Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, July 29, 1971 Mets bow to Cards, 6-3 By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Joe Torre and Jose Cruz walloped home runs yesterday, helping the St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-3 victory over the New York Mets. Torre, who went into the game leading the National League with a .370 batting average, hit a towering two-run homer in the fifth inning and Cruz connected in the eighth. Left-hander Steve Carlton, 14-. 6, beaten three times by the Mets this season, spaced eight hits to earn the victory. The Cardinals gave Carlton a quick three runs when they bunched four hits in the second inning. Orioles orbit BALTIMORE - Frank Robin- son blasted reliever Roland Fin- ger's first pitch into the right- field bleachers for a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning last night, catapulting the Baltimore Orioles to a 3-2 victory over Oakland. John "Blue Moon" Odom had checked the Orioles on three hits and held a 2-0 lead-com- pliments of three errors by Bal- timore's Brooks Robinson-go- ing into the ninth. But Don Buford and Merv Ret- tenmund ripped consecutive sin- gles to open the inning, knocking Odom out. Frank Robinson then unleashed his 17th homer of the year off Fingers, 2-6, giving the victory to reliever Tom Dukes, 1-4, who had taken over for starter Mike Cuellar in the top of the ninth. Cubs crush PHILADELPHIA - Joe Mor- gan slammed a triple and single and drove in two runs while Don Wilson pitched a six-hitter, lead- ing the Houston Astros to a 6-3 victory over Philadelphia last night. Wilson, 8-7, struck out seven and held the Phillies scoreless until the seventh when he gave up three runs. The Astros took a 1-0 lead in the third on a walk to Roger Metzger, who stole second and scored on Joe Morgan's single. Cesar Cedeno doubled and came home (n a double by Jesus Alou to make it 2-0 in the fourth. Astros erase MONTREAL - Ferguson Jen- kins registered his 17th victory last night as he scattered 10 hits and drove in two runs leading the got through Heidemann for the Chicago Cubs to a 10-2 victory first error. Then, after a brief over the Montreal Expos. rain delay, Heidemann booted Jenkins w a I k e d two and J o h n Stephenson's grounder, struck out five, bringing his sea- putting two men on. son strikeout mark to 177, tops McMullen went to third on a in the National League. He also force-out and scored on Roger leads the league in victories. Repoz' single. Cleveland pitcher The Cubs jumped on Montreal Steve Hargan then walked Bruce starter Carl Morton, 8-12, for ________________ three runs in both the first and third innings. The Cubans are ready to send the Americans home from the Pan-American games without their usual collection of medals. * CLEVELAND--The California For details see page 11. Angels scored two runs in the fourth inning following consecu- Christensen to load the bases. tive errors by Cleveland short- stop Jack Heidemann and went Jim Spencer was out on a on to defeat the Indians 5-1 force play at the plate, but last night. Sandy Alomar came through The Indians were leading 1-0 with another run-scoring single when Ken McMullen's grounder for California. . Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE East East We L.Pet. (GR W L Pet. G13 Baltimore 63 30 .624 - Pitt.urgh 65 31 .637 - Boston 58 43 .574 C5hieago 5547 .39 10 Detroit 53 48 .525 10 St. Lotuis 56 48 .538 10 New York 51 53 .490 13'., New York 52 48 .520 12 Cleveland 42 60 ,412 2 Philadelphia. 45 50 .429 171. Washington 40 .59 .40422 Moteal 41 63 .394 25 West Oakland 63 38 .6"4 - West KansasCity 12 47 .525 10 San Francisco 6342 .600 - California 50 55 .476 15 Los Angeles 54 49 .524 8 Chicago 47 54 .465 16 Atlanta 54 53 .505 10 Minnesota 46 54 .460 16. loaston 52 Si .505 10 Miiwautkee 42 50 .4201 20' Cinrintnati 49 56 .461 14 Yesterday's Itesulis San Diego 36 68 .346 26' Milwaukee 5, Boston 0 Yesterday's Resiilts Chieago 5, New York 4 Chicago 10, Montreal 2 Washington at Minnesota, ine. Pittsburgh at Los Angeles, inc. California 5, Cleveland 1 St. Louis 6, New York 3 Detroit 8, Kansas City 7 San Francisco 2, Atlanta I Baltimore 3, Oakland 2 Cincinnati at San Diego, inr. Today's Games s1oston 6, Philadelphia 3 Kansas City at Detroit, night Today's Games California at Cleveland, night Atlanta at San Francisco Oakland at Baltimore, night St. Louis at New York, night New York at Chicago, night Cincinnati at San Diego, night Boston at Milwaukee Pittsburgh at Los Angeles, night. washington at Minnesota, night Only games scheduled IN SOUTH AFRICA Ali receives huge offer to speak I PHILADELPHIA R') - Mu- hammad Ali has been offered $300,000 for 10 lectures in South Africa Dec. 20 through Jan. 2 and plans to accept if he can ob- tain a visa to that racially troubled country. Richard Fulton, Ali's New York agent, confirmed that the former heavyweight b o x i n g champion had been asked to make five appearances a week over the two -week period in major South African areas. "This is the largest fee ever for such a series of lectures," Fulton said in disclosing that Ali would earn $30,000 per ap- pearance. "It's incredible." the agent asserted. Ali, who returned home Tues- day night from Houston where he scored a 12th-round techni- cal knockout over Jimmy Ellis, said he was ready to go to South Africa. "My agent told me he has an offer to go to South Africa and do some lecturing," Ali said. "I'll go anywhere they want me to come and are willing to pay." Fulton said the offer came from Acouarius Promotions of Johannesburg. He said all of -Associated Press IT SHOULD HAVE been a picture pickoff, but second baseman Felix Millan of the Braves dropped the ball and Dick Dietz of the Giants was safe at second. Marty Perez of the Braves Just looks on as the ball squirts away. Dietz went on to score and the Giants won by one, 2-1. BEST EVER: All-Stars rated good bet CHICAGO tP)-The key to the College All Stars may no't be one of the players themselves-like quarterback Jim Plunkett of Stanford - but r a t h e r a homespun grandfather. He's Blanton Collier, the 64-year-old precisionist lured out of retirement to be- come the All-Star's head coach. "Physically, we're able to win," said Col- ier of Friday night's football game with the world champion Baltimore Colts in revamped Soldier Field. "But what concerns me right now is how we are prepared mentally and emotionally. How well did they learn in the three weeks we've had to work with them?" The bespectacled Collier, whose sternness cracks at times with his earthy humor, has coached 43 years, the last eight with the Cleveland Browns before retiring. "For every three hours we've spent on the practice field, the players have had two hours of home work," he said. "I consider the mental work vital. There has been no time for anything except hard work on and off the field." Pro scouts insist the 52 graduated seniors are among the best ever assembled for the classic. They will be trying to beat the pro champsfor the first time since 1963 when Coach Otto Graham's All Stars downed the Green Bay Packers 20-17. The game, 38th in the Chicago Tribune Charities series, will be nationally tele- vised by ABC at 9:30 p.m. EDT and is ex- pected to draw 52,000 in the streamlined lakefront arena, new home of the Chicago Bears. The pros hold a 26-9-2 edge. The Colts are rated a 10-point favorite-smallest spread the pros have been granted in at least a decade. The All Stars for the first time pranced onto the Soldier Field artificial turf and capped workouts under the lights last night. The Colts are to arrive this morning and get unkinked at Soldier Field tonight. The All Stars appear to have the talent needed to make an interesting game. Col- lier says quarterbacks Plunkett and Dan Pastorini of Santa Clara "rank with the' best the All Stars ever have had." He is pleased with the power of the run- ning backs-Mike Adamle of Northwestern and five first-round draft picks, John Brockington (Green Bay Packers), Leon Burns (San Diego Chargers), Joe Profit (Atlanta Falcons), Joe Moore (Chicago Bears), and John Riggins (New York Jets). He likes the speed of the wide receivers- Rocky Thompson, Stan Brown, J.D. Hill, Ernie Jennings, Frank Lewis and Elmo Wright. The average weight of the interior line- men, on both offense and defense, is 264 pounds. The beef is there probably as never before. On the offensive line center Dave Thompson, guard Steve Lawson and tackle Vernon Holland are in the 275-pound range. Perhaps, the works of the cornerbacks and defensive ends may be the All Stars ultimate key. The former are such pass defenders as Len Dunlap, Clarence Scott, Isaac Thomas and Norm Thompson. The ends include Jack Youngblood, 250 pounds; Dick Harris, 265, and Lyle Alzado, 273. "If we can just put some pressure on quarterback Earl Morrall, we may have a chance," says Collier. "All four of our cor- nerbacks have speed. And Youngblood is one of two or three men we hope to get to Morrall." Ali's expenses would be paid. Fulton said that Acquarius had assured him there would be no problem obtaining a visa for Ali. The agent pointed out that Ali would only speak in South Africa, and that no box- ing exhibitions were contem- plated. Fulton emphasized that Ali's lectures would be of a non-con- 0 troversial nature, not pertaining to race. He said it would be some of the same material Ali uses in his many college lectures in the United States. "We don't want people in South Africa building up any feeling that he is coming to t cause trouble," Fulton said. "We are looking forward to a pleasant trip. He'll discuss his philoso- phies." South Africa's apartheid pol- icy has been a cause of contro- versy in the athletic world for some years. U.S. tennis player Arthur Ashe, a black, has been refused a visa to play tennis there. The subject also has been a source of turmoil in Olympic Games politics. Ali also said he would leave tomorrow for the Bahamas to box a pair of exhibitions Saturday against Alonzo Johnson and Ed- die Brooks, who helped him train for the Ellis fight. He then plans to start training for a Sept. 27 fight in Houston against Jerry Quarry. Au discounted reports that the Quarry fight would be held in Los Angeles or Washington, D.C., to get it in an area of greater black population and because he was disenchanted with the at- tendance at the Astrodome. "The Astrodome was almost full and I'm satisfied," Ali said. "I don't know or any plan to fight Quarry. anywhere else," Alsi also said he knew nothing about the possibility that Floyd Patterson, also a former heavy- weight champion, would be his opponent in a fight proposed for London after the Quarry bout.