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JAMES SMITH

His secon

EDMONTON (CP) —
Before the 1979 Canadian
Football League season
began, Edmonton Eskimos
sent wide receiver James
Waddell Smith to Hamilton
for future considerations
when they couldn’t reach a
contract agreement.

obit ith retumed {othe
rey Cup champions before
the regula

Tiger-Cata linen *, HAry,
Jones of Saskatchewan
Roughriders for Edmonton's
Leroy Paul and a draft pick.

The second coming of
Smith has proved fruitful. In
his third season with the
Eskimos, Smith leads CFL
receivers with 44 catches for
783 yards and seven touch-
downs. He appears destined

r season in an.
exchange that,gave the -

tosurpass his 1978 total of 900
yards and 69 catches. ©

Smith, 24, a native of Loa
Angeles who played his
college ball at the University
of Kansas, has filed the
Hamilton experience away.

He joined the Eskimos in
1977 after belng cut by
Kansas City Chiefs of the
National Football League
and didn’t foresee playing
for any other CFL team. |

“When 1 did go to
Hamilton I was- going to
make the best out of the
situation,’ he said in an
interview. “It wasn’t a bad
situation. 1 figured 1 could
play there.”

Smith projecta the classic
drives of an athlete involved
in an individual sport. He
was an outstanding track
man and narrowly missed

d coming

making the 1976 U.S.
Olympic team in the 400-
metres,

“The thing that motivates
me is that I'm a former
world-class athlete as a
track man and Il’a my
personal endeavor to do bet-
ter each year,”

Eskimo coach Hugh
Campbell says there Is still
sadme room for im-
provement, but he has no
qualms about Smith’s at-
titude as a team man,
despite his exile in Hamilton.

Smith appears to work
well with Eskimo quar-
terbacks Tom Wilkinson and
Warren Moon, He considera
starter Wilkingon the most
intelligent quarterback in
the league.

“I know when he calls the
route I know it’s going to be

there because he knows
something I don't.

“With Warren I know I can
go as deep as I can because
he's a very strong athlete
and he can throw very deep,
Not that Wilk doesn't; he
throws fine, But Warren is a
very strong quarterback
with touch.” ,

Smith said he feels no

resentment towards the .

Eskimo management for

trading him. .
“That's their job, % make

and break situations,” he

“it doesn't bother me what
they thought because I know
within myself who [ am and
it’s up to me to play to the
best of my abllity na matter
what people say. They can
always talk."

Myers didn’t make it

Ann Meyers won't be
in uniform but Bill Walton,
Larry Bird and Magic
Johnson will when the 22
National Basketball
Assoclation teams open their

MONTREAL (CP) — The
Expos have become front-
page news in their nip-and-
tuck battle with the Pitt-
sburgh Pirates for firat place

in baseball’s Eastern
Division of the National

League.

_ But only 15,121 people
showed up Wednesday night
ag the Mets defeated Chicago
Cubs
Stadium. However, fans

from Newfoundland to the said

Yukon watched the game on
television.

A Montreal reporter who
called up newspapers across
Canada learned that the
Expose are not lacking

support. .

“There are Expo hats
everywhere here,” said Bob
Badcock, sports editor of the
St. John's Evening Telegram
in Newfoundland.

"The people only want to

6-3 at Olympic ,

pre-season tralning camps
this weekend.

Meyers, trying fo become
the first woman to play in the
NBA, didn't survive Indiana
Pacers’ rookie camp earlier

in the news

hear about the Expos,’ said,
Therzsa Johansen, sports
editor of the Prince Rupert;
Daily News in Britlsi
Columbia. e
Maurice Theriault. of
L’Evangeline in Moncton,
N.B., said everyone there
was calling up to find out
how the Expos are doing.
Andin Whitehorse, Gordon
Newman, who runs pools in
10 of the 25 bars in town,

“We've got the biggest TV
sereenin the Yukon, and this
place will be packed to watch
the game tonight.’

The Expos have a winning
percentage of 6043, with the
Pirates a touch behind at
6041, Yet the Expos are
considered a haif-game
behind the Pirates, who were
three up in the wins column
after Wednesday night while
the Expos had lost two less

this week. The Pacers were
among several clubs to hold
special workouta for rookles
and free-agents before the
veterans’ reporting date.
Meyers got the bad news

than the Pirates.

Pittsburghhad 87 wins and
517 losses. Montreal ia 84-55.

As Pittsburgh manager
Chuck Tanner put it Wed-
nesday night:

“Fractions of percentage
points don’t matter to me,
All that matters is that we
keep winning."

Tanner might just as well
have spoken for the Expos
and all their fans.

Alter 64 home games this
year, 1,722,280 fans paid for
seats at Olympic Stadium.
Last year, after 64 games,
the total waa 1,234,253.

* An Expo official estimated
attendance should break two
million before the season is

out.

The Pirates will be in town
for two games next week,
and even now it looks like a
sell-out crowd of 60,000 for
each game. .

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HERMAN

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Wednesday night from
Bobby Leonard, the Pacers’
coach and general manager.

“Tf she was six Inches
bigger and 40 pounds
heavier, it would have beena
different story,’ Leonard
gaidof the 5-foot-0, 140-pound

‘ Meyers: -She -is- @ former

UCLA all-American and
sister of Dave Meyers of
Milwaukee Bucks.

She won't be among the
layers reporting to the
‘acers' regular pre-season
camp, which opens today. It
haian’t been determined what
her role will be with the
team, which signed her to a
$50,000 guuranteed contract.

But she may work as a radio

or television commentator.

The Pacers were among 17
NBA teams who will open
their pre-season Camps
today. By Monday, ail clubs
will be holding twoa-day
workouts to prepare for the
start of the exhibition
schedule next Thursday. The
regular season begins Oct.
12. 4 %,

a * :
‘Walton,’ Bird and Johnson
are thide people'NBA of-

fielals are’ hoping will give

the league *a boost this
Walton signed a.$1 million

a year tontractrwith San -

Diego as a free agent in May.
He is a 6-foot-1i1 dentre who
led Portland to the NBA title
in 1977 and was the league's
most valuable player the
following season. He missed
all iast season because of a
foot Injury.

Bird and Johnsen are the
most publicized of the

rookies. Bird, a 6-foot-9 .

forward, led Indiana State to
an unbeaten regular season
while Johnson, a 6-foat-8
guard, helped Michigan
State to the Natonal
Collegiate Athletic
Association championship.
Indiana State’s only loss of
the season came in the
NCAA final against
Michigan State.

Bird was drafted by
Boston a year ago asa junior
eligible and signed with the
Celtics in June following long
negotiations. Johnson was
the top pick in the June 25
college draft, aigning with
Los Angeles Lakers. .

Ironically, the two teams
that met in the playoff final

will be the last two to open:

thelr training camps — the
champion Seattle Super-
Sonica welcoming velerans
Sunday and runner-up
Washington Bulleta starting
practice Monday.

A merciful

MEXICO CITY (CP) —
end came
Thursday for the 10th World
University Games.

The 12-day event led most
observers to conclude that
the Mexican organizing
committee had failed to get
its act together -- mass
confusion existed each day
for competitors and the

media.

Canada’s delegation of 155
athletes won only three
bronze medals, abeut all
they could expect to win. |

The Games were held at
the worst peasible time for
most of the competing

countries. .

Moet of the world’s top
young swimmers were in
Japan competing in in-
ternational championships
while the pool here was filled
with B teams.

The soccer competition
here Jost its glitter when
most of the ‘op amateur
teams ignored the student
games and went to Japan for
the world youth soccer
championship. The games
also were held on the heels of
the World Cup track and
field meet in Montreal.

The excuse that most of
Canada’s top athletes were
not here can be said for
almost all the other 84
countries that participated.
What regulls did show was
that Canada lacks depth In
amateur sport.

Second-string U.S. athletes
won most of the swimming
medala. Canada won one
bronze, in the women’s 4x100
freeatyle.

The women's basketball
team got a break when the
Soviet Union, favored to win
the gold, was ellminated.
The Canadians finished third
by beating Bulgaria for the
second consecutive time in
the Games,

Canada also finished third
in the mixed doubles tennis
event.

One question that nobody
seems to have an anawer for
is why the Games were held
in Mexico when they were
scheduled so poorly.

Besides having the Games
going against a world
championship swim meet
and just after a world-class
track meet, they were held in
the middle of the rainy
season.

Lack of scheduling and

‘chaotic transportation

resulted in a trip to an
venue becoming an ad-
venture.

Horror stories abounded.
The U.S. women's volleyball
team got lost, caught in a

Crump

back in
camp

CALGARY (CP) —
Running back Richard
Crump is back in Calgary
Stampeders’ camp after 4
‘fivaday absence and coach
Jack Gotta says he’s had
trade talks with at least one
other coach,

“At thia point, his stock
isn't all that high,’ said
Gotta. “A week down the
road it could be an entirely
different story.”

George Brancato, coach of
Cttawa Rough Riders, said
he has discussed a trade for
Crump with Gotta.

The Herald, Friday, September 14, 1979, Page ?

Games disorganized

traffic jam and spent 642
hours travelling from a
practice slte to the Games!
village.

Transportation at the _
Olympic Stadium broke”

down to the point where
many of the coaches and
athletes resorted to hitch-

hiking back to the village.
And to top it all off, there

was no interest at all from .

the Mexican people.

Stadiums were empty for .
all eports with the exception .
of volleyball which drew .
large crowds, especially :

when Mexico playe

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