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NY WRAPUP BID FLOPS Royals win and stay alive NEW YORK AP Having beaten New York Yankees ace Catfish Hunter in the game they had to win to stay alive Kansas City Royals go after their first World Series berth tonight against Ed Figueroa The Yankees hoping for their first American League pennant in 12 years tried to wrap it up with Hunter on Wednesday But the bid backfired when the Roy als knocked out Hunter early That left Figueroa 19game Winner during the regular sea son but the loser in the second game of the bestoffive play offs for tonights deciding game The Royals forced the cham pionship series to its limit by beating New York 74 Wednes day with barrage of extrabase hits that included double and triple by Hal McRae That overcame pair of home runs by Graig Nettles of the Yankees and sent the two division champions back for one more game in this seesaw series McRae who broke out of slump that had left him hitless in the first three games of the series thought that beating Hunter on Wednesday woul give the Royals the edge tonight DAMPENS CONFIDENCE feel we have the momen tum now said McRae after the game We beat their best pitchertheir big They wont have the same aith in the guy they throw tomorrow that they had today Yankees manager Billy Mar tin bristled at that suggestion Figueroa will start the fifth game and we have lot of faith in him he said Asked about his fifth game starter Royals manager Whitey Herzog had to hedge Wednesday night have no idea right now he said have choice of fourDennis Leonard Marty Pattin Al Fitzmorris and Paul Splittorff Splittorff who pitched 23 innings of shutout relief in the Central collects three victories Redskins senior volleyball team travelled across town Tuesday to Eastview Secondary School and came out victorious in all three of their matches The seniors went against the zone champions and won two of the three games 159 1315 1512 Central was led by the strong defensive work of Mike Peever and the strong serving of Paul Laking Steve Wise came up with many pointwinning spikes that assured the seniors of vic tory Central seniors record now Central stands at 21 having beaten Alliston and lost to Borden The Central Juniors winners of their invitational tournament Oct came up with another victory defeating the Eastview juniors 153 153 This enabled the juniors to keep their undefeated record this year The juniors were led by captain Ross Holt and John Laking The midgets led by Doug Holt continued their winning ways be beating the Eastview midgets 158 815 159 This ef fort enabled the midgets to re main in first place BMLA annual meeting will elect executive The scheduled portion of theBarrie Minor Lacrosse Association BMLA season came to close last month but the official end and new begin ning takes place Oct 21 Thats when the BMLA holds its annual meeting The usual order of business includes the election of officers Greg Burns program superintendent of the department of recrea tion will be on hand to 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Broadloom 17 OBrien Sport 15 Masonry No215 Klean Auto Body 14 Hammers Well Drilling 13 Barrie Tire HIGII SINGLE FLAT Fred Salisbury 360 Steve Wicklum 315 Neil Lang 301 HIGH TRIPLE FLAT Jeff Haglund 773 Neil Lang 767 Steve Wicklum 752 SEASON HIGH AVERAGE Art Shaver 229 and Bill Frew 228 the election The meeting tekas place at the Consumers Gas Building on Ferris Lane beginning at pm In addition there will be the MacGregor Trophies for the most valuable goaltender and most sportsman like team All theose interested in helping lacrosse prosper in the city are urged to attend the meeting Annual meeting of the BMLA Ladies Auxiliary and election of officers takes place Oct 27 at pm at the home of Mrs Linda Won 92 Cundles Rd STERLING6 STERLING TRUST CORPORATION BARBIEHours CRAIG NETTLES two homers second game would have had the assignment almost auto matically if he had not had to warm up Wednesday but he was anxious for another shot at the Yankees Leonard 17 game winner was the second game starter and was knocked out early Herzog shook up the Royals lineup benching regulars Jim Wohlford and Frank White He sent McRae usually the desig nated hitter into right field in Reds don Who they CINCINNATI AP Theyre playing waiting game in Cincinnatiand they dont seem to care who shows up at Riverfront Stadium on Saturday Cincinnati Reds fresh from their threegame sweep of Philadelphia Phillies in the Na tional League playoffs are looking ahead to the World Series The general team attitude was that whichever American League club emerged to face the Reds would not be as suc cessful in the Series dont care who we play be cause these guys Reds repre sent the best team in baseball Cincinnati manager Sparky An derson said Wednesday as he awaited the outcome of the bestoffive playoff between New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals now tied 22 There isnt another club in Whats the fuss all about Sterling has had free Chequing for years higher interest on Savings Accounts plus we are open longer hours including Saturdays Come in open Chequing Account and have look at an honest approach to all your financial needs Monday to Thursday Friday Saturday anlitrr Canada Doposd Insurance Corporation serted veteran Cookie Rojas at second base and made Jamie Quirk rookie the designated hitter DRIVES IN THREE All of the moves worked Rojas supplied two hits start ing pair of rallies Quirk drove in two runs and scored third McRae scored twice after his two hits Patek collected three hits and drove in three runs McRae who had been ex perimenting with his batting stance finally found comfort able position in his second swing and drilled his hits in the fourth and sixth innings Only brilliant stop by Nettles at third base deprived him of third hit in the eighth inning Pateks secondinning double drove in the first two Royals runs against Hunter Then Buck Martinez got run scoring single making it 30 Nettles got two of those runs back with homer in the bot tom of the second but McRae opened the fourth with his double and scored on Quirks triple Rojas followed with sacrifice fly making it 52 In the sixth McRae tripled and trotted home on Quirks sacrifice fly Two innings later Patek doubled home the final Kansas City run following twoout single by Rojas Waiting for the survivor of this bout are the Cincinnati Reds Tonights winner will be in Riverfront Stadium for the opening of the World Series on Saturday care play baseball that can match the eight players we can put on the field every day Anderson said He believed some of his younger players were hoping their Series opponents would be theYankees But thats because Yankee Stadium seats more than the Kansas City park and theyre figuring that playing New York will mean more money to them NOLAN WANTS YANKS Gary Nolan the righthander who started the final game of the Reds playoff against the Phillies said emphatically that he was hoping to play New York because figure its onceinalifetimeshot Ive never seen Yankee Sta dium except on television And it would sure make me feel proud standing out there on the mound it iltilrigi il Hhtidli am to pin am to pin am to 12 30 pin Ross Furzecott H1tlll PAUL SPLITTORFF anxious Theismann comeback WASHINGTON CP Joe Theismann somewhat hum bled by an agonizing two years as an understudy in the game in which he once was star may be ready to step back into the spotlight Ive been knocked off my lit defedestal the Washington Re skins quarterback said Wednesday in an interview Chances are hell get the op portunity Sunday to show what the experience has done for him when the Redskins meet Detroit Lions here The Lions have the toughest pass defence in the National Football League 94 victory for Royals TORONTO CP Pat Leone Bob Duford and Joe San nuto each scored twice to pace Royal York Royals to 94 win over Richmond Hill Rams in the only Ontario Hockey Associ ation Provincial Junior game Wednesday Tom Connerty Dave Robb and John Gibb each added single goals for the winners Frank Nigro scored twice and Bill Stephenson and Mike Gallagher added one each for Richmond Hill VAIL REIIRNS ATLANTA AP Atlanta Flames left winger Eric Vail returned to Atlanta Wednesday for xrays of broken wrist suflt fered in Tuesday night 70 loss to the Islanders in New York an official of the National Hockey League team said Darryl Sittler Centre nets for Bruins By NEIL CAMPBELL The Canadian Press Centre Gregg Sheppard of Boston Bruins is getting ahead of himself this season Sheppard scored three goals Wednesday night bringing his seasons total to five in four games to help the Bruins down New York Rangers 51 in Na tional Hockey League game usually dont get five goals until the middle of November said Sheppard But tonight ev erything was going for me good start mi ht lift the 27 yearold Sheppar into the up echelon of NHL shooters ven with his customary slow starts he has scored 30 and 31 goals in the last two seasons In Wednesdays other NHL games New York Islanders stopped Buffalo Sabres 43 At lanta Flames beat Cleveland Barons 42 Chicago Black Hawks defeated Pittsburgh Penguins 41 Los Angeles Kings tied Toronto Maple Leafs 44 St Louis Blues nipped Colorado Rockies 32 and Van couver Canucks dropped Washington Capitals 41 Houston Aeros edged Calgary Cowboys 21 in the only World Hockey Association game PLAYS IT SAFE Coach Don Cherry said the Bruins were making con servative approach to the game work We sent one man in and had the other two forwards peel back he said You cant get hurt that way Rangers rookie winger Don Murdoch fresh from fivegoal game Tuesday against Min nesota North Stars was held scoreless although he was used on the power play along with Phil Esposito and Ken Hodge He had five shots on goal Gary Howatt scored two sec ondperiod goals and to help the Islanders the NHLs only un beaten team win their fourth game Atlanta goalie Phil Myre made save on Ralph Klassen to protect fragile 32 lead at Richfield Ohio before Hilliard Graves scored an insurance goal for the Flames The Black Hawks continued to get good production from their power play twice scoring goals less than 20 seconds after they got man advantage Goalie Tony Esposito blocked 42 Pittsburgh shots The Leafs lost Errol Thomp son 43ng scorer last year for an indefinite period He suf fered broken wrist when he was checked into the boards by the Kings Ab DeMarco DIONNE SCORES TWO Marcel Dionne scored two thirdperiod goals to help rally the Kings from 40 deficit Pat Boutette All this brandnew snowmobile for 1977 wants Errol Thompson and Stan Weir scored for the Leafs At Denver only 4100 custom ers were on hand to see the Rockies frustrated by the goal tending of Ed Staniowski who blocked 35 shots Colorado had 166 edge in shots in the scoreless first period Veteran defenceman Mike Robitaille returned to the Van couver lineup and sparked the Canucks to their first win of the season with his steady play and stiff checks Robitaille who missed three games with injuries 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