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N'l The Windsor Star Pages 29 to 40 Windsor Wednesday October 17 1973 heroics with key singles provides Gampy i i Several thousand of the Mets faithful didn't wait until midnight to tear up the ball park this. time. They went home early with chattering teeth, when Seaver left after eight innings of a tied game and when McGraw left for a pinch batter. Hero of the piece was the Cuban, Bert Campaneris, the beautiful Oakland shortstop. He singled, stole second and scored the tying run in the eighth when Joe Rudi singled behind him, then singled home Ted Kubiak for the winner in the 11th.

Seaver stopped the A's dangerous cleanup man, of Oakland's Mike Andrews, goat of the second game. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn made a pre-game announcement, rejecting an Oakland request that would have formally disabled Andrews and allowed them to activate Manny Trillo. Kuhn said the Oakland request was a ploy, that there was no evidence Andrews had suffered an injury during the World Series, and that if he was ailing, as an Oakland club doctor had attested, it had to be from earlier times. Andrews had gone home to Peabody, after the Oakland debacle in which he made two errors that led to the Mets winning. Williams said he went home on his own account.

A number of Oakland players, Jackson especially, expressed disgust at Andrews being apparently fired off the team by club owner Charlie Finley. Several players wore Andrews' uniform number by sticking strips of adhesive tape on their sleeves during a workout here Monday. Williams, pressed into an unusual clubhouse interview an hour before the game, said the air was clearer among his men as a result of a meeting he had with them. Several players didn't seem to think it was too clear, however. Williams insisted that Andrews would show up in time for the fourth game and be in uniform.

About his players bickering over the Andrews' case, Williams said, "I believe they're entitled to free speech. They have never been muzzled. We're colorful and controversial. I think we're as colorful as our uniforms." The Andrews' injury ploy obviously backfired on Finley. Williams said he wanted his name mentioned along with Finley's concerning anything about Andrews.

There could be more to come on this peculiar business over Andrews. Jackson, at one point, said the Oakland players were angry enough to talk about boycotting the rest of the series. In any event, Andrews is reinstated insofar as World Series law is concerned. And Finley has apparently told Williams to reinstate him and restore the peace. Williams' contract with the A's runs out this year and there is open speculation that he will flee to the vacant Yankee job in succession of Ralph Houk.

By JACK DULMAGE Windsor Star Sports Editor NEW YORK Oakland has the secret get past Terrific Tom Seaver and Fire Chief Tug McGraw, then hang on for dear life. It took the Athletics 11 innings, three hours and 15 minutes, and 17 of their 24 men, but Tuesday night in raw cold and in front of 54,817 fans in Shea Stadium, they regained the lead in the World Series. They beat the New York Mets, 3-2 with games four and five coming up tonight and Thursday night. The weather promises to stay cool. a Jack Dulmage Sports Editor Stengel still at his best Williams said the cold didn't bother his players because if you've been in our park, you know we're used to cold nights.

Besides.we had heaters in the dugout here. We have them on in July in Oakland some nights." Campaneris has a slick sliding right foot. Many in the stands thought he was out on the steal in the eighth inning. Campaneris said, "I knew I was safe. I was running on my own." Williams said Campaneris, who stole 34 bases during the 1973 season, is always running on his own.

"We have a no-steal sign for him," Dick said, "but only use it in open and shut situations." There was a confusing play in the 11th that led to Kubiak being on second base from where he was able to race home with the winning run on Campaneris' single to left. Kubiak had walked with one out. Jerry Grote, the Mets' catcher, didn't hang on to a third strike that went past Puerto Rican Angel Mangual. Mangual ran to first and Kubiak to second with Grote not making a throw after the ball which was scored a passed ball. But Mangual had to be told to go back to the dugout, the second out.

A dropped ball on a third strike does not entitle the batter to try for first base when it is occupied. The rule is similar to the infield fly automatic out and designed for the same reason to prevent a fielder from HMibTate'v dronning the ball in order to try for a double plav. The Mets took turns claiming they didn't know whether the ball was a ball or strike, and to ask Grote. Grote wouldn't talk to anybody. Kubiak said, "Grote is a good catcher.

He wouldn't have dropped the ball if it hadn't been wild or jumped." Anyway, Campaneris said the winning hit made him feel "hoppy." He became the third out seconds after Kubiak scored when he tried to stretch his single to two bases and was tagged. The game was overcast with the strange coming and going Reggie Jackson, striking him out three times, but failed to impede the other 'half of the Oakland one-two punch, Campaneris who had three hits including the decisive two-out blow off Harry Parker, the losing pitcher in this second straight marathon. The second game at Oakland went 12 innings and more than four hours. The A's lead the series, two games to one, and intend to pitch Ken Holtzman tonight against Jon Matlack. The advertised classic battle between Seaver and Jim (Catfish) Hunter developed all right, but they couldn't finish it.

Asked what he thought about Seaver's pitching, Dick Williams, Oakland manager said, "I was thrilled to pieces when they took him out of the game. He was super." Seaver said the cold started to get to him in the sixth inning. "And I tired a little," he said. "I don't want to keep pitching if I'm not doing it well. Also, I don't want to get to any point where.

I can't pitch later in the series, either." Seaver was hit very hard in the sixth inning, but yielded only one run, his first of the game, and then breezed past three Oakland pinch-batters in the seventh before Campaneris got to him in the eighth. Reporters tried to get Williams to suggest Campaneris is the best all-around shortstop of the modern era. Dick didn't go that far because he chose to flatter the Mets' shortstop, Bud Harrelson. He did say Campaneris compared with Jackie Robinson on the bases. Hunter left for a pinch batter after six innings.

His only trouble came at the start. Wayne Garrett belted his second pitch into the seats in right field. Rusty Staub made it three Met hits for as many batters to put New York ahead, 2-0, and no one was out. But then Hunter shut the door and kept it closed, and so did his successors, Darold Knowles, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers. Lindblad got the win.

THE MOP-UP ARTIST CELEBRATES WITH THE HERO OF THE PIECE Rollie Fingers (left) whoops it up with Bert Campaneris in clubhouse Now Andrews returns to tell his story NEW YORK DON'T BE TOO HARD on Charley Finley. He's, the fellow who pushed night games in the World Series. And there you are enjoying it in the comfort of home and mother white here I am freezing to death in Shea Stadium. No Ralph Houk wanted to get out of this town. They can'tven wait for the hotel elevators to start.

Igot in an elevator with a guy who never stopped reading the New York Post while he made six hand passes across the magic eye so the doors would close sooner. The Yankees are never going to be the same when they start playing in Shea Stadium next year. Mets' fans will drive them crazy. They have already driven the Mets nuts who didn't need much help when they started back in 1962. In those days the Mets were so bad, New Yorkers fell in love with them.

This love affair, one of the strangest in professional sport, led to a World Series Championship in 1969. THE AMAZINS, CASEY STENGEL called them. They defied explanation, especially by the Baltimore Orioles who are still trying to figure how they got ambushed in five games. The Mets are the reincarnation of the once crazy Brooklyn Dodgers who went to California, but left their ghosts behind. Those ghosts are what the Oakland Athletics are trying to cope with.

Heaven help them although the Athletics are somewhat goofy themselves, the hairy, much-mustached products of Finley who also owns a hockey team. Fortunately, the California Golden Seals have yet to emerge from cellar regions of the National Hockey League. What a terrifying thought. There were a lot of empty seats in the Oakland Coliseum at the start of this series. Oakland fans are taken with football to the exclusion of other athletic pursuits.

Not so here. Scalpers were getting $100 a seat for $15 tickets. TOM SEAVER, THE WORLD'S greatest pitcher according to everybody with the possible exception of Chatham's Ferguson Jenkins, worked last night. Reggie Jackson of the A's says Seaver is so good that blind people come out to hear him pitch. Jackson also says Oakland players are so upset over Finley firing Mike Andrews (if that is what he did), they may revolt, boycott the series and become holdouts next spring presum-ablyin that order.

Meanwhile, they were wearing pieces of tape in the shape of the number 17 on their uniform sleeves in memory of Andrews, the second baseman who blew the second game by letting a ground ball go through him. It is established practice for athletes under contract to Finley to make periodic denunciations of him in public. This doesn't seem to bother Finley. He hires and fires whom he likes, exhibits a mule called Charley 0, lets his wife pick team colors and generally tells the rest of the world to go climb a rope. DESPITE THE APPARENT DISUNITY of the A's because of Finley's gross eccentricities, it is curious they retain so much hair which is a Finley idea.

Finley offered each of them $300 last year to grow themselves into a Mustache Day. Even manager Dick Williams, a non-hair man when he was with Boston, keeps a bushy mustache. There is talk that Williams may become manager of the Yankees in succession of Houk, now with Detroit. Yogi Berra wins this thing, the Mets should have a hard time firing him which New York papers claimed they were fixing, to do a couple of months ago. Of course, the Mets were in the basement then.

CASEY STENGEL IS HERE. He's 83, imagine that. And still talking Stengelese which has to be hard to be misunderstood. The other day, Casey told an audience he has become an international speaker because so many people speak his language in foreign countries. He said Berra has.

played more big games than any baseball writer or anybody who isn't a baseball writer. Casey is always surrounded by young people who. want his autograph. He broke up one group by saying, "Don't touch me, I'm throwing the first ball atShea Stadium." THE NEW YORK RANGERS have apparently passed their first crisis with new coach Larry Popein who benched leading light Rod Gilbert Sunday. Gilbert said he talked to manager Emile Francis, and would talk to Popein, and that everything was working out.

Gilbert missed a team meeting, and Popein asserted his authority. But, Popein didn't explain anything, except, "it was my reason." Gilbert is within three goals of becoming the highest scorer in Ranger history. He Was embarrassed. Announcers the targets WASHINGTON (AP) The National Football League Players' Association has asked the Federal Communications Commission to prohibit immediately any agreement which gives the NFL control over the choice of radio and television announcers for its games. in a brief filed Tuesday with the FCC, which is conducting an investigation into broadcasting of sports events, the association said the NL; commissioner's power over, the choice of announcers chilling effect on their reporting." Finley said that the As would abide by the commissioner's decision.

"We will have to govern ourselves accordingly," the A's owner commented. "We will play the Mets with 23 players. I am not disturbed by the decision but I do think it should be granted." Finley said that Andrews would not play in the rest of the Series. Andrews is reported to have gone on a hunting trip in northern California after he was placed on the disabled list before the Athletics left Oakland for New York and the third game of the Series Tuesday night. The series of events sparked comments among the Athletics that Andrews was paid off by Oakland to sign a medical statement which resulted in his being placed on the disabled list.

"I'll bet Mike got at least $5,000 for doing it," said third baseman Bando, the team captain who is reported to be so upset over this and other actions by Finley that he has asked to be traded. Sal Bando said the Andrews incident, "took our minds off Tom Seaver and the ballgame." Gene Tenace added, "What a game! You make two errors become a household name." Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players' Association, had called the Oakland treatment of Andrews "shabby" and "highly suspicious." Andrews, supposedly suffering from a shoulder ailment, was placed on the disabled list Sunday, less than two hours after his two errors permitted three 12th-inning New York runs, giving the Mets a 10-7 victory that squared the Series at one game apiece. "There is no basis to grant the request and it is accordingly denied," Kuhn advised the Athletics. "I might add that the handling of this matter had the unfortunate effect of unfairly embarrassing a player who has given years of able service to professional baseball." The commissioner added: "It is my determination that Andrews remains a full-fledged member of the Oakland World Series squad." By ERIC PREWITT NEW YORK (AP) Mike Andrews, who with two World Series errors over the weekend "became a household name," gets a chance to tell his story today. The Oakland.

A's infielder, left on the West Coast Sunday after a doctor, signed a statement declaring him disabled, was scheduled to be in uniform for World Series game No. 4 against the New York Mets tonight. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn has ordered Andrews reinstated. His teammates want him to tell the full story of his meeting with team owner Charles O. Finley.

"Sure, we want it to be made public," said Reggie Jackson, team player representative, after Tuesday night's 11-inning, 3-2 victory. Jackson talked by telephone with Andrews Tuesday and said later the infielder agreed to leave the A's "because Charlie Finley threatened to destroy him." Andrews signed the doctor's statement, acknowledging the reported disability. Jackson added, "We know the man we play for, and we bind together." Grote refuses to talk By FRED ROTHENBERG NEW YORK (AP) Jerry Grote refused to speak, the normally exuberant Tug McGraw talked in solemn tones, and losing pitcher Harry Parker spoke in a hoarse, choked voice. "You never get used to losing," said Parker, who yielded the two-out, llth inning single to Bert Campaneris that gave the Oakland A's a 3-2 victory over the New York Mets Tuesday night. "I hope I never get used to it.

I don't plan on it," Parker said. The A's, known for their power hitting, scratched out a run in the llth inning on a walk, a third-strike passed ball, and an RBI single. The passed ball by Jerry Grote put Ted Kubiak in scoring position, and Campaneris knocked him home. "I'm not blaming anybody," said Parker. "Passed balls are part of the game.

"I'm the one who walked the guy, and I'm the one who gave up the base hit." After facing the inevitable "what happened?" question in the quiet Mets locker room, Grote, with no hint of emotion on his face, walked away. The Mets had gone with their ace, Tom Seaver, hoping to gain the advantage in this bizarre World Series that went into extra innings for the second consecutive game. The last time the October classic had gone into overtime two successive times was in 1933. Seaver, the fireballing righthander, went eight strong innings and struck out 12 before yielding to Ray Sadecki. After the first two A's reached base in the ninth, Tug McGraw, the Mets ace reliever who has pitched more innings than any pitcher in the Series, came in.

"The bullpen said he was throwing good and he told me before the game he could go," said the Met manager. "He can field bunts real good. He gets off the mound better than Ray." As it turned out, McGraw picked up Ted Kubiak's bunt and fired on the run to get a force play, then retired the side. After the inning, McGraw could be seen jumping up and down in the dugout, a stark contrast to his solemn, soft tones in the Mets clubhouse. "I don't feel tired at all," said McGraw, whose phrase "You Gotta Believe," was the inspirational soundtrack that accompanied the Mets September song into the Series.

"I feel physically better than I thought I would," said McGraw, who pitched six-plus innings in Sunday's 10-7 Mets victory. "I can go tomorrow." After four losses there is no tomorrow, so Yogi Berra is watching McGraw's valuable left arm very carefully. TUG McGRAW TALKS THINGS OVER WITH NEWSMEN in', v. A.