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The Barrie Examiner Thursday May 13 l97613 Messersmith cant buy victory By THE ASSOCIATEED PRESS Andy Messersmith looks like anything but million dollars Dave Kingman ap pears to be worth much more than $125000 The respective values of those tw0 baseball players are receiving considerable attention these days in light of their earlyseason per formances Messersmith the pitcher who landed milliondollar contract with Atlanta Braves after turning free agent last Winter cant buy victory for Elie Nazional League team so ar Wednesday night he drop ped 63 decision to New York Mets for his fourth loss in six starts in an Atlanta tmiform The key to Messersmiths downfall was Kingman who continued to hit with unusual authority Kingman pur chased for $125000 from San Francisco Giants before last season collected four hits two of them his 13th and 14th home runs of the season Messersmith has thrown much better than he is now said Kingman whose two shots pushed him into the major league lead have had terrible success against him in the past But right now he is not even close to the pitcher he can be Hitters go into slumps and guess pitchers go into them too guess he must be inonetoo FEELS THE SAME Messersmith who has ob viously seen better days with Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels cant un derstand his current predicament just dont know what the trouble is noted the right hander dont feel any dif ferent pitching in Atlanta than did in Los Angeles In Wednesdays other Na tional League games Chicago Cubs edged San Francisco Giants 10 in 11 in nings Los Angeles Dodgers whipped St Louis Cardinals 63 San Diego Padres blanked Philadelphia Phillies 40 Pittsburgh Pirates defeated Cincinnati Reds 63 and Montreal Expos ripped Houston Astros 72 Both of Kingmans towering solo homers came off Messersmith He also homered off Messersmith last month in New York Kingoan also hit runscoring double in the seventh after Ed Kranepool had reached first on an error He collected his fourth hit single in the nin th New York lefthander Jerry Koosman 41 limited the Braves to seven singles until Jimmy Wynn hit threerun homer with two out inthe ninth Sex turn to witch to break losing spell By THE PRESS Make room in the Witches Hall of Fame for Laurie Cabot For 12 days in May and the last seven in April Boston Red Sox hadnt won game as Texas Rangers Kansas City Royals and Cleveland In dians cast 10 consecutive spells over the defending American League cham pions the clubs longest losing streak since 1960 Manager Darrell Johnson at loss what to do kept sen ding the same pitchers out day after losing day Then Boston radio station hired witch Laurie Cabot of Salem Mass to do something about the hex dont know thing about baseball she said ASSOCIATED Welcome to the Red Sox Laurie who spent 10 games trying to prove that very point slowstarting witch it took her 11 innings to come up with the right spell She said incantations are not part of her routine but rather the use of clairvoyance BEGIN WITII BLOOIER So with the witch sitting be hind the Boston dugout in flowing black witchs garb Doug Griffin leading off the 12th blooped single off Dave LaRoche and after sacrifice so did Cecil Cooper That sent Griffin to third and he scored the tie breaking run on Carl Yastr zemskis long fly Cooper took third on another hloop hit by Rick Miller and scored on balk by Tom Buskey Winners of the Lemay Ex cavating trophy for playoff championship of the Barrie Ladies City Major bowling league was the group BOWLING PLAYOFF CHAMPS shown here Front row from left Marion Stebb ings Jean Lemay Doris Harradine back row from left Kathy Quist Nancy Sinclair Ruth Chapman Sharon West and Ivan Lemay sponsor Houston evens playoff series with littleused Jan Pepiel HOUSTON AP The deadlocked World Hockey Association playoff series between Houston Aeros and New England Whalers has been succession of heroics by little used substitutes The bestofseven United States final tied 22 resumes here tonight and if the past trend continues backup will step forward to figure in the outcome Jan Popiel who has not played since April 25 against San Diego Mariners fitted in to one of the Aeros re shuffled lines Tuesday to help Houston even the series with a43 victory Popiel scored his first goal of the playoffs in the first period when Houston zoomed to 30 lead Aeros backup goalie Wayne Rutledge replaced all star Ron Grahame to win the second playoff game against New England when Grahame was in slump The Whalers biggest sura prise has been goalie Cap Raeder rookie who ended up in goal after succession of injuries to other Whaler goalies SCORES WINNER New Englands Don Borgeson came off the bench to score the winning goal in the Whalers 471 victory Sun day Sure its pretty hard to sit and waitall year for chance to play lan Popiel said Especially when you played regularly for another team for three years Popiel was WllA allstar in 1973 while he was mem SPORTS ATAGLANCE ROLFE NAMED Sll NEW YORK AP Dale 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