Saturday, June 17, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven %::: :a.. . i. .'t....L ..... B irds bust T w in By The Associated Press ST. PAUL - MINNEAPOLIS- Jim Palmer checked the Minne- sota Twins 3-0 with ninth inning relief help from Grant Jackson last night as the Baltimore Orioles rolled to their eighth straight American League vic- tory. Palmer, notching his sixth straight baseball victory and improving his record to 8-3, beat Jim Kaat, 7-2, in a pitching duel decided by Don Baylor's foul _ a . sacrifice fly, and Paul Blair's two-run triple. Cesar Tovar raced over the line to catch the fly with one s- . down in the third after Bobby Grich, who had three hits and a walk, doubled and moved to third on Blair's single. In the Baltimore eighth, Don " ='Buford singled, Grich walked and -Associated Press Blair powered a drive that hit THE GOLDEN BEAR blasts out of the sand during yesterday's below the 430foot sign d round at Pebble Beach. Although Nicklaus is tied for the lead at bounced away from center field- the Open, Arnie's Army is marching. Canteens have been issued er Jim Nettles. for the duration of the Open. Blair was out on the play, ARNIE ADVANCES: Jack roll1s Oen ward trying for an inside-the-park home run. Left fielder Bob Dar- win fired the ball to shortstop Steve Braun, whose throw to Rick Dempsey beat the luging Blair. Palmer struck out six, snd pitched out of a jam in the Twins' fourth when Tovar and Rod Carew singled with .one out, Carew taking second when Tovar drew a throw going to third. Magic Number: 106 One of the most frequently asked questions that we at The Daily get is what is the favorite non-alcoholic drink of the Ti- gers. We checked it out and found the answer was Funny Face (Grape). But Palmer got cleanup hitter- Harmon Killebrew on a ground- er, fired a called third strike by Tony Oliva and retired Nettles on a foul pop. When Minnesota loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth, Jackson relieved. That ended a strin gof seven straight complete game victories for the Balti- more pitching staff. Brewers burst MILWAUKEE - Pinch-hitter Steve Hovley ripped a two-out single in the ninth inning, chas- ing home the winning run last night as the Kansas City Royals nipped the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 in an American League base- ball game. ~ Richie Scheinblum opened the Royals' ninth with a single and moved up on an error sy George Scott. A force play moved pinch- runner Tom Murphy to third and then Hovley delivered his de- ciding hit. The Royals. held to one hit by Brewer starter Jim Lonbery through six innings, tied the s c o r e on pinch - hitter Joe Keoughs' two-run single in the seventl. The hit came after Scheinblum singled and vent to third on Cookie Rojas' two-out double. Cards bonded ST. LOUIS-Bobby Bonds' 10th home run highlighted an 11-hit attack propelling the San Fran- cisco Giants to a 6-1 National League baseball victory last night over the St. Louis Cardi- nals. Bonds, who led off the game with a double, smashed a 395- foot drive into the left-center field bleachers with teammate Tito Fuentes aboard in the sixth inning. Ahead of the blast, the Giants had hopped on Cards' starter Rick Wise, 5-7, for eight of their hits and a 4-1 lead in the first three innings. Right-hander Don Carrithers. 2-3, who had not pitched since June 4, was the Giants' winner, allowing seven hits. Carrithers drove in a run with a two-out single in the second and the Giants scored two more in the third when Chris Speier opened with a single, Dave King- man doubled and Dave Rader singled. Rader's second inning single had started the two-run rally in that inning with the first run scoring on Eliot Maddox' double and a force-out and Carrithers delivering the second. Phils flinch HOUSTON - Jim Wynn, fined $100 earlier in the baseball game for throwing his helmet, greeted relief pitcher Dick Selma' with a leadoff home run in the 11th inning last night, giving the Houston Astros a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The triumph lifted Houston in- to a second-place tie with Los Angeles in the National League West, 2%i games behind Cincin- nati. PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (J')- Jack Nicklaus headed a group of six players tied for the 'lead but still seeking position on the craggy cliffs of Pebble Beach while Arnold Palmer moved into position with a charging, birdig- birdie finish yesterday in the second round of the U.S. Open Golf Championship. The heavily - favored Nick- Jaus, already the Masters cham- pion and winner of more than $156,000 this season, shrugged off the effects of three consec- utive bogeys in the home stretch and finished with a 73 for 144. That put him even with par for two trips over the cool and breezy Pebble Beach Golf Links,' stretching for 6,812 yards through stands of gnarled Monterey pines and flanked by the churning whit surf of the Pacific. "Well, I'm still ,even par and that's as good as anybody and better than most" said Nick- laus who seeks this prestigious, title as the second step in his quest for an unprecedented one- year sweep of all the world's major titles. - "I just hope I got my bad round out of my system," he said after making bogeys on the 14th through 16th holes in the cool, breezy weather. Nicklaus, who shared the r first round lead with five oth- ers, was tied at 144 after 36 holes with Australian veteran Bruce Crampton, 22-year-old rookie Danny Wadkins. longshot Cesar Sanudo and a pair of for- mer University -of Houston players, Kermit Zarley and Homero Blancas. Wadkins, a former national amateur champion and the leading rookie on the pro tour this season with more than $50,- 000 in winnings, had a brilliant 68. Blancas, who won the Phoe- nix Open earlier this year, had 11 one-putts on the tiny greens as he and Crampton matched 70s. Sanudo, a Mexican-born American citizen who has yet to win in four years on the tour, used an old Lee Trevino putter to record his 72. Zarley had a 73. "It's something of a relief," Palmer smiled after crisp iron shots left him birdie putts of four and six feet on the final two holes as he delighted his vast and faithful gallery with a charge reminiscent of his domi- nation of the game in the 1960s. "It's probably the best round I've played all year. Not the best scoring round, but maybe the best playing," said the 42- year-old who hasn't won a ma- jor titles since the 1964 Masters and has been shut out of vic- tories this season. His b 1 a zi n g 68, matching Wadkins' effort as the best in this tournament, left him alone at 145. He stormed past 49 play- ers with his four-.under-par round that put him in position to fulfill one of his most che- rished ambitions-another ma- jor title. Billy Casper, a two-time champion, had a 73 and was one of a large group at 147 as a massive jam of some 20 play- ers were. locked within three strokes of each other. Nicklaus had it three under par at one stage and appeared ready to make a rout of it until Pebble struck back. "I felt I was playing better as I went along and thought I may be able to get it a couple of more strokes under par, and then I got to No. 14," Nicklaus said. The hard-hitting blond with the massive, powerful legs drove it through the fairway on the par five 14th and found himself in the rough. He hit an iron out, but got a severe slice. METS MASH: Pirates acupuncture Padres Professional League Standings y American League National League East East W L Pet. GB W L Pet. GB Baltimore 29 22 .569 - Pittsburgh 35 18 .660 -- Detroit 28 22 .560 ! New York 35 19 .648 % Cleveland 23 25 .479 4% Chicago 30 22 .577 4% Boston 21 26 .447 6 St. Louis 23 31 .426 121% Nrw York Il 29 .411 2 Montreal 21 30 .4231 1 Milwaukee to 33 .327 12 Philadelphia 10 14 .328 15% West West Oakland 33 17 .660 - Cincinnati 34 20 .630 -- Chicago 31 20 .608 212 Houston 32 13 .582 , 12 Minnesota 21 22 .551 52 1os Angeles 31 13 582 2% California 25 28 .472 9y Atlanta 25 28 .472 8% Kansas City 24 28 .462 10 San Fr-ncisco 20 41 .328 17% Texas 23 30 .434 11/ San Diego 18 37 .327 16?!. Yesterday's Results Yesterday's Results Chicago at Boston, postponed Chicago 4, Los Angeles0 Texas at New York, postponed Montreal 7, Atlanta 4, 1st Kansas City 3, Milwaukee 2 Montreal at Atlanta 2nd, inc. Baltimore 3, Minnesota 0 Pittsburgh 2, San Diego 1 Cleveland at Oakland, inc. New York 2, Cincinnati 1 Detroit at California, inc. Houston 1, Philadelphia 0, 11 innings Today's Games San Francisco 6, St. Louis 1 Chicago (Bradley 7-3) at Boston Today's Games (Pattin 2-7) Las Angeles (Downing 3-2) at Chicago Texas (Paul 1-2) at New York (Pappas 4-4 or Pizarro 3-2) (Stottlemyre 5-8) Montreal (Bc.rially 1-7) at Atlanta Kansas City (Splitorff 4-4) at Mil- (Niekro 7-5), night waukee (Parsons 6-3) San Diego (Kirby 3-7) at Pittsburgh Baltimore (Dobson 7-6) at Minnesota (Walker 2-2), night (Blyleven 7-6) New York (Gentry 3-4) at Cincinnati Cleveland (Perry 10-5) at Oakland (McGlothlin 3-4), night (Hamilton 3-0) Philadelphia (Champion 4-3) at Hous- Detroit (Niekro 2-1) at California ton (Robert 5-3), night (Slay 1-4), night San Francisco (Mofftt 0-0) t. Louis (Cleveland 6-4) By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH - S t e v e Blass fired a five-hitter for his seventh consecutive baseball victory and retired 16 consecu- tive San Diego batters in hurling the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2-1 triumph over the Pa- dres last night. Blass, 8-1, allowed a single in each of the first three in- nings, then retired 16 batters in a row before Darrel Thomas singled leading off the ninth. Thomas scored on Nate Col- bert's two-out double. The Pirates, leaders in the National League East, staked Blass to a run in the first in- ning off loser Fred Norman, 4- 6. Al Oliver walked, took third on Roberto Clemente's single, his 2,944th career hit, and scored when Willie Ctargell hit into a fielder's choice. * Ac* Cubs cremate CHICAGO - Jim Hick- man and Billy Williams cracked home runs in support of the six-hit pitching of rookie Burt Hooton Friday, powering the Chicago Cubs to a 4-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in a National League baseball game. Hickman hit his sixth homer into a 20 mile-an-hour wind leading off the second inning and Williams, slamming his fifth homer in the last four games and his 12th of the sea- son, hit a two-run shot in the third inning after Glenn Beck- ert had doubled with two out. Hooton, 6-4, was in command after working his way out of a bases-lo, led jam in the first in- ning by striking out Willie Crawford. Cincy pinched CINCINNATI - Bud Harrel- son tripled and then raced doubled and then came home home on Gary Nolan's wild on George Foster's s i n g 1 e pitch for the tie-breaking run against New York starter Jerry night as the NewetaionshrdlC Koosman. in the ninth inning Friday Nolantrying become the night as the New York Mets National League's first nine- nipped the Cincinnati Reds 2-1 gam inegu'prtndne in a National League baseball game winner, protected the game, lead into the seventh when Duf- The loss ended a seven-game fy Ryer singled with one out, winning streak for the Reds. moved up on Perez' error and Cincinnati took a 1-0 lead in a fly ball and then scored on the fourth when Tony Perez Willie Mays' single. Trinity takes tennis title, Bengal duo vie for crow ATHENS, Ga. VP)-Trinity University aces Dick Stockton and Bryan Gottfried defeated a pair of Stanford All-Americans in the semifinals of the NCAA tennis championships Friday and swept the Bengals to their first team title. Stockton downed hard-serving Roscoe Tanner of Stanford, 7-5, 3-6, 6-7, 6-2, 6-4, in a match that lasted nearly three hours. In the other semifinals, the fourth-seeded Gottfried ousted fifth-seeded Alex Mayer, 7-6, 6-1, 6-3. The two Trinity players will meet for the singles champion- ship at 10 a.m. Saturday. The team victory by Trinity ended a UCLA-Southern California domination that began in 1959. UCLA was the defending champion. Stockton fell behind 2-1 in sets, but after a 10-minute rest the rangy senior ran out the final two sets. He broke Tanner's service in the first game of the fourth set, broke again in the next game and the Stanford junior never recovered. Tanner's powerful serve made it difficult for Stockton in the second and third sets. He repeatedly served aces, but he could not sustain his power game in the last two sets. Gottfried won the tie-breaking first set from Mayer and swept the next two sets with ease. Meyer suffered a pulled muscle in the first set and this slowed him the rest of the way. Gottfried's victory eliminated Stanford from the team race. Trinity was the 1971 NCAA team runnerup and shared runnerup in 1970. The Bengals finished the 1972 season with a 27-0 record.