European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page in the stars and stripes saturday october 21, 1967 no to meet May follow suit on expansion Chicago a the National league will meet within five Days to consider expansion to 12 clubs it was Learned thursday to match the Sam move approved for 1969 by the american league wednesday night. A week later both leagues will meet jointly on the Over All subject of expansion which Haslet the National league at the starting Gate for the second time. The Al expanded from eight to 10 clubs in 1961, year ahead of a similar no  a Marathon session wednesday the Al tossed the expansion Ball to the no after carving a Rich Northwest Pas Sage to Seattle and artfully splitting Charles o. Finley unhappy baseball marriage with Kansas  a 7-3 vote the Al approved a package Deal shifting Finley s athletics from Kansas City to Oakland Calif., an awarding new franchises to Seattle and Kansas City for 1969operation. Seattle with a vast. To Are potential is regarded a Rich baseball Plum which could re sult in a squabble Between the two major  though Seattle has a big hurdle ahead in getting vote approval in february of a pro two foursomes open up Ryder cup play Houston Tex. A the United states sent Bill Casper and Julius Boros against scots Man George will and welshman Brian Huggett in the opening match of the 17th biennial Ryder cup Golf matches Friday morn ing at the champions Golf club. Other pairings in the two bal foursome matches were to be Arnold Palmer and Gardner Dickinson ., is Christy o Connor and Peter  Brewer and Doug san Ders  Is Tony Jacklin an Dave Thomas great Britain. Bobby Nichols and Johnny Pott ., is Bernard Hunt and Neil Coles  players were to compete Over 18 holes hitting alternate shots with one Ball for each two Ben Hogan. . Captain Man team. Four similar two bal matches were to be played in the afternoon with the rival captains Ben Hogan of the United states and Dai Rees of Britain announcing that their lineups would be named after the morn ing round. The afternoon lineups May be changed As  Littler former  Open Champion and Al Geiberger former pea Champion sat out the morning matches for the United states. Malcolm Gregson and Hugh Boyle were on the sidelines for Britain for the morning , in a Surprise switch said All americans would play the smaller British Ball while Rees said that his starting Tea of will and Huggett preferred to use the larger american  International Competition either Ball May be used. The British Ball designed Tobore through winds and rain of Seaside links is six one Hun Reths of an Inch smaller in circumference than the America Ball but both weigh the same 1.62  americans Are 4-1 favor ites in this series which the have won 13 times and lost Only three times since 1927, never Inthis country. Rees an International Sta from Wales who has played in nine Ryder cup series himself predicted the yanks will know they have been in a  said Boros Dickinson and Sanders would hit first off the tee on the opening Hole an will tee off on the Odd holes while he was undecided about Nichols and Pott. It is important that our bes Long Iron players play the Par 3 holes Hogan said. These Holsall happen to be even numbered holes fourth eighth twelfth and sixteenth i Don t think it matters about the Par fives the fifth ninth and 13thr-because All of our boy scan reach these holes on their second shots Hogan  champions course is a 7,166-Yard Par 71 layout relatively Flat with an abundance of Trees. Rees called it a flattened Wentworth and said it was More similar to British courses than any american course on which a Ryder cup team had Ever  four Ball matches will be slayed saturday with the Bestwall counting on each Hole and the series will be concluded with16 head to head singles matches  last time the British won was in 1957 at Lindrick Golf club in Yorkshire England. The last time the Competition was staged in America the yanks won decisively 23-9, at the Eastlake country club at Atlanta a. The stars and stripes Bruins Down wings for 3rd in Row maintain share of nil Eastern Lead Detroit up the Bosto Bruins scored three goals in a one minute 29-second Span inthe second period thursday night to dump the Detroit redwings 6-3 and remain tied with Montreal for first place in the Eastern division of the National hockey league. The Victory was the third straight for the Bruins who no Lead the nil in goals scored with a total of 23 in four  2-1 Midway through the second period the Bruins Cameto life with Rookie Derek Sanderson notching his first nil goal at 13 12 of the period to knot the score at 2-2.Boston s Fred Stanfield then took charge scoring his third and fourth goals of the Young season just 27 seconds apart tout Boston ahead 4-2. He scored both goals following passe from John Mckenzie. The wings dominated the playing the opening minutes of the game but were unable to  Boston s Phil Esposito took a rebound near the crease on Ashot by teammate Tom Hodge at 16 29 and put the Bruins Outin front 1-0 at the end of the first  wings stormed Back at the Start of the second period with Bruce Macgregor beating rockets top Oaks 104-91 Oakland Calif. Up the Denver rockets used a 31 Point second period to take a big halftime Lead and went on to defeat Oakland 104-91, in a american basketball association game thursday  Oaks never Drew closer than six Points in the second half getting that close twice both times Early in the fourth period to arouse a sparse crowd of 1,383. The defeat was the first for Oakland in two Aba games. Denver is now 2-1 in Aba play. Lefty Thomas scored 17 Point sin the first half to spark the rockets to a 59-45 intermission Lead. Thomas finished with 23 Points one ahead of team mate Willie Murrell. Levern tart led the Oaks with20, followed by Jim Hadnot who scored 18. Boston goalie Jerry Cheever Safter 2 32 of the period and Detroit moved into a temporary Lead at 8 24 of the period when Paul Henderson scored with assists from veterans Gordie to re and Alex  s three goals in the second wiped out the wings Lead and the Bruins added two More in the final period when Eddie Shack and John Bucyk each beat Detroit s George Gardner to finish Boston s scoring. The wings managed their final tally at 16 51 of the final period when Doug Robert scored his second of the season. Montreal a Yva Cournoyer s fifth goal in five games and the flawless goal tending of Veteran Gump Wor Sley carried the Montreal Cana Diens to a 1-0 National hockey league Victory Over the Toronto Maple Leafs thursday night. Cournoyer a shifty right Winger with a blazing shot beat Toronto goalie Johnny Bower at5 36 of the opening period with the Leafs Short handed. Wor Sley supported by a tight checking defense made the unassisted goal stand up for his 30th career , 38, needed to make Only 15 saves As the Canadien bottled up Toronto s attack from the Start. The 42-year-old Bower stopped 26 Montreal shots in losing the goal ending  s Bob Pulford had 16 seconds to serve on a tripping penalty when Cournoyer a 25 goal scorer last season broke in alone on Bower and fired the game s Only  continued to plague Marshall decisions Jim Inez Portland Maine up Crisp punching Lloyd Marshall,132, of Newark n.j., took a unanimous decision from Ulysse Jjiminez 136, of new York m a 10-round bout thursday night. The Maple Leafs in the second period when they were hit with three More minors. In the final session Worsley withstood two Toronto Power plays to preserve the shutout and keep the Cana Diens in a tie for first place inthe nil s Eastern division. Philadelphia a third period goal by Billie suds Sutherland carried the Philadelphia flyers to a 1-0 Vic tory Over the Pittsburgh pen Guins thursday night in the first National hockey league Gam played Here in 36 years. The 32-year-old Sutherland third goal of the season came at 2 59 of the final period and gave the flyers their second straight win after two defeats in the new Western division of the nil. Sutherland who was a 40-Goalman at Quebec last year took a rebound shot off the stick of Leon Rochefort and slammed it past Pittsburgh goalie Les Bink Ley from about 10 feet out. Rochefort got the puck formed Hoekstra. Defensive Battle until Sutherland scored the opening night crowd of 7,812 atthe new $12 million spectrum Arena was treated to a close to the Vest defensive Battle. Pitts Burgh now 1-3 in the nil s six team expansion division took nine shots in the first period a flyers goalie Doug Favell with As Many different players Tak ing a crack at the net. The flyers slow getting started had five shots at the pen Guins net in the first 20  figures were reversed in the second period As the flyers offence perked up and they had a 9-5 Edge in  team however could hit the nets although Philadel phia at one Point had a two Man Edge on the ice for two minute due to a holding penalty against two penguins. Posed $40 million domed stadium the chagrined National Loop is expected to make Strong pitch for the Pacific Northwest  Seattle delegation which made a successful presentation to the american league wednesday said in answer to question of the City s reaction to a National league overture at the present our interest is in the american , the National league s potential new franchises May be plucked from among Dallas fort Worth Sandiego and Milwaukee. Excellent facilities already exist at san Diego which can offer a new $28 million stadium and Milwaukee left stranded with its Fine county stadium when the braves shifted to at Lanta two years ago. Big Dallas plot Dallas fort Worth can come up with a 50,000-seat stadium on a Iso acre plot which can Park 15,000 cars within eight months. That s what Lamar Hunt wealthy sportsman who has a chunk of the Dallas fort wort club in the Texas league told the Al owners in a Brief appearance wednesday. Hunt who owns the Kansa City football chiefs received a last minute invitation fro Joe Cronin american league president to join Oakland Kan Sas City and Seattle in Outlin ing their major league potentialities. Like Milwaukee Dallas for Worth has Long standing bids for a franchise on file with Bot the american and National  will be needed the possibility of four new clubs being tossed onto the major league scene in 1969 will mean setting up hurried machinery for stocking the new clubs with players and complicated playing  Al which had Only the California Angels on the Westcoast now will have three teams including Finley s trans planted a s at Oakland and Seattle which is some 600 mile North of san Francisco. The no is faced with the Prospect of san Diego its to and drawing Power somewhat restricted by proximity to los Angeles joining the Dodge Sand giants in California and with Dallas fort Worth moving into the Selling territory of the no s Houston  american league still has to approve ownership of the new clubs at Seattle and Kansas City. Wednesday s expansion approved after four hours of wrangling at approximately 11 p.m., Edt Only concerned new Sites. Many seek ownership Kansas City which will have a $43 million sports comple ready by 1971, has at least five groups seeking ownership. On group was represented at wednesday s meeting. It is Atwo Man Combine with construction and banking business background a. J. Barket and Tudie  contender is the Stern Brothers a Kansas Cit investment banker firm which earlier this year tried to Blythe a s from Finley. At Seattle Max Soriano a attorney who was in a seven Man group which appeared be fore the Al owners wednesday has filed for papers to operates Pacific Northwest sports  the same group was Dave Cohn Seattle restaurateur an representing the governor s stadium commission. He was the spokesman for the group in a news conference