e Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, August 23, 1974 DETROIT DROPS SEVENTH Wheels consumed by Fire Daily Photo by STEVE KAGAN MIKE WALKER, who plays defensive end for the Detroit Wheels, cannot quite leap high enough to block Chicago Fire quarterback Virgil Carter's short pass to Mark Keller. This was but one of many Fire gainers, as Chicago beat Detroit 35-23, in the WFL's weekly national televised game. Flt al pi dy int Ca in so of tin 'M' NETTER TRANSFERS UCLA lands Fleming By MARC FELDMAN considerations as heavily as he should Compared to the sunny climes of Cali- tichigan freshman tennis player Peter have. Peter will miss a full year of fornia, Arizona, Texas, and Florida eming, who helped the Wolverines to NCAA competition (penalty for transfer- where most nationally ranked tennis third place finish in the NCAA cham- ring) and get no financial aid from teams are located, the state of Michigan onships in June, dealt Michigan's net UCLA. And since he will not be involved is about as ideal for tennis as the in- nasty a serious jolt by announcing his in the competition, he may not get the terior of an igloo. Michigan was the ention to transfer to the University of coaching and develop the way he thinks only team from outside the South and lifornia, Los Angeles this fall. he will," commented Eisner. Far West to place in the NCAA Top Ten The decision had been made by Flem- "If you stay in coaching long enough, this past season and the Wolverine net- , e o ha e ad by F.J. everything will happen to you," he con- ters annually make shambles of any me a three ofweeks Chatham in the wordsn n cluded To this observer it's actually competition in the Big Ten. mchthreetweeks agobut Bin ther qaite amazing that this type of thing Peter Fleming was not Michigan's e didn't want to make a big produc, hasn't happened to Michigan tennis best player but he will be hard to e d ,i' more often.,' replace. Runback of kick leads rout, 35-23 From Wire Service ROetsb YPSILANTI - Walter Rhone's 90-yard kickoff highlighted a four-touchdown out- burst in the second quarter that carried the Chicago Fire to a 35-23 victory over the Detroit Wheels last night in World Football League play. A meager Rynearson Stadium crowd of 10,300 and a national television audi- ence watched the winless Wheels lose their seventh consecutive game, while the Fire raised its mark to 6-1. Chicago's attack featured the steady running of Cyril Pinder and Mark Kellar plus the fine passing of Virgil Carter, while Detroit had to struggle without star quarterback Bubba Wyche, placed on the injured list earlier yesterday with a pulled muscle. A three-yard touchdown run by Pinder and a 15-yard TD sprint by Kellar staked Chicago to a 14-0 lead in the second quarter before Detroit bounced back on a four-yard scoring pass from Eric Guthrie to Jim Rathje. RHONE, a defensive back, took the ensuing kickoff and burst untouched up the middle for his 90-yard TD jaunt. The Fire added a 12-yard Carter to Jim Seymour scoring pass a minute be- fore halftime, and in the third quarter Carter hit tight end Don Burchfield with a nine-yard touchdown toss for a com- manding 35-8 lead. Detroit made the score respectable with a pair of fourth quarter touch- downs-Rathje bucking over from the two and substitute quarterback Bruce Shaw firing a 16-yard TD pass to wide receiver Jon Henderson. The first quarter was a defensive struggle, with neither team moving the ball well until the closing minutes of the period, when the Fire moved from its own 19 to the Detroit three, the big play being a 29-yard screen pass from Virgil Carter to Mark Kellar at the five. KELLAR ran for two yards on the final play of the first quarter, then Cyril Pinder ran it over from the three on the first play of the second period. Car- ter's action point pass failed. The Wheels got a drive going early in the third quarter, moving from their own 29 to the Fire 29 but a 15-yard penalty for having an illegal receiver downfield pushed them back to the 44, then safety Harry Howard picked off a Guthrie pass to kill the effort. Chicago then marched 70 yards in 13 plays to scre on a nine-yard pass from Carter to tight end Don Burchfield. Once again, the action point failed, making the score 35-8 after three periods. Babashoff sets 12th ,swimming mark of week CONCORD, Calif. WA) - Shirley Baba- shoff, Olympic champion from Fountain Valley, Calif., broke one of the few women's world swimming records not held by East Germans when she won the 400-meter freestyle in four minutes, 15.77 seconds last night in the AAU National Championships. The 17-year-old Californian came from Aot:.7...Fr «., "~~:. ^~ tle ^^^«. fra ^^m ^ ion out of t "1 talked.with him and his parents at great length," Eisner added, "but it boileddown to his feeling that he would have a greater opportunity to play many top players in California. "Peter's goal is to become a profes- sional and he feels that since more ranked players reside in Los Angeles than here, he will improve faster by playing them." Fleming was injured most of the year but did recover in time to compete in the NCAA tournament at Southern Cal. Teaming with Freddie DeJesus in dou- bles, the Wolverine duo reached the quarterfinals before bowing out. Just this week, Fleming played in the prestigious Eastern Lawn Tennis Classic at South Orange, N.J., and took 1973 NCAA champion Sandy Meyer to the limit before losing to the former Stan- ford ace, 7-6, 6-7, 6-4. EISNER stressed that there were no personal confli-ts between Fleming and him or members of the Michigan team that caused the decision to be made. "Peter is going where he thinks the greater opportunity is, and that is all," said Eisner. "Y disagree with his decision hecause - Bosox pad lead as Tribe, Birds lose, From wire Service Reports The Boston Red Sox didn't go near a baseball field yesterday but they were the big winners in yesterday's American League action. The Bosox, leaders in the A.L. East, saw their two nearest com- petitors drop games to Western Division counterparts and their lead over the Cleveland Indians increase to 6% games. The Indians succumbed to the Kansas City Royals, 3-1, and the Baltimore Orioles slipped into a third place tie with the New York Yankees, seven games behind, by losing to Texas 6-2. At Cleveland, home runs by Amos Otis and Hal McRae and Paul Splittorff's eight-hit pitching led the Royals to their 3-1 victory over the Indians last night. ting Kansas City on top 2-0. McRae tagged his 13th of the season, leading off the ninth for Kansas City. Splittorff moved above the .500 mark to 13-12 and Indians' loser Jim Perry dropped to 13-9. At Baltimore, Toby Harrah ripped a three-run homer keying a five-run Texas barrage in the fourth inning that kayoed Jim Palmer and helped the Rangers to their 6-2 victory over the Orioles last night. Ferguson Jenkins earned the victory, allowing six hits in the seven innings he pitched. The Rangers nicked Palmer for a run in the second on Mike Hargrove's double and a single by Joe Lovitto.