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'-rriKrr'r" y'r'r irr rr PORTS 1 I The Boston Glob Wednesday, July 31, 1974 23 7-5 Tigers rejoice over the errors (5) of Sox ways How they stand in AL East Pet GB .535 YESTWHiAV' 505 Detroil 7 47 48 50 BOSTON 54 Cleveland 52 Baltimore 51 Milwaukee 51 New York 50 Detroit 49 51 .509 31, Cleveland HHimt I 52 485 5 3-4 Yfk 2-1 By Larry Whiteside Globe Staff You certainly don't say it's dull watching the Red Sox. One night it's heaven winning with a lot of -class. Then there are nights like this one. Pin the Tail on the Donkey is what some people call it What transpired last night at Fenway was not the kind of classic, hustling baseball the Red Sox displayed over the weekend in winning three straight from the Yankees. It was Disaster Night.

And, that's with a capital D. Tim Blackwell, the young catcher who has done so well in place of Carlton Fisk, wound up with the booby prize. His high lob over third base with two outs allowed a pair of runs to score and gave the Tigers a 7-5 victory to the dismay of 456. But he had plenty of help. Five errors by the Sox, including two by Capt.

Carl Yastrzemski who has had better nights, and let the. booing fans know it by doffing his cap. And there was Reggie Cleveland. Poor Reggie. How's he ever going to get on the black side of the ledger as long as there are guys like Al Kaline to snatch certain victory away.

Here he was in the ninth inning with a 5-3 lead and looking like an armored van on the way to Fort Knox. Then a blooper to right by Gary Sutherland, and a line drive into the net by Kaline, his fifth home run against the Red Sox this year. Next an opposite double to Jim Northrup, and it's over. Bob Veale and Diego Segui came to relieve, and actually had things in Yen try something like that and hope for a mistake. But usually you don't get it.

I figured the worst we'd git was runners on second and third. And then a base hit would score the runner. But the ball just took off on th kid." This or.e was billed as a rematch last Friday's 1-0 thriller in 11 r.T.:r but neither Cleveland nor the Tijers' Joe Coleman could match it. Ctvelar.d fell behind, 3-1. and looked ihaky, giving up seven hits in the first five innings.

Then he settled down, and was throwing hard until the ninth when he hung a changeup to Kaline. "Every home run I've hit off Boston this year has been on balls up around my eyes," said Kaline. "I'm known as a high ball hitter, but no other club seems to pitch me this way except Boston. Reggie was throwing great, as good as he was last week in Detroit. But he hung a changeup in my eyes.

It was a bad pitch." Coleman also made a mistake in the seventh when the Red Sox rallied for four runs, three on a line drive home run by Cecil Cooper. Singles by Doug Griffin, Blackwell and Rick Miller accounted for one. Then Cooper connected. "I thought sure he was bunting in that situation," said Coleman. "So I threw him a fast ball on the inside part of the plate.

It wasn't that bad a pitch, but he went out and got all of it." Well, the Red Sox will just have to forget this one. "Looks like we had a letdown," said Johnson. And that's no he. Sox Notebook, photo on Page 28 hand before the final gong sounded. With two outs and an 0-2 count on Ed Brinkman, Ben Oglivie who had been walked intentionally, broke for second.

Blackwell tried to pick Northrup off third and threw the ball away. Both Tigers scored. And Brinkman struck out on the next pitch. "You can't blame the kid," aid Darrell Johnson. "Sure, he wasn't supposed to throw the bJl became I don't think he could have gotten Northrup on third.

But, remember, Fisk did the same thing In California. It wai just one of those things." No one was more surprised at the final outcome than Tiger manager Ralph Houk. "That was a wild one," he said. "I really didn't think it would work. BUD COLLINS Ducking the issue What is Gerald Ford the latest self-anointed High Priest of Pigskin doing playing golf today when he should be attending to the national interest by settling the football strike? Ford opens the Massachusetts phase of his presidential, campaign this afternoon by hooking, slicing and trying to break Spiro's head-in-one record at Pleasant Valley, but in doing so he seems to be ducking the issue that threatens to tear America apart: the National Football League labor war.

A few weeks ago in Sports Illustrated (in an article probably ghosted by Woody Hayes and Pete Rozelle), Ford discussed the simple truths of how football made America and Gerald Ford great. (And you thought all the time that the Republicans were responsible for those blessing's, didn't He seemed, as ex-Big Ten stud for Michigan and Ivy League coach for Yale, the perfect man to step in and command NFL labor and management to get to A i v'i I 1 afMifeiis gmmM 1 Indians mn; close gap to IV2 United Press International BALTIMORE John Lowenstein drove across three runs with his sixth home run and a key single in a five-run seventh inning last night as the Indians pummeled the Orioles, 8-6. The win, coupled with the Red Sox loss, moved the Indians to only IY2 games out of first place in the A.L. East. After Tom McCraw walked in the third, Lowenstein homered off losing pitcher Mike Cuellar, (13-7).

Two Oriole singles, the Indians third double play and a Paul Blair home run in the fifth tied it at 2-2. Cleveland sent, nine men to the plate in the seventh, chasing Cuellar. McCraw scratched an infield single and took second on a throwing error. After Dave Duncan walked, first baseman Boog Powell dropped a pickoff throw, allowing McCraw to advance to third base. John Brohamer bunted i to Powell, who bobbled the ball as McCraw scored 2 V.

gether fast lor the saKe or the union. A country with the prospect of no Sunday games on TV cannot long survive, as you well know. Normally we could expect the Highest Priest of Pigskin, Chief Jock Nixon himself, to personally negotiate the settlement that America longs for and must have. However, since being double-teamed and mousetrapped by a couple of guys named Bernstein and Woodward. Nixon has been GERALD FORD Si lailfliilill i irum in i kV and Duncan went to second base.

Lowenstein singled off Powell's glove, scoring Duncan and sending Brohamer to third. Luis Alvarado, running for Brohamer, scored on Frank Duffy's bunt single to Cuellar when nobody covered first. Charlie Spikes singled, scoring Lowenstein and Duffy be- fore Bob Reynolds retired 4 the side. Winning pitcher Dick Bosnian (4-0) was tagged for a four-run barrage in the eighth inning. Rat drnn hrhinrl Mirksv Stnnlttv'a Timil1a Tlm- nntfiolilio base line.

Stanley left game with broken hand, will be sidelined three fiva weeks. Catcher is Tim Blackwell. (Bill Brett photo) on hand by pitch from Reggie Cleveland. Ball bounded down first Legislature decides to act on schoolboy track bill after all By John Powers Now, an affirmative floor vote by both House and posed site, had been reluctant to allow the bill out of otherwise occupied. I felt it my patriotic duty the other night in Washington to say to Carl Bernstein's face: "If it weren't for you and Woodward, the President could get on with the business of the nation by putting the NFL back in business." Bernstein replied that he had an aching back (from horseback riding, not carrying the transcripts around), which should be the best news to reach San Clemente in months.

Anyway, the. responsibilities of dealing with this paralyzing strike now should be assumed by the Vice President, who even today is lollygagging on the links at Sutton rather than preaching the gospel of settlement to the players and owners. It is sad that Nixon has fallen from his football em- inence as 'assistant coach of the Redskins, foremost adviser to head coach George Allen, and giver of pep talks to the 'Skins. Things have been tough for Chief Jock all over, but his troubles began i earnest May 16 when the House Judiciary Committee heard the tape on which the President said of Edward Bennett Williams (owner of the Redskins): "I think we are going to fix the son of a bitch we've got to because he's a bad man That, of course, was the most damning evidence produced against Nixon, and certainly grounds for impeachment in Congressional minds. In a town where Redskins tickets are pure gold, and Congressmen are as nutty about the team as anybody else, could Nixon have turned off Congress more than by threatening Williams, the No.

1 key source of tickets? It is not clear why Nixon hates Williams (other than his being attorney for the Washington Post), but it may be that Williams like quarterback Billy Kilmer felt Nixon's pep talks were corny. Whatever, those were the most incriminating words ever uttered by the President. He no longer has the credibility to end the agonizing strike, and Gerald Ford must take over this most sensitive of issues. Not everybody is serious and sensitive enough to be perturbed by the strike. A predominantly female organization, HURRAH (Housewives Unwilling to Root and Rave at Home) welcome the thought that Sundays would be liberated from the tyranny of the tube if the strike isn't settled.

"Can you imagine," says spokes-person Alicia Daf arge, "how peaceful American could be on autumn and early winter Sundays if we weren't dominated by TV football? People might converse, love, do things again." Obviously a dangerously radical outlook. Most of us. enraged and disillusioned by the strike, can identify with the members of SOB (Sabbath Observance Eloc). Their spokesperson, Amos Alonzo Scag, fumes, 'Sunday, Lord knows, is the NFL's day. If anything keeps we the people from worshipping the almighty pigskin that day there's gonna be trouble.

He isn't kidding. That's the mood of the country today. Never mind Watergate, inflation, the Jim Brown centerfold in Playgirl, or the prospect of Aristotle Onassis buying Turkey and giving it to Melina Mercouri with Cyprus for a chaser. Gerald Ford had better realize this and get the players back on the job. Who does he think he is, playing golf in a time of crisis Dwight Eisenhower? Bttd Collins's column is in The Globe en Wednesday and Friday mornings.

committee, iavoring xne iormer navai annex complex on Summer st. as an alternative. Globe Staff Boston area schoolboys may get their long delayed indoor track facility after, alL A House bill, which would allow, the MDC to construct a recreational complex on the shore of the Nepon-set River in Dorchester, was freed from the Ways and Means Committee yesterday and will be placed on today's calendar for action. The favorable report, which emerged from an afternoon meeting among Democratic legislators, Speaker David M. Bartley and MDC representatives reversed a vote on Monday that could well haye buried the bill in committee indefinitely.

Senate and the governor's signature can guarantee construction of the multi-million dollar complex, which would include an ice hockey rink, an outdoor track, Softball and football fields and a picnic area in addition to the John A. Ryder indoor running track. "The fact that an MDC representative was able to show a master plan to the Democratic leadership helped tremendously," said Comr. John Sears. "It helped to clarify matters and resolve misunderstandings." The key figures yesterday, as they have been all along, were Bartley and Rep.

John Finnegan (D-Dor-chester). Finnegan, whose home ward includes the pro That proposal also received a favorable report from Ways and Means, and will appear on the calendar. "I think Rep. Finnegan was concerned about whether the complex was going to be just a track or a comprehensive recreational facility," said Associate Comr. John Cronin, one of the two MDC representatives i at the meeting.

The master plan reportedly satisfied Finnegan, while Bartley agreed to lend his support if the MDC would provide a detailed letter of their intentions this morning. Majors get playoff revision plan if 5 1 Hood accepts invitation to join Courageous crew Associated Press NEWPORT, R.I. Ted Hood of Marblehead, Mass. a veteran ocean-racing skipper, sailmaker and yacht designer will join the crew of the' 12-meter yacht Courageous for the balance of this year's America's Cup campaign. Bob Bavier, skipper of Courageous, said yesterday Hood had accepted an invitation to join the crew.

Hood's sails have been used on all American 12-meter yachts since 1958, and Hood himself has been directly involved in three previous America's Cup campaigns. He was a crew member on Vim in 1958. He designed Nefertiti and was her co-skipper and later sole skipper in 1962, and he was sole skipper of Nefertiti in 1964. Bavier said Hood will work on fail selection and trimming and also as tactician and backup helmsman. Associated Press A proposal to add four more teams to the major league playoff schedule will be discussed, again this year when owners and general managers hold their summer meetings in New York, Aug.

7-8, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The proposed revision of the present four-team setup would have the first-place finishers in the Eastern and Western Divisions of each league meet in an intraleague best-of-three series. The second-place finishers in each league division would also vie in a best-of-three set. The winers of the preliminary series would play a best-of-five series for the league pennant, with the World Series to follow. American League president Lee Mac-Phail last night confirmed that "the proposal to change the playoff is on the agenda and will be discussed at our meetings.

Fm not sure how much support it will get, although the National League seems to favor it more than our league does. If it's approved it will be implemented probably in 1975, no later, certainly, than the 1976 season." (Red Sox general manager Dick O'Connell was asked about the proposal during last night's Red Sox-Tigers "The matter has been brought up at our meetings in the past and has been turned down," said O'Connell, "and I don't know about anything new that would make it a different situation thia ft i 1 Issues on table in football talks Stories, Page 28' TED HOOD backup helmsman 7.