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Houston wins and loses

MIAMI (AP) — Houston
Cilers’ coaches were yelling
angrily in the post-game
locker room, but Miami
Dolphins’ locker room was
quiet — an angry quiet.

Three field goals by Toni
Fritsch and some costly Dol-
phin turnovers enabled the
Cilers to escape the Orange
Bowl with a #6 National
Football League victory
Monday: night.

“We played good when we
had to,” coach Bum Phillips
was saying after the game.

Suddenly, one-by-one,
Phillips’ assistanls began
shouting as they discovered
their lockers had been
stripped of watches, wallets
and rings during the game.

“Tye heard of poor losers,
but that beats everything,”

Phillips said.

The victory marked. the —

fourth time this season a
Fritsch field goal provided
Houston’s winning margin.
He tied the game with a 46-
yarder to open the second
quarter, broke the tie with a
48-yarder with 5:05 left in the
third quarter, then opened a
9-3 lead with a 99-yarder just
before the quarter ended.

Rookie Uwe von
Schamann belted field goals’
of 32 and 51 yards himself
and was warming up for a
potential game-tie kick with
two minutes left and the
Dolphins at the Houston 20.
But on second-and-seven,
linebacker Gregg Bingham
picked off a Bob Griese pass
at the 15 and‘returned it 54
yards to clinch the game,

Griese, under fire through
most of what's been one of
the worst slumps of his 13-
year career, said: "Of
course, that’s the worst thing
in the world that could have
happened in that situation. I
didn’t plan it that way.
Bingham just made.a great

Gary Davis, in the Miami
starting lineup while half-

back Delvin Williams.

recovers from two broken
ribs, fumbled twice — at the
Houston i5 in the second
quarter and at the Houston
48 in the final quarter.
Earl Campbell, slowed to
41 yards the previous two
weeks as he recovered from
a thigh bruise, gained 121
yards on 32 carries to
become: the first running
back to break 100 yards

against the Dolphins this
season.

But over-all, Miami's

defence, was solid, holding -

quarterback Dan Pastorini
to 25 yards passing and three
times stopping the Oilers
without a firat down in the
fourth quarter.

“Our defence played their
guts out, getting the field
position many, many times
for the offence to score some
points," said coach Don

Shula, “But we really hurt

ourselves with fumbles and
interceptions.”

The victory kept the
Oilers, 7-3, tied with
Cleveland Browns, one game
behind Pittsburgh Steelers in
the AFC Central. The
Dolphins, 64, fell a game
behind New England
Patriots in the AFC East. —

Habs not looking good —

By TERRY SCOTT

MONTREAL (CP) — For
40 uninspiring minutes, even
Montreal Canadiens began
to wonder whether they had
reported for Monday night's
National Hockey League

game.

“We talked in the dressing
roam between the second
and third period and told
ourselves that we'd better
wake up,” said Guy Lafleur,
whose two thirdperiod goals
provided Montreal with a 2-0
victory over Washington
Capitals. .

“we had been playing too
defensively, waiting for the
breaks,” added Lafleur, “Tf
you do that and Washington
scores a goal you can fall

CFL

Schenley finalists
Mon adel Smith, th

“MONTREAL (CP) — After-
finishing atop their
respective conferences In the
Canadian Football League,
Edmonton Eskimos and
Montreal Alouettes fittingly
dominated the finalists in
balloting for the 1979 Schen-
ley Awards announced
Monday.

Four members of the Es-
kimos, who followed their
1878 CFL championship with
another Western Conference.
litle, were voted as finalists
for the five trophies, which
will be presented here Nov.
22 during Grey Cup Week.

The Alouettes and
Hamilton Tiger-Cats each
have two finalists fram the
Eastern Conference,

The battle for most out-
standing player honors will

behind and maybe never
catch up.”

Lafleur took matters into
his own hands by grabbing a
pass from Larry Robinson
and firing his 13th goal of the
season at the 1:47 mark,
before putting a lock on the
contest by converting Pierre
Mondou's setup at 16:51.

Before Lafleur’s ex-
plosion, however, the two
teams provided a perfect
cure for insomnia as 15,853
fans at the Forum voiced
their displeasure at the long
stretches of inept play.

The Canadiens, who have
been marked by in-
consistency most of the
season, were particularly
impotent as they failed to

CFL's leading pass. receiver
during the season, and David
Green of the Alouettes,
equally devastating along
the ground with an East-
record-setting 1,678 yards.

Smith caught 13 touch-
down passes, while Green set
a CFL mark by rushing for
more than 200 yards twice in
a game. . ety ate.

At least one member of the
Eskimos is in familar
territory as a Schenley
Award nominee. Defensive
tackle Dave Fennell carted
home the trophy as the top
defensive player last season
and will battle wide receiver
Leif Pettersen of Hamilton’

complete most of their offen-
sive attacks and directed
just 15 shots at netminder
Gary Inness during the first
two periods,

“We weren't playing to-
gether,’ said Lafleur.
“Personally, 1 think the
problem is that we're
matching line against’ line,
which we've never done in
the - past. Now, everyone
jumps on the ice and they
don’t have-their mind on the
game because they don't
know how long they’re going
to be out there.”

Goaltender Michel
Larecque, victimized for five
goals in a 5-4 loss to

‘Philadelphia Flyers last

Saturday, recorded his first

for. outstanding Canadian
honors this year.

The 28-year-old Petterson,
who joined the Tiger-Cats
last season, was @ key factor
in Hamilton's third-place
finish in the EFC.

The Tiger-Cats also are

represented in the top
defensive player category as
linebacker Ben Zambiasi
faces John Helton of Win-
nipeg Blue Bombers in the
defenders’. vole.
. The voting for offensive
lineman of the year focuses
on Mike Wilson, 8 42-year-old
guard with the Eskimos, and
34-year old guard Ray
Watrin, who has spent five
seasons with Montreal.

Edmonton's fourth
nominee is Brian Kelly in the
top rookie balloting. He is

shutout of the season ‘and
said’ that it couldn’t have
come at a better time.

“I had no choice but. to
play well tonight. The way
things were going I had to
come up with a good game."

but slowly, v

HALIFAX (CP) — The
, metric people expect to
metrify ali Canadian foot-
hall, even the Canadian
Football League, in the ne
several years. .
_ But don't bother your head
with‘ conversion tables,
gridiron fans. A yard of
length is close enough to a
metre that all you have.to do
is substitute one word for the
other. A first down will
require 10 metres instead of
"10 yards.

For the  ball-carrier
scrambling for a first down,
a little more effort is
required. Since a metre is
1.08 yards long, he will have
torun almost one yard more
to move the metresiicks.

But Bob Mellor, sports
consultant for the Metric
Commission of Canada,
insists It won't make much
* difference to fang or players,

“You can watch the game
and not even know there is
anything different,” he says.

Some Canadian high
schools have already
switched to metric and the
university footckkueagues-
are tinkering with the idea.

For instance, Mellor waa
in Nova Scotia recently to
help the Atantic Univer:
sities Foothall Conference
with an experimental metric

‘ exhibition game Sept. 9 at
Antigonish, N.S., between St,
Francia Xavier X-Men and
St, Mary’s Huskies of
Halifax.

Mellor saysit will be only a
matter of time before all
football leagues go mettle,
including the professional

Larocque blocked 32 CFL

drives and was particularly
sharp in the final. period
when the Capitals unleashed
14 shots.

Coach Bernie Geoffrion,
who irked Larocque by
starting Denis Herron in the
nets for two straight games
last week, expressed his

* pleasure with the shutout,

“Michel made some out-
standing saves and I hope it
gives him confidence," Said
Geoffrion.

announced

‘opposed by wide receiver
Martin Cox of Ottawa, &

product of Vanderbilt
University in Nashville,
Tenn., who figured

prominently in the Rough
Riders’ second-place finish
in the East by catching seven
TD passes, ;

The winner of the most
outstanding player award
will receive a $3,000 Canada
Savings Bond,. while the
runner-up will get $1,000,

Winners in the outstanding
Canadian, top offensive
lineman and defensive
player categories will eam
$2,000 bonds, while the rookie
of the year will receive
$1,500.

Runners-up in the last four
categories will each receive
a $500 bond.

Norton working for battered kids

By WILL GRIMSLEY

NEW YORK (AP) — The
man who broke Muhammad
Al’s jaw and In the opinion
af many ringsiders scored
three victories over the
greatest fighter of the age
can't stand to see a small
child ery.

“] have seen them with
thelr noses broken, their
eyes blacked and their litle
bodies bruised all over,”
says Ken Norton. “I've seen
them after they've been
tossed out of three-story
windows and dumped into a
scalding bathtub.

“Abused and molested
kids are the greatest tragedy
of our time,”

The 6-foat-3, 220-pound
Norton, one of the most
superb physical’ specimens
the game has produced, has
hung up his gloves and
turned his attention ta
gentler and more charitable
pursuits.

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the most destructive fists of
the generation are being
preserved for exposure to
the Hollywood and television
screens. The energies long
devoted to ring violence are
being diverted to the dis-
couragement of parental
abuse of children.

“T never want to fight
again,” Norton said en route
to a broadcasting assign-
ment in Scotland. ‘I want to
builda new life for myself in
acting and broadcasting. !
want to spend my spare time
helping kids beaten up .by
parents and hung up oi
drugs.’

Norton, who learned to
fight in the marines,/had his
first pro fight in 2968. |

But the world became
aware of him on March 41,
1973, when he fractured Ali’s
jaw and scored a 12-round
upset ina non-title bout. He
fought Ali again in Sep
tember of the same year and
on Sept. 28, 1976 — brutal
brawls he | b h

nt Thinks

many experts scored for
Norton.

It was the latter fight in
Yankee Stadium, when he
came so close to the un-
disputed world heavyweight
crown, thal drained Norton
of all of his spirit.

In 1977, he knocked oiit
Olympian Duane Bobick and
Lorenzo Zanon twice and on
Nov. 5 beat Jimmy Young
for the WBC portion of the
heavyweight title which he
iost eight months later in a
15-round decision to Larry
Holmes. His decision to

-jetire came after Earnie .

Shavers knocked him out in
the first round last March.

Asa fighter, Norton made
around $10 million, exceeded
only by Ali and Joe Frazier,
and handied it discreetly.
Today he. is an .owner of
apartment houses and in-
dustrial complexes in the
Los Angeles area,

Already he has starred in
two motion pictures, Man-

verside Auto Wrecking

dingo and Drum and has two
in the works. He is a com-
mentator for NBCTY,
assigned to the Olympic
Games in Moscow, He is
taking lessons in acting and
elocution.

His heart, however, is with
kids.-He is deeply involved in
Bronco ‘Junction, a charity
for asthmatic; battered and
abused children.

“Tt tears your heart out to
look al some of them,” he
says, “I don’t understand

_ how parents can be so cruel.

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Monday the compensation
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commissioner Larry O'Brien
in the Bill Walton freeagent

case. '
O’Brien awarded Portland
forward Kermit, Washington,
centre Kevin Kunnert, lwo

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“We are raising 4
generation of kids who are
going to be a confused with
yards ‘as we are with metres
now. Those kids will be the
football fans of tomorrow,
and the CFL will have to
adapt to them.”

Ottawa Rough Riders tried
using a metric field in one of
their acrimmages thig year.
Mellor says the team’s
reaction was ''100-per-cent
positive.’ Coach George
Brancato found that ‘‘the
difference between metres
and yards is so small it
peaily doesn’t affect the way
the game ls played.”

But the CFL's front office -

is cautious.

"One of the fears is that
the extra yard for a first
down gives ammunition to
those who advocate four
downs. It is feared this will
drastically alter the game,
with fewer punts, less
passing and more of a
ground game.

“They also have to worry
about public acceptance.”

But in a way the public is
already starting to accept it

NFL
STATS

AMERICAN Eee FERENCE

t
LT F A Pet
New Eng 7 3°0-26) 155.700
Alami 6 4.0179 142.600
NY Jets § § 0221 249 500
Buftalo 4 & 0200 165.400
Baltimore a 46 O17 7.400
Central
Pitts & 2 0 286 157 B00
Cleve 7T 30935 224.70
Houston 7 30212 212.700
Cinci 2B O21) 248 200
West
San Diego 7 9 0.244 173.700
Denver * 9 9 0 1a? 149.700
Oakland ° 6 4 0228 194.600
Seattle 405 0-203 293.400
Kan City 4 6 0.157 162.400
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Eas!
Dallas 6 2 0719 140 600
He 6 a4 0 164 167 600
Wash 6 4 0 178 163 600
NY Gianis 4 6 0 162 195.400
St. Louis 3.7 6 190 26.300
Cantral
Tampa Bay 7 3 0 194 160.700
Chicago § § © 185 173 .500
ines » a 6 0161232 400
Green Bay = 3 7 0 152 203 300
Getrolt 109 0 148 245.100
; West
New Or! 5 5 0214 205 500
Los Ang § 5 0 179 195 .S00
Atiania 4 & 0204 226 400
San Fran 1 9 0186 270.10
Monday Reauit

because the high schools and
colleges are starting to
change over, Mellor says.

“Most rule changes in the
CFL were pioneered in the
college and high school
ranks, The two-point con-
version and blocking on
punis were tested in the
universities first, and so will
metric football,

“Nobody who gained 1,000 _

yards is golng to loge any
credibility with the switch to
1,000 metres.”

Mellor won't -predict
exactly when the CFL will go
metric, but he has a rough

idea.
“This whole process is

Hockey

curling
winner

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CP) —
Jack Hockey of Vernon,
B.C., scored two in the 10th
end Monday night to defeat
Vancouver's Brent Giles 3-2
and capture the $10,000 first
prize in the Crown of Curling
competition.

Giles broke a 1-1 tie in the
ninth end to go ahead 2-1 but
failed ta catch Hockey in the
final end. .

Giles advanced to the
finals witha 4-2 decision over
Gary Sigurdson, also of
Vancouver, while Hockey

- gtickhandled by Calgary's

Paul Gowsell 6-5.

Sigurdson took third place
and $3,500 with a 6-5 win over
Gowsell whose rink earned
$2,500 for fourth place.

Other members of the
Hockey rink are third Doug
Smith, second Brian Lemoel
and lead Lane Murray.

The Heraid, Tuesday, November 4, 1979, Page 7

Metric football coming,

voluntary. Noone is going to
legislate the CFL to go
metric. But within five years
or so after it is universally

ery slowly

accepted across the country,
the CFL will switch. “At that
point, they will have no
choice.”

Juveniles roll in
Comm, hockey

The Juveniles really took it
to McEwan’ GM last night,
scoring six goals in the
second period en route to a
13-3 win.

In the other game, Skeena
Hotel eased past Terrace
Hotel 3-1, getting two
unanswered goals in the
third period to break o 1-1"
second-period te.

Ken Gordon put McEwan
ahead 1-0 at 19:19 of the first”
period, but the Juveniles got
three goale in less than two
minutes to move into a 3-1
lead. Doug Middleton,
Walter Degerness and Darcy
Mallet all scored between
16:50 and 18:31 of the period.

Simon Dodd opened the
second period scoring for the
Juveniles at 5:15, added
another at 5:29, got an assist
onthe third goal of the period
by T Olson to make the
score 6-1, and added a third
at 12:45.

Reb Dempster and Dave
Smyth added goals before
the end of the period, which
also paw Gordon get his
second goal for McEwan.

Dave Smyth scored at 7:17
of the third to make the score

10-2, Darryl Mallet got P

McEwan's last goa! al the 10
minute mark, and Larry
Nordstrom got the hat trick

‘in the last half of the third

period to finish the roul.

In the other match, the
teams played 35 minutes of
scoreless hockey before Ken

Ziegler put the Skeena ahead
10. Cary Humphrey got the
Terrace back even with only
eight seconds left in the
second, but that was all the
offence the Terrace team
could muster.

John Miller and Terry
Marleau scored third-period
goals for Skeena to boost
them to the win:

Next game in the Com-
merelal Hockey league is
Wednesday night when
Westend meets the Skeena
Hotel. ,

‘Terrace,

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timat
hoop play
Terrace and Kitimat
Men's Basketball Leagues
play interlocking games
tonight at Skeena Junior
Secondary School,
Indyatrial from Kitimat
plays Skeena Hotel Orphans

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night All Seasons plays
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