Pose Twelve THE SUMMER DAILY Seeds and stems Umpires and 'foul' calls Dan Borus UMPIRES, the late great Bill Klem claimed, call 'em like they see 'em. But what happens when they don't see 'em?. That was the problem the Michigan Wolver- ines faced last Tuesday as home plate arbiter Herb Nordquist awarded a three-run homer to Western Michigan's Tom Vanderberg on a ball that cleared Fisher Stadium's right field fence, foul by a good six to ten feet. Despite the ranting and raving of the under- standably outraged Wolverine squad, the decision stood. Under the college system of two umps, plateman Nordquist had ultimate authority. a Fortunately the Wolverines had a 4-0 lead at the time of the blast and the tainted runs did not alter the final score. Although the men in blue are capable of error, no miscue is more glaring than the "foul" home- run. ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS in these parts is one off the bat of Big Frank Howard two or so years ago. Howard, then playing with the Washing- ton Senators, lifted an inside pitch which had fooled him badly toward the right field corner of Tiger Stadium, which is 325 feet away from the plate. The ball, just like Vanderberg's drive, had been imparted a great deal of spin as a result of Howard's poke. Still spinning, the ball landed in the reserve seats along the right-field line.. Much to the Ben- gals' dismay, the first base umpire whose name has been mercifully forgotten rotated his hand in mid-air to signify a home run. Furious, the entire Bengal bench emptied just Thursday, May 17, 1973 like the Wolverines did. The ump claimed that the ball had cleared the foul pole in fair territory but had hooked around into the paying customers. FREQUENT PATRONS OF THE MICHIGAN and Trumbull sports palace will at once recognize the error in that one. The reserve seats and the right field bleachers are separated by a screen so that if the man in blue's judgement was correct, it would be quite impossible for the ball to land in the reserve section, which no one denied that it did. The same "foul" home run ruling besmirched a Missouri High school game six years back. The Ladue High Rams were struggling through a poor season and their pitching wasn't much better than the St. Louis Cardinals' is today. However on the day in question the Ram pitcher was hurling quite a good game. Their opponents, the Melhville Panthers, were having little luck in hitting the ball. However the pitcher was a bit erratic and put a man on base with a walk and sent him to second when he uncorked a wild pitch. THE BATTER, THE PANTHER PITCHER, stroke a curve to left. The Ram leftfielder dove for the ball and in doing so landed on the line, sending up a cloud of white dust. The ball landed to his left but the umpire signalled fair ball. The batter continued loping around the basepaths scor- ing the key and winning run. The Rams didn't win a game after that and ended the season some- thing like 4-18. Needless to say, the umpire at the Ladue game, as I reckon will be the case with Mr. Nordquist, was not invited back to umpire. BRONXMEN BOMB BREWERS Bengals bean Bosox, 6-5 i Sports of The Daily I Out of the fire LAFAYETTE, La.--Beryl Shipley, head basketball coach at Southwestern Louisiana, resigned yesterday after 16 years as USL coach and after being in hot water with the NCAA for re- cruiting violations and with the Southland Conference for calling it "Mickey Mouse." Shipley's teams won 296 out of 425 games including° a 12-0 conference mark this season. Time out for this word ... (Cue the hard rock intro) . . . Coming . . . Friday night, Saturday night, and Sundaaaaay afternoon - . . to Detroit Drag- way . . the United Hot Rod Grand Nationals . . . with funny cars from all over the country . . . (Turn up the heavy beat) . . . super stockers smokin' . . . fuel-injected dragster roaring down the quarter-mile track at over 240 miles per hour . . to get to Detroit Dragway . . .'take Telegraph Road to Sibley .. . drive one inile east to Dix and follow the signs to Detroit Dragway . . . (more p'tlse-satting music) . . . Friday and Satur- day night at 7:30, Sunday at 2 p.m. . . . UHRA Grand Nationals! Be therrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!! On tab . ,. . Yotb cm \vtah the sun set tonight, the flowers close up or the Tigers play Boston at Navin Field (a.k.a. Tiger Stadi'tm) --tq p.m. It's a day-to-day thing in the American Le-g-e' E'st to see whose in first place and this series is no exception. If you're ;hut in, listen to it on WJR (o00). 2 Maor Laoue St ndings Fron wire service Reports DETROIT - Rookie John Gamble, making his first appear- ance as a Tiger, scored the game-winning run last night on Mickey Stanley's 10th inning sac- rifice fly to give Detroit its first extra-inning victory of the sea- son, a 6-5 verdict over Boston. Gamble was pinch-running for Ike Brown who walked off loser Luis Tiant, 4-4, to lead off the Tiger half of the tenth. Catcher Duke Sims singled and Dick Mc- Auliffe walked to load the sacks for Stanley.- Hank Aaron on his way to breaking Babe Ruth's record has been receiving a lot of mail; most of it racist. For details see, page 11. John Hiller, 1-2, pitched bril- liantly in relief tanning a pair of Red Sox in the ninth with two men on, and shut off the visitors in the tenth. Detroit, giving Manager Billy Martin a decent birthday pres- ent, took an early 3-0 lead in the first on home runs by Gates Brown and Sims. But Boston countered with solo shots by Carleton Fisk and Carl Yastr- zemski. The Bengal bats roared again in the fifth as they added two more runs to the scoreboard on rbi hits by Sims and McAuliffe. But Boston erupted for three tallies off Mickey Lolich with Yastrzemski doubling home the tying run. Milwaukee milked NEW YORK - Thurman Mun- son drove in four runs with a double and a home run last night as the New York Yankees walloped the Milwaukee Brew- ers 11-4. Munson's two-run double came in a six-run Yankee uprising in the sixth inning. In the seventh, he socked his third homer of the season, a two-run shot into the lower stands in- left field. Munson also had a single and scored in the fifth on a hit-and- run double by Gene Michael. Cubs carded CHICAGO - Mike Tyson hit a two-run triple yesterday to highlight a three-run second inn- ing which carried the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-1 victory over Chicago, snapping the Cubs' winning streak at seven games. Summer Daily American League East w L Pct. GB Detroit 16 17 .481 - Milwaukee 15 ;16 .482 - New York 15 17 .469 16 Boston 14 16 .467 Baltimore 14 17 .452 1 Cleveland 15 19 .441 1 '. West . Chicago 19 10 .655 - Kansas City 20 15 .571 2 California 17 13 .567 C'- Oakland - 18 16 .529 31' Minnesota 15 15 .500 4' Texas 12 19 .387 8 Yesterday's Results New York 11, Milwaukee 4 Detroit 6, Boston 5, 10 innings Texas 2, sKanas City 1 Minnesota 8, Chicago 6 Oakland at California, inc. Tonight's Games Baltimore (Palmer 3-2) at Cleve- land (Perry 5-4) Milwaukee (Colborn 3-1) at New York (Stottlemyre 5-4) Boston (Curtis 1-3) at Detroit (Fryman 2-3) Kansas City (simpson 2-2) at Texas (siebert 1-1) Chicago (wood 8-3) at Minnesota (woodson 2-1) Oakland (Hunter 3-2) at California (May 4-') National League East W L Pct. GB Chicago 21 14 .600 - New York 18 15 .545 2 Montreal 14 17 .452 5 Pittsburgh 13 16 .448 5 Philadelphia 13 20 .393 7 St. Louis 10 23 .303 10 West San Francisco 26 13 .667 - Houston 22 15 .594 3 Cincinnati 20 13 .606 3 Los Angeles 19 16 .543 5 Atlanta 15 19 .441 8'-, San Diego 13 23 .361 111 Yesterday's Results St. Louis 3, Chicago 1 New York 8, Montreal 3 Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 2 Los Angeles 4, Cincinnati 3, (6 innings) Atlanta 5, Houston 2, l'innings (Aaron-hr-no. 11) San Francisco at San Diego, inc. Today's Games Los Angeles (sutton 3-3) at Cin- cinnati (Grimsley 4-2) St. Louis (Bibby 0-2) at Chicago (Pappas 1-3) New York (Seaver 4-3) at Montreal (Moore 2-2) Philadelphia (Carlton 4-5) at Pitts- - burgh (Moose 2-3) Atlanta (Dobson 2-5) at Houston (Roberts 3-1) CINCINNATI'S JOHNNY BENCH looks on helplessly as Los Angeles' Dave Lopes (15) sco first Dodger run in last night's National League game.