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Muddy field nullifies Tigers comeback bid By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Detroit Tigers were fit to be tied Thursday night but the umpires said the playing field wasnt It was solid mud said um pireinchief Jerry Neudecker explaining why he called off 44 American League baseball game between the Tigers and Minnesota Twins in the bottom of the sixth inning Sure you could put sand on the field but you cant put it all over the in field Unfortunately for the Tigers they scored their four runs in the top of the sixth So when the proceedings were washed out With one out and two Minnesota runners aboard in the bottom of the inning the score reverted back to the end of the fifth and 40 triumph for the Twins The umpires decision after two delays totalling 94 minutes sent manager Ralph Houk into shirtthrowing rage in the De troit clubhouse dont want to talk to any censored body he ranted Go talk to the censored umpires Theyre the ones that censored up the game Ive played in much worse censored weather than this many censored times before Im going to report those censored umpires to the censored league Ive already gone in and told those cen soreds myself cant blame him Neude cker said sympathizing with Houk but standing by his deci sion can understand his point RALPH IIOUK censored umpires In other American League action New York Yankees nip ped Chicago White Sox 54 Boston Red Sox trounced Oakland As 82 Baltimore Orioles downed Texas Rangers 41 and California Angels blanked Milwaukee Brewers Mike Cubbage drove in three runs for the Twins with double and sacrifice fly before the rains came in Minnesota Dave Goltz was credited with threehit shutout with relief help from the weatherman af ter being kayoed in Detroits nonexistent fourrun rally which included tworun homer by Aurelio Rodriguez After shower Houk cooled off somewhat The rules say you are sup posed to get game in if you can he said It was tie game and they called it an hourandahalf before curfew They arent smart enough to look into the black sky and see whether or not it would rain They wouldnt do it if it was two teams playing for the pennant in September My God can think of times we started games on worse ields Reliever Sparky Lyle over came tw0run throwing error by first baseman Chris Chamb liss and pitched out of an eighthinning jam to preserve Catfish Hunters eighth trium ph in the Yankees win Dwight Evans knocked in three runs with tworun homer and double and Jim Rice and Carlton Fisk also homered as Boston pounded Mike Torrez and Stan Bahnsen of the As Reggie Jackson cracked towering threerun homer over the centre field wall off Nelson Briles in the eighth inning to propel the Orioles to their third consecutive triumph following ninegame losing streak Gary Ross fired twohitter for the second complete game of his career and first since he was with Chicago Cubs in 1968 as California beat Milwaukee All or nothing for ingman as homers strikeouts mix By THE CANADIAN PRESS One hit doesnt end slump but in the case of Dave King man it usually ends ball game Kingman either strikes out or hits it outand Thursday night it was the latter Im still swinging at bad pit ches Im still in slump Kingman insisted despite Nthinning home run that led New York Mets to victory over Los Angeles Dodgers in National League baseball game Kingmans homer was his 23rd of the season but only his first at home since May 28 He prefers hitting on the road ob viously feel less pressure on the road said Kingman who hit his last seven shots away from Shea Stadium These last few days Ive been wishing wed been on the road In the only other National League game Thursday night Philadelphia Phillies edged San Francisco Giants 32 Despite leading the major leagues in home runs and healthy runsbattedin figure of 50 Kingman is not happy with his season He had hoped for more consistency than just 240 batting average as well as less strikeouts LIKES MEDIOCRITY have good day and then have bad day Kingman said would rather be me diocre have been having some ratherbaddayslately They havent been against the Dodgers though In all four Met victories over Los Angeles this season Kingman got the big hit Kingmans eighth gamewin ning hit of the season came With one out in the 14th inning and landed in the left field bullpen Skip Lockwood 32 was the winner in relief of Craig Swan For losing pitcher Charlie Hough it was his second loss against seven victories Swan pitched the first 10 in nings for New York allowing only three base runners on three singles the total of Dodger hits for the evening Dave Cashs basesloaded sacrifice fly in the ninth inning carried Philadelphia past San Francisco Cash drove in Garry Maddox with the winning run for relief pitcher Gene Garber I1 The Phillies had tied the score at 22 in the eighth on Mike Schmidts17th home run of the season The blast was off reliever Randy Moffitt garreris Oi croighursi lid weaving wools knitting boutique knitting yarns handicrafts antiques wicker midland OPENING SATURDAY JUNE 19 1976 EVERY DAY10AM Theres SALES HEAT WAVE at your local BombardierPuch Moped Dealer Those lazy hazy crazy days of summer can be more fun than ever before If you take advantage of the hottest deal in town The FANTASTIC Bombardier Puch Moped REGULAR $449 NOW $299 SAVE COOL $15000 BARRIE MOTOCROSS CENTRE Bayfield Street Just noth of Grandview Ford The Barrie Examiner Friday June 18 197611 Finley called on carpet blasts baseball instability NEW YORK AP Oakland As OWner Charles Finley lash ing out at baseball system that has no stability and no permanence said he had no alternative but to sell three of his star ballplayers because he couldnt make trade for them Finley appeared with repre sentatives of New York Yan kees Boston Red Sox and layer union head Marvin Mil rer at hearing with commis sioner Bowie Kuhn on Thurs day and said the current sys tem of playermanagement be havior is wrecking the sport In matter of hours Tuesday Finley sold Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers to Boston Red Sox for $1 million each then sent left hander Vida Blue to the Yan kees for $15 million after sign ing the pitcher to threeyear contract Kuhn prohibiting the purchased players from report ing to their new clubs had or dered the hearing because of questions that arose in his mind over Finleys clearance sale The issue is whether the as signment of the three contracts is appropriate or not under the No decision yet on coach despite reports Sheros set MONTREAL CP Sam Pollock general manager of Canadas entry in this falls Canada Cup international hockey tournament said Thursday no decision has been made on the Canadian coach Pollock was commenting on Stockholm report that Fred Shero coach of Phil adelphia Flyers of the Na tional Hockey League had agreed to take the job have never spoken to him about the possibility Pollock said in statement Alan Eagleson executive director of the tournament was requested by me to Con tact certain coaches Mr Eagleson advised me that he spoke to Shero and Shero ad vised him that he was avail able However Pollock said Eagleson told Shero he plan to get in touch with other coaches and Eagleson was to report back to Pollock Other coaches apparently in the running are Bobby Kromm coach of Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association Al MacNeil coach and general manager of Nova Scotia Voy ageurs of the American Hoc key League and Don Cherry coach of the NHLs Boston Bruins Eagleson said he had spo ken to Shero last Wednesday and he told me he was in terested but had several com mitments that might prevent him from coaching Eagleson then aproached Sheros agent in Philadelphia and the agent said he thought Shero would not be available The agent said Thursday that Shero was still interested in thejob have advised his agent that will talk to Mr Pollock and inform him of Sheros in tention Eagleson said WINS ASCOT CUP ASCOT England Reuter Frenchtrained Sagaro under English jockey Lester Piggott won the Ascot Gold Cup over 2V2 miles for the second succes sive year Thursday Sagaro be came only the second horse sin ce the Second World War to capture the race two years run ning For Piggott it was his sev enth triumph in the race The victory was worth about $38000 to SagarOs owner Oldham circumstances Kuhn said Thats the issue have to wrestle with have to consider these transactions in the best interest of baseball have the inherent wer to do whatIfeel is in the st interest of baseball WILL DECIDE TODAY His decision regarding Fin leys action was expected some time today Clubs dont want unsigned ballplayers Finley said after Thursdays hearing referring to the fact that the three athletes sold were among seven Oakland players who had not signed contracts for the current season didnt want to sell them We had made every effort for two months to make tradesto no avail We were trying to make trades but when we got to within six hours of the trading deadline we had no alternative but to sell the athletes Kuhn apparently wanted to be made sure of that and called the hearing Though neither would comment on what had transpired in the 90minute ses sion Finley explained He wanted to know the reasons sold and they bought Finley made it clear he felt he was right in making the deals and that frankly think he Kuhn was satisfied with the information we presented him Then he attacked the system which he charged keeps OWners in the dark about players plans for the future Let them all become free agents Finley said angrily at news conference in cram room at the baseball of fices Take Catfish Hunter he said of the righthander who became the sports first free agent through an arbitrators decision in 1974 Now Catfish is the only free agent little fisha cat fishin big pond And hes got 24 owners out there with fishing poles Youve got one little fish swimming around sniffing one bait then another until he smells them all and bites the one he wants Hes got the op portunity of having 24 fish ermen after him 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