Page tigr I H Arnold Palmer's 70-143 creates 4-way Open tie MAMARONECK, N. Y. U - Arnold Palmer, calling on the half-remembered magic that once was his alone, charged out of the past with a 70 and shouldered his way into a share of the second-round lead yesterday in the 74th United States Open Golf Championship. The 44-year-old Palmer, trailed by a massive gallery of the still-faithful army, put together a two-round total of 143, three over par for two trips through the trees, traps, trouble and subtle terror that make up the 6,961-yard Winged Foot Golf Club course. "I'm not interested in what is leading the golf tournament today," he said. "I'm interested in the end of the tourna- ment. It was not my goal to lead at the end of 36 holes. "I just wanted to be in the right po- sition." The right position turned out to be a tie for the top spot with gritty little Gary Player of South Africa, the first-round leader, Hale Irwin and former PGA champion Ray Floyd. PLAYER, the Masters champion who has his sights set on a one-year sweep of all the game's major titles, had to mount an incredible rally-birdies on four of his last eight holes - to retain a share of the top spot after blowing six strokes to par on the first six holes he played. He finished with a 73. Irwin, whose seven-year pro career has shown steady improvement, match- ed par 70 despite a. poor finish while Floyd had to chip in three times for a wildly erratic 71. A pair of youngsters, Tom Kite and Tom Watson - each 24, each in his sec- ond year on the pro tour and each seek- ing his first professional victory - were just one shot back halfway through this, the most prestigious of all the world's golf championships. Kite had a 70 and Watson a 71. But, while Palmer and Player remain- ed among the leaders, some of the game's other big guns fired and fell back. DEFENDING champion Johnny Miller took a horrendous, quadruple-bogey sev- en in the par-three seventh hole-it took him four strokes to get out of a bunker -had a 75, a 151 total and wrote him- self out of title contention. "I'll be yukking it up the next two rounds, just having fun," said Miller, the sensation of the pro tour with five victories already this season. Jack Nicklaus struggled to a 74-149, nine shots over par and six behind. "I didn't play particularly well, but if I'd putted at all, I'd have had a de- cent round," said Nicklaus, holder of a record 14 major titles and a pre-tourney favorite for this one. "I had it in position enough. I had it close enough. But if you're going to score, you've got to get something in the hole. I didn't." Elated Arnie sinks another LA GROW IS VICTIM Royal home I Sports of The Daily Reggie paces Star voting NEW YORK-Outfielder Reggie Jackson and second baseman Rod Carew were named yesterday as the American League leaders during the first week of voting for the July 23 All-Star baseball game. With a total of 494,539 ballots counted, Jackson of Oakland had 242,143 votes to lead all A.L. players and Carew of Minnesota was the runner-up with a total of 212,138. Al Kaline of Detroit drew 99,148 votes as Jackson's nearest competitor among the outfielders and Bobby Murcer of New York received 95,335 in a bid for the other spot available. The leading challenger to Carew among the second basemen was Kansas City's Cookie Rojas, a distant threat with just 69,880 votes. Carlton Fisk of Boston pulled in 165,574 votes in the com- petition for the catching job with Bill Freehan of Detroit getting 81,042. Oakland's Bert Campaneris received 135,416 as the top AL shortstop and Detroit's Ed Brinkman got 83,481 as the runner-up. Carl Yastrzemski of Boston got 104,445 votes to lead the ballotting for the first base spot with Dick Allen of Chicago getting 95,968. Baltimore's Brooks Robinson was the leading third baseman with 93,496 votes and Detroit's Aurelio Rodriguez was trailing with 74,276. Shumate inks Sun pact PHOENIX-John Shumate, the 6-9 All-American center from the University of Notre Dame, has signed a multi-year contract to play for the National Basketball Association Phoenix Suns. Diamond dust Joe Rudi and Ralph Garr are off to great starts in the often ignored doubles and triple category. The A's Rudi, has stroked 21 doubles already, threatening to become the first A. L. player to have 50 doubles since George Kell turned the trick in 1950. Garr of Atlanta, with 9 triples, is a threat to collect 20 triples, last accomplished by Willie Mays in 1956. rs nip By JOHN KAHLER Special To The Daily D E T R 0I T - Tiger pitch- er Lerrin LaGrow made only two mistakes in his stint on the mound last night. John May- berry hit one of them to left center and Hal McRae hit the other into the upper deck in right center, The pair of back-to-back hom- ers in the fifth inning gave the Kansas City Royals a come from behind victory over the Detroit Tigers that sent a large and enthusiastic Polish-Ameri- can night crowd home disap- pointed. The homers also gave Royals starter Steve Busby his eighth victory of the season, against six losses. The Royals drew first blood, as Cookie Rojas lined a single to center and was sacrificed to second. KC slugger Mayberry was given an intentional pass, but McRae rewarded Ralph Houk's strategy by legging out a double on a short fly ball that Gary Sutherland could not get to, and Jim Northrup didn't ap- pear to want to, This lead lasted precisely three minutes as Mickey Stan- ley led off the Tiger first with a double to right-center on Busby's first pitch. Al Kaline walked, and Willie Horton fol- lowed with a sharp single that drove in Stanley and sent Ka- line to third. Northrup kept things going by singling in Kaline, and Bill Freehan hit a long drive that leftfielder McRae had to make a great effort to catch. But Horton apparently though he couldn't do it, since he ventured too far off the bag at second and could not slide back in time to beat the throw. Unfortunately, Horton injur- ed his knee on the slide. He Tigers, 4-3 played in pain for three more singled, and George Brett drove innings before Houk was forced the run home setting the stage to lift him, depriving the Tigers for the fifth inning explosions. of the big bat they would need LaGrow, now 5-5, had good late in the game. stuff and threw hard in the innings he worked. But young The Tigers added another pitchers will make mistakes, rSu the land and Kaline sandby and he made a pair that killed double by Northrup. Freehan him. walked to load the bases with Braves hot one out, but the Tigers could ATLANTA - Henry Aaron get no more runs home. Busby, slammed a solo home run and let off the hook, settled down a run-scoring double, and pitch- and held Detroit in check for er Roric'Harrison drilled-aawo- the rest of the game. run blast last night, triggering The Royals got a run back in the sizzling Atlanta Braves to a the fourth, as McRae was hit 6-1 triumph over the St. Louis by a pitch, Richie Scheinblum Cardinals. Maior Leaque Standinqs AMERICAN LEAGUE gait W L Pet. GB Boston 33 25 .569 - Cleveland 29 2 .505 3% Milwaukee 2 12 .500 4 Baltimore 29 29 .500 4 Detroit 292 1 .500 4 New York 30 31 .492 4Y2 West Oakland 32 27 .542 - Kansas City 30 28 .517 112 Texas 31 29 .516 1% Chicago 26 25 .451 3Y2 Minnesota 24 31 .435 6% California I6 3.4 .433 6 / Yesterday's Results Minnesota 5, Cleveland 2 Baltimore 2, Chicago 1 Kansas City 4, Detroit 3 Texas 7, Milwaukee 2 New York at Oakland, inc. aston at California, inc. Today's Games Minnesota (Blyieven 5-I) at Cleve- land (Johnson 3-2). Kansas City (Fitzmorris 6-2) at Detroit (Coleman 6-7), 2:15 p.m., New York (Medich 7-4) at Oak- land (Bloc 5-6). Chicago Bahnsen 5-7) at Balti- more (McNally 4-5), night. Milwaukee (Wright 5-7) at Texas (J. Brown 5-2), night. Boston (Lee 7-) at California (May 0-1), night. NATIONAL LEAGUE . East W L Pct. GB Philadelphia 32 25. 533 - St. Louis 30 IS .517 1 Montreal 26 27 .491 2 Chicago 24 31 .436 514 New York 23 35 .397 1 Pittsburgh 22 34 .393 8 West Los Angeles 43 59 .94 - Cincinnati 34 24 .516 7 Atlanta 34 26 .567 9 Houston 31 31 .500 12 San Francisco 31 33 .454 13 San Diego 26 40 .394 19 Yesterday's Games Chicago 10, toston 7 Atlanta 6, St. Louis 1 San Diego 5, Montreal 4 Los Angeles 3, New York 2 Pittsburgh 4, San Francisco 2 Cincinnati 7,Philadelphia 4 Today's Games Houston (Griffin 7-2) at Chicago (Frailing 4-5). Los Angeles (Rau 5-1) at New York (Stone 2-4), 2:11 p~m., Ch. 4 Philadelphia (Lonborg 7-5) at Cin- cinnati (Bilingha 64), night. San Francisco (Caldwell 7-3) at Pittsburgh (Reuss 5-4), night. St. Louis (Stiebert 6-3) at Atlanta (Capra 5-2), night. San Diego (Grief 2-5) at Mon- treal (Tores 6-4), night.