PAGE As, THE HERALD, Friday, May 4, 1977

. TAKE SEMI-FINALS
Canadiens squeeze past

upstart Islanders, 2-1

UNIONDALE, N.Y. (CP) —
Ken Dryden’s clutch goaltend-
ing made Bob Gainey's two
goals stand up as Montreal Ca-
nadiens advanced to National
Hockey League’s Stanley Cup
final by defeating New York
Istanders 2-1 Thursday night to
take their best-of-seven semi-fi-
nal 4-2,

Gainey opened the scoring
with seven seconds gone In the
first period and added his sec-
ond of the game midway
through the final 20 minutes be-
fore Denis Potvin spolled Ory-
den's shutout bid with nine sec-
onds left to play in regulation
time.

The Canadiens wiil meet Bos-
ton Gruins in the final series

aeSaregeTice

eSecaeceedncets

which will likely get under way
Saturday night In Montreal.

In all, Dryden made 27 saves
while his team-mates fired 20
shots at Resch.

Galney's first goal was not the
pretties of the season and Resch
did not leak good on it.

After Dough Jarvis wrested
the opening faceoff fram Bryan
Trottler and dropped the puck
to Guy Lapointe, Lapointe fed a
pass to Gainey, who broke In on
fhe left wing and glanced a
wrist shot from 20 feet out off
Resch‘s left pad.

lf appeared that Resch had
given gainey a good deal to
shoot at on the far side by
failing to cut down the angle
properly.

FAIRLY AGAIN
SPARKS BLUE JAYS

TORONTO (CP) —
Falrly’s solo homer with faa
out In the seventh inning broke
a tie and gave Toronto Blue
days a 9-8 victory over Mil-
waukee Brewers In a fog-de-
layed American League base-
ball game Thursday night.

Fairly hit a 1-1 pitch off re-
llever Bill Castro, 3-1, over the
right-field fence to cap the see-
saw battle which saw the lead
exchange hands four times. 11
was Fairly‘’s second home run
of the season.

Pete Vuckovich, who took
over for: Toronto starter Jerry
Garvin with two 0: the fifth,
got the win to ev
at 2-2,

The Brewers had taken a 6-4
lead with four runs in the fifth
inning as fog roiled into water-
front Exhibition

Stadium.

Charile Moore led off with a
triple which right fiel
lost In the fog and Von Ua
singled Moore home.

With one out, Cecil Cooper
drove the bail to straightaway
centre field but Gary Woods

is record

Sixto Lezcano, which fell be-
fween three Blue Jays. Play
was then halted but resumed
after a detay of one hour. Vuck-
ovich took over and retired Sal
Bando on a fly bail for the final
out.

Toronto regained the ieaa
with three runs In the bottom of
the inning. Otto Velez delivered
two with a single and the other
came in as Fairly bounced into
a double play.

Hector Torres’s ‘sacrifice fly
gave Toronto an 6-é lead in the
sixth but Milwaukee tied If In
the seventh on run-scoring sin-
gles by Bando and Jamie Quirk.

The Brewers had a runner
erased In the eighth as Fairly's
throw to the plate caught
Cooper trying to score from
second on a single by Dan
Thomas.

The Brewers scored twice in
the opening Innning as the first
four batters reached base
safely. Joshua, Robin Yount
and Cooper singled ta load the
bases and Themas walked to
force In the first run. The sec-

never saw until if was over his ond came home as Money

head. The bail rolled to the
fence 409 feet away and Cooper
circled the bases for an inside-

the-park home run, his fourth
homer of ihe season.

The fourth run of the Inning
scored on a two-out walk to Don
Money and a fog-alded triple by

Thomas at second.

The Blue Jays took a 4:2 lead .

in the second on singles by
Fairly, Doug Ault, Alan Ashby
and Woods and a squeeze bunt
by Torres. Milwaukee aided the
Toronto cause by commiting
two errors in the Inning.

GOLF TOURNEY
Alse-ran in line
for first victory

DALLAS (AP) — Lyn LoH,
sometimes a challenger but not
yet a winner, flred a three-un-
der-par 68 to gain the first-
round lead Thursday in the

Lasorda's
charges

happy

LOS ANGELES
Tommy Lasorda’‘s philosophy af
managing is that happy base-
bali players play better base-
ball, and judging by the way his
Los Angeles Dodgers are per-
forming, they must be ecstatic.

Lasorda, the former Dodger
coach who replaced the retired
Walter Alston at Los Angeles’
helm this year, has apparently
breathed new life into the Na-
tional’ League basebal! club.

Also-rans behind Cincinnati
Reds In the National League
West Division the last two
years, the Dodgers have al-
ready opened up a substantial
lead in the division this season.

Lasorda, a constantly chat-
fering extrovert, is in distinct
contrast to the man he re-
placed, Quiet Man Alston, and
the Dodgers as a team seem
more free-wheeling this year. |

"| think It’s the old theme of
a team reflecting the person-
ality of Hs manager,” said
catcher Steve Yeager, off to his
fInest start as a Dodger.

“One thing | really admire
about him is the attention he
pays fo guys who are having
problems. The guys who are
playing well really don’t need
much said to them, but the ones
who aren't hitting and are hav-
Ing trouble, do.

“Tommy seeks them out, puts
his arm around them and talks
fo them. That means a hell of a
lot.‘*

Dodger third baseman Ron
Cey, one of the hottest hitters in
the league, shares his team.
mate's feeling about Lasorda.

Cey sald the Dodgers are
more relaxed under their new
skipper.

“With Tammy. | believe’ ev-
try player knows he can he
himself, and | think that mal...
ablg dilference In the way you
perform.”

(AP): —

$200,000 Byron Nelson golf tour-
nament, =,

Lot, a husky 27-year-old na-
flve of Georgia now in his
fourth full year of tour activity,
birdied three In a row from
about 10 feet, holed another
birdie putt fram 20 feet and
one-putied to save par three
times in the tough, five-to six-
foot range.

One stroke back In winds that -.:
gusted to more than 30 miles an «
hour were Ben Crenshaw, Ray:

Floyd and Fuzzy Zoeller. They
were af 69, two under par on
the 6,983 yards of rolling Texas
real estate that make-up the
Preston Trall Golf Ciub course.
The course has been toughened
this year by the addition of five
iraps, more trees on two holes,
fighter fairways and the deep-
est rough this tournament has
ever seen.

All the leaders played in the
morning. The tougher course
combined with even higher.
gustier winds in the afternaon
to sweep away the hopes of any
challengers.

The only others in the 156-
man fletd able to break par 7}
were Australlan Bruce Deviln,
Jerry McGee, Bill Mallon,
Bobby Eastwood, Tom Kite and
Dave Lind, all at 70.

Gainey added his second goal
with 9:12 gone in the third
period as he shot into an open
net after Resch had missed
trying to check Murray Wilson
and was caught out of position.

High stocking. slashing and
hooking predominated the open-
ing 20 minutes and while ref-
eree Ron Wicks chose to call
only four minor penalties, he
could have assessed many
more,

One of the ugllest Incidents
occurred with about five min-
utes remaining as Montreal's
Mario Tremblay swung his
stick at the Islanders’ Garry
Howatt after the pair had been
jostling In the corner to. the
right of Dryden. No penalty was
called.

The teams managed'to con-
centrate a liitle more on skat-
Ing and passing in the middle
session with the Islanders, who
had a 7-3 edge in shots In the
first, geting the better chances.

He stopped Howatt on a two-
on-one chance with about seven
minutes gone and about 412
minutes later, got his stock on a
screened drive by Denis Potvin
from the left wing. ,

Bob Bourne, returning fram a
shoulder injury, was stymied on
a close-in backhand try with
7:11 remaining in the pertod
after he broke behind the Cana-

_diens’ defence to take Bill Mac-

Millan’s pass degp in Montreral
territory, MacMillan raced in to
try for something on the
rebound, but could not get a
good shot.

DEMORALIZING

Canadian brutes
for besting team

DUESSELDORF,. West
Ger-
many (Reuter) — The West
German Sports News Service
{SID}, commenting on Wednes-
day night's Sweden-Canada
world championship hockey
game in Vienna, said Thursday
“the far superior Swedes were
demoralized by brutal attacks.”

Its correspondent at the
championships ‘sald Canada
was
easily maintaining tts first
place in the “sinners table“
with 127 penalty minutes.

“But despite this
siderable
total, observers of the Vienna
ice scene are convinced that not
even half of the Canadian fouls
and disciplinary violations have
been (officially) recognized,’
Sid said.

“The latest negative example
of the raw methods of the pro-
fesslonals was the 7-0 win over

con.

Sweden. A clearly superior
team was completely demora-
lized by the most brutal at-
tacks.”

“Sid sald: “‘One cannot throw
off the suspicion that this ac-
ceptance of the wild behaviour
from overseas is one of many
concessions to ensure Canada’s
return to the world champlon-
ships.”

In Stockholm, Sweden’s Da-
gens Nytheter headlined its
Story, Obvious Assault, while
Expressen’s sports editor com-
mented: “I get stomach con-
vulsions when | see things like

this. This Is not sport, it’s plain

assault.”

Expressen quoted Swedish
player Bengt Lundholm as say-
ing: ’’We noticed from the out-
set the Canadians were aut ta
get us. | got a hard rap from a
Canadian stick and could not
play after the interval.”

EXPOS TRIUMPH

SAN FRANCISCO (AP} -~
Montreal pitcher Steve Rogers
scattered nine hits to record his
third victery and drove in two
runs with a pair of singles
Thursday in the Expos’ 7-1 Na-
tlona! League baseball triumph
over San Francisco Giants.

Rogers, 3-1, was deprived of a

shutout because — right-
flelder ;
Eltis Valentine lost Tim Foll's
fly ball In the sun in the sev-
anth inning, aliowing Foll to
reach second base with a
double, Foil scored on a single
by pinch-hitter .Terry Whit-
fleld.

The Expos scored thelr first
run off Giants’ starter Ed Ha-
licki, 2-3, In the second when
Larry Parrish hit a two-out
double and came home on Ro-
gers's single to centre, They
made It 3-0 in the fourth on con-
secutive doubles by Det Unser
and Gary Carter and Rogers's
second RBI single.

Moritreal scored four runs In
jhe sixthy all charged to re-
liever Charlie Willams. Dave
Cash drove In two of the runs
with a bases-loaded single. .

Rogers, who siruggled to a 7-
V7 record in 1976, pitched his
fourth complete games In seven
starts.

The right-
hander
lowered his earned run average
to 1.34, walking two batters and
striking out two In the game.

The Giants made three er-
rors, and three of Montreal's
runs were ‘unearned. Unser,
leading off the fourth, doubled
after right-fielder Gary Thom-
asson had: dropped his foul fly
balt.

In the sixth, centre-fielder
Larry Herndon‘’s threw ta the
inlleld was wide of third base
and allowed Rogers to score
with the faurth run of the in-

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ning. San Francisco, which had
the most errors in major league
baseball last season, has made
26 In its 23 games this season.

Foll got a clean hit, a triple
to left-centre, leading off the
ninth Inning. But. Rogers left
him there, retiring Marc Hill on
a grounder tothird, pinch hitter
Jack Clark on a popup and Her-
ndon on a line drive to center.

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CANADIANS POISED
TO TEST SOVIETS.

VIENNA (CP) -- Rick Hamp-
jon, Canada’s youngest defen-

ceman in the world hockey ~

championship, isn’t ready to
concede defeat to the Soviet Un-
ion.

Centre Jean Pronovost goes a
step farther than his team-
mate, saying the Canadians can
defeat the Soviets “if we work
hard and play the body.”

Canada meets the Soviet Un-
ion tonight In the second round
of a playoff serjes among the
fop four teams. In opening
games of the single round-robin
playoff Wednesday night, the
Canadians surprised Sweden 7-0
and defending champion Czech-
oslovakia shaded the Soviets 4-
3. The teams conclude the
series Sunday with Canada
meeting Czechoslovakia In the
first game and Sweden taking
on the Soviet Union in the sec-
ond.

“| think we can beat them
‘(the Soviets) but we reatly have
-to forecheck them,” sald Hamp-
ton, 20, from Cleveland Barans
of the National Hockey League.

Hampton, hampered by a
sore ankle when hit by a puck
on the right instep on at least
four occasions last week, wound
up the 1976-77 NHL campaign
with 16 goals and 24 assists, de-
spite missing fhe fast three
weeks of the season witha sore
wrist.

The Canadians, on ‘a tive-
game undefeated streak, have
an excellent oppartunity to win
a medal after a sluggish start
in the preliminary round-rabin
portion of fhe elght-country
tournament.

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FOURTH OVER ALL

Entering tonight’s game, ,
scheduled to start at 3 p.m.
EDT, the Canadians were
fourth in the over-all standings
with 11 points, one behind the
Soviets and Swedes. The Czech-
oslovakas lead with 13 points.

After the Soviets whipped the
Canadians 11-1 In the third
game of the tournament, the
general feellng was that the So-
viet Union was too powerful.

The Soviets won six games In
succession before fosing 5-1 ta
Sweden Monday, then 4-3 to the
Czechoslovaks.

Now the Canadians feel they
can defeat the slumping So-
viets, who have several players
nursing minor injurles.

“IF we play against the Rus-
sians the way we played
against the Swedes, we vreally
can beat the Soviet Union,”
Pronovost said.

Phil Esposito, assistant coach
and captain of the Canadian
team, said Thursday:

“We're praying exactly like
we should be laying. e’re

forechecking, we're bumping,
we're playlng aggressive and
we're getting unbelievable goal-
tending from Tony (Esposito)
and that's the ingredients for

~ winning.”

All points from the first

round-robin competition andthe .
second count in the final stand-
ings. However, the lower-placed
clubs cannot climb any higher
than fifth although they may
wind up with more points than
the fourth-place team.

heading for top

MALMOE, Sweden (CP) —

Wendy Clarkson was able to ‘

“kill” her opponent and . ad-
vanced to the quarter-finals In
women's singles play at the
world badminton cham-
pionships
Thursday.

. The 21-year-old student at the
University of Calgary, now will
face co-favored Hirce Yuki af
Japan In the next round follow-
Ing a 8-11, 11-5, 129 win over
Denmark’s inge Bogstrom.

The slender Edmonton native:
+ and her coach, Paul Whetnoll of

Toronto, admitted they were
worried after her relatively
easy win over Ausiralian Susan
Daly—11-2, 11-1 on Wed-
‘nesday—
but their outlook for further
tournament piay brightened as
the day progress. on

“She made some mistakes,
especially in the early going,’
Whetnolt sald of Ciarkson’s
game. “But generally,
played well today.

“Wendy was smashing well

- fram the back of the court, and

when the Danish girl blocked It

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Wheinall added.

“I've played Inge before but
because she played so poorly
(ihened so poorly (then) |
didn’t know what to expect,”
Clarkson admitted. ‘Today, she
was very strong.”’

Wendy is the lone Canadian
woman remaining In singles
play following the: third- round, .
elimination of Canadian cham:*
pion Jane Youngberg of Surrey,
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the
1975 Natlonal League playoffs,
Cincinnati Reds stole 11 bases
in 11 tries against Pittsburgh
Pirates—then larcenous in
name only.

“Let's beat them at their own
game!" the Pirate scoreboard
flashed fast week to promote a
Natlonal League baseball series
that begins here tonight with
the Reds.

The World Serles champs,
trying to reach .500, will meet a

> Pittsburgh team billed as Lum-

ber and Lightning under new
manager Chuck Tanner,

The Pirates lead ihe National
League with 44 stolen bases In
21 games. They've won 10 of
their last 11 games.

“it's awful hard to run
against a guy
Bench. Maybe we won’? even
steal ane base against Cincin-
nati,” Tanner sald recently.

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in the Reds’ 1975 playoff
sweep, Pitisburgh didn’t at-
tempt a steal and some Pirates
joked that even their wallets
were unsafe from Joe Morgan
and company.

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up last season under the late
Danny Murfaygh. Pittsburgh
had 130 steals, fourth best In
the league.

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would run even more under
Tanner, whose Oakland A’s set
a major-league record last year
with 351 steals.

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lot of ways," said Tanner.
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he's wants the ball in a hurry,
and maybe a breaking bali
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that fastball."

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steals In 65 attempts for a 68
per cent success rate.

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