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2F DETROIT FREE PRESSMONDAY, JUNE 23, 1980 A Great Caesars 'ghost still overshadows Auto Kings Baseball's modern record lor consecutive wins at the start of a season Is 10 games, set by three teams, all within the last 25 years. Name the teams and the years. sports people Katy Williams 42 home runs. The Dodgers went on to win their first World Series ever, four games to three over the Yankees. The 1962 Pirates won their first 10 games but faded to fourth behind the Giants, Dodgers and Reds.

The 1966 Indians started with 10 wins but finished in fifth place, costing manager Birdie Teb-betts his job. Bill Mercereau, Toledo Today's Question: Which pennant winning team had the lowest team batting average? Stephen Wojtanowskl, Detroit There are some things that Mike Gouin, the Detroit Auto Kings player who doubles as the professional softball team's manager, can control. Like where he plays on the field play wherever I want," he says). Like when his teammates show up for practice of them come from work in three-piece suits, but they're there," he says). whom he signs to his team have tryouts, but they're tryouts by invitation," he says).

IjiAnd then there are things that Gouin can't Control. Like the weather. 'Do you know," Gouin said, "that three week I Ul IMG II II CC ICG1I I IO IU 8133 9et ,0 blazing starts, 8id3 bats only one wem on io win ine pennant, the Dodgers of 1955. That team won 22 ot pay $5 If your question and answer art published. Send to Side Bets, Sports, Detroit Free Press, 321 W.

Lafayette, Detroit, 48231. Include your name, address, telephone number and source Information. Phone calls not accepted. its first 24 games and was 12V? games ahead of the pack by July 4. MVP Roy Campanella paced the attack with a .318 average and 32 homers while Duke Snider had 136 RBIs and for the rccordCuevas challeges Duran record was 1,51154 loop-de-loops.

Powell, 27, of Hillsdale, went up at dawn at Almont Airport and came back to earth four times to refuel. He set down for the final time at sunset. "Everything went very well," said Powell. "The weather was no problem and people helped me on the ground. It was perfect flying." Inside loops are difficult stunts in which the pilot finds himself at the inside, rather than the outside, of the curve.

Powell admitted to feeling "dizzy, weak-kneed and disoriented" when he landed the first time. He felt better after eating the peanut butter sandwich he had stashed in the cockpit. Powell works as an oil driller when he isn't flying loop-de-loops. JOHNNY RUTHERFORD, the winner of the Indianapolis 500, averaged 71 miles-per-hour in a hyrbid car at Pocono International Raceway over the weekend. Accompanied by U.S.

Auto Club observer Don McGregor, Rutherford did 20 miles around the track in the six-wheel, 38-horsepower electric and gasoline powered experimental vehicle. "While we are not going to produce this car, wei hope somebody will make hybrids for sale to the' public," said Doug Janisch, project engineer for Briggs and Stratton the car's developer. The car established a series of records for hybrid cars. BOB GREENWOOD leaves for Yugoslavia Monday, where he will coach the Yugoslavian national team in the Moscow summer Olympics. Officials believe it is the first time a Communist country has ever dipped into the American coaching ranks for a mentor.

With the U.S. on the sidelines because of their boycott of the games, the Yugoslavs are given a good chance for a medal, along with the Soviet Union and Cuba. Greenwood, 44, will assist player-coach Ranko Zeravica. Grenwood has been out of coaching for the last six years. He last lead Washington State in 1972-73, where the squad had a 15-11 record.

ml in, ends ago we played with tornado warnings, and two weekends ago it was in the 40's?" Such are the dilemmas of the Auto Kings, members of the newly formed North American Softball League and Detroit's least-known professional team. "We're a good team, but we're not drawing the fans the way we did before," Gouin said. He means, of course, the way the Caesars did before. Like last season. each weekend to charter a bus and travel to other league towns, where they play two doubleheaders in two days against teams with names like the Rivermen (Cincinnati), Champions (Pittsburgh) and Schlitz (Milwaukee).

Their other opponents go by names like Chicago Nationwide Advertising, Cleveland Stepien's Competitors, Lexington Staiuons, and Ft. Wayne Hug-gie-Bears. If Gouin, as manager, needs to trade one player for another after all, they are professional sportsmen he can do it. But he wouldn't. "All of us have jobs," he said.

"We've got men on the field who are salesmen, accountants, supervisors. Softball is their second love. The trade clause is in the contract, but no man's going to leave his job for softball. If I got traded out of Detroit, I'd quit." Gouin himself is a recreation superintendent for Canton township. He grew up in Wayne, played baseball for Eastern Michigan, and has played organized slo-pitch softball since 1959.

Dennis Cuccia, the team's vice-president, has a degree from the Ohio University School of Sports Management, and truly believes that pro softball is far more skill-oriented than the amateur game. "For one thing, the pro fences are a minimum of 315 feet," Cuccia said. "This way the scores are more even. You don't have some overweight pa-looka hitting the ball over the fence every time up." STEVE POWELL spent Saturday flying covinous inside loops in a single engine Bellanca, setting a world record of loop-de-loops. The old Mike Gouin exercises to win the all-round title at the Soviet Cup championship.

Nelll Kim, the Soviet Union's top all-round gymnast in recent years, passed up the competition, but Soviet officials said she is expected to compete in the Olympics. HORSE RACING: Veteran jockey Avellno (El Per-fecto) Gomez, who has ridden more than 4,000 winners, died in a hospital Saturday night, hours after he was involved in a three-horse spill during the Canadian Oaks Stakes at Woodbine. Gomez was aboard Swisskin and battling for the lead going into the far turn when his mount's right hind leg snapped and her back sagged as Gomez tried to pull up. Two following horse then ran into Gomez and the fallen Swisskin. MOTORCYCLE RACING: Ted Boody of Lansing finished third in the Charity Newsies-Winston Pro Motorcycle Race at Columbus, Ohio.

Ernie Beckman of Ypsilanti, winner of the 1952 race, was inducted into the Charity Newsies Hall of Fame before the race BASKETBALL: Barry Spencer of Detroit Catholic Central, and David Swllley of Saginaw Buena Vista, were named most valuable players in the first state all-star game sponsored by the Michigan Basketball Coaches Saturday at Mount Pleasant Greg Manning scored 25 points and Reggie Jackson 23 to lead the University of Maryland team to its third straight victory, 103-71, over a Chinese college all-star team at Nagoya, Japan. In the first game of a three-nation tournament, the Americans beat a Japanese collegiate all-star team 139-77. The Americans also beat the Japan Nationals, 92-64, in the second game Saturday. BOXING: Jose (Plplno) Cuevas, the WBA's welterweight champion, said he is willing to fight the new WBC champ Roberto Duran "anywhere, anytime" including his home turf in Panama. GYMNASTICS: Russian schoolgirl Yelena Davy- dova scored a perfect "10" in the floor And the season before that.

Gouin, and most of his Auto King clubmates, remember their old team the Caesars well. Which is understandable. The Caesars were twice the champions of the American Professional Slo-Pitch League, still in existence but somewhat weakened this season by the departure of six teams, which now form the North American League. And the new league is the very reason why Gouin and his softball buddies leave their families jVlilo Kings, Champions split 2 PITTSBURGH The Detroit Auto Kings split a North American Softball League doubleheader with the Pittsburgh Champions Sunday, winning the first game 13-5, and losing the nightcap, 10-6. rTTTTTTTT TTTITTTTTTTTTTTITTXP FOB A BETTER ALL ROUND OEAL DISCOUNT TIRES WHEEL CENTERS iraViBJI-JTl MAO WHEELS 21.95 PI C7I-13 C78-14 E7I-14 E31 li 1 Taivc on all Styles ZS.S9M Brand New First Line M.ssM 071-14 TiMry? 94.95 H71-14 07S-1S UTfl.lft H6 S8H L7S-H WMRfJ ESTl23t00 Van 0U 7MKH 427-4744 M1M44 7223114 Tn(W-U(D-21M3Eurtt KMBOM MEDIO 14441 1.

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