European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 17, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports botox Salvage 3rd til of Yankee series 7-3 o s forfeit to Blue jays by Fred Down new York up Veteran Luis Tiant and Relief specialist Bill Campbell combined to pitch a nine hitter and Light hitting Denny Doyle delivered a three run triple in a six run sixth inning thursday night leading the Boston red sox to a 7-3 Victory Over the new York Yankees and to within 21/2 games of first place in the Amer ican league East division. The Victory salvaged the third game of the big series with the Yankees and enabled the red sox to go into a second place tie with the Baltimore orioles who forfeited their game in Toronto. Tiant responding to the Challenge of a must game late in a so so season yield courageous leads australian yacht in second race. But the clock runs out and it will have to be rerun Al Roundup de a Solo Homer to Reggie Jackson in the fourth inning and a two run Homer to thur Man Munson in the eighth after Paul Blair had singled before giving Way to Camp Bell. Tiant yielded eight hits walked one and struck out four As he received credit for his Lith win against eight losses. Camp Bell allowed Only a Pinch hit double by Dell Alston in the ninth in his 1 2-3 innings of Relief. Yankee Relief Ace Sparky Lyle who took Over in the fifth when starter Mike Torrez developed a sore shoulder went into the top of the sixth with a 1-1 tie but was bombed out by an onslaught of six Boston hits. Bernie Carbo started the uprising with his third single of the game took second on a passed Ball by Munson and scored the tie breaking run on a single up the Middle by Carlton Fisk. Singles by Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice filled the bases and George Scott Fol Lowed with a two run single to put the red sox ahead 4-1. Fred Lynn walked to Load the bases and Butch Hobson hit into a Force play at the plate before Doyle batting .242 time runs out in America s cup race to prevent a Victory for courageous by Gary kale Newport . Up downhearted courageous skipper Ted Turner dragging on a borrowed Cigar described thursday How the defender s 11-Man Crew cried when they realized they were losing an almost certain America s cup Victory Over Australia in a Battle against time. Just 540, Yards from the finish line the second America s cup race was ruled no contest when the . Defender failed to Cross the line in the allowed 5 /2 hours de spite a 10-minute Lead Over challenging Australia. If you Ever saw 11 grown men cry this was it Turner said in a pos Trace news briefing. We knew it when the gun went off. We knew time would run out with 20 minutes to go. You could have heard a pin drop. That s part of the game. It la give us a Chance to have another race with our Good opponents. When Earl Williams was with the Atlanta braves he hit two homers against san Francisco. But the game was rained out before it went four and a half innings and Williams homers never went into the  Turner is the owner of the braves Turner was about 700 Yards from the finish line with seven minutes to go and the Spectator Fleet of 500 boats desperately cheering him on As he strive to Complete the race in the prescribed time. Diminish ing and shifting winds which had dropped to a Mere one knot when the deadline gun went off had caused the Long delay in the 24.3-mile race. Both boats lofted pennants to indicate they would race Friday in a rerun of the second race in the Best of seven series. Alan Bond manager of the australian group said Well be doing some minor changes on Headsail during the night. We have the race on videotape and will be Stu dying the pictures. The sails were much better today than in the first  the last race that failed to finish be cause of time elapsing was on sept. 22, 1958, Between Columbia and sceptre of  was hopelessly out of the race and was saved by the gun As courageous was less than 100 Yards from the finish buoy when time ran out. The courageous sailed the fourth leg 10 minutes faster than the aussies As it took advantage of every breath of Breeze while Australia wallowed in a windless Hole. This mariners obtain a Edich Seattle a the Seattle mariners have claimed Veteran right handed Pitcher George Doc Medich on waivers from the Oakland a a the american league expansion team announced Here. Medich was 10 6 this season with a 4.61 earned run aver age in 25 starts with Oakland. His five year major league record is 67-57. Was the turning Point for the futile Effort of the 30-ton courageous. It became a race against the clock in the final stage when both vessels almost were becalmed As winds dropped from six knots to one a Speed that could easily be exceeded by a 10-year old in a Rowboat. Courageous rounded the fifth leg with an hour and 10 minutes to reach the finish line and the defending new York yacht club vessel began showing signs of anxiety Over a Lead that had been 10 45 after the fourth leg. The trailing aussies first to get any freshening Breeze Cut the margin to 5 37 at the final turn for Home. Turner gained some encouragement when courageous got an 8-10 degree Angle of Heel on the final Windward leg arid the wind briefly Rose to six knots. It was Riding higher and faster for a time duplicating the defender s performance in the second Windward beat when courageous opened what could have been the decisive margin. Australia s Only Hope was a major wind shift that would Benefit it As the trailing vessel. Luck presented Australia with the next Best thing a Lack of wind. Then everybody began watching the clock. Courageous won tuesday s opening race by a minute and 48 seconds and there were indications it would duplicate the four race sweep of 1974 when courageous knocked continued on Page 25 when he entered the game ripped his three run triple Down the Brightfield foul line. The red sox took a 1-0 Lead in the second inning against Torrez when Rice doubled into the Loftfield Corner went to third on an infield out and tallied on a wild pitch. The Yankees lost the services of Center fielder Mickey Rivers in the third inning when he suffered a sprained left ankle re turning to first base on a Pickoff attempt by Tiant after hitting a single. In other american league action Earl Weaver s longtime feud with Umpire Marty Springstead reached its Climax and May end up costing the Baltimore orioles the american league East title. The stubborn and tempestuous manager of the Baltimore orioles willingly let his club forfeit a game to last place Toronto after Springstead refused to order the re Moval of a Tarpaulin from the Pitcher s Mound in the Blue jays bullpen which Weaver Felt was dangerous to his Loftfield or. Weaver who has had a running feud going with Springstead approached the Umpire at third base in the Bottom of the fifth inning with his team trailing 4-0 and asked him to order the removal of the tar Al East at a glance by the associate a new York. Baltimore. Boston w 90 v 87 new York Home / Cleveland -1, sept 2ft, 7. 23, w. Detroit 3, sept. 30, oct. 1, 2 a Vay a. Del  i. A a 17, 18 Boston 2, sept. 19, 20 to onto 3, sept. 23, 2-1, 2s Baltimore Home 10i Boston 3, sept 1t. I13, to Ronto 4, sept. 19, 20, 21, 22 det Oit 3, sept 27, 23, 21 away 6 Cleveland 3, sept. 23, 24, 25 Boston 3, sept. Ujj ocl. I. 2. Boston Home � new York 2, sept 19, 20 Tronu 4, sept. 2o, 27, 28, 29 Salt More 3, sept 30, of 1, 2.  7 sept. 15  3, sept. 16, 17, 13 Detroit i sept. 22, 23, 24, 25. Paulin which had been placed Over the Pitcher s Mound in the Loftfield bullpen to protect it from a Light rain. Because the bullpen in the Blue jays Park Are on the playing Field Weaver was concerned that his left fielder Andres Mora might trip Over the Tarpaulin and Hurt himself. Springstead suggested a Compromise and a groundskeeper rolled the Tarpaulin up a Little bit. But that was t enough to suit Weaver and he pulled his club off the Field. When they refused to return after a 15-minute wait the umpires declared the game forfeited to Toronto. You can t play with one team on the Field Springstead said. I tried to com Promise with him. He s in a Pennant race i thought the game was important to him. Look i said play the game under protest. Just get the game in and have it settled later " i asked him to take the Tarp off. That s All i asked said Weaver. How am i going to feel if one of my players busts his leg on that Damn thing i can t afford to Tell my players not to go after a foul Ball in that area. Mora almost broke his log on that Damn thing yesterday. If that had not happened i might not have thought of it. I even suggested that we make the Ball dead in that area. But Springstead would t do it. It s Only common sense but evidently Springstead does t have any. He did t even know that in Cleveland they consider that area dead. I brought my players into the dugout and told them that Al president Lee Macphail might Call this a Complete game but that i did t want to take a Chance on someone injuring himself and ruining his career. All i asked him to do was to take the Tarp off that s All i  Weaver said he got 100 per cent backing from his players not to continue the game unless the Tarpaulin was removed. Continued on Page 24