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The Independent-Record from Helena, Montana • 8

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8 The Independent Record, Helena, Montana, Friday, July 7, 1972 Mm Ryun Wins His Heat In Trials Joe Coleman Half Way To His Goal of 20 Wins 'At if feT; A. filial winner in the run. He coasted to the tape in 13:51.2. Prefontaine, 21-year-old American record holder at EUGENE, Ore. (AP Jim Ryun, who said he "felt under control all the way," moved another step nearer his Olympic coal Thursday night with a high hurdles, hit six of the 10 barriers but still clipped the tape first in 13.5.

Tom Hill of the Army, formerly of Arkansas State, also turned in a 13.5 as 16 advanced into today's semifinals. their midweek series, thanks to to the triumph that kept them By BRUCE LOWITT Associated Press Sports Writer within two games of the front- 13:29.8, was followed by former "If you can't win 20 games Oregon Stater Tracy Smith in with this club, you don't de serve to win," said Detroit's Joe Coleman, who then predicted he'll do just that with a uttle help from his friends. running Orioles in the East Division. Aurelio Rodriguez, with two singles and a double, and Tony Taylor, with two singles and a triple, led the assault while Bill Freehan drove in three runs with a single and a double. The Orioles won three of three from the White Sox in quarter final victory in the race at America's Olympic Track and Field Trials.

The former Kansas star, who just missed a U.S. berth in the 800 meters, advanced to the semifinals tonight by turning in a 55-second final lap in winning his heat of the 1,500 in 3 minutes, 45.1 seconds. Dave Wottle, the Bowling Green standout who finished Coleman, the Tigers' ace 13:52.8, and the Los Angeles policeman was just ahead of ex-Washington State runner Gerry Lindren in 13:53.6. In the other heat, 34-year-old George Young of Casa Grande, took it easy and settled for fifth place in 14:11.6 as Tarry Harrison of Club West and Leonard of Hilton of the Houston Track Club earned the top right-hander who won 20 games a year ago, reached the half In the 400-meter dash, world record-holder Lee Evans of the Bay Area Striders and John Smith, who holds the world mark at 440 yards, both advanced into today's second round. Evans, 1968 Olympia gold medalist, finished third in 46.8 seconds in one heat as Tommie Turner of Sports International (45.6) and James Redd (46.4), the Southern University sprint way point toward that magic number Thursday night with a six-hit, six-strikeout perform NEW MANAGER Frank Quilici, left, was named manager of the American League Minnesota Twins Thursday, replacing Bill Rigney who was fired.

(Photofax) ance, a 7-0 shutout over Kansas City that halted Detroit's four-game skid. No. 1 in the 800 meters last weekend, also advanced with a winnijig 3:43.7 clocking, but will two spots of respective times of 14:06.2 and 14:07.0. Greg Fredericks, the Penn State flash who, like Lindgren, superlative pitching that held Chicago to a measly 13 hits in the 27 innings. The only runs scored by the Sox in that stretch came on a pair of solo homers by Dick Allen.

Thursday's victory extended Baltimore's winning string to five games all of them complete games by Orioles' moundsmen. The latest was the five-hitter by Mike Cuellar, who also singled home the deciding run in the eighth inning Thursday night. Cuellar, who has rebounded from a dismal early season to raise his record to 7-6 with victories in five of his last six decisions, outdueled Tom Bradley, who also had a five-hitter. "Cuellar was great and so was Bradley," Chicago Manager Chuck Tanner said, stating the obvious. "The pitching on both sides was the best in any series I've seen this year." Yankees Manager Ralph Houk did a little stating-of-the-obvious himself as he spoke of relief ace Sparky Lyle.

In other American League er, finished 1-2. Smith and runnerup Maurice Peoples of Washington D.C., lead another heat, each timed Frank Quilici Promoted Sooner Than Expected games, Baltimore nosed out the Chicago White Sox 2-1, the New York Yankees beat Oakland 6-2, Milwaukee clipped California failed to qualify in the 10,000 meters, came home sixth in 14:19.2 as 12 men altogether advanced to Sunday night's finals. Bobby Fischer Loses the Draw REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday. Unless the American challenger or the Soviet champion pleads illness and gets another postponement. at 45.7.

Wayne Collett. like Smith a former UCLA standout, 6-5 and, in a twi-night double-header, Cleveland swept Texas finished second in 46.1 behind MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL (AP) Frank Quilici, who was 4-3 and 6-5 in 12 innings. Boston and Minnesota were not The Tigers battered five Roy be in more danger than Ryun tonight. Wottle will be in a fast third ofigrx against such threats as Tom Ton Ruden of Stillwater, Howell Michael of the Marine Corps and Jerome Howe of Kansas State.

Ryun will be another heat with Robert Wheeler of Duke expected to be his top challenger. The three top men from each of the three heats advanced to Saturday night's finals. "There was no sense pressing the pace," Ryun said after his heat. "I didn't expect the times to be very fast, but you never know what might happen. "Friday, the races will be faster.

of the in als pitchers for 13 hits en route Young won a bronze medal in the steeplechase during the 18 Olympics, but decided last year to switch to the 5,000. Willie Davenport of the Texas Striders, the 1968 Olympic Gold medalist, advanced in the 110-meter high hurdles with a 13.6-second time in winning one heat of the quarterfinals. In another heat, Rod Milburn of Southern University, world record holder in the 120-yard Army's Fred Newhouse (45.4) in another heat as 16 sprinters advanced. Today's long program calls for the first two rounds of the 200-meter dash, qualifying in the hammer throw, two more rounds of the 400, qualifying in the shot put and long jump and semifinals in the and the 110-meter high hurdles. told in March he would have no chance to manage the Minnesota Twins until he got some minor league experience, makes his debut tonight at the helm of the club on which he has spent his entire major league playr.g career.

The Twins will try to snap a four game losing streak against ii "Maybe I use him too much," Houk said, "but when you have someone like him in the bullpen, you bring him in. He's a good relief pitcher t. 'cause he has good stuff and the New York Yankees at Metropolitan Stadium. Twins President Calvin Griffith named the former utfy in-fielder to succeed Bill Rigney, who was fired Thursday after 2 years on the job and with his club 912 games behind front-running Oakland in the West Division of the American League. "Frank made a believer out of me," Griffith told newsmen.

"He has shown maturity and I think he is just the man we need to get our team on the right track again." Quilici, at 33 the youngest major league manager, rejected an offer from Griffith during spring training to the Twins' Class A team at Wisconsin Rapids. He recalled The Independent Record SPOR TS mmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmA Padres Nip Mets in 14 creased competition," he said. Temperatures which had been in the 90s for the first illie Jean King week of the trials cooled considerably as a crowd of 12,500 watched Oregon star Steve Pre-fontaine breeze home a heat son homered for the Phillies. Dusty Baker's two-run homer keyed a four-run Atlanta rally in the third inning and the Wins Fourth Title March conversation: "I told Calvin you can manage for 20 ycrs and not be an ex WIMBLEDON, England (AP) Billie Jean King of Long way they couldn't score. But they almost didn't.

McGraw got Nate Colbert on a force play at the plate and then struck out Clarence Gaston. But Jerry Morales waited out a walk to force home the run San Diego needed. The Mets almost got it back in the bottom of the 14th when Bud Harrelson walked, moved up on a wild pitch and a sacrifice and then, with two out, tried to score on a short passed ball. But catcher Pat Corrales recovered in time and threw to Ross, covering the plate, to By HAL BOCK Associated Press Sports Writer Steve Arlin, San Diego's pitching dentist, must have given the New York Mets a dose of sleeping gas Thursday night. And when the Padres finally got around to operating on Ar-lin's baseball patients, it was anything but painless.

Arlin pitched 10 brilliant innings, allowing only one hit before turning the Mets over to reliever Gary Ross, who permitted just one more hit in four innings. Finally, the Padres pushed across a run on a bases- Braves' hung on to nip Chicago. George Stone, 2-6, earned the victory with ninth inning help from his cousin, Cecil Upshaw. Ron Santo's two-run homer knocked out Stone but Upshaw came on to get the last three outs, recording his seventh save. It was Stone's first victory as a starter this season.

The Dodgers blasted the Expos, snapping a 3-3 tie with a pair of runs in the eighth inning gets the ball over the plate." Lyle did it well enough to pick up his 17th save of the season after the A's had knocked out starter Mike Kekich with four straight hits and two runs in the sixth inning. Sparky squelched Oakland on just one hit in his 3 1-3 inning stint. New York, meanwhile, got all the scoring it needed with a four-run fifth inning, two of them coming on Felipe Alou's double, to keep the A's from widening their five-game West Division lead over the White Sox. Johnny Briggs clubbed his 10th home run of the year in the fifth inning to pull Milwaukee into a 5-5 tie with the Angels, then unloaded his 11th two innings later to catapult the Brewers to victory. Gaylord Perry chalked up his 13th victory of the season to match Detroit's Mickey Lolich as the winningest pitcher in the majors in the Indians' twinbill opening-game victory.

Then Alex Johnson singled and Graig Nettles sent him around the bases with a double for their 12-inning nightcap triumph that made it a sweep over the Rangers. perienced manager." Rigney, the dean of American League managers in his 17th season, had a 90-minute session with Griffith. "I've just been fired," he told newsmen. "Calvin said we are not selling any tickets and that he wants to go with a local man," Rigney said. Griffith said the most important reason for the change in managers was because of the of the players on the field.

"Too many of them were Beach, won her fourth women's singles titles at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships today with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over defending champion Evonne Goolagong of Australia. With the second set tied 3-3, Mrs. King went ahead when Miss Goolagong had service problems. Then the new champion kept her service with a cross-court backhand to go ahead 5-3 and then won the set and match by breaking Miss Goolagong's service with another sizzling cross-court back catch Harrelson. loaded walk in the 14th inning The Giants beat the Phillies for a 1-0 victory.

by eliminating Chris Evert of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. It was the 28-year-old Mrs. King's sixth Wimbledon final. She won previous titles in 1966, 1967 and 1968 and also played for the championship in 1963, 1969 and 1970. The 1971 championship was the first for the 20-year-old Miss Goolagong.

The match on the famed center court was watched by a standing-room-only crowd of 15,000. Scalpers were offering tickets for that originally were priced at $4.55. The men's title will be decided Saturday when Army Cpl. Stan Smith of Pasadena, meets Hie Nastase of Romania. Smith, losing Wimbledon finalist last year, was the No.

1 seed this year. He also is the reigning U.S. Open champion. in the 10th inning when Tito and then wrapping up the victory with six runs in the ninth. Bill Russell drove in four runs with two singles and a Arlin, who holds a degree in dentistry from Ohio State University, matched zeroes with the Mets' Jerry Koosman for 10 innings before Ross and New York reliever Tug McGraw took over.

By then, the Mets were mesmerized and they never did wake up. triple and Jim Lefebvre laced a three-run homer for the Dodgers. Mike Jorgensen and Clyde Mashore homered for the hand. Fuentes unloaded a two-run triple. The winning rally started with a two-out walk to Dave Kingman and after Domaso Blanco singled, Fuentes delivered his big hit.

San Francisco, which has won six of its last seven games, tied it in the eighth inning when Garry Maddox singled, moved to third on two grounders and scored on Mike Ryan's wild pkkoff throw. Don Money and Deron John- Mrs. King moved ahead 5-3 in Helena Pari-Mutucl HORSE RACING lewis Clark County Fairgrounds Today thru Sunday July 7-8-9 POST TIMES Friday, July 7 4 p.m. Saturday, July 8 4 p.m. Sunday, July 9 2 p.m.

the first set as the Australian girl was guilty of some weak volleying. Mrs. King had gained the fi nal by defeating Rosemary Casals of San Francisco while too nonchalant," he said. The Twins led the division early in the season, but slid from a 16-5 record on May 14 to 3(5-34 when Rigney was fired. Griffith chose Rigney to su-ceed Billy Martin after the 1969 season when the Twins won the West Division, but lost three consecutive playoff games to the Baltimore Orioles.

Martin, popular with Minnesota fans, was a tough act for Rigney to follow, but he duplicated the 1969 effort with another divisional title and lost three straight to Baltimore. Last year the Twins slumped to fifth place in the West. Quilici, who played five seasons with the Twins, was a spark on the 1965 pennant winner. He was called from the minors in July and helped so Miss Goolagong had advanced Baseball Standings Pittsburgh tied the score on Willie Stargell's two-run homer in the ninth inning and then struggled into the 17th before pushing across four runs to beat Houston. Reliever Ramon Hernandez started the Pirates' winning rally with a leadoff double and scored the tie-breaking run on a double by Vic Davalillo.

Then a wild pitch, a fielder's choice and hits by Al Oliver and Manny Sanguillen produced three more runs to clinch it. In other National League games Thursday night, San Francisco topped Philadelphia in 10 innings, Los Angeles walloped Montreal 11-3, Atlanta edged Chicago 4-3 and Pitts- burgh beat Houston 7-3 in 17 in- Cincinnati and St. Louis i were not scheduled. Despite the outstanding pitch- I ing of Arlin and Ross, the Mets were still tied in the 14th because the Padres had been unable to cash in on any earlier scoring opportunities. When I they loaded the bases with none out on two singles and a fielder's choice at the start of the 14th, it looked like there was no Sports in Brief Chicago at Cincinnati, 2 Houston at St.

Louis By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS National League East By The Associated Press Tennis BRETTON WOODS. N.H. Top-seeded W. L. Helena Sand Wins Helena Sand and Gravel rallied from a 5-2 deficit to defeat Clausen's-Bair's 9-5 Thursday night in the Men's Fast Pitch Softball League.

Jim Haggarly tossed a five-hitter for the victory while Helena Sand collected 11 hits off Jim Martin. 45 26 Pittsburgh Rod Laver of Australia beat 22-year-old American League East Haroon Rahim of Pakistan 6-3, 6-7, 7-5 to advance to the quarter-finals of the 000 Mount Washington International. Tct. G.B. .634 .597 2i2 .528 7i2 .521 8 .431 I412 .347 20 W.

L. Baltimore 40 30 4 S-10 Thoroughbred and Quarter Horn Rices Daily. Capital City ng Alloc. New York St. Louis Chicago Montreal Philadelphia Golf FORT ERIE, Ont.

Bunky Henry shot a six-under-par 65 to take the first-round 43 29 38 34 38 35 31 41 25 47 West 44 28 44 31 38 35 35 39 44 28 44 31 38 35 35 39 City Baseball PEE WEE LEAGUE Dodaprs 200 0136 9 4 lidify the infield, playing his first 44 games without an error. Union Wins, 11-1 The Union Rank rode the Cincinnati .611 Uij(ilij Pet. G.B, .571 2 .493 5'i .485 6 .435 9V2 .406 lli2 .639 5 .514 9 .493 10i2 .446 14 .403 17 Detroit 38 32 Boston 33 34 New York 33 35 Cleveland 30 39 Milwaukee 28 41 West Oakland 46 26 Chicago 41 31 Minnesota 36 34 Kansas City 35 36 California 33 41 Texas 29 43 Giants 411 20x 8 11 3 Colls no 50211 4 0 Neils 000 010 1 1 3 HR Oqle, Reds; L. Kncidson, Colts. Yankees 200 103 6 5 0 Royals 240 05516 14 1 1 JaK I I'l four-hit pitching of Jerry Sanderson to an 11-1 victory over Houston .587 1 Los Angeles .521 6 Atlanta .473 10 San Francisco 32 47 .405 15 San Diego 26 47 .353 1 Thursday's Results San Francisco 6, Philadelphia 9 8c- -s lead In the J150.000 Canadian Open.

GLENEAGLES, Scotland Ray Palmer of Grosse He, took the 54-hole lead In the International Seniors Amateur with a total of 214. Football CHICAGO Veteran defensive lineman Ed O'Bradovich retired from the Chicago Bears of the National Football league. Hockey CHICAGO The Chicago Cougars of the new World Hockey Association signed former star National Hockey League de-fensemon Marcel Pronovost as their first coach. Boxing OKLAHOMA CITY Okla. The Oklahoma Boxing Commission stripped Joe Frazier of his world heavyweight title for "foilure to defend against a bona fide contender in 16 months," and said it would recognize the winner of a planned bout between George Foreman ond Oscar Bonavena this fall.

HK K. Nordberg, Royals. Twins 425 43119 13 3 Athletics 320 121 9 9 2 HR Ctinton, Athletics; Wilson, Stewart, Twins. Men's 4, 10 innings PONY LEAGUE I AM Local 213 000 010 01 1 Lions Club 607 23 7 Capital Sports and Western Wear Wednesday in the Men's Fast Pitch Softball League. The bankers broke a 1-1 tie with two runs in the third inning and then scored four times each in the fourth and fifth frames to bring the game to an early AM Local 213 000 010 0 1 1 rrrry a wt I Atlanta 4, Chicago 3 Los Angeles 11, Montreal 3 San Diego 1, New York 0, 14 Thursday's Results Cleveland 4-6, Texas 3-5, 2nd game 12 innings HR Miller, Lions.

Rotary Club 100 005 06 3 Algerians 000 204 17 3 innings f-j: M. L. Brown 00U 141 0-6 5 3 lend because of the 10-run rule. Pittsburgh 7, Houston 3, 17 in iivnnns juu i id HR Tudor, Burt (3), Civitans. nings JUm2ZS JAM.

hi 1 Only games scheduled Friday's Games San Diego (Corkins 0-4 and 7 1 enafors to Host Bozeman Norman 5-6) at Philadelphia (Carlton 10-6 and Nash 1-4), 2, twi-night Pittsburgh (Kison 3-1 and L. in Crucial League Series Walker 2-4) at Atlanta (Hardin Known Brond Names. MM JjT' ''7 Blue ond Colored Denims. II iXTL ill 1-0 and Kelley 5-5), 2, twi-night With most of their traveling San Francisco (McDowell at Montreal (Stoneman 7-5), Kim Hurley is at .409 and Tucci at .400. Muffick reports he will use ei Men's Denim 5 Children's Colored JfMf VS ther Bruce Abbott (5-1) or Bill Los Angeles (Sutton 9-4) at Jean Jackets Jean Jackets Detroit 7, Kansas City 0 Baltimore 2, Chicago 1 New York 6, Oakland 2 Milwaukee 6, California 5 Only games scheduled Friday's Games Texas (Bosman 4-7 at Baltimore (Palmer 11-4), Kansas City (Drago 6-7) at Cleveland (Wilcox 6-9), New York (Peterson 7-9) at Minnesota (Woodson 6-8), Detroit (Timmerman 6-7) at Chicago (Lemonds 1-1), Milwaukee (Parsons 6-7) at Oakland (Blue 2-4), Boston (Curtis 6-3) at California (May 2-6), Saturday's Games Texas at Baltimore, 2, twi-night Kansas City at Cleveland New York at Minnesota Detroit at Chicago Milwaukee at Oakland Boston at California, Sunday's Games Texas at Baltimore Kansas City at Cleveland Detroit at Chicago, 2 New York at Minnesota Milwaukee at Oakland Boston at California New York (Matlack 8-4), Rozeinan comes to town with an 0-6 league mark.

The Senators may have to make one lineup change tonight as Andy Tucci is reportedly suffering from a badly sprained ankle as the result of a home accident. If he is unable to play. Bob Morrison will fill in at shortstop. Chicago (Hooton 6-7) at Cin I behind them, the Helena Senators will return to Legion Field at tonight to take on Boze-liien to open a busy week of American Legion baseball action. Tonight's game will be the first of a crucial two-game league series and the first of four straight home games in as many nights.

'si $joo $500 (j I Chambers (5-1) in the Saturday game. Abbott is fresh from a two-hitter in his last outing as he went the distance for the first time this season. The Bozemen series is considered very crucial for the Senators who are already three games out of the lead in the Eastern Division and Muffick plans to use whoever is needed Vic 1 1 a righthander CLASS A EASTERN DIVISION W. Billings i 7 Helena 3 Miles City 7 Bozcmon 0 Livingston 0 cinnati (Simpson 4-2), Houston (Roberts 7-3) at St. Louis (Gibson 7-5), Saturday's Games San Diego at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh at Atlanta, San Francisco at Montreal, Los Angeles at New York Chicago at Cincinnati Houston at St.

Louis, Sunday's Games San Diego at Philadelphia Pittsburgh at Atlanta San Francisco at Montreal Los Angeles at New York a 5-1 record.will be on the mound tonight for the Senators who are an impressive 22-4 DeVorcs Saddlery WCCTrDkl nilTCITTCDC WESTERN OUTFITTERS to win the two games. Therfore, he is not sure who will pitch With the season near the half- over-all but only 3-3 in league the Sunday game against Sheri play. 1 1 leads the team way point, the Senators are still 442-2150 4 West Lawrence with four complete games in hitting a hefty .352. Randy starts. He has gone the dist-J Rucker and Paul Martello are stance in his last two games.

the leading hitters at .427 while dan as he will wait and see who isn't used in the league games..

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