dail _f « Baevin (Magic) Johnson was two different players for Los Angeles Lakers, and Milwaukee Bucks didn’t care much for either. . Johnson played the role of assist m dn: the first half and scor¢t ‘inthe second in Los Angeles’s 99-64 victory Tuesday night, over the Bucks. ‘The win gave the Lakers a Spat. dn National Basketball.” Mssoctatiod playoffs. ~ “E play so differently and I play for the team,” said Johnson, Who scored all 20. - 6f his points in the second half and had 11 assists, "In the first half, I was looking to pass. In the second hall, E was looking to score and pass. ” ; In other games it was: Washington Bullets 99, New Jersey Neta 91; Indiana Pacers 123, Boston Celtics 121 in overtime; Chicazo Bulls 108, Cavaliers 104 in overtime; Kansas City Kings 115,° Houston Rockets 102; Phoenix Suns 146, Denver Nuggets 120; Golden State Warriors 103, Seattle * + EASTERN CONFERENCE - : Atlantic Division WoL Pet. oat x- Boston 3117 «750 — osPhile 42°35 .627) ae New York 4.25 621 9. -New Jersey ON 544 a ‘Washington a1 38 447 202 : Central’ Ofviion “AMiwaukee 40 30 371 Detroit 36 559 I Atlanta 33 8 64650 1M chicago 26 41 86 14 Cleveland 20 44 44) 15% indians 20 48 4.294 19, y ' WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division “utah 31 557 — Dallas 3692 «577 Kansas City 33°35 .4a5 5 ‘Denver 2 38 457 7 San Antonio 3049 479 9 Hovston 26 4% 382 12 Pacific Division Los Angeles 45 2279)8%4— ‘Portland cig ned eealtie ape 4 a, Phoenix 3307 471 1% Golden State 37 38 .449 15 San Diego 26 44.367 21 sclinched playoft bertn T y Rear wesds “ Chicano 108 Cleveland 104 _ Golden State 103 Seattle 102 indiana 123 Boston 121 {07) ' Kansas City 115 Houston 102 Los Angeles 99 Milwauken 94 | Phoenix, 46 Denver 120 Portland 106 San Diego 105 ‘San Antonio 135 Altanta 92. 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Larry Bird led Boston with 25 points. | Bulls 108, Cavaliers 104 Mitchell Wiggins's tip-in with 24 seconds remaining in overtime foiled a late Cleveland rally at Chicago. © Kings 115, Rockets 102, — Reggie Theus scored a‘ WHL Standings WHL Hastaen Division WLF FAP Regina 47°23..1 402 283 95 Med. Hat 45 25 1 402 285 ot Brandon 4423 2 as? 339 90 Lathbridcoe 42:20 0 268 254 66 Pr, Albert 40 29 2 404 353 82 Saskatoon 3636 0 947 350 72 Calgary 36-36 0-353 345 72 Winnipeo 9.62 0 236 566 18 - Division Kamlocps 49 72) 0 460 327 98 New West. 3435 2 302 345 70 Portland 43 37. 0 490 44? 66 Seattle 30090 1 44? 377 63 Victoria — 32 37. 0935391 64 Kelowna 1S 36 1295 446 31 eee a BAGRBALL mo . Nations! Lesgue 5AM FRANCISCO GIANTS invite in spring training. FOOTBALL ce Of HAMILYON TIGER-CATS sign pret eet Ralph. Scholz, outfielder Gene Richards for a Iryout, season-high 24 points in’ the win at Houston. *_ Suns 144, Nuggets 120 Maurice Lucas- scored nine of his 23 points in‘ the- third quarter as. Phoenix shot.65.5 per cent from the field, a record at Arizona : Veterans , Memorial Coliseum. Warriors 103, Sonies 102" ow Barry Carrol, aivt Tigers win home. advantage Wranglers for the aixth ‘and. final | playoff spot. in: the. Eastern |; - Divison: rafter” completion’ of ‘the. ‘Tigeme clubs © ‘Medicine Hat Tigers beat Lethbridge Broncos 52 Tuesday night and clinched home-ice advantage in the Western Hockey League ; playoffs. ‘We never let Lethbridge get inta the game tonight," said” Tigers’. conch Ray : . McKay, “We carried the. - play’ all night, forced them and got turnovers. We - played. 60 minutes of hockey.”. In other games, Brandon Wheat Kings dumped Saskatoon Blades 6-4 and Victoria Cougars beat Kelowna. Wings 9-6. ; Medicine Hat's win meant the second-place Tigers can finish no worse than third in the ‘Eastern’ Division. Heading into tonight’s game. against the Broncos in Leth- bridge, they are one point ahead of third-place Brandon and five points ahead of the fourth-place Broncos. ' The Wheat Kings meet Prince Albert Raiders. in WIESEL,-West Germany ' (AP) — Tamara McKinney of the United States won the final women’s giant slalom. of the World Cup ski season today a felts the. victory, : defending heres cum has no Ratt smal iP agienk mi ee as ofan guard Grey Robert McKinney, . with ~ the Showdeats for a second-round cats fastest second run, finished cholcec In 1985. . PITTSBURGH MAULERS waive runing back Georbe Work and ace tivate guard Ron Hausaver. 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Tuesday's win was, siect revenge for the Tigers; Ten ‘days ‘ago,’ “the: Brogcos handed the ‘Tigers. a-58 _ home-ice less that. virtually Inocked' thern out of* the’ ‘pennant race - with Regina -Pats. " “They did tié’same 1 tous that we didto them the ° last time we were in here,” said Lethbridge coach John : Chapman. °°. “They doininated “us, They beat us to'every Jose : puck out-there tonight.’ ", Rocky * Trotter. and Murray Craven each scored twice for the Tigers and A} Conroy added the fifth geal. Stuart Sage and Steve Nemeth replied for the Broncos. , Brandon 6 Saskatoon 4 ’ In Saskatoon, the Wheat “Kings scored three goals in the third period to beat the Blades. The loss left Saskatoon tied with Calgery. Fernandéz-Ochoa. ‘of. ‘Spain _was third:in 2:14.28; West,. Gérmany’s Marini Kiehl led “ after the first leg bul dropped to fourth when a- disappointing . second. runt. left her with | an , pearegate, . time of 2: 14.43,.. Grice “nt points, but a she failed to ‘add to.her overall totat — only a victory. would ; ints. Hanni. "Wenzel. 7 Liechtenstein, - tinished r Magic’ S| ae points, t ‘Laurie with’ two’ accords, ‘ett gave : ing the Trail Blarersa one-point seconds of the hame victory, victory at, Portland: Spurs 135, Hsia az . Mike Mitchell scored. 48 with 28 poitits, - schedule; ": “Both:- finished with. 36-36 ecords. Victorla 9 Kelowna ‘ : : ; At... . Kelowna, -.. Josepli-: + and °- MacKeigan - ‘scored’ Western Division. remaining. Eric Thurston, the end of the first period, but led 7-5 at the end of the” second, Terry, Zaporzan and: Jeft thelr best - Fenton supplied two goals “each for fhe Wings. McKinney wins. final race eighth and also did not earn : whisper ‘any, additional points. She “has 238 and must finish first or second in the final slalom ; Same? Geevin : Roundffield’ Ted the Hawks Wo Te goals apiece -to pace the Cougars to victory. The win moved’ Victoria one point ahead of Seattle Breakers in the race for the fourth and final playoff spot in the — Both” ‘Seattle ‘and -. Victoria have one* regular-season game, : Paul Bifano, Simon Wheeldon, Tom Martin and . Ken Priestlay had singles-for the Cougars, who trailed 2-1 at - championships en ‘Four wriembers of the Peaks club have qualified for the provincial ~ Jack _ gy¥™Mnastics meet. They are left to right, Andrea Komlos, Jenny Brady, "Coach Dick Coxford, Rosanne Komlos, Suzanne Berky. ; “OTTAWA (cPy _ The . 1964 world figure-skating "were shaping up asa clean sweep ~ for Olympic winners before Canadian pairs champions Barbara Underhill and Paul Martini performed Tuesday’ _ night.’ . Underhill and Martini, in . berformance since. winning _ bronze medals last. year at the “Helsinki | ” Worlds, put themelves in contention for gold medals ‘with a short’ program that ranked a ‘behind Elena "Valova and Oleg Vasiliev of the Soviet: Union, defending champions. and Olympic of the season Saturday in gold-medal winners, Qslo: to have a chance at ees Hess; ee ane de now, with m., Un ints, Hid nfanaae to move“? third’ place in the ‘The free-akating . pairs final is Thursday night, and ei a Martin! say , We did nat we knew we overall standings, She also could do, what we could “placed third in’ the - giant. have done ‘at the Olympics," slalom . standings . with 35 Martini: 23, of Woodbridge, and . Downhill : Vincent, France, slalom - in Puy-Saint-: ‘Gnishing behind Ont, said of thelr seventh- - American .. woe “teammate - ‘Christin Cooper, . Her only rival for the ite with 90, ; : place showing at Sarajevo, . Yugoslavia. “The Olympics “are over, The dog died and “specialist «we buried it,” Graham . ~~ of . Inglewood, Ont: » who did not _ compete here, finished lath. shoulders,” sald Underhill, in giant slalom .with 32: points, 25 of those on the strength of a victory in a’ . Super giant f Sanuary at aTISING ‘ “4 feel as if I've lost 1,000 pounds - from my 1 20,-0F Othawa, Ont., whose “fall in the short program at the: ‘Olympics. obliterated | the pair's medal hopes, “proved I can skate under pressure and I’m - Underhil ¢ and Martini cin: contention for gold « ‘really confident going into the long program.” MAKE TOP 10 Katherina Matousek of New Westminster, B.C., and ‘Lloyd Eisler of. Hamilton are fifth. Cynthia Coull of Greentield Park, Que,, and Mark Rowsom of Waterloo, Ont., are seventh. ; ‘Barlier Tuesday, singles skaters Katarina Witt of East Germany and Scott Hamilton of the United States, both ‘of whom won Olympic gold, took big steps towards world titles. The other Olympic winners, the dance team of Jayne Torvill - and Christopher Dean. of Britain, skate Thursday and are -fayored to win their fourth consecutive title, Witt, 18, added a first in the'Woineh’s shod progtaim to" ‘the * first «‘ahé’ “posted *: compulsory” Monday fa” figures. . Kay Thomson of Toronto redeemed herself for a poor showing at the Olympics, where she finished 12th, by. skating.an excellent short program: thet catapulted her to filth place overall. Elizabeth - Manley of .. Ottawa, who fell ln her short program, ie 10th, . Hamilton, 25,. also going for a fourth straight world litle, received top tnarks In figures as the men’s campetition opened. Brian Orser of Penetangulehetie, .Ont., failed to get the top-three placing he had hoped would put him in striking distance of gold. He wis seventh In figures. HooF “First place how is pretly much ‘out of the: question,’ said Orser,’ third last year. “I'm happy: with the way I skated the Hgures, but; I'm disappointed I'm not higher in the standings.” a Gordon Forbes of Brock- ville, Ont., 18 10th and Gary . Beacom of Toronto is 11th. Thomson, like Underhill and Martini, had something 10 prove here, She had.a disastrous short program at the Olymplés, but .wag’ on the money ‘Tuesday, a “My. gos): today was: to. finish fifth and 1 made it,"" sald, Thomeon,, who ; whould ” improve: ‘on! her" - seventh- place finish Inst year. ‘F'm really happy. I'm ona roll. I just. warit to keep it going.” She gets that chance tonight when the women’s -medals will be distributed after the free-skating final. West German champion Norbert Schramm, silver medallist the last two years, withdrew before his. ‘third compulsory figure after becoming disheartened by ilth-and 12th-place, finishes in the first two figures. Sport Shorts ' QUEBEC (CP) — Olympic gold - medallist Gaetan Boucher was paraded through the streets of the provincial capital Tuesday, toasted and awarded a silver medal by Richard Guay, national . assembly Speaker. The medal, bearing an engraving of the. national . assemly bullding, is offéred to dignitaries visiting the provincial legislature, * Boucher, who started his. speedskating career in suburban Ste-Foy, thanked Guay dor ‘the highest honor that could be given: to a ‘Quebecer,” and encouraged the Quebec government- to keep supporting amateur sports. Boucher won two: gold medals and one silver . _medal in ithe = winter Olympics at. - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. last motth, following that with a victory in the world apeedskating championships. In the national assembly, : where Boucher waa given a standing ovation, Pretnier Rene Levesque lauded him as “an extraordinary. model of the tenacity, combined Oe with exceptional talent; that’. ©<. leads to excellence and the pinnacle In any domain of: activity.” SOUTHAMPTON, England (AP). — Sotthamplon, an English League First Division team, - ~ advanced lo the semifinals of the English. Football. Association, Cup - SOCCER | competition with a 5-1 ‘labor | ~ the. victory Tuesday night over Sheffield Wednesday of the Second Division. ’ ‘The teams had played to a scoreless draw 10 days ago. Southampton is to play Everton in one semifinal. The other . semifinal is between Watford and . Plymouth Argyle of the Third Division. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — . The National Association of Referees, - throigh - -lawyer .. Richie: Basketball Phillips, announced Tuesday it has filed unfair practice ‘charges against the Basketball Assotlation ‘for ihe firing of referee Joseph Gushue. . The complaint, flied with National = - Labor Relations “Board, charges Gushue’s contract was terminated ‘because of ‘his. union actlvities, The union said he gave an alfidavit to the NLRB in. connection ‘LANGLEY, BC.- (CP) — Centre Paul Lellevre scored twice to lead Langley Engles to a 6-2 win Tuesday aver Nanaimo Clippers in * B.C. Junior Hockey League . playoff action. Langley léads the best-of- seven semifinal 2-1. Next Nattonal - with the labor dispute between the union and the league last fall. The complaint was filed with the board's: Philadelphia office.: CARACAS (AP) — Venezuels will send a token team to the Summer . Fortner, Jerry Barton and. Olympics in Los Angetes, rather -than- pass up the Games” as originally plattned, the president of the country’s Olympic’ com- mittee sald Tuesday. Last week, the Natignil Sports Institute said ny Venezuelan athletes would participate in the: Olympics because of: Venezuela's econdmic -erisis ‘and ‘a’ governinént-ordered sterity program, ‘Bu. Jesus Chirinos, president. of the Venezuelan Olympic Committee, Said Tuesday ag _ Many as 12 athletes will represent. Venezuela at Los - Angele, including five who. are currently -studying in. the United Bintes, rv Time’ had tobe destroyed. ice ee ees BCJHL Roundup - game is tonight in Nanaimo. Nei] Reimer, — Farl Graham, Darin Alexander and Darin Choquette also scored for the Eagles, who were: firat in the Constal | Division during the regular Gord Simpson and ‘aim - Niekason replied for the HOT SPRINGS; Ark, (AP) -- Three jockeys were injured and two horses had to be destroyed after one of the leaders broke a leg in the second race at Oaklawn Park race track Tuesday. The jockeys, Jodie John Court, were taken toa city hospital. - Barton and Court were treated and released: Fortrier waa being ‘held pending the results. of: some tests, She was listed. as being in stable condition. Tipay Gipsy, ridden by _ atier, was among the. leaders slightly before ihe three-sixteenth pole when. she snapped a.leg and went down, What A Gem, ridden by Barton, tumbled over Tipsy Gipsy, 7.C.’s .Time Sot caught in the tangle and also fell. : Tipsy Gipsy and T.C’s Clippers, who trailed ‘ia after the first period and feli behind 42 after. “ minutes of play, - Goaltender Beat Braiey ‘Taade 16’ saves for. -the Eagles, while Ken. Trousdel . stopped 28: shots for. the — Cilppers, :