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CINCINNATIREDS RUN NER Cesar Geronimo slides home safely just before the 15 ball reaches Yankee catcher Thurmond MunSOn in the se As vri cond inning as umpire Lou Dimuro watches Geronimo scored on sacrifice fly AP Photo Bruins off to torrid start with five wins in sixstarts By DENNIS PASSA The Canadian Press Bobby Orr is gone and so is the fan support but Boston Bruins are off to one of their best starts ever in the National Hockey League The Bruins have made whole sale changes in the last year trading away veterans Phil Es posito and Ken Hodge among others and allowing Orr the superstar defenceman with one lessthanordinary knee to es cape to Chicago Black Hawks The trades were grudgingly accepted by the Boston fans but irs loss through the free agent system was hard to take The fans have shown their dis pleasure with the teams man agement by staying away from Boston Garden On Sunday night there were nearly 2000 empty seats in the 14597seat Garden as the Bruins whipped the Stanley Cup champion Montreal Canadiens 53 It was the Bruins fifth win in six starts and has staked Boston to sixpoint lead in the Adams Division In other games Sunday night New York Rangers beat Colo rado Rockies +3 Philadelphia Flyers downed Detroit Red Wings 74 Atlanta Flames edged Buffalo Sabres trS Los Angeles Kings beat St Louis Blues 62 and Chicago shut out Minnesota North Stars 1H PENGLINS WIN On Saturday Buffalo downed Minnesota 21 Philadelphia and Toronto Maple Leafs played to 55 tie after Toronto had taken an early 40 lead Pit tsburgh Penguins edged Detroit 43 Montreal downed the Rangers 74 St Louis beat Van couver Canticks 63 New York Islanders and Cleveland Barons played to +4 tie and Los An geles beat Washington Capitals With the Saturday tie the Islanders remain the only un beaten club in the league Tiiey have four wins and tie in five games Rookie defenccman Mike Milbury scored his first NHL goal in the third period to help the Bruins defeat Montreal Milbury Bostonborn graduate of Colgate tniversity tipped in Gary Doaks shot from the point The Canadiens led 31 at the end of the first period but the Bruins fought back scoring the only goal of the second period and three unanswered goals in the third Thirdperiod goals by Espo sito Hodge and Pat Hickey ral lied the Rangers past Colorado Hickey scored two goals in the game Left winger Bob Kelly scored two goals to lead the Flyers past Detroit at the Spectrum in Philadelphia The loss extended the Red Wings losing string against Philadelphia to nine games dating back to Jan 23 l973 SCORE TWICE EACH Curt Bennett and Bill Flett scored two goals each to help the Flames edged Buffalo De spite being outshot 4616 the Flames had threegoal lead threetimes Atlanta is in first place in the Patrick Division with 10 points on five wins and two losses The Islanders follow with nine poin ts Marcel Dionne scored one goal and added three assists as Overconfident ordiques beaten 52 by Cincinnati By GLENN COLE The anadian Press Overconfidence hurt Quebec Nordiques Sunday night as they lost their first game in the 1976 77 World Hockey Association season We werejust too confident said coach Marc Boileau after the Nordiques dropped 52 de cision to Cincinnati Stingers in one of four WHA games Sun day We didnt have the cohesion we should have had Boileau added That fact forced me to shuffle myline combinations In other games Edmonton Oilers dumped Indianapolis Racers 72 San Diego Mariners topped Winnipeg Jets31 and Minnesota Fighting Saints crushed Birmingham Bulls 61 Saturday night Quebec wal loped New England Whalers Houston Aeros shut out Bir mingham 30 San Diego skated to 42 wiBirmingham 14 San Diego skated to 42 win over Calgary Cowboys and Phoenix Roadrunners topped Winnipeg Jetsiit In Quebec Dennis Sobchuk and Jacques Locas scored two goals and Blaine Stoughton got the other the Stingers brought their record to 222 DEFENCE STRONG What we had to do was tie the Nordiques up and we did that tonight said Stingers coach Terry Slater was won ried bit about our defence be cause Ron Plumb and Barry Melrose are hurt but the de fence played well In Edmonton veteran centre Norm Illlman had two goals and an assist for his first points of the season to help Edmonton to its second win in three starts while deienceman Al Hamilton had goal and three assists as he continued his comeback from knee injury that almost ended his career last season Rusty Patenaude celebrated his 27th birthday with goal and two assists with Tim Sheehy Gene Peacosh and cap tain Glen Sather notching the otherOiler goals Blair MacDonald former iler had goal and an assist for the Racers and offered no excuses his teams feeble ef fort could tell you we didnt have any ice yesterday and we had long plane ride today but Id be snowing you The fact is we stunkthejointout WON THIRD In San Diego the Mariners won their third game in as many nights as thirdperiod goals by John French and Joe Noris clinched the victory Los Angeles has your to bid for the 1984 Olympic Games BARCELONA Spain lAPi The message is goingout to Los Angelesmakc bid for the 1984OIympicGames The California city has year to make up its mind If it de cides to try again it is sure of lot of support from the Inter national Olympic Committee Two years ago Los Angeles applied as host for the 19110 Games and lost out to Moscow But it made strong impres sion with its plan to stage an inexpensive Olympics mainly usingexistingfacilities Bids for 1984 have to be sub mitted by the end of November next year The host city will be chosen at the IOCs annual as sembly In Athens in April 1978 Tehran already has told the IOC it will bid Glasgow Nice Nationals 31 dump Aurora By THE CANADIAN PRESS In Toronto Nationals scored four unanswered goals in the third period Sunday to defeat Aurora Tigers 108 in Ontario Hockey Association Provincial Junior play In other games Sunday Nor th York Rangers downed Dixie Beehives 75 and North Bay Trappers dumped Ajax Mer chants 84 On Saturday ch ford Raiders beat Newmarket FlyersBs Play resumes Tuesday with Neilllmarket visiting Richmond Hil Algiers Riyadh and Atlanta have shown interest Politics plays an important role in deciding the allocation of the Olympics and political manoeuvres poiiil in Los Angeless favor from two firec tions MAY TRADE SIPPORT For one Czechoslovakia is reported hoping to stage the 1934 Winter Olympics in the high Iatras Mountains Olym pics sources say that the eastern voting bloc in the 77 member IOC might agree to back the western bloc and nomination of Los Angeles for the Summer Games in return for support for the Czechs MULCASTER Los Angeles may also suc ceed on backlash of feeling against Tehran because the Iranian Olympic Committee has been campaigning openly for admission of China to the Olympic movement and the ex pulsion of the Taiwan Many lOC members remain faithful to the cause of Taiwans membership which was bolstered in Montreal in July when the Canadian gover nment shut out Taiwanese athletes from the Games Meanwhile weeklong series of meetings here bet ween the IOC executive board and the international sports federations ended indecisively OFACTORY cosr Invoke on display In our $599 showroom PARKLAND TIRE 7262220 the Kings beat St Louis Los Angeles took 20 lead in the first period behind goals by Tommy Williams and Neil Komadoski Ivan Boldirev scored two sec ondperiod goals to help the Blacks Hawks shut out Min nesota Orr assisted on both Boldirev goals and Dick Red mond scored the final Chicago goal on power play in the third period When you get shutout its not goalie shutout but team shutout because nobody gets minus on the ice said Tony Esposito after picking up the shutout in the Chicago goalthe 58th of his careerand tops among active NHL goalies HOCKEY STANDINGS NHL Campbell Conference Patrick Division Atlanta 25 26 10 Islanders 120 Rangers 29 i1 Phila II ll7 23 Smythr Division Chicago 2213 it St Louis 01718 Colorado 0111 21 Minnesota 16 28 Vancouver 1111124 Prince of Waltn Conferenci Adams Division Boston 03019 10 Buffalo I316 Toronto 23 Cleveland 21717 Norrlii Diilsion Montreal 0351610 Los Ang 23 iii Pittsburgh 20 Ill Ielr0it 11618 Washington fl 14 25 ll Sunday Results NY Rangers Colorado Philadelphia Detroit Atlanta Buffalo Boston Montreal Los Angeles St Louis Chicago Minnesota Saturday Results Buffalo Minnesota Philadelphia Toronto Montreal NY Rangers Pittsburgh Detroit St LOUIS Vancouver ll NY Islanders Cleveland Los Angeles Washington Tuesday names Vancouver at NY Islanders Montreal at Washington Chicago al Cleveland Boston at St Louis WIIA East Division Quebec 02516 ll Cincinnati 17 32 Birmingham Il 12124 Indianapolis til 19 Minnesota 21 24 New England 415 West Division San Diego 123 20 Winnipeg 20 11 ti Phoenix 11 21 Ill Houston 12 it Edmonton to Calgary it 21 Sunday Itonulls Minnesota Birmingham Edmonton Indianapolis San Diego 11 Winnipeg Cincinnati Quebec Saturday Results San Diego Calgary Quebec New England Houston Ii Birmingham Phoenix Winnipeg Turndny lumen New England at Houston Indianapolis at Winnipeg Quebec at Birmingham Phoenix at Edmonton Cincinnati at Minnesota 67m $7 $1795 Friday to Monday Plus Mileage Featuring Cheviot TILDEN RENT CAR 341 BAYFIELD ST the Bavtield Sunoco Cat Washl 7370800 Nlnthmning error helps CINCINNATI AP Catfish The Barrie Examiner Monday October 18 19769 sacrifice fly and Graig Nettles but let him Stanleys double scored the fir Reds clam twogame lead Hunter was complaining about the mound at Riverfront Sta dium It was too hard he said and he couldnt dig hole So Fred Stanley New Yorks shortstop dug one for him and Cincinnatis Tony Perez buried him The result was 43 Cincin nati victory in the second game of the World Series on chilly Sunda night givingtheRedsa 24 vantage in the bestof seven series which shifts to Yankee Stadium on Tuesday night On Saturday Perez had three hits to help the Reds down the Yankees 51 in the Series opener behind the pitching of Don Gullett whose season en ded in the eighth inning when he dislocated tendon in his rightankle Hunter had been battered around by the Reds in the sec ond inning and was hit hard again in the third But now it was the ninth and the Yankees ace was mowing them down There were two outs one away from sending the first Sunday night World Series game into extra innings Up came Ken Griffey who has made career of beating out infield hits He sent chop per over Hunter and the mound Stanley charged in and fired the ballwright into the Cin cinnati dugout behind first base Griffey got the extra base to moveinto scoring position WAITS FOR PEREZ Hunter righthanded pit cher intentionally walked Joe Morgan lefthanded hitter to get at Perez righthanded hitr ter CATFISH IIINTER One pitch was all it tookthe one that had been getting him out all night It was fastball It came to the plate fast and headed into left field even fas ter And just as fast was Griffey tearing home with the run that gave he Reds the victory On Saturday Dave Con cepcion tripled in the third iii niiig and scored on Pete Roses sacrifice fly to break 11 tie Perez singled in the Reds third min in the sixth and Cincinnati clinched the win with two in the seventh when Johnny Bench de liveied runscoring triplc then scored on wild pitch Morgan had homered in the first but the Yankees tied it in the second on Graig Nettles Gullett allowed just five hits before leaving the game with one out in the eighth and Pedro Borbon got the last five outs in order At the start of Sundays game it appeared that what had happened to the Yankees in the first game was happening again The Reds jumped all over New York pitching for clothes line hits some of them for extra bases and the Yanks were stranding runners left and right squandering op portunities to make game of it REDS LEAD 30 In the second inning double by Dan Driessen runscoring single by George Foster double by Johnny Bench after Foster was thrown out trying to steal walk to Cesar Gero nimo runscoring single by Concepcion and sacrifice fly by Griffey had the Reds in front 30 and 54816 fans roaring In the third singles by Perez and Driessen and walk to Geronimo had Hunter on the ropes againbut he squirmed out of the jam by fanning Con COpCion Given that reprieve Hunter suddenly turned neaiv invincible allowing only four tliinning triple by Morgan and an eighthinning single by Ben ch beforethe ninth Meanwhile the Yankees were starting to touch Fred Norman the Reds little left hander They nudged him for run in the fourth on singles by Thur man Munson Chris Chambiiss New Yorks spyinthe sky permitted for Sundays game CINCINNATI iAPi New York Yankees spyintliesky apparatus was back In opci aiion at Riverfront Stadium on Sunday night Cincinnati Reds and commis sioner Bowie Kuhn gave their grudging approval with much of the baseball world giggling over the electronic hasslc of 1976 The temporary breakup of the Yankees walkietalkic ob servation post from the upper tiers of the stadium rescued the news media from the boredom of dull 51 victory by the Reds in Saturdays opener It resurrected memories of past cloakanddaggcr measures by ball clubs striving for an edge The Yankees regained per mission to use the setup after assuring Kuhn and the Reds that the equipment was only for defensive posit toning of players in the field iiol for stealing sig iials It is making inounlain out of mole hill said Gabe Iaul president of the Yankees It gives us better view of the field especially in depth per ceptioii SOlIS IN STANDS Indcr the approved setup Yankees scouts Karl Kuchl and Clyde King may sit somewhere in the stands mil in the press box area with walkictalkic set relaying wireless messages to coach Gene Michael in the dugout The Yankees used the syslciii employing one scout in the stands in their five American League playoff games against Kansas City with the full knowl edge and acCeptance of the Royals No rumpus was raised until Saturday when member of the Reds staff noticed three Yan kees scoutsnKuehl King and Birdie Teibettsiii CBS booth at press box level with television monitor nearby When this was called to Kuhns attention he withdrew his original permission saying Yankees manager Billy Martin had misunderstotxl the ground rtiles and ordered the opcrat ion disconl inued dont think anyone believed Martin was trying to take an unfair advantage Kuhn said later It was inismiderstanding off oneoutsandtwoon hook Cincinnati manager Sparky Anderson gave him the hook in the seventh as New York scored twice to tie at 33 Willie Randolphs single and st run and when Roy White also singled Norman was gone Jack Billingham came on and gave up Munsons grounder that sent Stanley home with the tying run Series moves into New York By THE CANADIAN PRESS WORLD SERIES BeslofSeven Series All Times EDT Saturday Result New York 010 000 0001 Cincinnati 10100120x5101 Alexander 04 Lyle t7 and Munson Gullett 101 Borbon l8 and Bench IIRCinMor gan It A5482fi T7210 Sunday Result New York 000I00200ZI91 iiicinnati 0ioootintii4100 Hunter iUIl and Munson Norman Billingham iIOi i7 and Bench A54816 T233 Tuesday Game Cincinnati Zachry York Ellis 815 pm Wednesday Game Cincinnati at New York 815 pm Thursday Game Cincinnati at New York 815 at New pm if necessary Saturday Oct 23 New York at Cincinnati if necessary Sunday Oct 24 New York at Cincinnati pm if necessary BRIEFS WINS SOCCER TITLES TORONTO CP Ontario teams took both the under16 and under18 titles with vic tories over Quebec at the East em Canadian soccer champion ships Sunday The Ontario un derl8 team the defending Ca nadian champions defeated Quebec 20 and the Ontario un der16 squad beat Quebec 42 in the final The Ontario teams will play squads from British Columbia for the national titles here in two weeks HAS OPERATION AUCKLAND Reuter John Walker New Zealands world mile record holder had an emergency appendectomy Saturday The 24yearold track star who won the 1500metres event at the 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