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fT -'r u- -r '-1 -vt-- i- The Herald SCOREbOARd busiNESS-MARltETS Bellingham Wash Herald Thurs Sept 1 1 977 11 dump NWL title 4-2 I PORTLAND While their parent club' languishes near the cellar of the American League West the Bellingham Mariners have become champions The Mariners jumped to an early lead over Portland here Thursday night then shut off two late Mav rallies and earned a 4-2 win and the Northwest League title in the deciding game of their best-of-three series game was one of the most satisfying moments of my said Bellingham Manager Bobby Floyd the chips were down the team fought back They came through like champs and 1 be any prouder of Second baseman Al Weston provided the Mariners with an early lead when he tripled to knock in two runs in the opening inning Bellingham added what proved to be the winning run in the third when Mark Schuster singled to drive in Rodney Hobbs Portland scored its two runs in the fifth inning the first when Buster Attebery singled to drive in Bill Martinez and the second when Ed Cervantes was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded The Mariners added an insurance run in the sixth when top draft choice Dave Henderson crushed a solo home run 'his 17th of the season In his first pro season Henderson did everything the parent organization expected he would finishing the year home run king and leading the club in batting with a 307 average Portland General Manager Bing Russell -was impressed by clutch performance and showered the rookie team with praise following the title game kids got a chance to perform in front bounced into a double play to end the game and give Bellingham the championship The Mariners won the series opener 6-2 in Bellingham last Sunday but the Mavs tied the series on Tuesday with a 10-1 romp Alan Viebrock who relieved starter Paul Givens in the fifth inning was credited with the victory He received help from ace Greg Biercevicz who pitched the final one and one-third innings Portland starter Jon Dunn suffered the loss Bellingham collected five hits Besides triple Henderson's homer and Schuster's single Rodney Hobbs and Rodney Craig also hit singles for the Portland clubbed Bellingham pitchers for eight hits Cervantes and Martinez had two each A crowd of 7805 took in the title game of a large crowd and they proved their Russell remarked showed that enough good young talent can compete with And the Mavericks were an experienced lot most of them in their third or fourth season of -professional ball loss marked the third straight season Portland has finished second in the Northwest League The Mavs had a big chance to take all the marbles when they loaded the bases in the eighth and ninth innings In the eighth with two outs Portland player-manager Steve Col lelte-grounded into an easy force out to kill one rally had a piece of cake right down the a disgusted Collette said In the ninth the Mavs loaded the bags once more with just one out But Bob Edwards Nastase's back knows if I 1 i i i I A Bells face -A 1 A 1 Canadian nationals not often that baseball fans get to see a national champion team from one country play against a league champion from another country But local fans will get just that opportunity at Civic Field Thursday night The Bellingham Bells champions of the Pacific-Metro League will host the Vancoqver the Canadian national senior league baseball champions in a doubleheader that will wrap up the season The doubleheader will get under way with the first of the two seveninning contests at 6:30 pm Admission is free but donations to support the program and to pay for fees will be accepted Ironically although Puccini's the British Columbia title and then went on to win the Canadian national tournament the team finished behind Bellingham in the final Pacific-Metro League standings This team however will include the regular players as well as top stars from throughout British Columbia who the team picked up for a series of games against the Japanese national team The Bells will start mound ace Jerry Striegel 12-2 on the season in the opener The nightcap will feature John Mumma who was 1 0-0 with the Albert Hamilton American Legion team and Open FOREST HILLS NY (UPI) Ilie Nastase who vowed angrily a year ago never to return to the US Open came back Wednesday in happy spirits and fine form as he joined streaking Guillermo Vilas with an easy first-round romp on the opening day of the world's richest tennis championship Nastase routed South African Frew McMillan 6-0 6-0 in 46 minutes after Vilas of Argentina won his 40th straight clav court match 6-1 6-0 over 39-year-old Spanish tennis legend Manuel Santana don't think there will be the same problems this said N'as-tase who was involved in several chaotic situations last year and was fined for his antics on court Nastase seeded seventh allowed McMillan only seven points in racing through the second set and appeared in perfect condition as he began his quest to recapture the title he won in 1972 While top seed Bjorn Borg took ultrasound treatments and rested his sprained shoulder and second-seeded defending champion Jimmy Connors had his aching back muscles massaged what will likely be the last Open at Forest Hills began unde werm chalky skies Colin Dibley of Australia served the first ball of the day on the stadium court instead of Borg who will play his opening match today against Trey Waltke of St Louis Dibley ran out to a quick 5-2 lead but Peter Fleming of Chatham NJ bore down and won the match 7-5 6-2 were a lot of people watching said Fleming alter his first match ever in the stadium didn't want to make a fool of myself" Vilas seeded fourth and the unseeded Santana took to the stadium court immediately after the first mulch hut a heavv drizzle soon begun and play suspended with Vilas leading 6-1 3-0 Santana the handsome dtable Spaniard who proved he was more than just a clay player when he won the 1965 US Nationals here on grass and the 196 Wimbledon championships came back to plav heritor the first time since 1968 and was greeted bv a round of When play was interrupted comedian Alan Kng patted Santana on the shoulder and said: get a good rest now and you'll come Santana came hack hut could do nothing against Vilas who has won his past six tournaments in a row and seems to be the favorite along with Suntan j's former bul-lbov Manuel Oranles The entire match took two hours and 15 minutes hut uli hut an hour of that was consumed in the rain delay pionships Wednesday at the famous concrete stadium court Nastase the seventh seed whipped Frew McMillan 6-0 6-0 (AP Wirephoto) fiery Iiie Nastase who vowed one year ago that he would never return to the West Side Tennis Club won his first-round match of the Open Tennis Cham 2ND ANNUAL SUMMER CLEARANCE 60-70 SERIES B60-1 3 3 1 98 E60-14 3698 F60-14 3998 G60-1 4 4098 160-14 4898 F60-15 3098 G50-1 5 41 98 L6C-1 5 4998 A70-13 2998 870-13 3098 1 4 3498 F70-14 3798 Q70-14 3898 G70-15 3998 ALL TIRE PRICES SUBJECT TO FET KICK IT DRIVE IT WIND IT OUT IT GOES FREE INSTALLATION FREE ROTATION FREE FLAT REPAIR ALL GT QUALIFIERS HAVE RAISED WHITE LETTERS A70xl3 Peles 'final' retirement is it really? NEW YORK (UPI) This time Pele says he means it saying goodbye to soccer positively absolutely and permanently play his last game a month from today at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford NJ what he says anyway suit up with the Cosmos for the first half of that contest and with his old Brazilian team Santos in the second half and then be all finished bet your life on it though Pele has said the same thing before Not once but several times and each time he agonized over his for a period then changed his mind and came back to play some more It was the Cosmos who talked him out of his last retirement in the summer of 75 with a three-year contract for $475 million plus another $225 million to take care of his income taxes here and it is the Cosmos who are doing everything they can now to talk him out of this one us how much you they keep asking him give you any kind of con- -tract you To which Pele merely smiles shakes his head and says no thanks retiring One veteran soccer official who think he will is Enzo Magnozzi the man who first brought him to this country to play soccer with the Santos team 11 years ago and more than a half-dozen times after that Now president of the Southern New York State Soccer Association which is part of the US Soccer Federation Magnozzi believes Pele will change his mind about quitting He also believes money is what will make him come back think play says Magnozzi with the assurance born of someone who has -dealt with Pele before Because the best businessman ever seen and been associated with soccer more than 30 years Pele has said he was retiring three times now I brought him to this country with the Santos team seven times but I gave up doing it in 1970 just before the World Cup in Mexico because Pele said he was quitting and not playing anymore Then he turned around and joined the Brazilian World Cup team' You know what I -think? I think he was just holding out for more Magnozzi 57 played eight years himself in the American Professional League with the New York Americans and comes from a soccer family His father Spartacus was general manager of Livorno a first division team in Tuscany and uncle Mario played on two World Cup teams and still ranks among the top 10 all-time scorers in Italian soccer history remember the first time I brought Pele to this says Magnozzi put him in a hotel here with the rest of the players and he was such 1 a hero to the Spanish people and all the other Latin Americans that he had to stay in his room like a prisoner because be mobbed every time he stepped SCOUTS briefly Bucks cap triple play' MILWAUKEE PI) is a term used in baseball out the Milwaukee Bucks were jokingly using that same phrase as they announced the signing of UCLA forward Marques Johnson The triple play they completed Wednesday was the signing of the three first-round choices the spring draft completes the triple play for the Milwaukee Jim Fitzgerald Bucks president and chairman of the board said The 6-foot-6 forward was college player of the year last season with the Bruins In the spring draft the team had made Indiana center Kent Benson the No 1 choice Johnson the No 3 pick and Tennessee forward Ernie Grunfeld the No 11 selection Johnson finished his UCLA years as the fourth all-time scorer and rebounder with 1659 points and 897 rebounds and only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton rank above him in both categories 1 He was the last of the three top choices -to sign Benson signed the day of the draft and two weeks ago Walsh takes Nugget post DENVER (UPI) Don Walsh 36 an assistant coach at the University of South Carolina and a Tormer college teammate of Denver Nugget rCoach Larry Brown Wednesday was named as an to Brown philosophy is very similar to mine 'and he will have no problems adjusting to our jstyle of Brown told reporters as he announced the appointment and Brown were teammates at the University of North Carolina where they played under coaches Frank McGuire and Dean Smith After graduating from law school Walsh joined McGuire at South Carolina where he has served as assistant coach and chief basketball recruiter Walsh is one of the best-known and highly regarded college coaches in the country Today and he has been Coach right arm for the past 12 Brown said Just one of those days HEMPSTEAD NY (UPI) It was one of those days for New York Jets wide receiver Lou -Piccone First Piccone woke up to find that his new -sports car was stolen from the parking lot at the Hofstra University training facility during the night Then Piccone learned he was being traded to the Buffalo Bills for what Coach Walt Michaels said was good draft I find my car said Piccone then they tell me gone What a This will be fourth year in the pros having signed with the Jets in 1974 as a free agent jailer two years of minor league football CUSTOM DUAL EXHAUST! 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