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Adroit 4frcercss SECTION In This Section The Inside of Sports Pg. 6 Outdoors with Opre Pg. 7 Wont Ads Pgs. 8-20 Sports Want Ads SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1969 Period SU 27-11 Saves tinn offense under fire and it appeared much of the time that two of the options were "fumble" and "pass interception." The Sparlan3 were getting a bum steer, er rather, veer. A pair of fumbles, the hanp of Spartan existence ear ago, changed the pattern of the game in the first quarter and, perhaps, kept It from being an MSIJ runaway.

Then two interceptions in the second quarter, both by Washington's ace linebacker Clyde Werner, set up the Huskies' touchdown and field goal and forced the Spartans into their belated come-from-behind maneuvers. The Tartan turf produced more bounce to the ounfce than grass and reacted like Spartan turf as MSU got the first break, a midair Washington fumble that Tom Kutschinski speared at the Huskies' 42. STATE turned it into a touchdown in six plays with Triplett veering off tackle from the three. Gary Boyce's extra point made it 7-0 before the drearie3 started. The Spartans, led by halfbacks Don Highsmilh and sophomore Eric Allen, drilled out 2S0 yards on the ground, but the fumbles and interceptions mad the going less than great and placed continual pressure on the MSU defense.

Turn to Tage 5I, Column "You can't blame vcw offense for says Duffy. Story on rte 5D. KV JACK SAYMHl Fret Pre SpnrlJ Writer KAST LANSING Michigan Plate unveiled its new, Tartan turf playing field here and pu.lled the rug out from under the Washington Hua-kies. The Spartans, uncorked three touchdowns in tihe last quarter to open their season with a 27-11 victory before 63,022 Band Pay fans in Spartan Stadium. The sleek playing surface looks like a billiard table, and' until the last-quarter explosion coach Duffy Daugherty's team spent much of the afternoon behind the 8-ball.

But the Spartans overcame a 9-7 deficit on the first play of the. final period on quarterback Bill Trip-letfs second touchdown. Then the decision was salted away on a 70-yard interception run by linebacker Don Law and a 29-yard pass from Tommy Love to Frank Foreman in the game's waning seconds. UNTIL THIS happy turn of events, however, the Spartans were hamstrung by an oh, too familiar scries of misadventures. It was State's first test of its new vrcr-triple op- fl "BtsT- i -f JJ!" -j Free Press Photo bv DICK TRIPP Spartans' Bill Triplelt leaves Bob Loviien (88), 3Iark Hannah behind on TD run 1 and Vandy, 4244 oiverines jdoied 0 0 0 on the fast track Tartan turf for one touchdown and hair.

Monrhcad guided them on a 71-yard march early In junior quarterback Don Moorhead scored two touch- the first quarter with fullback Ganie Craw bouncing downs as the Wolverines ground out a 42-11 victory over over from the one yard line. Vanderbilt. Then Doughty broke loose for an SO-yard touchdown -vivv cuunwn run in the second quarter. WERE NOT a fancy ball club, Schembechler 1 a tu i.0i,. When the Commodores from the Southeastern Con- grinned after the -victory.

Secondly, when you can a tk; 41,01, tur. A.t ference scored in the third quarter, Moorhead rallied his punch the football down their throats, that what jou should do forces and drove 5 yards to insure the lead. "That's Bo's offense just basic stuff. We stick it to Til WOLVERINE defense set up two easy touch- 'era. It's what he calls grinding meat," explained Moor- downs in the fourth quarter.

Linebacker Ralph Huff head as he headed home from his first game as a start- picked up a punt blocked by sophomore defensive end ing college quarterback. Mike Keller and ran in 31 yards for a touchdown. The Wolverines stuck it to 'em only twice In the first And then safetyman Tom Curtis picked off his first fin von and then asked how Michigan State did. Story on Page 5D. BV CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARROR What the Michigan Wolverines did to Vanderbilt Saturday afternoon was not fancy but then, who is looking for frills from an 11-man meat grinder? The Wolverines gave Bo Schembechler his first victory as a Big Ten coach and they did it the way Bo likes to have it done, with deadly efficient execution of basic football.

Sophomore tailback Glenn Doughty galloped SO yards interception of the season, the ISth of hir, career, and returned it 45 yards to set up Moorhead's second touchdown. To cap the afternoon's activity in front of 70,183 fans, Eric Federico went the last five yards for a touchdown. By the time the afternoon was over the Wolverines had supplied their first-year coach six touchdowns. The 42 points are the most a Michigan team has scored on opening day since UCLA was defeated, 42-13, in And it was more than the Wolverines scored in any game last fall- Doughty and Moorhead were the men on the spot for Michigan. They were replacing an All-American halfback and one of thft best Big Tpn quarterbacks, respectively, and neither could have drms much more to look good in the season debut.

4-4- 4 I A isufiC 4 ft4 4 i-4 TMM'KMTY finished with 133 yards in 15 carries and hi3 80-yard run was eight yarda longer than Ron Johnson's best ever. Doughty followed Craw, a rugged blocker, across th line of scrimmage, shook of! a couple of would-be tacklers and then outran everyone else on the field. Moorhead was Just ns Impressive, particularly in his running game. He kept tb football on several option plays and got outside fnough for 10:, yards in It tries. He had to throw only nln times but completed four for another 42 yards.

"Before the game, (mm Frl-lay night on, I was scared to death," Moorhead said after Turn to I'hkc 51), Column 4 Pi iMli I 1 'Kiiii I 1' i fe'X f4 ff. t4 I VANITY UM 1 11 10 J.11-1 Ml 1 1 9 0 7 ifl 1 1 0 28-M Firt Mown Pmsinq yarrianq Roturn yardana Punts Fumhles Imf Yards penalized Vendorbilt Michigan MtCH-Craw 1 run Tila kickl Sf--44Ar4 4 4X4 44tfS4Mp. Fr Presj Photoj by JIMMY TAFOYA MICHDniihly l) run (Tila kltr) VAND-MalhoiKi 1 run (Wniinj kirk). MICH MoorhPad run (Tt kirk) MICH Huff 31 blotkfd Dimt (tltiM kick). MICH-Moorhead 1 run mt klfkl, VAND-vlput 2 run (Wnlint kick), MICH Federico run (Titai kick).

A 70,183. sophomore hack CAvnn Donjjjlily bolls llirowgh Vanderbilt line, runs away from tackle by safety Neal Smith for an 80-yard TP. Hits Mets Pirn Tigers Fall Short, 6-3 te Down, 10-0, Irish Blast N'Weslcrn BV GEORGE CANTOR For one incredible moment Saturday it looked as if the Tigers were going to pull off the wildest ending since the bodies started dropping in "Hamlet." But Willie Horton's hid for a grand-slam home run with two outs in the ninth died two steps from the leftfield fence at Tiger Stadium. That made it just another exercise in melancholy as Boston clipped Detroit, fi-3, and shaved the Titer hold on second place to 3' 2 games. Bill Lee won his first game cago In the National League, and Baltimore's Jim Palmer in the American League.

The five no-hltters set a National League record, and equalled the major league mark set by the American League in 1917. Pittsburgh scored three runs on one hit in the fourth inning and added their final runs in the ninth on two singles and a wild pitch. THE CUBS committed two errors in SOUTH BEND (UPD Notre I Dame took the wraps off two untried running backs, Ed Zielgcr and Bill Rarz, and they combined with passer 'Joe Theismann to lead the Fighting Irish to a 35-10 victory Saturday over underdog Northwestern. The Irish, strong on defense the eighth Inning, enabling St. Louis to score three unearned runs.

Chicago pitcher Bill Hands was protecting a 1-0 lead on the strength of Jim Hickman's 21st home run when Cardinal pinch-hitter Vic Davalillo and Lou Brock singled in the eighth. spotted the Wildcats the first in the majors with seven tough shutout innings of relief, but Horton looked like the only Tiger capable of stopping him. Willie drilled a two-run homer in the first off starter Le Stange and then slashed threa straight singles off Lee. THE ROOKIE got the first two Tigers in the ninth and then seemed to fall in a heap all at once. He walked Tom Tresh and Jim Northrup and when Al Kaline came up to bat for Norm Cash, the Sox called for help.

Joe Santiago came on, but he walked Kaline on four pitches, loading the bases for Horton. Dick Williams, sneering at the lefty-righty percentages, beckoned his top relipf pitcher, southpaw Al Lyle, into the game. Lyle missed on two pitches before Horton drilled the next one deep to leftfield. For just an instant it seemed that the ball would get over th fence for a Detroit victory. But Carl Yastrzemskl sprinted Turn to Tage 4D, Column 1 Free Press Wire Servicei When all's going well, as things have heen for the New York Mets in the last month, not even, being blanked on a rio-hitter can hurt you.

That's what happened to the Mets Saturday. They dropped 4-0 verdict to Titrs-hnrgh nlipn Bob Moose, 21, became hA first, Pirate since 19.51 to hurt a nine-inning no-hitter, and the sixth in the majors this season to achieve, the feat. In 1959, Harvey Haddix hurled 12 per-feet Innings for the Bucs against Milwaukee, but lost, 1-0, in thejlSth. But while the Mets bowed, so did Ohicago as the fading Cubs fell to the St. Louis Cards, 4-1.

AS A RESULT, the Mets retained their four-game lead in the National League East and their magic number for capturing the pennant dropped to six, The 1-2 battle in the National League West remained unchanged as San Francisco slipped past Los Angeles, 5-4, and Atlanta rallied to down San Diego, 3-2. The victory kept the Giants In front by a half game over Atlanta, while Los Angeles fell V'i games off the pace. And rookie Tom Griffin pitched a five-hitter to give the Houston Astros a 6-0 victory over Cincinnati and that dropped th Red.s 3'3 games behind. Moofse limited the Mets to a pair of walks and retired batters in sue- 10 points. Bill Planizek kicked a 44-yard field goal and then fullback Mike Hudson ran six yards for a touchdown after an interception of a Thiesmann Juan Marichal became a 20-gamei wrinner for the sixth time despite thej fact that the Giants' ace was touched for 10 hits, including a two-run homer byi Willie Davis.

Centerfielder Clarence Gaston's errori Mouse Throws Dobson for Loss The Tigers will have to carry on the fight for second place without Tat Dobson the rest of this season. The righthander, scheduled to start Saturday's game, lias been sidelined after liis toes were badly bruised, and possibly broken, in a freak dugout accident Friday night. Doctors said that it could be as long as a month before Dobson will be able to walk without pain. The, pitcher was hurt when a mouse jumped from a corner of the dugout, startling Wayne Redmond, who leaped backward and came down on Dobson's foot. Iob Moose cession in one stretch to boost his season's recor to 12-3 and his major league mark to 21-15.

A LEAPING CATCH by Roberto Clem-ente on Wayne Garrett's liner to right-field helped save the masterpiece for Moose, who in 1968 came within four outs of pitching a no-hitter against Houston. Other no-hitlers this year have ben hurled by Don Wilson of Houston, Bill Stonenian of Montreal, Jim Maloney of Cincinnati and Ken llnlt.iiian of Chi pass by Rick Tellander made the task easy by giving the Wildcats the ball on the Irish 15. But thereafter, the Irish were in charge all the way. The Wildcat attack was stymied by the rugged Notre Dame defense, composed largely of veterans and featuring such standouts as 274-pound tackle Mike McCoy, Vurn to I'nge 21. Column 4 enabled Orlando Cepeda to score Atlanta's winning run in the ninth.

Veteran Hoyt Wilhelm picked up the victory in relief of Pat Jarvis. Wilhelm now is 2-0 since joining Atlanta two weeks ago. John Callison's three-run homer in the five-run third inning Saturday led the Philadelphia Phillies to a 6-4 victory over the. Montreal Expos. A A "if.