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Adroit Jfxcc pre SECTION 7 Sports v' In This Section Major League Averages Page 4 The Inside of Sports Page 6 Outdoors rt ith Opre Page 8 3 J4 SUNDAY. JUNE 9, 1974 MORTON, MOSES, BRINKMAN TURN ON POWER iff i Pow! aw Win 2 BJjLS or lger DETROIT CALIFORNIA ab bl ab bl Rivers cf 4 0 2 1 MStanlev cf 4 0 10 Stanton rl 4 0 0 0 Kaline dh 4 110 FRobnsn 4 0 2 0 WHorton II 3 112 ROIiver lb 4 0 110 Sharon If 0 0 0 0 Llenas If 4 0 0 0 Freehan lb 3 0 0 0 Serial 3b 2 10 0 Lane rf 2 10 0 EiRflraez 3 0 10 Mces 3 12 2 DOoyle 2b 2 0 0 0 ARodrgez 3b 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 EBrnkmn ss 3 1 1 1 Tanana 0 0 0 0 MLolich 0 0 0 0 Raziano 0 0 0 0 rj felvU into the upper deck in left with Al Kaline aboard in the lyjitom of the first. And those, quite frankly, were all the runs the Tigers really needed to beat hometown boy Frank Tanana, a last-minute substitute for injured Angel pitcher Bill Singer. JUST THE SAME, Lolich was mighty glad when Moses knocked one into the seats with Marv Lane on base in the seventh. And when Eddie Brinkman followed, one out later, with his fourth homer of the season, snapping an 0-for-28 spell, Mickey felt like he could coast home.

Lolich probably would have pitched a shutout in addition to winning a couple shirts if the heat hadn't caught up with him late in the game. Shortstop Dave Chalk led off the seventh with a home run that cleared the screen in left-centerfield by a couple of inches at the most, and after Lolich walked Paul Schaal to open the eighth, Mickey Rivers tripled to left-center. Other than that, it was a most enjoyable afternoon as Lolich had to look at just 33 Angels, seven of whom struck out. base on balls and then, only because "it was so damn hot 1 got a little tired and lost a little zip off my fastball." THE TIGERS HAVE NOW wony two in a row and hit the ball well both times. And manager Ralph Houk, for one, is convinced they owe it all to coming home.

"I've got to think that's what it is," said the Tiger manager, smiling 'for a change. "We got home, we got our feel on the ground, and we got in some extra hitting. "You just can't play on the road all the time and expect to win especially not early in the year. Living out of a suitcase playing in a different park every three days it's damn tough. "Of course, I was looking for reasons why we weren't hitting," he admitted.

"And if we hadn't started hitting when we got home 1 would have had to look for something else. Dut it just makes too much sense not to be true." or once, the Tigers even treated Lolich to an early lead as Morton hammered his Mth homer of the year halfway up BY JIM HAWKINS Free Press Sports Writer Swilch on the lights! Leave the air conditioning on all night! The energy crisis is over! Whoever pulled plug on the Tigers just put it back in. Willie Horton hit a home run Saturday afternoon now, that's not news hut Jerry Moses and Eddie Brinkman cleared the leftfield barrier, too, as the Tigers simply overpowered the California Angels, 5-2. The sudden barrage of homers added up to victory No. for Mickey Lolich, as the Tiger lefthander singlehandedly stopped the Angels on seven hits (o snap a personal two-game losing streak with his seventh consecutive complete In fact, it was almost a two-shirt afternoon for the The Mick.

You see, Lolich has this standing bet with pitching coach Cot Deal. Any time he goes an entire game without walking 1 anybody, or throws fewer than 100 pitches, Deal buys him a new sport shirt. Saturday afternoon he missed by two pilches and one 32 2 7 2 Total 28 5 7 5 Tolal California Detroit 000 000 1102 200 000 30x 5 DP-Califprnia 2, Detroit 1. LOB Cali-fftrnia- 4, Detroit 2. 3B Rivers.

Horton (14), Chalk (4i, Moses (2), IP tR BB SO Taiiwia (L.4-7) 6 2-3 7 5 5 2 0 Ronano 1 1-3 0 0 0 1 0 M.lolich IW.6-7) 7 2 2 1 7 A 12,013. 1 i 4 Frank Tanana Belmont: Ruin Tigers Vs Little 4 Tanana 's Return 41. i Current 1 yai The Belmonl Finish 1 Little Current 2 Joly Johu 3 Cannonade 4 Rube The Great 5 Kin Run 6 Hudson County 8 Sea Songster 9 Bold And Fancy -4 KA 5 L. ft i NEW YORK (UPI) Little Current exploded in the stretch at Belmont Park Saturday, just as he did two weeks ago in the Prcakness, find puled away from eight rivals to easily win the 1 06th running of the. Belmont Stakes.

After running far back in the early stages of the mile-and-a-half race as is his usual custom, Little Current started his move toward victory on the final turn. In an amazing display of speed, the son of Sea Bird sprinted inside several horses and then swung out to take command shortly after entering the stretch. ONCE THE gallant little colt was straightened out at the start of the homestretch, the $169,950 race was all over. Little Current, with jockey Miguel rivera, steadiy increased his margin and he scampered over the finish line seven lengths in front, the same margin as in the Preakness. Jolly Johu finished second, onily a nose in front of Cannonade, the Kentucky Derby winner.

Little Current, wb never got a chance in the Kentucky Derby when he was almost knocked down in the field of 23, was timed in 2:29 1-5 over the testing distance. Little Current was the favorite of the crowd of 52,564 and paid $4.10 and $.1.40 across the board. Jolly Johu paid $15.40 and $7.60 while Cannonade paid $180. Little Current's victory gave John W. Galbreath's Darby Dan Farm its second Belmont I 'tvA i "Ail Stakes victory.

Galbreath won the Beliw.n: with Chateaugjy in 1963, but it was the first victory for Rivera and trainer Lou RonJinello. THE VICTORY was worth $101,970 and it raised Little Current's iifrtime earnings 'a $309,162. It was the ourth stakes victory for this stretch- -running coit, who earlier in the year had won the Everglades Stake at liialeah Park and finished fifth in the Kentucky Derby Rivera, who drove Little Current through a hole along the rail to win the Preakness, used the rail again to gain when victory was sight, he swung the colt to the outside and in a twinkling went past Cannonade, Jolly Johu and Rube The Great, who still were in front of him at the start of the straightway. Jolly Johu ou'tgained Cannonade for second place in a photo finish. Rube The Groat finished fourth, followed by Km Run, Shady Character, Hudson County, Sea Songster and Bold and Fancy.

.9 BY CURT SYLESTER Free Fress Sports Writer This wasn't the homecoming young Frank Tanana had been dreaming of. Six and two-thirds innings on the mound against the Tigers. Five runs given up. Touched for three homers. The losing pitcher.

Definitely not the homecoming the 20-year-old Dctroitcr had dreamed of ever since the day in June of 1971 when he signed a contract with the California Angels. "You don't know how badly I wanted to win this game," he said quietly, poking disinterestingly at a plate of food in front of him. "We need to win so bad to get ourselves going. I really wanted to win But Saturday wasn't the day for the ex-Catholic Central star of the Angels, who absorbed a 5-2 loss to the Tigers. AND TANANA WASN'T blaming anybody except himself.

There was not much of a way he could after Willie Horton, Jerry Mosses and Eddie Brinkman all put the bill into the leftfield seats. "All three pitches that hurt me were fastballs up around the eyes," Tanana admitted. "Bad pitches. No excuse for it." He wasn't copping a plea, either. No jitters in front of the home crowd.

No awe at facing the hitters lie had admired as a kid growing up in Tiger Stadium. "I never thought about that," he said. "Maybe it will hit me tonight when I'm just sitting "It's no different than pitching to a Harmon Kill'ebrew or. anybody else. When they're at the plato, you don't even pay any attention to who they are.

"You know who they are but you don't think about it," he explained. "You just put them in categories. Like for Rod Carew, you say 'good And for Willie Horton you think 'power hitter, keep it down, bring it "So what did Frank do? I gave him a high fastball and it ends up 20 rows into the upper saw Willie when I. was a kid," Tanana said disgustingly. "They'd give him a high heater and whack." AS FAR AS TANANA is concerned, there were only two good things to come out of his first appearance as a major leaguer in Tiger Stadium.

His family was not on hand to see him lose and he found that he had no pain in the tender left elbow that had cost him a regular turn in the Angels' rotation. "Most of my family came out last night," he said. 'Today my sister graduated from St. Andrew and they had to stay home to get ready for the party. 1 didn't know for sure until this morning that I was going to pitch," Tanana, the regular No.

3 starter in the California rotation, had been nursing the elbow since May 29 when he strained it during an altercation between the Angels and Milwaukee He was scratched from the rotation in the Detroit srics but got the call when Bill Singer came up with a bad back and was sent back to Los Angeles Saturday morning. "My only apprehension about going into the game was the arm," he said. "And that was about the best thing that came out of this day. I know now that the arm is okay. That's a load off my mind." EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST and seventh innings, Tanana actually was effective against the Tigers.

Horton hit his two-run homer in the first and, after yielding a couple of harmless singles in the second inning, Tanana retired the next II men in a row. The two-run homer by Moses and Brinkman's solo in the seventh ended his stay, however, and dropped his season record to 4-7. His trouble with the home run pilch is not new for the promising young lefty. He has now given up 15 in 106 innings he has pitched this season. Going into Saturday's game he had the best ERA on the California pitching staff and, without the homers, it would have been even more Impressive.

"It's all a part of the game," he said, shaking his head. There a lot of ifs but it all happens the same anyway." Tanana finally finished his plate of lunch and started to get up. "I really wanted to win this one," he grinned, "but we'll he back and I'll be back." -V Free Press Plioto by BOB SCOTT Willie Horton starleo blast. I ur rs Jiomer oarade alun av il a seco in inning Oh, Baby! heels Hit Camp Gabrielsen Drops Final In Britain 92 Players, Guitars, Infant Help Team Start Ypsi Drills MUIR FIELD, Scotland -(AP) Trevor Homer of England held off the late charge of 1 American Jim Gabrielsen and i won the coveted British Amateur Gold Championship, 2-up, in the 3fi-hole final Saturday. Victory came with a double- bogey six for Homer at the last hole, where Gabrielsen BY CHAR LI VINCENT Free Press Sports Writr YPSILANTI They came trickling in through the front door of Hill Hall at Eastern Michigan University Saturday.

They came with stereos, guitars, foot lockers, and one even brought his wife and baby to meet the Detroit Wheels' coaching staff. Some came with a single, small suitcase apparently anticipating a short stay. It was opening day at the Wheels' pre-season training camp and 92 football players, ranging from a veteran 33-year-old punter-placekicker to a 26-year-old running back who didn't even play college ball checked in with high hopes. PROBABLY THE MOST experienced player in the World Football League training camp is Booth I.usteg, the kicker who was with Buffalo, Miami, Pittsburgh and Green Bay for five years. I.usteg will compete for the one punting and place-kicking opening with another former Green Bay kicker, Dale Livingston, -l The least experienced is Charlie Robinson, a swift running back who played at Mackenzie High School in Detroit seven years ago hut never played in college.

Must of the other till players have far more experience than Robinson, and far less than Lustcg. Carl Taibi, one of the first to check in Saturday morning, is typical. The 6-foot-4, 2(0-pound defensive lineman had tryouts with Washington and Philadelphia of the National Football League the past two years but both times was cut shortly before the season opened. "You know, you kinda go into shock for a couple of days when you are cut," he said. "I finally wrote them in Philadelphia and asked where I was lacking, but they never told me much.

So I still don't know where they thought I was deficient." LIKE MANY OF THE PLAYERS in camp, Taibi thought his pro career, was over until the WFL came along. "I didn't know if I'd get a third shot in the NFL or not. I figured they'd be a little leary alter I'd been cut twice." So he started talking to Edmonton in the Canadian Football League and then to the Hawaiians in the WFL before he was notified he had been put on the Wheels' protected list meaning no other WFL team could negotiate with him. "I was a little upset at first," he admitted. "I didn't know anything about the Detroit team and I had kinda planned to play in Hawaii.

But now that I'm here, I really have a good feeling about this." Taibi was voted the outstanding defensive lineman during his senior season at the University of Colorado, was second team all-Big Eight what my coach told me, I never got a certificate or and was drafted in the 15th round by the Redskins who had traded away nine of their top draft selections that year. But he never made it to opening day. "1 still want a chance to establish myself," he said. "I really don't know anything else but football. "I've done a lot of other things.

I've driven a truck, worked for an employment agency, done construction, worked in a meat-packing house, and in my dad's bar. I don't keep a job very long. "I just haven't found anything that interests me like football Coach Dan Boisture and his staff held their first meeting with the squad Saturday night. Sunday is set aside for physicals. And at 9 a.m.

Monday, they go to work in earnest with a full. scale workout scheduled for EMU'S practice field. look a horrendous seven. Homer, a 6-foot-3 company director who also won this tourney in 1972, grabbed the lead at the first hole over Muirfield's strangely windless par-71 links. GABRIELSEN, a 33-year-old insurance broker from Atlanta, made a big effort after the final turn for home but despite pulling even at the 33rd 1 the American Walker Cup golfer could not maintain his charge.

"It was hard to finish like that," said a smiling Gabrielsen, who took a horrible triple bogey at the last hole after pulling his six-iron into a big bunker. 'No Connors Proves 1 1 Again Connors downed England's Mike Collins, a student at Oklahoma State University, 13-11, fi-2, for the men's title after Miss Latham, unseeded, defeated No. 3 seed Leslie Charles of England, 6-3, 6-4. MANCHESTER, England -(AP) Top-seeded Jimmy Connors of Belleville, 111., and Kate Latham of Palo Alto, won the championships in the Northern Lawn Tennis Tournament Saturday..