Ryan's wildness en- abled the Cubs to pick up single runs in the second, third and fourth innings. Shamsky's ninth homer follow- ed Wayne Garrett's walk and the second of three singles by Cleon lets-tie for- first place daily sports NIGHT EDITOR: JIM KEVRA With one out, third baseman Au- relie Rodriguez fielded Don Wert's grounder but his throw to the ,plate hit Kaline in the back. One Red Sox edged Jones. Pirates ost nned I i -VIP* 3T qi~zk-ms7 PITTSBURGH - Last night's game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies was suspended after six innings due to a broken tarpaulin with the Pirates holding a 4-1 lead. The rest of the game will be played before tonight's regularly scheduled game. Bengals roar WASHINGTON - Elliott Mad- dox doubled home two runs after the tying run scored on an error as the Detroit Tigers scored four times in the'ninth inning andkbeat Washington 6-3 last night. Singles by Al Kaline and Jim Northrup started the uprising against Darold Knowles, 2-13. I I .~,.....:. A& P ONE HOUR DRY CLEANERS 668-9500 DRIVE-THROUGH SERVICE SAV-as 'Carry For your convenience-one hour service on Saturday 312 E. HURON-across from City Hall Read and Use Daily Classifieds . M M Major Ldogue Standings out later Maddox doubled and scored on Ike Brown's single. Frank Howarddrove in all'the Washington runs with a two-run double in the seventh and a tie- breaking single in the eighth. Reds rocked CINCINNATI - Pitcher Mike Corkins hit a grand slam home run, leading the San Diego Padres to a 15-2 rout of the Cincinnati Reds last night. The Padres scored two -on a triple by Ron Slocum in the sec- ond. Loser Jim Merritt, 20-12, was chased in the fourth after giving up one run on a single by Nate Colbert and Corkins' homer. Cork- ins is 5-6. Colbert knocked in another run in the fifth on a ground-rule dou- t1e and Ollie Brown scored as Tony Perez threw out Ed Spiezie. Jim, Maloney, making his first appearance for Cincinnati since he. was injured last April, was touched for two runs on a homer by Clarence Gaston in the sixth, and two more in the seventh. rBillboard Any freshmen and sopho- mores interested in becoming a football manager should con- tact Neil Hiller at 971-6501. At 4:30 Tuesday-Friday in the old wrestling room of the IM Building, there will be try-outs for male cheerleaders for foot- ball games. BOSTON - Brooks Robinson collected five straight hits includ- ing a pair of homers powering the Baltimore Orioles to an 8-6 vic- tory over the Boston Red Sox last night despite Tony Conigliaro's second grand-slam homer in four days. Robinson singled to ignite a three-run second, hit his 16th homer to lead off the fourth, sin- gled in the sixth and belted a three-run shot into the left field screen to snap a 5-5 tie in the seventh. He also. doubled in the ninth.' n Mike Cuellar, Baltimore's 21- game winner, who yielded Congi- liaro's grand slam, failed to get through the first inning in a bid for a seventh straight victory. Dodgers dumped HOUSTON-Jim Wynn singled to start a four-run uprising in the eighth, then singled home the final run of the inning as the Houston Astros beat- Los Angeles 7-3 last night. Wynn and Cesar Cedeno open- ed the eighth with singles and Jim B r e w e r relieved starter Sandy Vance. Wynn scored and Cedeno took second on a wild pitch and another wild pitch moved Cedeno to third. Jesus Alou brought him home with a sacrifice fly and after a 'walk, Joe Morgan doubled across another run and scored on Wynn's second hit. Tom Haller's two-run homer gave the Dodgers a 3-1 lead in the fourth but the Astros tied it in the fifth when two runners raced home as right fielderBill Russell dropped Bob Watson's two-out fly ball for a three-base error. Yanks victorious NEW YORK--Jake Gibbs, who homered in the third inning knocked in the winning run with a seventh-inning single last night to give the New York Yankees and rookie Steve Kline a 3-2 vic- tory over Cleveland. AMERICANsLEAGUE East NATIONAL LEAGUE East Baltimore New York Detroit Boston Cleveland Washington Minnesota California Oakland Kansas City Milwaukee Chicago W L 88 49 77 60 72 65 70 66 66 71 64 72 W~est 78 55 76 59 73 62 52 83 52 85 49 90 Pct. .643 .567 .525 .513 .482 .471 .586 .563 .541 .385 .378 .352 GB 11 16 17 1i 22 231> 3 6 27 28 32 ' Pittsburgh- Chicago New York St. Louis Philadelphia Montreal 71 72 70 f 65 63 58 West L 64 65 66 71 72 76 Pct. .526 .526 .515 .478 .467 .433 GB -1 6'A 8 12% Yesterday's Results Baltimore 8, Boston 6 New York 3, Cleveland 2 Detroit 6, Washington 3 Milwaukee 3, Chicago 2, Kansas City at Oakland, inc. Minnesota at California, inc. Today's Games Cleveland at New York Baltimore at Boston Kansas City at Oakland Minnesota at California Detroit at Washington Cincinnati 88 51 .63~5 - Los Angeles 74 61 .549 1 San Francisco 70 65 .519 11 Atlanta 67 69 .493 11 Houston 64 72 .470 2: San Diego 51 83 .388 3 Yesterday's Results Chicago 7, New York 4 Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, susp. Houstcn 7, 1 os Angeles 3 San Diego 15, Cincinnati 2 San Francisco at Atlanta, post. Montreal at St. Louis, inc. Today's Games New York at Chicago San Francisco at Atlanta Montreal at+St. Louis San Diego at Cincinnati Los Angeles at Houston Philadelphia at Pittsburgh 12 16 92 21 3W2 m BABY BLUE GRIDDERS What is Circle KD Frosh open fall practice East German gets high Wolfgang Nordwig of East Germany broke the world's pole vault record Thursday with an amazing jump of 17-11. The jump broke his own previousrecord by half an inch. The action occur- red at the World University Games being held in Turin, Italy. on this and that The no-talent 4 social leper eric Siegel O NO ONE'S SURPRISE, they have run no benefits for Jim Bouton. It's been more than a month since he announced his re- tirement from professional baseball, and one suspects that'if -he had a dollar for every epithet that was hurled at him during the last two months of his career, he could stage his own "Jim Bouton Day," new cars and all. Bouton would be the first to admit he doesn't deserve a day, or even an hour, athletically speaking. At 32 lie is a no-talent pitcher, and he knows it. The knowledge was thrust upon August 5 in Evansville, Indiana after he start- ed a game for Oklahoma City and couldn't get auyone out in the first inning. "I was sitting in a hotel room and I de- cided I didn't want to spend the next couple of years like that," he said. He also said he-was going to inquire about pitching for a sandlot team near his home town in New Jersey - "if I can make it." (He did, winning his first start, 7-5.) To his critics, "no-talent" isrsome sort of wicked expletive; to Bouton, it is a fact, and he accepts it as such. By DAVID RICHMAN The opening of the 1970 foot- ball season is still two weeks away, but freshman Coach Tirrell Bur- ton is already starting to groom future varsity players for the next three years. Burton's freshman squad, Bo Schembechler's present "f a r m team," opened its f a 11 practice yesterday. And Burton, along with everyI other college coach (freshman or varsity) notes the importance of the team as a training ground the varsity. Even so, the freshman sea is one of hard work for little gl The practices consist mainly conditioning, and the endless dr ing of plays which are used by varsity. In addition, the freshn also simulate t h e Saturday.p ponent in several scrimmages d ing the year. But the freshmen do, on occ ion, play as a unit, with th games scheduled against ot for son ory. of rill- the nen op- freshmen teams. The season op- ener is on October 31 at the sta- dium against Michigan State. A return match with the Spartans is scheduled in East Lansing No- vember 13. In between, the Baby Blue take on the Fighting Irish in Ann Arbor on November 7. Buy Books at lur- "IT IS difficult at this time to assess the teams' ability as a as-I squad," says Burton. "However free the hopes for success are high." her Thirty six boys have been sign- ed to athletic tenders and twenty nine walk-ons showed up at the first squad meeting. Numerically somewhat larger than average, this group is also highlighted by some big players. Several of the linemen top 220 p ounds - a lot of weight for a rookie freshman. Heading up the crew of heavy hitters, and a play- er to watch, is John Cherry from Willard, Ohio. Cherry stands 6-7 and checks in at a h u g e 255 pounds. The offensive back candidates 'Iare also big. Amino ng these, Ed Shuttlesworth from Cincinatti, }s, according to one observer "espec- ially worth watching.". Shuttles- worth, along with several other players on this team; was selected as an Ohio All-Star. ,t STUDENT BOOK SGRVICE The Noisiest Place in Town CIRCLE-k is a campus and 1215 South University 761-0700 Jill community SERVICE organization if YOU would like toget involved in: --Working with disadvantaged children --Dealing with ecological problems in the Ann Arbor area --Restoring a run-down playground in the community --Entertaining hospitalized children --Raising funds to support campus and community service projects If YOU would like to: --Meet people --Have fun --Spend an hour or two a week helping someone else COME TO OUR I THE FRESHMAN squad started out carrying seven quarterbacks, but as Burton says, "These were merely h i g h school positions. Where they play on this year's team is still to be determined." Two of the best candidates for quarterback are Kevin Casey from Grand Rapids and Tom S1 a d e from Saginaw. B o t h are good- sized quarterbacks with few no- ticable weaknesses. Another of the prospects worth watching might be Dave Elliot. He is the brother of varsity defensive back Bruce Elliot and has the rep- utation of being a hard-nosed, fighting football player. At 6-2 and 175, he could fit in well gat either split end or defensive back. Michigan signed virtually every ball player which it recruited. It is on the basis of. this successful program that the hopes of Bur- ton's coaching .staff' ride. Near Hospital, (ampus and Dorms Luxury bi-level furnished apart- ment in quiet, soundproof build- They placed the same sort of label on him nine years ago when he reported to the Yankees' spring training camp in St. Petersburg, although they did it less bluntly and with less malice. One of the peculiar subtleties of the game is that the more promising players usually get the lower num- bers. Bouton got number 56. Bouton, though, was less willing to accept the label back then. He knew he wasn't a great pitcher, and he knew he didn't have a dazzling array of pitches. But he could throw hard, and a pitcher who throws can make it, at least for a couple of years, if he works at it. And he knew that, too. He worked so hard at throwing hard ,that he earned the nickname "Bulldog" for his courage and determination from his Yankee teammates of the early '60's. He never quite learned how to throw a good curve, and his changeup got bombed, so he stuck to the fastball. In 1963,,he won 21 games, and pitched a four hitter in the World Series, only to lose, 1-0. The following year he pitch- ed 271 innings, 27 more than Whitey Ford and with less scuffing of the ball, and won 18 games and both his Series starts. Six years later, former Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek, who is probably best known for getting hit in the Adam's apple by a ground ball in the 1960 World Series, and others would criticize Bouton for saying in print that Mickey Mantle could have been a better player if he had spent less time in the bars. They said Mantle put thousands of dollars in Series money into Bouton's pocket, and that Bouton was "ungrateful" to the Mick. Bouton is probably the only pitcher in the history of modern baseball to win 39 games in two years and be expected to show gratitude, too. The Yankees, it should be noted, weren't overly gracious, either. Bouton went sour in 1965, but so did the rest of the team, and even though he went 4-15; nobody really believed he had lost his fastball. A year later they believed it, and he spent the next two years in the minors, with an appropriate salary cut. When he bounced back to the majors, he had a knuck- leball. By the time he found he had lost his knuckleball in Evansville a year and a half later, he had written ,i book, had a private audience with Commissioner Kuhn, and had, in the words of New York Daily News sports columnist Dick Young, become a "social leper." "Social leper," like "no-talent," was used in its most de- rogatory sense. But Bouton accepted the designation as having an element of truth to it, too. When he first joined the Yankees, he became something of a social leper by fraternizing on a so- cial basis with some of the sports writers he liked, thereby vio- lating an unwritten but strongly stated team policy. ---- , __ . - i. A w R.-wmS lr A. 1 1 U IX6i I