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Tig er Bats Go Pow! Sock! Bam! 18 Hits. Four Homers Produce 11 -6 Win his holdout with the Padres and headed for San Diego, where a $50,000 contract is waiting. Denny McLain has his fifth start of the season tonight against Tommy John. McLain, who hasn't reached top form, said Thursday he felt like he was "about half way through spring training." vv 1 rffu sac: V- VJ CHICAGO (AP) Wow, what a night! For the Detroit Tigers was all "Pow! Sock! Bam! worthy of a batman climax as they smashed four home runs and 18 hits to whip the Chicago White Sox 11-6 Thursday. Never mind that the Tigers have fared poorly against the supposedly weaker Western Division teams.

Ignore for a moment that the White Sox are the last place club of that division, with the worst won-loss ratio in major league baseball. SOX FIREWORKS Simply savor the fireworks of Mickey Stanley, Dick Mc-Auliffe, Norm Cash and Bill Freehan all hitting home runs, the last two back-to-back, and the Tigers collecting more hits in one night than they'been able to pick up since plastering Minnesota with 19 in 1967. The Sox provided some fireworks of their own, collecting a dozen hits and knocking a couple of home runs. The Sox got things underway 1-0 when Bill Melton homered off Les Cain in the second inning. But then Tiger Mickey Stanley hit a home run off rookie Jerry Janeski to trigger a five-run third inning.

Willie Hor-ton followed with a double into shallow rightfield. Norm Cash singled, Bill Freehan singled, Don Wert walked, Cain singled and Dick McAuliffe singled. The Sox pulled to within one run in the fifth inning and forced Cain and rookie Bob Reed to give up the mound to Fred Scherman. Bobby Knoop and Syd O'Brien singled and Luis Apa-ricio forced O'Brien at second to send Knoop to third. Then a single to right by Carlos May scored Knoop and a single to left by Melton brought Apari-cio home.

It was after Reed let Daune Josephson hit a single, scoring May, that Tiger manager Mayo Smith replaced him with Scherman. Scherman then retired the side and singled to start the seventh inning. He led McAuliffe around the bases to home after McAuliffe hit one into the rightfield seats to make the score 7-4. BIG EIGHTH Then came the big eighth inning when Cash and Freehan hit their back-to-backers. After the game, manager Smith, noting the Tigers are only 2-6 against the Sox, remarked, "You've got to kill these clubs, and" we've not been doing it." Noting the Tigers' weak 5-7 performance against the Western Division Six and the Kansas City Royals, Smith said, "Baltimore never loses to them, that's why they lead us by six games." Cain, the American League's top pitcher, lasted only 4 2-3 innings and the win went to Scherman, now 3-1 for the season.

Reed, 25, appeared on the mound fresh to the majors, called up from the Tigers' Toledo farm club after Earl Wilson was sold to the San Diego Padres. Reed, 9-9 with a 2.83 earned run average in Toledo, will leave the Tigers July 24 for two weeks of military duty and Detroit will have to call up somebody else. Wilson ended THE STATE Lansing East Lansing July 17, 1570 Duane Josephson After He UPI Tetephoto Tapped Ball Near Plate uin Pirates9 Unveilin Tag by Chicago Catcher Carroll, with two innings of hit-less relief, picked up his sixth win in seven decisions as the Reds maintained their 10-game lead over second-place Los Angeles in the West Division. The Dodgers kept pace by beating the New York Mets, 3-1, while elsewhere in the NL, Houston nipped Chicago, 2-1, Atlanta trimmed St. Louis, 7-3, and Philadelphia outslugged Felix Millan and Orlando Ce-peda drilled two-run singles in the seventh inning as the Braves sent St.

Louis down to its eighth straight loss. Clete Boyer ripped his 10th homer for Atlanta off loser Steve Carlton, while Pat Jarvis went the distance for the Braves and raised his record to 10-7. Byron Browne's ninth-inning grand slam homer enabled the San Diego, 10-7. San Francisco and Montreal were idle. Billy Grabarkewitz' 10th homer snapped a 1-1 tie in the eighth inning and helped the Dodgers beat the Mets.

Bill Singer allowed New York only six hits, including Cleon Jones' third homer, to gain his sixth win. The loss left the second-place Mets a game and a half behind Pittsburgh in the East. Strolle-Schmidt Oust Champs Al Kaliite Runs to Elude By STU CAMEN UPI Sports Writer The Pirates unveiled their new $35 mill on Three Rivers Stadium Thursday night the same way they inaugurated old Forbes Field 61 years ago by losing by a 3-2 score. While a victory certainly would have been more appreciated by Pirate fans, the fact remains that in 1909 when the club began play in Forbes Field by losing to Chicago, 3-2, it went on to capture the National League pennant. By losing to Cincinnati 3-2 in the first game in its new park, the Pirates row hope history will repeat itself.

INCENTIVE The park may have been different but the Reds and Pirates fashioned a couple of familiar scenes in their new surroundings. Cincinnati's Tony Perez, leading the majors in homers, belted his 30th round tripper of the season, while Willie Stargell connected for the Pirates as he had done many times before at Forbes Field. Stargell's blast had some added monetary value as he won $1,000, donated by a local lumber for being the first Pirate to hit a homer in the new stadium. Perez, in addition to his fifth-inning homer, also singled in the ninth, ami after a walk to Johnny Bench, scored the winning run on a single by Lee May off loser Dick Ellis. Clay Redlegs Putting Practice Pays Off Money Provides Tension By BOB STEWART NEW YORK (UPI) "Neither Rod nor I ever had an experience like that before," Ken Rosewall was saying.

"There's always pressure and tension in a big match, but when you are playing for first money of $35,000 as I say, neither Rod nor I ever ever The voice of the little muscle man of pro tennis trailed off and the sweat-glimmering shoulders heaved from a deep sigh. He tugged at the towel across his waist and managed a wan smile. Across the room, the victorious Rod Laver, richer by $35,000 for his 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 victory over his fellow Australian night in the $50,000 final of the $200,000 Tennis Champions Classic, was almost echoing Rosewall's words. "It was unbelievable the amount of concentration re-quired in such a match," Laver said. "You can't get it out of your mind that there is that much money waiting for you.

I think I concentrated fairly well, but I was nervous. Very nervous. But when I concentrate like that I seem to see the ball even better and I can control the racket. Some fellows, when the tension gets that high, can keep the ball in sight, but for some reason they let their racket get wobbly." The victory pushed Laver over the $100,000 mark in earnings for the year, and Rosewall had to content himself with a mere $15,000 for losing. Yet Rosewall did not go down without a fight.

He staged tremendous rallies in each of the three sets, and the sympathy of the 10,292 fans in Madison Square Garden was clearly with the underdog. "I appreciated the crowd reaction," Rosewall said. "Sure you hear the fans, especially indoors and it's nice but, well, I think Rod and I gave them some fairly good tennis." For Laver, his decisive victory was in part vindication for his shocking fourth round defeat at Wimbledon, where he lost his bid for a third consecutive title, and the triumph also could go a long way to silencing those who thought that perhaps the redheaded lefty was tottering on his throne as king of all tennis. He will take a 10-day break now, he said, "just to get away from the tension and to see my little boy." MFL Boss Authorizes Player Loan PONTIAC (AP) The commissioner of the Midwest Football League says the clubs from his minor league are authorized to loan players to the National Football League if the need arises due to the current bogdown in NFL contract talks with the NFL Players Association. "If the teams in the MFL are agreeable, they can loan players to the NFL teams in this crisis," according to Keith Bacon, commissioner of the Midwest league.

"It is up to the team, but signing a contract is a different matter," he added. Bacon also said Pete Roz-elle, NFL commissioner, promised that NFL teams would honor the contracts of MFL teams during the present negotiation problems. Meanwhile, Doug Holcomb, former Purdue quarterback who has been signal caller for the MFL Pontiac Firebirds for the last two years, has left the training camp of the NFL Kansas City Chiefs and will quar-terback Pontiac Saturday night in an exhibition game against the Wyoming Chiefs. "The Firebirds have no objection to letting Holcomb work out with Kansas City, but he is obligated under contract to play in the game in Pontiac Saturday night," Bacon said. Seek Gold, Glory By The Associated Press Gold and glory in big chunks is on the line in horse racing Saturday.

The $162,300 Hollywood Juvenile Championship at Hollywood Park and the $116,400 Armory L. Haskell Handicap at Monmouth Park top the thoroughbred program. In harness racing, it's the $125,000 Roosevelt International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway. JOURNAL. Michigan SECTION Phils to get past San Diego.

The Phils unleashed an 18-hit attack off two San Diego pitchers but still found themselves trailing 7-6 before Browne's decisive belt off Ron Willis. Ollie Brown and Dave Campbell homered for the Padres, while Don Money collected four hits for the Phils. Dick Selma got the win in relief, his fourth against five losses. a 14-footer on 16 to go two-up. The winners had seven birdies and one bogey (the 10th hole) over the 17 holes.

HITS 'EM LONG Vass, this year's state amateur champ, continued his long-ball performance, hitting all four par-five greens in two for birdies. Losers Thursday in the See PUTTING, Pg. B-3, Col. 3 LOU WENDROW 1946 Champion going to be different we're going to lose 52." Then, talking about Mueller, a 6-7 forward, he said, "Mules' problem is that he has a taste for our sponsor's other product, and you know what that is, right?" The sponsor was Stroh's which, of course, is better known as a brewery than a creamery. And, the kids knew, as their chorus of correct answers to van Breda Kolff's question proved.

Actually, van Breda Kolff doesn't expect to lose 52 games a In other championship flight matches, Emil a 1 1 a and Denny Vass ousted Msgr. Michael Mleko and Frank Ells-trom, 4-3; Jim Ruetter and Jim Murray defeated Tom Ochsner and Bob Corley, 4-3; and Rollie DeMartin and Bob 1 1 bumped Ward Barnum and Lynn Janson, 2-1. In today's semifinals, Strolle-Schmidt face De-Martin-Neller and Gallas-Vass play Ruetter-Murray. The two DENNY VASS Present Champion i 4 7. i Schmidt-Strolle won No.

10 with a par and Tad plunked in a short putt for another bird on 12 to go four-up. Stolle ended the match with his birdie on 15. Neller and DeMartin worked together excellently. All even with Barnum and Janson, the 1968 state amateur champion, after 13 holes, Rollie dropped a 25-footer for a bird on the 15th hole (the match started on the second hole) and Bob came back with LYNN JANSON 1968 Champion Two unearned runs in the third inning enabled Houston to edge Chicago and provide Don Wilson with his third victory. A wild throw by Glenn Beckert put two Houston base-runners in scoring position and one tallied on Jesus Alou's sacrifice fly and the other on a single by Jim Wynn.

John Cal-lison singled home the Cubs' only run in the ninth. winners meet in a 36-hole final on Saturday. Schmidt, who was three under par on his own ball over the 15 holes, putted brilliantly. Schmidt and Strolle grabbed an early lead when Tad chipped in for a birdie on one and then knocked in 20-footers on four and five for birds. Green, the 1968 Michigan amateur champion, cut the margin with a 15-foot birdie putt on nine.

PETE GREEN 1969 Champion hearted manner in which he conducted the session, that he meant what he said. It was fun, for both the Pistons and the kids. Surprisingly, only a few hundred youngsters turned out, and most of these were not local youth. Three school busloads were brought in by the Battle Creek Parks Department to account for a large portion of the crowd. PLAY 'GAMES' Van Breda Kolff was joined by players r(w i Mueller, DETROIT CHICAGO ab bl ab bi MAuliffe 2b 6 12 2 OBrien 3b 5 0 2 0 Stanley cf 5 2 2 1 Aparicio ss 4 10 0 Kaline rf 4 12 0 CMay If 4 2 2 1 WHorton If 5 13 2 Melton rf 4 12 2 Cash lb 5 2 2 2 Josephsn 4 0 2 1 Freehan 5 2 3 1 Hopkins lb 4 112 Wert 3b 4 12 0 Moore 0 0 0 0 Gutierrez ss 4 0 0 1 McCraw ph 10 0 0 Cain 2 0 11 Berry cf 5 0 0 0 Reed 0 0 0 0 Knoop 2b 4 13 0 Schermn 2 110 Janeski 0 0 0 0 Timermn 1 0 0 0 Stanqe 10 0 0 WWIIams ph 1 0 0 0 Weaver 0 0 0 0 McKnney ph 1 0 0 0 DMurphy 0 0 0 0 Spence lb 10 0 0 Total Detroit Chicago 43 11 18 10 Total 39 6 12 6 2 2 0 11 2 0 06 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 3 0 DP Chicago 1.

LOB Detroit 8, Chicago 10. 2B W.Horton 2, Kaline, Knoop. HR Melton (15), Stanley (7), McAuliffe (9), Cash (10), Freehan (14), Hopkins (2). Gutierrez. MR fcK B3 so Cain 4 2-3 5 4 4 3 5 Reed 0 1 Scherman (W4-1) .2 3 2 Timmerman 21-3 3 0 Janeski (L.7-9) 2 2-3 8 5 Stange 2 1-3 1 0 Weaver 1 3 2 D.Murphy 11-3 5 4 Moore 12-3 1 0 HBP by Scherman (C.May) Freehan.

2:55. A 6,666. PB All-Stars Resume Workouts EVANSTON, HI. (AP) The full Ail-Star collegiate football squad reported to Head Coach Otto Graham for a pair of two-hour practices Thursday after ending their mini-strike. The 53 players boycotted supervised drills Wednesday in sympathy for National Football League veterans locked out of training camps during negotiations between club owners and the NFL Players Association.

Graham scheduled two more workouts today and the first full-scale scrimmage for Saturday. The collegians, most of whom belong to NFL teams now in training with rookies only, are preparing for the annual All-Star game in Soldier Field July 31 against the world champion Kansas City Chiefs. Phil Olsen of Utah State and the Boston Patriots may be forced to miss some practice with a partially torn knee ligament. The 258-pound defensive lineman was hurt in Thursday morning workouts. Former Grid Coach Dies CHARLOTTE, N.C.

Douglas Clyde "Peahead" Walker, famed football coach at Wake Forest 25 years ago, died Thursday at the age of 71. The stocky native of Birmingham, guided his Wake Forest teams through 77 triumphs, 51 defeats and 0 ties in 14 years. Funeral services will be Saturday in Christ Episcopal Church in Charlotte. in the coming season. Quite to the contrary, he's looking for great improvement with considerable help from a splendid rookie crop.

BETTER PERSONNEL "I don't think there's any question that we'll be better," he said. "We weren't as bad as the record showed last season, and our personnel will definitely be better this year." Mix, the Pistons' No. 1 choice in the 1969 player draft, See PISTONS', Pg. B-5, Col. Cy BOB HOERNER State Journal Sports Editor John Strolle took a putting lesson from his partner, Tad Schmidt, Wednesday after-noon.

The dividends were collected Thursday. Strolle and Schmidt teamed to eliminate defending champions Archie Tarpoff and Pete Green, 4-3, in the second round of the Country Club of Lansing Invitational Best-Ball tournament. "I was planning on going back to work at Kositchek's immediately after our first match, Strolle explained after the upset victory over Tarpoff and Green. "But my partner suggested a little work on the practice green first and it sure helped," he said. WINNING PUTTS Although Schmidt knocked in most of the winning putts for the team, Strolle rolled in a 10-footer for a.bird on the 15th hole to end the match.

The putt gave the winners a hplve on the hole. Seniors Seek Golf Title Saturday A field of 36 golfers, all 50 years of age or older, will tour Groesbeck Golf Course Saturday in the 18th annual All-City Seniors Golf Tournament. Most of the field will seek the Group I honors as 17 golfers are entered in the 50-59 age group. Thirteen golfers are entered in Group II (60-69) while six are slated to play in the 70 and over Group III. Starting times: GROUP I (50-59) a.m.

Herm Evertiardus, Ray Pratt, Dit Stephan, Earl Henry. 9:08 Henry Wolcott, Bill Fosnlght, E. B. Weeks, Frank Young. 9:16 G.

C. Sigourney, Pett Zdybel, Art Kirchen. 9:2 Robert G. Hertford, Caslmir J. Woicek, Art Saviluoto.

9:32 Francis E. Walker, Ralf Peckham, John Stauffer. GROUP II (60-4?) 9:40 Emil Nowitzke, Ken Hudnut, Gustof E. Lundberg. 9:48 Don Maher, Paul Vincent, Kenneth L.

Frantz. Joe Uberly. 9:56 Woodie Nolan, Syd Richard, Ralph l-uce. Demitz, Tony J. Mras, Rollie Sl-monds.

GROUP III (70 over) Nowitzke, Peter L. McVay, William R. 10:20 Braton Spalding, C. Walter Stafford, Bob Benson. Paschal Wins MILTON, Vt.

(AP) Jim Paschal, 44, of High Point, N.C., driving a 1970 Javelin, won the Panther 300 NASCAR Grand American Challenge Series 100-mile race Thursday night at Catamount Stadium. Paschal averaged 160.193 m.p.h. on the one-third mile paved oval track, winning in 1:39.41. The race was delayed an hour by rain and caution flags were up for 28 of the 300 laps. i ly Tj Uf "1 1 fjl i tJf it I 1 I iff 111 li Vf AyM I Canham Lures Lund From Tigers ANN ARBOR (AP) Dave Strack, former University of Michigan basketball coach, and Don Lund, Detroit Tigers development director, were named today to the top two administrative positions under U-M Athletic Director Don Canham.

Strack becomes the associate athletic director after two years as the Athletic Department business manager. Lund assumes newly created post of assistant athletic director. Both men are directly responsible to Canham. The appointments, effective immediately, were approved today by the University Board of Regents. "Michigan is fortunate to have such qualified men to fill these administrative posts," Canham said.

The appointments follow an administrative shakeup and reorganization of the U-M athletic department begun by Canham three weeks ago when Chalmers (B amp) Elliot resigned as associate director to head the athletic department at Iowa. In realigning the department, Canham expanded the associate director's job to include the duties of the business manager and created the new post of assistant director. An associate director, Strack will oversee the business operations of the department. He will handle budgeting, purchasing, investments and will manage the department's personnel. In addition, he will work on scheduling games and coordinate the university's athletic program with the Big Ten office.

Lund will direct several alumni fund-raising organizations. He will also handle special events, ticket promotion, serve as a liaison with the NCAA, and help Canham with public relations. In addition, Lund will supervise the school's eight summer coaching clinics for Ann Ar youths. STATE CHAMPIONS Four Michigan amateur golf champions competed in this year's Country Club of Lansing Invitational Best-Ball tournament. Denny Yass, the 1970 champ, is in the semi-finals with his partner Emil Gallas.

Pete Green, '69 champ, and '68 champ Lynn Janson were eliminated Thursday. Lou Wendrow, '46 champ, is in the consolation bracket of the first flight. (State Journal Photos by Jim Martinson.) Pistons Mini-Clinic a Success By DAVE MATTHEWS State Journal Sports Writer Bill van Breda Kolff is hoping he and his Detroit Pistons have as much fun at Cobo Hall this winter as they'd have this summer running a series of mini-clinics for youngsters. "We've really enjoyed getting out and working with the kids," the second-year coach of the Pistons said Thursday, during a half-hour clinic at Frandor. It was plain to see, from the smile on his face and the light- Howard Komives and Steve Mix in providing instruction in basketball fundamentals, and in a series of "games," one of which was won by the kids.

The idea was to promote both the Pistons and a Detroit company, which gave away ice cream bars to the kids after the clinic was over. Van Breda Kolff made light of both promotions. "You can see how we lost 51 games last year," he said after a few Piston shots had gone awry during a demonstration of technique. "This year it's i.