The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 24, 1981-Page 15
SPORTS OF THE DAILY
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Unusual start or Sports Festitval
P Th men's compulsories a day early, scheduled for today, including swim- the number of former greats in the Ha
National Sports Festival opened So, for a few hours anyway, defen- ming, women's basketball, cycling, of Fame to 110.
yesterday, somewhat abruptly. ding national and world champion Scott weightlifting and wrestling. For the first time, two defendi
Officials, the 2,500 athletes, and spec- Hamilton upstsged the ceremonial tor- HAMILTON TOOK the lead in. the divisional champions will be matche
tators had expected aceremonious chbearers and the big laser light show skating by scoring seven ordinal points in the accompanying preseason gam
stsrt, along the lines of the pageantry planned for the gala opening to the to 14 for second-place Mark Cockerell that will attract a sellout of more tha
that always precedes so Olympics. Festival, and 26 for Brian Boitano. 22,000 in Fawcett Stadium, wit
BUT OVERNIGHT, figure skating of- The Festival is an extravaganza of 33 Hamilton's arch-rival, David Santee, millions more watching on ABC-TV
ficials decided that their events had winter and summer Olympic sports, had been expected here, but announced 3:30 p.m. EDT.
bean scheduled too closely together and held by the U.S. Olympic Committee to Wednesday he had a knee injury and The Browns, led by NFL Player of tt
that they weren't happy Withthe ice provide competition for American would not compete. Santee's brother, Year Brian Sipe, won the America
they had to skate on. With little notice to amateur athletes in non-Olympic years. James, was fourth, though, with 28 Football Conference's rugged Centr
the public, they decided to hold their A full schedule of competitions was points. Division last season. Meanwhile, t
The compulsories count for 30 per- Falcons grabbed their first Nation
cent of the skaters' aggregate for the Football Conference Western Divisi
medals. crown behind Steve Bartkowski.
Year of the Tiger LATER, AS scheduled, Joe Morris,
1968 - the Syracuse University tailback, Trackers barredfrom U.
galloped through downtown, carrying
It doesn't matter if you side with the players or the owners in the the National Sports Festival torch to SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - Fox
current baseballstrike, there is one thing that everyone agrees on-it is the Carrier Dome. There it would be foreign track and field athletes,
cufrenateallstutrie,.thereisonetingtalevie eagreseonused in the night's opening ceremonies cluding Allison Roe, the first wom
an unfortunate situation. So in order to partially relieve the misery of to light the flame that will burn finisher in this year's Boston Maratho
any baseball junkies going through withdrawal, throughout the throughout the Games. - have been banned from competing
duration of the strike the Daily is providing a look back to a more Morris ignited his torch from others the United States, The Associated Pre
pleasant time-1968. There was no free agent compensation, no carried by two more runners, Mary learned yesterday.
NLRB, no court injunctions-and no strike. And for those of you Kesel and Joe Peraino, who had carried The quartet - Roe, Ann Audain ar
s World Series them across New York. The process Lorraine Moller, all of New Zealan
who don't remember, in 1968 the Tigers were winners, was the culmination of a flame relay and Domingo Tibaduiza of Colombia
winners, in fact. Each day the Daily relates the results of the previous involving 400 runners. They started were barred because of their pa
evening's Tiger game-minus 13 years. July 4 from Pike's Peak in Colorado, ticipation in the Cascade Run-Off,
which is near Colorado Springs, site of road race at Portland, Ore., June 28.
the previous two Festivals. THE RACE offered prize mon
Tigers 6, Senators 4M directly to the top finishers - in dire
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WASHINGTON (AP)-Add
Detroit's Mayo Smith to the list of
push-button managers. First he
pushed the panic button by starting
Denny McClain with only two days'
rest.
But just when the Tigers were in
danger of losing again, he hit the
right one, and out popped a pair of
pinch hitters who turned the
ballgame around.
When the wheels had stopped tur-
ning, Detroit had a 6-4 victory over
Washington last night and a six-
game lead in the American League,
as Baltimore stopped Cleveland, 8-6,
and jumped back over the Indians
into second place.
Detroit trailed Washington, 4-3, on
the strength of Frank Howard's 28th
home run in the second inning and a
three-run outburst in the sixth. But
Phil Ortega walked Al Kaline to
open the eighth, Willie Horton
sacrificed him to second, and Bill
Freehan also walked.
Pinch hitter Jim Price singled
home the tying tally against Barry
Moore, and after Dave Baldwin got
Norm Cash to foul out, Gates Brown,
another pinch hitter, knocked in the
go-ahead run with a single. The
Tigers scored an insurance run in
the ninth on Jim Northrup's double
and a single by Kaline.
The late-inning fireworks
provided McLain with his 19th vic-
tory, although he left in the eighth
for a pinch hitter. It marked the
third time this month that a Detroit
starter had worked with two days'
rest-a month in which the Tigers'
lead had dropped from 95' to five
games before last night's ac-
tion-and the third time this season
for McLain.
"We were very fortunate," Smith
said. "Maybe we needed a game like
this to turn us around."
The Tigers had lost eight of 12
games since the All-Star break.
Smith was speaking of what tur-
ned out to be the sacrifice bunt by
Horton that put the tying run into
position to score on Price's single.
Horton had bunted on his own, and
Smith said he was astounded.
AB R H RBI
McAuiiffe,2b.......... 4 5 0 0 0
Stanley, ef ............. 4 1 1 0
Northrup, rf ........... 4 2 1 0
Kaii,e,lb ........2 2 2 2
Horo,,If ....... 4 0 0 0
Freehanc............ 3 1 2 2
Matchick, ss ........... 3 5 0 0 0
Price, ph ......... 1 1 1
Treewski,3b. . 1 0 0 0
Wert, 3b........ 3 0 0 0
Cashph......... .. . 1 0 0
Oyler, ss .............. 0 5 0 0
McLain, p ............. 3 0 0
Brown, G.,ph ... 1 5 0 1
Dobson p.......... 5 0 0 5
Warden, p ............. 5 0 . 5 5
TOTALS ............ 34 6 8 6
Washington
AB R H RBI
Unser, .......... ..5 0
Pees*,*C.* , .r. .. 1 0
Epstei, b...... 3 1 0 0
Howard, F., if ......... 3 2 2 1
Alen,H., If ............ 1 5 0 1
McMulen,.3b.......... 4 1 I 1
Ale, B.,2b ..... 3 0 1 1
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Hansen, ss............. 3 5 0 1
Pascual,p. 5 5 5
Ortega, p ........1 0
Moor,.,... 5... 0 5 0
Bryan, ph ............. 1 5 0 0
Higgins, p ............. 5 50 0 0
TOTALS. 32 4 9 4
Detroit ........................300 000 021-6
washington ...................010 003 000-4
E-EpSiein. DP-Detroit 2. LOB-Detroit 10,
Washington 10. 2B-Howard, F., Northrup.
HR-Howard, F., (28). S-Ortega, 2, Horton, W.
IP H R ER BB SO
McLain (W, 19-3) ...... 7 8 4 4 4 7
Dobson ......... ='a 5 0501 0
Warden ........ 1?;, 1 0 0 11
Pascual ............... 2' 2 3 1 3 2
Ortega(L,4-9)......... 6 2 2 2 4 3
Moore. B. ............. 5 0 1 0 0 50
Baldw ..... , 1'31 5 005
Hum~phreys ..... s,:; 550 0 5
Higgins ............... 1 2 1 1 0
HBP-McLain (Epstein). WP-McLain.
T-3:25. A-12,368.
CANTON, Ohio (AP) - Willie Davis
and Jim Ringo will join five former
Green Bay- Packers and their late
coach, Vince Lombardi, in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame before the
Cleveland Browns and the Atlanta
Falcons open the exhibition season
tomorrow.
Davis and Ringo, along with George
Blanda and oldtimer Morris "Red"
Badgro, will be inducted into the sport's
shrine in ceremonies on the steps of the
Hall of Fame.
THEIR ENSHRINEMENT will raise
Congress, the governing body for track
and field in the United States.
For competing in the same race, 11
Americans, also among the leading
finishers, have been summoned to a
hearing by TAC's National Board of
Reviewin Chicago on Aug. 22.
That group includes Bill Rodgers,
four-time winner of both the Boston and
New York City Marathons; Patti
Catalano, considered the No. 1women's
long-distance runner in the United
States; and Greg Meyer, winner of the
Cascade Run-Off and the $10,000 first
A long look
Bob Gilder lines up a putt on the 18th green as he winds up his first round at
the Anheuser-Busch Classic in Williamsburg, Virginia yesterday. Gilder
nabbed the first-round lead with a round of 68, three under par.