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Tuesday, April 12, 1977
University Daily Kansan
staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Reggie Jackson finds Royals Stadium unfriendly
Sports Editor
Home opener is late Royals' win
By GARY VICE
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Monday Night Baseball almost became Tuesday morning baseball in Royals Stadium as the Royals and Yankees battled for 13 innings before John Mayberry singled home Fred Patek for a 5-4 victory.
It's too bad the Royals home opener won't be in the running for any Oscars, because last night's nationally televised contest well win one for the best dramatic score.
BOTH THE ROYALS and the Yankees made grand entrances, scoring in the first imining and keeping up the fast pace through the first five innings for a 4-4 score. Then pitchers Paul Splittorf and Mark Littell of the Royals and Dock Ellis and Sparkly Lyke played together on center stage and scoreless frames followed until Mavroy's run-scorring single.
Mabyberry, who was 34-for-7, ripped a Dick Tidrow football off the top of the fence in right field to give the Royals the win over the Finland American League champions.
Kansas City is now 40 and off to its fastest start in the club's history. New York is 13. Both clubs are off today before their two-game series concludes tomorrow night.
FRED PATek HAD opened the 13th for the Royals by drawing a walk and had advance to the playground, sacrificing barge. George Brett intentionally walked by Tidrow to set up a possible inning-ending double play. Hal Meyers, not bringing, brought up Mayberry with two outs.
Then Mayberry, who strides around the bases to the tune of "Big Bad John" booming over the public address system, is seated in a tent that contains on the three and one-half hour game.
"Damm, I wanted a home run." Mayberry said between drags on a cigarette in the dressing room. "Oh well, they'll come. Just like tonight's game, the end had to come sooner or later. It's baseball—just a matter of time."
Mayberry's hit was one of the few produced in the last eight innings as both teams were held in check by strong pitching. The Yankees had only two men reach base after the fifth—both on walks—and both were cut down trying to steal.
THE ROYALS HAD the game's best opportunity to avoid extra innings when they loaded the bases in the seventh with no outs but were unable to score.
Lyle, who pitched five scoreless innings in relief of Ellis, got out of the jam by retiring the next three Royals. He struck out pinch-hitter Cookie Rojas, got AI Cowen to force him out and by grounding third, and retired pinch-hitter Martinez on a fly to center.
Royals manager Whitey Herzog rubbed
The Yankees scored once in the top half of the first on a double by Thurman Manson and a single by Jim Wynn. The Royals did better than keep pace, however, by retaliating with a pair in the bottom half of the first and another in the second.
The Yankees came up with two more in the top of the fifth, nearly chasing Splitterff from the mound with four hits, before Kansas City could come back and tie the game. Marshall Burrell Porter doubled off the left field was to score Mayberry from first in the fifth.
REGGIE JACKSON, who patrolled right field in front of a "Reggie's box" banner, hit a towering home run in the fourth to right to pull New York within one. 3-2.
Beth Boozer shot 82 and tied for second in the meet. Medalist honors went to Diane Dougherty of Stephens who shot 81. Charnell Hadl shot 85, Nancy Hoehn 87, Patrina Bomberg 88 and Jackie DeLong had 97 to finish the scoring for the Jayhawks on the windy day.
The University of Kansas women's golf team finished just three strokes behind Stephens College of Columbia, Mo., 340-343, in a triangular meet at Alvamar Hills golf course Saturday. The University of Missouri was third with 356.
"We were very concerned about Oklahoma." Gates said. "I feel that we proved that we can play singles with them by winning those three matches."
"THAT SPARKY'S something!" Herzog said. "You know what he's going to throw at me?"
his hands over the top of his head trying to explain what went wrong for his club in that
"Bill has proved that he can beat everyone else in the league. This is the only team he beaten." Gates said. "The Big Eight. Every championship matchup goes down to these two."
Women golfers 6th
KU has a 13-8 record going into today's meets with K-Sate and Missouri. Gates is more concerned with the Tigers than he is with KSU.
sided by many to be the strongest in the conference.
"I think everyone could have taken off a stroke here or there, and we might have beaten them," coach Nancy Boozer said. "We was pleased with the way we played."
*R-STATE DID not have a team last year, whereas Missouri was one of the state's top teams.*
The game was played before 39,460 fans—the second largest home opening crowd in Royal's history. But the Royal fans didn't present themselves very well for the television audience as numerous fights erupted in the stands.
Gates said Clarke would have one of his toughest matches of the season when he hit a 20-foot shot from behind.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment of the week, according to coach Kirkland Gates, was the play of Hosking at No. 2 singles. Hosking lost all three of his matches as his record sank to 14-7. He has lost six of his last nine wins.
KU CAME back to defeat North Texas State Friday, 7-2. Clarke, Greg Boulder, Chet Collier and Ruyser all were winners in singles play as were the teams of Clarke and Mark Hosking and Buller and Lonnie Taylor in doubles.
"MARK'S IN a slump," Gates said, "his play hurt because those No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles are points KU desperately needs."
Yankee manager Billy Martin commented on the crowd: "It's fine to come out and play in a game." But he wasn't nasty. There was a lot of swearing going on behind us. They don't have enough guts to get near the dugout and say anything. If they do, their heads knocked back into the stands."
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On the brighter side was the play of KU's singles against Oklahoma, a team con-
After finishing sixth in last week's Oklahoma City University tournament, the KU men's team returns to action this afternoon when it meets Kansas State and
KU faced Oklahoma in the final meet Saturday and was defeated, 6-3. Clarke, Buller and Collier provided the points for KU, each winning their singles matches.
Netters take sixth, face MU. K-State here today
The Hawks started slowing, slowly losing their best meet to Oklahoma State in the second half of this season. 4. Only Bill Clark at No. 1, singles and Joe Ruyser at No. 6 singles were victorious for
By ERIC MARTINCICH
KU had a disappointing outing in the last week, when it lost two of three runs.
Snorts Writer
The Hawks will meet KSU at 1, and then play MU immediately afterwards. Both matches will be played on the Allen Field House courts.
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