THE MICHIGAN DAILY ' Page Eleven Friday, June 9, -1972 AMATEURS DRAFTED KC, DC get NHL nods NEW YORK () - The National Hockey League moved two steps closer yesterday to its goal of 24 teams by the end of this decade, granting expansion franchises to Kansas City, Kan., and Washington, D.C. for the 1974-75 season. Then, the New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames, who start play in the NHL for the first time next season, picked the two choicest plums in the draft of eligible junior players. The Islanders, choosing first, selected Billy Harris of the Toronto Marlboros and then At- lanta chose Jacques Richard of the Quebec Ramparts. Harris, a right winger, tied for the Ontario Hockey Association's scoring championship with 57 goals, 72 assists and 129 points. Richard, a center, led all the scorers in the Quebec Junior Hockey Association with 71- 89-160. Harris said he had been contacted by both Bill Torrey, general manager of the Islanders, and the rival World Hockey Association. "It's all a matter of money," he said. "I'd sign for $2,000 less with an NHL club, but if the WHA offered $25,000 or $50,000 more I'd go with them." Earlier, in the day, the NHL Board of Gov- ernors settled its own matter of money, ad- mitting two new members at a cost of $6 mil- lion each. The governors granted the Kansas City, Kan. franchise to a group of 14 investors headed by Edwin G. Thompson and including Jeff Jennings, 26-year-old son of New York Ranger Presi- dent Bill Jennings. The Washington, D.C. franchise went to Abe Pollin, owner of the Baltimore Bullets of the National Basketball Association. Clarence Campbell, president of the NHL, said it took the governors four ballots to get the re- quired three-quarter vote for acceptance. Eliminated in the biding were two other groups representing Kansas City and tehe cities of Dallas, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Phoenix, San Diego and Cleveland. Campbell made it clear that the cities elim- inated yesterday remained very much in the expansion picture and that the governors would discuss additional franchises in August, as they continue their goal of 24 clubs before 1980. THOMPSON SAID the Kansas City team would play in suburban Johnson County in a munici- pal building scheduled for completion by the spring of 1974. Pollin plans to have his Washington team play in the proposed Eisenhower Center Arena sched- uled to be constructed in the downtown area. If the Eisenhower Center cannot be finished by September, 1974 Pollin said he planned to construct his own building in suburban Largo, Md. THIS FISH was used as a major selling point by the group from Dallas which tried unsuccess- fully to land an NHL franchise. However, no one present at the meetings understood the signi- ficance of the fish or of the hand found on its ventral side. McDOWELL FLUTTERS Reds stomp Seaver JOHNNY BENCH catches a pop up in yesterday's Cincinnati victory over the New York Mets. Before catching the ball, Bench jumped to his feet, turned abruptly round, flung off his mask, and cruised back toward the stands. Professional League Standings y American League National League East East w L Pct. GB W iL Pct.GBNiewNcYvsk 32 15 .681 - Detroit 2509568 -Pittsbug h 20 16 '44 2 Baltimore 22 22 .500 3 Chicago 25 19 .568 5 Cleveland 20 22 .476 4 Montreal 20 26 .43511'/ Boston 18 23 .439 5' St. Louis 20 28 .417 1212 New Yke 126 .422 Philadelphia 18 29 .383 14 Milwaekee t6 25 .3900 7%Wvst West Cincinnati 29 19 .604 - Oakland 31 13 .705 - Los Angeles 29 19 .604 - Minnesota 25 17 .595 5 Houston 27 21 .562 2 Chiicage 2t 18 .501 5 Atlata 22 24 .4786 California 2 25 .468 10' San ego I 31.240 12r. Texas 20 27 .425 122 San Francisco 17 37 .315 15 Kansas City 19 26 .422 12r Yesterday's Results St. Louis 6, Francisco 4 Yesterday's Results Cincinnati 5, New York 3 Milwaukee 4, Kansas City 3 Philadelphia 7, Houston 2 Texas 6, New York 2 Atlanta 3, Montreal 2 Other clubs not scheduled Pittsburgh at San Diego, inc. Chicago at Los Angeles, incs Tonight's Games Tonighit's Hame California (Clark, 4-5) at Boston Atlanta (Reed, 4-6) at Philadelphia (Pattin, 1-7) (Reynolds, 0-2) Minnesota (Blyleven, 7-4) at Cleve- Cincinnati (Simpson, 2-1) at Montreal land (Perry, 9-4) (Morton, 2-6) New York (Iekich, 4-4) at Kansas Houston (Forsch, 2-2) at New York City (Reeker, 2-2) (Matiack, 6-1) Baltimore (Cuellar, 2-5) at Texas St. Louis (Gibson, 3-5) at San Diego (Hand, 2-3) (Grief, 3-8) Oakland (Hunter, 6-2) at Detroit Pittsburgh (Blass, 6-1) at Los Angeles (Timmerman, 4-4) (Sutton, 0-0) Milwaukee (Parsons, 5-2) at Chicago Chicago (Jenkins, 6-5) at San Fran- (Wood,$-4) cisco (Bryant, 2-3) By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Joe Hague belted a two-run homer t h a t capped a four-run first inning against New York ace Tom Seaver, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 5-3 victory over the Mets yesterday. Seaver, 8-3 was staggered by the early four-run uprising and failed to pitch a complete game for the eighth straight time. Pete Rose, who opened the game with a single and went. to third on Joe Morgan's base hit. came home with Cincinnati's first run on Johnny Bench's sac- Michigan hosts tramp tourney Some of the nation's highest bouncers, both male and female, will bs in Ann Arbor tomorrow as competitions are held in the U.S. Trampoline Team Tourna- ment at Crisler Arena. The qualifiers in the tourna- ment will then advance to Stutt- gart, Germany representing the United States on World Tram- poline Championships. Among the best candidates for berths on the American team are sev- eral tx-Michigan gymnasts and Wolverine coach Newt Loken will be coaching and rooting them on. Michigan's 1970 gymnastics captain George Huntzicker who led the Wolverines to the NCAA gymnastics title that year and is rated by many as the top bouncer in the country will be 1 e a d i n g Michigan's six-man team. In a bow to the women's movement Crisler will also be hosting the women's qualifica- tions, concurrently with the men's. Among the leading conten- ders in the women's division is Renee Ransom, defending Amer- ican and world champion on the trampoline. Ms. Ransom and her female and male compatriots will start the activity at noon tomorrow in Crisler with the preliminary round. Admission for that round is only $1.00. The finals, which will start at 7:30 should provide a good view of America's best on the trampoline. Admission to the evening activities is merely $1.50. rifice fly, his 38th RBI of the year. Tony Perez then delivered a run-scoring single before Hague unloaded his seventh home run of the year. The Mets came back with a run in their half of the first on Cleon Jones' RBI single and cut the margin to 4-3 with a two- run rally in the fifth before Pedro Borbon came on to shut the door. The righthander relieved Ross Grimsley with one out. Perez' hsomer in the eighth gave Cincin- nati its final run. Giants jarred SAN FRANCISCO - Donn Clendennon's two-run homer in the top of the eighth broke a 4-4 tie and the St. Louis Car- dinals beat San Francisco 6-4 yesterday, handing the Giants their sixth straight loss. Clendennon's blast, his second of the year, came off Don Mc- Mahon, who had replaced start- er Sam McDowell, lifted after catcher Ted Simmons' eighth- inning triple. Simmons drove in three runs, knotting the score. Earlier, McDowell had coast- ed along on six hits and given the Giants a 4-1 lead when his triple had driven in a pair of runs in the sixth inning. Chris Speier's single scored Bobby Bonds in the first inning to give the Giants a 1-0 lead. San Francisco increased its margin to 2-0 in the third in- ning when Bonds scored from third on a wild pitch. Phils streak PHILADELPHIA-Larry Bowa drove in three runs and Tommy Hutton added two with a home run to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 7-2 victory over the Houston Astros last night. Billy Champion, 4-3, had checked the Astros on just one hit-Bob Watson's single in the fifth-and carried a 4-0 lead into the seventh inning. But when Cesar Cedeno tripled and Lee May and Watson singled Joe Hoerner came on to set down the next three batters and preserve the victory. Brewers foam KANSAS CITY-The Milwau- kee Brewers cashed in on a throwing error by Kansas City second baseman Cookie Rojas in the seventh inning to score three runs and beat the Royals 4-3 last ight. Hoosier Counsilman hits tender reduction BLOOMINGTON (,P)-A plan by the Big 10 to cut the scholar- ships allowed minor sports from 34 a year to just 15 is causing shock waves over the swimming empire of Indiana University's James "Doc" Counsilman, who has guided the Hoosiers to five consecutive NCAA titles. It has even brought Counsil- man to suggest Indiana pull out of the conference. "I've been swamped with calls from alumni and other Big 10 swimming coaches saying we should get out of the Big Ten, that it's outgrown its useful- ness," said Counsilman. "Of course, we don't deter- mine that. But I think if it comes down to this, we should get out of the Big 10 . .. Indiana was against the whole program that was voted on at the Big 10 meeting in Champaign, Ill." It has been two weeks since the Big 10 athletic directors and faculty representatives approved the cut. The plan has to be reviewed by each conference school before it could go into ef- fect, probably in the 1973-74 year.. Counsilman says a "lot of the younger coaches in the confer- ence have already put feelers out for other jobs, and I would look elsewhere if I were young- er . .." Counsilman, 51, criticized the large football programs and said "it appears the university presidents are interested in killing minor sports." Presently, Counsilman gets six tenders per year, allowing him to have 24 students under scholarships. "It would take about two years and we would be down if this proposal goes through. The whole conference would be down," he said.