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RUGBY PLAY FAVORS BARRIE CLUB Pirates 43 The Barrie Rugby scored field goal for the tom photo as both sides opened Rugby action dominated the sports scene Saturday at the Radio Shack field as Barrie met and defeated Toronto Francis quits Rangers NEW YORK AP Emile Francis resigned Saturday as vicepresident of New York Rangers ending 16year asso ciation with the National Hockey League team The move was announced by William Jennings president of the club After working with Emile all these years since 1960 this is very sad announcement for me to make Jennings said However Emile tells me he prefers to be where the action is as general manager In any event myself and everyone at Madison Square Garden wish him the best Francis had more than two years remaining on his contract with the Rangers However he had the option to terminate the contract at any time he was not general manager He served as the clubs gen eral manager from Oct 1964 until Jan of this year when he was replaced by John Fergu son Francis also coached the club on three separate occa sions He is expected to join another NHL club shortly Among the Clubs reported interested in Francis are St Louis Los An geles Chicago and Detroit Horse wins then dies BADMINTON England Reuter Wide Awake won the Badminton horse trials Sunlt day and then died on his lap of honor Wide Awakes rider Eu ropean champion Lucinda PriorPalmer had just received the winners prize from Queen Elizabeth when her loyearold horse collapsed Princess Anne the Queens daughter whose husband Mark Phillips finished third consoled Miss PriorPalmer as the 21 yearold British girl wept It was bitter blow to Miss PriorPalmers hopes for the Montreal Olympics in July for her immaculate performance here had virtually clinched se lection for her and Wide Awake She now is expected to ride Be Fair in Montreal the horse on which she won the European threeday event title last year The veterinarian for the Bad minton horse trials said Wide Awake had suffered hemorr hage caused by an enlarged blood vessel or clot that might have formed after bruise any time in the last three or four weeks Miss PriorPalmer had en tered Wide Awake in the trials one of the guides for selecting Britains Olympic equestrians in order to qualify second hor se for the threeday event Club got looyard try by Pirates in the exhibition game up play in the afternoon cen George Gibson Dave Nixon Playwasfastandbruisingbot testExaminerPhotos Lynn hitting streak lifts Boston to Ist win By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Baseballs sophomore jinx is only rumor to outfielder Fred Lynn of Boston Red Sox Lynn the American Leagues Rookie of the Year and most valuable player for the Red Sox in 1975 had string of six suc cessive hits in Bostons week end series with Baltimore Ori oles Two of thema home run in the first inning and double to ope fi ve ru thirdpropelled Boston to its first victory of the season 62 breeze over the Orioles In the only other American League games played Sunday Oakland As won their third in row outlasting California An gels 107 and Minnesota Twins also got their first victory of the year edging Texas Rangers Cold weather prevented games between New York Yan kees and Milwaukee Brewers and Detroit Tigers and Cleve land Indians and double header between Kansas City Royals and Chicago White Sox On Saturday Baltimore whipped Boston 51 Detroit downed Cleveland 31 New York outslugged Milwaukee Oakland topped California 62 and Texas defeated Minnesota 44 dont ever remember hav ing six consecutive hits last year said Lynn who had 21 home runs 105 runs batted in and 175 total hits for 33 av Yankees Milwaukee file opening protests MILWAUKEE AP New York Yankees and Milwaukee Brewers have filed separate rotests concerning the first two games of their American League seasonopening baseball series abbreviated when Sundays scheduled game was postponed because of cold weather Hawley strikes qui in his bid to win another riding title By TIIE CANADIAN PRESS Sandy Hawley struck fast Saturday in his bid for another riding title this time at Hollywood Park in Inglewood Calif He rode four winnersas did Bill Shoemakeralthough Hawley wound up fourth on Dahlia in the $50000 Gamely Handicap Laffithincay Jr guided Katonka to victory in thefeature Hawley from Mississauga Ont moved to Hollywood Park after running away with the jockeys crown at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia Calif with 129victories At Inglewood he won the first three racesPrince Pharos $780 in the first Catch Coun tess $780 in the second and Tregillick $2120 in the third He wound up the afternoon with victory aboard Strike Me Lucky $7 in the ninth threatened strike by secur ity guards and other employees that would have closed Holly wood Park failed to materialize as tentative settlement was reached It does not cover three other California tracks Los Alamitos Golden Gate Fields or Bay Meadows Pincay rode Katonka slight favorite to 150 25 Clocking over 11 miles on the turf The winner returned $580 $380 and $260 for beating four rivals in the event for threeyearolds and up Fascinating Girl three lengths back and ridden by Fer nando Toro finished second and returned $480 and $3 Th na ridden by Donald Pierce paid $280 to show Yankee manager Billy Mar tin said he was filing protest with league president Lee Mac Phail concerning his teams 50 defeat Thursday claiming the slope of the County Stadium pit ching mound does not meet American League requiremen ckly with At Aqueduct Park in New York Double Edge Sword went to the front at the start and led all the way to win the $75200 Excelsior Handicap Off as the 2tol favorite the sixyearold son of Sword Dan cer duplicated his frontrunning performance in the West cliestei Handicap on March 27 At the finish of 18 miles Double Edge Sword ridden by Angel Cordero Jr held length margin over Northerly aGtol shot Sharp Gary closed fast along the rail to edge the toprated Festive Moon by neck for the show spot Double Edge Sword paid $620 $440 and $320 Northerly returned $620 and $4 while Sharp Gary paid $4 Finishing fifth in the field of nine was Dr Emil followed by erage in 1975 Basically Im not fast starter so anything get early like this is gravy The homer barely cleared the right field fence but the double on slow curve from lefthaiider Mike ueller was punched to left Singles by Jim Rice Carlton Fisk and Carl Yastrzemski made it 30 then Rico Petrocelli walked to load the bases and Denny Doyle cleared them with double on the first pitch from reliever Mike Flanagan Sal Bandos tworun homer in the first inning and Phil Gar ners tworun double in the third highlighted pair of four run bursts that carried the As past California The Angels cut the lead to 87 in the sixth then Bill North wrapped matters up with tworun single in the eighth Dan Fords tiebreaking home run off Texas reliever Jeff Terpko in the ninth inning gave Minnesota manager Gene Mauch his first American league victory after 17 years of managing in the National League It followed 21 and 41 losses to the Rangers Mauch man aged Philadelphia Phillies and Montreal Expos before joining the Twins this season Hawaian Gulf Right Mind Yu Wipi and Bold and Fancy who reared at the start Enchanted Native rushed to the lead early in the stretch and won the $52750 Sixty Sails Han dicap by three lengths at Chicagos Sportsmans Park Honky Star the evenmoney favorite edged Regal Rumor by neck for second place Hope She Does was nose behind in fourth in the onemile race for fillies and mares RETURNS $1240 Enchanted Native ridden by Larry Snyder paid $1240 $420 and $280 Honky Star paid $3 and $260 and Regal Rumor re turned $340 At Baltimore Dance My Love easily won her first stakes race defeating Siz Ziz Zit by five lengths in the $28350 The Barrie Examiner Monda ril I2 19767 Habs blank Black Hawks 40in opener of quarterfinals on Stanley Cup trail MONTREAL CP In order to win hockey games you must be able to score and in order to score you have to get some de cent chances at the opposing goaltender Chicago Black Hawks failed to score in the opening game of their Stanley Cup quarterfinal series against Montreal Cana diens and had few if any dan gerous shots at Ken Dryden as the Canadiens skated to 40 win to take 10 lead in the bestofseven series The Canadiens champions of the Norris Division were in complete command most of the way and held 20 lead with 8V2 minutes gone on goals by defen ceman Larry Robinson and centre Peter Mahovlich The struggling Black Hawks did not register their first shot on Dry den until 813 of the period and on the return rush Mahovlich scored FIRST PLAYOFF GOAL Rookie centre Doug Jarvis scored his first National Hockey League playoff goal at 16241 of the second period against Tony Esposito and veteran right winger Jim Roberts rounded out the scoring with an unassisted goal at 1250 of the third for Mon treal who had 3722 edge in shots on goal It may have looked like they were playing poorly but then again we were playing well said sophomore centre Doug Risebrough We were skating fore checking and coming back Dryden who recorded his fourth career playoff shutout admitted he had an easy time of it suppose you would expect more tough shots Dryden said There werent that many tonight They arent the type of team that is going toput sus tained pressure on you They just capitalize on your mis takes Thats been the style of Chicago over the years Coach Billy Reay expressed his displeasure with the work of referee Ron Wicks and moaned the lack of Chicago offensive Toronto not conceding anything to Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA AP To ronto Maple Leafs got blitzed in four successive games by Philadelphia Flyers in last years National Hockey League playoffs In four regular season meet ings this year the best Toronto could do was tie the twotime Stanley Cup champions Yet the Maple Leafs arent about to concede anything when they open the bestofseven quarterfinal series tonight at the Spectrum Its an altogether different team said Toronto captain Darryl Sittler We feel we can stand up to them now Last year we didnt have ev erybody going as hard they should Sittler added Last year you had the feeling the series was pretty well lost be fore it started Now we think we can play with them When veterans Dave Keon and Norm Ullman departed to the World Hockey Association the Leafs added some youth and muscle in Jack Valliquette and Pat Boutette We have tougher guys now said defenceman Borje Salming For the older guys its tough to go out and hit The younger guys will The line of Valliquette Bou tette and Dave Williams blanked Pittsburghs Pierre LaRouche 53goal scorer during the regular season in the opening Cup round Leafs went from 13th place in overall point standings to sev aith largely on big boost from goaltender Wayne Thomas Thomas shut out the Penguins in the deciding game the preliminary round series climaxing superb three games against the NHLs secondhighest scoring team Wolves defeat 67s to lead series 42 By THE CANADIAN PRESS Sudbury Wolves defeated Ot tawa 67s 53 Sunday in the four th game of their Ontario Ilockey Association Major Jun ior Leyden Division final series Sudbury now leads the eightpointseries42 On Saturday Hamilton Fin cups blanked Toronto Marlboros 30 to take 71 lead in their eightpoint Emms Division championship series At Ottawa Ron Duguay led the Wolves with two goals Other Sudbury goals were cred ited to Larry McDavid Steve Shutt and Randy Pierce who scored into an empty net in the last minute of play The score was tied 11 after the first period and 22 after the second but Sudbury pulled away in the final period Ottawa scorers were Larry Skinner with two goals and Bruce Baker with one crowd of 9300 watched the game The series resumes Tuesday at Ottawa FINCUPSIIMARLBOROSO Standup goaltending by Al VET CLAIMS FINAL EVENT WHITBY Ont CP Veteran equestrian Christilot Boylen of Cedar Valley Ont won the featured Grand Prix Special aboard Gaspano in the windup event Saturday at the Canadian equestrian teams dressage trials Mrs Boylen amassed 1165 points in the event to edge Lorlt iaine Stubbs of Toronto on True North with 1150 points with Mrs Boylens other horse Jungherr II in third place with 1120 points Fourth place went to Cynthia Neale of Toronto and Fruh wind owned by Samson Farms of Oakville Ont with 1094 points four victories Hilltop Stakes at Pimlico Race Course Dance My Love ran 116 miles in 146 25 and returned $2080 $820and $540 Siz Ziz Zit paid $460 and $380 and Gala Occasion paid $560 Enchumao the longest shot in the race caught favored Proud And Bold at the three sixteenths pole and drew out to afivelengthi victory in the $28000 Fort Lauderdale Han dicap at Gulfstream in Hallan dale Fla Proud And Bold lasted by nose over Rastaferian for sec ond money Ridden by Marco Castaneda Enchumao ran 116 miles in 143 25 and paid $6800 $1080 and $480 Proud And Bold paid $380 and $280 Rastaferian re turned $440 Jensen and threepoint ef forta goal and two assistswby Joe Contini led Hamilton to the shutout victory at Maple Leaf Gardens before 8754 spec tators Other Fincup scorers were Rick Selling and Steve Hazlett Jenson turned away all 20 Marlboro shots and Toronto goaltender Kevin Walton stop ped 29 shots The Fincups scored one powerplay goal and drew 12 of the 23 penalties handed out The next game is Tuesday at Hamilton But Leafs now must play the NHLs topscoring team which boasts the alltime topscoring line And the Flyers have lost only twice in 40 games at the Spectrum this year TOPS SCORERS Reggie Leachs 61 goals were the most ever by right winger in one season and the line of beach Bobby Clarke and Bill Barber combined to score record 141 goals Our thinking is that we would rather have faced Bos ton Thomas says Flyer coach Fred Shero re fuses to announce his starting goaltendereither Wayne Stephenson or Bernie Parent until game time Stephenson compiled 4010 record while Parent suffer ing from neck injury was out most of the year Parent how ever did play in 11 games late in the season to try to get back into shape Blalock wins tournament TOKYO AP Defending champion Jane Blalock vet eran of the US pro tour rallied from six strokes behind with courserecord 69 Sunday and won the $33333 Fourth World Ladies Professional golf tour nament by one stroke over Yukiko Toriyama of Japan Miss Blalocks fiveunderpar final round broke the course record of 71 set last year by US pros Laura Baugh and Hol lis Stacy and gave her 54hole total of 228 and the first prize of $6600 punch Reay was upset with the call by Wicks in the second period after fight between Mahovlich and Phil Russell of the Black Hawks Its hard to understand Reay said The refereein chief sends out this pamphlet on what they are going to call and enforce during the playof fs one of the things was hair pulling Mahovlich pulled Russells hair He should have been out of the game However the failure of Wicks to eject Mahovlich with the match penalty was 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