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FT Lute Adds 10 isery MILW AUKEE (AP) The American the last 13 midseason showdowns whose .353 batting average leads all League is getting closer. which the NL has turned into a one- NL hitters, knew the Americans were FOR EIGHT innings Tuesday night league showcase. beatenevenbeforehecametothe the Americans stayed with the Nation- It was Madlock's bases-loaded, plate. als in baseball's 46th All-Star Game, ninth-inning single that broke a 1-1 tie "I couldn't believe the guys on the Then they ran into Bill Madlock and and chased home the deciding runs, bench," Madlock said. "The way they emerged 6-3 losers their 12th loss in But the Chicago Cubs' third baseman, were going, I never heard anything ton on a short fly ball.

That broueht ud Yaztrzemski to hit for Chicago's Jim Kaat, who had pitched two perfect innings. YAZ WASTED no time, unloading on Seaver's first pitch and sending it far beyond the right-center field fence for the three-run homer that tied the game. It was the 12th pinch-homer in All-Star history. like that. The American League bench looked like they were just sitting there, waiting to lose." Madlock didn't keep the AL waiting too long.

His big hit earned him a share of the game's Most Valuable Player award, along with winning pitcher Jon Matlack of the New York Box on C-2 Mets, who struck out four batters 1 JOURNAL lessor WEDNESDAY July 16, 1975 Page C-l base twice. The third time he tried it, the moi-e was called a balk and Brock trotted to second base. Then the St. Louis swiftie swiped third base and scored as Cincinnati's Johnny Bench ripped a single inside third. Garvey followed with another hit, but Busby got Wynn on a forceout then Rudi went to the left field wall to backhand Ron Cey's long drive, ending the inning.

AT THAT POINT, the Nationals had eight hits and the Americans only one and it looked like another All-Star mismatch. But suddenly, the NL bats went dead and the Americans came back to tie the score on Yastrzemski's booming homer. The AL threatened to break the tie in the eighth inning when Hendrick opened with an infield single. Nettles forced Kendnck, then Tenace struck out. But Nettles stole second and continued to third as Bench allowed Jon Matlack's pitch to get away for a passed ball.

Matlack was unruffled, though, and came back to fan Lynn, ending the inning with his fourth strikeout in the two innings he pitched. Madlock and Matlack shared the Commissioners Trophy as Most Valuable Players in the game. It was the first time that two players have shared the award since it was introduced in 1970. Garvey, Most Valuable Player in last year's 7-2 National League victory, walloped a 1-0 pitch from Blue deep into the left field bleachers. Three pitches later, Wynn reached the same sector with the 100th home run in All-Star history.

Blue lasted only two innings and surrendered five hits including the two Dodger homers. The Nationals were just as rough on Kansas City's Steve Busby, the first man out of the AL bullpen. Lou Brock opened the third with a soft single to left field. Busby, trying to keep the all-time base-stealing champion close, threw over to first -s vrr.r 'V' ft yPJ i the two scoreless innings he worked. "THESE GUYS are amazing," said the winning manager, Walter Alston of Los Angeles.

"I'm proud of the whole bunch. They battled tooth and nail all year long, then they come here and pull for each other and cheer for each other. It's really something to be proud of." Matlack said he came in determined to make the Americans hit his best pitch-the fastball. "I've got to put my best foot forward in a spot like that," the stylish lefthander said. "That's the fastball.

I wanted to make them prove they could hit it." They couldn't. AND SO, before a Milwaukee County Stadium standing-room-only crowd of 51,480, the NL came out on top again, adding to the frustration of the AL which now trails 27-18 with one tie in a series they once led 12-4. Madlock's game-breaking single, a vicious liner off third baseman Graig Nettles' glove, came after the Nationals had loaded the bases with none out. Then Pete Rose of Cincinnati supplied the NL with another run on a sacrifice fly and the National League went on to score its 12th victory in the last 13 games. The National League holds an overall lead of 27-18 with one tie in a series it once trailed 12-4.

REGGIE SMITH of St. Louis opened the decisive ninth inning against loser Catfish Hunter of the New York Yankees with a looping single to left field that Oakland's Claudell Washington almost caught. Then Al Oliver of Pittsburgh, batting for winning pitcher Jon Matlack of the New York Mets, delivered a double over Washington's head and into the left field corner. Smith stopped at third on the play. Rich Gossape of the Chicago White Sox relieved Hunter and hit Philadelphia's Larry Bowa with a pitch, loading the bases and setting the stage for Madlock.

The American League struck suddenly and swiftly to tie the score in the sixth inning on Boston slugger Carl Yastrzemski's pinch home run. Oakland's Joe Rudi opened the sixth with a first-pitch single to left off reliever Tom Seaver. Cleveland's George Hendrick ran for Rudi and stole second base. After Nettles struck out, Seaver got deeper in trouble by walking Gene Tenace. It looked like Seaver, the New York Mets' ace.

micht escane the iam when i fn itiiwii -r-w- -iitr-1 niOTimwowMflir-f Hank Aaron of Milwaukee Breaks His Bat on Infield Grounder Second InninR Fielder's Choice in All-Star Game Forced American League Runner Award Duo Shares MV Lf A rf '4 MILWAUKEE (AP) Jon Matlack couldn't believe he would win or share the All-Star Game's Most Valuable Player award. He was sure it would go to his sound-alike, Bill Madlock. "WHEN THEY called the name right after the game, I thought sure Bill had won," said Matlack, the New York Mets' lefthander who was the winning pitcher in the National League's 6-3 victory over the Americans Tuesday night. "But then I looked at Bill and I saw him looking at me," Matlack continued. "Then I realized maybe it was me.

Then some guy grabbed both of us and told us we had both won. Fantastic! I was awestruck." Matlack, firing what batterymate Johnny Bench of Cincinnati called "an exceptional fastball-taster tnen usual" allowed two hits and struck out four while pitching the seventh and eighth innings. Madlock, whose .353 batting average for the Chicago Cubs leads the NL, broke a 3-3 tie with a bases-loaded two-run single in the ninth inning. MATLACK WAS warming up in the sixth when a ball suddenly bounced a few feet away from him in the right-center field bullpen. It was a three-run homer hit by Carl Yastrzemski that puiied the AL into the 3-3 tie.

"I had kind of a sinking feeling," Matlack said. "It was getting late in the game and I'm sure it gave them a lift. But I really think the National League has more talent. I thought we could come back and I was determined to hold them. "I threw mostly exploding fastballs, really lively," he said.

"In that situa- Steve Garvey Forced Out as Twin Rod Carew Makes Relay Carew's Throw to First Too Late to Catch Jimmy Wynn he got pinch-hitter Fred Lynn of Bos PCL All-Stars To Do Battle Toniaht AL Made Many Mistake tion I was trying to put my best foot forward. That meant fastballs. "I WASN'T going to get beat by some slipshod curve. I was going to go with my winning pitch and make them prove they could hit it." Matlack completed his two innings by firing a bullet past Boston rookie Fred Lynn, one of baseball's hottest hitters, in the eighth inning with the tie-breaking run on third base. "Jim Palmer of Baltimore had been talking about him like he was kind of a Greek god, an unbelievable hitter with cork on his bat or something," Matlack said.

"But I decided to keep throwing fastballs, move them around. I got him on the inside corner, knee high." Madlock's decisive hit was a hard grounder, about two feet inside the third base bag and just off the glove of New York Yankee third baseman Graig Nettles. "NETTLES RAD to play off the line on me because I spray the ball around," Madlock said. "I hit a chan-geup on the inside. Catfish Hunter had thrown me two balls away and I was looking for something off-speed." Hunter, the Yankees' ace, wasn't his usual tantalizing self.

And Steve Garv-ey of the Los Angeles Dodgers said AL starting pitcher Vida Blue didn't have his customary overpowering fastball. Garvey and teammate Jimmy Wynn staked the Nationals to a 2-0 lead with successive homers leading off the second against Blue, who was tagged for five hits in two innings. "I definitely have seen Blue faster," said Garvey, the MVP in last year's All-Star game. "He had thrown Bench breaking pitches the previous inning and I thought he would trv to get his fastball back a little. I hit a fastball." IT ALSO was a rocky night for the New York Mets' 13-game winner, two-time Cy Young Award winner Tom Seaver.

He was the victim of Yas-trzemski's homer. "Tom was throwing well," Bench said. "I called for a Tom Seaver fastball, which is more than your ordinary fastball, and I just didn't get it. "But I told Tom not to worry," Bench added. "I told him at least he made the game interesting." MILWAUKEE The World champion Oakland A-s learned a few things about themselves Tuesday night in baseball's 46th All-Star Game.

"NOBODY'S PERFECT," said the A's Gene Tenace, the who committed a ninth-inning error which National League's winning three-run rally. "We sure ain't trying to make those mistakes." The A's 20-year-old leftfielder Claudell Washington aiso experienced some difficulty in his tirst Ali-btar appearance. On the Inside I "I'm still glad I came," said Washington, who was picked off first base by the Mets' John Matlack in the seventh inning and also dropped a sinking liner by Reggie Smith the eightn and appeared to misplay pinch-hitter Ai Oliver's double. "Smith's hit just went off my glove," he said. THE A'S other players, who don't seem to make many mistakes post-season play, also stumbled through the game.

Jackson was hitless, starting pitcher Vida Blue's stuff was very hittable, veteran shortstop Bert Capanens said he was embarrassed and last year's top A's pitcher Catfish Hunter, was charged with the loss. "1 just wasn't really up for the game," said Blue, who is 1-0 in Ail-Star competition. "I really wanted to be up, but I just didn't have it." Campaneris was picked off first base by Cincinnati catcher Johnny Benhc midway through the game. "BENCH IS the only catcher that could have gotten me," said the speedy shortstop "It's" just one of those things that happens. I thought I was being careful." "That's just part of the game," said Oakland skipper Alvin Dark who managed the AL All-Stars.

"We don't get picked off often." LeMaster and Tony Pepper of Phoenix; catcher Buzz Nitschke of Tucson and pitchers Sid Monge and Barry Raziano of Salt Lake, Tucson's Leon Hooten and Rob Dressier of Phoenix. West team infielders are Spokane's Tom Robson, Tacoma's Dave McKay, and Hawaii's Steve Huntz and Dave Roberts. The catchers are Hawaii's Bob Davis and Sacramento's Art Kus-nyer. In the outfield are Spokane's Bob Jones and Tommy Cruz, Sacramento's Tommy Reynolds and Hawaii's Jerry Turner. The West pitchers are Hawaii's Chuck Hartenstein, Gary Ross and Jerry Johnson, Tacoma's Rocky Stone and Eddie Bane and Spokane's Stan Perzanowski.

Led by Duke Rex Hudson's pitching and Charlie Manuel's hitting, the East won last year's game, 7-1 at Tacoma. Tonight's game will be broadcast live at 8:30 MDT on KDEF. Journal Special SACRAMENTO The best of the East meets the best of the West in tonight's 24th annual Pacific Coast League all-star baseball game at Hughes Stadium here. The Albuquerque Dukes, currently second in the PCL East Division, placed seven players on the East squad more than any other team. Dukes on the East team are pitchers Stan Wall, 9-5, and Rick Nitz, 8-6, catcher Kevin Pasley, second baseman Bobby Randall, third baseman Jerry Royster and outfielders Orlando Alvarez and Joe Simpson.

It's the second time on the all-star team for Wall, Pas-ley, Randall, Royster and Salt Lake's Norm Sherry will manage the East team and Hawaii's Roy Hartsfield the West. Other East players are: outfielders Horace Speed of Phoenix and Charlie Chant of Tucson; infielders Ronnie Jackson of Salt Lake and Johnnie The prosecution in the Dave Forbes aggravated assault trial has rested its case following the testimony of National Hockey League head Clarence Campbell. Page C-4. Joe Namath of the New York Jets has signed a 20-year multi-million dollar contract with an international cosmetics firm. Page C-3.

Bob Lake C-2 Scores Racing F.ntriesC-4 Standings C-2 NCAA Looking Into New Mexico Cage Program The University of New Mexico hasn't been officially notified that its basketball program is under NCAA investigation, but it is. After all, the CIA didn't run around telling anybody in this country it was investigating them, but it was. The Journal has learned an NCAA investigator has High Inside With Journal Sport Editor IROY BEARMAN the Moses Malone investigation and that something should be reported on it soon presumably before the summer is out. CLEMSON IS EXPECTED to be hit hard for its alleged role in the recruiting of Malone, and Maryland is said to be vulnerable. Whether anything further will surface about UNM's involvement other than its admitted wrong of letting Malone use a rental car for a short period one evening, remains to be seen.

Meanwhile, reports from Phoenix indicate Arizona State, the defending WAC cage champion, might also be under NCAA scrtiny. This is said to be over the transfer of Rick Mc-Cutcheon and Mark Lansberger of Minnesota to ASU. McCutcheon redshirted last year and will be eligible to plav with the Devils this coming season. Lansberger is said to be working in the Phoenix area and seeking a release from Minnesota. LANSBERGER SAYS MINNESOTA mentor Bill Mus-seiman has threatened to have the Devils investigated for tampering, something ASU coach Ned Wuik says is not true.

That, of course, is what everybody says. And more often than not when it concerns NCAA investigations, it's true at least to the extent it can't be proven otherwise THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Never tell your friends their faults. They will correct the fault and never forgive you with the penalty in the Malone situation which cost UNM the use of a basketball scholarship this vear. "1 didn't know anything he wanted to know," Ford told the Journal of his interview with the NCAA investigator from his home in Santa Barbara. "Most of it was about Moses Malone, and that was after my time.

"THEY CHECKED OUT a rumor about me getting a car, but that was all legal. My dad signed for it. "They asked me about other guvs, but I never heard of anything going on while I was in school. They made it kind of clear to me that they haven't found anything damaging against the school." Naturally, just because UNM is being investigated doesn't mean it is guilty of anything other than what it has already admitted and is currently serving penalties for. NORTHERN ARIZONA COACH John Birkett, who is fighting hard to keep Shanks on his campus this as the Lobos are to lure him to Albuquerque, would onlv say "That's accurate," to the question of whether Shanks had been interviewed by an NCAA investigator.

Otherwise Birkett said he would not comment on anv other questions, including one as to whether it was true Shanks had refused to talk to the investigator. There have also been reports that an NCAA investigator tried to query Malone, but that the young pro aiso refused to speak with him. When this reporter spoke with NCAA Executive Director Walter Byers in Kansas City recently, he said his investigators were about to wrap up a majority of else this, leaving it to the school to confirm or deny queries about such. SO APPARENTLY THE NCAA investigator is traipsing around the country, trying to determine if there should be a full scale investigation of UNM's athletic department in general and its basketball program in particular. Anyone who follows Lobo athletics should not be surprised in the least.

The Western Athletic Conference and Heady, himself, have slapped penalities on the Lobo cage program in the last year for alleged recruiting violations involving Moses Malone, now of the Utah Stars, and Jerome Shanks of Arizona Western Junior College as well as the alleged guaranteeing of nail bonds for Lobo players Bill Hagins and Bruce Battle. An NCAA investigator has been to Santa Barbara, to talk to former Lobo Don Ford, uho plans to play his senior year at the University of California at Santa Barbara, despite being drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers AN NCAA INVESTIGATOR has been to Hobbs to interview Mike Russell, the lad from Buffalo who signed national letters of intent with both UNM and New Mexico State and who is now headed for Texas Tech. And an NCAA investigator has been to talk to Jerome Shanks, who is currently attending summer school at Northern Arizona. Shanks is listed on the preseason rosters by both New Mexico and Northern Arizona. The Lobos have already been penalized by the WAC for allegedly visiting Shanks on the Arizona Western campus without proper permission.

That was combined interviewed at least three basketball players with Lobo connections one a former player who transfered and two recruits who have signed national letters wtith UNM, but who have not enrolled to date. THE NCAA DOES advise a school when it is under formal investigation. But UNM President Ferret Heady told the Journal Tuesday evening that he has had no official notification of such an investigation. "No one has notified me that they are having an inves-tieation." said Heady. The NCA has a firm policy of notifying a school's president when his athletic program is under scrutiny.

The NCAA won't tell anyone.