Page Sixteen THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, May 14, 1974 paeKing J E R R Y HUBBARD (below), Michigan's national champion at 151 pounds, brought home a sheepskin at graduation and the Wolverines will be hard pressed to rep-ce him. Clarke Cogsdill knows who's going to fill Jerry's shoes and he's telling on page BY G~lG Brewers blast Orioles; George Hastings reate AL East logjam World Team Tennis .. . is it tennis? FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOW, the fastest-growing sport in America has been the game of tennis. And since sports are big business in the United States, it was inevitable that somebody would come along and try to convert the sport into a share of the American entertainment dollar. I was curious enough to journey in to Cobo Arena last Thurs- day and witness the spectacle as World Team Tennis made its debut in Detroit--and spectacle is the proper term. The new league has taken the staid old game and given it a whole new image-the idea is no longer a courteous competition among gentlepeople, but a team spectator sport in the finest American traditions of beat those bad guys and kill the umpire. The whole scene reminded one of a Detroit Piston basketball game at Cobo back in the old Piston losing years. A sparse crowd-announced at 3,600 but looking like a lot less-was scattered around the Arena, someone insisted on using the ob- noxiously loud scoreboard horn, and they even announced the line-ups for the two teams and had them run out onto the court and slap hands with each other. Then after the new rules had been explained by the announcer (the voice of the Pistons, George Maskin, naturally), the meet between the Detroit Loves and the Toronto-Buffalo Royals finally got underway a mere twenty minutes late. It was soon evident, however, that although the new sport had women doing 50 per cent of the playing, there was still plenty of room left for some good old fashioned male chauvinism. As Maskin announced the first few points, he began by referring to the Loves Rosemary Casals as "Miss Casals," and then later it became simply "Rosie," and "Wendy" for her opponent. The men, of course, were called only by their last names. Meanwhile, everybody from the opposing coacheswon down seemed kind of uncomfortable and unsure exactly what to do as the "first half" of the meet progressed. The fans, most of whom were used to the normal rules of tennis etiquette, were reluctant to cheer during the play, restricting them- selves to the customary patter of applause (for either team) after each point. Even the poor vendors looked awfully confused, as it was so quiet during the points that they couldn't shout out their wares. The rival coaches, Australian Jack Shaw of the Loves and player-coach Tom Okker for the Royals, seemed to force them- selves, on several occasions, to stand up after close calls and, grinning sheepishly, make a protest to the umpire in sort of a bad imitation of a major league baseball manager. Later, a full scale, fifteen-minute rhubarb over -a disputed fault call occurred as Okker angrily waved his team off the court before the nervous promoters and umpire finally talked him into continuing play. The long protest, however, seemed to get the crowd loosened up. As any good Detroit sports crowd should, it began booing the Royals and any umpire's decisions which went against Detroit, and particularly started to ride the showboating Okker. The fans especially came to life when Detroit's Phil Dent over- powered the heavily-favored Okker in the secoiid set between the two, saving the biggest roar of the night for when a Dent serve broke Okker's racket There are good guys and bad guys . . . even in tennis. From Wire Service Reports BALTIMORE-Dave May, Bobby Mitchell and Johnny Briggs slugged so to home runs and the Milwaukee Brewers moved i n t o first p l a c e in the American League East last night with a 9-4 victory over the Balti- more Orioles. May opened the game with his fifth homer of the season, a shot into the right field stands off Ross Grimsley, 4-3. The Orioles got the run back off winner Ed Sprague, 1-0, in the bottom of the first when Rich Coggins singled, moved to sec- ond on a walk and raced home when a passed ball by Milwau- kee catcher Darrell Porter rico- cheted off the backstop and up the third base line. The Brewers moved in front again when Mitchell led off the second inning with his second homer of the year and they made it 3-0 on Briggs' sixth homer with two out in the third. Milwaukee added two more runs in the fourth. Bob Coluccio tripled and Porter singled to bring Doyle Alexander in from the bullpen. Pedro Garcia forced Porter, then he stole second and scored on Robin Yount's single. The Orioles got a run in the bottom of the fourth on Brooks Robinson's single and one in the sixth on Boog Powell's homer. The Brewers scored again in Michigan Daily Sports the seventh on Don Money's single, in the eighth on Garcia's hit and wrapped it up with two runs in the ninth. Al Bumbry had a sacrifice fly for a Balti- more run in the seventh. Tribe triumphant CLEVELAND-John Ellis hit a three-run homer in the first inning while Jim Perry and Tom Buskey combined for a four-hit- ter, leading the Cleveland In- dians to a 4-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox last night. John Lowenstein led off the Cleveland first with a single and Buddy Bell reached on an error by second baseman Dick Mc- Auliffe before Ellis slammed his second home run of the season, That was enough to hand Luis Tiant his fifth setback in seven decisions. The Red Sox scored in the second inning on Bernie Car- bo's double and a single by Mc- Auliffe, Meanwhile, Perry held sammemmmmmmmmk.'lmmlsssssm - Boston hitless until he left in the seventh following an error and a walk. The Indians made it 4-1 in the seventh when Charlie Spikes got an infield hit, stole second, went to third on George Hendrick's single and scored on Dave Dun- can's sacrifice fly. Reds rampage CINCINNATI - Johnny Bench drilled his sixth home run of the season and Don Gullett and Pedro Borbon teamed up to pitch a six-hitter last night, lead- ing the Cincinnati Reds to a 4-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Bench's solo shot came in the fourth inning and broke up a scoreless duel between Gullett, 3-3, and loser John D'Acquisto, 2-4. Tony Perez followed with a triple and scored on Merv Ret- tenmund's grounder. Mets maraud ST. LOUtS-Clean Jones and Jerry Grote slugged two-run homers to power the New York Mets to a 5-3 victory over Bob Gibson and the St. Louis Cardi- nals last night. The Mets got a first-inning run off Gibson, 2-3, on singles by Bud Harrelson and Ken Bos- well and Jones' fly ball to deep center field. They made it 3-0 in the third when Boswell sin- gled with two out and. Jones hit his second homer of the base- ball season. Right - bander Bob Apodaca, 1-2, making his first major league start, checked the Cards until the fifth inning, when Lois Alvarado led off with a ground- rule double and scored on Ted Sizemore's single. Texas toppled ARLINGTON, Texas-Charlie Sands and Paul Schaal drilled home runs for the California Angels and Bill Singer coasted to his fifth victory of the year as the Angels eased to ass 8i victory over the sagging Texas Rangers. Professional Le NATIONAL LEAGUE w L Pct. G8 Philadelphia 17 14 .54 - Montreal 12 11 .522 1 St. Louis 16 15 .516 1 Chicago 1 i 15 .4443 New York 14 18 .438 3?, Pittsburgh 919 .321 6'% West Los Angeles 23 9 .719 - Houston 20 15 .571 44 San Francisco 19 1t 543 514 Cincinnati lit 14 .5336 Atlanta 14 19 .424 9'5 San Diego 14 2t .400 10!4 Last Night's Results Cincinnati 4, San Francisco 1 New York 5, St. Louis 3 Atlanta at San Diego, inc. Houston at Los Angeles, ine. Other clubs no scheduled Today's Games Montreal (Rogers 5-1) at Phila- delphia tLonborg 3-2), night. dSan Francisco (Caldwell 5-1) at Cincinnati (Billingham 5-1), night. Chicago (Reuschel 2-1) at Pitts- burgh (Reuss 1-2), night. New Turk (Stone 0-3) at St. Louis (MeGlothen 4-1), night. Atlanta (Niekro 3-3) at San Diego (Freisleben 3-0), night. Houston (Dierker 2-2) at Los Angeles (Sutton 5-2), night. !ague Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE East w L Pet. GB Milwaukee 14 13 .519 -- Baltimore 15 14 .517 - Cleveland 16 15 .516 -- New Turk lt 17 .514 -- Detroit 14 15 .483 1 Boston 15 17 .469 1%4 West Chicago 15 13 .538 - Oakland 16 15 .516 14 Kansas City 15 15 .500 1 Texas 16 17 .4851Y11 California 17 17 .100 1 Minnesota .i 15 .444 214 Results Milwaukee 9, Baltimore 4 Cleveland 4, Boston 1 California 8, Texan 4~ Minnesota at Chicago, inc. Kansas City at Oakland, ine. Today's Games Milwaukee (Colburn 1-3) at Baltimore (Palmer 2-3), night. aston (Cleveland 1.3) at Cleve- land (G. Perry 4-1), night. Detroit (Lolich 1-5) at New York (Dobson 2-5), night. Minnesota (alyleven 3-4) at Chi- cagn (Bahnsen 4-2), night. Kansas City (McDaniel 0-i and Splittorff 3-3) at Oakland (Hunter 5.2 and Abbott 0-0), 2, night. California (Ryan 4-3) at Texas (Hargan 2-3), night.