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PORTS Pats The Boston Monir, 13, 1ST1 must cut 4 today-; still set trade to Bell The Pats and all 25 other teams will have to releasi I four players to reach it. None of the players may be recalled and the Pats, by virtue of their last-place finish a year ago, again will have first choice on all cuts in the AFC. By Leigh Montville, Globe Staff Upton Bell's game plan will be very simple today. i The Patriots general manager will sit by the river of football players with a big net in his hands. If something good comes past it simply swoosh will go into the old net.

The stocking of the Pats, for better or worse, will be largely completed as every team in pro football makes its final roster cuts at 4 o'clock. "We'll take whomever we think can help this football team," Bell said yesterday. "We might not cut any lower than the limit initially, but if we see someone who can help, we can cut accordingly." Bell said the Pats probably will first announce four cuts to reach the limit. If new faces are desired, a similay number of old faces will have to be placed on waivers within an hour after the Pats make their claims. "We've been looking at films and discussing our needs," the general manager said.

"We'll be thinking' about picking up people and making trades but we're -not going to make any trades just for the sake of The regular-season limit to be reached is 40 men. PATRIOTS, Page 27 i 3E- i r' 'V--- -4 r- v. I I 'S- NX I I4 "x1 7- '7 1 Kaline homer tops Sox, 3 -2 for second place if it even existed is gone. Now starts the fight for third place with the By Clif Keane Globe Staff DETROIT John Duf-field Curtis III, the lefty with the fancy name, did fairly well here yesterday, but the Tigers defeated the Red Sox, 3-2, and now hope getting his right hand wrapped around it. Finally -Smith managed a grip on the ball and threw Doug Griffin, who was about 30 feet out in centerfield.

With Taylor, getting on the weary side with his 35 years, it-was a matter, of lasting all the way around RED SOX, Page 26 Smith turned and started to race for the ball while Billy Conigliaro came over from righfield to offer some assistance. Smith had lost his cap and his footing and was sitting around wondering what had happened, and there was Conigliaro trying to grasp the ball. 'But Billy missedd it and Reggie and lots of trouble bling Eagle Pete Liske in game at Philadelphia. Detroit won, 49-10. Story onJPage 26 (UPI) TWO BETTER; THAN ONE Lions tandem of Jim Mitchell (left) land Alex Karras bring down scram- -V- HAROLD KAESE Curtis gave up two hom- -ers, one of which was an -inside the park thing by Tony Taylor in the third inning, after Carlton Fisk had hit a legitimate homer, his first big league hit, into the seats in leftfield off Les "Sugar" Cain, starting lefty for the Tigers.

The other was a two-; run drive by Al Kaline just 'inside the foul pole in the upperdeck in' the fifth. Tony Taylor was aboard with a single when Kaline put the Tigers ahead to stay. Taylor hit a long fly to right centerfield and Reggie Smith started after it. But the ball was about an arm's length beyond him and here was Patriots 1 can't give Hub a bad iiame Stomach disorders send Yastrzemski to hospital Carl Yastrzemski was held overnight for observation at Hahnemann Hospital in Brighton last night at the suggestion of Red Sox doctor, Thomas Tierney, after, stomach disorders kept him out of the lineup yesterday in Detroit. Yaz "arived at Tiger Stadium at noon yesterday and was examined by trainer Buddy LerouxV Although he did not play Yaz was dressed and sat on the bench during the game.

YAZ, Page 26 where the trouble started. SI1KS m- Alimirt'Tltillll-illlK Mill JOE KAPP When they were renamed the New England Patriots, it was a big deal, but at the moment, wouldn't you say the team's board of directors did Boston a favor, ecologically speaking? That's all the club has so far excelled at groping. Groping for players. But the more men they try out, the worse they seem to get. In their position, this presum- -ably is how to show the public they are trying.

But how long can such an act work? Won't the team's followers eventually start wondering if the man- agement knows a player when it sees one? The Patriots have looked at about 200 players this preseason, including 65 who showed up for the three-day tryout camp in June. They have looked at more players than they did in 1960, their first year, and a season in which 51 players suited up over the regular schedule. The. best that can be said for the Patriots' efforts is that they have given the airlines a lot of business and have kept the economy moving. The worst that can be said is that they have wasted a lot of time, for there is no evidence they are better now than they were six weeks agq.

Unfortunately, the weekly fuming of Upton Beil and Johnny Mazur as the team has been clobbered in exhibitions has not produced enough gas to give the club any impetus in the right direction. At. LYNCHBURG CITYUM.1T mm tm0mm mtfm The Patriots have been outscored, 114-65, and 1101-606 yards, in their last three exhibitions, against the Rams, Falcons and Jets. Exhibition results can be dismissed as of no consequence. The Patriots certainly would like to dismiss their 11-year exhibition record 15 victories, 41 defeats.

This might seem a logical time to say, "What the Patriots need is Joe Kapp?" but it's no more true now than last year, when they had Joe Kapp. -Vil -BOB BLACKMAN was not exaggerating much when he said no Dartmouth team of his had ever made half as many mistakes as Illinois did in losing 10-0 to Michigan State. t- Dartmouth lost four fumbles to Cornell in 1964 in losing 33-15; but when Yale gave Blackman his worst defeat, 56-15, in 1967, it was not so much a question of Dartmouth errors as of too much Dowlihg, Hill and Barrows. At the end of his first season in the Dig Ten, will Blackman subscribe to the rather tired Ivy League boast: "Ivy League players are smarter?" Who says so? i Ivy Leaguers. RAIN has given baseball some of its worst headaches, such as: the 1908 pennant race won by the Tigers, because they played one less game than the Indians; the seventh game of the 1925 World Series, played under water; the four-day interruption of the 1962 Series at San Francisco.

The Braves beat the Giants, on Hank Aaron's homer in the Uth inning, in a game that was delayed 2 hours-19 minutes Friday night, and finished at nearly 2 a.m. The American League has its own curfew: no inning can start after 1 a.m. The National League has no curfew, exepet that of the local community. Therefore, could the umpires have waited until 6 a jn. in Atlanta, or until 9:30 a.m.

to have finished that game? Here is a situation that cries for clarification. JOE COLEMAN again came close to pitching a no- UPTON BELL I i Goody staves off Nicklaus, wins 50,000 Series prize pi 1 i- hitter, against the Red Sox, only to have it ended by a scratch hit that might have been scored an error. Did you know that Howard Ehmke of the 1923 Red Sox, would have pitched successive no-hitters 15 years before Johnny Vander Mecr, except that a New York scorer ruled a hit on a palpable error by the Sox thud baseman? The interesting thing is that Natick Joe is having the kind of season (17-8) Ted Williams said he could have, but he is having it for Detroit, not for Washington, where he and Williams differed strenously on his pitching and claimed the $15,000 second prize. Australian veteran Bruce Crampton matched par 70 with the day's best round and finished at 143, three strokes in front of Lee Trevino. Trevino, still on the mend from a recent appendectomy, struRglcd home with a 74 for 146 and last in the four-man field.

Crampton, the Western Open champion who got into the elite field as the second alternate after Trevino had swept the American, Canadian and British Open titles, won for third. Trevino got $5000. The 6-foot-2 Coody, who has won only two other professional titles in his career, suffered a near-disaster on the 500-yard second hole when Nicklaus made up four strokes and tied him for the top spot. But the 34-ycar-old former Air Force ofTlcer regained it when Nicklaus backed off on a string of bogeys. He managed pars on the last 10 holes of the demanding layout, ranked by most of the touring pros as one of the toughest they play oil year.

1 Associated Press AKRON, Ohio Masters champion Charles i Coody rebounded from the loss of four strokes on a single hole, held off Jack Nicklaus and won the $50,000 first prize in the World Scries of Golf yesterday. i The rangy, red-clad Texan had a second-round 73 for 141, one stroke over par on the 7180-yard Firestone Country Club course. Nicklaus, who once held the lead but wutched it slip away had a final 71 for 142 Eleclioit results on 282-2100 The Globe's special sports information line (282- 2400) will be used for election returns only tomorrow IN LYNCHBURG, the new population has not been put on our sign because we don't agree with the government. The federal census puts our population at 361. But our water commissioner has proof of over 400.

And he's already sent his figures to Washington evening. Readers desiring sports information should call the main Globe switchboard (288-8000) that night. Cuban revolution brewing. in sports won by the United Slates) CHARCOAL MELLOWED and flnls-hed runncrup with 254 medals In all (com pared with 362 or the demanding a recount. Of course, here at the Distillery we don't really care if it comes out big or small.

We've found out you don't need a lot of people to make a good sippin' whiskey. Just a taste, we believe, and you'll find that out, too. United States) which is 6 DROP i BY DROP The man knows about sports in both countries. He is Dr. Raudol Ruiz, who studied physical education et three US Institutions the University of Arkansas, Northwestern University and UCLA then worked for former manager Bobby Hi a car.

as a outrunning Instructor with the Cleveland Indians, nd now is technical adviser for Indor, Cuba's National Sports In-Hitute. From his vantace point, the athletic future his native land looks even brighter than its already glittering present. Cuba, at the moment, is engulfed by a sports mania. It begins In the day-care nursery centers, where youngsters are pooi-tVd games ai4 raluuhcnlci. spreads to the schorls end the universities, where the playgrounds and gyms are alive with non-stop activity.

And it permeates the factories, where men In their 40s, 50s and 60s enthusiastically engage in most popular of all Cuban sports, beisbol. Underlying this affection for sports is a spirit of national pride, which reached new peak this hummer at the Pan American Games. Just, abojt everything the Cubans touched at Cali, Colombia, turned to gold. Thpy won 81 gold medals (neconl only to the 173 By Jeff Prufih Los Angeles Times HAVANA The little man with flashing eyes and dark skin Kpoke with un-kwcrving conviction. 'Out revolution in only 13 yfjts did and now you have seen hnw we have beaten the United Elates in a few pors," he said.

"1 am surf, in the nrxt 10 years, we fan teat the United S'ate In Many more sports, too." far more than the 189 medals won by the Cubans In the previous three Pan American Gaines. Moreover, two thoxe teem gold medals were achieved by beating the United States In baebail and volleyball, to say noth- MANIA, Page 26 TtN-itSm WHISKEY 99 PROOF BY CHOICE i 1. Dil lisWrj, ln toe. eisiiuto and eoruto iy jack oamu oistiiuhy lYNCHBuna (pop. jii, imn;.