OAKLAND (AP) The much-maligned Oakland A’s a team that always seems on the verge of splitting at the seams with dissension pulled itself together yesterday long enough to erase the remnants of the "Mets' Miracle,” beating New York 5-2 in the seventh and decisive World Series game. The heroes were Bert Campaneris and Reggie Jackson, who ended a week of power drought and frustration for the A’s by ripping a pair of two-run homers in the third inning that triggered the victory. Afterwards, thecelebration both on and off the Oakland Coliseum field was interrupted by the expected negative note that seemed to surround this team at all times. Dick Williams formalized the worst-kept secret of the Series his resignation as manager.of the club. It was a resignation he had told his players in the midst of the Series that he would deliver to A's owner Charles O. Finley at the end of it "win or lose.” Williams said he was leaving the A’s because of family considerations “and personal considerations that have no reflection on the Oakland A’s and that I think I don’t have to discuss.” Losing their manager was a final ironic twist for the world champion A’s, who survived all kinds of problems on their , <4/ Vitiello tries a new approach Soccer By BILL GL'THLEIN Collegian Senior Reporter Vindication is sweet. After half a season of trying to gel a group of soccer players into a cohesive whole Penn State coach Herb Schmidt finally put together his 1973 product, a product that generated a 5-1 victory over Marvland. The Lions began their season stumbling and were finally tripped up by a tough West Entering Friday's game with Maryland with a 2-1-1 record. Schmidt was facing an opponent the Lions hadn’t beaten since 1957, or while the Lion coach was still dribbling soccer balls for his New Jersey high school. The way the game began Schmidt must have been thinking that there’s always next year. Five minutes into the game Terp goalie Andy Griffith committed himself and was caught outside the goal with the ball resting Martin leads W&M over Lion By TIM PANACCIO Collegian Sports Writer It was hailed as “the best cross country meet ever to be held in Pennsylvania." It might not have been that, but Saturday's meet on the White golf course was the best distance running since Gerg Fredricks donned a Penn State track jersey. Ron Martin, William and Mary’s premier All-America ripped Greg Fredricks si mile record of 24:30 and startled Penn State’s Charlie Maguire by clocking a 24:07.2, to lead the Colonials to a 20-40 win over Penn State and Georgetown (48). The loss ruined State’s bid for a third consecutive unbeaten season. It was thought that the race would be a cliff-hanger among Martin, Maguire and Bill Louv (WM). §ut Martin made it one man against the record books. “I wasn’t thinking about records,” said the bearded Englishman. “I run as I feel afthe moment. Today, I just felt like taking it out. I sat on Charlie (Maguire) until the two mile point and then I s overcome / SfX)rts The Daily Collegian There was a reported threat on the life of Jackson before the American League playoffs began. There was the Mike Andrews affair, when the team seemed on the verge of outright revolution against Finley, who tried to banish the utility infielder to the disabled list following a pair of costly second-game errors. And, finally, there were the Mets, a Cinderella team that had battled its way from the oblivion of last place in their division one month before the end of the season, right into the world championship showdown. Surprisingly, it was the New York club that proved the toughest obstacle for the A’s to overcome. The A’s came home Friday, trailing 3- 2 in the Series. But Jackson’s bat won'Game 6 and helped them take the seventh as well. Afterwards, they gave Reggie the Series’ Most Valuable Player Award, a rjew sports car. He couldn’t believe it. r Maybe the hero was really Williams, who pulled this team together and made h 4 'team effort' rips Terps he runs. Unable to celebrate Ihe year's biggest triumph thus far, Bahr had to prepare for a trip to Syracuse the next morning where another coach needed the services of his sore foot. & \ Although he would only rate his performance as “pretty good” he,was happy to be back at halfback after a stint as a inside forward. j “I like being able to see things, you can do that at halfback,” he said! The Lions defeated the Terps with a scrambled offense and a stehdy defense. j “We showed threes and twos and ones,” the jubilant Schmidt said of his front line alignments, “I think a lot; of players are doing a good job. I’m sorry I had to hold back substitutions. 1 ’ { Maryland coach Doyle Roy refused to permit unlimih substitution. NCAA rules peril unlimited substitution only when be in front of the open goal Chris Bahr moved in from his halfback spot to put it away but flubbed the shot long enough to allow Griffith to leap on the ball. And so it went. Even' the Lions first goal, a Randy Garber-Bahr combination that netted the junior college transfer his second, score, looked sickly. Like a tantalizingly slow change-up pitch, the ball snuck by the Terp goalie. Afterwards the booters began to look sharper as the offense produced another goal in the first half and three more in the second to decisively defeat their 16-year protagonists. Bahr played no small part in the ending of the Maryland-streak. In addition to his first half assist the junior All-America and Lion place kicking specialist scored twice on fast breaks to ice the Penn State victory. All the while playing on a sore arch that’s getting weaker and weaker as broke.” Martin ran a blistering 9:24 over the two-mile span. He opened a 75-yard lead on Maguire by the three-mile mark. “He kept upping the'pace; I’ve never seen anyone run like that,” said Maguire. “I was hoping he’d slow by three miles but he didn’t... no way I could catch him.” Martin pumped arms, sprinted and legged out a lead of about 200 yards when he came flying home at the tape. His searing pace produced something no one expected. Four men broke the 25- minute mark another record for the White course. Maguire was second with 24:32.5, Louv was next in at 24:35.5 and Mac Collins finished fourth for William and Mary in 24:54.5. “This was a national class of competition,” said harrier coach Harry Groves. “Four men under 25 minutes that says something about the quality of the race.” Groves said h’is squad didn’t “run up to snuff.” Bob Hillman, Gary Gittings and Ron Secord ran middle 255. Monday, October 22, 1973 —5 asked Jackson what kind of man should be the A’s next manager, the slugger had a. three word reply: “Another Dick Williams,” he said: Operating with their lameduck manager, the A’s overcame their own internal strife and became the first team since the New York Yankees of 1961-62 to win two straight world championship. The fans thought the game was over when pinch-hitter Ed Kranepool hit a grounder to Gene Tenace with two out in the ninth. But Tenace kicked the ball for an error while hundreds of fans were already spilling onto the field.' The error kept the Mets alive, gave them their second run and brought in A’s reliever Darold Knowles for a record-setting seventh straight Series game. Knowles got Wayne Garrett to pop to short to end it. In the end, it was the power that Oakland missed through the first six games of this Series that won it for the A’s in the seventh and deciding contest. Str id wi George Malley turned some Martin will meet Maguire and “This meet has been reallv eyebrows with a strong 25:13 Oregon State’s three-mile encouraging for me ” Martin filing m behind Maguire for NCAA champ, Steve said. “It was a great rival Penn State. Prefontaine, in the national meet and I’m looking forward There’s a strong chance championships soon. to racing Prefontaine.” Charlie Maguire (559) starts with Ro/i Martin on shoulder run for six games by New York’s fine pitching staff, the A’s exploded |for two long drives in the third inning that decided the issue: The homers were delivered by Campaneris, the slight shortstop, andl Jackson, the muscular outfielder, who operate at opposite ends of the power ruler. Ken Holtzmah, who won his second game of the Series, again helped trie A’s with his bat as well as his arm. The stylish left-hander, who delivered a kej| double in the first game ofj the Series, drilled another double witri one out in the | third against Mets’ starter Jon Matlack, who had split jhis first two confrontations with Oakland. That gave Holtzman a perfect season at bat in this year of the designated hitter. He had two of icial at-bats, both of them in the World Series, and two doubles. He walked the only time he went to the plate, iri the regular season. | Matlack seemed shaken by the hit, the first one the Mets’ southpaw allowed in the game. I And. ~-it 1, ,*nd, a moment later, was even more shaken. Campaneris, Who had three hits in the game,| stepped into the next pitch ana sent it on a line into the lower right field stands. ! Rusty Staub backed to the wall, then slammed his gloved fist into it in anger and frustration and Finley’s Scott Frazier goes down but doesn't quit rockets to celebrate the first homer the A’s had managed against the Mets. Those two runs were the first earned runs off Matlack in 26 innings. j Joe Rudi drilled a single to center that kept the sellout crowd of 49,333 howling, “Let’s Go, A’s!” while the coaches agree on it before the game. It didn’t matter much as the Lions scored on two breaks and a rebound in the second half. Fans were also treated to a scuffle between Garber and Maryland All-America George Taratsides while the first half ran out. Taratsides resorted to physical means again in the closing minutes of the game, this time with halfback A 1 Vitiello. “I did nothing,” protested Vitiello shrugging his shoulders, “The guy grabbed me by the neck and said he was going to get me after the game. I started talking with him when I realized I should be walking away. As , I did the ref said ‘out.’ ” The Lions may have vindicated their previous performances but they'll have to keep it up if they are intending to reach the NCAA tournament. Their most recent success will be tested Friday night at Jeffrey Field against Navy.: harriers o w/n / Jackson, forced to sit out last year’s World Series against Cincinnati with a leg injury and intent on making amends for that absence this time around, gave them something to yell about. He unloaded a towering blast that soared into the right center field seats, some 400 feet from home plate. Campaneris’ homer had hit sonje concrete steps and lanced back on the field, but Hockey women edge Cortland 2-1 .A strong defense and the scoring of Ann Findley led the Penn State field hockey team to a 2-1 win over SUNY- Cortland, Friday afternoon at the Pollock fields. This was the second victory of the season for the women, now 2- 1-1. artists senes The Exciting Spanish Pianist ALICIA DE LARROCHA Friday, Oct; 26th at 8:30 pm in Schwab Auditorium Student sale begins Tuesday, Oct. 23rd at 9:00 a.m. Non-Student sale starts Wednesday, Oct. 24th AP wirephoto Jackson’s shot never was the Series, opened with a seen again. single to left and when Cleon Jackson, whose three hits in Jones fell, spraining his right the sixth game had helped the ankle, the ball got away and A’s tie the Series and send it Campy raced to second on the to a seventh-game showdown, error, raced happily around the Rudi hit the next pitch for a bases and stomped on home line single to center, scoring plate with both feet as the A’s Campy, completed their biggest , Vew Vnrk m,->K , scoring inning of the Series Oakland m 010 oox-5 4 u nn«rrt *u At Matlack. Parker Sadecki IWO innings later, the As • Stone i7> and Grote. Holtzman. Fingers made it 5-0. Campaneris, a ' 6 '„ ant ? ? e T ce S pest to the Mets throughout Oakland. Campaneris «1 '.Jackson 1 li The game’s first score was a questionable goal by Cortland’s Gayle Bottcher. “She didn’t hit the ball, she kicked it in,” Penn State halfback Barb Doran said afterwards. “We appealed it to the officials, but I guess there was a crowd around the presents 'Clearly she is one of the great pianists of our time." .. .Cleveland Plain Dealer "She is a marvel a wonderful pianist, and more: she is an artist.” ... N.Y. Times Students: $ 1.00 Non-Students: $2.50 at the HUB Booth jfi~ J *Wf~ r 1 --jH, fh- « 1 mm jk. goal, and they couldn’t see.” Findlay tallied twice for Penn State, once on a rebound from a Peggy Gerhart shot, and again on a pass from Gerhart. The women visit Shippensburg State College, now 2-3-1, tomorrow.
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