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Show Paft HERALD, Pruvo, 6-- Vuk, Tuesday, August 21, ITJ Holes Top Twins l, lis- - For Eighth DOi S-- n ninth-tfvur- g Watts Cookin' By JOE WATTS Romania In Tennis ' Straight the Cnules' first lace lead to J't games over the Detroit U1 Spurts Wniff It's tke old times fur the Tigers, who lost to the Oakland Rh key As. 72 Baltimore Orwtes The Kansas City Rols veterans of four American the New Ycrk Yan(Heated championships joining ltgve tfrir speedy younf teammates kees, t2. and the Boston Red Sox shaded the Texas Rangers. tn the drive fur a fifth Paul Blair. Brooks Robinson in the only other AL games and h"i Powell, who have all Naliucal League Scares National League scores were experienced some hard times 10 siivt the Orioles won their Huusum Pittsburgh 2. fourth pennant in six years in Qnnnnati I New York 3. in li 1971. had good reason to be innings and San Francisco C ojximidtc Mur.&y night after a Montreal 4. in II innings 43 victory over the Minnesota The Orioles went wto the Twins stretched Baltimore's nt nth trailing, SI, but tied the streak to eight straight wins score on Tommy Davis' leadoff and II in their last 14 games. walk and singles by Powell. The three veterans have Blair Ear! and Robinson. made important contributions WiUian sacrificed and reliever o the streak, the young Orioles Bill Hands walked Bobby Gnch are standing up under pennant to fill the bases. Blair scored pressure and they all belie e the winning run when third they have the best pitcher baseman Danny Mori ton's involved in the Eastern In vi- throw to the p!ite was high. , The sion race in Jim Palmer. As stretched their Blair scored the winning run. winning streak to nine gmes Hubinson drove in the tying run and maintained their three-gam- e and Powell contributed a single lead in the West as Gene to the Orioles' three-ruTenace drove in four runs with rally which brought his 21st and 22nd homers and Doyie Alexander his seventh Vtda Blue pitched a seven-hitte- r to raise his record to 14- triumph. The victory stretched By FTJED ' I Riessen first-trvun- g n 4-- double steal in Kar.si C tyi four-rusecond i mng Steve Busby limited the Yankees to eight hits for irwfs with Duug Bird coming m lor the save John Mayber-- y h't his who HJti homer for the Ro-a- ls. dealt Mel Stoillemyre his I2ih setback. g Carlton Fisk's two-ruhomer, his second homer of the game, lifted the Red Sot to their victory over the Rangers. Ihe Rangers carried lead Lito the ninth a one-ru-n walked Brown but Jackie Danny Cater with one out and Fisk followed with his homer. Marty Pattin went S 2 3 innings 1 1th win. Brown in relief for suffered his second kiss. Richard Wins Fifth tta n l' 6-- i 6-- ninth-intun- i L . Aleek Wants to Know How University of Utah coach Bill Meek tried to pick up a pointer from BYU coach La Veil Edwards at the Beehive Boot Luncheon Monday at the Fort Douglas Club in Salt Lake. Meek wasn't seeking any special secrets in regards to offensive or defensive strategy. He has his own ideas on those things. Rather he was seeking scheduling strategy. Utah has a very tough schedule of nonconference games this year including Texas Tech, Oregon, and UCLA. BYU was originally scheduled to play Houston this year, which would have been a very difficult game for the Cougars, but the schedule was changed and the Houston game isn't on the agenda. When Meek heard BYU wasn't playing Houston he must have had some ideas about not playing some of his tough opponents. At any rate, that was the secret Meek wanted from Edwards. Jim Richard pitched a By SOTT CANDLAND 2 3 innings and for Herald S ports Writer wound up with a twohitter to If optimism was the only win his fifth game for the ingredient required to win Astros. Bob Watson hit a grand football games, then the four slam homer and L'w May a Utah college football teams three-ru-n homer to lead a 12 hit probably wouldn't lose a contest this seasot. Houston attack which sent Dock The grid coaches from the Ellis to his 12th defeat Al Oliver had both Pittsburgh hits & University of Utah. Utah a single in the seventh and a State, Weber State and homer in the ninth. Brigham Young University met Monday afternoon with Johnny Bench singled in the members of the media to run and the Reds added four more in the 16th discuss their upcoming seasons and to award the inning to beat the Mets and & Beehive Boot to Utah State give reliever Clay Carroll his fifth win. Bench's hit was & for football supremacy i followed by a walk, a two-ruagainst their instate rivals. "If we can just stay Geronimo Cesar and single by a two-ruhealthy," explained Utah triple by Ed Crosby. coach Bill Meek, "we will Garry Matthews led off the have a good football team." Uth inning with a triple and "There are three or four scored San Francisco's winning teams capable of beating run when second baseman Arizona State this year," Larry Lintz dropped the relay claimed BYU coach LaVell from the outfield for an error. The Expos had rallied twice to Edwards,, "and I feel like we tie the score on homers by Ron i are one of those teams." Utah State's first year bead Fairly. Reliever Don McMahon Sj Phil Krueger stated coach his of win first the picked up season for I innings of X that he was "very positive about this year's Aggie shutout pitching. 5 squad. I think we will have a very fine team." I I I n "How did you get out of that Houston game?" Meek queried. "I guess when you beard you didn't have to play Houston you probably went right out and played another nine holes of golf!" Meek joked. "I caU UCLA to see if they lost our contract, but they said they've still got it, and so I guess we've got to go play them!" he said. LaVell Had Mixed Emotions? I I 3 s Big League East w. I. pet. g.b. St. Louis ittsburgh Montreal Chicago Philadelphia New York 63 59 59 58 57 55 .508 -P62 .488 Wi 64 . 430 3'i 65 .472 4'i 66 .463 5' 67 .451 7 61 West w. I. pet. g.b. 77 47 .621 Los Angeles 76 50 .603 2 Cincinnati San Francisco 68 55 .553 8' 66 61 .520 Wi Houston 60 67 .472 18' Atlanta San Diego 45 78 .366 31 1 24 Monday's Results Cinci 8 New York 3, 16 inns San Fran 6 Montreal 4. II inns Houston 10 Pittsburgh 2 (Only games scheduled) Today's Probable Pitchers (All times EDT) at Cincinnati (Gullett 2:30 Chicago (Jenkins p.m. ) San Francisco (Bryant 8:05 at Montreal (Renko p.m. San Diego (Jones at 7:35 Philadelphia (Brett p.m. Los Angeles (Sutton at ) New York (Sadecki 8:05 p.m. St. Louis (Wise at ) Atlanta (Harrison 8:05 p.m. 1) at (Morlan Pittsburgh Houston (Wilson 8:30 p.m. 14-- 18-3- ). Edwards tried to explain by saying, "I have mixed emotions about the Houston game." He then paused, apparently thought about almost a sure loss, and then said, "No, I really don't." "I wanted to see the Astrodome. I've never seen it, (pause) but then we decided we could write for some pictures," Edwards added. "After we found out we weren't playing Houston we had to scrounge pround for an Uth game," Edwards said. Weber State eventually replaced Houston on the BYU schedule, and Weber's assistant coach Ralph Hunter, didn't even wince when Edwards said they had to "scrounge" for another game Edwards softened the word when he went on to explain that he was "very much in favor of playing Weber State. I've always been in favor of it." "Utah and Utah State are our best gates, and Weber State should be a very good gate also. Let's face it. There's a financial squeeze in athletics, and this looks like a good game financially," he said. The game didn't develop of because a apparently misunderstanding. A verbal agreement was reached, but contracts were apparently not signed or were lost. Houston went ahead and scheduled another game, and BYU didn't discover the problem until last year. Houston is still very much interested in playing BYU, and the two schools will probably play each other in the future. The racial issue was definitely not a factor in the scheduling problem. BYU-Houst- on 6 Coach Ralph Hunter, subsUtuting for coach Dick Gwin, Weber State's first- - year coach claimed that this year's Weber schedule was the toughest ever, but that be and his team were excited about meeting Utah State and BYU on the gridiron this season. Meek Continues can't afford to lose key people this season," continued Coach Meek, "the key for us will be how far we can go if we do suffer a key injury." Prsbably the player the Utes can least afford to lose is quarterback Don Van Galder. "If we lost him," the Ute coach explained, "then we only have two sophomores we can fall back on, or we can move Steve Marshall, an excellent player from the defensive team to the signal caller spot." The Utah gridders have a tough pre season schedule which opens with Texas Tech and includes Oregon and UCLA. "If we can hang in son there tough in our p re-sschedule without getting a lot of guys hurt then we will be in good shape " Coach Meek also felt that three or four WAC teams were capable of beating ASU, "and we are one of them." "We Edwards Speaks Coach LaVell Edwards, speaking next claimed that the Cougars "will be im- proved over last year offensively, plus we will be as good defensively as in other years." lee toughest of the defenders according to the head coach will be the line and linebacker.. "The secondary however will be another question. We only have one returnee, Dave second-yea- r Atkinson, se we will be stalling three or four new men." He explained that the ofJmsive btck situation "will be 'fluch the same as last year." Edwards expects Dave Coon to take up part of the Elack of graduated Pete Van Valkenburg, the nation's leading rusher last season. "Coon is a slashing type runner," the coach explained, "he isn't as fast as Van Valkenburg however." Edwards named as some of his outstanding ball players Atkinson, Paul Linford a 265 pound defensive lineman, 25? Wayne Baker, a pound lineman and Steve Stratton, the starting Cougar fullback for the past two 6--5, 6-- Standings National League 3-- 12-5- 15-7- 13-8- ). ' American League East w. I. Baltimore Detroit Boston New York Milwaukee Cleveland pet g.b. 52 .570 57 .540 3' 57 .537 4 59 .535 4 62 .488 10 74 .408 20 69 67 66 68 59 51 West w. I. pet. g.b. 73 51 .589 -Oakland 71 55 .563 3 Kansas City 59 64 .480 13' Minnesota 58 66 .468 15 Chicago 56 64 .467 15 California 43 79 .352 29 Texas Monday's Results Kansas City 6 New York 2 Baltimore . Minnesota 3 Boston 5 Texas 4 Oakland 7 Detroit 2 (Only games scheduled) Today's Probable Pitchers (All Times EDT) at Chicago (Bahnsen 6 Cleveland (Tidrow p.m. Detroit at (Fryman 11 Oakland (Holtzman Army Stint Might Have Kept Mays From Record By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Editor NEW YORK (UPI) Willie Mays finally has faced up to it. This no longer is the twilight of his career. It is closer to midnight. "I'm aware of it," he says, openly, candidly and without any alarm. "I'd have to be crazy not to be. I know I'm 42. not 22 anymore. Nobody goes on forever. Not many go this long. Stan Musial did. So did Ted Williams." Once before in his career Willie Mays had to peel off his uniform and suddenly quit playing. That was on May 24, 1952 when he was being inducted into the Army but that didn't hurt as much as it does this time because he knew he'd be coming back. Mays had been in the big leagues little more than a year then but he already had enormous appeal. When they took him out of the game that day at Ebbets Field in 1952. announcing that he was leaving for the Army, even the umpires, who rarely show any piiblic emotion, joined the fans in giving Willie an ovation. He Returns to Lead NL Mays missed almost two full seasons, then returned to the New York Giants in 1954 and batted .345 to lead the National League. He also hit 41 homers that year and 51 a year later. Willie has 660 homers so far and it is entirely conceivable had he not gone off to the army he have might hit. Only when people come to me average. 22 RBI's and 6 homers. For a man 42 that's not bad; and say 'you used to hit .300, now for Willie Mays, it's almost you're hitting .200.' They try to 'down' you all the time. I put embarrassing. One of the few people Willie those kind of people outta my generally heeds is Herman mind. "You wanna know the truth?" Franks, his old manager with the Giants, and he says Franks he goes on. "It's a pleasure to be advised him to quit before the playing at my age and doing the season began. That wouldn't things I'm doing. I honestly think have created any big problem. I played more than anybody Willie simply would've been thought I could. At the beginning addei to the Mets' coaching of the season they didn't think I could piay at all. I hurt my arm staff. "The reason I didn't quit are the second day of spring training these 25 guys." he says, looking trying to throw the ball too hard around the clubhouse at the other too quickly. It still hurts a little, but my knees are okay and so are members of the Mets. "There are a lotta young fellas my legs. My eyes? They don't on this club and I felt I could help bother me. I can see anything. I them in some way. I think I have. don't need glasses yet." It is safe to say no player in the "I'm not looking for any for not game today has given the fans as I'm charity. looking any pity. I don't need any. If I many thrills as Willie Mays has honestly felt they didn't want me since he came up to the Giants in around here. I could quit right 1951. Back in those days, he was the now, but I don't think there is that kind of feeling about me. I "Say Hey Kid" and his trade could be wrong but I don't think ! mark was running out from under his hat. He doesn't do that am. "Do I regret playing this year? much anymore. r - - , P( ran no-na- team." "We have great speed on defense," he continued "with both of our defensive cads capable of running the 40 in 4 6." He also stated that with the graduation of last year's star signal caller, Tony Adams this year's effense would not be as "wide open." He stressed that the Aggies will still throw the ball, but that the running game will also be stressed. Weber State's assistant coach Ralph Hunter stated that this year's schedule is the toughest ever for the Wildcats. He I expressed concern about playing BYU in their tenth game of the year. "We hope we still have a football team when we meet BYU, " he stated. Waterfowl Seasons Announced ABA-NB- A Set Contests - teams NEW YORK American Basketball Association have scheduled 2o pre season contests against the National Basketball Association this fall with the Carolina Cougars and New York Nets each listing six games against the rival league. The Cougars, who compiled a mark agaikns! NBA teams last year and stand 4 during the two years of play, will be playing Atlanta twice. Phoenix, Capital. Boston and Milwaukee. 5-- 6-- inter-leagu- e record in The Nets, with a The Wildlife Board, after helping recommendations from two seasons of play against the Divison of Wildlife Resources NBA, will go against area rival Knicks in a York waterfowl biologists, set October New 6 for duck and October 13 for series, Oct. 2 at 3 home-and-ho- Madison Square Garden and Oct. goose hunting openers. The Secretary of the Interior 4 at Nassau Coliseum. The Nets waterfowl also play Philadelphia twice. approved a hunting season which could have Capital and Boston. ABA champion Indiana has an opening September 29. inter-leagu- e However, a late hatch this year five games on Utah marshes lead to a scheduled, a decision to begin th season a against Detroit and single games week later to avoid "flightless' against Chicago. Milwaukee and Boston. Virginia will go against ducks. The bag limits were set at 5 Capital, Phoenix and Atlanta. Kentucky will meet two NBA daily and 10 in possession for ducks and 6 daily with no more teams in its fourth annua! than 2 of the dark species for Kentucky Invitational geese. Duck season will continue Tournament Sept. 2i 22, playing through January 6, while goose Houston the first night and Kansas City Omaha the second season closes December 16. The Flyway Council forecasts night. e Two of the a smaller flight this year. games Breeding populations in Canada will be part of a doubleheader in were down 15 percent from last Sail Lake City on Oct. 4 when year and down 9 percent from the Denver opposes Phoenix in the opener and host Utah meets long term Canvasbacks were reportedly cn Boston in the nightcap. San Antonio clashes with cross-statbreeding areas in record numbers after a policy rival Houston in the other battle last year. between the two leagues. on ' the species The Nets open and close the However, poor nesting ground conditions kept hatch numbers inter-leaguagainst down. One canvasback daily will Philadelphia on Sept. 18 in Binghamton, N.Y.. and against be legal this year In other action, the board Boston on Oct. 7 at Nassau Coliseum. okayed a furbearer proclamation The regular ABA season opens season. for this year's trapping Seasons are listed as follows: October 10. marten. November 15- - February 28; beaver and mink, November 1 - April 30. There is no open for trapping otters. season Current importation rules and regulations were expanded to include exportation of wildlife upon approval of the board. y home-and-ho- inter-leagu- average. e no-hu- Dismissal of $50 Million Suit . all-tim- V- i A ' I Swan Permits 1 xx Are Available Utah has been authorized to grant 2,500 swan permits to hunters this year. Persons may apply for the permits either by mail or in person from August 27 through September 5 at Division ). 5-- I 8 ). 7-- 15-1- Want to Keep Boot Utah State's new coach Phil Krueger, an assistant coach with the Aggies several ago, made it clear that be was not planning on parting with the Beehive k Boot this year. "We are a team," he stated, "but we have a very good rhedule, and there are a lot of good football players left from last year's & Magazine Seeks 15-1- 17-6- years. e, say conservatively. 35 homers in 1952 and 40 more in 1953. Had that been the case, yju can figure out who the first man to break Babe e Ruth's record would've been. But Willie Mays never brings that up. All he says is all credit to his good friend. Hank Aaron. What Willie hopes to do now in these last six weeks of the season with the Mets is help them w in a few ball gi Ties and keep helping some of their younger players. "You know why I'm still playing this year?" he says. "I'll tell you why. Only because I'm back here in New York where I started and I felt some people still wanted to see me play. Look-pm. know some days I'm not good, Milwaukee (Colborn 15-at California (Ryan II pm. not playing well. Some days I'm Boston (Moret at Texas all right though. 1 do the best I can. If you watched the games I 9 p.m. (Dunning New York (Peterson at played. I don't think I played Kansas City (Drago 8 30 bad." Mays is right. Up to a point. p.m. He has played in only 56 games Minnesota (Eiyleven at Baltimore (Palmer 7:30 this season and has a .215 batting ). 8 Beehive Coaches Optimistic t'j n To Get Out of Tough Game Edwards. BYU; Pail Ireager, fSU, and assistant coach Ralph Huter, Weber. THESE FOUR coaches will be seeking Uk Beebive Boot tail year. Tkey are left to right Bill Meek, Utah; LaVell I J I PI I Marty feels vindicated and Sun Smth feels good all over . The two rombineC tootKUy to whip Tom Ovn and I! Nasta m singies to give the United 1 States a victory over Romania and send the Yanks the Dans Cup Challenge Round against either Australia or Caechoslovakia in December. t Riessen whipped Ovci. 46 61.7 5, to give the United Stales an unbeatable J 1 lead and then Smith went out and beat Nastase in five sets. 57. 62. 63. in a window dressing match. m not taking anything away from him." Riessen said of Ovici. but he played my game and he got beat doing it 1 feel vindicated now because a lot of people had lust confidence in me. 1 think after this match I gained some of them back. himself Smith as tennis' No. I player with his victory over Nastase. the top money winner last year. It was Smith s fourth Davis Cup victory over Nastase without a loss. "This was the best I've pisyed in a while." said Smith, "and of cours?. any time I beat Nastase Asa great day. He's tough and we all know he has more talent than I do. But when it comes down to a key match I think I m able to concentrate more and sometimes that 's all you need to win." That left Smith unbeaten in three matches this weekend over Romania. On Saturday he beat Ovici and on Sunday lie teamed with Erik van Dillen to beat Nastase and lonel Santeiu in doubles. Riessen left here for Toronto immediately after his clinching victory for a tournament while Smith will take a few days off to get ready for the nationals at Forest Hills. ALAMO. Calif first homer, with two on, was the big blow of a outburst fiverun against Jim Perry Dtck Sharon homered fur the Tigers Fred Palek tut a two-rusugie end stole home d aring a ?. T enact s WfrW.:if riiu yi'iimt.lfliiiii''iiiiiif unriiiniiiiMW la SiiiMiMwaHWfwiiaiaMSMMMMiirMTTWlf-ri- WILLIE MAYS has career homers, and probably would have broken Babe Ruth's record of 714 il le hadn't gone to ttie Army for two years. He would hf ve needed only 27 bomers in each of those years. hit 660 of Wildlife Resources offices only. Application must be completed on special swnn permit cards ar.d must application include the applicant's name, address and license nurrbe from his 1973 small game or combination license. If more than 2.500 applications are made, a drawing will be held at the Division's Salt Lake Office. 1596 West North Temple at 10 a.m. September II. - BUFFALO (UPI) Sports Dlustrated magazine Monday asked a U.S. District Court judge to dismiss a $50 million libel suit filed against the magazine by the Buffalo-base- Emprise d Company. Emprise filed the suit after a story in the May 29, 1972 issue of the magazine, which featured a cover photo of the concession firm's founder, the late Louis Jacobs, captioned Godfather of Sports." "The Responding to the fjit, attorneys for the sports weekiy said if the court finds for the Emprise Company the rights of free speech and freedom of the press would be violated. The action was filed July 31 by Jacobs' sons. Max and Jeremy, who charge the magazine falsely linked the concessionaire to organized crime figures |
