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-pp ig grf- saais- spssr -j. SPORTS Slje 3ottnutl-JsTcUf 3 ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1972 ID Home clubs fill in blanks to find winning formula three from Minnesota and Oakland before dropping the first game of this set. a two-run single in the second as the Yankees scored four times to defeat starter Lloyd Allen, 2-6. New York Mets' lefthander Jon Matlack is a pretty smart young fellow. He apparently has learned the surest way to avoid a loss and possibly gain a victory is to shut out the opposition.

That's something New York Yankee righthander Stottle-myre is well aware of. The rangy Yankee vet beat his favorite cousins, the Cali regulars, who do not qualify for medicare, helped out. Shortstop Bud Harrelson ripped a two-run triple off starter and loser Sam McDowell, 8-7, in the second inning, scoring Wayne Garrett and Matlack. The two runs were enough, but former Giant Willie Mays and Sudakis cracked hits in the seventh to add to the cushion. The Mets' first run came in the first when McDowell walked the bases loaded before Jim Fregosi's double play grounder produced the run.

On the other side of the country, Stottlemyre 9-10, threw a seven-hitter at the Angels. He now has 37 consecutive scoreless innings and six straight complete games against them. He helped his own cause with fornia Angels, 5-0, in Anaheim, Calif, Wednesday night. It was the third straight time he has thrown blanks at them and the victory ran his lifetime mark against the West Coast team to an amazing 17-3. At Shea Stadium in New York, Matlack was well aware of what was going on.

He knew there were more regulars in bandages than were on the field. So he promptly beat the San Francisco Giants, 4-0, on four hits, to make sure of a victory. The lineup resembled a catcher's convention wen Matlack, now 9-5, waued to the mound. Behind the plate was Duffy Dyer, where he belonged. In right field was Jerry Grote.

At first base was Bill Sudakis. Eut some of the It pushed the Yankees' record to .500 for the first time since the opening week of the season and kept them V'z games off the pace of the front-running A.L. East Detroit Tigers. The victory was the second in a row for the Yankees over the Angels and assures them of coming home to Yankee Stadium with their best road record. They had won two of Bench hits 2 Nicklaus two back of British lonashot fo granny Grandma and grandpa were there-so little Johnny gave them something to brag about to the gang back home.

SCORES AND (STANDINGS Johnny Bench's grandparents. Verda and Lon Channey. were in the Riverfront Stadium stands Wednesday night when Cincinnati collided with Pittsburgh in the battle of National League divisional leaders. "Grandma wanted a couple of home runs." Bench said, matter of factly after he'd given them just that his 23rd and 24th roundtrippers of the baseball season to power the Reds to a 6-3 victory over the Pirates. In other National League games.

Los Angeles hammered Philadelphia. 9-5; St. Louis blanked Atlanta. 7-0; Houston outslugged the Chicago Cubs. 10-6; and San Diego edged Montreal.

6-5. In the American League. Minnesota mauled Milwaukee. 71. Detroit defeated Texas.

3-1; Boston beat Oakland, 7-6; Baseball National League East By SHIRLEY POVICH Gannett News Service MUIRFIELD. Scotland Jack Nicklaus was served notice that, for at least a couple more days, there will always be an England in this British Open Tournament. Two impertinent Britishers, unawed by the well-trumpeted presence of Nicklaus or the sub-par 70 he carded Wednesday in the rain and wind, up-staged him on the first day's play. One of them was Tony Jacklin. known as the Englishman who won the U.S.

Open in 1969. He bettered Nicklaus's round with a 69. The other Briton was Peter Tupling. who came in late in the day to outscore everybody with his three-under 68. Peter who? Peter Tupling.

22. A Yorkshireman. that's who. and No. 84 in the British Order of Merit this year, which is the Pecking Order by which Britons golf pros are ranked.

At the 16th hole. Tupling and his playing partner picked up their first gallery, a lone spectator, who wandered back on the course after Nicklaus had finished his round. Fredd Corcoran of Mamaroneck. N.Y.. the founding father of the U.S.

pro golf tour, had some background on Tupling. "Just before I was leaving New York for Muirfield my daughter. Peggy, said to me. 'Say hello to Peter Corcoran related. "Peggy said, she met Tupling in Holland last year and caddied for him in a little tournament there, because he didn't have money to pay a caddy." When Corcoran ventured it was possible Tupling wouldn't be playing in the British Open because he might not qualify.

"Peggy said. 'Oh, he'll be in it. He's conceited enough to think he'll be one of the world's great golfers some day. He told me he'd be in this year's Open." Tupling went out in a two-under 34 and on the incoming nine there were the ever-present invitations for him to fold under the pressure. But the fellows who weakened slightly on the final holes were Nicklaus and Jacklin.

not the surprising Tupling. who looked No. 18 in the eye with a chance to put his name in THE LEADERS L. 29 33 big headlines and barely missed a birdie three putt to get his par and come home as the leader. Tupling.

a one-time boys' champion of England, turned pro only two years ago. gaining' little distinction with the mere $850 he has won this year. "At the moment. I'm not good enough to win a major tournament, perhaps, but I will be." he said. The pressures Tupling says he didn't feel were felt by many others Wednesday.

In a field of 153 of the supposed best golfers in the world, the first hole was bogied by 95 of them, most of whom caught the rough lining the narrow fairways. That was one of Nicklaus' troubles, although a sub-par 70 is excellent golf scoring-wise, he said. "I was in the rough off seven tees." Nicklaus said. His well-organized game suffered. he said, because he was unused to playing to the greens from such strange position.

Nicklaus is. indeed, in excellent position to execute Phase III of his ambitious plan for golf's Grand Slam. By adding this tournament to his Masters and U.S. Open trophies and later the PGA. his muscle with the long irons helped him to hit out of the hay which lined the fairways, in which others foundered.

Two other Americans. Frank Beardand Dave Marr, and two Britons. Peter Townsend and Craig DeFoy. were at 70 with Nicklaus. "My mood and attitude are fine after that first round where I didn't play too well, but still managed a fair score." Nicklaus said.

"I'm relaxed. "My composure is okay. I'm not demanding too much oi myself. "I know I can play better than I did in the opening round here. "My swing isn't far off what it should be.

It's a matter of timing. Maybe I'll -do a little more Doug Sanders, runnerup to Nicklaus in the championship at Muirfield in 1966 and St. Andrews in 1970. had a 71. "My chancesare pretty cotton pickin good." said Sanders.

"I always enjoy con, ing to Scotland because I can relax here, slow down the pace a bit. "Back home, everyone seems to be rushing everywhere. If I could afford it I'd get out of this rat race." GB 3W 7 14Vi 2l'i 48 45 41 42 34 .623 532 525 436 .350 .603 .580 .525 .463 .424 Pittsburgh New York St. Louis Chicago Montreal Philadelphia Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles Atlanta San Francisco 34 38 44 52 31 34 38 43 49 28 West 47 47 42 37 36 30 l'i 6 14'i 18 50 .375 San Diego Wednesday's Results AP Photo Peter Tupling, Yorkshireman British Open with 68 Kansas City clobbered Baltimore. 11-4.

in 10 innings: and the Chicago White Sox slipped past Cleveland. 5-4. Grandma and grandpa weren't the only people in the stands Bench had on his mind. Lou Fonseca. his batting instructor, also was on hand "to point out any of my mistakes.

Bench said. And how could the Cincinnati catcher batting .291 with 24 homers and 69 runs batted in both tops in the majors possibly be making mistakes? 'Oh. we had some kind of a signal." Bench said, "where New YorH 4, San Francisco 0 Houston 10 Chicago 6 Cincinnati 6. Pittsburgh 3 Los Angeles 9. Philadelphia 5 St.

Louis Atlanta 0 San Diego 6, Montreal 5. Thursday's Gamis (All times EDT) Houston (Reuss 5-t) at Chicago (Jenkins 11-7), 2 30 p.m. Pittsburgh (Blass 10-21 at Cincinnati (Nolan 12-2). 8 05 p.m. Atlanta (Reed 7-9) at St.

Louis (Cleveland 10-41. 9 p.m. Only games scheduled American League Greof moments in golf East GB .558 34 36 Kenneth Harrelson, 36-39 75 Jerry Heard U.S. 36-39-75 Johnny M'lter, 36-40 76 Steven Cook, U.S. 42-38-80 2 4 414 lO'i 12 421 .507 .500 .421 .400 43 41 37 37 32 30 West 48 45 36 37 44 45 30 34-36- 34- 36- 35- 35- Detroit Baltimore Boston New York Cleveland Milwaukee Oakland Chicago Minnesota Kansas City California 34 .615 570 37 53 38-33-71 36-35 71 35-36-71 3' 8 8 13 15VJ 39 40 38 36 44 .513 450 .418 33 46 Texas Wednesday's Results A fl Chicago 5.

Cleveland 4 Kansas City 11, Baltimore 4. 10 innings Minnesota 7, Milwaukee 1 Detroit 3, Texas 1 Boston 7, Oakland 6 New York 5, California 0 Thursday's Games (All times ET( Boston (Culp 5-7) at Minnesota (Corbin 4-2). 8 30 p.m. Cleveland (Riddleberger 1-1) at Texas (Hand 6-6). 8 30 p.m.

Kansas City (Spiittorff 9-4) at Detroit (Lolir.h 14-6). 9 Only games scheduled By BOB GREEN He had the tournament won, but the record was still there to be broken. And the shot Jack Nicklaus remembers most is the one that set it up for him to break Ben Hogan's U.S. Open record with a 275 total in 1967. "It was on the 72nd hole of the Open of Baltusrol," he said.

"I had a three-shot lead at the time. Arnold Palmer was second, but he was out of it. "I could make six on the hole and still win. But I needed to make four to break Hogan's record. "The shot that did it was a one iron to the green." The 18th at Baltusrol is a long par five with the third shot to an elevated, well-trapped green.

"I'd hit an iron off the tee and got it in the rough," Nicklaus said. "Then I hit a very bad second shot. "I had 239 yards, uphill, to the pin. I didn't want to hit a wood. I figured as charged up as I was.

you know, really pumped up, that I could hit the one iron about 10 yards further than I usually could. "I hit it 22 feet from the hole and made the putt for four and the record." It was a better shot than the one at St. Andrews, the one where he drove the green on the final playoff hole, a par four, to set up a one-stroke victory over Doug Sanders in the 1970 British Open? "Oh, sure," Nichlaus said. "That was a bad shot. Another 10 yards and it would have been out of bounds." I look over at Lou and he indicate to me any mistakes I was making.

Yea, he pointed out a couple of things." Bench wouldn't say what he was doing wrong. Bob Gibson, who lost his first five decisions of the season, reeled off his ninth straight victory with a six-hitter and chipped in with a home run. his third of the year, to lead St. Louis past Atlanta for its 17th victory in 21 games. Jim Wynn belted two home runs and Norm Miller and Les Lee May added one apiece for Houston, overcoming homers by Chicago's Billy Williams and Jim Hickman.

Rookie Bill Slayback (2-3) scattered eight hits, while his Detroit mates took advantage of Texas errors for a pair of Peter Tupling, Britain Tony Jacklin, Britain, Frank Beard, S. Craig Defoy, Britain Dave Marr, U.S. Jack Nicklaus, U.S. Peter Townsend, Britain Brian Barnes, Britain John Garner, Britain Antonio Garrido, Spain Gary Player, South Africa Doug Sanders, Peter Thompson, Australia Lee Trevino, U.S. Peter Butler, Britain Billy Casper, U.S.

David Llewellyn, Britain David Oakley, U.S. Dave Stockton, U.S. David Talbot, Britain Sam Tourrance, Britain Maurice Bembridoe, Britain Roberto Bernardini. Italy Donald Gammon, Rhodesia Brian Huggett, Britain Hunt, Britain -Doug McClelland, Britain Ronald McDonald, Britain Christy O'Connor, Ireland Arnold Palmer. U.S.

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IP ER BB SO 7 0 0 0 5 L.Allen (L.2-6) .1 1-3 4 4 3 3 1 Barber 4 2-3 1 0 0 1 3 RMay 2 0 0 0 2 1 E. Fisher I 1 I I 1 I T-2 16. By MYRA DEMBROW Slaff Sports Wriler If the people of Rockland are following the Fischer-Spassky chess tournament at all, it's Bobby they're watching, not the board. "Fischer has set himself up to be quite a celebrity. I'm trying to understand if he's taking this prima donna pose to win the match or if he really behaves that way," said Peter Bennet, a shopkeeper from New City, Wednesday.

Heidi Sparkes is watching both the men and the board. A neophyte chess player who is just learning the game, Miss Sparkes finds that "personalities come out" in the game. This match is particularly interesting for her because Spassky and Fischer are "such different people, although I'm not sure that's a result of their representing different cultures." She is rooting for Bobby because "I like eccentrics and Fischer's personal style. I like people who stand up for what they believe in, even if it's not popular, like the money thing. I like extreme people." Dodgers grounded But Louis Rosenbloom is not following the tournament, because he was "turned off" by Fischer's pre-game antics.

He said the match was being "blown up too much." The Valley Cottage teacher feels that the match is "too far removed from everybody. Television would bring it closer, but to hear it on the radio doesn't mean much." Rosenbloom, who has only played the game "two or three times" would probably watch the match if it were televised because "I'm curious to see what a real chess game looks like." Does this tournament between the American and Soviet top chess players have anv political implications? Ruth Button of Nyack thinks so. She's supporting Fischer because if the Russian is beaten "it will be a political coup, as well as a sports event." Mrs. Button would like to know about the players "political moves in terms of psyching each other out on the board." "I'm for Fischer because he is an American," said Tom Keefe, who manages a Nyack supermarket, "but there's no political implication. There might be in the Olympics, but not in a chess match like this." John Aitken of Pearl River agrees.

A patrolman on the Nyack Police Force who plays the game "sloppily," he is more interested in the match than in the men. "When two professionals play like this," he said, "it's not a matter of nationality; it's a matter of wits and skill." But, according to Miss Sparkes, politics is defi-(Turn to page 2D) SENIOR BABE RUTH Wednesday's Results Blauvelt 3, Nyack 1 Suffern 5, Pearl River 4 Ramapo-Spring Valley Clarkstown Brewers 0 Red 5, Ambassador. Hue Scotch I Representing Scotch at its lightest. 6 4 3 3 0 3 3 3 2 Ramapo-Spring Valley Nyack Nanuet Blauvelt Clarkstown Brewers Blue Clarkstown Recs Pearl River Suffern Albertus Magnus A Dodgers spokesman said the baseball team, which played the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday night and was to fly home after the game, instead would leave Thursday morning and arrive 11 a.m. Los Angeles time.

PHILADELPHIA (AP)-The Los Angeles Dodgers spent an unscheduled night here Wednesday night when their team plane was grounded by security measures stemming from a hijacking. BLINDED SCOTCH WHISKY, 86 PROOF THE 10S GARNI AU CO NEWYORK, NY 1972 tArnJ i4AA) 4 1.