rridayr, July 15, 191 Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY iriday July 15 l97~ BASEBALL ROUND-UP Foster powers Cinci past Braves BY The Asr,.dPre'ss CI'INNATI - George Fos- ter's three home runs backed Tom Seaver's two hit pitch- ing as the Cincinnati Reds de- feated the Atlanta Braves 7-1 last night. S E A V E R, W H 0 also slugged a-home run, walked the first two batters in the game and then retired 18 bat- tern in a row. Willie Montanez hit a one out double in the sev- enth inning to end Seaver's bid for his first career no hitter. Foster took over the National League home run leadership with 28, and padded his league- leading runs batted in total to 88 with his five Thursday night. He -is the 14th Reds' player ever to hit three home runs in a game. Chicago cooks CHICAGO - Ken Kravec tossed a three-hitter and Richie Zisk scored the winning run from second base on an error in the eighth inning yesterday as the Chicago White Sox, de- feated the Toronto Blue Jays 2-1. KRAVEC OUTDUELED loser i 7 h inld Jperry Garvin, 7-Y, wn just four hits while I distance for Toronto, struck out four and none in improving hi to 6-2. by KATHY HENNEGHAN .". - yanks sizzle io yemea going the . Kravec d walked is record -ay - - --MILWAUKEE - Reggie W ayman Brt . . Jackson slammed a pair of home runs for three RBI and ... another shot at pros? George Zeber's two run homer _tgpwern eewth Yor- WAYMAN BRITT, the former Michigan Cager, may try out with the Detroit Pistons this fall. Wayman went to the Los Angeles Lakers in the fourth round of the NBA draft a year ago but was the last man to cut from the squad. (He was also tabbed by the Washington Redskins in the 13th round of the NFL draft altlough he has never played organized football). In the two years I spent covering Michigan basketball, Britt was the player I'came most to admire. It isn't hard to think of players with more talent, but it is hard to name one who made more of the ability he had. Or who cared more about the team. As captain, Wayman took his role very seriously. I remem- ber a couple of minor incidents where he went out of his way to help freshman players that impressed me as much as any- thing about him. In a practice session at Crisler, Wayman was guarding fresh- man Bobby Jones. Bobby seemed like a fish out of -water that first year and never has found his niche at Michigan. Wayman was talking to him, offering advice left and right. Then Bobby put a move on him, Wayman intentionally lagged a bit on defense, and the shot went in. "Good move," said Wayman, "damn good move." Bobby grinned and play continued. The other incident involved Alan Hardy, then a freshman competing for a spot at forward. Hardy had played well in spots, notably in games against Michigan State and Iowa, but as the season wore on he became impatient and discouraged. The team had just won the Midwest Regional, beating Missouri and Willie Smith handily. By that time alumni and fans were coming out of the wood- work and many had made the trip to Louisville to see the game. Hardy played for only two nightmarish minutes, picking up two personal fouls and a traveling violation. After the game most of the team came out of the lockerroom to applause. Hardy had wandered out alone, ahead of the others,~ and stood a few yards away from the crowd. "You should try coming out of there sometime," he said bitterly. "I don't know where to go or who to talk to." When Wayman came out, the first thing he did was to find Hardy. "Be cool, be cool," said Britt- it remained a largely unspoken understanding. rig oeing te New Yrk Yankees to a 6-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers Thurs- day. SPARKY LYLE pitched out of a seventh inning jam in re- lief of winner Ed Figueroa, 9-7, and earned his 15th save as the Yankees won their second game in their last six. The Yankees snapped a 1-1 tie in the seventh on a tingle by Lou Piniella, a fielder's choice and Jackson's second homer of the game, his 15th of the year. Graig Nettles followed with a single before Zeber hit his third homer for a 5-1 lead against Jerry Augustine, 10-10. A' Photo NEATO TITO FUENTES bobbles the ball and allows Kansas City's Hal McRae to slide in safely at second last night, The Bengals let one get away too, as they lost to the Royals 4-3. Jason Thompson and Ron LeFlore smashed solo home runs but it wasn't enough. Bob Sykes took the loss and fell to 1-3 on the season. In other action, Boston tripped Cleveland 7-4, St, Louis nipped Philadelphia 7-6 and Houston surprised Los An. geles 4-3. A round-up of VA evidence Not that he succeeded in cheering Hardy up much-I doubt if anything would have worked that day. What impressed me about the exchange was that Britt had bothered at all. A less perceptive individual wouldn't have noticed or even cared. ODDS AND ENDS . . . Departed co-captain John Robinson was a long shot to make the Los Angeles Lakers this fall but now that the club has acquired yet another forward in Jamaal Wilkes from Golden State, Rob's chances are virtually non-existent . . . . A very reliable source in East Lansing contends that MSU coach Jud Heathcote conducted practice sessions last spring in both the men's intramural building and the upper level of Jenison Fieldhouse. Recruits Jay Vincent and All- American Earvin Johnson, both from Lansing, reportedly at- tended, The NCAA stipulates that no coach may conduct formal prac- tice or be present at informal sessions prior to the 15th of Octo- ber. Heathcote would be foolish to jeopardize the good standing of his program just when things seem to be going his way. Largely because of Earvin, the Spartans may not have enough basketball tickets to go around next winter, a situation unheard of in seasons past --- . -,. Phil Hubbard and Purdue's Walter Jordan are among 20 players chosen to try out for the U. S. basketball team that will. compete in the World University Games in Bulgaria next month. Louisville coach Denny Crum will conduct tryouts starting next week. The final team will leave for Europe on July 30, playing in Italy and Yugoslavia before going on to Bulgaria. (ContinuedfromPage 1) suffered his breathing failure on July 29, 1975-the same night as Hogan. Perez was found guilty of poisoning him. Gassmire's son, Richard, tes- tified that he entered his father's room and saw a nurse, fitting Perez's description down to the gold tooth, standing "doing something with her hands" near the IV lines. The younger Gass- mire said he noticed the mon- itor above his father's head was still. Richard Gassmire vividly de- scribed to the jury how his father bolted up in bed, gasping for air. He testified that he be- gan to shout for help, but the nurse stood "kind of mesmer- ized" at the bedside. THE WITNESS later identified Perez in a line-up by her gold tooth. Perez denied the event ever occurred, and said she was not even working that night. . Benny Blaine, a 46-year-old construction w o r k e r, stopped breathing on August 15, 1975- the day of five other breathing failures and the day the FBI was called in to solve the case. Blaine's wife, Coralee, said "a little nurse" (Perez) came into the patient's room shortly before his respiratory arrest. Blaine's sister, Betty Jean Barnett, also said Perez entered the room, but Barnett added Perez started "monkeying with" Blaine's IV tube, and Perez then asked the two to leave. THE WOMEN left Bl a in e alone with Perez. The patient stopped breathing minutes later. Perez denied the incident en- tirely, and maintained that she never saw Ms. Blaine or Barnett that night. Corroborating her story was Dr. Michael McCloud, who testified that he was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), knew the Blaine family, but did not see them in the unit at all that night, . John McCrery, a 46-year- old auto body repair shop own- er, was next in the August 15 series of breathing failures. Narciso was convicted of inject- ing McCrery's IV line with Pav- ulon. Minutes b e f o r e McCrery's breathing failure, Narciso had admittedly added an extension to the patient's IV tubing, and ordered a nursing assistant to keep an eye on it. DR. LUCY Goodenday testi- fied that she discovered Mc- Crery not breathing, and that a nurse, fitting Narciso's descrip- tion, "appeared frozen and didn't move" when discovered at the bedside. Narciso recalled adding the extension, but insisted she was not the nurse by the bed. William Loesch, a 29-year-old Vietnam veteran, was the only patient for whom Narciso and Perez were b o t h convicted. Loesch was called as a defense witness and testified he woke up on the night of August 15 to see "a man in a green scrub suit" standing over him tugging his IV lines just before he stop- ped breathing. -Loesch also said he believes Narciso and Perez are innocent; that they never mistreated him, and that they never injected him or his IV with anything that night, LOESCH'S mother, however, testified as a government wit- ness that both nurses were in the patient's room minutes I fore his August 15 breathin failure. Christine Loesch si Narciso was handling the I line while Perez prepared tI syringe. The witness said s1 left the nurses alone in the root with Loesch, and he stopps breathing about five minuti later. Both nurses denied ever beit in William Loesch's room th; night. In his closing argument, A sistant U.S. Attorney Richar Yanko told the jury to disregat Loesch's testimony entirely accept Christine Loesch's ve sion as fact. Yanko said Loesc had been under severe ment strain, and that the witness, b his admission, had no recolle tion of dates of the month. THE PROSECUTION close their case with experts testifl ing that the Pavulon had to has been administered about fi minutes before each patie stopped breathing. The expe also refuted defense attorney "time bomb" theory that ti Pavulon could have been restit in the IV bag while the e killer was long gone by thetot the drug was released into th victim's body. At a press conference folio ing their victory, the prosec tors said they felt confident a guilty verdict all along. sistant U.S. Attorney Rich Delonis said the jury had had large amount of evidence toc sider but it was there and"t saw it." One observer, however, guard at the Federal Buildi in downtown Detroit, said knew for a fact that even prosecutors were surprised get a conviction.