Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 36

BOBBY NICHOLS Reacts to miss Carroll Proves Point For Reds In Baseball By IMTED PRESS INTERNATIONAL Clay Carroll isn't the sort of fellow who likes to rub it in but, face it, he did rub it in. And so the Cincinnati Reds emerged laughing from their season opening three- game senes with the Los Angeles Dodgers last night when Carroll was the winning pitcher in a 7-6 victory. It was the third straight victory over the Dodgers and reminded the Los Angeles club that the Reds, too, have a star relief, pitcher The Reds contended throughout the winter that Carroll merited comparison with iron man relief ace Mike Marshall of the Dodgers, the National Cy Young Award winner in 1974. 57 appearances and 12-5 record were modest alongside Marshall's 196 appearances and 15-12 mark but the Reds insisted their native of Clanton, was a star, too. The Dodgers likely to argue the point at least today.

Carroll shut out the Dodgers with one hit in the last three innings last night and received credit for the victory when Tony eighth-inning double drove in Pete Rose with the winning run. Carroll appeared in all three games of the series, allowing two hits and no runs in 5-3 innings. Marshall appeared in two games of the series and was the losing pitcher when tagged for two runs in the ninth inning of Wednesday second game. George second homer of the game set the stage for the triumph, tying the score at 6-6. game- winning hit was his first hit of the season and tagged Charlie Hough with the loss.

Bill Buckner had a triple, double and single for the Dodgers. St. Louis defeated Montreal 7-2, Pittsburgh beat Chicago 8-4, Philadelphia shaded the New York Mets 3-2 in 11 innings and San Francisco topped San Diego 2-0 in 10 innings in other NL games. In the American League, Texas defeated Minnesota 5-4, Oakland routed Chicago 9-0 and Baltimore ripped Detroit 10-0. Nicklaus May Be Biding Time AUGUSTA, Ga.

(UP!) The way Jack Nicklaus is playing this Masters, you get the feeling merely biding his time. Lee Elder monopolized the limelight by becoming the first black to play in this tournament and Bobby Nichols quietly grabbed the firstround lead by shooting a 67 in rain. But the man everybody had better start watching is Nicklaus. Favored to win the Masters for an unprecedented fifth time, Nicklaus is just one stroke back and the way he played the opning round he created the feeling he was just coasting. you have 36 putts and shoot a 68 on Augusta National, a good round of said Nicklaus.

played more conservatively than I had planned. I have that many opportunities to get birdies. I played cautiously because it was so wet out Nichols went into second round with a one-stroke margin over both Nicklaus and surprising Allen Miller. Arnold Palmer, the other time champ was another stroke back along with J. C.

Snead and Tom Weis- ports Friday, April 11, 1975 kopf. pretty fast company. Nicklaus was a winner his two previous outings (Doral and Heritage); Snead is this San Diego champ; and Weiskopf, second three times in the past six Masters, won last week at Greensboro. Nichols, who will be 39 next Monday, has won only one major title in 16 years on the tour, the 1964 PGA, and admits he started it yesterday when he found himself at 5 under par after 15 holes. pros are like insisted the COSiGRATULATIONS pitcher Mike Norris deft) accepted a congratulatory handshake from catcher Gene Tenace after shutting out the Chicago White Sox, 9-0, yesterday at the Oakland Coliseum.

I FI Telephotc A's Rookie Pitcher Is Making Jackson Believe O.AKLAND (UPI) Of course, it was only one game and a long season ahead in which almost anything can happen but off Mike major league debut, it going to take long for the Oakland to forget Jim Hunter. the way back to the first day of spring training, all the talked about was loss to the New York Yankees over a contract squabble with owner Charlie Finley. While none would say it straight out, every single one had doubts about the chances of winning a fourth straight world title without Hunter, their bread-and-butter pitcher over the last half dozen seasons. Then, out of nowhere came 20-year-old Norris, a 6-foot-2, 172-pound right-hander from San Francisco, and there was a noticeable change in all the With more than 100 of his relatives and friends looking on he pitched a three- hitter in a 9-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox. made a believer out of me.

that's for said Reggie Jackson, whose first homer, a three-run blast in the second, gave Norris all the help he needed. so much he pitched a shutout in his first big league game but more how he did it. He was as cool and polished a young player as Gene Tenace, who caught Norris, called it a first class performance. toughest thing for a young pitcher to said Tenace, to keep the ball down. This kid did it all game long.

I think he had five pitches above the belt buckle during the whole game. His fastball has a big tail and the kid has as good a changeup as seen in a long See ATHLETICS, page No Beauty Rest For Giants RALPH CHATOIAN l-J Sports Editor Expecting To See A Few Yawns Today I hope the Giants find it too tough to stay awake during the Candlestick Park opener today. After all, they have gotten much sleep between last season opener and this Candlestick inaugural. The plan must have been to get last game over as quickly as possible to give the team time to fly back from San Diego to the Bay Area. The way Jim Barr and the Randy Jones were mowing down batters I thought the game would set a National League record for fastest season opener.

It took an extra inning to get the thing over, but after the two 10th inning runs backed up shutout, there was happiness back home in the Bay Area where fans were watching on television. Because of the two nights of rainy postponements the Giant followers were able to see the season opener on television. Then they trundled off to bed to get a good sleep to be ready for the Candlestick opener today. It as easy for the players. They had to shower, dress, motor to the airport and then fly back to' San Francisco.

It had to be the early morning hours before they could crawl underneath the covers. They had to be out of the sack early enough to get in some batting practice before the start of game. So if a player or two is caught nodding between innings today, let it go without comment. WHILE MOST BAY fishermen are grumbling about the lack of salmon. Bob Massad of Mill Valley is grinning from ear to ear.

Last Saturday, fishing seven miles southeast of the Farralon Islands, Massad pulled out a 43-pounder, duly weighed and recorded by Rich Urbais of the Sausalito Boat and Tackle Shop. All 12 anglers on Hal boat, InaBelle, took home a salmon, and in these days of supermarket inflation that bad. MIKE GERARD, 14-year-old Terra Linda Robin Hood who can shoot an apple off head, was second last weekend at the U.S. National Indoor Archery Championships at Harrisburg, Pa. He had tied for first with Richard McKinney, the world target champion, but was given the silver prize because of a complicated formula based on points made at various distances.

But finishing second out of 450 shooters, most of them adults in the open division, is mighty fine. Mike will be trying out for the U.S. world team May 10 and 11 at St. Louis, Mo. BILLY SCOTT of San Bernadino, a newcomer to the big car racing scene, will be driving a entered by Marvin Webster of Mill Valley in tryouts for the Indianapolis 500-mile race scheduled for May 25.

Scott is a highly regarded 26-year-old prospect with a successful record in professional drag racing and stock car competition. In his first year of U.S. Auto Club racing, Scott will be making his Indy debut for Webster. Jnhpurniirnt-Sournal. 37 man J.

C. Snead beat in a playoff at San Diego. get four or five under and they like to play it safe There are 18 bogey holes out there. You have to respect the course to play Elder is seven strokes back after shooting a first round 74, but seem to mind. super for he said.

feel I played badly. I tried to attack the golf course, but it fought back. Anytime you bogey two par 5s you feel you might have birdied, it takes a lot of the fight out of 69 was his best opening round since he last won the Masters in 1964, although he did have a closing 67 last year when he finished six strokes behind winner Gary Player who had a 72. Billy Casper, the 1970 Masters champ, is three strokes back along with Tom Watson and Bob Murphy. And the seven- man group at 1-under 71 16 of the 76 starters broke par the first day includes Lee Trevino and wondrous Sam Snead, the three-time Masters winner who will be 63 years old next month.

weather was wet and foggy but the golfers complain. The rain slowed down the usually fast greens so that the overall scores were lower than in the past. Surprise! That Miller tied with Nicklaus is Allen, not Johnny. Johnny Miller, winner of 11 tournaments and more than the past 15 months, had a 75 Thursday and was really discouraged. not the end of the he said, I putted well at all the past three weeks.

Maybe my luck is averaging Nichols had five birdies and no bogeys. 'Only one of his putts was longer than eight feet. never expect to shoot 67 at the said Nichols. was just try ing to put the ball in the fairways and on the greens and go from there. I guess you get more nervous on the first tee at than any other The field will be cut to the low 44 scorers at the end of round and if there is a repetition of affair it would take a 4-over-par 148 to qualify for the final two rounds.

That means Elder and Johnny Miller are border-liners. I have another 75,1 guess be heading for said Miller. Allen Miller got into the Masters by winning last April at Tallahassee, while everyone who had won a tournament the previous 12 months was playing in the Tournament of Champions. Many competitors ran afoul of the 18th here yesterday. Allen Miller, Palmer, J.

C. Snead and Weiskopf all had bogeys there. It Did Not Take Murcer Long To Get Into Groove SAN DIEGO (UPI) It take Bobby Murcer much time to get into the groove of the National League. Murcer was 2-for-4 and scored one of two runs in the 10th inning to give the San Francisco Giants a 2-0 win over the San Diego Padres last night. It was the first time the Giants faced major league pitching in nine days.

Their games were postponed five times because of heavy spring rains. think the hitters ever get ahead of pitchers, not even this early in the said Murcer. who led off the 10th with a double that started the scoring rally. be a whole lot nicer if I could see all the pitchers over here Murcer is a stranger to the National League. He was with the League New York Yankees for the past six years until he was acquired by the Giants in an off-season trade for Bobby Bonds.

It was Giant manager Wes who was responsible for acquiring Murcer. a real Westrum said. scouted him for the two years I was off the field and thought he was the best player in the system. My recommendation helped persuade management to get It was a sweet victory for pitcher Jim Barr, who had been winless against the Padres in four starts last season. Francisco Maddo.x cf Thomas 2b Thomassn lb Murcer rf li ss Ont I vers Kader pr Hill Barr San Diexo abr hbi 2 0 0 0 Tolan If 4 0 0 0 Fuentes 2b 0 0 0 Scott pr 4 12 0 Folkers .3111 Winfield rf 3 0 2 0 McCovev lb 4 0 0 1 Grubb cf .3010 Hecken 0 0 0 0 Torres 2b 10 0 0 Hundley 2 0 0 0 Kendall Hemandz ss Jones Hilton 3b 6 2 Totals abr bi 4 0 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 10 4 0 2 0 ,3010 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 10 3 0 10 0 0 0 0 .32 0 0 Totals San Francisco 000 000 000 San Diego 000 000 000 Franci.sco 3, San Diego 3.

Francisco 3, San Diego 4 McCovey, Murcer, Matthews dez. Barr, Spcier ip er bb so Barr iW, l-Oi 10 0 0 1 4 Jones 0 4 0 0 3 4 Folkers iL, 0-11 1 2 2 2 0 1 11. DOUBLED UP runner Bobby Murcer (20) slid hard into second base while trying unsuccessfully to break up a second-inning double play at San Diego last night. second baseman Tito Fuentes relayed the ball to first in time to end the inning as shortstop Enzo Hernandez backed up the play. Telephoto- Morrill Fifth In Swim Meet Event I-J Special Report CINCINNATI Art Morrill, a member of the Marin Aquatic Club swimming unattached to save his high school eligibility, was fifth in the 400-yard individual medley yesterday in the Amateur Athletic Union national short course swimming championships.

(Other AAU swim story on page 38. a senior at San Marin High School, covered the distance in 4.02.5 in the finals after a 4:02.1 in the trials. Randy Sauro was 14th at 4:08.3, 3.6 seconds off his trials time. Marin A.C. gals won seven points in the 200-yard freestyle.

Maura Campion was 13th in 1:52.8 and Backhaus 14th in 1:53.3. Teammate Jo Hislop swam a 1:55.9 and reach the finals. Added to the opening day total, Marin A.C. girls have 14 points. finish added three points for a team total of 17 points.

Today, the Marin 800-yard freestyle relay team of Backhaus, Campion, Hislop and Shawn Houghton are expected to add points for Marin. Also swimming today will be Julie in the 100 back, Keith Strange and Morrill in the 200 breaststroke. Ken DeMont in the 100 back and Charlie Pearson in 10 () fly. BASEBALL STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE West Pci. GB Cincinnati 3 0 1.000 San Francisco 1 0 1.000 1 Houston 2 1 .667 1 Atlanta 1 2 .3.33 2 San Diego 0 1 .000 2 Los Angeles 0 3 3 East Pet.

GB AMERICAN LEAGUE West Pittsburgh St. Louis New Philadelphia Montreal Chicago 1 0 1.000 .067 ..500 .500 .333 .000 Minnesota Oakland California Kansas City Chicago Texas Baltimore Cleveland Milwaukee Boston Detroit New York 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 East Pet. .667 .667 ..500 .500 3:33 .333 GB Pet. 0 1.000 GB 1 0 l.fKX) ..500 .500 .000 .000 1., 1 1 Kcsult.s Philadelphia 3. York 2, 11 inn Pittsburgh 8, Chicago 4 St Ixiuis 7, Montreal 2 Cincinnati 7, Los Angeles San Francisco 2, San Diego 0, inn.

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