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rioles Down Reds, 4-3, With mers By Bob Broeg Post-Dispatch Sports Editor CINCINNATI, Oct. 10 Old pro Brooks Robinson saved the first game of the World Series for Baltimore today with his glove and then won it with his bat as the Orioles rallied past the Cincinnati Reds, 4-3, in a va r.Ati'T Big Orange Machine i play a prominent part in the pivotal play of the game, tied the score in the fifth when he hit Nolan's first delivery over the right-field fence. Nolan, a perfect pitcher the first time around the batting order, gave up a sort infield single to Paul Blair with one down in the fourth and then John (Boog) Powell, Baltimore's 260-pound percheron at first base, lifted a two-strike, opposite-field homer near the foul line In left. When May led off the nome sixth to get back to the moment of truth in the Series opener the rugged Redleg grounded a curving smash over third base. Robinson, the American League's premier glove man for 15 years, speared the ball as he lunged into foul territory.

Throwing without righting himself, Robinson couldn't get much on the ball, but he got enough to get a one-bounce peg to Powell. May, deprived of a double by Robinson's stop, was retired on a bang-bang play, called by American League umpire John Flaherty, and stared at the umpire in disbelief. May's glare, it seemed, would have been better aimed at "The Head," as the Orioles call their thinning-thatched, 33-year-old third baseman. Robinson's defensive brilliance was followed by a walk to Bernie Carbo and Tommy Helms's hit-and-run single, which sent Carbo to third and brought into focus the key situation in the Orioles' fifteenth consecutive victory. To bat for light-hitting shortstop Woody Woodward, manager Anderson sent up Ty Cline, hero of Cincinnati's first playoff victory over Pittsburgh.

Cline's best was a high, chopped grounder at the plate. Umpire Ken Burkhart, hustling, rushed out from behind the plate to be able to measure whether Hendricks, darting out of his catching post, caught the ball in fair territory or foul. As the umpire reconstructed it later, the ball was caught by the catcher barely four inches fair. Here, Burkhart made what amounted to a damaging and honest admission. He expected Hendricks to wheel and throw to first because, the umpire said, he didn't figure Carbo would try to score.

Straddling the third-base line, Burkhart was in the base-runner's way, therefore, and Carbo, sliding, upended the umpire, who was forced to make a critical call from his backside. I asked Burkhart, 'Did you see Hendricks tag And Burkhart said, Yes, I saw him tag I have to take the man's word for it." Anderson spoke before he'd had a chance to see the tell-tale photographs. Carbo said, "I think we surprised the umpire. He was so surprised he didn't know where the plate was. I might get my feet in hot water saying that." Helms was even more critical.

"It was a horrible call," Helms said. "It turned the whole game around. If one of us makes an error, you guys write it up. Why not the ump?" And Pete Rose said, "He Burkhart) had to forget our guy on third base. You don't go oehind the plate and make that call." Burkhart acknowledged that he was surprised when Carbo dashed home.

"I didn't see him and he hit me on the leg," Burkhart said. "When the catcher dived at him, that's when I saw the tag. I don't remember how I saw it. It happened so fast." Anderson's own departure from custom immediately after the disputed play raised brows in the press box. Was he really so hot he'd forgotten to lift Nolan, next up, for a pinch hitter? No, the rookie field foreman sam, he'd decided that with two out, he'd stay with his starting pitcher.

This, mind you, from the man who won the pennant with his brilliant bullpen. Nolan flied out and an inning later, after Brooks Robinson homered to give Baltimore the lead, Anderson made his own strategy look bad. When Dave Johnson walked with two down, the Reds' manager removed Nolan in favor of relief ace Clay Carroll even though bashful-batting Mark Belanger was at the plate. 7 Carroll, after yielding a single to Belanger, slammed, the door so hard that he fanned four of the seven men he retired, but that whinny you just heard was from Pimlico, Baltimore's home course, with the horse already out of the You see, Pancake Palmer, flatter at first than one of the flapjacks he favors, fluffed up like a souffle and finished strong. Check signals, he could have, it appeared, but after, TURN TO PAGE 4, COL.

1 contest of controversial calls and questionable strategy. Robinson's wind-aided homer over the left-field fence at Riverrront Stadium snapped a tie in the seventh, an inning after his vacuum- cuepnina olnvp nrpvpntprl a DreaK-tnrougn dv ine sugnuy favored a i al League champions. The sixth inning was the one that will be remembered by a capacity crowd of 51,531 anaca nationwiae television audience, which saw an umpire apparently blow a play at the plate and Cincinnati's freshman manager blow his cool. derson, who saw Gary Nolan 1., complete only four of 37 starts in an 18-7 season, permit Nolan to bat for himself with the game on the bases? By the time Lee May stood up there to lead off that inning with menacing, short, choppy, preliminary swings, the husky Cincinnati first RAI.TIMOKK (4) An RRI PO A Rllfnrd If Klalr rf Powell lb K. Rnhlnsnn rf R.

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2:24. A SI .531 Hendricks, after grabbing the ball, lunged back toward Carbo, who was hooking away from the catcher. Carbo, in fact, as both instant television replay and sequence photographs showed, did not tag the plate. However, he was not tagged out, either. Because Hendricks, partly screened off by the umpire, never did transfer the ball from his bare hand to his glove.

And it was with the empty mitt that he brushed at the sliding runner. Carbo, instinctively bounding to his feet after his slide, rushed back to touch the plate, only to find he'd already been called out. What would have been the proper call? No call until the runner returned to the plate or went to the dugout. Afterward, Burkhart said, "It was one of those unusual plays, one in 100. I called it the best I knew how." At the time, when Anderson charged out to beef, the veteran umpire insisted that Hendricks had made the tag, which meant that Burkhart thought the catcher had transferred the ball from his bare hand to the mitt.

Anderson refused to complain after the game. He explained quietly, "The umpire didn't beat us Baltimore did it by putting three over that wooden thing out there. Carbo told me Hendricks never tagged him with his glove hand and had the ball in the other hand. Carbo said Hendricks tagged the umpire. "I thought Burkhart was falling and couldn't see the play.

baseman already had pounded Jim Palmer for a single and a two-run homer, helping Nolan get off to a 3-0 lead. Elrod Hendricks, Baltimore's rangy catcher who would 21-7 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. oort XL BOB BROEG, Editor SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1970 PAGES 1 12F HllllllHimillllllimillllllilliimiiiMiiMiiiimiiiim numimimmi niiinifni mini i ii i nun in Minimi i lis ill i iiiiiiiiii theif fierce pressure. They contributed to three Missouri fumbles and forced three pass interceptions, as well as sending a procession of Tigers to the sidelines with injuries.

hit star Tiger tailback Joe Moore such a shot that Joe left the game with a shoulder separation and may be out for the season. He had gained only six yards. Tackle Roclcy Wallace and linebackers Sam Britts and Roger Yanko also left the game Yanko on a stretcher with injuries that may last for a time. There was no immediate report on their condition. Tiger defensive stars, in addition to Brinkley, included linebacker Adam Vital, tackles John Cowan and Steve Mizer and all the defensive backs.

Vital intercepted a pass to Blunt one Nebraska thrust and then grabbed a Husker fumble By Bill Beck Of the Post-Dispatch Staff LINCOLN, Oct. 10 -Defensively stifling Nebraska, powerful enough to make its own breaks and classy enough to make them pay off, bruised courageous Missouri, 21-7, here today in a key Big Eight football game. The Tigers nung tough well into the fourth quarter and, indeed, put more pressure on the sixth-ranked Huskers than they received to that point. But a mishandled punt gave Nebraska life and quarterback Van Brownson, who had played in the shadow of Jerry Tagge all season, led the Cornhuskers on a 66-yard march for the go-ahead touchdown. Moments later, a pass interception by linebacker Jerry Murtaugh gave Nebraska field position and led to the final touchdown on a 48-yard punt return by fleet Paul Rodgers.

Both teams were famed for offensive prowess coming into the game, but the stars on both sides belonged to the defense. Missouri's only score came in the second quarter when Lorenzo Brinkley, defensive halfback, picked off a Tagge pass in the flat and returned it 21 yards to the Cornhuskers 1. Quarterback Mike Farmer got the touchdown on a sneak. Nebraska defenders such as Murtaugh, tackles Dave Walline and Larry Jacobson, corner-back Joe Blahak and linebacker Bob Terrio were merciless in Blues Battle Rangers In 0 pener At Arena Husker Harvest Missouri Nphraska Kinney 0 7 0 0- 7 0 0 1421 3 pa.s from Tags (Hnc-prs Kirk) Farmer 1 run Unstable kirk) NU Brownson run (Roifrrj kirk) Rodger 48 punt return (Rogers kick i STATISTICS Jin. h.

First downs 1(1 16 Rushing yardace. 87 217 I'hnsJiik I 1 Return yardage "134 Passes 9-24-M 9-23-1 8--H. I iimnips lost 3 irds penalized S9 on the Tiger 1 to thwart another. "I was tremendously proud-of our defense all the way," said coach Dan Devine. "The three fumbles all in the third quarter kept the defense on trie field too long at one stretch.

We just got a little tired." Despite the statistics that provided a considerable edge for the Cornhusker, the Tigers were TURN TO PAGE 10, COL. I keep the Blues in front while Craig Cameron was off for holding midway through the period. Rod Gilbert of the Rangers tested Wakely with a rocketing slap shot from 40 Teet out and then Vic Hadfield slammed the rebound at what looked like open net. But the St. Loijis goaler somehow closed the gap.

The Rangers finally broke his spell at 4 minutes 27 seconds of the middle frame when slick Jean Ratella skirted Billy Plager and flipped a backhander over the sprawling Wakely. But Bordeleau, with his second goal of the evening, put St. Louis back in front 10 minutes later. The swift pivotman, acquired last spring from the Montreal Canadians, fired from a near-impossible angle and watched in amazement as the shot squirted between Giacomin's legs. But he got an assist from Sabourin, who slammed into the New York goaler and jarred the disc loose.

That's the way the period ended, although' the Rangers were provided with a golden.pp-portunity to get back on even terms when big Noel Picard of the Blues was waved for holding at 17: 02. However, the Blues, playing as tight a defensive game as they ever have, stymied the New York power play and maintained their 2-1 margin. The Blues met the New York Rangers at The Arena last night in the National Hockey League season opener for both teams. In the third period, the Blues led, 2-1. The opening ceremonies, featuring commedian Bob Hope CONTROVERSIAL PLAY: Umpire Ken Burkhart is the man in the middle in this key play in the sixth inning of the opening game of the World Series yesterday.

The Cincinnati Reds' Bernie Carbo tries to score from third on Ty Cline's bouncer at the plate. Burkhart inadvertently blocks the path to the plate as Baltimore catcher Elrod Hendricks reaches past him trying to make the tag. (UPI Telephoto) 'western Past and Sen, Stuart Symington, had hardly finished before newcomer Christian Bordeleau put the Blues in front at 29 seconds of the opening session. The play was as picture-perfect an effort as you'll ever see in NHL competition. Gary Sabourin, tied up to the right of the New York goal, backhanded a pass to rookie George Morrison in the corner.

He, in turn, flipped the disc to the streaking Bordeleau, who picked the top corner of the cage from 15 feet out. That was the only scoring of the first period, although the Blues presented Ranger goalkeeper Ed Giacomin with plenty of anxious moments, out-shooting New York, 12-5. Hope; in town as a political supporter of Symington, was a surprise guest at the game. He cracked a few jokes, suggested Crosby had "always said he should be on ice," and dropped the puck for the opening face-off from a safe 15 feet away. NGiacomin's most-anxious moment of the period came when Bill McCreary rocketed around New oYrk defenseman Soiling and had the Ranger goalie as naked as a Playboy foldout, but the puck skittered off his stock as he made his play in front of the cage.

Although he faced only five shots, St. Louis goalie Ernie Wakely, didn't have an easy time in the first 20 minutes. He had to be particularly sharp to By Ed Willcs Of The Post-Dispatch Staff EVANSTON, 111., Oct. 10 A bag of hungry Wildcats chewed up the University of Illinois' hopeful defense this afternoon as Northwestern, winless in its first three games, wiped out the Illini football revival, 48-0, with its highest-scoring offense in a dozen years. The Illini, who had ranked Northwestern made a 72-yard tenth nationally in rushing de- scoring march in 19 plays with fense with an average yield of the opening kickoff.

only '83 yards a game after Daigneau, his offense so good winning two of their first three Aafe could Protect him on the assignments, were slugged for Sldeline after three Quarters, 238 yards on the ground by the hlt on 13 of 23 Passes for 159 Wildcats. Fullback Mike yards and two touchdowns. His Adamle alone ran Illinois out of second scoring pass, an eight-the elite class, carrying 23 varder tnat climaxed a 72-yard times for a 114-yard net. tnrust 15 Plavs. went to Oddly, the 190-pound, 5-foot-9 Pearson-senior got only one of North- So much for what North-western's seven touchdowns western did to the Illini except and it came on a short pass t0 8ive mention to defensive over the middle that he lugged TURN TO PAGE 8, COL.

1 HIS RIGHT HAND still holding the ball, Hendricks has tagged Carbo with his gloved left hand as Burkhart, a former major league pitcher, begins to pivot toward the action behind him. (UPI Telephoto) Major College Scores Prep Scores away tor a js-yara scoring piay. Al Robinson, a junior half back, scored twice for the Wildcats on plunges as they put tne Illini away with a 21-point first half. But as much a factor in Northwestern's most lopsided victory in a series that now is tied (30-30-4) was the production coach Alex Agase got when he fired the handicapped at the Illini. Quarterback Maurie Daigneau flanker Barry Pearson were doubtful starters for the Wildcats because of injuries.

But both were on hand when Wildcat Strike Illinois 0 0 0 0 II 7 14 7 2(1 48 NC Robinson 1 run (Planlsek kick) Adamle 38 pass from Daigneau (Planisek kirk) 'NU Koliinson 1 run Planlsek kick) NT Pearson pass front UaiK-arnil (Planisek kick) Soinprs run (Planisrk kick) NT Somen I run (Planisek kick) NlJ-'-R. Anderson pass from Khelbourne. (kick failed) A 33.316. STATISTICS Illinois 'western First downs KushliiK yardage Passing yardatte lielurr, yardage Passes Punts Fumbles Insl Yards penalised 9 B7 2M8 I 14 4 39 3-11-J IS-2H-0 2 I 1 .1 AREA COLLEGES St. Louis U.

41, St. Benedict's 0 Washington U. 24, Centre 13 Southwestern (Ten 13, Principia 10 BIG EIGHT Nebraska 21, Missouri 7 Kansas 21, Kansas State 15 Colorado 61, Iowa State 10 BIG TEN Northwestern 48, Illinois 0 Michigan 29, Purdue 0 Ohio State 29, Michigan State 0 Minnesota 2,1, Indiana 0 Iowa 24, Wisconsin 14 INTERSECTIONAL Notre Dame 51, Army 10 Louisiana St. 34, Pacific 0 MIDWEST Miami (0.) 19, Marshal! 12 Louisville 14, Tulsa Ohio U. 17, Dayton 14 Kent State 25, W.

Michigan 22 EAST Columbia 28, Harvard 21 Syracuse 23, Maryland 7 Penn State 28, Boston College 3 Dartmouth 38, Princeton 0 Boston U. 13, Massachusetts 10 Colgate 21, Holy Cross 13 Lehigh 7, Rutgers 0 Pitt 10, Navy 8 Yale 28, Brown 0 Villanova 17, Buffalo 7 Cornell 32, Penn 31 Bucknell 21. Davidson 20 Delaware 36, Lafayette 20 SOUTH Virginia 49, VMI 10 Duke 21, West Virginia 13 Auburn 44, Clemson 0 S. Carolina 35, N. Carolina 21 Citadel 16, Wm.

Mary 7 Wake Forest 28, Va. Tech 7 Tennessee 17, Georgia Tech 6 Mississippi 31, Georgia 21 Alabama 35, Vanderbilt 11 Florida 38, Fla. State 27 SOUTHWEST Oklahoma State 34, TCU 20 Texas 41, Oklahoma 9 Houston 31, Miss. State 14 Texas Tech 21, Texas 7 FAR WEST Air Force 24, Tulane 3 Wyoming 16, Colo. State 6 Stanford 24, Southern Calif.

14 Oregon State 31, Utah 21 California 31, Washington 28 Montana 44, Idaho 26 PUBLIC HIGH Beaumont 31, Soldan 0 McKinley 16, Vashon 0 Cleveland 29, Sumner 7 Roosevelt 14, Southwest 6 Northwest 40, Central 0 ABC LEAGUE John Burroughs 19, Lutheran North 0 Country Day 28, Priory 7 Principia 14, Lutheran South 12 CAC Chaminade 54, Kennedy 0 DuBourg 21, DeAndreis 8 SUBURBAN NORTH Ritenour 13, Normandy 6 SUBURBAN SOUTH Webster Groves 21, Lindbergh 0 Mehlville 3, Parkway Central 2 Parkway West 18, Kirkwood 8 SOUTHWESTERN Belleville West 14, Wood River 6 NONCONFERENCE CBC 19, Hazelwood ft Eureka 18, Willow Springs 8 the plate. Between Carbo and Hendricks is Baltimore pitcher Jim Palmer. (AP Wirephoto) THE OUT SIGN is given by Burkhart while Hendricks, the ball still in his bare hand, lands on his backside and Carbo, flinging away his helmet, charges back toward if i.