Doge Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY RECLAIM CELLAR Tuesday, August 6, 1974 Bird Major ' ,gue AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pet. GBi Boston 58 49 .542 - Cleveland St6Sit .528 1l' Ph Baltimore 56 53 513 3 New York 53 55 .491 511 Pi Milwaukee 52 56 481 61' Me Detroit 52 58 .474 Nei West - Chi Oakland 64 46 .581 -- Kansas City 54 52 .509 8 Cir Chicago 54 53 .505 81, Cii Texas 55 55 .500 9 ~ t Minnesota 53 572,481 11i Sal California 43 67 .391 21 Yesterday's Results Sa Baltimore 7, Detroit 4, (1st) Baltimore 0, Detroit 3, (2nd) H Oakland 2, Minnesota 1, (Ist) Ne Minnesota 4,-Oakland 3 (2nd) Lo NewYork 8, Boston 0S5.t Today's Games Cleveland (J. Perry 11-8) at De- S troit (Lemanczyk 1-0),8 rp.m. a Fo Bloston (Lrago 5-7 and Marichal anc 3-1) at Milwaukee (Wright 8-15 and I Slaton 8-12). ph Baltimore (Hood 1-0) at New b Ysrk (Tidrow 8-8), night. hut Minnesota (Corbin 7-3) at Kan- C sas City (Dal Canton 7-5). night. An California (Hassler 2-5) at Chi- A cago (Wood 17-13), night. Die Oakland (Blue 12-9) at Texas 1 (Jenkins 14-10), night. Fra homers sweep Tigers Standings Fryman, Walker are routed NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pet. GB :Louis 57 52 .523 - ildelphia 55 54 .505 2 ttsburgh 52 57 .477 5 ontreal 50 56 .472 5}? w York 47 58 .448 0 heagt;o 40 60 .434 95S, West " Angeles 73 37 .664 - ncinnati 6645 .595 7ff, nuston 55 52 .519 16 lanta 55 53 sin917 o Francisco 50 62 .446 24 to Diego 45 66 .405 28i1 Yesterday's Results ouston 7,SanFranciseo2 ew York 10, Montreal 4 s Aneles 7, Cincinnati 3 Louis 3, Philadelphia 2 (13 inn.) Today's Games St. Louis (McGlothen 12-7 and rsch 3-2) at Montreal (Torres 9-7 tdRogers 11-13), twi-night. Chicago (Todd 2-1) at Philadel- ia (Carlton 13-7), night. (en Yorks(Koosman 11-7 at Pitts- ethb (Ellis 7-9), night. Cincinnati (T. Carroll 3-0) at Los geles (Sutton 9-8), night. Atlanta (P. Niekro 11-9) at San ego (Grief 7-12), night. Houston (Griffin 11-4) at San -ncisco (Halicki 1-4), night. By JOHN KAHLER Special To The Daily DETROIT-Throughout the season, one of the Detroit Tigers' many weaknesses has been a lack of secondline pitching. Forced by the ne- cessity of back-to-back dou- bleheaders, the Tigers reach- ed deep into their mound corps last night, and the re- sult was a sweep for the Bal- timore Orioles. The Birds took the first game, 7-4, and won the nightcap, 6-3. Woodie Fryman, who pitched a one-hitter on Thursday, was totally ineffective in the opener. A single by Paul Blair, a walk to Bobby Grich, and a single by Tommy Davis netted the Orioles a run before Fryman could retire a batter. Fryman yielded a leadoff single by Andy Etchebarren in the second. The Kentucky to- bacco farmer got the next two men, but then lost his control, Michigan Daily Sports walking Blair and falling be- hind to Grich. Forced to come in, he threw a hanging curve that Grich belted down the rightfield line, just barely fair, for a three run homer. The Birds got solo runs off Tiger mopup man Jim Ray in the fifth and sixth innings. These proved to be costly, as the' Tigers attempted to stage a late rally off Baltimore start- er Wayne Garland. Garland had given up a Solo run in the first on a single by Gary Sutherland and a double by Al Kaline, but had little trouble thereafter. That is, until the seventh, when Jim Northrup hit the inning's first pitch off the facing of the upper deck in right to cut the Bird lead to 6-2. The eighth saw the end of Garland, as a walk to Gene Lamont, a triple to right cen- ter by Ron LeFlore, and a d.i- ble by Sutherland made it 6-4. But Earl Weaver went to his b u 1 1 p e n, and Bob Reynolds, Grant Jackson, and Ross Grims- ley combined to hold off Do- troit the rest of the way, al- though the Tigers did load the bases with two out against Jackson in the ninth. The second game saw a pair of mediocre pitchers, Luke Walker and Doyle Al'x- ander, square off against each other. The pair received fit- tingly mediocre support from their teommates, as the genie featured seven errors, four by Baltimore. All the Tiger runs were unearned, as was the third Oriole run. But there was nothii- eon- earned about the two -s tiat won the gime fir ''!timore. Pai Fl-ir's shot into tae liver deck in left with Bobby Grih aboard redeemed the Birds fr m their own blunders. The Tigers scored t'wine in the third to tie the gtcvme, as Asrelio Rodriguee led off with a single. Jerry Moses got or when Brooks Robinson had difficulty handling his eass roller to third. Ron Letlore drove in on run, and Gary Sutherland hit a double play ball to first. Baltimore first sacker Earl Williams tossed the ball to sec- ond to force LeFlore. But when Grich tried to return the throw, he found Williams and Alex- ander on first debating who should receive the throw. Ben Oglivie, given a chance to bat, singled in Moses. AP Photo Flying Tiger Ron LeFlore, rookie centerfielder of the Tigers, has stolen three bases in less than a week, a total topped by just two other lead-footed teammates for the entire season. LeFlore tripled in a run in the first game of last night's twinbill with the Orioles, but Detroit dropped the game, 7-4. 17 teams accept centra scouting MILWAUKEE P) -- Establishment of the new Major League Central Scouting Bureau will give the 17 participating teams much better coverage in their search for baseball talent, American League President Lee McPhail said yes- terday. McPhail was on hand as the Milwau- kee Brewers announced that their vice president and general manager, Jim Wil- son, was resigning effective Sept. 1 to head the new bureau. "It gotten so that it's impossible for any one organization to do a really good job covering the entire country," said McPhail. "I think this is a very progres- sive thing." ALL AMERICAN League clubs except the Chicago White Sox will be members of the bureau. National League clubs joining the Pittsburgh, Chicago, Mon- treal, Cincinnati, Atlanta and Houston. The participating teams will receive scouting reports and recommendations from the bureau which their own ,scouts can use in following up. McPhail noted that several of the clubs not involved are from the Califor- nia area and said they may feel they have an edge in scouting the important California territory. "Other reasons* would be philosoph- ical," he said. "Some clubs just did not want to give up their freedom and indi- viduality. And I think in one or two in- stances clubs are probably spending less on their own scouting right now than they would be forced to spend if they were a member of the bureau." BREWERS President Bud Selig said it would be hard to determine the rela- tive cost factors in shifting from individ- ual to central scouting "because every club operates so differently. But there is economy, there's no question about that." "Certainly some clubs are looking along the economy line," said Wilson. "But then there are a great number of others whom it is going to cost more." "We've worked so long on this," said McPhail, who headed an earlier unsuc- cessful effort to establish a central scout- ing system for baseball. "It's been a difficult thing to do." "It's hard for us to think of working with another on something that's as com- petitive and important in a baseball op- eration as getting talent," he added. "But I think for the good of all the clubs we have to keep our competitive- ness on the field and work together off the field in anything we can to help baseball." McPHAIL SAID he thought it was Wil- son's availability for the job that con- vinced enough clubs to join the effort to get it started. Wilson had been a member of a com- mittee investigating central scouting, along with Joe Brown of Pittsburgh, Jim Campbell of Detroit, Spec Richardson of Houston and Harry Dalton of California. Selig said Wilson turned down the job at first, then reconsidered after Brown and other members of the committee ap- pealed to the Brewers president. "The Brewers had to make a per- sonal sacrifice for what we consider the best interests of baseball," said Selig. "Baseball been very good to me," said Wilson, who joined the Brewers in 1971 as director of scouting and became gen- eral manager the following year. "If this is my chance to pay baseball- as a whole for the good things I've gotten out of it, then I had to accept. Wilson, 52, was a pitcher for 10 years with the Boston Red Sox, St. -Louis Browns, Boston and Milwaukee Braves, the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox. He pitched a no-hitter for the Braves in 1954.