Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 35

SECTION ports THE STATE JOURNAL Wednesday, June 11, 1975 Lansing Pro Gridders Now It's Capitals V- coach. Schinderle, who Kelly says portrays the team's new image because "he's a winner," plans to dress 30 players and carry a total team of 40. "1 took over as head coach because want to see a football team here, Schinderle said. "A lot of people have expressed interest in it. Russ (Kelly) and I are trying to pull the team together the best we can without a lot of overhead.

"WE WANT to play at Everett (Centennial Field) because we think this will help produce fans. Everett is questionable right now, though, because of the previous owner's past debts. Everett is definitely our first choice." Schinderle is presently assisted by Cal Fox and Jim Small on defense. Casey will act as the offensive coordinator as well as playing quarterback. The Midwest Football League will consist of seven teams this year.

Besides Lansing, the league consists of Dayton and Cleveland from Ohio, Ind. and Pontiac, Detroit and Flint. LANSING FACES Indianapolis in its first exhibition game July 12. "Our goal is to see the guys treated fairly," Schinderle said. "We'd like to see the club pulling together for a change.

In the past there have been factions which did not work together." a professional team, great. But I'm not here to try and prove anything. "I thought I should have played at Michigan," he added, "but that's all over with now. I just want to play football. I'm not even sure of my salary.

I'm certainly not playing for the money, that's for sure." Casey is unsure of his immediate fu- ture. The 6-2, 180-pounder graduated from Michigan in May and will commute from Grand Rapids to play with Lansing. TUESDAY'S OPENING workout brought 33 hopeful players ouV "It was the best single opening turnout since I've been connected with the team," Kelly said. "It was the best both in quality and quantity." Season tickets go on sale Monday. Kelly is offering an $18 package which includes the six regular season home games, one home exhibition ton-Xest, the road game at Flint and a free parking pass.

Tickets for the individual games will be $3 for everyone. "WE PLAN promotions during Jhe year," Kelley said. "We're working within the Kelly Buick Association and we've contacted Gatorade. We're going to try and have a little fun this year instead of trauma like last year." Jack Schinderle, the team's star defensive tackle last year, is the new head By JACK WALKDEN Special Writer There is a new look around the training camp of Lansing's Midwest Football League entry. Just ask new owner Russ Kelly.

The financial problems of the previous ownership of the team have hopefully been forgotten, according to Kelly. "WE WANTED to change the image of the team," Kelly said. "That's why we changed the name of the team from the All Stars to the Capitals. The All Stars' image was tarnished enough. We want a fresh start We're really trying to turn things -around." The name change to Capitals is not the only switch in the Lansing team which opened practice Tuesday night.

The team colors have also been changed to the University of Southern California's cardinal and gold. Home jerseys will be white with cardinal lettering. One of the new faces on the Lansing -team, former. Michigan quarterback Kevin Casey, probably best exemplifies the "new" Lansing image. Casey is not here for the money or the hope of someday playing professional football JUST want to have fun." Casey said.

"If I can get in the back door with I Quarterback candidate Kevin Casey talks with Capitols coach Jack Schinderle Tiger Rally Fizzles; Royals Triumph, 4-3 1 Fran Healy led off the Royals' second with a single, moved to third on Al Cowens' infield single and scored on Frank White's forceout grounder. Mayberry deadlocked the game, played in a slow drizzle, at 2-2 with his blast off Ruhle. 5-3. Singles by Hal McRae and Tony Solaita, a walk and Cookie Rojas' RBI bouncer in the fifth put Kansas City ahead for keeps. 'Sr KANSAS CITY (AP) The friendly confines of Tiger Stadium should be a welcome sight for the Detroit Tigers when they open a 12-day homestand tonight against California.

The Bengals are back from a less-than-successful road trip, having lost five of eight games. The final blow came Tuesday night when a last-inning rally fizzled and Detroit lost its second straight game to Kansas City, this time by a 4-3 score. SLUGGER JOHN Mayberry was largely responsible, for the lass, first -fooling the Tigers with a bunt, and then 'homering in the third. Mayberry. first baseman for the Kan-sas City Royals, laid down his unexpected bunt in the opening inning.

"It was my idea to bunt," said Mayberry. "It's the first time I've bunted for a hit, other times just to sacrifice." THE BUNT was perfect, a roller bej tween third and the mound, and Mayberry legged it out for a single. "No. I didn't bunt to try to fool Detroit," Mayberry explained. "There was a man on first, and I thought we had a good chance to get a rally going if 1 could get on base." out or not.

I never know in this ball park it's too big." In tonight's action, a twi-night twin bill, Mickey Lolich and Ray Bare will duel Frank Tanana and Andy Hassler. Marty Pattin, 4-2, making his first start of the season, yielded two Detroit runs in the second on Leon Roberts' single. Jack Pierce's triple and Tom Ve-ryzer's run-scoring grounder. 'PATTIN. WHO didn't walk a batter and struck out eight, settled down after -this brief flurry and had no more trouble until Willie Horton hit his 14th home run leading off the gave up two more hits before Lindy McDaniel took over and threw one pitch to get pinch hitteT Gates Brown to hit into a game-ending double play.

"This is the best I've pitched in two years," Pattin said, "and as well as I've thrown since I've been in the majors." The Royals scored what proved to be the winning run in the eighth. Jim Wohlford singled and stole second and came home on a single by George Brett. AFTER THE Tigers took a 2-0 lead, John Mayberry KANSAS CITY ab bi Wohlford rl 4 12 0 GBrtll3b 4 0 2 1 Maytwrylb 4 12) McRae II 3 12 0 Solaita dh 4 0 10 DETROIT ab bi LeFlorecf 4 0 0 0 Sutherlnd 2b 4 0 I 0 Meyer II 4 0 0 0 Horton dh' 4 111 LRoberu rf 4 1 2 0 Pierce lb 4 111 Veryzer ss 4 0 11 ARodrei 3b 3 0 0 0 GSrown ph 10 0 0 Humphry 3 01 0 Ruhle 0 0 0 0 Reynolds 0 0 0 0 Healyc CRoias 2b Cowens cf FWtlite Pattin 3 12 0 4 0 0 1 4 0 10 4 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 McDaniel Mayberry's success added up to zero for the Royals but he strolled to the plate in the third, watched the Tiger defense move in close in anticipation of another bunt and walloped one of Vem Ruhle's pitches over the left cen-terfield wall, sending the Royals on their way to a 4-3 triumph over the Bangals. "IT WAS a fast ball." Mayberry said of his eighth homer of the campaign. "I didn't know whether it was going Total 3S 3 7 3 Total 34 4 13 4 Dttrett 020 000 001- 3 Kansas CHy 011 010 0U 4 E-Sutherland.

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KC's George Brett smashes into Tiger catcher Terry Humphrey, but umpire Bill Haller called Brett out on throw from Leon Roberts. Dick Young Free Telephone Calls? NCAA Reported Asking Super-Stars Seek Alibis DETROIT (AP) Michigan State University athletes may have made long-distance calls at university expense, violating NCAA rules, a Detroit broadcaster has reported. Bob Reynolds, sports director at radio station WJR, said Tuesday the reported calls were the latest development in the NCAA's investigation into charges MSU used illegal recruiting tactics in its football programs. REYNOLDS SAID the NCAA has begun auditing the school's telephone records. Each call would consti tute a separate violation, an NCAA spokesman said.

MSU has made no comments about the charges hut is slated to reply formally July 10. Other reports say MSU players used booster credit cards to buy clothes. Quarterback Charlie Baggett recently returned a car which he had purchased on a special deferred payment plan. Additional charges involve a "fly-now-pay-latcr" travel arrangement with an East Lansing travel agency, equipment loans to prep players who have signed a scholarship for all-star games and illegal recruiting inducements by staff members. Michigan Vofes To Accept Big 10 Adopts Multi-Bowl Plan Now It startvEven as the All-Star game balloting is under even before anyone has been elected, the super-stars are dreaming up alibis for not playing in the Great Midsummer Copout, nee the Great Midsummer Classic.

Rod Carew, a fine leadoff man, has led off the balloting and the beg-offs. For a game scheduled July 15 in Milwaukee, he has declared his impending unavailability on June 2. That's six weeks in advance, a major league record. Obviously a man cannot invent an injury six weeks ahead, the danger being too great that he might heal in time for the game. Short of paraplegia, such an announcement would be patently premature.

Carew has a stronger reason than a more enduring reason. He is mad at the system. To Rod Carew's credit, it should be stated that he didn't get mad just now. He was mad last July 23, the moment Dick Williams, the American League manager, took him out of the game. Williams yanked Richie Allen and Rod Carew at the end of 2 4 innings, another All-Star record, inasmuch as the rule states all starters must play three There is no recorded evidence that Allen complained about being removed from the game.

Carew did complain. Commissioner Bowie Kunn did complain, right on the spot. He was upset that the three-inning rule had been flouted, and wound reprimanding the manager. Earl Weaver, the assistant manager for that day, tried to take Williams off the spot by telling newsmen that Carew had slightly injured himself sliding into second in the top of the third. "Injured what?" "Waaal, sorta shaken up," said good friend Earl.

"Shaken up my butt." was Carew's comment, and the next day out of Minneapolis he declared his disenchantment with the All Star game. He accused Williams and Weaver of playing'favorites. and added: "I'd rather have stayed home and rested up so I could help our ballclub more in the second half of the season." So, on closer inspection, Minnesota second baseman Rod Carew isn't mad about having to play in the All-Star game. He is mad about not playing enough. He is, I believe, more hurt than mad.

He feels unappreciated. He is a sensitive person, hyper-sensi- tive. Part of the Carew piquie, I'm convinced, goes back to his contract haggle with the G'iffiths. He lost in arbitration. It wasn't the money so much as some of the things that were said across the table at the hearings.

Carew heard himself described by Clark Griffith as an ordinary singles hitter. That hurt. A man spends eight years with a ball-club, wins the batting crown in four of them, he is, at the very least, an extraordinary singles hitter. The Griffiths said that if Carew wants to be paid like Reggie Jackson he should hit home runs like Reg- gie Jackson. "I don't think they understand my role on their ballclub." said Carew when I saw him a short while afterward.

"I don't think they appreciate what I am doing for the team." It is one thing to understand what makes Rod Carew cry out against the All-Star game, but another to condone it. I can't condone it. -He is, if he goes through with his boycott, striking back at the wrong people. He is not getting even with Dick Williams, who is no longer the manager, nor with the Griffiths, who simply will point to his malfeasance as proof of their criticism. Carew will be hurting his fans, and his fellow players, all players, for he is making the Players' Association look bad.

The players' pension, Carew's is funded by the lords of baseball through monies raised from the All-Star game and World Series. It is the stamp of an in grate that he take from something and refuse to participate. I think too much of Rod Carew to believe he is an ingrate. The annual summer copout problem goes beyond Rod Carew. It is a moral concern of the players' union.

Marvin Miller recognizes this. He says the executive committee, the player reps, have passed resolutions supporting the game at their meetings, and yet when they return to their teams, their gung-ho spirit seems lost in transit and we have the annual two or three goof-offs, guys who decide they would rather spend the three-day All-Star break with thei- family. Rod Carew's wife is expecting their second child in mid-July, another reason he would like to duck the game. Hundreds of ballplayers' children have been born, live and kicking, with their father on the road. Hundreds of baseball writers' children, too.

I had four or five such. The doctor invariably told me go, there was nothing more I could do. i I pass that on to Rod fondly. the Rose Bowl representative. The next three teams would be eligible for other "conference approved" bowl games.

A second-place finisher must be invited prior to acceptance by a third-place finisher. The third-place team would have to invited prior to acceptance by the No. 4 team. Teams may not participate in any bowl games prior to Dec. 26, the proposal says, and a team does not have to accept an invitation.

UNDER THE proposed rules, a team turning down a bowl bid would lose its Big Ten cut of the receipts if another conference team accepts the bid. Currently all Big Ten teams share receipts of the Rose BowL board came as no surprise. The Wolverines, who have a 30-2-1 record over the last three years and have been Big Ten co- champions since 1972, have nonetheless missed every Rose Bowl since that time. Ohio State has gotten the bids instead, intensifying the rivalry between the. two schools.

Discussions on the plan were held earlier with Pacific Eight conference members, and although final details remain unresolved, the Pac-8 is expected to fully back the plan. Big Ten schools are expected to be able to go to other bowls including the Cotton Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl this year. UNDER THE proposal, the conference champion, as now, would be ANN ARBOR (AP) Big Ten football teams, including powerful Ohio State and equally impressive Michigan, won't be limited to playing post-season matches in the Rose Bowl under a ruling adopted by the conference. Acceptance became a virtual certainty Tuesday when Michigan's athletic board of control voted to accept a new plan widening the league's bowl policy. The U-M board was the sixth in the conference to approve the plan, thus making it Big Ten policy.

A SIMPLE majority vote of conference members was needed, with Ohio State, Michigan State, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota voting approval earlier. The deciding vote by the Michigan I i f..