Pog e v THE MICHIGAN AL Saturday, June 1, 1974 Slu ping Tigers lose another By The Associated Press ANAHEIM - Ellie Rodriguez drove in four runs with two home runs and a double last night, helping the California An- gels snap a four-game losing skid with a 5-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Rodriguez cracked a two-run double in the second inning and snapped a 2-2 tie in the fifth with his third homer of the sea- son to send Mickey Lolich to his sixth loss against five triumphs. RODRIGUEZ slammed h i s fourth homer to give the Angels their fifth run in the seventh. In his last five games, the Cali- fornia catcher has stroked nine hits in 15 times at bat, includ- ing three home runs.. Bill Singer improved his rec- ord to 7-3 by scattering nine hits. He surrendered Ben Og- livie's two-run single which temporarily tied the game in the fifth and gave up the other run in the ninth when Gates Brown hit into a force play which scored Norm Cash from third. The defeat snapped Lolich's p e r s o n a 1 four-game winning streak. Cards crush ST. LOUIS - Surging Reggie Smith socked his 10th home run and Sonny Siebert pitched a five-hitter, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-0 victory last night over the San Diego Padres. Siebert, 5-3, struck out five, walked one and also drove in the first Cardinals' run. Smith, who began the game with"a' 37* batting average, doubled off the Padres' Steve Arlin, 1-7, in the third inning and provided St. Louis with a 2-0 lead two innings later with his shot into the right field bleachers. Arlin was also the victim of a two-run Cardinals' uprising in the sixth inning yielding a sin- gle to Jose Cruz and walking Siebert and Bake McBride be- fore being relieved. Ted Sim- mons singled home the final Cardinal run in the eighth. The defeat was the seventh in a row for the Padres, who have lost 20 of their last 24 games. Reds riot CINCINNATI-Johnny Bench's bases - loaded triple keyed a four-run Cincinnati seventh in- ning last night that carried the Reds to a 7-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates in a National League baseball game. Pittsburgh had carried a 5-3 lead into the seventh on two home runs by Bob Robertson. Cesar Geronimo opened Cin- cinnati's seventh with a walk and Pete Rose singled him to third. Then Joe Morgan walked and Bench hit his triple. Dave Concepcion followed with a sin- gle to score Bench with an in- surance run., Astros ascend NEW YORK - Cesar Cedeno ripped four hits including his 10th homer yesterday, helping the Houston Astros to a 7-1 victory over New York, the For the inside information on some shady dealings going on at Ohio State and more sports turn to page 11, please. fourth straight loss for the Mets. Don Wilson drove in one of the Astro runs with a sacrifice fly and earned the victory with late inning relief help from Fred Scherman. The Astros tagged Jerry Koos- man, 5-3, for two runs in the second inning when they loaded the bases with none out on Bob Watson's single and two walks. Doug Rader singled for one run and Wilson's sacrifice fly pro- duced the other. Giants jostle PHILADELPHIA--Garry Mao dox slammed two doubles, scored one run and drove in an- other last night as the San Francisco Giants defeated Phil- adelphia 6-2, handing the slump- ings Phils their fifth consecu- tive loss. The score was tied 2-2 when Bobby Bonds led off the Giants' sixth with a double. Tito Fuen- tes lined deep to center and then Maddox ripped a double to left, scoring Bonds and sending the Giants ahead. The Giants added three more runs in the ninth on RBI singles by Gary Thomasson, Dave Ita- der and Bonds. UMPIRE SHAG CRAWFORD howls, "Yer out" to Pittsburgh's Manny Sanguillen (sliding) in yes- terday's major league baseball action. Cincinnati thirdbaseman Dan Driessen is the man with his foot on the bag after taking a toss from Jim Rooker on an attempted sacrifice. The Reds won, 7-S. NHL TABS DU FEK, LINDSKOG WHA drafts amateurs From Wire service Reports Capping its second year of operation, the World Hockey Association held its third ama- teur draft yesterday with a large group of American college or junior players included. Two Michigan skaters, left- winger on Dufek and defense- man Tom Lindskog, were picked by t h e National H o c k e y League's Detroit Red Wings and Atlanta Flames in that league's draft on Tuesday. No word was immediately available as to which if any of the Wolverines were chosen by the World Hockey Association. THE VANCOUVER IBlacers signed their number one pick, defenseman Pat Price from Sas- katoon, coach Joe Crozier an- nounced. But the Phoenix fran- chise was not so lucky as their number one pick, Greg loly. signed with the new NALt cx- pansion club in Washington. Among the players from the Western Collegiate Hockey As- sociation who were (rafted are defenseman Dick Spannhauer of Minnesota and center Dennis Olmstead of Wisconsin. Spann- bauer was nabbed in the first round by I e a g u e champion Houston and also by the NIL's Altanta Flames. He is only a sophomore. OLMSTEAD, a n o t h e r first round choice by Phoenix, was selected by Emile Francis' New York Rangers earlier in the week. Another pair of WCHA de- fensemen were also selected. Brian Eagleblom, Olmstead's teammate at Wisconsin went to Winnepeg in the second round, and Denver's highly touted Bruce Affleck by Cleveland. Affleck also made the list of the NHI California Golden Seals. Other NHL first round choices who also went in the first round of the WHA secret draft were Bill Lochead, selected by De- troit in the NHL and Indianapo- lis in the WHA, Cam Connor, picked by Cincinnati in the WHA and Montreal in the NHL, Rick Chartre, who went to Montreal in the NHL and Cincinnati in the WHA, Clark Gillies, picked by Edmonton in the WHA and the New York Islanders in the NHL, and Doug Riseboroagh, picked by Cleveland in the WHA and Montreal in the NHL. Maior ' eauie Stondings AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE East East w I Pet. GB W L Pet. Gn Milwaukee 24 19 .558 St. Louis 24 22 .521 - Boston 25 22 .532 Philadelphia 25 23 .521 - Detroit 22 24 .478 3. Montreal 20 20 .500 1 Baltimore 22 2 471 318 Chicago 18 25 .419 4 t Cleveland 22 25 .468 4 New York 20 28 .417 5 New York 23 27 .460 4'. Pittsburgh 17 27 .386 6 West West Oakland 26 21 .553 - Los Angeles 37 14 .725 - Kansas City 25 22 .532 1 Cincinnati 27 19 .587 7 Chicago 22 21 .512 2 Atlanta 26 22 .542 9 Texas 24 24 .500 2ne .' Hoston 27 24 .529 99 Minnesota 20 23 .465 4 - San Francisco 26 25 .510 10 California 22 27 .449 5 San Diego 18 36 .333 20 Yesterday's Results Yesterday's Results Los Angeles 4, Chicago 2 Tesas 7, Baltimore 6 Atlanta at Montreal, pp rain Minnesota 5, New York C san Francisco 6, Philadelphia 2 Kansas City 4, Cleveland 2 Cincinnati 7, Pittsburgh 5 Chicago 3, Boston 2 Houston 7, New York 1 Milwaukee at Oakland, inc. St. Louis 5, San Diego 0 California 5, Detroit 3 Today's Games Today's Games Atlanta (Niekro 6-3) at Mon- Milwaukee (Slaton 6-5 or Cham- treat (Blair 1-0), night. pion 2-1) at Oakland (Blue 3-5). Houston (Roberts 5-5) at New Detroit (Coleman 6-4) at Califor- York (Seaver 2-5). nia (Ryan 6-5), 10 p.m., WJR. Los Angeles (Messersmith 4-1) at Baltimore (McNally 4-3) at Texas Chicago (Frailing 3-4). (Bibby 6-7), night. San Francisco (Caldwell 7-2) at New York (Medich 6.4) at Min- Philadelphia (Ruthven 2-2) or Far- aesota (Blyleven 4-7). mer 2-1), night. Kansas City (Dal Canton 3-2) at San Diego (Freisleben 3-2) at St. Cleveland (J. Perry 3-4). Louis (McGlothen 6-2), night, Chicago (Kaat 4-5) at Boston (Ti- Pittsburgh (Brett 5-3) at Cincia. ant 5-5), night. nati (Nelson 3-3). Lions' new home The first steel section goes into place on the Detroit Lions' new home football stadium in subur- ban Pontiac. The stadium is scheduled to be completed in August of 1975, just in time for the opening of the National Football League championship season.