Supersonics come-back

SEATTLE (AP) — Dick
Motta knew it was going to
happen, but there was
nothing he could do to stop it.

“We figured Freddie
would do some of that,” said
Motta, coach of Washington
Bullets. “He was getting his
shots. He's probably the
purest shooter in the
league.”

The subject of Motta’s
praise was Seattle veteran
guard Fred Brown who
victimized the Bullets for 16
of his game-high 30 points in
the final 9% minutes Sunday
while the SuperSonics
fashioned a hair-raising
comeback to beat Wasington
106-102 in the opening game
of the National Basketball
Association championship
seties.

The second game of the
bestof-seven series will be
Thursday night at Landover,
Md.

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Trevor Whittaker of Terrace finishes his ten mile marathon in only 61.5 minutes, unof-
Paul Simkins of Kitimat tood second with 62.5 minutes. The

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PAGE 6, THE HERALD, Tuesday, May 23, 1978

“He can miss his first 20 ,

shots and still win the game
for you,” Motta said of
Brown whe took 30 shots and
made 13, “He doesn’t get
discouraged. His shots are
Seing to be in the hole from
an unlimited range.” |

But Brown's baskets came
when the Sonics needed them
most,

HAD TO GET OUT

“We got us in a wonderful,
fine mess," said Brown of
the Sonics, who trailed by 19
points late in the third
period, “I told them (his
team-mates) we had made
our bed and we had to get out
of it.”

Brown, the Sonics’ No, 1
draft pick from Iowa seven
seasons ago, ignited the
comeback with a short
jumper that began a run of 12
consecutive points and
brought Seattle back into the
game.

The Bullets were in
command in the early going
behind the play of Elvin
Hayes and Kevin Grevey.
Washington led 58-49 at
halftime and was up 64-65
with 2:26 left in the third

quarter, ;

But the Bullets played as
though they were shackled
with ball and chain in the
final 14% minutes of the
game. Seattle outscored
Washington 41-18. in that
stretch for the triumph be-
fore a crowd of 14,098.

Sonics forward John
Johnson scored 18 points and
held Washington's Bobby
Dandridge to just six points,
16 below his playoff average.

Grevey led the Bullets with
27 points before leaving late
in the game with a sprained
left ankle, .

Hayes scored 21 points and
had nine rebounds but wasn't
a factor in the final quarter.

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race was set over a course on the Alcan highway. Security officers, like the one seen

here, helped - to:

Delta King Days brings victory for

Delta King Days "76 ended
’ Monday afternoon with the
Delta King Casino at the
“arena bul hot without some
exciting competilion, both on
land and at sea, which
spawned some of Kitimat’s
contemporary stars.

Friday night at the High
School’ ‘Windjammer’
rocked to a crowd of over 500
youths, This dance seemed
to inspire the young people to
take part in the rest of the
Delta King celebrations.
The Vancouver based group,
Windjammer, also played
the arena fer Delta Fest
beer-gardens Saturday
night.

keep

the. road cleared

Saturday morning the
athletes prepared for the
Alean Mini-marathon.
Unofficial times on the two
first and second placers in
the 10 mile stretch were 61.5
and 62.5 minutes. Trevor

_ Whittaker of Terrace took

the pace at about the three
mile mark with Paul
Simkins pulling second, The
two finished in that order
with Whittaker taking the
61.5 and Simkins taking the
62.5, unofficial,

Alean public relations
representative for the
marathon Dave Dunsmuir
estimated over two times as
many runners as registered
previous tothe event. Close

About 150 participants in the Aican Minfmarat
run, Almost all of the runners finished
ever they cose to run.

for the runners.

to 150 people took part in the
six or ten mile run.

The course centered from
the Plant Tour Building at
Alcan and runners had the
choice of taking the six, or_
finishing all ten miles.

The day wasn’t over for
most Delta Kinger's, The
arena got the raflers well
vibrated with ‘Windjammer’
pounding out the tunes.

An estimated 600 people
turned out for the second
largest event in the Delta
King celebrations. A few
technical problems with’ the
band caused some concern
with the beer drinkers but all
was under contro] when the
band put out another set of

hon get ready to start their
» elther the six or ten mile run, which

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Hill climb
record

KELOWNA, B.C, (CP) —
Bryan Evans of White Rock,
B,C. shaved nearly four
Seconds off the record
Sunday as he drove his
Johnston JMZ-C to victory in
the Knox Mountaln hill dimb
for the second stralght year,

Johnston completed the
43,6-kilometres paved course
in 1:52.34 and picked wp $500
prize money for the fastest
time and $500 for setting a
new record,

Previous record was 1:56,
set by David Peck in 1976.

Rob McGregor of Van-
couver, driving a Chevron
Spyder, posted a time of
1:54.02 to tapture second
place,

TORONTO (CP) -~ Avro
Punkinnen of Sudbury, Ont.,.
let a boxing title slip away
from him last year but made
sure of his second chance In
the Canadian intermediate
champlonships Sunday.

Punkinnen was leading on
points with 17 seconds to go
in his title bout a year ago
and then fell victim to a
lucky -punch by Jean-Paul
Petrin, On Sunday, he met
Robert Duclos of New
Brunswick in the 67-kilo-
fram class final and
knocked Duclos down twice
before holding off a final-
round challenge.

“I got a bad break, but

Soccer Superstar

TORONTO (CP) — Brian
Budd, a recent newcomer to
the roster of Toronto Metros-
Croatia of the North
American Soccer League,
took the first prize of $15,700
after Sunday's third and

== final day of the Canadian

superstars competition.
Canadian Football League
stars Tony Gabriel of Ottawa

Rough Riders and Brock
Aynsley of Montreal
Alouettes finished second
and third respectively in the
competition which features
athletes from various sporis
competing in events other
than their specialties,
Budd, a2 26-year-old
Toronto native, is also the
world superstars champion.

After the race runners were treated to cidar, juice, or beer
for their efforts, Runners like this one were happy, win or

lose.

dancing rock.

Simultaneously to the
beer-gardens wag the Silver
Anniversary Ball held at
Riverlodge. 180 ‘people
turned the $30 a couple intoa
good evening with steak
dinner and excellant en-
tertainment from the
Fabulous Note Ables. This
was not only part of the Delta
King Days celebrations but it
was also ‘the official
celebration of Kitimat’s 25th
Birthday.

Sunday. morning the
crowds gathered at” Little
Wedeene Park up the
Kitimat River to watch and
participate in getting the
Tafts assembled and in the

”

water for the annual Raft
Race. Kitimat Booming
Contractors took the race for
the: fifth straight year.

Eurocan pulled a slose

second with their well
navigated ship.

Monday morning a crowd,
less than enthusiastic,
turned out at the arena to
catch some of the Casino
Pancake Breakfast.
Although it was a small
crowd they were there to be
fed, and all were,

Due to press deadlines
there is no data available on
the Delta King Casino
Monday afternoon,

Nerves give edge over Nicklaus for $50,000

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) —
Jim Simons tamed his
nerves, his idol and one of
America’s toughest golf
courses all at once.

His dividends were a cher-
ished conquest of Jack
Nicklaus and his biggest
payday in seven years of
tour activity—$50,000 as the
Memorial |. Tournament
champlon,

Aside from a fist punched
skyward after his clinching
21-foot putt at No. 18 -on
Sunday, Simons showed none
of the nervousness he would
teveal moments later.

“[ haven't relaxed all
week," said the 28-year-old
Pennsylvanian after he
unseated his idol, Nicklaus,
with a closing twoover-par 74
for a total of 294.

“A lot of guys won't admit
It, but it’s a continual battle
to fight your nerves, This is a
high-pres sure business we're |

FELT THE HEAT

Simons felt the heat of
playing with Nicklaus,
especially before Jack’s
hometown throng at the
Muirfleld Village Golf Club,
a4 7,101-yard monster he

created.

“I really respect the
man,’’ Simons said of
Nicklaus. ‘He's been the
golfer since I've been around
the game. But it’s difficult to
go out and ignore you're
playing with Jack. I knew
the big crowd would be
helpful for him,’

Simons met and whipped
that obstacle, repulsing a

belated Nicklaus charge and‘
nipping Bill Kratzert by a
single shot. Kratzert, ear-
ning $29,500, closed with a 74
for 285. Fuzzy: Zoeller was
third with 70-287.

Nicklaus, a triple bogey at
four anda double bogey at 17
ruining his challenge, settled
for a fourth-place tie at 258
with Ed Sneed and Masters .
champlon Gary Player,

everybody gets one at sone
time,"’ Punkinnen said of his
loss in last year's final,
One of Punkinnen's vic-
tims in last year’s cham-

’plonships was Derric Hoyt of

Cranbrook, B.C., who now is
Canadian senior champion
atid in line for a Com-
monwealth Games team
berth.

However, Hoyt will have to
beat Don Downey from
Halifax‘in a June 12 bout to
confirm his Commonwealth
tip. Downey scored a win
over Hoyt in one of a series of
challenge bouts--held in
conjunction with the in-
termediate championships.
GET SECOND CHANCE

The challenge bouts are a
system to give a second
chance to those who lost at
the senior championships

two weeks ago or those who
were unable to attend. Under
the system, a_ senior
champion loses his place on
the Commonwealth Games
team if he Joaes two
challenge bouts,

In other challenge bouts,
60-kilo champion) Frank
Nolan of Sudbury stopped

» Brian Staver of Ontario and

75-kilo champlon Roddy
McDonald of Toronto won
over Quebec's -John Grifiin.
Heavyweight senior
champion Kevin McQuaid af
Charlottetown, P.EI., won
over Denis Belair af Ed-
monton. Belair had earned a
shot at McQuaid with an
earlier win over Rick Petch
of Thunder Bay, Ont.
Flyweight champion lan
Clyde of Ottawa survived a
challenge from Mike Henry

_ Boxer holds ground for title |

of Toronto. . ;

In other intermediate
championship finals,
Michael Nickel of Nova
Scotia beat Gaetan Leclerc
of Quebec in the 48-kilo
class; Sudbury’s Rick
Ranelli decisioned Maurice
Boudreau in the 51-kile
class; Laurie Mann of
British Columbia beat Brian
Coughlin of Ottawa in the 54-
kilo division, and Pat Purcell
of Quebec won the 57-kilo
title over Mark Adams of
New Brunswick. _—

In the 60-kilo final, Brian
Nolan of Sudbury won over
Greg Rumohr of Alberta;
John Herbert of British
Columbia defeated Ken
Johnson of Manitoba for the
71-kilo title; Dave Thornhill
Anocked out Pat McNamara
of Windsor. Ont.

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