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17 Sheer delight or disaster Sox hustlers get up and go Boston Evening Globe Monday, July 29, 1974 frit wtwww 1 vrrj, i'tf-JH- StVH i 1 i nY 1 i I "0 I v' I Yi Yft7 i I jY nCv: vV --y L-Y: w-Yt jT "p- i Y', I Y' By Larry Whiteside Globe Staff Now that you think about it, it is a fun way to play the game. Why should the Red Sox sit back and wait What's wrong with making it happen? "I said last spring that we were going to be a more aggressive kind of team," said manager Dar-rell Johnson. "I know we're going to make some mistakes when we run. But I'd rather have them aggressive than out there asleep." No one could accuse the Red Sox of dozing yesterday. They held onto first place by extending their Fenway Park hex over the Yankees, 8-3.

And they did again with a hustling brand of baseball that ranges from sheer disaster to sheer delight. It's no iun to see Carl Yastrzemski run through a halt sign at third base and get thrown out. Or to see Rico Petrocelli picked off base. But to see hot-hitting Rick Burleson gamble for a double with two outs, to see Tim Blackwell speed home on the front half of double steal, to see the Red Sox run in a close game just as if they had a 10 run lead that's fun. It's the only way to play the game," said Rick Miller, whose fancy footwork created a bases-loaded situation in the sixth.

"We can't sit around, we've got to make things happen." So what happened? Miller went far enough down the line to draw the throw from Sandy 'Alomar, who forgot about the double play. Then Miller scrambled back to third safely, taking advantage of Craig Nettles, who was counting the house or something when he should have been covering the bag. Yaz reached base safely with a fielder's choice, and Cecil Cooper, followed with a run-scoring single, ending an 0-28 drought. It gave the Red SSox a 5-3 lead and lefty Bill Lee did the rest. "The ball wasn't hit hard," said Miller.

"So I waited just a bit to see what to do. Then I decided I was going home and he'd have to throw me out. When the ball came there, I turned around. I didn't know Nettles wasn't at the bag until I turned around." Miller also subscribes to the aggressive theory of running. "Sure it's more he said.

"A bunt, a hit and run, a steal. We've got to make our own breaks. If the other teams makes a good play and gets us out, then you have to give it to them." A word about Bill Lee. A couple of them. Nice pitching.

Only in the third when a leadoff single by Nettles and a triple by Munson led to a couple runs, did it the often er- Moving the runners is a way of doing it, and this team seems to hit better when men are on base." Miller showed the value of moving the runner in the sixth, and how. He had walked to lead off the inning and moved to third on a Rico Petrocelli single. Yaz hit a bouncer to second, and it appeared certain that the Yankees would get a double play or that Miller would be nailed at the plate. "I pitched very Well the last two times and people didn't play well behind me," Lee said. "This time they made some great plays.

That's the way it goes." Certainly it was a different Bill Lee when it came to protecting a lead. He gave up a solo homer in the fifth to Lou Piniella to create a 3-3 tie, and then a single to Munson. But he finished by the last 14 players. "It's good to see a pitcher finish like Tiant," said Johnson. "Give him a lead, and then watch him get better and better and better." Related story, Page 18.

ractic left-hander look as though he didn't have it. Certainly, this philosphy of creating your own destiny has its perils. In the first inning, for instance, Burleson, on a hitting tear of late (he's batting .332 lashed a bases-loaded double with two out. It scored Tommy Harper, who had doubled to open the game and Rick Miller, who followed with a single. But Carl Yastrzemski, who had walked following a run-scoring single by Rico Petrocelli, was thrown out at the plate trying to score from first.

"With two outs you can try things like that when you're playing aggressively," said Johnson. "It took two perfect throws to get Yaz, and they got them." But, in the eighth inning, with two runs across and Blackwell on third and Harper on first, the Red Sox worked the double steal to perfection as Yankee shortstop Gene Michael hobbled the throw from catcher Thurmon Munson. "Anytime you can get a team to throw the ball in the air," said Harper, "you've got a chance of something happening. FRANCIS ROSA Sox-Yankees iliiliiiil Low bridge! Tommy Harper hits the dirt to get out of the way as Yankees center fielder Elliott Maddox fires to first baseman Otto Velez, doubling up Tim Blackwell. Maddox made spectacular diving catch of Harper's drive.

(Frank O'Brien photo) -1 magic lives Pace 'getting to' Billie Jean, but she still wins played in winning singles and double matches. She admitted that being a player-coach and playing in other tournaments was starting to get to her and would not say that she would return to coach the Philadelphia entry next year. "That's something I have to think about. Let's face it. We have a lot of tennis ahead of us right now.

Yes, I am very tired." Naturally Billy Jean is pleased with the WTT format and predicted great things for the new league. "We're also helping others get interested in tennis. We play to the fan and they get to see different players. "Team tennis has been a big boost to tennis in Phil adelphia. You'd be surprised how many youngsters have picked the game up in playgrounds.

"We are athletes but we also are entertainers and I think that's what makes us different from other sports." Billy Jean blitzed Kerry Melville, 6-2 and then paired with sharp Julie Anthony to beat Janet Newberry and Pat Bostrom, 6-3. The Lobsters' Raz Reed beat Buster Mottram, 6-2 and the local mixed doubles of coach Ian Tiriac and-Melville beat Fred Stolle and Julie Anthony, 6-4. In the men's doubles Bostons' Roger Taylor and Raz Reid beat Brian Fairlie and Fred Stolle, 6-4. The matches were played before a capacity 4,116. It was somthing out of the past.

At first Wall-to-wall people inside and outside of Fenway Park. Electricity anticipation in the air. The Red Sox and the Yankees. The Rivalry. An illusion.

For the players in uniforms were not immediately recognizable as stars. You didn't shudder when certain Yankees came to bat. They had, for example, six players in the lineup who weren't with them last season. There was no continuity except for Bobby Murcer and Thurman Munson. It was something of the present and the Yankees seemed to be trapped in an eternity of the present tense.

It is a present tense created by expansion and I'd guess baseball and hockey are the two sports that have been hurt the most by expansion. So it was a baseball game of today played at Fenway Park yesterday. And the Red Sox won it and two thirds of the people went home happy. The other third? There are still Yankee-lovers By Bob Monahan Globe Staff Philadelphia Freedoms player-coach Billy Jean King smiled as she grasped a bunch of blue and yellow roses in her locker room last night at Walter Brown Memorial Rink. They served as a victory sign.

Her super club had just beaten the Boston Lobsters, 24-21 to clinch first place in the Eastern Division of the Atlantic Section of the World Team Tennis League. The Freedoms have a 27-4 record while the Lobsters dropped to 15-18, but remained in second place and still are alive for a playoff berth. "It was a team thing all the way," said Billy Jean with a serious look. "It certainly didn't come easy and Boston gave us quite a go. No, we never took a win for granted.

That's when you lose. "When the team was formed too many people figured we were not strong enough to win our division. I thought we were. All of us worked hard and if there is one word to explain our success I'd say it was discipline. "As a case in point I gave the team a day off last week.

Then four players went out and practiced for three and half hours on there own. That should tell you something. It's just team all the way and I love it." Billy Jean was exhausted after the victory. She had Bias is bitter pill for black golfer I i to accept me, tell me. I go up to black players and say, Go, ask.

Don't say they won't let me in. If you sit her and say they won't let me in, you'll never "Golf is a great game. I had the opportunity to turn pro once before. I wouldn't take it. I ask myself now, Why? It was the same ime Tony Lema signed a contract.

I could have signed then. I'm plan in our neighborhood Boston is still close enough to New York and they cheered the Yankees at every The attendance for this three game series (the third game is tonight at 8 o'clock) will go over 100,000. And that's something out of the past. The magic of the Yankees. Oh, it's still there and may it live forever.

Baseball, BILL VIRDON By Joe Concannon Globe Staff EAST PROVIDENCE "I've lived all my life at a disadvantage," said Riley Morris after a day of competition in the N.E. Amateur at Metacomet this past week. He talked about a past in pro football and a future as a golf pro. He is 37, a native of Florida, and a graduate of Florida He was an All-America college division tackle there on some of those teams that a coach named Jack Gaither put together and he was a pro linebacker for 12 years on Cleveland, San Diego, Oakland and Boston. He is employed in a magagement capacity for Polaroid in Norwood, Mass.

He lives in New Bedford and plays golf out of Poquoy Brook. He has played golf since he was seven and wants to turn pro. He is not talking about the tour. He is talking about a club job. "My father," Morris went on, "taught me golf before I even thought about football.

When you grow up in the South and do something, you have to be serious about it If you aren't, you might as well quit My ambition has been to turn pro and take a job at a club." The disadvantage? Morris is black and, in golf, the black club pro is virtually non-existent It is rankled Charlie Sifford, one of the few blacks to win a pro tour event, and it is something that Morris is very well aware of. He is a realistic man. "I've had some bad conversations about it. They've tried to knock it out of my mind. That doesn't bother me.

I've lived all my life at a disadvantage. Going into pro ball was a disadvantage when I did it in 1957. "We saw it right in Boston. They wouldn't let the team live in Ken-more Square at the Hotel Kenmore. We had 11 black players on the Chargers then.

We couldn't stay at the Holiday Inn in Houston because of 11 black players. It is something I've learned to live with. "People are funny. If you shy away, you're wrong. I'm the only black in this tournament.

The other blacks, who are good players, don't enter because they feel they won't be accepted. They feel they won't get a fair shake. That's the reason you don't see more black players here. They're afraid to play. "I had to overcome this.

That does no good. You learn to ignore it. This is part of it. If you ignore it, it'll go away. This is the way I've always been taught I'm able to condition my mind to it I just walk in and say, 'Hello, I'm Riley Morris.

I'm here to "I've been the only black in this tournament for three years. My atti ning to turn this year. I've got a brochure for the PGA business school. "I'd need a sponsor to try the tour, and sponsors are hard to come by. I figure if I can become a club pro, I'll be happy.

Maybe I'll get a break. I'm going to attend the school and I'll get a job somewhere. This is the way I feel. It's always the way I feel." Morris, a powerful 6-foot-3, 235 pounds, has a very basic attitude toward the game itself, and this, too, is part of the makeup of the man. "You discipline your mind," he said.

"If you can control your mind and not let it control you, you'll turn out to be a pretty good golfer. "You can compare golf and football. If you miss a tackle in football, everybody sees you. If you miss a putt, everyone sees you. The next one is the important one.

It's your temperament. I compare golf to shooting pool. It's position. A golf course like this one is a pool table to me. I used to shoot pooL Heck, that's i -x xy I it I.

I I i i t' Hi Y-V- y'. fefAVl IvHfc I 1 i IY i 1 i v- i a what I went to college on." wmtiwcmiuwutscuu. tude is: Tm me. If you don't want xuae is: 1 me. 11 you uuiu warn something that has constantly auiiieuniig mat nas constantly the American League, needs such rivalries as the Red Sox and the Yankees.

And if we think the teams of today are not as great as those of yesterday, what of it? Enjoy today's baseball. Enjoy the excitement of a close pennant race. The excitement probably will last for the next two months. Bill Virdon, manager of the Yankees thinks it will go down to the last week of the season. 4'I doubt," hs said yesterday, "there ever will be daylight between the contending teams.

Sure, it's possible one of the four teams will get hot late in the season the way Baltimore did last season and open up some space. But I don't think so. I think it will go this way right into the last week because the four teams are so evenly balanced." Virdon does not regard the Yankees' recent spurt (which the Red Sox have brought to a halt) a personal vindication. Remember, he took the job managing them as sort of a lame-duck The Yankees wanted Dick Williams. Couldn't get him.

And Virdon seemed to be in the position of keeping the seat warm until they could get Williams. Now the Yankees have won 13 of their last 17 games and were 13 for 15 before coming to Boston. "It has been a little bit of everything," he said. "Good pitching here, good fielding there, good hitting and good luck. You need all of those things to be successful over a period of time.

In the short run any one of those things will win a game for you But to be consistent for a prolonged period you need them all." Back to vindication. "Nothing like that," he said. "It was a simple choice. Either I managed in the minors at Denver, or I managed in the majors in New York It wasn't difficult to make the choice." Another thing. It was The Yankees.

"There's still a certain mystique about the Yankees. And a certain mount of challenge, too," he said. He. looked up at the crowd that was filling Fenway. "I guess this has always been a good rivalry and I guess it doesn't hurt when we're both in the pennant race.

Fenway Park? It's a nice park, I suppose, and it's probably big enough except on a week-end like this. I'd like it better if we could win a game here. We've lost five straight in Boston this season." They made it six yesterday with only a little resistance. Leigh Monh-ille is on vacation. Nichols putts his way to victory in Canada Associated Press ships, will be played this fall at Firestone Cou a nnnrsp at whirh Nichols serves as head Dro.

ships, will be played this fall at Firestone a course at which Nichols serves as head pro. Country Club, Nichols, 38, was challenged at one time or another by Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Ray Floyd and Ben Crenshaw before he settled the issue with a string of three consecutive birdies starting on the 12 hole. From then on it was a fight for second. John Schlee and Larry Ziegler eventually tied for that position with 274 totals. Ziegler had a last-round 69 and Schlee bir-died the final hole for a par-matching 70 in the warm, sunny weather.

Trevino, Floyd, Chi Chi Rodriguez, Dale Douglass and Lou Graham followed at 275. Nicklaus, starting five shots back of Nichols, onct closed to within two strokes before a double Dogey on the 533-yard 12th hole, the hole that cost him the title in the 1965 Canadian Open. This time he boldly went for the green with his second shot got it into the rough on the bank of the Credit River, moved it only three feet on his stroke and carded a seven. PORT CREDIT, Ont. "You're shooting at the hole," Bobby Nichols said.

"That's what you do in this game. This just happened to be my day." The big, rangy veteran one-putted 11 times "It must have been a little discouraging to the guys I was playing with," he said on his way to a two-under-par 68 and a four-stroke triumph in the Canadian Open golf championship yesterday. It was Nichols's 11th individual triumph in a 15-year pro career and almost certainly one of his happiest "It gets me in the World Series of Golf," he said after his 10-under-par total of 270 on the 6788-yard Mississauga Golf Club course. "Thank Goodness I'm in. I can't tell you how much that means to me.

It was going through my mind all day." The World Series of Golf, bringing together the four men who have won the season's major champion Good pitch, good hit. Carole Jo Skala pitches to seventh green in Wheeling Ladies Classic. She got her par on the seventh and, with a 212 total, fwon the tournament by four strokes over Jane Blalock. Story, Page 19. (AP).