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Bucs, Mets toppled; NL East gets tighter i JVC 1 flu 1 w. American League East I)ikion W. L. Pet. MP? season series 10-8.

Tom Halter Dinch-hit a three-run homer in the 10th, breaking a 1-1 deadlock at San Francisco, and the Dodgers, ending a five-game losing streak, added "another run before the Giants rallied for a pair in the bottom of the inning. The Expos scored twice in the eighth on Rusty Staub's single, a fielder's choice, a throwing error by pitcher Joe Hoerner and Ron Brand's sacrifice fly to break a 2-2 tie and hand the Phillies their fifth straight setback. topped Philadelphia 4-2 and Houston drubbed Atlanta 10-6. In the American League, Baltimore bounced Boston 13-2; the Chicago White Sox uppnded Minnesota 8-7; California shaded Milwaukee 2-1; Cleveland beat the New, York Yankees 3-1; Washington smothered Detroit 10-0 and Kansas City swept an extra-inning doubleheader from Oakland, 8-7 in 11 innings and 8-7 in 12. Leo Durocher was in a jovial mood after his Cubs' come-from-behind victory, exclaiming: "I'm more glad we won it that way then if we'd won it 10-0.

What a lift it gives the club." "We've won some like that and we've test some," said Murtaugh, "bJfe've always bounced back." "Ours was as difficult to lose as theirs," Mets Manager Gil Hodges said in New York after his club blew a chance to grab the division lead. "We went 13 innings." Torre, who had struck out three times, won it for St. Louis with a leadoff homer in the 13th off Ron Herbel, the Mets' fourth pitcher. St. Louis relievers Nelson Briles.

Frank Bertaina and Frank Linzy, the winner, combined to retire the last 22 Met batters in order after a sixth inning single by Cleon Jones. Joe Hague drove in the Cards' first four runs with a homer and a single. Pete Rose's 14th home gave the Reds a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning at San Diego, but the Padres bounced back in their half on a two-run pinch-double by Larry Stahl and took the The loose ball continued to elude Oregon and California players Oregon, while the Ducks' Tom Drougas (74) and Tom Andrews (63) during fourth quarter action of the game played in Portland Satur- join Cal's O.Z. White (70) in chasing the football. Oregon won the day night.

Cal's Steve Reece (93) battles a hidden Bobby Moore of battle of the PAC-8's darkhorses, 31-24. (UPI Telephoto) Explosive UO trips Col, snaps air mark Penneys cuts the cost of living, again! Our fashion suits Fouts' pass to Anderson, who made a diving catch, came after California quarterback Dave Penhall had engineered two fourth quarter scoring marches that tied the game 24-24. After Anderson's catch pujt Oregon ahead for keeps, Penhall brought his club deep into Oregon territory before time ran out. "I never dreamed that we could make so many mistakes and win," Frei said after the game. Oregon coughed up the ball four times on pass interceptions, five times on fumbles.

California lost the ball four times on fumbles. The Ducks, who have a road engagement at the University of Illinois Saturday, trailed only once. California's next clash is Saturday against Texas at Austin, Tex. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) A week before the season opened, Oregon football coach Jerry Frei said he could call on a promising rookie quarterback should veteran Tom Blanchard reinjure his knee.

Blanchard did hurt his knee Saturday night when Oregon launched the Pacific-8 season against California in Portland. And in came sophomore quarterback Dan Fouts, who directed the Ducks to a pair of second half touchdowns, including a game-winning 32-yard pass to Thurman Anderson with 1:44 to go. Oregon, showing off the air attack everyone expected, stopped the Bears 31-24 as Blanchard, bothered by leg cramps, and Fouts established a conference record by throwing for 424 yards. They completed 33 of 57 passes with four interceptions. Trojans GB.

14 Baltimore New York Detroit Boston Cleveland Wastan .631 .555 .514 .514 .483 .469 20 20 24 1 a 26' i West Division Minnesota 87 58 .600 -Oakland 80 67 .544 8 California 77 68 .531 10 Kansas City 58 88 397 29 Mlwaukee 55 90 .379 32 Chicago 53 93 .363 34i Sundays Results Baltimore 13. Boston 2 Cleveland 3, New York I Washington 10, Detroit 0 Chicago 8, Minnesota 7 Kansas City 8-8, Oakland 7-7, 1st game 11 innings; 2nd game 12 innings California 2, Milwaukee 1 Saturdays Results Cleveland 4, New York 3, 11 innings Oakland 3, Kansas City 2 Detroit 5, Washington 4 Chicago 5, Minnesota 3 Baltimore 5, Boston 1 Milwaukee 3, California 2 National League East Division W. L. Pet. G.B.

Pittsburgh 77 68 .531 -New York 77 69 .527 'j Chicago 76 69 .524 1 St. Louis 70 77 .476 8 PhQa'phia 66 81 .449 12 Montreal 64 81 .441 13 West Division Cncinnati 93 56 .624 Los Angeles 78 67 .538 13 San Fran. 77 69 527 14'i Atlanta 72 76 486 204 Houston 70 76 .479 21 San Diego 58 89 395 34 Saturday's Results Pittsburgh 5, Chicago 4 New York 3, St. Louis 0 Montreal 4, Philadelphia 3 San Francisco 8, Los Ang'es 3 Atlanta 5, Houston 3 San Diego 4, Cincinnati 2 Sundays Results Montreal 4, Philadelphia 2 Chicago 3, Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 5, New York 4, 13 innings Houston 10, Atlanta 6 San Diego 5, Cincnnati 4 Los Angeles 5, San Francisco 3, 10 innings By the Associated Press Danny Murtaugh and Steve Blass were just a handshake away when Matty Alou let the Chicago Cubs slip through his fingers.

Alou, Pittsburgh's usually sure-handed center fielder, muffed a fly ball with two out in the ninth inning Sunday and the Cubs went on to kayo Blass and score two quick runs for a 3-2 victory that tightened the three-team scramble for the National League's elusive East Division title. The sudden turnabout carried the third-place Cubs within one game of the first place Pirates and within one-half game of the runner-up New York Mets, who lost 5-4 to St. Louis on Joe Torre's 13th inning homer. It also caught Murtaugh, the Pirates' manager, with his hand out-stretched "To tell you the. truth," he said, "I was stepping out of the dugout to shake Steve's hand." Blass led 2-1 and was one out away from a five-hit victory when Alou dropped pinch-hitter Willie Smith's short fly for a two-base error.

Don Kessinger laced a run-scoring single on the next pitch to tie the game, took second on Glenn Beckert's, first-pitch single which finished the shaken Blass and scored the winner on Billy Williams' second-pitch single off reliever George Brunet. "I should have caught the ball," said Alou, fighting back tears in the Pirates' quiet clubhouse. "I knew the wind was blowing in, but I should have caught the ball." "I'm not about to criticize Matty," said Blass, who wound up with his 12th loss in 21 decisions. "He's saved me a thousand times. I still had a chance to get Matty off the hook if I had gotten Kessinger, but I didn't do it." Elsewhere, San Diego stunned Cincinnati's runaway West Division leader for the third straight time, 5-4; Los Angeles downed San Francisco 5-3 in 10 innings; Montreal GET YOUR PICK-UPS JEEPS READY f1 22nd straight Hlhinu ftcmocrat-tTcralD Monday.

September 14, Page 15 ALBANY "I knew Oregon was going to pass a lot, but I didn't know they'd pass that much," said a dejected Ray Willsey, coach of the Bears. "We obviously didn't contain their passing game," he said. "We'll have to improve in that area to stay alive in the conference." "Even I couldn't believe we'd throw 57 times," Frei admitted. Willsey said his club "didn't play well at all. We didn't cash in on the breaks." However, the Bears did take advantage of an Oregon fumble on the Duck 30 in the first quarter.

Penhall scored from the 12. Blanchard completed 17 of 32 passes for 221 yards in the first half. His 13-yarder to split end Bob Newland gave Oregon its first touchdown in the second quarter. Ken Woody's 36-yard field goal put the Ducks ahead 10-7 at halftime. Namath Dallas, By the Associated Press Joe Namath, a late reporter, helped close out the National Foo'tball League exhibition season in the kind of form the New York Jets hope will get them off to a fast start in regular-season play.

Namath, who was late reporting to training camp because of personal problems, looked sharp Sunday night in guiding the Jets to a 29-21 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in the Cotton Bowl. The Houston Oilers whipped the Philadelphia Eagles 26-7 in the only other game on the final day of the exhibition season. Play for keeps starts next FrU. day night when the St. Louis Cardinals play the Rams in Los Angeles.

In Saturday night's games, Pittsburgh topped Oakland 20-6, Los Angeles edged San Francisco 17-14, Washington downed Baltimore 17-14, Cleveland shaded the New York Giants 30-29, St. Louis upended Kansas City 34-24, Detroit whipped Cincinnati 31-14, Atlanta outlasted Miami 20-17, Green Bay trounced Buffalo 34-0 and New Orleans beat San Diego 20-14. Namath completed 10-of-21 passes for 251 yards and two touchdowns in the Jets' victory. He hooked up with rookie Richard Caster for 73 yards on his second scoring strike to put W. Mich.

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Dakota 7 Oregon 31, California 24 UCLA 14. Oregon State 9 Atlanta J54. Runs B. Williams, Chicago 128; Bonds, San Francisco 126. Runs batted in Bench, Cincinnati 138; Perez, Cincinnati 128.

Before Fouts took over, Blanchard had hit on 28 of 38 passes for 264 yards. Fouts added 166 yards on 12-19. Blanchard's one-yard plunge and tailback Bobby Moore's onehanded catch of a 13-yard Fouts pass put Oregon ahead 24-10 after three quarters. The Bears settled for a 29-yard field goal by Randy Wersching. However, California fought back in the final period, with Penhall scoring on a one-yard plunge and Darby punching over from the eight to knot the score, 24-24, with 7:42 remaining.

After an exchange of punts, Fouts then marched his club to the go-ahead touchdown. Blanchard, Newland and standout linebacker Tom Graham were Oregon casualties but none of the injuries Was believed serious. nails 29 21 the Jets ahead 26-21 in the third quarter after Roger Staubach had come of the bench to lead the Cowboys back from a 19-7 halftime deficit. Namath played until midway in the fourth quarter. In' his half of play, Staubach hit on 10-of-20 passes for 142 yards and one touchdown.

In the game at Philadelphia, Houston's Charlie Johnson completed 13 of 22 passes for 199 yards and a touchdown and the Oilers' defense stopped Philadelphia cold until about midway in the fourth quarter. Rookie quarterback Terry Bradshaw threw two touchdown passes in Pittsburgh's victory over San Diego. Alvin Haymond set up a touchdown by returning the opening kickoff 70 yards, Eddie Meador set up another with a pass interception and David Ray kicked a field goal in Los Angeles' victory over San. Francisco that left the Rams with the only 5-0 preseason record. Washington beat Baltimore for the first time since 1959 as Sonny Jurgensen fired a fourth-quarter touchdown pass.

Cleveland squeaked by the Giants on Don Cockroft's 31-yard field goal with four seconds left after the Giants had gone ahead about a minute earlier. 237 E. 2nd Ave MWaW If vti I mi Jar ')C dm faailaak aSWEj OK tires of while tread By the Associated Press The nationally third-ranked Southern California Trojans have gunned down Alabama 42-21 for their 22nd regular season win without a loss. Acknowledging a more-than-satisfactory opening of the new season, USC coach John McKay said, "Alabama was fairly big but we thought we could run on them." That's exactly what the Trojans did, gaining an impressive 485 yards on the ground. In another spectacular inter-sectional, Stanford acted like it it would stomp high-ranked Arkansas into the ground, piling up a four-touchdown lead in the early going.

The Razorbacks plowed back later in the game and the final score was 34-28, still in favor of Stanford. Indian quarterback Jim Plunkett, swept Stanford to the commanding lead with a series of sharp passes. In other Pacific 8 debuts, UCLA beat Oregon State 14-9 in Corvallis, Oregon downed California 31-24 in Portland and Washington State lost to Kansas 48-31 at Lawrence. The Jayhawkers ended an eight-game losing streak with their victory over Washington State. Kansas quarterback Dan Heck connected for three touchdown passes.

bag The UCLA victory came on two scoring passes by quarterback Dennis Dummit in the second half. Oregon beat California by breaking a 24-24 tie in the final period. Oregon quarterback Dan Fouts cracked the ice with a 32-yard scoring pass to Leland Glass. mmmm SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -UCLA defensive tackle Tim Os-teriing, who helped the Brains shut out Oregon State in the Second half and go on to win the season opener 14-9 Saturday, has been named Pacific 8 defensive player of the week. Osiering, a 6-4, 232-pound senior from Riverside, was one of the few UCLA defensive linemen to go nto the 1970 season with some conference playing experience.

Others nominated were defensive tackle Pete Lazetkh of Stanford, defensive back Bill Drake of Oregon, linebacker Pat Messinger of Washington State and safety Ton Ayala, USC's kicker. In this weekend, Southern California hosts Nebraska, Iowa is at Oregon State, San Jose State at Stanford, Michigan State at Washington, Oregon at Illinois, California at Texas, Idaho at Washington State and UCLA at Pittsburgh. No. Carolina 20, Kentucky 10 Southern Cal 42, Alabama 21 Vanderhilt 39, Chattanooga 6 VUlanova 21, Maryland 3 Virginia 7, Virginia Tech 0 VMI 13, Furman 0 W. Va.

43, Wm. Mary 7 Midwest Dayton 45, Xavier 22 Drake 39, Idaho St. 10 E. Mich. 14, No.

Dak. St. 14 Kansas 48, Wash. St 31 Kansas St. 37, Utah St.

0 Missouri 38, Baylor 0 Nebraska 36, Wake Forest 12 Tulsa 7, Cincinnati 3 I Ar IN DOWNTOWN I i I College grid scores EMM has a large stock of New Traction and also recapped Traction tires different tread designs. Come early we have a large selection of styles. By the Associated Press East Akron 21, Temple Army 26, Holy Cross 0 Ball State 14, Buffalo 7 Navy 48, Colgate 22 South Clemson 24, Citadel 0 East Texaa 57, McNeese 26 Florida 21, Duke 19 Florida St. 9, Louisville 7 Ga. Tech 23, So.

Carolina 20 GramHing 38, Morgan St. 12 Miss. St. 14. Okla.

St. 13 Major By the ASJ-iated Press American League Batting (375 at bats) Yas-trzemski, Boston A. Johnson, California .321. Runs Yastrxemski, Boston tWV ,3 T'jW; league leaders the now place I i I 114; Tovar, Minnesota 106. Runs batted in F.

Howard, Washington 122; Killebrew, Minnesota 109. National League Batting (375 at bats) Cle-mente, Pittsburgh Carty, OPEN EVERY NITE 'TIL 9 Monday thru Friday Sat. 'til 6 928-8138.