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was jaw we v2 mltc the examiner Monday 001217 1979 Ski star Anne Marie Moser Proell of Austria in VAL GARDENA Italy CP Canadas World Cup skiers are on their way to Austria to day where they hope the seasons third downhill race will bring more impressive results For the mens team race this weekend at Schladming means chance to recover from mediocre showing in this Tyrolean resort town For the womens team competition Wednesday at Zell am See gives other members of the team chance to match what Laurie Graham has accomplished in her previous two races Despite excellent training times here Canada failed to win any medals Sunday Peter Mueller of Switzerland World Cup downhill champion last year though he won only once took first place by margin of 78 seconds over Norways Erik Haaker and 90 over Austrias Werner Grissmann Canadas best was Ken Reads seventhplace finish Read was clocked in 20596 compared to Muellers 20394 Tim Gilhooly of Kelowna BC was eighth in 20627 Reads time was more than three seconds slower than his time in Saturdays training run where he had the fastest time SNOW SLUWS llRSE Fast times on the 3615metre course were ruled out after fivecentimetre snowfall over night which accumulated on top of the 30 centimetres which fell Friday night To make matters worse for Read 24 the luck of the draw forced him to ski first into un packed snow It was extremely disad vantageous to have number one Read said of the draw US sweeps Davis Cup SAN FRANCISCO CP John McEnroe and Vitas Gerulaitis gave the United States 50 sweep over Italy in the 1979 Davis Cup tennis cham pionship Sunday as they each won their second match of the threeday competition For the Americans not only did they become the 20th team to score shutout in the final round but they became the first team ever to win every set in the championship McEnroe defeated Antonio Zugarelli 64 63 61 and Gerulaitis completed the whitewash stopping Adriano Panatta 671 61163 The American triumph was the second in row in the final round Last year the US defeated Britain 41 It was also the first time any country has won backtoback Davis Cups since the cluillengcround system which automatically put the defen ding champion in the final round was abolished in 1972 Critelli is top player for Canada WINNIPEG Pt Chris Crittelli tunied 23 just before she joined the Canadian team which won the International Challenge womens basketball tournament Saturday by down ing United States 7560 The St Catharines Ont native earned herself another belated birthday present by playing well enough to be nam ed the most valuable player in the fourcount ry competition Ive never done this before she said But it wasnt just me it was the whole team We all contributed to this tournament and feel the whole team should share this But thats the way she goes action in the special slalom for World Cup here today She placed first AP Photo Eresb $an hampers times Read is top Canadian chance as those who start ear Read said he made minor er ly rors during his run but the fresh KLAMMHR IS BACK snow was what hampered his run Gilhooly 21 was happy with Olympic his time Austria took four of the top six places Sunday and former champion Franz Klammer in his best downhill had good results in train ina year finiShed filth ing so knew could do well Dave Murray of Abbotsford here he said It was good BC was 11th with time of psyche to know that conditions 20645 would still be good when came down the hill Only when there is fresh snow 17th Other Canadians included Robin McLeish of Kanata Ont 20677 Mike Irwin on course do skiers with Calgary 25th 20762 Chris later start have as good Kent Calgarv 40th 20856 Steve Podborski Toronto 45th 20869 Bob Stuyan Van couver 47th 20882 Dave Ir win Calgary 56th 20039 and Craig Podborski Toronto 58111 20948 Canadas womens team has been led by Graham 19 of In glewood Ont who finished seventh in Fridays downhill at Piancavallo Italy Combined with third in the previous downhill the week before Graham has piled up enough points to qualify for the Winter Olympics Flyers one game away from tying leagu By THE CANADIAN PRESS Pittsburgh Penguins are the lone obstacle impeding Philadelphia Flyers march to share of the National Hockey League record for consecutive games without loss And the way the Flyers have been storming the league this season Boston Bruins had bet ter be prepared because theyre next in line after the Penguins Said Flyers coach Pat Quinn in looking to the game in Philadelphia against the Penguins Wed be classified as idiots if we said were not playing Thursday to tie the streak The Flyers won their seasonopener Oct 11 and lost their second game 92 back on Oct 13 to the Flames in Atlan ta That score was bit embar rassing and the Flyers got mad and havent lost in 27 games since Sunday night the Flyers came out of Madison Square Garden in New York with 11 tie against the Rangers The Flyers had won 32 at home the night before over Buffalo Sabres with the secondbest record in the NHL and entering the game with nine straight vic tories were considered the one team that might have killed Philadelphias hopes of pro longing the string llRS HOLI RECORD The record for most con secutive games without loss is 28 set during the 197778 season by Montreal Canadiens the current edition of which might very well wish time had stood still two years back Their coach uit last Wednes day the Cana iens lost in Ed monton on Friday and lost again Saturday 62 in Win nipeg to the Jets With four set backs in row the defending Stanley Cup champions now find themselves doing something unfamiliar look ing over their shoulders in the Norris Division Canadas HOBBY LARKH leals Ily ers In other Sunday games Chicago Black Hawks dropped Detroit Red Wings 73 Win nipeg capped productive weekend with 43 win in Ed monton over the Oilers Boston went into Buffalo and won 51 and Quebec Nordiques beat Pit tsburgh 41 to keep their undefeated home record intact Joining the Flyers and Jets in the win column Saturday were Washington Capitals who rallied from fourgoal deficit to edge the Rangers 54 Toron to Maple Leafs who shelled Atlanta Flames 81 Colorado Rockies who shaded Hartford Whalers 05 Los Angeles Kings 43 winners over Vancouver anucks Minnesota North Stars who defeated St Louis Blues and Chicago which edged Boston 21 Pittsburgh and New York Islanders tied 33 while Quebec and Detroit play ing the final NHL game in the Olympia which has been replaced as the Red Wings home rink by new arena drew 44 Flyers Rangers Despite the low score the Flyers and Rangers played ag tourman returns to accident LAKE PLACIDNYCP1 Canadas fourman bobsled crew was back at the Mount Van Hoevenberg course Satur day trying to figure out what went wrong Friday when their sled flipped and sent three members to hospital The Canadian team con sisting of driver Joe Kilburn and Brian Vachon both of Ot tawa and Serge Cantin and brakeman Robert Wilson both of Montreal was the first fourman crew down the 1557 metre course during the weeklong practice for the 1980 Winter OlympiCS in February The incident occurred three quarters of the way down the run at corners 13 and 14 Which fomi an or zigzag combina tion According to people that watched our entrance we were little late coming into zig said Kilburn who suffered the most serious injury broken collarbone When we went up into the lip where we shouldnt have been there was rut of ice Although pulled hard to come off the corner we just stayed on it tthe cornerl for too long didnt make the transition and went into zag upside down which is not pleasant thing todo Vachon and Cantin suffered various cuts and bruises in the spill while Wilson escaped in jury OlT FOR MONTH Kilburn said he expects to be out of action for about month while the other members es peet to be back sledding short lv record gressively with outstanding goaltending of Philadelphias Phil Myre and New Yorks Steve Baker highlighting the game Myre faced 35 shots and made at least six difficult stops in the third period including two on Phil Esposito Steve Vickers scored for the Rangers during power play in the first period If Philadelphia gets past Pitt sburgh consecutivegame undefeated record could be set next Saturday in an afternoon game at Boston Garden Ila ks Wings Grant Mulvey and Cliff Koroll each scored twice and Terry Ruskowski Reg Kerr and Darryl Sutter once for the Hawks who scored the first five goals of the game Jets iltts Morris Lukowichs breakaway goal with 48 seconds remaining gave Winnipeg comefrombehind win The Jets had tied the score three minutes earlier when centre Ron Wilson got his 10th goal of the season Peter Marsh and Jude Drouin scored the other Winnipeg goals The ilcrs got goals from Wayne Gretzky Brett allighen and Blair Mac Donald Bruins Sabres Terry OReillys two goals paced Boston to the win which cut the Sabres Adams Division lead over the Bruins to four points It was the first win in five games for the Bruins who also had goals from Jean Hatelle Rick Middleton and Stan Jonathan The Sabres scored first on Danny Gares power play goal in the first period Nordiques Penguins One streak came to an end while another was kept alive 77 the Penguins saw seveirga me unbeaten streak vanish while the Nordiques won their ninth straight Sunday night game bobsled site The Swedish twoman sled also wiped out Friday at precisely the same point in the course where the Canadian crew flipped over It went into exactly the same rut as we did Kilburn said The driver Karl Erik Ericksson whol believe will be competing in his 10th Olympic Games is in hospital with broken collarbone The bobsled run which features vertical drop of 148 metres was constructed for the 1932 Winter Olympics Kilburn said the curve where his sled ran into trouble just wasnt built to take fourman sled at that speed He estimated that sleds ap proach 115 kilometres an hour coming into zigzag ON TIGHT BUDGET BRAND NAMES THAT YOU 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