Page Twelve THE SUMMER DAILY Saturday, August 11, 1973 DETROIT ON TOP Tigers fly, O's downed Jr" SS ports of The Daily .v Daily sports quiz The status quo is often the name of the game in college ' football. Year in and year Out the same teams with the same familiar coaches appear io the upper echelons of the national ratings. Rarely can a team which has been consistently poor in the past recruit in the all-encompassing manner of a Texas, Ala- bama or Oklahoma and break the monopoly. For today's Daily sports quiz rank the top ten college football coaches in order of lifetime winning percentage: A. Hayes, Ohio State; B. McClendon, LSU; C. Royal, Texas; D. Bryant, Alabama; E. Schembechler, Michigan; F. Jordan, Auburn; G. Broyles, Arkansas; H. Kush, Arizona State; I. Parsegian, Notre Dame; and J. McKay, Southern Cal. (See column S for correct order), Honig chooses capitalism Dick Honig, Michigan's assistant basketball coach, resigned this week to grab a business opportunity with a trucking firm in Romulus, Michigan. Honig, 33,, coached Michigan's freshman team with Campy Russell, Joe Johnson, and C. J. Kupec to an undefeated season and a fifth ranking among all freshman teams in the 1971-72 campaign. Munson' I By The Associated Press DETROIT - Designated hitter Gates Brown belted a three-run homer off Steve Stone in the third inning to spark the Detroit Tigers to a 7-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox Friday night. It was the Tigers' 14th triumph in 18 games since the All-Star break. Stone, meanwhile, has lost seven consecutive games for a 4-11 record. Brown's homer, his 10th of the baseball season, followed a walk to Jim Northrup and a double by Mickey Stanley and lifted the Ti- gers into a 4-3 lead. Then Al Kaline g r e e t e d reliever Ken Frailing with a solo homer, his seventh. Chicago chased Detroit starter Mike Strahler with two runs in the top of the first on a walk to Pat Kelly, Jerry Hairston's RBI double and a single by Carlos May. Third baseman Bill Melton of the White Sox injured his right leads Yanks over A's Summer Daily Sports hand when he was hit by a thrown ball from shortstop Brink- man in the third inning. Melton was scheduled for precautionary X-rays. Orioles plummet KANSAS CITY - Hal McRae and Lou Piniella drilled solo home runs in the fifth inning and the Kansas City Royals hung on for a 2-1 victory over Balti- more last night that knocked the Orioles out of first place in the American League's E a s t Divi- sion. The Orioles dropped one-half game behind Detroit and were three percentage points ahead of the New York Yankees. The vic- tory put the first-place Royals two games ahead of Oakland in the West Division. Yanks hang on NEW YORK - Thurman Mun- sondrove inmfour runs with a three-run homer and a bunt sin- gle while Bobby Murcer and Roy White added five extra- base hits, leading the New York Yankees to a 10-9 victory over the Oakland A's last night. The Yankees' 15-hit attack off- set two long home runs by Oak- land's Reggie Jackson, the Amer- ican League's home run leader with 26. PGA golf scores, page 11; an- swers to the sports quiz is H, E, C, D, A, B, J, G, I, F. Munson cracked his three-run homer in the first inning against loser Darold Knowles, 4-5, and then squeezed home another run with a bnt after Murcer tripled in the third. The home run was his 16th of the baseball season: That gave New York a 4-0 lead but the A's got three runs back in the forrth when Deron Johnson crarkn-I his 15th homer. White, who also had two dou- bles, hit his 12th homer for a 5-3 lead in the fifth. Angels cherubic BOSTON-Lee Stanton tripled with one out in the eighth inning and scored the tie-breaking run on Richie Scheinblum's single, helping the California Angels to a 5-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox lst night. Scheinblum's s i n g I e chased loser John Curtis, 11-9, and the Angels added a run in the ninth against relievers Bob Bolin and Bob Veale on two-out singles by Frank Robinson, Bob Oliver and Mike- Epstein. Robinson drove in the first three California runs with a two- run homer in the opening inning, his 20th of the baseball season. WASHINGTON REDSKIN Linebacker Chris Hamburger stops Denver star running back Floyd Little after the Bronco had picked up a first down. CARDINALS FALL Cubs lose again From Wire Service Reports The Reds' fifth-inning rally wiped out a 2-0 Car- CHICAGO-Tommy Helms' two-run homer plus dinal lead and helped Ross Grimsley to his 12th a pair of run-scoring singles by Bobby Watson victory in 18 decisions for the 1973 baseball sea- yesterday helped the Houston Astros to a 6-4 vic- son. tory over the Chicago Cubs, who have dropped Tony Perez and Johnny Bench knocked in runs their last six baseball games. with singles and Cesar Geronimo drove in another Watson put the Astros ahead in the first inning with a sacrifce fly before Chaney finished the up- when he singled home Cesar Cedeno after Cedeno rising. had singled with two out and stolen second. St. Louis ace Rick Wise, 13-7, was the victim of Houston struck for two more runs in the third. the Cincinnati rally. Jim Wynn led off with a single, and with one outP.k Cedeno reeached on an error by Cubs third base- Pirates ransacked man Carmen Fanzone. Then Watson and Doug PITTSBURGH-Phil Niekro pitched a six-hitter Rader delivered run-scoring singles. and Frank Tepedino and Marty Perez singled d Cardshome runs in the ninth inning, leading the Atlanta Reds rip rsBraves to a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates ST. LOUIS-Darrell Chaney capped a four-run last night. rally in the fifth inning with a run-scoring single After Mike Lum slugged a tie-breaking homer and the Cincinnati Reds went on to beat the slump- in the sixth to give Atlanta a 3-2 lead, Tepedino ing St. Louis Cardinals 84 last night. and Perez drove home the runs that gave Niekro It was the fifth straight loss for the National the needed cushion to withstand Willie Stargell's League's East Division leaders, two-run homer in the Pirate ninth. Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE East East w L Pet. GB W L Pet. GB Detroit 63 52 .548 - St. Louis 61 55 .527 - Baltimore 61 51 .545 % Montreal 56 57 .496 3!. New York 64 54 .542 5 Pittsburgh 55 57 .495 4 Boston 60 54 .526 2% Chicago 56 59 .487 5 Milwaukee 55 58 .407 7 Philadelphia 5262 .456 Cleveland 45 71 .38818%5i New Yech 51 6t .451 8 West west Kansas City 67 50 .573 - Los Angeles 72 43 .626 -- Oakland 04 St .117 2 Cincinnati 70 47 .199 3 Minnesota 50 57 .496 9 San Francisco 621 149 9 Chicago 57 59 .491 9Y2 Houston 60 58 .508 13%> California 53 59 .473 11% Atlanta 55 04 .464 19 Texas 41 71 .371 13 San Diego 39 751 .342 32% Last Night's Results Yesterday's Results New York 10, Oakland 9 California 5, Boston 3 Houston 6, Chicago 4 Detroit 7, Chicago 3 Atlanta 5, Pittsburgh 4 Kansas City 2, Baltimore 1 Cincinnati 8, St. Louis 4 Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 1 Montreal at San Diego, inc. Cleveland 8, Texas 1 Philadelphia at Los Angeles, inc. Today's Games New York at San Francisco, inc. Oakland (Blue 11-7) at New York Today's Games (Stottlemyre 12-9), 2 p.m. Ch. 4 Houston (Reuss 12-9) at Chicago California (Ryan 13-13) at Boston (Reusehel 12-9) (Moret 5-0). New York (Stone 7-3) at San Fran- Chicago (Wood 20-16) at Detroit risen (nradley 9-11) (Lolich 1t-)), 5 p.m. Atlanta (Harrison 6-4) at Pittsburgh Minnesota (Decker 7-5) at Milwaukee (Morlan 1-0), night (Bell 9-8)' Cincinnati (ailliagham 15-8) at St. Batimore (McNally 10-12) at Kansas Louis (Cleveland 12-6 a),ight City (Drago 12-10), night Philadelphia (Brett 11-4) at Los An- Cleveland (Timmerman 4-3) at Texas geles (Downing 9-6), night (Bibby 6-5), night Only games scheduled