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A’s hope to ‘explode with their bats’

OAKLAND(AP)-TN> tempestuous Oakland A s hope to explode tonight with their bats instead of their tempers in the third game of the 1974 World Series with the los Angeles Dodgers “I'm expecting us to break out any day now, but I've been expecting that for six weeks... So I don’t really know." said Oakland Manager Alvin Dark, whose teem has had more notice recently for hitting people than hitting baseballs. A change in the batting order

might be just the thing that the A s need to add some punch to their recent Punch and Judy hitting. Dark, whose team won the World Series opener with an undistinguished 3-2 victory Saturday in Los Angeles and then lost the second game by the same score, is thinking about an adjustment in his hitting alignment. Noting that the A's face a left-hander in A1 Downing, Dark revealed: "I might bat Bill North first instead of second. He has more power as a right-handed hitter. I might

also move some of the others around in the lineup, too. We’ve just got to get some more runs.” The A’s may not be hitting well lately, but they’ve certainly had the pitching. And the best on their staff goes tonight, 25-game winner Catfish Hunter. The toba,ro-chewing Hunter, well rested since he only pitched to one batter on Saturday after working in last week's American League playoffs, has been embroiled in a salary

dispute with Oakland owner Charles 0. Finley. Hunter, mad at Finley because he claims the owner reneged on half of his yearly (100,000 salary, might make the Dodgers pay for it tonight The A’s fight as well as anybody else, too. The Dodgers, or any other team in baseball, are sedate compared to this flam-

boyant, aggressive team of oddballs. The combative A’s started the Series out with a bang when pitchers Rollie Fingers and Blue Moon Odom exchanged blows in the clubhouse last week. And during Monday’s off-day workout at the Oakland Coliseum, a sports writer was the target of wrath.

Reggie Jackson, Oakland’s star outfielder, verbally challenged Murray Olderman, editor of Newspaper Enterprises Association in San Francisco, because of an article he wrote for a national magazine. Jackson roared out of the batting cage when he saw Olderman and abused him verbally before a crowd of gaping onlookers.

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1 Ben gals must stop) Oakland ground game or be chewed up

CINCINNATI. Ohio (AP) - The Cincinnati Bengals defense, stung in recent weeks by rui-c. must regroup against the ground game or be chewed up Sunday by p >tent Oakland Haiders, says defensive tackle Hon Carpenter ‘T wish we knew what was wr ig." said Carpenter "If we did. we could correct it We're definitely oomerned about it." The two National Football Tje. J i;ue powers collide Sunday in Oakland and Cart enter calls it our biggest test so far " The Bengals. 4 1. need a vicu»rv to keep their precarious grip on first place in the Cen tral Division Oakland, a noted rushing team, is also 4-1. Carpenter blat ie« some Ben-

gal problems on "a lot of misled tackles And the offensive teams are now getting better field position because the kickoffs have been moved back to the 35-yard line." The Cleveland Browns ripped through the Bengals usuallystaunch defense for 263 rushing yards Sunday Cincinnati wor 31-25 on the passing magic of quarterback Ken Anderson, who had his best day as a pro with 278 yards in the air. Carpenter says the Bengals will have their hand*: full with Oakland's veteran offensive line ' hey've got to be one of the ‘^est in the business." drawled the five-vear pro from North

Carolina State. You've just got to respect them." "They have a great running game and if they can establish it. they'll just ron on you all day." he said. It's a crucial outing for the Bengals. who hold a half-game lead over the Pittsburgh Steelers "We don't have any breathing room. We lose in Oakland and we're in second place." he said It will be up to Carpenter and teammate Mike Reid, an AliPro defender, to help blunt the Raiders attack The two have been cornerstones in the defensive line since 1970. when Reid was drafted No. 1 and Carpenter No. 2.

Sports

. II ESDAY. OCTOBER 15,1974.

Hank going to Brewers?

OAKLAND (API - The Atlanta Braves have given Hank Aaron permission to talk with the Milwaukee Brewers, possibly opening the door for baseball's most successful home run slugger to become the fust black general manager in the major leagues The announcement Monday by Dan Donohue, president of

Portland Storm will not boycott

PORTLAND. Ore. : AP) ~ I'espite delioquent paychecks. Uiere'H be no player boycott by the Portland Storm this week. W» re just i a short-term cash crunch.' (jeneral Man-

ager Ron Mix of the World Football League team said Monday. "We have no long-term problems." Mix told a news conference.

Aging Downing set for series start OAKLAND AP - It was a Dodger pitching lineup surrealistic Monday afternoon. "That doesn't bother me," he When the Oakland A s took said convincingly "That's just batting practice, a track star because i haven't pitched was practicirc base running much this year. I'm going to ami Reggie Jackson was pitch the same way I always spending his energy chewing pitch When I go out there. I c ji a sports w-iter have the idea that I'm going to Then late in the day, when throw a shutout Then if they the shadows of a California get one run, I tell myself that’s autiunrurepi a< ross Oakland's all they 're going to get." Coliseum, a get.tlenan named Tuesday nights's game will A1 Downing tame out to see be tough, he admits. 111 have how much major league pit- to be in command from the first clii -g he lias left in his 33-year- pitch." old body. Dodger Manager Walter Downing will «tart the third Alston assigned Downing te game of the Work! Series for start the th«. d game be ause, the Los Ange’es Dodgers d* spite hi« lackluster record, tot' ght This year he is known h* pitched vt tv well late in the for a 5-6 record and for giving season, up Hank karon's 715th home Since his last Series game 10 run years ago Downing feels be "is L ning w arn ed p with the a much better pitcher than I cool relaxed air of the was professional who fust pitched "I’ve changed for the betin the majors for the Yankees ter." he said "I stili throw 75 in 1961 when many of his percent fast balls but I'm not a lev nates wen kids. His last power pitcher. I'm more of a World Series game was in 1964 control pitcher " with ‘he Yanks and since then But the slanting rays of the he h; ? bounced to Binghamton, fall sun coming over the first beck to New York, to Oakland, base side of the Coliseum won't Milv uikee and finally to the bother him. says Downing. "It Dodgers, for whom lie won 20 will bother the outfielders," he games in 1971. said He wa ; asked how it felt to be And, Downing hopes, the considered the soft spot in the Oakland batters National Football League American Conference East ero Division San Diego 1 4 9 .200.. <2..93 WIT Pet PF PA National Conference New Fog 5 0 0 1.000 148 .61 Eastern Division Buffalo 1 1 0 .800.107 77 W L T P £f: PF PA Miami 3 2 (I .600 114 108 S.Louis 5 . 0 . 0.1 000 118 5NY Jets 1 4 0 . 200 68 106 4 1. 0.. 800 94 41 Balt . .0 . 5 . 0...000. .40 149 '''•s 1 ' •• 3 2 .0...600 90 75 Dallas .1. 4. 0 200 .89. .81 NYGiants 1 4 .0...200 58 96 Central Division Central Division Cinci 4 1 0...800 133..71 Minn. . 5 0 0.1.000 124 61 Pitt 3 1 1. ..700 112 . 83 G ri ,Bav .3 2 .0.. .690 .82 97 Cleve 1 4 0...200..82.143 Chicago 2 3 0.. 400 79. 66 Houston .1 4. .0...200..52.115 Detroit 1 4 0.. 200 64 .74 Western Division .. ... Western Division LA 3 2 . 0...600 77 . 60 Oakland 4 1. 0 ..800.118 .62 Atlanta 2 3 0...400 50 ,1 Denver 2 2.. 1..500 98 113 SF - " ? J J " Kan City .2 3 0 ..400 86 101 New Orl. 1 4. .0...200 j4 111 USAC 2nd chase INDIANAPOLIS iAP) — Bakersfield, Calif.. 686; and Duane Carter Jr. has already Bruce Walkup, St. Paul. Ind.. clinched the U.S. Auto Club 657. sprint car title this season, but Sixty points are possible with a three-way battle for second a victory in the final race Oct. continues with one race re- 27 at Salem, Ind . and Bigelow, maining on the schedule. Snider and Walkup will be Carter, of Huntington Beach, shooting for the best finish to Calif. has 870 points. try for the No. 2 position. Following in the standings Bill Puterbaugh, Inare Tom Bigelow, WTiitewater. dianapolis, with 600 points, is Wis.. with 706; George Snidei fifth.

"The players were not paid for the last game." he said. "It's the only pay period we've missed this year. We don't consider our players have missed a pay period if they are paid between the end of one game and the start of another. "We hope the problem will be solved by this weekend. I sincerely feel that it will,” Mix said. Mix called the news conference to refute published reports that Storm players had not been paid for two weeks and were considering boycotting Wednesday’s game against the Hawaiians. Bob Harris, the Canadian millionaire who owns the club, said he planned to have tlie money (or last week's game with him when he arrived in Portland for the Wednesdaynight game. Hams was just caught short after injecting what he considered adequate financing to carry the club through the season,” Mix said of the

London, Ont., developer. “Bob's selling off some of his holdings in Canada to raise the additional cash and feels very strongly that something good will liappen soon." Mix, after a meeting with the team Monday, said the players "understood there is no certainty" the checks will be available Wednesday. “The morale is good," he said, "and they consider it a temporary inconvenience. Mix cited three reasons for the short-term financial problem; — Home attendance is averaging about 16,000 compared with a break-even figure of 28,000. - The league did sway with revenue sharing, which Mix said “hurt us to the tune of approximately $100,000." —Poor original projection of operating capital Portland is the fifth WFL team reported to have missed a payroll. Two of the others, Detroit and Jacksonville, since have ceased operation.

the Braves, was made just one day before Aaron was to hold a news conference here reportedly to disclose his future plans. The news conference apparently was arranged by Magnavox, an electrical firm with which Aaron has a $1 million contract. If Aaron, who will be 41 next February, does sign with the Brewers and finish his major L ague career where it began — in Milwaukee — he probably would spend next season as a designated hitter before taking s general manager's position. /Ml along, Aaron had made it known he planned to retire after this season ... until Sunday, Sept. 29, when he announced that his future still remained in doubt. Aaron’s problems at Atlanta apparently stem from a finan-

cial squabble with the Braves, who have offered Hank a front office job for next year at substantially less than his $200,000 player’s contract. “Titles,” Aaron once snapped. "Can you spend titles at a grocery store? Executive vice president, assistant to the executive vice president, what does it mean if it doesn’t paygood money? I might become a janitor for big money." It is believed that the Braves offered Aaron as much as $75,000 to serve in the front office, and he still has four more years to run on the Magnavox contract, for which he receives $50,000 quarterly. There also has been speculation that his contract with the television firm would limit him to a player role with the Braves.

Winners both Host for the 1974 Putnam County cross country meet and winning team coach all rolled into one A1 Tucker presents the individual championship trophy to Keith Puckett of South Putnam Saturday at the Cloverdale course. Tucker’s Clovers rolled to an easy team victory, garnering eight out of the top ten places, while Puckett battled Clover Jack Galloway to a nine second win. |Banner-Graphic Photo). Jackson rips sports writer

Knowles knows Marshall can pitch

Dolphins sinking to the bottom?

MIAMI AP- How- the mighty are falling Most experts figured the Miami Dolphins would romp to a fourth straight Super Bowl appearance this year, and perhaps even a third straight championship. But now Coach Don Shula is worried that his team might not even make the playoffs. Somebody forgot to tell the rest of the National Football League that the Dolphins dynasty was supposed to end not this season but in 1975, when Miami loses five starters to the World Football League. It had been expected that Miami would have little trouble taking another American Conference Eastern Division title. But the Dolphins have only a 3-2 record and trail New England 5-0 and Buffalo 4-1 in their division. Pass defense is Simla’s biggest worry. Miami gave up only 1.290 passing yards in 1973 but has already yielded 1,105 yards this season. Shula doesn’t place the blame with any individual or the defensive strategy itself, which is the same as the past. He explained, "What we’ve got to start to do, is start playing the coverages.” Sonny Jergensen, checked for most of last Sunday's game, picked Miami apart in the closing minutes for a 20-17 Washington victory. Shula, miffed, said, “If there’s anybody that should realize that anything can happen in the last two minutes it’s our team. Adding to Shula s problems are injuries to two tackles, receiver Paul Warfield and

running back Mercury Morris, which have decimated the offense. Morris, who has missed three games, is the biggest loss since lie is the Dolphins’ chief outside threat. With him sidelined, teams have jammed the middle to stop fullback Larry Csonka Csonka, who gained over 1,000 yards the last three years, is averaging only 3.6 yards a carry. Morris’ replacements, Jim Kiick and Hubert Ginn, are getting only 2.5 and 3.5 yards a try, respectively. Shula said attitude is not a problem. He fined Csonka and Kiick $100 each for missing a team dinner Sabirday night but said he has had fewer fines this year than in previous seasons. “We gotta get going,” he said Monday, looking to three straight games in the Orange Bowl. Miami has not lost at home in 25 starts. If they do not keep that record intact through these next few home games, the Dolphins have to forget about their dynasty a year ahead of time. Sunday, Oct 20 New Orleans at Atlanta New England at Buffalo Philadelphia at Dallas Baltimore at New York Jets. Cleveland at Pittsburgh .... New York Giants at Washington St. Louis at Houston Detroit at Minnesota San Diego at Denver San Francisco at Los Angeles Kansas City at Miami Cincinnati at Oakland

OAKLAND AP- The Oakland A's Darold Knowles, inactive so far in the World Series, owns a pitching record that busy Mike Marshal] of the I/)s Angeles Dodgers can’t break. "But if this thing goes seven games, I’m sure he’ll tie it,” said the Oakland left-hander who appeared in all seven games of the 1973 World Series to establish a record. Marshall, who set a major league record with 106 appearances during the 1974 National League season, was the Dodgers’ finishing pitcher in the first two World Series games at Los Angeles and was ready to back up starter Al Downing here tonight in game No. 3. “I don't know how he pitches as much as he does. I know I couldn’t do it,” said Knowles. “Maybe he hypnotizes himself.” Marshall, a sturdy little right-hander with mutton chop sideburns and a buttoned-down mouth, isn’t about to let any rival pi toilers know the secret behind his durability. “But I think I can read between the lines,” said the A’s Bob I^ocker, a right-handed reliever who sat out this season with a bad arm. "It s partly a mental game. He believes there’s no way you can get stronger by resting. The more he throws, the stronger he gels. I’m sure he’ll pitch in 100 games next year, too," said Locker. Locker was a teammate of Marshall in 1969 with the shortlived Seattle Pilots and recalls that Marshall “was low man in our bullpen, behind Diego Segui and me. “Our pitching coach up there, Sal Maglie, didn't believe in Mike's theories and didn't like him throwing the screwball, his best pitch.” The Dodgers' Walter Alston, blessed with many great relief stars in his years in Los Angeles and Brooklyn, and most other big league managers are going to their bullpens more than ever these days. The A’s Alvin Dark pulled starter Ken Holtzman, who had allowed only an unearned run, in the fifth inning of the World Series opener, used relief ace Rollie Fingers into the ninth and then brought in 25-game

winning starter Catfish Hunter to get the final out. “That was a great move," said third baseman Sal Bardo, who early in the regular season hollered after a tough loss, Dark couldn't manage a meat market." Fingers has appeared in 13 of the A’s 16 World Series games, going into tonights contest, since 1972. The last pitcher to throw a complete game in the World Series was Pittsburgh’s Steve Blass in the Pirates’ 2-1 final game victory over Baltimore in the 1971 World Series.

OAKLAND (AP) - "You’d better not get around me alone — if you do, you’re in trouble.” The speaker was Oakland A’s outfieder Reggie Jackson; the object of his wrath, sports writer Murray Olderman. Jackson and Oakland pitcher Vida Blue weie angered by a magazine article written by Olderman, general editor of Newspaper Enterprise Association in San Francisco, and they vented their wrath at Olderman during an A’s workout Monday. Olderman walked onto the field to watch batting practice and Blue said to Jackson, “Hey, here’s Olderman.” Jackson then left the batting cage, wavdd a finger at the 57-year-old Olderman and gave tlie writer a 10-minute, ex-pletive-filled dressing down in front of several dozen snorts

writers and photographers. “I want to embarrass you," Jackson said. “I invite you to my home and you had to wr.L that trash ” “I didn't call you a liar,” Olderman said to Jackson. “That’s rot the point,” Jack son said. “I’m calling you one.” Finally Joe Reichler. specia assistant to baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, stepped in and attempted to quiet Jacks: down. Blue then took over, but in a somewhat mere suedued tone He told Olderman that although he had been ouoted h the article, ' 'ou never talked to me.” Jackson W as apparently mad about the general tone of the article, which dealt with his alleged battle with other A’s players fer leadership.

‘Player of week’

CHICAGO (AP) — Cornelius Greene. Ohio State’s all-around quarterback, has been selected the Big Ten Player of the Week on offense by The Associated Press. Greene scored two touchdowns. laterailcd to Brian Baschnagel for another, gained 146

yards in 16 rushes and completed five of seven passes for 81 yards in Ohio State’s 52-7 romp over Wisconsin last Saturday. The 6-foot-, 170-pound junior from Washington, D.C., ranks first in passing and scoring in the Big Ten, second in total offense and third m rushing.

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