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Page 6, The Heratd, Wednesday, February 26, 1983

Tiger leads way _

By Grant Kerr

VANCOUVER (CP) -- On
A night Vancouver Canucks
might have been talking
about their first win in 23
days, post-game chatter
cenired on a bedy check
rather than goal-scoring
feats.

. Dave (Tiger) Williams,
who scored two power-play
goals for the Canucks in a 6-4
National Hockey League win
over Philadelphia, also
scored in the hit department
on Flyers playingcoach
Bobby Clarke.

-. "I guess we didn’t read he
Tule book where you can't
take Bobby Clarke out of the
play,” said Canucks coach
Harry Neale.

Williams' clean check on
Clarke late in the second
period triggered a wild,
bench-clearing brawl which
resulted in the last two
minutes and 26 seconds of
the period being tacked on to
the start of the final period
when referee Gregg Madill
sent both teams to the
dressing room to coo! off.

Clarke and Williams both
agreed later the check was
legal and Neale laid much of
the blame for the ugly in-
cident on Madill.

“We had a tame
Philadelphia game going
until the referee decided we
hadn't heard from him often

_ enough,” said Neale. “He

started to call things which
were marginal — and he got
what he deserved. “ \

Madill whistled down 162'
minutes in penalties, in-
cluding 95 to the revenge-
bent Flyers. The Williams-
Clarke incident alone
resulted in 104 penalty
minutes,

«philadelphia and Clarke
always try something when
things aren’t going their

way,” Williams said. ‘We
rallied together tonight and
put them away after that.
“We were executing well
on the power play. It had ta
be a team effort all the way
against Philly and it was.
Everyone was doing their
own jobs for a change.”

The win was the first in
nine games for the Canucks,
who hadn't won since Feb. 1
when they defeated Calgary
Flames 6-2 al the Pacific
Coliseum, The standing-
room-only crowd of 16,413
got behind the Canucks early
and errupted into a standing
ovation when Thomas Gra-
din scored a brilliant goal on

asetup by Bob Manno late in:

the resumed second period to
give Vancouver a 42 lead.

Ivan Boldirey also scored
on the power play for Van-
couver, with Bobby Sch-
mautz and Lars Lindgren
getting the other Vancouver

’ goals as the Canucks pulled

their record to 22-23-17. The
win was only their second in
16 games.

The Ftyers aiso got three
power-play goals -- from
Brian Propp, Paul Holmgren
and rookie Tim Kerr — along
with a marker by Ken
Linseman. They remain in

third place in the overall.

standings with a 34-18-10
record,

Linseman was one of six
players ejected from the
game in the second period
incident. The Flyers also lost
defencemen Glen Cochrane

and Frank Bathe, while
‘Vantouver players banished

were reserye netminder
Glen Hanlon, Mario Marois
and Jerry Butler.
Cochrane got into a
shoving match with Madill ‘at
one stage wiien he attempted
to get at Williams and later
got several punches in the

to Canuck victory

nose from Butler in the .

belligerent display.

Canadiens 2 Blues 2.

Montreal, which
dominated the third period,
earned the tie when Yvon
Lambert flipped Doug
Risebrough's pass into the
Blues’ net with 6:35 left.

Wayne Babych tied a St.
Louis team record for most
goals in one season when he
scored his 43rd, tying the
1976 total of Chuck Lefley.
Blair Chapman also scored
for St. Louis, Steve Shutt had
the other goal for the
Canadiens, unbeaten in their
last 10 games. Montreal
outshot St. Louis 36-22, and
had 22 shots on goaltender
Mike Liut in the final period.

Kings 5 Ollers 2

In Los Angeles, Charlie
Simmer secred his $5th and
56th goals of the season and
Maree] Dionne collected
three assists as the Kings
broke a sevengame winless
streak.

Simmer, now tied for the
NHL goal-scoring lead with
Mike Bossy of New York:
Islanders, scored the win-
ning goal at 12:49 of the
second period, breaking a 2-2
deadlock. The two goals
enabled Simmer to equal his
56-goal output of last season.

Wayne Gretzky, the NHL’s
leading scorer, gol his.39th
goal. Mark Messier had
Edmonton's other goal.
Jerry Korab, Rick Tertioa
and Billy Harris also scared
for the Kings.

Clarke’ said the play of the
Flyers was “not too bright at
times” and Philadelphia was
oulplayed all night by the
Canucks. He also objected to
penalty cails by Madill,
especially a minor and
misconduct he received
early in the-last period for

unsportsmanlike conduct.

‘iHe put me in the penalty
box for nearly all the last pe-'
riod,” said Clarke. “He's a
coward, that's all... people
are talking all the time on
the ice.” .

Coach Pat Quinn said his
Flyers were victimized by
illegal power-play goals ‘on
the part of the Canucks.

“All their . power-play
goals should have been
whistled down for in-
terference,’’ Quinn said
angrily. “The referee

refused to call the in- .

ferference.

“This team (Vancouver}
does it better than some
other clubs. But they got the
goals and deserved to win in
the end.”

Neale = said Quinn’ 5
statements were “hogwash”
and “I don't know if he
should talk about illegal!
plays."

‘TH pass along the com-
pliment about the power
Plays to {assistant coach)
Tom Watt,” Neale added.
“We needed a win against a
big club and this will give us
a boost in the confidence
department.”

The Vancouver coach
praised the play of net-
minder Richard Hrodeur,
who returned to the Van-
couver lineup after missing
three games with a knee
injury. He stopped 29 shots,
compared with 26 saves by
Philadelphia netminder Rick
St. Croix.

“It feels great for the team
to get over that slump,” said
Brodeur. “My knee feels .
okay now, but it will be stiff
in the morning."

“We took the game away
from them tonight with our
good forechecking. We
jumped on them and they
were tired by the third
period. We've got our.-con
fiderice back” —edti" Hal's
the most important word in
hockey.”

Blocked shots pay off

San Antonio Spurs are well
known for their backcourt
duo of George Gervin and
dames Silas, but George
Johnson is still the best on
the block. :

The 6-foot-li centre
blocked 13 shots, the fourth-
best performance in
National Basketball
Association history, to high-

light San Antonio's 141-126
victory Tuesday over Golden
State Warriors. ©

Elmore Smith, then with
Los Angeles Lakers, had 17
blocks in one game against
Portland on Oct. 28, 1973, for
the previous record, Smith
also had 14 in a game twice,
both within a week of his 17-
block performance.

Johnson's Jatest rejection
performance was his sixth
time with 10 or more blocks
in a game, In contrast, the
legendary Bili Russell and
Wilt Chamberlain never had
a 10-block game.

Johnson, an eight-season

_NBA veteran, is averaging

only 4.7 points this season,
but he leads the League-with

Women’s tennis tour
covers 13 countries

NEW YORK (AP)
“Well, one thing about the
ladies,” said Ted Tinling,
"You don’t have all that
cussin’ and spittin’.”

That is rather graphic rhe-
toric for the normally
austere Briton, who holda the
distinction of being one of the
world's foremost dress
designers as well as &
leading tennis authority and
historian.

“The general appeal of
terinis is that it is one-on-one.
it’s o duel — a duel with a
Camelot aura, The grace and
fluid movement give it
matchless visual appeal —
the women more than the
men,"

The ladies, who began
playing in corsets and layers
ol petticoats, finally have
emerged from obscurily to
challenge the male super-
slars as gate atiractions.

This was sharply accented
Monday when Toyota, the
Japanese automaker, an-
nounced sponsorship of 8
worldwiue women's lour
covering #0) tournaments in
13. countries.

The series, from April
through December, will offer
a prize pot of $6 million. The
Avon indoor circuil, played
the first three months of the
year, has a cash outlay of
2.5 million.

"Counting the ether non-
related events, the ladies
will be playing this year for
ground $10.8 million,” said

Jerry Diamond of San
Francisco, executive vice-
president of the Women’s
Tennis Association,

Diamond, as does Tinling,
believes women’s tennis
affords a more exciting
spectacle than the men’s
tour.

“I think the men are
diluting their product with
constant exhibitions,” he
said. ‘They are making a
carnival oul of it.

“They are destroying the
magic and mystery of what
once were classics between
BJorn Borg and John
McEnroe.”

These two court goliaths

played a beat two-out-o-
three match series in
Ailstralia last weekend for
$100,000 and a gold tennis
racket worth $50,000.

Borg wonit and, with Vitas
Gerulzitis, continued on a $1-
million tour of the Orient
under the auspices of Mark
McCormack’s International
Management Group.

McCormack, whose stable
includes scores of celebrity
athletes in every sport, is
joining Toyota in the
promotion of the women's
tour. “'T think we are helping
expose our best talent to the
rest of the world.”

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* regulation,

3.15 blocks a game, an
average he improved |
Tuesday.

The San Antonio crowd of
9,-163 game him a standing
ovation when got his team-
record 10th block and for
each one after that, the fans
chanted, "G.l., GJ.”

In other NBA games, it
was: Los Angeles Lakers 107
Chicago Bulls 97; New York
Knickerbockers 120 Atlanta
Hawks 117 in overtime;

Seattle SuperSonics 102
Dallas Mavericks 864;

Denver Nuggets 140 New .

Jersey Nets 123; and San
Diego Pacers 121 Portland
Trai] Blazers 107."

Knicks 128 Hawks 117

Atlanta led by 13 points
with seven minutes left in
but Campy
Russell's basket with 18
seconds left sent the game to
overtime, and Mike Glenn's
follow shot gave New York
the victory.

Lakers 107 Bulls $7

Norm Nixon scored 24
polnts and Kareem Abdul-
Jabbar and Jamaal Wilkes
added 23 apiece to lead Los
Angeles over Chicago.

Nuggets 149 Nets 123

Dave Robisch and Dan
Issel] combined for 53 points
in the centre position to pace
Denver over New Jersey.

Robisch had 27 points and
Issel 26 to offset a strong per-
formance by the Cliff
Robinson, who nelled 22
points for New Jersey.

Sonies 102 Mava 84 .

Fred Brown scored 22
points and Seattle broke
open a close game with a 23-
11 advantage in the third
quarter to beat Dallas.

The Sonics led only 55-53 at
halftime after overcoming
anearly 20-8 deficit, then ran
away from the Mavericks in
the third period, when Dallas
hit only four of 23 shots.

Clippers 121 Blazers 161

Brian Taylor scored seven
of his game-high 26 points
during a 13-0 spurt in the first
quarter to prope] San Diego
aver Portland.

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