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JIM MURRAY I Pittsburgh in ff 1 1 ing the Pacific. Give some thought to Watt discovering steam or Sutter finding gold. Figure an Egyptologist unwrapping Ptolemy, Archimedes sitting up in his tub. Why, the record for bases-on-balls for a four-game Series is only seven. Hank Thompson, the immortal of the 1954 New York Giants, set it.

Surely, you tremble to think of Wilver Stargell achieving parity with an all-time great like For a five-game Series, the record is seven, held by greats like Jimmy Sheckard, Joe Gordon and Mickey Cochrane. The record for a six-game series is eight. Babe Please Turn to Page 5, Col. 4 Aha, but you reckon without baseball's greatest allies, the decimal points, the compound fractions, the longdivision, the achievement reduced to the highest common denominator. Failure? Wilver Why he was on the very threshold of immortality.

He dwarfed those players around him making all those singles and home runs and runs-batted-in. Wilver Stargell had WALKED six times in three games! If you have any idea how electrifying this news is to the baseball journalist, imagine Dr. Leeuwenhoek eyeing the bacillus crawling across his microscope. Conjure up Balboa sight- man fails within sight of his greatest triumph. I hate to see a channel swimmer get pulled out of the water one mile from shore.

Or a fighter, 'way ahead on points, get careless and get taken out by a sucker punch. It's sad to see a guy get 59 home runs and then not be able to get that next one. Stargell is the most feared batter in the big leagues. They pitch to him like they would feed a lion. He came into the Series with 48 season home runs, 125 runs-batted-in.

Then, he was something like 0-for-18 for the playoffs and the World Series. For the non-student of the game, he was an extravagant failure. PITTSBURGH The late Pittsburgh Pirates, a team which never accepts the coroner's report as conclusive, tied the World Series Wednesday night in prime time. But the Pirates are the kind of guys who will use a whole tube of toothpaste to brush one tooth. They required 14 hits to fashion a one-run win over a team that didn't get a hit after the second inning.

These guys would need aces full to run a ribbon clerk with a busted straight out of a hand. Part of the trouble is, they left 13 imen on base which is one less then ') they usually leave. Of course, they I didn't get to bat in the bottom of ninth. It got so a guy would liiim mww- amrmmmmm mm-- AmmmmmmM wmmm PPpot wiiiirt HIT THAT LINE Onole second baseman Dave Johnson, who barreled into Pirate catcher Manny Sanguillen in second game, is on the re ceiving end this time as Pirate pitcher Bruce Kison slams into Johnson in an attempt to break up double play in 4th inning of 4th World Series game at Pittsburgh. Despite Kison's rolling block, Johnson was able to get off throw to complete double play.

Bucs won, 4-3, to even Series. Wl Wirephota Pirates1 Kison Defuses Orioles, 4-3 take his glove with him when he got on base. The game had all the ingredients of a typical Baltimore victory. It started out with three straight hits and Baltimore, which left only four men on base and has left only 23 on base versus the Pirates' 32 in this Series, plated all of them. The Pirate pitcher didn't even need a shower.

He'd just had one. Then Brooks Robinson pulled a play right out of Lourdes. The story of the game is the tragic fate of the Pirates' left fielder. Wilver Stargell teetered on the precipice of greatness in this one and blew it. It always depresses me when a -5 a May lines single the seventh to in Pirates' 4-3 took off on run.

12-yard touchdown "That's the reason we'd really rather have faced Dan Fouts than Harvey Winn when we played Oregon last Saturday. You see, when you're up against a conventional passer like a Fouts or a Sixkiller or a Plunkett, you know what they're going to do stand in the pocket and throw. So you can put it to them if you get a rush. "The tough thing is coming up with a defense for the scrambler. That's what has us worried about Bunce." Bunce, a senior who sat out last season because Plunkett was in charge, likes to run.

And he thinks he should have done more of it in the win over Washington last week, because his passing shoulder was sore, He has carried the football more flease Turn to Tage 7, Col. 1 score Bob burgh baseball history 31,378. The dramatic victory enabled the Pirates to even the 68th Series at two games apiece, assuring them of a return trip to Baltimore, not always something to look forward to but a welcome assignment in this case. The sixth and seventh games the latter if necessary will be played there Saturday and Sunday, following today's final contest in Three Rivers Stadium, which will be telecast by Channel 4 at 10 a.m. Nelson Briles will face Dave Mc-Nally and both managers claimed that they do not believe in momentum.

"I said in Baltimore that you hadn't seem the real Pirates," said the Bucs' Danny Murtaugh. "We're a team that hits well, pitches well and defends well, but we didn't do BUSINESS FINANCE CC PART III 2t THURSDAY, OCT. 14, 1971 any of that in Baltimore. "We've simply played the way we're capable of playing since com-. ing home.

But I don't think that, gives us any big edge in moment turn." Earl Weaver agreed. "The Pirates had bad pitching in Baltimore and good pitching here. That's the difference. I don't believe! in momentum, especially in a World Series where you can't look beyond the current Weaver paused and sipped on a' beer. "I'll say this," he said, "You couldn't ask for a better script for the first night game.

"If I hadn't been managing, I'd have loved to sit back and enjoy it." Appropriately, the losing pitcher Tlease Turn to Page 3, Col. 1 1 tt! 1 Isiah Robertson fion he said. "Someone told me that pro football would be a lot of fun. But pro football is a business, not a game. I wasn't putting out 110 per cent and now I'm making the adjustment." Robertson, at 6-4 and 225, is an imposing physical specimen.

His mustache and beard give him a fierce look, but he speaks in a soft, almost inaudible voice. "Pro football was so much different than I thought it would be," he said. "It requires so much more dedication, hard work and study. In college, you go to class and then practice. Here, it's just practice.

It's football all the time." Catlin, a former Cleveland Browns linebacker and the only holdover from George Allen's staff, is con- Tlease Turn to Page 6, Cot. 1 1 MAY DAY Pinch-hitter Milt to right off Orioles' Eddie Watt i--TN r- 'Ht A I ''ijJy in FROM STRANGER TO STARTER Robertson Flunked Rams' 'School' but Makes Grade i BY ROSS NEWIIAN Timet SUM Writer PITTSBURGH The first night game in the history of the World Series will be remembered as one of high voltage. It was won by the Pirates, when 21-year-old Bruce Kison defused a Baltimore attack that had produced three runs in the first inning and went on to allow one hit across 6 13 innings of relief. The Tirates overcame that, deficit and a controversial decision by right field umpire John Rice, who ruled what Pirate fans thought was a two-run homer hit by Roberto Clemente in the third was foul. That "home run" would have placed the Pirates in a 4-3 lead, but the dispute became academic when the Bucs prevailed by that margin, satisfying the largest crowd in Pitts- Uninspired Kings Drop Home Opener to Pittsburgh, 4-1 BY DAN JIAFNER Timet Staff Writer In their first two games on the road the Kings, at the key moments, played with what coach Larry Regan termed a "sense of urgency." If there was a signal for this, it was either not given or not heeded Wednesday night and the Kings were beaten in their Forum opener by the Pittsburgh Penguins.

At no time did the Kings seem to sense any need for urgency. They permitted defensive minded Penguins to score twice in the first fi'2 minutes and that almost assured Red Kelly's team of victory. The final score was 4-1. Penguins Strike Early About the only excitement generated for the benefit of the 7.R28 fans who booed lustily during the first period came with five minutes left in the dull game when Ross Lona-berry and Bryan Watson squared off. The Kings' winger caught his man off-balance and scored with both hands to the head.

A new NHL rule this season calls for immediate banishment for any player who joins in a fight, so the rest of the players just stood around and watched. After getting the lead with the game not even a minute old on Ken Schinkel's goal, made possible when Oilles Marotte failed to protect the Kings' left flank, the Penguins went into a shell. Their plan was to await the Kings at the blue line and knock the puck down the ice. made for a slow, un- lease Turn to Page 8, Col. 4 Robertson from third with deciding run M'KAY FEARS SCRAMBLERS 'Bunce Harder to Defense Than Plunkett' BY MAI, FLORENCE Timet Staff Writer Isiah Robertson took a cram course last summer on how to become a pro linebacker and flunked it.

Not only was the Ram rookie making poor grades on the practice field, he was unpopular with his teammates. He never sat at the same dining table twice. He was a stranger in camp. His best, and, perhaps, only friend was Danny Geyer, a 13-year-old ball boy and son of Rams' publicist Jack Geyer. Now, Isiah, who likes to be called Rutch, is a starting outside linebacker.

He has intercepted three passes to rank second in the NFL in this category. "He could be All-Pro in his rookie year," says Deacon Jones. "He has great speed and potential. He's the best No. 1 choice I've seen since I've' been with the Rams." This evaluation may be premature because Robertson is still making, mistakes, trying to learn in games what he should have learned in training camp.

"Isiah wasted six weeks this summer," said Tom Catlin, the Rams' linebacker coach. "He spent three weeks in the College All-Star camp and, when ho got here, he just wasn't putting out. He was sleepwalking." Robertson did not endear himself to the players, either. He walked around camp wearing a College All-Star jersey, which is something that rookies just don't do. Why did Isiah jet off to such a bad start? 'I was given some wrong informs- vic'ory that squared World Series.

IA Wlrphoto 4 i 1 Stanford's Don Bunce a 1 Is f- BY DWIGIIT CHAPIN Tlmii Staff Wrlltr In three seasons, Jim Tlunkett wasn't very kind to USC. He beat the Trojans only once, In 1 970, but he passed for 8 18 total on 58 completions in 08 attempts and produced 4 touchdowns. L'SC coach John McKay spent some sleepless nights petting ready for him. But now McKay is saving he'd rather play against Tlunkett than the man USO must confront Saturday night at the Coliseum the new Stanford quarterback, Don Bunce. "I don't like to face Joe Theis-manns," says McKay.

"And Bunce is the same type of guy as Theismann (the cx-Notre Dame quarterback). I hate a guy who ran get back there in the pocket and then come out running on you. "Against Oregon, the pass was well covered on one play so Bunce just.