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The Boston Globe Saturday, July 17, 1976 21 ed Sox bumble in opener, 5-1 i ERNIE ROBERTS Cecil Cooper's soft toss sailed on through to left, allowing Mayberry, who was awaiting some kind of tag, to end up on third and eventually score. "We were both there," said Griffin, of the ball that sailed between him and Burleson. "Both of us started to reach for it, and Burly hollered 'now' (the signal to throw)." Mayberry came in on a Cookie Rojas fly, only he was three steps down the line before Fred Lynn caught the ball. "That's the worst case of cheating I've ever seen that wasn't called," said Johnson. "But that didn't lose us the game.

Our play of the game did." But wasn't that what his clubhouse meting wias all about Thursday? "Yes. It did a lot of good, didn't it?" Jim Rice scored the Red Sox run after his triple only because, as he came into the plate on infield grounder catcher Martinez dropped the ball six innings. In the absence of Steve Busby, the veteran lefthander has, in his last nine starts, put together a 7-0, 2.34 record, and has kept the Royals well out front in the West. But to Tom Murphy, who relieved Ferguson Jenkins after he hurt his achilles tendon in the third, it was typical of what has befallen him since coming over from Milwaukee. Is Pedro Garcia sticking pins in a Tom Murphy doll somewhere? Well, take this fourth inning.

Amos Otis bounced a routine grounder to the right of the mound; Doug Griffin backed up, got in position, flipped to first too late. Otis stole second. (Opponents have a ,686 pace vs. the Sox, .674 for the entire league.) George Brett then tapped a grounder to Rick Burleson. Otis made a baserunning blunder, breaking towards third and trying to get back, so Rooster chased him.

In vain. Two routine ground ball outs and there were runners on first and second, no one out, whereupon singles by John Mayberry and Jamie Quirk and a Buck Martinez double left Murph wondering, like Jabbar, whether Milwaukee was really that bad after all. That wasn't all, when Tom House picked John Dear Channel 38: have just finished watching the first game of last night's doublcheader, and with that, what I watched the night before and the weeks before that, isn't it about time you did K'hat the networks did and cancel this show? How about some more of Jack LaLannet Or re-runs of "Ask The Manager'? A viewer By Peter Gammons Globe Staff KANSAS CITY Even' a Walter Lantz festival would do at this point, for what that first game last night came to is the depth of listlessness. While the Red Sox could manage just three hits off Paul Splittorff, their defense managed to give the Royals every one of their runs. And as this 5-1 loss to Kansas City sighed along, it got so dull that hardly anyone even noticed as Darrell Johnson got himself ejected.

Now, credit is due to Splittorff (10-6), who allowed one hit and the one run (that, too, a gift) over the last Canadians 4 rt i not laugnmg Mayberry off in the seventh, in the ensuing rundown Good morning! Sought to get today's breakfast from Montreal's Olympic Village but everything up there tasted sour after the Taiwan episode. Oh, well, back to my summer staple of Grapenuts with fresh peach slices Even the Canadian press is knocking Ottawa for its stubborn intrusion on Olympic tradition. Montreal Star's outstanding columnist George Hanson wrote this week: "The Canadian government has become the laughing stock of the world We have traded wheat for principle and international prestige Whatever history has to say about Canada's role in the Olympic movement, it is unlikely to be positive Will our children be proud of yesterday?" Nope, TV anchorman Jim McKay won't wear his familiar blue sweater from the Winter Olympics for the Montreal telecasts. ABC forced coat and tie on Irish Jim, who goes by his real name of McMahon in private life Boston University football may get a $100,000 plum on Thanks giving Day, a game with Tennessee State in Yankee Stadium. The black southern collega is looking for an Eastern foe '--with an open date that week and BU fills the bill Former Globeman Kevin Walsh, leaving the N.E.

Whalers front office for public relations post with Connecticut General In-, surance, says, "The trouble with political jokes "is that some of them get elected." JIM McKAY 't A But when the Red Sox are not hitting, and playing like it is 5:23 a.m. sure isn't the same team" Dave Nelson) these hours in the ozone just won't do. PS. "The Best of Look Up and Live" would do. fail in clutch, 2-1 By Peter Gammons Globe Staff KANSAS CITY They used to laugh about everybody that was hangin' out, but now they don't talk(so proud.

For it has come tcy this: The Red Sox can talk no more of the pursuit of the Yankees. 1 What followed the 5-1 slumber of a first game was a pull-up-the-covers-and-wake-me-when-it's-over 2-1 loss in the nightcap. The details? You don't really want to know them any more than Rick Wise does, and as 35,600 in Royals Stadium roared as their team moved to a 9 V2-game lead in the West, they could care less that the AL defending champions, with their disinterest and salami bats, are in fourth place, 12 behind New York, a half-game behind Detroit (Tom Veryzer? John Wocken-fuss?) and but three in the loss column in front of the Brewers. But, as Wise lost his four-hitter to Alan Fitzmorris (11-5), it was again the little things that killed them. The Royals pulled a double steal in the sixth that preceded John Mayberry's game-winning double, a double on which Rick Miller ended up falling down.

In the eighth, in between singles, Rick Burleson had taken a second strike when he was supposed to be bunting. And, operating in reverse, the Royals saved Fitzmorris with dazzling eighth inning plays from second baseman Dave Nelson and shortstop Frank White. With a Denny Doyle double and Carl Yastrzemski single in the first, it appeared that perhaps the Red Sox would awaken. But they were just rolling over. The next batter who reached was Cecil Cooper, leading off the eighth.

Nineteen up, 19 down. Wise (7-7) kept that 1-0 lead by pitching a two-hit shutout until there were two outs, no one on in the seventh, and there Amos Otis battled him through 3-and-2 foul balls and got a walk. Here, Wise's biggest weakness as a pitcher holding runners on came to haunt him, for Bob Montgomery called for two straight pitchouts. Neither time did Otis budge. The league's leading hitter, George Brett walked, and up came the leading RBI man, Mayberry.

On the second pitch to Mayberry, Otis and Brett pulled a double steal (the Royals have 141 stolen bases), and that left first base open with Jamie Quirk, who had hurt them, on deck. "If you make good pitches," said Johnson, "Mayberry is as easy to get out as the other guy." Mayberry roped a liner to dead center, and Miller turned one way, then turned the other, stumbled, and as he fell, the ball sailed by him to the fence. Double, 2-1. When Cooper got his infield hit Nelson backhanded the ball and flipped to Frank White for a pivot that just missed Burleson didn't bunt and looped a ball towards the right field line. But Nelson made a superb racing, stumbling catch, Monty singled and pinch hitter Bobby Darwin hit a hard grounder to the hole that White turned into a double play.

In the ninth, with Fred Lynn on second with a stolen base, Fitzmorris went to 3-and-0 on Carl Yastrzemski, battled back and got him to fly out. So the sweep was completed and the Yankees another mile out on the horizon. Related story, Page 22 Mexico's Beatriz Camunas practices in Montreal's Olympic Pool for Games which start today. (AP photo) Many of the Boston Lobsters, given a rare three-day holiday by coach Ion Tiriac, are partying at prexy Bob Kraft's New Seabury estate. But Kerry Reid, despondent over her 6-0 drubbing by Mona Guerrant in Wednesday's loss to Indiana, retreated to Cincinnati for some with hubby Raz Aside to Quiz-in-Rnym-er Bill Rynne: Sorry, but Canada's embarrassment of Taiwan made inappropriate this week's jingle on the Olympic Creed which starts, "The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part." Patriots John Hannah and Tom Neville drove up from Alabama in tandem this- week, conversing on their CB radios.

Hannah's CB handle is "Hog." Neville's should be "Tough Luck" since the veteran tackle's left ankle probably will put him on the Unable to Perform List until October Chuck Fairbanks's CB signature used to be "The Coach" until too many listeners linked the name and voice Lowell football coach Ray Rid-dick, who died this week, was a 60-minute end on Sleepy Jim Crowley's great Fordham teams in the '30s. I've often thought Riddick might have saved football at his alma mater if he'd accepted the coaching job there in 1953 Riddick's greatest product at Lowell High? probably was tackle Minnie Mavraides. Minnie was a kid who quit football in his first week of high school practice. Ray talked him into returning and Mavraides starred for Notre Dame in Frank Leahy's final three years there, including the memorable 27-21 upset of 1952 which ended Oklahoma's longest undefeated streak in college football. Taiwan quits on Olympic eve; three African teams go home THOUGHTS WHILE SHAVING: Strange to scan the Buffalo Bill 's press brochure and not see a mention of 0.

J. Simpson, except in the agate-type records section Wouldn't it be more appropriate to put Tom Yawkey's name on his beloved Fenway Park rather than on Jersey street? How can marathoner Bill Rodgers avoid a flakey image after his training meal in Montreal yesterday (three glasses of cider, three of orange soda, one of cola, pickled herring, deviled eggs, cottage cheese, ice cream and fruit)? Will ABC take the honorable course and televise tomorrow's US-Italy basketball game live from Montreal at 4 p.m.? Or will they take the ratings path and save it for replay before a prime-time TV audience in the evening? summsn OlVfilPICS 1070 The money game There are two types of Olympic fans the well-to-do, willing to spend money, and the tribe of ticket scalpers, ready to rake it in. The scalpers, many of whom worked the Games in Munich four yeai-s ago, have an advantage this year. Montreal police don't bother them if they don't block the sidewalk. Page 22.

From Wire Services MONTREAL While over 9000 athletes were getting ready for today's opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics, Taiwan yesterday pulled out of the Games and three more black African nations also decided to leave because of political disputes. The Taiwanese withdrew rather than concede on the use of their name, and Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia made up their minds to depart to protest New Zealand's presence in the Games. Two other black African nations, Tanzania and Mauritius, had withdrawn -previously. Meanwhile, the head of the US Olympic Committee, Philip O. Krumm, said the US team, which had threatened to withdraw in support of Taiwan, is "off the hook" because, he said, Taiwan should have accepted a Canadian government compromise and competed in the Games.

The Taiwanese withdrawal came immediately after the International Olympic Committee, with an angry blast at Canada, officially voted to change the name of the team to "Taiwan" on IOC rolls in order to allow the Taiwanese-to compete if they wanted to under those circumstances. Rejection by the Taiwanese was swift. They called the Canadian demand "improper" and said: "We deeply regret we have no alternative but to not participate in the Games." The IOC voted, 58-2, with six nations abstaining, to change the name of the island delegation from "Republic of China" to "Taiwan," just for the duration of these games. That would have enabled the Taiwanese to accept what Canadian prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau called his government's "final position that the Taiwanese could use their own flag and play their own anthem, but not carry a sign in the opening parade or make any other use of the word "China" in their title. The Canadian government recognizes only the People's Republic of China and Trudeau called the Taiwan group's use of the word China "a masquerade." Allan Canada's external affairs minister, said regret that decision (Taiwan's pullout) because it has been our objective to secure maximum participation in the Games.

At no time were we interested in barring Taiwanese athletes." The IOC has said it was not told until May 28 that the Taiwan team would not be permitted to represent China, but McEachen claimed yesterday that the Ottawa government had alerted the IOC long before that. "We reject categorically that the IOC was notified of the problem only in May," McEachen said. He said his office told IOC President Lord Killanin in April 1975, there would be with the two-China issue. In Boston, a spokesman for the Taiwanese Olympic Committee said Cana- da's refusal to permit Taiwan athletes to compete as the Republic of China was "a dark point in the history of the Olympic "Games." At a press conference yesterday afternoon, Sung Mao Chang, an- adviser to The-Taiwanese Olympic Committee, said the 25 team members who are in Boston will leave for Taiwan from Logan Ariport at 7:30 this morning. There are 29 other Taiwanese Olympians-in Los Angeles and San Francisco waiting to return home.

Yesterday's withdrawal by the three African nations was to demonstrate their displeasure that New Zealand is being permitted to compete in the 1976 Games. New Zealand recently sent a rugby team to apartheid South Africa for a series of matches. A bloc of 16 black countries asked the International Olympic Ccinmittee to ban New Zealand, but the IOC refused even to consider it because rugby is not an Olympic sport. "I feel all countries of Africa will pull out by the start of the Olympics," said Jean-Claude Ganga, secretary general of the African Sports Council. Killanin, presiding over the Summer Games for the first time, said, "This is t' toughest week I have experienced.

The athletes must be sick to their back teeth with all the politics." "We came here to run," said Taiwo Ogunjobi, a 400-meter hurdler from Nigeria. "They tell me to run right, I run right. They tell me to run left, I run left They tell me to go home, I go home. There's nothing we can do. When the hct.ne government says to go home, you go back." While the US Olympic Committee's Krumm was saddened to see the teams go home, he also recognized the fact that the IOC actually had lost the larger fight the one in which the Canadian government was permitted to dictate who could or could not compete in the Games.

Asked what he thought this might mean in future years, Krumm said, "I feel it will come back to haunt us." He may have had in mind the 1980 Summer already assigned to the Soviet Union. Krumm said the IOC "could have played its ace of spades," meaning cancel the Games, "but the mood was one of compromise and I think Taiwan should have accepted." But he later added, "Clearly stated, the central government of Canada went way out of the realm of its jurisdiction." Olympics on TV Ljve coverage of today's opening ceremonies begins 10 hours of Olympic television programming this weekend. There will be a fivehour day-night presentation today, and the same tomorrow, when the campetition starts. Swimming, basketball and boxing are on tap. Complete details, Page 22.

Although Marty and Mark Howe have declined to play for the US hockey team in September's Interan-tional tourney, Bruins rookie Mike Milbury of Walpole will carry through with his commitment to the weakened squad which starts practice at Brown on Aug. 10. Suffolk Downs president Dick Donovan a day at the track (admission, lunch, etc.) as a prize in the Jimmy Fund raffle at Colonial Monday night. And whose name did MC Ken Coleman draw as the prize winner? Uh-huh, Dick Donovan Mark Haymore, 6-foot-9 backup center to Kent Benson on national champion Indiana, is transferring to UMass. Future Janet Guthries may be Lisa Bourque, 15, and Cheryl LeBlanc, 14, of Waltham, both among the favorites in today's State Soap Box Derby in their home town.

Standouts in the Patriots first practice week at Smith-field, R.I., included Holy Cross receiver Dave Quehl, linebacker Rod Shoate, cornerback John Sanders and 6-5 receiver Steve Burks. With Al Geiberger in the fold, Pleasant Valley Classic (July 29-Aug. 1) is assured of its best field in years. They already have seven of the top 10 money winners and the champions of 20 PGA Tour events this season. A burnt hole in his $28 custom-made shirt finally convinced Sam Silverman to quit cigar smoking after all these years.

But Sam never will lose his enthusiasm for the fight game. "Maiden's Ronnie Drinkwater is the best heavyweight prospect I've seen in ages. And little Jimmy Corkum, a 16-year-old, 140-pounder from Cardinal Spellman High in Brockton, is the most feared preliminary fighter in New England. He's won six straight, all by knockout, says Silverman. Both are on Sam's fight card at Lawrence Tuesday nisht Most poignant quote of the week came from Filbert Bayi, wholl miss his anticipated 1500 meter duel with John Walker because Tanzania withdrew from the Olympic Games: "Four years of training have gone for nothing.

Ernie Roberts' column is in The Globe on Saturday Yawkey's will establishes $10m charity foundation From Wire Services The will of the late Thomas A. Yawkey was read in a Manhattan Surrogates Court yesterday and there were no specifics as to who will take over control of the Red Sox. The club is estimated to.be worth $20 million. Yawkey left $10 million to establish a charitable foundation in his name, $560,000 in bequests to former associates and employees and cash and annuities to an adopted daughter, Mrs. Julia Yawkey Gaston.

The will provides that his widow, Mrs. Jean H. Yawkey, will receive half the remaining estate outright, plus it provides her an income for life through a trust fund set up with the other half. After Yawkey died last week, Red Sox general manager Dick O'Connell said, "The ball club is in a trust to continue operating as is indefinitely. This is the way he wanted it so that it would continue in good hands." The 34-page will, dated June 8, 1973, granted bequests to recepients in three states New York, Massachusetts and South Carolina.

In each case, executors will determine the amounts be paid. Yawkey, who inherited mil-Tons when his uncle died, had large holdings in and timber. Mrs. Gaston of Wilton. was left $10,000 cash and a $5000 annuity for life.

The will's exact value is unJiown, pending an accounting. Yawkey died of leukemia July 9 at the age of 73. Peace in 1980? US Olympic officials tried to calm the turbulent waters in Montreal yesterday by pledging that there will be no "political interference" when the 1980 Winter Games are held at Lake Placid, N.Y. Athletes of all nations will be welcome, they vowed. Olympic Notebook, Page 22.

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