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With veterans Mike Cuel- lar, Dave McNally and 1974 acquisition Ross Grimsley the Satyrn Orioles will have sound starters on the mound. Relief pitching is based on the superlative perfor- mances of Bob Reynolds, ERA 1.86, and Grant Jackson, ERA 1.90. Behind the plate Andy Etche- barren and Earl Williams pro- vide solid defense. Williams' strong bat (22 homeruns and 83 RBI's) can also fill the line-up at first base. Aging Brooks Robinson and poor hitting Boog Powell are the question marks in an otherwise sound infield. The bats of both veterans were slow last season. If Powell cannot return to form Williams can, take his place. AL BUMBRY, Rich Coggins, and Don Baylor and DH Tommy Davis provide a speedy, aggres- sive attack that should bring the Orioles out on top in '74. Boston manager Darrell John- son took his cue from Earl Weaver. Through some sound farm club acquisitions and some trades to strengthen his pitching staff, Johnson has come up with a contender in the AL East. Luis Tiant, Bill Lee, Rick Wise, Diego Segui, and Juan Marichal provide starting talent, with re- lief help from Bob Bolin, Dick Pole and Reggie Cleveland. Ex- catcher Johnson has demonstrat- ed his ability to improve pitchers (Tiant was a 20-game winner last year) and may help Mari- chal back to form after back troubles last year. STAR BACKSTOP C a r I t o n Fisk, despite a spring injury, will see steady service though hot - hitting B o b Montgomery should play more than 34 games this year. Fleet - footed Tommy Harper provides sparkle to a lackluster outfield but he will be used most- ly as a desiganted hitter. Daily Consensus 1. Baltimore' 2. Boston 3. Milwaukee' 4. New York 5. Detroit 6. Clevelandr If you want to see the Tigers win, go when the Red Sox are in town; the Bostonians dropped 14 of 18 to the Bengals last year. However the Red Sox are a much improved team and should give the Oriolesta race for the play- offs all through the season. The Milwaukee Brewers, though improved, will not have enough stufff to stay in the race for the whole season. The Beer- makers should i m p r o v e their record over last year, though. Don Money and George Scott will provide sound gloves and strong bats but the infield will be weak at shortstop. In the out- field, Dave May and John Briggs will do their thing but there won't be much help from the bench when Briggs and May don't perform. On the mound, 20-game winner Jim Colburn returns along with Jim Slaton and Clyde Wright but the relief pitching may not be there when the Brewers need it. RALPH HOUK led the New A.L. York Yankees into mediocrity. He doesn't have to do that for the Tigers; they're already there. The Tigers are getting old and there won't be enough new faces around to take up the slack. The absence of Dick McAuliffe (now with the Red Sox) will provide an opening for rookie John Knox. Ron Cash may be the only other young face in an otherwise aging infield. Willie Horton, Mickey Stanley, and Jim Northrup will again be the mainstay Tiger outfield. Hor- ton and Northrup are solid per- formers while Stanley may be there just to prove his glove is good enough to outweigh his anemic bat. PITCHING IS the major ques- tion mark for the Bengals. Can righthander Lerrin LaGrow pro- vide the pitching punch the Ti- gers need? Solid performers Joe Coleman and John Hiller will re- turn with Mickey Lolich looking to get back his 20 game winning form. In New York, Yankee Mana- ger Bill Virdon will be looking to plug the holes in his leaky in- F~t tas field. Hot-hitting Graig Nettles and late-summer pick-up Mike Hegan hold down the corners on an erratic and light-hitting in- field. All-star outfielder Bobby Mur- cer and .329 hitting DH Ron Blomberg return. With no real sizzle on the mound the Yankees may have their only fun playing the Tigers this season. THE CLEVELAND Indians will present brother act Jim and Gay- lord Perry but it just won't be enough. 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UNION GALLERY 0 MICHIGAN UNION * ANN ARBOR Sports of The Daily Tigers, Birds open today From wire Service Reports BLTIMORE - The Baltimore Orioles, seeking their fifth Ame Ican League division title in six years, open the 1974 base- ball season at home today against the Detroit Tigers. A crowd of 30,000 or more is expected in Memorial Stadium for the 2 p.m., EDT, contest. Baltimore was expected to start Jim Palmer, who won last year's Cy Young pitching award in the American League after posting a 22-9 record. Joe Coleman, 23-15 a year ago, was named to open for Detroit. Before they headed for the mound, however, Mayor Wil- liam Donald Schaefer of Baltimore was to make the ceremonial first ball pitch. Fans attending the opener were to be presented a team pic- ture of both the 1974 Orioles and the 1954 squad which brought major league baseball back to the city. Members of the 1954 team are slated to be honored between games of Sunday's doubleheader. The Tigers will remain in Baltimore over the weekend to play a single game Saturday and a doubleheader Sunday. Saturday's game and Sunday's first game will be telecast over Channel 2 as the familiar voices of George Kell and Larry Osterman re- turn to the airwaves. All the games, as usual, will be broadcast over radio station WJR (760 AM). Big Ten splits A long standing Big Ten proposal became reality Wednesday as Commissioner Wayne Duke revealed the conference had split competition in six minor sports into east and west divisions. Ath- letic Directors will meet Sunday to devise a five-year schedule for each sport. The sports affected by the new structure are baseball, track, wrestling, swimming and tennis. In the case of baseball, winners in each division will playoff for the conference title. The East Division will include Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana, Purdue and Ohio State. Illinois, Minnesota, North- western, Iowa and Wisconsin will round out the West Di- vision. According to Duke, the split was initiated to cut transportation costs. The commissioner also said that "for all practical purposes the change would not be much of a departure from present sched- uling except for baseball, since we haven't followed a true round- robin schedule in the other sports." Michigan coach Moby Benedict, who opposes the change, stated, "I'm very much against it. Big Ten baseball coaches voted 10-0 against it. We didn't want it-it's being forced." Pistons, Bulls meet again CHICAGO - The home court advantage which has fizzled for both teams to date again goes to the Chicago Bulls against the Detroit Pistons tonight in the third game of their National Basketball Association Western Conference semifinal playoff series. The Bulls finally found shooting range at Detroit Monday night, defeating the Pistons 108-103 after a low key perform- ance in a 97-88 series-opening defeat on their own Chicago Stadium court last Saturday. Veteran Bull forward Chet Walker hoped that the home court edge would be more meaningful this time, commenting "we played more like ourselves in Detroit." Noting the Pistons have shot .531 and .505 in splitting the first two games, Walker asserted "I can't believe Detroit will continue to shoot that well, although they have some terrific shooters in their lineup. "Bob Lanier is having a fantastic playoff for them with his 32.5-average." Although the Pistons had a rash of turnovers and poor shot selections in the final five minutes of the game at Detroit, Piston coach Ray Scott didn't feel playoff pressure was grabbing his club. i 't 't { { E t S t : { 5 g x i F x '3 .) t R , I W igi i NS A WEEKLY LATE NIGHT PRESENTATION OF FEATURE FILMS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS ALL SEATS $1.50 THE BEATLES in YEL LOW SUBMARINE" w4wG 1 SHOWN AT 11:00 / Pass the Jug. Pour the Jug. Jug-a-lug. Jug is the Great American Folk Wine. In Apple or Strawberry Glen. 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