y PAGE Aé, THE HERALD, Tuesday, May 17. 1977 Ali retains wor LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Muhammad Ali posed and postured but punched enough to retain the world heavyweight championship Monday night with a unanimous decision aver Alfredo Evangelista, a 22-yearold Spaniard who never quit trying. Ali had it when he needed it but there were several times during the 15 rounds that the self-proclaimed greatest a peared to be more shadow than sub- stance. It was the 35-year-old champion’s experience and still excellent left hand that carried the day in his first fight since his disputed decision victory over Ken Norton last Sept. 23. Judges Terry Moore and. Ray Kilingmeyer each scored it 72-64 for Ali. Referee Harry Cecchini, handling his first title fight after 35 years in the business, scored it 71-5 for the champ. The Associated Press had it 69-66 for Ali. Alispent much of the first half of. the fight clowning. But there were no smiles, no asides to the crowd,’ no gestures over the last seven rounds as Evang had never previously gone more than eight rounds, kept trying. They questioned the No. 10 ranking of the 22-year-old Uruguayan-born Evangelista and his ex- periencé. They can not question his heart nor his pride. A crowd of about 12,000 and a television audience watched Ali coast through the first six rounds while Evangelista tried to elista, who: pressure him against the ropes, ‘ the seventh round, Ali spent most of the three minutes on the ropes while Evangelista tried to work through the champ's shell. Three times Ali stuck out his jaw, pointed a gloved hand qt it and dared the challenger to hit him as the champion’s corner shouted for him to quit taking risks. In the eighth and ninth rounds, Ali became more serious. In the final minute of the eighth he scored with a series of blows to the head and shook off a good” Evangelista left hook. In the ninth he shook Evangelista with a left-right to the head in the first 45 seconds and scored a good hook just be- fore the bell. But Evangelista would not guit. With Ali becoming HOCKEY CHAMPS Crowds throng to cheer Habs MONTREAL (CP) — Hundreds of thousands of fans lined city streets Monday to cheer Montreal Canadiens and their prize, the Stanley Cup. The Canadiens, who won the National Hockey League playoff championship Saturday night with a 2-1 overtime victory over the Bruins in Boston, travelled a six-mile route from the Fo- rum to City Hall for a civic reception. The Canadiens Boston in four consecutive games in the best-of-seven - series ta win the Stanley Cup for a record 20th time. Toronto Maple Leafs are a distant second with 11 Cu victories. . ANDERS HEDBERG beat — Behind the lead float, carrying the Montreal firemen’s band, came Canadiens’ captain Yvan Cournoyer, out of action for the playoffs after a back op- eration, with acting captain Serge Savard and the Cup. Riding immediately behind them in a jeep were coach Scotty Bowman and assistant Claude Ruel. Bowman has coached three Cur winners in six years with Montreal. Several hundred fans crashed the reception and sought autographs while the Canadiens and city officials sipped champagne. Goaltender Ken Dryden, looking as composed in the crush as he ever has on the ice, reflected on the day. “Really, I suppose, there are two kinds of celebration at a Stanley Cup,’ Dryden said. ‘‘The other night (Saturday) was our night and today is everybody else’s.”” Savard, who carried the Cup on the victory lap of Boston Garden ice Saturday night and hoisted it to fans along the parade route Monday, said the job was no chore. “It's not very heavy—it’s a great feeling to carry it. My only worry down there in Boston was not to fall down—there was a lot of water on the ice.” Flashy Swede winger leads WHA all-stars TORONTO (CP) — At ders Hedberg, the Swedish right winger who scored 70 goals for Winnipeg jets, and left winger Mare Tardif, a 49-goal scorer for Quebec Nordiques, are the only first-team repeaters on the World Hockey Association allstar team announced Monday night. They are oined by centre Robbie Ftorek of Phoenix Roadrunners on a team made up of players from six different WHA clubs. Darryl Maggs of Indianapolis Racers and Ron Plumb of Cincinnati Stringers are the Gefencemen on the first team and John Garrett of Birmingham Bulls is the goalkeeper. Ulf Nillson of Winnipeg is the centre on the second team with Rick Dudley of Cincinnati at left wing and Real Cloutier of Quebec at right wing, Paul Popiel and Mark Howe of Houston PIERRE GETS DOG OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau got 50 pounds of _ black Newfoundland dog Monday in a ceremony that opened a country-wide publicity campaign for the 1977 Canada Summer Games. Margaret Trudeau and sons Justin, Sacha and Miche! watched asthe prime minister accepted the dog. The Games are in St. John's, Nfld. Aug. 7 to 19. Another Newfoundland dog, Harbour Beem Jack, a 250-pound symbol of the Games, was on hand with more than 100 other Black Bear dogs from as far away as Regina, Toronto and St. John's. . Trudeau was presented with the 50-pound puppy named ‘Rideau ‘77’ before a ceremony in which the Games official flag was raised. A Canadian Forces band provided the music for about 300 persons at the ceremonies. Aeros on defence and Joe Daley of Winnipeg in Boal. For the first time since the WHA was founded in 1972, Winnipeg’s Bobby Hull is absent from the all-star lineups. He was a first-team all-star for the first three seasons and a second-team left winger last season. The first team is the youngest ever. All are 27 or younger. Tardif, the 1975-76 WHA scoring champion who made a remarkable recovery from severe head injuries suffered late that season in an attack by Rick Jodzio of Calgary Cowboys was closest to a unanimous choice, He was placed first by 24 media selectors. Hedberg, the third WHA player to score 70 goals in a season, joining Tardif and Hull in that class, received 21 firstplace votes. Ar Ftorek, whose 46 goals and 71 assists matched his feat of being the only American- born player to exceed 100 ints in a season, picked first by 18 selectors. Ftorek was a second-team choice last year. Plumb, who received 14 firstplace votes, had a notable plus-64, meaning Cincinnati scored 64 more goals than were scored against it when he was on the ice. Maggs, picked first by 13 voters although his points total in the voting for first, second and third place was higher than Plumb’s—-98 to s9—led the Racers in scoring with 16 goals and 55 assists. Garrett, who had a goals- against average of 3.50 although Birmingham had the poorest record in the league, is a firsttime all-star along with Maggs, Plumb and Dudley. Mark Howe has been named once before, in his rookie season of 1973-74, but he was picked as a left winger on that occasion. Cloutier, the WHA scorin champion with 66 goals an 75 assists, wag the only secondteam all-star to repeat. Daley was goaltender on the first all- star team a year ago, Paul was ° Shmyr, then of Cleveland and now of San Diego Mariners, and J.C, Trem- blay of Quebec were the first-team defencemen, and Nillson was first-team centre along with wingers Tardif and Hedberg. Behind Garrett and Daley in the voting for goalkeeper were Ron Grahame and Wayne Rutledge of Houston and Don McLeod of Calgary. Dale Hoganson of Bir- mingham, Shmyr and Jim Dorey of Quebec were other defencemen high in the voting while Chris Bor- deleau of Quebec and Rich Leduc of Cincinnati were next among centres, rookie George Lyle of New England was third in the voting for left-wingers and Birmingham’s Mark Napier third among right-wingers. noticeably tired and at times seemingly having trouble kee ing his interest up, Eyangelista appeared to have the best of the ith and 12th rounds, landing some body shots and a couple of © head punches while Ali leaned against the ropes once more. _ Butas he has done go often in the past, Alicame alive as though he sensed the momentum changing. In the 13th round, he landed a left-right to the head and followed with two hooks that stunned Evangelista and also scored several good jabs. The fight was his, although Evangelista kept swarming until the final bell as he made his second loss the proudest moment of his 16-fight career. The Spaniard, who weighed 209%, earned NAMED ON TOP TROPHY MONTREAL (CP) — There should be norepeat of the controversy of last year about which members of Montreal Canadiens have their names engraved on the Stanley Cup, symbol of National Hockey League playoff supremacy. Coach Scotty Bowman said Monday that eligibility rules for names to be engraved on the trophy have been changed and that team captain Yvan Cournoyer, despite missing the entire playofis with a back injury, ill get a mention. Defencemen Don Awrey and John Van Boxmeer, then members of the- Canadiens, did not have theirnames engraved on the Cup for Montreal's 1976 vic- tory because they did not see playoff action. “The rules been changed now, and there are a few ways to get on,” Bowman said at a reception at City Hall after a victory parade through city streets. “Tf you played in 40 or 45 games in the regular season—I think it’s 40 because that would be half the season—you can have your name on it. You can also get on if you've dressed for a game in the final series or played in a game in an, earlier series. “But there’s maximum of 32 names that the club can submit to be engraved, including the team president and any other executives, the coaches and trainers. We'll have room, I guess, for 25 players’ names.” Thus Cournoyer, whose duties as captain were filled by Serge Savard, will have his name on the Cup under the 1977 heading, while such player as Brian Engblom and Mike Polich, recalled from Nova Scotia Voy- ageurs of the American League, are eligible after playing against St. Louis Blues in the quarter-final series. Clines leads Cubs CHICAGO (AP) — Gene Clines had four hits, in- cluding a two-run homer, and drove in five runs Monday as Chicago Cubs stretched their winning streak to five games with a 9-6 National League baseball victory over San Diego Padres. inesdoubled home a run in the first inning, homered in the third after Ivan DeJesus had doubled, singled for two more runs in the fifth and also singled in the seventh. Clines’ first homer since 1973, only the third of his major league. career, sparked a fourrun third inning which included a two- run triple by Steve Onti- veros. Rookie Donnie Moare started for the Cubs but was chased in the fourth, when inch-hitter Jerry Turner ove in two runs with a single. San Diego scored two more runs in the fifth on an infleld single by Mike Champion, a triple by Dave Winfield and an error b catcher George Mitterwald, then added two more in the seventh on a walk, a double by Gene Tenace and a two- run single by Doug Rader. saying to Have you heard the one about the guy who kept self that he was in good shape until he took his insurance physical? PARNGPACTION The Canadian movement for personal fitness. $85,000 and a great deal more respect. Ali, 221% for his 2ist championship fight, banked $2.7 million but left some questions as to how much longer ‘the road is until it reaches the end of his illustrious and controversial career. The victory was the 54th agains! two losses for Ali, w o has said two more fights would be all before he retires, something he has done several times in the past.” This time, he: says, he really means it. And his performance showed that is present abilities might truly back up such a decision. Ali’s next fight is expected to be against ard-punching Earnie Shavers. A date an site have not been set but guch a bout is reported to chave already been made by Madison Square Garden. If he gets by Shavers, Ali would thn like to fight the winner of a Norton-Jimmy Young bout. But those two fighters have not agreed to meet each other. Each wants Ali for his next op- ponent. Evangelista’s future is known - but it would seem clear that the handyman from Uruguay is clearly in line for some good paydays in Europe. He was the fourth foreign fighter to meet Ali in his last nine fights, and he certainly ave the best account of Seen Joe Bugner of ngland, seemingly fightin to the last rather yan wi dropped a 15-round decision to Ali in 1975 and last year the champion scored five- round knockouts over Jean- Pierre Coopman of Belgium ’ UNANIMOUS DECISIO NO VER UNKNOWN Id boxing crown and Richard Dunn of England. In a taped segment before the fight, ABC-TV inferred through a series of in- terviews that the World Boxing Association and World Boxing Council ratings were juggled to raise Evangelista to 10th lace. Only the top 10 can ight for the title. WBC officials said pressure was exerted by ree unnamed Rohe to move three other fighters into 10th place in the rankings. president of the WBC, said in order to avoid moving any of the other three up, Evangelista was placed 10th. He said theother three were being sought by the promoters for a title shot and that was the reason for the pressure. - BARRY ASHBEE Hundreds pay h Jose Suleiman,. Evangelista was ranked 10th last year, then dropped to 13th after a defeat at the hands of Lorenzo Zanon. He was moved back to 10th without a victory and im- mediately signed for this fight. Ali's victory gave world champions a clean sweep on Monday night’s show at the Capital Centre. Earlier, _ Alfredo Escalera of Puerto _ Rico, the World Boxing Council junior lightweight champion, knocked out. Carlos Becerril of Pomona, California, in the eight round of a scheduled 15- round title defence and Roberto Duran of Panama, the World Boxing Association lightweight champion, scored an easy 10-round decision over Javer Muniz of Los Angeles in a non-title bout. onour to fallen ex-Flyer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Fans and friends gathered Monday on the boarded floor of the Spectrum to honor Barry Ashbee, former assistant coach of Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League. Afuneral service was held at the same time in Toronto. “Barry Ashbee won't have: to suffer any more,’’ Rev. John Casey told several hundred people at the memorial “There will be no more doctors, needles, radical treatments or the injuries service. - that seemed to plague him during hig career.” Asnbee, 37, died of leukemia last Thursday, 30 days after he learned he had the disease. The six-foot-one, 195- pounder played 10 years in the minor Jeagues before he got a shot in the NHL with the Flyers in 1970. Ashbee overcame a serious back injury to help the Flyers win a berth in the 1974 Stanley Cup playoffs, earning a spot on the all-star team’s second unit. But his 15-year playing career ended before the team won its first championship. A flying puck robbed him of most of the vision in his right eye in a_ semi-final game against New York Rangers, He stayed on with the team the following season as an assistant coach. Ashbee was convinced he would overcome his leukemia. “Pm going to walk out of here in 21 days and I'll have this thing licked,” he said while in hospital. ‘1 firmly believe that.” Next time you feel like a tall, cool. glass of refreshment, think milk. sand drink milk. Milk not only tastes good, itis good. Good value, Good nutrition. Good fo whole family | That's why Canada's Food Guide recommends mik every day for the w family—four eight-ounce glasses f teenagers...three eight-ounce gh t-ounce glass youngsters...and one and one-ha glasses for adults. So let it pour! "‘Milk-the beautiful family food. — Despite two massive doses of chemotherapy, ~ Ashbee lost that battle. Bryan Watson, & defen- ceman with Washington Capitals, was among inhose who paid their final respects. _ ; Winning the NHL championship was Ashbee’s preatest thrill. “Some people strive 60 years or so to achieve certain goals in life and never make it. I got what I wanted when J was 34~—a Stanley Cup.”