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Adroit I In This Section Joe Falls Page 6 Outdoors with Opre Page 8 Want Ads Pages 9-17 SECTION Sports Want Ads SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1971 orton 9 uwiwmwiwim Tigers inn ti xpioae. fT 4--r- is VT'- 10 9 BY JIM HAWKINS Fret Press Sports Writer It may have been just the win the Tigers were waiting for the catalyst that will carry them out of the cellar and back up toward the top where they know they belong. Come mid-August or September, Billy Martin may look back and say: "Remember April 17 Saturday's 10-9, 10-inning success against the Boston Red Sox was a step in the right direction for Willie Horton, for Tom Timmerman, and maybe for the entire Tiger Horton, buried in a dismal batting slump, broke out with a bang or more specifically, a pair of homers including one grand slam and three singles, including the bases-loaded game-breaker. And Timmerman, who had been taking his lumps right along with the rest of the Tiger pitchers, hurled four strong scoreless innings of relief at the Red Sox to record his well-earned second victory. He even scored the winning run as the Tigers turned what started out to be an afternoon of awful humiliation into a good excuse to celebrate.

"It was a big win for all of us," admitted Horton, who went into the game hitting .138 and came away with a.257 average and six more RBI. "I just hope this can get us on our "The guys really came back, didn't they?" observed Martin, who emerged from his office to mingle with his troops. "They battled right back. But then they've been doing that all along. Just because our record isn't what it should be doesn't mean we haven't been battling." AS FAR as the 22,471 in Tiger Stadium were concerned, it was time to start heading for Free Press Photobv DICK TRIPP Hop goes the ball, jumping off Hort on's hat for a thinl-iniiiiig grain! slam homer enroute lo a 5-hit, 6 Klil lay Years Since Tigers Belted 3 in Mow home almost before the game even began.

But those who stayed were glad they did. The Red Sox jumped all over Mickey Lolich, scoring three runs in the first inning and four more in the second though by then, Fred Scher-man had succe -'ed Lolich and Daryl Patterson had replaced Fred. "Mickey has had a bad cold and I think (hat had a lot to do with his ineffectiveness," explained Martin afterwards. "Everything he threw up one of those days. Every there, they hit.

But it was just pitcher has them." The Tigers scored a rather unnoticed run of their own in the bottom of the first, when Norm Cash singled home Jim Northrup but by the time the third inning rolled around they were down, 7-1, and seemingly out of it. THEN Dick McAuliffe sin BY CHARLIE VINCENT Frea Press Sports Writer The heck with finesse. The Tigers are playing power baseball now. Willie Horton, Norm Cash and Jim Northrup helped 22,471 fans keep warm through a long, chilling afternoon at Tiger Stadium Saturday with four home runs by far the club's biggest power production of the season. Horton's two homers, a grand slam in the third and a solo shot following Northrup's and Cash's in the seventh, got the fans excited.

But it was a slashing single in the 10th his fifth hit of the day, that won it. AND WILLIE was the only one who wasn't particularly impressed with his day. "The most important thing is that we win. That's what we need wins," he said in the Tiger dressing room. play like this," Cash said.

"I'll just play when they want me to. "This is going to take a team effort and I'll just do the best I can when I'm in there." His homer, sandwiched between Northrup's and Horton's, pulled the Tigers to within one run, 9-8, and set the stage for Willie's second shot of the day. "I think those three homers turned the game around," Cash admitted. "Any time you can score that quickly, you change a lot of attitudes. I think we would have sold out pretty -cheap for a while there." THE team's RBI leader in spite of Horton's big day, agreed that this was the kind of win the Tigers needed.

"It'll help us," he admitted. "Our pitching will come around. And until it does, we've just got to keep on doing what we did today." Although Horton came into the game with a .138 average (just four hits in 29 appearances), it didn't seem the big day got his adrenalin flowing. "I just went up there and hit what I saw," he said. "I don't guess at pitches.

The first one I hit was a curveball and the second one was a slider. "But the important thing is that we won. That's what counts." IT'S BEEN 10 years since the Tigers Jhit three consecutive home runs. That was in 1961 and the three were Steve Boros, Dick Brown and Norm Cash. "I didn't realize that was the last time, but I remember it well," Cash said.

The big veteran has been on the bench for seven of the Tigers' first 10 games but went three-for-four Saturday to raise his average to an eye-open-ing .545. "I can't really say if it's helping me or not to Willie's Big Day Here is the chronology of Willie Horton's big day (five hits and six runs batted in) in the Tigers' wild 10-9 victory over Boston Saturday: 1st inning Forced Norm Cash on grounder to short. 3rd Hit sixth grand slam homer of his career into upper deck in leftfield. 5th Singled to leftfield. 7th Hit a home run into the upper deck in leftfield to tie the score at 9.9.

9th Singled to rightf ield. 10th Singled to left with bases loaded to drive in the winning run. Colt Ineligible For Ky. Derby Wins Wood J'C ih' gled, Al Kaline walked, Northrup singled scoring Mac, and Cash walked to load the bases. So what, you say? So up steps Horton, with one hit in his last 11 at-bats, and there went Ray Culp's 2-2 pitch into the upper seats in leftfield.

And all of a sudden it was a 7-6 affair. The Sox scored again in the fourth when Dave 1 1 walked Reggie Smith and Rico Petrocelli, and Jim Hannan served up a single to George Scott. But another double play the Tigers' second of four during the game choked off what might have been a big bases-loaded Boston rally. The Red Sox made the score 9-6 in the sixth when Carl Yas-trzemski walked and scored with Hannan still on the mound and a few chilly fans starting thinking again about going home. THEN IN the seventh, Northrup led off with a home run off the upper-deck screen Turn to Page 2D, Column 1 -1; I T) 4r-y A Target For Killebrew Facing up to a challenge at Metropolitan Stadium In Minnesota Is the Twins' slugger Harmon Killebrew.

Fans erected a target in the home run area (left) during a game against California and Killer took a mighty swing. His effort had direction, but not distance and leftfielder Alex Johnson caught Kille-brew's fly ball. AP Photo Unconscious wins California Derby, stamps himself as West Coast's best Kentucky Derby hopeful Story Page 4D. NEW YORK (UPI) Good Behaving, the spoiler who wa: not nominated for the Kentucky Derby, once again cut loose with a tremendous stretch run at Aqueduct Saturday to win the $112,200 Wood Memorial by a length and throw the Derby wide open. With jockey Chuck Baltazar in the saddle, Good Behavinp unleashed a tremendous run as the field left the backstretch jusi as he had in winning the Swift and the Gotham Stakes earlier in the year.

He beat Calumet Farm's Eastern Fleet, the Florida Derby winner, in New York's final prep race for Kentucky Derby hopefuls. EXECUTIONER, the favorite and winner of the Flamingo Stakes was third with Jim French, the Santa Anita Derby winner, fourth. Good Behaving, coupled in the betting with Jim French paid $7.00, $3.40 and $2.20 in picking up a winner's purse of $67,320. The son of Ambehaving now has earned $102,612 this year and owner Neil Hellman plans to use part of it to make Good Behaving a supplementary nomination to the Preakness Slakes. No supplemental nominations are permitted for the Kentucky Derby.

Bold and Able, a second Calumet horse, took the lead shortly after the start with Executioner and Eastern Fleet right behind him. Good Behaving, meanwhille, dropped back to last as he had done in his two earlier victories this spring. Jim French also was up close and the crowd of 51,103 thought they would see a battle among the winners of the winter and early spring classics. BUT AS THE field rounded the final turn Baltazar had Good Behaving in high gear. Circling around the early leaders to find racing room for the final drive, Baltazar drove Good Behaving down the middle of the track.

The charging colt gradually forged to the front and he clearly was in command as he sped across the finish line. Eastern Fieet and Executioner battled head and head for runnerup honors with Eastern Fleet gaining the decision by neck. It was y2 lengths farther back to Jim French. BOSTON DETROIT ab bi ab bl Aoricio ss 5 1 11 MAullffe 2b. 5 1 1 Smith rf .4 3 2 0 Kaline 4 1 00 Ystrmskr If.

3 3 2 2 Northrup cf 5 3 2 2 Thomas If .2 0 0 0 Cash lb 4 2 3 2 Pctroclli 3b. 4 12 1 Gutierrez prO 0 0 0 Scott lb i 0 3 3 Stanley cf .10 0 0 josephsn 0 1 1 WHorton 2 5 i Lahoud ph 1 0 0 0 ARodrgez 3b 3 0 0 Pavletich 0 0 0 0 Frehan 3 0 10 SConglro cf 4 0 0 0 GBrown ph. 10 0 0 riffin 2b. ...4 1 2 0 Price 0 0 0 0 Culo 1 0 0 0 Brnkman ss 5 0 0 0 Kolin 0 0 0 0 Lolich 0 0 0 0 Fiore ph 1 0 0 0 Schermn 0 0 0 0 tee 0 0 0 0 Patterson p. 0 0 0 0 KTatum .0 0 0 0 Collins ph .1 0 0 0 Boswell 0 0 0 0 Hannan .1 0 0 0 Jones ph.

1 10 0 Timermn 110 0 "total V. 41 10 12 10 out when winning run scored. Boston 340 1 01 000 0- Detroit 105 000 300 110 Northrup, Culp, A.Rodriquez, Cash, Petrocelli. DP Boston 1, Detroit 4. LOB Boston 11, Detroit II.

2B R.Smith, Griffin. HR W. Horton (2), Northrup (1), Cash (2). Culp 3. IP ER BB SO .8 .7 5 ..2 2 1 .1 .1 .0.1 .0 .0 1 1-3 1 1 .1 .4.0 1 1-3 7 5 1 .0 10 2 1.1.0.0 23 1 .0 .0 .0.1 1 1-3 0 .1 .1 .3.1 .2 2-3 3 1 .1.2 .1 Culp Bolin Lee K.Tatum Lolich Scherman Patterson Boswell Hannan Timermn 4 ....0 0.

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