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.CELTICSFIRE
COACH

_ BOSTON (AP)
Boston Celtics coach Tom
Heingohn -. was__ fired
Tuesday and Red Auer-
bach, the ‘National
Basketball Association
‘team's president and
general manager, named
assistant coach Tom
Sanders to take over the
struggling club. Sanders
was a Celtics’ forward

who coached at Harvard:

‘University until this
season. The Celtics are
11-23, their worst early-
season record ever.

AUSTRIAN SKIER»
. WINS oO
LANGENWANG,

Austria (Reuter) — Hans
Hinterseer saved his
ce on Austria’s World
p team when he won an
International Ski
Federation slalom
Tuesday. Hinterseer
who had been told

finished in the top three in
this event, was clocked in
1:84.75. Second in 1:55.22
was Alois Morgensern of
Austria and third in
1:55.82 was Bojan Krizaj
of Yugoslavia. ;

WINS SOCCER POOL
MILAN, Italy (AP) —
Someone struck-gold in
Italy Monday, winning a
record 1.195 billion lire
($1.48 ~— million) by
guessing all 13 results in
‘otocalcio, the national
soccer pool. e

anonymous player was

23,
he.

. of

the only person to guess
all the results of the
Saturda

3 ion Won in 1975.
VIREN TO
QUAX
HELSINKI (Reuter) —
Lasse: Viren, Finland’s
double Olympic ‘cham-
pion, left Tuesday for a
ur of Australia on which
his scheduled oppon

Dick Quax, the

5,000-metre record-holder ~

who finished second to
Viren in this event at
Montreal. Viren. told

trip as mainly, an op-
portunity for some hard
kept him out of most of
last season’s big events.

HONOR BEST

Track and field _ per:
formers during the-U.S.
indoor season will have a
greater incentive this
year—a Grand Prix
program under which the
circuit's outstanding
athlete, as determined by
a point system, will be
honored at the end of the
season. The awards will
consist of a $20,000 prize
to the US, Olympic m-
mittee in t

athlete’s name, a $5,000
prize to the organization
the winning athizte,
and a trophy to the ath-
ete.

orts

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“KAREEM TOPS
“LOS ANGELES (AP)
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,
_ the sevenfoot-two centre
”“ of Los Angeles Lakers,
has been named Sport
Magazine's Performer of
the Year for 1977, the
National Basketball
Association team an-
nounced Tuesday. The
award to the 30-year-old
basketball star will be
made Jan. 26 at a Los

eles hotel. Abdul-
dabbar also won the
award in 1972 when

with Milwaukee
Bucks

-ADMITSFUND

Daniel Hechter,
dent of French First
vision soccer team St.
Germain admitted
Tu the club had a

came from tickets that
were sold but not
declared in the club’s ac-
. counts.

CLOUGH, LEADS
YOUT — .
LON (Reuter) — °

Brian Clough, whose
Nottingham Forest team
leads English soccer’s
First Division, has been
named jeint manager of
the England youth team.
He w
manager Ken Burton.
Manchester United
manager Dave Sexton
has also been confirmed
in charge of the England
under-21 team.

HECTOR SIGNS

LONDON. (Reuter) —
Kevin Hector, striker for
English First Division
soccer _club Derby
County, signed Tuesday
with Vancouver
Whitecaps for a fee of
$19,500. Hector had
received offers from
several North American
Soccer League teams but

‘chose Vancouver after nigh’

talks with Alan Hinto, his
former Derby team-mate
who is assistant coach to
the Whitecaps.

.-- Boxer released

on bail

Hine Tt boxer Ron
vywe er Ron
Lyle was released on &
$100,000 bail Tuesday
after being told he will be
charged with second-
degree murder in heaew
‘Year's EMEMVve
shooting of his former
trainer, Vernon Clark.
* Byle, the third-ranked
contender for the world
title held by Muhammad
Ali, was arrested on
$a night after the
hooting at his home in
Lakewood, a suburb of
‘Denver. < _
perseiatant Distric

i ey Dan Farney told’
raced hearin

the court at a

E
esd d-degree
‘Tuesday a secon degree

murder charge wo

ald ‘Lyle. Judge James
Zimmerman set another
: hearing for Thursday
en the murder charge
will be filed.

the court that

will plead not guilty, and
ndicated he will argue
' i ner acted in

Be ‘ence:

Pete wes arrested after
reporting the shooting to

ta

neighber, | . &

When police arrived,
Clark, 39, had been dead
for about half an hour.
The coroner's office said.
he had been shot once in
the head, apparently with
a handgun which Lyle
surrendered to police.

’ Police said there was
evidence of a struggle in
the home and that the
shooting apparently
followed a dispute over
money Clark was said to
owe: Lyle. Clark ‘was

‘dismissed as a trainer
and occasional sparring
“partner of Lyle in 1876,

Lyle’s two brothers,
sister and brother-in-law

filed against the 35-year-. were in a basement den — §
ng i)

at the time and did not
witness the shooting, po-
lice said. ;
L le learned jpoxing
while serving a 73-year
sentence the Colorado
penitentiary for second-
egree murder in the
slaying of a man in a

Denver street: fight. He

was pardoned in 1969 and
rose quickly through the
amateur and professional
heavyweight ratings. -

soccer matches:
selected by. Totocalcio. .
The previous record was *

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Kitsumkalum Ski hill is still

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Too much hockey competition

TORONTO (CP)
There is too -much in-
ternational hocke
competition in Nort
America this winter and
it raises the prospect of
killing ‘the goose that
jays the golden eggs,"
Dr. Guenther Sabetzki,
president of the In-

rational Ice Hockey

Federation, said
Tuesday.
Sabetzki, IIHF

y
Canada official Alan
Eagleson called a news
conference to discuss the
heavy schedule of games

between European teams -

and clubs in the National
Hockey League and
World Hockey
Association.

~ The NHLids playing -18

ames against teams

om the ‘Soviet Union —

and Czechoslovakia while
the WHA has included 36
ames against teams
m Czechoslovakia, the
U.S.S.R., Sweden and
Finland in its schedule.
- Sabetzki said 36 games
“is too much” and added
it is essential to consider
the sport and the fans, not
just the money. He said
would like to see an
agreement among the
, NHL and WHA to
bring order out of the
chaos, and suggested that
Sweden be included in
NHL plans for future
international series.

Harold Ballard,
president of Toronto
le Leafs, who lost 8-5
toKladnoof
Czechoslovakia Monday
t with several stars
sitting out the game, has
been critical of the series,
as has Detroit Red Wings
Feneral manager Ted
ay.

Eagleson said he would
fayor nine es 8
season involving national
European teams against
clubs in two of the four

. NHL divisions, with the

results to count in the
division standings.
NHL OWNERS ASKED
But he added that the
NHL owners had asked
for 18 games this
season—one for each
club— because ‘they felt

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on them. Then when the
schedule was set up “‘a lot
"of general managers felt
they didn’t want their
teams to play,” offering
scheduling and arena
problems ‘as excuses.

Sabetzki and other IIH-

F officials will meet in

Montreal today with

Ziegler to discuss. in-

ternational hockey: and
e

da: rofessional

and international rules.
The IHF president

took note of newspaper
stories suggesting the

European teams were -
here only for the money,

and were represented by
second-rate clubs. But he
said that was untrue and
they. were playing en-

. a hockey

- Eagleson ‘added that
Kladno was in first place
and Pardubice fourth in
Czechoslovakia when
arrangements were
made. And while Spartak

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list

INNSBRUCK, Austria .

(CP) — Olympic gold
medallist Kathy Kremer
and men’s downhill aces
Ken Read and Steve Pod-
borski are ithe only
ranking Canadians in the

FIS (International Skit

Federation) lists

released Tuesday.
Kreiner, a gold medal
winner in the giant

slalom at the 2976 Winter
Olympics in Innsbruck
and fourth on the World
Cup circuit last season, is
ranked fourth. =~

She trails World Cup.
leader Lise-Marie
Morerod of Switzerland
and Austrians Monika
Kaserer and Annemarie
ProellMoser.

Read, with a couple of |

fourthplace finishes this

season, is sted. eighth .
among downhillers by the.

th Steve Podborski

listings
determine the startin
order in Alpine ski
events.

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was ninth in the Soviet
league, delays in setting

games for a Russian.

club had prevented the
Soviet Union from sen-
ding a stronger team.” --

« Eagleson, noting that
the rs has announced
plans ay 60 games
against Hurepean teams
next year, said the best
way to improve inter-
national competion is is

- didn’t think
would object if it were

to play“‘fewer games
with higher quality
teams.”

As for the world
championship, he said he
the ITHF

played late enough for the
Stanley Cup champion to
take part. “But under no
circumstances: is the
Stanley Cup champion
interested in going."

Two winningest teams

NEW YORK (AP) —
Dallas Cowboys and
Denver Broncos put four
players apiece on The
Associated Press All-Pro
team, ample reason. why
they were ‘the two win-
ningegt teams in the
National Football League
and conference champs
this season with a Super
Bowl date on Jan. 15 at
New Orleans.

Defensive end Lyle
, middle
linebacker Randy Gradi-
shar, outside linebacker
Tom Jackson and safety
Bill Thompson are the

: ’ against

efending champion
Oakland Raiders and
Pittsburgh Steelers,
winners of the last three
Super Bowl games.

The Cowboys, who have

played in three Super
wis and have won one,

ut wide receiver Drew

earson, . placekicker
Efren Herrera, defensive |
end Harvey Martin and
safety Cli Harris on the
first team.

’ The Cowboys, National
Conference champs after
their 23-6 victory over
Minnesota Vikings, and
the “Broncos, 20-11 win-
nets over Oakland in the
American Conference
title game, each had 122
regular-season records.

‘thé Raiderd &vinners
of last year’s Super Bowl,
were the only other club
to put four players on the
first. team announced
Tuesday—tight Dave
Casper, punter Ray Guy,

Th

if

tackle Art Shell and |

guard Gene Upshaw.

HARRIS JOINS
PAYTON ‘
The Steelers,. ‘with
running back Franco
Harris, defensive tackle
‘Joe Greene and outside
linebacker Jack Ham,
and Miami Dolphins, with
quarterback Bob Griese,
wide receiver Nat Moore
and centre Jim Langer,
laced three each on the
irst team. St. Louis
Cardinals, with cor-

nerback Roger Wehrli

and offensive tackle Dan
Dierdorf, were the only
other team ‘with more
than one player on the
team. ;
Others on the first team
are running back Walter
Payton of Chicago Bears,
the biggest votegetter of
all; cornerback Rolland
Lawrence of Atlanta Fal-
cons; =< guard Joe
DeLamielleure of Buffalo
Bills; kick-return
specialist Billy Johnson
of Houston Oilers, and
defensive * tackle
Cleveland Elam of San
Francisco ‘49ers.

~ Just “as ‘the AFC |
dominated the NFC in ©

head-to-head com-

petition, so did it in the —
@ panel .

all-pro voting b
of 84 sports writers and

broadcasters, three from |

each NFL city. The AFC
placed 16members on the
squad to the NF C's nine.

| From the Doell family

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Our heart felt appreciation for everything the people of
Terrace have dong in the time of need. We thank the R.C.M.-
P. of Terrace for their quick response in gotting our little
Dorothy to the hospital. Many thanks to the Thornhill fire
department for thelr response. To the nurses and doctors
_ many thanks for the kind treatment of Dorothy and the
family. Special thanks to the social clubs and churches of the
Terrace Community. We the Doell family are proud fo live
and be part of the nicest
Canada. It’s so hard fo thank everyone individually so we
would tike to thank all who helped us in our time of need.

. and gentle people ;
will naver ever fet us down.

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MONTREAL (CP) —
Wayne Gretzky, the
junior hockey star who
ed Team Canada in the
Junior World Cup of
Hockey, says he might
begin his professional
career in Sweden rather
than waiting until 1981 to
be eligible for the

ational Hockey League
draft.

Gretzky, the 16-year-
old boy wonder from
Brantford, Ont., solidly
established himself in the
tournament as the top
junior draft pick of 1961.

Prior to the Sweden-
Soviet
Gretzky |
nament
de;
eight goals and nine

ed the tour-
points-scoring

ints or Victor
Sil yuk of the Soviet

inion.
ott tale of the fat
re was away from
Sault Ste. Marie

- Greyhounds of the On-
tario Hockey Association -

Major Junior League for
more than two weeks, he
continued to lead the
league scoring race.

consider it very unlikely
that I will play four more
years of junior hockey
ore turning pro. The
NHLrules now say I can't
be drafted before then,
but if and when I’m ready
for the pros I want to be
sure I can go.”
In the meantime, he
said, he ht start his

rofessional career in
Sweden. ;

NOTICE TO

Union final, -

ent with 17 on-

assists compared with 13 -

the moment,”.
Gretzky said, ‘Il would.

Boy wonder may
go to Sweden

PLAY ONE MORE
YEAR

“ET think I need ona

more year of junior

ey, a year to grow
physically and leam a
ittle more hockey.

“But after that I don't
know what will be left to
learn. By then I would
have a reputation and I
think I would be a sittin
duck for other players ou
to make a reputation for
themselves at my ex-

nse, I don't want that te

ppen. There’s fust too
much chance an injury
could finish me off before
lever get a chance at the
pros.

“ “T could just go over
there (Sweden) and play

‘with one of their major-
feague teams for a couple

of years. The risk of.
wouldn't be so great

and it would be a good
‘learnin

e ence for
my hockey - Tcould
play over there for two
ears and then come
ck to the NHL when I
was eligible.”

. Gretzky’s apparent

‘readiness to 5

‘professional ‘career in

pweden: surprised Hans
Lindberg, that country’s
national coach,
It would certainly be
sible," Lindberg said

Rout it isn’t the kind o
‘thing I would like to

encourage on a broad
scale. If we are going to
develop our own national
program roperly we

ve got to have our own

people play inginour own .

inajor league.

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