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Cards Salute 'Our Town' By JIM STANLEY Ledger Sports Writer ST. LOUIS Back on January 25, the Cardinals payed a visit to Mexico on the Cardinal Caravan. Last night, Mexico returned the compliment and it turned out to be a winning combination. More than 200 Mexicoans were on hand when the Red- birds saluted "Mexico, Mo. Night" at Busch Memorial Stadium.

Happily for them, the Cardinals banged out ten hits and three runs, more than enough to beat the Houston SIS Astros behind Bob Gibson's four-hit pitching. CEREMONIES BEGAN shortly before 8 p.m. as Ken director of promotions, read a prepared script Mexico as a "city of continuous progress, a on the go." He also told about the city's industry, schools and recreational facilities in his five minute ad- dress. He then introduced Mayor Harold Enslen, John R. Cline, president of the Mexico Chamber of Commerce, Miss Anita Buie, former Ledger Society editor, who igl; just recently took a position on the St.

Louis Globe- Democrat. Si-S Miss Buie didn't let her old home town down, but she did get some valuable advice. Joe Cunningham, ex-Cardinal star and now director of special projects, gave her a tip on what to do at home plate. "GIVE IT THAT little Musial wiggle," he said, "but $ij don't swing the bat." gggj Miss Buie, who professed not to have had the slightest Bob Hasn't Given Up Astros Discover Gibson's There previous baseball experience, was relieved to learn she didn't have to try to hit the ball. Before stepping up to the plate, she said "I'm sure I'll be rendered unconscious." That she wasn't.

Mar ichal high-leg kick and let go two pitches, over plate but at head level. They reminded one observer Rip Sewell's famous blooper pitch to Ted Williams in 1946 Game. CLINE, WHO SAID he plays shortstop for his Kiwanis team, looked comfortable crouched behind the plate and had no problems handling the Mayor's deliveries. Buie, all the while, looked happy she didn't have to swingjSS the bat. The huge message board in right field continued Ssalute Mexico fans throughout the night.

Each time flashed the town name brought a cheer from the 'which often seemed more interested in finding out was present than watching the progress of the game. Yet, when the Redbirds bunched five of their hits for three of their rounds in the fifth inning, Mexico fans as loud and excited as any of the 26,249 who paid ijijiiiway in. CUNNINGHAM TOLD Enslen and Cline that he jijijijto have Mexico back next season. He suggested that promotion perhaps twice the crowd of last be expected. He explained that communities nights at the ball park jSjijare the Cardinal's way of trying to get people to communities.

The Cardinals have 64 ST. LOUIS (AF) BOD Gibson won his eighth straight game Friday night, although in the first inning against Houston he had the feeling it just "wasn't there." But Gibby warmed up fast, and by the second inning, he said, "I was like a different man out there." Gibson allowed four hits as the Cards downed the Astros 3-1. "My rhythm was all screwed up for some reason, then all of a sudden it just came," he said. The 36-year-old fireballer lost his first five starts but now has tied the National League's longest winning stretch this year. Don Sutton of Los Angeles and Steve Blass of Pittsburgh also had eight straight victories.

The Astros started the scoring in the fourth when Jimmy Wynn hit a long homer, his 13th this year. The Cards erupted in the fifth with three runs on five singles. Donn Clendenon opened with a single and Luis Melendez bunted to get on. After two outs, singles by Ted Sizemore and Matty Alou produced two more runs. The Cards are red hot, winning 15 of their last 17 games and 23 of their last 29.

After the game, Houston manager Harry Walker said of Gibson: "The guy believes in himself, and that's half the battle. Some guys who lost five in a row would have given up." Swingin' Night For May Atlanta holds fond memories for Milt May. About a year ago, he heard wedding bells ringing. And on Thursday he did some swinging on his own. "That's my best night ever in pro ball, the most hits I've ever had in one night," Pittsburgh's second-string catcher said after slapping out seven nine at-bats against Atlanta, ayed both ends of the twi-night doubleheader against the Braves so the Pirates could give Manny Sanguillen a rest.

The Buc's starting catcher, among the National League's batting leaders with a .338 average, caught all 17 innings of their 7-3 victory against the Astros Wednesday night in Houston. "It was really a short night for mean day," May grinned. "There wasn't any night left when we got here." It was 5:30 a.m. when the Pirates checked Into their Atlanta hotel. But the long grind didn't seem to bother them when they took the field against the Braves barely 12 hours later.

They unleashed a devastating 20-hit assault for a 10-2 rout in the opener of the twin-bill before cooling off and losing the second game 3-2. In other National League games, Philadelphia split a pair with San Diego, winning 4-2 before dropping the nightcap 6-1, the Chicago Cubs edged Cincinnati 2-1, Los Angeles belted the New York Mets 6-1, and Montreal sank San Francisco 7-2. Gene Alley drove in four Pittsburgh runs with a homer and a May was the hitting star In the opener, going 5-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs scored. He calmed down a bit in the second game, going a mere 2-for-4 with a run-scoring double. Eighth- inning singles by Darrel Evans, Mike Lum and Dusty Baker broke the 2-2 tie that gave Atlanta the split.

It was last August in Atlanta that Milt married a Florida girl named Brenda Fay Boyd. He did wonderful things that night, going 3-for-5 and driving in a couple of runs in a 13-6 victory. He did wonders for his batting average this time, too. When he began play, he'd had nine hits in 51 at- bats for a .176 average. When he'd finished, he'd tacked on 91 points for despite his phenomenal performance, he knows he's headed back to the bench as Sanguillen returns to the lineup.

Kendall backed him up with a pair of home runs to give the Padres the nightcap. Joe Pepitone belted his first home run of the season and Billy Williams doubled home a run to beat the Reds. "I know I can hit," said Pepitone. who returned a week ago from a two-month retirement. The Cubs' first baseman is batting a meager .175.

Don Sutton raised his record to 10-4 with a three- hitter against the Mets, giving up only an unearned run In the first inning. Chris Cannizzaro, with a double and two singles, led las Angeles' 13-hit attack. Ken Singleton drove In three runs and Bob Bailey scored three as the Expos teed off against Sudden Sam McDowell, kayoing the San Francisco fire- baller in the third inning. "I don't mind it now," he said. "I'm just a lot of 21-year-olds aren't even in the majors." Steve Carlton, recording his llth victory, struck out eight San Diego batters in the Phillies' opening- game victory to raise his major league-leading total to 174, then Clay Kirby struck out 11 Phils Great Gibby! AB Bl 0 0 Hull Comments on WHA National League East W.

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(AP)- ore the World Hockey Association Hull said, has done nothing else, it has other established NHL play- given hockey players "a terrif- ers nave expressed interest in ic bargaining lever," former the new 10-team league. Chicago Black Hawks' super- "We've talked to guys that star Bobby Hull said Friday. have been offered in the neigh- Ne Hull, WhO recently Signed Of $30,000440,000 With Cincinnati (Nolan 11-21 (Brett playing coach with the Winni-jNJJL clubs Hull said "When Pittsburgh IBIOSS 9-21 at At-land (Hunter 10-41 peg Jets of the WHA, said that we started to offer them $70,000 lan 'X since the new league came into i so on, they've gone to the Philadelphia existence, the players have National League clubs and been able "to bargain for them- said; 'Look, if you don't want to selves." give me this contract, I know at "The National Hockey ere I can get Right away League has really been the only: the National League signs place to play," he said. "The'them." owners have known it and I'm HOUSTON Metzger ss Cedeno cf Wynn rf LMay Ib Watson If Rader3b Edwards Fenwick pr Helms 2b Roberts NMIIIer ph Total ST LOUIS Brock If Sizemore 2b MAlou rf Torre 3b Simmons Clndenon Ib Melendez cf Maxill ss Gibson Total 33 3 10 Houston 000 100 000- St. Louis 000 030 1.

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(7-4) 7-8), (Caldwell 3-4) 4-8), at Texas (Hand at at Baltimore Alexander 3-4), (Culp nia (Allen 2-5), St. 5-6 and Cox 1-0) (Dobson 9-7 and 2, twi-night 5-7) at Califor- 0 21- sure that if they wanted to put the screws to somebody, they could "It's given them bargaining oower which thev never had be- MEXICO Page 8 (MO.) LEDGER Saturday, July 8, 1972 Sunday's Games Angeles at New York at Cincinnati, 2 at Atlanta Diego at Houston at St. Francisco Monday's Angeles twi-night Diego at Francisco Philadelphia Louis at Montreal Games at Philadelphia, Montreal, at New Sunday's Games City at Cleveland, Detroit at Chicago, 2 New York at Minnesota Milwaukee at Oakland Texas at Baltimore, Boston' at California, Monday's Games Milwaukee at Minnesota Kansas City at Baltimore, Chicago at Cleveland, Texas at Detroit, Boston at Oakland, New York at California, York, Sports On the Air TODAY TENNIS Wimbledon championships on 5-8 at 11:30 a.m. and 10 at noon with the men's singles. Women's singles on 5-8-10 at 4 p.m.

BASEBALL Chicago Cubs vs. the Cincinnati Reds on 5-8-10 at 1 p.m. TRACK Wide World features Olympic Track and Field trials from Eugene, Ore. on 2-3-17 at 4 p.m. SUNDAY AAU CHAMPIONS Swimming and track and field are featured this week on 4-7-13 at 2 p.m.

Makes Debut It didn't take Frank Quilici long to learn that the best strategy for a Minnesota Twins manager is to have Harmon Killebrew at the plate in a tight game swinging his big bat. And you can bet that Quilici, making his debut as skipper of the Twins, didn't even consider giving Killebrew the take sign when the burly slugger stepped up against New York's Fritz Peterson in the seventh inning Friday night following Rod Carew's two-out single as the Yankees tried to protect a slim 2-1 lead. Killebrew promptly deposited a 2-1 pitch 385 feet over the fence in left-center field and the Twins went on to a 5-2 victory, breaking a four-game losing streak under ousted pilot Bill Rigney. "I wanted to jump through the top of the dugout," was the 33-year-old Quilici's reaction when he saw the ball disappearing over the fence. Elsewhere in the American League, Texas edged Baltimore 5-4, Detroit shaded the Chicago White Sox 6-4, Milwaukee trounced Oakland and Vida Blue 9-4, Boston defeated California 5-3 in 10 innings and Kansas City downed Cleveland 6-3.

In the National League, the Chicago Cubs nipped Cincinnati 2-1, St. Louis defeated Houston 3-1, Los Angeles trimmed the New York Mets 6-1, Pittsburgh battered Atlanta 10-2 but the Braves took the nightcap 3-2, Montreal trounced San Francisco 7-2 and Philadelphia turned back San Diego 4-2 before losing the second game 6-1. Quilici hopes lightning strikes twice where Killebrew is concerned. "That home run reminded me of a big hit he got here in 1965 against the Yankees just before the All- Star break," Quilici recalled. He was referring to a two-out, two-run ninthinning homer that gave Minnesota a 6-5 triumph and a fivegame lead en route to the AL flag.

"I know it gave us a lot of momentum then." That brought up the subject of whether the third- place Twins have a shot at Oakland in the AL West. "We've got 13 games against Oakland," said Quilici, who succeeded in reducing the Twins'd deficit from nine to eight games in his one day at the helm. "We've got to go head-on against them and they'll be pointing for us, too. I definitely think we have a chance or I would have told Mr. Griffith (owner Calvin Griffith) I didn't want to manage." It was the second time this season the accommodating Yankees had helped usher in a rival manager with a victory.

They lost to Milwaukee 3-1 the night Del Crandall took over the Brewers. Ted Kubiak's double following singles by Ted Ford and Joe Lovitto broke a 4-4 tie in the fifth inning and enabled Texas to nip Baltimore as Jim Panther protected the slender margin with five shutout innings of relief. BOB GIBSON Eight ina Row The loss ended Baltimore's five-game winning streak and trimmed their lead over Detroit in the AL East to one game. After home runs by Ike Brown and Al Kaline wiped out a 2-0 deficit, the Tigers went in front of the White Sox in the eighth on a walk, Tony Taylor's triple and a single by Aurelio Rodriguez and scored two decisive runs in the ninth on RBI singles by Taylor and Kaline. The White Sox have dropped four in a row but remained five games behind Oakland in the West when the Brewers gave Cy Young Award winner Blue beating of his him for eight including homers by Dave May, George Scott and Ollie in six innings-plus.

Dave Duncan homered for the A's. Ben Oglivie's two-run homer with two out in the 10th-inning off Steve Barber enabled the Red Sox to beat the Angels and stretch their winning streak to seven games. Carlton Fisk also homered as the Bosox climbed within games of Baltimore. Rain Delays Men's Finals at Wimbledon WIMBLEDON, England, Smith, last year's runner-up Smith's confidence, took years to capture three France AF rain delayed the and the No. 1 seed this year, something of a beating Friday, the women's singles and dou-i And in the mixed doubles start of the men singles final started of the gruelling tourna-when together with his Davis bles and the mixed Friday night she of the Wimbledon Tennis ment as hot favorite.

But Nas-Cup partner Erik Van Dillen, of Billie Jean herself did it in was trying to reach the final Championships today. tase, primarily a clay court ex- San Mateo, he was easily 1967. partnered by Clark Graebner of Stan Smith, the U.S. Army pert, has been playing better beaten in three sets by the With the women's crown al-New York, against Nastase and corporal from Pasadena, better in each African duo Fredyeady firmly in her Casals of San Fran- was scheduled to meet Hie Nas- whereas Smith has been stum-l McMillan and Bob Hewitt in the 'she is in the finals of the worn- cisco. tase of Romania.

But at 8 a.m., bling. finals of the men's doubles. en's doubles, paired with Betty The match was halted by when the match was due to Smith himself admitted after stove of The Netherlands, rain with the score at 9-8 and rain had been falling for his four-set semifinal against 1 BUhe against Judy Dalton of Austral-5 in favor of Nastase and Miss several hours and there was no Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia rf 8 as well. She is trying ia and Francoise Durr of Casals, sign of a change in the weather, that his confidence hadn't been tobetneflrst for five 'i a 0 i se wr orudsais. Fans had camped out all as good as he'd wanted so far this year.

Nastase, the Romanian Army By ANN HENCKEN Associated Press Writer champion Bobby Fischer has NEW YORK (AP) The in-gotten the highest stakes in tensions before the Fischer-beginning Tuesday in Reykja- Selection Is Good! BUT UNBELIEVABLE BEDDING PRICES Iceland: Home of 'Bloody' Chess It is said that American chess saga. the prize ini A king put up his take all. The king lost. He left the game on foot, unarmed and unloved. "Little consolation do you de- game of chess for night on the sidewalks for a place in the standing room area of the center court.

Many of Lieutenant who delights the them were soaked through be- crowd with his artistry and fore they got into the club speed, has been improving with The winner gets $13,000 the against Spaniard Manuel runnerup 17,800. Orantes was one of the classics Spassky chess match may vik with Boris Spassky, the Billie Jean King, of Long of the 1972 Wimbledon-a tour- seem to be a blazing battle, but world champion. Beach, who won the nament spoiled from the aca- beside the tales of blood-i Even though thousands of women's crown Friday, was demic tennis point of view be- thirsty games in Medieval Ice-dollars of prize money are on rivefrom going for a second title today- cause the top pros are under la the luie toda championship and possibly a third. She was partnering Stove of the Netherlands play here this year, against Judy Dalton of Australia and Francoise Durr of France in the final of the wom- ei Mrs King and Clark Graeb- CNU he stood up in a fury, shoved his basketb'aHplayer, vrti'beaTthe wick; andi Evonne Goolagong of "ito a bag and Centralia Recreation Park with Australia and Peter Cramer opponent in the tne reC reation program on and Pam Pretorius of South Af- him a Monday, July 10 from 9 a.m. to postponed because of lla.m.

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