Rjge Twelve THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, June 10, 1976 Kansas City rips Tigers Early eruption fatal as Royals win, 6-3 By BILL TURQUE and ROB MEACHUM Special To The Daily KANSAS CITY - The Kan- sas City Royals jumped on Tig- er starter, Ray Bare for four runs in the first inning, last night, and hung on to put away the Bengals, 6-3. Detroit got on the board in the too of the first inning on Ben Oglivie's double and Rus- ty Staub's line single to right. But Bare, 3-5, after retir- ing the first two Royal bat- ters, in the bottom of the first, walked George Brett. And first - baseman John Mayberry drove a 1-1 fastball over the right - centerfield fence, putting Kansas City ahead, 2-1. It was the first of two round - trippers by the former Detroit Northwestern star. ilvie turned the wrong way and the ball caromed off the wall, McRae scoring and Cowens taking third. Cowens scored on Cookie Ro- jas' single. The Tigers closed the gap to 4-2, on singles by Ron LeFlore, Danny Meyer and Ogilvie, in the third. In all, The Tigers reached Royal starter Al Fitz- morris for ten hits, but didn't threaten again until the eighth inning, when singles by Gary Sutherland and Meyer chased Fitzmorris. Royal relief ace Steve Min- gori snuffed the Tiger bid, coming on to strike-out Ogil- vie and Staub. Maynerry followed in the bot- tom half of the inning, with his second home run, this one coming off of John Hiller. NEW YORK Yankee manager Billy Martin keeps up an old baseball tradition of kicking dirt during a bcef with an umpire. The fiery Martin has his club in first place at this point in the season. YANKS STRENGTHEN GRIP ON FIRST: C Incinnt stings U By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH - Gary Nolan pitched a five-hitter and Tony Perez drove in three runs, two with a 400-foot home run, to lead the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates last night. The Reds gave Nolan, 5-3, all the support he needed in the opening i n n i n g when they scored twice off loser Jerry Reuss with the help of a run- scoring double by Ken Griffey and an RBI single by Joe Mor- gan. The only hit allowed by Noland over the first five in- nings was Al Oliver's solo homer to right with two outs in the fourth. In the sixth, the Reds raised their lead to 3-1 when Doug Flynn doubled and scored on a single by Perez. Perez' two-run homer to near straightaway center came in the eighth inning after a leadoff single by Flynn. Doubles by Johnny Bench and Bob Bailey gave Cincinnati another run in the eighth inning and chased Reuss, who had been 6-1 at Dibbs home this season. Richie Hebner and Oliver opened the Pirates seventh in- ning with singles before Nolan struck out Dave Parker and got Richie Zisk to hit into a double play. Yanks tough NEW YORK - Mickey Rivers drove in one run and scored another and Sparky Lyle bailed out Catfish Hunter to help the New York Yankees beat the California Angels 4-3 last night. Hunter, 7-5, silenced the An- gels until the eighth inning, when they struck for a pair of runs. Bob Jones walked, Bobby Bonds singled to center and both runners moved up a base on Mickey Rivers' bobble. Jones scored on an infield single by Jerry Remy and Tommy Davis, the designated hitter, sent Bonds home with his third hit of the game. In the ninth, Ron Jackson led off with a double and, after Leroy Stanton's single sent him to third, Lyle came on. Orlando Alvarez' grounder scored California's final run but Lyle held on for his eighth save. Orioles stumped BALTIMORE-Gaylord Perry pitched a four-hitter and struck out nine batters to lead the Texas Rangers to a 4-1 victory over the slumping Baltimore Orioles last night. Perry has fanned 200 or more batters in a season eight times, and is still going strong at age 37. He has S3 strikeouts for the season and atcareerstotal of 2,580, only one behind seventh- place Bob Feller and three back of Warren Spahn on the all-time list. He has posted 222 career victories and is 6-4 for the sea- son- The Orioles have lost nine of their last 11 games, including a season-high five in a row. Perry retired 11 consecutive batters after Ken Singleton dou- bled with two out in the fourth. Baltimore, which ended a home stand with one victory in seven games, scored in the third when Al Bumbry tripled and came home on Mark Belan- ger's grounder. Designated hitter Hal' McRae I " followed Mayberry's home run Interest with a single. Then, Al Cowens drilled aliner to right, that Og- at ballpar $ ilvie appeared ready to catch. But, reaching the wall, Og- By The Associated Press NEW YORK - Major league baseball attendance is upr1.1 million over the same period last year, it was announced yes- terday. Through Sunday's games, the C S24 major league clubs had play- ed before 9,635,209 fans, an in- year ago, based on an equal number of playing dates for the Mets pounded two seasons. Seventeen t e a m s had in- SAN DIEGO - Left - hander creased attendance, headed by Randy Jones outdueled Tom the Boston Red Sox, whose at- San nd sh outthe Ne tendance is up by 244,767. The Beaver and shut th e New New York Yankees, Philadel- York Mets 3-0 with a seven- phia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, hitter last nght as the surging Atlanta Braves, Chicago White San Diego Padres extended Box and Kansas City Royals are their winig streak to a club each up more than 100,000. record five stratght. The Los Angeles Dodgers lead Jones' victory was his 10th the major leagues in attendance complete game of the season with 917,094 for their first 26 and ran his record to 11-2 to home dates. continue rolling on as base- Boston, along with Detroit has ball's winningest pitcher. dominated the American League over the last nine seasons. The Run - scoring singles by Tito Red Box have won five while Fuentes and Fred Kendall and the Tigers have taken four at- a solo home run by Willie Mc- tendance titles during that per- Covey provided the San iod of time. Diego runs, while Jones breez- In the senior circuit, Los An- ed along before the large par- geles, New York and Cincinnati tisan crowd of 42,972 draw the most fans. Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE East East W L Pet. GB W L Pet. Gt New York 30 19 .612 - Philadelphia 35 14 214 -- Boston 23 25 .479 6% Pittsburgh 29 24 .547 8 Baltimore 24 27 .471 7 New York 26 30 .464 12Y cleveland 23 27 .460 7 LSt. Louis 23 31 .426 14 Detroit 22 28 .440 8Vt Chicago 22 31 .415 15 Milwaukee 19 27 .413 9f> Montreal 18 29 .383 16 West West Kansas City 32 19 .627 - Cincinnati 34 20 .630 - Texas 30 20 .600 1U. Los Angeles 31 24 .564 3%, Chicago 26 22 .542 4%/c San Diego 28 23 .549 4% Minnesota 26 25 .510 6 Houston 29 29 .500 7 Oakland 25 19 .463 5'.'. Atlanta 22 30 .423 11 California 12 34 .463 12', San Francisro 12 34 .393 13 Yesterday's Results Yesterday's Results Boston 6, Oakland 4 Atlanta 2, Chicago 0 ,BaiSan Francisco 6, Mntreal 2 Tests , Baltmoreicirnnat 6, Ptts orgh 1 Cleveland 4, Minnesota 1 Houston 5, St. Louis 2 New York 4, California 3 New York at San Diego( n Chicago 4, Milwaukee 2 Philadelphia at Los Angeles, n Kanss Ciy 6,Detrit 3Today's Games Kansas city 6, Ore olt Atlanta (Ruthven 6-5) at Chicago Today's Gamnes tlt~sko 1-2) or (Bonhlam 4-3). Chicago (Forster -2) at Milwao- Montreal (Carrithers -4) at San kee (Broberg 1-5). Francisco (Halicki 4-8). Oakland (Bahnsen 2-2) at Boston Cincinnati (Gullett 4-2) at Pitts- (Jenkins 5-6), 1n. burgh (Medichi 4-4), a. California (Tanana 7-4) at New New York (Matlack 6-1) at San York (R. May 4-2), a. Diego (Strom 6-3), 0- Baltimore (Palmer 6-6) at Kan- Philadelphia (Carlton 5-3) at Lou sas City (Splittorff 4-6), n. Angeles (Rau 5-3), n. defeats Orantes to advance in French Open By The Associated Press service brcak in the sixth game of the first set. PARIS - Eddie Dibbs of Miami Beach, Fla., Playing precisely and with patience, he broke leaving his usual baseline perch and attacking Orantes again in the eighth game and won the at key intervals, advanced to the semifinals of set in the next game.. the French Open Tennis Tournament yesterday, Dibbs lost his touch in the second set and fell beating Manuel Orantes of Spain 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3. behind 4-1. He saved five set points before los- DIBBS, who beat Orantes in Germany last ing on a disputed line call that provoked him month, said he was playing the best tennis of his into his second racket-throwing fit of the match. life. "I think on a given day I can beat anyone. I can win w major tournament," he said. DIBBS plays the winner of the Bjorn Borg- 'Dibbs' pressure on Orantes brought him a Adriano Panatta winner in the semifinals.