TORT TT mee oe men

fo A Tate ee

bill Madlock belted a two-

run homer, and John Can: |
_ delaria and Kent Tekulve:.

combined on.a four-hitter to
give Pittsburgh Pirates a 2-0
victory over Los Angeles in in
National League

action Sunday and snap’ acotel
Dodgers’ f ive-game winnlng

vith one out Ln the bottom
of the ninth, John Milner.

doubled. ‘Atter Dodgers: .
right-hander Burt.Haoton

struck out Bill Robinson,
Maglock hit tis’ 22th home

antennae over the

centre-field fence,

Candelaria allowed all

four Dodgers hi
before be was
‘fora pinch bitter, Tees: Le

,Cight ‘hitter as Chicagé

6, pitched the ninth and got
the win.

The victory kept the firat-,
place Pirates two games
ahead of Montreal Espos in

‘the National League East.

Montreal got home runs

_from Gary Carter and |
reliever Stan the

firat of his major league
career, to beat Atlanta

-Brayes 5-1, Carter’s homer,
‘his bis yal capped a ‘three-run.

Weert in the National

League, _ Barry Foote

‘smacked a two-run homer,
and Rick Reuschel and

Bruce Sutter pitched a five-
6 Cubs beat

‘lifted: San Diego Padres +1 for a
“sweep of their three-game

George Hentirick drove in
three runs with a pair of
homers to back’ the ‘com-
‘bined six-hitter of John
Denny and Mark Littell; and
St. Louls Cardinals blanked

with a sacrifice fly in the
eighth to give Cincinnatl

Reds a 6-5 victory over New,

York Mets.

In the American League,
Ben Oglivie smacked a two-
run homer with one out in the
bottom ‘of the ninth to lift
-Milwaukee Brewers to a 43
victory over Texas Rangers,
Oglivie had driven in a run
-earlier with a double.

Willie Wilson tripled with
the bases-loaded and two out
ir the 10th, then scored on a
alngle by Al Cowens to give

, ‘Kansas City Royals an 1t-7
‘victory over Baltimore
‘Orioles, George Brett had a

two-run homer for thé

let him escape. from a run-

down between third and

‘home — to give Chicago

White Sox a 32 victory over
Boston. Jorge Orta homered
for Chicago in the fourth.
Lou Piniella's RBI single
in the seventh gave New
York Yankees and left-
hander Ron Guidry a 43

‘ing birdie wins

in Wenn golf match |

Tom Kite was next at 20- :
‘Australlanp two weeks ago, 280,

HARRISON, NY. (AP) —

earnings. to
Jack Renner broka ale tor : talyed the

the top with a badie on, the ,.

174,281, was.
ee disap-
pointment he had last week

final hole and, with a closing . “when. Jerry McGee swept

67, scored a ang-#iypke.: past him in the final round Graha:

victory Sunday. in, the..
Westchester golf” tour-.
nament.

Renner, who appears
much younger than his 23
years, acy the first title
of his threg-year
Professional Golfera

Hon tour career with
a 277 total, seven strokes
under far on the West.
chester Country Club Conese,
in suburban New York, Rg

The $72,000 first

Slash three biol

: nd .won. the raindelayed

',Greater Hartford Open.

‘Tn still in a daze from
that,’*
“I have no

ebicfles én: “te

that’ ‘came wu der:
Pressure and oc¢
moments after a television
¢ eae haking ca accused
rote
made him the ¢
‘time winner of

reat

which 1 boosted his season ae the PGA Tour: seazon,

Per net: a

7400 beue wise,

TORONTO (CP) — The

form chart at the Player's
International Canadian O

tennis. championships

proceeded as expected with

Bjorn Borg of

Sweden facing second-

seeded John. McEnroe today

in the men's alngles final of

the §210,000 Grand Prix

event.

Po oe

40 wie!

suspended Friday. night
because of rain.

In the women's singles
South Africa.é-4, 6-7, 6-1, Lea
Antonoplis of the U.S. and
Dianne Evers of Australia”
beat Chris O'Neil. of
Australia and Mimmi
Wikstedt of Sweden 24, 6-1,

In,.2emi-final. matches: 63 gs ia the women's . doubles.

Sunday; Borg eedlly:~ beat: final,

Ivan Lend) of ee*h "22°F Warrh, sunny conditions ate

Czechoslovakia 6-3, 6-1,
while McEnroe downed
Vitas Gerulaitis of the U.S, 6-
4, &3,

In quarter-final com-
petition played earlier in the
day, Gerulnitis beat Paul
Kronk of Australia 6-0, 6-1 in
a match that had been

fiynl aga soislen

the fork University Tennis

roster the rain that

all outdoor play

Eturday and forced the

men's edie hal final and

men’s doubles final to be
"ty hi tina

Te, WI yetto drop a

eet in this tournament, said -

Renner had said:
Saturday.
Z of winning here."

| Howard . Twitty and

tled for second at 278, Twitty
had a closing 67.-while

‘the hot, bumid weather. ©
Each had a c tle Renner

" and force a playoff but they

couldn’t match Renner's

heroics over the last three .

holes. .

Peter Conterhulg of
England, who played two
hours In front of the other
leaders, burst out of the pack
with a stunning, elght-under-
par 63 that put him at 279 to
ste for fourth with rookle

Scott’ Simpson. . Simpson
“birdied his last three holes
fora TL. .

he. is looking forward to the
final with McEnroe. .

"John plays better against
me that Vitas,” Borg said
prior to the conclusion of the
other semi-final, indicating
he may have been looking
forward to a final against
Gerulaitis,

“John has a very strong
serve. You have .to return
very well. and put lots Of
pressure Onhim't): ose.

Borg’ said~he' thought his*-

match with Lendl would be

watt tent ime
org sa

Fal backhand was weak but.

his’ forehand was strong. I

t pressure on his backhand

t fut there were some close

Soviets: canoe champitns

DUISBURG, West Ger-
many (Reuter-CP). — The
Soviet Union dominated the
last day of finals at the world
canoeing camplonships
winning five of the 11 races
Sunday, finisulng second
another five and third in- the
last race of the dy.

The best anadian
showing was a sixth-place in
the women’s §00-metre
kayak |

The ottawe

Arnold with. Karen
Lukanovich of Beaconsfield,
Que, and Lucie Guay of
Chelaea, Que., finished in
ane minute, 47.667 seconds to
the winning East German’s
1:42.606, ‘

Team manager Tim
Sample af Ottawa saiq i be Sa
was satisfied with the o
all Canadian performances
this year.

“It'a a. general im-
provement over last year in
Belgrade," he said. “We
finished as well or better in
each event and we made the
final in two events that we
did not make at the world
champienships last year, the
cance pairs and the men’s
kayak four.’’

East Germany also won
the men’s 600-metre kayak
fours, Romania took both the
men’s 500-metre canoe pairs
and men’s 10,000-metre
kayak pairs, Hungary won
the men's 10,000-metre canoe
singles and Yugoslavia ‘won
the men’s 10,000-metre
kayak singles.

Greg Smith of
Mississauga, Ont., finished
seventh in the final of the
men’s canoe singles after
Placing second in his semi-
final heat.

Steve Botting and Norm
Behrens, both of Montreal,
were seventh in the men's
cance pairs final after
finishing second in their
semi-final heat, Botting and
Behrene were just ‘one
setoml behind third-place
Poland in the final,

The. Canadian men's
kayak fours finished tast in
the final after placing second :
tw eventual bronze medal-.

palr of Sue -
Holloway and Elizabeth -

Micmac

winning Poland in the semi-

Ivan Caralamblj of Ottawa
‘wes 12th in the men's 10-
metre cance singles final.

Phil Hepburn and Steve

Shaw takes four gold
in canoe competition

WELLAND, Ont, (CP) —
Rolin Shaw won four gold
medals.and set a national
time record in the process to
lead Lachine, Que., Racing
Canoe Club to the Canadian

Canoe Association cham- |
piship on. the abandoned ,
portion of the Welland Canal

iy. 4
Lachine won , 10 of. 39 -

junior, . intermediate - and

senior age class finals to | .

finish with 192 points.
Cheema Aquatic Club of

Dartmouth, N.S, finished

second in over-all point
standings with three vic-
tories in the final four,races
of the day, Including the
featured senlor men’s 1,500-
metre war canoe event.
Cheema finished with a total
of 72 points,

Mississauga, Ont., Canoga
Club, - defending Canadian
champions, was third with 67
points and Cartierville, Que.,

Boating Club was fourth with -

63,

Rounding out the ‘top id
finishers were Ottawa
Rideau with 61 points,
Quebec Chateau Guay with

-60, Hamilton Mohawk with

41, Banook of Waverly, N.S.,
with 36, Burnaby, B.C., 38
and Dartmouth, N. S.,
32,

Shaw's time of one minute
62.2 seconds in the junior
men's single kayak event
was one of 11 national time
records set.

Clubmates Yves Schmidt
and Mark Granger lowered
the national standard in the
juvenile men's C-2 500-metre
event in 1:56,5, Lachine’s
women's war canoe set a
-Fecord with a time of 2:03.4

m matched par 71 in-

George Burns, J.C. Snead
and Bob Murphy were at 281,
Saead shot a 69, 7
and Burns 70. Eac
$12,466, which pushed Snead
past the $1 million mark in
career earalngs.

Tom Watson, the only
fourtime winner of the year,
never really was in the title
hunt after a poor second
round, He finished strongly,
however, with 8 68 that put
him at

Watson woo. $10,000 and
became the only man in tour
‘history to go past $400,000 in
single-season winnings.
Watson now has $402,636

Ly re to. o-face, McEnroe

McEnroe used his strong
serve to blast past Gerulaitia
ina match that got many of
the 7,000-plus fans involved.

On several occasions, line.

calls questioned by McEnroe
wera met with boos by the
capacity crowd,

Following one such
discussion about a line call in
the deciding set, McEnroe
faulted on his frat service,

- Gerolaitis,-the-fourth seed, -

decided to use some delay
tactics of his own and walked
to the back of the court just
a5 McEnroe was preparing
for his second serve,
Gerulaltis grabbed a towel
and wiped his'arms, then his
legs. McEnroe: then
beckoned to Gerulaitis to do
the same to him. Without

missing a beat, and to the

delight of the crowd,
with a towel and

Geruilait a eat th ithe net

- Vietory.

victory | over Minnesota

Twins, Guidry, 12-7, went 72-
$ innings for his his sixth con-
secutive winning decision,

‘and Rich Gossage got ‘the

save, his 20th.
Bobby Grich drove in threa
runs with a two-run homer

and a. single <0 Jeaa

California Angels to a 42
over
Grich's home run in the third
mning was his 26th of the

nike Norris acatiered alx

hits, and Rickey Henderson -

hit a two-run double to boast

' Oakland A's to a 3-2 victory

over Cleveland Indlana. The
A's pow have won four
straight, their. longest

_winnlng streak of the season,

SOCCER

_ PLAYER

ADMITS
HINT

NEW YORK (AP) —
Rochester Lancer forward
Mike Stojanovic, saying he
was merely relaying a

from an o
er, admitted that he told
er goalie Shep Messing

that New England

same.
This
have

n would

lowed both teams to

-make the North American

Soccer League playoffs, but
Measing did not comply with
the fix attempt.

Stojanovic said Friday be
Was acting as a messenger
for New England goalie
Kevin Keelan in the Aug. 11

game in Rochester, the final .
regular season game for -

teams,

borlen Messing was ap-
proached by Stojanovic,
Rochester was leading 2-0,
the eventual final score,
Both Rochester and New
England fell a point short of
qualifying for the playotis,
od the final acore been 3-1,
«both clubs would have made
it to the postseason as the
final wild-card entrants, by
virtue of the NASL's pointa-

for-goals system.

“Keelan approached me
and said, “Why don’t you give
us a gpa eaoqianovie was

ying ‘io Satur-

‘It's not up to ma, I'm a
forward. You should score.’
Keelan said ‘If you allow us
to score a goal, we'll allow
you to score 10 goals:’ J
relayed the message from
Keelan to Messing,”
Keelan is in England,
where he is playing. for
Norwich City, He has not yet
been reached for comment.
“We're going to in-
vestigate all. the cir-

Toronto. .

.§, California.

would al- °
samme. Monaing eld the

* nightelul

“UP —

y'aNew a (paying ip. “y ‘gald. «Rounds and rallied fo

At night in the. American
League, Detrolt was at

Seattle. In the National :

eles
defeated Pittsburgh | 5-1,
Chicago nipped San Diego 3-

‘Los: Ang

2, Philadelphia blankea -
Houston 1-4, Cincinnati:
downed

New York Meta +9
and St. Louis beat. San
‘Francisco 5-4,

In the American League,
Baltimore beat Kansas City

%2, Boston beat Chicago 8-2,

Texas downed Milwaukee 7-
defeated
Toronto 7-5, New York
defeated Minnesota 58,

The Herald, Monday, Auaust 20, 1978, Page ?

Detroit beat Seattle 7-4 and
- Oakland beat Cleveland 41,
ROGERS WINS
In Montreal, Steve

scattered five hits to win his’
Nth declston and Rusty
Staub hit his second home
run as the gained a
game on division-leading
Pittab

The Pirates thelr
game to Los Angeles when
Dusty Baker and Gary
Thomasson each hit home
runs to give ex-Pirate Jerry
Reuss, 4-10, the victory.

Houston lost a game of its
Weat Division lead when

Pirates steal winning streak from Dodgers: :

Philadelphia's Tug McGraw Minnesota

and Ron Reed combined for
4 16-hit -shutout, while Cin-
cinnali was edging the Mets

Fifteen-round battle
for light-heavy weight —

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.
(Reuter) — Mattiew Saad
Muhammad now can look
ahead to a fight that would
determine an undisputed
world light-heavywelght

champion after he
rallied fo score a points deci-

sion over John Conteh of .
. Britain in

a bruising 15-
round battle Satay

retain his World Boxing
Council title.

The fight was staged in a
at the Resorts
International } Hotel near

“eight counts In the 14th round
™ and virtually ensured vic-

LeDoux pounded

- tory. for the Philadelphia
fighter,

Dared and wobbly, the 28-
year-old Conteh battled back
courageously in the 15th
round, a number of
solld left hooks while

ths a ba of’.
punishing blows Dy the |

champion.
Both fighters maintained a

furious pace from the-
pun .
ches at close, quarters ©

bell, trading

- throughout,
masterfully,
former WBC dud mi had

’ through - th ay

e
peppered Muhammad with

Boxing

scores of snapping left jabs.
most of . the -

while eluding
champion’s powerful left
hooks and roundhouse
rights, - -

Conteh, taking the fight to

Norton to a draw

. BLOOMINGTON, Minn,
Minnesota's Scott
LeDoux staggered Ken
Norton twice in the final two
RSplit. ,,
een a” pee ion
t 4
After an even first round,
Norton, of San Diego, Calif.,
took command and scored
repeatediy with his left jab to
win five of the next six

” But ‘beginning with the
eighth round, LeDoux
backed Norton into the ropes

and began connecting with a
solid right,

LeDoux, 25-7-4, connected
- with a solidright in the ninth,

oth send" Norton! deeisg:” aa

‘against the ropes dnd landed
another right as the round
endad, \

LleDoux imocked Norton
down sarily in the 10th, and
left-right combinations
staggered the former World
Boxing Council champion,
414-1, with less than. 30
seconds tef¢ in the fight,

Cogan speeds «*

Conteh, a:

streaming down Muham-
mae ‘face during most of

‘Briton's Laat gMD.
Muhammad,

meet the World Boxing:
Association champion to
unity the divisional title.

e

was scheduled to meet

former WBA title-holder

beriwitk the victor enpenea
rc; tor

to go against Muhammad,
Muhammad raised

- Conteh after the which

be outboxed me with his ja

but only with the jab,” iid
the champlon, playing
bandages on cuts above’ and
below his left eye,

In spite of his defeat,
Conteh, far from being
disconsolate said he was
generally satisfied with ‘bis

“performance.

“It was some fight,’ he
sald. “I think I fought well,
but he pulled it out lke a

to wipe McEnroe’s recs cumstances that have been good champion."
King, both of Montreal, were dry. raised) said Jim na F ajconteh eulferod small cuts
@ men’s 10,00 The women’s final was a publicity director of the: longside his right eye
mei tayak paige fina aciregramen final wae e Ree to Formula win = 2th
Alvin Brien of Dartmouth, pected after top-seeded “I don't believe it and-I1 MOSPORT, Ont. (CP) — lap race over Mosport Referee Carlos Padilla of
N.S., waa eliminated in the Evonne Goolagong withdrew won't believe it,” said New Kevin Cogan took his Ralt Park's four-kllometre (245 the Philippines had
men’s $00-metre kayak earlier in the week because England spokeaman Vinee RT to an early tead in the mile) track. ’ Muhaminad abead in points,
‘singles semi-final. of a back inj . Caney, “‘As far as I'm con- Formula Allantic auto race. Ha has 155 points after 147-142. Judge Harry Gibbe
‘The unseed eded players ap- comed, and the rest of this Sunday, holding it seven races, topping early Britain gave the champion
d content to volley orga Hon la concerned, it throughout against Jeff jeaderTom Gloy by 10 points te etige 144-148, while judge
ck and forth until one t happen. Wood's March 79B, in the series points race, Charlie Spina o the U8.
made an error, Dupont made a Nentita was surprised = Cogan and Wood ran away scored it 148-149 in the
fewer and thus walked away {hat Keelan was fingered as from the field with Wood | Gloy, also driving a Ralt champion's favor.
with the $6,-000 top women's the mastermind of the fix finishing second ahead of Ti, placed fourth in Sun- The . victory was:
, attempt. third-place Bob Earl of ay’s race. Muhammad's 2th .
in the B0-metre event, Meanwhile, tournament “What if I told you thatthe. Novato, Calif., driving | Earl, who picked up 19 three defeats and two ’
Mohawk paddlers shat- chairman Ken Sinclair has gam me Keolan played was the another Ralt RTI, points for a total of 95, holda © Conteh’s record now is 33-$-1,
tered Canadian records in announced that John Bod- best I had seen any ketper Cogan averaged 183.171 third place ahead of Wood, The champion collected
the junior C-1 1,000 metres ington has been retained as Play this year?” Messing kilometres an bour (95.185 with 24 points for a total of $150,000 and Conteh earned
and K-2 500 metres. tournament director fér.1980.. Said. “He was that good.” a ‘__ $60,000.

we

miles an hour) during the 40-

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