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SPORTS

Debbie a champion

. MONTREAL (CP)
There may have been better
worldclass performances
Sunday, but high jumper
Debbie Brill proved con-
clusively she can perform
under pressure at home. —

The lithesome, 26-year-old
from Aldergrove, B.C. took
on the beat in the world at
Olympic Stadium and came
away with a gold medal, the
last day of the three-day
World Cup af Athletics.

fling’ to meet expectations
fa to mee ons
at major Canadian meeis,
was poised the
competition.

And she prevailed in a
showdown with world record
holder Sara Simeoni of Italy
and World Cup defending

champion Rosemarie .

Ackerman of East Germany.
When Hrill cleared her
third attempt at 196 —
getting a Commonwealth
record — the more than
20,000 speciat
ata
‘was £64, ‘tablished by Brill
at Quebec City on Aug. 12.
The ovation swelled when
Simeon, the only other rival
still In contention, hit the bar
with her wrist on her third
attempt,

Brill continued at 1.96 —
the winning height for
Ackerman at the first World

OC nGnited' States
mica ech The The Ameen ten: Bp.

Cup meet in Duesseldorf,
Weat Germany, two years
ago — but missed all three
tries as she tried to time her
jJumpe

knew wererunning f,;
by me,"’ she said later, “but
that didn't really’ bother.

nthe said the inability of
Simeoni, the world record
holder at 2,01 metres, and |
Ackerman’ to to stay with her
‘was unusual.

She said, despite the crowd
noise, ahe was in control,

“Sometimes I have tried to
hard (at home) but today I
was in contral of myself all
the way.”

But while Brill’s per-
formance as a re
tative of the Americas team
brought back memories of
1976 when Vancouver's Greg
Joy gave Canada its only
track medal of the Olympic
Games in the same stadium,
it wasa red-letier day for the

tured the team title with 119
pote, spearheaded by the
b running of world
record holder Renaldo
Nehemiah in the meni's 110-
metre hurdles and long-
jumper Larry Myricke.
Nehemiah, whose world
mark of 13 seconds was
never threatened, won in a

Brothers meet *
in Hall of Fame

TORONTO (CP) —
Peden, who teamed with is
famous brother, Torchy, for
mumerous six-day bicycle
race victories in the 1930s,
was reunited with his elder
brother in Canada’s Sports
Hall of Fame on Saturday,

“T waan't going to show up

aye Toe this was his

y, 0! joked after
pulang Doug on the podium
at Hall of Fame induction
ceremonies at the Canadian
Nationa] Exhibition grounds.

Torchy, 73, who had joined
the Hall of Fame earlier,
came fron his home’ in
Northbrook, Iil., to help
welcome brother Doug, 63,
and four other new members
to the hall,

Former jockey Nick Wail,
swim coach Howard Firby,
diver Bey Boys and the late
Dr. George Beers, founder of
the game of lacrosse, were
the other, aeictees.

Doug sports editor
af the Victoria Times, is
perhaps best remembered as
the leading seprer for —
Canada’s. silvermedal

basketball team at
the 1936 Olympica,

But he was an all-round
athlete who also excelled in
professional baseball and
cycling and in amateur
sports auch as rugby, soccer,
track and field, swimming
and tennis,

Despite his many accom-
plishments in a wide variety
of t sports, Peden said it was

still a pleasant surprise to be

to the hall of fame

and, in accepting the award,
he recalled a quote by pro
golfer Lee Trevino who once
said: “You find that the
older older you got, the better you

“A contemporary of
Peden's was Wall, a
Newfoundland native "beat
remembered for his winning
tde aboard Stagehand when

Bellerose, N.Y., was the
leading  money-winning
joekey in the United States in
1936, with a total of $385,161.
He rode a total of 11,164
horses in his 30-year career,
including 1,419 winners,
More than 4,000 of his
mounts finiahed | in the
money and total puree
winnings amount
Pry, 4, sil act

still active asa
swim coach in Victoria,
belped found ‘the - powerful
Vancouver, Dolj Swim

Club and ‘coached with that ©

lub for ti’ years. Among his
famous atydenta were Elaing
Tanner Ralph, ‘Hutton and
Helen wad’ Ma Stewart.

Boys, 28; df Montréal, won
84 Canadian: titles In
women’s:> rd and

atforri’ ving g the
te 10608 ane ‘ua te we
retiring ow! 1978
Commonwealth Games in
Edmonton were she won a
silver medal.

In all, she competed in
three Olympics, three
Commonwealth Games and
two Pan-American Games.
She collected a total of three
gold medals, six silvers and
two bronzes in Com-
monwealth and Pan-Am
Games,

Beers, who dled in ‘1000,
was Inducted Into the Hall of
Fame in the builder
category. The Montreal
epertaman wae recognized
as the founder of modern
lacrosse. He a the
wnorganized in game
known as baggataway and
devised .a set of rules that
transformed It into lacrosse.

‘He also helped found the
National Lacrosse
Association in 1887.

COULD SATISFY NEEDS
If it was harnessed, all the
wind that blows across

he beat Seabiscuit at the , Kansas could satlafy about a

Santa Anita Handicap in
1938. .

Wall, 72, now retired in

quarter of the United States’
energy needs, the National

Geographic says,

blanket finish at the tape
over defending World Cup
champion Thomas Munklet
of Eaat Germany and Cuban
Alejamdiro Casanas.

longest in history, surpassed
ouly by the incredible 8.9
turned by countryman Bob
Beamon at the 1968 Olympic
Games in Mexico City.

East German Lutz Dum-
beowski was a distant second
(8.27) followed by David

. Giralt of Cuba (6.22).

Olympics because of a mass
walkout of African countries,
wed the same formula he
did in winning the : 16,000

metres Friday to win gold in. -

the men’s 5,000,

Cuban Silvio Leonard also
went home with another gold
— his third of the meet — by

the men’s 200 to go
along with his earlier win in
the 100 and as anchor man on
the Americas 4x100 relay

Germany to the women's
team title with 105 points.
The Soviet Union placed
second with 07 followed by
Europe, with 98 points,
Other gold medalilsts on
the final day of competition

‘were Totka Petrova of

in the women’s
1,500. metres; Europe in the
women’s 4x10 relay; East
German Udo Beyer in the

men's shot put; the U.S, Se

men’s 4x400 relay.

* There were no world
record performances during
the three days of the W
Cup of Athletics which
brought together out-

performers from
the US Soviet Union, East s
Germany, Europe, Asia,
Oceania, Africa and the
Americas..

Track Notes — The, AO dee
Work Cup of Athletiés:
be staged in Rome, Sept. 4-4.

in the 60,000-plus - seat
stadium.

PINEHURST, N.C.
(AP) — Tom Watson,
Soimny’ Miller bogeyea

a er eyed
the 7nd hole, sue-
cessfully defended his
title in the Hall of Fame
; golf tournament Sunday

@ winning par on:
‘ second hole of a sudden-
death playoff,
Watson and Miller each

finished the regulation 72

holes on the famed No. 2

course at the Pinehurst

Country Club at 272, 12

under par,

That set up the playotf

for the $45,000 first prize.

Both men scored

routine para on the first

hole. On the second,

Watson reached the green

in two and Miller was, in
the fringe, some 60 feet
away: He took three shots
to get down and Watson
two-pulted for the vic-
tory, his fifth of the
season, It assured him of

a third consecutive

player-of-the-year _ title,

pushed Watson's -ear-
nings, already at a record
level, to $447,036 for the
year and put him within
reach of the $500,000
mark.

While it may have been
a disappointment for
Miller, who held a one-
stroke lead when play
started, his strong per-
formance served notice
that he's back again, and
again is a factor in the
game he dominated
before plunging into one
of the most puzzling
elumps in the history of

go
It was his best tour.
nament since his last

Miller, playing behind:
Watson over the final 18 of
regulation play had a
one-stroke lead with ons

A BOGEY
LET HIM WIN

_ bogey and cropped out of

"and grabbed a twonbik 4h

The first-place cheque |

“.an ace on the 17th and

hole to go, but drove into
the woods, made bog bogey
and set up the play
Miller had a closing 70
and Watson a 69 that
included an eagle-three
oa the 16th hole,

‘Keith Fergus and
Danny Edwards each
shared the lead at one
ime or another in the
fourman struggle, but
each finished bogey-

the ile picture.

Watson played the front:
sida in 38 ed had the’

- victory over St,

eer

_ San Diego

Hot handed Tom Seaver

| flred a four-hitter for his 11th
| straight victory and doubled

in two runs as Cincinnati

| Reds beat New York Mets 6-0

} in National League baseball
action Sunday. .

’ Seaver, 13-5, struck “out

: five and didn’t allow a walk:

while pitching his fourth
shutout of the year and Sist
of his career. Ed Kranepool,
Seaver’s New York team-
mate for 10 seasons, got two:
of the Meta’ hi, —

Pete Falcone, 5-10, mat--
ched Seaver for six shutout
innings before Cincinnati,
twice in the seventh

-RB] singles by Dave .

Collins and Daye: Con-
lion, Seaver slammed a
‘tworun double in the eighth

‘and the Reds scored four

more times in the ninth,

kage by Hay Cruz’s two-

In other NL ganies, pitcher
Bruce Kison hit a grand-
alam home run ‘and Bill
Madlock smashed four hits,
including a two-run homer,

, 83 Pittaburgh Pirates routed

San Diego Padres #2. -
Steve Garvey slugged a
homer, doubled and singled
and drove in tworuns to lead
Los Angeles Doiigers to a “1
ouls
Cardinals, Denls Lamp and
Bruce Sutter collaborated on
a five-hitter as Chicago Cubs -
defeated San Francisco

In_the 1,
te dats .

_ Houston: first: baseman |
amashed five

On Saturday, ‘toca
dumped New York #4, San
Francisco beat Chicago 5-2
Houston: downed
Philadelphia. $-1; ‘St. Louis:
edged Los Angeles
Pittsburgh. putlaste San
Diego 4-3 in
Montreal’s. ame at ‘Adanta
was rained out, necessitating

Sunday's — schduled

doubleheader,

In the American League,
Willie Wilson. blasted four
hits, drove in one run, scored
twice and stole two bases to’

Seaver singes

Steve Kemp
‘ame run of the guns in the
bottom of the 10th inning to
Tiges 2 43
rei eee

ae joubistee gee ge of hamp.
Summers's tle-breaking seco

Wayne Garland and- ‘sid
Monge combined for 61-3 a
inings. ts) strong: *yelief a
ching and eave. Roselle

faa eee Se

ets

‘Texas: Rangers an

. In. Saturday's
“games, Seattle whipped

double as Cleveland Indians
downed Oakland A’s 7-5.
Tworun homers by.
Gorman Thomas and Cec

secomd place in the East

York-at-
was

he New
Minnesota game

postponed by rain.

. other

Detroit @4, Kansas City

being nipped Boston 1-0, Cleveland
‘tripped Onskisnd 6-3, Min.
New York4-1 |.

. Desota dum
and Milwau ree beat Texas 5-
3. Baltimore's scheduled

doubleheader with the White — :

Sox was postponed by field
conditions at Chicago's’

comsey Bark mem

Sox anda aworp of thelr “PENNANT
ee enc eam RACES »

Doug DeCiness's grand: | ‘7
slam homer, plus homers by - — .
see, Dau Fae
Baltimore. Orioles ‘to 912-7 ‘$§t, Couls "Bari wee ‘4 a my 4
Sox griumph over Chicago White "Naw York “Ferento wal ae cae a3
doubleheader. Gary — . allfornte Fe ee
Roenlke’s lead-off tamer i fener 2h Ba
Orioleo a 43 vt in the | gue ap a ae
nightcap. . 2 ‘. a1 90 313.

FOR THE WIN

Two seconds left

Rafael redeems itiall::
ce dae aaa Sas

For 59'minutes and 58 gec-

-for goat horns.

His hasty and errant polnt-
after-touchdown attempt
d bed Dallas Cowboys on
short end of a 14-15 score at
the hands of the Pittsburgh
Steelers, who had clung

y. to the one-point

jead in their National .

Football League presengon
am
But the Dallas Kicker re

ect hit,”
en said the game
ng Winner. “I tried to rush it
and I hooked it, I’m very
excited. The coaching staff

_ bad told me they trusted me

after the firat one.". ...
ADaliks CoachZom Unsry
aaid Septien was careless on
the missed extra point,
“‘He rushed himself... but
he redeemed himaelf,”
Landry said. “For a while

. there, it looked like Pitt-

sburgh was going to run us
out of the park.”

Elsewhere, New York Jets.
beat New York Giants 14-6,
Tampa Bay Buccaneers de-
feated Cincinnati Bengals 24-
13, Oakland Raiders

‘Les Angeles Rama ,downed
noepitens rye eateciba d
fem wit appear rants

Rice
rg penis:

lead, by a stroke over:

Miller, at the turn. ; BE Ba atte 2
But Watson bogeyed the ie “pimhpited "mere

10th hole after a poor through the

ina ey were ev be} ee brough

He bogeyed again on rback Roger

tough ih, lasing the siaubach k kept the Cowboys

a ba D bebid “4 Oth the qarte*with a pair. of

one, Ero oon the pf en gouetionn 'yetssee! The first

15th from about elght

But Watson made i¢ all
up on one hole, the 531- |

16th,

His drive left him with
235 yards to the front of
the green.

He jumped on a three-
wood ‘shot, hitting it

breaking
‘green, first leftthen right.
The eagle tied the pair,
but =: Miller wasn’t
through.
He came withina foot of

tapped in.

That gave Miller a one:

shot lead. Tom made
on the last hole and MI et
needed only a par to win
but he hooked his drive
almoat into the driving
‘eand had to sattle for
bogey that set up the

“Dupree an ards to Billy Joe

and the second went

er eobhae" ‘Ron Springs for
betght

yards.
The Steelers got all their

~-pointa in a second-quarter

eruption, with Franéo Harris
blasting in from one yard out
and and Bradshaw con-
nectingwith Jim Smith for an
elght-yard score.
NY Jeta 14 NY Giants 6
Matt Rebinson threw a
pair of touchdown passes,
the first coming just 50
seconds Into the game on a
10-yard toss to Scott
Dierking, as the Jets won the
football battle of New York.
He later teamed with half-
back Bruce Harper on a 50

| yard scoring play. The
- Giants, 1-3, with Randy Dean

subbing for ailing firstatring bp
quarterback Joe Pisarcik,
could only manage field
goals of 51 and 65 yards from
Joe Danelo, the latter a team
record.

carry Tampa Bay past

ha

Gordon Jones tate In the
third and combined
on a 41-yard touchdown
with Jimmy Gites mi

pe
Ricky Bell cote on 8 one-
yard run. Archie Griffin ran
one yard for a Cincinnati
touchdown

Raklers @ Bulls 21 -
Quarterback Ken Stabler

and recelver Ray Cheater

combined for two touch

i downs and Derrick Jensen

ran for two more to ‘pace
Oakland to the rout of Buf:
falo. Arthur Whittington ran
18 yards for another Raiders’
TD. Buffalo's Joe Ferguson

| connected with Jerry Butler

Chicago. aL Loult capital-

ized on one of two chicago

turnovers in the game,

Interception af a Bob Avellinl

pass on the first play from

ecrimmage, to score with 24
gone.

Packers 45 Falcom 35 °

ben Bay's David White-
ased for 238 yards,

ine touchdown. tosses

of seven yards to “Paul

all four exhibition contests,
Rams 23 Chargers 7

oF

zh ae

th: Division, one game ahead of ~

kts

Cornerback Rod Perry: :

scored on a 22-yard in

{quarterbacks Pet Haden end
a

Jelf Rutledge each fired.

touchdown passes to com-

plete Loe Angeles'sunbestes

pre-season schedule. The,
Rams finished with a €0,'
vihile San an Diego Snstaee its four

scorn “ins pene  .

uarter when
San Diego 95

the second

oe

yards, the last 17 coming on

a pass to John Jefferson,

Whitecaps take both

VANCOUVER-- VRAIS season. The Aztecs wor although ¥, ver wou the
Vancouver Whitecaps .1-0.aere iti? at hone in _divisiensakead of Los.
defeated Los Angeles 1-0 in regularseason games,. ‘ Angeles; :
regulation time and then : :
blanked the Aztecs 1-0 in a .
sumosfec: | Dance star

y
aithres National Conference | Dance starts

semifinal series 2-1 in the
North American Soccer
League playoffs.

The Aztecs had won the
ening game 3-2 in a
ut Wednesday in Los
Angeles, but the Whiteca
ed a third, if not a
hroviated game by winning
the second game 1-0 before
52,376 delirious fans at
Empire Stadium.
It was an own goal which
did in the Aztecs as defender

Hubert Smeets deflected a .

clearing shot into the Los
Angeles goal at 56:37 ‘past!

goalkeeper Colin Boulton in‘ “|

the regulation game after a
series of dangerous,

crosses’, *
yw Y whltecap: winger Willle

ane Whitecaps pressed for
much of the game and ke
Boulton busy, especially
from offensive thrusts. by
Johnston off the wing.’
Keeper Phil Parkes of the
Whitecaps wasn't nearly ss:
busy as Vancouver shut
down the Los Angeles attack
and star Johann Cruyif.

time scoring in the mint
) C]

6, designed by lea:
cients t to prea plagoct
es

Kevin Hector, the leading
Vanconyver. scorer with 15
regular-season goals, scored
at 3:06 with a diving header
off @ pass from winger Carl
Valentine.

Vancouver then protected
{ts lead in the deciding gam

by going to the attack
whenever or nlble and
tenying Los Angeles the

vancouver “meets the
winner of the Tulsa
Roughnecks-New York
Cosm

The wins were the firgt for
Vancouver over Los Angeles

rythmic beat of disco.
for the

being | held. at

tourney here

An estimated 600 people made thelr way to the
Terrace arena Saturdy night for the windup
dance of the Terrace Softball Scrub League. -
Members from the 60-team league put away!
their bats and balls for one night, todance to the

The dance officially launched the windup week
scrub league. The 32 teams will compete’
in an Olympic-atyle draw throughout the week.

. League organizer Debi Pelletier says the eiglit
teams which survive the preliminary
square off in a sudden-death match i next week to

}, determine the league champion. All games are:

: Terrace parks.

round will

ea

ya

‘ories promise

‘more money

TORONTO (CP) — Steve
Pal federal minister of.
fitness and amateur sport,
promised Saturday that

' Canadian amateur ‘athletes
will receive “300 per cent
more" financial assistance
than they got under the
previous Liberal gov-
ernment.

Paproski did- not specity

miere tie _merened
come

but he said be will be looking

for more contributions from

amateur athletes.”
The member. of
Parliament for Edmonton
North, appointed miniater of
sports = following
ive Conservative
minority victory in last
May's election, made his
comments Sa
‘Canadian
Exhibition Sports
luncheon.

Paprosk! accused “the

Day

the going

turday at the.
National:

former government of

take positive action
in assisting amateur,
athletes. “I do not say that
with any malice to any of ah

justnot aware of what sports "

is all about.

“Now they've got a
minister who is not going to
be baffled by all that ..;
bureacratle structure.”

The former pro football

layer with Edmonton

8 aaid he to
seek changes in tax
will encourage ¢ businessmen
to contribute to athletics,

“I'm going to go after the
business ng unity and I'm

penditures and not be Ste t to
write off hls contritvutions to
improving our national

_ athletic performances?"’

Paproskl a

we that