THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Eleven Wednesday. August 2,1972 e ,uut23. 1972THEICHIANDILYageleve Sports of The Daily R hodesians ousted The Chisox .. . Pale hose no longer By DAVID BORUS CHICAGO, DESPITE POPULAR counter-culture myths, is not the monolithic repository of all evil. While it will probably never win the plaudits of the Better Government Association as the nation's best-run city, there are pockets of truth, justice, and the American way scattered throughout the metropolis. A good deal of this native virtue resides in an antiquated structure, nestled in a fairly awful neighborhood on the city's South Side, and known to the populace as Commisky Park, al- though officially titled White Sox Park. In recent years, White Sox Park has been a barren and desolate place. Indeed, it is said that a prospective patron called the park one night to ask "When does the game start?" "When can you be here?" came the reply. The management of the baseball team loudly blamed the lack of attendance on many different convenient factors, such as the poor economy, fear of street crime, etc., etc. However, the real reasons were two-fold. The first was that the population of the city's North Side, never overly prone to attending Sox games, were busy whooping it up at ivy-covered Wrigley Field, watching the Durocher-led Cub- bies try valiantly (and fail miserably) to win their first pen- nant in thirty years. However, this crosstown rivalry in itself is not enough to explain the dismal state of affairs at White Sox Park. After all, half of five million people should be enough to support any rea- sonably competent professional team. Therein lies the second facet of the dilemma. The White Sox teams of the years '68, '69, and '70 were nowhere near "reasonably competent." In fact, many claimed that at times the odor emanating from the old ballyard during and after a Sox game far exceeded that of the nearby stockyards. The sad truth was that the White Sox, with the exception of a futile effort in 1967, had been on a steady downhill course ever since their pennant winning crew of 1959, which included such immortals as Nellie Fox, Luis Apari- cio, Sherman Lollar, and Early Wynn. As the team hit the bot- tom in the middle of the 1970 season and went steadily down from there, despair settled over the South Side and the fans nearly stopped coming altogether. JUST WHEN TIMES were darkest, however, the Sox owner- ship decided, after the fact, that things had gone far enough, and (just as had been done in the late Fifties with the importa- tion of Bill Veeck) reached out to a rival organization for help. An unknown named Chuck Tanner was brought in as the new manager, and a cohort, with the unlikely name of Roland He- mond became the director of player personnel. Tanner, it was soon discovered, knew how to use the material at his disposal in a wizardly fashion. Wilbur Wood, an overweight reliever with an amazing knuckleball, left the confines of the bullpen to win 22 games. Bill Melton, who was once the world's worst part-time outfielder, became a sloppy yet regular third baseman and the league's home-run champion. And Carlos May, victim the year before of a freak accident in which most of his right thumb was blown off by a mortar shell, regained his equally shattered confi- dence and became, once more, a respected hitter. The Sox finished a respectable third in 1971, bettering their own record by some twenty-five games, shocking everyone but Harry Caray, their famed announcer. The crowning touch, how- ever, was yet to come. In the winter, Richie ("Call me Dick") Allen was obtained in a baffling trade with the Dodgers. The result of all this facelifting is apparent by a glance at the current standings. Allen is leading the league in nearly every category and is easily the second most popular person in town. (Chicago's num- ber one hero is a rather rotund McGovern supporter.) Wood has already achieved his 20th victory, Tanner is a hot prospect for Manager of the Year honors, and the Oakland A's are visibly quaking in their white kangaroo boots. What it all means is hard to discern. But White Sox Park is overflowing and the South Side is happy which may serve as an inspiration for suffering Tiger fans. Professional League Standings American League National League Eas East W L Pet. GB w L Pct. Detroit 63 55 .534 - Pittsburgh 72 42 .632 Baltimore 62 55 .530 3 New York 61 53 .535 1 New York 60 55 .522 13 Chicago . 61 56 .521 1 Boston 59 56 .513 2/ St. Louis 60 58 .491 1 Cleveland 56 61 .479 61 Montreal 53 62 .46 11 Milwaukee 45 71 .388 17 Philadelphia 43 73 .371 3 west .West Chicago 68 48 .586 3 Cincinnati 73 43 .629 Minnesota 60 54 .526 73/ louston 66 53 .555 Kansas City 55 59 .482 12 Los Angeles 60 54 .526 1 California 52 65 444 17 Atlanta 54 1 A50 21 Texas 47 69 .405 21%3 San Francisco 52 66 .441 23 Oakland 69 48 .590 - San Diego 45 70 .391 2 Yesterday's Results Yesterday's Results Oakland 6, Detroit 3 Atlanta 11, Philadelphia 7 California 2, Baltimore 0 Cincinnati 5, Montreal 3 Cleveland 3, Minnesota 2 New York 4, Houston 2 Texas 2, Milwaukee 1 Chicago at San Diego, inc. Boston 10, Kansas City 7 St. Louis at Los Angeles, inc. Chicago 5, New York 4 Pittsburgh at San Francisco, inc. Today's Games Today's Games California (May, 5-9) at Baltimore Atlanta (Hardin, 2-0) at Philadelphia (Palmer, 16-6), night (Twitchell, 3-4), night Minnesota (Blyleven, 10-15) at Cleve- Cincinnati (simpson, 7-4) at Mon- land (Dunning, 2-1), night treal (Moore, 4-6), night Texas (Bosloan, 6-9) at Milwaukee Houston (Dierker, 11-7) at New York (Ryerson, 3-5), night (Koosman, 8-9) Boston (Siebert, 10-9 or Tiant, 7-4) at Chicago (Pappas, 9-7) at San Diego Kansas City (Nelson, 6-4), night (Grief, 5-13), night Oakland (Hamilton, 6-5) at Detroit St. Louis (Durham, 1-5) at Los (Timmerman, 8-10), night Angeles (Singer, 4-12), night New York (Stottlemyre, 12-14) at Pittsburgh (Moose, 9-7) at San Chicago (Wood, 21-11) Francisco (Wiloughby, 2-1) By The Associated Press MUNICH - The International Olympic Committee, bowing to strong political pressure ooted the little Rhodesian team out of the Munich Olympics yesterday and forestalled what might have been a paralyzing walkout by Africanknations and symathi ing lacks, including Americans The dramatic announcement came from A v e r y Brundage, militant, 84 - year - old outgoing IOC president, who earlier had declared: "The African demand is politi- cal blackmail--we will not allow the Olympic principles to be de- stroyed." Rather meekly and solemnly, the Chicago millionaire told a late afternoon press conference at the Bavarian Parlianment building that the vote of the IOC members, was 36-31 to withdraw the invitation to compete in the Games, scheduled to open Satut- day. Some of the Rhodesians wept. "I can't say I didn't expect this," said Bruce Kennedy, Rho- desian javeln thrower, tears welling in his eyes. "It's a dis- turbing situation." The decision to toss out Rho- desia on a passport technicality instead of risking the withdrawal of some of the world's most glamorous athletes came after several days of wrangling and political bickering and appear- ances of the opposing parties efore they tOC. The Rhodesian team, consist- ing of 35 white athletes and eight blacks, was thrown out on the technicality that it was unable to produce passports showing British citizenship. T h e s e w e r e specifications agreed upon by the African na- tions when the IOC approved Rhodesian participation a year ago. The IOC was caught off- guard when 12 nations in the African bloc plus Guyana thratened the week before the Games to pull out if Rhodesia competed. The threat escalated when a group of U.S. black athletes is- sued a statement last Friday asserting: "We will stand united behind our black brothers." Cuba and Haiti joined the parade early Tuesday while the problem was still being debated. With such pressure, the IOC took what many observers called the practical-if not the most courageous - course despite its constant avowal of its lofty ideals of never permitting political in- terference Boris-Bobby: moves tusfar RREYJAVIK, ,elandhAP-mhere are the moves in the 7.7th game o1 the world chess championship match be- tween Bobby Fischer and champion Boris spassky. spassky-white Fischer-black 1. P-K4 P-Q3 2. PQ4 P-KKt3 3 .IKtB3Kt-KB3 4 PB4 -K2 S K B3 P-B4 6.PPQ-R4 7. B-Q3 QxBP 8. Q-K2 O-5 9. B-K3 Q-QR4 1015a-5 -RI) GB 11 Q Q Kt-133 12. B-B4 Kt-R4 1 12. B-114 Kt-R4 27 13. B-Kt3 KBxKt 6 14. PxB QxBP 9/ 15. P-15Kt-B3 0 16. PKR3 BxKt 17. QxB Kt-QR4 18. R-Q3 Q-B2 Sy% 19. B-R6 KtxB ; 20. PxKt Q-B4ch 2 21. K-R1Q-K4 22. BxR RxB 23. R-K3 R-QB 24. PxP RPxP 25. Q-B4 QxQ 26. RxQ Kt-Q2 27. R-2 Kt-K4 28. K-R2 R-B80 29. R,K3-K2 K-B3 30. R-B2 R-K8 31. R,KB2-K2 R-QR8 32. K-Kt3 K-Kt2 33. R,QB2-Q2 R-KBsn 34. R-KB2 R-K8n 35. R,B2-K2 R-KB8 36. R-K3 P-QR3 37. R-QB3 R-K8 38. R -B4 R-KB8 39. R,Q2-QB2 R-QR8 40. R-KB2 R-K$ Adjourned Elapsed time: Spassky 140 minutes, Fischer 140 minutes. OUTGOING IOC PRESIDENT AVERY BRUNDAGE (shown here waving to his idolatrous fans at a combination press conference and victory party) made still another popular and historic state- ment yesterday deploring the entry of politics into the sports arena. Standing by is Ethiopean broad jumper Samuno Davieseko. T igers 0's bac peddle, Tribe triumph closes gap By The Associated Press DETROIT - Oakland scored six runs with three homers off Mickey Lolich, one a three-run blast by Angel Mangual who later triggered a wild melee by fighting with Detroit pitcher Bill Slayback, as the A's defeat- the Tigers 6-3 last night Both dugouts emptied in the top of the seventh inning as Mangual, apparently angered at a wild pitch which was high and inside, ran to Slayback and the two began fighting. Before things settled down 10 minutes later, at least a dozen players were involved in fights. Some of the most active were Tigers Tom Timmerman, Bill Freehan, Duke Sims, and Willie Horton, while Dave Duncan, Mike Epstein, and coach Irv Noren were among the chief A's brawlers. Slayback and Mangual were ejected from the game. Lolich, going after his 2th victory, was nailed by a two- run homer by Joe Rudi in the first. ut Horton followed Dick McAuliffe's leadoff single in the Detroit first with a two-run homer off Jim "Blue Moon" Odom. Then Odom, now 11-4, did not give up a Tiger hit until Mickey Stanley's two-out double in the seventh. Odom aided his cause with a solo homer in the third, off Lol- ich, 19-10. And Mangual hit his three-run shot in the fifth after a single by George Hendrick and a bunt by Odom which Lol- ich threw unsuccessfully to sec- ond base. Orioles blanked BALTIMORE - Nolan Ryan broke a personal four-game los- ing streak, posting his first vic- tory since July 27 with a four- hitter as the California Angels knocked off the B a l t i m or e Orioles, 2-0 in American League baseball last night. Ryan had lost seven of eight decisions since the All - Star break as the Angels had pro- vided him with just one run over the last 33 innings he had worked. After a pair of missed oppor- tunities earlier, California got t h e i r fireballing right-hander something to work with when Sandy Alomar tripled to start the third and scored on a sacrifice fly to Bob Oliver. Dave McNally pitched out of a pair of jams before the Angels got on the scoreboard. Magic Number: 38 With a tear in our eye and a song in our heart, we bid you adieu. When we return in Sep- tember, the magic number will be 17. But knowing the Bengals it most likely will be 32. Re- member this sports fans, as much as we rip the Tigers, without them there would be no magic number. Don Taylor was guilty of a three-base error to start the game, but McNally froze the runner at third. Starting the sec- ond, the Angels loaded the bases on a triple and a walk and a hit batsman. A strikeout and double play grounder ended that threat. The Angels scored their second run in the seventh on back-to- back, two-out doubles by Oliver and Ken McMullen. Ryan, now 13-12, struck out 11 and walked six. McNally, a 20-game winner the last four seasons fell to 12-12. Twins tweaked CLEVELAND - Gaylord Perry won his 19th game of the Ameri- can League bacball season last night as the Cleveland Indians. trimmed the :,nnesota Twins 3-2. Perry permitted eight hits and the Indians won the game in the bottom of the ninth inning when Tom McCraw delivered a two- out single. Buddy Bell had singled with one out in the ninth against Minnesota reliever Wayne Gran- ger. He advanced on a walk and a force play before McCraw produced the winning hit. The victory gave Perry a 19- 12 record in his first American League season.