Page Eight THE MICHIGAN DAILY Wednesday, June 2, 1971 Was Indy fun? Ask the blonde lady INDIANAPOLIS Mike Mosley's car number four ca- reened around the turn on the Indy track, went out of control and smashed into the wall. Bobby Unser in number two was close behind and could not avoid colliding into Mosley. There was a burst of light that at- tracted thousands of pairs of eyes. Hun- dreds of voices shouted, "Who is it?" A blond woman in her thirties was so excited she leaped down two rows and kept jumping up and down, a crazed look on her face. The look was one of pleasure, not shock, and seemed to mir- ror the feelings of most of the other hundreds of thousands of spectators at the Indianapolis 500. Although there had been three acci- dents already, this was partly what the crowd had come for. Egged on by the public address announcer ("Two cars met with almost unbeLIEVable force!"), the crowd couldn't get enough of debris flying through the air and cars smoth- ered in flames. Rick Cornfeld After the Mosley-Unser crash, the pub- lic address announcer quickly took over. He didn't know who was involved, so he had to try to figure it out by sub- traction and began counting the people still left in the race, a process which led to one of the most revolting incidents I have ever witnessed at a sports event. In a crash like that does it matter who was involved? People want to know who it was, but, unless you are a friend or a relative of the driver, there is no reason to be happy that any particularly indivi- dual was safe instead of another one. But don't try explaining that to the p.a. man. When the car of Al Unser, who was leading the race at the time, came into view, the announcer shouted exultantly, "Your leader, Al Unser, is on the track and running! Your leader Al Unser is on the track and running!" It was as if nothing could be seriously amiss if your leader was safe. Better the crash should involve one of the nobodies in the rear. Other than the crashes, however, the Indianapolis 500 was a very exciting spec- tacle. To one who had never seen an auto race before, the sight of the little bullet-like cars zooming by at 170 miles an hour, so fast that you almost could not read the numbers painted on the side, was nearly awe-inspiring. But the officials of the Indy were not content to leave the race alone. The public address announcer, who, if you have not gotten the idea by now, was an insipid, mindless bore, seemed to feel that it was his job to make every little event of momentous importance, and to hell with the truth. The race was just over half way through, and the announcer informed us, "The top five cars are all in the same lap!" That would have been re- markable if true, but it wasn't. Just before the start of the race, he told us, "We're waiting as tension mounts," and the incredible thing was that tension-then mounted. As Al Unser came around the track in his final winning lap, the announcer ask- ed us to applaud as he passed by. We all did, and I wonder how many people realized that Unser, engulfed in the roar of an engine, couldn't hear any of it. But it didn't matter. It was a thrilling moment. We knew it was because the announcer told us so. Cain loses control of tilt; Maddox stars From wire Service Reports Anything worth doing once is worth doing again, seems to be Les Cain's pitching philosophy. Or maybe a tactic worth using on a great hitter like Harmon Killebrew is worth using on Leo Cardenas. At any rate, Cain walked both hitters with the bases loaded in the eighth inning last night, to hand Minnesota a 3-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers. The rally started on pitcher Jim Perry's single. The Tigers then started the gift by letting Cesar Tovar reach first on an error, and Cain resumed it by walking Rod Carew. Detroit had taken a 1-0 lead in the second on Ed Brinkman's two out triple which drove in Aurelio Rdriguez. The Twins scored the first of three unearned runs in In late games, Bobby Valen- tine's throwing error helped Montreal beat Los Angeles, 5-2, and New York led San Francisco, 5-2 after seven innings. the sixth when an infield error helped them load the bases, set- ting up a run on Tony Olivia's ground ball. In news more heartwarming to Michiganders, former Big Ten batting champion and Michigan star Elliott Maddox ripped a three-run home run in the seventh to lead the Washington Senators to a 6-5 victory over California. The game was halted 22 min- utes by a power failure, but no power failure hindered Maddox, who singled his only other time up, a pinch-hitting appearance in the sixth. In other games, Vida Blue con- tinued to tear apart the American League. He stopped New York on six hits and at one point re- tired 17 batters in a row, in lead- ing Oakland to a 5-2 victory. Yankee shortstop Gene Michael was carried off the field on a stretcher after being struck in the face by umpire Ron Luciano while trying to nab a throw at second. X-rays of the hot-tem- pered Michael proved negative. The ump claimed it was an ac- cident. You can believe that if you want to. In winning his 11th game against two defeats, Blue, who came into the contest with a 1.30 earned run average and cads of strikeouts, wiffed six and walked only one. In the only other American League games, Boston lost its Kansas City, and Milwaukee ral- lied for a 4-3 victory over Cleve- land. Amos Otis smashed his third homer in two days and Mike Hedlund hurled a six-hitter to drop the Red Sox to only a game over idle Baltimore. Otis' two run homer have him eight runs batted in in the last two days. George Scott's two out two-run homer ruined the shutout. John Briggs two run homer keyed the rally for the Brewers, who have announced that, in an DEBRIS FLIES into the air as G effort to increase attendance during a multi-car crash on the June 18 will be "Ten Cents a the fans, they were not able to se Beer Night."inue injured. In the National League, Dock Ellis snapped St. Louis' six game win streak and held the Cardinals SPECTATOR WIN to three hits, as Pittsburgh won its third straight shutout, 9-0. T e Piates movd wihi a e moe wihnagame and a half of the Redbir ds T h n la who hoasted a phenomenal .290 third.urn.a Satuday'sIndiaapolis500.«nfortnatel.for.ost o f third turn at Saturday's Indianapolis 500. Unfortunately for most of ee this accident, the second of four. None of the drivers was seriously s finish in top division team batting average on Me- morial Day. In the other division, Cesar Cedeno and Jesus Alou smashed four hits and drove in three runs apiece to lead the Houston As tros to a 7-6 victory over the struggling Atlanta Braves. It was Atlanta's fifth straight loss, and the 11th in its last 13 games. A bright spot for the Braves was Hank Aaron's two-run home) in the first, a league-leading 16th for the season and 608th of his career. One hundred seventeen more will make Henry a happy fella. The Babe will have been left behind in the dust. Major Leag By DALE ARBOUR ed leg muscle for the past acquired two month. He went along with the mores Al Corn The Michigan track team team to the meet as a spectator, Chapman (6th closed out their season on a re- but decided upon arrival and a ed a 1:20.0 w latively good note this p ast workout that he might be able sonal best, wh - weekend, with a fifth place fin- to run after all: timed in 1:20.4 a ish in the Big Ten Champion- ship Meet. There were some He then proceeded to win In the 100- pleasant surprises for head this event by four-tenths of a igan's Gene B t coach DaveMartin after a s- second over second place Dick and still show mal eighth place finish indoors. Taylor of Northwestern. Their was not conf A number of key injuries to his times were :11.8 and :14.2 re- fro ategfr runners during the outdoors spectively. This marked one of earlier this a r season did not dampen spirits the few times Murray has beat- In threy closed ou too much either, en Taylor in his two years of rey cosedr ou The biggest surprise of all running against him. finish in that came in the 120-yard high Another pleasant surprise for of 1:52.9. Stor hurdles and involved Michigan's Michigan came in the discus two seniors Godfrey Murray. Murray h as where freshman Steve Adams Michigan in ti been out of action with a pull- captured second place with a toss of 159-3, his personal best. Adams also placed fifth in the shot put with a best throw of uNe tand mgs "f 54-83/. In the high jump, John Mann NATIONAL LEAGUE upped his own school record to East L Pct.GB 7-1 which also establishes a (Editor's Note St. Louis 32 10 .640 - new Big Ten high jump re- starts a series Pittsburgh 30 19 .612 1 cord. He will share this re- our readers to xNew York 27 18 .600 .2 cord with Wisconsin's Pat Star votes in t Chicago 21 27 .438 10 Matzdorf who also cleared the the batting s1 xMontreal 18 24 .429 10 at a different p Philadelphia 17 30 .362 13s 7-1 height. Matzdorf was pared. All play west awarded first place and Mann who are listedi xsan Francisco 37 14 .725 - second place on the basis of weekly 'compila xLos Angeles 26 24 .520 1012te fewer misses at the n luded, alone fewestons20s14tithe winning playrsat the Atlanta 2220 .482 5 height by Matzdorf. editor. Statistic Cincinnati 20 29 .408 16 Another school record was of the morning San Diego 15 35 .300 211/ turned in by Phil Pyatt in the - x--Late games not included mile where he ran a 4:05.7, NATION Yesterday's Results THIRD Montreal at Los Angeles, Inc. good enough for a third place in ab New York at San Francisco, inc. that event. Torre, St.L 186 Pittsburgh 9, St..Louis 0 Reggie Johnson turned in Hebner, Pit. 151 Houston 7, Atlanta 6 another outstanding freshman Santo, Chi. 164 Other clubs not scheduled. x-Asp'te, N.Y. 144 Today's Games performance in the 440-yard in- y-Boyer 98 St. Louis at Pittsburgh, night termediate hurdles as he ran a x-Bailey, Mtl 132 Chicago at Cincinnati, 2, twinight personal best of :52.4, which Perez, Cin. 19 Houston at Atlanta, night Money, Phi. 141 Montreal at Los Angeles, night was good enough for a fourth Rader, Hou. 168 Philadelphia at San Diego, night place. x-Write-in candid New York at San Francisco In the 660-yard run, Michigan from Atlanta places, by sopho- ell (4th) and Eric h). Cornwell post- which is his per- ile Chapman was 4. yard dash, Mich- rown placed sixth wed signs that he zpletely recovered acture he suffered eason. -mile, Rick Stor- t his fine Michi- Ith a third place event in a time rey is one of only who placed f or his Big Ten meet. -S=itar arisons e: The Daily today which will enable cast the wisest All- he nation. Each day atistics of players osition will be com- yers on the ballot in the wire services' tions will be in- with non-b al lo t discretion of the s are complete as before publication.) 'AL LEAGUE BASEMEN b r h hr rbi pet, 34 67 7 41 .360 19 45 5 28 .298 4 24 48 10 33 .293 12 38 5 22 .264 10 24 6 19 .245 2 15 32 5 25 .242 1 21 40 6 23 .215 10 27 4 13 .191 13 32 2 14 .190 ate. y-Given release AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct. GB Boston 29 19 .604 -- Baltimore 27 19 .587 1 Detroit 26 23 .531 32 New York 21 27 .430 8 Cleveland 20 27 .426 8 washington 19 29 .396 10 west I Oakland 34 20 .654 - Kanlsas City 24 22 .522 7 Minnesota 26 24 .520 7 California 23 28 .451 10t Milwaukee 20 25 .444 10% Chicago 15 26 .409 12 Yesterday's Results Milwaukee 5, Cleveland 3 Minnesota 3, Detroit 1 Washington 6, California 5 Kansas City 4, Boston 2 Oakland 5, New York 2 Other clubs not scheduled. Today's Games Detroit at Minnesota, night Cleveland at Milwaukee, night Baltimore at Chicago, night California at Washington, night -+N ' n ~ - .