THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Eleven
Batsmen split twice,
~'ed saso inthird
-By BOB ANDREWS
The Big Ten baseball cam-
paign drew to a close this past
weekend and the Michigan State
Spartans (10-4) emerged as the
sole runner-ups to conference
champs, Iowa, by taking three
# of their last four contests against
Northwestern and Wisconsin.
Michigan, another team in the
battle for second, had to settle
for a tie for the third spot with
* - - Minnesota, both 9-5, as it split
- - two twinbills over the weekend.
Against Wisconsin Friday, Mich-
igan trounced the Badgers 19-1
in the opener and found t h e y
could have used some of these
runs in the nightcap, as Wiscon-
3 sin came back to win, 1-0.
Saturday, the Wolverines ex-
perienced more frustration when
a after taking the first game 4-3,
behind the pitching of Pete Belt
(6-4), they lost a 2-0 lead in the
sixth inning of the nightcap and
In their rout of the Badgers,
--Asseciated Pees the Wolverines pounded out 23
Vida' backhits, while scorinig nine ,imes in
Oakan Ahltis'str ide fa ybark ,ViaBuept the fourth ine and seven more
Oaklnd thito str piche ofa yar go, idaBlo po on times in the fifth. The offensive
the Finley golds and yellows for the first time yesterday after stars included Leon Roberts,
being reactivated. Be may start a game as soon as Saturday, who chipped in with four base
BASEBALL ROUNDUP:
First-place Whit Sox win;
Montreal breaks loss streak
hits; Pat Sullivan with three;
and Brian Balaze with a psir of
doubles.
Winner Mickey Elwood went
the distance while squaring his
record at 3-3.
The second game with nuats a
different story as Badger hurlsr
Mike Adler scattered just seven
hits and needed only one run
from his teammates as Wiscon-
sin held on for the 1-0 shutout.
The run was scored in t h e
fourth when Greg Mahlberg
drew a walk, was sacrificed to
second and came home on Ed
Zydowaki's doble. The loss was
Michigan's fourth in the cton-
ference and also its fourth shut-
out in the conference.
Needing a sweep against the
Wildcat to still have a decent
shot at second, the Wolverines,
behind Mike DeCou's three-run
inside-the-park homer hung on to
win the opener 4-3.
However, it was the Wolverine
defense, which completed five
double playa in the game that
bailed Belt out of the mny jams
he was to face throughout the
game.
The three run uprising occur-
red to the third inning, when with
two gone, Belt and Greg~ Buss
lined base his which brought
up De Coo. The Michigan right-
fielder promptly lined a sinking
liner to the centerfielder, who
missed a shoestring catch allow-
ing the ball to roll to the wall
an lowing DeCouto round the
In the nightcap, hurler Craig
Forhan (5-1) seemed to hreeze
along toward 'as sixh win a
he took a 2-ti lead into the sixth.
But two walks, a fielder's choice,
two singles and Ed Grzelakow-
ski's sacrifice fly gave N o r t h-
western the three runs the Wild-
cats needed for the victory
The Wolverines scored b a t h
their runs in the fourth inning
after Rober-ts singled to center,
Sullivan walked, and Robert's
Big Ten Standings;
FINAL
W L Pet. GB
Iowa 13 3 .813 -
Michigan State 10 4 .714 2
MICHIGAN 9 1 .642 3
Minnesota 9 II .643 3
Northwestern 10 8 .556 4
Wisconsin 7 8 .467 5i,
Illinois 5 9 .357 7
Ohio State 5 11 .313 8
Purdue 3 9 .250 8
Indiana 3 12 .110 9%
moved to third on a fly sut to
right by Balaze. John Hornyak
then drove Roberts home with a
sacrifice fly. Sullivan, who went
to second on Hornyak's sacrifice,
then came home on John Len-
char's base hit.
For the day, Roberts coiledt-
ed three hits to finish the year
with a fine .432 Big Ten batting
average.
The third place Wolverines c n-
eluded the season with a re-
apectable 18-13-1 overall record,
including the 9-5 conference
mark. Northwestern meanwhile
finished with a 10-I league mark,
googl oniy for four*h place, and
a 17-14 total record.
Minding the cellar for the 1972
season was Indiana, which af-
ter losing a pair to Ohio State
on Saturday, finiished with' a
dismal 3-12 conference and -4t-
25 overall record.
ATLANTA (.5)-Bernie "Boom
Boom" Cleoffrion was yesterday
named head coach of Atlanta's
franchise in the National Hoc-
key League.
che dd notdicls contract
terms,
GSeoffrion, 41, scored 33
goals during his 16 seasons with
the Montreal Canadiens and
the New York Rangers.
Geoffrlon retired In 1964
to coach Quebec City in the
American League and then
made a comeback as a player
wi h the Rangers In 1966, He
coached the Rangers briefly in
1968 - 69 and has since been
serving as a scout for New
York.
Geoffrion won the league's
scoring championship twice and
was named the most valuable
player in 1961. He played on
seven Stanley Cup champions
at Montreal.
15 Fouls
Fifteen of the 151 pitches throwc
by National League pitchers in
the 1971 All-Star game were foul-
ed off.
ny The Associated Pres run-scoring single in the ninth
A RL I NGTO N --Chi- to ltft the White Sox into a -6
cago catcher Tom Egan gave tie.,
Texas a pair of runs with a ..Chicago had taken a 5-3 lead
throwing error in the eighth In the seventh on a b a-
inning, then redeemed himself loaded walk and May's three-
with a tie-breaking double in run double but Texs moved In
the 10th that carried the White front 6-5 in the eighth with two
Box to a 7-6 vIctory over the of the runs coming when Ean
Rangers last night, threw away an attempted
home-to-first double play ball,
Magic Number: 131 May followed Mike Andrews'
Withther vitor ove Clve- first-inning single with a dou-
Wit thir ictry verClee. ble hat put Chicago in front
land on Sunday, the Detroit 1-0 but the Rangers tied it in
Tigers reduced their magic num- the bettom of the first on El-
ber (sum of Tiger victories and liott Maddox' single, a sacrific
Indian losses needed to clinch and Dick Billings' single, then
the pennant) by two, to only 131. took a 2-1 lead in the fifth on
Dave Nelson's run-scoring dou-
Bill Melton opened the 10th ble.
with a walk off Paul Lindblad, * * *
2-2, the four'th Texas p1tcher,
and was sacrificed to second Expos explode
before Ean rippee1 his game- MONTREAL - Ron Fairly's
winning hit down the left field second home run of the season
line, giving reliever Vicente - a three-run shot in the fifth
Romo the victory, inning - carrted Montreal to
It was also the fourth straight a 6-3 vietory over the Philadel-
triumph and 10th in 11 games phia Phillies yesterday, snap-
for the leaders-of the American ping the Expos' eight-game
League West and snapped the losing streak.
Rangers' winning string at Ron Bunt and Boots Day had
three. reached on walks by losing
Crarlos May, who earlier had pitcheraiBsirryLrsch 1-2, 0be-
of doubles, drilled a two-out, the right field fence,
Professional League Standings
Aumerican League Natj,,ual League
Ease East
* ~w L Pcl. GB0 w L Ccl. GB10
Cieveiand iel .3 sb N Yak 2 1.0 6-
Baitimor 15 13 .530 27 Chicago 15 15 .500 9
New York 12 55 .444 5 Phiiadeiphia i5 17 .400 50
Boston 17 .34t 74 Montreal i4 i9 .424 11.1
lsiiwaukee 0es 17 .320 5 51. Louis iist1 21 .364 53% ,
Chicago 5 55 .051 -- Houston 10 i2 .Oi3 ._
Oakland 17 55 .030 1 los Angeles 30 i3 .00 -
Minnesota 17 55 t0 t Cincinnati 10 i.4 2
Kansasa City is is .400 71. Atianta 12 20 .375 77%
Calitor010 il 55 .367 1'% san Francisco 11 25 .306 10%
Yes4eday's Rtesulls Yeterday's roilts
C rtonia at Oakland, in . ioustorat'5 a ie go, me.
Otkhercluhs notesheduled sonFrancisco at LsAngels, inr.
- ither clubs-note shdoled
Caioenia (Co tcr, 0-1) me Ekl'and Ncw York (Geury, 3-I) at Chicag.,
(Odom, 2-i), night (Jenkins, 3-4)
Minalt' (Ktaat, 4-1) at Kansas City Fittsburgh (B01ss, 4-1) at St. Louis
(13rago, 2-I), night (Cleveland, 3-2), nightl
Chicago (Blahnsrn, 5-4) at Tress son Francisco (Bare, 0-0) at Los
(Gogolewski, 3-7), night Angeles (Sutton, 3-0), night
Milwaukee (Lonhorg, 1-1) at tDelroit Atlanta (Nirkro, 5-4) at Cineinnali
(Coleman, 0-2), night (Grimsley, 2-0), night
Cleveland (P'erry, 7-I) at New York houston (Dieeker, 3-7) and (Grittlo,
(Olotemye, 4-3), 4n3)ht 0-0) at~ 5a 4Olego (Kirhy, 3-3) and
* (sirhert, 1-2), night Philadrlphia (5elma, t-4) at Monitreal
- (stoneruan, 3-4), night
The Phils, who now have loot
seven In a row, gained a 2-1
lead in the first Inning on con-
secutive singles by Larry Bows,
Denny Doyle and Tim McCarv-
er and a sacrifice' fly by Greg
Luziuski.
Philadelphia added a run In
the third when Bowa scored as
Luzinoki hIt into a force out.,
Montreal scored in the fourth
when Mike Jorgensen doubled
moved to third on an infield
out and came home on a wtld
pitch by Lersch.
Ken Singleton then walked
and eventually scored on John
Boccabella's sacrifice fly.,
Montreal padded its lead in
the seventh when FaIrly sing-
led home Day, who had reached
base when relief pitcher Chris
Short fumbled his grounder.
Right-bander Mike Torrez,
4-1, who was the winner in
Montreal's most recent previous
victory on May 14, gave up
eight hits walked six and struck
out three.
ATGTEMETNS
CHAMPAIGN (IF) - Charges of
ileali baskebl ecruiting se-
cifically involving host Univer-
sity of Illinois, could be scrutin-
ized by Big Ten athletic leaders
at their annual spring meeting
starting here today.
Officially, the top agenda item
at the week's conclave of direc-
tors and faculty representatives
is consideration of the so-called
"red shirt" policy-permitting a
fifth year of eligibility for ath-
letes seeking a college degree in
five years instead of the cus-
tomsry four.
But the Big Ten and the Na-
tional Collegiate Athletic Asso-
ciation (NCAA) last week started
a 'preliminary inquiry" into al-
leted turegulanities in Illinois'
basketball recruiting program.
And last weekend, there were
printed reports Minnesota, the
conference 1072 basketball cham-
pion, also was cinder Big Ten in-
vestigation for cage recruiting
unalpractice.
However, commissioner Wayne
Duke said yesterday no specific
investigation was underway ex-
cept that of alleged illegal prac-
tices atIlnois. This is said to
involve help of recruits in en-
trance exams and an automobile
"bonus" for one or two basket-
ball players.
Duke said his office was "con-
tinuously in the process of check-
ing out reports of irregularities,
but to translate this into a full-
blown probe of a particular
school is incorrect."
Duke said no formal discus-
stuns of the Illinois case, or any
other possible inquiry into other
basketball recruiting practices
within the conference, were
scheduled in the meetings here.
After an "Old Elm" golf day
for the conference offiteals to-
morrow, the faculty men and
directors will meet jointly Thurs-
day and Friday on whst Duke's
office describes mainly as "rou-
tine matters."
An exception to the rotutine
c a t e g o r y is consideration of
the red-shirting recommendation
made by football coaches and
directors at the March confer-
en e meeting.
At the March meeting, the
conference approved use of fresh-
men on varsity football and
basketball teams, following a
new NCAA policy, but tabled the
red-shirting proposal.
Big Ten football coaches long
have campaigned for the red-
shirt policy, allowing an extra
year of grooming a promising
prospect without loss of a com-
petitive year, but it never got-
faculty group sanction.
Lessening of top level opposi-
tion hss been reported, but even
if red-shirtiug is approved at
this meeting, the subject would
go sunder the White Resolution,
requiring a review by individual
schools: Final action then wo,ld
be forestalled until the confer-
ence December meeting, follow-
ing the 1972 football season.
Other meeting items include
discussion of possible schedule
revision in sports other than
football and b as ke tb a ll to
achieve travel economy and a
proposal to permit four instead
of three intercollegiate frosh
foolball games,