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nN DETROIT FREE PRESS Utegs dcuso Flames: Right wing Joe Kocur scored the winning goal in the third period in the Red Wings' 5-3 victory over the Calgary Flames. Page 5D. Sports Phont (scores): 1-976-1313 Sunday, Oct 10, ISS3 OUTDOORS 2 LIONS 4 PREPS 14 Call with iporti nwt: 222-6660 1 Hill nun Hi" Sunday Soundoff Page 6D Contest: Write the best caption and win a great prize Tigers: Smart money pays millions to Morris, Parrish Plus: Puscas' Love Letters, Cosell falls in love again 1 11 rfvit! ir-ii-ti- sh MM M.jI!iWu..Vi,)mw 1,1 ii i ,1 1 UNI fmm Sox win, 1-0 9 Nothing simple in the Series hf Hitch 2s7i '-jr NEW YORK It was the simplest of plays, the simplest of errors. Tim Teufel did not get his glove down far enough on Rich Gedman's ground ball and it went between his legs and into right field. And Jim Rice headed home from second base with the first run of Saturday night's game, the only run of the game, the run that would decide who took the lead in this 1986 World Series.

An unearned run. An error on the second baseman. Red Sox win, 1-0. Mets lose. The simplest of plays.

"Was it a really strange bounce?" Teufel was asked afterward by a reporter in a crowd of reporters trying to come up with an answer. "It wasn't that strange a bounce," 11' Mets pitcher Ron Darling lies on the ground after colliding with Boston's Dave Henderson behind the plate in the seventh inning. Jim Rice is trying to comfort Darling. weelt revee 1 I 1 KJr JJ, ii no By JOHN LOWE Free Prest Sports Writer NEW YORK It was a night on which it seemed neither team would score until morning. Then Mets second baseman Tim Teufel went into his Felix Millan imitation in the seventh inning, and the Boston Red Sox had a hitless wonder known as a run.

Boston left-hander Bruce Hurst pitching the game of his life in the game of his life turned Teufel's run-scoring error into a 1-0, four-hit win over New York in Game 1 of the 1986 World Series Saturday night. Hurst came out for pinch hitter Mike Greenwell in the ninth. Then former Met Calvin Schiraldi, who has gone from struggling prospect in New tA if V. '7. AP 1 VLlV VI I i JUL Teufel said, softly.

"Did Rice's running distract you? Was that it?" asked someone else. "He didn't have anything to do with it," Teufel said. "It's my responsibility to make the play. I just didn't." "Was it someone else would suggest. "No it wasn't Teufel would say.

See MITCH ALBOM, Page 7D Tit 1 rvR I 4 emssic York to No. 1 closer in Boston, pitched a hitless ninth for the save. Game 2 is here tonight (Roger Clemens vs. Dwight Gooden). Then the Series goes up the Atlantic seaboard for Game 3 Tuesday night in Boston.

Hurst beat Ron Darling, who allowed just three hits in his seven innings none in the decisive seventh. Jim Rice walked to begin the seventh and went to second on a wild pitch with Dwight Evans up. Evans grounded back to the mound for the first out, Rice holding second. RICH GEDMAN grounded the next pitch sharply right at Teufel. But when Teufel lifted his glove to field the bounce, the ball didn't bounce.

It shot See WORLD SERIES, Page 7D Gillette's hands Iowa 20-17 loss By TOMMY GEORGE Free Press Sports Writer ANN ARBOR It was as if he was home again in St. Joseph in his backyard, booting Campbell's soup cans and pretending the game was on the line. Oh, how many countless times as a child had Mike Gillette played game-winning scenarios over and over with his cans. And Saturday afternoon, he found make-believe can become ecstatic reality. Gillette's 34-yard field goal as time expired lifted fourth-ranked Michigan to a heart-thumping, 20-17 victory over eighth-ranked Iowa before 105,879 at Michigan Stadium and a' national TV audience.

It was redemption for Redemption for Gillette. The shoe was on the other foot for-Iowa, which beat Michigan, 12-10, last season on Rob Houghtlin's game-end-; ing 29-yard field goal in Iowa This time, it was the Wolverines fans who swarmed the field in wild celebration. This time, it was Houghtlin and coach Hayden Fry and the rest of the Hawkeyes who walked off the field with that sickening feeling, with the shock and trauma of losing as on the game's last play the ball sailed cleanly between the uprights. We're even now," said Fry, who later sat alone in the first row of Iowa's team bus and, behind those dark glasses, pensively contemplated this one that slipped away. FOR GILLETTE, it was the final, giant leap back from an up-and-down freshman season in 1985.

He set the Michigan season record for field goals (16) only to lose his starting job to Pat Moons when Gillette was suspended for the Ohio State game for disciplin- See WOLVERINES, Page 12D CoIIoqo scoreboard Top 10 No. 1 Miami, Fla. 45, Cincinnati 13 No. 2 Alabama 56, Tennessee 28 No. 3 Nebraska 48, Missouri 17 No.

4 Michigan 20, Iowa 17 No. 5 Oklahoma 19, Okla. St. 0 No. 6 Penn State 42, Syracuse 3 No.

7 Auburn 31, Georgia Tech 10 Michigan 20, No. 8 Iowa 17 No. 9 Washington 48, B. Green 0 No. 10 Arizona St.

29, USC 20 Details of Paget 10D to vZ j9 JIO A A' 4 Against all dds Gambling's lure is often a deadly hook Because of illegal activities described in this story, the names of characters Bob Dyer, Jerry Beardon and Mack S. are fictitious. By GLEN MACNOW Free Press Sports Writer At 6:30 on a Sunday morning, while most of the city sleeps, Bob Dyer is elbow deep in paperwork at the dining room table in his suburban Detroit ranch house. He rifles through the morning newspaper, squints at the multicolored scribbles filling three notebooks and punches numbers into a calculator. Dyer is a sports bettor.

For the next two hours, as his wife aids with a pipeline of fresh coffee and cigarets, Dyer computes the formulas that will tell him which NFL teams to bet on this day. At 8:35, he proudly announces the results, speaking in the gambler's unique vernacular. "I'll go with the Pats giving six at home against Miami, which is an absolute steal, considering the Dolphins' defense," he says. "I'll go a full dime I'm going to take $500 on Denver giving 354 against Dallas and $200 on Cincy giving seven to the Packers." Across town, a bookie awaits Dyer's call. Out in Birmingham, professional tipster John Dobbs is also on the phone, advising bettors who pay him up to $2,000 a year for his expertise.

And in Troy, compulsive gambler Mack S. nervously thinks up ways to stay out of the house, knowing if he tunes his television to football he will likely surrender to his addiction. By the time most Michiganders wake up today, thousands of men and women active in sports gambling will have been working for hours. By the time the first NFL kickoff appears on television, hard-core plungers and office-pool dabblers will have bet millions on the outcomes, spreads and point totals. No one is certain how much money is wagered on sports in the United States, let alone metropolitan Detroit.

According to a recent Louis Harris poll, one out of four See GAMBLING, Page 80 It's goodl Michigan blocker Gerald White (22), kicker Mike Gillette (19) and holder Monte Robbins (43) watch Gillette's game-winning kick split the uprights. His 34-yard kick gave the fourth-ranked Wolverines a 20-17 victory. Spartans finally solve Illini riddle, 29-21 were one of the few teams we haven't been able to beat. "We needed this to get even with the books and get over all the things that have been bothering We needed it very badly." Even in victory, the Spartans kept Perles jittery until the finish. "What made it exciting at the end was missing those two extra points.

We could've had a 10-point lead and wouldn't have been worried," Perles said. Bobby Morse, shifting from fullback to tailback, Jlee SPARTANS, Page 13D By JACK SAYLOR Free Press Sports Writer CHAMPAIGN, 111. Michigan State's Spartans scratched a seven-year itch Saturday and finally managed to carve out a victory over Illinois. Not since 1979 six forgettable losses had the Spartans beaten the Illini. But they overcame coach Mike White's tag-team quarterbacking duo and registered a 29-21 victory before 75,038 in Memorial Stadium that put MSU's season back on track to what the Spartans hope will be a charge to a bowl game.

coach George Perles combatted the Kiini's two-quarterback system with a twin-tailbaux of fense that scored three touchdowns. But Mark Ingram's 71 -yard touJhdown on an end-around clinched the triumph the Spartans' first in the Big Ten against two losses. MSU is 3-3 overall. Illinois also is 1-2 in the conference, but dropped to 2-4 with its fourth loss in the last five games. But the pass-happy Illini stung MSU with 348 yards and three touchdowns through the air and turned the game into a nail-biter until the final 1 '2 minutes.

"IT'S BEEN tough coming down ifVe and Illinois has been tough on us for years," Perfes said. "They.