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r'p 'r'yp'r1 r- la This Section Joe Falls Page 8 Racing Results Page 10 Outdoors with 0 pre Page 11 Sports SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1973 SECTION BIG RED WHIPS ST ABLEM ATE RIVA RIDGE by 312 Lengths ft 0 JJL JLLviAi' ecre lit IKE MINI yn a iiw.mi iitumniMiMi wnwwwiiiiiii KENNEDY ROAPll i iLfirmit ftTV- finest BY JOE FALLS Pre Press Sportt Editor NEW YORK It was a match race, after all and there was no match for Big Red. Silencing all the doubters and proving his championship class once again, the mighty Secretariat ran away from the greatest horses this country has to offer including his stablemate, Riva Ridge and thundered to a 3'2-length victory Saturday in the Marlboro Cup at Belmont Park. Secretariat was caught in 1:45 2-5 for the mile and an eighth, a World record for a dirt course. The time also tied the American and world record on turf. The universe comes next and oh, yes, this lad will run again.

"We might even put him into the Super Bowl if they can arrange It," smiled Mrs. Penny Tweedy, who saw her great three-year-old atone for his stunning defeat In the Whitney Stakes last Aug. 4 at Saratoga. Riva Ridge gave it all he had but finished a soundly beaten second, while the big West Coast horse Cougar II was third, a full 52 lengths behind. The entry of Secretariat and Riva Ridge paid $2.80, $2.80 and $2.40, while Cougar II returned $3.00.

The two Meadow Stable Jockeys, Ron Turcotte and Eddie Maple, split their winnings. THE REST OF the field? They were strung out from here to California, all floundering in the wake of Secrctari-at's awesome rush to the wire. Onion was fourth, Annihilate 'Em fifth, Kennedy Road sixth, and look who was seventh and last: It was the old pro himself, Key to the Mint, last year's three-year-old champion. His trainer, Elliott Burch, had been knocking Secretariat and his trainer, Lucien Laurin, but like all the other detractors, he'll have to shut his mouth now. Secretariat's jockey, Ron Turcotte, said after the race: "He was ready and I let him run his race early, let him settle down.

He began picking them up at the half-mile pole and I still hadn't really set him down. Coming to the stretch, I saw it was Riva Ridge in front and Mr. Laurin had told me that's the horse to beat. "And when I straightened out I wasn't about to let Riva Ridge beat me. So I asked my horse for the first time leaving the quarter pole, and coming to the three-sixteenths pole he was the old Secretariat.

He just pulled away." Not that he's short of oats, but this victory worth $150,000 made Secretariat a millionaire. His total earnings now stand at $1,037,089. Riva Ridge added another $55,000 to the Meadow Stable bank account while Cougar II, with Willie Shoemaker up picked up $30,000. Really, what can they say now about this colt? The only way they can knock him is to say he won't make much of a Papa. But they're going to have to wait a while, won't they? Out on the track, where it counts, Secretariat stands as the class of the world a truly super horse a horse who has now proven he can run with weight against older and more experienced horses.

HE TOOK THEM ALL on this overcast afternoon on Long Island. And just as he did in the Derby, Preakness and Belmont, he destroyed them. Not a one could keep up with the Big Red Machine once he started rolling through the stretch. The invitational was Secretariat's seventh victory in nine Please turn to Page 10E, Col. 2 r.i 'i' Mvwf'' ivr 1 UPI Photo Far behind, the field vainly chases Big Red across the finish line Saturday MSU outs iowa 9 It 's Wolverines, 31-7 1 ran the stolen football 47 yards for the TD after 5y2 minutes of the second quarter.

The Hawks had enjoyed only one real threat before that, when senior Kyle Skog-man took them from their own 45 to the U-M three, where split end Brian Rollins fumbled a pass reception and Wolverine linebacker Carl Russ (playing for injured Craig Mutch) fell on the football. It wasn't a breeze for U-M, however, Please turn to Page 4E, Col. 2 BY CURT SYLVESTER Pro Prou Iportl Wrltor IOWA CITY Oh-oh another relapse for Michigan football. The Wolverines fell right back into their old habits, doing the same old thing run-ning the football. And winning the game.

Completely disregarding the preseason threat to throw more passes, junior quarterback Dennis Franklin directed the Wolverines fleet of fancy runners to a 31-7 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes in a Big Ten opener before 52,105 fans at Nile Kinnick Stadium Saturday. WHAT IT WAS, was the same old devastating, demoralizing ground game that has become a U-M trademark in coach Bo Schembechler's first four years on the job. Only this time it was more runners and more yardage than even the usual Michigan ground game produces. This time it was 400 yards on the ground, including 133 by tailback Chuck Heater and -1 'western Edges Spartans AP Photo U-M defenders chase one of five Iowa fumbles but Hawkeyes got this one back for five-yard gain BY CHARLIE VINCENT Free press Sports Wrltor EVANSTON, 111. New coadh, new quar- terback, new offense and all, Michigan State; is still plagued by the same old problem: its inability to hold on to the football.

The accident-prone Spartans lost three fumbles and had a pass intercepted and. Northwestern turned those errors into a couple of touchdowns to spoil Denny Stolz's debut as Spartan head coach, 14-10, before 27,305 at Dyche Stadium Saturday. Quarterback Charlie Baggett scored Mich-igan State's only touchdown and drew rave- Golden Don Captures Mich. Mile Hiller Sets Save Record; It's Tigers, 4-3 Si 1 'HHP' 88 by senior fullback Ed Shuttlesworth, that finally finished off the fired up Hawks, who were long on adrenalin and short on points for their season opener. There was another 69 yards from Gil Chapman, plus 50 from little Gordon Bell and 62 yards from Franklin, who managed to scramble out of trouble every time he got into any.

Heater scored once on a one-yard run, fullback Bob Thornbladh scored on a three- yarder, tailback Gil Chapman scored on a 12-yarder and Franklin finished it up with an 11-yarder of his own. AND WHEN it was over, guards Mike Hoban and Kirk Lewis and tackles Jim Coode and Curtis Tucker had done much to alleviate Schembechler's preseason concern over his offensive line. As Bo beamed in victory, as he's done so often: "You can't knock 440 yards, can you?" But what about that passing game that Schembechler promised a few weeks ago? "I hate to tell you this because you probably aren't going to believe me," Bo squirmed, "but we really are a much better passing team than you saw today." JUST FOR THE record, Franklin threw the football eight times. He completed two, for 26 yards, and he had an equal number intercepted. One of the interceptions by Iowa comer-back Earl Douthitt resulted in the Hawk-, eyes' only touchdown of the day.

Douthitt BY JIM HAWKINS Prto Prtu Sport Writ or The Milwaukee Brewers should have known they were dead as soon as they saw John Hiller get to his feet. Anybody who has paid any attention at all to the Tigers this year knows the mustachioed lefthanded reliever has become synonymous with success. Never rrtind what the scoreboard may say at the moment. When Hiller pitches, the" Tigers wfcn. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

And Saturday afternoon certainly was no exception. The Tigers rallied for three runs nn Gates Brown's bases-loaded double in the bottom of the eighth even as Hiller was heating up In the bullpen to overcome the Milwaukee Brewers, 4-3, and make Joe Coleman a 20-game winner for the second time in his career. Coleman, only the fifth man in the majors to reach that magical figure this season, stopped the Brewers on four hits for the first eight innings, then watched from the bench as his teammates finally gave him some support. The amazing Hiller did the rest. Saturday's save left the Tiger rescue artist all alone as the American League's all-time leader with 36 saves just one shy of the major league mark held by Clay Carroll of Cincinnati.

MILWAUKEE'S Jim Slaton was throwing a three-hitter at the Tigers when Dick Mc-Auliffe beat out an infield single to begin the bottom of the eighth. Mickey Stanley came through with a base hit, too, and then Jim Northrup bunted them both along. Slaton, who was on top, 3-1, at the time, walked Willie Hor-ton to load the bases. And Brown lashed the next pitch off the right-centerfield fence to sweep the bases clean and start Hiller warming up in earnest. A single by Ellie Rodriguez was as close as the Brewers could come In the top of the ninth, though, as Hiller got ride of the final two hitters on BY AL COFFMAN Fro Preil Racing Writtr A three-year-old colt so lightly regarded that he ran coupled in the mutuel field with Detroiters Frank and Mike Berry's longshot Roman Scout, proved to be exactly what the doctors ordered in the 25th running of the $100,000 Michigan "Mile" Saturday.

Golden Don, owned by obstreticians J. H. Goldcamp and Archie Donaldson, rocketed all the way from 14th and last place to win with astonishing ease over the heavily-favored Tri Jet. Only a little more than two weeks ago Tri Jet had run away from his younger rival to win the $124,720 Hawthorne Gold Cup in Chicago by five lengths. IN THAT ONE, Golden Don couldn't catch Fred Hooper's horse even though he had 1'4 miles to do it.

Saturday, he got the job done going only 1VS miles under jockey Mike Manganello and he paid a rather generous $25.60 considering his recent showing in Chicago. Tri Jet, though beaten after he seemed to have the victory locked up with a two-length lead 100 yards from the finish, easily saved second money. He had 2 lengths on third-place Aljamin, another fhree-year-old. The best any of the seven local hopefuls could do was fourth. That went to Lone Bird, a 44-1 shot owned by Karil Vangeloff, metropolitan Detroit's fried chicken king.

STRUNG OUT 32 lengths down the stretch came Canadian Jeff, Blue Chip Dan, New Alibhai, Governor Max, Mo Bay, Beau Julian, El Fakir, Master Ribot, Roman Scout and Kilfoil. None had been reckoned as a serious threat to Tri Jet, a Please turn to Page 10E, Col. 1 notices from Stolz for his direction of the Spartans' newly-installed I-formation. BUT THE 20-year-old transfer from North' Carolina wasn't pleased with his varsity debut, even if Stolz was. "I just don't feel like I did what I should have done.

I gotta make the team go and I didn't do it. I don't think I threw well, either," he said. Michigan State had taken a 3-0 lead cm a 28-yard first period field goafcby dirk But even then it was evident the young Spartan offense was in for a long afternoon. MARK NIESEN, who quarterbacked MSU through the second half of the 1972 season before returning to defense this season, put the Spartans within scoring range when he intercepted a Mitch Anderson pass at the Wildcat 30. But the offense sputtered and misfired and Kryt had to bail them out with his three-pointer.

The Northwestern offense, Itself operating under a new coach (John Pont) and a new system (the I-formation), was getting absolutely nowhere against MSU's experienced defense, when up popped the Wildcats' first big break of the day. JUST OVER four minutes were left in the first half when Spartan fullback Clarence Please turn to Page 4E, Col. 1 Hiller strikes to preserve Coleman's much-coveted 20th win. A couple doubles by Joe La-houd and Pedro Garcia the first on a flyball to right that Jim Northrup should have caught cost Coleman a run in the second inning. But Eddie Brinkman neutralized that i a leadoff homer in the third -r the first hit off Slaton and the seventh HR of the season for the skinny shortstop, equalling his best effort since 1966.

THERE WERE two out in the fifth when Bobby Coluccio walked. When Duke Sims bounced his throw into shallow centerfield as Coluccio was swiping second, the Milwaukee rightfielder continued to third. From there, it was easy for him to cross the plate on Don Money's base hit to left. Johnny Briggs becarne Cole- Plcase turn to Page 6E, Col. 1 MICHIGAN 28 75-440 35 10 J-2 3-40 00 a 0 7 0 IOWA 34-118 115 57 10-19-1 2-31 5-4 0-0 VJ'r First downi Rushes vardt Passinq yards Return yards Passes Punts Fumbles lost Penalties yards Michigan Iowa MICH-Lntrv FO 39.

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