Herald, Thursday, December 7, 1978, Page. 7... -, Rose is now basebaili’s highest paid player. QRLANDO, Fila. (AP) -—- The economic vibrations of Pete Rose’s $3.2-milllon free- agent contract with Thiladelphia Phillies con- tinued to send shudders, through the baseball eatab- lishment at the winter meetings Wednesday. And the team most. likely to feel the fallout first is Pittsburgh, which still is negotiating with Dave Parker, the Natlonal League's most valuable player for 1978. Parker will be In his contract option year in 1979 if the Pirates are unable to sign him, and that would mean they could lose him in a free-agent market that that seems to be climbing higher and higher, despite the warnings of commissioner Bowie Kuhn. At the news conference which unveiled Rose as baseball's highest-salaried player, there was some discussion of the lures he got from the finalists in the signing sweepstakes. Among them, said Rose, was the GOT GOOD BY ACCIDENT offer of a brood mare from ‘the Darby Dan Farm owned _ by the Galbreath family, which also owas the Pirates. That piece of intelligence must have fascinated ‘Parker, who at 27, figures he should be worth at least as much io the Pirates as they offered a player 10 years older. Reports swept the con- Trying for 1980 Olympics TORONTO (CP) — Joan - McDonald plucks an arrow from the quiver and fits it deliberately into her how, a spaceage contraption bearing little resemblance to the Robin Hood variety. She draws the string back until it th aah face. squints throu 2 sight si has patiently tuned for elght weeks and makes minute corrections to her stance. There is a soft click and the sleek, ,unfeathered, aluminum ‘arrow streaks toward the bullseye. The exercise is repeated . 100 times In the next four hours, five nights a week, up ° to 10 months a year, in ad- dition, thére .are regular weightlifting ‘sessions to build up the strength required to pull back a string that demands the same effort as lifting with one hand a 30-pound bag. In a two-day international - competition, archers muat shoot 144 arrows in groups of three at targets 30 to 70 metres away. They have 150 seconds to fire each group. Top competitors “score around 300 of a possible 360 polnts. McDonald fired her first arrow 20 years ago, when she was 15, at a summer camp. Ina couple of years she was camp champion and found a small club where she could practise twice a week during the winter. - In 1962 she entered the Canadian championships as a total unknown and out- classed the field, She .remained Canada’s top woman archer for the next four years, entering the world championships in 1965 and finishing 11th. In 1967 things suddenly fell part. “I'd got good by accident,"’ she says. ‘‘Now, very clearly, there were a number of girls.at my level. It was my first real competition and there was the poasibillty I might not win. “E didn’t like that very . much, I knew J] had some faults in my form but I was not willing to take a year off to correct them and get better. “It's all wrapped up with ego. I made the world team but not in first place. I don't know where I finished, probably 4sth.” In the next Canadian championships McDonald was badly beaten in the fleld event. Suddenly she. ; lost,; interest. un “TI just didn’t like it any longer. I wanted to stay home and knit or watch football games with my husband, anything else. So I quit ” . Inclusion of archery for the first time in the 1972 Olympics brought McDonald out of retirement but her first son was due at the same time as the Munich Games so her comeback was deferred. Two years later, a few weeks after the birth of her second son, she was back in the Canadian cham- plonships. Her competitive enthusiasm was restored but the results were dis- appointing. She was unable to make the 1976 Olympic team. Meanwhile there were other problems. Her marriage broke up and she had to take a parttime job as a cancer research assistant to help pay for her training. She credits fellow-archer Gary Gillies with turning things around. He told her she was so busy ex- perimenting with her style that she neglected to prac- tise until she mastered any workable form. “This year I rethought my ;{raining. program," Me- onald says, “I decided to go with my: natural mistakes. I shoot canted rather than with my bow perpendicular to the ground. So I set my sight crooked to compensate. “And I lowered my goals and expectations and decided to go for con- sistency. I created a series of little challenges for myself that added up to a whole lot of confidence. And, at my level, mental attitude and control is 90 per cent of success." At the 1978 Canadian championships she battled former world ¢hampion Lucille Lessard arrow for arrow, losing by two points. Three weeks later she went to Switzeriand and finished eighth in the world. “Jt didn’t matter that 1 didn’t win. I stood up under some intense pressure and I didn’t choke.” ' She says she recognizes that she may never reach the top again because the youngr competition has a technical head start. “My days are numbered. I know. these young, aggressive women are golng . to beat me. But I'm more mature. I’m prepared, And Pm going to fight as hard as I can. As an athlete, I'd be crazy not to try for the 1980 Olympics,” Smyl, Tudor and Wilson all sent down to Dallas VANCOUVER: (CR) Vancouver Canucks sent ihree players Wednesday to Dalles Black Hawks of the Central Hockey League, including veteran goallender Dune Wilson. A spokesman for the National Hockey League team sald Wilson needed playing time with the CHL team s0 he could work ‘dered. Vancouver himself into condition and return to the Canucks. Wilson, 30, waa purchased last month from Pittsburgh Penguins when injuries hin. net. minders Glen Hanlon and Gary Bromiley. Hanlon was played spectacularly, however, and the Canucks are undefeated in their last four games. Also sent to Dallas were rookie right wingers Rob Tudor and Stan Smyl. - Tudor, 22, began the season in Dallas, but was recalled by the Canucks when Smyl suffered a shoulder injury three weeks ago in Chicago. Tudor had one assist with the NHL team. Libett gives Wings a tie DETROIT (AP) — Nick Libett scored early in the third period Wednesday ight to give Detroit Red Wings a 2-2 deadlock with Montreal and snap the Canadiens’ three-game National Hockey League . winning strenk. Detroit, which is winless in four straight games, has only one victory and six ties to show for its last 27 meetings against the defending Stanley Cup champs. Penguins down Leafs , PITTSBURGH (AP) Orest Kindrachuk scored two goals and assisted on two more. to pace Pittsburgh Penguins to a 6-4 win over Toronto Maple Leafs in a National Hockey League game Wetinesday night. The win was the fourth, along with one tie, -in Pitt- sburgh’s last five games and the third defeat in a row for the Leafs, Pittsburgh defenceman Randy Carlyle, formerly with the Leafs, cuffered a fractured left’ ankle when struck by a puck serateta ec teheahatatabal Sala mK OE oe rateter tte Statahatetel ata" | Listed late’ waFatatetate