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26 The Windsor Star, Friday, June 2, 1972 MSf WMtW w' vw avwaV ATLANTA (UPI) Jane Blalock, suspended for a year from the professional ladies golf tour for alleged unethical conduct, filed an anti-trust suit Thursday against the LPGA. The suit contends that the LPGA, as the only ladies golfing association, has deprived the 26-year-old Miss Blalock of a means of making a living. The suit asks $5 million in damages for the leading money winner on this years tour. Filing of the suit followed Miss Blalocks suspension Wednesday, after a probe which began when she was disqualified following the second round of the LPGA Bluegrass Invitational in Louisville, Ky. At Louisville, a question arose about the manner in which Miss Blalock marked her ball on a green.

Allegedly, she moved a ball out of a spike mark and was charged with signing an incorrect scorecard and for failure to report the incident and taking a two stroke penalty. The5-foot-6, 125-pounder was fined $500 at that time. The suspension came after reports of other unethical incidents. I regret the unpleasantness that the incident has caused both the LPGA and me, said Miss Blalock in a statement released by her father, Richard Blalock of Portsmouth, N.H. I feel, however, that the action of the LPGA executive board was unfair.

Never in my life have I knowingly taken advantage of the rules of golf. Named in the suit are the officers of the LPGA. The brief asks $1 million in damages, $1 million in compensatory damages for what she termed wilful, malicious and torturous action and asks for another $1 million in punitive damages, subject to treble reward under federal law. In the suit, attorneys for Miss Blalock contend she was suspended without being confronted with her accusers and without legal or other representation The brief claims the effect of the suspension constituted an unreasonable restraint of trade, all to the detriment, injury and damage of (the) plantiff. Her career has suffered an immense loss of goodwill and reputation, and the value of her career has been substantially reduced, the suit claims.

So far this year, Miss Blalock had won about $32,060 to lead in winnings. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta where the LPGA maintains its headquarters. Miss Blalock, graduated from Rollins College with a degree in history in 1967, joined the LPGA tour in 1969. She was named most improved professional for the second straight year in 1971 when she was third-leading money winner with $34,492.

She had won the $38,000 Suzuki Golf Internationale and the $110,000 Dinah Shore tournament this year. JANE BLALOCK top winner among lady pros em bul leer erry nips ded a two-run homer as Boston routed Dave McNally and beat Baltimore. McNally gave up four runs in 1 1-3 innings while taking his fourth loss against five victories. Petrocelli, who left the game with a strained back in the second inning, slapped his two-run hit in the first inning. Fisk slammed his homer in the third inning with Doug Griffin, who had four hits, aboard.

Sonny Siebert pitched a seven-hitter for the victory. Reliever Jim Roland walked four batters in the 12th inning to give Milwaukee the victory over New York. Roland gave up only two singles after coming on in the eighth but he walked the leadoff batter in the 12th. After a sacrifice he walked another batter. Roland got Johnny Briggs to fly out for the second out but then walked Ron Theobald and Rick Auerbach to give Milwaukee the victory.

Milwaukee had an 8-3 lead before New York rallied and eventually tied it on Bobby Murcers solo homer in the ninth. Pinch-hitter Richie Scheinblum hit a two-run homer in the eighth to power Kansas City past Minnesota. With two out in the eighth. Cookie Rojas singled off Dave LaRoche and Scheinblum, a pinch-hitter, followed with his homer. Lou Piniellas two-run homer and Ed Kirkpatricks solo blast provided the Royals with their first three runs.

to be looking for the pitch and were victimized by his fast ball. I guess the Tigers were looking for that offspeed stuff he threw against them in Detroit, catcher Ray Fosse said. But he used more fast balls than he has all year. Perry said the warmer the weather, the harder he throws and one pitch he threw was as fast any pitch McDowell ever threw. Perry still is getting used to the hitters in the new league and he counts a lot on Fosses advice.

Ray is the most underrated catcher in the league, Perry says. Manager Ken Aspromonte, in his first season, is delighted with Perrys pitching and thinks the trade has helped turn the team around. Sam had worn out his welcome in Cleveland and he represented a losing image, Aspromonte said. McDowell is doing well with the Giants with a 6-2 record so it seems to be one of those cliche trades which has helped both teams. Cleveland got its only run in the third off loser Joe Coleman when Eddie Leon walked, was sacrificed to second and scored on Tom McCraws single.

In the only other three American League games, 3oston beat Baltimore 7-1, Milwaukee edged New York 9-8 in 12 innings and Kansas City downed Minnesota 5-3. Rico Petrocelli cracked a two-run single and Carlton Fisk ad By VITO STELLINO UPI Sports Writer Gaylord Perry, the major leagues first nine-game winner, is keeping the Cleveland Indians in contention almost singlehandedly these days. The Indians, who are in third place in the American League East but are only one-game off the pace, have won six games since May 14 and Perry has four of those victories. Perry, obtained in the off-season in a trade with San Francisco for Sam McDowell, pitched a seven-hitter for his third shutout Thursday night to give the Indians a 1-0 victory over the Tigers. The victory snapped a seven-game Indian losing streak and was the clubs first victory since May 23 when Perry beat the New York Yankees 3-0.

Perry suffered only one of the defeats during the losing stieak, a 4-2 setback at the hands of Baltimore last Saturday night. It was Perrys second victory over Detroit since May 19 when he beat the Tigers 2-1 on a five-hitter. In that game, Detroit Manager Billy Martin complained to the umpires that Perry was using a foreign substance like Vaseline on the ball. This time Martin made no complaints but the Tigers seemed Richardson ousted in British Amateur SANDWICH, Eng. (UPI) Californian Kemp Richardsons gallant bid to reach the semi-finals of the British Amateur golf championship today ended in a dramatic, nail-biting finish against English veteran Alan Thirwell.

5 Much proof still to come THIRTY OR FORTY games dont make a season 'but not only are the Detroit Tigers hanging tough despite injury adversities, the Baltimore Orioles are having trouble asserting themselves. The longer it can go on, the better Detroit manager Billy Martin will look. Martin said the Orioles could be had without Frank Robinson. He may be right. June should tell us a lot.

The Orioles have frequently buried the opposition in a shower of June superiority. However, they must prove to themselves fas as the field that they can handle the league without Robinson. Their impressive credentials arent going to convince anybody unless and until they do. There are eight clubs playing better percentage baseball these days than Detroit or Baltimore. It doesnt say too much for the old East division of the American League.

The Tigers lead with a .553 percentage which under 1 more robust leadership conditions wouldnt avail them anything better than about fourth place. ANY DAY, SAY the Orioles, theyll take off in a blast of .600 to .700 ball. Well, undoubtedly they feel they deserve to. They are after all a team that has won three straight pennants, winning more than I a 100 games each time and striding no worse than .639 in that span. They are playing .541 ball today i while over in the National League West, Frank Rob-l inson had the Dodgers on top.

Is Robinson really that big a player? Probably, There is consistent brilliance about him that is very telling over a long test such as a baseball season. I Frank is more of a players player than he usually gets credit for. His leadership had a compelling effect 1 on the Orioles. In a way, the Orioles now have instead 1 of a licence to win, an excuse to lose. I BUT WHAT OF the Tigers? Are they destined to win merely because Martin says Baltimore without i Robinson cant? Martins association with the Detroit club is free "from the Dennis McLain syndrome.

The rest of the team may not be. 1 When the Tigers won the pennant in 1968, the feat was inextricably tied to McLains 31 victories. I dont tie that knot as tightly as some close to the Tiger ball club still do. The Tigers won some 40 games from the seventh inning on, lifting McLain off the hook along with them. This is not to say McLains 31 wins were not vital.

It is to say that the teams overall performance had a lot to do with putting Dennis on a pedestal. The McLain-Tiger marriage of 1968 was a never-ending spectacle of clutch production. It happened, but it couldnt happen again. Not that way. The decline and fall of McLain took the Tigers into very rough water and swept then manager Mayo Smith off the deck.

Martin has been putting the pieces together again, replacing McLains domination of the club with his own. Mickey Lolich has since risen to new heights, but somehow has not become team leader. The team leader is Martin and on that note the Tigers sink or swim. A BASEBALL CLUB can have too strong a manager depending on the quality and quantity of player leadership around him. The Orioles are now in a position of discovering who leads them, or who can lead them with Frank Robinson gone.

Earl Weaver, the Baltimore manager, is in a tough spot. He never played in the big leagues, and with Robinson around he had merely to push the buttons. That is why Earl was never voted manager of the year honors. Pushing buttons may not be enough at Baltimore any more. But by the same token excessive Martin leadership at Detroit may not be enough, either.

There is always Gaylord Perry and the Cleveland Indians. GEORGE ORT, my Netherlands correspondent who misses little on the overseas airwaves, informs that a Dutchman, name of Tom Sybrant has just won the world checkers championship in Hengelo, Holland, at expense of the Russians who have dominated the game, as they dominated chess, since the forties. Sybrant seems presage a parallel with the chess scene in which American Bobby Fisher is presently to tackle world champion Boris Spassky of Russia in a 24-game match in Iceland. It seems that Sybrant boasted before the checkers tournament that he was the best there was and why did the Russians bother even showing up? While making his point in competition, Sybrant accused the Russians of ganging up on other participants with a view to keeping the title in Russia. The Russians, reports George, are now in a huff over having lost the title and are saying the Dutchman scared the Russian players into losing.

One of the Russian players had to be treated for nervous tension in a Dutch hospital before returning to Moscow. SYBRANT HAS either been going to school on Fischers technique or vice versa. Fischer and the Russian chess people have been accusing each other of chicanery for quite some time. FISCHER CLAIMS that Spassky doesnt stand a chance against him. Two of the Russian grandmasters Fischer polished off en route to the upcoming affair with Spassky were forced to repair to their rooms suffering from mental exhaustion.

I dont know why Canadian hockey players dont throw a Fischer or Sybrant-like curve at the Russians. The way things are going the Canadian public may wind up suffering from mental exhaustion. SIMMONS PAWS AIR AS CUBS MONDAY SLIDES HOME XO. iAv 'v -A Xs ss 4 ros game Giant losing streak and ended a 10-game winning streak for Los Angeles at Candlestick Park, dating back to May 15, 1971. Rusty Staub drilled a three-run homer in the first inning, giving pitcher Jim McAndrew an ample working margin, as New York beat Philadelphia and improved its first-place lead in the East to five games over idle Pittsburgh Pirates.

Ron Santo, Jim Hickman, and J. C. Martin smashed extra-base hits during a six-run rally in the first inning that powered Chicago past St. Louis. Bill Hands benefited from the out-burst to win his fourth game in five decisions.

The 26-year-old American stockbroker from Huntington Beach, was beaten at the 20th hole. It was the only time in the match the U.S. survivor trailed. Richardson was beaten by sheer bad luck. His drive at the second play-off hole plugged in the bank of a fairway trap.

He could only back out, reach the green in three and lost to Thirwells par four. That came after a fantastic 19th hole, shared in birdie threes, where the American wraped in a 15-foot putt to stay alive after Thirwell had holed out with a chip from 15 yards. Thirwells wife, Joy, and son, David, jumped up and down with excitement when the 43-year-old English team selector holed his miracle shot. Then it was the turn of Richardsons pretty blonde wife, Marsha, to show her glee seconds later when the Californian birdied the 416-yard hole for the third time in four attempts. In this afternoons semi-final Thirwell plays five-time winner Michael Bonallack, who beat Walker Cup teammate Rodney Foster, 3 and 2 in his quarter final.

The other semifinal is between Trevor Homer and Roger Revell. In all-British matches Homer beat Findlay Black 3 and 2 and Revell beat Peter Berry by two holes. Canada Uniformity in sight for CFL playoffs REGINA (CP) The Eastern and Western conferences of the Canadian Football League have adopted a uniform system of sudden-death playoffs, league officials announced Thursday. Under the new system, the team finishing third plays the second-place finisher in a single, sudden-death game. The winner plays the No.

1 team in the regular season in one sudden-death final. The winner represents his conference in the Grey Cup. The system will be in effect in the West this fall but television commitments prevent the Eastern Conference from changing until next year, said CFL commissioner Jake Gaudaur. Since 1965, the Western Conference has been using a sudden-death semi-final game between the second and third-place finishers, with the winner playing the first-place team in a best-of-three final. In the East, the second and third-place finishers meet in a sudden-death semi-final, the winner playing the first-place team in a two-game, total-points final.

Russia V-V. By Associated Press Break up Cincinnati Reds and wake up Houston Astros. The revitalized Reds continued to roll Thursday night, drubbing faltering Houston 10-3 and moving into a second place tie with the Astros in the National League West. Its hard to beat us when were hitting, Cincinnati manager Sparky Anderson said after his club swept a four-game series at the Astrodome with an awesome power display. Hal McRaes grand slam home run featured an 11-hit attack that also included homers by Johnny Bench and CARDS Angeles after the Dodgers dropped a 5-2 decision to San Francisco Giants.

In otner games, New York Mets beat Philadelphia Phillies 6-1 and Chicago Cubs turned back St. Louis Cardinals 7-3. Home runs by Cesar Cedeno and Doug Rader helped Jerry Reuss off to a 3-0 lead as the left-hander struck out seven over the first four innings. Then Cincinnatis machine began hitting on all cylinders. Steve Stone pitched a five-hitter and rookie Gary Maddox delivered a two-run single in a three-run fourth inning to pace San Francisco's victory.

The victory halted a four- Tony Perez. The production gave the Reds a total of 39 runs in the four games. Johnny has gotten himself started again and Tonys hand is much better, said Anderson, pointing to Benchs four circuit shots in the last three contests and Perez availability after an injury that knocked him out of 12 games. The loss was the sixth straight for the Astros, whove given up a total of 52 runs in that stretch, and the sixth victory for the Reds in their last seven games. The outcome of Thursday nights contest left both clubs lli games behind leading Los ke --Ahearne Juckes said the section the CAHA wants amended says the amateur who possesses the nationality of said country evidence of such nationality being an official passport of that country.

All were doing is deleting the word amateur which, in other words, would make this an open competition, Juckes said. CAHA president Joe Kryczka said in a telephone interview with Miller from his home Calagary that the time to change the bylaws was ideal. If we ever had a chance of getting this thing through its this time. Miller quotes Kryczka as saying. Were encouraged by the kind of feedback weve been getting from some of the European delegates, Kryczka said.

Its been most but you never know how theyre going to vote. The IIHF will meet June 3 in the Black Sea resort of Mamaia in Romania. clash bloody Ahearnes tirade in his interview with Miller followed an earlier discussion in which the columnist informed the IIHF president of efforts being made by Canada to have the federations summer congress amend bylaws that would allow open competition at future World Hockey tournaments. All theyve ever done in Canada, Ahearne said, is try to cut my throat but theres been no bloodshed. Ahearne said the intent of the amendment was not asking for an open competition at all.

Theyre simply asking that a section of the bylaws be changed to say that any player holding a passport of the country hes representing be eligible to play in Pool Ahearne told Miller. The passport is the only thing that counts. Hell, in Switzerland, Italy and many other countries in Europe a citizen can have two passports. Gordon Juckes, CAHA executive-director, told Miller in a telephone interview from Ottawa that Ahearne was trying to color the issue. LONDON, Ont.

(CP) Bunny Ahearne, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, says in an interview with Free Press sports columnist Ernie Miller that the forthcoming Canada-Russia hockey series will be a bloody joke. Ahearne, telephoned at his home in Ascot, England, asked Miller: How could they (Canada) ever hope to sell the Europeans on the idea this team that will play Russia is or ever could be a national team? Theyre Canadian all-stars, but theyre not a national team will be, either. How can it be a national team when the CAHA (Canadian Amateur Hockey Association) doesnt run it? Who controls it now? Hockey Canada? The CAHA? The NHL? The government? It can never be called Canada as far as the international federation is concerned. I dont know why Canada doesnt mind its own business anyway and leave the Europeans alone. Theres no real hockey in Canada beyond Junior A..