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SECTION In This Section The Inside of Sports Page 6 Outdoors with Opre Page 8 Want Ads Pages 11-24 Sports Want Ads SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1969 ioles Deflate Or 1 Mete, Orioles 3-2 In 2nd Game They fell behind when Don Buford pumped Seaver's second pitch of the game over the rightfield wall for a home run. And when they had the chance to come back against Oriole starter Mike Cuellar, the Mets made their biggest mistake of the day. They hit the ball to Brooks Robinson. NEW YORK will try to draw even in the second game at 1 p.m. (Detroit time) Sunday by Eending Jerry Koosman against Dave Mc-Nally.

The Mets finished even with Baltimore by getting six hits in the game. BY GEORGE CANTOR Fret Press Sports Writer BALTIMORE The cruel glare of reality finally penetrated the Mets' enchanted kingdom Saturday afternoon. The precise, unsympathetic Orioles handed the popular favorites a 4-1 beating in the opening game of the World Series before a crowd of 50,429, the first Series gate in 25 years that fell short of a sellout. The Mets saw their top winner, Tom Seaver, battered from the mound in just five innings as Baltimore dented him for all it3 runs. Bat they had no one who could match Buford's extra-base punch or Brook's dazz-.

ling play at third base. It was all so cut and dried and the Orioles were so unemotional afterward that someone finally asked manager Earl Weaver: "Was this just another day at the office for you? Weaver grinned self-consciously before replying: "Well, not quite that." Baltimore sent Seaver heading for cover by pushing over three runs after two were out in the fourth inning. THE HEART of the Oriole line-up Paul LAS VEGAS-fTPfr-The Bal. timore Orioles were made 3-2 favorites to win the second game of the World Series Sunday and 16-5 to take the championship after they beat the New York Mets in the first game Saturday. Blair, Boog Powell and the Robinsons was held to one hit all day, but run-scoring singles by Cuellar and Mark Belanger and Buford's home run and double made up the slack.

Cuellar weakened in the seventh as the Mets scored their run. They had the tying run at bat and two out when pinch hitter Rod Gasper topped a spinning roller down the third-base line. Brooks, playing deep on the hitter, swooped in to pick up the ball and fire to first in the same motion for the putout one of the great clutch infield plays in recent Series history. Although the Orioles were held without a hit after the fourth, inning, that play seemed ed to take the fight out of the Mets. mmmmm Ah! '31 Purdue 20 urooka also turned in a stunner on his short-hop grab of Al Weis' grounder in the fifth, a play that most third baseman would been groping and fumbling at.

He had six assists in all. SEAVER SAID that he ran out of gas when the Orioles pushed him around although it was only the fourth inning. "I strained a leg muscle in Chicago the last series of the regular season," he said, "and I haven't been able to get in any running since then. I just had nothing left to get out of that inning." pumping all afternoon. He met with his usual success, completing 22 of 44 passes for 250 yards.

The only difference In this game was that he had only two touchdown passes the final one a harmless last gasp with just 37 seconds left In the game. Moorhead enjoyed an exceptional day. Under a heavy Purdue rush he completed 15 of 25 passes for 247 yards and had only one of his tosses Intercepted. Sophomore tailback Glenn Doughty Moorhead's running mate In the opening Middle linebacker Marty Huff made three interceptions of Phipps passes, Tom Curtis made another and the Wolverines recovered three Purdue fumbles and managed to thoroughly frustrate the Boilenjiakers on the dark, rainy day. The Michigan offense didn't match the record pace it had set for itself in the first two games of the season, but quarterback Don Mooriiead and Mandich got together on enough passes (10 of them) to take advantage of the opportunities the defense gave them and secure the win.

THE WOLVERINES are now S-l for the season and 1-0 in the Big Ten. Purdue sank to the same 3-1 season mark and 0-1 in the conference race. It was the first win in the last six games for Michigan against Purdue. Phipps, who had lost In' Just three of his 20 starts with Purdue before Saturday's game, kept his strong right arm BY CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR Bring on the gold helmet stickers the Michigan Wolverines have rebounded. Still stinging from last week's humiliating defeat, the Wolverines opened the Big Ten season Saturday by knocking the Purdue Boilermakers from the ranks of the unbeaten, 31-20, in front of 80,411 in Michigan Stadium.

AND IT MAY TAKE Coach Bo Schem-bechleir's entire supply of gold football stickers to reward his defensive team and tight end Jim Mandich for the victory. I The Wolverines were out-passed, out-rushed and substantially out-first downed but every time the Boilermakers and their national offense leader Mike Phipps- got Into touchdown territory, one of the Michigan defenders would rise to the occasion and return the football to Michigan. game rampages 'injured his right ankle early in the third period and finished He seemed to be recovering from Buford's blitz homer, a drive that rightfielder Ron Swoboda said he would have caught "if I hadn't been so nervous," when the whole game came apart in the fourth. Seaver took are of Powell and Brooks, the first two hitters, with little difficulty. Elrod Hendricks then slapped a ground-ball single past the right side.

Seaver walked Dave Johnson, the only pasa he gave up in the game. Belanger followed by slicing a liner through the second-base position to bring in Hendricks with the game's second run. Swoboda had a shot at cutting down Hendricks at home, but his throw drove with 41 yards in 15 oarries, most of them on tough inside running against Purdue's huge defensive line. SCHEMBECHLER revealed after the game that Doughty had not run from scrimmage during any of last week's practice sessions because of the ankle Turn to Page 5C, Column 4 wV Vi JL 1 Spartans Flattened Turn to Page 2C, Column 1 AP Photo eves, 54-21 By Buck Scries TV. Radio SUNDAY'S GAME Television: 1 p.m., Channel 4 (WWJ TV), Detroit.

Radio: 1 p.m., WWJ-Radlo. PLAY OF THE GAME With bases loaded, Brooks Robinson scoops up slow grounder barehanded and throws runner out to chill Mets' only rally. It's AmazinU BY JACK SAYLOR Fret Press Sports Writer COLUMBUS Michigan State got hit by a truck Saturday, but the Spartans got its number. It was No. 1 clearly, emphatically and irrefutably.

Ohio State's bombastic Buckeyes, the nation's top-ranked team, scored early and repeatedly in handing the Spartans a 54-21 trouncing in the Big Ten opener for both teams in Ohio Stadium. Finally! Mets Lose A Big One Badgers Win One The Buckeyes had a full house (86,641) and also most of the aces, leaving little doubt why they are kings of college football. REX KERN, the Buckeyes' gifted quarterback, led Ohio to it3 17th straight victory with an impeccable exhibition of running and passing. Rambling Rex scored twice himself and passed for three more as Michigan State yielded the most points it has since a 55-0 loss to Michigan in 1947. BY JOE FALLS Free Press Sports Idllor BALTIMORE It was amazin'.

It was incredible. It was unbelievable. For the first time in history the New York Mets lost a big game Saturday. "That's right," said Yogi Berra, scratching his head, "We ain't played many big games." None for their first seven years, in fact, and none this year as the Mets won every big one from the Cubs and the Braves in rolling to the National League flag. And so now this was different.

There was none of that wild celebrating that had become such a part of the Mets' locker room all through August and September and the early part of October. No singing. No shouting. No champagne guzzling, Even Casey Stengel walked out of the ball park In the eighth inning as the Mets were taking a methodical 4-1 beating from the Baltimore Orioles in the opening game of the World Series. This was different, indeed.

The Met players sat there like mere mortals like ordinary, every-day ball players and they tried to explain what had appened to them. Poor Ron Swoboda. He sat in front of his locker totally confused by the day's activities. He goofed up the very first play the Mets were asked to handle and his. MADISON, Wis.

(AP) Neil Graf lofted an 18-yard pass to Randy Marks with 2:08 remaining in the fourth period Saturday to give Wisconsin its first football victory in three years, 23-17, over Iowa. Two touchdowns by Alan (A-Train) Thompson sparked the Wisconsin comeback in the wild, wacky, mistake-filled Big Ten contest. THE VICTORY was coach John Coatta's first after 22 defeats and one tie. The tie came in 1967 against Iowa. The winless streak included 18 consecutive losses.

All of Wisconsin's points came In the final period after Iowa had run up a 17-0 lead. Following the go-ahead TD pass, Wisconsin added two more points when Iowa's Dennis Green fumbled trie kickoff picked it up in the end zone and downed the ball. The officials ruled it a safety. Wingback Kerry Reardon caught touchdown passes of nix and 17 yards and Alan Schuette kicked a 26-yard field goal for Iowa's points. The first scoring aerial came when quarterback Mike Clik fumbled the snap from center, chased the ball 17 yards before regaining it at the Iowa 23, then fired a strike to Rear-don, all alone in the end zone.

7 I MUM i MfcMilll IflllfllllltfHitStowiKtoflwhy wu. Mwlw 3mamaw. AP Photo The Spartans, now 2-2, have given up 96 points in two weeks leaving coach Duffy Dauglierty with a headache and merely the Michigan game to prepare for next Saturday, i Kern ran the Spartans ragged in the first half, then passed 'em sily in the second half as the Buckeyes pounced on every MSU mistake and turned them into points. The Spartans were a 19-point underdog and Ohio passed that milestone in the first eight minutes by converting an interception, fumble and a punt return into instant points. "WE WERE practically out of it right then, "Daugherty said as he slumped on a bench in the MSU locker room.

"You can't spot the No. 1 team in the country 20 points in the first seven or eight minutes and expect to win." The Bucks parlayed the three quick scores into five more and the only thing they lost all day was Kern's shirt. The six-foot junior ran for 106 yards, passed for 187 more and didn't retire until the Spartans ripped his jersey off midway in the final period. Despite the productive offense, it was the Ohio defense that broke the game open. "The biggest factor was the quickness of our defense In controlling their offense," said Woody Hayes.

"I really expected a much closer game, but our defense completely dominated them." MSU was squelched with Turn to Page 5C, Column 3 Orioles are off and running as Don Buford's oraer sails over Ron Swoboda's head in 1st inning team never caught up. That was Don BufonTs Red Wings Beat Toronto in Opener end leader fr ny years, decided tay night to Ellis McCann call it quits for good. SECOND PERIOD: 1-Taronla. rlllvr 1 WIS. 21 236 15 40 14-29-2 1 75 o-i; IOWA H5 144 15 I-J4-3 4-42-3 1 70 7 1 I I (Keon, Smith) 1:15.

4-Detroit, Mahovlich 1 (Brewer) Penalties: Ley First downs Rushin ytrd Passing vird9 Return yaroist Passes Punts Fumbles lest Yards penaliied law Wisconsin So, while toe victory was a leadoff homer in the first inning. "It was my fault," Swoboda said with a stunned look on his face. "I was really nervous on the play I felt very shaky. I should have caught the ball but I mis-Judged the whole thing." BUFORD'S HOMER was a high fly which Just fell over the rightfield fence. Swoboda seemed confused on the play and drifted back to the fence as if mesmerized by the balL "It tipped off the end of my glove," he said.

"I got mixed up. I didn't go back quickly enough. I didn't time the ball. Turn to Page IC, Column 1 good one since Coronto is one THIRD PERIOD: 5-Toronto. Ellis 1 I Hfah la-fort All Anlniil Ik-At Dsn a Ulna CaIKu Berqman Walton Of the Clubs the WingS must Gadsby would' ve liked.

For long periods on the hot night they were sluggish, and Toronto, as weak as it wili be all season, carried the play. True, the Wings missed Brewer's old defense mate, Bob Baun, who is out with a hairline ankle fracture. But Toronto played with a gld defense. Tim llorton, the Leafs lone veteran head on defense, finally has agreed to play but won't be ready for awhile. BY JACK BERRY Carl Brewer was everything the Red Wings hoped he'd be Saturday night.

Brewer played near-flawlesn defense and set up old Toronto teammate Frank Mahovlich with a pretty pass for what proved to be the winning goal as the Wings edged the Maple Leafs, 3-2, before a record opening night mot of 14.5C2 fans at Olympia. THE WINGS didn't get the total performance coach Bill thought we were really hanging in the second period." And he was a most happy fella over Brewer. "He's very good with the puck in his own end and that's what we lacked last year. He gets the puck moving and talks a lot out there and that makes a big difference." Brewer was the best de-fenseman on the Ice and his pass of the Mahovlich goal Turn to Page iC, Column 4 beat to climb back Into the Detroit 13-4-10 II. Attendance- 4..541 IOWA FO Schuette It.

IOWA Reardon i pass from Click (Schuette kick). lOWA-Reardon 21 pass from Cilek (Schuette kick). WIS ThompsiNi run (Jaeger kick). WIS Thompson 4 run (Jaeger kick). WIS-Marks 17 pass from Graff (Jaeger kick).

WiS-Safety. Green fumbled In end zone. playoffs after a three-year absence, it still left some question marks. GADSBY SAID he was happy to see "the way we came back in the third period I And on offense, top scorer Norm 11m an stayed home with rib injuries and George Armstrong, the team captain.