Going for Big Apple

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Vancouver Whitecaps and
their notorlous English
Mafia have left for New York
and a Saturday date with
Tampa Bay Rowdies in the
Soccer Howl champlonship
of the North American Soc-
cer League.

The Whitecaps, a
collection of mainly veteran
Englich League players,
departed Wi day afer
training under assistant
coach Bob McNab, with
team manager.T
already in New York for
promotional purposes,

McNab sald Vancouver's
superior conte cer.
ta 6 Whiteca
imate New York Coambe
in the National Conference
‘playoffs last weekend, but
that facet of the game might
be over-rated at this stage of
‘the season.

"We haven't been able to
have any decent training for
the last while because of the

Lady

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Ann Meyers, former UCLA
and Olympic ater, has
become the first woman to
sign a National Basketball
Association contract. In:
dlana Pacers announced
Wednesday that she han
agreed to @ one-year pact.

To play, the 5-foot-@, 140-
pounder must make the
roster, but even i! she
doesn't, owner Sam Nasal
said she will have some type
of norplaying job for the
Pacers,

Many reporters. asked
during a news conference if
the algning of Meyers, 24,
was a publicity gimmick,
and she answered:

Walters:

conitant travel,” sald: Me-
Nab. “The most important

” thing to do between games is
reat

“It we looked fresher
against the Cosmos at the
end, ‘It yas because (Cur

ere dug dseper
{helt eau Some of the New
rs weren’
do. that” ‘

Ths freshest pair of lege in
last Saturday's mini-game
agalnat New York were
those of midfielder Carl
Valentine, a 21-year-old from
England who charged
around like a frisky colt and
aimont scored d the 30-
minute game with a ng
abot off the crossbar,

Valentine sald he was as
drained as all the others who
pa ed 185 minutes of soccer

two games In one day
against the Cosmos and it
was ‘‘dealre to win that kept
me = going."

The only concernin
MeNab Sia Wellara Is 4
ankle sprain suffered by

now a hoop star

“Tm serious about it. I've
been given a chance of a life
time, I think that chance ex:
ceeded the chance of playing
again (in 1060) on the United
States Olympic team.’

she was a member of the

ailver-medal-winning U.S. ©

team at Montreal in 1975, By
signing, she gives up her
amateur status.

.Moyers's brother, Dave, a
former all-American at
UCLA, plays for Milwaukee

_ Bucks. His sister has

scrimmeged in pickup
games with star players of
the NBA.

Nassi didn't reveal the
terms of the contract but

striker Treyor Whyrnark in
the gecond game of the New
York series, Whymark came
out of the game, wen in a
shootout by the Cosmos to
force the deciding mini-
game, in the second half.
Ho's expected to be ready,
however, for Tampa Bay.

McNab sald the Whitecaps
have practised the NASL's
controversial shootout quite
a bit lately “although we
really fe er to work on
things that are going to win
tho game for us in regulation
tima,""

“It’s hard to know what to
do,"" he added. “Personally,
T think it’s a lottery.” .

Vancouver beat the
Cosmos 2-0 here In the first
game of the conference final,
with New York winning the
second game in a shootout.
The Whitecaps then won the
mini-game in another
shootout.

Defender Bobby Lenar-
duzel of the Whitecaps, often

sald there were bonuses
involved for making the
team, tlme played and
“other considerations,"
Coach Bobby Leonard,
cousulted pricr to the
aigning, sald: “I searched
my poul, and asked it could
ny person the op-
portunity to play basket-

He and Nassi belleve
Meyers might help the team
with her outside shooting,

_fince a new NBA rule gives

three polnta for fleld goals
from longer than 25 feet.
She wil] report Monday to
the team’s freeagent and
rookie camp before the
veterans report Sept. 14.

Tagge’s knee hurting

VANCOUVER (CP) =
Jerry Tagge’a status as
starting quarterback of
British Columbia Lions
remained in doubt. Wi
neaday following exam:
ination of his troublesome
left knee by doctors of the
Fanadian ‘ootball Lamgue

m

A team spokesman said
Tagge was examined in
hospital and doctors
reported the swelling in his
Imee had gone down, but not
enough to allow further tests.

Tagge entered hospital
during the weekend after his
knee became swollen. He
was injured Aug 21 at
Hamilton and suffered a
recurrence of the problem
here Aug, 28 againat Calgary

peders.
Coach Vie Rapp sald he
would wait until tests are
thls week before

ed: deciding If roater changes...

are needed for Sunday's
Wentern Football Con-
ference game in Winnipeg
against the Blue Bombers.

Joe Paopao relieved Tagge
in the Hamilton and Calgary
games, producing a touch-
dewn pass In each ap-
pearance which led to wins,

Paopao, a second-year

professional with limited .

experience, is expected to
start in Winnipeg: «Also in:
camp ls quarterback Mike
Not, who began a five-day
trial last week.

Nott, an import, was
reisased by Oakland Raiders

Canada bows out |

MEXICO CITY (CP) —
The Canadian soccer team,
mnable to oe in pn en

ng opportunities ear:
in the game, bowed out af
medal competitlon at the
World Student Games on
Wodnesday with a 1-0 loss
agalnst Madagascar.

With a little more luck, or
perhaps accurracy, Canada
might have been leading by
two or three goals after the
opening 20 minutes cf play.

The loss leaves Canada on
the bottom of Group IV, The
Netherlands topped the
group with five paints, while
Spain and Madagascar tled
with threa points apiece.
Canada managed just one
point, that coming from a
draw against Spain in the
preliminary round of play.

You can

“We had three golden
chances the first 10 minutes
on head balls inside the alx-
yard box and if we can't
score from there with the
ball at our bead than ['m
afraid that we just have no
chance of winning the
game,” said Brian Hughes,
Canada’s head coach.

After pressing the play for
the opening 25 minutes,
Canada appeared to tire in
the latter stages of the first
ha

Madagascar ecored what
proved to be the winning goal
at the 2s-minile mark of the

alf,

Canada came on atrong
again in the second half but
could not finish any plays in
front of the Madagascar
goal. At times they appeared
hesitant or eleé made one
pass too many,

Canada’s beat chance at

the match occurred at

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VANCOUVER (CP) —
British Columbia
Television will broadcast
26 Wednesday night Na-
tlonal Hockey League
games during the 1879-00
seazon, beginning Oct. 10,
the station has an-

nounced.

Donald M. Smith,
exeuctive vice-president
of BCTV, said in a news
release that not all games
will involve Vancouver
Canucks, but more than
96 per cent of the
televised games will
involve Smythe Division

ms,

' Vancouver finished
second in the Smythe
Division last season
behind Chicago Black
Hawks and ahead of St,

Blues and Colorado
ea.
“The Canucks will be
featured at leaat 12 times
on BCTV,

of Victoria, B.C., broke in
alone from the right side,
faked the goaltender and
slipped a pass to Oscar Albu-
querque of Toronto.

of the National Football
League during the exhibition
thedule.

Forests
take lead
in soccer

LONDON (CP) —
Defending champion Nat:
tingham Forest and
Southampton, the runner-up
in:1078, led the parade into

the last 82 fdhe English
Football League Cup tour:
nament when the second
round was “completed
Weuncaday.

European champion
Forest, starting with a hard-

earned first-leg draw at
Third Division Blackburn,
acored alx goals Wednesday
for a 7-2 aggregate win.

lan Bowyer, with Nat-
Hngham because high-priced
Aca Hartford was tran:
aferred to Everton last week,
scored in the fourth minute
of the soccer game. But atar
atriker Tony Woodcock had
to walt 72 minutea for a goal
in the ¢-1 victory.

Southampton pulled off an
impressive 3-0 win at
Wrexham and inflated the

te over its Second
Division hoats to 8-0.

West Bromwich Albion
took a 14 decision over
Second Division Fulham to
win 2-k on aggregate but
once again failed to show the
form that made the club title
contenders last year.

An own goal from young |.

defender Paul Miller cost
Tottenham Hotspur its
second-round tle against
Manchester United who won

1,

United, down 2-1 affar the
first leg, hit back with goals
by Micky Thomas and Sleve
Coppell and, although Gerry
Avmatrong kept Tottenham
in the game, Miller's 57th-
minute blunder settled the

We.

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successful in shoctouta, said -
he doesn’t practice such
situations, although he has
hia own spacial technique for
the shootout.

“You can't shoot from a
distance — that gives the
‘keeper too much chance,"
Lenarduzzi said, “You have
to get close to him and wait
for him to make the firat
move.

“Then you k it low,
make him stuggle to get
down, I start from an angle,
which gives me a belter
chance to put it past him.”

(The shootout begins with
the shooter on the 85-yard
line and the goalke on
the goal line; the shot must
be taken within five -
seconds.)

Tampa Bay, which won
two games at home Sunday
against San Diego Sockera to
take the American Con:
ference title, is making its
third appearance in the
NASL final, having won in
1975 and lost last year to the
Cosmos,

NBA commissioner Larry :
O'Brien wished Meyers lu

in her bld to become the first
woman player {n the league,
and sald:

“The NBA does not dis:
erimiate against athletes on
any basis, including sex. If
and when a contract ia filed
with the league office by
Indiana, it will be reviewed
In the ordinary course and
approved If it meets normal.
NBA requirements.”

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