Page Eight THE SUMMER DAILY Tuesday, August 14, 1973 Page Eight THE SUMMER DAILY Tuesday August 14, 1973 Honig keeps truckin' on By DAN BORUS Dick Honig, who would have made some school a fine head baseball or basketball coach, is no longer part of the Michigan basketball staff, taking a position in a trucking firm that was "too good to pass up It's kind of sad to see the All-American shortstop and ten year vet of the Maize and Blue coaching staff leave the ranks. Almost everybody who came in contact Commentary with Honig found him intelligent, honest, and diligent. HONIG WAS the architect of the Campy Russell-Joe Johnson undefeated f r o s h squad of 1971-72, a team that showed a good deal more class and poise in every game than the varsity has shown in tome recent hard court outings. Though he never played the maplewood game, observers Were impressed with the way Honig map- ped out the frosh stategy: the subtle way he had the team break the press and the smooth way they moved the ball. When Honig, who called that bunch, "the guys who gave me my greatest coach- ing thrill took the step to the varsity with his frosh, it looked like .the basketball pro- gram was about to get rolling. Well . - . it didn't quite, but that's ano- ther story. HONIG'S DEPARTURE from the .staff is going to be almost as big as the failure to land a big man in the annual recruiting battles. "Dick's absence is going to hurt us," as- sistant coach Jim Dutcher explained. "When some one knows your system, has been instrumental in your recruiting pro- gram and was able to scout the oppositiorr as well as Dick did last year, it's got to hurt." "The primary quality in the man who replaces Honig,"- said Dutcher who had an inkling that the Honig resignation was on the way," is an ability to recruit, not ne- cessarily his technical knowledge." "Recruiting is at least 60 per cent of the game." HONIG COULD certainly do that. Besides the obvious economic benefits he will accrue, Honig decided to go truck- ing, because of the inability to advance at the Big U, what with Dutcher and Orr establishel in the cage positions and Bene- dict in the baseball. And, as he put it, "It's hard for schools to take you when you have had an off year" referring to the mediocre record the Wolverine cagers compiled this, past season. "Since most of the other schools either take people out of their own ranks or pluck the big names, it's pretty hard to get picked up." HONIG, WHO PLAYED a brilliant short- stop for the Wolverines and helped Moby Benedict skipper the baseballers, tried for some baseball jobs as well. "I was handicapped because I haven't coached for three years. U-Cal Riverside was interested, but they eventually went for a guy from Arizona State (the base- ball factory of the Southwest)." SO HONIG leaves, a bit sadly, mind you, a victim,' in part, of the coaching job market and the de facto Wolverine policy that forbids the firing of coaching personnel. But for Honig the challenge is fresh. "After all I've never been anywhere else. I'm going to be employed for the first time he joked. The challenge for Michigan basketball, with Honig's going, becomes just that much greater. Summer Daily, 4 engalS t k Twins Sports of The Daily I Don't step on the fake grass Jogging afficiandos are reminded that the seventh and eighth lanes of the University's famed Tartan track are open for jogging. The inside lane, used primarily in long distance races, has received quite a beating of late. The damage is done by the tennis or basketball shoes which have lifted great portions of the track. Streets are for the people as long as you use the out- side lanes. On tab . . The Junior Olympics grace the All-American city of Ann Ar- bor beginning with the opening ceremonies at Crisler Arena. . .. the slow pitch championships of the IM league will be play- ed at South Ferry Field . . . The Tigers on WJR. By The Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - Bill Freehan's two-raun single keyed, a seventh-inning rally and John Hiller gave D e t r o i t another steady relief stint last night, pac- ing the Tigers to a 9-3 victory over Minnesota, saddling the Twins with their seventh straight loss. Freehan grounded a bases- loaded single between third and short with two outs in the seventh for the tying and go-ahead runs off loser Bert Blyleven, 14-12. Aurelio Rodriguez capped the three-run surge with a run-scor- ing single that insured Woodie Fryman his fifth victory against seven losses. Hiller came out of the Tigers' bullpen in the seventh with a run- ner on second, one out and De- troit leading 4-2 to record his 28th save. He did, however, surrender Steve Brye's second homer of the season in the eighth for the final Minnesota run. Detroit wrapped it up with two runs in the eighth inning and three more, two on Ed Brinkman's single, in the ninth. The Twins had taken a 2-0 lead in the second as Jerry Terrell drilled a triple to score Joe Lis, then scored on Rod Carew's in- field hit. Jim Northrup, Stanley and Brown smashed consecutive singles in the third for the first Detroit run. The Pirates commeth PITTSBURGH - Willie Stargell scored two runs, one on his 34th homer of the season, pac- ing the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 3-2 .victory over the Cincinnati Reds in last night's nationally televised baseball game. Nelson Briles, 11-I1, who need- ed ninth-inning relief help from Ramon Hernandez and Dave Giusti, fell behind 1-0 in the first when Joe Morgan singled, stole second and raced home on a sin- gle by Tony Perez. The Pirates, who halted Cincin- nati's winning s t r e a k at six ganes, tied the game in the third when Stargell, the major league's leading home run hitter, lined a pitch from Fred Norman, 10-10, over the right field wall. Stargell put the Pirates ahead to stay in the third when he sin- gled, moved to second on a walk to Richie Zisk and scored on Manny Sanguillen's single. Ren- nie Stennett then singled tip the middle to score Zisk with what proved to be the winning run. Major League .. Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pet. GB Detroit 66 52 .561 -- Baltnmorek 6352 548 1% New York 65 56 .537 2l-) Boston 62 55 .530 31 Milwaukee 57 59 491 ~ Cleveland 47 71 .398 19 Wesl Kansas City 61 51 .571 - Oakland 67 51 .568 ', Chicago 58 61 .487 10 Minnesota 56 59 .487 10 California 53 62 .461 13 Texas 42 74 .362 24'. Yesterday's Results New York 6, California 0 Oakland 3, Boston 1 Chicago 5, Milwaukee 2 Baltimore 7, Texas 4 Detroit 9, Minnesota 3 Other clubs not scheduled Probable Pitchers California (wright 8-16) at New York (Dobson 6-4) Oakland (Knowles 4-5) at Boston (Lee Cleveland (Perry 12-15) at Kansas City (Busby 10-11) Chicago (Stone 4-11) at Milwaukee (Lockwood 5-6) Baltimore (Alexander 6-6) at Texas (Siebert 6-9) Detroit (Coleman 18-9) at Minnesota (Woodson 10-7) NATIONALL EAGUE W L Pct. GB St. Louis 61 58 .513 - Pittsbnrgh' 57 58 .496 2 Montreal 57 59 .491 '2' Chicago 56 61 .479 4 Philadelphia 54 63 .462 6 New York 52 63. .452 7 west Los Angeles 73 45 .619 - Cincinnati 72 48 .600 2 San Francisco 64 52 .552 '8 Houston 63 58 .521 11 Atlanta 56 65 .463 18. San Diego 41 76 .350 31' Yesterday's Results Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 2 Houston 4, St. Louis 0 New York at San Diego, night Montreal at Los Angeles, night Other clubs not scheduled Probable Pitchers Atlanta (Morton 9-9) at Chicago ( Jenkins 10-11) Cincinnati (Grimsley 12-6) at Pitts- burgh (Rooker 5-4) 'Houston (Richard 4-1) at St. Louis (Foster 9-6) New York (Koosman 8-13) at San Diego (Jones 2-3) Montreal (McAnalIy 7-6) at Los Angeles (John 11-7) Phiadelphia (Lonhorg 9-9) at San Francisco (Barr 9-11) EXCITING PEDRO GARCIA,. second sacker for the sometimes go-go Milwaukee Brewers, scores underneath the thundering tag off Ed "Twinkletoes" Herrmann of the Chicago White Sox. Garcia came flying home on a sacrifice fly by Bob Coluccio.