'Page Sixteer5 THE MC HIzAN DAILY Wednesday July ?, 1976 PageSixeet~ TH MI~l(~N 9ILY ednsda Jul 7,197 Rangers gun down Tigers By Tie' Associn ted Press ARLINGTON, Tex. - .oe La- houd doubled home Tih BHar- rah from first base with two out in the eighth inr to give the Texas Rnng-rs a ?-2 :ictor over the )etroit Tssb., 3-3, started his own downfall by walking Sandy Alo- mar and Jim Mason to begin the eighth. Tom Hall relieved Bitshv and Mickey Rivers beat onit a bunt to load the bases be- fire White punched a single over the drawn in infield. ,rr Phillies phall l>IPLADELPHIA-Triples by -egie Smith and Steve Yeager ht ghted a five-run, six-hit third inning for Los Angeles and the Dodgers went on to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-1 behind loug Rau's six-hitter last night. Pill Buckner started the third -viit, a single and raced to third on a single by Steve Garvey. toti Cey tied the game at 1-1 n a sa-rifice fly. Then Smith trinlnd home Garey and scored o- Bill R"ssell's single. The Phillies' bullpen never stirrad, nor did anyone come oait to talk to the beleaguered Christenson. Dusty Baker con- tinoed the assault with a single, and Baker and Russell scored on leager's triple. Reds roll MONTREAL - Ken Griffey's two-rio double sparked a five- run seventh inning that carried the Cincinnati Reds to a 18-7 victory over the Montreal Ex- pos last night. The Reds led 5-4 when they loaded the bases in the seventh against Don Carithers, the sec- ond Montreal pitcher, on a sin- gle, a walk, a sacrifice and an ittentional walk. After Griffey drove in two runs, Joe Morgan was walked intentionally and George Foster reached on an error- by second baseman Pete MacKain. Foster got an RBI on the play and a second run earned on the error. Dan Driessen capped the in- ning's scoring with a sacrifice fly to center. The Bird a makes the v e Al I-Star tea---see MFt p Mark Fid rych Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE East East W L Pet. GB w L Pet. GB New York 47 29 .618 - Philadelphia 52 24 .684 - Boston 38 37 .507 Sf4 Pittsburgh 43 33 .566 9 Cleveland 37 37 .500 9 New York 43 40 .518 123 Detroit 36 39 .480 10'. St. Louis 34 44 .436 20 S Baltimore 36 40 .474 11 Chicago 33 46 .418 21%r Milwaukee 29 43 .403 16 Montreal 25 47 .347 25 west west Kansas City 48 30 .615 - Cincinnati 50 31 .617 - Texas 44 32 .579 3 Los Angeles 45 37 .549 54 Oakland 39 40 .494 9! San Diego 42 39 .519 8 Minnesota 36 42 .462 12 Atlanta 38 42 .475 11 Chicago 35 42 .455 12! Houston 38 43 .469 12 California 34 48 .415 16 San Francisco 33 50 .398 18 Yesterday's Results Yesterday's Results Chicago 4, San Diego 0 Kansas City 2-4, New York 1-7 Los Angeles 5, PhiladelphiaI Boston 4, Chicago 0 Atlanta 4, Pittsburgh 2 Milwaukee 6, Minnesota 2 Cincinnati 10, Montreal 7 Texas 3,tDetroit 2 Houston 1, New York 0, 10 innings Cleveland at California. 10:30 p.m. St. Louis 13, San Francisco 7 Baltimore at Oakland, i p.m. Today's Games Today's Games San Diego (Freiseleben 6-3) at Chicago (Johnson 6-7) at Boston Chicago (R. Retschel 7-6), 2:30 pim. (Pole 4-4), 2 p.m. Pittsburgh (Reuss 7-5) at Atlanta Kansas City (Busy 3-i) at New (Rttthven 9-7), 7:35 p.m. York (ttunter 10-7). 8 r.m. Los Angeles (Sutton 7-8) at Phil- Minnesota (singer 7-3) at Mil- adelphia (Underwood 4-1), 7:35 p.m. waukee (Augustine 2-5). 8:30 p.m. Cincinnati (Norman 6-2 or Zachry etroit(aei-5ates ly- 7-:3) at Montreal (Rogers 2-6), 8:0 Icvea 6-nt, 9:05 p.m. pIm San Francisco (Montefisc a7-8) ClrvelandK (Waits i-it at Caifior- a St. Louis (McGlothen 7-7), 8:30 nia (Kirkwood i-it, 10:30 pm. P to Baltimore (Cuellar 4-9) at Oak- New York (Koosman 8-6) at land (Mitchell 3-5), 11 p.m. Houston (Andujar 4-4). 8:35 p.m. BIG BAD JOHN Mayberry of Kansas City slides into Graig Nettles' tag. Answer to Saturday's quiz: Nettles plays for New York. Last night, the Yanks and Royals split. Olympic dispute hits boiling point By The Asociated Press guarantee from the Canadian govern- pete as the Republic of China. Canada are the people whose interests we lo: MONTREAL - Olympic chiefs headed ment that the athletes of all recognized just won't issue the Taiwanese pass- after." yesterday far an all-out show-down with national Olympic committees would be ports. Taiwan is not the only political iss: yterada oermen tshove-dTawn'st given free entry into Canada.'' threatening the Games. African con the Canadian government over Taiwan's MacEachen said he would accept the tries are reported considering a boyct athletes and what they say is political assurances from either the Taiwanese or of the Olympics if New Zealanders ta interference in the Gamnes. The Canadian government, reportedly inder pressure from Peking, had said the IOC. part - all because a New Zealand rugt A spokesman for the International Taiwan's athletes will be allowed in only Earlier, the Republic of China Olym- union team went on a tour of Soul Olympic Committee said anything is if they drop the name and the flag of pic Committee said Taiwan's 52-member Africa. possible - including the withdrawal of the Republic of China. team will leave for Canada on Thurs- Killatin said no official communicatic the title of Olympics from the Games day. has been received from African coo starting in Montreal July 17th - unless That is the name under which theCtries onthis issue. the Taiwanese are allowed into Canada Olympic Committee of Taiwan is re- Shen C,- -ming, president of the "I ONLY know what I read in tf to compete under the name and flag of cognized by the C. Mainland China in committee, said the team will travel un- papers," he said. "But again, we a their choosing. not a member of the Olympic family. It der its official name, the Republic of pledged to resist political interference l ri ptur t OC as f T o d fn nrimi.. China. It would gather first in California Four years ao before the start of tl ok Ite in- Ott eke by tit (On n- :he ire the "CHINA IS not really the issue here," said Lord Killinin, president of the IOC. "It is the principles of the Olympic Ganes that are at stake. "We do not deal with governments, only with athletes and bodies represent- ing athletes. When the 1976 Games were awarded to Montreal we had a firm has applied to the iv or aurmssiun but has stipulated it will never send its aathletes to compete in the Olympics while Taiwan is separately represented. MEANWHILE, External Affairs Minis- ter Allan MacEachen said yesterday that Taiwanese athletes will not get past the Montreal airport if they don't give Can- ada assurances that they will not com- and then fly to Montreal. Date of arrival in Montreal was not given. KILLANIN, WHO occupies a suite high up in a hotel in downtown Montreal, sat at a desk piled with documents. "I do not have a single file here on sports," he said sadly. "It is all poli- tics. I feel sorry for the athletes. They Olympics at Munich, African countries threatened a mass walk-out if Rhode- sians competed. The Africans won that dispute and Rhodesia was thrown out of the Games. Meanwhile, many of the international federations, which control the 26 sports in the summer and winter Olympics, backed the IOC in ist stand over Taiwan.