Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, August 10, 1974 JOHN KAHLER: Rick White picks basketball FOR the second straight year, Bo Schembechler has lost a tight end to the Michigan basketball team. A year ago, C. J. Kupec hung up his cleats to become a full time center for Johnny Orr's cagers. Now Bo has lost Rick White. White, a 6-5, 216 pound sophomore, was one of the prime. candidates to replace Paul Seal as starting tight end at the close of spring football practice. As a forward, he was also a member of the Big Ten Co-Championship basketball team and made the trip to Tuscaloosa. Most observers predicted that White's future would be as a football player. But Rick evidently felt differently. Reached at his home in Cincinnati,, White said he quit football because "I just didn't feel like playing two sports. I really enjoy playing basketball. Foot- ball's okay, but there's no sense in playing something if you don't want to." "I didn't tell Bo about my decision, but I did call Coach Stobart. (Chuck Stobart, offensive backs coach). He said that maybe I was making a mistake, that maybe I should go ahead and play both my sophomore year." "I don't think I could have been a starter, At tight end, I would have had to gain weight, and I just couldn't do it. 'fhe second tight end plays a lot at Michigan, but it still wouldn't have been too cool." WHITE'S assessment of his starting chances are not shared by many observ- ers of Michigan football. Because of the late start basketball gave him, White was running second behind Greg Den- Boer at tight end in the spring. But it was felt that in the fall White would sur- pass DenBoer and be the starter by the time of the Iowa game. Coach Schembechler was in meetings yesterday and could not be reached for comment, but several well placed sourc- es have told The Daily that he did not take the loss of Rick White particularly well. It is reported that, having heard the word, Schembechler stormed into John- ny Orr's office and had a heated dis- cussion with Orr about the subject. The basketball coaches deny they had- any- thing to do with White's decision. White was exposed to two different coaching styles in his two sports as a freshman athlete. Basketball practices under Johnny Orr are loose, friendly af- fairs, but practices where work does get done. Football practices under Bo Schembechler and his assistants are businesslike affairs where mistakes are rewarded with screams and invective. White would not say when he made his decision to drop football, but it should be noted that at the end of the basketball season, before spring football began, White was looking forward to at least another year of football. As a high school player at Princeton High near Cincinnati, White made All- State in both football and basketball. He came to Michigan on a combina- tion football - basketball scholarship. AS A freshman basketball player, White started the season with the Var- sity Reserves, and was both the lead- ing rebounder and scorer in those games he played. With the start of the Big Ten season, he was moved up to the Varsity, where he saw little action as a reserve. Not a great outside shooter, his primary strength was his ability to handle himself underneath the boards. The basketball coaches were both sur- prised and pleased with White's decision to concentrate on basketball. His name will be entered into the list of candidates to replace Campy Russell at forward. The Michigan football players were not particularly surprised by White's de- cision. One player, who preferred for obvious reasons to remain nameless, stated, "Rick White would still be on the (football) team if Bo wasn't such a (ex- -letive deleted)." But anyhow, Rick White has chosen his sport. "If this doesn't work out, peo- ple will say that I made the wrong de- cision, that I should have stuck with football. But-I'm doing what I feel is right." Mets By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Don Hahn smacked a three-run home run and rookie Bob Apodaca pitched two-hit ball for seven innings to help the New York Mets to a 4-1 victory over the Cincin- nati Reds last night. Apodaca, 4-6, outduelled Fred Norman in a game that was delayed more than one hour at the start because of rain. The Mets took the lead in the fourth inning when Hahn opened with a single to center. After Norman got Duffy Dyer on a long fly ball and struck oRt Bud Harrelson, Apodaca - who had only one hit" all season before last n i g h t - doubled to left center. Leftfielder Pete Rose slip- ped on the wet grass and Hahn scored on the play. Simmons slams ST. LOUIS - Ted Simmons belted a grand slam home run in the sixth inning to carry the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-3 vic- tory over the Los Angeles Dodgers last night. Simmons' hqme run, his iath of the season and the third grand slam of his career, came one pitch after Dodger left-hander Geoff Zahn, 2-2, had walked Joe Torre to load the bases. top A two-base error by geles left-fielder Von opened the door to the big inning. Winning pitcl Foster, 6-7, led off t by reaching second ba Joshua misplayed his f G. Perry bows CLEVELAND - The White Sox, sparked1 secutive home runs fr Kelly and Jorge Orta for four runs in the sixt last night and defeate land 5-3-handing the Gaylord Perry his si sective defeat. Perry, 15-7, held the Sox to two hits unti and Orta led off the six homers to tie the scI After Dick Allen w a Carlos May smashed 'o'"hle off the ce"te fence, scoring Allen v go-ahead run. Allen's leadoff home: eighth inning made it was his 30th homer of son, tops in the majors Nnsrthr)o stars HOUSTON - Jim N making his National Le but, drilled a homez then touched off Montre ning rally with a nintl HAHN HR SPARKS NY Reds; Dodgers fall Los An- single, helping the Expos to a Joshua 4-3 victory over the Houston eCards' Astros. her Alan Northrup, acquired from De- Michigan Daily he sixth troit earlier this week, started se when the winning rally with a one- ly ball. out single in the ninth and moved up as Ken Singleton wakled. Then singles by Barry Chicago Foote and Ron Hunt produced Chico two runs as the Expos won their by con- third straight game. -om Pat , rallied th inning d Cleve- Indians' xth con- e White i Kelly xth with ore 4-?. 1 k e d, a long r field with the r in the 5-2. It the sea- torthrup, ague de- run and al's win- h inning Mo~r I~r'' d~v . AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pet. GB Boston 61 50 .550 - Cleveland 57 53 .518 3' % Baltimore 57 55 .509 4t'S New York 54 56 .491 6E4t Detroit 54 59 .478 8 Milwaukee 53 60 .469 9 West Oakland 66 47 .584 - Kansas City 58 53 .523 7 Chicago 57 55 .509 8I' Texas 58 57 .505 9- Minnesota 55 as.4712 California 44 69 .389 22 Yesterday's Results Chicago 5, Cleveland 3 Kansas City 13. Milwaukee 3 Minnesota 7. Baltimore 2 Texas 4, Detroit 3, 14 inn. t Boston at Oakland, inc. New Tork at California, inc. Today's Gasses Detroit tLaGrow 7-12) at Texas (Jenkins 15-10), 9 p.m.. Chicago (Wood 17-13) at Cleve- land (nosman 5-0), 1 p.m. Baltimore (Cuellar 13-8) at Min- nesota (Blyleven 10-13), 2:15 p.m. Boston (Marichal 4-1) at Oakland (Holtzman 12-12), 4:30 p.m. Milwaukee (Slaton 8-13) at Kan- sas City (Dal Canton 7-5), 8:30 New York (May 3-2) at Califor- nia (Hassler 2-6), 10 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE East , W, L Pet. GB St. Louis 60 54 .525 - Philadelphia 58 55 .514 11 Pittsburgh 56 57 .496 31 Montreal 53 58 .477 51 New York 48 61 440 9' Chicago 46 64 .418 12 West Los Angeles 73 40 .648 -- Cincinnati 68 46 .597 5t1 Atlanta 59 54 .522 14 Houston 58 54 .518 1414 San Francisco 51 63 A47 221'S San Diego 45 69 ..394 281_ Yesterday's Results San Francisco 3, Chicago 0 Atlanta 3, Philadelphia 2 New York 4, Cincinnati 1 Pittsburgh 7, San Diego 3 St. Louis 5, Los Angeles 3 Montreal 4, Houston 3 Today's Games Atlanta (P. Niekro 12-9) at Phi- adelphia (Carlton 14-7), 1:35 p.m. San Francisco (D'Acquisto 9-10) at Chicago (Todd 2-2), 2:15 pm. Cincinnati (Kirby 7-6) at New York (Seaver 7-7), 2:15 p.m. Los Angeles (Rau 11-6) at St. Louis (Foster 5-7), 7 p.m. San Diego (Freisleben 7-6) at Pittsburgh (Kison 6-6), 7:05 p.m, Montreal (Rogers 11-14) at Hous- ton (Griffin 11-4), 8:35 p.m. DODGER OUTFIELDER Billy Buckner has an escort to the Los Angeles shower after alfew choice words to umpire Shag Crawford following a rundown play in the first inning of last night's game at St. Louis. Chaperone Coach Tom Lasorda saw the rest of the game which the Dodgers lost, 5-3.