The Cincinnati Post from Cincinnati, Ohio • 19

19 The Cincinnati Post Wednesday Sflpt 19 1973 Golf Football Baseball Racing Dressier Joiner doubtful Says Reds will be even better Wait until warns Ptwtogranhor: KEN STEWART Bobby Tolan sits apart from his teammates in the dugout separated from tiie other players by the bat rack and helmet box Tolan whose batting average has floundered around the 200 mark most of the season recently fended with the front office over taking a physical wminatlnn disappeared and missed two games before rejoining the BY EARL LAWSON San Francisco-Sparky Anderson commit himself say I hope we clinch it out here But if we do it'll be said Sparky last night after the 1-0 win over Houston in the finale of a two-game home stand Don Gullett winning his ninth in a row limited the Astros to four hits and strudioutll WAS continued the manager the magic number would' be five when we headed game is one of two the Reds sriu play the Giants From here they move onto Los Angeles for a three game series with the Dodgers I see said Sparky Dodgers must sweep those three games to stay in And something Anderson can't forsee a victory is a said Sparky club has always managed to get itself like tide year's team better than the' 1972 pennant commented Anderson After last game he added think it will be an even better team because the youngsters on tiie club will be completely Denis Menke the veteran handyman agrees with Anderson I like best about this observed Menke tiie way it has been able to overcome adversity You must admit tiie injuries to David Concepcion Gary Nolan and Roger Nelson gave us three terrific chimed in Anderson why I admire the Oakland club They were without Catfish Hunter when he was really needed and they went a long time without Joe Rudi their best hitter last year But still on ANDY- KOSCO one' of several players recruited from tiie Indianapolis fanp club to help tiie overcome the adversity to which Menke referred came through with the game-winning hit yesterday Two were out in tiie eighth inning i i when Jerry Reus walked Perez and Johnny Bench After Ken Griffey replaced Perez as a pinch runner Kosco looped a pop fly single to right to send home the winning run LAST YEAR tiie Reds clinched the western division title in Houston on Sept 22 conceivable the Redd could match' tiie performance by wrapping up this title in Los Angeles with a victory Saturday The Reds will go into series opener with an 8-5 record against -the Giants in the season series Five of the victories have come in tiie seven games tiie two clubs already have played in Candlestick Park TONIGHT TOO would seem to offer Tony Perez a splendid opportunity to emerge from a slump which has seen him punch out only 11 nits in 56 at bats this month Did Inglis get WHA offer? Right now Inglis is looking for a house to rent in Cincinnati for ms wife Veris and sons Codie '2 and Chet 3 months "The in Texas right said Capt Ingy got to find a place for 'em to stay in Has tiie 30-year-old Inglis whose eight goals and seven assists in 15 playoff games helped tiie Swords annex an AHL Calder Cup championship in their second year of existence set any targets for this coming season? only thing we can do is try' to 1 'said Ingy goons have a good hockey team thoughI try not to say gonna score 20 or 30 goals and then have to back 1 CERTAINLY nice to have tiie MVP back on your 'said coach-assistant general manager Floyd Smith a year Sfandmqs 1: MTKHUI lUSIK BY BARRY COBB The Bengal aren't counting on either Doug Dressier or Charlie Joiner for Sunday's home opener with the Houston Oilers at Riverfront Stadium not making jdans for says coach Paul Brown cant" Both players are sidelined with knee injuries and both are expected to miss Sunday's game with the Oilers don't think I ought to says Dressier die 225-pound running back "They want me to wait another week and make sure it comes around allright" JOINER HAS been jogging to strengthen his injured knee but says it is uncertain whether hewill be able to face his old teammates say the chances are less than 50-50" says the elusive wide receiver knee's still weak rattier give it a chance to heal completely rather than go back when not well and get hurt again Then I'd be out another two to three -Both Dressier and Joiner were missing from the lineup last Sunday when the Bengal dropped their season opener to the Denver Broncos 28-10 THEIR ABSENCE was keenly felt Without Dressier the Bengali had to go nearly all the way with Essex Johnson at running back instead of using him more effectively as a spot player Dressier out" says Brown hurts us in all our short yardage stuff The absence of Charlie Joiner was a big blow Johnson and rookie Boobie Clark played almost the entire game at the naming back spots Brown added got Boobie leading the play or vice versa When got Essex in there an entirely different picture" DRESSLER suffered through the game in front of the TV set the same way Joiner did was terrible watehing it on -'says Doug I ought to be in lthere seemed like the team was flat right off the bat The offense looked okay They were moving the ball They just weren't scoring' team can have a down 'day" he' added was ours a 5 good thing it happened early We nave to worry about keeping ourselves yp for BROWN SAYS his players may have been overconfident against the Broncos after scoring three straight preseason victories against Detroit "Atlanta and Green Bay think have 1 much says Brown they caught an inspired team and got the pants kicked off of The Bengal piled up 344 yards but put oily 10 points on the scoreboard made more yards than they did" says Brown looked baa doing THE 'was defense an area wl was strongest last season question" says Brown I breakdown was defensively When they march down field like that it does some- thing to the Brown already has sounded a wam- ing about the Oilers despite their 34-14 I loss to the New York Giants I had tremendous fsftys Brown whipped the Dallas Cowboys in preseason "Looking at their pictures against -the Giants it has to be interceptions or fumbles that hurt them because they moved the ball well looking at the pictures you see how they lose the I TIGER TALES-Boobie dark suf- fered bruised ribs in the Denver game X-rays revealed no fractures Seven players were on the inactive list and 1 didn't dress at Denver They are Lyle Blackwood Guy Dennis Lenvil Elliott Lee Thomas and Tim Van Galder in addition to Dressier and Joiner Essex Johnson Mike Reid and assistant coach Chuck Studley will be guests at tiie first Touchdown Club luncheon Friday noon at the Cincinnati Club Dave Lewis leads the AFC in punting after the first week with a 500 average Bernard Jackson is second in kick-off returns averaging 27 J) yards The Bengali rank fourth offensively ninth in defense Houston quarterback Dan Pastorini is rated fifth in passing Jess Phillips the ex-Bengal gained 58 yards in eight carries Sunday for New (Means but suffered a broken rib in the 62-7 loss to Atlanta engals-Oilers lilt is sellout i AH tickets for the Cincinnati Bengals-Houston Oilers game Sunday at Riverfront Stadium have been sold the chib announced yesterday 'v Under recently passed congression- al legislation the sellout eliminates the blackout imposed on television of tiie game within a 75-mile radius WLW-T expects to televise die game but as of last night had received no official word from the NBC-TV network station offi-'rials said If the Bengals-Oilers game is tele- vised the scheduled telKast of the MiamtOakiand game scheduled for 4 pnL will be canceled 6 Any combination of victories and Los Angeles defeats totaling this number will clinch the National League western division title for the Reds Against tiie Giants this season Tony has pounded out 16 hits two of them homers in 47 at bats Pete Rose who at the end of the' season will have a third silver bat to hang above the fireplace in the den of his Oak Hills home has been just as effective against the Giants with 19 hits'- in 54 trips to the plate Rose has a chance to rack up the -most hits by a player in a single season since Bill Terry accummulated a record 254 while batting 400 in 1930 MATTY ALOU pounded out 231 in 1969 Tommy Davis then playing with the Dodgers had 230 in 1961 In 1948 Hall of Famer Stan Musial also rapped out 230 hits And in 1937 Joe Med wick another Cardinal Hall of Famer piled up237hits After last night's game Rose had 220 hits with 11 Rames to play Both Norman and Grimsley have 1-0 -records against the Giants this season Freddie shut them out June 19 in his second start after joining the Reds Grimsley's victory was his first of the season and came on April 8 game which began at 5 pm indicates mat tiie first two games of this National League playoffs sched- -uled for Riverfront Stadium if the Redd win their division as expected will bef low scoring contests tough on hitters facing those' hard throwers in tiie pointed out Anderson i field split '--J into 2 divisions DELAWARE (UPI): The field for paring race the $120000 -Little Brown Jug is split into two divi-i sions Four from each division will meet) in the runoff FltST DIVISION PPHwn 0h Drivar? 7-2 Waptos 1 Playboy Hanovor 12-1 HoHonJ Melvin's Woo 1-1 O'Brlon Valiant Brat Fontiino i Racing Knight N-l Buxton) 4 Kayitont Smortio 1-1 Houghton 7 Anwrican Skippar 1-1 Gammy (Smog 1-1 VDancor' 7 Gay Skippar 4-1 Adtarman SICONS DIVISMN PPHana 04 Wmr J' 1 Faraway Bay 10-1 Buxtotv' I JRSkippw Chapman V- Billy Jot Byrd 4-1 Shoity T- 4 Haney Cant 1-1 i Otero Hanovor 5-1 Flltol 4 Steady Airliner 4-1 Farrington 7 Ricd RstnioTimo 1-1 SDanctr j- ArmbroNeibit 7-2 O' Brian mrn 1 hnvmv mm NUmWtSKlRfiED nwsias nc ntot cu ie I "cw saws CM whsw Magic number i 4 BILLY INGLIS dder and I presume smarter and Inglis will coach tiie rookies against St Catharines Junior A team tonight in a benefit' hockey game at Garden City Arena training camp site of the Swords and Sabres 4 TUISMrS iuwts St Louis 7 Montreal 4 ChKhwaD 1 Houston! Philadelphia S-2 Chicago Ntw York 4 Pittsburgh 5 Sm Diego Atlanta 4 Lot Angelos San Francisco 1 TNUtUm SAMIS St Louis it Philadelphia night -Pittsburgh at Ntw York night Montreal at Chicago Atlanta at Los Angola night Cincinnati it San Francisco 4 pjn (Only games scheduled) AM IS KAN LiAOUS BY BOB QUEENAN ST CATHARINES ONT: Cincinnati captain Billy Inglis the American Hockey League's most valuable player during the 1972-73 season has signed a multiyear contract with the Buffalo Sabres organization Inglis who has been in the Sabres-S words training camp' here three days signed the contract last night after a brief discussion with general manager Punch Imlach A 40-GOAL scorer who finished in a tie for fourth among the top scorers last season with 97 points Inglis was tiie only veteran Sword unsigned -Inglis a 12-year veteran id pro hockey reportedly rejected a 5250000 -offer from the Los Angeles Sharks of the World Hockey Assn to return to the Swords again this season was to the admit-ted Inglis they telling me tiie right things so I go got to figure that next season The con-1 tracts of those guys who signed with the WHA the first year will be up and have to renegotiate the management of -those teams (WHA) has been drafting and signing a lot of young he contin--Ued gonna be saying should we put out 5100000 ayear for a guy 32 years old when we can spend the same thing for a kid who might have more INGLIS did not confirin tiie report- 1 ed offer from the Sharks but he deny it Terms id his contract believed to be for two years with tiie Sabres were not announced Experts say Bobby will win easily NEW YORK (REUTER): It may come as a shock to members and fid-lowers of Womens Lib but most tennis experts feel that Billie Jean King will be walking into the biggest trap of her life when she takes the court against 55-year-old Bobby Riggs in their nationally-televised 5100000 winner-take-all tennis match at the Houston Astrodome tomorrow night best-known oddsmaker Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder has established Riggs as an 8-5 favorite in the best-of-five-sets match BUT IN the opinion id most veteran including some of the all-time tennis tiie odds should be weighted much heavier in favor of Riggs the games most consummate hustler "She got a chance says Fred Perry a former British star who -won three US and two Wimbledon championships in tiie 1930s- should do better than' Marga- -ret Court (whom Riggs beat easily in two sets last May 13) but not much Perry said "Anytime you put a good man player in against a even a champion like Billie the man is going to win And the fact that Riggs is 55 matter because he's in great shape COVER the court like never seen it covered in a match before She'll see openings and try to take advantage of them But Bobby will dose up those openings so fast shell be if it goes to five sets heU win He's gone five sets many times Billie Jean never has There's no way she can Another former star Pancbo Segura agrees with Perry that the 29-year-old Mrs King cannot possibly win can die do that Bobby cant and do better at asks Seg- lira now one of the fouling teaching professionals and still active in senior competition keep her off balance all night with softballs dink shots chips slices and Men and women with a taste for the best never say without saying Because they settle for less than the unique taste that distinguishes it from ail other whiskies A taste that never stops pleasing In short ones before dinner tall ones after-Canadian Club is perfect company all evening long So discover CC tonight Lifetime friends are rare Oakland California 4 Texas 7 Chicago 2 Kansas City 4 Minnesota 1 -Baftifliera A Detroit 1 Cleveland i Milwaukee Boston 4 Naw York IHUtSBAri SAMIS California at Tanas twknight Chicage at Kansas City night Oakland at Minnesata 2 twMght Baltimore at Detroit night (Only games schedutid) California (Ryan 11-14 and Taiww -1-1) at Tcxaa (Brobarr (4 and Hudson 4-DttwMght Chicage (Firstar M) St Kansas City (Gorbw-7-t) eight Oakland (Blue IH) Mimsata (Decker IM) night Belli mon (McNally 14-IS) at Detroit (Coleman to-lSk aid Milwaukee (Slaton 12-U) at Clovo-land (Tilrow M-U) Now York (StoMcmyit UU1 Botioa (Tionl 1S-12L nigM OnchmaH (Norman 11-11) San Francisco (Brodity U-1IL 11 RJn St LMHs (T Murphy Ml Phil-' defflhio (Carltm U-ISL night Pittsburgh (BrSn 1W2) Ntw YtrklSfonulMLmdd Msntmd (Tanas -li) Chicago (Rouxtwf U-H) So Diego (Kirby 1-14 and Tiaadson Mtd Houston (GritfinM ad Richard -4j)ltigM AHania IP Niskra 1M1 Lao An-grfts (MtuertmiHi l)-t4) night I wm wwin inu tsn omm ir mw wwa (fi.