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NEW YORK AP Kansas City Royals those Missouri riv erboat gamblers are playing confidence game that they be lieve will make them the first American League expansion team to float into baseballs World Series The Royals rolling an en Viable string of winners since midJune continued Wed nesday with 72 victory over New York Yankees to take 10 gfdfge in the bestoffive AL play The Yankees lost starter Don Gullett because of an injured shoulder New York manager Billy Martin said he doesnt ex pect his ace lefthander to pitch again this year The Royals who jumped to lead by the third inning re ceived big lift when leadoff batter Freddie Patek walked to open the game and Hal McRae follgwed with home run to left ie It helped to get off in front when McRae hit it out said the speedy little Patek We re alized we could score off Gul lett The adrenalin was flowing and our confidence was flow ing WON US of it The confidence has been building for the Royals since June 17 when they began streak of 68 victories against just 24 losses winning clip of 786 Along the way they had stretches of 21 victories in 22 games and $2 in Iti Last year the Royals were an uncertain club when they met the Yankees in October and lost the playoffs in five games The difference was like night and day said lcRae Last year we were terrible in the second half This year we had terrific streak in the sec ond half Its better to win It bUilds your confidence and gives you lots of momentum eiiiesday they played with the assurance of card shark holding four aces adding power to their game of speed timely hitting and effective if not spectacular pitching lhey piotitted from three homers iworun shots by lcRae in the first John May berry iii the third off reliever Dick lidrow and solo blast by tonciis in the eighth Pa eks tworuii double down the lllltlrlxlSt liiie in the second Forvvards sentto Salt Lake EDMHNION Pi Ed monton tilers of the World Hockey Association announced today that three forwards have been assigned to Salt Lake City Golden Eagles of the Central Hockey League oach ilen Sather released left wingers Lou Nistico and Jerry Holland and centre Don Tannahill All three were newcomers this season Holland came from New York Rangers of the Na tional Hockey League while Nistico was obtained from Bir mingham Bulls of the WHA Tannahill who became free agent when Calgary Cowboys folded wme from Quebec Nor diques of the WHA SALE Do you have ceiling that needs painting and theres no one at home jumping up and down to do it Ill do it well and roles start as low as $10 ceiling do all types of painting usually for less than you can doit guarantee satisfaction and free estimate CALL PAULS 7371295 TRY us Youll like us TRAVELWAY$® mm mm DAILYTORONTO For full Information coll Royals thump Yankees Yankees catcher Thurman Munson right is congratulated by teammate Reggie Jackson the next batter after his third inning tworun homer against the Kansas ity Royals Theyre playing the first American League playoff game at Yankee Stadium Wednesday in New York Royals catcher behind them is Darrell Porter AP Photo knocked in the only runs not scored on homers Thurman Munsons tworun homer for the Yankees was all the East Division champions could manage before home crowd of 54930 ROBS RIVERS Cowens in his second full season in the major leagues made three fine plays in right field including one in which he baseball By THE CANADIAN PRESS National League Wednesday Result Los Angeles Philadelphia Tuesday Result Philadelphia Los Angeles Bestoffive series tied 11 Friday lame Los Angeles Hooton 127 at Philadelphia hristenson Ito tit Kt pm EDT American Wednesday Kansas ity New Iirst game of SerltS Tonights Kansas ity New York pm EDT League Result York lame iHassIer 596 at Guidry IRS It IS best of five reached over the wall to rob Mickey Rivers of home run Paul Splittorff who was 166 this yearincluding 152 mark from May 20 to the end of the seasonscattered eight hits giving way to Doug Bird after one batter in the ninth Two of the Yankees scariest batters home run threats Reg gie Jackson and Graig Nettles surrendered meekly to Split torff Nettles with 37 homers this year hit to the shortstop three times and the left fielder once Jackson with 32 homers struck out and popped to the shortstop second baseman and the left fielder made good pitches on both guys all day especially Reg gie Splittorff said Ron Guidry gets the Yankees starting assignment tonight against Andy Hassler in bat tle of lefthanders IIININIIIIII€IS RIIII There are about species of huiiiniiiigliird found in the Western Hemisphere 30k hits grand slam LOS ANGELES AP Los Angeles Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies are tied at one game each in the National League baseball playoff series because of pitch that was described as three feet too high foot and half too far inside and hit 390 feet too far The dwcription was made by losing pitcher Jim Lon borg who threw the pitch to Dusty Baker with the bases loaded in the fouth inning and the score tied lt Wed nesday night Baker hit grand slam home run to put Los Angeles ahead 51 lead righthander Don Sutton protected and the Dodgers went on to 71 vic tory that squared the bestof five series at game apiece So the series shifts to Philadelphia where Burt Hooton and his knuckle curve will go for Los Angeles against power pitching Larry Christenson for the Phillies on Friday afternoon The second game simply narrowed down to that fourth inning after Bill Russell and Reggie Smith had singled and Ron Cey sacrificed Then Philadelphia manager Dan ny Ozark took slow walk out to talk to Lonborg had made up my mind to intentionally walk Steve Garvey Ozark said just wanted to talk about how we would pitch to Baker Ozark said he reminded Lonborg to keep the ball down so the infield could get ground ball and bail out of the oneoutjam It was sound logic said Lonborg who threw sidearm curve on 12 count to Baker that the slugger hammered into the left field seats the 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