‘decade aga. ‘They: .won _ ‘three straight World Series gaines. ‘from Baltimore” . Orioled in. 1979.- tines and the Pirates latest pueéews “caine, | ‘Thursday.’ ‘night wher’ they’ “Pittaburgh ‘Pirates’ won ~ three straight division titles .- streak “€ won thtée games in a- row. for the first time all said after Pittsburgh edged Montreal Expos 5-4 un a tie- Local Sports Shiorts - Kitimat hockey meets: Kitimat Minor Hockey's annual general meeting and election of officers takes place Sunday night at 7:20 p.m. In» the Riverlodge Recreation Centre's activity room. ; All. people interested in next year's minor hockey program should attend. this very important meeting. Shopper’ s wins another ; Shopper's Drug Mart handed Knights of Columbus ase defeat Thursday night in Pony League play at Rotary Park. The Terrace Minor Baseball Association’s Pony League hosts a Smithers team Sunday in a playday at Rotary Park, -beginning at 9:30a.m. The first game has Kinsmen playing ‘Shoppers, while at 12:30 noon the winner‘ playa Smithers. “st : There will also be games at 3 p.m, and 5:30pm, . a ‘ Tonight's regular action has. Terrace Esso playing _ Terrace Co-op in the Mosquito division and Far-Ko Con- - -tracting meeting Credit Union in the Bronco division, both games to be played at Agar Park. - There will also be’ a regular Pony League game at Rotary: Parke all games. ‘to. begin at 6:45 p.m. . Thursday's miner beeen : - Four games were played in Kitimat minor lIncrosse Thursday night at Tamitik sports complex. . : ¥ and 5S Insulating edged CASAW 6-4 in the Tyke Novice division game, with two goals each by Jeff Smith and Glenn Miller leading the way. Jessie Hammil and Ben Dunn each . “scored once for Y and, while Ben Munro had two and Tim - Link and Sean Lehman both had onefor CASAW. me Majestic Jewellers beat Elks 5-2 in the Pee Wee division . ’ game,’ but: no-scoring details: ‘were~ available ‘from: that ~ game. ° In the Bantam, division game, Kitimat ‘Buildall took OK _ Tire 7-3. Adam Taylor, David Monti and Steve ‘Warnock each had a pair with Blaine Moore completing the scoring, while for OK it was Kevin Graham with two and Lee _ Whittman with-one.”! The Midget-Senior gare had Kitimat Landscaping taking a 12-7 decision from Legion 250. Landscaping really spread . the scoring around, with Brian Seaby and Jelf Sherstabetotf each getting two and Bob McLéod, Tom Bare, Dave. Dugdale, Mickey. Williams, Les Martindale, Ian . Buick, _ Tom Meir and Jim Young getting the-others. Brad Gwen and Breck Moore had three each and Aaron Callihoo ‘had the other for Legion. All players are reminded that the walkathon - begins. Sunday at 11-a,m,-at-Nechako Centre, and thet pledge sheets should be brought along. — . f season, - “It's a guod feeling -and-. hopefully just a -start,”.-” ..hahager- Chuck. Tanner But these are “tougher a DY Pena in: ‘the ‘bolton * 10th inning.’ ee F “We have. ‘b. keep. it. - going,’ ” gaid- Pena; the - -young catcher whu also beat Los Angeles the night befure - with a two-run single in the. buttum of the ninth. “Thia is a great win,” said -Mike Easler, who singled home -one run and saved another with :a lunging | catch in left field; “I can: feel the moinentuw ." inty town Monday as win- ners of seven of their last, eight games, figured to add "to their win total in a four- game set against the last- -Place Toronty Blue Jays. It ‘didn’t. quite turn ‘wut. that way. Luis Leal -slamimed the door-on any. Yankee hopes of.- earning at leasta split in the series Thursday night as he fired a four-hitter. tu pace _ the Blue Jays to a 31: Healthy Thomton ¢ ‘CLEVELAND (AP) — largely unnoticed that a healthy ‘Thornton: is the Ainerican’ ‘League's must efficient hitter. - The a2-year-uld is forcing people to notice him this. _ year, He. has hit-16 home runs and driven i in 51 runs in baseball major leagues in _ both categories. — ~ “Ithink there have been tines J have swung the bat’ as well, but the difference is that this.is early in the ’. seasun,"” Thornton said. “You don't hit 25 to 30 home ‘rus without a span like this, but this is the first time. ‘in my career I've done this’ in the first couple of mnon-. ths, ay . Thornton hit a career- high 33 home runs in. ~ Cleveland i in 1978, and since « . joining the. _ Indians ‘in a Eurtetan Pulpand. 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The game.— the only one in the National League ‘Thursday. night —: was ..a -snakeup of an Expos- Pirates. contest . that: Was. “snowed out the first week of - the Beabun. Am erica League baseball _-vietory and give Toronto "three of the fuur gaines. _The unly other American League gaine scheduled for ‘: Thursday, Texas Rangers -at Baltimore to face the Orivles, because of rain.: . It was pitching and ‘defence that hurt the Yankees. In the three-wins, . the Teronto pitchers limited the Yankees -iu.six, seven _and four hits, . respectively. “Toronto has’ improved, ' trade with Chicago Cubs in _ With all the misfortune that — "hag strick Andre Thorntun_ since ‘he joined Cleveland - Indians‘in 1977; it Has gone 1977, he has made his hits count, driving in one run for every’: 5.32 ‘at bats. That mark -leads all American League hitters with-at least’ _1,500- at bats during, the saine period:: But-he has also had inure than his share of problems, . on and off the field, during _ that span. In, 1977, his wife ., and daugh riled, en hand, injuries, 4“ 48 gaines to Iead" the’! devant he JS ‘ ao was. postponed ’ into the mid-teets Thureday ms night) ‘and the géme drew a “Sparse: crowd, ‘of 4,158, in- Cluding . 1,649 ‘ateelworkers . _and their: families -whu: ~~bought $1- discount: tickets ” on Steelworkers Night. - The game didn't start well fur the “Pirates as. third- inning’ homers ~ by Tim." Raines and Andre | Dawsun — gave Montreal a 0 lead off. Dow ‘Robinson. quite a bit," sald Yankee, : outfielder Oscar Gamble. “They showed us they can . play real goud’defence.” . * Blue Jays catcher Buck ~Martinez; whu drove in the first run in the second: in- ning with a duuble to right - ‘that scored’ Anthony Johnson, believes Leal is cuining intu his own. “He's pitched real. guod an for us all year,’’ said Martinez, “His recurd (4 3). we haven't been’ “able to van he was driving hit an — icy patch. Thorntun and a: son survived. ; "He ‘has since remarried. and had another son, but-his baseball career has been ~Sidetracked several times. - He missed the 1980. seasun after tearing up. his knee, “during the: spring, and ‘he lust anuch of -1881° to: two’ - Ppa «efor: don. schaifer | “An .- put later; Dawson hit’ une over.. the wall for his ninth homer. come from behind in all: ‘three of their. wins, scored twice in the fuurth un’ RBI- - singles by Johnny Ray and Easler off: Expos starter Steve Rogers. =. . In the. filth, Raines doubled an scured by a. seore’ wnany runs for him. - -“The big thing with Luis _is that he's got confidence in his ability now. The key tu tonight's game was that he. was able tu stay ahead of the-hitiers,”’ Leal, a 25-year-old native of Venezuela, was also able * to extend his lifetime mark against Tuminy John to 3-0. John, - who -pitelied’.twu innings of relief in Monday's loss, gave up nine hits and 5. ‘Thornton scents his success as evenly | handled his irdubles, A .. devout Christian, ‘he’ and furiner .Cleveland. Indian Pat Kelly ‘cunduct off- Season camps primarily for ‘inner-city youths, and he. -alsu. has’ attended Bible college classes, T don't feel any different ° | nae AnADAS ARN sh that. Gentleman Gerry fo nice ‘LAS VEGAS, Nev. CAP) —.Gerry Cooney is a fan of . the movie Gentleman Jim, starring. Errol Flynn as a heavyweight cha:npion. ° “And, being a fighter. himself, Cooney likes to be ‘called Gentleman Gerry. But Cuoney’s fighting style - belies the nickname. ~ “In, the ring, Gerry ~ changes,’ says trainer - 'f Vietur Valie. ‘He: is like an Some things are still free . Sica ; for instance, a tour of our - Kitimat aluminum smelter. animal, a leopard. -“'He~ Is a . completely different guy. I’ve never _ Seen a guy .changeé so inuch, - T call him Dr. Jekyll and “ ‘Mr. Hyde,”- Cooney agrees with the Jekyll-and- Hyde image he creates: “] believe 1 have a split personality, une in the rhe : ‘boxing “and une vut of it,” he says. “I pulisome of the besi-gags yuu can imagine,” “But he hasn't left any ‘opponents laughing. “Tnwinning all 25 of his pro fights, the 6-fuol-5. 25-year- old heavyweight has scored: 21 knuckouts, eight of then - in the firstround. In his last _ . fight, on May 11, 1081, he . battered -Ken -Norten sen- seless in 4 seconds. ““T get In the ring and _ Something cues over ine,” Cuoney says. ‘I never wante > tu look bad “in the gyn or anywhere." About the Norton fight he says: “I was hitting him and he looked unconscious. [ was sort uf luoklng for ‘the | referee to do something, but - I didn't stop punching. “I've been taught “you : don't stop punching uit you're tld to:stop,"" Despite his {power, - however, Cuoney. has a ' reputation for being. fragile. - Back injuries forced him | to pull out of fights against Ernie Shavers, °. Mike _Koranicki and Joe-Bugner. . And a torn muscle in bis left. : shoulder, suffered while . “sparring, forced a .pust- Ponement of his title bid ‘against: heavyweight ~champion Larry” Holines, which had’ been’ set “fur Marchi, Cooney and Holmes -are _ How.set to meetin the ring” . on-June KH. “ Couney has - become -- thuroughly: tired of talking about -the injury, which - Hulmes has suggested was convenient because Cooney You'll like their looks . “ tatalogue or” " representative... P.O. Box 790 ‘Terrace, B.C. 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The Jays added a-run in the’ second’ when Alfredo ‘Griffin’ drove Martinez -home with-a two-out single to right. - . Turento’s other’. run ac- “RBI 31 single to right: “the Lord has blessed’ me,” Thornton said. “The thing ‘is, I feel extremely goud, * Tm seeing:. the ball well, we're playing well, and _ those things all kelp out.” run vutput this week, slugging. une in, each of ~~ Cleveland’s last four games as the Indians pushed their’ winning “streak we! 10 games. He accelerated his hume - active Blayers, ” ot . ’ Te . nein home.- ‘with: A » double -up ‘the: iniddle that - won the ‘game: for. reliever ‘Rod: Sourry: - It was the second lose in a. roy for the Expos, but they - | ‘have been, playing well. lately and inanager Jim Fanning ‘tovk -the narruw defeat in stride... a “We'd won nine but of 11 The Jays open a four- ‘game. stand :: ‘Cleveland Indians tonight while the Yankees j gu home for’ a three-game. sertes J just go out.there to. pitch _ against, Dick Howser's Kansas City Royali. ; The lone Yankee -ryn cane in the fourth when Gamble singled, rioved. to third un a double by John Mayberry — his first hit in 20 at-bats against his for- ‘mer teammates — and came -home on Graig: Nettles grounder to _ demanding é attention this year Thornton's home run 5 pace “now. equals. that ‘recorded: - when Roger Maris hit 61 for New York Yankees in 1961. ‘Thornton’ 3s RBI total: has “been helped because he is, hopes" coming in heré, which is nut - all that bad,” said Fanning............ against. hitting behind Tuby Harrah, 4 ‘who leads. the league in hitting at :393, and Mike ‘Hargrove, the leader in on- base percentage. anne guy | in the ting wanted to fight in June in: the first-place. : Sumething . else annoys - Cooney —-the label ‘White™ Hope. Holmes insists that . _ being white helped Cooney. ubtain his No. 1 ranking and keep it despite’ not fighting in 13 wonths.” * “There is no color. in- . valved,” says Cooney. “I'm just a white fighter. - ‘For’ Cuoney, the path toward | tlile fight. began “with his father, ‘Tony, an ironworker who took an . active interest in his four | suns and two daughters. _ When Gerry was 10, his father stuck four: poles in. the backyard and put a rope ‘around them for a ring, — Tony Cooney ‘died -of “cancer at age 55, an event . which crushed Gerry, who then was an amateur with a ' 55-2 reevrd. He quit boxing “and didn't hae for the ‘disciplinarian and 1976 U.S. Olyinpic team... ‘~ But the lure of. the Matty fee » OD wee] vet 4 ” was \strung. and: Cooney | “Feturned as a pro under the management of Dennis Rappapurt and Mike Jones, twu Long Island real estate — nen. They searched tor a trainer and came up with Valle, 63, a who seemingly isa father figure for Cooney. _ Boxing has brought Gerry’ Cooney millions of dollars -mmuch” unwanted celebrity status. The ‘championship would bring strict” him ‘a lyt-inore money and + -attention, But Cooney says the only _ thing -he is Jouking forward tu is attending his 10th high schovl reuniun in 1984as the. heavyweight champiun :of - the world.” Pintor wants Gomez LOS ANGELES (AP) — ~ Lupe Pintor says, “bring un » Gomez" after being thank- - ful the referee stopped his final. bantamweight- boxing = _--title-bout and awarded hin a knockout verdict: ” Pintor, z.of Mexico City, - had ‘broken the nose of challenger Seung: Houn Lee - “ED in the sixth rotind Thursday "night, but the fight--went ~ until 46 seconds intu,the Uth.: - round when). referee. Rudy, Jorden. called. a ‘halt. gheu » The last time Pintor ‘had: - fought ‘aL the. Olytnpics: he / fatally... injyred.. Johnny... - Owen, of; Wales” -and-.‘he ‘ Wanted: no repeat. wf thal. . “ta, ‘glad. the. referee . ‘.- slopped ihe fight because L ‘was hurting Lee -and: ‘he _ wasn't. returning the. pun- . ehes,"'. Pinter sald, ."l ‘{ repeat, 1 will ne lunger fight " in the 118 avian Bring.” - Gamez, Pintor ae ‘sito re for’ his. defence While lee’ _pallvetod $30) *famweight ‘and cali. ous ‘wake. ihe - super ° tee tinutt: oF 122.” “ said. ‘Pintor: has defended: the ‘ e World Buxing Council: ~— bantamweight cruwn eight tines and WBC president dJuse Sulaiman gald: “Yea, -I- went..to see the Pintor- ‘Goinez, fight. It: will ‘be: a | battle of two Brest chain- sO plona. " Lee used his oxing skill . tu styinie: the champion in the. early rounds and deck |’ ~ him in the fifth with'a right: hand at-a thee Pintor said” i, he was objecting tw butting. os ‘Then Pintor, vio has had. oe “rouble ‘Waking’ the“ 118. _, und, limit; gaid he will. no Yonger: light ‘8a ban: - Pintur is now 48-441: vith. 36 kniuchiute. Lee | 21. +h “thats: relingishes '. hi wants trimateh t . ‘ ee - crown. Le had been Not eters