KEMP KNOCKS INA PAIR Tigers pluck Blue The Michigan Daily-Sunday, April12, 1981-Page 9 Jays By CHUCK HARTWIG Special to the Daily DETROIT-Backed by the solid pitching of Milt Wilcox and Aurelio Lopez, the Detroit Tigers downed Toronto, 6-2, yesterday afternoon at Tiger Stadium for the second consecutive time in the infant 1981 season. The game started out slowly, as a very sharp Wilcox limited the Blue Jays to just two hits in the fir- st seven innings. The Tigers, on the other hand, loaded the bases in both the first and fifth-frames, but *hey left them that way each time. THEY DID MANAGE to score a single run in the third inning when Rick Peters led off with a double, was sacrificed to third by Alan Trammell, and slid home headfirst in front of a throw by pitcher Dave Stieb, who had fielded Steve Kemp's slow roller. They SPORTS OF THE DAILY: 'M' batsmen Special to the Daily Then, with * COLUMBUS - The Wolverine freshman C baseball team uncorked five home runs home run to take a 7-2 victory over Ohio State in score 5-2. S the opener of a scheduled doubleheader Jeff Jacobs yesterday in Columbus. The second scoring wit game was rained out. Michigan Sophomore shortstop Tony Evans, times in returning from an injury, put the doublehead Wolverines ahead in the first inning, 1- fort as the 0, with a home run in his first trip to the ter. The t late since the Wolverines came back doublehead rom their spring trip. Senior catcher rained-out GerFy Hool followed that up with another homer to give Michigan a 2-0 Beckwit lead, In the second inning, the Buckeyes Michigan picked up an unearned run and four hits Bdekwith p to make the score 2-1. Ohio State scored all-around its last run of the game in the fifth in- AIAW nati ning to tie the game at 2-2. ship meet Michigan, however, pulled away City. Beck from the Buckeyes in the sixth inning her above by garnering five runs off of three more Michigan's oundtrippers. Evans started off the in- Beckwith niog with his second homer of the day. around eve got a second run in the fourth on a line shot home run by Lance Parrish into the lower deck in left field. The Tigers broke the game open with a big four-run seventh inning. Trammell started the inning by get- ting hit by a pitch and came all the way home on a long triple up the alley between the center and right- fielders by Kemp. After the triple, manager Bobby Maddick brought in Iefthander Jerry Garvin to face Detroit's lefthan- ded hitting lineup. Richie Hebner thwarted the strategy, however, by lining a single to centerfield to score Kemp from third. John Wockenfuss then pinch- hit for Champ Summers and grounded out, moving Hebner to second. Another pinch-hitter, Al Cowens, flied out to right for the second out. AT THIS POINT, Maddick brought in Mike Barlow and ordered him to intentionally walk Lance Parrish. But the move backfired when Mick Kelleher singled to drive in one run. Tiger second baseman Lou Whiticker followed with another single to drive in the fourth run of the inning before Toronto's Joey McLaughlin came on to strike out Peters and end the inning. Toronto got its two runs in the eighth inning, as Wilcox began to tire. Damasco Garcia and Danny Ainge had back-to-back singles, and Alfredo Griffin brought them both in with a double over Peters' head in centerfield. Detroit manager Sparky Anderson decided that Wilcox had had enough and brought in bullpen ace Lopez, who retired Lloyd Moseby on a vicious line drive to end the inning. LOPEZ THEN closed out the ninth frame strongly to send the fans home just as the rain began to come down. Kemp was the big hitting hero for the Bengals, as he went 3-for-4 on two singles and a triple for two RBI's. =2 .. a mark of 8.7. solid perfor- ise, 8.1, balan-"- parallel bars, nce softball team finals of the Wilcox and Lopez combined for a sterday. The five-hittter, as the much-maligned against Nor- Tiger pitching staff turned in its second outh Western straight strong performance. dropped one The same two teams face each other nois, 6-0. again this afternoon. wallop two out, Hool hit a triple and Chris Sabo smashed his sixth of the season to make the Sophomore second baseman son finished off the inning's h a two-run homer. n went on to score three the second game of the der, but it was a wasted ef- rains came shortly thereaf- wo teams will play another er today and make up the game tomorrow. h 7th at nationals Special to the Daily freshman gymnast Kathy placed seventh out of the 24 gymnasts competing in the onal gymnastics champion- held yesterday in Salt Lake with's performance placed all other competitors from region. took fourth place in the all- nt with 34 points. In the vault /AIlI I OSU, 7 competition, she received Beckwith also turned in mances in the floor exerci ce beam, 8.65, and theI 8.55. Softballers aduaa Special to the Dail The Michigan women'ss qualified for the quarter Red Bird Tournament ye Wolverines won games thern Illinois, 3-0, and S( Missouri, 2-1. Michigant game against Western Illi AP Photo JACK NICKLAUS, five-time winner of the Masters, urges the ball on with his putter on the 17th green at Augusta National. Nicklaus had a four stroke advantage after two rounds, but lost it all after struggling to a third round three-over-par 75. Nicklaus is one stroke behind Tom Watson heading into today's final round of the Masters. Nick laus blows 4-shot advantage; Wa ts on sneaks into Masters lead uu muu w i s * nua DVEV a rvni yoU By BUDDY MOOREHOUSEf Kids pick their heroes ... . why athletes?. :W HEN YOU SIT right down and think about it, it seems highly peculiar that of all the various sectors of our society, the one that young boys most readily identify with is sports. Ask any kid who his idol is and, more of- ten than not, the answer will be either "daddy" or some famous athlete. Perhaps sadly, the glorification of athletics in this country has progressed to such a point where youngsters today would much rather grow up to be like Magic Johnson, George Brett, or Billy Sims than Albert Einstein, Clarence Darrow or Christian Barnaard. In 1976, the Ladies Home Journal polled fifth graders to see who their heroes were, and the overwhelming choice among both boys and girls was O.J. Simpson, whose claim to fame was being the first running back to gain 2,000 yards in a season. Finishing in second place among both sexes was Neil Armstrong. All he ever did was walk on the moon before anyone else. I must admit that as a young boy, I, too, idolized a sports figure. I played third base on my Little Leauge team in Ypsilanti, the Orioles, and I wore the same number on my back that the third baseman for the big league Orioles in Baltimore wore-number five. That's what made Brooks Robinson my hero. I would watch him on TV whenever I could, follow his career by reading the sports section of the paper ... just tried to be like him in every Sway possible. When I outgrew Little Leauge at age 13, I also, thankfully, outgrew Brooks. - But why, then, do the youngsters of oursocietylook upon athletes as the pinnacles of the world? It certainly isn't a new phenomenon. Ever since athletics started to gain in popularity ground the beginning of this century, young boys have tried to emulate their favorite athletes. Back then it was "Shoeless" Joe Jackson of the White Sox, Babe Ruth of the Yankees, Ty Cobb of the Tigers. Only the names are different now. Parental misguidance - Certainly, parents in our society don't do much to help their children adopt more socially useful heroes. Mother to child: "You think that Larry Bird doesn't eat his brussel sprouts?!" There certainly isn't anything wrong with a parent encouraging a son or daughter to adopt an interest in sports. They provide a great escape from the reality and pressures of society. But when a parent buys a certain cereal only because an -athlete endorses it, or pur- chases the same type of shoes for his or her on that "Dr. J" wears, it only reinforces the idea in a child's mind that being a star jock is where it's at. This is where the "Little League parent" syndrome comes into play. It's becoming an all-too-frequent scenario these days where mom or dad calls little Tommy's coach and demands to know why he isn't pitching, starting at quarterback, or whatever. For some strange reason, parents seem to feel that if their son isn't excelling in sports, it in some way reflects on his overall worth. Perhaps worse, they feel that if their son isn't a respectable athlete, it makes them look bad. There is no more disgusting sight in all of sports than that of a rabid mother or father screaming their lungs out at an umpire or referee at their son's game. The obvious solution, at least to this aspect of the problem, is to leave the kids alone. If little Tommy doesn't want to play football, baseball, hockey or, whatever, then that's fine. Don't make him. If he does, then let him do so without the constant pressure to excel hanging over his head. After all, the whole purpose of junior athletics is to build good sportsmanship, and more importantly, just to have fun. To a 10-year-old, winning should not be drilled into his head as the most important thing in life. The media doesn't help Another contributor to the glorification of sports figures is the media. The way that sporting events are presented on television portrays athletes as hearly god-like. Announcers spend a great deal of time spewing out adjec- tives that praise this athlete or that one as being an awesome spectacle. AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Jack Nicklaus blew a four-shot lead, made it up in a dramatic turn-around, then bogeyed the final hole to give Tom Wat- son a one-stroke advantage yesterday in the third round of the 45th Masters. First there was the mighty Nicklaus, generally considered the greatest player in the history of the ancient game, holding a four-stroke lead when play started on the warm spring day. SHORTLY AFTER THE turn on the 6,095 yards of rolling hills that make up the Augusta National Golf Club course, the first of the big swings took place, five strokes in Watson's favor in' a three-hole stretch. From a one-stroke leader, Nicklaus suddenly trailed by four shots. With the grim-lipped determination that has helped him to a record 17 major professional championships, he pulled it together, halted the slide and turned it around. He made up those four shots, pulled back into a tie and then meekly surren- dered the lead again, three-putting from off the green on the 18th. WATSON, WHO established himself as golf's No. 1 performer with a victory over Nicklaus in this tournament in 1977, shot a 2-under-par 70 and had a 209 total, seven strokes under par. Nicklaus went 10 strokes higher than his magnificent 65 in Friday's second round and was at 210 going into today's final round of the chase for the green jacket that goes to the winner of this prestige-laden event, the first of the year's four major tests of golfing greatness. While most of the attention centered on the struggle between golf's two greatest players, Nicklaus and Watson, they were not alone going into the final round. A HOST OF MEN moved into position to challenge. Greg Norman, the blond Australian who owns such impressive inter- national credentials, was the closest. The current holder of the Australian Open and World Match Play titles, Norman matched par 72 and was only two strokes back at 211. Bruce Lietzke, a cross-handed putter, and John Mahaffey were next at 212. Mahaffey closed up with a 69 and Liet- zke struggled to a 73. THEN CAME BEN Crenshaw, Lon Hinkle, John Cook and Peter Jacobsen at 213. Crenshaw shot a 70, Hinkle 74, Jacobsen and Cook 72. A starry group of seven, each a former winner of one of the majors, followed at 214, five back and within striking range. Hubert Green and Australian David Graham had third round 74s, Johnny Miller 73, Dave Stockton 70, Jay Brewer, Jerry Pate and Lanny Wadkins 71s. Nicklaus had gone 39 holes without making a bogey when he began his slide. THAT STARTED ON the seventh hole, where he drove into the trees and bogeyed. He failed to birdie the par-5 eighth and then lost another stroke on the ninth, when he three-putted from the fringe. That cut his lead to a single stroke going to the back nine. But Watson, playing in front of him, bogeyed the long, difficult 10th. TOM WATSON watches the flight of his shot from a sandtrap on number four at Augusta National. Watson leads the Masters with a seven-under-par score of 209. NHL PLA YOFF R OUND UP: QU Pete to br Nord Flyer preli Quebec shuts down. Flyers,. - JEBEC (AP)-Michel Goulet and Pierre Lacroix, which was blocked by goal for the Flyers, facing 31 shots National Hockey League playoff ser r Stastny scored third-period goals Philadelphia goaltender Rick St. Croix. before 15,081 fans at the Coliseum. The win gave the Blues a 2-1 lead eak a scoreless tie as the Quebec Stastny was tied up in front of the net The victory was the first ever for the the best-of-five preliminary round liques shut out the Philadelphia but he kicked the puck to Goulet, who Nordiques in playoff competition. They which the Blues can end with a vici s 2-0 in a National Hockey League had an easy goal. finished 19th and out of the playoffs last here tonight. minary round playoff game last Stastny then added an insurance year, their first in the league. ies. in set, tory night. The loss sliced Philadelphia's margin in the best-of-five Stanley Cup series to 2-1 with the fourth game to be played Sunday in Quebec. Goulet's goal came at 9:48 after a shot from the blue line by defenseman marker at 17:26 after a 3-on-2 break with his brother, Anton, and Goulet. Dan Bouchard earned the shutout in goals for Quebec, turning aside 32 shots. He was especially strong in the opening minutes of the game. St. Croix also played a strong game in St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 4 PITTSBURGH (AP) - Bernie Federko's second goal of the game snapped a third-period tie and lifted the St. Louis Blues to a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins last night in their MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP: r EVEKKU'b WLiNIN Ugoal came with 4:06 left in the last period when he scored from the slot on a perfect feed from Tony Currie, beating Pittsburgh goalie Greg Millen from straightaway. The Penguins, who had tied the score at 4-4 on a .power-play goal by Greg Shappard at 5:08 of the final period, lif- ted Millen to no avail with 46 seconds remaining. Each team scored a power-play goal in the opening period, marked by a total of 36 penalty minutes. Rod Schutt gave Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead at 7:04 when he poked in a rebound, and Bryan Sutter countered for the Blues at 11:51. THE FREE-WHEELING middle period ended with St. Louis holding a 4-3 advantage. NE Willi slams innin Yankees clobber Rangers, - W YORK (AP) - Graig Nettles, the Minnesota Twins 3-0 for their third Henderson's game-winning blow e Randolph and Oscar Gamble straight complete game and their third came off reliever Jeff Reardon after med home runs in the first three consecutive victory. the Mets had walked Billy Buckner in- gs yesterday, powering the New Brewers ., Indian. 3 tentionally. York Yankees to a 5-1 victory over the OIT L IT1T A ATTI I A n1 T..«.U;:.