European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1973, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Saturday november 17, 1973 the stars and stripes Pago 23 0 s Blair raiders cleared of dirty tricks1 lop pick on Fielding 9s Steeles charged uniforms greased and footballs under inflated St. Louis a outfielder Paul Blair of the Baltimore Ori Oles was the Only unanimous Choice in a poll of major league managers and coaches for the All Fielding teams compiled by the sporting news a weekly sports newspaper published in St.  to the National league team were first base Mike Jor Gensen of Montreal second base Joe Morgan of Cincinnati third base Doug Rader of Houston shortstop Roger Metzger of Houston Outfield Cesar Cedeno of Houston Jobby Bonds of san Francisco and Willie Davis of los Angeles Catcher Johnny Bench of Cincinnati. Gibson repeats again St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Bob Gibson was selected for the ninth consecutive year As the Best Fielding Pitcher. The american league team includes first base George Scott of Milwaukee second base Bobby Grich of Baltimore third base Brooks Robinson of Balti More shortstop Mark Belanger of Baltimore Outfield Blair Amos Otis of Kansas City and Mickey Stanley of Detroit Pitcher Jim Kaat of Chicago and Catcher Thurman Munson of new York. Nil stats blues 5/ penguins 3 Pittsburgh 0 1 23 St. Louis 3 1 15first period i St. Louis Merrick 7 Plante thompson6 45. 2, St. Louis Sabourn 2 b. Plager angotto8 09. 3, Unger 6, 9 00. Penalties a. Plager St 3 26 Mcananama pit 11 39.second period4, St. Louis Angotto 4 Demarco sabourn5 11. 5, Pittsburgh Pronovost 6 schock18 14. Penalties b. Hextall pit 3 11 Awrey St 10 18. Third period6, Pittsburgh Macdonald Mcdonough apps1 31. 7, St. Louis Durbano 2 Sabourn angotto12 45. 8, Pittsburgh Apps 4, 13 47. Penalties Thomson St 7 47. Shots on goal Pittsburgh 11 11 -830 St. Louis .11 10 14-35goaliespittsburgh, Rutherford. St. Louis Davidson. A18,204 Bruins 10, rangers 2 new York 0 1 12 Boston 3 -"2 510first period1. Boston Marcotte 3 Savard Orr 5 44 2. Boston Orr 9 Espostto 8 30 3. Boston Sheppard 1 Orr o Donnell 14 22. Penalties Stemkowski 7 05. Second period4. New , Vickers 5 Stemkowski Selling .2 06 ,5. Boston Cashman 7 Espostto Hodge 11 47 6. Boston Hodge 1z Vadnais Bucyk 17 52. Penalties Rolfe 16 01.third period7. Boston Orr 10 unassisted 2 53 8. Boston Savard 5 Marcotte Orr 6 18 9. Boston o Donnell 3 Espostto 10 41 10. Boston Orr 11 Espostto Hodge 11 19 11. Boston Savard 6 Marcotte Orr 15 40 12. New York fairbalrn3 Kaczur 18 37. Penalties Carr 2 27, Vadnais 8 09, Tkaczuk 11 14, Vadnais 13 41, Park 13 41. Shots on goal by new York 5 j 10zi Boston " 1z 12-35goal tenders new York Glace Man Boston Gilbert. A-15,003., new York a the National football league has apparently cleared the Oakland raiders of All charges of dirty tricks levelled at them by the Pittsburgh Steeles following last sunday s game in Oakland. The Steeles won the game 17-9, then complained that the raiders had smeared their uni forms with a Greasy substance had under inflated the footballs and had written obscenities on one of them. There were also complaints that the Oakland coliseum clock was not oper ated properly. In response to questions by bowl invite said nixed by wildcats Louisville by. A Kentucky s football wildcats received an invitation last week end to play in the Tangerine bowl at Orlando Fla., but turned Down the bid a Louis Ville television station reported thursday. Whas sportscaster Mike James said the bid was turned Down by Kentucky coach fran Curci former head coach at the University of Miami Fla. Whas said Kentucky would have been matched against m i a american conference Champion Miami of Ohio currently ranked 17th in the nation with a 9-0 season record the station said Tangerine bowl officials were said to have been very interested in Ken Tucky but after talking with Curci late sunday night decided to extend an invitation to East Carolina instead. Curci was on a scouting trip in Orlando Fla., thursday and could not be reached for com ment. Kentucky plays Florida at Gainesville Fla., saturday. Toledo club in in the associated press Don Weiss the National football league s director of Public re lations said the league had investigated the charges and was unable to substantiate any of them. We be completed our look into the situation he said. Pittsburgh talked about clock problems apparently involving an Oakland Field goal on the last play of the first half. All six officials said there were no problems with the clock. The one with on Field responsibility was the line judge Art hoist. He said he specific ally looked at his watch and the hands were not pointing straight up indicating time Hadnot run out. As for the deflated Ball Weiss said All were checked As prescribed by Rule by the officials prior to the  he said the Jule Calls for 12yr13y2 pounds of pressure and that there were no problems. And he added balls were changed frequently because of the Rainy wet weather. When Ray Mansfield the Pittsburgh Center told the Umpire Tom Hensley he Felt one the sacking of Patriot sacking quarterbacks has become a Vogue with the defense in the National football league. New England signal caller Jim Plunkett is dumped for a loss by new York jets Chris Farasopoulos 19 and Richard near in new York. Besides losing yardage the patriots also lost the game 33-13. Up Bunning to manage mud hens Toledo Ohio a Jim Bunning who pitched two no hitters during a 16-year major league pitching career has been named the manager of the Toledo mud hens in the class aaa International league to Ledo general manager Charles Senger announced thursday. Bunning a hard throwing right hander who compiled a major league record of 224-184, was manager of the Phila Delphia Phillies Eugene ore., farm club in 1973. The Phillies now have a working agreement with to Ledo which had been a Detroit tigers affiliate for seven years. Johnny Lipon and cot Deal managed the Toledo club in 1973. Lipon resigned in july and Deal guided the mud hens Theresa of the season. Deal has been named the pitching coach for the tigers next year. Bunning will be serving his third season As a minor league manager All in the Phillies system. He guided Reading pa., in his first season in 1972. Bunning whose career strike outs of 2,855 rank him third on the All time major league list tossed a perfect game for the Phillies against the new York mets in 1964. Six years earlier he threw a no hitter at Boston while pitching for Detroit Bunning won 101 games for the tigers and 123 in the National league with the los an Geles dodgers Pittsburgh pirates and Phillies buffs were $i,728rooo in red last year Chicago up the Chica go bulls of the National Basket Ball association lost $1,728,000 last year Johnny Kerr revealed thursday in explaining changes in ticket sales policies. Kerr the first coach of the bulls said the club never had a profitable year in seven seasons under the old ownership which sold to a nine Man Syndicate be fore the current season began. Kerr is sales and promotion Man Ager of the team now. He said the bulls player  Roll for this season would be $1, 551,000, $225,000 More than the Gross ticket receipts last year. This figure he said does not in clude stadium rent front office payroll or travel or equipment expenses. The bulls have averaged about 4,500 paid for the six Home games so far this year and Kerr said the Dollar Revenue from ticket sales with tickets priced higher this year was slightly ahead of the first six games last year. He announced that the club now would sell season tickets for the last 22 games and give purchasers a Choice of six additional games to provide seats for 28 games for the Price of 22. This policy was adopted be cause the team dropped a pre Vious plan under which buyers could Purchase tickets for any 25 games resulting in Large and Vance sales for key games and few for games with rivals of lower standing. The team has sold about 2,500 season tickets he said com pared to 1,400 tickets last year for the full schedule and 1,200 for the 25-game plan. Ball was under inflated Hen Sley honoured his request automatically just As he d Honor any other request and replaced the Ball. No official saw any Ball with anything written on it nor was it brought to their Atten Tion. Regarding the charges about Sticky stuff " Weiss said at the request of the Steeles one of the Oakland offensive linemen guard George Buehler was checked by Hen Sley. He reported no vaseline or Greasy substance of any  poll shows blackout Rule liked by the associated press football fans Are very Happy with the lifting of pro football s television blackout but if it starts to Hurt Home attendance they would be willing to see the blackout reinstated. And they re Happy with the amount of football being televised now. The lifting of the blackout on sold out Home games is in the first year of a three year Experiment the result of congressional legislation. Nil com missioner Pete Rozelle con tends it will Hurt the game by putting sharply into attendance. A copyrighted Chicago trib Une Story thursday reporting on the results of a Louis Harris poll said the Early reports on no shows fans who Purchase tickets but fail to attend games Are spotty and that the real test will come when win Ter s cold and Snow grips the National football league s Northern cities. In the nationwide poll a Cross Section of 1,761 fans were asked in part do you favor or oppose the lifting of the blackout on Home pro football games in the areas where the games Are being played sixty eight per cent of the fans said they favored lifting the blackout 23 per cent said they opposed it and the remain ing nine per cent said they were not sure. Then they were asked sup pose the recently lifted Black out on pro football telecasts does result in a substantial de crease in attendance at the actual games. Would you favor or oppose reinstating the blackout on Home pro football games in the areas where the games Are played to this 45 per cent said they would favor restoring the blackout 35 per cent they would oppose a return to the pre-1973 blackout policy and 20 per cent had no opinion. The fans were also asked do you feel there is too much too Little or about the right amount of exposure of pro foot Ball on television right now fifty per cent said there was about the right amount 28 per cent said there was too much 11 per cent said there was t enough and two per cent said they weren t sure