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Nobody likes the way Jim Palmer’s pitching By FRED ROTHENBERG AP Sports Writer Jim Palmer doesn’t like the way he’s pitching. Neither does Milwaukee, Texas, Detroit and now Oak land, for that matter. Oakland got its dose of non vintage Palmer Wednesday night, falling victim to the ace right-hander’s seven-hitter as the Baltimore Orioles crushed the A’s 9-2. “I haven’t thrown the ball well the last couple of starts,” said Palmer, who hasn’t given up more than two runs in any of his six starts this season. “I haven’t had my good rhythm.” After losing to Texas 2-1 in 10 innings opening day, Palmer beat Milwaukee 1-0 on a two hitter, beat Texas 5-0 on a three hitter and beat Detroit 3-1 on a four-hitter. He also was in volved in a no-decision game when he pitched 10 innings against California and left with the score tied, 2-2. The American League Cy Young Award winner three of the last four seasons, Palmer sports an earned run average of 1.13 this season. “I can pitch better,” he said. Elsewhere in the AL, the Chi cago White Sox tripped the Kansas City Royals 6-3; the Boston Red Sox beat the Seattle Mariners 5-2; the Toronto Blue Jays pounded the Milwaukee Brewers 10-3, and the Cleveland Indians nipped the Minnesota Twins 6-5. The Texas-Detroit and California-New York games were postponed because of rain. Lee May hit a grand-slam homer during a five-run Balti more first inning, and the Ori oles led 7-0 after two innings. May’s eighth career grand slam came after the Orioles had loaded the bases on Al More sports on pages 18,19 t Sports World An AP Sports Analysis , By WILL GRIMSLEY AP Special Correspondent Flop as a papa LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Secretariat, the last of the Triple Crown winners, may be one of the greatest race horses of all time. But he could be a flop as a papa. As a $6.4-million syndicated stud, he is not, ‘‘putting his stamp on his get,” as they say around the tracks. His first cluster of offspring — 30 of them who became of racing age this year — turned out to be a mix-master polyglot which has completely confounded the thorough bred community. “Don’t look much like the old man,” muttered some observers as they watched the young colts frolic over Kentucky’s rolling, white fenced blue grass. “Musta taken after their mom,” said another, referring to the some three-score of mares lucky enough and with owners rich enough to set up one of those clandestine dates with the magnificent mahogany thunderbolt. Even Seth Hancock, the master of Claiborne Farm here, where the great Secretariat is standing in stud, could not bluff many accolades when he saw the first batch of little Secretariats roll off the assembly line. “All different,” he told Bill Nack of Newsday. “One was swaybacked. One was over at the knees. Another was straight in the knees. One was very light-boned. One was real small. One was too big.” Not all matings, as in Secretariat’s case, produce the desired result. Many of the sport’s great champions spring onto the scene with no advance fanfare. Such is the case of Seattle Slew, the unbeaten Bold Rea soning-My Charmer colt bought by Mickey and Karen Taylor for $17,500 and now favored to win Saturday’s Kentucky Derby and possibly the Triple Crown. “You can’t buy these horses,” said Billy Turner, trainer of the Derby favorite. “You can’t breed them. You can’t steal them. One day you look up and there he is.” Few horses have been retired to stud with greater hullabaloo and expectations than that accompanying Secretariat. His price was SBO,OOO to SIOO,OOO per mating. At first there was concern he might be an infertile sire. But these fears soon disappeared as the great champion was bred to 36 mares in 1975 with 30 dropping foals. One, later named Canadian Bound, brought a record $1.5 million at the Keeneland yearling sales. Two died as sucklings. A half-dozen were shipped over seas. The others began scattering around tracks in New York, California and Kentucky. Four offspring turned up at Belmont Park in New York —two chestnut fillies, a gray colt and another coal black. One of the fillies threw her rider in a workout earlier this week and it took 30 minutes to settle her down. The first to race, a filly named Sexatariat, owned by Andrew Adams, finished fourth in a race at Keeneland a couple of weeks ago. Others will be making their starts later this month. “It is too early to classify the first Secretariat colts,” said a well-known Lexington veterinarian, Dr. Arthur Davidson. “They are all big, strong and leggy — not the kind to win right away.” Bumbry’s double and a pair of walks off Dock Ellis, who’s been bombarded in both his starts since being traded from the Yankees to Oakland. His ERA for the two games is 20.26. Red Sox 5, Mariners 2 Jim Rice’s hitting and Reggie Qeveland’s pitching did in the expansion Mariners. Rice slugged a homer and a triple in support of Cleveland. Blue Jays 10, Brewers 3 Dave McKay, a switch hitter with a .191 average, decided last week to bat right-handed exclusively. That switch paid off against the Brewers as McKay knocked in three runs, two with a homer in the seventh. Indians 6, Twins 5 Buddy Bell’s seventh-inning single off the glove of shortstop Roy Smalley scored Fred Kend all with the winning run. Minnesota reliever Tom Johnson walked Kendall with one out in the seventh. Duane Kuiper moved Kendall to third with a single before Bell cracked his hit up the middle. White Sox 6, Royals 3 Chet Lemon belted a 475-foot homer in the eighth inning and Oscar Gamble slammed a two- Stadium COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and American League President Lee McPhail will take part in dedication ceremonies Wednesday night of the $5 million Franklin County Sta dium. 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H Owned by Donald Vaughn the first ball hit into the left center field water fountains since Royals’ Stadium opened in 1973. fRSBLV-*' HHHHHHHHHMHHfIHHHHMHHHHHHHHBH Single-handed Page 17 CLEVELAND—Duane Kuiper, second baseman for the Cleveland Indians, made this gn of a Lyman Besteek hit in the ninth inning Wednesday with Minnesota Twins’ Red Carew < first. Kuiper was able to get to his kneew, flip the ball to second to force Carew and shortsto Frank Duffy ended the contest with a toss to first for the double play with the Indians on t< with a score of 6-5. (AP) — Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 5,1977
