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SECTION A SECTION SPORTS BUSINESS ttl II SI I I 111 9 til iiiiiiiir. CALL 2224234 FOPw SPORTS RESULTS BETWEEN 8:33 A. SI, AND MIDNIGHT pr- Tj, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1970 ii 1 Jljl'U lilnll ml UulijJI)flj OlLSs Oils Li ower Pelts jIlI jf jP Pizarro, Miller in 9th 9" 4 i V'-1 in, i 4 i 1 -2 BY GEORGE LANGFORD i if. half game over the New York Mets and dropped their victims two games behind in the National League's Eastern Division tussle. "I wish I could look into a crystal ball and see whether we were going to come up with a big inning in the ninth," mused Durocher.

"I wish I had gone over the other way now that it's over." Durocher referred to his decision in the eighth inning to pinch hit for Pitcher Fergie Jenkins. He had worked an outstanding five-hit game for eight innings, but trailed, 2 to 1, because of what the big right hander termed "two gift runs." Willie Smith, pinch hitting for Ran- Yesterday was one of those afternoons in Wrigley Field when the home forces, despite all efforts, could not do the right thing. Bob Moose, the Pittsburgh right hander, was the man primarily responsible for the constant misfire and Dave Giusti also took a share of the credit. From the moment the Pirates scored two rather cheap runs in the second inning the tenor of this contest was set. No matter what move Manager Led Durocher or his Cubs tried, it was the wrong one.

The result was a tense 5 to 4 victory for the Pirates, which maintained their first place status by a II :,1 Paper cup artists in Wrigley Field bleachers spelling out obvious fact that it's raining yesterday while fans wait impatiently for action to resume. There were two rain delays of 41 and 15 minutes, but rooters' spirits were dampened even more when skier cleared. Pirates hung on to win crucial game, 5 to 4, dumping Cubs two games behind them in Eastern Division scramble. TRIBUNE Staff Photo: by Phil Masciorw Players, Leo Take Blame mmmmmmmHmmimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmKman N. L.

EAST PENNANT RACE CubsR Look for Alibis etuse to w. PLAT It 17 It GB L. 67 68 69 PCT. .535 .531 .521 Pittsburgh 77 New York 77 CHICAGO 75 GAMES LEFT TO PLAY CUBS HOME 5 Pittsburgh, 13; St. Louis, Sept 15, 16, 17.

AWAY (14 Montreal, Sept. It 2, twi-nlght, 19, 20; St. Louis, Sept. 12N, 23N, 24N; Philadelphia, Sept 25N, 26, 27; New York, Sept. 28N, 29N, 30, Oct 1 N.

NEW YORK HOME 10 St Louis, 13; Pittsburgh, Sept. 18N, 19, 202; Chicago, Sept. 28N, 29N, 30, Oct. 1NJ. AWAY 8 Montreal, Sept.

14N, 15N, 16N); Philadelphia, Sept. 22N, 23N; Pittsburgh, Sept. 25N, 26, 27. PITTSBURGH HOME 7 Montreal, Sepi. 22N, 23N, 24N; New York, Sept Z5N, 26, 27 (Rain-out of Sept.

3 with Montreal to be made up In Pittsburgh on Sept 22, 23, or 21 as part of twi-nlght double header. AWAY 12 Chicago, 13; Philadelphia, Sept 15N, 16N, 17N; New York, Sept. 18N, 19, 202; St. Louis, Sept 29N, 30N, Oct 1N. have caused Jenkins some problems.

Fergie was having none of that kind of talk, either. "I was ready to pitch this game and neither of the delays hurt me. The first time I came into the clubhouse and sat and looked at a book. I was relaxed and still nice and warm. The second time I sat in the dugout, but I was still warm.

Sure, the mound was a little muddy and I had to clean my spikes, but I didn't slip at all. I made a mistake to Sanguillen, threw him a curve ball inside. "Then I was just trying to put too much on the first pitch to Pagan. If I hadn't made that bad pitch they might have gotten one run, but that's all. I short-hopped the plate by two or three feet with it.

You hate to wild pitch a run in." Then came the high hopper off Santo's glove for the second run, the one the Cubs never could get back. So now it's up to Bill Hands to pitch the Cubs back into contention today when they close out their season's series with the Pirates. Another loss, would leave them three games behind, but Hands would not concede this would put any more pressure on him. "Whether we win or lose today I'll pitch the same game tomorrow," he said. "You can only do so much and I am planning to give the best I vhave.

This thing is not going to be decided to that door and so was Robertson at first base." Give this decision to the armchair quarterbacks. The record shows that Jenkins had sacrificed successfully 10 times this year. After his failure yesterday Callison has yet to lay down his first sacrifice bunt as a Cub. The ball game was not really decided in the Cubs' eighth or in the ninth, either. It was pointed out to Durocher that if the score had been only 2 to 1 when Hickman came up with two on in the ninth, the Pirates' manager, Danny Murtaugh, would not have permitted Moose to face the slugger.

Leo leaped at the opening. "I don't think he even would have been pitching to Williams after Beckert's single. They probably would have brought in that guy who pitched against us in Pittsburgh. That George Brunet, to pitch to Billy." With all the ninth-inning heroics, the turning point in the game was the Pirate second, which was interrupted by rain, the second such delay of the game. With one out, Robertson hit a grounder to short and Jenkins felt that "Kessinger had a little trouble with the footing or he might have thrown him out." Don refused to give himself this out, said simply.

"I probably should have gotten Robertson out. I just didn't get anything on the throw." Then came the 15-minute rain halt, which might niHiiiiuMn dy Hundley, had led off the home eighth with a walk--one of five times in the contest the Chi-cagoans put the leadoff batter on base. Durocher sent Johnny Calli-son, a left-handed hitter, to bat for Jenkins with orders to bunt the runner along. Callison, who has not executed the sacrifice successfully this season, attempted one bunt and missed, swung away, and eventually struck out. Don Kessinger then rapped into the fourth double play by the losers and now Durocher had to open the bullpen gates.

They also were the flood gates. Three batters later the Pirates had three more runs and a 5 to 1 lead. Juan Pizarro, who has been pitching effectively, hit Al Oliver with a pitch. Willie Stargell, a strikeout victim three consecutive times against Jenkins, stroked the next pitch into the right field bleachers for his 29th home run. Bob Robertsonpromptly greeted Bob Miller with his 25th homer and the visitors led, 5 to 1.

Finally, after eight innings of frustration save for Ron Santo's 24th home run in the fourth, the north side offense finally began to solve the Moose mystery in the ninth. Glenn Beckert and Billy Williams singled and Jim Hickman hit his 31st home run into the left field seats. None were out, the Cubs trailed by one run, and the 33,199 Wrigley Field fans were in a frenzy. Dave Giusti, perhaps the leading relief specialist in the National League, was summoned by Manager Danny Murtaugh and walked Santo on a 3-2 pitch. Durocher ordered Joe Pepitone to sacrifice and Pepi accomplished it.

Ernie Banks popped to shortstop, however, and Paul Popovich, pinch hitting for Ken Rudolph, was called out on three pitches from Giusti. For the second time this week Moose had beaten the Cubs. "Moose is a smart pitcher," Pepitone observed. "He gets the ball where he wants it. He doesn't have exceptional stuff, but he uses what he has well.

He pitched a good game." Jenkins, too, gave a fine Continued on page 6, col. 8 Mets Defeat Cards, 3 to Vi Game Back NEW YORK, Sept. 12 UP) Cleon Jones equaled the all time club consecutive game hitting record with a fourth inning triple today and scored the game's deciding run on a sacrifice fly by Donn Clendenon as the New York Mets defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 3 to 0. The triumph kept the Mets one-half game behind the first place Pittsburgh Pirates in the torrid Eastern Division race in the National League.

Jones tripled with one out for the first hit off Jerry Reuss to stretch his hitting streak to 20 games. Clendenon then lifted a fly ball to deep left field that scored Jones easily. Jim McAndrew, backed by fine defensive play, struck out four, walked one and yielded just five hits as he recorded his Box Score on Page 4 BY ROBERT MARKUS There were no tears, no recriminations, and, most of all, no alibis in the Cubs' clubhouse after yesterday's heart-grabbing 5 to 4 loss to the league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates. Don Kessinger blamed himself for not throwing out the Pirates' Bob Robertson on a slow bouncing ball to short in the second that set up a two-run inning. Pitcher Ferguson Jenkins blamed himself for getting a pitch too far inside to Manny San-guillen, who ripped it to left for a double.

Fergie also 'fessed up to trying too hard on his next pitch to Jose Pagan. It bounced into the dirt for a wild pitch, enabling Robertson to score. Ron Santo made his contribution to the true confessions session when he said that on Pagan's high chopper, "I felt at first I had it; I felt that way until I slipped on the way up and didn't get all the momentum I wanted." The ball tipped off Ron's glove for a single and Sanguillen raced home with the pivotal run of the game. Even Manager Leo Durocher conceded: "If I had it to do over with what I know now I would have left Jenkins hit for himself in the eighth." What Leo knew by now was that the first three Pirates to face relievers Juan Pizarro and Bob Miller had scored before a batter was retired, turning a 2 to 1 knuckle-gnawer into a 5 to 1 cushion. That made Jim Hickman's three-run homer in the bottom of the inning exciting, but nonclimatic.

"Sure, now I wish the hell I'd gone the other way," said Leo. "If I could have looked into a crystal ball and figured we were going to come up with some more runs in the ninth I'd have done things altogether differently. "But I didn't figure they'd do what they did to Pizarro. He's been looking good lately. And actually Stargell hit a good pitch off him for the home run.

A real good pitch, low and away." This was one of those games with which the second-guessers will have a field day. For instance, in the seventh, with the Cubs down 2 to 1, Jim Hickman led off with a single and Durocher let Santo swing away. Ronnie struck out. Leo's answer: "I never had any intention of letting Ronnie bunt there. With the wind blowing out I'm letting him hit." Score one for Leo.

Santo, hot a good bunter, was on a streak of 11 hits in 15 times at bat. He had touched Pitcher Bob Moose for a home run, the Cubs' only score to that point, the last time up. Then in the eighth, after pinch hitter Willie Smith led with a walk, Durocher pulled Jenkins in favor of Johnny Callison, who tried once to bunt, then struck out. Why had he not let JenRins bunt himself and why, after one feeble bunt attempt, had he given Callison the hit sign? Leo's answer: "Jenkins is not a good bunter. Callison is a better bunter.

But after he missed that first bunt I saw there was an opening, because Pagan was playing right on top of Callison, no further than from here -At 1 tenth victory in 21 decisions and third shutout of the season. It was the seventh triumph in the last nine games for the Mets. Rookie Reuss, a left hander, was the losing pitcher. The defeat was his 8th against five victories. Reuss, who surrendered just three hits in his seven inning stint, was relieved by Reggie Cleveland, whom the Mets reached for two runs in the eighth.

Tommie Agee singled, moved to second base on a sacrifice, Jones wps walked intentionally and Clendenon was safe on an error by Shortstop Ed Crosby, loading the bases. Ken Singleton hit a sacrifice fly to left to bring in one run, and Tim Foli, a rookie infielder, bounced a single thru the middle to score Jones with the final run. Both tallies were unearned. Jones, a .340 hitter last season, tied Agee's 20-game hitting streak established this year. Jones was struggling to get above the .200 mark earlier in the campaign, but now is up to .285.

Steve Bilko, Villanova back, moving toward first down despite efforts of Maryland's Tony yesterday in first period play at College Park, A Md. Villanova won game, opener for both, 21 to 3. u.s ama Rips ml 1 I 1 liiJiiJlIMW III iv "TJ i TH--1 Tir in" iii in mi iijj 11,11 1 iiiiimnmii, ma ri rvt cs vi mm4 "'oCv e- stir 1 Bryant told Davis. "But I didn't believe it. This convinced me.

I just wanted to shake your hand." Davis was born in Birmingham and last week admitted he secretly held a desire to be the first Negro football player at Alabama. But his family left Birmingham when he was 11-years old and wound up in California after a couple of years in New York. "Needless to say, we were soundly and convincingly beaten by a far superior football team," Bryant told the press." They toyed with us as a matter of fact. I know they are a real fine team and they may be a great team for all I know. They blocked us well and ran over us.

I didn't see any of their backs who weren't terrific runners." In an understatement, McKay said: "I thought we played an excellent game. Our defense played well most of the time. Alabama was fairly big but we thought we could run. It the running game Is what we go to the dance "We knew Continued on page 3, col. 1 BY ROY DAMER (Cnlcagt Trlbim Prttt Strvln BIRMINGHAM, Sept.

12 A bunch of stars from Southern California fell mightily on Alabama tonight, and when it was all over the home forces weren't whistling Dixie. Southern California, dominating play all the way, rolled over the Crimson Tide, 42 to 21, and left a crowd of 72,175 in Legion Field thoroly convinced as to which was the better team In this college football opener. One statistic can graphically tell the story of this outcome. The winners totaled 485 yards rushing and their tough defensive unit permitted Alabama only 32 on the ground. Any questions? Six Trojan backs gained more than 50 yards rushing and all had hefty averages.

It bore out Coach John McKay's contention that running back was the deepest position on his talented team. This was the 22nd successive regular season game in which Southern Cal went undefeated. On the other side of the coin, it was the first time that Paul Bear Bryan, voted Coach of the Decade in one poll, had suffered three straight losses since he became Alabama's coach in 1958. After the stinging defeat, Bryant went to the Southern Cal locker room to personally congratulate Clarence Davis, the excellent tailback who was the nation's fifth leading rusher last season. tt "I had heard and read lot about ya the last two years," ft COLLEGE FOOTBALL SCORES ON PAGE 4 Nebraska Halfback Jeff Kinney 351 hammering Wake Forest line for short yardage in yesterday's season opener for both teams in Lincoln.

The Cornhuskcrs had little trouble with visitors, defeating vf them, 36 toi2. 'H AP Wiravhotol.