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Detroit SECTION In This Section The Inside of Sports Page 8 Outdoors with Opre Page 9 Racing Results Page 10 Want Ads Pages 11-23 Sports Want Ads SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1969 9 Yipe Mizzou Stuns Wolverines, 40 fl 7 'Worst my team has looked in years' Bo Schembechler. See Page 6C. Buckeyes Roll On; Purdue Slips In Stories on Page 3C Theismann's Passes Rock MSU, 42-28 "We were ready," said Ara Parse ghian See Page 6C BY JACK SAYLOR Fret Press Sports Writer SOUTH BEND Quarterback Joe Theismann picked the vaunted Michigan State defenses apart as Notre Dame gave the Spartans a 42-28 thrashing Saturday and knocked them out of the undefeated class before 59,075 fans. Like Mark Twain, news of Notre Dame's death was greatly exaggerated after BY C'L'RT SYM ESTER Fret Prtss Sports WHttr ANN ARBOR There are apparently some folks from Missouri who don't have to be shown. Mis-ouri football coach Dan Devine showed up with of them Saturday and the Michigan Wolverines couldn't show them a thing.

The Tigers pounded out a 40-17 victory over Michigan before 64,476 fans in Michigan Stadium, handing coach Bo Schembechler his first loss much as they gave Bump Elliott his first defeat at Michigan 10 years ago. The victory was Devlne's ninth against a solitary loss and one tie against the Big Ten and kept his Big Eight title contenders' record intact at 3-0 this season. The los was the first of the Reason for the Wolverines after impressive wins over Yanderbilt and Washington. The Wolverines had played near-perfect, almost super football in drubbing their first two opponents, Joe Moore and passing of Terry McMillan. But the mistakes, for all practical purposes, ended the game in the first half.

"Missouri is a very good football team, don't take anything away from them," Schembechler said. "But it was one of the poorest performances by one of my teams from a mistakes standpoint." SOPHOMORE tailback Glenn Doughty and junior quarterback Don Moorhead, who terrorized Vander-bilt and Washington with their running just couldn't 'click against the Missouri defenders. Doughty had a creditable afternoon, gaining 72 yards despite injuring an akle late in the second quarter. Moorhead finished with a minus 22 yards and a firm acquaintance with Missouri's crashing defensive' ends Mike Bennett and John Brown who were in his backfield all afternoon. Moorhead's passing, pinpoint accurate in the first two games, fizzled under the Tiger rush and hi3 Turn to Page 6C, Column 1 but the only thing super about their play against Missouri was their mistakes.

THE AGGRESSIYE Missouri defenders battered the Michigan offense relentlessly but the Wolverines did the most to seal their own defeat, stopping themselves in nearly very way imaginable. Michigan gave the football away four times on fumbles, once on a pass interception, and had a punt blocked. Schembechler said after the game he couldn't recall the last time that had happened to one of his teams. They dropped passes, missed tackles and were penalized 11 times for 72 yards. They had received only 14 penalties in the first two games.

Without all of the mistakes, the Wolverine might have been able to cope with the running of tailback Free Press Photos by DICK TRIPP Oops U-M's Don Moorhead (27) fumbles (one of four by Michigan Saturday) and Missouri's, Dennis Pope makes the recovery their 28-14 loss to Purdue last week. But the Irish did change tactics. "We made up our minds to establish a passing attack," admitted coach iAra Par-seghian. "Our game plan was to go in throwing." THEISMANN came out throwing and it was obvious from the start that the Cpar-tans were in for a tougher fight than a guy named Sue. The junior quaterback threw 33 times and hit 20 of them for 291 yards.

Thus softened up, Michigan State yielded another 225 yards on the ground 519 yards, 83 first downs and six touch-downs. Theismann pitched three touchdown passes and scored another himself while fullback Bill Barz tallied three times. It was no walkover. The Spartans cranked up four touchdowns themselves, but they had no defense for the blond six-foot Irish quarterback with the Fran Tarkenton complex. They should have named the game ball the Theismann Trophy.

"I DON'T KNOW how many times he came up with the big third-down plays," groaned coach Duffy Daugherty in the deflated MSU dressing room. "This was the highest point total ever scored on us since I became head coach and there was nothing flukey about it," Duffy added. I didn't think anyone could do that with our defense." THEISMANN opened with an 11-yard TD pass to Barz in the first quarter and it was a game of catch-up the Spartans were forced to play from there on. They caught them once. Ron Curl blocked an Irish quick kick attempt to give State the' ball at the five and Tommy Love ran it over from the four.

But Theismann engineered an 85-yard drive which Barz climaxed with a one yard smash. So the Spartans caught them again this' time on a long drive of their own which Don Highsmith ended with a five-yard run. Only, two minutes in the half, but Notre Dame needed only a minute and 22 seconds to score again. Theismann teamed with halfback Ed Ziegler for a 29-yard touch-, down. 1 It was 21-14 at the half and there was no more catching the Irish.

AFTER THROWING to 'hit backs most of the first half, Theismann switched to end Tom Gatewood and the pair looked an awful lot like Terry Hanratty and Jim Seymour to MSU. Gatewood latched on to 10 passes for 155 yards and wa3 Turn to Page 6C, Column 8 Win on Bunt, Mets on Big Inning Mcts 9, Braves 5 BY GEORGE CANTOR Fret Prtss Sports Writer ATLANTA There may still be a few people somewhere who refuse to believe in the Mets. After all, there is a group in England that keeps insisting that the earth is flat. But after the opener of the National League playoff here Saturday the flat earth theory might have won more backers than the Braves. WITH THE CHANCE to take command of the game and the playoffs, Atlanta folded up like a two dollar deck chair and the young but poised Mets pranced to a 9-5 victory.

New York put away by pouring across five runs in the eighth inning against the befuddled Braves, who threw the ball all over the. place in a perfect frenzy of confusion. Each tennt came from be Orioles 4, Twins 3 BY JOE FALLS Free Press Sports Editor BALTIMORE Paul Blair, an imperfect player for more than a month, made a perfect play in the 12th inning Saturday and gave the Baltimore Orioles a tense 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins in the first game of their playoff for the American League pennant. The big, bad Orioles, who struck fear around the league with their awesome power all through the 1969 season, won it on a hit that rolled from here to there no more than 30 feet from the plate. But it had the effect as a blast into Chesapeake Bay.

BLAIR PI IiOWN a perfect bunt along the third base line with two out in the 12th and Mark Belanger raced in from third with the winning run while the home town fans went wild as if Johnny U. had hit John Mackey in the end zone for a touchdown. hind twice as the. lead changed hands times. Neither Tom Seaver nor Phil Niekro, who won a combined total of 48 games during the season, was anything near their regular MINNESOTA BALTIMORE abrhbi br.h.bJ Tovar cf 4 0 0 0 Buford It '999 Carew 2b 5 0 10 Blair 5 1 Killebrew 3b 2 1 0 0 FRobinsn rf 3 111 Oliva rf 5 2 2 2 PoweH lb 5 12 1 if A RPnhintn 3b 5 0 4 0 A two-out squeeze bunt? Yep, a rather unconventional maneuver.

And the manager of the Orioles didn't even know it was coming. Only the Twins knew it and they couldn't do anything about it. Blair had been fighting an awful slump coming into t.iis historic first playoff game. He was 3-for-40, and it soon became 3-for-44 as he took the collar in his first four official trips to the plate. But No.

45 was a sweet one. yhiaendr it i i i degree of proficiency. Reese lb 4 0 0 0 Motion pn Cardenas ss 5000 watt oooo When Henry Aaron wal- Kcc ISoomlSSi'? 1 8 8 8 loped, a tremendous seventh jperrv 3 Hail inning homer off Seaver to Perrnosk 1 0 0 0 DJohnson 5b 5 0 0 0 a Beianaer ss 2 i put the Braves ahead, 5-4, the DMavarpR tooo veteran Atlanta team was Richert read to take charge. Etcneb cP 1008 Instead, the roisterous TBt.i 37771 Total 47Tio4 Mets torced them into two Two out when winning run scored. errors, ft SUCker throw and Sre 2 8 8 io 1 1 1 8 4 ripped Niekro for five runs.

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Robinson runs were unearned, but the (II, Belanoer (1), Oliva (1), Powell (1). rnispiiA that hurt mnst wa a SB-Tovar. Etchebarren. SF-Alllson. "syue "lax nun most was a ip hrerbbso wild throw bv Orlando Ceneda.

Free Press Photo bv DICK TRIPP Calandrito, the horse from Argentina, nips Mr. Right by neck to win Michigan Mile at DEC Calandrito Wins Mile by a Neck Perrv 863333 Perranoski (L.0-1) 3 2-3 4 1 1 Cuellar 3 3 2 1 7 Richert 1 0 0 0 2 2 Watt 0 0 0 0 2 AA.Looez 1-3 1 0 0 2 0 Hall (W.1-0) 2-3 0 0 0 0 1 3:29. WITH THE score tied In the eighth and the Braves having a chance to shut off the New York rally, Cepeda threw wildly to the plate and allowed the lead run to score. Michigan Mile Finish ATLANTA NFW YORK BY AL COWMAN On Michigan Mile Day at the Detroit Race Course Saturday, they played My Michigan," but they should have played "South America, Take It Away" instead. For the third time in the last six years an ab bi ab bl Ao rf (ADD Millan 7b 5120 That opened the way for a cs'i?" KnV' crushing three-run single by 1 Calandrito 2 Mr.

Right 3 Figonero 4 Rising Market 5 Mr. Clinch 6 Tropic King II 7 Irish Dude 8 J. P. McCarthy sismskv rf 4130 cartv it 3 i ymcn-niuer J. j.

Martin. 3 2oSciaib 4010 Actually, Niekro probably 'Argentine -horse carried away the big money in the $100,000 Michigan Mile. FOR A MOMENT the en- tire stadium seemed to freeze at the audacity of the play. Harmon Killebrew, the Twins' third baseman, was playing tight but he couldn't reach the ball. Old John Rose-boro, the veteran catcher, went thundering out for the ball as if his very life depended on it.

Rosehorn would have to make a prefect play himself to catch the flying Blair. He stabbed at the ball his only play, really and failed to come up with K. Belanger raced in and the O'i had themselves a victory his bunt rolling down the third base line. He went to a 1-1 count on Ron Perranoski, Minnesota's ace reliefer, and suddenly sent Turn to Tage 5C, Column 1 t-asoar rt 30 2 i na- le eoge over seaver up Kranoool lb 4 2 10 Didier 0 0 0 Grote 3 111 Garrido ss 4 0 10 to that inning. Harrelson ss 3 1 1 2 PNiekro 3 0 0 0 Mot haft mtt tvrofV Seaver 3 0 0 0 Aspromte pn 1 0 0 0 lne Mels naa Pm together Martm on 10 17 upsnaw a Duncili of Wood hits and a IT WAS THE first time he had ridden tha horse.

Calandrito had started only once at Atlantic) City, finishing third three weeks ago, and then winning a modest overnight race impressively at the DRC 10 days ago. In the Michigan Mile he met some of the best handicap horses in the counfy Figonero, world record holder for the 1 18-mile distance: Mr, Right, winner of 'three $100,000 races, and Risinz Market, with Willie Shoemaker, the world's premiere jockey. It made no difference to the muscular liltU foreign colt. After Rising Market and Mr. Clinch, the local favorite, raced each other into thi ground, Calandrito rushed up on the Inside to reach the lead 300 ysrds from home.

Figonero got almost on even terms at the head of the stretch, but it was Mr. Right who was tho danger. He came up on the rail and made Marque go to the whip to bring Calandrito home a winner Turn to Tage Column 1 oooo RTaylor passed ball for their four runs. Total 34 5 10 5 Total 3510e Following the pattern established by Tibaldo II in 1964. and Estreno in '67, a smallish foreigner by the name of Calandrito fought his way to victory before a crowd of 25,543.

TO MAKE THE Latin touch even more impressive, in the saddle was Carlos H. Marquez, Puerto Rican jockey who heads for the winner' circle every time he hears them play "Michigan, My Michigan." When he booted Calandrito home a neck in front of Mr. Right Saturday, it marked his seventh in eight rides at Detroit tracks since he firpt came here to win the 1967 Mile with Esrtreno II at $250.60 for $2. After Estreno II, he was astride Blarney Kiss in the 1968 Michigan Derby Trial and the Derby itself. Judge Kilday in the 1969 Decoration Day Stakes and Lil's Bag in the 1969 Lottie Wolf Memorial all at Hazel Park.

Then Saturday Marquez won the fourth race with the longshot Catty Connie before losing with Gran Campeon In the $10,000 Consolation Handicap. But he regained his winning touch with Calandrito, a four-year-old colt with four white legs The Braves bombed 25-game winner Seaver, though, for four doubles and long homers by Aaron and Tony Gonzalez. "I wasn't as sharp as I would have liked," admitted Seaver between slugs of orange pop in the clubhouse. Turn lo Page 5C, Column 1 New York 010 201 0509 Atlanta 0 1 2 1 1 0- 5 Boswell, Ceoeda, Gonzalez. DP Atlanta 2.

LOB New York 3, Atlanta 9. 2B Carty, Millan, Gonzalez, H.Aaron. Garrett, Lum. 3B-Harreison. HR Gonzalez (1).

H.Aaron (D.SB Cepeda. C.Jones. SP C.Boyer. IP ER BB SO Seaver (W.1-0) 7 I 5 5 3 2 Taylor 2 2 0 0 0 2 PNiekro (L.0-1) 9 9 4 4 4 Upshaw 1 0 0 3 1 HBP by Seaver (Cewda). PB Didier.

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