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mwvfl FLYERS ROSS Lonsberry 18 hits the ice first as he and Montreal Canadiens Mike Polish get tangled up during the first period of Thursday nights preseason game in Philadelphia AP Photo Penguins wait until third to post winning comeback By THE CANADIAN PRESS There were many unfamiliar faces at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis on Thursday night but Pittsburgh Penguins recognized at least three Albert Savill Nick Frenzel and Wren Blair executives with the National Hockey League team attended the exhibition game between the Penguins and Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Associaton Savill the chairman of the board and Frenzel the clubs secretarytreasurer are part owners and live in Indianapolis Blair team president flew in from Pittsburgh The Penguins didnt let their bosses down posting 64 vic tory over the Racers They waited until the third period to do it however as they outshot the Racers 208 to overcome ldeficit All six Pittsburgh goals were against former Penguins goalie Andy Brown CANADIENS WIN In other exhibition games Thursday night involving NHL teams Los Angeles Kings and Cleveland Crusaders played to 22 tie Montreal Canadiens beat Philadelplhia Flyers 82 New York Rangers and Boston Bmins played to 22 tie Min nesota North Stars downed St Louis Blues 42 and Eric Vail scored three goals as Atlanta Flames beat Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association 84 In game involving WHA teams Winnipeg Jets beat Cal gary Cowboys 71 at Brandon Man Ron Schock scored three goals to lead the Penguins past Indianapolis the fifth win in six tries for Pittsburgh over WHA opponents Dennis Owchar added two goals for Pittsburgh and Ron Stackhouse scored the other Mark Lomenda Darryl Maggs Al McDonald and Brian Camp bell scored for Indianapolis Jim Moxeys thirdperiod goal gave the Barons their tie with the Kings at Salt Lake City Lorne Stamler and Gary Sargent scored for Los Angeles while Wayne Merrick scored the other Cleveland goal Steve Shutt scored two powerplay goals to hel the Canadiens beat Philadelp ia at the Spectrum Montreal now has record of 62 in the exhibition season Gregg Sheppard and Rick Middleton scored for Boston in the second period to give the Bruins their tie with the Rangers Don Murdoch and Ron Greschner scored for the Rangers GRATTON PLAYS Gerry Cheevers played in the Boston goal while Gilles Grat ton formerly with Toronto Tome of the WHA and St Louis of the NHL was in the nets for the Rangers Jim Roberts scored an emp tynet goal to clinch Minnesotas win over the Blues Roland Eriksson Pierre Jarry and Dwight Bialowas scored the other North Stars goals while Jamie Masters and defen SPORTS BRIEFS SIGNS FREE AGENT PHILADELPHIA AP Philadelphia Eagles have signed free agent Bill Olds sixfootone 222pound fullback who played three National Football League seasons with Baltimore Colts The Eagles placed injured fullback Art Malone on the injured reserve list Malone suffered ligament damage to his right knee in Monday nights overtime loss to Washington and is out for the season COACH QUITS ST LOUIS AP Preston Gomez 53 hired by St Louis Cardinals last December as thirdbase coach will leave the job at the end of the National League season The former manager of San Diego Padres and Houston Astros wants job near his home on the West Coast FIRST PLAYER SIGNED SEATTLE AP Dave Johnson former relief pitcher for Baltimore Orioles became the first player signed by the expansion Seattle Mariners of the American League team it MULCASTER spokesman said Thursday Lou Gorman director of baseball operations said the Mariners picked up Johnson from the Ori oles for an undisclosed amount Johnson 27 had pitched for the Orioles minor league teams since 1967 before joining the Orioles team for part of 1974 and 1975 PROFIT REPORTED MANCHESTER Reuter Manchester United of the Eng lish League soccer first division made profit of £301438 about $500000 last season as average attendance rose to 54750 shareholders were told at the annual meeting Thursday But the team has an overdraft of £495188 $822000 because of stadium rebuilding program LIONS SIGN SUNTER PONTIAC Mich AP De troit Lions of the National Foot ball League have signed kicker Ian Sunter who was released before the 1976 season by Ham ilton TigerCats after four years in the Canadian Football League General Manager Russ Thomas says Sunter will play Sunday against Green Bay Micnnm TIRES OFACIORY cosr Invoices on display In our an showroom PARKlAND TIRE 7262220 ceman Rod Seiling scored for St Louis The Flames scored four times in the final period to beat the Aeros behind Vails three goal night Tim Ecclestone Bill Flett Curt Bennett Bill Cle ment and Tom Lysiak scored the other Atlanta goals and Mark Howe replied twice and Rich Preston and John Tonelli each once for Houston Left winger Veli Pekka Ke tola scored two goals for the JetsatBrandon Bob Guindon Ulf Nilsson Lyle Moffat Willy Lindstrom and Bill Lesuk scored single Winnipeg goals Ron Chi perfield scored the on Calgary goal in the first period By The ASSOCIATED PRESS Kansas City Royals hope to clinch baseballs American League West pennant tonight without the help of California Angels but manager Whitey Herzog will take it anyway he can get it We just want it says Her zog the sooner the better After weeks of apprehension the Royals finally can win the West title by beating Minnesota tonight And even if they lose to the Twins they can still win the CAN DOIT WITH Royals wantpenna divisional championship if the An els defeat Oakland As later int eevening Id like to see Frank Tanana go to Oakland and beat the As says Herzog who has been chased down to the wire by Charles Finleys gallant team Hemog has nominated Doug Bird to pitch against Min nesotas Dave Goltz in the game at Royals Stadium How ever Herzog is still undeter mined about starter for Satur day He leans toward Dennis Leonard in the event that Kan sas City is still in pennant race STILL PLANNING But Ive got some deci sions to make on pitching says Hemog hopefully lining up his staff rotation for the American League playoffs against the Eastern champion New York Yankees next week Herzogs players after sev eral weeks of holding off homestretch charge by the As The Barrie Examiner Friday Oct 197611 nt the sooner thebett at last seem to be breathing easier victory over Oakland on Wednesday night gave the Royals comfortable 312game lead In limited baseball action Thursday night Detroit Tigers beat Cleveland Indians 64 and California trimmed Chicago White Sox 73 tworun double by Rusty Staub keyed iverun outburst in the fourth inning that carried Detroit over Cleveland Ed Glynn picked up his first major league trium in four decisions with re ief help from Steve Grilli Rookie Ron Jackson belted double and two singles while two other newcomers pitchers Sid Monge and John Verhoeven teamed up for sevenhitter as California whip ped Chicago Jackson singled in run in the second inning then doubled and scored during threerun Angels uprising in the fifth to give Monge his sixth victory in 13 decisions Lauda heavy favorite MOSPORT Ont CP When James Hunt was unex pectedly disqualified last Fri day from his British Grand Prix victory the McLaren driver predicted the move would have an adverse effect on attendance at this weekends Canadian Grand Prix The disqualification meant that Austrias Niki Lauda sud denly had 17point lead over Hunt in the world driving championship series leaving Hunt virtually out of con tention The fact that Lauda now ap pears as heavy favorite for his second consecutive world championship may keep some race fans away from this 245 mile circuit but the HuntLauda war still provides more inter esting publicity material than was available at some recent Canadian Grand Prix races And Mosport manager Har vey Hudes says the fact that the world champion likely will be crowned here this Sunday is in itself likely to draw several thousand more fans than usu ally attend the Canadian For mula event Hudes declined to estimate how many fans would show up Tigers have 77 plans in East pennant race CLEVELAND AP Detroit Tigers may be firmly dug into fifth place this year but dont count them out of baseballs American League East pennant race in 1977 Thats the confidentand angryword from Detroit manager Ralph Houk Theres only one place to be in baseballon top said Houk want to be there again If didnt think the Tigers had future wouldnt behere Much of his optimism is based on three young players he thinks have superstar poten tial Mark The Bird Fidrych Ron LeFlore and Jason Thomp son In his rookie year Fidrych has mana ed to accumulate an 189 won0st record and an earnedrun average of 239the lowest in the American League LeFlore was leading the league in runs scored and hitting 316 when knee injury ended his season And Thompson dos ite slump followed by shou der injury that sidelined him for three weeks has hit 17 home runs in the equivalent of half season BLAMESINJURIES Houk firmly believes the Ti gers would have placed much better than fifth this year were it not for what he called an un believable string of injuries Six players including Evans ville sensation Steve Kemp have worn casts Still out are LeFlore catcher Milt May shortstop Tom Veryzer and Aurelio Rodriguez Willie Hor ton is showing signs of revival after being out six weeks with heel injury BASEBALL RECORD By THE CANADIAN PHISSS National League EAST V5 IitiIH xIhiladlphia 9H 01 616 Pittsburgh 89 70 560 New York 86 73 511 12 St Louis 72 B7 456 26 Chicago 72 H7 456 26 Montreal 55 101 346 43 WEST xCinc1nnati 100 59 629 Los Angeles 91 611 572 Houston 78 82 488 12 San Francisco 74 86 463 16 San Diego BB 417 29 Atlanta 69 90 431 11 xrllnched division title Thursdays Rosulix No games scheduled Todays Probable Iilchcrx Montreal Stanhouse 8121 at Chicago Bonham 812 230 in New York Koosman 219 at Philadelphia Underwood 1051 30 in St Lows lMcGlothen 11114 at Pittsburgh iCandeleria 157 730 pm Atlanta Ruthven 1416 at incrnnati iNolan 14 pm San Francisco IBarr 15711 at Houston ILimongcllo 20I ll 10 in San Diego inwchinko 00 at Les Angeles lRuu 15111 10110 in Saturdays inniti St Louis at Pittsburgh Montreal at hicago Atlanta at fincinnati San Francisco at Houston New York iii Philadelphia San Diego at Los Angeles American Lrague lIniit IctiBI xNew York 95 62 605 Baltimore RH 71 553 Cleveland 61 76 516 14 Boston 80 79 503 16 Detroit 71 87 449 24 Milwaukee 66 92 419 29 West Kansas fiiy 90 69 566 Oakland 86 72 544 in Minnesota 82 77 516 California 74 85 465 16 Texas 73 Ht 459 I7 hitago 64 94 405 25 xIlnchrd dlvlslon title Thursdays Results Detroit levoland nlifornia hicago Todays Irohuhlr Iltchrrx Baltimore Martinez 11 at Boston iWisc 1311 30 levelnnd Bibby 137 and Waits 778 at New York Alex andir 13 and Ellis 168 530 in hicago llflrllOH 59 at Texas iliiilwrger 1012 1130 Minnesota Goltz 1314 at Kansas ity illird 12710 or Fitz niorris 1511I ll 30 pm UPIIUII IBnri 78 at Mil wuukec Travers 15715 alilorniii lTflnilllEl 18101 at Oakland Blue 1812i 11 pm Saturdays Games Baltimore at Boston Ieveland at New York Minnesota at Kansas ity Detroit at Milwaukee alifornia at Oakland hicago at Texas use0 CARSPRICED MW 1975 DATSUN B210 Licence LCS589 Only 12000 miles splotless condition inside and out for only 1974 DATSUN PICKUP Licence E96395 True showroom condition with only 39000 miles On Sale For $2595 $249500 1972 DATSUN 510 STATION WAGON Licence FEC767 One owner miles Goes as low as 1971 MERCURY COMET Every winter driven to Florida by retired couple with 46000 miles on it its phenomenal value at All above cars are fully certified and guaranteed in most cases original owners can be contacted sryco 549 Boyfield St lady driven original 39000 $1195m DATS UN 7370254 for driving crown Right now the weather fore cast is or some showers on Sat urday but clear for Sundays race If that holds true we should get very good turn out N0 RACE LAST YEAR There was no Canadian race last year because of dispute between organizers and the racing teams But in the three or four years previous when Emerson Fitti aldi of Brazil and nowretir Jackie Stewart of Scotland dominated the series one or the other of them usually had the world title clin ched by the time they got to Canada This time Lauda who drives for the Italian Ferrari team needs to gain just two points more than Hunt to clinch the title Hunt is the star on the Britishbased McLaren team Brawl issue brings fines LONDON Ont CP county court judge has fined Paul Emms coach of the for mer St Catharines Black Hawks of the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior series and former defenceman Robert Manno for their part in brawl during game last sea son Charges of causing disturb ance by fighting were laid against six persons following benchclearing brawl in the third period of Nov 15 game between the Black Hawks and London Knights Emms and Manno pleaded guilty but were given absolute discharges in May by provin cial court judge who said the hockey industry should dis cipline itself Three others also received discharges On Thursday Judge Thompson allowed an appeal by the Crown and levied $500 line against Emms and $300 fine against Manno who now plays professional hockey Judge Thompson said Emms had no right to go into the stan ds where brawl between fans and players was taking place He said the coach should have known his presence would cause further disturbance and also should have kept his men under control The St Catharines team was transferred at the end of last season to Niagara Falls where it now plays as the Flyers purchase New putter Phillies feuding among selves helps in golf lead LAS VEGAS Nev AP Stan Altgelt made fond ap praisal of the new putter that staked him to share of the fir stround lead Thursday in the $135000 Sahara Invitational golf tournament Its goofylooking thing he said but it gets the job done Altgelt tour rookie used the redandwhite striped put terwhich features ridge on the face that imparts forward roll to the ballin competition for the first time He oneputted 10 times on the way to sevenunderpar 64 that enabled him to tie Wally Armstrong for the top spot Armstrong already has as sured himself of spot in the top 60 moneywinners and an exemption for next year Don January veteran who played the parfives four under former US Open champion Lou Graham and Bruce Lietzke were two strokes back at 66 five under par on the 6800yard SaharaNevada Country Club course George Knudson of Toronto had nines of 34 and 35 for first round 69 five strokes back of the leaders Defending champion Dave Hill could do no better than oneunderpar 70 under the blazing desert sun that sent temperatures soaring Altgelt tried four times before he finally won his tour playing rights last fall in the PGA school He failed to qualify in the first few tour naments he entered then in jured his back and was out for four months Since then he has missed only one cut in the last nine tournaments and collected more than $10000 in winnings Ci t1 chosen games site KITCHENER CP Kitch enerWaterloo will be the site of the 1977 Ontario Summer Games spokesman for the ministry of culture and recrea tion said Thursday Two thousand to 2500 ath letes coaches and trainers are expected participate in 19 spor ts during the Aug 2629 Games the spokesman said in an in terview from Toronto Events include archery track and field golf lawn bowling parachuting sailing and wrestling PHILADELPHIA AP Philadelphia Phillies are feud ing among themselves with fir st baseman Dick Allen the focus of controversy threatening to tear apart the National League Eastern Division champions Manager Danny Ozark is re ported to have threatened to re sign in July because he didnt like the way the front office handled Allens disappearance for two games And Wednesday night in St Louis Ozark held meeting be fore game with the Cardinals the Phils last road game of the year Not so eaSy in snooker OTTAWA CP The big guns made their first appear ances in the Canadian snooker championship Thursday and as expected advanced through to the quarterfinals But it wasnt quite as easy as it sounds as North American champion Bill Werbeniuk of Winnipeg managed only 64 victory over Gerry Kapchinsky of Vancouver despite holding 52 edge at one point of their bestofli match And Canadian amateur champion Robert Paquette of Montreal needed all his skill to beat Stan Holden of Brockville Ont 65 in surprisingly toughfought match But Bernie Mikkelsen of Win nipeg ranked second among amateurs in the country then handled John Jorgensen of Win nipeg 63 and Canadian open champion Cliff Thorburn of Victoria left Tino Malo of Mon treal little but spectator in Thorburns 60 victory Finals of the weeklong com petition are scheduled Saturday with the winner earning $1500 and the loser $700 THE MACKAN GROUP ReSIdential Commercial MORTGAGE LOANS Conveniional lsi Mongages Secondarv ancinn ff New A186 mm Efgup 91 Baylield Head Office 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treal and went home to Per kasie Pa instead of to St Louis McGRAW UPSET Reliever Tug McGraw said He Allen makes $250000 year They said hes been hit ting an hour and half every day at home What the hell does he think his teammates are doing out here in St Louis There also were complaints over the fact that five black players remained in the club house during the second game of the Montreal doubleheader and held their own celebration EAR $7 ii s1795 Friday to Monday Plus Mileage Featuring Chevrolet RENT CAR 341 BAYFIELD ST At the Hayfield Sunoco Car Wash 73711800 TRY