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TEAM CANADA IN DRIVERS SEAT Raps games tonight in Cup action Game By SCOTT ABBOTT The Canadian Press Three games tonight in the sixcountry Canada Cup hockey tournament will set the stage for the final day of roundrobin action Saturday and Team Canada is inthe drivers seat victory for Canada over Czechoslovakia tonight in Moti lreal would clinch for it best ofthree finalround berth leav ing second place open to mad scramble The Czechoslovakians the Soviet Union Sweden and the United States are all still math ematically in the running for playoff berth Sweden plays winless Finland in Winnipeg and the Soviet Union meets the United States in Philadelphia tonight Team Canada 74 winners against Czechoslovakia in an exhibition game last week has recorded three victories in as many tournament games SCOTIY BOWMAN Vachon against Finland the US and Sweden with Rogatien Vachon of the National Hockey Leagues Los Angeles Kings tending goal in every game While the Canadian team does not name its starting goalie until the day of game unofficial head coach Scotty Bowman of Montreal Canadiens said Wednesday Youd have to find pretty good reason not to use Vachon Vachon has given up four goals in three games for 133 goalsagainst average with shutoutagainst Sweden on Tuesday night the first by Canadian team made up of pro fessionals in international comlt petition Czechoslovakia lost 74 to Canada in an exhibition game last week and Gary Sargent of the Kings and the US team said he feels Canada should win easily tonight It seems its invincible in US Open tennis tourney FOREST HILLS NY AP At Wimbledon it was Evert and Goolagong Four times on the womens pro tennis tour this winter it was Evert and Goolagong At last years United States Open it was Evert and Goolagong The 1976 US Open chain pionships is shaping up the same way Topseeded Chris Evert of Fort Lauderdale Fla and secondranked Evonne Goolagong of Australia took another stride on the road toward an expected showdown in the womens singles final by scoring easy quarterfinal vic tories iediieslziy Evert overwhelmed Natasha Chmyreva the 18yearold Rus sian 61 62 in an afternoon quarterfinal match while Goolagong heat gritty veteran Rosie asals 51 62 iiithe fear lured night match at the West Side Tennis Club In mens action t0pseeded Jimmy Connors of Belleville lll overpowered Jan Kodcs of Czechoslovakia 75 63 61 and thirdseeded Guillermo Vilas of Argentina wore down plucky Eddie Dibbs of North Miami Beach Fla the No seed 61 ammo since cum mum and co noun Ii37 26 76 76 in twohour 57 minute marathon Connors will meet Vilas in one mens semifinal Saturday The remaining mens semi final berths are to be deter mined today with No Bjorn Borg of Sweden playing No Manuel Orantes of Spain the defending champion and No the Nastase of Romania facing unseeded Dick Stockton of Dallas Everts victory was her 99th in row on clay or slow arti ficial surfaces streak which dates back to July 1973when she lost to Goolagong 1PIIIIIIN STRONG Playing Evonne is always something special Evert said Its always in the back of my mind that we may meet in the finals and know she thinksthe someway really dont like to look ahead Goolagong said But it would be nice to beat Chris especially here in the US Open and on clay Standing in the way of rematch between the tennis queens are pair of 20year olds Mirna Jausovec of Yugo slavia and Dianne Fromholtz of MATH Im MT PRESS SILK REM VMML PROOF SIGNS For more information write ammy Kyle The AlmaguinNipissing Travel Association Box 351 North Bay Ontario P18 8H5 Australia Both breezed into the semifinals Jausovec beating her doubles partner Virginia Ruzici of Romania 62 61 and Fromholtz defeating 16year old Zenda Liess of Daytona Beach Fla 61 63 Both the 20yearolds are patient baseline players who wore down their opponents Wednesday just keeping the ball in play moving it from side to side and waiting for the other players to make the mis takes That also was the strategy used by Evert against Chmy reva keeping the Russian pin ned to the baseline with strong ground strokes and returning any rushes to the net with her noted twofisted backhand RENT CAR $7 PER DAY $1795 Friday to Monday Plus Mileage FOOIUIIVg Chevrolet TIEDEN RENT CAR 341 BAYFIELD ST lAi itie Baytield Sunoco Car Washl 7370800 This fall in the AliiiaguinNippissing travel area Where fishing is not just sport its way of life Crystal cool waters reflecting the fall colours invite the pickerel bass lake trout and northern pike to take your bait and SlRlKli If you want your peace and quiet laced with action come on up Its all happening right on your doorstep in the Near North Well give you fish story thats true story dont think the Czechs have the same talent that Can ada does and theyre going to take pounding he said add ing that Team Canada had the best shooters Among Czechoslovakias top guns is Milan Novy who has three goals in the countrys three tournament games and was the leading scorer in Czechoslovakias best league last season The Americans meanwhile are pinning their hopes against the Russians on possibility that assistant coach Harry Neale of the World Hockey As sociations New England Wha lers says is slim at best Our only chance is plane crash Neale said MOSCOW ANADIENS Any time you play the Ros sians youre motivated Theyre the Montreal Canadiens of Europe Neale admitted however that the US might be depressed after only tie against the Czechoslovakians and losses to Sweden and Canada in three games Theres definitely problem in coming into dressing room after three straight games now and saying We didnt play too badly we could have won it but we didnt How many times can you not be rewarded for yourefforts The US has been getting good goalteiidiiig and Pete LoPresti of Minnesota North Stars among the inspiring per formers said tlic close loss to Canada was important to the Americans The Canada game is going to help us for the rest of the tournament he said It was moral victory Al though we didnt win we showed people the US is for realthat we have American hockey players good enough to play with the best in the world officials BRAMPTON Ont Cl Coach John McCauley criti cized on occasions as referee of National Hockey League games switched tactics Wed nesday night and took swipe at officials in the Mann Cup lacrosse final His comments came after his Brampton Excelsiors defeated New Westminster Salmon bellies I4i in the opening game of the bestofscvcii Canadian scnior series When my players go into the corners and get knocked on their ass and they Salmon bellics pick up the ball my players have to wonder Mc Cauley said Im not complaining about two men going after the ball but when the third man conics along and picks it up that should be interference Coach Bob Babcock of thc Salmonbellies winners of the Western Lacrosse Association title was also unhappy with referees Harry Bcnhain and Harry Dclinie of the Ontario Lacrosse ASSOCltIl ion Babcock said the castcrn offi cials allowed the Bran ptoii players to slash too frccly EXCELSIORS RALLY lhc IIxcclsiors winners of the OLA Major scrics ovcr came firstperiod jittcrs and it deficit to takc 34 lt£ll cnr tering the second before 1700 fans Brampton outshot thc visitors 2717 in the first pciiotl The visitors howcvcr out scored thc lIxcclsiors it in the second to ic thc scorc 88 lctl ircvcs and Mikc licncli paced Brampton to victory whilc goalie itiry lowlcss stop pcd 42 shots coiiipurcd With 37 by New Wcstininstci iictniintltr Jocoinciu lrcvcs scored three goals whilc French had two goals one on it pcnzilty shot and ad ch three assists uuvhHi $3105 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Richie llebner came out of his slump by driving in four runs Wednesday night to carry Pittsburgh Pirates to 31 Na tional League baseball victory over the floundering Phila delphia lhillies llebner batting 234 going iii to the game hit tworun single in the second and drove tworun double into the right field corner 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An geles giving up three hits over eight innings Charlie Hough 116 pitched the final three in nings INNING FOR RUNS Home runs by Lee Mazztlli and John Stearns led 16bit barrage as New York routed Chicago Mazzilli slammed pinchhit threerun homer to cap sixrun ninth inning that salted away the win for Tom Seaver 1240 who needed relief help from Rick Baldwm and Skip Lockwood Stearns who had four hits clouted tworun homer in the third an inning that also saw Leo Foster steal home Atlanta toppled San Diego by scoring two runs in the 10th in ning Rod Gilbreath singled home Willie Montanez with the tiebreaking run and errors by shortstop Hector Torrez and catcher Fred Kendall led to the Braves final run