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ftilalrfHa Utnpttor SPORTS Sunday October 17, Section Frank Robinson's Daring on Bases Pays Off TTTTT -d Of KM 7th Q. loies VVIB IB 1 FlyBaU Defeats Pirates 'Ms sooi as Brooks hit the ball I made up my mind to go Frank Robinson xWSwkw Itlflli AP Wirephofo By ALLEN LEWIS Of The Inquirer Staff BALTIMORE. Frank Robinson is an "old Oriole," and not just because he's 36 years old. The Baltimore super-star is an all-out competitor who plays despite pain, dsepite injury, despite weariness. Because Robinson is that kinds of player, the Orioles may still win this World Series.

He kept their chances alive Saturday with two daring bits of base-rurining that produced the winning run in Baltimore's 10-inning 3-2, sixth-game victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Memorial Stadium. Robinson made no fine defensive plays and got no hits. In fact, he struck out twice and popped up once with the tying run on third base and none out. SLIDES INTO 3D But despite his age, his flat feet and a sore Achilles tendon that would have 7 put a lesser man on the bench, Robinson ran the Birds to victory and into a seventh and final game here at 2 P.M. today.

After drawing a walk with one out in the 10th inning on a disputed 3-1 pitch, Robinson gambled and raced for third on a ground single up the middle by Merv Rettenmund. He made it with a head-first slide. i Moments later, Brooks inson hit a fly ball to shallow center field. When Vic Davalillo made the 1 catch, Frank broke, for the plate. He made it with a tumbling slide under catcher Manny Sanguil-len, who had to jump for the ball when it took an unnatu Frank Robinson Slides Across Home Plate and Orioles Tie World Series Buc catcher Manny Sanguttlen takes throw from centerfield following Brooks Robinson's sacrifice fly in 10th inning at Baltimore AM Year This We Won Way' Weaver FRANK DOLSON BASEBALL 2 P.

M. Pittsburgh at Bal-imore, Ch. 3. COLLEGE FOOTBALL 11:30 A. M.

Notre Dame Highlights, Ch. 3 Noon Penn Lafayette (tape), Ch. 6 11 P. M. College Football Highlights, Ch; 17 1 A.

M. Grambling College Highlights, Ch. 10 PRO FOOTBALL 1 Washington vs. St. Louis, Ch.

10 4 P. M. Eagles vs. Oakland, Ch. 10 4 P.

M. Cleveland vs. Cincinnati, Ch. 3 BALTIMORE "THE ONLYthing important for "the whole season is that we win the last game we play," Earl Weaver had said. And now here werfij.

his Orioles, one run behind, eight outs away from making this die last game. The last defeat. In the sixth inhing they had pushed the tying run to third witli nobody out and Frank Robinson at the plate and left it there. Now there one out in the seventh and Mark Belan-ger was on first with Jim Palmer, the Orioles' pitcher, scheduled to Palmer is not a bad hitter, as pitchers go. But when you are that close to extinction; when your ball club has managed a grand total of 13 hits in the previous 33 innings; when you have a benchful of pinch-hitters, you cannot permit a pitcher with a .196 batting average to take his turn at bat.

Can you? Earl Weaver did. That is the way he has managed all year, sticking with his starting pitchers, letting them bat in the late innings with our runs It was an astounding display of confidence by-the manager of a slump-ridden, desperate team. And although Jim Palmer struck out, on one of the day's many highly questionable, hotly disputed calls by plate umpire John Kibler, Weaver's confidence was rewarded. The manager who was willing to "concede" an out when he had only eight left survived to manage another game. IT WILL BE ANOTHER, win-or-else game, for the Pirates as, well as the Orioles.

But it could be an anti-climax after this one. Seldom, have emotions run so high, seldom have ball players been involved in so many dramatic situations, seldom have managers left themselves so, vulnerable the second guess as in Saturday's sixth game. 7 One minute there was Roberto Clemente, the incomparable Continued on Page 2, Column 5 the Orioles trailing. But this was not mid-August with a 10-game cushion. This was mid-October.

This was the first time the Baltimore Orioles had to win since the fifth game of the 1969 World Series against the Mets. And that "must game" they lost. "We won all year doing it this way," Weaver said Saturday. "Why do it different now? I felt we were going to get rally high bounce. NONE TOUGHER Asked later whether this was the toughest game he'd ever played, Robbie replied, "How tough can thev come? Penn State Stops Syracuse Cold for 10th Straight Win HWSiWWypVP iiv: iiiuajiiivji'iiii i iiMMiiiiMiiMiiiiiMMlWWWi) 1111111 Jrs I Down 3-2 in a World Series, there are none tougher." That goes for competitors, too.

There is none tougher than Frank Robinson. "When Frank walked in the 10th," Oriole manager Earl Weaver reported, "I called time and asked (third base coach Billy) Hunter to find out, to make sure his Achilles tendon was all right. "I could have used (Paul) Blair, but in that situation, I want Frank in there if he's all right." BALL DRIBBLES THROUGH Rettenmund hit the next pitch for his "seeing-eye" single, the ball just barely squib-bing between the Pirate second baseman and the shortstop. "I was going to go all the way when it got through," Robinson it was first hit, I was going to try to break up the double play'. Davalillo, the Venezuelan, who had pinch-hit in the top Continued on Page 2, Column 1 said, "so we should be able to shut them off inside." That's, exactly what happened Syracuse's only outside threat Greg Allen, is out with hepatitis.

But Praetorius and Januszkiewicz are powerful runners. Saturday, Penn State's defense made them ineffective all afternoon. Meanwhile, the Lions were building a 24-0 first half lead and the game actually ended on Syracuse's final series of the half when the Orange failed to score with a first and goal at the Penn State six. The whole defense played alert opportunistic football. Linebacker Gary Gray picked Continued on Page 8, Column 4 4 'wxx.

MM 1 f5: n-w Inquirer photo by GERVASE ROZANSKI Who Needs a Sideline Seat? Unhappy Quakers watch as Lafayette scores its second touchdown for a 17-0 lead en route to a 17-15 upset at Franklin Field By SANDY PAD WE Of The Inquirer Staff SYRACUSE, N. Y. Mention the word "defense" in connection with Penn State football and memories of 1968 and 1969 return. Those were the years when the Lions were in the middle of the nation's longest winning streak. And it was the defense which won so many of the tough games during that streak.

This season, Penn State's defense was supposed to be a question mark. The offense would be the unit which would carry things. Saturday, Penn State easily defeated old nemesis Syracuse, 31-0, and it was the first time since 1948 that a Penn State team had consecutive shutouts. A week ago, the Lions beat Army, 42-0. CLOG MIDDLE State clogged the middle against the Orangemen, shutting off what was supposed to be one of the premier one-two running attacks in the nation: Roger Praetorious and Marty Januszkiewicz.

the Orange fullback who had 153 yards against Perm State last season, had only 37 Saturday in nine carries. And Praetorius, Syracuse's leading ground gainer, had just 39 yards in eight carries. For Penn State coach Joe Paterno, the 1971 Syracuse game was a year-round project. "We went to practice last Monday," linebacker 76ers Hawks Nip How the Top Ten Fared For 3d Straight Special to The Inquirer ATLANTA. Luke Jackson's two free throws with, 43 seconds remaining lifted the 76ers to a 104-102 National Basketball Association victory overAtlanta on Saturday night.

Picture on Page 14 It was the third straight victory for the unbeaten 76ers, Lafayette Victor By JOHN DELL Of The Inquirer Staff Today, Harry Gamble feels like the man who built a better mouse trap then nibbled at the cheese. The new Penn coach got whammed, 17-15, Saturday, by the Lafayette team he constructed from scratch. When time ran out many of the Lafayette players who were recruited and coached by Gamble in the four years before he took over at Penn this season rushed to shake Harry's hand at midfield. "Good game," Gamble told them. game," he told all listeners later, when he summed up the performance of the Penn team, which fumbled three times to set the.

Leopards up to' a 17-0 half time lead. Penn was stopped twice only two yards from the "goal, leaving if short after comeback touchdowns by Gary Shue and Pete Luciano. "We just weren't (mentally) ready for the game," said Penn safety man Steve Solow, who played with a tightly taped sprained ankle. "They had the psychological edge on us." Neil Putnam, the former Dartmouth and Yale assistant who succeeded Gamble at. Lafayette, agreed.

He talked of the boost his players got from the "added emotion of playing against a former coach" as they rebounded sharply from last week's 49-0 steamrollering by Delaware. Lafayette (4-1) was led to its first triumph over Penn in Temple Breezes As Shobert Stars By MARK HEISLER Of The Inquirer Staff Quarterback Doug Shobert, who completed 15 of 17 passes a week ago, hit nine of 15 Saturday, night for three touchdowns and Temple ripped apart unfortunate Xavier, 38-0, in Temple Stadium. Coach Wayne Hardin was moderately pleased. "The kids did a good job," he said. "They're headed in the right direction." To be precise, they are headed for Morgantown, W.

where they'll play West Virginia Saturday. "It's a different world," said Hardin. They're one of the better teams in the country. They beat Boston College, 45-14, and Boston College beat us. What's that add up to? We'll probably be, 40-point underdogs." Better, enjoy Saturday night's win.

It started with Xavier winning the toss. It was just about the last thing the Musketeers did right. They took Nick Mike-Mayer's kick, ran three plays, got nowhere and punted. On Temple's first play. Shobert hit flanker Clint Graves over the middle for 41 yards to the Xavier 21.

On the second play fullback Paul Loughran went 11 yards on a draw. On the third, halfback Tom Sloan ran for three. On the fourth Shobert hit split end Bob Thornton with a seven-yard touchdown pass. Continued on Page 14, Column 8 who got 11 points from Billy Cunningham in a fourth-quarter charge that saw the 76ers erase a five-point lead. The game was played under, protest.

Atlanta coach Richie Guerin thought guard Lou Hudson should have been awarded two free throws instead of one on a foul with three minutes to go. 1. Nebraska (6-0) beat Kansas, 55-0. Story on Page 3. 2.

Oklahoma (5-0) beat Colorado, 45-17. Page 3. 3. Michigan (6-0) beat Illinois, 35-6. Page 6.

4. Alabama (6-0) beat Tennessee, 32-15. Page 15. 5. Auburn (5-0) beat Ga.

Tech, 31-14. Page 3. 6. Colorado (5-1) lost to Oklahoma, 45-17. Page 3.

7. Notre Dame (5-0) beat N. Carolina 16-0. Page 7. 8.

Georgia (4-0) beat Vanderbilt, 24-0. Page 15. 9. Penn State (5-0) beat Syracuse, 31-0. Page 1.

10. Texas (3-2) lost to Arkansas 31-7. Page 3. Sports Results, Page 15 Philadelphia Atlanta Flyers Nip Kings, 1-0 Special to The Inquirer TNGLEWOOD, Calif. The acrobatic goaltendmg of Doug Favell and an early third-period goal by center Jim Johnson gave the Flyers a 1-0 National Hockey League victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night.

Favell, registering his first shutout this season, was especially tough in the opening period when he turned away 17 King shots and killed off six minutes in penalties. He wound up with 43 saves. OFT 2 2-2 Bellamy 11 27Brfdes 1-3 7 Davis 2-4 6 5 2-4 12 1-1 17 1 3 Vk5 2-2 12 13 6-9 32 1-4 11 1 0-1 2 1 2-2 4 4 1-2 9 Awtrey Cunham Foster Greer Jackson Jones Wash ton Wohl Charlie Zapiec said, "and it was all "there for us. You could tell how much time and effort went into it. He's been watching Syracuse films all the time." STACK LINEBACKERS The strategy, Zapiec said, was to clog the middle by stacking the linebackers.

"They don't have much of an outside running game," he 5-5 17 Hudson 1-2 3 May 1-1 7 Payne 1-1 19Trapp Vallely 43112104 Totals 43 11 1 104 Totals Totals 43 H-24 102 Philadelphia 30 24 24 24104 Atlanta 21 23 35 21102 Fouled out Greer. Atlanta. Bellamy. Total fools Philadelphia 24, Atlanta 26. A 5,804.

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