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Phillies nail down first championship since 1950 season MONTREAL CP The scene in the locker room was typical for any postchampion ship victory Players squirted one another with cham agne Some wen got some own their throats There was much hilarity Thats the way it was for Philadelphia Phillies Sunday afternoon after taking the Na tional League East Division championship by beating Mon treal Expos 41 in the first game of doubleheader The Phillies mobbed one an other after the game and jog ged off to the clubhouse for the champagne party celebrating Philadelphias first title since the team beat the old Brooklyn Dodgers on the final day of the 1950 season for the National League pennant The long haul was finally over and it was time to cele brate Tim McCarver laughed and joked his way through what was supposed to be television interview Other players grab bed bottles of champagne and sprayed manager Danny Ozark and each other Then the Phillies sent the scrubs out to take care of the Expos in the nightcap as Phila delphia edged Montreal 21 in game that was called off be cause of rain after seven com plete innings ONLY JUST BEGUN Were only one third of the way there but its big step said Ozark above the pan demonium was confident we were go ing to win this thing feel weve got the best club in base ball The Phillies won the first game on Greg Luzinskis three run home run in the sixth inning combined with Jim Lonborgs ninth completegame pitching performance Lonborg who drove in run with base hit in the seventh inning lgave up only four hits one wa and struck out five raising his record to 1710 for the season had lot of help out there today said Lonborg who was one of the quieter members of the Phillies You take look at lot of the games that Ive been in this ear and youll see that the in ield and outfield has made super plays for me Weve got fair pitching on this team weve got the hitters we have speed experience and maturity Youve ot to have all those things to cham pion Today were cham pions ROOKIES TAKE OVER While the Philadelphia first stringers continued their cele bration the youngsters came out for the second game Play ers such as Rick Bosetti John Vukovich Tim Blackwell and Fred Andrews took the place of Bob Boone Dave Cash Mike Schmidt and Larry Bowa The second team demonstra ted that some of the ability of the top players on the club had rubbed off Jay Johnstones single drove in Terry Harmon with the first Phillies run to tie the score 11 Ellis Valentine scored the Mon treal run in the second inning when he doubled and came around on Pepe Friass base hit Blackwell drove in what proved to be the winning run with base hit Andrews got oneout single went to second on an error by Pat Scanlon and scored on the Blackwell hit PHILADELPHIA MANA GER Danny Ozark gulps champagne to celebrate his The game also marked the last appearance by the Expos at Jarry Park their home since they began play in the National League April 14 1969 ButKansas City Oakland still battle AL cast By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kansas City may be in the drivers seat but Oakland As have big say in which direc tion the Royals are heading The Royals lead Oakland by 412 games in the American League West baseballs only division race still not settled Kansas City opens three game series tonight at Oakland Were in the drivers seat but weve ot to win some of them sai Kansas Citys Hal McRae following the Royals loss Sunday to Texas Rangers Its been that way since the allstar break when we were 12 games up Rain at Chicago prevented Sundays game between the As and White Sox One Kansas City victory at STANDINGS By THE CANADIAN PRESS National League East LPctGBl xPhiladelphia 96 60 615 Pittsburgh 88 69 561 87 New York 84 71 542 11 St Louis 71 84 458 24 Chicago 71 86 452 25 Montreal 53102 343 42 West xCincinnati 99 57 635 Los Angeles 89 67 571 10 Houston 77 80 490 22 San Francisco 72 86 456 28 San Diego 69 87 442 30 Atlanta 69 88 439 30 xclinched division title Sundays Results Philadelphia 42 Montreal 11 New York Chicago Atlanta 10 San Diego St Louis Pittsburgh Los Angeles Cincinnati San Francisco Houston Saturdays Results New York Chicago Cincinnati Los Angeles Philadelphia Montreal St Louis Pittsburgh Atlanta 11 San Diego San Francisco 10 Houston Probable Pitchers Today Montreal Landreth 11 and Hannahs 10 at New York Es pinosa 44 and Matlack 169 535 pm Philadelphia Carlton 196 at St Louis Falcone 1214 830 Houston Larson 57 at Los Angeles Sutton 209 1030 pm Cincinnati Gullett 103 at San Diego Griffin 76 1030 pm Tuesdays Games San Francisco at Atlanta Chicago at Pittsburgh Montreal at New York Philadelphia at St Louis Houston at Los Angeles Cincinnati at San Diego American League East IPctGBI xNew York 94 61 606 Baltimore 86 70 551 Cleveland 79 74 516 14 Boston 79 7B 503 16 Detroit 69 85 448 24 Milwaukee 65 90 419 29 West Kansas City 89 67 571 gt Oakland 84 71 542 Minnesota 81 76 516 81 California 72 85 459 17 Texas 72 85 459 1712 Chicago 64 92 410 25 xclinched division title Sundays Results Boston Baltimore California MinneSota Texas Kansas City Milwaukee at Cleveland ppd rain New York at Detroit ppd rain Oakland at Chicago ppd rain Saturdays Results New York 10 Detroit Minnesota California Boston Baltimore Texas Kansas City Oakland Chicago Cleveland Milwaukee Probable Pitchers Today Detroit Fidrych 179 at Cleveland Bibby 136 730 pm Kansas City Leonard 129 at Oakland Blue 1712 pm Tuesdays Games Texas at Minnesota Milwaukee at Baltimore New York at Boston Kansas City at Oakland Grogan stars again as Pats tip Steelers By TIIE ASSOCIATED PRESS The National Football Leagues meek inherited the earth Sunday In Pittsburgh Steve Grogan wonder boy of the National Football League followed his sensational performance of week ago with an even greater one to lead the New England Patriots past the reeling Steel ers 3027 In San Diego young Dari Fouts facing an explosive St Louis team unleashed his own brand of TNT as the Chargers struck down the Cardinals 43 24 In Sundays other games Dallas Cowboys outlasted Baltimore Colts 3027 Oakland Raiders ed ed Houston Oilers 1413 Buffa Bills beat Tampa Bay Buccaneers 149 Min nesota Vikings nipped Detroit Lions 109 New Orleans Saints downed Kansas City Chiefs 27 17 Miami Dolphins shutout New York Jets 160 Cincinnati Bengals whipped Green Bay Packers 287 Atlanta Falcons blanked Chicago Bears 104 Denver Broncos clobbered Cleveland Browns 4413 San Francisco 49ers sank Seattle Seahawks 3721 and Los Angeles Rams trimmed New York Giants 2410 Toni ht Washin ton Red skins ay Philadelp ia Eagles REPLACES PLUNKETI When Jim Plunkett moved from New England to the 49ers the job of quarter backing the downtrodden Patri ots fell to Grogan youngster who showed promise last sea son This season he is realizing that promise After downbeat start loss to Baltimore Gro gan beat Miami by throwing for three touchdowns and running for one Sunday be confronted the tough Pittsburgh defence and did his thing all over again throwing for two touchdowns and running for third against the twotime Super Bowl cham pions The Steelers built 2029 third period lead before the roof caved in The first crack came on Grogans 38yard Scoring pass to Russ Francis When the Patriots got the ball back they got the lead for good on his 42yarder to Darryl Stin ley Then he drove New En and 80 yards for another touchdown scoring it himself by stiffarming tackle Mean Joe Greene and sweeping in from the six It put New England on top 30 20 Terry Bradshaws scoring pass cut the lead to three points and Roy Gerela tried to cut it to zero but his try for 48yard field goal at the gun faded wide DOUBLES 75 EFFORT Fouts threw four touchdown passestwice his 1975 output against the Cardinals Three of them came in the second pe riod when the game was put out of reach Efren Herreras 32yard field goal for Dallas with three sec onds left to play was the win ner pair of passes by quar terback Roger Staubach and pass interference call moved the Cowboys into field goal ragga ike Rae who spent three years with Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League started for the Raiders instead of regular Ken Stabler and threw touchdown sses of gm and 33 yards to iff Bran Tampa Bay finally got on the scoreboard as Dave Green kicked three Dave Green field $13 to avert what would have the Buccaneers third suc cessive shutout Oakland would sew up at least tie for the Royals who need any combination of Kansas City vic tories or Oakland defeats ad ding up to three The race in the leagues East Division race ended Saturday when New York Yankees ear ned shot at their first World Series berth since 1964 The Yankees clinched at least tie for top spot when they de feated Detroit Tigers 106 in the afternoon Then secondplace Baltimore Orioles eliminated themselves when they managed just two hits against Luis Tiant Bostons 21game winner and the Red Sox won Texas starter Nelson Briles 119 held the Royals to just three hits through the first eight innings but John Mayberry led off the Kansas City ninth with single bringing on reliever Mike Bac sik Al Cowens singled and Jamie Quirk walked to loud the bases After Bob Stinsons ground out scored Mayberry Craig Skok relieved and walked Iiiii Wofford to load the bases again But Steve Harganrthe Rangers fourth pitcher of tho inningcame on to get Amos Otis to fly to right ending the game Lenny Randle knocked in two of the Texas runs SOGGY SUNDAY In the only other games played Sunday Boston stopped Baltimore 83 and California Angels defeated Minnesota Twins 41 Rain prevented games at Detroit between the Yankees and Tigers at Cleve land between the Indians and Milwaukee Brewers as well as the AsWhite Sox game In Saturdays other games Texas nipped Kansas City 14 Oakland tripped Chicago 74 Cleveland dropped Milwaukee 31 and Minnesota blanked Cali fornia 60 sixhitter by Canadian Reg gie Cleveland 99 was backed by rookie catcher Ernie Whitts tworun double as Boston dc feated Baltimore Cleveland native of Swift Current Sask was helped by three double plays as Boston won its 11th game in its last 13 outings The Red Sox scored three runs in the fifth off rookie Dennis Martinez 11 making his first major league start then added five in the eighth as Cecil Cooper and Jim Rice drove in two runs each Frank Tananas eighthitter was backed by solo homers by Dave Collins and Ron Jackson as California downed Min nesota teams clinching of the Na tional Leagues Eastern Division title Sunday follow 1he Expos who had dis arirointing season and are bur ie in last place in the NL East are scheduled to play in the Olympic Stadium next season MEIS TOP CUBS In Sundays other National League games New York Mets edged Chicago Cubs 21 Atlan ta Braves routed San Diego Padres 104 St Louis Cardinals beat Pittsburgh Pirates 52 Los Angeles Dodgers nipped Cincin nati Reds 21 and San Francisco Giants defeated Houston Astros 51 On Saturday Cincinnati shaded Los Angeles 43 Phila delphia edged Montreal 64 St Louis blanked Pittsburgh 30 New York topped Chicago 52 Atlanta outslugged San Diego 118 and San Francisco troun ced Houston 100 Ozark wiping champagne from his eyes during the be tweengames celebration said he never doubted his club would win its division Ive been confident all sea ing 41 win over Montreal Expos With Ozark is out son long win it Weve in baseball Greg Luzinskis threerun homer off Montreal starter Dan Warthen 29 in the sixth inning was the decisive blow as Phila delphia eliminated Pittsburgh to win its first title since 1950 Their only other pennant year wa51915 Dave Cash led off the sixth with walk and Jerry Martin followed with single After Mike Schmidt lined out Lu zinski hit pitch into the bleachers in left centre for his Zist homer of the season DEFICIT SHORTLIVED The Phillies erased an early deficit in the nightcap on runscoring singles by Jay Johnstone in the third inning and Tim Blackwell in the sixth The Mets built 20 lead over the first six innings as Jerry Koosman 219 did not allow hit But the Cubs reached him for run on four consecutive hits starting the seventh and that we were going to got the best club fielder Greg Luzinski CP Photo Koosman needed help from Bob Apodaca to preserve the win Lou Brock snapped 11 tie with tworun triple in the fifth inning then Hector Cruz hit tworun homer in the sixth as the Cardinals beat the Pirates for the third time in their four game series The Braves snapped 44 tie with six runs in the eighth in ning tworun doubles by Dar rell Chaney and Willie Monta nezhighlightingthe rally Gary Thomasson had four hits and scored twice for the Gi ants who snapped 11 tie with two runs in the sixth on Thom assons single sacrifice runscoring single by Chris Spcier and runscoring double by Dave Radcr Bill Buckner doubled home rookie catcher Kevin Pasley with the Iodgers first run in the third inning then Steve Garvey singled stole second and raced home on tapper in front of the plate by John Hole in the fourth to make it 20 Goals as well as penalties on Nystroms 197 67 agenda By NEIL AMIHIJLI The anadiaii Press Bob Nystrom served notice Sunday night that he intends to be more than in enforcer for New York Islanders this Na tional Hockey League season Nystrom who has drawn more than 100 minutes in portal tics in each of his three NHL seasons scored three goals Sunday to help the Islanders to 42 exhibition win over Buf falo Sabres Bob Bourne scored New Yorks first goal before Nyst rom who has 71 NHL goals scored on Itsfooter on pass from Denis Ifotvin and on 11 40 footer Gil Icrreault and Fred Stan field scored for Buffalo In Sundays other NHL cxhi bition games Chicago Black Hawks defeated Toronto Maple Leafs 31 Montreal Ianzidicns defeated Boston Bruins 31 Philadelphia Flycrs dropped New York Rangcrs 75 Min nesota North Stars defeated At lanta Flames 42 Cleveland Barons defeated Detroit Red Wings 64 and Vancouver Ca nucks tied Los Angclcs Kings In other games Phoenix Roa drunncrs of the World Ilockey Association tied the Finnish all slars 44 Winnipeg Jets of the WHA whipped St Louis Blues of the NHL 32 Pittsburgh Peri guins of the NHL trimmed Ed monton Oilers of the WHA 31 and Washington Capitals of the NHL nipped Indianapolis Rac ers of the WHA 21 On Saturday the Islanders defeated the Sabres 53 the Ca nadiens crushed the Flyers 82 the Wings edged the Capitals the Leafs downed the Hawks 42 the Canucks tied the Kings 33 and the Blues beat the Flamcs41 Defenceman Bobby Orr Norton and his boss confident of victory NEW YORK Reuter Ken Norton and his retinue seemed genuinely convinced Sunday that Norton will beat world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in their title fight Tuesday The challenger his manager Bob Biron and trainer Bill Slayton exude confidence as fight time nears So much so that Biron 64 yearold San Diego business man is already talking about Nortons first title defence We want to keep Ken ac tive Biron said Sunday Hopefully he can defend his title around the first of the year Were very confident that Ken will defeat Ali decisively and theres no point in any de lay in making future plans When we win the title well take short vacation and go to London to see the Richard DunnJoe Bugner fight on Oct 12 Theres good chance Ken might make his firt defence against the winner Biron also mentioned unde feated Duane Bobick as po tential challenger for Norton Bobick is managed by former champion Joe Frazier Im planning on talking to Joe about the possibility of Ken defending his new title against Bobick possibly in January Biron said Norton agrees completely with his manager know people are saying Im lookin past Ali the challenger sai Well guess am know beat him in our two previous fightsand llldoit again Nortons recollection of his two 1973 fights with Ali wasnt accurate Norton won the first one in March that year and Ali won the second six months later Both were 12round split decisions In his own mind Norton be lieves he also won the second match signed in the offseason as free agent scored his first two goals for the Black Hawks the irst on 35foot slap shot Kirk Bowman had the other Chicago goal whilc Dave Williams had the lone Toronto marker Steve Shutt and rookie Mike Polich beat Boston goalie Gerry Checvcrs in the second period to help the Canadiens stop the Bruins Montreals Jacques Le mairc and Bostons Brad Park had the other goals in the garnc Left winger Bill Barber 50 goal scorer last season scored three goals and assisted on fourth for the Flyers Rookie John Paddock added pair of goals for Philadelphia Dean Tulzifous scored two goals and veteran Lou Nannc and No draft pick Glcn Shar pley had one cach for the Stars Harold Phillipoff and Pat Rib blc were the Atlanta scorers Don Kowk took pass from dcfcnceman Gary Sargent to score the Kings first goal then set up the second scored by rookie Don Moorcs on rebound Sid Vescy and Ron Sedlcbauer were the Vancouver scorers At Tamperc Finland Hannu Haapalaincn scored with less than four minutes to play to give the Finns the tie Ertti Koivolnhti Jouka Alkula and Joukzi Porvari were the other Finnish scorers while Mike Ho bin Seppo Repo Dave Gorman and Gary Lariviere scored for Phoenix The Jets lost Bobby Hull for four to six weeks He suffered fractured wrist when St Louis defenceman brought his stick down hard on Hulls hand RENT CAR $7 PER DAY s1795 Friday to Monday Plus Mileage Featuring Chovrolots RENT CAR 341 BAYFIELD ST the Hayfield Sunoco Car Washl 7370800 Mats Lindh scored two goals and Anders Hedbcrg Willie Lindstrom Bobby Ilull and Brian DcBnisio one each for Winnipeg lorry Butler and Red Bcrcnson scored for St Louis Rookie Blair Chapman who turned down chance to play for Edmonton scored Pitts burghs clinching goal Lew Morrison and Rick Kehoe scored the Penguins other goals while Rick Morris scored for Edmonton SPECIAL AT The Barrie Examiner Monday Sept 27 l976ll eietice leads the way as Als defeat Ottawa GLENN COLE The Canadian Press The odds were against them but Montreal Alouettes emerged victorious Sunday from the firstever Canadian Football League game to be played at the Olympic Stadium trouncing Ottawa Rough Riders 232 in game dominated by defensive units Prior to the game the Alouet tes were in last place in the Eastern Conference their highestpaid backfielders were on the limp and they had rookie quarterback to direct the offence and their defence against one of the best offensive machines in the CFL The Rough Riders had beaten them 459 and 2310 in earlier games in Ottawa and they gere reasonably healthy Sun ay But to the delight of most of the CFDrecord crowd of 68505 the Alouettes came through moving them back into second place in the East Meanwhile in Hamilton Saturday night quarterback Jimmy Jones tossed three touchdown sses as the im proving TigerCats clipped Toronto Argonauts 2914 Hamilton is tied for third with the Argos Both teams have 10 points one fewer than Montreal and four behind Ottawa STARS IN DEBUT In Montreal rookie quarter back Joe Barnes making his first start in Montreals 10th game ran for touchdown and tossed twoyard TD strike to Peter Dalla Riva with five sec onds remaining in the first half It came after newcomer Glenn Lott had stopped Gerry Organs Riders bomb Stamps on Lancaster passes By JOHN snow The Canadian Press Injuries forced quarterback Ron Lancaster of Saskat chewan Roughriders to pass more than usual Sunday and he led his team to 3510 victory over Calgary Stampeders in Western Football Conference game The Roughriders entered the game without fullback Steve Molnar who had knee injury and lost halfback Keith Barn ette on the last play of the first half with similar injury The win which put the Roughriders in first place came the day after Winnipeg Blue Bombers used punishing running attack to defeat Ed monton Eskimos 2817 The E5 kimos dropped into second place while Winnipeg earned tie for third with British Colum bia Lions Edmonton head coach Ray Jauch refused to speak with some Edmonton reporters after Saturdays game which left Edmonton with seven wins and four lossesthree at home Jauch was unhappy about Saturday story that former British Columbia quarterback Don Moorhead will start five day trial this week Some play ers said they were forbidden to speak with reporters from The Edmonton Journal but Jauch spoke freely with visiting re porters We had to be perfect to come back after fal ing so far behind Jauch said And we werent Joe Tiller Stampeder coach praised Lancaster after in juries forced him to use four wide receivers and only one running back Its read us out and Lancas tcr di what he always does said Tiller He picked us apart Saskatchewan got two touch downs from Barnette and one each from Ford and Pete Van Valkenburg all on running plays set up by Lancaster He also threw to Leif Petterson for score Bob Macoritti had five con verts SCORING PASS Rudy Linterman caught 14 yard ss from John Hufnagel and yril McFall had field goal and convert for the Stampeders The victory was costly for the Roughriders who lost tight end Bob Richardson Barnette suf fered torn ligaments and needs surgery Steve Beaird scored tw0 touchdowns and Jay Washing ton all on running lays for the Bombers as Ra ph Brock displayed conservative ap proach The young uar terback often criticiz for poor play selection attempted only 16 and completed 10 several to keep long marches alive GOOD KICKING Bernie Ruoff com leted Win nipegs scoring wit two field goals and three converts He also contributed brilliant dis Elay of punting and kickoffs eeping the Eskimos from major threat in the fourth quar ter The Eskimos under fire from local fans and reporters for their recent inconsistency gained only 63 yards on the ground Standby quarterback Bruce Lemmerman led the rushers with 43 yards in three carries all escaping from the devastating Winnipeg pass rush dustrlal Pork 3254424 IJI pm McCauley Tractor Equipment Sales Form Industrial Sales Parts and Ser vice Proprietor Ron McCouley Mary No II South of Orlllo the In Opui tum530 pm Mon to Fri Sat punt from the end zone holding it to nine yards Montreal placekicker Don Sweet set professional foot ball record with his 16th 17th and 18th consecutive field oals Sweet also converted th touchdowns with Organs two firstquarter singles on wide field goal attempts ac counting or Ottawas scoring With Johnny Rodgers and fullback Andy Hopkins sidelined with injuries coach Marv Levy was forced to come up with patchwork offensive backfield He used Canadians Ian Mofford and rookie Chuck McMann and also moved Joe Petty to offence from the defen sive backfield The Rough Riders net offence was 150 yards compared with 221 for Montreal Most of Montreals offence came in the second half be cause in the first they managed just 57 yards and didnt score until the defence gave them the ball in deep Ottawa territory That blocked punt by Lott was the turning point in the game said Levy There is no doubt about that BARNES AGREED Barnes 24yearold gradu ate of Texas Tech who was 13th round draft pick by Chi cago Bears of the National Football League in 1974 said the Alouettes just couldnt get anything established until the blocked punt Then in the second half ev erything just started to click for us Sweets field goals eclipsed the NFL mark of 16 jointly held by Jan Stenerud of Kansas City Chiefs and Don Cockcroft of Cleveland Browns The loss was the second in row for the Riders who were beaten at home last Sunday by the TigerCats Hamilton continued its im proved performance at home Saturday with an impressive net offence of 481 yards com pared with 244 for the Argos Jones threw TD asses to Lawrie Skolrood Harris and Ang Santucci with kicker Ken Clark two field goals two converts and air of singles Jones complet 13 of 26 passes for 218 yards and the three touchdowus Chuck Ealey scored the lone Toronto touchdown in the first quarter Zenon Andrusyshyn had two field goals single and convert to complete 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