Page Twelve TEMCIAN AL Wednesday, July 10, 1974 ., THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, July 10, 1974 BOSOX NIP TEXAS Killebrew's hit trips Tigers By The Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Minn - Harmon Killebrew's run-scor- Ing single off Detroit relief ace John Hiller with one out in the 11th inning gave the Minne- sota Twins a 3-2 victory over the Tigers last night. The Tigers, who have lost four games in a row, tied the score with two out in the ninth on Bill Freehan's RBI single off reliever Bill Hands. Steve Brye opened the 11th with a single and Rod Carew sacrificed him to second. Larry Hisle was purposely passed be- fore Killebrew lined his game- winning hit to left field. Vic Albury, the Minnesota starter, allowed only four hits in 8 1-3 innings before giving way to Hands following Jim Northrup's one-out double in the ninth. Northrup went to third on Al Kaline's grounder and scored the tying run on Free- han's single. Hands, 2-4, retired the Tigers in order in the 10th and 11th. Bibby bruised BOSTON - The Boston Red Sox jumped on Jim Bibby for two early runs and Luis Tiant made then stand up with a four-hit pitching effort last night and a 2-1 victory over the Texas Rangers. Tiant, 12-7, was nicked for an unearned run in the first in- ning. A single by Cesar Tovar, a bunt single by Dave Nelson and a throwing error set up Texas' run. Tovar scored on a. sacrifice fly by Jeff Burroughs. The Red Sox tied the score in their half with two out. After a double play, Bibby, 11-11, walk- ed Cecil Cooper and Carl Yas- trzemski and Dwight Evans grounded a single to right for the run. With one out in the third, Cooper d o u b l e d and Yastrzemski drilled a triple off the wall in straightaway center for the decisive run. Tiant walked two and struck out four in pitching the slump- ing Red Sox to only their second triumph in the last eight games. The hard-throwing Bibby allow- ed six hits, walked six and struck out one. San guillen slugs PITTSBURGH - Manny San- guillen's two-run double .keyed a four-run fourth inning out- burst that helped the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-4 victory over the Atlanta Braves last night. Atlanta opened the scoring with a run in the second on a triple by Marty Perez and a single by Paul Casanova, then made it 2-0 with an unearned run in the third on a throwing error by Rennie Stennett during a run-down play. But the Pirates rallied for four runs on five hits in the fourth inning off losing pitcher Phil Niekro, 8-8. Richie Hebner and Richie Zisk singled to open the inning, then Sanguillen smacked his two-run double down the leftfield line. Sanguillen moved to third on a single by Stennett and scored on a passed ball, then Mario Mendoza singled up the middle to bring Stennett home. Phils falter PHILADELPHIA - Bill Rus- sell drove in three runs with a single and a homer and Steve Garvey also homered, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to an 8-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies last night. Al Downing evened his record at 3-3 with relief from Mike Marshall in the seventh as the Dodgers maintained their 10 - game lead over Cincinnati in the National League's West Di- vision. Los Angeles built an 8-1 lead after five innings against Phil- lies' starter Wayne Twitchell, 3-2, and Ed Farmer. Garvey's 15th home run of Lhe season, in the first inning, gave Los Angeles a 1-0 lead. The Dodgers added a run in the second when Von Joshua dou- bled and Russell singled him home. Joshua singled in a run Joe Morgan started the Reds' in the third and Twitchell wild home-run barrage in the first, pitched another run across be- Tony Perez and Cesar Gero- fore the inning was over. nimo connected in the second, * * *and Don Driessen and Johnny Bench homered in thi third, es chasing starter Steve Stone, 3-3. CHICAGO - The Cincinnati Foster's blast, his third homer Reds smashed six home runs, of the baseball season, came including a three-run shot by after singles by Bench and George Foster, for an 8-5 vic- Geronimo. tory over the Chicago Cubs yes- J a c k Billingham benefitted terday. from the Reds' slugging and Foster's homer in the sixth won his ninth game against six followed five solo shots by Cm- losses. It was his third victory cinnati in they first three in- this season over the Cubs, who nings. blasted two homers. Major League Standings Af:" IA LAU NAINLLAU AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct. GB Cleveland 45 36 .556 - aaltimore 44 37 .5431 aston 45 38 .5421 Detroit 43 41 .512 Sin Milwaukee 42 41 .50 4 New York 40 43 .482 6 west Oakland 47 37 .560 -- Kansas City 42 40 .512 4 Texas 42 44 .488 6 Chicago 40 42 .486 Minnesota 38 47 .447 9? California 32 54 .372 16 Yesterday's Results Boston 2, Texas 1 New York 8, Kansas City 2 Milwaukee 6, Chicago 5 Minnesota 3, Detroit 2, "1 innings Baltimore at Calitorna, inc. Cleveland at Oakland, inc. Today's Games Texas (Clyde 3-5) at Boston (Cleveland 6-6), night. New York (May 2-2) at Kansas City (Briles 1-2), night. Chicago (Wood 14-9) at Milwau- kee (Champion 3-1), night. Detroit (LaGrow 7-7) at Minne- sota (Decker 8-8), 8:30 p.m. Baltimore (Grimsley 10-7) at Cali- fornia (Ryan 10-8), night. NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pet. GB St. Louis 43 40 .513 - Philadelphia 42 42 .500 1 Montreal 40 41 .494 2 Pittsburgh 37 44 .457 5 Chicago 36 45 .444 6 New York 36 47 .434 7 west Los Angeles 60 27 .690 - Cincinnati 48 3 .571 10{ Houston 45 41 .523 14%/ Atlanta 45 42 .517 15 San Francisco 38 49 .437 22 San Diego 37 53 .4ll 24'/ Yesterday's Results Cincinnati 8, Chicago 5 Los Angeles 8, Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 5, Atlanta 4 Montreal 5, san Francisco 4 san Diego 5, New York 4 Houston 5, St. Louis 2 Today's Games San Diego (Greif 3-11) at New York (Koosman 9-5). Cincinnati (Norman 8-7) at Chi- cago (Bonham 7-11). Los Angeles (sutton 6-7) at Phil- adelphia (Carlton 10-7), night. Atlanta (P. Niekro 8-7) at Pitts- burgh (Ellis 3-7), night. San Francisco (Barr 4-5) at Mon- treal (Renko 6-8), night. St. Louis (Foster 4-5) at Hous- ton (Dierker 6-4), night. WFL INAUGURAL Wheels hit road for. seasnopener By ROGER ROSSITER The World Football League's first attempt at proving there is a market for still another professional sports league begins to- night with the inaugeration of the first WFL campaign. Season openers find Detroit at Memphis, Portland at Philadelphia, the Hawaiians at Florida, Southern California at Birmingham, and Houston at Chicago with Jacksonville hosting New York tomorrow in the first of a weekly series of WFL Thursday night national telecasts. Whether or not the league will survive depends on how recep- tive the sports fan will be to shelling out six dollars or more to witness a sport that will be readily accessible on television at no cost four days a week. Las Vegas oddsmaker Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder gives the WFL just one year. The Detroit Wheels, who will play their home games in nearby Eastern Michigan University's Rynearson Stadium, do not share Snyder's pessimism. Head Coach Dan Boisture and his six man crew of assistants have had little time to worry about how long the league will survive. Their primary concern has been to find a squad of thirty-seven capable football players to make the trek to-Memphis for the season opener tonight. Though nearly void of name players, save for Michigan alum- nus Mike Taylor, the Wheels have brought in a number of players from the Canadian Football League who would do well with many National Football League teams. Top on the list is quarterback Bubba Wyche who spent the last few seasons as understudy to Ron Lancaster, the premier quarterback in the CFL. Other CFL vets who will man the Wheels' starting lineup are fullback Sam Scarber, offensive tackle Ted Wheeler, linebacker Rocky Martin, and safety Rocky Long. The Wheels looked moderately impressive in shutting out the Chicago Fire twice in controlled scrimmages, 7-0 and 14-0, but just how good they or any other WFL team will be in game com- petition remains to be seen. Memphis figures to use a lot of drop back passing from Notre Dame's Heisman Trophy winning quarterback John Huarte. Should Huarte find the range it could well be a long evening for Wheels' cornerbacks Floyd Priester and Terry Hoeppner, who are not considered to be one of the team's strengths. Offensively the Wheels will rely on the power running of Scarber and the multi-talents of halfback Lee Fobbs. Fobbs may be the main wheel now that Warren McVea has left the club, ap- parently for. good. When Wyche elects to pass he will have wide.receivers Hubie Bryant and Charles McKee, tight end Sheldon Joppru and his backs to choose from. Bryant, a diminutive speedster from Min- nesota, gives the Wheels that "deep six" threat that could be all important in a league filled with inexperienced defensive backs. Regardless of how good or bad the Wheels and the WFL prove to be, the games should be entertaining with kickoffs from the 30-yard line, no fair catches on punts and missed field goals from outside the twenty returned to the line of scrimmage. Re- ceivers need only one foot in bounds for a completion and one back may go in motion toward the line of scrimmage before the center snap. Channel 50, WKBD in Detroit will handle the local television of Wheels road games along with picking up the Thursday night national hook up. Local radio will be provided by WWJ. AP Photo Picketers' picnic Picket lines get longer in the National Football League's Player strike as the Detroit Lions' Mike Evans and Philadelphia Eagles' Steve Zabel are joined by. their wives. Every day brings more picket lines as more teams open training camps with no immediate end to the strike in sight.