The Evening Sun from Baltimore, Maryland • 56

1 1 THE EVENING SUN SECTION SPORTS- PAGE 10 BALTIMORE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1974 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmmvm iiwi nni, nw im win Now Palmer Won't Talk SPORTS EDITOR Slump Twins Oriole Star Ends With Win Over Open Choice Nicklaus Downgrades Chances walks, a wild pitch and a run. we've given up less than three By Phil Hersh Staff Correspondent runs. He threw 110 pitches before Jim Bloomington, Minn. Palmer looked relieved. How he felt after ending his seven-game losing streak is left to the imagination because he refused to comment about being relieved by Grant Jackson with Twins on first and second.

Brooks Hit Twice Palmer, as usual, was superstitious. He ran to the mound from the bullpen, accepting the ball from first base coach George Staller. In the back of his pants pocket, he carried a "Jim looked good. He'll probably be all set for his next regular turn Sunday against Chicago." Brooks Robinson (1), Tommy Davis (2) and Bobby Grich (1) drove in the runs for the Birds, but Brooks paid a price for his second-inning homer. The next two times up, he was hit by pitcher Bert Bly combined to hold Rod Carew -0-for-5.

Rod's average slipped 'f to .388. Twins outfielder Steve Braun was 3-for-3, giving him 7 hits in his last 7 official trips despite a .311 batting mark, Braun is platooned because management feels he can't field and owner Cal-; vin Griffith wasn't pleased that Braun took his salary to -tration and won. Palmer's win was his first since April 17, but last year, on June 12 Jim was only 6-4. At Last, Jim! pebble he found somewhere; his performance. The pitcher is miffed about an Evening Sun story last week that gave the price of his new house.

He thinks Baltimore fans are jealous that he can afford a $135,000 palace. Palmer's Chart In last night's 4-2 Oriole win over Minnesota he worked 6 innings, allowing 4 hits, 4 after the game, he put the rock in his shaving kit. "That's the best game we've had pitched since May 25th," leven, first, on the left hand, then behind the right shoulder. Palmer Too Concerned He "went down hard both times yet finished the game de-spit a puffy bruise on the hand and stiffness in the shoulder. On another night, that might have started a beanball war.

said manager Earl weaver, BALTIMORE MINNESOTA "It's the first time since then Bumbrv If Bar cf ab bl 4 0 0 0 10 0 0 4 110 5 0 2 2 abrhbl 5 0 0 0 3 0 8 1, 5 0 10 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 110 Cringing cf TDa.ls dh Carew 2b Braun If Ollva dh Terrell pr Darwin rf Kuslclt lb Hisle cf 3 0 2 0 Soderhlm 3b 3 0 0 1 3 0 2 0 4 0 0 1 3 111 3 0 0 0 2 10 0 4 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 JPowell lb Grlch 2b BRobinsn 3b Fuller rf Hendrcks Belanger ss Palmer Jackson BReynlds But Palmer was too concerned with his own problems to worry about retaliation, so the umpires handled the thing by warning Blyleven. Maybe the struggle was getting too much for Bert, 5-8 de Brgman 2 0 0 0 Holt nil 0 10 0 Roof 10 0 0 Gomel ss '2010 Killebrew ph 0 0 0 0 Thompsn 10 0 0 Blyleven 0 0 0 0 BCmnbell 0 0 0 0 spite a good (2.88) earned-run 33 2 1 2 35 4 I 4 Total Total average. The same could be said for Palmer, 3-7 and 3.84. ORIOLE ITEMS: Mike Cuel- Baltimore (112 000 1004 Minnesota 0OO 000 110 I Soderholm. Thompson.

DP Baltl. more 1. Minnesota 1. LOB Baltimore 12. Minnesota 11.

2B J.Powell. Hisle. 3B Hisle HRB. Robinson (2). SB Braun.

8 Hisle. 6K-Grich. lar (7-3) winds up the series tonight (TV Channel 13, 8.30) against Vic Albury (2-3). IP RERBBSO Palmer (W.3-7) 6 1-3 4 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 Oil B. Reynolds Bob Reynolds gained his fifth save, relieving Jackson in the 0 4 1 2 0 Blyleven (L.5- 2 4 Oil BCampbell MMWMWMwwwii mm mi iiimi-.

-'V-i i eighth. Grant's scoreless-inning string ended at 12. Pal Save-B Reynolds (5). HBP-by Blyle-ven (B. Robinson), by Blyleven (B Robinson).

WP Palmer. 2 58. A mer, Jackson and Reynolds TWINS' SLIDING Steve Braun is out at second, and Oriole shortstop Mark Belanger gets Tony Oliva at first for DP. 7.50.1. Wi 1 They're Tennis Players, Too Twin Sisters Softball Pilots Li' '4 "Random remarks while breathing a sigh of relief at Jim Palmer's strong pitching performance in the Orioles' 4-2 win at Minnesota Jack Nicklaus is the automatic favorite any time' the golfers get together for an Open or a and he is the choice in the U.S.

Open beginning tomorrow at Winged Foot but you'd never know it to: hear him talk. Nicklaus played three practice rounds on the course last week and says he was Jack says he was experimenting and he was "all over the What was the greatest golfer of our time experimenting with? Alignment, of all things. Jack once wrote a whole book on the subject. He says alignment is 90 per cent of the game. wBet you Jack picks up the big check when it's alj'oyer Sunday evening.

Why not? No one has ever won as many major championships 14 as Jack. Brooks Robinson scared the daylights out of Oriole fans not once but twice last night by being hit britches from the Twins' Bert Blyleven. The first was on Brooks' left hand the one that wears the greatest third base glove of all time. The second was on the shoulder, although it looked on instant re-play like the neck or head. Don't get the idea, though, that Brooks is getting-; hit because, at 37, he's losing his reflexes.

Brooks has been getting beaned for years, seven times in all starting in 1955 (by Earl Wilson) Hank Strikes Blow For US Evidence continues to mount that American-bdfriand bred soccer players can, indeed, hold their owh-now with world class players. The Comets' Kazmierski struck a blow for homegrown talent by scoring both goals at the Stadium last night in the 2-0 win over Washington. Not very many years ago, in 1967, to be precise, when big time international soccer players were introduced to the US (Jerry Hoffberger's Bays heire), every team had to have its token American. Baltimorean Art Kramer talked with Arthur Ashe in Las Vegas recently about the athletic tut ure of Maryland's John Lucas, who probably could turn pro in either basketball or tennis. seen John play tennis," Ashe told Kramer, who is president of the Terrapin Club.

"He should play basketball." '--New York News columnist Dick Young had a goocl line about the diluted, over-expanded product major league baseball fans get to see these days. Young wrote, "I get the feeling I'm watching wartime baseball, without the war going on." The Philadelphia Flyers' Dave Schultz, who has become the very symbol of NHL brawling, makes a surprising confession about his off-the-ice fights. They're nil. "I've never fought anybody in the streets, never in my life," says Schultz. "Frankly, I'd probably get beaten.

I don't know how to box." Miller Feels JVo Pressure Defending Open champion Johnny Miller resents the suggestion that he will feel the pressure over the next four days at Winged Foot. Says Johnny: "I've been around long enough to realize I'm no fluke. I've won eight tournaments in the past year. I'm not awed by anything anymore. The pressure won't bother me." Dick Bielski, the former Colt assistant coach under Don Shula and Don McCafferty, is enjoying some rare "time off" from his duties as a member of George Allen's Redskin staff.

Dick coaches the receivers. "It's been a long year for me, driving from Timonium every day to Redskin Park," says Bielski. "George works his staff and himself harder than anyone I've been with. It's part of the discipline. 'The program', as he calls it.

"George doesn't even use the word vacation. He tells us to take some time off. Last year he called a coach back to work when he traded for a player in his department. I hope we don't trade for a receiver until I get back to work." Bielski's son, Rick, a football star at Dulaney High, enters college in the fall. For a long time Rick told his dad he did not want to go to (a) a big school or (b) Maryland, which is his father's alma mater.

Guess where Rick is going? Maryland, of course. And the latest word on Moses Malone, America's most sought after high school basketballer, is that he'll forsake college completely and go right into pro balL 11 The plot was a simple one, the Rosen ts berg twins figured, and it certainly carried none of the risks of date switch ing. The people lining the fences of the Brooklyn playground would never know the difference. their husbands' collegiate sports backgrounds. "We were always tomboys when we were growing up," says Gail, whose husband played four years at and captained the University of Virginia basketball team.

"From the time we started going to camp, at age eight, we were always athletically inclined." Played At Hopkins Gwen's hubby was a four-year basketball and lacrosse player at Johns Hop- For two sets they would see Gail play her tournament match, and if the heat grew unbearable and a tnird set was imminent, sister Gwen would finish. women in sports Who Would Know? "An innocent, 'Excuse me, I must get to the ladies would do it," said Gail, explaining the switcheroo. Who'd know the difference? Such antics are common to identical twins, and the precocious Rosenbergs of Flatbush never let an opportunity slip. "We'd dress alike, switch classes in school, take each other's exams, play doubles with each other's partners," odically with a new professional group, Point On Strings. "She's good," says Gail as her sister blushes.

"In college (both are 1964 graduates of the University of Maryland) she toured with U.S.O. groups through the Caribbean, Panama, Guatamala, the British West Indies and Antigua." It might be the only area in which the two differ. Gail doesn't dance but both play tennis, softball, paddleball, volleyball and baseball and still find time for calisthenics, jogging and bike riding. Seldom A Ripple The enjoyment each derives from athletics is immeasurable, and only occasionally do they encounter a ripple of discontent. Their plunge into softball was triggered by such a concern: Prescribed sex roles for children have inhibited girls from experimenting in sports.

"We decided to manage a softball team to get involved," says Gwen. "We think children should be accepted on ability, but that's seldom the case with boys. It's okay to tell a girl, 'sorry, you're not good but don't tell her she's not accepted because of her sex. It's Not Fair "It's not fair." It's also a reason, they feel, so many "girls have no more incentive," says Gwen. "Colleges are reluctant to give women scholarships, so they give it up.

I'm sure fellas would, too, without scholarships." So Gail Miller, mother of two, and Gwen Becker, mother of three, do their part with 10 other girls, who are now learning to catch and bat. With such devotion from the mentors, it's easier to learn than diciphering the names of identical twins. says Gail, now Mrs. Ron Miller, wife of a Baltimore attorney. "It was fun." Today, their revelry is somewhat sub dued, as it would not be such a good idea to pass themselves off to the other's family.

If their kids wouldn't know, Mr. Miller and Dr. Larry Becker, Gwen's husband, would. kins who later played lacrosse with Mt. Washington.

Currently, he's the rac-' quetball champion at. the Baltimore Jewish Community Center. Though their prowess hasn't carried them beyond Gail's Brooklyn Borough Championship or Gwen's Woodholme Country Club doubles title, both two years ago, each would be lost, bored andor overweight without their daily activity. Tennis commands most attention, and softball is next. They cc-manage a girls' 8-9 team twice a week at Fort Garrison Elementary School.

The team is 8-2 awaiting next week's post-season picnic, the league's answer to playoffs. Less Pressure "A picnic," says Gwen, "is less pressure. Nobody loses." Of the two, Gwen spends more time away from sports. She dances daily, practicing at home, and performs peri They'd Catch On Besides, they've olaved enough local tournaments since the Millers last year followed the Beckers here from Brooklyn, that too many people would catch on: Gwen parts her hair in the middie. Gail on the side.

If they left the shenanisans In Brook lyn, they brought to Baltimore their love for athletics. Both have an insatiable appetite for sports, nurtured by their own addiction to activity and fueled by liiiaiiiiilv ill fmmMt Ayimysrtoy! Joe Louis Bally hoos Fight While Waiting To Ref It k'iti't By Phil Jackman Staff Correspondent New York "No," Joe Louis Perez. When I said, 'How 'bout said, "I ain't being used t. sell they both said, appearance of Louis. Joe, 60 last month and in the tickets to the fight.

This fight "So I called Joe and he said, best shape he was been, weight-wise, in years, worked until I assured him both the sparring sessions of Fra- (Joe Frazier vs. Jerry Quarry) was going to sell anyway." As the former great heavy guys wanted him. He wouldn have taken the job if it hadi Jochnson 1 an1 Iniamf irra net inn vstnt. and Quarry against Joe Some weight champion turned ref been any other way. body.

eree for the occasion next 4:4 At least he looked the part of Monday night spoke, a sleazy little character walked up, a referee and he explained Star Of Show And this is why Joe was the star of the show yesterday as the Garden people ran out the boxers for an exhibition of the slipped a boxing publication why: "Been working 35 or 40 matches a year the last 10 TWIN SISTER Gail Miller has softball concern. Colts Obtain Runner The Colts swapped veteran defensive end Roy Hilton to the New York Giants yesterday for a fullback, halfback, physical therapist, zoologist, pastor and a future draft pick. But it was just a two-for-one deal, Joe Orduna being the multi-talented newcomer. The 25-year-old Orduna adds depth to the Colts' sketchy running corps. "The Bible whatever your' hands find to do, do it with all your might," said Orduna, due to tattle with Lydell Mitchell in summer camp.

"His credentials say he can play," said head coach Howard Schnellenberger. "I thought he was going to be a fine pro a lot sooner than this, but sometimes moving around is the tonic a guy needs," he added. Orduna agreed. "I know I'm good and he's (Mitchell) good," he said. "But the wrong kind of competitive attitude will kill you.

If a team has two good backs, it can go places. If I'm not as good as him, I'll be close to it. "This chance is the timing of the Lord, a chance to do what I can do, not what I've been asked to do. That's the way" been since Hilton, who spent an unhappy ninth season mostly on the bench, wasn't available for comment. years.

into the Brown Bomber hand, asked him to smile and snapped a picture. manly art in a makeshift ring When someone mentioned in Times Square at high noon. jjrTT2 A A si they were wrestling matches, Fighters' Idea The oassers-bv seemed to ho 1 I ft i A-it hV: il- -5 i -w wijuy uk siww, eveu a washing match is tougher than a about to help the promotion too hot. the music too loud and boxing match anytime much. the fumes from the taxicabs! Mm.ntrv i an "You're not going to believe -who zing by all but sufficating.

thP this." said Teddy Brenner, of "I think we did ourselves 7 fi Madison Square Garden "but some good" Brenner said, l.1 Joe refereeing was the fight- thinking ahead to the $100 rt-ffi 7 ers'idea. show, and even-one tk- tvt a "Frazier didn't want either! agrifc. Especially after seeTg mm thc lArthur) Mercante or (Tony) how the crowd reacted to the (Cont. on Pg. 12, Col.

4) Eunpapen photo Joaenb A. DIPA AS IF SPORTS aren't enough, Gwen Becker is a dancer, too, and a softball team pilot..