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i Detroit ifree Vttss Sports InThis Section TAe wsjWe 5por5 Page 6 Outdoors with Opre Page 7 Racing Results Page 8 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1972 I A CAPTURE PLAYOFF OPENER, 3-2 SECTION Oops! OAKLAND 1 bl eb bl 0 0 0 Cimpnris $54100 1 1 1 MAlou rf 5 0 1 i 0 10 Rudi If 4M1 Chuck Seelbach didn't hack up third base, but he made, the right play Story on Page 5E. 1 i i RjacKson ct I 1 1 0 0 0 Bando 3b DETROIT at) MAulifle 2b. Kalint rf 5 Sims 5 Cash .3 WHorton If. 1 GBrown ph I MStanley cf 1 NorthriM cf 3 ARodrqel 3b 4 EBrnkmn ss 4 Lolich 4 Seelbach 0 4 0 10 0 0 0 0 mi 5 10 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 10 10 0 0 10 11 3 0 10 .10 0 0 0 0 odom pr 0 0 0 Epstein 0 1 0 Hegan 0 0 0 Tenace 0 1 0 DGreen 2b 0 0 0 Mangual ph. 0 0 0 Kubiak 2b Hendrick ph Marquz Hunter Fingers first on the play tagged Tenace, but first base ump Nestor Chylak insisted the Oakland catcher already had his foot on the bag.

That brought Marquez to the plate to bat for Dal Maxvill, the third man to pinch hit for an A's second baseman in the game. CHUCK SEELBACH, who had succeeded Lolich, went to a count of one ball and two strikes on the 26-year-old reserve outfielder before Marquez fouled off five pitches. Then he sent his single bouncing between Cash and McAuliffe out to rightfield. Hegan hesitated rounding third, but then scored standing up as Kaline directed his throw toward third base, where Tenace was heading in a hurry. Tenace came sliding in head first the ball hopped by Rodriguez and with Seelbach behind the plate instead of backing up third base, there was no time to recover before Tenace raced home.

Please turn to Page 5E, Col. 1 It was Kaline's home run off Rollie Fingers in the top of the lltn that sent the Tigers to the top, 2-1, and left them three outs away from the big one-win edge that the A's now enjoy. And it was Kaline's throwing error in Marquez's one-out single to right that cost them the ball-game. "I never went from being a hero to a goat any quicker in my whole life," Kaline said wryly. SAL BANDO AND Mike Epstein began the bottom of the 11th with back-to-back base hits off Mickey Lolich, to finish off the Tiger lefthander for the day.

Williams immediately replaced Bando and Epstein with pinch runners Blue Moon Odom and Mike Hegan, and then ordered catcher Gene Te-nace to bunt then along. But Aurelio Rodriguez gobbled up the bunt and went to third with tbe ball, forcing Odom. And Eddie Brinktnan fired to first, just missing Te-(nace. Actually, Dick McAuliffe who was covering BY JIM HAWKINS V. 7 ree Press ports Writer OAKLAND GonZalo Marquez.

Go ahead and say it. Who's he? Of all the Oakland A's, he was the last person you would have picked to beat the Tigers Saturday But Gonzalo Marquez it driving home two runs with the aid of Al Kaline's throwing error on his llth-inning pinch single to stun the Tigers, and send the A's'immediafely to the front in this best-of-five American League Championship Series. v' By rights, Marquez shouldn't have been within a thousand miles of the Oakland Coliseum Saturday afternoon. He wasn't on the A's original 25-man playoff squad, so he has purchased a plane ticket and made plans to return to Venezuela earlier in the week. THEN AT THE last minute, Oakland manager Dick Williams decided he didn't want to replace Total 30 2 1.

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HR Cash (1), injured reliever Darold Knowles with pitcher Don Shaw after all ajd asked permission to substitute Marquez instead. The Tigers, caught up in the excitement of their pre-playoff battle with the Boston Red sox at the time, agreed without giving it a second thought. But Saturday afternoon, there stood Marquez, aided by interpreter Campy Campaneris, telling the whole world in his best broken English how great it felt to be a hero. Meanwhile, in the silence of the Tiger locker room, Al Kaline who was headed for the celebrity pedestal himself until Marquez ended the game with that hit sat alone in front of his cubicle and contemplated the defeat. ER BB SO 2 1.3.4 1 0 0 1.1.1.4 1 ...4 0 ...2 aanao, casn.

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xar A. W'- -1- yfeVrn' a 4 1 4 xs! i 1 1 ffafr i stK S4 AP and uf I pnotos Al Kaline's throw from right hits a sliding Gene Tenace, then skips past Aurelio Rodriguez at third and Tenace leaps to his feet, dashes home with winning run for joyous A's ICw ma mgs-pea Pirates Bump Reds, 5-1 MSU But Irish Win, 16-0 NX 5-3, Misfiretl Squeeze Beat Us?" Billy i In Ooener JL J. OAKLAND 'Billy Martin sat there clenching and unclenching his fist. You got the thought and it through very strongly that he wanted to put that fist through a door or against the side of sornebody's jaw. Instead he just kept pounding it against the side of the beer, -can he held in his other hand.

It was a pretty grim scene and very few people went Into Martin's office to talk to him after Saturday's stunning defeat to BY CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sports Writer PITTSBURGH-Two years ago Al Oliver gave the Pittsburgh Pirates an ultimatum: Play me or trade me! The Pirates have never regretted their decision. Saturday the 25-year-old centerfielder battered Cincinnati pitching for a triple and a home run and drove in Pittsburgh's first and last runs as the Bucs went one-up in their National League playoff series with the Reds, 5-1. BY HOWARD ERICKSON Free Press Sports Writer The Red Wings opened the 1972-73 National Hockey League; season against the New York Rangers at Olympia Saturday-night and won rather easily, 5-3. But the story wasn't just that the Red Wings defeated the Rangers. It was how they went about it.

Playing exactly how the Russians did against Team while Notre Dame buoyed by three field goals from junior Bob Thomas and a last-minute eight-yard TD by fullbback Andy Huff picked up victory No. 3 without a loss. But, at least this was a loss the Spartans could accept without the humiliation they had suffered a week before. THE HEARTY MSU defense held the high flying Irish to a mere two field goals in the first half and it wasn't until late in the final quarter after safety Ken Schlezes had made the first interception of the game off Niesen that Notre Dame added the clinching field, goal and TD. In spite of the improvement, the Spartans just couldn't shake the flaws that have kept them from the success they had anticipated this year.

"Every time we were about ready to get field position we'd get a penalty or something else would interrupt our offense," noted Duffy. "I thought we had taken the momentum away from them early in the fourth quarter. I thought for once then we were going to win. We were third (down) and six (yards) Please turn to Page 4E, Col. 4 BY CURT SYLVESTER Prat Press Sports Wrlttr EAST LANSING Duffy Daugherty's Spartans did just what he wanted them to Saturday.

Only trouble was, they just didn't do enough of it. Junior Mark Niesen, in his first game as the Michigan State quarterback moved the Spartans but not quite far enough. The Spartans got rid of all their fumbles and all of the interceptions vuntil the last quarter. The Spartans sat right on the verge of big, game-breaker plays but then discovered they had an unnatural leaning toward committing the game-costing penalty. And as encouraging as the improvement was compared to a 45-point drubbing from Southerp California a week earlier, it wasn't enough to save the Spartans from a 16-0 loss at the hands of seventh-ranked Notre Dame before a full house of 77,828 fans on a brisk sunny autumn day.

"I think we came halfway back to being a good football team," said coach Daugherty, sniffling with a head cold. "Let's hope we make it the rest of the way next week." The loss was the Spartans' third in a row after a Big Ten-opening win over Illinois, FIRST PERIOD: 1 Detroit, Fontaine 1 (Berenson, Stackhouse) 7:53. 2-Detroit, Charron 1 (T. Bersman, Fontaine) 1:21. 3 Detroit, Berenson I (Charron, Fontaine) 4 Detroit, Redmond 1 (Ecclestone, Delvec-chio) 19: 44.

Penalties-Hadfield, N.Y. Boucha, Det. SECOND PERIOD: 5 DETROIT. D4-onne 1 (Libert) 0:44. New York, Park 1 (Stemkowski) 12:50.

Penalties-Redmond, DET. Gilbert, NY Johnston, DET. THIRD PERIOD: 7 New York, Ra' telle 1 (Gilbert, Park) 10:31. New York, Vickers 1 (unassisted) 12:47. Pen-alties-None.

Shots on soal: His three-bagger tied it 1-1 in the first and his homer in the fifth gave Pirate pitcher Steve Blass more than enough cushion. THE BUCS and Reds meet again at noon Sunday (Detroit time). Bob Moose (13-10) tries to give Pittsburgh a two game edge while Cincinnati will go with Jack Billingham (12-12) in an attempt to pull 31 5-21 14 7 10 DETROIT New York the Oakland A's. Two reporters loitered in the doorway. They looked at Martin sitting there.

They looked at his coaches sitting there. Nobody was saying a word. Nobody was even moving. The only move- ment in the room was Martin's fist rapping slowly against the beer can. Tap, tap tap, tap, tap.

The two men looked at each other and turned and left. Martin was dying was he ever. This was his fourth playoff game and his third in extra innings. This was his fourth defeat and his third in extrainnings. He is a man who looses hard anyway but now it seemed'as if he had lost not only his last game but his last friend and even his last breath.

"We should have never played extra innings," he muttered. "We should have won it in nine innings. The suicide squeeze beat us." And that's all he said. He was laying the blame right on Jim Northrup for fouling off his squeeze attempt in the ninth inning. With Duke Sims on third and one out, Martin called for his pet play the suicide squeeze.

Sims was running but Northrup's bunt toward third went foul. Northrup subsequently smacked! into an inning-ending double play and the score remained locked at 1-1, the game to be won by Oakland's two runs in the 11th inning the second on Al Kaline's throw. That's the way it Is with Martin. When he wins he can be sarcastic or merry or anything he wants to be. When he loses he is almost impossible to talk to.

It is his way, the Billy Martin way, it is the only way he can be. Out in the dressing room another man was dying. He had been the victim of one of baseball's crudest plays a good throw which struck the base runner and lost the ball game. Goaltenders: Dejordy, DETROIT; Giacomin, New York. AH.

13,574. Canada in last month's infer-national series, the Wings gave Olympia's 13,574 spectators the impression that there'll be some pretty exciting hockey in the Motor City this season. The Wings skated hard, even by mid-season standards. They forechecked. They chased the puck up and down the rink.

They And that's just what the Russians do and did against Team Canada. To anyone who saw the Soviet-Canada spectacle on television, it was apparent how the Canadians finally beat the Russians in the Russians' own end of the ice. That was the Wings' No. 1 tactic against the Rangers. Going right to work on New York goaltender Ed Giacomin, the Wings installed a pressure cooker in the Ranger end and when the Wings got their first power-play opportunity of the new season, they were effective.

Rookie Len fontaine, who has been fighting for a chance at the major league after spending four years in the minors, picked up a deflected pass on his right wing position and drilled the puck past Giacomin. Another 28 seconds and the Wings scored again, this time by speedy Guy Charron. Charron scored one of those Paul Henderson-type goals like he saw on TV. He darted U-M's 'Kids' Clobber Stubborn Navy, 35-7 even. Only an 11th hour reprieve from Mother Nature and a feverish effort by the grounds crew enabled the opener to be played.

It rained through most of the night and an ugly grey overcast shrouded Three Rivers Stadium at game time still 50,476, the second largest crowd In playoff history, were in the stands when Joe Morgan got Cincy off to a flying start with a solo homer off Blass in the top of the first. "That's when I realized my fast ball wasn't doing exactly what I wanted it to do," Blass joked in the locker room later. "I thought that was my No. 1 pitch and apparently Morgan did, too." BLASS, who like Detroit's Mickey Lolich, prefers to pitch in cool weather (it was 48 degrees Saturday), changed tac- Please turn to Page 8E, Col. 2 through the.

Ranger defense and before falling to the ice across Giacomin, he flicked the puck high into the New York net. Charron was the workhorse a while later at 15:39 when he fed a pass from the corner and Red Berenson collected the puck on his stick and gave the Wings a 3-0 lead. Mickey Redmond, who scored 42 goals for the Wings last season, took a rebound off the boards behind the Rangers' goal and blitzed a shot past Giacomin shortly before the period ended. BY THE start of the second period, Giacomin was gun shy. Last year's rookie sensation, Marcel Dionne, detected that soon enough.

Dionne got the Wings' fifth Please turn to Page 3E, Col. 3 when the Wolverines retuurn to the defense of their Big Ten championship against Michigan State. This game was no test, that's for sure. Michigan had size, speed, talent and depth in, such abundance that Navy was a threat, not from the opening klckoff SURPRISINGLY, the telling blows for the Wolverines were struck by sophomores quarterback Dennis Franklin, who passed for two touchdowns and scored another; safety Dave Brown, who zipped 83 yards with a punt return, and tailback Chuck Heater, who tore Please turn to Page 4E, Col. 5 BY GEORGE PUSCAS Free Press Executive Sports Editor ANN ARBOR Boy, when Michigan's kids' grow up, they're going to be some kind of football team.

Bo Schembechler turned a bevy of his soph- omore flashes loose on Navy Saturday, and with a easualness that smacked of sheer boredom, they overwhelmed the Middies, 35-7, before 81,131 In Michigan Stadium. It was the fourth straight success for the unbeaten Michigan team, whose true merit has yet to be measured this season. The real testing likely will begin next week, Al Kaline usually has a coke after these games, Sometimes a beer. Occasionally he'll make himself a sandwich. But this time he just sat there in his underwear.

He was slowly shaking his head. The reporters came by one by one, then In groups, then in larger groups. Kaline sat there and talked to them all. He explained what happened, then explained it again. He sat there and answered all the quetions that were put to him.

Never did this man show his class more than in these suffo- Please turn to Page 5D, Col. 1.