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The Daily NoFthwestteFiiL Oct. 11, 1973 25 le of '69 relived as Mets oust Cincinnati was just terrible, the whole thing. Here we are, fighting for a pennant all summer long, and they disrupt everything. I think a lot of them didn't care whether we won or not. They just wanted to run out and rip up the field." Cincinnati New York ob bi ob bi Rose If 4 12 0 Garrett 3b 5 110 4 110 Millan 2b 4 2 2 0 Morgan 2b Driessen 3b 4 0 1 1 Jones If 5 1 3 2 Perez lb 4 0 11 Milner 1b 3 110 NEW YORK (UPI) Today the New York Mets rest.

The Mets Wednesday did what they do best the unexpected when, despite the loss of slugging outfielder Rusty Staub, they beat the Cincinnati Reds, 7-2, in the fifth and deciding playoff game to win the National League pennant. The victory earned New York the right to meet either Oakland or Baltimore in the World Series beginning Saturday. "Today makes it all worthwhile," said winning pitcher Tom Seaver, still savoring the champagne that was dripping down his face after it was poured over his head by reliever Tug McGraw. McGraw, as he had done so many times in 3 0 0 0 KraneDOOl 1(2 0 1 2 4 0 10 Mays cf 3 111 Bench Griffey rf Geronimo Cf4 0 0 0 Grote 4 0 10 Chaney ss 2 0 0 0 Hohn rf 4 0 0 1 Stahl ph 10 10 Horrelson ss4 0 2 1 Billingham p2 0 0 0 Seaver 3 110 Gullett 0 0 0 0 McGraw 0 0 0 0 Carroll 0 0 0 0 corted into the dugout lor their own safety. As the game ended, fans poured onto the field and tore huge chunks out of the grass portions of the infield and outfield in addition to stealing the bases and tearing out home plate.

"It makes me ashamed to know I'm in this country," said Reds Manager Sparky Anderson, referring to the lack of crowd control. "I can't believe they don't have better control of the people here." "I wanted to beat all 55,000 people out there," added Reds captain Pete Rose, who, as always, tried his darndest, getting two hits and scoring one run. "The way the people act here, they don't deserve to have a champion." Even Seaver showed his annoyance at the unruly fans, storming over to the first base foul line and ordering them back into the seats when they delayed the game in the ninth. "I told them to get back into their seats," he said. "It spectacular catch of a line drive by Dan Driessen in Tuesday's fourth game, claimed this year's pennant was more gratifying than the 1969 world championship, "because we didn't let down." Despite the Mets' early 2-0 lead, the Reds managed to tie the score on Driessen's sacrifice fly in the third and Tony Perez' RBI single in the fifth.

Jones put New York ahead for good in the bottom of the fifth when he doubled home Wayne Garrett, who led off the inning with a double off loser Jack Billingham. The Mets added three more runs in the inning and got their final run in the sixth when Jones singled home Seaver, who had doubled. For New Yorkers, the only thing marring the pennant-clinching victory was the actions of some in the crowd toward the end of the game. Members of the Reds' official party, sitting behind the Cincinnati dugout, had to be es years. There was Cleon Jones, who drove in both the go-ahead and final runs, and Ed Krane-pool, the last of the original 1962 expansion Mets, who got a chance to start because of the injury to Staub and responded with a two-run single in his first at-bat.

And then there was Willie Mays, who already has announced his retirement at the end of this season. With the Mets leading, 3-2, in the fifth, Mays came up to pinch hit for Kranepool with the bases loaded and the crowd of 50,323 at Shea Stadium roared its approval. Mays swung at the first pitch and topped the ball down the third base line. Pitcher Clay Carroll fielded the ball, hesitated just a second, and then threw home but it was too late to catch the sliding Felix Millan. Kranepool, starting in place of Staub, who suffered a bruised shoulder making a Crosby ph 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 7 11 7 13 2 7 2 Total! Grimsley King ph Totals Cincinnati New York Jones, 001 010 0002 20O04I OOx 7 Driessen.

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The A's blew a 4-0 lead Wednesday as the Orioles, never giving up, battled back for a 5-4 victory that left the two old rivals in a flat-footed tie with two decisions each in the best-of-five AL championship series. Oddsmakers, sticking with the veteran pitcher, have the A's as favorites at 3-2. Hunter, who won 22 games this year, beat the Orioles, 6- urday against the National League Champion New York Mets. Boltimon Ooklond ab bi ab bi Rettnmnd r(2 0 0 0 Camoanrs SS4 0 1 0 Grich 2b 4 111 Rudl If 4 0 0 0 Blair cf 4 0 10 Bando 3b 3 0 0 0 Davis dh 4 0 10 R.Jackson rf4 0 1 0 Williams lb 3 1 0 0 Tenace 3 2 10 3ovlor If 3 110 Davalillo cf 3 1 2 0 Robinson 3b 4 1 2 1 Mangual cf 10 0 0 Etchebrrn 4 1 2 3 Johnson dh 2 0 0 0 Belanger ss 4 0 0 0 Bouraue ph 0 0 0 0 Palmer 0 0 0 0 Andrews lb 10 0 0 Reynolds 0 0 0 0 Fosse 241 1 3 Watt 0 0 0 0 Lewis pr 0 0 0 0 G.Jackson 0 0 0 0 Kublak 2b 0 0 0 0 Green 2b 3 0 11 Alou ph 0 0 0 Blue 0 0 0 0 Fingers 0 0 0 0 Totals 12 5 I 5 Totals 31 4 7 4 Baltimore 000 000 410 5 Oakland 030 001 000 4 DP-Oakland 2. LOB Baltimore 4.

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ip ir bb so Palmer 1 1-3 4 3 3 2 2 Reynolds 4 2-3 3 1 1 2 3 Watt 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 G.Jackson 2 2-3 0 0 0 1 0 Blue 6 1-3 5 4 4 3 1 Fingers I 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 2 Reynolds pitched to one batter in 7th. HBP-By Watt (Bando) But Blue, throwing mostly fastballs, ran out of pitches in the seventh. He walked Earl Williams after one out and Don Baylor and Brooks Robinson followed with singles for one run. Then, Etchebarren, a man who hit only two homers all season, drove the ball high and far over the left field fence for a 4-4 standoffs That finished Blue and the tie didn't last long as Grich, leading off the eighth against Rollie Fingers, matched Etchebarren 's blow for the winning run. Jackson, 8-0, and with nine saves this year, then closed out the A's to pick up the victory.

Fingers, who hadn't given up a homer since July 29, took the loss and set up today's title-clinching game which sends the winner into the World Series starting Sat hit shutout, was no mystery to the A's in Wednesday's game. They jumped the 22-game winner for four hits and three runs in the second and sent him to an early shower. But the Baltimore bullpen, which gets less publicity than Oakland's, shut off the A's on only one run after the second and plus the home-run hitting of light-swinging Andy Etchebarren and Bobby Grich, made the difference. Bob Reynolds held the A's to one run and three hits in 4 2-3 innings and Grant Jackson choked them off without a hit over the last 2 2-3 frames to pick the Orioles off the floor and get them into today's deciding game. The A's staked Vida Blue to a 4-0 lead with a three-run rally in the second and tacked on another run in the sixth.

exander, who won six games in his rookie season a year ago and 12 more this year, will be making his first postseason appearance. "Hunter is my best pitcher right now," said A's skipper Dick Williams. "Over the years he has won a lot of important games for us and we'll be looking for him to do It again or the whole season goes down the drain." Earl Weaver, the Orioles manager, has almost as much faith in Alexander, like Hunter, a right hander. "He (Alexander) handles right handers pretty good and they (the A's) have a primarily right-handed hitting lineup. He's had a long rest and he's one of the strongest pitchers I have." Jim Palmer, who won the "first playoff game with a five- it for me.

They even take care of your dry cleaning at Shea Stadium. "I was treated real good all over the league and I have a lot of respect for all the umpires I worked with. They really tried to help me out. During my first plate job, Ed Vargo, our crew chief, told Casanova that this was my first plate job in the majors and not to give me a tough time. And he didn't either.

Rennert noted that the difference between the majors and minors is like night and day because the players are all hustling to stay in the majors and the fans really come out to see baseball and are enthusiastic. "You'll even notice the difference in taxi fares," Rennert quipped. "In New York I got nailed with an $11.00 fare. 3, in the second game of the playoffs last Sunday while Al Mays' appearance ignited fan frenzy By DAVE GREY Northwestern Sports Editor Finally! After 17 seasons of minor league baseball, Oshkosh's Larry "Dutch" Rennert finally made it to the big leagues. No, Dutch Rennert is not a baseball player he is an umpire, and even for an umpire 17 years in the minor leagues is a long wait.

Rennert's entrance into the National League was a bit of a strange one. After he finished working the playoffs for the Pacific Coast League, he was told he could fly home and would be notified at a later date about umpiring some games in the majors at the end of the season. But as he was flying into Milwaukee, a call came to his home, saying that Terry Tata had gotten sick and Rennert was needed in Montreal that day for a game. But Rennert was still on a plane flying in and his wife had left to meet him in Milwaukee. Luckily his father-in-law was at home, and told the caller to call Milwaukee and catch Rennert there.

"They got a hold of me in Milwaukee and I had 20 minutes to get on the plane for Montreal," the Oshkosh native noted. "Then it was really something going through customs with all my umpiring gear, because no one believed I was an umpire." "But it really wasn't too bad umpiring in Montreal because we have parks in the Pacific Coast league that are just as big and the place really didn't bother me." "It's when you get to places like Atlanta and New York that you know you are in the big leagues," he added. Rennert noted that he got to work four games in Atlanta during a San Francisco Giant-Braves series and while working at third base, Henry Aaron hit his 710th home run. "When Aaron would come to the plate we had to use special balls with invisible ink on them so that when they were returned for the money, the Braves could be sure it was the right ball." Rennert noted. "While taking some of these special balls from the ball boy and trying to keep them straight I said to Aaron, 'This kind of deal makes me Aaron merely replied, 'How the heck you think I Rennert also explained that there was some truth about the balls carrying well in the Georgia ball park.

While umpiring at first one night he asked Willie McCovey of the Giants how many tiomers he felt he could hit in 1 "Oh, about 83 or 84," McCovey replied quite seriously. Even Atlanta catcher Paul Casanova agreed that on certain nights the balls really carry well, after watching Dave Kingman of the Giants blast one 18 or 20 rows into the third deck of left field. But it was in New York that the Oshkosh native knew, once and for all, he was in the big leagues. "When you go to Shea Stadium you know you are in the majors," Rennert said. "After the game you are sitting in the club house and a guy comes in, lays down a table cloth, pushes a button and downs comes a dumbwaiter with a steak dinner.

"I was going to polish my shoes, when another umpire told me to hold on and called in a club house guy to do The fans had merely buzzed about that. Now they were jumping up and down, shaking, it seemed, the very foundation of the concrete enclosed stadium. The Mets had gone ahead again, 3-2, earlier in the inning when Cleon Jones doubled home Wayne Garrett from second. Jones' blow finished Cincy starter Jack Billingham and brought in left-handed fireballer Don Gullett, who worked very hard on John Milner before walking him on a 3-and-2 count to fill the bases. That's when Yogi Berra told Willie Mays to go up there and swing for Kranepool even though the left-handed hitting first baseman-outfielder had doubled home the Mets' first two runs in the first inning.

But wait. Sparky Anderson, the Reds' manager, had a move of his own he wanted to make. He didn't want the left-handed Gullett pitching to the right-handed hitting Willie Mays! He wanted a right-handed pitcher, so he summoned husky, big-hipped Clay Carroll in from the bullpen. Carroll would be allowed his warmup pitches. Mays knew this.

He decided to relax while the crowd kept roaring. Willie Mays knelt in the on-deck circle and watched Car roll warm up. Kneeling there, Willie Mays' mind raced back to a playoff game between the Giants and Dodgers. "I was thinking of the one in 1962," Mays said later. "I was watching the Reds make the change from Gullett to Carroll and I was thinking of that playoff in 1962 when I was kneeling in the on-deck circle, the same way, and the Dodgers made a change from Stan Williams to Ed Roebuck.

I knew I couldn't hit Williams but I got a base hit off Roebuck. We won that game, 6-4, and it gave us the pennant." Finally, Carroll was through with his warmup pitches and Mays moved quickly to the plate. He swung at the first pitch and hit a Baltimore chop, the ball bouncing high in the air off home plate. Carroll came charging in from the mound, grabbed the ball not far from the third base line and fired it too hard from too close to catcher Johnny Bench at home plate no more than 10 feet away. Bench had all he could do to hold on to the erratic relay as Felix Millan streaked across the plate well ahead of the ball and Mays made it to first without even drawing a throw.

The Mets went on to score Continued page 29, col. 1 By MILTON RICHMAN NEW YORK (UPI) The whole place was going crazy. It was as if Shea Stadium suddenly had been converted into Niagara Falls. The roar of the fans, their incredible volume, was for one man, who now was emerging from the dugout, bat in hand, preparing to pinch hit. It didn't matter to the fired-up 50,323 fans in the stands that this individual already had announced to the world he was all finished as a ballplayer.

Nor did it matter that he, hadn't appeared in a ball game in more than a month. This was Willie Mays. W-I-L-L-I-E! Everyone in the ballpark, it seemed, was calling out his name. Tug McGraw says "You gotta believe!" but you can't possibly believe the tremendous vibrations Willie Mays sent up or the sustained ovation he received when he merely popped out of the dugout to hit for Ed Kranepool during the fifth inning of Wednesday's National League pennant clincher between the New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds. Only one hour before, a message had been flashed on the centerfield scoreboard saying: Bulletin Vice President Agnew has resigned.

rfrf if "I flew into La Guardia and had my equipment bag along so I had to go out to Shea Stadium first and drop my things off. Well, I got 6ne of the drivers like you see in the movies and by the time we got to Shea Stadium the meter was up to $4.80. Well I didn't even get through the front gate because they really didn't believe I was an umpire and finally they said they would take my stuff and leave it in the security office. Well I hopped back in the taxi and told him to go to the Commodore Hotel. Well we drove all the wty back past La Guardia and then to the Commodore.

"And in Montreal I really knew I was getting my money's worth. This guy drove like Lucky Teeter (an Evel Knievel type) and you knew you were going to get there fast if you got there." Rennert also got to work behind the plate at Chicago's Wrigley field and his umpiring style and loud voice drew a comment from Cub radio announcer Lou Boudreau, who said, "This, new kid can be heard all the way out on Michigan Avenue." Even manager Whitey Lockman congratulated Rennert on making it into the Majors by saying, "You have been here a long time already, Dutch." Rennert even made the sports page of the Chicago Today, but in the cu-tine he was identified as Vince Reinholdt. When Rennert called up to ask about the error to the photographer his answer was, "Well, I told them I thought your name was Dutch something, but no one seemed to know for sure. But at least we got the first two letters of your last name right." Rennert had many experiences in his short stay in the majors, but he will have more coming in years to come, as he has already received his umpiring suits for next year. "They could can me tomorrow, but at least I can say that' I've been there," Rennert noted.

"That is something they can never take away from me. "Looking back now I'm really grateful to guys like E. J. Schneider and Larry Bartelt who had a lot to do with forming my thoughts about this game," he stated. "Way back then when I was playing Legion ball they gave me the right attitude or I might have quit." With the umpires renegotiating their contracts with the major leagues and the retirements of several older umpires, Rennert should be starting out in the majors next year.

After 17 Dutch Rennert finally made the bigjiime. Epithet for Rose A spectator at Shea Stadium holds up a sign directed at Pete Rose as the Cincinnati star trots to the dugout Wednesday after grounding out in the third inning, Mets' fans were still upset by Monday's brawl involving Rose and Bud Harrelson. AP Wirephoto PackersChiefs ready for run-pass contest And though Ron Widby leads the NFC in punting with a 45.9 yard average, the Chiefs have Jerrell Wilson who is second in the AFC with a 47.5 average. The special teams may not have much to worry about because of the fine kicking Continued page 2), col. strengths, the kicking duel should be about even because they both have excellent kicking games.

Chester Marcol, who ranks fifth among NFC kickers with 31 points and 9 field goals in 15 attempts, is almost balanced off by Jan Stenerud who has 25 points and seven field in 14 attempts. Brockington out after a third 1,000 yard season ranks fifth among NFC runners with 320 yards and Lane is 16th with 180 yards. But Lane's power and ability to get tough yardage aren't shown by the statistics he has this year. While the two teams try to counter each other's offensive Arthur Lane, two of the top running backs in the National' Football Conference. Dawson earned the AFC's tqp rating by completing 69.2 per cent of his passes for 432 yards and one touchdown and no interceptions.

The Packers don't have a passer to rank with thosj statistics but they do have far superior running. GREEN BAY (UPI) The pass versus the run. That's what it's likely to be Sunday when the Green Bay Packers meet the Kansas City Chiefs in Milwaukee. The Chiefs have Len Dawson, the top passer in the American Football Conference, and the Packers have John Brockington and Mac-.