ALMOST! Houston Astros' catcher, Ron Brand, seems to have his mitt on the ball but actually, it just wasn't his brand, this time. He missed this fould pop-up, by New York Mets' second baseman Ron Hunt, in the 5th inning of yesterday's MARICHAL BOOED National League Race Topsy-lurvy Turmoil By MIKE RATHET Associated Press Sports Writer Juan Marichal, Mike de la Hoz and Jim Lefebvre were the headliners Thursday as the Na- tional League pennant race deepened in confusion with the three top teams going through another shuffle. The main focus was at Phil- hia, where Marichal made his first start for San Francisco since his suspension and was both booed and belted as he dropped a 4-3 decision to the Phillies before the Giants came back to take the nightcap of the doubleheader 5-2. De la Hoz got the key blow for Milwaukee, lofting a sacri- fice fly in the 11th inning that drove in Eddie Mathews with the winning run as the Braves edged Cincinnati and dropped ithe Reds from first to third place. Lefebvre supplied the big bat CLEMENTE LEADS N.L. Only Three In American League Race! NEW YORK (AP)--The num- ber of .300 hitters is almost as scarce as pennant contenders in the American League with only Carl Yastrzemski, Brooks Rob- inson and Tony Oliva in the se- lect group, augu.ring a big league record for futility. The major league mark for fewest .300 batsmen is three, established way back in 1906 when only three American League players finished with that percentage or higher, The National League mark is four) set in 1907. In addition to the top three, only four other American Leaguers this season are over 290 among the players with a minimum of 325 official times at bat. They are Fred Whitfield ef Cleveland Indians and Al Kaline, Detroit Tigers, .299 each; Jimmie Hall, Minnesota Twins, .295 and Vic Davalillo, Cleveland, .293. Yastrzemski, the Boston Red Sox outfielder, increased his av- erage two points to .327 in last week's games. Baltimore Ori- ales' Robinson remained in sec- ond place despite a two point .300 Hitters The Minnesota outfielder was sidelined with a hand injury tries. Whitfield tied Kaline for fourth place. LEADS LEAGUE Pittsburgh Pirates' Roberto Clemente continues to lead the National League. He increased his average six points to 340 \for Los Angeles, driving in four| game at Shea Stadium, in New York. Astros won it 4-3, ~AP Wirephoto runs with two singles and a dou- ble as the Dodgers whipped Pittsburgh Pirates 7-1, ended a three-game losing streak and regained the top spot. The Dodgers now are one game in front of the Giants, while the Reds are one game off the pace and one percentage point behind San Francisco, The fourth-place Braves are two be- jhind and the fifth-place Pirates 13% out. While the leaders were |serambling, Ernie Banks hit the 400th homer of his career in Chicago Cubs' 5-3 victory over St, Louis Cardinals and Houston a defeated' New York Mets A record crowd of 30,410 turned out to see and bvo Mari- chal, tagged with an eight-day suspension and a record $1,750 fine for hitting Dodger catcher John Roseboro over the head with a bat. Marichal surrendered seven after collecting three hits in 10/hits in seven innings, including|ton Red Sox 5-4, Cleveland 'In-iday night homer by light-hitting Bobby| SBIR : PRS a |Wine, and was charged with all four runs and his 10th loss jagainst 19 victories, | The Giants broke a 2-2 tie In the ninth inning of the nightcap as Ken Henderson walked, reached second when Richie Allen threw wild on Frank BASEBALL SCORES, STANDINGS By THE CANADIAN PRESS Thursday's Results National League i ¢ W iL Pet. Gai 563 557 556 549 537 519 406 467 437 324 Chicago 59 Baltimore 3-3 Detroit 5 Minnesota 4 Boston 4 Washington 5 Probable Pitchers Today Cleveland (Siebert 13-6) at Baltimore (Bunker 6-7) (N) Los Angeles 76 San Francisco Cincinnati Milwaukee Pittsburgh Philadelphia St, Louis Chicago Houston New York Boston (Monbouquette 8-16) at New York (Downing 11-12) (N) Washington (Richert 11-10) at Detroit (Lolich 11-7) (N) Chicago (Noward 7-6) Minnesota (Kaat 13-10) (N) Thursday's Results Houston 4 New York 3 San Francisco 3-5 Philadelphia 43.--C« é Los Angeles 7 Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 3 Chicago 5 Milwaukee. 4 Cincinnati 8 Probable Pitchers. Today. Los Angeles (Willhite 1-2) at Houston (Nottebart 3-11) (N) at Kansas City (Joyce 0-0) and (Krause 1-3) at Los Angeles (Brunet 8-9) and (Newman 11-13) TWI-N CALL FIVE ST. LOUIS (AP)--St. Louis Cardinals summoned five play- ers from their Jacksonville, Fila., International League farm club Wednesday. The Cardinals recalled outfielder Bobby Tolan, who has been leading the Inter- national League in runs, hits and triples, and pitcher Barney Schultz, sent down a month ago. \The Cardinals- bought the con- pond janie i oo yi tracts of first baseman George Washington 60 75 .444 24|Kernek, and right-handed pitch- Boston 51 85 .375 34 |ers Dennis Aust and Earl Fran- Kansas City 48 84 .864 35 | cis. New York (Selma 0-0) at) St. Louis (Sadecki 4-11) (N) Philadelphia (Culp 9-0) all Cincinnati (O'Toole 1-9) (N) Pittsburgh (Cardwell 11-8) at Milwaukee (Johnson 14-8) (N) San Francisco (Perry 8-12) at) American League Chicago . 78 57 .578 6% Baltimore 7259.5501014 By WALTER KREVENCHUK Blue Bombers philosophically. Willie Fleming caught the only pass thrown to him and turned it into a 90-yard fourth-quarter touchdown to give British Co- lumbia Lions a 14-7 Western Football Conference win over the Bombers. Fleming grabbed his chance to disappoint 21,012 partisan fans when his Bomber shadow, Dick Thornton, was left behind in confusion on a B.C. audible play. ' The fleet. Fleming ran down the right side, cut to centre field past Bomber safety Brian Pal- mer, made a finger-tip catch of quarterback Joe Kapp's pass at Winnipeg 45 ~ yard;line and flashed out of reach. Bombers tried for a draw with two minutes remaining but their bid collapsed with an out- of-bounds third-down pass into the end zone and they took their isecond defeat after four consec- utive wins. Fullback Bill Munsey, whose 389 per cent of the ground por- tion of Lions' 345-yard offence, scored the other touchdown as _|B.C. grabbed a share of third place with Saskatchewan Roughriders. They trail the co- Bob By THE CANADIAN PRESS |dians battered Kansas City Ath- Same Mele, manager of the/letics 10-6 and New York Yan- American League leading Min-|kees ripped Los Angeles Angels jnesota Twins, hit the depths of) 8-1. frustration Thursday night as| his team had its lead trimmed/the eighth inning delivered the to 6% games, left 16 base-run-|tying and winning runs for the ners stranded and lost 5-4 to) Senators. Don Lock homered for Detroit Tigers, His leading) Washington while Tony Coni- slugger struck out five times to|gliaro belted his 26th for the tie a major league record. (Red Sox. Bob Allison matched the} Mickey Mantle drove in four strikeout record and also left) runs and Whitey Ford beat Los five of the 16 runners stranded) Angeles for the ninth straight in his dismal night. time as the Yankees romped. On the other hand, Don Wert|Mantle tapped a three-run ho- drove in four Detroit runs with|mer in the first inning giving a single and a home run while|/Ford, who pitched a four-hitter, | |team - mate George Thomas)a quick lead. | |hammered out four hits for the) Rocky Colavito doubled home| | winners : ithe tie-breaking run in the sev- Thomas said after the ouia| ent inning and Fred Whitfield he didn't think the loss would) fojjowed with a two-run single damage the Twins' chances of|,. the Indians topped Kansas winning the league pennant be-| city, Cleveland jumped off to a cause he didn't think Chicago) §.9'jead but the Athletics rallied White Sox had the momentum tg tie it before the Indians came| to catch up. pack for the victory. But he'd probably have a (ibciiasielapsceasieesstaie 3 |tough time selling that idea to Al Lopez, the Chicago manager. His team defeated Baltimore Coquitlam Scores Allison's Dismal Show Low Point In Twins' Loss | Bob Chance's pitch single in holders of first place--Winnipeg WINNIPEG (CP)--"Lions try that play now and again and once in a while it works," said coach Bud Grant of Winnipeg It worked Thursday night as THE OSHAWA TIMES, Fridey, September 3, 1968 9 B.C. Lions Use 'Long Bomb', Beat 'Blue-Bombers' 14-7 and Calgary Stampeders + by one point, Peter Kempf converted both Lion touchdowns. Bombers had a hero in defeat as flanker Billy Cooper scored their touchdown, caught five Bomber scoring threat in the i first minutes on the B.C, 13-| Fpere 99 Se yard line Thirty minutes later! ed planting machines tused. Homer and Neil Beaumont al-|°Y We Unterio department of lowed Cooper to sneak behind|!ands and forests can plant 10,- them and score. . 000 trees a day, BAD BOY perinite passes for 45 yards, returned five ren for 42 yards and rat-| converted by linebacker Jackie Simpson. 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Aaron fell|tie in the seventh on Frank Rob-| seven points with a five-for-25linson's homer off Hank Fisher, performance while Mays' aver:|who had a no-hitter going until age remained the same a8 Althe fifth inning. The Braves result of eight hits in 25 trips.|won it in the llth when Ma- The figures include Sunday's/thews singled, moved to third games. as pitcher Ted Davidson threw | Mays slammed three homers,|wild on Frank Bolling's bunt | boosting his pace-setting total toljand scored when De la Hox, 41, Deron Johnson of Cincinnati|batting for Fisher, hit his sacri- Reds leads in runs batted in/fice fly, with 102, He had five last week.) -------- ined: the american League) BASEBALL LEADERS mained: the. American League/ |By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS drop to .318. Oliva held third place at .311, Wilf Homenuik Captures | 'Bursary With Hot Putter TORONTO (CP) -- Diminvu- tive Wilf Homenuik of Winni- peg rode grim determination po a red-hot putter to a pair of records and $1,750 Thursday in winning the Macnaughton- Brooks bursary golf tourna- ment. Already a seasoned per- former in United States and Caribbean tournaments, Ho- menuik didn't make any mis- takes during his three rounds & home-run leader with 26 while Cleveland's Rocky Colavito drove in five runs and lifted his American League | 'Yeading RBI total to 89. AB RH Pet.| 2 400 66 129 .323 516 97 163 .316| 437 64 138 316) Yastr'mski, Bos, Oliva, Minnesota Robinson, Balt, Kaline, Detroit 345 63 103 .299) Hall, Minnesota 446 70 132 .296) Whitfield, Cleve. 371 40 110 .296) Runs -- Versailles, Minnesota, 109; Oliva, 97, Runs Batted In -- Colavito, 196i--while his winning accu-/Cley : mulation of $6,750 also is a rec- | gg veland, $1; Horton, Detrett, ond Winning $1,750 each with Ho- ; menuik were Bill Wakeham of poyhj ._¥ Victoria, now playing out oll versalies 38 -- Calgary's Canyon Meadows, Triples--c; ris. K y's ) ; | iples--Campaneris, Kansas course, with 212 and Vancou-|City, 12; Versalles, and Apari- | ver's Alvie Thompson, who bat-!cio. Baltimore. 10 : | tled back to a 214 to nip Leon) Home Rums--Horton and Con- Becaire and Gary Fawcett,|igiiaro, Boston, 26: Colavito and both of Toronto, by a single' Wagner, Cleveland, 25 stroke, Stolen Bases -- Campaneris, -- 163; Versailles, 50 40; over the 6,387-yard, par-72 Don The prize money is available 47- Cardenal, Los Angeles, 35 Valley course, shaving fiveonly to Canadian pros and as- strokes from par in Wednes-sistants under 3 to finance day's opener and backing uptheir way to winter tourna- 68s in two rounds Thursday. ments in the turned in by the 1965 Canadianbdean. southwestern | Pitching -- Grant, Minnesota, 17-4, .810; 'Terry, Cleveland, 11- 4, .733. Strikeouts--McDowell, Cleve- land, 261; National League Lolich, Detroit, 184, | Professional Golfers' Associa- tion champion erased the mark he held with Adrien Bigras of Ste. Dorothee, Que., following the 1963 event. The 203 total--13 a States and the Carib- They turned in 203s each thensixth on the Caribbean leg of/Ajien, Phila as well, but par that year forthe tour and picked up $4,800 in], Alou, SF. the 54 holes was 210 while thisprize money. | : Fajweett and Decaire will meethin a playoff next week to Clemente, Pitts decide the alternate for the 10-/ Aaron. Mil. 480 97 156 .325 week sponsored tour. Mays, San Fran, 452 93 144 .319 Last year Homenuik placed) Rose, Cinci. 553 96 172 311 498 77 153 .307 436 60 134 .307 Runs--Harper. Cincinnati, 10; AB RH Pet. 498 78 172 345 year it was 216. EQUALLED KNUDSON His fourth bursary, after sharing it in 1960, 1962 and 1943 as well, equalled the number of times George Knudson of Tor- onto was among the events topout three--in 1958, and Aaron and Brock, St. Louis, 97. 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