Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, June 4, 1974 CLARKE COGSDILL: Ohio hassle evokes yawns WHEN FAT W OODY'S assistant coaches were caught tooling around Columbus in some leased cars they got by giving the dealers some Buckeye season tickets, only one thing really caught my eye. With gas-guzzlers ranking in popular- ity right below the immortal treatise "Ethics in High Places" by H.R. Halde- man, I'm surprised the Woodymen couldn't find a dealer desperate enough to give them the cars just so he could see some of them on the road. But who would notice down there, anyway? S A L E S OF tranquilizers probably plunged the night after the story came out. It seems that everybody knows about, assumes, and really doesn't give a damn about the corruption that's so easy to find in college athletics today. But it's not necessary to think this way. "I guess I'm from the old school," former Michigan wrestling coach Cliff Keen mused several months ago. "I don't approve of this recruiting business at all. I always felt a football team, or a wrestling team, should get its people the same way the English or history departments do-by the quality of the program and the instructors. "You don't go around the country looking for English students, and I think athletics is the same way. You shouldn't need any more inducement than the program itself. There shouldn't be any other reason to entice students. I don't think a championship is worth it." Here we must note, sadly, that coach Keen tried this out back in the 1930s, when he was a member of Harry Kipke's football staff. Kipke, a disciple of Yost, was an outstanding coach with two na- tional championships to his credit. When he didn't recruit, and other schools did, Michigan got stomped, Kipke be- came a V-P for Coca-Cola, and Fritz Crisler resurrected the team. You can't blame the public for not paying much attention to this subject-- the bozos in the White House have done enough to nauseate us all. But you CAN blame the college athletic directors, for they are in a position where they could resolve this problem - if they wanted to. The NCAA has a nice, long, con- voluted and at-times-impressive roster of rules that schools are supposed to follow in recruiting their prospects. And that's about all there is, because the mighty NCAA has a squad of about four people who are supposed to police every- body, and nailing an individual school for violations is roughly as difficult as breaching Tricky Dick's stonewall. The athletic directors could hire a decent-sized enforcement group-if they wanted to. They could even give this group carte blanche to investigate every- where, and encourage it to prosecute cases vigorously. They haven't done so, and they prob- ably won't do so until someone drafts a bill providing for federal regulation of collegiate athletics and Congress ap- pears to be on the verge of passing it. It would be most refreshing to see some good old post-Watergate morality hit the nation's athletic departments. That's about as likely as Billy Graham getting busted for possession and sale. Until then, we can expect to find some more "shocking exposes" from time to time, and they'll bore us out of our collective gourd. SUICIDE BUNT DECISIVE Phillies squeeze Braves, 5-2 / , . . , .By Thse Associated Press =r PHILADELPHIA -- D e 1 mGjor League Standings Unser squeezesbunted Larry Ac B'wa hmem from third base AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pet. GB Boston 27 23 .540 -- Milwaukee 24 22 .522 1 Baltimore 24 2s .490 2!t Cleveland 24 25 .490 2% New York 25 27 .491 3 Detroit 23 25 .479 3 west Oakland 29 21 .580 -- Kansas City 25 25 .500 4 Texas 25 25 .500 4 Chicago 22 23 .489 4t/ California 24 27 .471 5'1 Minnesota 21 25 .457 6 Yesterday's Results Baltimore 4, Kansas City 3 Minnesota 5, Boston 4 (12 inn.) Today's Games Oakland (Holtzman 5-6 and Ham- ilton 4-0) at Detroit (LaGrow 3-4 and Lolich 5-6) 2, 5:30 p.m. Texas (J. Brown 2-2) at Cleve- land (Patterson 3-3), night. Kansas City (Fitzmorris 4-2) at Baltimore (Grimsley 5-6), night. Boston (Lee 6-5) at Minnesota (Decker 6-4), night. California (singer 7-3) at Mil- wankee (Kobel 3-3), night. New York (Dobson 3-7) at Chica- go (Wood 8-6), night. NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct. GB Philadelphia 28 23 .549 - St. Louis 26 22 .542 32 Montreal 21 21 .500 2- Chicago 19 26 .422 6 New York 21 29 .420 6y, Pittsburgh 18 28 .391 7% West Los Angeles 37 15 .712 -- Cincinnati 29 20 .592 6% Atlanta 27 24 .529 9'! Houston 27 25 .519 10 San Francisco 27 27 .500 11 San Diego 18 38 .321 21 Yesterday's Games Philadelphia 5, New York 2 Cincinnati 5, New York 2 Today's Games Atlanta (Harrison 3-6) at Phila- delphia (scheeler 3-5), night. Cincinnati (Gullett 5-3) at New York (Koosman 5-3), night. Montreal (McAnally 3-4) or Ren- ko 3-5) at Houston (Griffin 6-1), night. Chicago (Bonham 4-8) at San Di- ego (Grief 2-8), night. Pittsburgh (Reuss 4-3) at Los An- geles (John 8-1), night. St. Louis (Gibson 3-5) at San Francisco (Bradley 5-4), night. with the tie-breaking run in the eighth and Willie Montanez followed with a two-run triple, lifting the Philadelphia Phillies to a 5-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves in a nationally tele- vised baseball g a m e last night. Bowa opened the eighth with a single off loser Carl Morton, 6-5, and went to second on Greg Luzinski's one-out single. Bowa then stole third-his 16th con- secutive theft and 17th in 18 attempts this season-and beat Morton's desperate throw to the plate on Unser's bunt. Mona- nez then doubled over Mike Lum's head in center field for two more runs. By winning, t h e Phillies moved back into first place in the National League's East Di- Sports vision, seven percentage points and one-half game ahead of idle St. Louis. The Braves scored an un- earned run in the first inning off winner Steve Carlton, 7-4, who allowed six hits and struck out 1. Darrell Evans walked, took second on a wild pitch and scored when third baseman Mike Schmidt threw into the dirt past first base after field- ing Hank Aaron's grounder. Royals deposed BALTIMORE - Grant Jack- son, Baltimore's third pitcher of the seventh inning, choked off a Kansas City rally and pre- served a 4-3 victory for the Orioles over the Royals last night. Doyle Alexander, 2-2, making only his third start of the sea- son, entered the inning with a 4-1 lead but was replaced by Bob Reynolds with two on and two out. A line single by Amos Otis scored George Brett, who had reached on his third hit of the game. Jackson then came on and his first delivery was hit high into short right field by John May- berry. But right fielder Jim Fuller slipped and was charged with an error for failing to catch the ball as Jim Wohlford scored. Hal McRae then hit into an inning-ending forceout. Reds scare NEW YORK - George Foster doubled and singled, driving in one run and scoring anotner, made a run-saving throw from center field to kill a New York rally and led the Cincinnati Reds to a 5-2 victory over the Mets last night. Cincinnati scored what proved to be the winning run in the fourth when Andy Kosco drew a leadoff walk from loser Jon Matlack, 5-3, and came araund on two-out singles by Joe Mor- gan and Johnny Bench. Loves fall to lowly N.Y. Sets UNIONDALE, N.Y. 0P)-Nikki Pilic defeated Phil Dent 6-4 in the men's singles, then teamed with Manuel Santana to top Dent and Allan Stone in the men's doubles last night, carry- ing the New York Sets to a 27-26 WTT victory over the De- troit Loves. The triumph was only the sec- ond of the season against 12 losses for the Sets, and their first triumph at home after eight losses. The Loves are 9-5. FAIR MINDED ARBITER Doug Harvey leaves Met fans at Shea in a despondent state by calling beloved lead-footed Jerry out at the plate in action between the Reds and New Yorkers. Cincinnati triumphed 5-2.