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Adroit ifrcc3JrcjG5 SECTION In This Section Sports Want Ads Joe Falls Racing Results Want Ads Page 6 Page 4 Pages 9-15 SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1971 9th-hining Single Beats Tigers Again Lolich but Birds Great Win, DETROIT BALTIMORE ab bi ab bi Brnkman si 4 1 10 Rettenmd If 1 0 1 1 MAuliffa 2b. 4 0 2 0 Belanqer ss. 3 0 0 0 WHorton 11 4 0 0 1 JPowell lb .4 0 0 0 Northrup lb. 3 0 1 0 FRobinsn rf 4 1 2 0 Kallne rf 4 0 2 0 Blair cl 400 Freelian 4 0 0 0 BRobinsn 3b 4 0 2 0 ARodrgez 3b 4 0 0 0 DJohnson 2b 4 0 1 1 Stanley cf 4 0 1 0 Etchebrn 2 1 0 0 Lolich 3 0 0 0 Palmer 2 0 0 1 TotaV liTT i v. Jin Two out when winning run scored.

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7.Ctr,V Y'Ai BY JIM HAWKINS Free Press Sports Writer BALTIMORE You don't even have to look at the box score to know who pitched for the Tigars Saturday afternoon against the Baltimore Orioles. Who else but Mickey Lolich could have a one-hit-ter working for six innings and end up losing, 2-1? "That's just the story of my life," mumbled Mickey after Dave Johnson took victory away from the Tigers for the second time in two games. "The guys just don't get many runs when I pitch. "But if I keep on pitching like this I might just win a few games this season. I can't believe I've given up four runs and I'm only 1-1." BILLY MARTIN was even more magnanimous in his praise for the job Lolich did, limiting the 1 Orioles to six singles a couple of which could have easily been called errors.

"Mickey was just tremendous," Martin. 1 "We've played two games well enough to win here and we've lost them both." Johnson, (he hero of Friday night's 6-5 Bird comeback, wasn't even supposed to be able to hit the ball that he slapped to rightfield with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, scoring Frank Robinson wilh the winning run. Lolich had orders to pitch around him, walk him if and force Oriole manager Earl Weaver to send up a pinch hitter for Andy Etche- barren. But Johnson got lucky again just as he did Fri- day night when he scored Boog Powell with an accidental dribbler off his bat and the Tigers were left wondering what they have to do to win. 1 THEY JUMPED on winning pitcher Jim Palmer for one run in the third when Eddie Brinkman walked and Dick McAuliffe singled, with both run- ners advancing an extra base when the ball rolled through Frank Robinson's legs.

Willie Horton drove Brinkman home with a ground ball to shortstop Mark Belanger, who threw McAuliffe out at third while Eddie was scoring. "That was the turning point in the game right there," said Martin softly. "I'm not going to say Belanger was lucky, but he didn't even catch the i I ball. It bounced off, his glove hi- Brooks says relio Rodriguez can do anything I can do9' at third hose Story on lW 21). AP Photo Robinson scored in the ninth inning on Dave.

Johnson's single. Baltimore's Frank Robinson goes feet-first toward the plate to beat Al Kaline's throw (ball circled, right) to Tiger catcher Bill Freehan and give the Orioles a 2-1 victory over Detroit Saturday. a -mm aa HP lie Nick la us Fires Way into asters and instead of ricocheting out I into leftfield someplace, it went straight up in the air. I "We Fhould have had at i least another run or two in that inning if he able to get McAuliffe." The Orioles tied the score in the bottom of the third as Etchebarren walked, Palmer, sacrificed him to second, and Merv Rettenmund brought him in with a bad hop single past Brinkman the first I Oriole hit of the afternoon. The Leaders 66-73-70209 70- 71-68-209 69-69-73211 69-72-71212 71- 69-72212 Charles Coody Jack Nicklaus Don January Hale Irwin Tom Weiskopf THE BIRDS didn't get another base hit off Mickey until the seventh thoughafter the game, a i h-inning grounder liy Belanger was changed from an error on Brinkman to a hit.

The Robinsons, Frank and Brooks, both singled in the bottom of the ninth, setlvig things up for Johnson, who looked like a goat just an inning before when he popped to first baseman Jim Northrup on an attempted bunt. And Lolich was understandably disturbed. "I see now vvhv the Orioles BY JOE FALLS Free Press Sports Editor AUGUSTA Jack Nicklaus finally got it going Saturday and put that familiar feeling of fear into the field plus a lump in Charles Coody's throat with one of the wildest rounds of his life in the third round of the Masters golf tournament. It was bogeys or birdies for Nicklaus through the final eight holes as he fired a four-under-par 68 to tie the faltering Coody for the Jead at 209, seven under for the tournament. Trailing by five strokes at one time on the back nine, Nicklaus shot five birdies on the last seven holes to put himself in position to i win the second leg of golfing's "Grand Slam." "Sure, I think I can win it," Nicklaus chirped after thrilling the gallery with some i of the greatest shots the Augusta National has Jseen in almost 40 years of existence, i.

But then, Nicklaus always thinks he can win the big ones. In fact, this is all he thinks about these days the major championships. He leaves the Cleveland Opens to other people. COODY, WHO seemed to have a lock on the lead as he went 10 under after 13 holes, sud-; denly felt the pressure of Nicklaus' great surge and began clutching on the greens. The tall Texan, who has never won a major tournament in (his life, three-putted twice and lagged a putt by one inch another time for three bogeys.

And -when the day was over, he was sitting there in the press room saying what a tremen- dous golfer that Nicklaus is "He is ble of shooting anything on this course." So the two men, who are two strokes up on Don January, the halfway leader who faltered to a one-over 73, will go at it in Sunday's final round (Channel 2, 4 p.m.). Nicklaus will be the prohibitive favorite. He has won 11 major championships, including the Masters three times, and when they started asking him about the pressure, he sat there and blinked and wondered what they were trying to say. In essence, how does a machine feel pressure? IF ANYONE beats Nicklaus in the final 18 holes, it'll be a major upset. Hale Irwin, the young football player from Colorado, and Tom Weiskopt are three strokes back while young John Miller, who also shot a sparkling round on this warm way in Georgia, is four shoes back.

As for the Palmers, Players and Caspers, they still get their picture taken and are followed around by "the huge crowds but it is Nicklaus who still makes all of the big shots. It was a wild day all the way. Coody's putter was purring like a con-Turn to Page 2D, Column 4 all have such high batting av- a grumbled Mickey. I "The official scorer gives them a base hit on everything, "As far as I'm concerned those were both unearned runs. The ground ball in the third inning should have been an error and I can't see how they gave Frank a hit on the ball past third in the ninth.

It should have been caught." I FELT EVEN better than I did opening day," continued Lolich. "My control was sharp and my arm was strong. I could have gone a couple more innings if the game had gone extra innings." The Tigers had men on base Turn to Page 2D, Column 3 Montreal Trips Bruins Dump N.Y. AP Photo Jack Nicklaus coaxes in a birdie putt on the 17th hole to go eight under par and tie for the lead Saturday after three rounds of the Masters Golf Tourna ment at the Augusta National Golf Club. Nicklaus' third round 68 moved him into a tie with Charlie Coody with 18 holes to play.

TOOI.IN AROUND WINS lil; ALL Detroit Has Ky. Derby Morsel horse in stakes company only twice, and Toolin Around finished second in the Freshman Derby Trial and then third in the Freshman Derby at Hazel Park last TORONTO (UPI Ron Ellis and Paul enderson each scored power-play goals and Garry Monahan added another goal in the third period to pace the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 3-1 victory over the New York Rangers Saturday night and a 2-1 edge in games in their Stanley Cup quarterfinal series. Ranger defenseman Tim Horton was off for interference in the opening minutes of the game when Ellis combined wih George Armstrong and Henderson to score on a slap shot from 15 feet at 5:03. Henderson gave the Leafs a 2-0 lead in the second period when he picked up the puck in his own end, skated around Horton, Park and Bob Nevin, and then faked out Gilles Ville-mure, flipping the puck into the top corner of the net. DAVE BALON, the 'Rangers' leading goal scorer during the regular season with 36, broke Bernie Parent's shutout bid when he registered his first playoff goal at 3:17 of the final period.

Parent was outstanding in the Leafs' net while using a new mask, which was flown in from Shawinigan Falls, at 3 a.m. Saturday to replace the one which was tossed into the crowd and lost in New York's Madison Square Garden Thursday night. The fourth game of the best-of-seven series will be played here Sunday night (7 p.m., Channel 9 in Detroit). MONTREAL (UPI) Veteran Frank Ma-hovlich scored two goals Saturday night to lead Montreal to a 3-1 victory over the Boston Bruins and give the Canadiens a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup quarterfinals before a record forum crowd of 18,904. Mahovlich, who joined Montreal in a mid-season trade from Detroit, fired a '5-foot slap shot past Bruins' goalie Gerry Cheevers in the second period to tie the score, 1-1, after Phil Esposito had scored for Boston.

His insurance goal gave the Canadiens a 3-1 lead in the third period after Henri Richard passed the puck out from behind the Boston net. Richard battled Dallas Smith out of the play and fed the puck to Mahovlich, who drove home a backhand shot at 3:55. THE OTHER half of the Mahovlich team-brother Peter set up defenseman Jacques Laperriere with what proved to be the winning goal in the middle period. Esposito, a 76-goal scorere during the regular season, opened the scoring after just 29 seconds of play.Laperriere missed the puck at the Boston blueline and Ken Hodge picked it up and flipped it ahead to Esposito, who had clear range onMontreal's rookie goalie Ken Dryden. Dryden, playing his third consecutive playoff game after only six regular season NHL contests, was brilliant throughout the game.

Bobby Hull Goals Edge. Flyers, 3-2 Bines Blank North Stars To Lead 2-1 Stories on Page 5D Stakes at Belmont Park when the undefeated Hoist the Flag was disqualified. In Saturday's race, a tune-up for the Blue Grass Stakes here on April 22, Limit to Reason simply couldn't catch Toolin Around, even though he cut the Detroit 1 i 's lead from two lengths to a neck in the stretch. Limit to Reason went to the post an odds-on favorite, while Toolin Around was neglected at odds of 7-1 and returned $16.40 for $2. Riding the winner was Dave Whited, a former DRC jockey champion In his only other race of 1971 Toolin Around had won the $5,000 St.

Patrick's Day Handicap at the Detroit Race Course. Trainer Dave Zakoor Jr. has tested his Special to the FreePress LEXINGTON, Ky. Detroit may have a Kentucky Derby horse after all when Derby Day rolls around at Churchill Downs on Saturday, May 1. Toolin Around, -a $3,000 yearling never reckoned as a Derby prospect until now, barged into serious contention Saturday at Keeneland when he turned in one of the biggest horse racing upsets of 1971.

Taking the lead at the start of the 5110 Spendthrift Purse, the cojt owned by Mrs. Ann Smolski of Warren, held it throughout the seven furlongs to defeat Limit to Reason by a neck. LIMIT TO REASON, only horse to hold a decision over the ill-fated Derby favorite Hoist the Flag, had been the richest two-year-old of 1970, winning $319,055. He inherited first money in the Champagne fall. "WE'RE CONVINCED now that he has Derby potential," Zakoor said.

"If he hadn't done well today, we would have shipped him back to Detroit. Now he'll stay for the Blue Grass." Zakoor had entered Toolin Around and his stablemate, the Michigan-bred colt Golden Gem, in a similar race on opening day last Saturday, but it failed to attract enough horses. Both horses were entered again Saturday. Toolin Around passed his big test, but Golden Gem was never in contention. Scoring Summaries on Page 5D ifiiifciWiiinTt rffti Mrii.iiii A i -fi grlii i nil-n' ntmii nf '4m if n) mifw! Ij ilffr nfn 4iin4n4 4i4 i Aim4 ioi i Itim i.