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I The Boston Globe Saturday, June 21, 1975 17 0 OX ioies i win rock Or ninth- to 10, this was 9.997. The Red Sox and Orioles have gone through three marathon battles in four meetings here, Boston winning them all. This one ran the gamut: pitching so good that every run was a struggle, each team rallying in the ninth, outstanding defensive plays, and, for the armchair manager, it was a final exam out of managerial tactics college. The Sox entered the ninth down, 2-0, and when the rally and counter-rally were over, they were in extra ninth inning rally, then won it 4-3 in the 12th on Dick Drago's relief work and Rick Burleson's sacrifice fly. So with six straight victories they are 8-2 on this journey (21-10 on the road for the year), have a three game lead over the Yankes who lost to Detroit, 10-9.

And, as the exhausted 20,130 leaving Memorial Stadium last night must have realized, Boston is 8 12 up on the Orioles. If you want to rate baseball games on a scale of one By Peter Gammons Globe Staff BALTIMORE They have become the sword-rattl-j' ing, death defying cavalier brigands, these Red Sox, riding across the roads of America like the 25 Mus-; keteers. Last night they rode into Baltimore, and in what was an emotionally draining tong war put on a dramatic I ERNIE ROBERTS Plan to keep kids in Arena innings for the third time on. this trip. But Drago, with a foul ball escape of an inch in the 10th, worked into the 12th.

"I just can't believe this team," said Carl Yastrzefnski. "It just doesn't ever believe it can lose." The 12th began innocuously enough, with an out and a Dyar Miller walk to Doug Griffin. But with two strikes, Juan Beniquez pushed a pitch through the hole to right, Griffin was on third and Burleson got his fly ball just deep enough for the winning run. Thus the often maligned Boston bullpen has seven wins and 11 saves; Baltimore's has two saves, three victories. Even into the ninth, it had been a superb, albeit simple game.

Fred Lynn made a great diving catch, there were good plays from both teams, and while Mike Torrez was blowing some nasty heat in on the Sox, Bobby Grich pushed two jam-shot singles off Bill Lee for the 2-0 lead. Torrez had begun to tire in the eighth, when a Cecil Cooper pinch-hit line drive with two on became a double play, and with a walk and Yaz's third single (14-game streak .292) Earl Weaver began his chess game. He brought on lefthander Grant Jackson for Lynn, and he made a sequence of three perfect pitches. Strikeout, two down. Jackson also made two perfect pitches to Jim Rice, but on the second, Rice's strength pushed the ball into right 2 -1 More strategy.

Darrell Johnson trotted out Dwight Evans for Ber-nie Carbo. Weaver went for tomorrow's supposed starter, righty Doyle Alexander. So up came Rick Miller for Evans, and he singled, 2-2. Rico Petrocelli, was next and again got in the big run. He singled to right center.

3-2. But not over. Reggie Cleveland relieved Lee in the bottom of the inning and gave up the tying run when he ran what he and Johnson knowledged to be a near-perfect pitch in on ipmch hitter Jim Northrup. He pushed it to the left field corner. When the inning was over, the teams had used a record seven pitchers and we had the extra innings.

In the top of the 10th, Weaver had Miller walk Yastrzemski with a man on second to pitch to Lynn. And Miller got him. In the bottom of that inning, Drago came to save Cleveland and Lee May pushed a fly to the opposite right field corner that "Well," said right fielder Miller, spreading his fingers less than an inch apart, "it missed by this much. The imprint is still there." Related story, Page 18 BARNSTABLE Good morning! Out early after an anniversary breakfast of grapefruit, bacon and eggs, English muffins and 'coffee at the Fred Cusicks and on to Martha's Vineyard for a day of biking and swimming Thanks to City Councilman Gerry O'Leary, the Boston Arena may remain available to Boston schoolboy skaters. The onetime Holy Cross halfback will hold a hearing Monday on his proposal for Boston to buy the facility for $600,000 (which would be reduced to $400,000 by t)ie city's rebate from beneficiary MDC after the sale).

Then the White Fund, of which O'Leary is a trustee, Yould purchase the Arena from the city three months Uater for use by approximately 75,000 school kids annually in addition to present hockey tenants Northeastern and Boston State Did you know that Pele, the world's highest paid athlete, "was a fourth grade dropout? Or that he and his wife Rosemarie, who is white, were secretly engaged for six years? He never took her out in public and she never ventured into a soccer stadium to see him play. Bill Rynnc'sl Quiz-in-Rhyme He went from high school to the majors Without shifting gears And played with just one baseball For twenty-two long years. An All-Star 16 times, he's switched To make his DH bow And owns more hits than any active AL player If present plans materialize, the BC-Notre Dame half time show will make Schaefer Stadium regulars forget the guy who jumped out of a balloon there once. iih u.Jf -fts'' Can you believe Jimmy Cag-ney singing I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy and Pat O'Brien giving his Knute Rockne fight Don't try to convince American League pitchers but Fred (.352) Lynn never batted .300 in the minor leagues, having hit .259 at Bristol in 1973 and .282 at Pawtucket last year My unsung hero of the Red Sox is Juan Beniquez. Prior to last night, Juan had hit safely in 25 of 27 games since April 26.

Significantly, his only two JAMES CAGNEY hitless games were cameo appearances as a late-inning replacement in which he went zero for one Watch for Marcel Dionne to wind up on the L.A. Kings with Detroit being compensated by two players and a first round draft pick. By springing for Marcel and Kareem Jabbar in the same month, Jack Kent Cooke is losing his skinflint image. York Cosmos lost to Minutemen in (overtime, 2-1. At left is Boston's Eusebio.

(Don Goshtigian photo) Pele taps a backward pass in his first appearance in Boston in eight years. He drew record crowd as New Frenzied fans rough up Pele provided more trouble than anyone had foreseen. For a league that prides itself on being professional, it was a hopelessly amateurish display of planning and crowd control. The Minutemen had talked about shifting the site to a larger facility either Schaefer Stadium or BC's Alumni Stadium but both proved impractical. They talked about adding bleacher seats but none were added.

PELE, Page 19 midfield now, pointing and directing, teaching and cajoling. Eusebio did score a goal, the first of the evening, but it came on a direct kick with less than 12 minutes to play. Pele never officially scored his point-blank push shot moments later was overruled after a pushing-off violation inside the goalmouth. But the circumstances surrounding their mere presence in Boston for the first time ever together overshadowed their performances they Watson storms into Open lead By Tom Fitzgerald Globe Staff MEDINAH, III Tom Watson is a young man with an orderly sense of planning and a resolute belief in his convictions. And the 25-year-old Missourian, who has a Tom Sawyer look about him, gave a demonstration of those qualities yesterday in assuming individual command of the US Open championship at the completion of 36 holes.

Importantly Tom made a delayed start on the Medinah course in the afternoon, and proceeded to add a 68 to his 67 of Thursday for a remarkable 135. That score was not only seven under par for the distance on this alternately soaked and heat blasted golf course. It -also equalled the low mark for the halfway point, established by Mike Souchak in 1960 and matched in 1968 by Bert Yancey. It placed Watson three shots ahead of the 70-68138 by 23-year-old Texan Ben Crenshaw, who won his first professional tournament late in 1973 and has failed to win another since. The top of the overnight standing had a generally youthful character, with 24-year-old Pat Fitzsimons, Thursday's hole-in-one star, in third place with 67-73140.

Lee Trevino, twice a winner of this title ('68 and '71) made a strong move with a 69 to gain a tie at 141 with Jim Wiechers and Terry Dill, a comebacking pro who used to represent the captivating town of Mule Shoe, Tex. But Watson provided most of the solid interest through this irregularly paced program, which drew an estimated 22,700 to Medinah, although it was understood the USGA had set a crowd limit of 20,000 for any one day. Before he ever struck a blow, Watson prevailed in a polite contest of wills with two USGA officials rules chairman Harry Easterly Jr. and executive director P. J.

Boatwright. "While I was cn the first tee (at 11:30) with Lee Trevino and Bobby Nichols," Watson explained later, "there was a flash of lightning. I made that count of one-thousand-one and so forth and estimated from the thunder crash that the lightning struck less than a mile away. "I told the officials on the tee that I was invoking the rule of the player's privilege to refuse to go on the course when his life might be endangered by an electric storm," he said. In the clubhouse, Easterly and Boatwright tried to persuade Tom that the storm was not that imminent "I have too much respect for lightning," Watson said.

"Even if there was danger of disqualification, I still would have stayed in the clubhouse." As it developed, the storm broke with full force very shortly, causing a delay of 40 minutes that eventually prolonged the program to 8:35 p.m. Most of the celebrated contenders were finished well before that late hour, although they had some varied experiences. Jack Nicklaus had another of those "unexciting" rounds of 70 for a par-equaling 142 where he was tied with England's Peter Oosterhuis and Grier Jones. "Can I make up seven shots?" Nicklaus responded to a question. "Sure, I could do it if I play welL The thing I think about is that I am even par in the US Open." Arnold Palmer, with some difficulty on drives early in his round, was 69-75-144.

Johnny Miller was farther back at 147; defending champion Hale Irwin was at 145. And Gary Player, at 148, was very close to the cut-off line of 149 for the low 60 and ties who will proceed into the final rounds today and tomorrow. Sift For. three years Margo, the men's hair styling sweetheart, tried vainly to pay her $100 entry fee and play in the Waltham Lions' Hope For The Blind golf tourney. Then she met Joe Lazaro.

recently during the Big Brother splash at Essex and he invited her. So Margo, aC16-handicap player in a spectacular orange outfit, wflLbe at Marlboro CC July 7 although she's taking pain pills for after-effects of a wrist fracture Two other worthy tourneys coming up: the Multiple Sclerosis Celebrity at Nashawtuc June 3D and the Jimmy Fund Celebrity at Colonial July 15 Rocky Carzo waited a year for his official appointment as Tufts athletic director and then received a tempting offer to join the Oakland Raiders' front office Bobby Orr failed to show up in Montreal to receive his Norris Trophy this week but San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto hustled across country to premise NHL brass a new arena there with every possible tax concession if the Seals franchise is kept alive Way-land junior Al Salazar, 16, became more exhausted fighting off college track recruiters than he did setting a world age group record of 14:14.6 for 5000 meters in the NAAU Juniors at Knoxville last week. The Greater Boston Track Club star will now run gainst the Russian juniors in Minneapolis July 5 Coincidence Department? The Gridiron Club holds its annual golf outing at Colonial CC June 30, giving Club president Lefty Nelson the home course advantage. Fascinating facts in the 1975 BAA Marathon wrap-up just, published by Honeywell and Prudential: New York (387) had more entries than Massachusetts (336), with Canada (210) third. Although the 26-30 age group had the most starters (464), the 31-35 group had the most finishers (397) while the 36-40 gang had the highest percentage (91.5) of finishers Northeastern press box impressario Larry Pratt celebrates his 50th wedding anniversary tonight at the Sonesta While BC's Eddie Miller becomes the first college publicist to receive the Boston Press Photogs Good Fellowship Award tonight at Sydney Hill CC.

The nine Miller Mites also will set a record for largest family in at- tendance Which brings to mind that the Mt. Washington Auto Road will be jammed with a record field in tomorrow's 15th annual base to summit road race Answer to quiz: Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers Yes, the Ned Harkness on the Saratoga Harness Racing payroll as youth consultant is the college hockey Ned, now the Union Coliege coach It wasn't funny at the time but Warren Spahn can chuckle about it now his ill-timed investment in a new diner across from old Braves Field. 'The Warren Spahn Diner opened April, 1953, in Boston and the Braves opened the same day in Milwaukee. Lou Perini didn't tell me he, was going to move the ball club," said Spahnie, in town today for a March of Dimes festival in Chelsea Overheard at Wonderland: "For years the other dogs used to bump my dog out of the race. Now with Perfecta betting, my own two dogs knock each other out of contention." Ernie Roberts's column is in The Globe oh Saturday morning and in the Wednesday and Friday Evening Globes.

By John Powers Globe Staff It was, at the beginning, a horrible misconception and it degenerated from there. The Minutemen front office thought it could bring the world's two most popular soccer players together for the first time in five years and still prpvide only 12,500 seats and minimal security. What resulted last night was a chaotic and nearly tragic nightmare that would never have happened anywhere the game of soccer is taken seriously. More than 18,000 spectators most to see a soccer match here (2-1 Minutemen in overtime) since Pele played in Boston eight years ago turned Nickerson Field into a shoving, marginally-controlled maelstrom, and ruined what could have been a wondrous piece of nostalgia. You waited a lifetime to see Pele and Eusebio on the same field, but neither finished the game.

An overflow crowd that stood six deep around the field mobbed Pele after his only goal was called back with II minutes to play. Surprisingly, he was not seriously injured a bruised right knee and ankle appeared to be the extent of the damage but jittery New York Cosmos official; had him car- ried from the field on a stretcher anyway, and Eusebio followed shortly thereafter. "I won't know until tomorrow how serious it is," Pele said later. It was a macabre climax to a game that at once offered more and less than anyone had dared expect The anticipated confrontation between Pele, the Brazilian demigod, and Eusebio, the Portuguese magician, never really came off. Age has transformed them from deities to choreographers.

They prowl the .1 4 1 1-! "mu; 31 Pele heads the ball in match at BU. (Dan Goshtigian photo).