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jeveo' mem A JlL uiiC MOOT) 4( the game itself only took 2:19. Most of the fans displayed far more faith than did one of the Tigers' broadcasters, Ernie Harwell, who was already on the expressway home before he learned that the game was going to be played after all and had to turn around and come back. The majority of the announced paid attendance of 19,410 stayed around to the finish. "We're due some games like that." Manager Billy Martin commented on his club's four fantastic finishes in a row. "We took leads into the -ate innings of a lot of gami early this year and got beat." Still, the four in a row have left Detroit games in back of Baltimore in the American League East.

Andy Messersmith ap- v. A "-V fV 0 By RICHARD L. SHOOK DETROIT (L'PI) Those bouncy Detroit Tigers are rraking baseball look like professional basketball forget the first 95 per cent of the game, it's that last shot that "counts. The Tigers won their fourth straight game in their last turn at bat Friday night when Tony Taylor pinch-hit a base s-loaded double which scored three runs with one out in the eighth inning and gave Detroit a 4-3 win over the California Angels. Detroit waited almost as long to win the game as its bouyingly loyal fans did to see -the game get started.

Rain delayed the beginning of he contest exactly 2:17 and TIMES HERALD SPORTS Perranoski Added To Tiger Relief Corps AGE SIX night. Perranoski, a former Michigan State pitcher, was expected to report to the club in time for today's game with California. The deal brings the top relief pitcher in baseball for the past two seasons and his salary of $63,509 to a team which is in desperate need of peared to be cruising along toward his 10th win when he took a 3-1 lead and five-hitter into the eighth inning. But Bill Freehan and pinch-hitter Al Kaline began the inning with singles and, one forceout later, Dick McAuliffe walked to load the bases and drive Messersmith out in favor of left-handed Dave La-Rocke. Da Ron Jones, a left-handed batter announced as a pinch-hitter, brought about this move and he was immediately jerked in favor of Taylor, a right-handed swinger.

Taylor lined a 1-2 pitch to left-center to clear the bases and even though he was thrown out at third trying to stretch his hit into a triple, Messersmith was saddled with his 10th defeat. The win went to Fred Scherman, his second in two nights after a month-long drought, to raise his record to 8-5. Mike Kilkenny pitched 4 1-3 innings of two-hit relief off starter Joe Niekro and Scherman gave up one hit in two innings. Tom Timmerman earned his second save for three outs in the ninth. It looked like the hometown faithful were going to be disappointed when Roger Repoz unloaded his sixth home run of the season into the upper deck in right after John Stephenson and Jim Spencer had opened the second inning with singles off Niekro.

But that was all California got as Detroit countered with Gates Brown's fourth home run of the season, which came in the fourth. Niekro has been experimenting with the same knuckleball which his manager with the Chicago Cubs, Leo Duroucher, told him to stick up his sleeve three years ago. "He dropped from No. 2 (on the staff) to No. 9 and now he's No.

4 again," Martin said of Niekro before the game. "He's been throwing the knuckleball for about three weeks. What the heck, he hasn't been getting them out with his other pitches." Mickey Lolich, 16-7, would prefer not to need that late-inning lightning today when he opposes Clyde Wright, 9-10, of the Angels in the middle game of the series. New Indian Chief hitters to come out swinging against their opponent of the evening Vida Blue and they did. They swung enough to hand Blue his fourth loss against 19 wins, 4-1.

See story Page 8. John Llpon (center) goes over the ground rules with the umpires prior to the start of Friday's game in Cleveland. Lipon was named Friday to succeed Alvin Dark as the Indians manager. The former Detroit Tiger infielder instructed his Pass Separates Pros, Stars Gives Up Tig Saturday, July 31, 1971 bullpen help to go with Fred Scherman. "We're hoping he still has some good years left," Martin said, "that's why we got him.

It's worth the gamble. "He can pitch all the time and the way we've been going, he's going to get the work," Martin said. Perranoski, 34, was the "Fireman of the Year" in both 1969 and 1970 (though tied with Cincinnati's Wayne Granger last season) and his 41 points on 34 saves and seven wins tied the major league record. However the left-handed sinker and curve ball specialist, who's at his deadliest when you'd think his arm would be dead, was only 1-4 with five saves and a 6.86 earned run average this season. Martin had told UPI earlier this season the 6-foot, 195-pound reliever was being mishandled in Minnesota by Manager Bill Rigney, who is notoriously short of patience with pitchers anyway.

Perranoski needs to be pitched often to be effective, Martin said. He held out for $65,000, reporting late and out of shape when he finally did sign for less than he wanted, and fell infn rliofovrir mnro rnniHIu into aistavor more rapiaiy than his sinker ball does cr wucil ll a eu iia yeaiv ui tuc- tiveness when he was pound- ed in early outings. "There's a lot of times you've gotta put him in a ball game even if you're losing by eight runs just to give him the work," said the manager who had him at his best when both were at Minnesota in 1969. "When he gets here, I i i ui T7 i might be able to use Fred Scherman in a little longer relief," Martin said. "I told Perranoski to take his time getting nere, tnougn Lolich's pitching today." had the two big, strong-armed quarterbacks in Stanford's i Plunkett and Santa Clara's Dan Pastorini and they had plenty of speedy receivers.

But between the quarterbacks and the ends was Baltimore's vaunted defense, stingy on running plays and ferocious on pass rushing. Ohio State's John Brocking-ton was the All-Stars' chief threat as he hammered out 27 yards in 11 carries, mostly in the first period. Brockington got the first Star touchdown in the opening seconds of the second period on a one-yard run. The score was set up when Baltimore was called for pass interference, giving the collegians the ball on the 1. The All-Stars other score came after Sam Havrilak replaced Morrall at quarterback in the final period.

He fumbled on the second play and Penn State's Jack Hamm grabbed it and ran 47 yards for the score. Morrall, hitting on 20 of 30 passes, moved Baltimore easily but the Colts were sluggish on offense and the 1971 All-Stars made fewer costly mistakes than other editions. Penalties hurt both teams. Morrall also was harassed by a good charge from the All-Star front line. Richie Harris of Grambling, Jack Youngblood of Florida and Julius Adams of Texas Southern applied pressure to Morrall throughout the game but it wasn't enough to cure the inexperience in the secondary.

Midway in the first period, Morrall found Ray Perkins alone at the All-Star 7-yard line and the former Alabama star stepped into the end zone and completed a 27-yard play. In the second period, Tom Matte, the all-duty back who missed last year with an in- CHICAGO (AP) The Col-lege All-Stars had a new director, a new cast and a remodeled stage but the Bal-t i Colts knew the script the same one the professional champions have used in running up eight straight wins over the collegians. For the Colts, champions of the Super Bowl, it was simply a matter of 37-year-old quarterback Earl Morrall throwing the ball. He did. For the Stars, it was a question of stopping the Colts from catching the ball.

They didn't. The final score Friday night was 24-17, one of the lower margins in recent years, but enough for the Colts to hike the professionals' edge to 27-9-1 in the series. Morrall's three touchdown passes plus his 329 yards passing for the night ranked him with Bart Starr, Joe Namath and Len Daw son -other pro champion quarterbacks who picked apart tne eager dui in experienced All-Star secondaries in recent years. As for the Stars' offense, blended by Blanton Collier in his first crack at All-Star coaching, it also was a remembrance of other games in other years. The Stars' offense moved into Colt territory only twice in the game, and not at all in the second half.

The All-Stars New Pros Find Out Fast Dirty Dog Game' DETROIT (UPD Billy IVIaftin says Ron Perranoski needs a lot of work to be effective. He also says he'll get it with Detroit. The left-handed relief pitcher became the property of the Tigers in a waiver deal with the Minnesota Twins Friday 01' Ern But Not DETROIT (UPI) Bengal Bits: if'lt was unbelievable. I've said it before Detroit sports fans are the greatest in the 'world." The speaker: Jim Campbell, general manager of the -Tigers, and the folks he was talking about were not necessarily limited to the announced paid attendance of IMlO, the great majority of whom stayed the full 4:36 to see a game which their team won in 2:19. "I think it goes back to when Spike Briggs owned the ball club," Campbell said in the glow of victory.

"His policy was to always make ev-: ery effort to get a game in if he could. A lot of people come a long way just to see the game. "Folks know if they come Farr, Sanders Sign BLOOMFIELD HILLS (UPI) The list of Lions' holdouts is down to three, but at least all of Detroit's players are now in camp. The list of signed gained two names Friday when both running back Mel Farr and tight end Charlie Sanders put their names on multiple year contracts for undisclosed amounts of money. Farr, the Lions' leading ground-gainer with a 4.3 average for 166 carries last season, is now under contract for three reasons for something dike $55,000 per year.

Sanders, the All-Pro tight rend who led the club in catch" ing last season, is wrapped up for four years for about the-same amount of money. a 1 Manager Russ Thomas took care of worrying about signing both for the next few seasons within a few hours of each event in talks with the principals and their agent, attorney Bob Fenton. Still unsigned but in camp anyway are quarterbacks Landry and Bill Munson plus kicker Errol Mann. The specialist may sign soon but the throwers appear some distance from Thomas' goal of getting their autographs where it counts for him. Both Farr, a fifth-year pro, Sanders, a fourth-season vman, have reportedly been out on their own while away from training -camp at a cost of $100 per day.

i They will be in uniform when Detroit holds its a a 1 Intra-squad scrim-ritnnge at Flint's artificially turfed Atwood Stadium but r.neither will likely see any ac- tion. Central Calls Athletes For Football, CC Port Huron Central High will hold organizational meet-J tags next week for cross country and football. i Coach Lowell Spelss will be "iri charge of the cross country meeting at 7 p.m. at Central rHlgh' School, Football coach Dickev will ha In charee of the arid meetina at 7:30 p.fn;- Tuesday In the school gym. jury, roiled out ot tne Dack-field to grab a 15-yard strike.

The Colts' final score came after the Stars' biggest play and that was an accident. Pastorini's punt from his end zone almost was blocked and the Santa Clara star eluded the Colt rush and raced to the 34-yard line. The crowd of 52,289, viewing restyled Soldier Field for the first time, broke into loud cheers which were choked off by an immediate penalty that moved the Stars back to their 18. Two plays later Baltimore had the ball and Morrall lofted a soft pass over the middle to tight end Tom Mitchell who was by himself at the 20. He romped over.

The All-Stars picked up three points on a 40-yard field goal in the second quarter by Wyoming's Bob Jacobs, and Baltimore's Jim O'Brien matched it with a 22-yardw? in the third period. Why four years? "By then we would have some experience," he said. "We couldn't find the pass openings if they were there. They have a good pass rush, but it was hard to get the feel of things by playing a little and then watching from the bench. I'm sure Jim (Plunkett) feels the same way.

"In the long run I think a lack of field position hurt us the most," continued Pastorini. "That Mike Curtis (the Colts' middle linebacker) is really something. With him in there they don't need the other linebackers." ''I hate to lose, but if you're going to lose" it might as well be to the best." The Baltimore Colts' Don McCafferty declared "It was frustrating." "We'd get a drive goftig and hope we'd score so we could get a chance to use some of the kids and then something would happen." "That front four came hard, all of them," praised quarterback Earl Morrall, adding that he felt the sting of the collegians' rush more than he had anticipated. National League East Division Pet. OB 67 30 .630 51 48 .547 9'i 55 46 .534 11 53 49 .520 12V1 45 61 .425 22'i 42 64 .396 25Vi West Division Pittsburgh St.

Louis Chicago New York Philadelphia Montreal Francisco Los Angeles Atlanta Houston Cincinnati San Diego 64 43 .590 51 .519 IV 56 53 .514 9 S3 52 .505 10 49 59 .454 151 31 49 .355 26 Prlday'i Oames St. Louli 4, Philadelphia 3, 2nd gam, rained out New York 4, Chicago 0 Montreal 7-5, Houston 4-4 2nd gam 18 Innings Los Angeles Cincinnati 2 San Francisco 5, Plttsburah 2 Atlanta 3, San Diego 1, 10 Innings Saturday's Oames Chicago ao (P (Saderkl 4-3) irappai n-9) at New YofK Pittsburgh (Johnson .7) at San Francisco (Carrlthers 2-1) St, Louis (Cleveland 9-9) at Phlla delphln (Roynolrts 3-S), night Houston (Blnningham S-l) at Montreal Atlanta 5-3) at San Diego invnKD e-iir, nigni On- m-i 1 1 ett 11-3) at Lss Anaeles (Downing 12-6), night Sunday Oames Chicago at New York, 2 Pittsburgh ot San Prancllco, 2 St, Louis at Philadelphia Houston at Montreal Atlanta at San Diego Cincinnati ot Lot Angeles er Fans to the park that they're going to see a game, if it's possible," Campbell said. One of the faithful who did not stay was Ernie Harwell, one of the two radio voices of the Tigers. It seems that through a communications mixup of some kind, the broadcasting team of Ray Lane and Harwell got the idea that the game was called off and would be rescheduled as part of a doubleheader today. Not so, sir, but Harwell left the park and started driving home before he got the word on the radio that oops the game was going on.

So he turned around and made it back to the park for the remainder. The Tigers announced after the game they were sending young left-hander Bill Gil-breth back to their Toledo farm club in the International League to make room on the roster for Ron Perranoski. Gilbreth was 2-1 with a 3.86 earned run average with Detroit. He was promised a return trip to Detroit when the roster is expanded to 40 players Sept. 1st.

"We want him to pitch every fourth day," Martin said. "He's been working on his curve ball a lot lately. Mick-ey Lolich is going to go down there (to Toledo) and watch him pitch whenever he's not working." Red Wings Sign Pair DETROIT (AP) Two veteran forwards have signed new contracts with the Detroit Red Wings Hockey Club. Ab McDonald, 31, and Bill Collins, 27, brought to nine the number of Wings with 1970-71 contracts, the National Hockey League club announced Friday. McDonald, a 15-year veteran of six NHL teams, came to Detroit in May from St.

Louis along with Bob Wall and Mike Lowe. Their transfers completed a deal which sent retired defenseman Carl Brewer to the Blues. Collins joined the Wings last January as part of a trade that sent Frank Ma-hovlich to Montreal. Cosgrove If you can beat the best, then you should be able to become city champs of the Port Huron Little League. Such was the case Friday for the second successive year as Cosgrove Oil defeated Optimist 7-1 In the title game behind the one-hit pitching of Mishon Nickson, who struck out 13 hitters in the six-inning contest.

Cosgrove had upset unde- Phys. Ed. Folk Meet Next Week The ninth annual workshop for the Michigan Association of Directors of Physical Educations and Ath'otlcs will be held at Camp Kett Aug. 5, 6, 7 and 8. Port Huron High athletic dl- rector Redd Laughlin la seo ond vice-president of the orga' nizatlon.

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The winners scored all of the runs they needed in the top of the first inning. Little Ike Russell led off the game with a single, and scored when catcher Paul Lamb clubbed a long home run to left field. The Oilers tallied a single run In the second to make it 3-0, before Chuck Ely of Optimist socked a solo homer in 2nd In Snowmobile Point Standings Jerry Normandin of Memphis ranks second in Michigan International Snowmobile Association point standings going Into this weekend's racing events at Yale and Croswell. Normandin races In stock competition and has placed in summer drag races at Lake City, Cadillac, Maple Rapids and Onuway. It's A CHICAGO (AP) The College All Stars learned they have a lot to learn following their 24-17 loss to the Baltimore Colts Friday night and John Brockington, the running back from Ohio State, has learned the fastest.

"It's a dog game, a dirty dog game," said Brockington who scored the All-Stars' first touchdown on a power sweep in the second quarter. "I learned how dirty a game it was when we scrimmaged the Bears," added Brockington, who joins the Green Bay Packers. "You can't play it the way you play in college." Mistakes, penalties and lack of field position led to the All Stars' downfall. "I'm proud of this team," said Coach Blanton Collier. "We made too many mistakes, especially in drawing penalties, but the Colts didn't intimidate us physically.

We had poor field position early in the game and they got a touchdown before we could get our feet wet. "Then we settled down, but we couldn't make the big play. They're attitude was good and a lot of them are Federal Division team captured the title. This compares with six titles for the National and three for the American in -the same time span. Immediately after the game, the three divisional champions, McDonald's, London's, and Beard-Campbell, were presented trophies for their feats throughout the season.

And, of course, Cosgrove was adorned as well. Wrong dlugger Our apologies. The home run hitter pictured In Thursday's Times Herald sports section was Ike Russell and not Louie I Congratulations to both boys though as members of the city Little League champion Cosgrove Oil team, BzLmm going to become players." great pro Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett of Stanford said, "The penalties killed us." "It was difficult to run against them and difficult to pass against them," he added. "I guess that's why we didn't win. We have a lot to learn and it showed tonight." Dan Pastorini, the quarterback from Santa Clara, who a i Brockington 40 yards to 27 to top All-Star rushers, agreed "we sure got a lot to learn." Pastorini's ground yardage came mainly because he bobbled a punt attempt and then raced 28 yards for a first down.

"Baltimore is a great team," he said, "but I'd like to see this team play them again in four years." YANKS BASKETBALL WIN STOKE MANDEVILLE, Eng. (UPI)-The United States basketball team gained third place in the 20th international "Wheelchair Olympics" Friday by defeating Great Britain 52-39. By THI ASSOCIATED PRESS American Ltagut East Division Pel Ol Baltimore 64 31 .627 Boston 58 45 .563 6Vi Detroit 55 48 .544 9V4 New York 52 54 .491 14 Washington 42 59 .416 21V4 Cltcoland 43 61 .411 22 Wtst Division Oakland 63 39 .611 Kansas City 52 49 .515 lOVi California 51 56 .477 14Vi Chlcaoo 49 54 ,476 l4Vi Minnesota 46 56 .451 17 Milwaukee 43 $9 .422 20 Prlday'i Reiults Baltlmort 1, Kansas City 0 (5 Innings, ralnl Cloviland 4, Oakland 1 Chicago 5, Boston 1 Washington 3, Mllwauk I New York 11, Minnesota 9 Detroit 4, California 3 Saturday's Oames Oakland. (C. Dooson 9-1) af Cleveland (Dunnlno 7-7) California (Wright MO) at Detroit (Lolich 16-7 Boston (Culp 12-S) ot Chicago (John 10) New York (Kllnt 1-9) at Minnesota (Biyieven wjj Washington (Brown 3-3) at Milwaukee (Parsons 9-12) Kansas City (Dal Canton t-4) at Baltl more (P.

Dobson 14-4), night Sunday's Oames Oakland ot Cleveland, I California at Detroit Boston nt Chlcaao, 2 New York at Minnesota Washington at Milwaukee, 2 Kansas City at Baltimore, twilight Dominates City 11 Title Game feated London's In the opening game of the tourney 2-1, to duplicate the feat performed by Local 44, the city champs a year ago when it upset Cosgrove in the first game of the '70 tourney after the latter had completed a 15-0 season. Cosgrove and Optimist had both finished in second place in their respective divisions this season. Cosgrove was 12-3 In the Federal Division, finishing behind Beard-Campbell, who had a 14-1 campaign. Optimist ended the regular season at 11-4, trailing first-place McDonald's by a single game. Oddly enough, McDonald's was bumped out of the tourney title picture when it fell to Optimist Thursday.

Cosgrove's three losses came at the hands of Beard-Campbell (twice), and Michlgun National Bunk. But Friday night at the Little League Park it was all the fourth for his team's only hit of the game off of Nickson, who relied on a blazing fastball to get the hitters out. Nickson singled home two runs himself in the final inning to give himself a bit more insurance. Optimist's cause was hampered by the loss of Its hitting and pitching ace, Manuel Meza, Meza hurt his arm while throwing the final pitch of the game Thursday, and showed up In uniform with a cast on his right arm, and with his arm in a sling. He normally batted in the cleanup position for his team.

Meza stuck to third-base coaching cnores tor this one. For the winners, Russell led with two hits and a walk, and scored three runs. It was the first time In Port Huron that two second-place clubs battled for the city championship, and it was the ninth time in 18 years that a.