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PAGE 6, THE HERALD, Monday, October 3, 1977

Locker-room

embraces end

NEW YORK (AP) — Like

- any good soap opera, the

Gothie novel that went on in
the New York Yankee

. dreasing room this season

bad a happy ending after all.

In a sea of champagne
celebrating the team's
second consecutive
American League East
Division baseball cham:
plonship, manager Billy

artin and controversa!
slugger Reggie Jackson
staged an emotional em-
atc n quite proud of

“Tm proud of you,”
said Martin. ‘“You showed
me something.”

Just over three months
before, Martin and Jackson
neerly came to blows in the
dugout during one of the

soap opera’s deepest
valleys. Now, they were
hug

ing. Winning does
won ral things
sometimes.

It was fourth division title
for Martin, who previously
won with Minnesota and
Detroit, and it came in a
season in which he was
nearly fired at least twice
because he seemed on a con-
stant collision course with
management.

HAS HAUNTING HISTORY

“Te I get fired four or five
times and we still win the
pennant, that’s all right with
me,” the manager said.
“But if you fire me, I'l
haunt you and I'll beat you.
That’s my history.”

That history is dotted with
pock marks of controversy
and 1977 was no exception.

“This has ot to have been
my toughest year in
beveball,” he said.

Asked how it felt to win
the division title, Martin
answered with a question of
his own. “Have you ever felt
like you had a 500-pound
weight on your back? Well I
fee] like I had one just slip
off mine.”

Martin said he was proud
of the team for its ability to
overcome adversity.

"It took a melting pot to
bring this team together,”
the manager said. “It takes
togetherness to win. The
players did this them-
selves—not me, When they
became united, both the
manager and management
have nothing to do. Jt took

Standings

By THE CANADIAN PRESS
American League

East .
WoL Pet. GBL

x-New York 100 62 617 —
Boston 97 64 WO2 24
Baltimore 97 64 602 214
Detrolt 74 88 4ST 26
Cleveland 71 90 .441 282
AAllwaukee a7 95 6.414
Toronto §4107 395 4512

West
x-Kansas City 102 60 630 —
Texas $4 68 580 8
Chicago 90 72 556 12
Minnesota 64 77 522 17a
California 74 88 .457 28
_Seattle 64 98 .395 38
“Oakland 63°98 391 38%

© x—clinched division title.

Saturday Results
Cleveland at Toronto, 2

‘rain

Detroit 10 New York 7

* Baltimore 8 Boston 7

Seatile 5:1 Chicago 3-6
Minnesota 9 Milwaukee 1
Texas 6 Oakland 5

| Callfornia 4 Kansas City 2

Sunday Results

: Toronto 2-4 Cleveland 1-5

Baltimore at Boston ppd raln
New York 8 Detralt 7?
Seattle 3 Chicago 2

- Kansas City 2 California 0
- Minnesota 6 Milwaukee 2
Texas 8 Qakland 7

National League

East

WoL Pet. GBL
x-Phitadelphla

1 46) 623 —
Pittsburgh 9% 66 599 5
St. Louls 83 79 S12 14
Chicago 81 90 500 20
Montreal 75 B? 463 26
New York 64 98 .393 97

West
«Los Angeles 98 64 .605 —
Cincinnatl 68 74 543 10
Hauston 81 6) .500 17

San Francisco 75 67 .463 23
San Diego 9 99 426 29
Atlanta 61101 371 37
x—clinched division title.
Saturday Results
Chicago at Pittsburgh, ppd
rain
New York 8-2 St. Louls 44
Cincinnetl 6 Atlanta 2
Los Angeles 4 Houston 3
San Francisco 13 San Diego 4
Montreal 6 Philadelphia 5

Yank soap opera

longer than it should have,

over 100 games. But we
separated the men from the
boys.”

Jackson, whose hot bat
spiced a 40-10 pace that

_enabled the Yankees to rise

to the top of the decision,
called it his hardest year in
baseball.

“It's very gratifying,” he
said. “This has nh my
hardest yea by far but it
improved me as a human
being. I think I'm a better
ball player now. But I
wouldn’t wish this year on
anybody.”

WAS LOW POINT

Martin's mid-June dugout
clash with Jackson was the
low point of the club’s
season, said the manager
who came close to being
fired following the incident.

Before that, there had
been a collision with the
front office over a missed
meeting with president
Gabe Paul and some
criticism Martin had
levelled, over the reluctance
of management to add a
third catcher to the roster.
That resulted in a $2,500 fine
by the club.

In early August,
Yankees sti were
struggling on and off the
field when Paul issued a
memorandum, implorin
the club to “‘cut out the b
and start playing baseball.”’

They finally did, soaring

to the top of the division wit

a string of 40 victories in 50

games that clinched a tie for
e title.

They lost their next two
games and they lost again

turday, ut the
mathematics of
situation added up in their
favor as Boston's 8-7 loss to
Baltimore eliminated the
last of the opposition.

Jays
edge
Indians

TORONTO (CP) — Gary
Woods scored from third
base on a wild pitch by
Cleveland's Larry An-
dersen, 0-1, in the bottom of
the llth inning to give
Toronto Blue Jays a 2-1
victory over the Indians in
the first game of their
American League baseball
doubleheader Sunday.

Woods led off the decisive
lith with a single, only the
second Toronto hit of the

the

- game, and went to second on

Bob Bailor’s sacrifice bunt.
He moved to third on a
fielder’s choice and scored
on the first pitch to Doug
Rader.

Toronto’s Dave
Lemanczyk picked up his
13th victory of the year to tie
the record for victories by 2
pitcher on a firstyear ex-
pansion club. The record
was set by Gene Brabender
of the £969 Seattle Pilots.

Phillies
down
Expos

PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Larry Christenson allowed
threee hits in seven innings
as Philadelphia Phillies
defeated Montreal Expos 5-3
for their 10lst National
League baseball victory of
the season Sunday.

Christenson, 19-6, won his
seventh consecutive game
and i5th in the last 16
decisions. .

In seven innings,
Christenson allowed three
runs, one unearned, walked
two and struck out three.
Gene Garber pitched the
last two innings for the
Phillies and recorded his
19th save.

Steve Rogers, 17-16, was
the loser.

The game was a tuneup
for Christenson, has been
named to pitch in the third
game of the National
League playoffs this week
against Angeles Dodg-
ers,

class climb on the

a3 prize money to

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The Kermode Four-Wheelers are looking for hill
climbers next Sunday. The club is sponsering an eight
just beyond the slough, seven
miles east of Terrace off Highway 16.
‘The entry fee is $15, which includes one male and
one female driver per vehicle. The entry fees are used
id back to the first and second-
place finishers in each class. The prize money will be
split evenly between male and female entrants.
All will be inspected before the climb. Drivers are
required to wear seat blets and helmets, No children
aré allowed in the vehicles while racing.

Registration starts at 10 a.m. The race starts at
\_ Bean. For more information, phone 635-2025.

Hunt hangs on
in the rain to
win Grand Prix

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.
(AP) — James Hunt of
Britain withstood a tate
burst form Mario Andretti
on the final lap Sunday to
win the U.S. Grand Prix.

Hunt sacrificed his lead
the last few laps to make
sure he had enough left on
his rapidlywearing rain
tires to outrun Andretti in
the final circuit around the
3.377-mile Watkins Glen
road course.

Hunt, whose lead starting
the final lap had dwindled to
1.5-seconds, held on for a
100-yard victory margin.

Hunt, who joined coun-
trymen’ Jim Clark and
Graham Hill as the only
successive winners of the
U.S. Grand Prix, averaged
100.98 miles per hour in the

Rookie
stars with
vet on
pro hockey

By THE CANADIAN
PRESS

Rookie Jim Hamilton,
seeking a National Hockey
gue berth with Pitt-
sburgh Penguins, and
veteran Marcel Dionne, an
established member of Los
Angeles Kings, highlighted
exhibition play Saturday
night.

Hamilton, who played last
season for London Knights
of the Ontario Hockey
Association Major Junior
series, scored goals in
leading the Penguins toa 9-4
triumph over Cleveland
Barons.

Theright winger, who was
Pittsburgh’s No. 1 choice in
last summer’s junior
amateur draft and the 30th
over ail, scored once in the
second period and twice in
the third to help the
Penguins increase their
exhibition record to four
wins and a defeat.

Dionne, who finished
second in the NHL scoring
race last seaon to Guy
Lafleur of Montreal
Canadiens, collected a goal
and three assists as the
Kings remained undefeated
in exhibition action with a 7-
4 trlumph over Vancouver

Canucks.
Elsewhere, Washington

Capitals tied Detroit Red .

Wings 3-3, Buffalo Sabres
fought to a 4-4 draw with
New York Islanders,
Toronto Maple Leafa beat

Chicago Black Hawks 6-1,
and St. Louis Blues downed *

Atlanta Flames 4-2.

Winnipes Jets of the
World Hockey Association
shaded the NHL Minnesota
North Stars 4-3 and the NHL
Boston Bruins blanked New

and Whalers of the
in other games.

And Edmonton Oilers of
the WHA whipped Spokane
Flyers of the Western In-
ternational Hockey League

7-4,
SPENCER GETS TWO

Brian Spencer and Jean
Pronovost each scored twice
for the Penguins with
Jacques Cossette and Lew
Morrison getting one apiece.

Jim McCabe, Bob Mur-
doch, Dennis Maruk and
Chris Manery scored for
Cleveland.

Walt McKechnie’s second
goal of the game at 16:57 of
the third period gave

Washington its tie with,

roit.

Harland Monahan scored
the other goal for the
Capitals in the penalty-filled
gamne which ha 142 minutes

penalties. ;

rain-washed race. The
victory margin was of-
ficially 2.026 seconds.

Austrian Niki Lauda com-

pleted the formality of

mathematically locking up
this year’s world cham-
pionship by taking a rather
conservative fourth while
his only remaining
challenger Jody Scheckter
oF pout Africa finished

TOOK THE LEAD

Hunt grabbed the lead on
the 14th of 59 circuits around
the Watkins Glen road
course when early leader
Hans Stuck of Germany
spun his Brabham.

Stuck, who had started on
the front row with pole
winner Hunt, had built a
sizable lead before he ran
into problems while tryin,
to lap slower cars. He foun
himself going too fast at the
entrance of. the sixth turn,
‘did a double loop, and came
to a stop against the guard

rail. .

Stuck’s team-mate John
Watson, who started third,
was the only one of the 26
starters to gamble and
begin the race with “dry”
tires. The intensity of a light
drizzle that fell for an hour
before the race picked up
just before the green flag

Watson spun on his first ;

lap, and ran briefly at the
end of the field until he was
forced for safety’s sake to
change to more adhesive
“wet” tires. Once he did, he
was flying and until the last
few circuits, he had the
fastest lap of the day at

103.11 miles per hour.

Andretti, who qualified
fourth, assumed third place
at the start, and moved up
when Stuck fell out. He
never really got close
enough to fight for the lead,
until the 55th lap when Hunt
began to slow.

_ Local.
runner
first on

team

Trevor Whitaker, a 22-
year-old jong distance
runner from Terrace, ran
his personal best at the
Stanley Park Marathon in
Vancouver this weekend.

Whitaker place 24th of 140

runners, withhis time oftwo .

hours and six miriutes, 19

minutes after first place |

JJim Curry of Vancouver.

Whitaker was the first
place runner in his team —
the Northern Roadrunners.
His three other teammates
were chosen fram the top
ten of the Prince George
mardthon earlier this year.

The competition in
Vancouver is pretty stiff
according to Whitaker.
Even womenrun. “They are
so fit and not the least bit
muscle bound that it is a
pleasure to run after them,”
said Whitaker.

In Terrace, Whitaker runs
with a group of ten men at
Caledonia High School
Sunday mornings at 10
o'clock and Wednesday
evenings at 7. These runners
call themselves the Skeena
Valley Athletic Club.

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