Drago faces Hunter tonight
Oakland trips Royals in season opener
By BRUCE CARNAHAN Kansan Sports Editor
KANSAS CITY—A sterling relief performance by Roland Fingers and home runs by Sal Bando and Don Mincher sparked the Oakland Athletics to a 6-4 opening day victory over the Kansas City Royals Tuesday before 18,127 fans in Municipal Stadium.
Bando's two-run homer, a long shot down the left field line, sent Felipe Alou scampering home ahead of him in the Athletics three-run third inning. Center-
fielder Rick Monday tallied the first run of the inning when he tripled off first baseman Mike Flore's outstretched glove and scored when Alou cracked a single to center.
First baseman Mincher led off the fifth inning by blasting a Wally Bunker fastball over the right field fence, just inches inside the foul pole, to lift the Athletics to a 6-3 advantage.
Oakland's starter, John "Blue
Moon" Odom, picked up the initial win for the Athletics although he was forced to retire in the sixth when Bob Oliver led off the inning with a triple and scored on a wild pitch.
Dick Drago
Royals' righthander will face Jim "Catfish" Hunter tonight
The struggling Odom was tagged for six hits, four runs and struck out three while issuing three base on balls in his five innings of action.
Fingers stops Royals
But Fingers came in to douse all the Royals' fireworks by setting down twelve of the next thirteen Kansas City hitters. Amos Otis' eighth inning single was the only blemish in Fingers' near-perfect four inning relief stint.
The Athletics battered Royals' starter Bunker for six runs and nine hits, including five for extra bases, before he was lifted for a pinch hitter in the fifth.
Oakland started the scoring for the day when shortstop Bert Campaneris opened the first with a triple to left-center and scored on Monday's solid double to right field.
The Royals struck back to knot the score, 1-1, in the bottom of the first when Pat Kelly lined a single to center, took second when the ball skipped past Monday, and then scored on two infield outs.
The Athletics scored again in the fourth when Monday walked, went to second on Bunker's balk and dashed home on Reggie Jackson's two-out single to right
Royal relief pitchers Jim
Rooker and Moe Drabowsky held the Athletics scoreless in the final four innings.
The Royals will host Oakland again tonight at 7:30 in Municipal Stadium. Dick Drago will be on the mound for Kansas City and Jim "Catfish" Hunter will start
for the Athletics. Hunter hurled a perfect game last year to become the only American League pitcher to do so since 1922.
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Misses Detroit opener
Tigers go on as McLain goes home
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Denny McLain knows what he's doing.
He had a choice of coming out to the ballpark or going back
Golfers set for Missouri meet
The KU golf team is busy this week preparing for a round-robin tournament this weekend at Missouri. The Jay hawks haven't fared well so far this year, but coach Wilbur Norton is certain his team will do better this weekend.
In addition to KU and Misouri, teams from K-State, Nebraska, and Iowa State are entered in the tourney.
Norton is expected to take the same five players to Missouri: David Ross, Arkansas City senior; Jack Rogers, Keokuk, Ia. senior; Warren Wood, Independence senior; Jim Demnerline, Paola freshman; and Craig DeLongy, Derby sophomore.
Norton said, "What we need is good weather so that we can improve our game. I hope we'll do better at Missouri because the good weather this week has given us plenty of practice."
In last weeks Oklahoma Intercollegiate Invitational at Shawnee, KU finished in a tie for ninth. The five Kansas golfers finished 61 strokes behind champion Oklahoma State with a total of 963. Low man for the 'Hawks was Ross with a 234 over the 54 holes. Other scores were Rogers with 241, Wood with 244, Dennerline with 245, and De-Longv with 250.
KU finished seventh last year in the conference race. Oklahoma State is the defending champion. The conference race is decided each year in the Big Eight meet, which will be held May 15-16 in Lawrence.
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Despite the lack of success Norton is still optimistic. "We've got some boys who are coming along," he said, "and I think they'll do real well once they get a chance to play."
home to Lakeland, Fla., and he never wavered a moment. He went back home
He went back home.
Most of the 45,015 who came out to watch Monday's Detroit-Washington opener at miserably damp, ice-box-like Robert F. Kennedy Stadium envied him.
They did everything they could to try to keep warm and then after four innings or so they did the smartest thing. They got up and left.
President Nixon knew what he was doing too. He waited around in the White House where it was warm and let his young son-in-law, David Eisenhower, toss out the first ball in his place. Nixon did come out to the park in the fifth inning, though and stayed through the end.
"I wish he'd gotten off completely," the outfielder said. "I don't see where anyone can say it was a mild penalty. I don't think
Before the ball game got under way Al Kaline relaxed in the Tigers' clubhouse waiting around with all the others for the rain to let up. Kaline, who collected two of the Detroit's nine hits once the game began, was startling his 17th season with the club.
Most people are saying McLain got off mildly. How did Kaline feel about the suspension?
anything really was proven against Denny. All I know is I'm glad he's going to be back in baseball and back with our club. I think baseball needs him. We certainly need him."
New Zealander Relays speaker
Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand's national track coach, will be the guest speaker at the Chamber of Commerce dinner held for the coaches of KU Relays track teams.
The annual dinner event, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce's sports committee, will be at 6:30 p.m., April 17 at the Ramada Inn.
Lydiard, one of the world's foremost authorities on track and field, has coached such sports figures as Olympians Peter Snell and Murray Halberg.
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