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Barrie Examiner, 12 Apr 1976, p. 11

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Manama finfliflaiwpnww furMr it uh vv 12 uw wfi MASTERS WINNER Ray Floyd left gets his green jacket from Jack Nicklaus signifying his winning of the Masters AP Photo Floyd ties record in Masters victory AUGUSTA Ga AP Ray Floyd grabbed the sprawling Augusta National course by the nape of the neck and literally shook it into submission Sun day winning the 40th Masters golf tournament with record tying score The great Jack Nicklaus like everybody else wound up being spectator finishing 11 shots off the pace Floyd led every round as the glamorous event became dull oneman show Floyds winning score was 65 667070271 tying the record Nicklaus set in 1965 Only one man made serious lunge at him and it proved too little too late Young Ben Cren shaw charged in with closing 67 highlighted by gambling eagle on the 13th and par on the long 15th from the water to take second money with 279 eight strokes back Floyd collected $40000 Cren Shaw $25000 NICKLAUS STRUGGLED Nicklaus recognized as un disputed king of the game with 16 major titles never mustered rally in defence of the title he grabbed for the fifth time year ago He struggled in with 73 to tie Larry Ziegler for third at 282 Floyd 33yearold veteran of 15 years on the tour started the final round with an eight stroke lead after finishing Sat urdays round with birdie He said he was convinced Saturday night that he could win Realistically knew it was overI was sure no one could catch me he said But didnt want to finish sloppily wanted to shoot good round After got that birdie on the 15th just wanted to finish and not get hurt was in control Expos outlast Mets to make it Win NEW YORK AP Kark Kuehl rookie manager of Mon treal Expos waited three days for his first major league vic tory But on the third day after suffering through eight pit chers 21 base hits several hairraising predicaments and brutal weather conditions he finally got it Sunday afternoon when the Expos outlasted New York Mets 76 in National League baseball game hope theyre all this easy said Kuehl tongue in cheek mean who wants 32 or 10 game all the time Certainly not the Expos They lost the first two games of the season by those scores to the goodpitch badhit Mets But Sunday veteran Nate Colbert and rookie Bombo Riv era both of whom spent the fir st two games of the season on the bench combined to put Montreal in the win column for the first time Colbert drove in two runs with home run and single and Rivera collected two dou bles drove in two runs and scored three Fred Scherman the fourth of five Montreal pit chers got the victory knew it was gone when hit it said Colbert of his fifth inning home run know the manager has lots of new play ers and know he wants to see whos best SPORTS CANADIAN TRAILS MANCHESTER England AP Bill Werbeniuk of Win nipeg trailed Fred Davis of England 104 at the end of the first days play in their world professional snooker champion ship match Sunday Davisunine times the world champion jumped to an early 61 lead with break of 83 and ended with break of 74 to win the last frame He needs only five of todays 15 frames to reach the qiarterfinals Cliff Thorburn of Toronto begins his first round match against 1972 champion Alex Higgins Ireland Tuesday CANADIAN ELIMINATED KARACHI CP Jug Wallia of Toronto was eliminated 79 108 94 94 in qualifying play during the weekend for the Pakistan Open singles squash rackets cham pionship which begins Tuesday Wallia lost to Hosford of Australia in the 11country competition TRIFECTA PAYS $112394 CHERRY HILL NJ AP The lone ticket holder for the 1216 trifecta in the final race at Garden State Park earned world record payoff of $11239410 when the com bination clicked Saturday at just hope he has me in the lineup more often Rivera is one of the new play ers that Colbert was talking about He hit tworun double in the second inning to get Mon treal off and running against Met lefty Mickey Lolich He then scored on single by Jerry White another Expo rookie Rivera came home on balk by Met reliever Hank Webb in the fifth and scored in the eighth on another single by White Colbert accounted for the other Expo runs with his fif thinning homer and run scoring single in the third New York meanwhile chip ped away with three runs in the third two of them on double by Jerry Grote one in the four th on Ed Kranepools ground out one in the eighth on home run by Dave Kingman and one in the ninth on pinch single by Ron Hodges The Mets stranded 14 run hers just one short of the team record for nine innings cant help it if we couldnt hit in the clutch said Mets manager Joe Frazier didnt have bat in my hands Lolich obtained by the Mets from Detroit Tigers over the winter was less than over powering in his National league debut He worked only two innings gave up three hits and three runs made two er rors and was the losing pitcher SHORTS the thoroughbred track The winning horse in the 116 mile event Burdeos 2nd paid $11540 to win Absolute Proof $1240 was second and Spring For ward $920 third RECORD BROKEN EAST BERLIN Reuter Gerd Bonk of East Germany broke the world superheavy weight jerk record and equalled the world combined snatch and jerk record Sunday in weight lifting competition Bonk lifted 5568 pounds in the jerk to beat the record held by Vassili Ale xev of the Soviet Union by 11 pounds He also had combined total of 9537 pounds to equal the record held by Christo Plachkov of Bulgaria WINS MEMORIAL RACE HOCKENHEIM West Ger many AP HansJoachim Stuck of West Germany won the Jim Clark Memorial race Sun day first event of the European Formula championship auto racing season easily taking both heats in MarchBMW Frances Rene Arnoux in MartiniRenault was overall runnerup and countryman Patrick Tambay was third in MartiniRenault after two 845 mile heats on the treelined Hockenheirn Motordrom Nevertheless Floyds hands were shaking slightly when he reported to the locker room about an hour before his sched uled Sunday teeoff time and began opening stacks of tele grams from friends and well wishers TROUBLE LOOMEI At the very first hole he hooked his drive behind tall pine tree Right off he was staring at possible bogey or double bogey was only about 212 feet from the tree he said had no line to the green at all So punched hard hook shot out with seveniron and it rolled flag high on the green almost broke my club but saved my par Floyd got his lone bogey on the fourth hole where his shot into the wind missed the green but he recovered on the next hole lashing threeiron shot to within three feet of the cup He got another birdie at the short 12th sinking putt from so feet and then birdied the 520 yard 15th with 15foot putt that gave him record of hav ing played the four par fives 14 under par for the four days Jimmy Demaret previously held the record of13 Crenshaw played about 45 minutes in front of Floyd and Ziegler the last twosome on the course After turning in 34 Crenshaw was still battling for second and third money at six under par nine back of the leaderuntil he suddenly caught fire SANK 20FO0T PUTT At the 485yard 13th he threw all his strength into three wood fairway shot that sent the ball spinning to the top deck of the green Then he sank 20 foot putt for an eagle On the next hole after driv ing into the trees he faded twoiron shot on to the green and sank 15 footer for bir die All of his heroics seemed for naught on the long 15th when gambling for another eagle he saw his 250yard threewood shot fall short of the green and dribble back into the water Crenshaw proceeded to re move the shoe and sock of his right foot and climbed into the water saving par by whacking the ball back into play Hale Irwin Charles Coody and young Tom Kite tied at 285 and the veteran Bill Casper came out of the pack with 69 to finish at 287 Britains Peter Oosterhuis shot 68 for 293 BLOCKS 21 SHOTS IN BRUINS VICTORY The Barrie Examiner Monday April 12 l976ll Gilbert sought respect and got it By THE CANADIAN PRESS All Gilles Gilbert wanted was little respect Thats why the Boston goalie wanted so badly to start Sunday for the Bruins in the opening game of their National Hockey League quarterfinal series Gilbert got the assignment in stead of the more experienced Gerry Cheevers and responded by blocking 21 shots as the Bruins blanked Los Angeles Kings 40 In Sundays other series open ers Montreal Canadiens blanked Chicago Black Hawks 40 and Buffalo Sabres defeated New York Islanders 53 quarterfinal round bet ween Toronto Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers opens tonight in Philadelphia The second games in all four sets are Tuesday Gilbert had played more than 50 games in each of his three seasons with the Bruins and had 290 goalsagainst aver age but there had been specu lation about his status with Bos ton since Cheevers returned from the World Hockey Associ ation Gerry Cheevers is super goaltender but thought should be the starting goalie said Gilbert had great season this year and just thought should start the first game You gotta get respect re spect everybody and want ev erybody to respect me dont care if start the next game Its not the same now started this game Now the coach can do what he wants to do Boston coach Don Cherry had said Cheevers will start the sec ond game no matter what happened in the opener Gilbert had an easy night He was called upon to make four saves in the first period and two of the shots were from outside the blue line But he was tough when he had to be as the Bruins extended theirhome unbeaten streak to 21 games Centre Jean Ratelle scored Bostons second and fourth goals and set up Bruins third scored by Dave Forbes after Ken Hodge opened the scoring Chicago coach Billy Reay was unhappy with referee Ron Wicks handling of secondpe riod scuffle between Peter Ma hovlich of the Canadiens and Phil Russell of the Black Hawks Each player drew major penalty The refereeinchief sends out this pamphlet on what they are going to call and enforce After brawling over Cowboys won 84 By NEIL CAMPBELL The Canadian Press There were threats of crimi nal charges and the World Hockey Associations leading scorer was in hospital Sunday night after benchclearing brawl between Calgary Cow boys and Quebec Nordiques But when the brawling was over the surprising Cowboys had an 84 win over the Nor diques and appeared headed for an upset in their series with the Quebec team The win was the second at Quebec in as many nights for the Cowboys who finished 16 points behind the Nordiques in the Canadian Division stand ings Calgary won Saturdays game 31 The bestofseven Canadian Division semifinal shifts now to Calgary for games Wednesday and Friday night Winnipeg Jets edged Edmon ton Oilers 54 to take 20 lead in the other Canadian Division semifinal WHALEBS ADVANCE New England Whalers cap hired one United States quar terfinal berth completing sweep of their bestoffive quar terfinal with 32 win over Cleveland Crusaders The other quarterfinal was tied 11 after San Diego Mari ners dropped Phoenix Roadrun 31 WlTll CHICAGO goaltender Tony Esposito trying to get back into position Montreal Canadiens Jim Roberts tries ners 42 Saturday night The fighting started when Rick Jodzio came off the Cal gary bench to charge Quebecs Marc Tardif highsticking this seasons scoring champion across the ace When Tardif fell to the ice Jodzio dropped his gloves and began to strike him Pierre Roy of the Nordiques came to his teammates defence and both benches cleared While players boxed and wrestled on the ice Tardif was carried off on stretcher and taken to hospital with con cussion He was ordered to stay overnight but was expected to return to action Wednesday in Calgary TEAMS COOLED OFF The fighting lasted for more than 20 minutes and referee Steve Dowling left the teams in their dressingrooms for an other 40 minutes to cool off About 20 municipal policemen stepped on to the ice in the midst of the fighting but did not intervene police spokesman said only that the incident will be in vestigated but spokesman for the Nordiques said the club plans to file charges Dowling tossed five players from each team out of the game as result of the incident Jod no and Quebecs Gord Gallant to move iiilo more coin fortablc position to get shot off during National drew match penalties while Calgarys Warren Miller Dan ny Lawson Peter Driscoll and Pat Westrum and Quebecs Pierre Roy Curt Brackenbury Bill Prentice and Steve Sutherland drew game miscon ducts Gavin Kirk and George Mor rison had two goals each Ber nie Lukowich Ron Chip perfield Don Tannahill and Lynn Powis scored the others for Calgary Serge Bemier had two goals and Tardif and Bob Fitchner one each for Quebec Goalie Dave Dryden kept the Oilers in the game at Winnipeg making 57 stops but the Jets finally won when Ulf Nilsson scored his second goal of the game in the first minute of overtime ilsson stole the puck outside the Oiler blueline and beat Dry den with 40foot shot Willy Lindstrom Lyle Moffat and Bobby Hull were the other Winnipeg scorers Rusty Pate Ken Baird Danny Spriig and Tim Sheehy scored naude for Edmonton Winnipeg goalie Joe Daley drew match penalty and was replaced by Curt Larrson after firstperiod exchange of high sticks with Patenaude New Englands Mike Rogers and Ralph Backstrom beat goalie Bob Johnson with goals Hockey League quarterfinal action in Montreal Sunday night 01 Photo New legion of supporters new money found by Giants By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS chise and new City in San The National League seems to have found both new fran Francisco The Giants who all but put HORSE DIES AFTER WINNING EVENT Victory turns into tragedy Sunday as sudden deal strikes Badminton England horse trials winner Wide Awake He had collapsed under his rider European champion Lucinda Prior Palmer on the lap of honor AP Photo the final signatures on trans fer agreement to Toronto ear lier this year have found new money in owners Bud Herseth and Robert Lurie and now new legion of supporters The Giants once on their way out of the crowded Bay area have become in in San Fran cisco Rain washed out Saturdays game but Fridays and Sun days games with Los Angeles Dodgers drew total of 62920 fans That figure represents nearly oneeighth of last years dismal season turnout of 522919 in San Francisco The fans rewarded by sea sonopening victory Friday and comeback 64 win came out despite strike of the citys craft workers who set up pick ets around Candlestick Park and virtually closed the sta diums concession stands Weve heard talk about the baseball enthusiasm up here said Bill Rigney so far unde feated in his second stint as the Giants skipper But talk is one thing seeing it is another REDS KEEP WINNING In Sundays other games Cincinnati Reds stayed un beaten with 93 victory over the winless Houston Astros Pit tsburgh Pirates stopped Philadelphia Phillies 83 Mon treal Expos edged New York Mets 76 Atlanta Braves beat San Diego Padres 42 and Chicago Cubs downed St Louis Cardinals 85 93 seconds apart late in the game to wipe out 21 Cleve land lead and knock the Crusa ders out of the playoffs Bob McNanama was New Englands other scorer Danny Gruen and Al McDonough scored for Cleveland On Saturday Larry Pleau scored twice and Rogers Lorne ODonnell Tom Webster and Brad Selwood once each for the Whalers In Saturdays other game San Diegos Norm Ferguson broke 22 tie with 15foot slap shot that eluded Phoenix goalie Jack Norris Andre Lacr oix added an insurance goal for the Mariners during the playoffs Reay complained One of the things was hairpulling Mahovlich pulled Russells hair He should have been out of the game Montreal controlled the game from the start taking 20 lead in the first nine minutes on goals by Larry Robinson and Mahovlich Doug Jarvis and Jim Roberts were the other Montreal scorers Chicago goalie Tony Esposito was hurt repeatedly by his teams failure to move the puck out of its own end Ken Dryden picked up his fourth playoff shutout for the Canadiens turning aside 22 shots Sabres were bruised and smarting after rough first round series against St Louis Blues that included two over time games but right winger Rene Robert who scored twice for Buffalo figured the Island ers were even more weary than his team Two overtime wins is not as hard as traveling to the West Coast for the Islanders game Thursday at Vancouver said Robert Im sure theyll come back Theyre better hockey club than they showed LUCE NETS KEY GOAL Robert and his French Con nection linemates Gil Perreault and Rick Martin combined for four goals with Perreault and Martin scoring mce each but Robert said Sabres took command when secondperiod goal by Don Luce increased the Sabres lead to We didnt skate and when we started hitting it was too late New York coach Al Ar bour offered In Philadelphia Leaf captain Darryl Sittler said his club is not about to concede defeat to the powerful defending cham pions Its an altogether different team said Sittler of the club which went down four straight to 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