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inside this section pages 12-15 Sunday, Oct. 10, 1082 Today's television highlights: ABC 3:00 p.m. Baseball: California at Milwaukee CBC 4:00 p.m. CFL football: B.C. at Edmonton ABC 8:00 p.m.

Baseball: St. Louis at Atlanta HORSE RACING INSIDE OF SPORTS OUTDOORS PRESS Call with sport news: 222-6660 LJ DETROIT FREE Jt Downey Uh playoffs fry- l4 3 Elichs gets some liclis James Neely and an unidentified teammate catch up with an airborne Larry Ricks during first-quarter action at Michigan Stadium. State cornerback Chris Van Pelt (left. on ground), who "tripped up Ricks, was credited with the tackle. The U-M tailback gained four yards on the play.

MSU's No. 74 is noseguard Calvin Perkins; U-M's 88 is tight end Craig Dunaway. iff- "MJSk Tsar High and dry, waiting for a drought to strike St. Louis ST. LOUIS Still here.

The 1982 National League rainoffs were held Saturday night on account of dry. No wonder Lou Brock wore those umbrellas on his head. We gotta get outta this place. On the weekends, Missouri is closed. more rainout and Reggie Jackson had better turn into Mr.

November. In the immortal words of someone else, none of this would have happened if Bowie Kuhn were alive today. Due to the rain, the Budweiser and Michelob at Busch Stadium has turned into 3.2 beer. It rained so hard here, Milwaukee got wet. By the way, a St.

Louis-Milwaukee World Series will be known as Beer Wars. ABC-TV had a lovely close-up Saturday of Milwaukee pitcher Moose Haas wife, Elk. He met her at a stag party. She paid a buck to get in. Keeping a water log Sorry, too much water makes sportswriters crazy.

Pholo by Free Press Chief Photosrapher TONY SPINA MS oivermes mevonir We don't drink it and we don't bathe in it, so we don't know much about it. No wonder Ducky Medwick played here. Stan (the Man) Musial's statue drowned Saturday. Carter catches a flock of U-M records in 31-17 romp He was 16. George Hendrick of the Cardinals still isn't doing with 95 yards on 19 carries.

Michigan's interviews, but as usual, he polite about it. Lonnie other three points came on a 27-yard field goal by Ah Haji-Sheikh. Smith of the Cardinals tells people he "ain't got time," then fools around in the clubhouse and dugout, doing THE VICTORY gave Michigan a 3-2 By JOE LAPOINTE Free Prest Sporti Writer ANN ARBOR The result of Saturday's Michigan-Michigan State game could have been forecast early in the first quarter, when Spartan quarterback Denis Lavelle took the center snap and dropped back a step or two. It was the Spartans' first offensive play nothing. overall record and a 3-0 mark in the Big The Wolverines play at Iowa next week and at Northwestern the week after before re No wonder they call it Busch Stadium.

By the way, who the hell is Anheuser? Don't believe the TV guys when they tell you turning home to face Minnesota Oct. 30. of the game and Lavelle's first play of the Joaquin Andujar is throwing 97 miles per hour. The year. He looked around and seemed to be "We needed this game bad," said Smith.

"We'd lost two games to two good teams (Notre Dame and UCLA) and we'd beaten two teams on the rocks (Wisconsin and Cardinals use a different brand of radar gun that registers his high as 93. seeking someone for a handoff. He found nobody but Michigan linebacker Robert coach Muddy Waters. It will be tough His team had come into the match billed as "the best 0-4 team" in big-time college football. But Saturday, the Spartans seemed inept, disorganized, disspirited and injured both mentally and physically by a Michigan team playing its best game of the year.

THE MARGIN of defeat should have been much worse. One of Michigan State's two fourth-quarter touchdowns was a gift from an official, who seemed to be the only spectator in the crowd of 106,113 who saw State's Darrin McClelland catch a pass in the Michigan end zone. Many in the press box thought the ball was never caught and McClelland might have been out of bounds anyway. "A ridiculous call," said Michigan coach Bo Schembechler, who was penalized 15 yards for running down the field and screaming at the officials. "That incompe-tance is eventually going to cost somebody a game That's unbelievable!" Moving between outrage and sarcasm, the Raging Bo offered facetious criticism for Michigan quarterback Steve Smith, who played his best game of the year with 10 completions in 20 attempts for 1 82 yards and two touchdowns.

Although Smith was cheered throughout the day Saturday, Schembechler made it plain he hadn't forgotten the booing Smith has endured this season. "God, that Steve Smith's awful," Schembechler said tersely in his opening remarks to the media. "Let's get rid of him." Smith threw a seven-yard touchdown pass to tight end Craig Dunaway and a 14-yard touchdown pass to Carter. Smith also ran one in himself from two yards and finished the day with 27 yards on eight carries. "He's a damn good player," Schem-' bechler said.

Lawrence Ricks ran for a seven-yard Michigan touchdown and finished the game Indiana). Thompson, who tackled him for a two-yard Lavelle was replaced early in the second That reminds me of some loss. quarter by John Leister, who completed 31 thing Dave Winfield once said 7- i' 'ft5? of 45 pass attempts. One of the incomple-tions in the third quarter flew hard into the Michigan bench. Appropriately, it about Rich Gossage.

"He throws so hard, it makes MY arm hurt." hit Carter, who finished the game with: The federal government is Three mostly tedious hours later, the Wolverines had a convincing 31-17 victory. Michigan flanker Anthony Carter had five pass receptions, one touchdown, a souvenir football and a bunch of records tied, broken or within reach. The Spartans had a phantom touchdown, an 0-5 record and very little to look forward to on the bus ride back to East Lansing. I'm not too optimistic," said Spartan The Big Ten career touchdown reception asking pitchers to reduce their record of 31 catches, breaking the previous record of 30 held by Indiana's Jade Butcher, speed to 55 miles per hour. Phil Niekro, Saturday 1967-69.

night's starter for Atlanta, See MICHIGAN, Page 5E Stan Musial throws maybe seven miles per NEW CULPRIT, SAME RESULT hour. His catcher, Bruce Benedict, says after seeing Niekro's knuckleball, batters have turned to him and asked, "Am I supposed to hit that?" EtfeilliitilKfili That reminds me of something Dusty Baker once Defense does in Spartans said about Steve Carlton and Nolan Ryan. "I hear they're working on forkballs. Damn, those guys don't want you to get ANY hits." e's mad, but rich top games; Alabama 42, Penn State 21: Quarterback Walter Lewis scored one touchdown, passed for another and set up a third with three key runs and a tricky shovel pass for No. 4 Alabama.

Page 9E. Illinois 38, Purdue 34: Tony Eason hurled four touchdown passes, one a 50-yard bomb in the fourth quarter, for Big Ten leader Illinois. In other Big Ten games, Northwestern upset Minnesota, 31-21 and Wisconsin tripped Ohio State, 6-0. Page 8E. Al (Mad Hungarian) Hrabosky is going to Venezuela "We didn't perform at all.

We came in with the attitude that we weren't going to get humiliated and they humiliated us." Carl Banks, MSU defensive end this winter to develop a forkball. Mad is the only player in baseball currently being paid by both the Cardinals (through 1986) and Braves (through 2012) while pitching for neither of them. This season, Doug DeCinces of the Angels finally came out of the shadow of Brooks Robinson. Saturday against Milwaukee, he played third base like Brooke By JACK SAYLOR Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR Same time, same station, same result Michigan State loses, film at 11. Only the method of defeat was different in the Spartans' 31-17 pummeling by Michigan in the Wolverines' bulging bowl Saturday.

This time, the defense gets to share the blame for the team's fifth straight defeat. For the first time this season, the Spartans were never in it. "Anybody got a Tylenol?" Muddy Waters cracked in a gruesome attempt to break the gloom in State's quiet locker room. "Michigan played a helluva game we got beat by a better team," the Spartan coach said. "We didn't play very well, which was obvious.

We didn't put things together. I'm anxious to see (on film) what happened to our defense. "We did lose a lot of people in there," Waters added, citing injuries to such defensive stalwarts as Smiley Cres-well, Calvin Perkins, James Neely and Howard McAdoo." Waters was not using it as an excuse. He made none at all. "Defensively, we were what I'd say embarrassed," said end Carl Banks, a season-long Spartan stalwart.

"We didn't perform at all. We came in with the attitude Shields. Ben Oglivie is a tough ball player. You'd be tough, Saturday special; Georgia's Her-schel Walker scored three touchdowns and gained 149 yards to break the Southeastern Conference career rushing record. Walker, a junior, has 4,158 yards, breaking the former SEC record of 4,035 by former Louisiana State star Charles Alexander.

Page 8E. too, if you grew up with those initials. Baseball players usually don't intimidate me no matter how tough they look, but if Don Baylor told me to eat a bat, I'd ask him, "What model?" that we weren't going to get humiliated and they humiliated us." THE SPARTANS' long suit all season has been defense, but Michigan exploded for 456 yards, gaining an average of six yards a play. "Steve Smith did a good job and (Anthony) Carter he was great, wasn't he?" Waters said. The brilliant U-M flanker was involved in a brief first-half brouhaha with the Spartan defense, and even got whistled for a personal foul on one occasion.

Then he got in a shouting match with MSU linebacker Neely over the incident. See MSU, Page 5E How come every time a catcher calls for a pitchout Herschel Walker and it works, somebody accuses him of stealing the other team's signs? Maybe some catchers are smart or lucky. Nahhh. Has anybody noticed that the St. Louis double-play combination is Ozzie and Herr? Where's David and Ricky? Brewers slosh past Angels, force deciding game When the rain came in Milwaukee, ABC-TV tempo rarily switched to the Iowa-Indiana college football game.

I've got news for ABC-TV. Rain is more interesting than the Iowa-Indiana college football game. Coming back to my hotel at 2 in the morning I was out all night drinking water the first person I saw in the lobby was Andre the Giant. Andre the Giant is a professional wrestler who is 7-foot-4 and 450 pounds. It is my duty to tell you that now that I have run into Andre the Giant at 2 in the morning, Don Baylor doesn't scare me one teensy-weensy bit.

Poor Tommy. Three wild pitches. How come some By BRIAN BRAGG Free Press Sports Writer MILWAUKEE The Brewers beat the weather and the self-destructing California Angels for the second day in a row Saturday, 9-5, forcing a decisive fifth game in the American League playoffs. Tommy John, who wasn't even supposed to pitch, did, but not very well. Five bases on balls and three wild pitches (a playoff record) told the story of his abbreviated outing.

Reserve outfielder Mark Brouhard killed the Angels with three hits, including a two-run homer in the eighth, and four runs scored an American League playoff record. Brouhard, a late replacement, had not played for a month. The Angels didn't get their first hit off right-hander Moose Haas until the sixth inning more than four hours after Haas was supposed to throw the game first pitch and now they know exactly how the Brewers felt in Baltimore one week ago today. The Angels came to Milwaukee needing only one win for their first-ever pennant. They are still looking for it, and they'll send right-hander Bruce Kison out in search of it this afternoon (3 p.m., ABC television).

Kison five-hit the Brewers at Anaheim Wednesday, but he will be working on three days of rest for the first time this season. The Brewers gave Haas a 7-1 lead, but he weakened quickly in the eighth. A Brian Downing single, a Rod Carew double, a walk and Don Baylor's grand-slam homer got the Angels back in the game. The slam gave Baylor 10 RBIs for the series, another record. But Jim Slaton relieved and kept the Angels from scoring the rest of the way.

BY WINNING Games 3 and 4, the Brewers became only the second team in league championship history to fall two games behind, then rebound to force a series to the best-of-five limit. The 1972 Tigers were the first. Co-incidentally, California's Reggie Jackson was in that '72 playoff as a member of the Oakland A's, and he scored what turned out to be the winning run in Game 5 at Tiger Stadium for Oakland's first pennant. The staying-alive Brewers got a solid performance from Haas, who had to wait through rain delays of 12 and 19 minutes during the middle innings following a 104-minute wait before the game could start. Haas and Brouhard were improbable heroes Saturday.

Brouhard was filling in for leftfielder Ben Oglivie, who bruised his ribs in a collision with the wall on Friday. Send baseman Jim Gantner, hitless in the fist three body named John couldn't handle a little water? games, produced two RBI singles in a Milwaukee attack that in no way resembled their usual longball style. The Brewers still have only one RBI from the trio of Robin Yount, Cecil Cooper and Ted Simmons the Nos. 2-3-4 hitters who combined for 332 during the regular season. JOHN TAMED the Brewers last Tuesday night in Anaheim with a complete-game seven-hitter, and he was going for his fifth win in a league championship series.

California manager Gene Mauch brought him back after three days of rest, even though the Angels' usual rotation and John's normal schedule has called for a four-day break between starts. John walked the first man he faced. Although that base on balls led to no trouble, it was a portent of his lack of control. A leadoff walk to Ted Simmons in the second, during one of the day's showers, started an embarrassing and costly inning for the Angels. After fanning Gorman Thomas, John tossed the first of his three wild pitches, then walked Don Money.

See BREWERS, Page 6E i Gotta go watch the Braves and Cardinals now. Phil Niekro is pitching for Atlanta, Lloyd Bridges or Mark Spitz for St. Louis. If the National League has one more rainout, televi sion is going to show Canadian baseball. The wonderful world of Ozzie: The Cardinals' Ozzie Smith, a shortstop the Tigers once drafted, may the most wonderful in baseball.

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