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DETROIT FREE PRESS Wednesday, Aug. 18, '71 1-P flRs Ruin Lolich's Bid for No 0 0 0 And Tigers Lose Twin Bill to Sox 20 back of the front-running Baltimore Birds and erased all the ground the Tigers had gained with their two weeks of good work. IT WAS LIKE A tomb in the Tiger clubhouse between games. And nobody felt more like a mummy than Mickey Lolich. In honor of his first try at No.

20, his teammates had staked him to a five-run lead. And Lolich had lost it, and the ballgame, too, by serving up a pair of runs to journeyman infielder Steve Huntz. "Of course I'm disappointed," said Lolich softly. "But not so much because I didn't get my 20th. BY JIM HAWKINS frn PrtM Spoilt Wrlttr CHICAGO The monkey is still there, perched on Mickey Lolich's back.

But the Baltimore-Orioles may have gotten rid of the Tigers for good Tuesday night From now until at least Saturday, Lolich must continue to live with the knowledge that he has never, in his whole life, won 20 games. It'll be there when he goes to bed at night, it'll be there when he wakes up in the morning, and it'll be there when he sits in the dugout watching somebody else pitch and waiting for his. next turn to come. THE TIGERS won't soon forget Tuesday night either or the fact that they dropped a costly double-header to the Chicago White Sox, giving away the opener, 6-5, and then failing, 4-1, in the nightcap. The double defeat dropped the Tigers 10 games I'm not worried about that.

I know I'm going to win 20 sooner or later this season. "The thing that upsets me is losing that five-run lead. That was pathetic. When I got that lead I figured there was no way I was going to get beat. I knew I'd give up a couple runs I always do but I figured I had the game won for sure.

"Ever since I started getting close to 20 about the time I won my 15th or 16th I kept hoping I'd get it on my first shot. I wanted to get in clean and get it over with." INSTEAD, LOLICH must wait at least until Saturday, when he'll make his next start at home against Milwaukee. The Tigers got Lolich one run in the second inning when Bill Freehan walked and eventually scored as Ike Brown rolled a base hit between Please turn to Page 2D, Col. I ST jVCL' tS3' i 'zJ If" '0 tW I- Orioles Win-Page 2D Football: 'It's Not For Girls 9 Pistons Have Eyes On Mel Counts Ex-rid(ler Coelho Jan Note: Still 55 days until the start of the NBA season. It's less than three weeks until the opening of the Pistons' early camp, however, and so far all they have to show for the off-season is one-half a trade.

They've given up Otto Moore but haven't received anyone in exchange. Don't panic, though. General Manager Ed Coil isn't expecting to come up emptyhanded. He just has to wait until Moore gets his contract entanglements settled with his new employers, the Phoenix Suns. (Moore) signed with the Virginia Squires the day after our season was over and he has definitely signed with Phoenix now," said Coil.

"Phoenix, I'm sure, will eventually get it resolved but I'm sure Virginia is going to try to get everything out of it they can. "The agreement we have with Phoenix is that we will get someone when Moore gets his release from the Virginia Squires." And the "someone" the Pistons are hoping to get is veteran big man Mel Counts, who could fill in as a back-up center to Bob Lanier and also add some strength to the Pistons forward corps. iThe Pistons, like most of the rest of the NBA teams, have not been over-anxious to get into the trade market this summer. talked to most of the clubs around the league and nobody seems to be doing much," said Coil. Lanier's Knee 6100 Percent9 i The Piston management feels that with Bob Lanier's knee 100 percent healthy and with Terry Dischingier back on two solid knees after surgery late last season, the team will be able to' HOLLYWOOD, Coelbo went back to baking brownies Tuesday, her muscles sore and her try at making the Hollywood Hills football team a complete bust.

The pretty brunet 6-footer hung up her equipment after telling Hollywood Hills High School Coach Dick Saltrick she'd had enough. "I thought I was in terrific shape," said the shapely 17-year-old, "but the exercises were just too much for me. It's not for girls." Jan lasted just one day. When she didn't make the cheerleading squad last spring, she decided football was her game. All summer long Jan practiced throwing a football in preparation for football practice.

"I WENT OUT because all I ever hear these days," she said, "is how the athlete is being pampered and favored over the student. I wanted to see if the football team deserved special treatment. The way they work, I think they do." Saltrick said he doubted the girl's sincer ity but, because of a recent rule change by the Florida High School Activities Association, couldn't prevent her from trying out Tor the team. Jan, a well-packed 157-pounder, said she was competing for the quarterback spot because she felt her size and quickness would be assets in that position. When practice opened Monday, she was out on the field with some 90-odd other aspirants doing jumping jacks, pushups, situps and sprints.

After the session, she said: "I've never been so tired in my life. My neck is killing me But she vowed she would be back Tuesday. And she was but only to inform Saltrick she was quitting. "Frankly, I was reluctant to give her a tryout, but this week of practice is spent in conditioning and we don't have any body contact," the coach said. "Besides, I remember she baked brownies for the players last season so I said, 'What the AP Photo President Richard Nixon jokes with Vida Blue (left) and Dave Duncan (center) after the two Oakland players presented him with an A's cap during the team's tour of the White House Tuesday.

hudson's men's store savings event 26 this year make up for ffs second-hair shortcomings last season. "The main thing would be to get something out of (rookie, No. 1 draft choice) Curtis Rowe quick," Coil said. "That was the position we were the weakest at last year." Coil has five players unsigned. He has reached verbal agreement with Dischinger and is reported to be close with Jimmy Walker.

Howard Komives, Bill Hewitt and Rnh rinirlr hoion't cifrnari nr rparhpH cpttlp. Vida Finds A Friend in White House I 1 Coil says he will go ahead with negotia-f tions on the understanding the new con Ed Coil tracts won go into etrect until tresiaent Nixon's 90-day wage freeze is dropped. WASHINGTON (AP)-President Nixon met with Vida Blue at the White House Tuesday and promptly called the sensational lefthander pitcher of the Oakland Athletics "the most underpaid player in baseball." The 22-year-old Blue, manager Dick Williams, owner Charles O. Finley and the Oakland team paid a 15-minute call on the president and were impressed with his knowledge of baseball ana the players. Red Wings i Note: NBA Players' Association says it won't permit play in r)y exhibition games against either ABA or NBA teams.

This is the players' way of fighting the proposed NBA-ABA merger, which they contend would destroy their bargaining power. I "I'd heard rumors that they wouldn't play exhibition games against ABA teams but nothing official," Coil said. "But to me it seems strange because they went out and played this All-Star game against the ABA players (earlier this summer)." NBA officials apparently aren't too worried about an exhibition-game strike. "I think this can be straightened out," said New Yorfe Knick president Ned Irish. "We'll get that resolved.

If we don't, we'll worry about it then." A Coaching Quiz on Wilt Note (Trivia Department): Betcha can't name ail seven men who have coached Wilt Chamberlain in his 12-year NBA career. i The big man started out for Neil Johnston and Frank Mc-Guine at Philadelphia, then played for Bob Feerick and Alex 'Sports Editor Joe Falls is on vacation. Buy, Sign Conaclier The Red Wmgs purchased the rights to left wing Brian Conacher from the Toronto Maple Leafs Tuesday and Conacher immediately signed a one-year contract for the 1971-72 season. Co a whose uncle Charles and father Lionel achieved National Hockey League fame before him, retired from the NHL in 1968, after two seasons with the Maple Leafs. The Red Wings drafted Conacher in the intra-league draft that spring but he retired.

Since then his rights have been traded from the Wings to Minnesota and from Minnesota back to Toronto before Wings' General Manager Ned Hark-ness re-acquired him Tuesday. The 6-foot-3, 190-pounder played briefly for the Canadian National team in 1969 and is currently a sports commentator for CKLW-TV in Windsor. only this one is different We looked around each of our stores. Even after 25 savings events, we found quite a few suits here. Lots of sport coats there.

Etcetera. Overall, plenty of men's clothing to sell. So we marked it all down again to new lower prices. Lower than they've been in years. NOW ALL IN ONE HANDY PLACE OUR 2ND FLOOR DOWNTOWN DETROIT.

A one-week only clearance of suits. Sport coats. Topcoats and slacks. All Hannum when the team moved to San Francisco and was traded back to Philadelphia to play for Dolph Schayes. After that, he was swapped to Los Angeles where he has outlasted both Bill van Breda Kolff and Joe Mullaney.

No. 8 is coming up this fall Bill Sharman. Note: Barry the Bear Wrestler Big (6-foot-10, 230 pounds) Barry Nelson, the Duquesne rookie -trying to land a job with the NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks, doesn't pick on anyone or anything smaller than he is, Nelson once wrestled a 700-pound bear at a Pittsburgh Sports show and was awarded the decision. The Bucks will try him as a back-up man for center Lew Ajcindor and if he can't cut it there, he'll throw his weight around from a forward post. Note: Only 222 days until the end of the NBA season.

"He's really a sports fan he knows his baseball," said Williams. "He had a comment about every one of us. "The president said, perhaps prematurely, that we're going to win it all," he said. Nixon recalled that Jim (Catfish) Hunter had pitched a perfect game in 1968 and he asked John (Blue Moon) Odom how he got his name. "I've had it since I was a kid," Odom was quoted as saying.

Team captain and third baseman, Sal Bando asked Nixon if the president's new economic policies, enunciated Sunday, meant "that Mr. Finley doesn't have to give us a raise next year." NIXON SMILED and didn't answer the question. He merely turned to Blue and said: "It means he can't give you any more gas for your car." Blue makes $13,000 a year but after his early successes, Finley gave him a $10,000 Cadillac. Blue complained to the boss that the car was fine but "that thing is going to take more than I make in a year to drive, what with upkeep and gas." So Finley forked over a credit card. After commenting about the gas, Nixon said smiling: "You must be the most underpaid player in the game.

Who is the lawyer for this club? I would hate to negotiate your contract next year." FINLEY SAID the president didn't have to tell him Blue was underpaid. "I already knew that," he said. Blue said afterwards: "I'm happy to meet the president. I've gone on some tours in this city but I had never made it here (the White House) before. I'd love to come back' final sales 19.98 to 99.98 Suits galore.

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Sorry, no phone or mail orders. not been worked out, the Lions said they expect to receive a draft choice as replacement for Ward in the trade. Ward was a reserve quarterback with Baltimore for two seasons. He was injured in 1969 and spent the 1970 season on' the New Orleans taxi squad. On the practice field at Cranbrook, meanwhile, the Lions stepped up work preparing for their Sunday battle st Ann Arbor with Baltimore's Super Bowl champion Colts.

to be turned away by the club on physical grounds this summer. Ward, who Is in his fourth pro season, had been expected to hold down the No. 3 spot among Lion quarterbacks (behind Greg Landry and Bill Munson). The Lions had given New Orleans linebacker Carl Cunningham, a four-year pro, for Ward, who was entering his fourth season. The deal apparently will stand.

Although details have New quarterback Jim Ward was dropped by the Lions Tuesday without ever having thrown a pass. Acquired from the New Orleans Saints Monday, Ward came to Detroit Tuesday morning and promptly flunked his physical examination at Ford Hospital. The Lions said Ward's problem was his right knee, on which he had surgery two years ago. HE WAS the seventh player hudsens mens store Downtown Detroit only.