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Show jf ie ban it Laif Irvine, Thursday, OctNr s. 1S?J ' r fk Red Sox Beat Tigers, Professional Sports Leaders Denounce TV Blackout Bill Washington (LTD-p- ence to date even in some of the strongest hockey cities there is the very real nskof loss of gate receipts w hen the public knows the game will be shown on television," added Don V Ruck, vice president of the National Hockey League The NFL, NBA and HNL officials were the prime w itnes-se- s as a senate communications subcommittee continued hearings on various anti blackout bills primarily one that would permit local telecasts of cons 4k hours tests that are before game time The Nixon administration supports the idea but is not backing any particular bdl It was expected that Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn would offer the same argument when he testifies Thursday that most fans would opt to re- potential financial disaster. pokosmen for professional football, basketball and bar key Wednesday denounced to end proposed legislation league imposed local television blackouts of home games 'Human nature is such that uben people get accustomed to h$vmg something free they are likely to be enthusiastic about pacing for it on other evasions. said National Foot-bjLeague commissioner Pete BczeUe 1 Public Desire because of T'To act now public tHy understandable to get somethmg for would be a serious miscarriage of justice ."echoed commissioner Walter Kennedy of the National Basketball Assn " Based on our actual experi diting nt ll sell-out- e g Foyt Cops Pole Spot For 500 Stock Test CHARLOTTE, NC (AP) -Cith teammate A J Foyt peering him on, David Pearson drove a red and white Mercury around the Charlotte NJotor Speedway at 158 539 miles an hour Wednesday and "?on the pole position for the National 500 stock car classic dozen pole positions this year, was clocked at 157 530 m p h "We had done much betterm practice, even better than Pearson's pole speed," Allison grum bled Bobby Isaac, driving a new Chevrolet built by ex stock car ace Banjo Mathews won the fifth starling spot at 156,589 m p h His third-romate will be Fred Lorenzen in another Chevrolet, with a clocking of I It was the fastest single lap at the Vi mile oval since 1969, vihen Cale Yarborough set the absolute lap record of 161 161 m t ph Towed Down j 156 272 then, however, the stock cars have toned down with restrictor devices posed by thp sponsoring Nation 9 Association for Stock Car The average speed rf Wednesday's 12 qualifiers was 156112 mph, the best ever JSince .900-poun- Car New d ten recorded at Charlotte Foyt was the only one of five drivers from the rival United States Auto Club USAC to ma ke the field the first day facing NASCAR. JFoyt later qualified his own Mercury at 157 770 m p h for a tjnrd place start in Sunday's lineup .The Foyt and Pearson cars ire owned by Glen Wood of $uart, Va Wood said he plans m service both cars with a angle crew in Sunday's $123 000 Roger McCluskey managed only 151 074 in a Dodge and Gordon Johncock went 147 783 in a Plymouth Bobby Unscr, who set eight speed records in Indianapolis-typ- e championship cars this year didnt attempt to qualify w ith his underpowered Chev elle and indicated he may not drive it at all unless a practice session Thursday morning shows more promise for the car Ip-c- race The other front row spot went Baker, who drove a 158 450 m p h Baker at Bodge wheeled another Dodge to victory m the World 600 at Charlotte last May. Joining Foyt in the second row was Bobby Allison His Chevrolet, which had won a $ Buddy Butch Hartman, who won the last two USAC stock car driving titles, was idled by the late arrival of his Ford estimated a d teams of taking a cavahtr attitude" toward the public bv assuming they should be per- Parsons Set Work on mitted to use the public airwaves to protect their pocket hooks I Sen John O Pastore, subcommittee chairman and chief sponsor of the 48 hour bill, Offense Unit agried ' Frankly, I thinkyou If at first you don't succeed, work, work, work on the offense should be Westminster Coaeh-Alle- D-- owe usa he told Rozel-l- r little something. I don t think the pubheowes you a full house It's television that made professional football the darling of the sports fan in this country At issue is a special exemption from antitrust laws that Congress granted the big four pro sports in 11 that allows leagues to negotiate package television deals with the networks and dictate which games will not be telecast The NFL has a rule banning any station within a radiu of an NFL cty from broadcasting a home game of that team The other sports have similar rules, but they are sometimes relaxed Sell-Out- s Rozelle dismissed as a mvth" arguments by backers of the bill that most NFL games s and so disapare By Donald Kirkpatrick Tribune Sports Writer Jacobs creed Still licking their offensive wounds from last weeks loss the Par sons, Saturday, w ill face Colorado Mines at Golden in their second Rocky Mountain Conference showdown Colorado was picked as the doormat of the RMAC this year but from the same lower level rating last year the school managed to beat Westminster, 6 on the Parson field 10-- Eyeing offensive statistics from last week's game Jacobs is undertaking a major reconstruction period to imd the proper balance for his unusually strong defense 4gw mside-the-par- t, Danny Thompson drove in three runs and Cesar Tovar, Bob Darwin and pitcher Bert Blyleven knocked in two apiece for Minnesota The Giants, with a 69-8- 6 their worst since leaving New York after the 1957 season, wound up futh in the National League West, 10 San games ahead of record, Both the Tigers and Red Sox finished with 70 defeats, but because of the unprecedented players strike at the start of the season which scrambled the schedule, Detroit played one more game than the Red Sox and won it last-plac- e Diego Bobby Bonds three-ruhomer in the bottom of the eighth was thf Giants big blow, n In Wednesdays other afternoon games on the final day of regular sason play, Minnesota clinched third place in the American League West with a 14 2 shellacking of the runner-uChicago White Sox, San Francisco finished its poorest sea on since mov ing west in 1958 by beating San Diego 4 and Philadelphia edged the Chicago Cubs Soccer Meeting Slated Friday p n 4--3 homer. 3-- 1 We'd might as well go home. Youve sunk all the decoys! c - The Junior Soccer Assn, will hold a meeting Friday at 7.30 p m. in the Commission Chambers m the City and County Building, it was announced Wednesday 6-- 1 The Red Sox deprived DeJoe Coleman of his second straight season Coleman absorbed his 14th loss as Marty Pattm, him with a four-hitt- troits 1 sport sVI i: . -v JP' SC $?&& trT wJit A drawing for cup competition will be made along with other business Club officials and coaches should attend. out-duel- g Each team scored a run, then the Red Sox pushed across two m the second on Rick Millers double and singles by Vic Correll, Juan first-innin- At the same time it was announced a practice will be be held Thursday at Sunny side for the Germania Club and anyone wishing to play for the team should report The session is scheduled for 6 pm. Bemquez and Cecil Cooper Ben Oglivies single and Miller's triple scored Bostons final run Associated Press Wireohoo Rose Hits The Dust - Cincinnati Beds Pete Bose hits the dirt CINCINNATI in rare moment. Usually he hit ball. Last week Western New Mexico scored six touchdowns, five of which were set up by Parson offensive miseues sell-out- pointed fans should be able to see the games on TV He said 52 of the 364 NFL games were not sell outs last yearand that more million tickets are still than available for the 11 remaining wepks of this season Permitting telecasts of home games sold out 18 hours before game time, he said would create some of the strangest Friday mormng ticket lines" in history , w ith fans scrambling to stay at the end of the line m hoDes it would he sold out think But he agreed to about" a Pastore suggestion that the NFL experiment with telecasts to local home-gam- e see what happens Wed be happy to explore Rozelle said anything . . We just don t want to kill our homer helped Barry Lerschand the Phillies beat the Cubs, who got a homer from Jim Hickman Lersch finished with a hitter lead wiping out the Padres gained m the top of the inning on shot John Jeter's two-ru-n Pinch-hitte- r Deron Johnson's third The Tw ms, vt nh their biggest offensive show of the season, pounded the White Sox for 19 hits, including Eric Soderholm's pinch-hik 4--1 no- blackout rulp would cause a drop in attendance for his club of uptol5,000fans per game and drive the Broncos into the red But Senators, by their questions, made it clear they werent buying the poverty argument Sen Vance Hartke, , accused Rozelle and his 26 NFL All m the one-hal- vMtrh a home game in the comfort of their living rooms Denver Broncos chairman Gerald Phipps, appearing with Rozelle. By Associated Press The Boston Red Sox finished f game to hind East Division champion Detroit in the final American League standings Wednesday with a victory over the Tigers. The game was meaningless since the Tigers, by beating Boston Tuesday night, had clinched the divisional title Thev will meet the Oakland As in the AL playoff, beginning Saturday at Oakland But Too Late 4-- 1, TIRE Jacobs Parsons go into the coming game without the services of starting linebacker Terry McCarthy w ho suffered a shoulder separation against WNM Westminster will also miss end Kevin Norse, out for the remainder of the season, who was the second leading Parson receiver MARKET Wedding Bells Ring o - CHICAGO (AP) Pat Williams. general manager of the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association, will marry Jill Mane Paige WAREHOUSE CLEARANCE MS of Riverside, 111 , Saturday, Oct. 21, and the ceremony could be exceptionally well attended In a news release, the Bulls Wednesday invited all Bull fans to attend the wedding at the Wheaton, 111. 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