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Show DESERET NEWS, Thursday. 55, September 1969 p Injured Aggies Juggle Lineup For UOP 'Showdown By DAVE KADLECK Deseret News Sports Writer Utah States Aggies are not heavLOGAN to favored top University of Pacific Saturily new at Romney StaiLum as they were a day Calif. at Stockton, ago year Kickoff is 1:30 p.m. of the new 20,000-seE. L. (Dick) Romney Stadium will highlight the festive football opener that brings to a dose a e series with the West Coast Club. Dedication nine-gam- The two clubs are 44 on the series. Aggie head Coach Chuck Mills is 1--L Onetime tight end Dave Cox will replace Jim Amador who pulled a hamstring last week with Steve Milbrandt shifting from guard to year ago when they invaded Stockton, Calif. Utah State left Tiger Stadium wondering: Why? Final score in that upset, UOP 18, USU 7. Utah State hasnt scored well against UOP the last two seasons. The Ags won in 1967 before dropping the 68 contest tackle. 7-- 6 Injured Mike Beckland is a hopeful starter this weekend. Phil Olsen and Dana Schulz, though missing scrimmage all week, will start, repeals Mills. Utah States line suffered a severe shock when it was announced junior offensive tackle John Forzani was lost for the season due to a krM injury. Forzani, at 238 pounds, will be replaced by Bruce Jacobson, a 232 pounder from Offense is a question mark rgain this year as the Ags prepare for toe Tigers. In two games they have scored three touchdowns and upsetting Bowling losing to Wichita 7-- Green, 14-- Therell be some new faces in States lineup this week. Injuries and talent shifting are the reasons. 1-- USU's Paul Reuter will see action as tight end when UOP. meet Ags Saturday 10-1- A sophomore certain to crack the starting ranks soon is Wes Garnett. Garnett, listed as a UOP has lettermen returning in every position except tight end. Quarterback Mickey Ackley is back to haunt the Ags. It was Ackleys long passes that silled defeat for them a year ago. Touted an at safety and a man to watch as the Aggies go to the will be Tiger defensive, ace Jim air-lan- es Erb-ezni- k. Dedication of Romney Stadium, the promof a top team in UOP and Indian Summer weather should give the Aggies a chance to fill the 20,000 seats. Largest crowd a year ago was 17,660 for the University of Utah traditional. ise AmvAiraa's tPsobSe Mw!! LlllEer Me,s And Moon? it's True! AffMEoim' AAefts Wood Povosaoini Golden Eagles Shaping Up VERNON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA This is a new and interesting sports beat looking in on the Salt Lake City Golden Eagles hockey team. The Eagles are building from the ground up in an ancient and honorable Canadian sport. Thats what makes it interesting. But Manager Ray Kinasewich is not new. Hes and in the business yon a hardened old timer have to be honed and tempered in the fighting fire. And sharp as the blade you skate on. For instance Ray had called an old friend Joe Crozier of the Vancouver Canucks and asked Joe if he could loan Ray a good goaltender. Sure,, Joe said. I got a good one for you. Call you right back. Ray .waited one week and then Joe called. Got just the Crozier man, right crooned. -- i Good Kinase- -' wich said, TU call you right back. Now Til wait a week, Ray told this At first I reporter. was on the spot. Now hes pleading he wants to place his man and I have repaired my ailment Ray Rinasewich In hockey you sign certain men and then you want them to develop. So you find places for them to play and sometimes it doesnt matter if you loan them to the opposition its just some place for the players to draw their salary while you are let' ting them age on the ice. So you shift em around. Its a way of hockey life which has grown up in the Canadian way more or less to keep the kids active let them manure. That would be the same in college basketball If Stan Watts needed a center and Jack Gardner said, Sure Stan, 1 got a great young kid who needs to age for another year. You can take him this season, board and broth him, and then if I need him next season he will have aged that much - Imagine a situation like that In college one coach will get all the men he can afford just to keep them off another coachs caste. Roster Changes As the Salt Lake Eagles went into a practice game against Seattle here Wednesday Coach had some big decisions to make. , Tomorrow he will cut two more fine young players from his roster young men who should age some more in the junior amateur programs. He has five more players yet to report to him and they will come to Salt Lake City one week from today. He will keep 21 or 22 men through a tournament at Portland Oct. 5 and then cut to 29 for the seasons start and 18 by Dec. 15. As I looked over the Kinasewich shoulder at the roster today it appeared that Ray would have about 10 men who have been in pro hockey before hockey better or comparable to that played in the Western Hockey League. The rest are up from the amateur ranks. Maybe on their way to the top. Its their bread and broth. As cutting time approaches you sort of feel empty in the stomach for these kids. They 'have staked their lives on going to the top. All want to be in the majors the National Hockey League their goal. If they are cut now it means they have to try for another year or so or get out of hockey altogether. It means a loss of about 10,000 dollars a year to them the average salary for six months, play in the WHL Most of them have young wives and children. This is their bread and butter. ; In hockey, though, there Beems to be no room ; for compassion. The cuts are cold. Ray Kinasewich Kina-sewi- ch The New York Mets are officially for real, and sophism ticated fun city may never be the same. seven frustrating years as toe misfits of baseball, the Mets became a modern day legend Wednesday night when they clinched the Page D-- 3 t After If I ? National Leagues Eastern Division title by whipping the St. behind Louis Cardinals, the four-hpitching of rookie Gary Gentry. The Mets used a beautiful an incredible comeback that 14 6-- sS tt. it U-- In this year of the impossible, toe same year that man brought home toe first souvenirs from the moon, the New York Mets catapulted to toe top and on Wednesday night they clinched toe Eastern Division title of the National League by beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 64). v, See Major League Summary Page D-3. M? saw them wipe out a deficit in only five weeks. From Aug. IS toe Mets won 34 games and lost only 10 while the Chicago Cubs folded under toe pennant pressure. The Mets used a beautiful combination of age and youth Wednesday night in turning back the Cardinals, who were favorites to the win the eastern title. ItV I i baseman whom toe Mets picked up from the Montreal Expos early in toe season, and Ed I; veteran n one-thir- g casion. All over toe t' VrJ t J i i $ oxR A CCIm I were celebrating far into the themost exciting mo-- ' ment in baseball since Bobby dramatic homer won a pennant for the Giants to 1951. The Mets will now play the winner of toe Western Division for toe pennant to a series, beginning Thomsons best-of-fi- 4. The Western Division race, which had been a four-teabattle until last weekend, took a turn in favor of the Atlanta Braves Wednesday night as they defeated the Houston and increased Astros, their lead to a game and a half over toe San Francisco Giants. The Giants dropped their second game to a row to the San Diego Padres, losing while in other action Cincinnati beat Los Angeles, and Chicago defeated Montreal Pittsburghs game at Philadejhia was postponed because of rain. Tony Gonzalez, as important an acquisition to the Braves as Clendenon was to the Mets, belted an eighth inning home run to provide the margin of victory over toe city people Astros. Tile blast was Gonza- 2-- 3-- 7-- 2, 6-- win over Cards. title-clinchi- of some fine relief pitchby Tom Dukes. Dukes over from A1 Santorini toe bases loaded and out to toe eighth and retired toe Giants with only one run. Bob Burda accounted for toe Giants other run with a homer to toe ninth. pinch-hi- t Johnny Benchs three-ru- n homer and the seven-h- it pitching of Tony Clininger sent toe Dodgers down to their seventh straight loss and Bill Hands won his 19th game as toe Cubs turned back toe Expos. The New York Mets will have to pardon Baltimore if toe latter thinks 1969 might be a historic year for them too. The Orioles had clinched Gill Hodges toe American Leagues East, . . Met leader ern Division title long before the Mets climbed toe Big Mountain lez eighth hit to his last 15 at Rock Candy of course, bats and helped Pat Jarvis Wednesday night, have a good but now register his 12th victory chance totheyestablish themagainst 11 losses.' Jarvis re- selves as toe biggest winners tired toe last 20 batters he faced and finished with a in A.L. Listory. The Orioles beat toe Clevethree-hitte- r. in 11 innings land Indians, Jim Hartt dropped a two-ou- t Wednesday night for their fly hall to the first inning, 107to victory of toe season. allowing two runs to score, They are four games short of and toe Padres held on to toe league record of 111 wins defeat Juan Marichal with the set by toe 1954 Indians and, in help ing took with none 4-- Casey: 'Phones A Ptingiri LOS Well, ANGELES (AP) -Casey, how does It in and peoples been callin from all over especiaUy cities where toe Mets never played like Seattle and Florida where they train in the spring and Mexico where we played a couple of games six years ago an they couldnt believe it after watching those other clubs with their great reputation an the Metsve beaten all the best clubs in toe league an I dont see why they cant go all toe way . , . feel? The New York Mets had just clinched the championship of toe National League Wednesday night and Charles Dillon Stengel, who managed them In those first frantic ears, was back in the limelight. It was like opening the flood- East suddenly gates. the Well, 1 wanna teU yo, vcice rasped its in pure Stengel-es- e, 1-- 3 Casey Dillon Stengel . . 'win whole thing' DENVER (UPI) The Den-ve- r Rockets of toe American Basketball Assn. Wednesday asked waivers on guards Jim Healey of Rockhurst College and Ken Hall of Westminster Utat College. answer by the Mets vice president and Glendale banker went on for five minutes in the telephone interview. Like many of Caseys nonstop replies, it covered toe present-da- y Mets, a handful of originals, the rest of toe league, expansion in general, the building of a farm system and some highlights of his more than 60 years in toe game. mim - SECTION D .6, 7 Th Hall On Waivers been excitin aU day 'cause the phones been ring- - Sports Financial . As Met fans flood Shea Stadium field as they celebrate Oct ? HVO, L,v v it was )! v'- - fV-V- n The swarms of believers, who ii?d lived through seven years of ninth and 10th place finishes, appropriated their own souvenirs from Shea Stadium, ripping up the turf and leaving big craters and taking with then all pieces of equipment left on the field. This Mets Vice President Jim Thompson to remark: The fans ripped out everything, but in toe true Met tradition they missed first base. It was okay to mention toe past and laugh at the old Mets, because the old mets go back only as far as last spring, when you could have gotten 100-- 1 odds on their chances. No one, not even Met manager Gil Hodges, would admit even in this moment of jubilation that they foresaw what was to happen. caused , 12-1- v-;?- wj ff 18 seasons, professional teamed with toe Gentry for the clincher. Clendenon slamed a pair of homers, including a three-ruclout in toe first Inning, and Charles smashed a two-ru-n homer, also in the first, as the Mets routed strikeout ace Steve Carlton. Carlton, who had fanned a record 19 Mets in his last appearance against them, didnt survive the first inning. The Mets tagged him for four hits d and five runs in just of an inning as they made things easy for Gentry. Gentry, who has been on the erratic side all season, was In complete command this time. He struck out five and walked only two in raising his record The only time he was to in trouble was in the ninth when Lou Erock and Vic Davalillo singled with none out. But he bore down to strike out Vada Pinson and got Joe Torre to hit into a double play. game-endinThe final out touched off an explosive reaction from the crowd of 56,587, many of whom had folhwed toe Mets religiously since their infancy. They swarmed onto toe field and littrally tore Shea Stadium apart in an effort to grab a souvenir of the historic oc- rJ si i 0 ft Ilf first Charles, a r ak-'w&s- t, Donn Clendenon, 'a of m,?- ; - 4A n 3-- Bee MILLER ,nn By MARTIN LADER NFW YORK (UPI) If you can believe that man has Lnded on toe moon, then swallow again anu accept toe fact that toe New York Mets are champions. Those laughable, lamentable buffoons of baseball, adorned by toe adolescent set and trodden on by the traditionalists, forever at home at toe bottom of toe barrel and seemingly forlorn of a brighter future, today stand at to top of this mortal world. . V" By United Press International st ed Western Michigan. Junior fullback Paul Reuter will see action Saturday as a tight end; Cregg Esplin, onetime tight end is expected to join the second unit on defense while Dale Washburn, a second unit safety man is rated No. 2 at fullback and frontline pick for punt and kickoff returns. d r Tiger Coach Doug Scovil needs a win over the Ags. He goes to Lojfan with a 1 won-lomark. His Tigers led University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) until the final quarter before 4 and last week upenddropping the game Coach Mills has announced several changes of assignment as his club prepares for UOP. 35-2- for me. Depth is a problem for toe Aggies. Injuries g season. have, taken a toll in the Heber. Frontline fullback Steve Taylor is still on The late Dick Romney was head coach for the Ags when the saies began in 1947. UOP ' the observation list and an unlikely starter. Hell be replaced by George Tribble, a (then College cf Pacific) won that test, senior from San Bernardino. with Eddie (The Magician) LeBaroa directing the attack. Another new name in toe Aggie starting UOP wont have a magidan with thenf unit will be split end Chris Geyer, another senthis weekend for the Cache Valley showdown. ior from California. Hell start for Bob Wicks who was injured in the Wichita game. Wicks is But the Tigers of Coach Doug Scovil remember how heavily favored the Aggies were a expected to see limited action, however. EUqcEi quarterback, is considered a top reserve for both tailback and fullback assignments. I"',) t 111 t !' the process, would pass the total of 110 victories by toe 1927 New York Yankees, who generally are rated toe greatest team in baseball history. Brooks Robinson doubled home Frank Robinson with the winning run in toe llto inning to give reliever Dick Hall his fifth win. The Orioles, who scored three runs on four hits in toe second inning, were blanked without a hit until Boog Powell singled following a walk to Frank Robinson in toe llto. Robinson took third on Powells hit and scored on Brooks Robinsons double. Mike Cuellar, trying for his 24th victory, carried a 2 lead into the ninth when Tony Horton tied to score with his 3-- 28th homer. The Western Division champion Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals, the Chicago White Sox nipped toe the Oakland Athletics, Boston Red Sox scored a 0 victory over the New York Yankees, toe Washington Senators swept toe Detroit Tigers 4 and 74 and the California Angels whipped toe Seattle Pilots, 1 in other A.L. games. 2-- 2-- 1-- 8-- 3-- W e certainly werent picked to do anything else except finish toe 1969 season, he said, wiping off the champagne liberally doused on his head by pitcher Jerry Koos-man. Even in June, July and August we werent talking this W8y. You never realize such a thing until it happens. A final tribute came from Red Schoendienst, manager of toe 1967 and 1968 National League champion Cardinals. We are dethroned after tonight, he said with a wry smile. Wed been going along in great style toe last two years, but they nailed us tonight The Mets earned this championship and so they deserve it They make the right plays, they get toe hits and they certainly have toe pitching. Once they got into firs place, they just kept oa winning. |