PAGE 6, THE HERALD; Tuesday, June 27, 1978 ~* ""” Poesn’t look like Reds-Dodgers annual showdown to happen The National League West Divi ion race this year was supposed to be another scramble between Cin- cinnatl Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers. Well, here it, {s, the last week in June, barely two weeks shy of the baseball all- star break, and the Reds and Dodgers are, indeed, scrambling—to avoid falling too far behind San Francisco Giants. At the moment the Dodgers, the league's defending champions, ‘are third, 3% games behind Cincinnati and six behind the Giants. The Reds’ 5-4 victory Sunday had something to do with it, Cincinnati is just 2% back only because the Giants couldn't sweep Atlanta. They won $3 in the first game but lost 84 in the 1t1-inning second game. i Elsewhere, Philadelphia Phillies took a two-game lead over sagging Chicago in the East with a 42 victory over the Cubs, Pittsburgh Reds slam third place closed by Dave Hamilton The Terrace Reds won two games on the weekend to finish in third place at the Annual Hazelton Tour- nament in Hazelton - a round robin affair. The Reds started the tourney by defeating the Moricetown Cubs 8-7 in an extra Inning game. The Reds were behind from the start as they arrived fifteen minutes late which gave the Cups a penalty lead of 1 point when the game began. After the regulation seven innings the score was tied at seven in a conteat- that featured errors by both clubs. The score remained tied until the top af the twelfth when Reds Lance Legouffe received a walk, took second on a pass ball, stole third then scored on an overthrow for the steal. Both pitchers went the distance with Jim Kellar picking up the win and Garry McKinnon being tagged with the logs. The Reds next game, scheduled for 5:35 p.m. Saturday, had to be played at 8:30 a.m, Sunday due to the Reds twelve innlng game and a similar contest bet- ween Hazelton and Houston. Sunday morning the Reds faced the Quesnel Hobos and dropped a 7-1 decision in a game the Reds were never really in. The Hobo pitcher threw a one hitter in gaining the victory while Wayne: L’Estrange took the loss for the Reds, : This left the Reds second in their division and they had to play the first place team from Division B. Squared off against the Hazelton Braves the Reds came backto within onerun beforedropping an 8- 7 decision. With the Reds behind 8-5 in the seventh they began a ralley scoring twice and loading the bases just before Brian Dubasov retired the side. Duhasov picked up the win and Jim Kellar the loss. Immediately following that game the Reds played the Moricetown Grizzlies for third place contest. Terrace’s Jim Kellar lost his contro] in this game and Wayne L’Estrange came on in relief to pick up the win. Red's Phil Webb led the way with a home run and e& double. Terrace picked up the win via a six run sixth Loning, fo record a 12-6 win. Hazelton won the tourney a game later as they defeated the Quesnel club by 3-2. The Reds next action is on July Sth when they host the Smithers Glaciers, Return for Giants By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS After plummeting to. last..... plaké .fcom..fixst..in the. ...two rte Esgtecn Division Y Pacific Coast League, Phoenix Giants have bounced back to win eight of their last 11 games. After splitting a Sunday doubleheader with Spokane, winning the first game 7-3 and dropping the nightcap to the Indians 5-4 in 11 innings, the Giants are in fourth place, four games back of first-place Albuquerque. The Dukes had to go 10 in- nings to subdue Vancouver Canadians 4-3, remaining half a game ahead of second- place Salt Lake City as the Gulls squeaked past Por- tland Beavers 8-7. Tucson Toros remained in third place, one game behind. Albuquerque, with a 12-3 thumping of Hawaii Islan- ra, . In the Western Division, Tacoma's lead over second- place Portland grew to eight games as the Yankees disposed of San Jose Missions 4-2. Art Gardner’s pair of two- run doubles led the way for Phoenix in the opener. In the nightcap, Jack Heidemann hit a solo home mun and later scored the winning run from second base on a single by John Buffamoyer. Jack Leonard homered for Albuquerque to tie the score in the eighth inning, then drove in the winning run with a triple in the 10th, Van- couver’s runs all scored on Bruce Robinson’s homer in the second inning. Gil Kubski's two-run homer and Tom Donohue’s solo blast helped get Salt Lake off to an 8-2 lead after three innings. Dave Rosello. led Portland, driving in four runs with three hits. Tuns, one by draving a wal with “the “bases isadad. Hawaii pitchers gaye up 12 walks, while the Toros issued nine. . Right-hander Bob Kam- meyer won his ninth straight game without a™ loss this season, holding San Jose to five hits while -going the distance on the mound for Tacoma. Tommy Cruz got the Yankees started on the - scoreboard with a-golo home run in the second inning. MANY SKIS SNATCHED - TAHOE CITY, Calif. (AP) — An increase in.ski thefts was reported here last winter. ‘“‘It's no longer something we can take lighily,”’ said Placer County Sheriff's Capt, Max Bennett. During one weekend alone, $7,000-worth of ski equip- ment was stolen in Placer County, which includes four major ski areas and several smaller ones. WEST VANCOUVER (CP) — Two North Vancouver teenagers will ‘represent. British Columbia in the national skateboard finals Friday in Ottawa after winning the B.C, amateur skateboard competition here Sunday. oo Scott Osborne and Kelly Greenberg, -both 14, beat 18 other contestants to advance to the finals. Ex-heavy champ dies BRANTFORD, Ont. (CP) — Billy Maich, 68, who won the Canadian professional heavyweight title In 1997 and immediately retired from boxing, died of aheart attack at his home Monday. A native of Fort William {now Thunder Bay, Ont), Maich began fighting at 17 e Canadian jonship five a firat-round nipeg. In 1933 he twice won by knockouts over George Hees, a football star who was later to become a Progressive Conservative cabinet minister, The fights against Hees were in Maple Leaf . Gardens in Toronte and Maich won the firat with a KO at 80 seconds of the firat round and the second in the - second round, . He represented Canada in the 1934 British Empire Games in London, later turned professional and won | the vacant pro crown with a first-round knockout | of Prince Edward Islander George Leslie in Charlot- tetown Aug. 5, 1937. Although in his prime, he retired, a move he later . explained by saying he had found Jesus Christ as his persona) Savior and wanted to “fight for God.” He is survived by his wife Agnes, two sons, Robert, president of Mac's Con- venience Stores; Tom, a political science graduate of | Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ont.; daughiers, Nancy, a nurse in Brantford, and Pamela, an ‘uray. technician in“Tororto- .— and two | Pirates beat New York Mets 4-0, St. Louls Cardinals beat Montreal Expos 7-5 and San Diego Padres swept Houston Astrod 6-1 and 7-4. EXPOS WIN On Saturday, San Fran- cisco defeated Atlanta 2-1, Los Angeles beat the Reds 4- 3, Montreal blanked the Cards 2-0, the Phillies beat ‘Chicago 6-2, Pittsburgh defeated New York 7-4 and San Diego beat Houston 4-5. Cincinnati had inched within one game of the Giants before running into the Dodgers and losing two of three. “It wouldn't do us any good to heat San . Francisco two out of three and then come here and get swept,” Cincinnati’s Pete Rose said in Los Angeles. “We needed to win this one badly.” Cincinnati manager Sparky Anderson said: ‘'No oneseems to be paying much attention to San Francisco, but they are cr ea ly th favorits. gthey are just buryig both of s .” sc IVN ,TH GDedgers eclubhouse,th respect for the Giants was just as strongm With that kind of pitchingn theyre for realn snid Dodgers catcher Don Sutton. Rose scored the first of the Reds’ two ninth-inning runs that turned back the Red Sox “do eve By THE CANADIAN PRESS . Boston Red Sox did every- thing right and won a baseball game Sunday, to no one's surprise. Seattle Mariners, on the other hand, did almost nothing right and still won. While. the Red Sox con- tinued to make a runaway of the American League's East Division race with a 4-1 win over Baltimore Orioles, Seattle overcame seven errors in recording a 10-8 victory over Milwaukee Brewers for their sixth victory in the last seven games. “That will put you ina nut house,” said Brewers manager George Bamberger after Milwaukee wasted six unearned runs, ‘They gave ity to win, , , _us every opportun _ Tucson's.Billy. Sample. hit hee were too” lousy. We = weee-worse-than they--were--. bad; and let me put it this way—it was a team efiort.” Shortstop Craig Reynolds made three of the six miscues by the Seattle in- fleld,- with one each by second baseman Larry Milbourne,. third baseman Bill Stein and first baseman Dan Meyer, JAYS WIN AND LOSE In other American League games Sunday, Texas Rangers beat California Angels 7-0, Oakland A’s beat Kansas City Royals 6-3, New York Yankees downed Detroit Tigers 4-2, Minnesota Twins swept Chicago White Sox 8&5 and 9-6, and Toronto Blue Jays beat Cleveland Indians 2-1 before losing the second game 3-2. Saturday, the Red Sox beat Baltimore 8-3, Detroit beat New York 4-2, Kansas City defeated Oakland = 7-5, Chicago beat Minnesota 7-4, Milwaukee blanked Seattle 5-0, Cleveland whipped Toronto 12-3 and Texas defeated California 3-0. Dodgers, He walked, took second on a grounder and came in when Lee Lacy dropped Dave Concepcion’s fly ball to right. Then Con- cepcion swiped second and scored the winner on a single by Dan Driessen. Giants 9-4 Braves 3-8 The Glants’ magnificent pitching—smainly reliever Randy Moffitt—fell apart in the 11th inning of the second game. Dale Murphy singled and, after'a sacrifice and an intentional walk, Cito Gaston singled, loading the bases. Jerry Royster’s two-run single to centre, Rowland Office's run-scoring single and Gary Matthews’s two- run double sent Moffitt to the showers and the Giants down to defeat, . John Montefusco pitched a Six-hitter to beat Atlanta in the first game and got home- run backing from Bill Madlock and Mike Sadek, plus Jim Dwyer’s three RBIs on a pair of singles. Cardinals 7 Expos & In the top of the seventh in- ning, Garry Templeton of the Cardinals turned Warrer Cromartie’s two-out grounder into an error which enabled Montreal to tie the game 5-5. In the bottom af the inning, though, Tem- The Red Sox have won 14 of their last 16 games, 24 of their last 30, and sport a 33-6 recordat their home Fenway Park. Everyone is giving the Red Sox credit for their 50-21 startand their 84-game lead over the Yankees. Boston's win Sunday completed a sweep of the weekend set against Baltimore and marked the 11th triumph of the year for Mike Torrez. .Torrez pitched a nine- hitter and Rick Burleson contributed a fifth-inning homer, Blue Jays 2-2 Indians 1-3 ‘Roy Howell's ABI single capped a tworun Toronto elghth inning and carried the Blue Jays to victory in the opener. Then Rick Wise helped pitch Cleveland to victory in the nightcap to having beaten every team in the major leagues at least once in his career. Rangers 7 Angels 0 Mike Hargrove's three-run double and Toby Harrah's tworun single capped a six- run Texas fifth inning and backed a seven-hitter by Doc Medich as the Rangers moved into first place in the AL West. A’s @ Royals 3 Tony Armas hit a tie- breaking home run in Oakland’s two-run sevénth, then added an RBI in the two-run ninth that clinched the A’s’ victory over Kansas City and knocked the Royals from the top spot in the West. Oakland pitcher Bob Lacey scuffled briefly with Kansas City catcher Darrell Porter in the fifth. Porter was ejected but Lacey stayed in the game and raised his record to 6-3. Yankees 4 Tigers 2 Thurman Munson drove in two runs while Graig Nettles and Chris Chambliss had Fidrych tendinitis to be checked DETROIT (AP) — Mark Fidrych, alling Detroit Tigers pitcher, will fly to Los Angeles this week for another examination by noted orthopedic surgeon Dr, Frank Jobe. . Jobe diagnosed Fidrych’s sore Tight shoulder earlier this season as tendinitis, and predicted that with rest and medication he would be back in action before long. Eight weeks later, Fidrych is still unable to throw at full speed. A stay in the warm Florida sun didn't work either, co the ace of the Tigers pitching staff returned to Detroit last week, Fidrych has made only three starts in the 1978 American League baseball season and has not pitched since April 17;Svhen he was forced wo leave after four innings ee I ey MW According customers, it’s the " Hondas Accord . Test drive a Honda today at ra TERRACE HONDA SALES 4842 Hwy. 16 West Terrace, B.C. 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Padres 6-7 Astros 1-4 Dave Winfield and Oscar Gamble teamed to drive in seven runs in San Diego’s doubleheader sweep, Win- field had a bases-loaded single and Gamble a two-run double to highlight the five- run fourth inning in the opener, more than enough for Bob Shirley, who pitched a four-hitter. rything right” RBI singles in the two-run fifth that broke a tie and led New York past Detrvit, Tigers reliever John Hiller was honored before the game for his 10 yeara of service—including a comeback from a heart attack—~and pitched the final 32-3 innings for Detroit. Twins 8-9 White Sox 56 Roy Smalley hit a home run and two doubles in Minnesota's opening-game triumph, then added a grand slam homer to help the ‘Twins win the nightcap and complete the doubleheader sweep of Chicago. Penn pals? A University of Pennsylvania official has acknowledged that some high school students who seek admission to Penn. are given achieve. the . distinction -of “a Measure of preference." : Double run wish granted LONDON (Reuter) — Erendan Foster, who won the 10,000 metres at the British Amateur Athletics Association championships Friday, has been granted his wish to run both the 5,000 and 10,000 metres for England at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton-in August. Foster, the Olympic 10,000- metre .bronze- medallist in Montreal, will be partnered by Mike McLeod in both events. McLeod, 26, was second the 10,000 and third in the 5,000, . Nick Rose, well beaten in the 5,000 by Kenya's Henry Rono, completes England's trio at the shorter distance while David Black is the third man in the 10,000. Glen Cohen was picked for the 400 metres even though he failed to qualify for the finals. David Moorcroft will be England’s only represen- tative In the 1,500 metres, an event in which Steve Ovett, Britain’s best, has no in- terest this time. The selectors have also nominated only one high jumper in Mark Naylor and” there is same doubt whether iy toward the renewal of the Canadian Federation. As indicated in the recent policy paper, A TIME FOR ACTION, the Government of Canada has introduced in the House of Cammans a bill proposing significant changes in the Canadian Constitution. Highlights of the bill, and a document explaining it in non-legal language, are available at your post office. - If you wish to receive additional copies of the highlights and the explanatory document, please write to: Canadian Unity Information Office P.O. 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