3turday, August 5, 1978-The Michigan Daily Walton wants trade PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)-Center Bill Walton, the NBA's Most Valuable Player, is leaving the Portland Trail Blazers, the team he led to the 1977 champion- ship, Walton and the team said yesterday. Neither Walton nor the Blazers said specifically why he was leaving, but Walton's friend and agent Jack Scott consistently referred to Blazer treatment of in- juries. "THIS WAS THE most difficult decision I've ever had to make regarding my basketball career," Walton said ina prepared statement issued through Scott, who just completed a book on the Blazers. "The tremen- dous loyalty and support of my teammates and Trail Blazer fans "have made the decision that much tougher." Scott told The Associated Press that "The statement, by omission, expressed his feelings." "Bill's concern is not money but the working con- ditions on the team that he joins," Scott said. He said Walton is concerned with the treatment of injuries on the Blazer squad. WALTON, 25, HAS been troubled by a foot injury suf- fered late last season. He missed nearly all games in the playoffs, where Portland was eliminated by the Seattle SuperSonics in the second round after the Blazers had drawn a bye through the first round. Scott said the team had agreed to make no comment beyond this terse statement which the Blazers released by telephone: "THE PORTLAND Trail Blazers announced today that Bill Walton has asked to be traded prior to the 1978-79 season and the club has informed him it will at- tempt to abide by his request." Scott said seven clubs are in the running to obtain the services of the 6-foot-11 center, the NBA's Most Valuable Player last season. They are New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Golden State, Philadelphia, San Diego and Boston. Rookie Young notches 3rd win for Tigers By DAVE RENBARGER Special tothe Daily DETROIT-That amazing fountain of youth at Tiger Stadium was gushing again last night. In fact, fueled by pitcher Kip Young and catcher Lance Parrish, it looked more like a guyser as the Tigers drub- bed the White Sox, 7-1. THE BATTERYMATES, whose combined age totals only 45 years, combined forces to stymie the Sox before a vocal Lutheran Night crowd of 31,334. The victory was Detroit's third straight and their sixth in their last seven games. It also moved the fifth place club to within a half game of the fourth place Yankees, who lost last night to Baltimore. Young, a major leaguer less than three weeks, pitched his third complete game in as many starts while demon- strating the finesse of a veteran. And Parrish, a major disappointment an a team of young stars until lately, went three-for-four at the plate, in- cluding a homer, a double and three runs. Fellow rookies Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker also got into the act, tur- ning three doubleplays and picking up three RBI's between them in support of Young. BUT YOUNG didn't need a whole lot of help throughout the early-going. The 23-year-old righthander, who the Tigers drafted in the 23rd round of the 1976free agent draft, was working on a three-hit shutout through six innings. He even- tually yielded ten hits, working effec- tively with runners on base during the SCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore2.NewsYork I Detroit 7, Chicago I Texas8, Cleveland 0 Milwaukee 6, Boston 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago6, Montreal d Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgho Atlanta 7,.louston2 New ork 8. St. Louis3 final three innings to raise his record to 3-1. Doubleplays in both the eighth and ninth frames got the Tiger hurler out of trouble to finish off his evening's work. Young's rapid success has endeared him to the hero-starved Detroit fans. For the second time the fans demanded a post-game appearance by Young, who was more than happy to oblige. Tiger batters collected just nine hits off Chicago pitching relic Wilbur Wood (10-9) and eighth inning substitute Ron Schueler. Two of them, however, went for the distance, as Aurelio Rodriguez and Parrish homered off the knuckle- balling Wood. THE TIGERS jumped out to a 2-0 lead for single runs in the opening two innings, and never looked back. Wood's lack of control set things up in the first when he walked Whitaker and Jason Thompson. Steve Kemp's RBI single made it 1-0. In the second, Parrish lead off with a bloop single and starting rightfielder Mickey Stanley followed with another single. Parrish crossed the plate on Trammell's force out at second. After going out in order in the third, Detroit pushed across another tally an inning later to give Young three runs to work with. Parrish poked a one-out double to left, and scored his second run of the evening on Trammell's RBI single. PARRISH MADE it 4-0 in the sixth with a solo homer, his ninth of the year, into the leftfield upper deck. The Chisox finally broke through in the seventh, picking upa run on a walk and two singles. Detroit native Bill Nahorodny picked up the RBI. The run broke Young's scoreless inning streak at 14. In the last of the eighth the Tigers picked up three more runs, to add some frosting on the cake. Rodriguez's sixth homer of the year led off the inning. Af- ter Parrish made his first out of the evening, Stanley stroked his second single. Next batter, Trammell, drew a walk and Stanley took third on a wild pitch. Ron LeFlore followed with an RBI single, leaving runners on first and third. Whitaker lifted a sacrifice fly to left to end the scoring. JACK NICKLAUS blasts one out of the sand trap and onto the eighth green in action from yesterday's second round of the PGA tournament that saw Nicklaus miss the cut for the first time since 1960 in one of the Big Four classics. Tom Watson held the second round lead. Jack misses PGA cut, Watson leads by four OAKMONT, Fla. (AP)-Tom Watson, solving his problems with what he called "a golden putter," put on a closing burst for'a 69 and stretched his lead to 4 strokes yesterday in the second round of the 60th PGA National Championship while Jack Nicklaus, almost incredibly, missed the cut. "Everything seems to be rolling my way on these greens right now," said Watson, who used only four putts on his last five holes and played them 3-under par. For Nicklaus, however, practically nothing went right. The game's greatest player, winner of the British Open and Philadelphia Classic in his last two starts and solid favorite to wina record-matching fifth PGA title this week, failed to qualify for the final two rounds. he shota fat 79 in the opening round and followed with a 74. It was only the fourth time in 68 major events as a pro he'd missed the cut and the first time in one of the Big Four events since he failed to make it in the 1960 PGA championship at Pecan Valley in San Antonio. Tied for second place at 140 were Tom Weiskopf, Joe Inman and Ben Crenshaw. Johnny Miller was in third place, five strokes back of Watson.