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2D Wednesday. Oct 2, '68 DETROIT FREE PRESS Gotta Ge Brock 9 Soys Freehan BY JACK SAYLOB Frit Press Sports Writer ST. LOUIS Lou Brock? Yeah, he's fast, but Bill Freehan moves around pretty good, too. Not satisfied with the scheduled workout at Busoh Stadium, the Tiger catcher was up early and had a brisk post-breakfast walk around the block to start his day's exercise. "What the hell he steals 50-60 bases a year, he can steal on us," Cash said.

"First, we'll try to keep him off base, but if he gets on we'll just keep him as close as possible then forget about him. "Our first thought has to be getting the batters out. There's no sense worrying so much about the runner that McLain would alter his whole pitching style and serve a fat one to the plate." Brock stole seven bases against the Boston Red Sox and ran them ragged in last year's series. He also stole 62 bases for the Cards this season. The secret ot success therefore would appear to be: Keep Brock and Curt Flood (especially Brock) off the bases.

"That would be a good way to start," Freehan said. "We talked about it in our team meeting when we discussed the scouting reports." windows of the plush "Stadium Club" In deep left-center. "We got guys plenty strong enough to hit It out the ball carries good here," Cash said. "But we won't be up there trying for home runs believe me we won't that would be the worst thing to do. "The park won't beat us," Cash added.

"Although Gibson might have something to say about it." IV- I I I 1 St Lenten tjMMjaMfttotitw'y''" FREEHAN was on the field early, watching the Cardinals take batting practice. "I gotta' get Brock," he grinned as the fleet St. Louis outfielder took batting practice. "I'm gonna go step on his toe." There are a number of Interesting matches In this world series Mayo Smith vs. Red Schoendienst Denny McLain vs.

Bob Gibson Mickey Stanley vs. shortstop but one that could be pivotal to the outcome is Freehan vs. Brock. THE TIGERS expressed satisfaction with Busch Stadium after their hitting drill. The Cardinals only hit 30 homers here this season, but several of the Tigers reached the seats with plenty to spare in their workout.

Cash drilled one Into the rightfield seats and Freehan called to him: "Hey, don't you know you're not supposed to hit 'em out here?" Freehan than followed by hitting the AL KA1XVE and Jim Northrup agreed that Busch Stadium should be no ogre for the Tigers. "The ball carries well here," Kaline said, especially in the daytime." "It's a lot like Oakland's park," Northrup added. "The ball goes a little better to left and left-center than It does to right, though. It's a nice park for the fans." BROCK, HOWEVER, denounced the value of scouting for his purposes. "It's hard for a scout to advise me on a pitcher's moves unless he was a baserunning type himself," said the soft-poken Brock.

"We Juat talk about fundamentals in our scouting reports." First baseman Norm Omh was philosophical about the situation. 1 Bill Freehan Taking notes 'We're Gonna Al Grateful to Stanley For Chance to Start Run Let Lou mm ST. LOUIS flJPD Red Schoendienst has a special piece of news. Special for the Detroit Tigers. Extra special for Bill Freehan, their catcher.

'It's Just another ballpark," Willie Hortoo observed. "There is a lot of ground to cover there, though." Nobody even asked Mickey Stanley what he thought about hitting here, but one or two (hundred, that is) asked him about playing the infield. IF THE MICK has any mis givings about The Great Experiment, however, he need only look left or right for moral support. "He's a helluva centerfleld- er, but I think he can be a great shortstop, too," said second baseman Dick lffe. "I had some apprehen sions about it at first I didn't think he could adjust so fast.

"The last five days he did a good Job. I don't think he'll have a problem at alL He has a strong arm and has no trouble going to his right into the hole. "Mickey has good range," third baseman-Don Wert noted. "HeU talk with McAul- lffe more than me, but if plays too close to me I'll move him. It all depends on who's pitching I play off the baseline more, especially if Denny is pitching." The baseball world awaits the results, but this is the "Show Me" state, so the Ti gers expect to show 'em.

Six 3 ground balls hit to the outfield here because St. Louis is a running team and they'll take the extra base on you. If the field was in bad condition you'd be worrying about the ball taking a bad hop and getting past you. The Infield la very hard here almost like baked clay and the ball goes through in a hurry. I like that because I hit a lot of ground balls.

THE GUYS were all surprised at how well the ball carries here. With all the publicity about how big this park Is, we throught you'd have to hit it your best to put one out. Actually, the park is very much like the new one in Oakland except that the ball carries much better here. Bill Freehan hit the glass windows BY AL ALINE Tiger Rightfielder ST. LOUIS Tony Kubek had a good line about the World Series.

He said you're as nervous as you'll ever be in your life until the seventh game and then it's even worse. I'm nervous but IH get over it once the game starts. This is my first World Series and I didn't think I was going to start in rightfield. It surprised me and I appreciate Mickey Stanley even trying to do the job at shortstop. I know there'll be great pressure on him it's tough enough in just a regular season game let alone the World Series.

But I'm happy I'm playing and I hope I play well enough to get in some more. I like the park here. I liked it when I played in the All-Star game two years ago. I started In centerfield then and got a single off Juan Marichal. Writers Favor Can! in si Is ST.

LOUM With the men Hie World Serif, It's the ht. Louis Cardinal by a 3 2 margin. Tiger wnlimwit in a Free Tress m11 came primarily from writers from the American League cities who became true believers In Detroit after the Tigers' repeated late-inning rallies squanhed the rest of the league mentally and on the scoreboard. Cardinal sentiment came from National League writers and those from non-major league cities like Tulsa, Toronto, Rochester and Toledo. The Cardinal pickers chose the defending champions mainly because of Bob Gib son and several because of Tiger manager Smith's decision to start Mickey Stanley at shortstop, an uniammar post.

Three Coaches Quit Giants SAN FRANCISCO OP) Three San Francisco Giants coaches, Charles Fox, Wes Westrum and Larry Jansen, resigned Tuesday, saying they want to give the new manager of the club a free hand to choose his own coaches. Herman Franks, manager of the Giants for four years, has said he will not be back next year. The club is expected to name a new manager shortly after the World Series. Chargers Sign Tommy Watkins EAST ORANGE, N. J.

(DPT) Veteran fullback Tommy Wat kins and second -round draft choice Bill Lenkaitis were signed Monday by the San Diego Chargers of the American Foot ball League. Watkins, a six-year veteran, was released by the National League Pittsburgh Steelers re cently. "We're gonna let Lou Brock run the same way he did last year," says Schoendienst. "We're not changing anything. Why take away any of his aggressiveness? He'll be free, generally speaking, to run on his own.

His legs are in good shape. All he has to do is get on." LOU BROCK has been known to do that now and then. If the Tigers want any references, they can check the Red Sox. The Red Sox will tell them plenty. They'll tell them how Bob Gibson, Julian Javier, Roger Maris and Nellie Briles hurt them in the World Series a year ago, but how Lou Brock killed them with his seven stolen bases, his .414 average and his mere presence.

Schoendienst isn't touching a thing. Brock led off for the Cardinals against the Red Sox in the Series opener last year and he'll lead off for them against the Tigers In this year's opener. Schoendienst isn't about to do any tinkering at the top. Some say the two ballparks could become the big difference in the Series. Schoendienst disagrees.

"The big difference will be the pitchers," he says. "I think they're 80 percent of the game. If our pitchers are in good shape and have their control it doesn't matter where we play. By the same token if their pitchers are sharp then we could be In trouble." THE ONE THING disturbing Schoendienst is the Cards' hitting this past month. It hasn't been good or anything near what it was a year ago when the club was getting ready to take on the Red Sox.

"We haven't been playing Pop Flies orry Stanley Lou Brock No scout needed Frank Ryan Benched By Browns CLEVELAND (AP) Dis appointed over the Cleveland Browns' lack of offensive strength in their last two games. Coach Blanton Collier announced Tuesday two lineup changes for the game here against the Pittsburgh Steelers Saturday night. He said Bill Nelsen would replace Frank Ryan at quarterback and rookie Charley "Leigh would start at fullback In place of Charley Harraway. "This is not an effort to place the blame for the lack ot scoring on any Individual," Collier said in announcing the changes. 'We are not winning and we must see what we can do to move the football.

Se can't stand pat. "The decision is not the result of a one-game effort. I want to win and I think this club is capable of winning." After winning their National Football League season opener against New Orleans, the Browns lost to the Dallas Cowboys 28-7, and the Los Angeles Rams 24-6. 'if BY JOE FALLS Fret Press Sports Editor ST. LOUIS Mickey Stanley should be worried about a million things.

But he had only one thing on his mind during Tuesday's workout at Busch Stadium Pop' flies, dinky pop flies. "That's what I'm afraid of The field is in much better condition, both the outfield and infield, than it was then. I think they'd had a football game before that and the outfield was really chewed up. I was worried about that because you've got to charge in the lobby of his hotel "Two runs are going to decide this game, so why not get as many bats in there as possible." THEY ASKED Denny McLain if he had any room in his combo for Bob Gibson, who is supposed to be a mean man on the guitar. "I couldn't pay him that much dough," McLain quipped.

So they went to Gibson and asked him if be'd like to play for McLain. Gibson pointed out to the pitcher's mound. "My act is out there," he said. GIL HODGES, manager of the New York Mets, is recovering from his heart attack at his home in Brooklyn. His doctor will let him watch the opening game of the series "He told me there would be nothing to excite me that Gibson and McLain wouldn't let anyone score a run.

Hodges laughed over the phone from his home. JOHN WYATT, who was dropped from the Detroit roster, will also be looking in from his home in Kansas City. Wyatt was voted a half -share by his teammates on the Tigers. WARREN SPAHN, the great National League southpaw, showed up in the Detroit dugout and gabbed away with his old buddy, Johnny Sain. Spahn looked over to where McLain was being interviewed for the 406th thrte of the day.

"They should bar him from baseball," said Spahn. "Here Sain and I convince everybody for 20 years just how hard it is to pitch and he comes along and in one year he shows them how easy it is." WHO'S the most important man in baseball? Well, you wonder. William D. Eckert is the commissioner of the game and will throw out the first ball. But not until the seventh game.

If there is a seventh game. i Bed Schoendienst real good ball the last four weeks." savs the St. Louis manager. "If we play this way, we won't beat 'em." Andy Bathgate May Retire BRANTFORD, Ont. (DPI Andy Bathgate, one of the National Hockey League's all-time greats, may have decided to retire, a spokesman for the Pittsburgh Penguins said Bathgate left the Penguins training camp here Monday night and returned to his home in Toronto.

Plymouth Dealers of the Stadium Club in deep left field in batting practice the window didn't break they use that heavy glass. Bill hit another, one out and said he didn't even think he'd hit the ball well, that he al most broke the bat. Norm Cash hit a couple out and I hit one out too. It makes you feel better to know that you don't have to really bust it because I think our biggest problem will be to avoid overpressing; not try to do more than we can. We've got to play our game, the way we've played all season.

WE SAW a lot of the Cardinals in spring training but of course, this is different. We know they're a speed team, that they'll run at every opportunity and try to take the extra base. We know they're a good defensive ball club. I don't think the sun will be any great trouble. It might be in the leftfielder's eyes a little in the late innings and it's possible, if the weather stays warm like this and It's a white-shirt crowd, that the in-fielders might have a 1 1 1 1 1 glare problem.

I've waited 16 years for this day I just hope I play well enough that Mayo will have to play me in the second game. Northern Keeps Its No. 3 Spot NEW YORK-(UPI) Northern Michigan held on to Its No. 3 rating this week In the United Press International top 10 small colieq football teams. First place votes and records are In parentheses.

Points i San Diego St. (27) J-North Dakota St. (4) 3- NORTHERN MICH. (1) 4- Eastern Kentucky (1) 5- Texas (1) -Eastern Wash. St.

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I hope I don't go deaf on Wednesday." EVERYONE here is slightly Btunned at Mayo Smith's decision to go with Stanley at shortstop. Everyone except the old professor himself, Charles Dillon Stengel. "Why not?" chirped Casey Gibson 8-5 Over Denny ST. LOUIS Smart money rides with baseball "know how" in rating the St Louis Cardinals an 8-5 choice not only for the World Series, but also in Wednesday's opening game matching Bob Gibson and Denny McLain. In making the odds, speculators ignore McLain's 31-6 record in favor of Gibson's Series ex perience and 1.12 earned run average, lowest in baseball's modern times.

Gibson won 22 and lost nine during the season, Friendly wagerers should re member: If the Tigers beat Gibson in the Series' opening game, they almost automa tically become at least 6-5 fa vorites to win the Series. Billy Martin Set for Tivins? SAN FRANCISCO (J) Billy Martin will replace Cal Ermer as manager of the Minnesota Twins, the San Francisco Examiner said Tuesday. Martin, in fact, has already named one of his coaches, ac cording to Examiner writer Bucky Walter. JANTZEN MADE THE SWEATER SMALLER TO GO OVER BIG Minus in sleeves, plus in good loots: that's the sleeveless V-neck styled by Jantzen in pure Australian lambswoof. Note the detail in the knit neckline and waist, the groovy shaping all around.

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