PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Monday, November 26, 1977 International ski season opens with Olympic champion winning CRANSTON- MONTANA, Switzerland (CP-Reuter) — Olympic champion Franz Klammer of Austria won the World Series downhill race Sunday, opening men’s event of the 1977-78 international ski season. XKlammer was timed in two minutes, 8.07 seconds under less than ideal conditions as thick mists and falling snow ham- pered skiers over the 2.4- mile National course in the Valais Alps which has a vertical drop of 980 metres. Norweglan Erik Haker (2:08,22) and Austrian Peter Winsberger (2:08.51) were the only other skiers posting times under 2:09 with Ken Read of Calgary, who had the fastest training times Friday, placing fourth in 2:08.19 Austria now stands 17 ints in the lead in the orld Series events as a result of Klammer’s victory and Annemarie ProellMoser's win in Saturday’s women’ downhill. Switzerland is second with 19 points, fol- lowed by Norway, seven; Canada, five, and Italy and the United States tied with three apiece. Horse trainer sues v NEW YORK (AP) — Horse trainer Jack Morgan served the New York Racing Association and its acting president, James Heffernan, with apers Saturday, in- orming them he was suing the NYRA for $125,000. Morgan, accompanied by his lawyers, served e papers at Aqueduc Race ‘track. It was the first time he was at a track in a month—since he was suspended by the NYRa& in the aftermath of a scheme that alleged: involved a horse switc that resulted in a $78,000 payoff. The suit alleges that “the NYRA wilfully denied Morgan access to the stable area altho at the time it did this he was duly licensed” by the New York State Racing and Wagering Board. Heffernan said the papers were “‘an order to show cause” staying Morgan’s suspension by the NYRA. A hearing on the matter was scheduled Monday. Morgan’s suit seeks $25,000 in compensatory damages and $100,000 punitive damages from the NYRA, which acted to bar him and Dr. Mark Gerard after the Board temporarily lifted their suspensions. Gerard is accused of switching two Uruguayan thoroughbred s stakes-winning Cinzano for his look-alike, Lebon, a lesser horse. Cinzano was a horse imported by Gerard. Lebon was owned by Morgan. When the horse listed as Lebon—but belleved to be Cinzano—won a race Sept. 23 at Belmont Park, Gerard collected his $78,000. College football teams prepare for round By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Top-ranked Texas marched to the Southwest Conference cham- ionship and a Cotton ow] date with 45 Notre Dame on Jan, 2b trounci ng Texas A and M 57-2 Saturday. Texas finished the regular United States college football season with an 11-0 record, the only major unbeaten team. Earl Campbell rushed for a career-high 222 yards and scored four touchdowns for the Longhorns to become the nation's leading ground- gainer and scorer this season. The World Series is an eightrace team event for men's and ‘women’s squads and serves as a warmup for World Cup competition beginning next month, Steve Podborski of Toronto was 17th in the final placings with a time of 2:11.38 while trainin squad member Bo iller of Vancouver placed 33rd with 2:14.69. Head, who scored Canada's first ever win on men’s World Cup circuit two years ago, fig: ures he may have lest a victory here on the long, gradual-sloping start. “I skied the bottom well and got the bump, but I lost it a bit on top,” he said. ‘It was foggy up there by the time [ lett and I got off the track that had been run in by the 10 people ahead of me. I could feel my skis slow down.”’ Two key members of the team—Dave Irwin of Thunder Bay, Ont., and Dave Murray of Ab- botsford, 5B.C,--are nursing knee injuries but are expected to rejoin the team within the next month or early in the new year. Scorers not always on winning side By THE CANADIAN PRESS Guy Lafleur, Pronovost, Eddie Johnstone, Mike Bossy, Lanny McDonald, Syl Apps and Butch Goring all scored two goals but only Lafleur and Pronovost came up winners in National Hockey League action Saturday night. Lafleur’s 17th and 18th goals of the season gave ontrea] Canadiens a 3-1 win over Detroit Red Wings while Pronovost's Jean With this week-end’s snow fall, Terrace residents can soon take to the slopes. two scores helped Pitt: sburgh Penguins to a 5-2 victory over New York Islanders. Apps and Goring had some cause for cheering as their double scores helped Los Angeles Kings rally for a 4-4 tle with Atlanta Flames. McDonald’s pair for . Toronto also came in a 4-4 tie but the single point was small consolation for the Leafs who had led 4-0 and looked to be easy winners before a letdown allowed Washingto Soviets skate fastest WEST BERLIN (CP- Reuter) Gaeten Boucher of Ste. Foy, Que., won the men’s 1,000 metres at an = iIn- ternational speed skating event Saturday. Big winner for the day, however, was Liubov Sadzhikova of the Soviet Union who won the women’s 500-and 1,000- metre races. Boucher won with a time of one minute, 20.13 seconds. He was followed b Sweden's Johan Granath in 1:20.60 and Sies Uilkema of the Netherlands in 1:20.68. Frode Rroenning of Norway took the men’s 5300 in 39,31 with Jos Valentijn of the Nets chnd 1 r (38,35) and Granath third in 39.89. Sylvia Burka of Win- nipeg, the 1977 women’s world sprint champion, finished third in both women's events. Sadzhikova's winning time in the 500 was 43.51. She was followed by team-mate Vera Kranova in 44.22 and Burka’s 44.43, Sadzhikova'’s 1:29.9C was almost two seconds faster than Sijtje van der Lende of the Netherlands (1:31.69) in the 1,-00¢ In _ other games Saturday involving top- ranked teams, No. 2 Sugar Bowl-bound Alabama, 10-1, wrapped up its regular season with a 48-21 rout over intra- “state. rival Auburn, and 12tirer a ;{~ninthranked Penn State, 10-1, edged LOth-rated Pitt 13-13 in their battle for Eastern football su- premacy. Alabama will play No. 8 Ohio State, 9-2, in the Sugar Bowl; Penn State will oppose No, 19 Arizona State, 9-2, in the Fiesta Bowl, and Pitt, 8-2- 1, will face No 18 Clemson, 8-2-1, in the Ga- tor Bowl. The 78th renewal of the spirited inter-service while Burka’s time was posted as 1:31.75. After the first day of competition, Boucher stood third over all in the men’s standings with 80.455 points, behind the leading Granath, 80.195, and Valentijn, 80.345. Sadzhikova had a big lead in the women’s events with 88.055 points followed by Burka, 90.215, and Kranova, 91.050. Three other Canadians were well off the pace in the men’s 1,000 with Craig Webster of Regina in 23rd place (1:24.19); Andrew Barron of Ed- monton in 34th place (1:27.08) and Cam Tip- ping of Edmonton in 36th (1:27.61). Boucher was the top Canadian in the 500 as well, placing 12th on a time of 40,39. Webster stood 38rd with 41.93, Barron 37th on 42,69 and Timmping 38th with Od Three other Winnipeg skaters finished bot women's races. In the 500, Pat Durnin was 11th with a time of 45,74 while Cathy Vogt stood 18th in 45.95 and Liz Appleby was on 15th in 46.93. In the rivalry between Army and Navy in Philadelphia saw the Cadets score 17 points in the first half, then hold on and beat the Middies 17-14, In other games, Georgia Tech beat Georgia 16-7, Tennessee routed Vanderbilt 42-7, Virginia Tech defeated VMI 27-7, Holy Crass topped Boston College @5- 20, Brigham Young outscored Texas-E] Paso 63-19 and Grambling beat Southern 35-20. Texas’s Campbell carried 27 times and scored on runs of four, six and 23 yards after grabbing a 66-yard pass rom Randy McEachern 1,000, it was Appleby 10th (1:34.17), Durnin 12th (1:34.60) and Vogt 19th (1:56.81), Webster stood 28th over all in the men's standings with 84.025 points while Barron was 35th with 86.230 and Tipping 36th with 86.625. In women’s standings, Durnin was 10th with 93.040, Appleby 14th with 94.015 and Vogt 18th with 104.355. Record price TORONTO (CP) Jambo Dancer, one of the leading freefor-all pacers in Canada, fetched a record $196,000 at Satur- day afternoon's 15th annual fall mixed sale sponsored by the nadian . Standardbred Horse Society. . successful bidder on the five-year-old stallion TOKYO (AP) and Billie Jean King tumed back the cloc Sunday, posting final- round victories in a $125,000 international tennis tournament. Rosewall, a 43-year-old jmen’s singles title with a 4-6, 7-6, 6-4 triumph over llie Nastase of Romania. The victory was worth $20,000 for Rosewall. Nastasé picked up 1$10,0 Me ag the six-time King, . Wimbledon champion Old timers pick up victories — from the United States| Veterans Ken Rosewall who is rounding into top Australian, claimed the* form after knee surgery, also needed all three sets todisposeof Czechoslovakian Martina} Navratilova, 7-5, 5-7, 6-1. King picked up $20,000, while Navratilova earned 10,000. King combined with Manuel Orantes of Spain to win the mixed doubles' title, beating Clif Drysdale of South Africa ang Kristien Shaw of the) for the Longhorns’ first touchdown. McEachern tied a school record by throwing four scoring passes, three as the high- wered Longhorns roke loose for five touchdowns in ai 14 minute stretch of the first half and took a 33-7 lead. Campbell has gained 1,744, yards this season, surpassing the 1,680 piled up by Terry Miiler of Oklahoma State, who played his final game last week, The four touch- downs boosted Camp- beil's point total to 114, six more than Darrell Lipford of Western Carolina. “This is the way I would like for it to have ended," said Campbell. “I don’t know if this was my best game,” he continued. “I try not to judge those things. In one more game, I'll let you know.” That would be the Cotton Bowl game against Notre Damme, and a_ vietory un- doubtedly would mean the national cham- pionship. MecEachern also had touchdown passes of 43 yards to Johnny Jones and nine and 12 yards to Alfred Jackson. Alabama's Jeff Rutledge completed nine John Grant, from Hornby, Ont., was the who was part of a dispersal of horses owned by the M, and G. Stable of Barrie, Ont. Grant had also established the previous Canadian sales record when he purchased the pacer Keystone Ponder at this auction three years ago for $120,000. Jambo Dancer,. who finished second in a feature at Windsor Raceway on Friday night, drew many spectators to the sales arena. Racing mainly in Ontario, the pacer had become one. of the most popular horses on the Ontario Jockey Club. circuit where he. established track records at Mohawk and Garden City raceways. He was voted the cir- cuit’s 1976 horse of the year. Trained by Kent Baker and driven by Charlie Lawson, Jambo Dancer has won more than $150,000 from 14 wins in 33 starts this season. His career earnings have passed the $325,-000 mark. . of 13 passes for 193 yards, including scoring tosses of 42 and 30 yards, and ran for 102 yards in 15 carries as Alabama rolled up its most points in its rivalry against Auburn since Bear Bryant took over as coach in 1958. Crimson Tide fullback Johnny Davis had 104 yards on 20 carries, in- eluding a 12-yard TD. Penn State led 12-7 at the half on field goals of 34 and 31 yards by Matt ‘Bahr and a 50-yard re- verse on a punt return, which saw Jimmy Cefalo hand off to Mike Guman who ran for a touchdown. Capitals to rally for the aw. Bossy's two goals for the Islanders upped his league leading total to 20 but came on the losing side against Pittsburg while Johnstone's pair ror New York Rangers came in a 3-2 loss to Boston Bruins. It was a good start for Johnstone, however, since the two goals were his first since taking over aright wing position from fired veteran Rod Gilbert earlier in the week. In other Saturday NHL ames, St. Louis Blues Beat Cleveland Barons 2- 1, Colorado Rockies tied 4-4 with Minnesota North Stars and Vancouver Ca- nucks tied Chicago Black Hawks 2-2.. Lafleur’s first goal of the night at Montreal broke a 1-1 tie and he added his second on a breakaway with 1:43 left to ply, t Pittsburgh, | Pronovost potted his fifth and sixth of the season to start the scoring and the Penguins ran up a 5-0 lead before § Bossy collected his two. Denis Herron had a busy night in the Pitt sburh goal, facing 40 shots. The Islanders out- shot the Penguins 21-4 in the second period but managed only one goal by Bossy. At Boston, Johnstone opened the scoring in the first period and his second goal gave the Rangers a 2-1 lead late in thesecond period. But the Bruins rallied with Brad Park = scorin, the equalizer and Terry O'Reilly getting the _winner in the third ’ periad. Goring’s two goals brought the Kings from behind a 2-0 deficit at Atlanta and then the Flames went back in front on a geal by Harold Phillipoff. Apps, a recent trade acquisition from Pittsbugh, tied. it up again. Bobby Simpson then scored for the Flames and Apps brou the score to 44 with Hs fourth goal of the season with only 15 seconds left in the game. At Toronto, Me- Donald's second goal early in the second period gave the Leafs a 3-0 lead | and then the right winger « combined with linemates Darryl Sittler and Dave Williams to make it 4-0 with Willlams getting credit for the score. Then the Leafs dropped their guard and the Capitals stormed — back vith Boas Bill Collins and Gerry Meehan in the second period, Meehan scoring when he com- bined with Bob Sirois on a two-man breakaway against netminder Mike Palmatleer. Two more quick goals, by Guy Charron and Jack Lynch early in the third period gave Washington the tie. Bill Fairbairn’s 150th career goal broke a 1-1 tie and gave St. Louis the win over Cleveland. It was the first time the - Blues had won on the road against the Barons, formerly California Seals, since the 1972-73 season. Mike Walton collected the tying goal for Van- couver midway in the final period after he cir- cled @ Chicago goal and fired into a haif-open net with goalie Mike Veisor mistakenly covering the wrong side. Chuck Arnason's at 14:40 of the period at Bloomington completed the Colorado rally after Minnesota had started with a 3-0 first- period lead. oal Still chasing 1,000 goals By THE CANADIAN t!*:-:- PRESS Gordie Howe will have achance to rest this week before resuming the chase for his 1,000th career goal against his former team-mates at Houston. The veteran _—sieft winger’s major-league total stayed at 999 season and playoff goals after he failed to even get a shot on the net in 16 shifts for -New England Whalers against Edmonton Oilers in World Hockey Association actior Saturday night. Edmonton wound up the winners, 3-1, in a game marred by a second-period braw] that brought 119 minutes in penalties, In other WHA games Saturday, Quebec Nor- diques defeated Bir- mingham Bulls 4-2 and Cincinnati Stingers beat Indianapolis Racers 7-5, The Whalers finished up a schedule of four games in five nights and now Howe and his team- mates have until Wednes- day to rest up before going into Houston where Howe played four seasons before shifting to the Whalers this year. BRETT BAGS WINNER Brett Callighen’s goal midway in the third period broke a 1-1 tie and Bill Flett added an emp- ‘“t¥tiet goal for the Oilers in the match at Hartford, Conn. Dave Keon got the lone New England goal and Ron Chipperfield scored for Edmonton in the first period. The brawl] in the last minute of the second period involved Ed- monton’s Dave Semenko, Butch Deadmarsh and Gary MacGregor and New England’s George Lyle, Jack Carlson, Gordie Roberts and Brad Selwood. Semenko, Deadmarsh, Carlson and Lyle all drew game misconducts along with a variety of other penalties. At Quebec, Jean Bernier broke a 2-2 tie at 13:37 of the third period and Serge Bernier clinched the win over Birmingham with an empty-net goal. Quebec's Mare Tardif. increased his league leading goal total to 21 when he opened the scoring in the first period. He added his 2ist assist ona Real Cloutier goal in the second period. Defenceman Craig Norwich scored his first two goals for Cincinnati as the Stingers rallied to beat the Racers at In- dianapolis. Rich Leduc also scored twice for Cincinnati while Lynn Powis had two geals for the Racers. of bowls Snow began fallin about midway of the thir quarter and the frozen field was covered with light powder for the re- mainder of the game. Bahr gave Penn State a 15-7 lead with 4:32 left to play with his thirdfield goal, a 20-yarder, but Pitt, . taking over following a punt with about a minute closed to 15-13 on a 48-yard touch- down pass from Matt Cavanaugh to Gordon Jones with 40 seconds left. Elliott Walker tried to run through the left side for a tying two-point conversion, but was stopped by Penn State sophomore tackle Matt Millen. “Tve been coming to Pitt Stadium for 28 years, and this one could be the sweetest,’? said Penn State coach Joe Paterno, who wore a brown suit but no overcoat or hat despite the snow and a zero wind-chill factor. - Army posted its first victory over Navy in five years as Leamon Hail and Greg King eech cracked one yard for touchdowns and Mike Castelli kicked a 21-yard field goal, all in the first half, Navy almost pulled it out at the end, but on fourth down at the nine, a halfback pass intothe end zone by Joe Gattuso Jr. fell incomplete. ig Poe, Soe Nee: 5 ace ee rs