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OAKLAND (AP) — ’D* Oakland A’s, celebrating another baseball work! champion^ip today, beat a Lot Angeles Dodgers club they considered tense and iwnrooB.” The A's remember the feeUng well. "In 1171, we made the playoffs for the first time and Baltimore beat us in three straight. Since then, weVe played up to our ability," team captain Sal Bando said after Thursday night's 34 victory which ended the World Series. The three-time world cham-

pions needed only fire games to finish off the Dodgws, although they batted a meager .211 as a team and won three of their games by 34 scores. The A's have taken nine one-run decisions in three World Series. Los Angeles was the preSeries favorite and when the Dodgers fell behind El after the third game, outfielder Bill Buckner said of the A's: "I think if we played them 162 times in a season, we'd win 100 times." The newspaper quote, read in the A's clubhouse Wednesday

Racers drop season opener

INDIANAPOLIS<AP) - The Indianapolis Racers need to win a game. The new member of the World Hockey Association lost a 4-2 decision to the Michigan Stags here Thursday night in the regular-season opener for each team And the frustration was apparent in the face of Indianapolis Coach Gerry Moore and his young players. The Racers have yet to win a game in five tries, four in preseason play. All they have to show for their efforts since training camp opened in early September is a pair of 34 ties Michigan, formerly the Los Angeles Sharks, got the breaks on a pair of power play goals and a clinching breakaway god by veteran Marc Tardif. But tfie Stags were outshot and often outhustled by the younger club. - "They ain't down ydL" Moore said grimly. "IheyTe frustrated more than down. We need games to get our timing down and to get better “We believe weYe as good as any team in the league," he added “All right, we lost one. Now we know where we stand But these kids really believe they can win.” Moore pointed to the fact that Indianapolis outshot Coach Johnny Wilson's Stags 3344. but Michigan goalie Gerry

Des>ardins made some good saves and the Racers failed to challenge him on several choice chances. "We has some great opportunities and didn't get away the shots,” Moore explained. “WeYe trying to pass it too much, but these things you correct with time.’' Wilson, a former Detroit Red Wings coach, was the original choice to head the Racers but negotiated his way out of the contract in order to sign with Michigan in his hometown of Detroit. He was booed thunderously by the crowd of 12,873 when introduced before the game in the sparkling new Market Square Arena in downtown Indianapolis. "Desjardins played a fine game for us and it’s good to start with a victory. But the Indianapolis team hustled and played hard The Important thing is their fans and team will have to be patient." Racers goalie Andy Brown, in the nets of Pittsburgh of the National Hockey League last season, was proud of his teammates for their opening night showing. "They (Michigan) got the breaks and we didn't. We outshot and outhustled 'em. but it s going to take us time to get together."

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night by owner Charles 0. Finley, had its stinging effect but was nothing new. "No one has bean impressed by us," said Jos Rudi, whose

seventh-inning homer off Los Angeles relief ace Mike Marrfiall provided the run that won the fifth game and the Series. Reggie Jackson called the

Fingers MVP OAKLAND (AP) — If you ware casting a 1930a movie serial, Roilie Fingers and his carefully cultivated handlebar moustache

would be perfect for the villain.

And if you were casting a World Series for the Oakland A's, the man you would want wanning up in the bullpen is Fingers, who has a way of showing up on the mound when the A’s are about to

win World championships.

The sinister looking righthander earned an automobile as Most Valuable Player in the World Series, winning one game,

National League champion Dodgers “a good dub, but I don’t think they played up to their capabilities. They seemed tense and nervous." At times -mostly the wrong times — the Dodgers were daring. The quotable Buckner singled to lead off the eighth inning Thursday night and tried to reach third when the ball squirted past center fielder Bill North. He was out when Jackson, backing up North,

fired the ball to second baseman Dick Green, who made a perfect relay throw to Bando. "It wasn't a lucky play,” said shortstop Bert Campaneris. "Reggie and Greenie were both in the right position and made great throws. That’s why weYe champions." Reliever Roilie Fingers, with the help of the play, went on to shut out the Dodgers over the final two innings, the crowning touch that earned him the

World Series’ Most Valuable Player award. Fingers was the Series’ pitching star, Rudi and Campaneris led the A’s’ batsmen with six hits apiece and Green stole the show in the field. The 33-year-old second baseman, who probably will announce his retirement from baseball a third time this winter and then run up Finley’s long-distance phone bill as he ponders a return, participated

in a record six double plays against the Dodgers. At bat, he was 0-for-13. "I’m just a fringe ballplayer on a great team,” said Green, who soon will be collecting a 626,000 World Series check.

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Fingers didn't pitch in was the one the Dodgers won. The world championship was the third straight for the A’s. They won in seven games in 1972, seven in 1973 and five in 1974. That's 19 baseball games. In 16 of them. Fingers has come out of the bullpen. There is just so much rubber in any pitcher’s arm and Fingers admitted that the constant work was beginning to take its toll as he worked against the Dodgers in the final two Innings of Thursday night's championRiip-dinching game. "I was getting tired,” he said. "The back of my arm hurt so I couldn’t get a breaking ball over. I only could get my fast ball over.” In the eighth inning, Fingers tried a breaking ball on Dodgers’ slugger Joe Ferguson, who sent the ball soaring towards the left field seats — but well foul. "He hit the pitch nine million miles,” said Fingers. ”1 threw it away after that." Before the game, A’s pitching coach Wes Stock sidled up to Fingers and asked how his arm felt after two straight days of work. "I told him I had a few innings in it,” said the reliever. That was all Stock and Manager Alvin Dark needed to hear. With the score tied at 2-2 and the game moving into the late innings, Stock told Fingers to get ready. "He told me that I’d be pitching if we scored one run,” said Fingers. Sure enough, the A's got that run on a first-pitch homer by Joe Rudi against Dodgers' bullpen ace Mike Marshall in the bottom of the seventh. That was the agnal for Fingers to start wanning

up.

After Ferguson’s foul drive in the eighth, Fingers sailed into the ninth, needing only three more outs to nail down the World championship. He got them in a hurry. Ron Cey flied deep to Reggie Jackso in right field. Then pinch-hitter Willie Crawford popped up. That brought up Von Joshua, the Dodgers' last hope. Fingers overpowered the Dodger pinch-hitter and Joshua tapped meekly back to the mound. Fingers gloved the ball and half-ran, half-hopped his way toward first base before finally tossing to Gene Tenace for the final out. "I just wanted to make a good throw to Gene at the end,” he said, "but I was hopping up and down. Boy was I happy."

OAKLAND (AP) - The fact that the Oakland A’s neetied only five games to win the World Series proved particularly galling today to the defeated Los Angeles Dodgers. "They beat us fair and square but I didn't think that we’d get beat in five,” admitted first baseman Steve Garvey, the Dodgers’ star of the Series. "In this Series, we never did play the game of accomplished, solid ball that we played all year.” Oakland fans came In for sharp criticism from outfielders Bill Buckner and Jimmy Wynn. Before the A’s seventh inning in Thursday night’s clincher, they threatened to walk off the field when Buckner was nearly hit by a liquor bottle. "I was hit in the back of the head by an apple earlier," he said. "I can’t say much for those fans. They can’t be real baseball fans or they would show up more during the season.” Manager Walt Alston added: "I don't think Buckner minded those things you flip (frisbees) but when they started throwing bottles, it was different. “We talked to the umpires and if it had continued, we

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would have taken the players off the field." On Mike Marshall’s first pitch following the six-minute delay, Joe Rudi hammered the game-winning home run in the 3-2 triumph. Neither Alston nor catcher Steve Yeager thought the delay,, had much influence. "Marshall is a veteran,” said Alston. “All he could do was stand there and wait. I doubt that the wait had anything to do with what happened next.”And Yeager said Marshall threw a good pitch, a low inside fast ball. Alston, proud of his young team that won the National League pennant, explained the World Series defeat in part by saying: “They've never been there before. There’s a certain part of this game you can’t get from talking. There are a few things you have to get on the playing field that nothing but experience will give you.” "No one has to be ashamed,” said Wynn. “They wanted a pennant in Los Angeles and we gave it to them. Everybody did a great job and I’m proud. "We scored two runs and that’s not enough to win a bail game or a World Series. We thought we were a much better hitting ball club but we just couldn't play our game and execute the finer points.” The Dodgers lost three times 3-2 and once 5-2.

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Two games featuring the Indiana Collegiate Conferences four top teams will unfold this weekend in feature attractions in Evansville and Indianapolis. Undefeated (3-0) Butler clashes with 1-1 Indiana Central in the increasingly famous “Indy Top Dog" game, while unblemished (3-0) Evansville will try to keep pace with the Bulldogs against 1-1 DePauw in the Pocket City. The ICC’s third game this weekend matches two teams against each other who are looking for their first ICC win04 Wabash against 0-1 Valpo in the Little Giants' homecoming. Evansville, the ICC's only unbeaten team remaining in overall play at 5-0, survived IE 7 St. Joe third quarter lead to preserve its dean slate. Butler meanwhile, off to its best season start in years, came from behind in the final 2:32 to whip DePauw, 24-20, for the Tigers' fFst setback of the campaign. Both are now 4-1. Saturday's game at Evansville will stack the league’s two best rushing attacks against the league's two best defenses against the rush. DePauw has rolled up 296 yards rushing per game. Just the kind of attack the Aces have best repelled this year, giving up only 16.0 yards to each of three opponents. The Aces, meanwhile, have averaged 192 yards on the ground per contest, and DePauw is limiting Its rushing foes to 100.5. Butler will throw the ICC’s best passing offense (301.3 yards) and best total offense dub (393.3 per game) against Central in a game that Indianapolis Mayor Richard Lugar is proclaiming highlight of College Football Week In Indianapolis. It wil be his first non-partisan proclamation this autumn. Butler's Bill Lynch is the main reason the Bulldogs have seised most of the offensive honors this week. He has jumped into the Individual total offense lead over St. Joe’s Jeff Taylor (191.0 to 164.6) and passing lead (14.0 completions to 13.5 for Taylor). The league’s two top ruriiers will be on tbs same field Saturday night In the Evan-

sville-DePauw dash that is expected to draw between 6,000-10,000. DePauw’s Bart Simpson bed his second 100yard plus game against Butler for a 117.5 average in the loop. Evansville’s Virgil Bufford gained 119 against St. Joe for an average of 99.3 per game. St. Joe’s Lairry Olewinski kept his receiving edge over Butler’s Dave Swihart, and Harry Muta of Butler took over the punting leadership with a 41.5 average. In non-conference action last week a rapidly improving Wabash team smacked

previously unbeaten Washington (Mo.) 20-7 for the Little Giants’ first win of the campaign. Indiana Central won its fourth game in six startsn belting Franklin 23-10. The only loser to outside forces was Valparaiso, but the Crusaders had some consolation because it was all in the family, a 3E6 setback by Texas Lutheran. In the league’s only nonconference action this week St. Joseph’s, a hard luck loser in four straight efforts, will take a home field crack at Franklin.

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