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Football Scores 3 World Series Contest 9 Football Contest 9 Race Results II Great Outdoors 12 Major Averages 14 The Pittsburgh Press Sunday, October 8, 1972 Sports 1 Section 1 I d) li I lmB 4 PITTSBURGH ab bi Stennett, If 4 2 2 0 Oliver, cf 4 2 2 3 Clemente, rf 4 0 0 0 Stargell, lb 3 1 1 1 Robertson, lb 0 0 0 0 Sanguillen, 3 0 0 0 Hebner, 3b 3 0 1 1 Cash, 2b 3 0 0 0 Alley, ss 3 0 0 0 Blass, 3 0 0 0 Hernandez, 0 0 0 0 CINCINNATI ah bl Rose If 5 0 2 0 Morgan, 2b 4 1 1 1 Tolan, cf 5 0 1 0 Bench, 3 0 0 0 Perez, lb 4 0 1 0 Menke, 3b 3 0 10 Gcronimo, rf 4 0 0 0 Chancy, ss 4 0 0 0 Gullett, 2 0 1 0 Uhlaender, ph 1 0 1 0 Borbon, 0 0 0 0 Hague, ph 0 0 0 0 By BOB SMIZIK Jack Billingham will pitch for Cincinnati today. That's the Jack Billingham who throws with his right arm. Cincinnati found out by the rather hazardous means of trial and error that left-handed pitching is not necessarily the way to stop the Pirates. Don Gullett, who had only a 9-10 record during the regular season, started yesterday as the Reds worked with the belief that left-handed pitching could itop the Pirates' big left-handed hitters. The belief was proven absurdly incorrect.

Al Oliver, Willie Stargell and Richie Hebner, each a left-handed hitter, drove in nil the runs and had four of the six hits as the Pirates defeated Cincinnati, 5-1, at Three Rivers Stadium in the first game of the best-of-five series to determine the National League champion. A crowd of 50,476 241 above sealing capacity watched in 50 degree temperatures as Steve Blass pitched the first 8 1-3 innings to gain the win. Ramon Hernandez put out the last two Cincinnati batters to pick up the save. Gullett retired the Pirates in four of the six innings he pitched and reliever Pedro Borbon set down six straight batters in two innings. But the Pirates made the most of their innings.

Oliver's triple scored Rcnnie Stennctt, who led off the first with a single. Stargell's double, which missed by a few feet of being a home run, scored Oliver. Hebner's line drive single scored Stargell. Oliver hit a two-run homer in the fifth with Stennett on base for the final two Pirate runs. Gullett's nomination as Cincinnati's starter was of little bother to Pirate Manager Bill Virdon.

"I'm not concerned with our lefties hitting left-handed pitching," he said. And he shouldn't be. Hebner hit .377 against lefties, Oliver .325 and Stargell had a more proportionate number of his home runs and runs batted in against them. "I'd rather hit against lefties and my average indicates that," said Hebner, who was platooned in his first three major league seasons. "I got a chance to face them every day this season and that's the only way you're going to learn to hit them.

Virdon had enough faith in Oliver, Stargell and myself to play us every day against lefties." It really makes no difference to Stargell. "I never think about a guy being righty or lefty," he said. "If I'm swinging good I don't have trouble with anyone." Stargell, who finished the season with a horrendous 4-for-44 slump, believes his troubles are behind him. "I feel real good at the plate," he said. Stargell's double in the first inning landed only several feet below the yellow line at the top of the right-field wall.

"We jammed him and he still hit it to the wall," said Cincinnati catcher Johnny Bench. Totals ....35 1 8 1 Totals 30 5 6 5 Cincinnati 100 001) 000-1 Pittsburgh 300 002 00x-5 LOB Cincinnati 11, Pittsburgh 1. i 2B-Stargell, Rose. 3B Oliver. HR-Morgan, Oliver.

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I fJ 11 v- c' Virdon was cognizant of Stargell's return to form. "Big hitters come and go," he said. "Even if they struggle for awhile, they come back to haunt you." After the Pirates four solid hits in the first, Gullett retired 12 straight batters until Stennett bounced a chopper over third. "That was the turning point in the game," said the Reds' Joe Morgan, who provided the only Cincinnati run with a first inning homer. "If Stennctt doesn't get that hit, Oliver doesn't get to bat in that inning." But Oliver did bat and homered over the 385-foot sign in right center field.

"When I saw that ball drop over the wall I knew that was al! the runs Steve Blass needed," said Oliver. "I've always said Blass is the best pressure pitcher in baseball." Blass was always under pressure. Cincinnati put at least one runner on base every inning, but all except Morgan were stranded. When Blass got into too much trouble In the ninth, Virdon called on Hernandez, who conducted a clinic on exactly how left-handed pitchers should pitch to left-handed batters. With one out in the pinch-hitter Joe Hague walked and Pete Rose singled.

When Blass went 2-0 on Morgan, Virdon had seen enough. (Continued on Page D-2) 5th Straight Loss Pitt Smothered By Tulane, 38-6 By RUSS FRANKE, Press Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS-Pitt saw too many fumbles, too many interceptions and too many mistakes last night-and too many Foleys and the snakebittem and winless Panthers dropped their fifth game of the season to Tulane, 38-6. Pitt didn't score until Tulane had 24 points, and its brief rally in the third period didn't have the 20,417 fans worried a bit on a pleasant, breezy night in Tulane Stadium. They were confident their Foley boys would come through, and they did. Steve Foley Is the quarterback and one of his brothers Mike is his favorite receiver, and there is another brother on the team, Bob, who didn't start but got in to snap the ball a few times.

In running for a touchdown and throwing for two others, the slippery Steve passed for 104 yards and had the Pitt TULANE First downs Rushing yordoo 157 if. Posslng vardag ys Return vordage 172 Po 12-22-3 Vv Puntln- 5.44 Fumbles, lost -40 Penolties j.ji defense on edge much of the time with a pass-run options. And Pitt contributed to Tulane's cause with four lost fumbles and three interceptions. Pitt used all three of its quarterbacks, with Bob Merhvid starting and Bill Daniels and John Hogan In relief. Tilt's only score came on Hogan's short pass to Lance Wall.

And on top of the defeat, Pitt lost its starting fullback, Lou Cecconi, who injured his knee in the first perie-: I probably will require surgery. Further bad news Pitt plays at Notre Dame next Saturday. Tulane scored the first time it got the ball by marching the opening kickoff from its 16 to the Pitt 25, largely on the rushing of tailback Eddie Price. When the Panthers held, Lea Gibson kicked a 35-yard field goal. Operating out of a pro set instead of the wishbone offense, Pitt was able to get as far as the Tulane 45 and then to mid-field in their two possessions in the first period.

Randy Lee, one of the nation's leading punters, kept Pitt (Continued from Page D-3) Steelers Meet Cowboys Today By PHIL MUSICK, Press Sports Writer DALLAS There was a drunk holding a trumpet standing outside the door to the Dallas dressing room last week after the Cowboys lost to Green Bay. When the Dallas players straggled from the room, the drunk would alternately play "Taps" and laugh. His message was as unmistakable as it probably will prove to be premature: As it does to all things, age had crept up on the Cowboys and talk of a dynasty was frivolous. For Stecler faithful, there are small (perhaps microscopic) indications the drunk's dirge may turn into prophecy. The heart of a defensive line built for its ability to knock people down is tackle Bob Lilly, who is 33.

Linebacker Chuck Howley is 36 and five other defensive regulars are over 30. Chuck Noll whose Steelers (2-1) meet Dallas today at 2 o'clock (EDST) with a chance to make their fastest getaway in 17 years does not subscribe to the theory that advancing years may be the reason the Cowboys had to struggle past the New York Giants and Philadelphia before falling to Green Bay. "Age Is the test of having won the battles," he says rather philosophically. "You have to ask where are they aging. Their defensive unit has a lot of years on it, but it is the best players who are older." The shallowest of appraisals reduces to ashes the theory Dallas is in any sort of death throes.

The loss to Green Bay Pens Shake Kings, 4-2 5-Line Stars In Opener By DAN DONOVAN Schock shot to Shack whose plapshot to Schinkel scored. Say that quickly. If you can, then you know the story of the Penguins' 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Kings last night before 11,105 at the Civic Arena. The Ron Schock-Ken Schin-kel-Eddie Shack shift was sensational as the Penguins dominated the third period after two close ones. The Kings scored a power play goal early in the third period after defenseman Jack Lynch was penalized for roughing, but after that, the Penguins kept rolling down the Ice at King goalie Rog Va-cbon.

Schinkcl's goal gave the Penguins the lead, then Al Mc-Donough put icing on it with a beautiful score. McDonough stole a pass at the Kings' blue line and after some slick puck handling fired the puck home. The Penguins scored their first goal of the season in the first period. McDonough flipped a pass to Bryon Watson at the point and Watson fired a shot that was tipped into the net by Greg Polis. Goalie Jim Rutherford prevented the Kings from scoring on a power play when he reached back with his stick to spear a rebound shot that almost trickled across the goal line.

Los Angeles' defensemon rlid most of the shooting in the first period, with Terry Harper, Gillcs Marotte and Earry (Continued on D-4 Kentucky Wins On 97-Yard Run LEXINGTON, Ky. (UPD-Safety Darryl Bishop's 97-yard touchdown run after he intercepted a pass last night sparked Kentucky to a 17-13 Southeastern Conference win over Mississippi State. The fourth quarter sprint by Bishop proved to be the winning margin as Mississippi State struck back quickly, going 80 yards in three plays on the next series of plays. Kentucky held a 10-6 lead at the time of Bishop's interception on the strength of a four-yard run by Gary Knutson and a 19-yard field goal by Doug Sexton, both in the first half. Mississippi State scored on two field goals by Glenn Ellis one from 34 yards out and the other from 40.

MII5IboI Stat 1 1 T-1J Kentucky 0 10 7-1? Ken- Knutson 4 run (5exton kick) MSU-Ellis 34 FG Ken -Sexton Ffi MSU -Elll 40 FG Ken- Bljhoo 97 pass Inlercentlnn (Sex-fon Icick MSU-Grubbs 33 run II is kick) tf Oliver slides into third base on f'rst-in nnj triple as Denis Menke awaits throw. Tigers' Kaline Turns From Hero Into Goat; Athletics Win, 3-2 LSI! Tops Rice, 12-6 HOUSTON (UPI)-Jim Ben-glis, a stocky senior fullback, ran 23 yards for a touchdown and Juan Roca kicked field goals of 46 and 53 yards last night to give seventh-ranked Louisiana State a 12-6 victory over previously unbeaten Rice. Bcnglis burst up the middle midway through the final guar- ter when LSU was clinging to a 6-0 lead. Roca had put the unbeaten Tigers in front in the first quarter with his 46-yard field goal and added his 53- yarder in the second period. lsu i i 4-n Rice LSU-FG Rocci, 4.

LSU-FG Roca, S3. LSU-Benghs, 23, run; (kick foiled). RICE -Coleman. 1, run; (pass tailed), A Cougar Passer Sets Record PULLMAN, Wash. (UPI) -Ty Paine became the most prolific passer in Washington State football history yesterday in leading the Cougars to a 35-14 win over the University of Idaho.

Paine completed 13 of 21 passes for yards and one touchdown for 199 yards and touchdown. The total yards gave Payne a career passing mark of 3,578. Last year, the Baltimore Orioles beat them three straight and, in fact, the Orioles won all previous A.L. payoff games-nine in a row. For the favored A's it was an uphill climb all the way.

Cash hit a homer leading off the second to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead and Lolich, fighting his own control as much as the A's, carried that slim lead only one inning as Oakland tied the score in the third. Bert Campancris walked after one out in the third, skipped to third on a single to right by Matty Alou and scored when Joe Rudi, Oakland's top hitter this year with a .305 average, hit a sacrifice fly to center. For Marqnez it was a big day his biggest In baseball. The A's called him up from Iowa of the American Association Aug. 11 and in 21 at-bats, almost all of them as a pinch-hitter, he batted .381.

Marqucz, ironically, got into the playoffs after relief pitcher Darold Knowles suffered a broken thumb in the final week of the season. Williams decided at that point to go with one less pitcher and add a pinch-hittcr. Duke Sims opened the ninth with a double and Vida Blue relieved Hunter. Sims went to third and Cash was safe at first when Ted Kubiak dropped Bando's throw on Cash's bunt. But Rollie Fingers, who saved 21 games for Oakland this season, relieved Blue and got out of the inning by retiring pinch-hittcr Gates Brown on a foul popup and getting Jim Northrup to ground into a double play.

The A's got two singles with two out in the eighth by Bando and Epstein, but lolich struck out Tenace to end the inning. (Continued on Tagc I)-2) OAKLAND (UPDOId pro Al Kaline turned from hero to goat in one inning yesterday driving in the lead run for the Detroit Tigers in the top of the 11th with a homer and then permitting the winning run to cross on a throwing error in the bottom of the same frame as the Oakland A's rallied for a 3-2 victory in the first game of the American League playoffs. For 10 innings, Detroit's Mickey Lolich dueled Jim "Catfish" Hunter and relievers Vida Blue and Rollic Fingers. Then Kaline, who drove in the tying run and scored the winning one Tuesday as the Tigers won the A East, drilled his homer over the left-field barrier for a 2-1 lead. Rut in the bottom of the 11th on a warm but overcast day and with only 29,536 fans in the Oakland Coliseum, Ixi'lich finally ran out of gas.

Sal Bando punched a single into left and Mike Epstein followed with another single to left. A's skipped Dick Williams, sent John Odom, today's scheduled starting pitcher in the second game, in to run for Bando and Mike Hcgan to run for Epstein. Chuck Scclbach replaced Lolich and the first man he faced, Gene Tenace, bunted down the third-base line. Aurelio Rodriguez dashed in quickly and flipped back to shortstop Eddie Brinkman. covering third, to nail Odam.

Brinkman's return throw to first had Tenace beat for a possible double play but it pulled Norm Cash off the bag. As things turned out that was a big break for the A's, because Tenace wound up scoring the winning run. Pinch-hitter Gonzalo Marquez lined a single to right, Hegan scoring easily from second while Tenace headed for third. Kaline fired to third to head off Tenace but his throw skipped past Rodriguez. Tenace picked himself lip out of the dirt and scampered home with the winning run.

It was the first victory for the A's in playoff competition. was the Cowboys first in 16 games; they are rot sprinters by tradition, having lost two of the first five the past two seasons before going on to the Super Bowl. (Continued on D-7) Sfafe evours Illinois, 35-17, Despite Errors Penn nearly all of it in the first half, hitting six of 13. tcrback that made Joe Paterno envision him receiving the Hcisman Trophy. Until yesterday, the Lions had to concentrate on winning the Lambert Trophy.

Their offense had failed to execute well enough to score a point in the opening half of each of their first three games. Enter the Illini. When the first quarter ended, the Lions had punished them with three touchdowns and led, 21-10. Paterno started a pair of new tackles, later shrugging off the promotion of 256-pound Paul Gabcl, a senior non-lcttcr-man, and 247-pound soph John Nessel as incidental to the mysteries within the suspense offense. "They're two young kids who were getting better," Paterno said.

"So I figured they should get a shot at it." Gabcl and Nessel must have taken advantage of their shot because Paterno said, "I thought our offensive line played its best came." In another personnel change, Chuck Herd advanced past Dave Bland as the No. 1 split end. Herd responded with a neat catch of Hufnagel's 37-yard pass in the end zone that followed first-quarter touchdowns by Bob Nagle on a one-yard plunge, and John Cappelletti's 53-yard burst. There seems to be nothing more than a feeling that the offense was going to destroy the Illini, even without Gary Hayman, who missed the game with a sprained knee. "Everybody kind of felt in practice this week that everything was coming together," Herd explained, The 5-11 junior came apart slightly in the first half, suffering a shoulder injury that allowed Bland to grab four passes for 64 yards.

Hufnagel, who threw for a total of 202 yards, produced By BILL HEUFELDER, Press Sports Writer CHAMPAIGN, LI. Penn State's suspense offense was up to its old tricks, namely fumbles and interceptions, but its opponent was equally as generous and considerably less talented. As a result, the Lions ate up Illinois, 35-17, at Memorial Stadium yesterday before 60,394 fans who are waiting for the Illini to win a game this season. Illinois (0-4) hasn't won since it walloped the reserves-freshmen squad, 5512, in a prc-season intrasquad game. Through John Hufnagel's generosity, an interception on his first throw of the day, the Illini took a 7-0 lead before three minutes had expired.

The expiring was left to Illinois from that point. Huf-nagcl threw his second interception on his last pass late in the game, but between mistakes, he was the type of quar- On Penn State's first scoring drive, he hit Scott Skarzyn-ski for 30 of the 65 yards. After Nagle scored, Alberto Vitiel-lo's placement curled short of the goal post and John Rein-ner was promoted after the next touchdown, eventually kicking three of three extra points. After Ronnie Pcrrin returned the kickoff 39 yards to the Lions 49, the Illini lost one of their three fumbles on the first play from scrimmage. Cappelletti carried for two yards, then carried for a touchdown, sprinting down the sideline untill he got a block from center Rick Brown.

Cutting a few steps to the inside, he was home free after Herd rubbed out the last defender. On a two-point conversion attempt, Hufnagel, unable to (Continued Page D-5).