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iv-. DETROIT FREE TRESS Mondav. June 10. 'H 1-f Town miiyJsBack And, Boy, Would He Love to Beat Tigers Wv Ji I v' BY JIM HAWKINS Free Press Sport! Wrllr Baften down the hatches. Billy is back! Brash, brazen, banished Billy Martin returns from exile Monday evening with his suddenly not-so-ridiculous Texas Rangers.

Jt's the moment Billy has been waiting for ever since the Tigers canned him last Sept. 2, as he sat home, suspended and unable to defend himself. What Billy wants most now Is for the crowd (capacity, of course) to stand and cheer as he strides toward homeplate with the line-up card before the game beRins. He wants to stand there and thumb his nose at Jim Campbell and the Tigers. Then he wants to beat them oh, how he wants to beat them, to show the world what a masterful job he has done with the Rangers and what a mistake the Tigers made when they got rid of him.

And if you know the way Alfred Manuel Martin's mind works, you know that he cannot conceive of it happening any other way. ANYTHING CAN happen when Martin and the Tigers get together on the field, but if you expect Billy to take on his former players in a free-wheeling fist fight forget it. But you can bet he will be in rare form in the Ranger dugout, taunting the Tigers at every opportunity. Jim Northrup Is sure to hear his name called once or twice. And the expletives won't be deleted.

But Northrup has refused to engage in name-calling contests with Billy before, and presumably he will continue doing so particularly with his batting average limping around the .200 mark. Tiger first base coach Dick Tracewski the man Martin blamed for getting him fired and branded "Benedict Arnold" will be a prime target too. He will be standing there in front of the Ranger dugout in the bottom of each inning. But Tracewski has already made up his mind "I'm not going to let him goad me into anything." MARTIN UNDOUBTEDLY will get his rousing welcome, but there won't be anything like 50,000 in the stands, more likely half that amount. Just to be sure, Martin engaged in a little public relations work last week in Cleveland when he claimed that Detroit fans had "too much class" to behave as the Cleveland fans did during the riotous 10-cent beer night.

Apparently Martin conveniently chose to forget the vile words that used to flow in his direction from behind the Tiger dugout when things were going bad. And how mad that used to make him. When he was managing the Tigers, Martin would always gloat whenever the team played in Minneapolis, where the adoring press and faithful public still fawn all over him. And he wants very much to have the same thing happen here. This spring he privately predicted the Tiger fans would all be on their feet, applauding him and booing Ralph Houk, by the time the Rangers leave town.

Clearly, Martin is not a man who takes his adoration lightly. In Minnesota, In Detroit, and now in Texas, his "modus operandi" has been the same. First he charms the pants off the press and believe me, Billy can be charming when he wants to be. In Detroit, Martin was so successful that he convinced one veteran writer, since retired, that he wanted to win the 1972 pennant as a tribute to him. ONCE HE HAS the writers safely on his side, Martin can rest assured the fans are going to read glowing reports, day after day, about what a genius he is.

And, after a while, they're going to begin to believe. Only then does Martin feel like he has the power to stand up to the front office. At a recent luncheon honoring Martin, the master of ceremonies declared: "Billy has pleased the fans, the players, and the writers. The only people he has displeased were Please turn to Tage 2D, Col. 1 AP Photo Itilly Martin returns to show up Timers? reak Nolan Ryan's isers BY JIM HAWKINS Free Press Sports Writer Thp Tigers need not kneel and bow humbly toward the mound next time they see Nolan Ryan standing there.

The spell has been broken. The fellow with the fastball is flesh and blood, skin and bones, after all. The Tigers finally proved that to themselves Sunday afternoon. Instead of kow-towing to the California righthander as they have habitually done, they sent base hits flying all over the ballpark to flatten the Angels and their celebrated ace, 5-3, for their third win in a row. Five runs.

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I know right from the first inning I didn't think he was throwing that hard." "Instead of throwing his fastball 100 percent of the time, he'd give you his 'pretty good' fastball and only rear back when he really needed Total 36 3 10 3 Total 34 5 11 4 California Ml 1)01 too 3 Detroit 002 300 OOx- E-Stanton. OPOefrolt 1. LOB California 10, Detroit 10. 2B Sutherland, Rivers, Kaline, M. Stanley, W.Horton, Stanton.

SB Stanton. IP ER BB SO Rvan (L.7-A) 11 5 4 5 LaGrow (W.5-4) 9 3 3 2 Hiller 3 10 0 14 HBP-by LaGrow (Chalk). 1 "fc AP Photo it," observed designated first baseman Bill Freehan. "IT CERTAINLY didn't look to me like he was throwing as hard as he did in Ana- rhere wore hats thousands of them and just as many happy kids at Rat Day Sunday Please turn to Page 2D, Col. 1 I Loves Face A Top Gal In Evonne BY HOWARD ERICKSON Free Presi Sporti Writer 1 The Detroit Loves haven't exactly been hurting for big names while attempting to attract decent-sized crowds to their World Team Tennis matches at Cobo Arena.

Top-name men players, that is. Women are another matter, however. But that will change Monday night when Evonne Goolagong and the Pittsburgh Triangles come to Cobo to play the Loves in a 7:30 p.m. match. YPSILANTT Booth Lusteg was trying his best to bp polite.

Hp answerPd the first couple of questions while shooting quizzical glances at his interrogator. Finally he could hold it in no longer. "The Free Press, huh? You work for that underground newspaper." "No, this is the Detroit Free Press a family newspaper. Not the one you are thinking about out on the West Coast." "Oh," he said, still not certain what the Detroit Free Press was, "I can dig that." That's the way things went the first weekend In tlhe Detroit Wheels' pre-season training camp at Eastern Michigan University. Nobody was quite sure who or what anybody else was.

Four Wheel assistant coaches sat at a table Saturday evening as the team ate its first meal together. "Who's that guy over there in the flowered shirt?" one of them asked. Nobody knew. "Probably some kicker," was the best guess. It was Lusteg, who kicked field goals for Buffalo, Miami, Green Bay and Pittsburgh from 1966 until 1970.

Later Uhe coaches sat around Dan Boisture's office and discussed the players that had reported to camp. "Did Davis check in yet?" one asked. "Yeah," another replied. "You know, I thought he was white." "Nope, never has been." Noiv, There's a Familiar Face Quarterback Bubba Wyrhe, who has lost a bit of touch with America in four seasons playing in the Canadian Football League, looked around the dining room and admitted: "I'm feeling a little better about things now that I see some familiar faces." All the faces he knew were other CFL veterans. Wheel equipment manager Rip Collins smiled pridefully at one of his sons as the first day of camp came to an end.

"My boy, here, is pretty sharp," Kip grinned. "He hadn't 1 been here an hour when he came up to me and said: "Dad, I never knew there were so many confused people in the whole world'." Whether or not the Wheels are very good in their first World Football League season remains to hi! teen. But even at this early stage it seems almost certain they will be entertaining possibly the same way the old New York Mets were entertain-, ing but entertaining, nevertheless. Lusteg, if he's still around when the season begins, could be among the most interesting. Despite his NFL experience, and the fact he led all pro kickers in scoring in his rookie year with Buffalo in 1966, he looks and acts little like the stereotype professional football player.

He's almost reed-thin, with sharp features and squinty eyes. And the flowered shirt and white pants he wore into camp Saturday made him look like a beachboy who was lost. But he has probably played more football if punting and placekicking can, indeed, be called playing football than any other man in camp. His career, though, has been unorthodox. Sweepers and Lusteg played only one year of college ball his freshman year at the University of Connecticut.

But he decided to give pro ball a try after leaving school "because specialists were just beginning to come into vogue." He played with the Boston Sweepers of the Atlantic Coast League in 1964 and '65, then led the Bills in scoring in 1966. He bounced around the NFL for parts of five seasons and when he was cut in 1970 he decided to chuck football for good. The retirement lasted just one year, though. And since then he's been bouncing around the bus leagues, kicking for the Columbus Barons in the Midwest League and Hartford and Long Island in the Atlantic Coast. "The minors are interesting," he concedes.

"A lot of funny things happen down there. But it's definitely not first class. You know, it's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. "It's a pretty difficult life, but I had it easy enough. We live in Miami and my wife works for Eastern Airlines so every week I'd just fly up on a pass.

I was only with the team a day or two each week. "Say," he said, suddenly changing the subject. "How many kickers are in camp?" "Just two. You and Dale Livingston." "Yeah? He's been out of football a couple of years, hasn't he? I've kept my finger in it. I think I'm still young for a kicker.

I averaged 41 yards a punt in the Midwest League last season and it's tough down there, the offensive line breaks down so oflen. Booth hadn't seen the Wheels' offensive line yet. This league is going to be interesting, too, Booth. Ver-r-r-ry Interesting. Evonne Goolagong NY oody's Doc timistic Op The Triangles were in town earlier this season but Evonne was in Italy representing Australia in the Federation Cup matches.

The Loves had an easy time chipping some of the corners off the Triangles then. But with FIvonne playing women's singles and doubles, the Loves can expect a tougher match. MISS GOOLAGONG, you'll remember, is the dainty gal who knocked off all the biggies at Wimbledon in 1971 and became the teenage heroine of the tennis world that year. Since then, she has built up her game and reputation and her world ranking, presently No. 4.

But she has had some upsets along the way. Just last week, the 22-year-old aborigine Aussie (she is a member of Australia's original race of inhabitants) was denied entry into the French Open in Paris. Not only denied entry her case was tossed out of a French court. Officials there ruled that because Evonne had signed a contract to play WTT, she was ineligible to play in the French Open one of the Big Four major tournaments in tennis. The huling hurt.

Evonne and ner coach, Vic Edwards, figured this was the year for the Sydney native to rule women's tennis by winning the French, Australian, American and English (Wimbledon) titles. IT WON'T happen until, that is, her WTT contract runs out, or WTT reaches some ac- Please turn to Page 2D, Col. 3 COLUMBUS, O. (AP) -Woody Hayes, Ohio State's 6-year-old football coach, remained in satisfactory condition Sunday at University Hospital, a spokesman said. Hayes' physicians said the Buckeye coach of 24 years, who earned a total of 192 college victories, suffered a mild heart attack Thursday morning.

"If things proceed on schedule, I see no reason he can't be back coaching next fall," one of Hayes' physicians said. "After all, we elected two presidents who'd had heart attacks and you have another classic example in Woody's own profession, Ro Schem-bechler." Schembechler suffered a heart attack on the eve of Michigan's appearance in the .1970 Rose Bowl. He. was back at full duty the next fall. DIG THIS: NEW BRIEFCASE PAJAMAS FROM PLEETWAY, IN DUPONT NYLON TRICOT.

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