t PAGE Ag, THE HERALD, Wednesday. May 18, 1977 RR aS al RED'S around the mound | Pete's got bucks to give away Gad! Did you read Pistol Pete’s challenge to the Red's in yesterday's paper? Sounds like he was into the cream soda again. the Cedar Kings from Mushville would like to play the Red’s two games, one being baseball and the other fastball. Each team putting up $300.00; thus $600.00 going to the Child Development Centre - Heavens a bunch of mushballers on a baseball diamond, must be nice to have $300.00 to give away, Pete. The Red’s haven't been able to pay last year's bills yet. Howe er, Red keeps a cue handy just in case he gets the chance to hustle some old umpires. The Red’s would probably play a couple of exhibition's for a worthy cause but you want it - you do the advertising and the Red’s will be there. Maybe you could challenge Morricetown for $300.00, They have the dollars - zoos, circuses and fires draw good in this town. as for pillow fighting we'll see. The zoo from Morricetown was here Sunday against the Chasteauneuf bulls. Between stealing the foul balls and the antics of their coaches, the fans were treated to some ball by Colin's team. His starter Kellar whiffed 13 of them ‘and Farkvam belted a 2run shot, the first ever over the new fence. Interesting Item - Wayne Braid, the blind man from Pruden & Currie, attended a referee’s clinic over the weekend in Vancouver. Sixty or so refs in the crowd watching Westminster hammer the easterners would be too much. Rumour has it Pat Hayes is leaving. Another good one going. You'll be missed Pat, does that mean the No. 1 spot for white canes is open? Joe Tennant who is remembered as THE COACH in Smithers (Ex-Bruins & Nats), now with Merritt, has severed all connections with Calgary. He has one heck of a hocky school set up in the new com- lex in Enderby and has been talking with Red ately. Another meeting is set for early June and Red's going to talk with people in the Edmonton Oiler organization. Oh yea- Merritt will be here for early exhibition games if and when the ice is ready. Cheapest coffee in town, 25 cents.a cup at all EXTRA RUBBER SENDS BALLS FLYIN’. ATLANTA (AP) ~— Mome runs are flying out of major league baseball parks at a record pace this year and one knowledgeable Atlanta Braves executive thinks the reason is the new ball. “I’ve talked to a lot of people about it,”’ said Hank Aaron, Braves vice- president. who holds the major league career record for homers with 755. “I think if I have to make an educated guess, it’s the difference in the basebail.”’ The ball this year is made by Rawlings. Specifications of the new bali are secret. “We do some things we feel are very unique in the manufacturing of the ball and, for these reasons, we don’t generally talk about our operation in Haiti,” said Tom O’Brien, company president. “This year, we: project 1,969’ home runs, said Richard White of the American League office. That’s only 235 fewer than both leagues hit last year., ” The league record is 1,746. . The National League record is 1,683. Both were set in 1970, a year with new teams. National League batters have hit 298 homers in 384 games this year, while American Leaguers have hit 397 homers in 226 games. The American League, with two new teams in Toronto and: ‘Seatlle, now has some pitchers who otherwise would be in the minors. ~ Other reasons for the high number of home runs in- clude the mild, dry spring, weather in which baseballs fly farther. But Aaron feels those are not the main reasons for the homers. ; Rawlings made balls for alding in 1973, a year when there were 3,102 home runs in the major leagues. That also was Aaron’s last 40 home run year. Spalding made the balls in 1974, 1975 and 1976, then quit because of increased costs. Red’s home games, also hot dogs, chips etc, all handled by Red’s favourite lass in the concession. Attend the double bill on Sunday and stay around to picnic in one of the cities nicest parks, playground for the little ones. Kerr-Rotary Park is where the action is - Be a fan, get out and see a ball game this weekend, you might like it. "NEW REGULATIONS - BARILOCHE, Argentina (Reuter) —- The International Ski Federation (FIS) 3ist con- gress, here this month is eing regarded as a historical hallmark for the moves it took towards making skiing a fairer, safer sport. Most delegates from the 42 countries attending the congress would agree with Serge Lang, the French founder of the World Cup competition and chairman of FES World Cup Com- mittee. He said the decisions taken are an impressive contribution towards im- roving and establishing airer rules for skiing competition, encouragin newcomers to compete an curbing commercialization of the sport. . Leading the trend toward fairness was the decision eliminating the possibility of skiers such as Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden duplicating his feat of * Two more bouts left says still-champ Ali LOS ANGELES (AP) — Heavyweight - champion Muhammad Ali arrived here Tuesday for the premiere later this week of § autobiographical film, The Greatest, and said- he would fight twice more— against Earnie Shavers and the winner of a pro Ken NortonJimmy ‘Young match. Ali, who outpointed challenger Alfredo Evangelista in Landover, Md., on Monday night, said: “T plan two more fights at a total purse of $14 million. I ECKHARD KRAUTZUN Whitecaps head coach resigns due to burden VANCOUVER (CP) — Vancouver Whitecaps of the North American Soccer League announced Tuesday that Eckhard Krautzun has resigned as head coach effective immediately, John Best, general manager of the team, said the club and Krautzun reached an argreement after Krautzun asked to be relieved of his duties for the balance of the season. Krautzun said he was “a direct responsibility to (Canada) World Cup team and both jobs can't receive the attention they both need while I have to operate under the pressure of the North American Soccer League schedule as well as prepare for the fall ualifying round of the orld Cup.” He added that in addition to this difficulty he faces the possibility of losing his German coaching licence unless he attends a coaching clinic in June. “f appreciate the Van- couver Whitecaps position in that the club cannot give me a leave of absence to fulfill that obligation,” said Krautzun. Best added he regrets the circumstances which have arisen causing the change but - was grateful to Krautzun ‘‘for the con- tribution he has made to the success of the Whitecaps.”’ Krautzun will be suc- ceeded by assistant coach Holger Osieck who will accept coaching respon- sibilities immediately. Osieck, a 28-year-old de- fender, will be a playing coach in the interim. It has not been decided whether he will coach next year, Osieck joined the team at the beginning of the season. WHA FINALS Whitecaps play their next game Friday in Los Vegas against the Quicksilvers, Krautzun, 35, joined the Whitecaps Feb. 18, 1976, prior to the start of last season. He had heen director of coaching for Canada’s naticnal soccer team since November, 1973 and now is the coach of Canada's World Cup team. He has coached the Japanese Olympic team and in 1968 at the Munich Olympic games’ the Japanese under Krautzun placed third for a bronze medal finish. It was con- sidered a major breakthrough for Japanese soccer, Krautzen also has coached Korean and Kenyan national teams.. He began his coaching career with Zurich of Switzerland. As end draws nearer home ice unimportant WINNIPEG (CP) — The advantage of home ice is much overrated at playoff time, says centre Chris Bordeleau of Quebec Nordiques. , “When you get this far, it doesn’t matter where the games are played," he says. Their ice is the same size are ours— 200 by &i—and that’s all that counts.” The Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets each won one game at Quebec in their best-of-seven World Hockey Association finals series for the Aveo Cup. Third and fourth games are set for tonight and Friday in Winnipeg, and Jets coach Bobby Kromm is quick to seize on that so- called home-ice advantage that Bordeleau plays down. “Now it’s a best-of-five series, with three of the remaining games in our building,” Kromm said. “If we play as well at home as we did in the other series, we'll be all right.” Jets won all their homes games in getling past San Diego Mariners and Houston Aeros to enter the final. Kromm said he’s con- cerned about defensive mistakes that contributed to his team's 6-1 loss to Quebec on the weekend. He was also less than satisfied with the play of his ‘thot line” of Anders Hedberg, Bobby Hull and UM Nilsson, but expects them to snap out of a two-game slump. “T expect them to break loose just as they did against San Diego and Houston,’ Kromm said. ‘And I think outplay Quebec our line can whatever line throws at us.” The Nordiques’ ‘big line’’ of Bordeleau, Mare Tardif and Real Cloutier has also heen kept scoreless in the first two finals games. Cloutier thought he had a goal in the first game, but referee Bill Friday ruled the shot hit the post and didn’t enter the net. Bordeleau, who played for . the Jets before being traded away two years ago, would undoubtedly like to use his return to the Winnipeg Arena as a chance to get back on the scoresheet. ‘“‘He’s played very, very well, considering he missed six weeks," Quebec coach Marc Boileau said of Bor- deleau. ‘‘Pepe's never really out of shape.” Plan for yourself . VANCOUVER (CP) — Senior citizens must plan for themselves ta avoid haphazard government programs, Patricia Fulton, British Columbia regional director of the federal New Horizons program, said Monday. “If the senior population does not do its own planning, we will see suddenly- executed, haphazard ser- vices being developed by yarious departments of. government," Ms. Fulton told a Senior Citizens Association convention, go for big money. There ain't no jiving.” . _ Ali said negotiations for a Shavers bout were under way, ‘“‘starting at $3 ion,’ . . He explained his reasoning for deman a Norton-Young match this way. ot I fight Young and retire, they'll say ‘You're ducking Norton,’ he sald. “If I fight Norton and retire, they'll Sa he ere oung.’ 0 ea other, it will decide the true challenger.” pili eli es the an match, saying: “The Spaniard really should LONDON (CP) — A new medical advisory service for overseas patients will be established June 1 by the British United Provident Association. direction .of Dr. Norman Cowan, the service is de- signed to advise patients, carry out preliminary diagnoses and put them in touch with surgeons and medical specialists. Under the - be ranked No. 3. He’s that good, “T° trained just hard enough to... win. Other fighters (like Joe Frazier and George Foreman) train hard all the time. I'm still riding and they’re burned ou nad MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) —The name of Alfredo Evangelista became a8 wellknown Tuesday as that of Juan Diaz de Solis, the Spanish explorer. who covered Uruguay, didn't find gold or silver, but got killed for his troubles any- way by the Indians. All the 22-year-old Uruguayan-born Evangelista had to do was survive 15 rounds in the same ring with world heavyweight « champion Muhammad Ali on Monday night in Landover, Md. Ali won the bout on a deci- sion. Ir “A feat by Evangelista because he leat on his feet,” -was the banner headline Tuesday morning in the Montevideo daily newspaper, El Pais. 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We now must go ck to the previous for- Another major development at the congress was the incorporation of Nordic (cross country and jumping) events in the next | wo W orld Cup seasons on a trial be ost countries suppor e move, thoug! Finland voted against it for what a Scandinavian delegate said was a fear that World ‘Cup Nordic events might detract from the World Nordic Ski Cham- jonships scheduled for. hti, Finland, next year. Cross-country World Cup races will be‘held in nine laces ih each of the next 0 seasons and a decision the big move at the congress was to ban the use of plasticized suits in downhill competitions. ecrease wind resistance, the suits also lead to uncontrollable skids by skiers who have fallen.. 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Politics also poked 10 nose into the congress when Israel was unanimously + in accepted as FIS’s 48t r. But an application from South Africa was because there were doubts about its validity. .