Page Twelve
Wednesday, August 15 ,1973
THE SUMMER DAILY
PaeTeleTEUMR AL
w ~,
How about that,
sports fans?
Gooney Bird manager Don
"Baby Boog" Powell " powders a
decisive fourth-inning round trip-
per to lead his charges to victory
in the IM Slow-Pitch Champion-
ship held yesterday. For details,
see page 11.
Daily Photo by TERRY McCARTHY
THE MAGNIFICENT 700
Jr. OImpics start today
By CHUCK BLOOM
North, South, East and
West. They come from all
over the country. Over 700
y o u n g, aspiring athletes,
from the ages of 10 to 17
converge on the little sleepy
college town of Ann Arbor
in the heart of the Huron
River Valley.- All of them
in search of victory in the
seventh annual AAU Junior
Olympics which begins to-
day.
For most of the participants it
will be the first taste of na-
tional competition in the oft-ne-
glected area known as age
group competition.
Age groups are exactly what
they imply; competition within a
...gertain a g e bracket. Unfor-
tunately age group competition
ends for a youngster once he or
she has compared in a National
championship event, the Junior
Olympics excluded.
Most of the attention in the
country is given to older, more
established athletes who are
veterans of national meets. Yet
few realize that they all came up
the same way, through the age
group program. And without the
age group program, they would
not be the big names that they
are today. Names like Spitz,
Schollander, Rudolph.
COMPETITION WILL be held
at three sites: Fuller Pool, Fer-
ry Field, and Crisler Arena.
Here is a schedule of all events
and times:
WEDNESDAY
0 JUDO - Crisler Arena - 9
am-NOON.
* DIVING - Fuller Pool - 4
p.m.
* SWIMMING - Fuller Pool-
6 p.m. - FINALS
* . TRACK - Ferry Field - 4-7
p.m.
* GYMNASTICS-C r i s I e r
Arena - 1-6 p.m.
THURSDAY
* TRAMPOLINE - Crisler
Arena -9 a.m.-NOON.
*DIVING, SWIMMING,
T R A C K, GYMNASTICS -
same as above
* CLOSING CEREMONIES-
Crisler or Bursley Hall - 8 p.m.
Ann Arbor will be heavily rep-
S miff
resented in the swimming com-
petition to be held at Fuller Pool,
on Fuller Road on the way to
North Campus. A strong Ann
Arbor Swim Club contingent, un-
der the tutelage of coach Johanna
High, stands a good chance of
taking some top honors. Danny
Stephenson leads the men's di-
vision swimming three gureling
freestyle events while Jenny
Ogle tackles both butterfly events
for the women.
Several aspiring divers will be-
gin competition at four today.
GYMNASTICS co - ordinator
Carew,
Cards,
By The Associated Press
BLOOMINGTON, Minn.-Ameri-
can- League batting leader Rod
Carew smacked five hits and
Dave Goltz emerged from the
Minnesota bullpen last night to
deal Detroit a 12-1 defeat.
The loss checked the Tigers'
winning streak at four games and
ended a losing skid by the Twins
at seven.
Carew lifted his batting aver-
age to .360 with five hits in six
trips and reached 1,000 hits for
his ,career. The Twins ripped Joe
Coleman, 18-10, for 11 singles and
seven runs, hamrniering him for
three runs in the first inning and
then finishing him off with a four-
run sixth.
Cards stop losing
ST. LOUIS-Seventh-inning dou-
bles by Bernie Carbo and Joe
Torre snapped a 5-5 tie and
sparked the St. Louis Cardinals
to a 9-5 victory over the Houston
Astros last night.
The Cardinals, who had drop-
ped eight straight games in ty-
ing their longest losing streak
Newt Loken says the action over
at Crisler Arena will be out-
standing with 14 of the country's
finest gymnasts competing.
But the highlight seems to be
the track and field competition
at Ferry Field. There will be
some real fleet youngsters com-
peting in the two-day action.
Among them will be Alvin Cren-
shaw, from Dallas, Texas, who
is a double state champion in the
440 and 880. Crenshaw is con-
sidered the cream of a very good
crop this year. To challenge the
T e x a s Tornado will be Balti-
more's Clifford Wiley who runs
a fast 100, 9.6 to be exact, and
Illinois 880 champ Charlie White.
AND IF YOU like to see your-
self on television, you'll get your
chances as CBS Sports Spectacu-
lar is taping the proceedings for
an Aug. 19 telecast.
Tickets are $1 per event or a
fin for the whole ball of wax.
The best thing for these ath-
letes would be a large turnout
from the community to lend sup-
port to some fine young warriors.
Who knows maybe an Olympic
champion is among them?
Goltz bomb Tigers;
Cincy both
since 1957, erupted for five runs
in the sixth and followed with a
four-run burst an inning later.
Reds are marching
PITTSBURGH - Andy Kosco's
ninth inning single scored pinch
runner Cesar Geronimo with the
tie-breaking run -last night, help-
ing the surging Cincinnati Reds
to a 5-4 victory over Pittsburgh.
Johnny Bench opened the ninth
with a double and went to third
on Willie Stargell's single. Gero-
nimo ran for Bench and scored
on Kosco's hit. Pete Rose'; two-
out single added another run.
Royals in first
KANSAS CITY - Fran Healy
drove in three runs to lead Kan-
sas City to an 8-5 baseball victory
over Cleveland last night as the
Royals retained their half-game
lead in the American League
West Division.
George Hendrick, Cleveland's
victors
slugging centerfielder, suffered a
broken bone above his right wrist
when he was struck by a pitch
from Steve Busby in the second
inning.
Hendrick, who has belted 21
home runs this season, will wear
a cast on his arm for about three
weeks.
Chisox still stink
MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee's
George Scott blasted a one-out,
ninth inning homer to lift the
Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-4 de-
cision over the Chicago White
Sox last night.
Scott's homer, his 17th of the
baseball season off reliever Cy
Acosta, 7-3, broke a 4-4 tie which
the White Sox had forged in their
half of the ninth on Pat Kelly's
single off reliever Eduardo Rod-
riguez, 5-3. But Rodriguez then
stiffened and preserved the .tie
by pitching out of a bases-loaded,
none-out jam.
Major League 1
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
East
W I. Pct. GR
Detroit . 66 53 .554 -
Baltimore 64 5 21
New Tech 06b 56 .541 1'?
'oton 62 5 5 .505 3'
Milwaukee 58 59 .496 7
Cleveland 47 72 .395 19
west
Kansas City 69 51 .575,-
Oakland 60 515.571 x.
Minnesota 57 60 ..487 1011
Chicago 58 62 .483 11
California 53 63 .457 14
Texas 42 75 .359 25'
Yrsterday's IRslts
New York 7, California 2
Oakland 1, Boston 0
Kansas City 8, leveland 5
Milwaukee 5, Chicago 4
B~atimore 12,Tesas 10
Minnesota 12, Detroit 1
Today's Games
Baltimore (McNally 10-13) at Texas
(Bibhy 6-6)
Cleveland (Timmerman 6-3) at
Kansas City (Fitzmorris 4-0)
Detroit (Lolich 12-11) at Minneso-
ts (Decker 7-5)
Chicago (Wood 20-17) at Milwaukee
(Bell 9-8)
California (Barber 1-2) at New
York (Stottlemnyre 12-10)
Oakland (Blse 02-7) at Boston (Cur-
tis 1-9)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East
EatW L Pct. GB
St. Louis 62 58 .517 -
Pittsburgh 57 59 .491 3
Montreal 5700.407 3'>.
Chicago 56 62.475 5
Philadelphia 54 63 .462 6
New York 52 64 .448 8
Los Angeles 74 45 .622 -
Cincinnati 73 48 .603 2
San Francisco 64 52 .552 8'
Houston 63 59 .516 12'
Atlanta 57 65. 467 18'
San Diego 42 76 .356 31'
Yesterday's Results
Atlanta 6, Chicago 2
Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh4
50x. Louis 9, Houtston 5
New York at Saa Diego, inc.
Montreal at Los Angeles, inc.
Philadelphia at San Francisco, inc.
Today's Oames
Cincinnati (Billingh"m 15-) at
Pittsburgh (Ellis 11-10)
Atlanta (Harrison 7-4) at Chicago
(teuschel 12-10)
Houston (Reuss 12-8) at St. Louis
(Wise 13-7)
Montreal (McAnally 7-6) at Los An-
geles (Sutton 14-7)
New York (Seaver 15-6) at San Die-
go (Arlin 7-10)
Philadelphia (Twitchell 11-4) at
San Francisco (Marichal 9-8)
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