PAGE 4, THE HERALD, Thursday, August 18, 1977 = ~ SCHEDULE INCLUDES INTERNATIONAL PLAY WHA plans ‘77-78’ season without Oilers: By MELSUFRIN mands,” ed “But we plan to protect our — But before the NHL would accept a must pa its annual dues t ‘ime i ‘will count’in the standings. CP Sports Editor , They, as for quite a few territorial rights,’ said Hatskin, . franchise switch to Edmonton from they wi tobe part of the legue. . “The league also announced ‘that players, sing Ben Hatskin, chairman although there may be some debate to Colorado, it is likely the NHL owners albania, who told g reporter Hatskin will remain as chairman of . - MONTREAL CP - Edmonton member teams. It is tough to get a exactly what those rights may be. would have to get assurances by the Wednesday that Edmonton would the ‘board while: Howard Baldwin ‘Diters mn tbe tof the World m to release it players. clubs have invaded - Oilers that the WHA would not launch have a major league team for next, managing general partner of the Hook pean a a ar 0 the 19 778 member teams. It is tough to get ‘te . NHL territory several times during lawsuits. year, met: last week in/Vancouver Whalers, w assume the presidency seega ea itt heir ng the have m to release its players. the past five years and while the WHA ay as far as the league is concerned with Rockies’ owner Jack/Vickers and of the WHA. CO-OWNErS That discussion kept on going for mi t try to claim Edmonton as their right now, we have no intention o - Skaibani sald Vickers seemed very Bill McFarland, past WHA ‘ans to move a National Hocke eight hours and we could not work it territory, itis likely they would have into Edmonton,” said Brian interested in selling the Rockies.” president, will ‘serve as general | gue club into the Alberta capital, gut. Mr. Pocklington gqt up in a huff difficulty justifying that claim. ONelle the NHL’s executive director But Rav Miron, said that as general counsel to the lea; ue. McFarland sald. a they may be headed forlega) trou les, and walked out. hay beiny ; noting the league's decision last week manager of the Rockies, he could not he could not jn Hartfor ord, ; a few hourshe will change bi his mind,”. OILERS ARE OUT not to expand to accommodate six believe “that we'll move from Den- Conn., the new home of fae WHA "6 The WHA announced Wednesday that it will operate with at least seven players,” said Ben Hatskin, chairman Uctober to include New England Whalers, Quebec Nordiques, In- dianapolls Racers, Winnipeg Jets, Houston Aeros, Birmingham Bulls and Cincinnati Stingers. - Peter Pocklington, representin ‘Edmonton at the meetings, stomp There has been speculation in areas that the Oilers “OWNETS.*.— ‘Pocklington and Nelson Skalb nia— would actively pursue the purchase of Colorado Rockles of the NHL and move the club to Edmonton: The Rockies failed miserably in season-ticket promotion campaign selling just about 2,300 while the Oilers sold more than 7, 000 season ‘We have now been eliminated the WHA picture,” said Pocklington in a. telephone interview before Montreal.. “Edmonton is fighting for its life to get an NHL franchise, We gave the league an ultimatum that we didn’t want to be part of a league of second- class citizens. “We wanted some guarantees that WHA teams. He said that while the league itself would make no overt approaches to move into the Edmonton market, that . did not mean that the owners of Rockies and Oilers could net’ ‘negotiate. ~ ARE MEETIN G er,” Miron said that Vickers, who now is onholidays,'‘has made arrangements for this season and. wée’ve been “hard for our ‘season ticket- *9l-ithough they aren't what we'd like themto be, we're still confident of a good year. ” Meanwhile the WHA. board. an- | - executive office, for personal reasons. -Hatskin said that. Birmingham Bulls woould not be able to use Ken Linseman, an 16-yearold forward signed from KingstonnCanadians of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey Theré was a threat from Alan Eagleson of Hockey Canada that the WHA’s North American . against European teams would be not ‘. ames af “out of the WHA meeting after the tickets, many of them because Ed- word he gettin ithe good The NHL has its. semi-annual , ounced that part.of each team’s 80- “ oard of trustees would not meet what monton fans were hoping ¢ ih club. players team nme of the teame nat meetings scheduled for Toronté next Same schedule will include 36 games. Bulls "to if the WHA allowed the 2. y term extreme player de- pa an expa week and each of the member ‘clubs - against top teams from Europe which a continuing i in operation this season.” use . ; on a. vi Re RD a a A a aS eee maneneeaeeeites pena fete ’ _ Ve, = , : BASEBALL ROUNDUP oes B.C. IN SOCCER PLAYOFFS | tg ae ee tan Que. divers — a) a os webTanet bes. 3. eed pie Chicago continues::: 7 Ont. canoeists, struggle to the to g9 ’ continue their fine showing POSE ree CCleee leer tay By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. i Bobby Murcer drilled two ST. JOHN'S Nfld. CP - Gilles Bilodeau, quallfying round undefeated to clinch a si#ssiseerniescnanmnnetnarsscentacemmicinnanetannesreraan home .runs and Rick iReuschel struck out 11 jatters to give Cubs a 4-2 Victory over the Pittsburgh ‘as the Pirates dropped their ‘second consecutive National peage baseball game to PulCaEO a, 16-5, scattered - q ian hits and walked three - = medal playoff berth along with British Columbia. Carole Sanier, a five foot four, 9 pound university student from Montreal, fought ’ gtrong winds to win the women’s 21.64 kilometre bicycle road race. _. “T’'m very small which means in a win wind like this I get blown around,” Sanier said race on Highway 2 outside St. John’s in 35 _. minutes, 17.05 seconds. 16 of Chicoutimi came from behind on his final dive to edge Claude Cormier, 21, of Woodstock, Ont., for the gold medal in the men's 10-metre ‘platform competition at neh Summer Games Wednesday Sanice Dalrymple, 15, of London game Ontario its first diving gold, winning the women’s one-metre. Bilodeau’s gold was the second for CFL ACTION | Lions in first: defeat Bombers Sports y, dn winning his first game Quebec in diving. Michel Larouche of Mar Audet of La-Sarre, ' singe July 2 off homer to Alma had ‘won the men’s one-metre on was rie Claude A moe are Deely WINNIPEG (CP) — British Columbia Lions moved. ‘Hent-centre field snapped a Tuesday while Susie Knickerbocker of of Vancouver third in 35:41.77. into a tie for. first place in the Western Football Von- Bl gave Atlanta Braves an 9-6 to a 92 victory over Min- Vancouver won the three-metre, | Barbara Olmstead of North Bay, Ont, ‘ference Wednesday night, defeating Winnipeg Blue 4-1 tie in the bottom of the win over Houston, while ‘nesota which knocked the Bilodeau, amember of the Pointe Claire _ Bombers 25- fourth. He connected, for rookie Bill Almon dro celebrated her 18th birthday by winning. : Sidhe a Ge etmnlmtutie Amuse’ cia comeste arsine Sieg ini ws cum wot glen a RG i a or at ‘Gab ta in he seven! or Padres past Cineinnati Reds _ pwo run homers by Don ~~ Cormier took the silver ‘with $78.71 and Olmstead won the. kayak singles in terback ee totem: The other came on A specatcular . Gary Carter drilled his Money and Jamie Quirk Scott Pearce of Winnipeg the bronze with —_:40.5, joined Elizabeth Arnold of Ottawa i iyike Steieblaaa gut the.other Lions’. touchdown on-a oth aiid 2ist home runs of. ‘The San Francisco Giants powered gtilwaukee a aalry ymple won the vone-tidite with’ ‘part of the fours : Gold: medalists: with: tirecyordp june 1 gat the. other Lions! touchdown, non a re ers MD oe vicry oe y Elizabeth Arnold a sister Tia an inthe second quarter. Placekicker Lui Passaglia booted--. the season and Tony Perez ‘and Los Angeles Dodgers the Red Sox, snapping 953.97 points and team-mate Bonnie Lynn Armour of Carleton Place, Ont. chit his 11th. as Montreal game was postponed by nd. _ Boston’s five-game winni Tysdale of Dundas took the silver with th, N.S., won a -field goal, three converts a a single. Expos clobbere d rain. streak, while Mickey Rivers $89.15, Elizabeth MacKay of Sillery, Que., thoknvaktinelesin 29.2 Tan’ Crowley of . Gord Paterson got Winnipeg’s only foadhown, 3 als ithe Phillies longest winning sim Sundberg "Geliveredl triggered a four-run first won ‘of { pod dats | coring Mississauga. Ont., and Andrew Sheppard Bem PRuolt cureituled three field goals, & & convert and . i ; ‘streak at 13 two-strike, two-out single in inning with a homer on the —_won six of nine gold medals in canoeing —of Carleton Place took the pairs in 2:07.5, ingle to the Bombers’ cause. first pitch of the game and Wednesday while Quebec women cap- and the Ontario team of Crowley, Shep- i Bob Forse “tired a two- the bottom of the 10th inning een we tured the gold and the cycli Gor own and Mik 4 ‘ine win gave the Lions eight points, the same as Ed- hitter and Hector Cruz and to score Toby Harrah from New York Yank nt on efi the old and silver in the cycling _pard and Gordon Brown and Mike Mat. nton Eskimos but the Eskimos have a game in hand. to defeat Detroit Tigers 7-5. road race. thews, both of Gananoque, won the fours The Bombers now are.in fourth, place d Saskat- gate ‘Mike Tyson drove in sixth Anning runs to give St. Louis ‘a 2-) victory dver New York ‘Mets, snapping a three- ‘game Cardinals’ losing streak. Jeff Burroughs’s two-run homer in an eight-run sixth saning b broke a 6-6 tie and second base as the Rangers defeated Toronto Blue Jays 6&5 and moved into first place in the American League West. Dan Meyer's two run single through a drawn infield led Seattle Mariners Slatebace ata lotateececnanirae John Mayberry slugged a three-run homer ant Hal McRae and Pete LaCock. delivered run-scoring Singles, enabling Kansas City to snap a three-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over Cleveland. -~ British Columbia, the defending ehampion in soccer, qualified for the medal playoffs along with Quebec; ‘ Newfoundland and Ontario. Ontario, which won the lacrosse title in 1973, made it into the medal playoffs with a 4-D record and was joined by Quebec, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. ‘Saskatchewan, the defending women's softball champion, came through the and Eric Sibert of Montreal, Granger of Lachine, Que.,.and George ones of Chateauguay, Queé., won in 2:3 . men's sing Donald and David McNaughton of - in 1:55.8. In the men’s canoe fours, Steve Botting Mare Michael Hurley. of Missiasauga won the les in 2:44.89 and Randy Me-. chewan Roughriders. first 25,210. * The Bombers had good scoring opportunities in the ter, raising the ha But they had to fa thecapacity crowd of: back cach, doe on the placekicking skills of Ruoff. He booted a $2-yard field : ‘goal at 4:54, and followed with-a booming kickoff that ' Rock Long ‘conceded for a single. Tan it for seven y: ”" Ruolf’s next placement came after Merv Walker ~ intercepted a Tagge Be pase on the B.C. 30-yard line and = -— Waverley, N.S., the pairs in 2:25.6. . After an incomplete pass on a. setond down ley, Ruoff connected on 8 25-yard field DESPITE F FOUR INTERCEPTIONS Lancaster leads Riders over Argos — . By CHUCK SVOBODA goal at 9:34. _ HIT SCOREBOARD The Lions got on the scoreboard at 14: td of fhe f firat with a 40yard field goal , “Late in the quarter, Tagge connected vith Al ‘Shacuk. — eat a 42- yard) passing pl play that brought the Lions to the. Wtreciand carriedoverlefttacke for the touchdown _ Argonauts in Canadian night, the Argos mede it 26- quarter while kicker BobM — A 98-yard punt, return “by now the team’s general m sat 13:47. . Football League action 20 with a Zenon: An- corittl added two field Goals Paul’ Willi ms ‘set up ager. 3 the third. quarter opened; Ta e threw. af TORONTO (CP) — Qu before 49,714 Wednesday drusyshyn single’ but the three converts. Saskatchewan's first-qu rter MOUNTED DRIVE jomg nase pass to Bright. Defensive halfback Walker, lost , arterback Ron. Lancaster, night. veteran Saskatchewan Neil Lumsden, ona three touchdown. Williamscrried _- After Macoritti added a of Bright and tried to knock down the pass but . iproring four interceptions, ‘The Argos had built a 25- terbackcame through inthe 1d run, and giarterback all the way to the Toronto 1Syard field goal mid-way mileed, Bright was home free for a 65-yard touchdown fin 1 minutes to find: \nuck Maley, on” seven- ' eight-yard line. A touch- in the second quajzr, the ‘at 2:57, . ew the winning touch- ’ down pass to Steve Mazurak with a minute and four seconds left to give Saskatchewan Roughriders a 27-26 victory over Toronto 13 lead in eine third quarter but Steve Molnar’s three- yard touchdown = run narrowed the margin _ After Lancaster gave up his fourth interception of the Mazurak 0; open on a 29-yard scoring s Ladjater also passed for an 18yard touchdown to Moody Jackson in the first yard scramble, got the Argo touchdowns. - ‘Andrusyshyn booted three field goals, three singles and two ‘converts.. dawn pass to, Steve Molnat on ther next pla y¥ was wiped out by a holding penawz but L neaster came right back to hit Moody Jackson with Argos mounted heir first touchdown drive, moving from their own 50 in nine plays nd ending with umsden’s . three-y rd The Bombers came back with a 39-vard passing play ‘to Jay Washington and a 3lyard pass that Tom Scott caught with a spectacular dive. Knight then hit ‘Paterson on a 13 yard touchdown pass at 11:51, It was on the following kickoff that Bright, moving. we an 1f-yard scoring strike. scoring run. ‘ron Toronto then nrrowedthe © On the ensuing kickoff, through heavy traffic and then Wunpeg aelender, oA Courageous ta es shortened match 7 margin: with two An- nusyshya a added a 75 chalked his 100-yard touchdown dash. “Rubee id eu com fue Segal Ge Aegina be bonis ori x ae, 1 . = 9) . SPM 18, oho, ene nl et wom ge aga penn gas he aad ne gy plaka fal Sr ed ee ‘squalls brought an early Independence by 50 seconds cata Braves baseball The Coast Guard cut fe Deaster pass at rot fel i from 37 ¥ near the end o| compared to 199 yards total offence by the Lions. halt to America’s Cup in a shortened race. Ted Hood of Marblehead, owner Ted TURNE SKIPPER OF Coureeeou, Point Turner, in cha policing the spectator es The second field goaweko DESERT HAS OASES: Cufra is a region of Oases . Knight threw 34 passes and wed ani 21 for a total 297 yards, while Tagge connecte tries for 172 yards. on just nine, of. 21 hroughout made Andrusyshyn the | : Softball of indepemence, coslaner his lead by the second Tari, the. vance getting Weather Ar Argos all-time point leader _ near the southwest corner of Neither team had a consistent running /attack, with: ” As many as 30 teams may jump by four seconds at the but made the second reach updates and ; making with 548, one more th in the . Libya, in the midst of one of in ot ma up ‘106 yards rus hing and’ the: start. Courageous, which 58 seconds ahead. The race arrangements to escor offensive b ck Dick Shatto, impenetrable deserts. ‘ scaunesaatan vara senna Ii tournament next month Terrace. ee in a scrub soft- *, Ken Grange, a co- goes best to windward, had was shortened at the end of pleasure craft back to port. DETROIT (AP) — Detroit Red Wings Caps general manager Max McNab HOCKE Y BRA WL _ rdinator of the event, says eT Ut will be a double knockout competition. The tour- Ylament is set for the Sept. eae 10, 11 weekend at s number a of ‘local ball diamonds. -was estatic about landing McKechnie. “We're elated,” McNab said, “We've always wanted ‘him. He's got size nd experience,” ruen, 25, was Detroit's fourth-round _ ‘signed Washington Capitals free 2Reat goalie Ron Low Wednesday, but the id a dear price—leading Scorer Walt cKechnie and future considerations. The Red Wings also signed left winger ~ Court fines. Jodzio - QUEBEC (CP) — Rick imum sentence of five ye rs ‘Dan G nd right winger Al Mc- = draft choice in 1972, but jumped to join Jawyer Harvey Yarosk a Grange says _ that R E D WIN GS Donough. ane 6 6 the now-defunct Michi as fo ein Jodzio, the Calgary rison:: - said Jodzio was . “not 7 prospective teams should General manager Ted Lindsay wasn’t © World Hockey Association. Hebounced | Cowboy’s hockey player — He was originally ch reed violent | man. — of onent | with assault with intent to ockey injure which ‘carries a 14" in year maximum term. Jodzic.' was charged | s vage. He never w nted to’. injure Tardif” wt ¥ rosky s.id the incident ‘ _ Who injured an _o during a World: tion game here ‘1976, has been fined 3,000 In gister thelr rosters by :can do this by contacting him at Finning Tractor in around with sever 1 other WH clubs ‘ before signing with the NHL's Colorado Rockies last season, happy” about giving up a player of McKechnie’s caliber, but said he felt it chad to be done if the Red Wings were to SIGN NEW ferrace. Cost is $1 per re The 5-11, 190-pounder had elght goals took place in the heat ‘of GOA Li E reed into A national Hockey League and 10 assists Pa 29 games Sate the sessions court. following an incident during action. 7 z This, is a mixed tour Low, 27, played 54 games with Rockies last season. In a WH game April 11, 1976,. Jotizio also {cesa $150,000. thament -at least two women Washington last season, allowing 198 McDonough, who also skated in the -surprise court that resulted in Quebec. civildmage.sult brought by... jer team. Trophies will be goals for a 3.87 average. The 20-year-old WHA last season, has had previous NHL Bpearance Wednesday, Nordiques ftar Marc Tardif. Tardif who had toait out the .. given the winningsquads. McKechnie paced the Red Wings with 25 experience with both Pittsburgh odzio was fined after being “sent to hospital suf- remainder of the 1976 season A disco party is scheduled goals and 34 assists. = Penguins and Atlanta Flames. pleading guilty to a retaliy ferin from a concussion: and part of the 1977. season -- or Saturday night, Sep- tember 10... ch rge of causing harm which carries a max essing Judge Cyrille. Potvin Wednesday, dete ence because, of injuries ° sustained during’ the game.