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Redbirds Apply Brakes, Sweep Astros By Ed Wilks Don't use an indelible pencil, bl.it circle July 9. It mav become the rlav the! hasphall Jose Plus Mar go Equals Sensitivity Cardinals looked at themselves in th. mirror and decided that what they saw wasni all that oau. IIIIIHIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Not as bad, say, as being 12 games out of first place in the National League's Eastern Division would lead you to think. ST.

LOUIS POST-DISPATCH "You're 12 games out, and vou start thanking ii about how good you were a month said Joe Torre, ta'king of a May in which the Redbirds were 19-6 and led it all by 2 glimes. "Then you go 10-25 and you have to pult the brake on somewhere or you could be out of it. "You're sort of laying back, waitingV for something to happen. That comes from loiiing. BOB BROEG.

Editor "All I said was, 'What the hell are you looking at? That was a good Vargo recounted. "He was giving me a look all night. An umpire shouldn't have to put up with that. "He didn't say anything. He'd have been better off if he had." Vargo said he would call NL president Chub Feeney with a report on the matter.

Bing De-vine, Cardinal general manager, said he, too, planned to call Feeney about it in Cardenal's behalf "and to find out how we the club, the players stand," in such incidents. Said Al Barlick, the head man of the umpire crew: "It's just part of the game." Denny Lemaster's first pitch to Jose Cardenal was a called strike. Jose turned to look at plate umpire Ed Vargo and that was the last move Cardenal made as a participant in last night's second game at Busch Stadium. Vargo tossed out Jose in the ninth inning. What's more, Vargo indicated, with three raised fingers, that Cardenal was out $300 to boot.

"I don't say anything to him, I just look," said Jose. "Then he say something nasty to me something you can't put in the newspaper and so I talk back." Cardenal also threw down (1) his batting helmet, (2) his bat and (3) his cap. "The National League rules say that it's $100 So you figure you better brake it." That's what the Cardinals did last nifeht. July 10, 1971 5 everytime you throw something," said Vargo, who insisted he had said nothing "nasty" to Jose. ending grounder after Taylor had walked the bases full in the ninth.

Pop Quiz: If you were paying attention, how many hits did Maxie have? Trick question. Three were chronicled above, but he had one other for a 4-for-6 night that put the sometimes maligned Redbird shortstop's batting average at .243. That does not threaten Torre's NL-leading .360, of course, but it might be almost as pertinent. Maxvill didn't have 20 hits in his first 100 at bats this season (19-for-101). But then he suddenly found himself at shortstop, not sitting on the bench behind Dick Schofield or Ted Sizemore.

Since manager Red Schoendienst put him back at short, Maxie's been 15-for-39 (.385) and has added 55 points to his batting average. "When you get into the game day after day, you get to handle the curve ball and you get to know how they're pitching you," said Maxvill. "You get a little confidence you don't look over your shoulder. You become aggressive." That's the magic word: aggressive. "Maxie's an altogether different hitter than he was at the first of the year (.188) or even last year said Schoendienst.

"He's more aggressive." What prompted Red to go with Max at short? "I just made up my mind I was going to play him," Red said. "We needed defense. We were giving up too many runs. I figured we play Sizemore at second, but if Hoolie got hot, we'd play him. The big thing was trying to get a set lineup.

I don't like messing around with different guys here and there." Nice thing that. Maxie was 4-for-6 and Hoolie, after sitting out the first game, started the second game against a lefthander and drove in four runs. as Torre said, the turnabout has come no matter what happens when Reggie Cleveland goes against Houston's Jack Billing-ham in today's 7 o'clock T-Shirt Night game. They jammed on the brakes, twice came fnom behind and picked on the Houston Astros! at Busch Stadium i The Redbirds, behind StAve Carlton and Jerry Reuss (who had help fnW Chuck Taylor and Moe Drabowsky), swept! a twi-night doubleheader, 5-2 and 9-5. Winning two games in one day is no bis thing, of course.

Even Torre used a "maybeT when he said, The turnabout's got to comtV someplace, and maybe this is it." But winning twice between sunset and moon rise on July is a fun thing, indeed, when you've managed! to win two games in succession only once I before since Memorial Day. singles by Joe Morgan, Cesar Cedeno and Bob Watson. He was two runs behind, with runners on first and second and none out. So he picked off Watson at first, and then struck out Denis Menke and Doug Rader. That started a string of 14 consecutive put-downs by Carlton, who shut out the Astros on two singles the rest of the way.

He struck out nine, but walked four filling the bases on passes in the sixth before Menke hit into an inning-ending double play while the Redbirds knocked off Ken Forsch. Lou Brock walked, Matty Alou tripled and Ted Simmons hit a sacrifice fly for a 2-2 tie in the first. Brock singled, Torre hit a tie-breaking, two-out double and then scored on Wat After a walk to Simmons, Luis Melendez and Maxvill singled for one run. Reuss delivered a two-strike sacrifice bunt (he executed) and Brock's ground out (he executed) brought home the tying run before Julian Javier's triple made it 3-2 and Torre's single made it 4-2. Another single by Maxie, two walks and Javier's second triple which skipped past a charging Wynn in right field with the bases filled and two out gave Reuss a 7-2 lead.

A balk by reliever Buddy Harris made it 8-2. Wynn smacked a three-run homer in the sixth, after which Taylor made the scene, but doubles by Jim Beauchamp and Torre got the score to 9-5 in the sixth. All that was left was for Drabowsky to get Rader on a game- son's error on Joe Hague's pop up to left field in a two-run third. In the fourth, Dal Maxvill singled, Carlton sacrificed (he executed) and Brock singled for the final run. The second game was even more of a merit-badge winner.

Houston got on top, 2-0, in the second inning against Reuss on Rader's home run, a double by Menke and Johnny Edwards's single plus losing-pitcher Wade Blasingame's slow-hopping ground out. But this was the Redbirds' night to beat adversity as they pocketed a half-game into Pittsburgh's Eastern lead and closed within l1 games of third-place Chicago. The best part about it was that the Cardinals were able to execute. They did what they wanted to do when they had to do it. And that, as Casey Stengel used to say, is what separates the men from the ribbon clerks.

Take Carlton in the first game, when he nailed his twelfth victory on the third try. At the start, he was as steady as a one-legged guy at a rump-kickin'. He walked leadoff, batter Roger Metzger on four pitches, then was touched for consecutive Executioners Mmgu! Eimdls Angels' Mighi Life (FIRST GAME) HOUSTON (it ABEH RBI PO 1 0 0 0 0 3 110 4 0 11 3 0 11 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 10 a 10 10 Metzger ss Le master Morgan 2b Cedeno cf Watson lf-lh Menke lb-ss Rader 3b Wynn rf Hiatt Forsch J. Alou ph-If Totals How They Stand National League EASTERN DIVISION Frt. GB Pittsburgh 56 31 .644 New York 46 37 .554 8 Chicago 45 40 .529 10 CARDINALS 44 42 .512 11 Philadelphia 36 50 .419 19ii Montreal 34 51 .400 21 WESTERV DIVISION Single In 20fh Wins For As 30 2 5 2 24 6 CARDINALS (5) AB RBI PO A 3 2 3 1 0 0 2 0 Brock If M.

Alou rf Melendez pr-rf Simmons Torre 3b Hague lb Cruz cf Sizemore 21) Maxvill ss Carlton Pet. GB 54 34 .614 48 40 .545 6 43 42 .506 9 44 47 .484 11 38 51 .427 16 32 55 .368 21 San Francisco Los Angeles Houston Atlanta Cincinnati San Diego Totals 28 5 6 4 27 6 HOUSTON 200 000 000 2 CARDINALS 203 100 OOx Watson. DP Houston 1. Cardinals I. LEFT Houston 5, Car-' dinals 6.

EE Torre. 3B M. Alou. Carlton. SF Simmons.

IP ER BB SO 6 5 4 2 0 0 0 3 Forsch ili, 5-2) 6 Lemaster 2 Carlton (W, 12-n) 9 5 2 2 4 9 Barlick, Vargo. Wendelstedt, Froemiming. 2:02. (SECOND GAME) HOUSTON (5) From Post-Dispatch Wire Services OAKLAND, July 10 The Oakland Athletics gave the California Angels 20 innings and more than five hours to perform a miracle, and then turned to their own little angel Angel Mangual. Mangual, a rookie at this business, put the Angels (and the A's) out of their misery, early this morning when he ended what had been until tHen the longest scoreless game in American League history.

His single with two out and two on in the bottom of the twentieth inning just before the game would have been suspended by a 1 a.m. curfew-must have seemed like a miracle to the A's, who packed up for the night with a 1-0 victory over the Angels. Even Oakland owner Charles O. Finley stayed up for the ending, listening to the game by telephone from his home in Indiana. He was so happy he called the clubhouse with orders for Mangual to go out and buy a $200 suit and charge it to Finley.

The clubs broke two major league strikeout records, thanks in part to a 17-strikeout performance by Oakland's Vida Blue, who went the first 11 innings in pursuit of his eighteenth victory. There were 43 strikeouts in the game, breaking the record of 36 sets in 1964 by the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants. The Angels' 26 strikeouts also broke the record (22) set by the Mets in that game. Billy Cowan of the Angels tied another major league mark by striking out six times. The game's only score came after Angels re- TURN TO PAGE 6, COL.

4 FRIDAY'S RESULTS Cardinals 5-9, Houston 2-5 Montreal 3, Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 11. Atlanta 2 Cincinnati 6 New York 4 San Diego 1-7 Chicago 0-2 San Francisco 7, Los Angeles 4 TODAY'S GAMES Houston (Billlngham 4-8) at St. Louis (Cleveland 7-8), 7 p.m. Atlanta (Niekro 9-7) at Pittsburgh (Blass 10-4) Chicago (Jenkins 12-8) at San Diego (Norman 0-3) New York (Gentry 7-6) at Cincinnati (Simpson 1-2), night Montreal (Stonercan 10-8 and Strohl- mayer 2-1) at Philadelphia (Wise 8-7 and Fryman 4-3) 2, twi-night San Francisco (Perry 6-8) at Los Angeles (Sutton 9-6), night SUNDAY'S GAMES Houston at St. Louis.

1:15 p.m. Atlanta at Pittsburgh Chicago at San Diego, 2 New York at Cincinnati, 2 Montreal at Philtdelphia San Francisco at Los Angeles MONDAY'S GAMES No games scheduled American League AB RBI PO A J. Alou If 3 0 0 0 2 0 Metzger ss 3 0 0 0 2 5 Morgan, ph 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cedeno cf 5 0 0 0 1 0 Watson lb 4 1 2 0 10 1 Rader 3b 4 2 1113 Wynn rf ,411310 Menke 2t 2 110 2 0 Martinez 2b 2 0 0 0 2 0 Edwards 4 0 112 0 Blasingame .1 0 0 0 0 0 Harris 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schlueter ph 10 10 0 0 Lemaster 10 10 12 Chiles ph 0 0 0 0 0. Totals 34 5 8 5 24 11 CARDINALS (9) AB RBI PO A EASTERN DIVISION 10 0 1 1 Li Pet. GB 4 3 8 53 31 .631 0 2 3 1 1 0 2 0 16 2 0 Baltimore Boston Detroit New York Cleveland Washington 3 1, 0 0 0 0 1 49 3S .583 4 46 38 .548 7 39 47 .453 15 37 49 .430 17 33 51 .393 20 0 0 Brock If Javier 2b Beauchamp lb Torre 3 Cardenal rf Cruz ph-cf Simmons Melendez cf-rf Maxvill ss Reuss Taylor Drabowsky Totals 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 12 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 WESTERN DIVISION Pet.

GB 55 29 .655 43 39 lift ISlFf 1 WHi .524 11 39 46 .459 16 33 9 11 8 27 16 Oakland Kansas City Minnesota California Chicago Milwaukee 40 49 .449 17 36 48 .439 18 36 48 .439 18 HOUSTON 020 003 000 fi CARDINALS 044 001 OOx 9 Rader. DP Houston 1, Cardinals 1. LEFT Houston 9, Cardi- 2B Menke, Beauchamp, Torre. 3B Javier 2. HE Rader (4), Wynn (4).

SB Javier. Reuss 2' IP ER BB SO OAKLAND AB AB Alomar 2b 8 0 2 Mangual cf-rf 8 0 3 Berry cf 8 0 2 Rudi If 8 0 0 Contgliarort 8 0 0 Jackson rf 3 0 0 Reynolds rf 0 0 0 Odom pr 0 0 0 Cowan If 8 0 0 Monday cf 4 0 0 McMuIlen 3b 8 0 2 Davis lb, 2b 8 0 2 Spencer lb 8 0 2 Bando 3b 4 0 0 O'Brien ss 8 0 0 Duncan 5 0 0 Moses 4 0 1 Blefary ph, 110 Rivers ph 10 0 Brown ss 3 0 0 Stephenson 3 0 0 Tenace ph 10 0 May 4 0 1 La Russa ss 10 0 Repoz ph 0 0 0 Epstein lb 3 0 0 Fisher 10 0 Green 2b, ss 8 0 2 Gonzaleiph 10 1 Blue 3-0 0 Queen 10 0 Fingers 2 0 0 Hegan ph 10 0 Totals 71 0 11 Locker 0 0 0 Knowles 0 0 0 Hunter ph 10 0 Totals 64 1 7 California 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 0 Oakland 000 000 000 000 000 000 011 Blaslngams (L, 5-8) 1 4 Harris 12 3 Lemaster 4 4 Reuss (W, 8-8) 5 8 Tavlor 3 0 2 3 2 4 3 Drabowsky 0 urr am ColU rris. TT Vargo. Wen'delstadt, Froemming Barlick. 2:39.

A 24,748. FRIDAY'S RESULTS New York 5, Boston 2 Baltimore 4, Cleveland 1 Detroit 1, Washington 11 Innings Chicago 4, Milwaukee 1 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 3 Oakland 1, California 0, 20 innings TODAY'S GAMES Boston (Siebert 12-4) at New York (Bahnsen 8-8) Milwaukee (Lockwood 5-6) at Chicago (Bradley 6-7) Kansas City (Dal Canton 8-3) at Minnesota (Blyleven 7-11) California (Messersmith 7-8) at Oakland (Hunter 11-7) Cleveland (McDowell 8-7 and Paul O-O) at Baltimore (Jackson 2-2 and Boswell 1-1), 2, twi-night Detroit (Lollch 13-6) at Washington McLaln (5-14), night SUNDAY'S GAMES Boston at New York Milwaukee at Chicago, 2 Kansas City at Minnesota, 2 California at Oakland, 2 Cleveland at Baltimore, twilight Detroit at Washington MONDAY'S GAMES No games scheduled i DP California 1. LOB Cali- Moses. SB Alomar, Jackson, RBI Mangual. O'Brien, fornla 12, Oakland 13.

2B- Davis. 3 FIRESTONE ALIGNMENT ilightly higher for tor- $095 ion ban air. 7 IP 12 5 2 11 7 BB 6 2 0 0 1 0 so 13 1 3 17 7 1 1-2) ER 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 May Fisher Queen. (L, Blue Fingers T.orker SUBURBAN TIRE 0 1 lVs Knowles (W, 3-4) 434-1373 BLUE STREAK: Wida Blue uncorks a fast ball last night in Oakland. (AP Wirephoto) 5:05.

A 22,938. HBP Blefary (by Queen). WP Blue. T- 23rd It Olive 1041 S. Brentwood 725-1626 British Open Scores St.

Louis Vs. Atlanta SOUTHPORT, England, July 10 (UPI) Scores of the leaders after the third round of the 100th, British Open golf ohamplon8tiip: Trevino Tremmes But Takes Title 69-70-69208 Stars Seek Exit From Last Place TONIGHT (Sat.) 8p.m. Speolal to the Post-Dispatch ATLANTA, July 10The Stars will be trying to keep up a winning streak and the Atlanta Chiefs will be attempting to halt a skid when the teams meet here at 8 tonight in a North American Soccer League match. St. Louis has won two games and tied one in its last three outings for a 22-point gain in the standings that has put the last-place Stars within two points of Washington in the Southern Division standings.

A victory, or even a mmmmmmmmmm-mmmmmmmm "MAKE UP" NIGHT RAGING MONDAY, JULY 12-8 P.M. -Special Admission Prices- On Make Up Night Only $1.00 GRANDSTAND or CLUBHOUSE Pro Soccer Lee Trevino Tony Jacklin Liang Huan Lit Craig Defoy Gary Player Roberto de Vicenzo Dale Hayes Peter Oosterhuis Jack Nickiaus Ramon Sota Malcolm Gresson Charles Coody Hugh Jackson Harry Bannerman Peter Thomson Bert Yancey Dave Stockton Billy Casper Howie Johnson Kel Nagle a-Mike Bonallack Doug Sanders Johnny Miller Etfb Charles Eric Brown Peter Butler Randal Vines John Lister John Siharkey Graham Marsh Don Swaelens Guy Wolstenholme Bernard Hunt Brian Huggett Neil Coles John O'Leary Bruce Devlin John Garner Brian Waites Bill Large Vicente Fernandez Min Nan Hsein Doug Sewell John Newton Ralph Manning Tommy Horton Walter Godfrey Peter Allis Bobby Locke Christy O'Connor Jack Wllkshlre Miller Barber Joe Klnselia Lionel Platts Tom Weisknpf Peter Townsend Bernard Gallacher Valentin Barrios Tiene Brltz Brian Barnes David Snell a-Steve Melnyk David Talbot Maurice Bemhrldge a-denotes amateur 69- 70-70209 70- 70-69 209 72-72-68 SI 2 71- 70-71212 71-70-T2 213 71-72-70213 76- 71-66 213 71- 71-72214 72- 72-70214 71-71-73215 74- 71-70215 71-73-72216 73- 71-72-216 70-73-73216 75- 70-71216 74- 74-68216 70-72-75217 69- 76-721217 70- 75-73218 71- 72-75 218 73-71-74218 72- 76-70218 77- 71-71219 75- 72-72-219 73- 73-73219 75-71-73219 73-71-74219 73- 75-72220 75-73-72220 75-73-72220 75- 72-73220 74- 73-73220 73- 73-74220 76- 72-72220 70-75-75220 74- 71-75220 76- 74-71221 70-79-72221 73-75-73221 79-79-73221 77- 70-74221 73-74-74221 73-72-76221 73- 72-762121 70- 72-79221 72- 79-71222 74- 76-72222 75- 73-74222 74- 72-76222 75- 71-76222 71- 74-77222 74- 68-80222 75- 72-73 223 75- 73-75223 73- 75-75 22 72- 76-75223 72- 74-77 '223 73- 78-73224 76- 75-73224 75- 75-74224 76- 74-74224 77- 72-75224 75-73-76224 tie, over the Chiefs could vault the Stars (with 55 points) ahead of the Darts (57 points) If Washington loses a game in Dallas tonight. And if Dallas, second to Atlanta in the race, should lose, a Stars triumph would mean a gain on Dallas. Atlanta, once with a 30-point lead, now holds only a 10-point margin (86-76) over Dallas after losing two and tving one of its last two birdies in a row with threes on the fifth and sixth greens. A par three at the seventh, lfiis fifth three in a row, and two par fours saw him out in 31 and poised for a great win, Roberto De Vicenzo, 48-year-ofd Argentinian, Dale Hayes of South Africa anll Rirton Peter Oosterhuis who were all at six-under 213, fell on the outward half.

De Vincenzo and Hayes turned in 37 and Osterhuis shot a four-over 39. Doug Sanders, beaten in a playoff by Nicklaus for last year's British title, also shot a final round of 67 with halves of 3i--34 for 285. "Before play started I said that the man who could birdie the long holes is a winner," Trevino said. "Every par five here at Royal Birkdale is really a good pa, four with the exception of the fifteenth." Trevino had 208 after 54 holes 11 under par and held a one-stroke lead over Liang) Huan Lu of Taiwan and home-grown Tony Jacklin for whom thousands of fans; are rooting even to the extent of cheering when Trevino missed putts. "You feel bad enough missing a putt without having the fans cheer your mistakes," said Trevino.

"But I'm not really criticizing the crowds. If they hadn't paid their money to come a ad watch us, then we wouldn't be playing for the same stakes. "The fans' attitude just made me fight: harder," Trevino added. SOUTHPORT, England, July 10 (UPI)-Lee Trevino, squandering a five-stroke lead and taking a disastrous on the seventeenth hole, barely hung on today to win the British Open golf championsiip with a closing round 70 for 278, one strole ahead of Liang Huan Lu of Taiwan who hid a 70 for a total of 279. Tony Jacklin of Ingland was third with a closing 71 for 280.

Craig Defoy, also of England although ht was born in Pennsylvania, came in with a 69 for a 281 total. Defending champLn Jack Nicklaus fire dan eagle three on the tighteenth to post a 69 and a four-round total of 283. Also at that level was Masters champion Charles Coody, who shot a 68 today, Gary Player was in with a 72 and a 284 totaL Trevino had threatened to blow the course apart, roaring though the first nine in an astonishing 31 to feave Lu five strokes back. But the 35-year-dr Chinese never wavered While Trevino ha( a pair of bogeys and then took a double boy seven on the seventeenth, to cut Lee's magin to one stroke. Lu fired a pafc of 35s while Trevino tacked a 39 to his 31.

Trevino openid his final round by taking birdies on threeof the first five hiles. He knocked a five-footer at the first for a birdies and salvaged par on the second with a knee-shaker of 20 feet. At the third he Canned one fron 11 feet and then picked up SOCTHERX DIVISION Pts. GF Atlanta 9 4 3 90 29 Dallas 6 3 6 76 25 Washington 4 5 6 63 21 STARS 4 8 3 5(5 32 NOKTHKRN DIVISION Rochester 7 3 4 79 25 New York 6 6 2 70 30 Toronto 1 7 5 37 16 Montreal 2 8 3 33 12 SATtlUA'g SCHEDULE STARS at Atlanta. Washington at Dallas.

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460 (Illinois) USE ANY BRIDGE three games. In previous meetings this season of the Chiefs and Stars, Atlanta was a 4-1 victor here and won, 3-2, in St. Louis. Still listed as a doubtful starter for the Stars was coach Casey Frankiewicz, who has scored five goals in the team's recent surge. Frankiewicz suffered an injury to his left elbow in a 3-1 victory Tuesday over Apollon of Greece.

Casey is the Stars' leading scorer with eight goals and one assist. Pat McBride has tallied five of St. Louis's 22 goals. The Stars' record is 4-8-3, Atlanta's is 9-4-2. i.