Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Friday, May 14, 1971 Esposito sparkles, t ;Ias Hawks win, 2-0 CHICAGO (A'' - Goaltender Tony Esposito, guarding Chi- cago's net as if it were full of fragile glassware, shut out Montreal 2-0 last night in the --ypivotal fifth game of the Na- tional Hockey League Stanley Cup championship. The victory gave the Black N Hawks a 3-2 edge in the best- of-7 series which returns to - Montreal for Sunday's national- ly-televised sixth game. If a a '9s seventh is needed, it will be played in Chicago next Tuesday Espoaito blocked 31 Canadien a y= == " ahota to record his second shut- out the playoffs. The Black z. > Hawks helped out with some Y. tight checking, harrassing Mont- real forwards all night. &> _Cliff Koroll and Dennis Hull ' provided the offense for Chi- * cago, each scoring a goal on a picture feed from the other. 3 Both goals were perfect plays and they had to be to beat Montreal's Ken Dryden, who Asociated Press played another strong game in T ithe Canadiens' nets. Nti' e strokes and you're out Hull, Bobby's kid brother, Golf great Ben Hogan makes an approach shot to the seventh opened the s c o r i n g midway through the first period with green yesterday in the Houston Champions International tourney, Montreal's Henri Richard in the five holes before he withdrew, 11 over par. Hogan, 58, shot a nine penalty box for hooking. Koroll on the par-three fourth hole. "I'm sorry, fellows", he said. made the play, carrying down SUDSMEN TAPPED Catfish, Athletics rout Royals the right side just outside Dry- den's crease. The puck and Hull's stick ar- rived at the same spot almost at the same time. Dryden, with cat-like reflexes, sprung to pro- tect the open corner and his skate covered the puck a mo- ment too late as the rubber spurted just over the line. Esposito protected that slim lead until halfway through the next period when the Hawks scored again, This time it was Koroll finish- ing off the play after Stan Miki- ta had dug the puck out from behind the net and fed Dennis Hull who relayed to Koroll for the 20 footer. That was all the scoring there was to be as Esposito and Dry- den shut the door through the last half of the game. The Canadiens outshot Chi- cago in every period but Espo- sito held them off and that was the difference. 4 Canonero II to be in dark; trainer hopes BALTIMORE (N) - Canonero II will be in the dark briefly tomorrow but his trainer was confident yesterday that the colt will see the Preakness fin- ish line first just as he did in the Kentucky Derby. The oddsmakers though had a show-me attitude about Ca- nonero II who, because he is a nervous colt, will be blindfold- ed to be put into the starting gate. The Derby winner was listed at 6-1 for the second race of the Tiple Crown series while Frank J. Caldwell's Jim French, the Derby runner-up was made the early favorite at 5-. Peter Kis- a's Executioner, who skipped the Derby, was listed at 4-1 and Calumet Farm's Eastern Fleet, the fourth Derby finisher, was put at 5-1. "He's reany to run another big race," said trainer Juan Ar- ias after Canonero II, owned by Venezuelan Edgar Caibett, and eight other 3-year-olds were en- tered for the 96th Preakness. This brought the field to 11. Jim French and William A. Le- By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY - Jim "Cat- fish" Hunter tossed a six-hitter for his sixth consecutive victory as the Oakland A's struck for five runs in the fifth inning and defeated the Kansas City Royals 6-3 last night. Mike Epstein's two-run single keyed the fifth inning 'iprising as the A's chased Kansas City starter Wally Bunker sod scored five times before a ba3tter was retired. Hunter, who was nicked for a Netter's take tourney lead EVANSTON (AP) - Michigan started fast in its defense of the BigrTen tennis championship by scoring 87 points in the open- ing day of play at Northwestern. Michigan State and Indiana tied for second with 73 points and Illinois was fourth with 70. Michigan's lone setback came in No. 5 singles, where Kevin Senich lost to Steve Houghton of Iowa 6-3, 6-2. pair of unearned runs in the fourth after retiring the first nine Royals in order, .inished strong -to bring his pitching record to 6-2. Dick Green opened the fifth with a single and beat the throw to second on Hunter's tap to sec- ond baseman Cookie Rojas. Bunker, 2-3, walked Bert Cam- paneris, filling the bases, and Joe Rudi singled off the pitch- er's glove for one run. Epstein then greeted 'eliever Tom Burgmeier with a singly for two more, giving the A's a 4-2 lead. Run - scoring singles by Tommy Davis and Sal Bando completed the rally. Bronx bombs MILWAUKEE - H o r a c e Clark's triple and Jake Gibbs' double gave the New York Yan- kees a 10th-inning run and a 4-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday. It was the Yankees' fifth straight triumph. The Brewers had tied it in the ninth inning after Danny Walton singled, John Briggs Kent in to run, was sacrificed to second and scored on Phil Roof's single. Reds get Bull Ferrara CINCINNATI - The Cincinnasi1 Reds announced yesterday tney have obtained outfielder Al "Bull" Ferrara from the Sin Diego Padres in a trade for An- gel Bravo, an outfielder sent earlier this year to the Indianp- polis Indians of the Anerican As- sociation. Sweatshirt-arsonist Taylor to come baek after walkout KANSAS CITY (P) - Outfield- er Carl Taylor, who was sus- pended Wednesday night when he removed himself from the Kansas City lineup after the fifth inning of the game at Baltimore contacted the Royals yesterday. In a telephone call from his home in Sarasota, Fla. Taylor told Cedric Tallis,, Royals gener- al manager, he hoped to take care of personal matters and re- turn to Kansas City within a few days. Tallis and Manager Bob Lem- on said Taylor had been subject- ed to severe personal problems, Orr inks three Happy-go-lucky Johnny Orr usually looks a little worse than his normal smiling self around this time since it is the pressure days of re- cruiting. But Orr's grin started to return yester- day when he announced that three top pros- pects, C. J. Kupec, Doug Ashworth and J oh n Kantner, would be playing their basketball for the Michigan freshman next year. Kupec, 6-8, 235 and capable of playing either forward or center, led his Oaklawn, Illinois team to the state finals and won the Most Valuable Player honor in the tournament. He was both Illinois All-State and All-American in addition to gaining Academic All-American recognition as he ranks number 21 in a class of over 500 students. - During the Illinois state tourney Kupec per- sonally destroyed the fine front line of Proviso East, the number one team in the state, and easily won a personal duel with Owen Brown of LaGrange, who is Lefty Dreisell's top recruit at Maryland. Ashworth is also a front line man, being a 6-6 forward. He played his high school ball at Beaver Creek high in Xenia, Ohio and gained top prep stars All-State honors while averaging 21 points per game. For his three year career he averaged 18 points and 14 rebounds, leading his team in both categories every year he played. During, that time Beaver Creek twice went to the District Finals, once losing to Dayton Chaminade, one of whose stars was Terry Tyler of this year's frosh, and the other time to Dayton Dunbar. Kantner is also from Ohio, having played his ball at Whitmer in Toledo. A guard who is only 6-1, Kantner is a deadly shooter who averaged 36.3 to lead the tate and finished his career as the fifth best scorer in Ohio's history. He, like Ashworth, was All-State and also honorable mention All-American, But Orr, Fred Snowden and Dick Honig still have work left and can't rest. They are still after Kevin Grevey, the Southwest Player of the Year in Ohio, Maurice Lucas and Ricky Cole- man of Pittsburgh Schenley's Pennsylvania state champs and the two best players in Michigan, Lindsay Hairston of Detroit Kettering and Mich- ael C. Russell of Pontiac. Who was that last one? Campy. including an illness in the fanii- ly. Tallis said Taylor would be welcomed by management and the players if he is in a proper frame of mind to play baseball. Taylor burned his sweatshirt after the game and left the club- house Wednesday night. "He is worried about his mother, who is critically ill," Tallis said. "He is worried about his hitting." Tallis also said "He's not mad at the club, he's not mad at Manager Bob Lemon." Lemon suspended the player after the incident but the Royals said they were making no move to fill the vacancy on their ros- ter. Taylor figured in another inci- dent in the first game of the ser- ies with Baltimore. He charged in to make a diving catch of a fly ball and walked off the field thinking he had made the third putout. When the umpire ruled the ball had been trapped Tay- lor became enraged and ran to- ward the umpire. His team- mates rushed to protect the um- pire and Cookie Rojas, Royals' infielder was knocked to the ground by Taylor in the excite- ment. In describing the incident in the Baltimore locker room Tal- lis said Taylor burned personal equipment, "It wasn't his uniform or any- thing that was issued by the club. He burned his personal sweatshirt. I'm sure it was just because he was upset at him- self," Taylor, 27, played with St. Louis last year, batting .249 in 104 games. Used sparingly this year, he was batting .200 before Wednesday night's game when he was hitless in two attempts. for daylight vin's Bold Reason, third in the Derby, had previously been en- tered. If all 11 start, each under 126 pounds, the 1 3-16-mile second race of the Triple Crown series will be worth $189,900, with $137,400 to the winner. Post time is 4:40 p.m., Ann Arbor time, with television cov- erage from 4-5 p.m. on channel 2 in Detroit and radio coverage from 4:15 to 4:45 p.m., on WJR, 760. Sound Off, winner of a re- cent Preakness Prep, will break from the N. 1 pst under Chuck Baltazar while Jim French will start from the outside under Angel Crdero Jr. Gustave Avila will take Canonero II out of the No. 9 gate. PP Horse Jockey Prob. Odds 1. Ssound Off Baitazar 10-1 2. Limit to Reason Velasquez 15-1 3. Impetuosity Guerin 10-1 4. VegassVie Hartacka 20- 5. Eastern Fleet Mape 5-I 6. Executioner Vasquez 4-1 7. Bod Reason Cruguet 8-1 8. Royal J D Belmonte 30-1 9. Canonero II Avila 6-1 10. Spouting Horn Kurtz 30-1 11. Jim French Cordero 5-2 Owners - 1, Gustave Ring. 2, Brokmeade Sable. 3, Wendell P. Rossa. 4, Fritz-Sechrest. 5, Cal- met Farm. 6, October House Farm. s 7, William A. Levin. 8, J. McCloy Davis. 9, Edgar Caibett. 10, Walter D. Fletcher. 11, Frank J. Cald- well, Weights - 126 pounds each. Geros Value - $189,900. Value to winner $137,400. geoosd $3,0001. Third $15,000. Fourth $7,500. Probable post time - 4:40 p.m. .y'Major League Ro Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pet. GBn Boston 19 10 .65 - Baltimore 10 12 .600 1% New York 15 14 .517 4 Detroit is is .o00 44_ Washington 13 11 .419 7 Cleveland 10 20 .333 9 west Oakland 23 12 .657 - Caliona 17 17 .500 5 Minnesota 16 16 .500 5% Kansas City 16 17 .485 6 Mlwakee - 12 17 .414 8 Chicago 12 \18 .400 8Y2, Yesterday's Results Few York 4, Milwaukee 3, 10 inn. Oakland 5, Kansas City 2 Other clubs not scheduled. Tonight's Games Milwaukee at Calfornia Oakland at Kansas City Chicago at Minnesota Detroit at Washington Cleveland at New York Baltimore at Boston NATIONAL LEAGUE- East W L Pet. GB New York 19 10 .655 - ' Pittsbugh 11 12 .613 1 St. Louis 1 14 .563 2 Montreal 12 11 .522 4 hicago 15 17 .469 Sy Philadelphia 9 20 .310 10 West San Francisco 21 9 .73 - Los Angeles 17 17 .500 8 Atlanta 15 17 .469 9 Houston 15 17 .469 9 Cnetnnat 11 20 .35 12 SanDego 1at 21 .323 132 Yesterday's Results No games scheduled Today's Games New York at Pittsburgh, night San Diego at Chicago Phladelpha at Atlanta, night Montreal at Cacnnati, night St. Louis at Houston, nIght Los Angeles at San Francisco, night _ .