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Show Giants Lose-Cii- ng to Top Spot; Detroit's McLain Grabs No. 21 the seventh and a sacrifice Cy ,21st victory of the season Sat-- 1 ura3y a j tnumpn over the by Felipe Alou in the eighth. Seattle Pilots. By United Press International The Tigers overcame a J Dona Gendenoa, who saved American deficit in the sixth inning, tag the day twice with akrt fielding United Press Intcrratioaal plays, slugged Lis ninth tamer By ging reneier John O Donoghue Detroit's Denny McLain gave with his second loss in three io the top of the 10th inning Saturday to give the New York up three runs on five hits tad decisions. Jim Northrup doubled Mets a 2 victory over the San pitched hitless ball after the and Willie Horton, who had third toning In registering his homered off starter John Gelnar Francisco Giants. National League -- League S-- 3-- tr The triumph kept the Mets 3 2 games behind Chicago in the National League! Eastern Divi- skai, while the Giants, whose wincing streak was snapped at nine, remained on top in the I the fourth, walked. Bob Locker replaced O'Dcnoghue, and Northrup scored tLe tying run on pinch hitter Al Kaline's Bill Greehan then single. doubled in Horton with tie winning run. The Minnesota Twin exploded for five runs in the seventh inning, but Boston's Sparky in T Lyle came on to preserve a 74 victory for the Red Sox and giv? starter Mike Magy his fifth consecutive win. t Tony Conigliaro's 13th season homer in the second and Syd O'Briens sixth shot of the year in the third gave the Red Sox a lead off Minnesota starter Dave Bos well, 0 14-1- 0. 13 V Western. Mets The ' scored in the second on Bud Harrelson's run- producing single, but the Giants got one back on a single by and (loser Jim Perry, now three consecutive walks. Jerry 'Grote singled a run home In the 11-1- 6, O ' - I v :' t 'sixth but again the Giants tied it in th bottom of the frame on Willie Mccovey's double. The victory went to reliever Tug McGraw, now Chicago's Glenn Beckert scored Don Kessinger with the decid ing run on a sacrifice uy In the seventh inning and the Cubs held on to defeat the Atlanta Braves 54. The Cubs got three run? in the first, two of them on Ernie Banks' 21st homer, but the Braves came back with two on a string of singles in the bottom of the iniiing. The Cubs moved ahead 2 on Don Kessinger's second inning triple but the Braves tied It o Hank Aaron's 37th homer on 7-- 2J1 HEY BALL, COME BACK HERE! Maybe Sal Bando isn't ordering the ball in thai mild of terms. At any rate Bando let tic ball get between bis legs for an error. Bando plays Telephoto) shortstop for the Oakland A's, and the A's fell to Washington 11-- (Herald-UP- I 3. fx 4-- Munson PROVO, UTAH, SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1969 Rod Laver Advances; Ashe Downs Osborne FOREST HILLS, N.Y. (UPI) --Rod Laver, claiming "you can't live on a reputation," registered his 26th consecutive victory Saturday to gain the fourth round of the $137,000 U. S. Open tennis championships along with Americans Arthur Ashe and Dennis Ralston. d The Australian, ho hasn't lost a match since the week before Wimbledon and Is seeded No.l here, moved closer to completing the first Grand Slam by a professional as he beat Jaime Fillol of on the center Chile, court of the West Side Tennis ej red-haire- 8-- 6-- 6-- 1, 6-- 4, 5-- 7, 6-- 9, 7--5. 6--4, It was a great day for the as they American women qualified four women in as many matches for berths in the Bears Stop Bills, By 'JRVAL JACKSON TAMPA, Fla. (UPI)-Qu- arterback Bill Munson threw for two touchdowns and defensive - CLEVELAND (UPI) Gale No. carried the ball just Sayers seed from Long Beach, Calif., showed fee way by routing three times but scored on a d touchdown plunge and Denise Carter of Lois Alto, Mac Percival kicked five field d Calif. as the Chicago Bears Nancy Richey of San Angelo, goals . defeated the Buffalo Bills 23-,Tex., overcame winsome Win in the first game of the annual 6- nie Shaw of Scotland, football doubleheader Saturseventh-seede- d 2; Rosemary pro day night. Casals of San Francisco defeat ed Peggy Michel of Pacific The Cleveland Browns met and the Green Bay Packers in the Palisades, Calif.. Peaches Bartkowicz of Ham second game before a crowd of Jean Kingthe Billie one-yar- 6-- 1, Sixth-seede- 6-- 16 6-- 4, 3-- ... 6-- tramck, Mich., beat Francoise Durr of France, Mrs. King meets Miss Ric hey, the top ranking U.S. woman amateur, and Miss Casals, a professional, meets 6-- more than 80,000. The Bills great rookie, O.J. Simpson, was overshadowed by unheralded Bobby Thornton, a J 4th round draft choice from TCU. Thornton ran a kickoff back 97 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter. Simpson helped spring him with a brilliant block near midfield. Thornton also returned a kickoff 63 yards just before the end of the half. Simpson gained eight yards on three carries and caught two passes for 2! yards while Sayers gained 11 yards in three Miss Bartkowicz in the quarterfinals. The other four quarterfinal berths will be decided Sunday. Also moving into the round of 16 in the men's singles were second-seedeRosewall Ken d and Roy Emerson -- seed h of Ausralia and of Manuel Santana Spain. Rosewall defeated Yugoslavian carries and caught three passes professional Nicki Pilic, 64, Emerson beat Australia's for 25 yards in me game. Both and players sat out the entire Bill Bowrey, of Bob second half. Simnson returned Santana disposed two kickoffs for 36 and 27 McKinnley of St. Ann, Mo., ninth-seede- 14-t- 6-- 6-- 2; 6-- 9--7, 6-- 6-- 4, yards. Laver, who has not been beat) Percival opened the scoring d field since he lost to compatriot John with a field goal Newcombe in the Queen's Club goal and a Tournament in June, has early in the second quarter. captured six consecutive title Thornton then dazzled the since then. He started off crowed with his long runback lead. shakily against the unseeded as the Bills took a Fillol, dropping his very first The Bears came back with a drive capped by Sayers service of the first game, but he wasn't broken again TD plunge. Two consecutive throughout the match. pass ititerferenre penalties "I felt I was hitting the ball against Bills rookie Robert quite well, "Laver said. "I James put the ball on the one served well and that makes it yard line. Jack Concannon easier." passed to Dick Gordon for a conversion and a 14--7 Fillol, although eight years younger than his 7-- first-perio- 6 two-poi- during the U.S. Amateur Championship at Oabnoat, Piu Melnyk won the title by a five stroke margx (Herald-UP- I Telephoto) Melnyk Wins Amateur Title one-ove- two-tim- 8; , 434-yar- ,;,ii,t 8: 21-2- af four-roun- 534-ya- rd Jf-cj- c 70-29-5; ar l, 7-- 5, 15-l- d, Slipp, Olson, Sutorious Named BY U rd 6-- 3 Co-Capfai- ns BYlTs football squad has an swered a call for team captains with a variation on the familiar SOS Sutcrjus, Olson and Slipp. Far from being a distress signal, the elevation of the 23-1- 6 quarter-final- s. 6-- Lions Win 6-- Tom Laver by subdueing Gorman of Seattle, Wash., 11-4-- 6, STEVE MELNYK raises Us fist in triumph and bom to the gallery after he chipped the ball out of the sand trap and 90 feet Into the cap for an eagle on the fourth holt va., a former University of .297; Rodney Poster of York-- , twosome" with Mebyk clr:i By CHARLES RICHARDS UPI Sports Writer to witnm two shots after Georgia goiter, snot a e back Lem Barney raced 72 shire, England, 72 and finished second for (UPI)-St- eve Pa. par OAKMONT, d with field blocked a goal yards bogeyed the former, champ Charlie Coc of rwy KaU .V .I.. to lead the Detroit Lions to a Melnyk, winner of the Western the third straight year with 291. nwahr "wo m . and wi"HS T,..t 0 exhibition football victory Amateur golf tournament ear He lost by one stroke in both VIUHUVU.H Uty, 1957 and 1968. 1969 the this lier added year, over the Washington Redskins U.S. Amateur championship to! Allen Miller of Pehsacola, Saturday night. a Fla. who went into the final It was the first time since the; Melnvk win fast r.n&A w The Redskins charged back his record Saturday with 70 " that round tied with Giles for second U.S. Amateur was changed to final Vast ATI the Ifaiversihr nf side, grew visibly tired, "and it with less than two minutes to closing " was a matter of conditioning in Ciree stroke play four years ago thatfnorida d 286, five place at go when Gerry Allen went over gave him a golf team, birdied the shots behind tne last set." nearest Melnyk, fired a 74 the winning margin was more second hole from 12 feet, from two yards out after Brig shots better than his eagled and finished with a 293. than one stroke. The lastfthe Ashe meets Santana in the Owens- - had a rival. fourth hole from intercepted Then ame Robert of Zender was next round and Rosewall is Munson pass. But an onsides The Brunswick,1 bi? mar8in T"1? deep in a trap 50 feet from the John Nicklaus, who beat Dudley pin, birdied the sixth hole frsm paired against Romanian Davis kick by tiie Redskins failed and Ga., golfer blasted out of a trap Skokie, 111., at for an eagle and added three Farquhar of Amarillo, Tex.. 73- - Wysong Jr. 8 and 6 in match seven feet and then birdied the Cupper Die Nastase, who beat Detroit ran out the clock. 296; Tom Watson of Kansas play at Pebble Beach, Calif, intointh from two feet Ismail El Shafei of the United The Lions came from behind birdies in a blazing after his 50-Dr. E. E. R. 1961. . Arab Republic, foot fold for 32 on the front nine of the City, aol El twice afte" Washington quarter uponmH Shafei withdrew in the second back Sonny Jurgensen threw 6,670-yar-d Oakmont Country Updegraff of Tuscon, Ariz, 73- - Giles, playing in the samelbarely slipped past the hole. set when he aggravated an old for a touchdown and Charlie Club course to open his lead to kicked two extra eight strokes, then coasted m leg inury. ifiogolak Emerson's next foe will be points, r.th the winning score a His tournament total was two Roy Bard of San Diego, a pass to Mel Fair from par 72 and finished second for 4 winner over Sweden's Munson. Erroll Mann kicked his over par. Ove Bengtsson. third extra point of the night. Vinny Giles of Lynchburg, opponent said he was tired out needed them. by Laver's game by the second inat s wnat corners mc a set. little bit," Ashe said. "If I had "I never played against been serving well earlier there anyone who returned so fast," wouldn't aave been big points. said the recent graduate of the Ashe said that Osborne, who of Miami University half a lung on one I was aoping he would not is only return my service." from Ralston, the 16th-seBakersfield, Calif., flatly stated earlier this week, "I hope I stay alive long enough to meet Laver. I'd like to be the one to stop the Grand Slam." He almost blew his chance by getting off to a slow start against Gorman but he strug gled through for the victory. Club. Ashe, who is seeded fourth Ashe, the defending champion he is the defending although from Gum Spring, Va., lost a champion; also started slow and service duel with Jim Osborne his first set against In the first set but recovered to dropped Osborne. But he was effective wear down tie Hawaiian, with his strong serve and got and Ralston got his his big points with it when he wish for a showdown with Stars As three veterans as captains is a pretty good indication that the Cougars have put the reins in good Mcds for the coming season. In a ballot of the 66 players who have reported for football the three defensive back Paul Sutorius, center Mel Olson and defensive end Jeff Slipp emerged in a virtual tie. As a result, all three will share the honors ; during 1969. The election of the captains was just one of several items on a busy schedule for the BYU v players and coaches. With physicals, emiipment check out and press day activities among other things, out of National League Standings American League Standings the way, the Cougars are easing By United Press International By United Press International into the practice period accord(Night Games Not Included) Night Games Not Included ing to the book. t; East East A new NCAA regulation rew 1 net sb w ! yet gb stricts the amount of equipment 81 52 .609 43 .674 Baltimore Chicago mm the player will wear and heavy 76 54 .585 12 75 53 .586 3 Detroit New York work they can do in the first 71 60 .542 9 Boston St. Louis 70 60 .538 13 three day of practice. The foot69 59 .539 m Washington 67 65 .503 22 Pittsburgh ball gear itself consists of t, 76 .406 26 52 23 A 64 65 New York Philadelphia shoes, light weight shirts, 40 92 .297 40 54 77 .412 34 Montreal Cleveland shorts, etc. West West With temperatures on the w 1 pet gb J- ir 1 pet gb BYU practice field in the mid-90- 8 78 52 .600 58 .f57 -.- Minnesota San Francisco for the past week, the new 1 3 57 551 74 55 .574 Cincinnati Oakland rule has been well received by 21 58 .547 1 .437 71 55 Los Angeles California the players, they would just as 61 .545 m Kansas City 51 77 .398 26 Atlanta 62 .523 4 IChicago Houston 50 78 .391 27 soon save the heavy work and contact for days when 5t was .380 28 .292 34 49 San Diego Seattle cooler. The mornings an after Results Games Saturday's Saturday's noons are cooler. Boston 7 Minnesota 5 Chicago 5 Atlanta 4 In the election cf captains the New York 3 San Francisco 2 Detroit 4 Seattle 3 Cougars came up with a (10 innings) Washington 11 Oakland 3 trio o! leaders. All are Pittsburgh at Houston" (night) Cleveland at Chicago (twilight) lettermen St. Louis at Cincinnati (night) California at Baltimore (night) seniors and two-yewho are York highly New Los Kansas at at City Angeles regarded Philadelphia throughout the league. Sutorius (night) (night) and Slip have been in BYU Sunday's Games (only games scheduled) football uniforms for the past (All Times EDT) Sunday's Games three years, while Olson had Boston Minnesota at at Atlanta (230pm) (215pm) Chicago his playing career interupted by St. Louis at Cincinnati (215pm) Cleveland at Chicago (3pm) a mission call to Texas. ;J Pittsburgh at Houston (3pm) Seattle at Detroit (230pm) s Montreal at aan uieeo z tpmi California at Baltimore (530pm) Philadelphia at Los Angeles Oakland at Washington (130pm) Kansas City at New xotk 4pm) New York at San Francisco 2 (2pm) WARSAW, Poland (UPI)-- A Monday's Games (3pm) Detroit at Kanscs City 2 (twi- - touring American track and Monday's Games field team won seven events night) Pittsburgh at Atlanta n meet 2 at Minnesota Cleveland Cincinnati at (morn (susp. Friday in an Chicago at the Skra Club stadium. ing) game and regular game) vs. St. Louis at Houston (night) Baltimore Chicago at Ben Vaughan of the. United SHOWING LOTS OF AGILITY for a player who has been around for as States scored a double in the long as he has Philadelphia at San Diego Milwaukee is Pancho Gonzales. Here he makes a return shot enroute to victory over Australia's California at Washington (2) sprints, winning the 100 meter (night) Ray Ruffels in the U.S. Open Tenuis Championships. Gonzales won and 64. New York at Los Angeles dash in 10.4 seconds ana the zoo Seattle at New York (2) .(Herald-UP- I Telephotoi meters la 20,9 iscocda, Gfckiand at Stiioa (Montreal at San Rranclsca kJNiM t J - hel-me- - r ar j ; Wins 7 Events eight-natio- 6-- 3-- 3-- 6, . i |