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18 The GAZETTE, Mongol, Moa, Juty 22, 1974 Tired of losing image AL to use best lineup Tiant keys to stopping NL in All -Star clash i nun i iiiiiiimim ii-nnmn i rmrnnt 1 1 "---c-sUf "vS-. ftfcX2Z, Perry, By AL STRACHAN of The Gazette PITTSBURGH If the American League loses this year's All-Star game, there can be no excuses. The annual game, to be played here tomorrow, is known as "baseball's showcase" in the sport's press releases. But the American League is having none of the "showcase" theory this year. The junior circuit is out to win not look good, but win.

To this end, league president. Lee MacPhail asked managers throughout the American League to rest their All-Star pitchers so they can be ready for tomorrow's matchup. Dick Williams, the AL skipper, is expected to abandon the old technique of inserting every player on the team into the lineup. The reason for ail this, of course, is that the AL is beginning to be bothered by its image as the weaker of baseball's two leagues. The AL has won five of the last eight World Series for a slight edge there but in the All-Star confrontations, there hasn't been an AL victory since 1971.

And there was a long drought before that, too. American League has won only one of the last 12 games. Before the AL started its slump the annual classic had been a pretty even affair with the AL holding a 17-15 'He's in another R1 1 because even on bad days, those two aren't likely to give up more than a run or two. AN OLD THEORY Good pitching, the major leaguers say, always stops good batting. Tiant and Perry are two of the best.

The fact that they will be facing some awesome hitters the likes of Hank Aaron, Jimmy Wynn and Joe Morgan shouldn't bother Tiant and Perry that much. These are the kind of hitters they feast on. It's the dinky little hitters who sometimes get through their array of junk pitches to bloop a couple of singles to start a rally. If Tiant and Perry do get touched, there's a good chance that the catching may have something to do with it. Pitchers like those two need good defensive catchers.

The American League catchers this year are hold your breath Darrell Porter and Jim Sundberg. Hardly household names, are they? Those two gentlemen, it seems, are behind the plate for some of the games of the Milwaukee Brewers and the Texas Rangers, respectively. Both of those teams, if you haven't checked the standings lately, are second-division dwellers. The other catchers in the AL? Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the All-Star Game. Boston's Carlton 1 ----hi II i mIl'lUil rrJtiMI 1 1 I'll iff "I ftp 1 'f I Mill 1 I P1TTSSURSH, Utliy 2g Even if the AL All-Stars use nothing but their best, is it good enough to top the National League? That depends mostly on two old men: Gaylord Perry of the Cleveland Indians and Luis Tiant of the Boston Red Sox.

Quebec amateur title IfsonTV The All-Star Gam will teen in the Montreal area on Ch. 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 11 at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek and Joe Garagio-la will handle the commentary. Fisk, the fans' first choice in the balloting, had to undergo a knee operation after he was injured in a play at the plate whert he collided with Leron Lee.

Therman Munson, his replacement, dropped out for "personal reasons." Bill Freehan hasn't done any catching this year; he's been playing first base so even though he got a large number of the fans' votes, he couldn't make it. Ray Fosse of Oakland is injured. Ed Hermann of the White Sox begged off to spend some time with his family. But even if the catching holds up and Tiant and Perry throw six innings of shutout ball, that still leaves three more innings to go. STRONG BENCH The National League has come from behind before.

The NL has a better team on the bench than in the starting lineup so that in the late innings, they'll be tough once again. Waiting in the wings the singles event. "Going into the last game, 20 pins separated the bowlers in first and seventh place." Then he added, thinking of his 201 in that final game. "In the ninth frame I got a split and at the time I was working on a four-bagger." The amazing thing about the two juniors, Ehrlich and Lynn Bickner, is that they haven't been bowling all that long. Barry, a big football fan, began net quite four years ago and now bowls "around every second day." Lynn took up the sport six years ago when her parents moved here from Beauharnois and bought the Bowlarama in Chateauguay.

"At the beginning, she would bowl a complete sheet (12 games) every day," said Lynn's mother Ber-nadine. "It got so, her father had to tell her to stop." Then Mrs. Dickner added with a smile: "He (the father) is quite a bowler, himself, and he was the one who taught her." I if won by struck a tree and richocheted back into play. When Jackson parred the second hole and Olson bo-geyed it, Robbie spurted in front and never relinquished the lead. Cooke finished with a 73 for 214 and Olson was 77 for 217.

Beauchateau's Mickey Batten, the defending champion, sandwiched a pair of 80s around a 71 and was 19 strokes back. "How can you win a tournament when you didn't get a birdie in 54 holes?" lamented Batten, a Montreal stationery salesman. "I knew it was going to be one of those weekends before I even teed it up. I got a ticket in Hawkesbury for speeding on my way here and they threw my wife out of the lounge at the club because no women are allowed." While Cooke and Olson both intend to try to qualify for the upcoming U.S. Amateur championship, Jackson is forgoing the tournament and plans to play today at the Toronto Golf Club in the qualifying round for the Canadian Open starting Thursday at Mississaugua outside Toronto.

His objective, he said, assuming that he gets a spot, is to be low amateur so he will are people like Lou Brock who can rattle any pitcher into blowing a ball game; Mike Schmidt who seems to be able to hit home runs everywhere except in Montreal; Ralph Garr, the league's leading hitter, and Reggie Smith, an AL castoff who is always dangerous. If the AL goes through with its plan to keep most of its top players in the game, some may be tirfng by the late innings and the fresh National Leaguers may be able to break things open. There is only one problem. The man you most want on base in the late innings Pete Rose is starting and will probably be gone by the time the game nears its conclusion. STARDUST: The AL will be missing Oakland third-baseman Sal Bando, who has a severely bruised left ankle, injured when he fouled a ball off it Saturday against Cleveland The Dodgers' Andy Mes-sersmith is expected to start for the NL against Gaylord Perry.

Messersmith, a 200-poupd righthander with per-' haps the best hard slider in the NL, has an 11-2 won-Iost record and a 2.11 earned run average this season. Perry enters the game with a 15-3 record including a 15-game winning streak which fell one i game short of the AL one-season record. Lynn graduates to senior next year, but doesn't plan to qualify next year and aims "We'll see how she does in the next two years," said Ber-nadine. "Right now her average isn't good enough to compete with the seniors." In Miami, she averaged 165, while Ehrlich averaged 187. Ehrlich, however, hopes to qualify next year and hopes to boost his average from its current 197 "to between 200 and 205." Eniko Kiefer 2nd in diving BUENA PARK, Calif.

-(AP) Eniko Kiefer of Montreal finished second Saturday night in the women's three-metre springboard, event at the Los Angeles invitational diving championship. Miss Keifer had 415.40 points compared with 460.25 by the winner Cynthia Potter of Dallas. rescheduled for today. Romania leads 2-1 in the best-of-five series. In Munich, Jan Kodes defeated Karl Meiler of West Germany 6-1.

7-5, 6-0 to give Czechoslovakia a 2-2 tie in European Group Davis Cup tennis semi-final competition. Earlier yesterday, West Germany had taken a 2-1 lead when Juergen Fassbender and Hans-Juergea Pohmana beat Kodes and Vladimir Zei-nik of Czechoslovakia 5-4, 6-0, 6-2. Meantime the Soviet Union also advanced to section finals of the European (Gazette, Georg Cree) Barry Ehrlich and Lynn Dickner display trophies won in Jliami It was right back to the lanes after bowling victory in Miami ROBBIE JACKSON didn't choke Karl beats for title in ENDICOTT, N.Y. -r (AP) Richie Karl, who grew up in the shadow of the apple trees that line the 10th fairway of the En Joie Golf Club, sank a 35-foot birdie putt yesterday on the first extra hole and won the B. C.

Open Golf Tournament in a sudden-death playoff with Australian Bruce Crampton. The veteran Crampton came from six strokes behind with nine holes to play and caught the suddenly-struggling Karl at the end of the regulation 72 holes with a 273 total. Crampton played the last round in five-under-par 66 while Karl posted a 63 that included a shaky, three-over-par back nine. No Canadians played here. edge with one game tied.

Now the tally stands at 25-18-1 in favor of the National League. So this year, MacPhail, in his first year as league president, decided to foresake the concept of losing the game and blaming the defeat on league' By MARV MOSS of The Gazette. AYLMER EAST, Que. -Robbie Jackson won the Quebec amateur golf championship yesterday, as his peers conceded he would, overhauling Greg Olson on the first tee of the last round when his rival duck-hooked his drive out of bounds. "Robbie established himself as a tournament-tough guy here," observed 1968 champion Donnie Rioux of Ottawa, "because when you're supposed to win and you don't, sdmeone else doesn't win Crampton playoff Karl, who had earned only $1,008.83 in 13 previous tournaments this year, and $22,000 for his four-year career, was presented "with a check for $30,000.

Crampton, a winner of 14 professional tournaments in his 17-year career with earnings in excess of $1 million, picked up $18,000 here. x-Richie Karl 130,000 70-47-68-68273 6. Crampton S17.1GO 71-66-70-66273 Ray Floyd $10,650 69-72-68-66 27S Rod Curl 57,050 70-68-73-65276- Curtis Siffcrd 68-67-70-72277 John Schlee 68-74-65-70277 Dan Sikes $4,800 71-68-72-67278 Tim Collins $3,612 69-67-72-71279 Mike Hill $3,612 69-69-72-69279 Mark Hayes $3,612 65-70-72-71279 D. Douglass $3,612 71-67-72-69279 Sam Adams $3,612 69-71-69-70279 Mike Wynn $3,612 68-69-72-70279 Ed Sneed $2,700 72-71-72-65280 Andy North $2,250 67-73-72-69281 B. Fleisher $2,250 66-70-73-72281 Bob Payne $2,250 67-72-72-70281 Dick Rhyan $2,250 70-73-68-70281 Mac McLendon $2,250 70-73-69-69281 The biggest selling car in Europe, ICSS01 DIRECTOR Those two will almost surely pitch the first six innings and if they are right which they have been more often than not this year the American League should have a shutout going into the seventh inning.

At worst, they should be right in the game Jackson get an exemption for the national championship when his home course of Royal Montreal is the venue next year. Even the pros are prepared to admit Robbie hits the ball farther than anyone in Quebec today. But he said himself that he slept fitfully before the final day. "People may have felt I was a shoo-in but I still had to go out and do it and I had shots to make up," he said. He also feels the calibre of competition in Quebec is substantially stronger than it used to be.

"I didn't think I was going to have too much trouble here, once I got back from school," he said, "But it has been far from what I expected. The talent is here. We've got as much as anywhere. All we need is more playing time." GOOD SCORES Cooke concurred: "Before I went down to Michigan State, the coach used to send me the scores and they looked good," he said. "I didn't know whether I could hack it in that company.

I went down there and was second in my first vear." Dan Holldorsen, Brandon, Man. $766 67-75-69-69 280 John Morgan, Victoria $766 66-70-73-71280 Dave Garner, Wood- bridqe, Ont. $766 67-68-72-73280 Bill Wakeham, Cowichan Landing, B.C. $475 72-71-68-70281 Bob Cox, Richmond, B.C. $475 69-68-73-71281 Stan Homenuik, Dauptiin, Man.

$475 72-70-68-71 281 Frank Whiblev. Scarborough. Ont. $475 6W9-71-72 281 Ray Hoot, Sorel, Or.t. $3-JO 70-69-74-69282 Leon Decaire, Toronto $340 72-68-70-72282 A.

Bigras, Rosemere 69-72-72-74287 Duke Doocet, Granby 71-72-72-73268 Jack Bisseoer, Richelieu Vailey 72-71-72-74289 Bob Hogarth, Royal Montreal 67-79-72-73291 Norm Hunt, St. Bruno 71-71-79-73294 Henri Chatelaln, St. Moniqoe 75-75-72-74 296 Norm. Doyle, Estere! 75-73-76-75299 B. McCalium, Whitlock 73-76-80-75-304 Johnny Miller enters Open TORONTO (Gazette) Johnny Miller, the year's leading money winner cn the pro glf tour, was an llth-hour entry yesterday in the Canadian Open, which starts Thursday at Mississauga Golf Club here.

Miller, who has won five events and $204,750 in 1974, 'phoned from his California home late yesterday afternoon, just ahead of the i p.m. deadline. His wife is expecting baby and tournament officials agreed ts release him if his presence there is required. good sportsmanship. The idea of "it matters not whether you win or lose, it's where you place the blame," has gone.

There is, however, one major factor which MacPhail can do nothing about talent. you choked." "When you come right down to it," said Jackson's Royal Montreal clubmate Alex Matthew, "he's simply in another league from the rest of us." The two-time Canadian junior titlist closed with a one-under-par 70 at Royal Ottawa yesterday for a three-round total of 212 and a two-shot victory over budding golf course architect Graham Cooke of Summerlea and five strokes over Ottawa's Olson. Jackson, 19, has one year behind him at Indiana (University; Olson, 20, starts a business administration course this fall at Florida Junior College in Jacksonville; and Cooke, 27, is a graduate landscape architect from Michigan State now employed by the Quebec Golf Association at measuring course yardages. EARLY CUSHION Olson, who peeled a shot from Don Cordukes' 19-year-old course record with an opening-round 65, was 10 shots worse Saturday but still carried a two-shot cushion over Jackson when they went to the first tee paired together yesterday. That disappeared with Greg's first swing.

His drive went left and came to rest one foot outside the white out-of-bounds stake between the lush fairway and route No. 2 on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River. Jackson's drive was actually headed in the same vicinity, but the ball apparently Birdie putt gives Haynie win in Open LA GRANGE, 111. (AP) Sandra Haynle's' 15-foot pressure putt on the final hole after she rammed home a 70-foot birdie putt on the 71st gave her a one-stroke victory yesterday in the United States Women's Open Golf Championship. Miss Haynie's finish gave her a closing 75 and 295 total, seven over par for the distance.

It wrested the $6,073 first prize by one stroke from the already-finished pair of Beth Stone and 1965 Open champion Carol Mann. JoAnne Carner, the year's No. 2 money winner on the womens' tour, finished tied for fourth at 297 with Kathy Whitworth. During the stretch drive, a streaker appeared on the 15th and sent Sandra Post, from Oakrille, Oct, into a laughing fit as she played in the same i twosome with Miss Mann. i Miss Post finished sixth at 233 after shooting a 74.

Two other Canadians playing here, professional Joce-lyra Bourassa cf Shawfciigarj, and amateur Suzy Conkiin of Montreal, missed Norman takes CPGA with final-round 68 THE LATEST REASONS WHY EUROPEANS BUY MORE FIATS THAN ANY OTHER CAR ARE NOV IN OUR SHOWROOM. By BOB MORRISSEY of The Gazette After bowling an estimated 75 strings last week, where do you think Barry Ehrlich went last night, just minutes after deplaning from Miami following the 22-nations Tournament of Americas bowling competition? That's right, the bowling lanes. "I haven't played here (Pare Lanes) in 10 days," said the 16-year-old youngster who teamed with Lynn Dickner of Chateauguay to win mixed doubles gold medal. "Besides, I think I learned something in the lanes in Miami and I want to try it out here. Before I left here, I had trouble playing the inside line, but I think I've learned how to play it." SECOND OVERALL Ehrlich, who has a 197 average at Pare Lanes where he bowls free of charge because he's a part-time cashier there, also placed sixth in the singles in the Americas and second in all-events, which is based on all 21 games the bowlers played there during the week.

Barry, however, figures he bowled around 75 strings, counting practice games. Lynn also did well individually, placing fourth in the singles and third in all events. The 17-year-old secretarial student at a polj-vaknt in' Chateauguay also had the high single for junior girls 204. Another Jlontrealer who did well in the senior category was Gerard Duranceau, who placed third in the men's doubles with his partner, Dan Armstrong, third in the singles, and was a member cf Canada's foursomes team with Joan Iang, Armstrong and Louise Gendron. Duranceau said the highlight of the week for hia was CALGARY (CP) Veteran Moe Norman of Gilford, held off defending champion Bob Panasiuk of Windsor, yesterday with a closing-round 68 for a two-shot victory in the 1974 Canadian Professional Golfers' Association championship.

Norman ended a two-year reign for Panasiuk, who was bidding to become the first man to win three successive CPGA championships since Stan Home of Montreal completed the feat in 1938. Norman, who won the CPGA at the same Willor Park course in 1956, put together rounds of 69, 66, 68 and 63 to overcome Panasiuk's lead, after the defending champ fired a course-record 64 on opening day. Norman totalled 271, 13 under par for 72 holes over the par-71, layout. He won $6,000 first prize and the Labatt's Trophy. Panasiuk won $4,500 for second place in the $30,000 tournament, finishing with a last-round 69 for 273.

Bill Tape of Kitchener, OnL, was third with a closing-round C8 for 276, three shots behind Panasiuk. Woe Noruwn, Gtiford, Ont. $6,000 Bob PanssfcA. Windsor, Ont. $4 0 Tape, fCtohefW.

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Sweden won the final singles when Bjorn Borg beat Adriano Panatta 6-4, 4-6, 9-7, 6-3. Italy no will meet the winner of the rain-plagued match between Romania and France in tie European A Cnal at Bucharest. The remaining two singles matches in that series were YOUR FIAT SHOPPING CENTRE Boulevard St. -Martin Auto Inc. 1430 BOULEVARD LAVAL 667-4960 49-75-7: -69 279 Toron-9 $,,23.