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D2-Palm Beach Post, Tuesday, March 19, 1974 Baseball Roundup Killebrew Injured Injury Slowing Briles I vv. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) Nelson Briles, expected to be a starter in the Kansas City Royals' rotation, may not be ready to start the season. Briles, acquired from the Pittsburgh Pirates in the offseason, showed up at the Royals' Fort Myers camp with a dislocated right knee. He injured the knee working out in a gym in Pittsburgh.

Though he's been throwing on. the sidelines and running, the 30-year-old right-hander still hasn't pitched an inning during exhibition games. Manager Jack McKeon said yesterday Briles may be placed on the disabled list prior to the start of the season, "There's no question that he can't pitch now," McKeon said. "I look at it this way: It'd be foolish to force him to get ready for opening day. Our plans are to get him ready at a gradual pace." From Pott Wlro Sorvfcoi ORLANDO The Minnesota Twins lost both a game to the Dodgers, 13-5, yesterday and veteran slugger Harmon Killebrew for an indefinite period.

Killebrew, who suffered a partially dislocated right shoulder while diving for a grounder, will have his arm in a sling for 10 days and probably will miss the opening of the regular season April 5. Lot Angolot 171 001 001-13 II 1 Mlnnotola 0 310 000-5 7 2 John. Shananan (7) and Ferguton, Yeager (6); Corbin, Au-try 12); Hughet (41. Campbell 10) and Hundley, Pena IS). Rice Leads Boston WINTER HAVEN Rookie Jim Rice belted a three-run homer and Rico Petrocelli contributed three hits, sparking the Boston Red Sox to an 8-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

Chicago (A) 020 020 001-4 1 Boston Oil 400 OOi-l 10 I Gotsage. B. Johnson (4), Pillock (6), Lugo (8) and BrlnK-man. Varney (6); Cloveland. Morel (), and Correll.

W-Cleve-lend. L-Gossage. HRs-Chicago, Muter. Boston. Rice.

Orioles Bomb Texas POMPANO BEACH Boog Powell and Don Baylor, who each had three hits, and Mark Belanger, who smashed a bases-loaded double, helped the Baltimore Orioles bomb Texas, 14-2. Baltimore 040 000 104-14 19 1 reiat 010 100 000 2 2 Palmer, Garland (7) and Williamt, Etchebarren (6); Clyde, Brown (5), Mohme (7), Henntnger 18) and Billings, Pruitt 17), W-Palmer. L-Clyde. HRt-Baltimore, Motion. Texas, Burroughs Oliver Leads Bucs SAN JUAN, R.

Al Oliver drove in two runs and scored two and Dock Ellis went seven innings, longest for a Pittsburgh pitcher this spring, as the Pirates came from behind to defeat the Montreal Expos, 5-3. Pittsburgh 000 001 110 I 1 Montreal 200 010 000-1 1 Ellis, Hernandez (8) and Sangulllen; Moore, Walker (6), Stephenson (8), Taylor (0), and Humphrey. WP-Elln. LP-Walker. HR-Ollver, Davit.

Kansas City Wins FORT MYERS Amos Otis' sixth-inning single drove in speedster Jim Wohlford with the only run of the game and Steve Busby, Steve Mingori, and Gene Garber combined to pitch a nine-hitter as the Kansas City Royals blanked the St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0. St Louis 000 000 0000 9 0 Kansas City 000 001 000-1 1 I Thompson, Forsch (6) and Simmons, Torborg 15); Busby, Mingori (6), Garber (8) and Paepke. W-Mingori. L-Forsch.

Mets Edge Yankees ST. PETERSBURG Jon Matlack, Bob Apodaca and Steve Simpson limited the New York Yankees to three hits and the New York Mets pushed across a run in the eighth inning for a 1-0 victory. Now York (A) 000 000 000 -0 1 0 New York IN) 000 000 01X-1 0 Medlch, Beene 10) and Munton, Sims (7); Matlack, Apodaca 10), Simpson (9) and Hodges. W-Apodaca. L-Beene.

Phillies Stop Reds TAMPA Right-hander Jesus Hernaiz and lefty Mike Wallace combined to shut out the Cincinnati Reds and pitch the Philadelphia Phillies to a 4-0 victory. Hernaiz gave up only three hits in the first five innings. Wallace took over for the last four and gave up just one hit. Philadelphia 000 202 000-4 10 0 Cincinnati 000 000 000 -4 0 0 Hernail, Wallaco (6), and Boone, Con (S). Billingham, Car roll (8), and Bench.

W-Hernaii. L-Billlngham. A Continue Hex TUCSON, Ariz. The Oakland A's hex over Cleveland right-hander Gaylord Perry continued as the world champions defeated the -Indians, 6-3. Perry's record since arriving in the Ameri- -can League is 0-4 against the A's.

He gave up a run in the third on Bill North's triple and Bert Campaneris' single and one in the fourth on Gene Tenace's single and Pat Bourque's double. Oakland 001 102 IO0-4II3 Cleveland 000 020 100-1 9 0 Hunter, Knowles (6) and Tenace, Hosley(7); Perry, Sanders (7) and Duncan. W-Hunter. L-Perry. Brewers Nip Angels SUN CITY, Ariz.

Dave May's pinch sac- rifice fly in the ninth inning drove in the win- -ning run as the Milwaukee Brewers nipped the California Angels, 6-5. May, who had 14 game-winning hits during the regular 1973 season, flied to medium cen- ter and Bobby Sheldon came home from third base. California 000 022 001 8 2 Milwaukee 000 220 101-4 111 Tanana, Hassler IS), Gilmer (7), Lange (8) and Egan; Sla-ton, E. Rodriguei (6), Kobel (9) and Moore. W-Kobel.

L-Lange. HR-Milwaukee, Mitchell Cubs Dump Padres SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. Run-scoring singles by rookie Chris Ward and Jim Tyrone car- ried the Chicago Cubs to a 4-2 victory over the Z'. San Diego Padres. Another rookie, Dave Rosello, had a bunt single to open the fifth inning, when the Cubs batted around and scored three runs.

Non- roster pitcher Joe Mcintosh was the victim of the Chicago spurt. San Diego 000 200 000 -2 I 2 Chicago IN) 100 010 001-4 0 Corkins, Mcintosh (4), Romo (7). Spillner (0) and Kendall, Corrales (7); Bonham, Hooton (4), Swisher (5). Pina (8) and Rudolph. W-Hooton.

L-Mclntosh. AP WlraphMo Brinkman Boston's Vic Correll Scores Behind White Sox Catcher Chuck Kaline From Dl- Kaline is unique among baseball players, a majority of whom bounce around like a tennis ball before finding a niche. He was signed by the Tigers in 1953 and, at the age of 18, found his home in Detroit. No minor leagues to acquire polish, no trades. And here he is, 2,687 games and about 1,249 injuries later, still a Tiger.

He has had fractures of the cheek, collar bone, finger and arm. He has had two separate rib injuries and an operation for a foot problem. Kaline doesn't know how much longer it will last. He might reitre when he reaches his 3,000 target. And he might not.

It depends on the Tigers. "If," he said, "I can still contribute to the team, it would be nice to play in another World Series." In all those years, there has been only one. how that I'm this close to it, I certainly want the opportunity to make it. "If I didn't feel I was within reach, I have quit. I've thought about it.

After 21 years it's part of your life and it's a difficult thing to consider, but every player reaches a point where it's something he has to face sooner or later." Kaline got 79 hits last year in 310 at bats. He played in 91 games, the least since 1953, his rookie year. "Playing this way," he said, "could give me as many as 500 at bats and a good chance to get the hits I need. You hit better when you're doing it every day. "When you're up there regularly, you develop more confidence and, more important, your rhythm.

It's tough to hit on a now-and-then basis. I've never considered myself real strong, so timing is very important to me." American League teams use the designated hitter against each other and against people from the other league when the National League team is the visitor. But if the Nationals are at home, the American League cannot use the DPH. He has mixed emotions about his new role as a specialist. He prefers it to platooning or playing part time as he did last year, but he has one reservation.

"It's a little unusual not to be a complete ball player," he said. "But a guy has to realize that, as he gets older, there are certain things he can't do that he could do 10 years ago." The DH business will give him an opportunity to reach one of his cherished goals 3,000 hits. He is 139 short of a peak scaled by only 11 men in the history of major league baseball. "I never worried much about records and goals when I was younger," Kaline said. "But TRIM'S ARENA From Dl Newcombe Wins in Opening Round Tigers over Mary Ann Beattie of St.

Louis In another evening match. Earlier in the day Janet Haas of Miami picked up her first win without stepping onto the court after her opponent, Kate Latham of Palo Alto, failed to appear for the match. In other matches Susan Stap of Deer-field, 111., defeated Aimee Conlan of Vienna, Ohio, 6-0, 6-3; Katja Eb-binghaus of West Germany defeated Ceci Martinez of San Francisco, 2-6, 7-6, 6-4; Pam Teeguarden of Los Angeles beat Veronica Burton of Britain, 6-1, 6-3, and Janet Newberry of La Jolla, beat Patty Ann Reese of St. Petersburg, 6-2, 6-4. Tom Okker of Holland is second-seeded, but doesn't play his first match until today at the Tucson Racquet and Swim Club.

A total of 64 professionals, including several of the top 10 money winners, is entered in the week-long tournament. Wade Advances AKRON, Ohio Second-seeded Virginia Wade of Britain defeated Sally Greer of Miami, 6-2, 6-3, in the first round of the $50,000 Akron Open Tennis Tournament. Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia squeezed out a 7-6, 4-6, 7-6 win From Post Wire Services TUCSON, Ariz. Australia's John Newcombe, top seed in the $150,000 men's professional tennis tournament here, beat American Jeff Borowiak 7-5, 7-6 In the opening round yesterday. The second set went to a 12-point tiebreaker and Newcombe wound up with an ace for the second point.

The 25-year-old Borowiak, the U.S. national 18-year-old champion in 1967, disputed many calls, including one ruled a net ball. It was the first competition in more than a week for Newcombe, who has won most of the major men's tournaments in his career. Allen Lives in His Own Miniature World Alone takes orders from no one not even his manager. Chuck Tanner.

He submits to no formalities. He is subject to none of the normal niceties that go with being a public figure. He is his own man. He out-Garbos the movie Garbo of the 1930s, who insisted, "I vant to be alone." Allen is a firebrand-controversial, sullen and unpredictable. He is also something of a magician.

He is constantly disappearing. Where is Dick Allen? Nobody knows but Allen himself. He came to spring training, worked out awhile by himself and then did one of his fabled fadeouts. SARASOTA (AP) Dick Allen recoiled when he saw his private little cocoon invaded by a handful of strangers. "Get away get away nothing today," he snapped.

He wheeled and turned the big number 15 on his back to the uninvited visitors two newsmen and a photographer. The scene was Payne Field, spring home of the Chicago White Sox, early yesterday morning. The White Sox were playing the Boston Red Sox in Winter Haven a good two-hour bus ride away. Their first baseman wasn't with them. He was where he normally is alone.

Allen has become the rugged individualist of baseball. He "The only old players we have are (Norm) Cash and (Al) Kaline. But as long as they're productive on the field, they're going to be in there nearly every day." Cash and Kaline, both 39, were platooned at first base early last season by former manager Billy Martin. Neither player was particularly fond of that setup, which has been changed this season by Houk. Cash is the regular first baseman again, a position he seems to lose nearly every spring but always wins back early i(i the season, while Kaline will be used almost exclusively as a designated hitter.

"I dislike platooning almost as much as anyone else," Cash said, "but the past few years there has been a reason for it. I'm always a slow starter and so that's why I've been platooned. I don't really start hitting until the warm weather sets in. Then I'm all right." Cash, who singled in the Tigers' three-run first inning against the Braves and also made a leaping catch of a line drive by Darrell Evans to turn it into an unassisted double play in the fifth inning, has been with the Tiger 14 seasons. won the.

American League batting title in 1961 with a .361 average and has hit all but four of his 370 career home runs with the Tigers. Cash no longer enjoys spring training as much as he once "When you get to be my age, you just can't have the enthusiasm to play the games. Fortunately I play paddle ball in the winter and watch my weight, so it's not too hard to get in condition. But there's still a tendency for all of us to be lazy. doesn't hurt us too much, though.

Baseball-wise we're a little older, but the experience we have helps us make up that step or two we've lost. We all know what to do and we do it Instinctively." Two of Houk's other graybeards, outfielder Jim Northrup and pitcher Jim Perry, also played significant roles in the Tigers' victory over the Braves. The 37-year-old Perry pitched three scoreless innings, giving up only one hit and retiring the last eight batters he faced, while Northrup, 34, hit a two-run homer in the first inning off losing pitcher Roric Harrison. Northrup was happy to see Martin leave the Tigers. He was platooned by Martin for two seasons.

Although his .307 batting average last season was the highest of his 10-year career, his home run production dropped considerably in the last two years under Martin. "There's a little different atmosphere in camp this year," Northrup said. "Everyone is more relaxed, a lot happier. You seejnore smiles around. "The last two years I only played half the season.

Very fewtiguys hit 20 home runs when they're platooned. But the way it looks now I'll be playing every day. i'l never really knew why I was platooned. I don't think it was my age. We have some older players, but I think there are a lot of teams around who would like to have some of us old guys.

We haven't done so badly." fcAMP NOTES Rorie Harrison worked the longest of any graves' pitcher this spring, going six innings yesterday. He gavo) up eight runs on 11 hits Manager Eddie Mathews said. Gary Gentry aggravated his elbow injury pitching against the New York Mets last Saturday. "He had some business to take care of," the White Sox front offices announced almost apologetically. "No, we don't know when he will be back." Tanner gave his permission but never knew where Allen went or when he would return.

Allen popped up Sunday, alive and well but with no explanation. Yesterday morning found the introspective, 33-year-old superstar, the highest paid man in baseball and the most independent, back with his mechanical pitching monster, hitting balls into a screen. That's where reporters found him as the drill neared an end. Allen showed no inclination to be receptive. As he strode from his cage to the field, he was asked about the broken left leg that had sidelined him for the last half of last season.

Some have contended that doctors gave Allen an okay to return to action, but he never did. Such accusations apparently have touched a tender nerve. "My leg is fine," he said tartly. Five minutes later someone else asked him the same question. "It hurts like hell," he said.

He engaged in a game of doubletalk with his questioners. Asked about his 10-day absence from training, Allen re- I plied, "Who said I've been away?" The club said it," he was told. "That shows how they lie they lie like everybody else." Women: Open Little League to Girls vide the medical evidence to show that girls can play the game. As a matter of fact, we'll show that perhaps boys should not be playing for the obvious physical reasons of getting hit in certain places." Ms. Forbes, a third-year law student at American University, said she did not sue the Little League because of two U.

S. District Court decisions in Massachusetts and Michigan which ruled against the girls. "Mrs. Griffith's bill merely opens up the Little League, which is a federal charter, to girls," she said. "If they don't like, we can sue to have the federal charter rescinded." The bill currently is in the House Judiciary subcommittee on civil rights under chairman Don Edwards A spokesman said there is little likelihood that public hearings could be held before May or June.

"The chairman wants us to move ahead on this measure but the full committee is tied up on the impeachment issue," said a committee lawyer. "We are doing the preliminary work now." WASHINGTON (AP) A group of women, on behalf of mothers across the country, are lobbying Congress because they believe equal rights should be extended to young girls who want to play Little League baseball. The Mother's March on the Little League, an organization based primarily in tie metropolitan Washington area, has been cornering Congressmen to seek passage of a bill introduced by Rep. Martha W. Griffiths (D-Mich.) that would amend the federal charter of the Little League organization to include girls.

"Wotrioditandit'struor Wfc 0. Under the charter and the rules and regulations of the Little League, a Williamsport, organization, only boys between the ages of eight and 12 can play. "Historically, girls are not eligible," a league spokesman said. "We oppose girls playing baseball because we are fearful about their well-being. It is a physical thing baseball is regarded as a contact sport." Carol Forbes, a 33-year-old Reston, mother of three children one of them a daughter disagrees with the physical well-being argument put forth by the Little League, which had 2.5 million boys playing baseball in 31 countries during 1973.

"When the public hearings are held," said Ms. Forbes, a title she prefers, "we'll pro- Tampa Hires Coach TAMPA "(UPI) Former University of Tampa graduate Randy Smith has been hired as a full-time assistant on the Tampa football staff, head coach Dennis Fryzel announced yesterday. DETROIT ATLANTA AB Bl AB Bl Jersey Romps, 11-5 TEENAGE DRIVER ED CLASS TONITE! Brlnkrften ss 3 0 10 Robinson ss 3 111 Veryiot it 2 0 11 Lum cl 4 110 Rodriguei 3b 3 2 2 0 Event 3b 3 111 I. Browfi 3b 10 0 1 Aaron II 3 0 0 0 Northryp ri 2 112 Nordhagen It 1 0 0 0 Ogliviel REMEMBER, If gai rationing, occun. to aualifv for oapier I I 3 I I l'Johnson 2b 4 0 0 0 110 0 Tepedlno lb 3 110 3 0 10 Breaieale lb 10 0 0 0 10 0 Catanova 10 10 2 111 Howard 2 0 0 0 10 11 Harrison 2 0 0 0 5 1 1 0 p.

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