ruge a weave I raa tvi1a11s,,a'aa'3rlljjlllIr' ''I0zrratsgs ,I70 rage , wwe Imre MlkrHK3N A va.. baturday, August f,,19 I TIGERS SNAP LOSING STREAK Roberts downs Tribe, 3-1 By The Asso ilted Prs DETROIT - Dave Roberts pitched a seven-hitter while Rusty Staub, Ron lIeFlore and Auerilio Rodriguez each drove in runs as Detroit snapped a five-game losing streak last night with a 3-1 victors er the Cleveland Indians. Roberts, 11-11, was working on his fourth shutost of the sea- son when Cleveland scored an unearned run in the eighth in- ning on a two-out bases-loaded error by second baseman Pedro Garcia. Staub had staked Roberts to a 1-0 lead off Jackie Brown, 7-7, with a leadoff homer in the fourth. Detroit added a run in the seventh when Tom Veryzer singled, stole second and came home on a single by LeFlore. ID.troit added an insurance rin in the eighth when Thomp- on walked with two ants and Scored on a doable by Rodei- giez. The Indians managed just three scattered singles until the eighth when singles by Buddy Bell, Charlie Spikes and Ray Fosse, plus a forceout filled the bases. Then Roberts struck out Duane Kuiper and got Larvell Blanks to hit an easy grounder to Garcia But Garcia's throw to Jason Thompson at first was in the dirt and Thompson bob- bled it as the run scored. Sox squeak by BOSTON - Carl Yastrzemski looped a single to score Denny Dtoyle from second in the eighth inning and lead the Boston Red Sox to a 2-1 victory over the Milwankee Brewers last night. Yastrzemski's hit broke a 1-1 deadlock and came with two outs and two men on, giving Tom Murphy, 3-5, the victory in relief of Rick Wise. Earlier in the inning, after Rick Burleson and Doyle had singled, Fred Lynn attempted a squeeze play to try to score Burleson from third. However, Brewer catcher Darrell Porter fielded the bunt and nailed Burleson at the plate. Milwaukee tied the game in the seventh inning. George Scott walked and Wise was immedi- ately lifted by Manager Don Zimmer, who brought in Mur- phy. Mike Hegan sacrificed Scott to second and then Porter smacked an RBI single to right. The Red Sox scored their first run in the fourth inning on do"- bles by Lynn and Yastrzemski off Milwaukee starter and loser Jim Colborn, 7-12. Cards stack ST. LOUIS-Willie Crawford's sacrifice fly snapped a 1-1 tie in the sixth inning and the St. Ilis Cardinals - aided by a Philadelnhia error--scored three nor' rns in the se-enth to beat 'h? Phillies 6-' last night. The victory was only the - Is fifth in' their last 16 iia meis. Crawford's double and Keith Hernandez' single off the leg of losing pitcher Jim Lonhorg, 12-7, gave St. Louis a 1-0 lead in the second inning. The Phillies tied the score 1-1 in the third when Larry Bowa bunted safely, raced to third on pitcher J o h n Denny's wild throw and scored on Garry Mad- dox' RBI grounder. -MAJOR LEAGU NATIONAL LEAGUE East w L Pct. Gil Philadelphia 72 35 .673 - Pittsburgh 58 48 .547 13'-. New York 55 55 .500 18- Chicago 48 61 .440 25 St. Louis 45 60 .434 26 Montreal 36 65 .356 33 West Cincinnati 70 39 .642 - Los Angeles 59 48 .551 10 Houston 56 .55 .505 15 San Diego 52 59 .468 19 Atlanta 49 60 .450 21 San Francisco 48 63 .432 23 Lat games not included Yesterday's Games Chicago 6. Montreal 5, first game. 13 innings Atlanta 7, San Francisco 0 New York at Pittsburgh, ppd., rain St. Louis 6, Philadelphia 2 Houston at San Diego, n Cincinnati at Los Angeles, n Today's Games - Philadelphia (Kaat 10-6) at St. Louis (Falcone 7-11), 2:15 p.m. San Francisco (D'Aquisto 3-6) at Atlanta (Messersmith 11-9), 6 p.m. New York (Seaver 9-6 and Es- pinosa 0-2) at Pittsburgh (Medich 5-10 and Kison 8-7), 2, 6:05 p.m. Chicago (R. Reuschel 10-8 and Zamora 5-2) at Montreal (Rogers 4-10 and Dunning 1-4), 2, 6:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Zachry 9-3) at Los Angeles (John 6-7), no p.m. Houston (Dierker 11-9) at San Diego (Spinlner 2-11), 10 p.m. Dave Roberts Kon Lel-lore E STANDINGS - AMERICAN LEAGUE East w . Pct. Gi New York 64 41 .610 - Baltimore 53 52 .505 11 Cleveland 52 53 .495 12 Roston 51 55 .481 13'. Detroit 49 56 .467 15 Milwaukee 47 57 .451 16 : west Kansas City 66 40 .625 - Oakland 55 52 .514 111. Minnesota 54 54 .500 13 Texas 51 54 .485 14', California 47 61 .435 20 Chicago 46 60 .434 20 Yesterday's Results Kansas City 9-8, Chicago 3-2 Boston 2, Milwaukee 1 Detroit 3, Cleveland 1 Baltimore at New York, rain Texas 6, Minnesota0 California at Oakland, n. Today's Games Baltimore (Grimsley 4-5) at New York (Tidrow 4-2), 2 p.m. Milwaukee (Rodriguez 4-7) at Boston (Tiant 10-10), 2 p.m. Cleveland (Dobson 11-10) at De- troit (Fidryeh 11-4), 2:15 p.m.. Kansas City (Gura 1-0) at Chi- cago (arrios 2-4), 2:15 p.m. California (Hartzell 3-2) at Oak- land (Torrez 7-tO), 4:30 p.m. Minnesota (Hughes 5-10) at Tex- as (Umbarger 7-9), 9 p.m. Exhibition gain Washington Redskins running back Mike Thomas scampers through the Baltimore Colts' de- fensive line in an exhibition game last night in Baltimore. The Colts prevailed, 20-3. U.S leads Soviets in track meet By The Associated Press ,'OLLEGE PARK, Maryland - Steve Riddick upset Valeriy Borzov and an- chored a 400-meter relay team to vic- tory yesterday as the United States men's track team took a 59-46 lead over the Soviet Union's best in the 14th re- newal of the dual track meet. Riddick, the 6-foot-3 former Norfolk State flash who failed to make the final of the Olympics' 100, got a great start and held off the 1972 Olympic champion. Riddick was clocked in 10.15 seconds with Borzov second at 10.20 and Ameri- can Harvey Glance third at 10.23. THE TWO-DAY meet was marred on the humid, overcast day by the non- appearance of at least eight women per- formers who had made the U.S. Olym- pic team. The Soviet women led the United States 53-20 after the first day R'i ddilck beats Borzov and the cumulative total showed the Soviets ahead 99-79 after 17 events. Nine meet records fell, six of them to Rossian athletes, including a 4:00.3 time by Patyana Kazankina in the women's 1,500-meter run. Miss Kazankinda, who won both the 800 and 1,500 in the Olym- pics, ran the fastest ''metric mile" ever run on American soil. Dave Roberts, the Gainsville, Fla., medical student who lost his battle to the rain at Montreal, captured the pole vault with a meet record leap of 18-0%, but he missed three tries at a world record height of 18-9. ROBERTS WAS favored to win the vault in Montreal, but a rain storm late in the day caused him to miss andallow Poland's Tadeusz Slusarski to win. Meet records also fell in the men's and women's 400-meter relays. The So- viet women were clocked in 42.93 sec- onds, one of the fastest times ever re- corded, and the American men-Charles Foster, Glance, Millard Hampton and Riddick-were timed in 38.56" Mike Durkin, who was only third in the U.S. Olympic trials, captured the men's 1,500 in 3:38.4-also a meet mark -and Craig Virgin, who had suffered from the flu during the Olympics, re- covered to win the 10,000 in 28:35.2. THE AMERICAN women's team 'was weakened by home-sickness, said Mar- tha Watson, the long jumper who was pressed into service as a sprinter. "The girls just wanted to get home," said the 29-year-old Miss Watson, refer- ring to those who failed to show. "They've been away from home since July 1 and were homesick." This meet has been scored on a 5-3-2-1 basis since it was initiated in 1958 and the United States has won the cumula- tive scoring on just two occasions in the 13 previous competitions. The teams tied in 1971. Today's final day includes the men's long jump, men's 5,000, men's high jump and discuss and the men's 200, all of which the United States is expected to win. If the meet is close the United States' 1,600-meter relay team, which won the gold medal in Montreal, is heav- ily favored to win the final event.