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Bosox' Pitcher One Hits A's This Pattin' Fires Bullets, Too By KEN RAPPOPORT Associated Press Sports "Pattin" story unfolded in dramatic fashion at the Oakland Coliseum. Marty Pattin was the hero, firing bullets at the enemy Oakland A's. Two outs away from a no hitter, the Boston Red Sox pitcher finally surrendered a single to Reggie Jackson before winning the battle on a powerhouse one hitter. 'T guess that's as close as HI ever come to a no hitter," said Pattin after Jackson's hit just eluded second baseman Doug Griffin in the ninth mning. The pitch that Jackson hit was a high fast ball with "something on Pattin said he'd throw it again in the same situation.

"I'm not going to second guess myself pitch," said Pattu. all, I game." Phooey On Percentages THEY CALL IT playing the percentages. Nuts! That just a fancy phrase for meaning that baseball men have a mental block when it comes to a left handed hitter facing a left handed pitcher or a left handed, pitcher pitching to a right handed batter. And, in most instances when a game is tight and the tying winning runs are on base with a left handed batter due up, the manager whose team is threatened will run out and signal the bullpen. WANTED: A LEFT handed pitcher to scare the be jabbers out of this left handed hitter.

Shoot, all the other manager has to do is go to a right handed pinch hitter. THAT'S WHAT happened in last night's first game of the double header between the Charleston Charlies' and Toledo Mud Hens at Toledo. Toledo got two runners on in the sixth inning against Charleston starter Tom Dettore, a right hander. The Charlies led, 4 3. Manager Red Davis brought in relief ace Dick Colpaert to pitch to right handed hitting John Gamble.

Colpaert is a right hander. Gamble moved the runners up with a sacrifice. That brought up left handed hitting Tom Grayson So, Davis motioned for left hander Bob Veale All Toledo Manager John Lipoa did was bring up right handed hitting Gene Spatz. Veale walked Spatz to load the bases. OH, WELL, NO trouble.

There were two out and Veale was staring in at the next poor left handed hitting John Knox. Veate blazed two Fast balls past him for strikes and then threw a ball. The Charlies were one pitch from escaping the jam showing that 'playing the percentages' pays off. VEALE WOUND UP, Fired and Knox promptly laced the pitch into right Field for a game winning two run single. So much for percentages.

Managers Overdo It MAYBE THIS IS second guessing, but I can't help but wonder why Colpaert wasn't left in the game. He's only the best reliever in the league and that's against righties or lefties. In 35 appearances, he has a 9 4 irecord, 12 saves, walked, only 19 and fanned a whopping 5fi. Plus, he has a stingy 2.23 earned run average. THE THOUGHT OCCURS that sometimes managers overdo this 'percentage' bit.

Last season, Charlies' manager Joe Morgan had a thing with reliever Ramon Hernandez pitching only to Jeft handed batters Hernandez never pitched to more than one or two batters in any appearance all season. Yep, Ramon is a lefty. So, what has happened. This year, Hernandez is in the major leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates and his curves, screwball and fast ball are getting them all righties and lefties alike. TO DATE, RAMON IS the only undefeated Pirates' pitcher.

He has a 4 0 record and has allowed only five earned runs in innings plus he's struck out 29 and walked only eight. His E. R. A. is a phenomenal 1.17.

I believe this about percentages a good hitter is going to get his hits no matter who's pitching and a good pitcher is going to get the hitters out whether they bat right or left. AND, SOMETIMES A lousy hitter is going to get a lousy hit off a good pitcher and sometimes a lousy pitcher is going to get a good hitter out. Baseball's a funny game, fans. Touching A Few TOUCHING A FEW The news story on the wire out of Reykjavik (I think it's pronounced rye ka vick), Iceland, today left my heart fluttering. Oh, it was an exciting action story.

Here's the way it went: the lanky Brooklyn, N. challenger galloped his bishop down a long black diagonal to snatch an unprotected pawn later, the bishop was 'trapped and lost in an exchange. WHAT WAS IT? Well, it was the first game of the Bobby Fischer Boris Spassky world chess match. They played 274 minutes and adjourned until today. They didn't even, finish the first match.

Chess is a great game for relaxation and mental exercise, but pardon me if I get slightly nauseous when some reporter makes it sound like the Super Bowl. Imagine, if you will, Fischer 'galloping his bishop down the board where it snatches an unprotected pawn. Well, la te da! WHEN ACE GENE Garber reports back to the Charleston Charlies after his 21 day stay with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he can tell his teammates that he contributed to the fine season that Cincinnati catcher Johnny Bench is having. In last night's 5 0 loss to the Reds, Garber pitched the last two innings and allowed one hit Yep, it was Bench's 22nd homer. Don't worry, Gene.

Bench hasn'1 played favorites this year. He's belted everybody. OH, YES, SEE where Richie Zisk pinch rut in last night's loss, too. He went 0 for That's his first swing at a ball since last Friday night. ANSWER TO baseball Stan Muslal, Mel Ott, Ty Cobb and Cap Anson played 22 years with the same clubs.

to win the Using hard sliders and fast balls as his main weapons, Pattin cut down Oakland batters until the A's last stand. Joe Rudi went down for Pattin '5 seventh strikeout to open the ninth. Then Jackson spoiled Pattin's no hitter. guess this is the best game I ever pitched," said Pattin, who received a standing ovation from the crowd of 5,539 when he came to bat in the ninth. player trade from Milwaukee during the off season, won his fourth straight game and improved his record to 64 with the near masterpiece, fash ALL BASES By BILL SMITH ioned on 117 pitches.

His best previous effort in the majors was with the old Seattle Pilots, when he went into the seventh inning of a 196S game pitching a no hitter. California's Tom Satriano singled to break the spell. "I think I had a two hitter in that game," Pattin recalled. In Tuesday's other American League contests, the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Kansas City Royals 2 1 in 10 innings; the Detroit Tigers nipped the Texas Rangers 6 the Chicago White Sox trimmed the Cleveland Indians 4 the New York Yankees stopped the California Angels 7 3 and the Milwaukee Brewers turned back the Minnesota Twins 5 4. Tom Shopay walked with the bases loaded in the 10th inning, forcing in the winning run as Baltimore halted a five game losing streak.

Reliever Ken Wright, the Royals' second pitcher of the inning, gave up the game ending walk after the Orioles had filled the bases on 3 double by Brooks Robinson and walks to Bobby Grich and Boog Powell. Detroit kept its tenuous one game lead over Baltimore in the East by beating Texas on Mickey Stanley's tie breaking home run in the sixth inning. It was Stanley's third homer in the last three games and con tin his game breaking habits. "I'll be happy if I can do as well in the second half of the season with key hits," said Stanley, xvho has produced 27 RBI despite a sub par .230 batting average. Chicago struck for three runs Charlies Explode ll RUN INNING BRINGS SPLIT TOLEDO, On July 5, the Charleston Charlies trailed Peninsula by nine runs going into the last inning.

A PRESS box wag said, "Well, let's go home. No team can score nine runs in one inning. The Charlies have lost," The Charlies did go on and lose. They scored three runs, but not on Tues (I.L. Boxes On Page 3D) day night in Toledo, the Charlies should have made believers out of that one fan because they scored a whopping 11 runs in one inning to win the second game of a double header, 16 1.

The win gave the Charlies a Toledo won the opener, 5 and increased Charleston's first place lead over Louisville in the International League to 3'4 games. Tonight, the teams square off in a single game with big Jim McKee (5 2) slated to hurl for the Charlies, The Charlies went on their 11 run spree in the fourth inning of the nightcap by send ing 17 men to the plate. They I had only four hits, but benefited from sis walks and five I Toledo errors. Big hit to begin the scoring was a two run single by shortstop Frank Taveras. Every Toledo infielder, except shortstop John Gamble, made an error in the inning.

Gamble didn't escape, however. He made an error in the first inning. the Mud Hens were guilty of six miscues. Otuiielder Charlie Howard continued to battle out of his batting slump. Howard, who only four games ago was batting a miserable .170, slammed a home run in each game and had five RBfs for the night.

the last four games, Howard has been hitting at a .400 clip. Howard's homer to the first game traveled an estimated 400 feet. It cleared the right field wall, a running track and then another fence. Also, catcher Charlie Sands returned to action after being out since June 10 with an injured hand. He hit homer No, 7 in the second game.

Charleston lost the first game when relief pitcher Bob Ve3le gave up a bases loaded, Lwo out single to second baseman John Knox. Chaleston manager Red uiivis iiiLea starter rom uet tore in the bottom of the sixth after he gave up singles to John Young and Tim Dick Colpaert came on and got the second out. Then, Davis called in Veale to pitch to left handed hitting Tom Grayson, But, Toledo spoiled this strategy by sending up right handed hitting Gene Spatz, who was walked by Veale to load the bases. This set the stage for Knox' heroics. The Charlies had taken a 4 3 lead in the top of the sixth when ceriterfielder Dick Sharon tripled with one out and scored on Art Howe's sacrifice Overlooked in the second game scoring spree by the Charlies was the superb pitching of Frank Frontino.

The right hander, who has bwn bothered by an ailing elbow for nearly a full season, stopped the Mud Hens on three hits. In his first route going performance of the season, Frontino walked two and struck out four. in the seventh inning 00 a two run homer by Rick Reichardt and a solo shot by Ed Spitzio to beat Cleveland. The long ball barrage turned the game arcund against Dick Tidrow, who had allowed only two hits and struck out 10 until that juncture. Felipe Alou and Ron Swoboda each drove in two runs during a six run rally in the third inning as New York breezed by California.

Fritz Peterson went the distance for the Yankees, allowing nine hits, and boosted his record to 8 10, Joe Lahoud's ninth inning two run homer carried Mil waukee over Minnesota. The Twins took a 4 3 lead into the ninth but Ron Clark opened with a single and then Lahoud unloaded his fifth homer of the year. JACKSON 'SORRY' FOR PATTIN OAKLAND felt kind or bad." Reggie Jackson or the Oakland A's said after his ninth inning single mined Boston pitcher Marty Pattin's bid for a no hitter Tuesday night when the Red Sox won. 4 0. "He's a good pitcher and goes out there and does his best.

I was trying my hardest to get a hit, but after I got it I felt sorry." Jackson said. Jackson's single with one out in the ninth was just beyond the reach of Boston second baseman Doug Griffin who got the tip of his glove on the bali. Pattin walked three batters, and Jackson got two of the walks. "I wasn't pitching around him." Pattin said. "I just didn't want to give him a good pitch to hit." He threw 117 pitches, about fiO per cent of them sliders.

'I started thinking about a nn hitter in the sixth or seventh inning," Pattin said. "In the ninth inning 1 just tried to take, them one at a time. After Jackson got the hit, I just said 'The heek with Now I have to get the next two batters and win the game." Pattin struck out seven, including Joe Rudi, the third leading hitter in the league, two times. He also snapped Berf Campanens1 hitting streak at 17 games by retiring him four straight times. "I didn't get a good pitch In hit all night," Rudi said.

"Al! he threw me was sliders." Manager Dick Williams of the A's said "You can't do much with one hit in the ninth inning. Joe Horfen pitched a good game, but the other guy was better." ARNIE SHOOTS 73, FRANK BEARD 70 Belgium JULY 12, Cbarlrtton Daily MAKTY P.ATTIN 8'i Innings Of Hitless Ball Caddie Costs Palmer Two Shots In Open Bv RONALD THOMPSfrv i By RONALD THOMPSON A steadv rain started to Fall MUIRFIELD. Scotland Frank Beard, having a poor year on the U.S. pro golf tour, took the early lead in the British Open today with a 70. one stroke better than defending champion Lee Trevwo.

Beard carded a 36 34 70 on the par 71. 6,892 yard Muir field links while Trevino came in with a 35 36 71. ARNOLD PALMER, trying for his third British Open victory, finished with a 35 38 73 after he got some misinformation from his caddy on a shot because of a misunderstanding. Favored Jack Nicklaus was a late starter. just before Trevino and Palmer finished.

"I'm very satisfied with my round," said Trevino. "I'm only one stroke off the Jead right now ami that's not had." Trevino. who finished ahead of Lu Liang Huan of Taiwan last year, had two birdies, both on par fives, and a pair of bogeys. Lu finished with a 77. Palmer was one over par until he took a seven on the par 6 17th.

On that hole. Palmer said, he thought his line was over a bunker on the right and he asked his caddy, Tip Anderson, for confirmation. Tin is more than a raridir He's a Palmer addict, friend and counsellor. He would rather saw off his carrying arm than give Arnie a bit of wrong advice. But it happened, inadvertently.

Palmer, who left himself only two days for practice before the tournament, asked Tip to give him the right line For his drive on the 542 yard hole. "Hit it to the right side," Tip said. liI hit it precisely where meant to," Palmer said later. "The ball went straight into the right side of a trap, and I took two shots to get it out. "Tip was talking about the fairway and I was talking about the trap.

1 guess it was a two shot misunderstanding." Beard, a $100,000 winner each of the previous five years on the U.S. tour but winner of only $16,200 this season, was one of the few players using the American ball rather than the smaller British ball. "I have no confidence in the smaller British said Beard after pairing each of the first nine holes and then making birdies on the par 4 10th and the par 5, 542 yard 17th. "I don't know how to maneuver it." Beard's birdie on the 10th came on a 20 foot putt. He I FRANK BEARD Early Leader With 7(1 British Open Scores par 3635 71 Frank Beard, ii on Garner, Erllaln 1 Oakley, United Stales 36 35 71 i 37 35 71 38 73 10 11 KMO SO REYKJAVIK, Iceland AP) Defending champion Boris Spassky was favored by the experts to beat American challenger Bobby Fischer in" the opening game of the world chess match when play resumes this afternoon.

The opener of the richest chess competition in history adjourned Tuesday night after 4 hours and 34 minutes of play and 40 moves by each player. The game was to resume al 5 p.m.— 1 p.m. EDT. Referee Lother Schmid of West Germany will make Spassky's 41st move. The Russian wrote it on a slip of paper and handed it to him in a sealed envelope at the adjournment.

The two competitors, their seconds and chess enthusiasts throughout the world SDent part of the overnight break analyzing possibilities for the 11 pieces remaining on the green and white chessboard in Reykjavik's sports hall: king and five pawns for Fischer; king, bishop and three pawns and a bishop for Spassky. The match had appeared headed for a draw until Fischer tried to seize the initiative on his 29th move. The lanky Brooklyn, challenger galloped his bishop made his bird on the 17th after chipping up for an easy putt. His only bogey came on the par 4 18th when he hit his second shot in the rough. Other early finishers were John Garner, a member of the British Ryder Cup team, who shot a 71, and Australian Bruce Devlin who carded a 75.

David Oakley of Falls Church. finished within range cf the leaders when he carded a 37 Another veteran American pro who played well was Doug Sanders who lost a playoff to Tony Jacklin in the British Open two years ago. Sanders shot a 36 35 71. Blunder May Cost Bobby First Match down a long black diagonal snatch an unprotected, pawn Spassky had offered. A few moves later the bishop wast trapped and lost in exchange fnr two pawns.

U.S. grandmaster Robert Byrne said it was a blunder and commented, "Fischer is going to have trouble making a draw. I don't see how Spassky can lose." Analyzing the game for The Associated Press, international grandmaster Isaac Kaih dan termed Fischer's move "a rare miscalculation by the American genius." He said it gave Spassky good prospects for a win. Svetonar Gligorfc, the Yugoslav grandmaster present at the tournament, said, "It is doubtful whether black can save a draw." Spassky, who had the first move, is playing the white pieces, Fischer the black. Fischer has played Spassky five times in the past, losing all three times he played the black pieces and getting draws both times he played the whites and had the advantage of the first move.

But London bookies have made the 29 year old American the farorite over the 35 year old Russian in the 24 game championship. OOPS! WHERE'S BOBBY? Boris Spassky makes the opening move of the world champion ship diess match, but Bobby Fischer didn't see it. The American challenger arrived seven minutes later and took his seal. At rich Fischer studies a move during the first AP Wire photos..