we By THE CANADIAN PRESS Paul Blair's first National ’ League hit, a two-run homer, and balk a sixthinning tie Iped Cincinnati Reds to 4 7-3 victory ‘over Pitt." aburgh Pirates on Sunday. The 35-year-old Blair, re- leased in April by New York Yankees after an American League career spent mainly with Baltimore, was signed last week by the Reds as a free agent, and he made his Mens Fastball -The Terrace Mens Fast- ball schedule opened with a Single game Saturday, and three more Sunday, as All Seasons-Terrace Shell, ‘Terrace. _International, Prince Rupert, and the. Skeena Cedar ‘Kings emerged victorious. over * Houlden Logging, Lachance Logging, Houldens L ogsing, and Williams Moving. & Storage respectively. @ season opener Saturday between All- Seasons-Terrace Shell was close until All Seasons: Terrace Sheli exploded for- six runs In the fifth inning to open. up’ a 9-2 lead, All ’ Seasons-Terrace Shell's _ advantage was only 3-2 until then, and Houlden's were very much in the game. The winning pitcher was Bob Couture, while John San- dahls took the loss. Keith Scott was 3 for 4 with 2 RBIs for All Seasons-Terrace - Shell, Sunday’ 8 action opened with Terrace International winning @ 15-3 match against Lachance Logging. A six run outburst in. the first inning got Terrace International off on the right foot, and they just kept piling on the runs the rest of the way. Lachance Legging notched all their runs in the third inning. Jake Gurtsma got the victory for Terrace In- ternational, while Ray Lachauce ‘was the losing pitcher. The second game Sunday saw Prince Rupert's entry into the Terrace Mens Fasthall League count seven runs in the first inning, and coast to a 16-3 win over — Houlden’s Logging. Prince Rupert added another in the second inning, two each in the third and fourth, three in the 5th, and one in the sixth. Houlden’s scored all their runs in the seventh inning. Bates was the-winning plt- cher for Prince Rupert, while Morris Sam took the loss for Houlden’s. Sunday's final game saw the Skeena Cedar Kings shut RECORD SET. Favorite loses race -PARIS (AP) — Top. Ville, upset heavily favored Irish River in race-record time in the $249,-400 Prix Lupin for three-yearolds at Longchamp race track Sunday. The classic, a stepping- stane for those aiming at the Prix du Jockey Club next month, was supposed to be a _ runaway for Irish River, who _ had won pate of ne elght career zr ea phiogn. “But. Sine y's: Ts miles was the first race of more than a mile for the odds-on favorite, and the distance proved too long for Trish . River. - top of. ‘the | The winner ‘was put into third place éarly in running by top jockey Yves Saint-Martin. and stayed there until the stretch when he came between horses to take the lead. Irish River, an ungainly colt and a slow starter, was eighth in the field of nine three-yearolds for most of the early running. He moved wide with good speed at the Stretch to challenge Top Ville and Wol- verton, who yas in second place. Irish River got within half a length of the winner at midstretch but then hung, - WEEKEND BASEBALL ROUNDUP first start with the Reds in centre field, After Ray Knight singled to open the sixth, Blair homered olf John Candelaria to give the Reds a 3-1 lead, Cincinnati added two more ‘ out Williams Moving & Storage 4-0. The game was scoreless ‘until the fourth inning, when the’ Cedar Kings counted two, and they added another two in. the sixth to round out the scoring. Dwayne Popp notched the win for the Cedar Kings, while "RJ. Findley was the losing pit- cher for Williams. The game was highlighted by a stellar relief performance by the Cedar Kings Denby Page, * who took over from Popp in the fifth, and recorded seven strikeouts the rest of. the way. . _ The Terrace Mens Fast- ball League schedule calls for 7:20 p.m. games every Tuesday and Thursday night, and three games ‘on Sundays beginning at! p.m., 3pm, and 7:30 p.m. The next scheduled game is tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., al Riverside Park, when Williams Moving & Stcrage will take on Terrace In- ternational. : and, fell back despite being the ‘whipped by jockey Maurice Philipperon. He finished third, three- quarters of a length behind Wolverton, who was a length behind Top Ville. The winner's time of 2:09.30 was a record for the Prix Lupin. Top Ville, trained by Francois Mathet, earned $116,-280 for his owner, the Aga Khan, boosting his career. bankroll a to'$213,700," The defeat for Trish River, a son of Riverman, was his first in three starts this year and his second in nine career Faces, | Heinonen takes rally * CHILLIWACK, B.C, (cP) — Taisto Helnonen of Langley, B.C., held onto win the Pacific Forest Rally Sunday when his closest * competitar dropped his drive shaft with 6.8 kilometres to go, Californian Rod Millen, a three-time New Zealand _vally champ, was closing” quickly on Heinonen and co- driver Tom Burgess of Burnaby, B.C,, when the mechanical problems knocked him. out of the race. The win over the 600-kilo- metre course which included 330 kilometres of back roads around this Fraser Valley community left Heinonen as top driver in the Canadian rally series and Burgess as top codriver, It was the third stop in the series which continues in two weeks in Winnipeg. Jeff Vanderwall of Van- couver and co-driver Robin Edwards of Quebec City were second in the open class while Steve Roberts and Don Gibson of Seattle were third. The Calgary husband-and- wife team of John and Lynn Nixon won the production class. Nixon Is third in the drivers’ standings while his wite is second among co- . drivers, Doug Leverton of London, Ont., was second in the preduction class and remained second in the overall drivers’ standings. His co-driver was Ken - Humphry, also of London, Ron Mistry and Fat Bhacho of Vancouver were third. Another Calgary team — Jim Standon and co-driver Shaw Bishop — won the novice class while Richard Baer and Terry Skewchuck . of Grande Prairie, Alta., were second, Calgary team is chosen TORONTO (CP) — An ail- Calgary. team. was chosen Sunday to represent Canada in synchronized swimming at the Pan-American Games in Puerto Rico in July. World: champion Helen Vandenburg will compete in the singles and join with Kelly Kryczka in the duet event, Calgary Aquabelles were selected for the team competition. In the FINA World Cup August, the Calgary single duet entries will be joined by the Quebec YWCA team, which edgd the Aquabelles in the national championships in Toronto Saturday: Vandenburg and the Quebec team were alsu picked for the Pan-Pacifie championships in Christ- church, N.Z., in November, together with Leana and Lyn Carrier of Quebec in the competition at Tokyo in duet Guidry starts Wednesday NEW YORK (AP) — The great experiment with Cy Young Award winner Ron Guidry 8 New York Yankees' late-Lnning bullpen ace may be nearing an end. Guldry was brillant in two relief outings last week and ‘was in the bullpen for Sun- day's game agalnat California Angels, But the _ Yankees now need him more aa a starter. Manager Bob Lemon said © Sunday that Guidry is sched- led to start against Detroit Tigers on Wednesday and _ again next Monday in Detroit, at Cleveland on May 31 and at Milwaukee on May: 1, iwfhowe are -teams In our division and a ceuple of them ae ahead of us," Lemon sal Guidry volunteered a little over a week ago to fill the bullpen vold until injured relief ace Rich Gossage returns froma thumb injury. The Yankees acquired vet- eran left-hander Jim Kaat from Philadelphia Phillles on Friday for the bullpen. Management also was im- pressed with Dick Tidrow's For the Swiss international open competition at Zurich in August, identical twins Penny and Vicky Vilagos of Montreal were chosen for the single and duet events along with a second duet entry of Margo Mountjoy and Mary Jane Lang of Hamilton. The team will be chosen from members of the Vancouver Aquasonics and Hamilton Synchronized Swimming ab. relief work Saturday in pitching out of serious trouble — not of his own making — and hurling two scoreless innings, Meanwhile, winiess Catfish Hunter, who had “been listed as Wednesday's starter, will mizs at least one turn because of a stralned lower left rib cage, _ runs in the sixth for all the runs Mike LaCoss needed to post his fourth victory against no defeats. Elsewhere in the National League on Sunday, Joe Niekro tossed a five-hitter + for his second shutout of the season as Houston Astros defeated Chicago Cubs 2-0. George Hendrick drove in three runs with a double and a single and Ken Oberkfell -beited a tworun homer, powering St. Louis Cardinals to a 7-3 victory over Allanta Braves, Joe Ferguson homered and doubled to lead a 13-hit Los Angeles attack as the Dodgers ran their winning streak to seven games with an 8-2 victory over Montreal. Mike Schmidt hit the 200th. home run of his major league career and scored four runs for Philadeiphia as the Phillies beat San Francisco Giants 12-3, , Gene Richards hil a bases- loaded single to score Dan Briggs and give San Diego Padres a 5-4 victory over New York Mets in 10 innings. In. the NL Saturday, Los Angeles defeated Montreal 4- 4, Pittsburgh topped Cin- cinnati 3-2, San Francisco defeated Philadelphia 4-1, St. Louis beat AUlanta 7-6, San Diego lopped New York 2-1 and Houston split a doubleheader. with Chicago winning 11-3 and losing the second game 2-0. In the American League, Graig Nettles drove in five runs with a homer and single and made three outstanding fielding plays at third base, helping New York Yankees beat California Angels 12-10. George Scott and Butch Hobson hit home runs ‘and Chuck Rainey pitched athree-hitter as Boston Red Sox capitalized on Oakland miscues to down the A's 8-2, John Wathan’s two-run -homer capped a five-run The Herald, Monday, May 14, 1976, Page 7 Blair’ sf firet NL homer key to Reds victory _ fourth inning, and Willie Wilson's first: major league homer, a two-run, insidethe- park shot, powered Kansas City Royals to a 14-5 victory over Chicago White Sox. Wayne Garland won for the first time in more than a year, pitching’ Cleveland Indians past Minnesota Twins 3-2 with late relief help. Jason Thompson, Rusty Staub and Steve Kemp blasted home runs to support Jack Morris' pitching and lead Detroit Tigers over Milwaukee Brewers 6-2. Mark Lemongello gained his first victory of the season, pitching Toronto a ‘Blue Jays to a 3-1 victory over Texas Rangers with an eigh:-hitter In the opener of a double-header. Mike Jorgensen’s three-run homer capped a sever-run eighth inning as the Rangers won the nightcap 7:5. The Seattle-Baltimore game was postponed by rain. In Saturday's Rion, Texas topped Toronto 3-1, New York edged California 6-5, Boston clubbed Oakland B-2, Milwaukee shaded Detroit 3-2, . Minnesota blanked Cleveland 40, Balti- more topped Seattle 4-2 and Kansas City defented Chicago 54. Lenda hand... our land to clean PITCH-IN'79, Keep Canada Beautiful MONTREAL (CP) — goal by Bob Atwell at 2:38 of overtime earned Peterborough Petes the top prize in Canadian Memorial Cup — as the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League repre- sentatives - defeated Sunday. The Petes had pressured and pursued the Wheat Kings of the Western Hockey League relentlessly throughout - the third perlod and the overtine. | Had it not been for the work of Bart Hunter in the Brandon net, the . game would not have required extra time to play. . Hunter, borrowed from Portland Winter Hawks for the Cup series, had 36 shots fired at him by the Petes, while Brandon Junior Hockey — the — Brandon Wheat Kings, 2 1. could manage only 20 shots at Ken Ellicott in the Peterborough goal. _ The teams exchanged first-perlod goals with Tim Trimper scoring for Peterborough and Brian Propp for Brandon. The first period was apparentiy set aside as ‘much for intimidation purposes as scoring goals as both teams bumped, boarded and were pushed and shoved after almost every whistle. The Petes held a man advantage on, two oc- casions before the game was -Jive minutes old. They were blanked on these occasions, however, by strong play by the Brandon defence and Hunter in the net. But it was the Petes who opened the scoring as Trimper gave Peter- borough a 1-0 lead at 9:12 of the period. Hunter had PETES WIN MEMORIAL CUP litde chance to handle Trimper's deflection of Stuart Smith's drive from the blue line. At 14:50 Brandon's Laurie Boschman and Mark Reeds of the Petes ‘drew penalties. Just as the pair were returning to the ice Propp, the talented Brandon left winger, brought the game to a tie as he beat Ellacott. Tn all, referee Jean-Guy Desrochers handed out 10 minor penalties and tacked: on coincidental misconducts to Don Gil- len of Brandon and Keith Crowder of the Petes. The teams settled down In the second period with only two miner penalties assessed and both' sides ‘enjoyed excellent scoring ’ opportunities only to have Eliacott and Hunter control the game with fine displays of goaltending. voted for us. commitment, FRANK HOWARD urn THANK YOU. Thanks to all-the voters in Skeena for taking part in the Provincial Election. Thanks to those whe were attracted fo our philosophy and she Thanks to those wha worked so diligently - so thoughifully - $0 carefully - for us throughout the campaign. There is 2 tremendous challenge i in the future for, all of us. 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