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srarfe ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1974 SECTION hit Liyj8 Ly8 -IL(m8 is happening." Asked what he meant by disciplining himself, Brock said, "You might reach a point of anxiety and frustration and change your style of play Obviously, he did not let that happen; Was this Brock's greatest achievement? The left fielder wasn't so sure. "Rating on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd have to say what I did in the World Series I would classify as 10 and I'd put this at nine," he said. He mentioned his records of most hits, most total bases, most consecutive times on bases and most steals in the World Series. And to Brock, the World Series repre sents the ultimate challenge, the greatest test of playing under pressure, which he does so wclL Lou tucked three Lou! Lou! Lou! T-shirts into a paper sack and talked about his hands sore, troublesome hands.

His right thumb had been encased in tape for much of the season. More recently, a tendon in his left hand had developed the annoying habit of sliding down off his middle knuckle. Both injuries were the results of swinging the bat. "I haven't been able to rip the ball," Brock said. "It's been almost like trying to learn to hit again." As a result, Brock's extra-base hits have been fewer than in previous seasons, TURN TO PAGE COL.

1 By Dick Kaegel Of the Post-Dispatch Staff At last it was over. Stolen bases 104 and 105 were etched into baseball history and into the minds of those who witnessed them. The exhilaration of the moment of the record-breaking 105th steal, the game-halting ceremony, the interviews with reporters and broadcasters were behind the superb athlete from Arkansas, Louisiana and, most importantly, St. Louis. Ahead were a trip to New York and 20 more games of a pennant race.

And suddenly, standing in front of his locker in the Cardinals' clubhouse, superman Lou Brock had a very human thought. "Hey," he said, "I haven't packed my bag yet." Brock began dropping sweatshirts and shoes and gloves into his equipment bag and again pondered his accomplishmentsbreaking Maury Wills's modern record of 104 stolen bases in one season and setting a modern National League career record of 740 steals, surpassing Max Carey's 738. "I'm as much surprised at the outcome of this as anyone," he said, referring to his historic No. 105. "Being consistent was one thing that helped.

Another factor was staying healthy. And disciplining yourself to what C3 "'i''iw'M i iii Triin.inN.i iTinn'ir a-itit, TufntiiTrjirj (Post Dispatch Photo by Wayne Crosslin) Brock's Last Attempt Rankles Phils' Catcher LouBrock ties the record at 104 as Dave Cash misses the throw Back To The PennantRace Maury Who? PHILADELPHIA (8) AB RBI PO A Cosh 2b 5 110 2 5 Bowa ss 4 3 2 0 0 2 3 4 0 I 2 II 0 0 I 0 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 1 1 1 8 1 1 0 Schmidt 3b Montanez lb Luzinski If Anderson pr-rf Johnstone rt-lt Unser ct Boone Ruthven 35 8 12 8 27 II CARDINALS (21 AB RBI PO A 2 0 0 0 0 2 7 1 2 1 I 3 2 0 2 0 0 13 1 0 I 1 Brock It Hunt 2b Smith rf Simmons McBride ct Torre lb Reitz 3b Tvson ss Hernandez ph Mumphrev pr Siebert Cruz ph Osteen Foster Folkers Dwver ph Heidemann ss 1 0 0 0 0 had hoped to see Brock set the record last night as long as the Phillies won, said, "When you steal 104 and 105 bases, you don't put no stop sign on him. He'll run any time-no matter what the score is. "I'm just happy for him. I know now that he and his family can rest a lot easier because he won't be hounded so much by the media." Philadelphia shortstop Larry Bowa, who took Boone's errant throw onthe record-setting 105th steal, shared Cash's pleasure.

"He's unbelievable," said Bowa. "Everybody in the ball park knows he's gonna run and he makes it anyway. I don't think this record will be broken for a while." Bowat, was among the first to congratulate Brock before the players in the Cardinal dugout, led by Reggie Smity, exploded onto the field. Most of the Phillies headed for the bench during an 11-minute ceremonial delay. Philadelphia manager Danny Ozark and Boone cornered home plate umpire Paul Pryor for a discussion during the delay, but apparently Boone was the only one really upset with the pause.

"I don't think anybody anticipated it would take that long," said Ozark, "but the guy deserves at least 10 minutes after what he's done." Ozark said that Cardinals general anager rTURN TO PAGE 8, tOC By Rick Hummel It wasn't the 105th or the 104th stolen base by Lou Brock that bothered Philadelphia Phillies catcher Bob Boone so much. It was Brock's try for No. 106 in the ninth in- ning last night. While many of the Phillies seemed unconcerned by Brock attempting to steal after he already had broken Maury Wills's single-season record of 104 after all, they had a six-run lead Boone, perhaps nettled by his one-bounce throws to second on Brock's first two steal attempts, was angry. "I thought it was brutal," he said of Brock's final try, which was unsuccessful.

"I lost lot of respect for him because of that. "They (the Cardinals) afe fighting for the pennant and you damn well better make it if you're going to steal in that situation. Maybe he's got something in his contract." Brock, who explained that he was trying to stay out of the double play and that pitcher Dick Ruthven wasn't really watching him anyway, was thrown out on Boone's only good peg of the night with Ron Hunt at bat in the ninth. Ruthven said he was neither surprised nor disturbed by the last steal attempt. "There was no reason to be," he said.

"After that first steal (in the first inning) he wasn't in the game anyway. We were way ahead." Second baseman Dave Cash, who openly Totals 36 2 9 2 27 19 Philadelphia 201 030 020-8 Cardinals 200 000 000-2 Boone, Ruthven, Bowa. Dp-Cardinals. 1 lelt-Phllodelphla 5, Cardinals 10. 2B Smith, Reitz, Johnstone, Schmidt 2.

3B-Bowa, Cash. HR Schmidt (35). SB. Brock 2, Bowa, Johnstone, Mc Bride IP ER BB SO their butts," said Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt. Schmidt did much of the kicking himself, smashing his thirty-fifth homer of the season, adding two doubles and driving home four runs, giving him 110 runs batted in.

He leads the National League in homers and RBIs. This from a man who hit only about .190 last year in his rookie season. "That's .196," Schmidt corrected. "Don't sell me short." The muscular Phillie third baseman said the major difference in his hitting this season was cutting down on his strikeouts. Despite that reasoning by Schmidt, he still has fanned 116 times this season, which puts him just about on par with last year when he finished with 136 strikeouts.

However, Schmidt already has had 126 more official times at bat this season than he did all of last year. "I'm just trying to keep the ball in play," said Schmidt. "If you've got some strength, you're going to hit the ball over the fence anyway whether you swing hard or not." His homer off Foster in the first inning was his third against the Cardinal righthander this season. But the Cardinals canceled Schmidt's first-inning work when they scored two in their half on Brock's single and stolen base, a double by Smith and a single by catcher Ted Simmons. The Phillies regained the lead, 3-2, in the third when Larry Bowa singled, stole second and scored on the first of Schmidt's two doubles.

The Cardinals had a chance to tie or go ahead in their fourth when they put men at first and third with two outs. Schoendienst, however, let Foster bat for himself and the pitcher grounded out on the first pitch. "I guess I should have taken him out," said Schoendienst with a shrug later. Schoendienst did take Foster out after he had faced only one batter in the fifth. Dave opened the inning with a triple, bringing Rich Folkers from the bullpen.

But Folkers walked Bowa, allowed another double to TURN TO PAGE 6, COL. 3 Folkers 2 Siebert Osteen Foster pitched to 1 batter In 5th. Prvor, Stello, McSherrv, Pelekou-das. Bristol GM Resigns BRISTOL, Sept. 11 (AP) Frank Gilbert, general manager of the Bristol Red Sox baseball team, resigned yesterday for personal reasons.

ll Ran A llTAV -fc3aHfcii a COMPLETE BRAKE JOB Rebuild All Wheel Cylinders Pack Front Wheel Bearings Inspect Master Cylinder AAQC D.nlnra All Umbo thnot 'lli' 8 1 Hi I Pfl II 13 mlM Mb I I I II I IHI Wm Will Tm II W-m mm II IB I Turn All Rr.ilte nruint AMERICAN BANNER TIRE CO. CARS 5704 NATURAL BRIDGE 1121)2 MANCHESTER 3300 LEMAV FERRY RO 3501 Kinqshmhwav" Hwy 140 NUVIXIMIVVI VVtHliiiiMtJIIjxONIDI sportsinc7 "WE'VE GOT IT V85 By Rick Hummel Of the Pest-Dispatch Staff Now, about that pennant race. A few more nights like last night for the Cardinals and there might not be one very much longer. After an 8-2 thrashing by the Philadelphia Phillies at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals find themselves y2 games behind the National League Eastern Division-leading Pittsburgh Pirates. And, as the Cardinals start an eight-game swing in New York tonight, they are faced with the task of playing li of their final 20 games away from home.

Pittsburgh has only 12 away games in its remaining schedule of 21. Reggie Smith, for one, is not that concerned, however. "Why should I be concerned?" said the Cardinal right fielder. "We've got 20 games left and six with the Pirates. I would like to think the law of averages is against them." The Pirates, who bombed the Chicago Cubs, 12-4, yesterday, have won 26 of their last 32 games.

"We can beat 'em," said Cardinals manager Red Schoendienst. Then he amended the statement. "We HAVE to beat 'em." One of the few factors in the Cardinals' favor down the stretch is their knowledge that they can beat the Pirates they've done so nine times in 12 games. But Joe Torre cautioned that the Cardinals had better not carry that as their only weapon when they close their eight-game trip at Pittsburgh next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. "Those games we won don't mean anything," he TsSid.

"If we go in there thinking we can beat them just because we did it before, then we're in trouble. "But as long as we're fewer games behind in the loss column than we have games left with Pittsburgh, then I'd say we're in the race." (The Cards are four games behind the Pirates in the loss column.) As for last night's game, the Cardinals were in it for only four innings. They trailed 3-2 entering the Philadelphia fifth, but starter Alan Foster and reliever Rich Folkers were cuffed for three runs in the inning. The Phillies added two more runs in the eighth off Sonny Siebert. "I think they (the Cardinals) were all so concerned with (Lou) Brock getting the record that we just kicked Gullett Keeps Reds Within 3V2 Complied From News Services It wasn't the way Don Gullett threw the ball but rather the way he walked that first caught the eye of his current manager, Sparky Anderson.

"Maybe it sounds a little ridiculous for me to say it," Anderson said last night in Cincinnati, "but Don just seemed to walk like Sandy Koufax." That was back in 1970 when Gullett was a rookie. Last night Gullett's stride was forgotten. He reminded his manager and everybody else at Riverfront Stadium of Koufax by the way he threw the baseball. Gullet fanned 11 and walked none as he pitched the Reds to a 5-2 victory over the San Diego Padres as Cincinnati remained within 3'2 games of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League's Western Division. "Someday we're going to look back and say that in Gullett we saw one of the game's gr.

Us," Anderson said. "The way Gullett was throwing tonight, he could have struck out 11 batters pitching against any club in the league. He had the best forkball and curve I've ever seen him throw." The Reds collected 12 hits, including1 three by Pete Rose, in sweeping the two-game series with the Padres. Sutton Blanks Braves In Atlanta, Don Sutton fired a four-hitter and kept the Los Angeles Dodgers 3'2 ahead of the Reds. Sutton fanned pinch-hitter Hank Aaron in the ninth to preserve the 1-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves.

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"If we don't win it (the Western Division pehant), we ought to be kicked. Ron Cey's second inning single off Carl Morton drove in the only run Sutton needed to gain his fifth shutout of the season. Brett's Solid Six Ken Brett pitched and batted the Pittsburgh Pirates at a 12-4 triumph over the Cubs in Chicago. The victory extended the Pirates' lead to 3'2 -games over the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Eastern Division.

Brett pitched six solid innings and collected three hits in four trips to the plate as he raised his batting average to .309. Brett was returning from a disabling injury mm -wr-' 11623 OLIVE STREET ROAD JUST EAST OF 1-244 IN CREVE C0EUR WW mm. ii spats iney PHONE: 567-4122 HOURS: SAT. WW him 1 to his pitching elbow last month Only Richie tfebner over 1190 Manchester Rd. (8 min.

West of Hwy. 244) In Ellisville PH. 39, ershadowed Brett at the I 1 1 TURN TO PAGE 3. COL. 1 WHMllMyiiai.