said Larry Christenson
when asked about the finger
condition that plagued

in the final month of the

Phillies starter

Pitcher denies problems

PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
“J haven’t got a blister and I
haven't got a froblem, "

regular National League
baseball season,
Christenson, 23, is slated
te pitch for Philadelphia
Phillies in the today's t
game of the best-of-five
Beries against Los Angeles

Dodgers for the National
League pennant.

The right-hander, who
won 15 of his last 16 starts

and wound up 19-6 for the

East Division champions,
was forced in recent weeks

-One-eyed player
files hockey suit

BUFFALO (AP) — Greg
Neeld, the one-eyed hockey
player who lost a legal

ttle with the National
Hockey League over the
right to play in the NHL,

filed a similar lawsuit
Thursday against the
American Hockey League.
Neeld charged in the
federal suit that an AHL
bylaw banning one-eyed

~ NEL picks ©
~~ this week

The Associated Press

Pity the poor Cleveland
Browns. After surviving
st ot Ea

ngals and New
Patriots, they ran into
Pittsburgh Steelers. And
now they’re confronted by
Oakland Raiders.

Oh, well. A 2-2 record,
after a murderous four
weeks like that, is nothing to
be ashamed of.

The Raiders will win.

And Baltimore will knock
Miami from the National
Football League’s unbeaten
fanks, New York Jets,
Atlanta Falcons an
Philadelphia Eagles _ will
pull off mild upsets and Joe

famath finally will win a
Monday night game.

Last week's 10-4 mark put
the season record at 26-14,
667. This week’s picks:

’ Raiders 27 Browns 19
_ Calling +r Oakland ting
juggernaut is unders
the case. The Raiders are
capable of doing . almost
anything to:..anybody;0n &
football ‘field. The “Browns
have got to be exhausted—
mentally and physically.

Colts 28 Dolphins 14

Baltimore has looked
unimpressive so far while
Miami has built its record
with victories over
nobodies. Both teams will be
high for this meeting, but
the Colts have the man-
power to get higher.

: ongest curren!
losing streak.

Falcons 20 ‘49ers 12

The sere have shown
nothing up to now. Atlan!
will show them the same
sound defence they showed
the equally inept Giants,
with the same results.

Eagles 17 Giants 10
All a team has to do to
beat the Giants is rush the

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Rams 31 Bears 16

With the Jets, Namath
was 07 under ABC
television's lights. He ma
not be as electrifying wi
Los Angeles as he was with
New York, but at least he’s a

winner again. Chicago’s .

going nowhere against the
Rams.

Bengals 24 Packers 10
Cincinnati, which got
sea aye
n Diego, finally will ge’
act t ther. Green Ba can
stop the other guys only for
a while.

Steelers 27 Oilers 6

Playing the Steelers is like
walking down a dark street
with $20 bills hanging out of
your pockets. It's no
yitation to a mugging.
Oilers will RSVP.

Vikings 26 Lions 14

Minnesota may never look
back the rest of the season
after this game—uniess the
Lions ot Bears can put ‘hot
streaks and upsets on the
board. And Detroit simply
doesn’t win the big ones.

Chargers 17 Saints 16 .

Or it could be the other
way around. The defence
San Diego showed last
Sunday is a touch more real
than the offence New
Orleans showed.

Cowboys 34 Cardinals 17

Before the season began,
it looked as if this game
would be a wild shcot-out.
But it seems Dallas now has
all the bullets. ;

Broncos 20 Chiefs 10
It’s Denver's last time to
live it up this season before
the Broncos get busted by
Oakland next Sunday.

Patriots 30 Seahawks 13
There's nothing like a so-
so expansion team to make
a sick contender well

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Redskins 23 Bucs 3
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players deprives him
without due process of his
constitutional, | right to
pro an yo
Nota lest his left eye in a
junior hockey accident in
ember, 1973. But he
claims the loss of the eye
hasn't affected his ability to

play hockey. .
“Indeed,” the lawsuit
said, “within months after
his accident, the plaintiff
returned to fulltime play
with the Toronto Marlboro
Junior A Hockey Club in the
Ontario Hockey League.”
Earlier’ this year Neeld
filed suit against the
National League, charging
that an NHL bylaw
prevented him from playing
with the Buffalo Sabres.
Judge John Elfvin of U.S.
District Court threw out
moat of that suit last month.
The jurist let stand that
rt in which Neeld accused
e NHL of communicating
with other leagues to
prevent Neeld from landing
a job as a player.
at remaining con-
tention still is in litigation.

Starting
pitchers

NEW YORK (AP)
Managers Whitey Herzog of
Kansas City Royals and
Billy Martin of New York
Yankees announced their
pitching plans Thursday
night for the next two games
of the American League
pennant playoff.

Herzog said the Royals
would start Dennis Leonard,
one of three 20-game win-
ners in the American
League this season, in
today’s game. The Yankees
will counter with Mike
"Wrerog said_ left-hand

e 8 ert-nander
Larry eura would go in
Saturday’s fourth game
against righthander Ed
Figueroa the Yankees.

ft-hander Paul Split:
torff, the winner of Wed-
nesday’s playoff opener,
will be the Royals’ starter if
a fifth game is necesary.

‘who with Ce

to leave games any time
after six innings because of
a recurring blister on a fin-
get of his pitching hand.

The Dodgers will match
Burt Hooton, 12-7 for the
West Division champs,
against Christenson, he
second-best Phillies pitcher.
Hooton, 27, like Christenson,
never has pitched in a post-
season game.

But Hooton doesn’t appear
concerned about going after
the Phillies on their home
field, where they won 60 and
lost 2 during the season.

"The onty difference
playing in Philadelphia is
that we'll be hitting first and
them last,”’ he said.

Both pitchers would like
everyone to think that
helping to snap the 1-1
deadlock in the series is no-
more important than
winning a regular-season
game.

GIVES THEN AN EDGE?
Meanwhile, the Phillies
contend that their artificial
surface gives them an edge
over the Dodgers who play
on grass in Los Angeles.
They expect to win two of
the three games scheduled
here and advance to next
week’s World Series.

Philadelphia angel the
opener in eles 7-5
and the Dodgers won the
second 7-1. Phillies manager

Danny Ozark said his team

‘accomplished its goal on the

West Coast, a split.

Christenson’s jeb would
appear to be to blunt the
Dodgers’ home-run power.
*n the first two games, Ron
Cey and Dusty Baker hit
grand-siams, Baker's
winning the second game.

Then there are Steve
Garvey and Reggie Smith,
and Baker
complete the first foursome
ever to hit 30 or more home
runs each in one season.

Hooton was 0-2 against the
Phillies during the season,
but he pitched well as a 2.40

ERA. inthe: two . games —

would indicate. The 20-
pound Texan sometimes
mesmerizes. the Phillies
with his knuckle curve.

“All they have is Mike
Schmidt and Greg Luzinski
for power,” says Hooton,
ignoring. the eight other
Phillies who hit homers in

double figures. ‘‘We have .
four consistent power hit- —

ters.”

The Phillies’ Garry
Maddox probably will be
available to play centre field
in third game. Maddox’
missed the games in Los
Angeles because of a knee

Martin declined to name a injury suffered in the final
fifth-game pitcher. regular-season game.
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In controlled action

Plimpton plays goal

PHILADELPHIA (AP) —
Author George Plimpton
blocked a penalty shot,
three other shots on goal and
allowed one Philadelphia
Flyers score Thursday night
when he played goal for
Boston Bruins for five
minutes of controlled action
prior to a Natlows,: Hockey

Jets

blank
Blues

BRANDON (CP)
Winnipeg Jets of the World
Hockey Association scored
their second win in as many
nights over St. Louis Blues
of the National Hockey
League with a 3-0 victory
Thursday before 5,248 fans.

Willy Lindstrom's goal at
1:51 of the second period
snapped a scoreless tie, and
third-period goals by Anders
Hedberg and Ted Green
rounded out the Jets’
scoring.

’ The Jets were held to just
17 shots, including only
three in the first period. The
Blues fired 27 drives at
Winnipeg goalies Joe Daley
and rookie Marcus Mattson.

Daley played the firat two
periods and blocked 18
shots, while Mattson turned
back nine in the final 20
minutes. St. Louis net-
minder Ed Staniowski
played the entire game.

While the Blues had more
shots on goal, the Jets
generally saved their fire
or good scoring op-
portunitles.

The Blues took. five of
seven minor penalties in the
cleanlyplayed game. .

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