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The Windsor Star Thursday, October 3, 1974 39 Kaline: Glad it's all over 7 Jit Pele hangs 'em up Oniry sHeir DDoDallge has rjnew ffdDD ydDtm FERGUSON JENKINS 25-12 Young award awaits BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) Ferguson Jenkins, a native of Chatham, Ont. and the first American League pitcher to be in the starting lineup as a hitter this season, fliiriou'iny imv SANTOS, Brazil (Reuter) Pele knelt on the pitch with tears streaming down his face. As he slowly turned to the four sides of the arena, still kneeling but arms raised in a last farewell, a roar of "Pele, Pele," rose from 30,000 fans. This was the scene Wednesday when amid cheers, tears, and exploding fireworks, Edson Arantes Do Nascimento king of soccer and regarded by many as the greatest player of all time finally quit.

The electrifying moment came in the 21st minute of a league match between Pele's team Santos and Ponte Prefa in the same Vila Belmiro Stadium where he played the first game of his career 18 years ago. Suddenly the 33-year-old soccer idol, hero of three World Cup winning teams who has scored more goals in 1,254 games) than any other player, dropped to his knees. The other players stopped and approached, some of them touching his head: Slowly rising to his feet, Pele, as he has been known for most Of his soccer career, removed for the last time his black and white striped No. 10 Santos shirt a number which may never be worn again by a Santos player. Pele was replaced in the game by Gilson.

Many fans and Pele himself had hoped that he would score his final goal Wednesday, but it was his replacement who got the first of the goals which gave Santos a 2-0 victory. OIRYSLER CORDOBA By LARRY PALADINO DETROIT (AP) "I'm glad it's over. I really am," Al Kaline insisted in his last clubhouse interview. "I don't think I'll miss it." But baseball will miss Al Kaline. It took just one 'pinch hitter to prove it.

Many of the fans actually present in the announced paid attendance Wednesday of 4,671 at Tiger Stadium were undoubtedly there because it was the veteran Detroit Tiger superstar's last game as a player. Detroit was about to lose 5-4 to newly crowned American League East champ Baltimore in the regular season finale for both clubs. Kaline, 39-year-old Tiger designated hitter, got a standing ovation in the first inning when be batted. He took a third strike. He got another ovation when he went to the plate in the third inning.

Kaline hit a sinking liner to Al Bumbry in left-field. That, as it turned out, was Kaline's last moment as a Tiger after 22 mostly illustrious seasons. As second batter John Knox batted in the fifth inning the crowd started booing loudly. The spectators had spotted Ben Oglivie in the on deck circle instead of Kaline, the No. 3 hitter.

Oglivie and Manager Ralph Houk were taking the flak for the fans' displeasure over the removal of Kaline. As it turned out, Houk wasn't the villain. Oglivie sure wasn't. Kaline wasn't, either. He said he had a sore left shoulder and couldn't swing a bat very well.

He would have played the whole game if it had not been for that. "I didn't know if I should play or not," he said. Everybody wanted to have me hit my 400th home run, but no way could I swing hard enough to hit a home run. I could have played but I could only punch the ball." The league has something in mind for Kaline, perhaps a job, but he said he isn't supposed to disclose the information. Kaline said he was going Friday to Oakland for the playoffs at the league's request.

After the World Series he will serve as a special batting instructor and outfield coach at Detroit's Florida Instructional League team in Dunedin. He expects to work with Tiger batters next season on occasion but otherwise wants to stay away from baseball for at least a year. "I'll make up my mind in a year or two if I want to get back into it," he said. "I think I played as long as I could. I think I went out on a good note, getting my hit." Regrets? "I wish I wouldn't have gotten hurt so much," the still-' slender, graying former perennial Golden Glove right-fielder said, "but that was something I had no control of.

"I probably could have hit more home runs but I didn't try for them. I knew what I could do and tried to stay within myself all the time." He said he felt no emotion in his last appearance and that, "I was very happy to get out of there. Kaline became one of only 12 players ever to reach 3,000 hits when he doubled Sept. 24 in Baltimore, his home town. He said that was his second biggest thrill in baseball behind playing for the World Series championship team of 1968 which beat St.

Louis in seven games. Kaline finished with 3,007 hits, 399 homers, 498 doublesi 75 triples, 1,583 runs-batted-in, 10,110 at bats, 1,622 runs and a .297 batting average. All except his batting average are among the top three in their respective categories for Detroit as well as being among AL and major league leaders. Come on in and see the new sport size Chrysler Chrysler Cordoba. Luxury you expect from Chrysler new dimension of Chrysler elegance.

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"I was hurt a lot earlier in the season or I think it could have been even a better year," he added. Jenkins was removed for a pinch hitter in the eighth inning. Steve Foucault finished for Texas and earned his 12th save. Hughes, 0-2, allowed three hits and struck out seven. Texas finished the year with an 84-76 record in second place in the AL West while Minnesota ended in third place with an 82-80 mark.

Minnesota left five runners on base in the game to establish an American league single season record for most runners left on base. Minnesota left 1,263 runners on base for an average of just under nine per game. Minnesota's Rod Carew became the first player in 55 years to win three consecutive AL batting championships. The Twins second baseman, who sat out Wednesday's finale, finished the year with 218 hits in 599 attempts for a .364 average the highest in the AL since Ted Williams hit .388 in 1957. Ty Cobb was the last AL performer to win three straight hitting titles with championships from 1917 through 1919.

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Lochead scored the only goals of the first period and the Wings took a 4-2 lead in the second when Roberts and Anderson connected. Bloom's goal came on a power play in the second. Bengals drop Deal DETROIT (AP) A look at Detroit Tiger pitchers' earned run averages tells the story of the firing Wednesday of pitching coach Cot Deal. Only relief ace John Hiller and rookie Vern Ruhle, who has only played in five games, have ERAs of less than 4. They are at 2.64 and 2.73, respectively.

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