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A lL4k'U Smith Is In9imcut Meets Nastase Baseball Roundup BABE RUTH QUEEN-Lisa Watson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watson, was crowned Babe Ruth all-star queen during ore-game ceremonies Monday night. Adjusting her crown is Escort Rick Leverich, left. Cree team pitcher, while Escort Ron Willett, Cree team catcher, waits to present the flowers, John Maxwell, riflht, president of the Babe Ruth League was master of ceremonies, Miss Watson will accompany the Pa'mpa all-star team to Dumas for district competition and will compete in the district queen contest.

Gail Simon was first runner-up, and Dana Rogers was second runner-up. First National Beats Cree 3-2, Wins Crown First National Bank scored its third run in the top of the seventh inning last night to overcome Cree 3-2 and capture the 1972 city Babe Ruth crown. Bank's Mike Adair was first ruled out at home plate after Cree catcher Ron Willett threw to third when Adair attempted to steal. The ball got by third baseman David Smith and Adair came home. Shortstop Randy Holmes retrieved the ball and threw it to Willett who tagged Adair out, Then the ruckus started.

The third base umpire ruled that after Smith missed the throw fronv the catcher he interfered the runner while going after the ball. The plate umpire then ruled that the run scored which caused Cree manager Leon Holmes to come out of the dug-out. The plate umpire called on the rules committee to make a ruling and they upheld the third base umpire's run scored. Winning pitcher, Mickey Lowe, who relieved starter Gary Balch on the mound in the third inning, proceeded to strike-out Cree's first hitter in the bottom of the seventh. The next battei jot on by dint of a throwing en on the part of Lowe, but then put.

out short to second on a fielder's choice." Cree's fourth batter of the inning struck-out to end the threat and give Bank the championship. Cree got one run in the first and one in the third and maintained the 2-0 margin until the sixth when First National made two runs on three hits to tie the game. Then came the inning that brought happiness to Bank and half of the fans in the stands, and disappointment to Cree and the other half. For First National, Lowe and Tyler Drinnen got two-base hits Steve Robinson and Clyde Patrick hit singles. Cree's Rick Leverich, who was the losing pitcher, led his team with two hits; a triple and "'adouble.

Willett, Mike Knutson, Mark Baird, Frank Stowers and Randy Holmes singled for Cree. Writers Second-Guess Nixon's All-Star Team THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The nation's sports editors and columnists have started second-guessing President Nixon on his All-Star baseball teams. The President selected teams for both the National and American Leagues Sunday in an exclusive story for The Associated Press. He picked teams in each league for the periods from 1925-1945 and from 1945-1970. Red Smith, sports columnist for the New York Times, said the President "posing as an objective authority disqualifies himself when he picked Harmon Killebrew as a first basemen because Senator Herman Walker of Idaho introduced Madison Regatta Set To Go Toflay MADISON, Ind AP) The $30,000 world championship Madison Regatta, delayed and troubled by a swollen and debris-filled Ohio River, was set to be contested today.

Eight of the huge unlimited hydroplanes were on hand and all were automatically eligible for the race after qualifications were waived Monday by Buddy Byers, commissioner of unlimited hydroplane racing. The first of four heats was wheduled to begin at won (gST), with a consolation race and championship heat to follow. The race wat originally (or last Sunday, but heavy riin generated by tropical storm Agnes necenitiitfd a ill Muwfyi from Seattle who hw won ill tiHMtdertiaat Tim this there We've raead. in wane them when Killebrew was a teen-ager, selects Nellie Fox over better second basemen because he knew Fox personally as a coach in Washington and put Bobo Newsom on his pitching staff for similar personal reasons." Smith continued: "Nobody who saw Hack Wilson play the outfield could pick the fat man over Joe Medwick, not even the year Hack batted in 190 runs. Perhaps Mr.

Nixon never heard of Jimmy Wilson, whose wondrous skills as a catcher he ignores-in favor of lumbering, lovable old Ernie And as (or relegating Frank Frisch to a utility words fail," "Mr. Nixon got everybody onto his All-Time team except Pat Skrable and Jimmy Pier- sail, who's a self-confessed Democrat," wrote Tim Horgan, columnist for the Boston Herald Traveler and Record American. "The President named 80 players to the nine positions which, in this period of galloping inflation, is still preposterous. Then he split these into two eras, pre-and-post World War II, which is known around the dugout as bridging the generation gap. "Since this is an election year, every candidate (or every office in America is now entitled to equal time," Horgan continued.

"So from now on until November we can forget Vietnam, tin Middle gast, China, Russia, school busing, (he price of a rout of beef and all the other frivolous issues of the day, From new until November, id-star ball teams will flow like promises from every rostrum in the land-" Harold Kcuc of the Boston lions of the nation'! (MM were generally ripullt. fcui nohiaty tin mint greatest hitters of all time is, for some oldtimers, a mistake because they think Babe Ruth and Joe Jackson better than any of them." John Steadman, sports editor of the Baltimore News American, commented that "it's the prerogative of Richard Nixon to name his all-star baseball team. He's the nation's No. 1 Fan. Granted.

"But why did he gave to get so political? Nixon selected 80 players and four managers. He's obviously not going to get caught in the switches and feel the backlash of resentment from those who think he pulled a colossal blunder by leaving their favorite player off the squad There arc many types of criticism you can make of the Nixon All-Stars, mostly because he generalized so much and never dealt with the specifics of nine positions." Merrill Lockhard, sports editor of the Concord, N.H. Monitor, said "We cannot put much stock in President Nixon's nominations for an all-time team, any more than we would if John Doe next door had made the selections, "It is impossible and a waste of time to compare players of one era with another in any Comparing Lou Gehrig of IW3 though he certainly has to be ranked among the to the current-day first basemen is like comparing boxing's Joe Louis to Muhammad All. They cannot compete against each other or under the same conditions. As time changei, so does the game or seems there might have been more important questions wked of the President at the June it news conference, wf art toDpy is (in of that national AMtteMLetftt in first? Well, the Ortotei are in and the Tigers are in Detroit, Monday night they were both hi Detroit, and that til too bad for the Tigers, who suffered in embarrassing 1M drubbing before spectators and a national television audience the two rivals are in i dead tie for first place In baseball's American League East, Elsewhere, Oakland blanked California 54, Boston trounced Mirmsota 8-2 and Texas edged Kansas City 2-1.

Chicago, New York, Cleveland and Milwaukee Were not scheduled, Blanked for five innings by Tom Timmerman and trailing 2-0, the Orioles erupted for six runs in the sixth Inning, seven In the eighth and two in the ninth. It was the most devastating setback for the Tigers since Cleveland beat them 15-2 with 21 same number accumulated by the Orioles-on July 17,1988. And, believe it or not, Weaver refused to rub it in, even though the Orioles took three of the four weekend games. "We won, that's all," he said. "We be tied for first tonight, and if we both win tomorrow we'll still be tied." Johnny Gates, Bobby Grich and Boog Powell all homered for Baltimore and Grich, Powell and Brooks Robinson each drove in three runs.

Jim Palmer Went the route for his llth victory, scattering nine hits, including home runs by Jim Northrup and Gates Brown. Detroit Manager Billy Martin trotted out six pitchers and the Orioles scored on five of them. was," he said, "just one of those days." Oakland's Catfish Hunter, who pitched a perfect game in 1968. retired the first 15 California batters before John Stephenson, who made the final out in Philadelphia's Jim Burning's perfecto against the New York Mets in 1964, singled. The Angels' only other hit was Andy Kosco's seventh-inning triple.

Boston's scheduled, starter, Sonny Siebert, showed up at the park with tendonitis in his pitching arm so the Red Sox switched to Luis Tiant and he held the Twins to eight hits, including a Bobby Darwin homer. For the Sox, Carlton Fisk homered in the fifth and doubled another run across in the seventh and Tiant followed with a two-run single. Standings By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS National League a baseball phi- jtfUta wive fKCIuCQi la" I over till the last out." Don't the Pittsburgh Pirates know it, The Pirates rode Willie star- gell's ninth inning homer to a 32 victory over Chicago Monday night, opening their lead in baseball's National League East Division to 1'i games over the idle New York Mets, who were rained out of a doubleheader at Montreal. In other National League games Monday, streaking St. Louis tripped Cincinnati 42, but the Reds maintained their halfgame lead in the West when Atlanta outslugged pursuing Houston 13-9.

Philadelphia knocked off San Francico 42 in the only other game. Burt Hooton was leading 21 and working on a three-hitter when Vic Davalillo opened the Pittsburgh ninth with a bunt single. Hooton got Roberto Clemen te, whose ninth inning homer had turned a game around for the Pirates Saturday. But Stargell slugged his 15th of the year to give Pittsburgh another victory. "It was just another typical Pirate finish," said Stargell.

It was the eighth victory in 10 meetings for the Pirates against Chicago and left the Cubs 614 games back of Pittsburgh. Long after Stargell's homer ended it, Hooton sat in the Cub dressing room, staring blankly into space. "He hit a good pitch, a good pitch," Hooton muttered. St. Louis ran its winning streak to seven games by knocking off Cincinnati as Rick Wise hurled a seven-hitter and slugged a two-run homer.

The victory was the 14th in the last 15 starts for the Cardinals, now virtually tied with Chicago for third place in the East division. Philadelphia enjoyed a strange victory over San Francisco, bunching all five of its. hits for four runs before a batter was retired. Steve Carlton rode the early cushion to his 10th victory, allowing just six hits, two of them solo homers by Dave Kingman. 1975 OPEN IS SET NEW YORIf (AP) The 1975 U.

S. Open golf champion. ship will be played on the No. 3 course of the Medinah Country Club in Medinah, 111. The Open was last played there in 1949 when Cary Middlecoff won with a two-over par 286 score.

Sun smith, fsvwiteio tin (He nws crown the Wimbledon Tennis championships, confessed to feeling "kind of inspired" today si he shaped up vital match star from the Soviet Union The tt-year-old U.S. Army corporal faced Russia's derMetreveliforapiacehtthe semifinals of the Mth All-England Tournament. Teenager Jim Connors was the only other American left with a chance for the most coveted title in world tennis. And his opponent was also a man from behind the Iron Curtain, second-seeded Hie Nastase of Romania, Smith, who lost to Australia's don fiftsl last year, said he regretted that NettttnM and other stars of World Championship Tennis were hatred from the championships. "I knot i lot of the best men are not here this time," Smith slid.

"But I got to the final last year then they were. And i still rate being Wimbledon champion the greatest honor a player can have. Smith's progress to the last eight was not without its moments of anxiety. He dropped a set against both Sandy Mayer of Woodmere, N.Y., and Ian Fletcher of Australia. Summing up his feelings about what could happen over '-f' 4V MNiv 1 David Graham Wins Sudden-Death CLEVELAND (AP) David Graham stood on the tee at the Tanglewood Country Club and suddenly realized he hadn't gotten his wife Maurreen, a birthday present.

So he won the $30.000 first prize in the $150,000 Cleveland Open Golf Championship as a present for her. The 26-year-old Australian from Sydney talked about it Monday after he sank an eight- foot putt for a birdie on the second hole of a sudden death playoff to beat Bruce Devlin, his close friend and fellow Aussie. They had tied at 278 for the regulation 72 holes. Golf Scores CLEVELAND tinlMi In the illMW Otll Chute it Cwnuyr Ctak cMnc iMMm ftilh Mr. Dfflli.ll7.il* Lirry HUM.

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"You stand there on the tee," Graham said "and you realize you haven't gotten her a present and you remember that two years ago at St. Andrews she reminded you at 9 p.m. that it was her birthday:" Everything broke right for Graham, a rookie on the pro golf tour. Devlin could have won on the last hole of regulation, but he missed an eightfoot putt. Larry Hirtson, the co-leader with Lanny Wadkins at 206 starting the final round, took a 73 and finished third at 279.

Wadkins posted a 74 to finish in a tie at 280 for fourth place with Miller Barber who closed with a 69. Devlin won $17,100, Hinson $10,650, Wadkins and Barber each $6,600. Fischer Flies REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer accepted a Ixmdon banker's offer to double the prize pot for the world chess championship match to $250,000 and flew to Iceland today for his meeting with Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky. Fischer arrived in the Icelandic capital from New York about five hours before the deadline set by the International Chess Federation. If he had failed to show up by noon, he would have forfeited his chance at the title, first.

prize money of $156,250 and $75,000 from the television and movie rights. The first match, postponed from Sunday, is scheduled to start at 5p.m., or 1 p.m. EOT. Fischer was able to sleep only a few minutes at a time during the flight of 4 hours 40 minutes, the stewardess on the plane said. ttMtt ifttf-Kfrfflii was itiy cBim tennis But if I now wirt WirnbWon.thstwilltoplt." doflttfs, the unseeded old from Belleville, Use.

The Romanian is favored by many veteran tennis watchers to take the title to a munfst country for the first time. other quarter-final matches pit Onny Parun of Net Zealand against Jan Kodes, the fifth-seeded Czech, and Australia's powerful Colin Dibley against Manuel Orantes of Spain, the third seed. In the women's division 17- year-old Chris Evert was through to a long-awaited semifinal against defending champion Evonne Googlagong of Australia. In the other women's semifinal to be played Wednesday, Mrs. Billie Jean King of Long Beach, the No.

2 seed, takes on her old friend and rival, Rosie Casals of San Francisco. When Does Danger Arise? DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. A On the superspeedways, a good part of the show is super speed. The question in the minds of drivers, car owners and speedway officials alike is: when does it get so fast it's dangerous? In today's Firecracker 400, the Dodges of Bobby Isaac, Buddy Baker and Richard Petty and the Mercury of David Pearson can turn laps above 180 miles per hour. Isaac led qualifiers at 186.277 m.p.h.

General agreement is that's not too fast for the aerodynamics of the 1971 and 1972 cars they drive. But two years ago, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) called a halt when Cale Yarborough qualified a Mercury at 194.015 m.p.h. on this 2.5-mile speedway with 31-degree banks. Top speed went to 209 on the newer Talladega, track. Cars couldn't hold a groove on the high banks.

They went slipping and weaving through The carburetor plate was born, cutting the flow of fuel and consequently reducing horsepower to about 600. With the big speed leap this year to a qualifying record of 195.940 by Bobby Unser and race record of 162.962 by Mark Donohue at the Indianapolis 500, Daytona and Talladega were no longer fastest. Est W. L. Pet.

GB Pittsburgh 43 25 .632 New York 42 27 .609 1M. Chicago 37 32 .536 6'4 St. Louis 38 33 .535 Montreal 30 39 .435 Philadelphia 25 45 .357 19 West Cincinnati 43 28 .606 Houston 43 29 .597 Los Angeles 36 34 .514 Atlanta 32 38 .457 San Francisco 30 47 .390 16 San Diego 24 46 .343 18'4 Monday's Results New York at Montreal. 2, rain Philadelphia 4. San Francisco 2 Pittsburgh 3, Chicago 2 St.

Louis 4, Cincinnati 2 Atlanta 13. Houston 9 Only games scheduled American League East W. L. Pel. GB Baltimore 37 30 Detroit 37 30 .552 Boston 31 .477 5 New York 31 34 .477 5 Cleveland 27 39 .409 9'4 Milwaukee 28 40 .394 10'4 West Oakland 45 24 .652 Chicago 41 28 4 Minnesota 38 32 .529 Kansas City 33 35 415 ll'i California 32 451 14 Texas 28 40 .420 16 Monday's 2, Kansas City 1 Boston I.

Minnesota 2 Baltimore IS, Detroit) Oakland 5, CalifofniaO Only iimes scheduled Braves 13, Astros 9 HOUSTON (API -Aaron homtf 1972 CHAMPS-Pictured above are the players and coaches of the National Little League's 1972 champions, Cabot. Front row, left to right, Mike Craig; Kurt Krause, Rusty Gallagher, Terry Ledbetter, Mark Jennings, Craig Steede and Jim Rigsby. Back row, coach Shorty Hudson, Dusty Hudson, Marc Nichols, Verne Cave, Mike Evans, Kerry Braddock, Kevin Cree and coach E.M. "Bob" Keller. Team-members not in the picture were Mike Crippen and Jeff Galey.

(Staff Photo by John Ebling) "Yesterday Is Gone" Says New Brave Denny McLain Mill Martin, executive ftitof the Albany, NT Knickerbocker News- SW, wM "we're not five run Atlanta inning and gave the a IM victory. iut there wii more OH, After every IRM Itkept out of in the Naiw HOUSTON (API In 1988 Denny McLain pitched as if there was no tomorrow. Tomorrow is here now and McLain would like to pitch like yesterday. The former 31-game winner and two-time Cy Young Award winner gets that chance tonight when he takes the mound (or the Braves in Atlanta against the Chicago Cubs in his first major league appearance after a five-week stint in the minor leagues. "Yesterday is gone," said.

McUin, who was the Cy Young winner in IUMI the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1919 "If you could live in yesterday that would be great bit yesterday over and I intend to live with McLain will be wearing his third different uniform of the 1972 season with the Braves. "I'm looking forward to it, there's no doubt about that," said McLain, who was traded last Thursday by the Oakland Athletics in a deal that sent Orlando Cepeda to the A's. "I'm anxious to get the first one over with. "I'm ready but you can still only give 100 per cent and that's what I'll give them." McUin was the darling of baseball in 1918 when he won 31 games for Detroit. He came back with another big year in 1989 but his world fell apart in 1970 when he was suspended for half the season by Commissioner Bowie Kuhji for allegedly carrying a gun.

He also filed for bankruptcy. He was traded to Washington and posted a 10-22 record in 1971. The Texas Rangers Senators sent McLain to Oakland during spring training and the A's shocked McLain down to its Class AA Southern League team at Birmingham to get in shape. McLain spent five weeks in the minors ami was bombed nis first two outings but worked himself back into shape and was 3-3 when the trade came last week. McLain is convinced he is still a major league pitcher.

"If I didn't feel like that i wouldn't be here," he said. McLain has said before of his roller coaster career, "I'm not looking back." Coldest BEER IB Ballentine BEER 6 99 Minit Mart 3100 Pkwy.