Page Eight THEMIHIGANDAILY Thursday, August 15, 1974 THE'MICHIGAN DAiLY Thursday, August 15, 1914 Memphis dents Whee RUNNING BACK WILLIE SPENCER of the Memphis South men is met by a host of Detroit Wheel tacklers in last night's action. But the Detroiters weren't able to stop him often enough, as they went down to another lopsided defeat. HOLDSWORTH DEBUT SHORT Roylals rip Tilger s, 9-1 Is again By ROGER ROSSITER Special To The Daiy YPSILANTI-It was a good night for the fans at Rynearson Stadium. That is, for the ones who didn't come to watch football. They guzzled beer and threw frisbees and did just about anything else they could think of to amuse themselves. Yes, the Detroit Wheels were alleged- ly playing a football game, but as the scoreboard indicated, the 37-7 pasting the Memphis Southmen handed the Wheels wasn't much to watch. This was supposed to be the night the Wheels put it all together after two straight near misses against the Bfrm- ingham Americans. The Southmen, however, were the ones who came out smoking, and by the end of the first half it was evident that Mem- phis had the game well under control. The "Grizzlies" as they are known in the Southland struck paydirt first march- ing 29 yards after Seth Miller recovered a Sam Scarber fumble. Willie Spencer dove in from the one for the touchdown. John Huarte hit Gary Shirk for the ac- tion point and an 8-9 Memphis lead. The Wheels cut the margin to 8-7 i-ith sixteen seconds left in the first quarter when Bubba Wyche snuck over from the one. The touchdown was made possible by Terry Hoeppner's interception at the Memphis 25 and Mickey McCarty's leaping grab of a halfback pass from Bill Sadler off a fake field goal one play before the sneak. Memphis came right back with a 56- yard four play drive that culminated with a 12-yard Huarte strike to Ed Mar- shall The key play in the drive was a 40-yard end around by the speedy Mar- shall that carried from the Memphis 47 to the Detroit 13. The Southmen scored again before the half after Wheels' punter Chuck Collins shanked a 19-yard punt out of bounds at the Detroit 30. Huarte scrambled for 12 yards on second and eight, then tossed 10 yards to Marshall to the Detroit 6. Two plays later Spencer slashed off right guard for the score. The Wheels made a desperate at- tempt to get on the board again in the half's final thirty see- ands as Wyche completed three passes of 19, 16, and 25 yards to the Suthmen's 11. With two seconds remaining Wyche fired into the end zone for Jon Hen derson, but the Colorado State flash droped the ball and the half ended with Memphis on top 23-7. M e m p h i s crossed the Wheels' goal again on De- troit's initial possession of the second half when David Thomas picked off Wyche's sideline pass and scampered 39 yards unmolested into the ~- endzone. After that the game settled down into a defenseive struggle with the Wheels unable to penetrate the Southmen's de- fense, and the Southmen un- willing to take any chances that _ thiht give Detroit a cheap .1 touchdown. -, - Wanting one more touchdown, Memphis coach John McVay re- -,. turned Huarte to the lineup for k, substitute Danny White. Huarte needed only three plays to get the score with a 31-yard strike right down the center of the Wheels' zone defense to Gary Powel to end the scoring. The Wheels were reduced to only three healthy line- backers as both Doinic Rig- gio and Henry Adolfi, their number one and two middle linebackers left the game with _ z injuries. Adolfi was reported- - ly through for the season with knee damage, while Riggio will be out for an unspecified period with a bruised thigh. Even the arrival of part own- er Marvin Gaye from Califor- AP Photo nia in the third quarter couldn't inspire the Wheels to victory. Gaye's appearance brought a ets train- loud ovation from the crowd. hundreds SCORE BY QUARTERS amps as 1 2 34 73 Dt under- etri 7 7 Att. 14,424 DETROIT (MP-Steve Busby fired a five-hitter and the Kan- sas City Royals scored six runs in the first inning, three of them on Tony Solaita's homer, and went on to defeat the De- troit Tigers 9-1 last night. The victory was the Royals' sixth in their last seven out- ings, while the Tigers have dropped five of their last six. Busby, 18-9, joined Chicago's Wilbur Wood and Boston's Luis Tiant as the only 18-game win- ners in the major leagues. THE FIRST hit off Busby came with two out in the fourth, a bad-hop single by Tom Very- zer. His grounder took a high hop and hit Royals third base- man George Brett in the face. Brett suffered an injured nose and was forced to leave the game. Detroit got two more hits in the fifth, then got its only run in, the ninth when Jim Nettles walked, Veryzer singled him to second and John Wockenfuss delivered an RBI single. The Royals sent 11 men to bat in the first inning, routing Detroit's starting pitcher, rookie Fred Holdsworth. In addition to Solaita's homer, his fourth of the year, Kansas City got run- scoring singles from Amos Otis, Brett and Fred Patek. Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pet. GB aoston 64 52 .552 - Cleveland 58 55 .513 4 Baltimore 58 58 .5006 New York 56 59 .487 7 '. Milwaukee 55 62 .470 91:. Detroit 55 63 .466 10 West Oakland 69 49 .585 - Kansas City 62 54 .534 6 Chicago 59 57 .509 9 Texas 60 59 .504 9'. Minnesota 58 60 .492 11 California 46 711 .390 23 Results Minnesota 1, Cleveland 0 Chicago 5. Baltimore 4 Kansas City 9. Detroit 1 Milwaukee at Texas, inc. New York at Oakland, inc. Boston at California, inc. Today's Games Chicago (Kaat 13-9) at Baltimore (Cuetlar 13-9), night. Minnesota (Blyleven 11-13) at Cleveland (G. Perry 15-7), night. Only games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Ptt. GB St. Louis 62 57 .521 -- Philadelphia 60 58 .508 2r! Pittsburgh 59 59 .500 2', Montreal 55 60 .478 5 New York 51 63 .446 8% Chicago 47 67 .412 12' west Los Angeles 75 43 .637 - Cincinnati 71 48 .597 4% Atlanta 63 54 .538 11'2 Houston 59 57 .509 15 San Francisco 54 65 .454 21% San Diego 46 72 .395 281- Results New York 3, Los Angeles 2 Chicago 6, Houston 5 San Francisco 6, Philadelphia 4 Atlanta 6, Montreal 1 Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 2, 10 inn. St. Louis 5, San Diego 1 Today's Games Houston (Griffin 11-5) at Chicago (Reuschel 11-9). - Only game scheduled. Ready to play ball Quarterback Joe Namath reports to the New York J ing camp yesterday afternoon. Namath was one of of veterans returning to National Football League c the two-week truce between players and owners gi way.