Wednesday, June 21, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven SYanks streak By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Bobby Mur- cer laced a two-run homer and Sparky Lyle chalked up his 14th save of the baseball sea- son last night as the New York Yankees trimmed the Kansas City Royals 4-2 in an American League game. Murcer, who also drove in a seventh inning run with a sac- rifice fly, smashed his eighth homer of the year following Bernie Allen's leadoff double in the sixth. Magic Number: 102 Going into last night's late action the Tigers' magic number was dlown to 102, hot chances are good it might not be much lower after that action is done. Late reports at the Daily early this morning had Baltimore leading the Angels 4-1 in the eighth tn- ning, and the Tigers in a tie with Oakland, 2-2, in the top of the ninth with Willie Horton on second, two men out, and Gates Brown at hat. The Yankees, who won their fifth straight, had nicked Kan- sas City starter Dick Drago for a run in the second when John- ny Callison singled, stole sec- and and rode home on Thurs- *man Munson's hit, Wood lumbered MILWAUKEE - Jim Lonborg outdueled Chicago's Wilbur Wood and pitched the Mil- waukee Brewers to a 7-1 Ameri- can League baseball victory over the White Sox last night. Lonborg, 4-3, scattered nine hits for the victory. It was only the second loss in 12 career de- cisions against the Brewers for' Wood, now 11-5 for the season. The White Sox' knuckleballer had. not lost to the Brewers since July 7, 1970, Ron Theobold and Dave May each had three hits for the Brewers. Texas ticks BOSTON - Dalton Jones crashed a two-run homer in the fifth inning and Rich Hand handcuffed the Red Sox on five hits as the Texas Rangers scor- ed a 5-2 American League base- ball victory over Boston last night. The Red Sox took a 1-0 lead in the second after Reggie Smith's sacrifice fly scored Tommy Harper but the Rangers evened it in the third on Don Mincher's run - producing sin- gle. PITY, PITY! Pity Dave Rader, San Francisco's backstop who finds he is out at the plate. Pity the rest of his Giant teammates, who currently have the lowest winning percentage in the majors. But don't pity those surging Cubbies who trounced S.F. 15-8 yesterday for their seventh straight victory. CURLY HITS THE BOOKS Astros on top o By The Associated Press HOUSTON-Lee May clubbed a two-run homer and Bob Wat- son hit a to-run single to fuel big innings for Houston and vault the Astros into first place in baseball's National League West with a 7-4 victory over the New York Mets last night. The Astros, after scoring three in the third, took charge in the fifth with four more runs, two on May's 11th homer of the sea- son and the others on a double by Tommy Helms and a single by Roger Metzger. The Mets chased Astros' start- er Ken Forsch with four straight hits and three runs in the sev- enth. Forsch had yielded onty three hits until that inning. Expos pound CINCINNATI-Ron Fairly and Bob Bailey cracked home runs as the Montreal Expos ripped Cincinnati 7-2 last night in a National League baseball game. Montreal broke the game open in the fifth when they scored two runs and knocked out starter Jim McGlothlin (3-5). Pitcher Carl Morton singled with one out and scored on Tim McCarver'a second hit to center. Mike Jorgensen, who had walk- ed, scored one out later on pitch- hitter Ron Woods' check-swing bloop single to center. Jorgensen singled home another run in the ninth. Cubs surge CHICAGO -Randy Hundley's grand slam homer spiced a seven-run first inning, and a five-run fourth swept the Chi- cago Cubs to their seventh straight National League vic- tory, a 15-8 rout of the San Francisco Giants yesterday. Hundley also drove in a fifth run with a single in the fourth. The Cubs 18-hit attack also in- cluded a two-run homer by Ron Santo in the sixth and a home run by Billy Williams in the seventh. Jim Hickman of Chicago slam- med four straight singles in his first four trips. Garry Maddox slammed a three-run homer in the third as the Giants made their last real bid, trimming the Cub lead to 7-6. Cleveland By The Associated Press CLEVELAND - Nick Mileti, rebuffed recently in his efforts to obtain a National Hockey League franchise, last night an- nounced that he had obtained a, World Hockey Association team for Cleveland. Mileti already owns the Cleve- land Barons of the American Hockey League, the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basket- ball Association and is president of the Cleveland Indians Ameri- can League baseball team. Cleveland will become the 12th club in the WHA, scheduled to begin play this fall. It is expected that Cleveland will take over the rescinded Calgary fran- chise for the standard franchise fee of $250,000. Mileti also must pay a $100,000 performance bond. Further details will be an- nounced this morning at a news conference in Mileti's office at the Cleveland Arena. WHA Pres- ident Gary Davidson also will be present. Pro matr-iculates CHARLOTTE, N.C. - F r e d "Curly" Neal of the Harlem Globetrotters is wrestling with college textbooks this summer instead of flipping and twirling a basketball with his zany team. Neal has returned to Johnson ague Standings - National League East W L Pet. GB Pittsburgh 36 20 .643 - New York 36 22 .621 1 Chicago 34 22 .607.2 Montreal 25 32 .439 11- St. Louis 25 32 .439 11V2 Philadelphia 20 36 .357 16 West Houston 36 23 .610 - Cincinnati 35 23 .603 f Los Angeles 32 26 .552 3'j Atlanota 27 25 .482 7%, San Diego 20 38 .345 151 San Francisco 21 44 .323 18 Yesterday's Results Chicago 15, San Francisco 8 Los Angeles at Pittsburgh, postponed Philadelphia at Atlanta, postponed Montreal 7, Cincinnati 2 Houston 7, New York 4 St. Louis 5, San Diego 4, 10 innings Today's Games San Francisco (Bryant, 3-4) at Chicago (Pappas, 5-4) Los Angeles (Osteen, 7-4) at Pittsburgh (Blass, 8-1) night Philadelphia (Carlton, 7-6) at Atlanta (Niekro, 7-5) night New Tork (Koosman, 3-3) at Houston (Griffin, 2-1) night San Diego (Kirby, 5-7) at St. Louis (Santorini, 3-6) night Montreal (Renko, 1-5) at Ciicinnati (Nolan, 8-2) night acquires WHA club C. Smith University to complete his degree in physical education. He left Smith in 1904 and signed with the Globetrotters. Because of , a demanding schedule and foreign travel, Curly was unable to return to school. "I have always been concern- ed about education," the shaved- headed athlete said. "When I was at Smith in the early 60s, the opportunity was not as great as it is now. If an opportunity for an athlete came along he would forgo his education for a quick buck. "This scene has changed for young athletes. College curricu- lums and athletic programs stress academic values now. As a result, the average player as well as the superstars receive their degrees within the required time." Big trade ! MILWAUKEE-The Milwaukee Brewers traded outfielder Bill Voss to the Oakland Athletics for infielder Ron Clark yester- day. In 14 American League base- ball games this year with Oak- land, Clark, who is 29, hit .267. He had moved up in mid-May from Oakland's Iowa farm club where he hit .298. Voss, 26, has an .083 average in 27 games. Wilt wins ilickok NEW YORK - Wilt Chamber- lain, who helped lead the Los Angeles Lakers to the National Basketball Association champion- ship, was named yesterday win- ner of the Hickok professional athlete award for May. Chamberlain, with 287 points, beat out Mark Donohue, the In- dianapolis 500 winner who had 204 points, and Bobby Oar of the Boston Bruins who had 191 points. Professional Lc American League East L W L Pct. GB Detroit 31 23 .574 - Baltimore 30 24 .556 1 New York 25 29 .463 6 Boston 23 29 .442 7 Cleveland 23 30 .434 7f Milwaukee 18 34 .346 12 West Oakland 37 17 .685 -- Chicago 33 22 .600 4) Minnesota 30 23 .566 6' California 26 31 .456 12 Kansas City 25 30 .455 12/ Texas 24 33 .421 141 Yesterday's Results Minnesota 7, Cleveland 3, 1st Minnesota , Cleveland 1, 2nd rexaso5,noston 2 New York 4, Kansas City 2 Milwaukee 7, Chicago 1 Detroit at Oakland, inc. Baltimore at California, inc. Today's Games Texas (Gogolewski, 3-6) at Boston (Culp, 4-6) Kansas City (Splittorff, 5-4) at New York (Kline, 5-2) Chicago (Bradley, 7-3) at Milwaukee (Parsons, 6-4) night Cleveland (Perry, 10-6) at Minnesota (Blyleven, 7-7) night Detroit (Timmerman, 5-5) at Oakland (Hloltzman, 14-4) night Baltimore (obson, 8-6) at California May, 1-4) night l iei B f2 V2 /z /z V2 I/ -Associated Press Ask mre no questions and .. Bobby Hull pauses from his hectic schedule to talk with some sports reporters from the Michigan Daily. The newsmen, very interested as to what the Chicago Black Hawk superstar will do with his life asked him many intriguing questions. For instance, John Papanek (in the striped polo) pro- vacitivly asked, "What is your favorte color?" and "Can you spare any change?"