Page Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, July 30 1977 ... , U I Already, it's time for football The summer sports better be- ware, as professional football begins it's mid-summer assault on the minds of sports fans all over when the first of many ex- hibition games will take place today. The expectant Chicago Bears will face the Namath-less New York Jets in Canton, Ohio for the annual Hall of Fame game, starting at 3:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ABC-TV, following the enshrinement of Bart Starr, Forrest Gregg, Gale Sayers, Frank Gifford, and Bill Willis into the Hall. Sketch by The Associated Press Tigers outslug T By United Press International ARLINGTON, Tex. - John Wockenfuss drove in four runs with a pair of homers and Ja- son Thompson added a two-run double last night to help the Detroit Tigers defeat Texas 13- 6 and snap the Rangers' six- game winning streak. Wockenfuss tagged reliever t Paul Lindblad for a three t run homer, his seventh, in thel seventh inning toput Detroitt ahead 11-3 and smacked his eighth homer with no one on in the ninth to cap the Tiger 3ryz scoring. Thompson's double gave the Tigers a 4-2 lead in the third inning and chased starter and loser Doyle Alexander, 11-6. Rookie Dave Rozema was tagged for 10 hits, including four homers, bpt went the distance to gain his 10th vic- toryagainst four-losses, He struck out five and walked one, only the 20th walk he ; has issued in 152 innings. Rozema surrendered t w o homers to Juan Beniquez and one each to Mike Hargrove and Hump Wills. SCORES, Late Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUEC Detroit 13, Texas 6. 1,i1aukee 7, Toronto 33 NATIONAL LEAGUE { Atlanta 5, Pittsburgh 3 New York 4, San Deolec San Francisco 7, Phitadelhia 0 Houston 1, Chicago 0 st. Louis 10, Cincinnati 3I Jo-key agent for standout ap-t prentice Steve Cauthen, 16, is Lenny -Goodman, who once han- dIed riding engagements forc Panamanian Bsraulio Baeza. AP Photo Major league attendance seta sh attempts an un- a new high last year with more ter Dave Lopes in . than 31 million fans paying theirt way. ( exast 13-6 NL East leaders lose From wire Service Reports It appeared as if nobody wanted to take the initiative in the National League East race lasf night, as the four top teams in the division all lost. The Chicago Cubs, who rammed home 16 runs Thurs- day night couldn't even come up with one last night, falling to Joe Niekro and the Houston Astros, 1-0. Niekro fired a four hitter while los- ing pitcher Bill Bonham al- lowed but three, but back to back Astro doubles proved 7 7.mmammmgssmn costly to the Cubs, who still retained a two-game lead over the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Bucs had their eight game winning streak snappec by Atlanta, as Phil Niekrt scattered eight hits to comple ment his brother's win with s 5-3 victory of his own. Also los^ ing was Philadelphia, who war shut out by San Francisco's Jim Barr, and the fourth-place Cardinals, who lost the first of a twi-night doubleheader tc Cincinnati, 6-5. Major Leagate Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE East w L Pet. GB Baltimore 57 43 .570 - Boston 55 43 .561 1 New York 55 45 .550 2 Detroit 45 53 .459 11 Cleveland 43 53 .440 12 Milwaukee 44 56 .440 13 Toronto 34 64 .347 22'. west Chicago 59 37 .615 - Kansas City 55 40 .579 3!,"_ Oinnesota 56 45 .554 5% Texas 52 44 .542 7 California 47 50 .485 12'. Seattle 45. 59 .433 10 Oakland 4 57 .424 8, Late games not included Today's games Detroit (Sykes, 2-3) at Texas (Ellis, 5-8), 0:35 p.m. Minnesota (Goltz, 12-6) at Cleve- and (Bibby, 9-7), 2 p.m. Kansas City (splittortf, 8-5) at Chicago (Barrios, 10-4), 2:15 p.m. New York (Gollett, 9-3) at Oak- and (Blue, 10-11), 4:30 p.m. Milwaukee (Haas, 6-7) at Toronto Lemanezyk, 8-9), 7:30 p.m. Baltimore (Grimsley, 9-5) at Seat- te (Pole, 6-7), 10:35 p.m. Boston (Tiant, 6-7) at California Ryan, 14-9), 10:35 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE East w L rt. (l3 Chicago 59 39 .602 - Pittsburgh 58 42 .580 Philadelphia 57 42 .576 St. Louis 54 47 .535 6' Montreal 48 51 t86 1'. New York 41 57 .418 t west Los Angeles 63 38 .624 - Cincinnati 50 49 .505 i Houston 46 56 .451 17' San Francisco 46 56 .451 17' San Diego 44 60 .423 0 Atlanta 35 64 .351 7 Late games not included Yesterday's result Cincinnati 6, St. Louis 5 (1st of 2) Today's games San Diego (Freisleben, 3-5) at New York (Espinsosa, 5-7), 4:05 P.M St. Louis (Denny, 7-2) at Cincin- nati (Norman, 9-7), 7 p.m. Los 'Angeles (Rhoden, 11-7) at Montreal (Brown, 7-7), 7:35 p.m. -San Francisco (Barr, 9-7) at Phila- delphia (Carlton, 13-6), 7:35 p.m Pittsburgh (Reuss, 6-10) at At- lanta (Ruthven, 3-7), 7:35 p9m. Chicago (R. Reusehel, 14-3) At Houston (Dixon, 0-0), 5:35 p.m. Montreal Expo second-baseman Dave Cal orthodox style tag on Los Angeles Dodg Montreal last night.