( Page &, The Herald, Monday, December 18, 1978 Moser Proell after sixth World Cup title VAL D'ISERE, France (Reuter) — Austria's An- nemarie Moser-Proell, bidding for her sixth World Cup of skilng, took the lead in the standings witha faultless win Sunday in a women's downhill race. Moser-Proell, 25, finished more than a quarter of a sec- ond ahead of West German Evi Mittermaier, Two Swiss Girls, Ber- nadette Zurbriggen and Marie Therese Nadig, took third and fourth places split seconds behind Mittermaier. Moser-Proell’s victory, her second downhill win this season and the 3ist of her career, gave her a 15-point lead over Nadig in the World Cup standings and left her poised to strengthen her position by picking up combined points following today's giant slalom. . Diane Lehodey, 19, of Calgary placed 11th and just missed picking up her first World Cup points. She turned ina time of 1:22.04 compared with MoserProell’s 1:20.28. Kathy Kreiner of Tim- GARDEN STATE BOWL Rutgers almost does it For almost 45 minutes Rutgers University had a chance at winning the big game. Then Arizona State's Mark Malone tossed a 53-yard bomb to Chris DeFrance and . Arizona was off to a 34-18 victory over upset-minded Rutgers in Saturday's inaugural Garden State Bowl. It was Malone's third touchdown pass and he added a pair of scores on short runs as the favored Sun Devils rallied from an early 10-point deficit for the vic- tory. “I told the players, “Thanks for making it ex- citing for the fans,”” Arizona State coach Frank Kush said of the 12-turnover contest. ‘Te was a typical Arizona State game. We did some things very good and we did some things very poorly. “We played poorly in the first half, but credit a iot of that to Rutgers.” In other U.S, college bowl games Saturday, Florida A and M beat University of Massachusetts 35-28 in the Pioner Bowl, East Carolina University defeated Louisiana Tech 35-15 in the Independence Bow] and An- gela State downed Elon College 34-14 in the City of Palms Bowl. QUICK OPENER Sabres slash Canucks BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Danny Gare scored the quickest game-opening goal in Buffalo’s history and Gary McAdam ‘added a goal and two assists while the streaking Sabres extended their unbeaten streak to seven games with a 6-3 win over Vancouver Canucks in National Hockey League play Sunday night. Gare scored at the seven- second mark, shooting from the right beards after stopping a Vancouver clearing attempt, Defen- ceman Jim Schoenfeld of Buffalo had sent the puck inte the Canucks zone on the opening faceoff. The game marked Van- couver’s fifth straight defeat, and improved the Sabres to 5-0-2 since Billy Inglis took over as interim coach. After Gare’s goal, the Sabres went on to build a 2-0 lead in the first period by scoring on three of their seven shots against Gary Bromley, a former Sabres goalie. Terry Martin and MeAdam also scored before the end of the periad. McAdam got his first assist when he skated the puck in and passed across to Martin racing down the left side for a short shot and Buffalo's second goal. McAdam gloved down a clearing pass in the Van- eouver end and beat Bromley from about 20 feet for the third score. Don Luce raised the count to 40 before Vancouver's Curi Fraser put his team on the scoreboard in the second period. Bromley blocked a long MARUK GETS TWO mins, Ont., finished 30th in 1:22.72 seconda over the 2,238-metre downhill course with a vertical drop of 555 metres. Loni Klettl of Jasper, ° Alta., turned in a 1:22.75 for 33rd place while Marie Dufresene of St. Sauveur, Que,, was 36th in 1:22.91. Martine Lesieur of Trois- Rivieres, Que., was 54th in 1:24.31; Chris MeCready of Jasper, 60th in.1:24.68; Anne Blackburn of Chicoutimi, . Que., 62nd in 1:25.52, and Judy Richardson of North Malone, who completed only three of his first 11 passes and had two in- tercepted, got Arizona on the scoreboard just before the He put the Sun Devils in front 14-10 with a 20-yarder to John Mistler at 9:11 of the third quarter and lofted his bomb to DeFrance with 39 seconds left in the period. Malone then scored on runs of one yard and four yards in the final period. Mistler caught seven passes for 149 yards and was named the game's out- standing player. Sophomore fullback Mike Solomon sprinted 65, 28 and 20 yards for touchdowns ina. shot by McAdam and a short one by Craig Ramsay before Luce jammed in the rebound during a Buffalo power play. Fraser blocked a Sabres pass in the Buffalo end and scored fram the left faceoff circle against Bob Sauve, who replaced Buffalo starler Don Edwards in the net at the star( of the second period. Ron Sedejbauer pulled the - Canucks to within two at 4-2 when he knocked in a rebound after Stan Smy! took a shot and then slid into Sauve in the Buffalo crease. The Sabres came back with a goal by Derek Smith ona pass from Gil Perreault. who later got the last goal after Smyl hit from close range for a 5-3 score is close as the Canucks were to get. Capitals upset Leafs LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Dennis Maruk’'s second goal of the night gave Washington Capitals a 7-4 Upset over Toronto Maple Leafs Sunday night in a National Hockey League game. Maruk also had two assists in the see-saw contest. Toronto scored first as Ron Ellis connected on a high shot from the left faceoff cirele, Maruk tied it for the Capitals as he lifted a rebound of a Robert Picard shot aver prone goalie Paul Harrison. Washington took a 2-1 lead as Bob Girard deflected a soft pass between Harrison’s skates. The Leafs’ Borje Salming evened the score with a goal from the right circle. Bob Sirois regained the lead for Washington as he scored on a screen shot from about 25 feat. Michel Bergeron scored quickly at 2:05 of the second period to give the Capitals a NINTH STRAIGHT IN NY Bruins sweep NEW YORK (AP) — Rick Middleton scored two goals and sel up ane by Don Marcotte in a three-goal Boston second period Sunday night, helping the Bruins continue their domination of New York here with a +1 National Hockey League triumph over the Rangers. The victory was Boston's ninth straight at Madison Square Garden since March 23, 1975 and their 13th—with two tles and one loss—in their last 16 against New York over-all, Middleton got Boston started at 6:50 of the second period, tipping in a Brad Park shot after a weak clearing effort by New York's Pierre Plante. Pat Hickey tled it for New York 48 seconds later, beating one Boston player at the Rangers’ blueline and splitting twa more in the Boston zone before sending a 25-foot backhander past goalie Jim Pettie. But Boston regained the lead at 9:55 when Mike Walton powered a 35-foot shot past New York defen- ceman Carol Vadnais and goalie John Davidson. Marcotte tapped in a Middleton pass with 11 seconds left in the second period, then—at 15:22 of the third—set up a 20-footer by Middleton that completed the scoring. The loss was the sixth in nine games for the Rangers, who dropped to the Patrick twogoal cushion but Toronto’s John Anderson and Jerry Butler responded with goals to tie the score at 4-4, . Washington came back with unanswered goals by Sircis, Guy Charron and Maruk for a comfortable 7-4 lead with 12 minutes left in the game. But Walt McKechnie brought Toranto within one goal as he scored two third period goals in less than four minutes. series Division cellar. For Davidson, the defeat was the 12th in 17 career decisions against Boston. The victory completed a sweep of the weekend series between the teams. The Bruins also won 4-1 at Boston on Saturday. NHL STANDINGS| Watles Conference Worrls Division WLT F AP Montreal 21 4 4128 7B 4% Los Ang 13:12 4119 101 30 Pitts Yoia4 7119 116 29 Detroit 216 9 97 117 23 Washing § 20 4 94 149 20 Adams Division Bostan 21.5 6140 99 43 Buttalo ¥3 10 8 100 90 34 Toronto 18 14 4413 107 4 Adinn 10 16 3 84 102 23 Campbell Conference Patrick Division islanders 19 4 7133 85 45 Atlanta 18170 3-132 105 39 Phila V1) 4104 8938 Rangers 1610 4417 9136 Smythe Division Chicago 1013) 7 90 109 27 Vancouver 127.18 2 106 124 26 St. Louls 622 5 92 15417 Colorado 621 5 88 140 17 Sunday Results Boston 4 NY Rangers 1 NY Islanders 3 Detroit 0 Philadelphia 4 St. Lovis 4 Washington 7 Toronto 6 Piltsburgh 3 Chicago 3 Buffalo 6 Vancouver 3 Saturday Results Boston 4NY Rangers | NY islanders 2 St. Louis 2 Atlanta 7 Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 6 Vancouver §& Toronto 4 Detrait 2 Buffalo 5 Minnesola 2 Colorada 5 Chicago 1 Montreat 5 Los Angeles 2 Tuesday Games Philadelphia at Washington Atlanta at St. Lovis Les Angeles at Colarada Vancouver af Minnesota Bay, Ont, 65th in 1:25.77. VAL GARDENA, Italy (CP- Reuter) —- Erik Haker, 28, of Norway became on Sunday the first Scandinavian to win a men’s World Cup downhill ski race, Haker's winning time of two minutes 6,37 seconds was more than a second fast than Peter Mueller of Switzerland who clocked 2:07.63. Ken Read of Calgary was third in 2:08.45. Read, who won the opening downhill event at Schilad- wild second half and Florida A and M won the NCAA Division 1-AA national U.S. title in the Pioneer Bowl. Solomon twice brought the Rattlers from behind. His 65- yard, third-quarter scoring run gave Florida A and Ma 21-15 lead, and his 28-yard dash with 8:19 left in the game enabled the Rattlers to erase a 22-21 Minutemen lead, Junior fullback Thedore Sutton rushed for 143 yards on 17 carries, including a 45- yard touchdowns sprint, to lead East Carolina University to victory in the Independence Bowl. Sutton, a 5-foot-9, 207-pound junior, was named the bowl’s most valuable player, It was his best day ever, with his prelvous high being a 115- yard performance earlier this year against Virginia Military Institute. Paced by Mark Embry's passing and Jerry Aldridge’s run- ning, Angelo State scored three early touchdowns and beat an underdog Elon College to win the NAIA Division I titlefor the ninth time in 10 years. In the inaugural City of Palms Bowl, Aldridge carried for 119 yards on 29 carries and two touchdowns as he topped the i00-yard mark for the 17th consecutive game. Embry hit on 19 of 36 passes for 197 yards. ming, Austria, last weekend and finished 11th in Satur- day’s race over this course, regained the lead in the Cup downhill points race with 34 and was tied for second place with Muller in the over-all points race with 40. ; Swiss star Peter Luescher leads the World Cup stan- dings with 65 points while Dave Murray of Abbotsford, B.C., who finished eighth both days, is in eighth place with 23 points, two points behind a group sharing fourth place that includes Josef Walcher of Austria, Neck muscles NEW YORK (AP) — Why does a football helmet survive collisions on the field that would shatter it to Splinters in a laboratory test? Two Chicago physicians, a father and son, have tackled that problem using data from 1,500 of the most carefully observed blocks, crashes, tackles and pileups in the history of the game. . A football helmet will crack under a blow of about « 90 footpounds of energy in the lab, said Dr, Stephen E. Reid, professor of surgery at Northwestern University and team doctor for the football team. That's the energy of a 90- pound weight falling from a height of one foot. But on the field, a 224- pound bail carrier develops 3,150 footpounds of energy— more than 30 times as much energy—when he’s running at top speed. Obviously something besides the helmet is protecting him, or there would be cracked helmets and fractured skulls on every kickoff. . To solve the riddle, Reid, a standout guard at Nor- thwestern in the 1930s, began wiring the helmets of Nor- thwestern players to study what happened to their heads during Big Ten Con- ference football games. The half pound of elec- trical equipment was carried by only one player a game— usually he middle linebacker “because he’s in on most of the plays,” Reid said. It measured the forces on the helmet and the player's brain waves and transmitted both back to the press box, where an isolation camera kept track of his movements. ' The monitoring system was perfected in 1970. By 1976, Reid had data on 1,500 colllsions—includijng one in which o player muiffered a mild concussion. Now Reid, 64, and his son, Stephen Jr., 29, a third-year resident at the University of {Hinolis medical school in Chicago, have moved to the lab and computer room to study the results. “We found that impacts in the lab using anesthetized animals have a very short duration— about four milliseconds,’’ Reid said. “But in the field, we were getting some up to "300 milliseconds long and there were multiple peaks af ac- celeration,” The reason? A player tightens ‘his neck museles just before impact, and the muscles cushion the blow by spreading its energy over a longer period of time, Reid said in a telephone in- terview. “That's the waya baseball . player catches the ball, by letting his hand go back, and a boxer rolls with the pun- ches. These are all in- creasing the time for the force of the blow to come to In lab tests, the Reids have discovered that a tensed muscle will give a little if subjected to sudden stress, but then it tightens up again—a natural protective reaction that seems to be at work in the neck muscles of football players. Buta musele needs 30 to 40 ‘milliseconds to tense, Reid said. If a player gets hit without warning, his head acts like ‘a limp ball on top . Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden, Swiss Martial Donnet and Haker. ‘ Read's 36 points to top the downhillers puts him clear of ‘Walcher, who won Satur- day's race, and Haker with 25 points each, Murray’s 23, absorb of the shoulders—when it gets hit, it snaps.” The computer analysis is only half over. But Reid said it is clear that the main defence against injury is not the helmet, but the player's conditioning, alertness and reaction time.- points gives him fourth place in the downhill. Robin McLeish of Kanata, Ont., who fell in Saturday's race, was 36th Sunday while Tim Gilhooly of Fort St. John, B.C., abandoned Sunday’s race. impact Strengthening the helmet probably wouldn't do much to cut head and neck in- juries, Reid said. [t might | even aggravate the problem by putting more weight on a player's neck muscles and further limiting his vision. Flyers still beating Blues PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Forward Reggie Leach scored two goals Sunday night to lead Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-1 National Hockey League victory over St. Louis Blues. : Leach gave the Flyers the lead for good with hig 14th goal of the season at 19:25 of the second period when he picked up a loose puck and fired a 45-footer past goalie Phil Myre. Leach madeit 2-0 at 9:24 of the final period, converting a Bobby Clarke pass from in front of the net, and eight seconds later Blake Dunlop made it 3-0 on a solo dagh. Peter Peeters, the Flyers’ rookie goalie, was beaten by Bernle Federko with 59 seconds remaining in the game. The win was the 13th for Philadelphia in its last 15 games with St. Louis, dating back to Dec. 2 . , 1976, The Blues have won one in that span, and have been shut out five times. Team NHL loses MOSCOW (CP) — The Czechoslovakian national team outplayed an eager but undermaniued Team NHL 4-1 Sunday in the Izvestia hockey tournament. Team NHL, made up of fringe players and far- mhands of National Hockey League teams, was out- skated through most of the game and fell behind 40 before Tom Gorence scored with 1:09 remaining in the game. Marian Stastny batted in a Jiri Bubla rebound to open third period the scoring late in the first period. Bubla made it 2-0 in the second. Anton Stastny and Jaroslay Pouzar had the Czechoslovaks in front 40 by the mid-way mark of the third period The NHL squad, put together last week and with only an 8-2 exhibition game behind them prior to the opening of the Izvestia tourney, held Finland toa 3-3 tie Saturday on Rich Han- sen's goal 10 minutes into the ingle bells. Before Christmas. To avoid the rush on Christmas Day, why not place x yur Long Distance Calls on aturday or Sunday. Rewular discounts are available December 23rd and 24th, scrcall up when rates are down. . Direct dialling (112) is usually the cheapest way to place your calls, if you don't know the distant number, you can get it by calling Long Distance Directory Assistance. But please do so.a few days in advance to avoid the rush, For information on discount periods, area codes and Long Distance Directory Assistance, please check your directory. BCTEL @&)