Page 10, The Herald, Tuesday, May 25, 1979

sMONTREA. (CP) —
efohn Davidson is a
modest man.

zo!His work in the net
uring the National
Hockey League playoifs
sbas been one of the most
important factors in
bringing New York

sively," Davidson said.
“They've been clearing
rebounds out, they're
letting me see the shots,
they're trying to keap

Rangers to the Sta away from the good shots
7fup final. But ae in front of the net, trying
-yearold goalie is =o make them shoot from:

unassuming when it the bad angles." .
his. per- In the final days of the

Beason, Davidson Was
spinatioa of the whale injury was shelled in
Steam being hot,” he sald 4° couple of games,
Fafter practice Monday. finishing the regular
“They're making it schedule with a goals-
Zeasier, a6 we progress in against average of 3,52,
gthe playotis, for the — Butcoach Fred Shero had
rhoaltender to play. confidence and groomed

z His team-mates appear = him for the playoffs,
ho be makingitextremely giving him the time he

Rpasy
"Alter 14 playoff games needed to get back to
Sagainst Los Angeles

ings, Philadelphia "I played the last five
iPiyers’ New York al six games there — it

fislanders and now birten ah . I was try
“Montreal Canadiens, be into shape,
has a goals-against they let me play and at
average of 1.67. me gel back into shape.”

And the 6-foot-3 goalle

certainly looks in top
condition.

= “[ had a lot of work
against the Philly team
gand actually Thad o lot of

_ DAVIDSON IS HOT,
: BUT HE’S MODEST

_ Momentum going.”

_ Good goalie."

READY TO PLAY

“Is a good feeling for MONTREAL (CP) -fif
Montreal Canadiens think
they had problems in the
first game of their Stanley
.Cup final series against New

Playing goal and have the
confidence. and

Davideon has no real
explanation for hig
Playoff work.

“I think I have youth
geing for me more than
anything and probab
experience, combined.
I've got six years in the
league now, so I’ve got
the experience and the
youth, and thathelps for a
goaltender.”

After the Rangers beat
Montreal 4-1 Sunda
the opening game of the

seen auything yet.
— is back. aire fe

e rangy centre from
Sweden is ted to cee

_ considerable duty in. the
second game of the best-of-

League final tonight after
recovering from a broken

_ ankle,
Nilsson and Anders
the Rangers Jast summer as

seasons with Winnipeg Jets

best-of-seven series, of the World Hockey
Shero said he has always Association. The ex sive
thought of Davidson as Swedish package:

his first-line netminder. the hot guns of the team,

“Even in the Bummer, | ankle Feb. 25, he had scored

wet ine, ROW | 27 goals. and had 30 asslts

savant | Ernie" maha

ta players except, David’ |’ schedule, he had the fourth.
.

best scoring total on the

team. :
Now, with his ankle near
normal, he's getting inte the

thought he must be a

tty geod goalie. Or, if
he’s net & good goalle,
they feelhe's going tobe a

holding a 1-0 lead over the

York Rangors, they haven't.
ult

seven National Heckey ~

Hedberg were acquired by” bes

‘free agents after four

When Nilsson snapped his ha:

final with the Rangers

defending champions after a
4-1 victory Sunday,

“Ts coming pretty good,”
Nilsson sald of his ankle

-after a workout Monday.

eal a little sore, but it feels

For ihe 20-year-old centre,
who played sparsely -in the
gpener there are expected

ills ‘in being involved in
the Stanley Cup final. .

“Ita a great’ feeling,”’
Nilsson said. ‘‘Whenever
you're involved in a final,
wherever it is, it’s fun
beoatse you play against the

It may be fun for Nilsson
and his team-mates, who are
showing polse and a calm-
ness that belies their inex-
perience with hockey’s big
showdown, but the pressure-
tested Canadiens aren't

Ppy.

. Coach Scotty Bowman was
upset with his team’s flat
performance in the firat
game, when blunders by the
defence led to three New
York goals.

“We made some pretty
bad mistakes," Bowman
noted. “When you make
those kind of mistakes
against a team that's hot,

you're going to pay for it

“We were direc
responsible for the firat three
goals

Bowman sald the op-
position sometimes forces
miscues, but the Canadiens
did the damage themselves
in this instance.

The Canadiens now have
lost thair home ice ad.
vantege,
‘discounted its importance,

“We kind of backed Into
the home ice advantage
because the Islanders lost,”
he said. “We weren't going
to have it anyway, then we
got it back, so really we're
back
before, iy

- Bowman also has a.

goaltending problem on his
hands. He pulled: Ken
Dryden in favor of Michel
(Bunny) Larocque after the

second period Sunday and

now is hedging over who will
start the second game.
Montreal fans and media
have been hard on Dryden
since the loss, but his op
posite. number on the

Rangers is sympathetic.

John Davidson, the Rangers
netminder, was somewhat
disturbed.

but Bowman.

to where we were’

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“1 don’t understand how
quigkly = uot anly the
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ranagerent, but the whole

city,” Davidson said. “That.

bothers me, This guy steed
on his head and gave these
people a lot of thrills for a
Jong time.” |

Davidson said he thinks a

Dryden is better prepared
mentally than Larocque,
who will be under con-

TV policy is
in question |

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Bowie Kuhn, Lerry O’Brien
and John Ziegler told
on Monday that pro

Congress
basketball aad

baseball,

hockey face severe problems --

because of the current policy
toward the cable television
industry.

In fact, baseball commis-
sloner Kuhn told the House of
Representatives .commu-
nications subcommittee that
the ‘major leagues may be
forced to a television policy -
of permitting only the net-
work airing of a Game of the
Week, eliminating all local
television. which he said
provides an average $1.2
million to each of the teams.

Kuhn, commissioner

- O’Brien of the . National
- Basketball Association and’

Ziegler, president of the
National Hockey League,
were joined by ‘Tom Hansen,
assistant executive director
of the Natlonal Collegiate
Athletle Association, in
asking Congress to prohibit
cable systems from ret-
ransmi television pro-
ically their

groups.

'. Pete Rozelle, National

Football League com-
missioner, did not appear
but submitted a letter in
which he said the NFL
supported the proposal,

known as “retrans sion
consent,” . .
However, Ted Turner,

owner of both Atlanta

Braves’ baseball: team ‘and.

Atlanta Hawks’ basketball
team, appeared as president
of Turner Communications
Corp., owner of WTCG,
Atlanta, which now is known
as Super Station because itis
beamed to more than 1,000
cable television systems In
45 states,

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proposed Jegislation

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that would, frankly, put the
Super Station out of
business,” said Turner,
“Naturally, I don't favor it.
“Why Congress - would
want to add to the existing
ecanomic power of the major.

tworks at the expense of —

thelr truggling competition:
is beyond me. It was always .
my belief that out economies
system © gave’ i ..smalli
businesses a ‘chazice
The ‘ subcomittee:. wai
considering the firat. ‘com-;
prehensive revision ~-df.
communications law in 45°
years in the United States:
proposed. legislation,
introduces in Marchi: ‘Dy:
chairman Lionel. ¢: Van,
Deerlin (Dem. :Calif.):

services
Currently, cable television, :
operators are required. to”
ey a single compulsory’
ce fea in exchange for.
the right to pick up most’
programming via broadcast
Figmals, Under the proposed:
law, cable ‘operators would
be to ‘obtain, the
consent of the broadcaster or
the person who owns the Pro-.

gram.

Kuhn said: “Sports have’
been deprived of control over,
the distribution of their awn:
product. Cable has been able:
to expropriate the baseball
clubs’ nearly 1,400 local noii-*
network telecasts and to

party this ane col ar
a ee over

perenne of the clubs and
broadcasters concerned,”

Ziegler said the NHL,
which has no national
television contract, would
like the legislation "adopted: :
so that the league could
create a network through
cable telvision to 0 als their
games,

iy

Pacer lights —
eliminated _

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
United States Auto Club offi-
clals announced a major
‘change Monday in the
running of the 1979 In-
dianapolis 500, which
eliminates the use of pacer
lighta that have been a

subject of criticism in recent
years.
Tom _— Binford, chief

steward of the race, an-
nounced a format which puts
the pace car in front of the
Jeading car when a yellow
caution light is used. Other
cars would then bunch up be-
hind the leader without
change in positon allow

“The pita will be closed to
all cars until a race official

es the cars are proper’

bunched," said Binford."” ¥

The pacer lights came into
use here {n 1972, They
allowed drivers to keep thelr
cars moving on the track and
there were frequent claims
that drivers cheated ‘by
moving up on a car that had
slowed down because of a
caution light,

The change was one urged
by the riva] Champlonship
Auto Racing Teams but
Binford said their opinion
was not considered in
reite hope everythh

“We hope everything we
do brings us and CART
together but that wasn't our
reason,” he sald. ‘This is
just something CART and
USAC agreed on.’

The announcement came
on a day where the activity
on the track was. light,

Johnny Rutherford had the
day's quickest tlme among
the 25 cara that practiced
with a clocking of 192.195
miles an hour.

Moat of the 67 cars at the
track stayed in the garage
all day. The garages
however, were beehives
activity as mechanics

labored over the 25 cars that
have qualified for the May 27
Indlanapolis 500.

“The Piay after the. first
weekend of a
usually ;
said Pancho Carter, who was
scheduled to start the race in
the eighth row.

“You're relieved that
you're in the race, so the day:
is given to the mechanics to
change things and allow you
to test it for race conditions
which are very different:
than qualifying,” he said.

In the first 144 hours of -
practice only four cars
moved out on the track for,
practice. All were cars
whose drivers hope to put:
them in the race during the
final weekend of qualifying,

Later in the day, a few of .
the drivers who qualified
Sunday took their cars out
for brief runs, ;

Defending champion Al:
Unser, who will start his
Chaparral-Cosworth on’ the”
outside of the front row, was.:
one of them.

“This car is so new that:
we've got to test it aa much
ag possible,” sald Unser,
who hopes to join A.J, Foyt |
as the only man to win here ' !
four times.

Unser, who made ‘the | :
étariing aye abeed ot 1 four-

ip average 8 of 192.503 ©
miles an hour in his 10-mile ;
qualification run, had one of -

e day's top speeds with a ¢
191. sn clocking .

Tom Sneva,
Johneock, Johnny
Rutherford, Sleve Kriallott
and Mike Mosley alao drove -

qualified cars in practice, *

while Bobby Unser toured

the track in a back-up car. ;
The only break in the day's .

lul] waa the announcement ,
that it Danny Ongais

injured Saturday crash,

had been released from ©
hos

Gordon

who was