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Dodson puts Birds in 1st By United Press International If the Baltimore hitting ever catches up with the Orioles pitching, goodbye American League East championship. Pat Dobson turned in Baltimore's 31st complete game Tuesday night as the Orioles edged the Chicago White Sox, 2-1, to take sole possession of the Eastern Division lead. Dobson struck out 11 and allowed only three hits, including Dick Allen's 15th homer. It was the eight time Dobson, a 20 game winner last year, has gone the route this season. "I've got the best pitching staff in baseball, but we're woefully lagging in hitting," said Baltimore Manager Earl American Weaver.

"We're only eight games over .500, and that's not enough to win in this tough division. We've got to start hitting better and getting the long ball." In other AL games, Kansas City nipped Detroit, 1-0; Oakland beat New York, 4-2; Milwaukee topped California, 4-2; Boston shut out Minnesota, 2-0, and Cleveland whitewashed Texas, 2-0. Merv Rettenmund drove in the winning run for Baltimore in the sixth inning with a single after Paul Blair and Boog Powell set it up with singles. The Orioles had tied the game in the fifth on Bobby Grich's single and Dave Johnson's single. Stan Bahnsen was tagged with his ninth loss against 10 victories.

The Tigers dropped out of a tie for first place, which they shared or held exclusively ever since May 31. A throwing error by pitcher Bill Slayback on John Mayberry's infield single enabled Amos Otis to score from second base with Kansas City's winning run. Roger Nelson tossed a four-hitter and went the route for the first time since 1969 as he posted his first big league shutout. Sal Bando belted the fifth grand slam of his career for the Athletics as Oakland snapped New York's five-game winning string. A double by Joe Rudi and walks to Seaver fires one-hitter By United Press International Tom Seaver hurled the fourth one-hitter of his major league career, allowing only a one-out, ninth-inning single by Leron Lee, as the New York Mets defeated the San Diego Padres, 2-0, in the opener of an Independence Day doubleheader.

Derrel Thomas gave the Padres a split of the twinbill by driving in the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning of the nightcap to give San Diego a 4-2 victory. Lee, in his fourth major league season, lined a brokenbat single to center field to keep Seaver from his date with destiny. Nate Colbert then grounded into a game- ending double play to give Seaver his llth win against four losses and up his lifetime recored against San Diego to 11-1. "As soon as he hit it, I knew it was a hit," said Seaver after his over-powering performance. "At least I had the satisfaction of having him break his bat," he quipped.

In other National League action, Atlanta defeated Chicago, 5-1, in the first game of a doubleheader. The second game was halted by rain after seven innings with the two teams tied at 3-3. Houston blanked Pittsburgh, 6-0, Montreal tripped Los Angeles, 7-3, San Francisco edged Philadelphia, 2-1, and Cincinnati beat St. Louis, 6-1. Denny McLain's National League debut ran afoul of the weather when the second game of the Braves' twin-bill with Chicago was halted on account of rain.

A Fourth of July crowd of more than 50,000 showed up to welcome McLain, a 31-game winner four years ago, from his exile to the minor leagues. Paul Casanova and Mike Lum sup- Mike Epstein and Bill Voss preceded Mel Stottlemyre's home run pitch to Bando. John Odorn, with relief help from Darold Knowles, won his sixth game. Jim Lonborg needed ninth inning help from Milwaukee reliever Frank Linzy before he could post his seventh win. Lonborg got into trouble after serving up a two-run homer to Bob Oliver that broke California's string of 23 scoreless innings.

Juan Beniquez hit his first major league home run and rookie pitcher Lynn McGlothen tossed a three-hitter for Boston as the Red Sox beat Minnesota for their fifth consecutive triumph. A double by Carl Yastrzemski and Carlton Fisk's single produced Boston's other run. Mike Kilkenny and Dick Tidrow combined for a four-hit shutout and John Lowenstein provided the Cleveland power with a two-run homer as the Indians snapped an eight-game losing streak. Kilkenny left the game in the third inning when he broke an index finger flagging Ted Kubiak's double play grounder. Tidrow then limited Texas to four hits in picking up his fifth win.

Casals shows form which aided come-from-behind victory UPI Wimby semis today Goolagong versus Evert Seaver on his way to his fourth major league ported the seven-hit pitching of Ron Reed with seventh inning homers to give Atlanta the victory in the opener. Larry Dierker blanked Pittsburgh on eight hits for his fifth shutout of the season and drove in two runs with a single and suicide squeeze bunt to lead Houston over Pittsburgh. Ron Woods and Ron Fairly hit solo home runs and Bob Bailey drove in two runs with a single as the Expos defeated the Dodgers. A double steal in the second set up an early 2-0 lead for Montreal. Winning pitcher Craig Morton connected for the first triple of his career to drive home Bob UPI one-hitter Bailey with the third Expos' run of the inning.

Pete Rose's bases-loaded double highlighted a five-run second inning which carried the Reds and Ross Grimsley to victory over St. Louis and snapped the Cardinals' winning streak at seven. The victim of Rose's three-run double was Scipio Spinks, who was tagged with his fifth loss against five victories. Rookie catcher Dave Rader singled in the tying run and scored the winning run on Tito Fuentes' sacrifice fly in the seventh inning to lead San Francisco over Philadelphia. Dave Kingman doubled to open the seventh and scored the tying run on Rader's single.

Major standings By United Press International National Pittsburgh New York Chicago St. Louis Montreal Philadelphia w. I. 43 26 43 28 37 33 38 34 31 39 25 46 pet. g.b.

.623 .529 .528 .443 .352 1 19 West w. I. pet. g.b. Cincinnati 44 28 .611 Houston 42 29 .592 1-2 Uos Angeles 36 35 .507 Atlanta 33 38 .465 San Francisco 31 47 .397 16 San Diego 25 47 .347 19 Tuesday's Results Cincinnati 6 St.

Louis 1 New York 2 San Diego 0, 1st San Diego 4 New York 2, 2nd San Fran 2 Philadelphia 1 Montreal 7 Los Angeles 3 Atlanta 5 Chicago 1, 1st Chi 3 Atla 3, 2nd, 7 inns, rain Houston 6 Pittsburgh 0 Today's Probable Pitchers (All Times EOT) San Francisco (Bryant 6 4 at Philadelphia (Nash 1-4), 7:30 p.m. San Diego (Arlin 7 8 at New York (Matlack 8-4), 8 p.m. Los Angeles (Osteen 7-6) at Montreal (Moore 0-2), 8 p.m. Chicago (Jenkins 9-7 and Reuschel 3 0 at Atlanta (Niek. ro 7-7 and stone 1-6), 2, 6:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Ellis 7 4 at Houston (Forsch 4 2 8:30 p.m. McLain stunned by big welcome WIMBLEDON, England (UPI)-No detailed blueprints of campaign, no fingernail-biting tension in advance-that's the way Wimbledon champion and top seed Evonne Goolagong and young Chris Evert intend to stroll into their women's singles semifinal today. They are much calmer than the fans, who are seething with anticipation to see the two girls clash. Facing the tantalizing newcomer from Fort Lauderdale, for the first time, Evonne can't shrug off her gentle and casual approach that entrances the fans wherever she plays. "I have no real plans to deal with Chris and won't make any special preparations for the semifinal," she said.

Chris has distilled her tactics into a basic "concentrate like mad and take each point as it comes." She takes a grain of confidence from knowing that Evonne's form skitters up and down far more than her own. The most addicted gamblers would not wager even Confederate dollars on the outcome of the other women's semifinal between three-time champion Mrs. King and Rosemary Casals, the sixth seed from San Francisco. This pair has met 19 times on the "women's lob" circuit in the past two years and Billie Jean has earned the laurels 18 times. Rosie unleashed all her shots to overcome Nancy Gunter of San Angelo, in the quarter-finals but Mrs.

King is currently playing the finest tennis of her career. All Rosie's grit and volleying talent don't look capable of stopping Mrs. King from reaching the finals for the seventh time in 10 semifinal appearances. The men's top seed, Stan Smith of Sea Pines, S.C., had his best match so far in beating eighth seed Alex Metreveli of the Soviet Union, 6-2, 8-6, 6-2 in Tuesday's quarter-finals. The U.S.

champion will need all his equipment in finest working order to survive his high-noon semifinal showdown Thursday with Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia. Kodes, the fifth seed, was crisp and incisive in beating New Zealand's Onny Parun, 6-2, in their quarter-final. The other semifinal berths went to second seed Hie Nastase of Romania, who snuffed out the fine debut of Jim Connors of Belleville, 111., 6-4, 6-4, 6-1, and third- seeded Manuel Orantes of Spain who obliterated big serving Australian Colin Dibley, 6-2, 6-0, 6-2. Scott improves ort briefs American East Baltimore Detroit Boston New York Cleveland Milwaukee I. 30 w.

38 37 31 32 34 31 35 28 39 27 40 pet. g.b. .559 1 5 6 9V2 .544 .485 .470 .418 West .403 Oakland Chicago Minnesota Kansas City California Texas Tuesday's Cleveland 2 Texas w. I. 46 24 41 29 36 33 34 35 32 40 29 41 Results 0 pet.

.657 .586 .522 .493 .444 g.b. 11 Va 15 Boston 2 Minnesota 0 Kan City 1 Detroit 0 Baltimore 2 Chicago 1 Milwaukee 4 Calif 2 Oakland 4 New York 2 Today's Probable Pitchers Baltimore (McNally 8-7) at Chicago (Lemonds Ml, 2 1 5 p.m. Texas (Gogolewskl 3-6) at Cleveland (G. Perry 1 2 7 7:30 p.m. Minnesota (J.

Perry 6-7) at Boston (Pattln 4 8 7:30 p.m. Detroit (Lollch 13-5) at Kansas City 7 .8:30 p.m. Now York (Kline 6-3) at Oakland (Hamilton 5 2 11 p.m. Milwaukee (Stcphonson 2-0) at California a 9 5 11 p.m. ATLANTA (UPI) Denny McLain, who had fallen from 31 --game major league winner to minor league exile in less than four years, was stunned by his Atlanta Stadium welcome.

After all, how many guys get a standing ovation from more than 50,000 fans while walking from the bullpen to the dugout after warming up; especially a pitcher who had exactly one victory to his credit midway through the season. "I never heard anything like it," the 28- year-old righthander said. "Not even in Detroit after I had won 30 games. "I was so high in the first inning I could have gotten the Saints in Heaven out." The last few years have not been pleasant ones for Denny McUain. He had been suspended by baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn; his fast ball had lost its hop; and he had been traded first to Washington and then to Oakland and, the unkindest cut of all, had been shipped down to Birmingham (Ala.) of the Aa Southern League.

"I never did iigure out why Oakland sent me down so McLain said. "I won my first game, lost a couple of close ones and then had two bad ones -and away I went. "That's what made tonight (Tuesday) so important to me," he continued. "I needed desperately to prove I belonged." McLain started the second game of a Fourth of July doubleheader between the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs. And although he got no decision because the game was rained out in the top of the eighth with the score tied 3-3, Denny impressed his new Atlanta teammates and the fourth largest crowd the Braves have pulled into Atlanta Stadium these past seven years.

If the Braves hadn't been so generous with their free tickets, it could have been their largest Atlanta crowd since in addition to the 50,597 paid, thousands more had to be turned away at the gates. And they were there to see Denny McLain. McLain, pitching for the first time in seven days, was a bit high at times but he only faced six batters over the minimum in seven innings and didn't walk a one. He went to three balls on only three batters and got all three of those out. "I'm normally a high ball pitcher although at times I was a bit higher than I intended," McLain explained.

"My control will get better. I realize that I'm going to have to bring the ball down since this (the National League) is a low-ball league." "I was really impressed," said Braves catcher Paul Casanova who used to play against McLain in the American League. "His fast ball wasn't the fast ball he had in 19G8 and 1969 (when he won 31 and 24 games respectively) hut it wns sure lot better than it was last year (when Denny was 10-22)." Next to McLain, the happiest man in Atlanta Stadium Tuesday night was Brave manager Luman Harris. Not only had the Braves won the first game, 5-1, on a routegoing performance by Ron Reed, but McLain made a better showing than even the optimistic Harris had hoped for. "I wasn't only surprised by the way he looked," said Harris, "I was elevated.

It was terrific. The reason he was high at times was because he hadn't pitched in a week. That's enough to throw you off. I liked his attitude about going out and trying to beat them." McLain was asked how he felt about his Atlanta debut. "I've had more debuts this year than most have in a lifetime," Denny replied quietly.

"I'm tired of debuts. I'd like to stay somewhere for awhile. "My goal? To pitch consistently well. I just want to get 'em out, to keep the club in the ball game." Eagles vs. Hawks tonight at 8 The Post 32 Eagles will play the Post 208 Hawks tonight at 8 in a District IV American Legion makeup game.

The game was originally slated for Tuesday at. 8 p.m., but a soggy field forced postponement. The Eagles will send righthander David Ingram (2-0) against Hawks' southpaw Wayne Roberts (1-0) when action gets underway at new field on Raceway Road near Greenville Speedway. The Eagles won the only district action for both teams last Thursday, 12-1. Post 32 has a 9-2 over-all worksheet, while Post 208 is 2-1 on the season.

The Hawks and Eagles will engage in a scheduled encounter Thursday night at 8. Nugent to New Orleans BENOIT--The Benoit Nugent Track Club will in the Dryades Street YMCA Invitational Meet in New Orleans, coach Willie McCoy announced today. The Dryades meet is expected to feature some of the (op women's track teams in Mississippi and Louisiana. Greenville's George Scott, after getting off to a slow start with his new team-- the Milwaukee Brewers-- has now upped his batting average above the .250 mark. Through Friday, Scott was batting .254 with seven homers and 33 runs-batted-in.

That may not sound too good to Scott's local supporters, but I personally believe the former Coleman High great is very pleased, especially after being below the .200 mark for the first six weeks of the season. Scott spent 10 seasons in the Boston Red Sox Organization before going to Milwaukee is a deal last December. World famous golfer Sammy Snead was in Mississippi Saturday to join in on the opening festivities of Grenada's Pine Meadows Golf Club. The course is one of the first full-sized courses in the U.S. to feature AstroTurf greens.

Bob Alexander, president of Pine Meadows, said, "The greatly reduced maintenance (of AstroTurf greens) will make available approximately 20 per cent more golfing days per year. The Greens were manufactured by the Monsanto Chemical and installed by George Bell Carpets of Jackson. The 3, 000-yard, nine-hole, par 36 layout was designed and constructed by Robert Alexander. It has six lakes and sits between adjoining hills. Pine Meadows, in addition, has a driving range, a full-sized Olympics swimming pool, lighted tennis courts and a picnic area.

The complex's reported cost was a half million dollars. Fishing, boating, camping and skiing can also be enjoyed at nearrjy Grenada Mitch Ariff Special Scott Chess championship Russia breaks talks REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) -The Russians broke off their talks with representatives of American chess challenger Bobby Fischer today, throwing serious doubts on the possibility the twice-postponed match would ever be held. "This is a very bad development and 1 am now very pessimistic about the match," said Max of the International Chess Federation (FIDE). The reason for the breakup was not immediately disclosed but the representatives of Russian Boris Spassky, the reigning world chess champion, said they would explain later at a news conference. "The Russians said today they don't want any talks with the Euwe said.

The talks between representatives of Fischer and Spassky started Tuesday a Spassky triggered the second postponement of the scheduled 24-game scries, saying Fischer had insulted him by not showing up for the prc-match ceremonies. He said he would not ploy until FIDE punished Fischer and Fischer personally apologized. Officials hoped the match could start Thursday. Earlier, the official Soviet New Agency Tass criticized Fischer and said he and his backers planned to use a computer to try to win Spassky's title. The 24-game championship match was scheduled to start Sunday, but Fischer, a 29-year-old chess genius from Brooklyn, failed to turn up, mostly because he wanted more money than the $125,000 purse put up by the organizers.

All appeared saved when a British millionaire banker--and chess fan--dug into his own pocket to offer another $125,000. Fischer was on the next plane to Reykjavik and arrived Tuesday morning, where he quickly left the airport not to be seen since. Came the draw Tuesday to see who would play white for the first game and Fischer was asleep. So he sent his second, while Spassky was there in person. The world champion, 35, apparently decided he had had enough of Fischer's antics and issued a statement that said: "Fischer broke the rules of holding the contest by refusing to come for the ceremony of opening the match.

By this, Fischer insulted me, personally, and the Chess Federation of the U.S.S.R., which 1 represent." He added that since Fischer had broken the rules he "must bear the just punishment before there is a hope of holding the match. Only after this can I return to the question about the possibility of holding the match." He also demanded a personal apology. Fischer's lawyer, Paul Marshall, and his second, Father William Lombardy, were optimistic. "We arc hopeful we will be able to solve our differences with the Russians," said Marshall after a session with Spassky's advisers Tuesday night. Marshall said he and Father Lombardy, a burly Catholic priest and international chess grand master, will sit down again with the Russians today to try to solve the problems.

"We are making progress," Father Lombardy said. Dr. Max Euwe, president of the international federation, said he hoped to be able to stage the first game Thursday. Euwe said, "Both sides say they want to play so I believe they will find some solution. It would be a great setback for world chess if we would have to call off the match." Third baseman George Lake.

At the recent annual Bolivar County Ole Miss A i Association meeting at the Benoit i former Rebel baseball coach Tom Swayze boasted that he has coached four of the university's head coaches. New a a coach a Gibbs, football coach Billy Kinard, basketball coach Robert "Cob" Jarvis and freshman football coach Eddie Crawford all played baseball for Swayze-coachcd teams. Under Swayze, the Rebel baseballers, in 21 seasons, compiled a won-loss record of 343-180, won four Southeastern Conference championships and eight western division i i period, Swayze's teams also captured three of four NCAA District 111 championships compiling an over-all 10-1 mark and finished third in the College World Series in 195(i. Swayze, who for almost the same tenure (21 years) was chief recruiter, is now head of the Ole Miss Loyalty Foundation, lie was forced into retirement, from coaching and recruiting duties, because of his age after the 1971 baseball campaign. Two big honors that have come Swayze's way were SEC and NCAA District III Coach-of-the-Year awards.

Delta Democrat-Times Greenville, Mississippi Wednesday, July 5,1972.