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The drill was the old fav orite stops and starts but GregFirman had new name for it ups and downs In this instance his skates failed to respond in the LEARNING POWER SKATING desired fashion to instructor Bill Kirks whistle He is one of approximately 100 area youngsters who are turning out to the Eastview Arena for skating instruction at the Eastview Power Skating School There are four one hour sessions week Ex aminerPhoto New name uniforms no help as Barons downed by By THE CANADIAN PRESS Cleveland Barons made their National Hockey League pre season debut Wednesday night in new uniforms Fortunately for Detroit Red Wings the team had the same old players The Barons transferred east this summer from Oakland where they were known as Cali rfornia Golden Seals skated with the Red Wings for two periods before tiring in the third and ended up on the short end of 21 decision It was the same old story for the team that finished last in the Adams Division of the NHL last season With only few anew players and change of venue and fan support to count on it might be another long season for the Jack Evansled Barons think they the Baronsl were nervous and eager and outskated themselves for two periods said Evans think thats why they ran out of gas in the third period after playing their best game in the first two periods CANADIENS WIN FIRST In other NHL exhibition games Wednesday night At lanta Flames beat Minnesota North Stars 52 Montreal Cana diens won their first preseason game after two losses with 41 x=t win over Buffalo Sabres New York Islanders and Los Angeles Kings played to 44 tie and Toronto Maple Leafs edged Washington Capitals 32 Evans said the crowd of 2238 in the 18500seat Coliseum near Cleveland may have made his players nervous Detroit just played stea dier game than we did but they werent trying to impress their home crowd Evans said shot by Detroits Dan Grant deflected off the shaft of team mate Dennis Polonichs stick skipping past Cleveland goaltender Gilles Meloche 1119 into the final period for the Detroit victory The Barons failed to take ad vantage of 11 powerplay situ ations while Detroit scored the winning goal with man advan tage on only its third of four op portunities in the game Our power play worked well last year Evans said think we had 69 goals But we havent had chance to work on that yet in training camp HOUSTON SCORES Ken Houston scored the win ning goal early in the third pe riod and Bob Simpson and Bill Clement added insurance goals as Atlanta beat the North Stars at Lakeland Fla Montreal goalie Bunny La Wings rocque stopped 24 Sabre shots on goal to lead the Canadiens to victory Peter Mahovlich put Mon treal ahead in the opening period Wednesday on short shot from the side of the net that hit Sabre goalie Bob Sauve and dropped into the goal Jacques Lemaire Guy Lapoin te and Larry Robinson scored the other Montreal goals Lorne Stamler scored mid way in the third period to help Los Angeles gain its tie with the Islanders Defenceman Jean Potvin with two goals and cen tre Jude Drouin with one goal and two assists led the Islander scoring attack Stan Weirs goal at 1823 of the third period gave Toronto its win over the Capitals The victory before standing roomonly crowd of 5299 in Lon don Ont was the first in pre season play for the Leafs who have tie and loss with the Sabres It was the first pre season game for the Capitals MAYBE THEY PAWNED IT IPSWICH England CP Thieves who stole handcarved ivory chess set worth 3500 $6300 from house in this Suffolk town wont find it very useful They left two pieces be hind STILL HANGING IN THERE BUT Another step toward eliminati By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The numbers are against them but Pittsburgh Pirates are not ready to throw in the towel Maybe well have to win our last 10 in row and the Phila delphia Phillies will have to lose 10 said Pirates outfielder Al Oliver Its not logical but its still possible Each day however the possi bility grows more remote The Pirates took another step to wards elimination Wednesday when they dropped 43 heart breaker to Chicago Cubs on runscoring single by Joe Wallis in the ninth inning That loss coupled with Phila delphias 94 victory over St Louis Cardinals sank the Pi rates six full games behind Philadelphia in the National League East The Phillies have 12 games remaining the Pi rates 10 Team leader Willie Stargell agreed however that the Pi rates should keep on fighting Our attitude just cant change he said No matter what the outcome we cant say we lost because we didnt put forthaneffort In Wednesdays other Na tional Lea ue games Los Angeles gers topped San Francisco Giants 31 Cin cinnati Reds edged San Diego Padres 43 New York Mets beat Montreal Expos 42 and Houston Astros defeated Atlan ta Braves 52 TOUGH JOB AHEAD The Pirates have lost seven of their last 11 games Team man ager Danny Murtaugh concedes his team has an uphill climb Our chances are dimin ishing he said It would have to take complete turnabout of Manager of Blue Jays wants beardless image TORONTO CP Roy Hart sfield wants Toronto Blue Jays to be leetf ooted and cleansha ven The 50yearold Georgian who officially became the first manager of the Jays on Wed nesday admits he may have to compromise on speed depen ding on what the expansion 125 Units in stoc draft turns up for the new American League team If youre blessed with jack rabbits they can open up lot of innings he told news con ference at which his appoint ment rumored for at least week was confirmed If we got some guys who can hit it out of the park then well play it station by station but that kind of hitter isnt easy to find Hartsfield whose appoint ment was payoff on 1973 de cision to go back to the minor leagues after he established himself as major league coach sounded less flexible on the subject of long hair dont especially like it or mustaches or beards Kids look up to major league players and its to our benefit to present as good an image as possible The former 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