'Ryan express still humming l ANAHEIM (AP) Nolan IJyan, at age 30, still fires the baseball with his awesome > velocity and says of his latest ' effort, “I’d say it was a good a ' game as I’ve thrown the last two, maybe even three years.” L ; Ryan struck out 19 Toronto batters in 10 innings even though he wasn’t around When his California Angels eventually won Wednesday, night, 2-1, in the 13th inning. ' 'Ryan struck out 18 during' % the regulation nine innings, ' missing by one the major lpague record which he shares. He was two shy of the i extra inning record when Norm Sherry took him out and reliever Dave Laßoche finished up. J Ryan’s fast ball was clocked at 100.9 miles per I , Storey writes his best tally ; MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) A one-time song and dance man in a Las Vegas strip hotel, Tom Storey, ripped out a seven-under-par 65 '•/and established a two-stroke lead yesterday I in the first round of the $200,000 Danny Thomas-Memphis Golf Classic. J Storey, 35, who was one of the longest of the longshots in this event hit by an unusual k number of withdrawals, has been on the pro tour only about a year and has won $10,106. Of that, $9,000 came with his victory in the Oklahoma City Open a few weeks ago. /A gallery of five people watched the best i.Li Baseball enters new era without old reserve clause By DON HOPEY Assistant Sports Editor ; (This is the first in v a four-part series on major league baseball’s new player .reserve system and its effect on the -i-jgame, owners and players.) ' ■ Gone from the summer game are horsehide and flannels and Brooklyn and, for the most part, real grass. -This year, along with the ‘rabbit’ baseball and astro-turf, double-knits and designated hitters, baseball took another step, albeit a reluctant one, away from tradition when it began its season without the reserve clause. ; Opinion on whether the new, limited ( •.reserve system will be good for the game pof baseball is divided, as might be ex pected, along player-management lines. To the players, the new system is the hour in 1974 and he has four no-hitters to his credit. He gave up his first hit against Toronto in the sixth inning and commented Thursday, “I really didn’t think about a no-hitter. Maybe if I had gotten to the seventh, I might have thought about it. “The last two innings I didn’t have as good velocity as earlier, so I didn’t think I had much of a chance at a record.” Ryan threw 171 pitches against Toronto, put his season strikeout total to a major league leading 143 in 1212-3 innings and lowered his earned run average to 2.44. His won-loss record remained at 8-5. He hooked up in a pitching duel with virtual unknown effort of Storey’s career, composed in hot, sunny weather on the 7,193 yard Colonial Country Club course. “When it’s your day, it’s your day,” he said. “And this was my day.” Gary Player, complaining of jet lag from the long trip from his South African home, holed one bunker shot, dropped a 50-foot putt and put together a 67 that left him alone in second. Mike Hill, whose brother Dave has won this tournament four times, was next at 68. goose that’s laying golden eggs; the owners characterize it as an albatross that will destroy the game by wrecking “competitive balance” and driving already high costs skyward. Whatever may happen in the future because of the new and revolutionary player reserve system, one thing is certain: no one can remember baseball without the reserve system that was almost as old as the game itself. Only eight years after the Cincinnati Red Stockings were established as the first professional baseball team in 1869, the reserve clause was introduced into player contracts when club owners agreed the constant raiding of clubs and movement of players made some sort of control necessary. Collegian sports the daily Jesse Jefferson of the visitors who didn’t give up a hit until Rusty Torres and Bobby Grich singled consecutively in the sixth. Ryan gave up the first run in the eighth. He issued his first walk to Alan Ashby, marking only the third time in his major league career that he had gone more than seven innings without giving up a pass. Doug Ault singled and Dave McKay laid down a sacrifice. Ryan fielded the ball and threw toward shortstop Grich, covering third. The throw went wild and the run scored. “I wasn’t anticipating going to third on that bunt,” Ryan said. “So when they yelled ‘third, third’ I rushed the throw and Grich was on the move trying to get it.” Baseball management has historically viewed the clause as giving owners the exclusive rights to a player’s services for life unless they decide to trade, release or sell him. This management view didn’t go unchallenged, but until last year it had stood the tests of time and law. Tough Wilson new Pen pilot PITTSBURGH (AP) The Pittsburgh Penguins, long on talent and short on playoff results, ap parently have hired John Wilson to help solve the problem. Wilson, a hard disciplinarian, coached the Colorado Rockies last season and apparently earned the respect of his players. He also was coach of Team Canada, which included Penguin stars Pierre Larouche and Jean Pronovost. As a player with Detroit in the National Hockey League, Wilson proved himself to be durable, playing in 580 consecutive games. Tenniswomen bow at At A W nationals By JOYCE TOMANA Collegian Sports Editor Penn State’s women’s tennis team was eliminated in the early rounds of the first annual AIAW national tennis tournament this week, but coach Joan Nessler felt the four Lady Lions did well enough against what she con sidered to be “the best collegiate competitors in the world.” “When you talk about national tennis, it’s another world,” Nessler said upon her return last night. “They were the most beautiful tennis players in the world. The competition is so tough, it’s hard not to get discouraged. “Most of the players had gone to Baseball roundup Niekro foils Phils; ATLANTA (AP) Knuckleballer Phil Niekro hurled a four-hitter and Rod Gilbreath drilled a three-run homer, sparking the Atlanta Braves to a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies last night. Niekro, 4-8, fanned a career-high 13 batters, in cluding five in a row during one stretch, and walked only one. All four Philadelphia hits were singles. Atlanta scored its runs off Jim Kaat, 1-4, in the fifth inning. Gary Matthews opened with a walk and reached second when third baseman Mike Schmidt’s throw was too late for a forceout on a grounder by Vic Correll. Junior Moore then forced Correll at second with Mat thews taking third, and Gilbreath followed with his second homer of the season, a NATIONAL LEAGUE East W I, Pci. GB Chicago 33 19 .635 Pittsburgh 29 21 .580 3 Saint Louis 31 23 .575 3 Philadelphia 29 24 .547 4' j Montreal 23 28 .451 9' 2 New York 22 31 .415 11 'j Los Angeles 37 19 661 Cincinnati 26 26 500 9 San Francisco 25 31 446 12 San Diego 26 33 .441 12'j Houston 22 33 .400 14'- Atlanta 21 36 .368 16'j Yesterday's Games Chicago 1, San Francisco 0,11 innings Cincinnati at New York, ppd., rain Atlanta 3, Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 6, Los Angeles 3 Only games scheduled Wednesday's Results Los Angeles 4, Chicago 2 Montreal 6, Atlanta 0 Philadelphia 3, Houston 2 San Francisco 3, Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati 5, New York 0 St. Louis 3, San Diego 0 Today's Games San Francisco (Knepper 0 0) at Chi cago (R. Reuschel 7-2) Philadelphia (Lerch 5-2) at Atlanta (Leon 1-2), n Montreal (Bahnsen 1-0) at Cincinnati (Norman 5-2), n San Diego (Shirley 4-6) at Pittsburgh (Jones 2-1 ),n New York (Matlack 3-6) at Houston