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DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday. Sept. 7. '71 1-P Lolich Wins 2 3rd to Tie Vida Blue Beats Heat, Senators, 3-0 How a Lion Who'll be MVP Spends His Lolich or Vida Blue Page 2D In Training BY JIM HAWKINS Free Press Soorts Writer WASHINGTON As records go, Monday afternoon wasn't much of a milestone in the life of Mickey Lolich. Before this month is over, the Tigers' prize lefthander will have shattered the all-time team standard for strikeouts.

he'll have started more games than any Detroit pitcher ever he'll have pitched more innings than all but a handful of hurlers in the game's history. But for the moment Monday, Mickey had to lie happy with a record of another sort: It took him 10 sweatshirts to shut out the Washington Senators, 3-0. And, you know what? He was happy. "That's my personal career There is more to a football training camp than aii hour-or-two a day on the practice field followed by the tumult and shouting of a game before a packed stadium. There is tedium and confinement hard work and a lack of free time.

The Lions have been in camp since mid-July and while the practice sessions are now only one-a-day, the Lions are still kept busy. In diary form, offensive guard Frank Gallagher, a five-year veteran, details a typical day in the life of a Lion at Cranbrook. 5 high, revealed Lolich, still perspiring, freely. "I never had to change shirts more than six times a game before. Free Press Phot" by DICK TRIPP A time to relax.

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A 7,384. BY FRANK GALLAGHER Lions' Offensivt Guard 7:40 a.m. Trainer's late knocking on the door this morning, have to hustle for breakfast. Checked Chuck Walton's room to make sure he was up and he overslept. It's a 25-buck fine if you're late for a meal.

8:15 Back from breakfast two fried eggs, two pieces of toast, a sweet roll and two glasses of orange juice. I hit the breakfast line pretty good I lost a lot of weight in that Miami game. 9:00 Go to training room, I need treatment on my neck and my ankle. 10:00 Meeting time. We got our schedule for the week and our offensive game plan.

We've added another new play. But today, I used one shirt to warm up and then I changed every inning. The clubhouse boy just kept tossing them in the dryer. Man, it was hot too hot." AROUND THE corner, in the Washington clubhouse, the Senators were saying the very same thing as they showered away the remains of an afternoon in the nineties, with humidity to match. The only difference was, they were talking about Lolich, not the weather.

The Mick was neither overpowering nor awesome as he pocketed his 23rd victory of the season, tying him with Vida Blue for the American League lead. But he was every bit as effective as he had to be. Six Senators got base hits, while five struck out. But later Lolich admitted all he was thinking about was getting the game over and getting away with the win, which was his 24th complete game of the season. "Today just wasn't the day to try to strike anybody out," explained, Lolich, who now trails Blue by 19 in that department.

"I just wanted to make everybody hit the first or second pitch and get out of that heat as quick as possible. "At this point in the season I've pitched so much, I just don't have enough left in me to look ahead to anything. Right now I'm just taking one game at a time and today I was going hitter by hitter." Lolich's Labor Day shutout his second in a row and fourth of the season moved him into a tie with Dizzy Trout for fifth place in the Tigers' career whitewash category with 28. THE TIGERS didn't exactly pulverize Senator starter Bill Gogolewski Monday in fact, first baseman Frank Howard conceded them the only run they needed. Aurelio Rodriguez was on third base with one out in the top of the first when Gates Brown rapped a routine grounder at first baseman Howard.

Manager Ted Williams had his infield pulled in to cut off the run, but Howard changed his mind the moment he got the ball and retreated to touch first base while Rodriguez crossed the plate unmolested and amazed. Singles by Mickey Stanley and Eddie Brinkman set up Tiger Manager Billy Martin's pet situation in the fifth. And Lolich laid down a suicide squeeze bunt that, brought the speedy Stanley home with room to spare. Stanley who was three-for-four Monday and 9-for-17 in his last five games tripled home Bill Freehan, in the ninth with the third Tiger run. 10:45 About an hour "to rest now.

Boy, this day-time TV is lousy. The news and "Jeopardy" are all there is. Noon Lunch. Grilled ham and cheese today. I don't know why we eat and go back to the room so quick I'm sure tired staring at these walls.

1:15 p.m. Better get down to the training room early. I've got to get more treatment for my ankle before I get taped for practice. 2:45 Out to the practice field. It's been rough all week, but that's not really unusual after we lose a game.

4:30 Lift weights for awhile. There'll still be time to go down the road with Chuck and Joe Robb and Errol Mann for a beer before dinner. 6:00 Dinner fried chicken and lambchops tonight. Ah, a special treat apple turnover to go with our ice cream. That's one good thing here the food.

It's especially good this year. 7:15 Back to the old training room. At least my ankle's feeling better now, but I need some treatment for the hand I jammed in the Cincinnati game. I suppose that'll bother me off and on all year. 8:00 Meeting.

Movie time. Boy if we don't shape up they'll rate these movies Geez, those defensive tackles are i guy outweighs me by 40 pounds. Oh well, that's not unusual. 9:00 Free time. A break in the old TV routine tonight.

My fiancee (Pat Flowers of Detroit) dropped by and we went out for a ride. The wedding isn't until March, but she's already talking about the plans. Watch that clock, though can't get back late. 11:00 Bed check don't blow it, that's a $200 fine. I'm ready for the sack anyway it's been a long day.

In fact, it's been a long camp boy, I'll be glad when we get out. The end is in sight. Gallagher and his teammates will break camp at the end of this week. But hopefully the drudgery of the seemingly endless eight weeks will have produced not only the muscle and strategy, but the discipline and comaraderie that may be transformed into a championship by December. Then training camp will have been worthwhile.

If A time to eat. Gallagher gets ice in his glass for a cold drink. "One good thing, the food has been especially good this year." 15 A time to work. Gallagher and Chuck Walton (right) flank center Ed Flanagan as the Lion offensive line drills on the practice field. "Practices are usually rougher after we lose a game." Doiioliue Wins MIS Trans-Am Time Running Bui Don't Out on Lions Lose Heart Yet 5 pxMmiMMimMm i ffetpfeliMp mm From Eagle: A particularly inviting knit group.

Knits are super important neiv. and you can count on seeing them in the most famous-brand collections this fall Eagle, for example shows dotd)le-knit polyester in a two button model with half-belted back, dramatic pocket treatments and all kinds of new patterns and colon and textures. Add Eaglets fine tailoring, and you hare ft lot to like. $95 to $110. BY BOB LATSHAW Free Press Sports Writer CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION Mark Donohue wrapped up his third Trans-Am championship in six years for American Motors Monday and spent most of his time afterward discussing his future racing plans.

Donohue scored i sixth straight Trans-Am victory at Michigan International Speedway by lapping everybody in the race except second-place finisher Follmer's Mustang. Donohue qualified his Javelin between rainstorms Mon. day morning and started on the pole after a night flight from Ontario, Calif. "Unfortunately, I had to start on new tires and George pulled away on the first lap," Ponohue said. IOLLMER, HOWEVER, didn't hang on to the lead for very long.

By the eighth lap, Donohue was in front to stay. He led the final 62 laps and finished with an average speed of 95.324 over the twisting three-mile road course for 200 miles. "Actually, the race was won in the pits," Donohue said. "The crew did a fantastic job changing tires and re-fuelling." The Roger Penske crew had two identical 172-second pit stops while Follmer had two of 20 and 24 seconds. "Actually I got a couple of breaks in traffic and made the Please turn to Page 5D, Col.

1 It is a team with extraordinary talent at several positions, but mostly they are good and competent and in some places they are young and mistake prone and in others they are old and maybe not quite with it anymore. So it is a team that is going to need a lot of luck and the very best performance from all that it has available, and that is asking for the very most. You don't often get it. Schmidt, I think, realizes what he has, and it is unfortunate that so many are expecting so much to come from what he has. One thought struck me about the Lions after their awful weekend and it was that, doggone, they are beginning to Sound like last year's Red Wings a new damnation each week.

They are not all that bad; they are not all that good, which is my private opinion, but they are not all that bad when you consider that there has not been a moment yet in any of their games when the segments of the various units have had all the No. 1 players together at the same time. That is a very important factor and I do not offer it as an alibi for Schmidt, Katras, Walker, LeBeau or any of the older hands who would scoff at the notion of me alibing for them. Time to Gei It Together Here is merely one example of what has been going on with the Lions but, perhaps, it will explain a lot of it because it is typical: What the Lions wanted most out of this summer was to re-establish the threat of their defensive line. It has not happened, and there is a simple and valid reason why it has not, which is simply Jerry Rush's back operation last June.

Thus far, Rush has played maybe three periods alongside Alex Karras and it will tak? Please Turn to Page 3D, Col. 1 I don't like to admit this, me being a mostly cool fella and all, but I have panicked. All out, mad, confused and wild panic. Those bums, how dare they play the way they do! I mean, we give 'em the best of everything a practice field in beautiful Bloomfield Hills, an easy schedule, a stadium filled with adoring faces and they respond like in-gratcs. The only thing that relieves me is the realization that others have panicked, too.

There is Mr. Bill Ford, who is a mostly cool fella, too. All of a sudden he sounds like Ralph Nader: Unless this engine starts running properly. Mr. Engineer, get me a different kind of sparkplug somewhere.

I want one that "fires" out there. I notice, too, that a coach says the Lions have disintegrated and I am relieved to hear a coach say that because if a coach feels that way, then I say I'm justified in my panic. My panic is not really all that far out, not such as the panic at Cranbrook. At Cranbrook, they have not only pushed the button, they have driven it cleanly through the control board. To me that suggests pending disaster.

Me being a cooler sort. I'd suggest Messrs. Ford, Thomas, Schmidt and the rest take a look at their team in the next few days and review what's been going on. We Overrated Lions? First thing they are going to see is what Schmidt has hinted privately, that maybe what we have here is an overrated team. It is a good team, but it is not a great team such as you would say on the morning of the season opener: This team is so good I bet my life they will be in the Super Bowl.

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