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Barrie Examiner, 11 Jul 1977, p. 8

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the exemlner Monday July 11 1917 sports shorts Stock car jumps wall into crowd SAN DIEGO Calif AP An outofcontrol stock car its accelerator jammed jumped wall and fence and flew in to crowded raceway pit injuring 26 people authorities said Sunday Four of the victims were in critical condition It was like horror movie you see on TV said Bill Arm strong of El Cajon Calif after seeing Saturday nights ac cident at the track in suburban Santee All but one of the injured were mechanics and the other was the director of Mexican race track said Cajon Speed way manager Earl Brucker Jr About 4000 fans watched as the late model car driven by George Esau of San Diego jumped into the pit area occu pied by drivers crews family and friends Esau was uninjured Brucker said Sunday The four persons in critical condition had head injuries and were at two San Diego area hospitals Sunday Five other persons were undergoing treatment at three hospitals At least 17 persons were treated and released Saturday night hospital spokesmen said Brucker said Esau hit wall and went out of control as he approached turn on the 32nd lap of the 401ap main event the vehicle Brucker said but he added that the car leapt the wall because it was spinning out of control not because of its speed JuniOr womens team fails in bid SQUAW VALLEY Calif CP Canadas junior womens basketball team lost bid to create threeway tie for the championship of an international invitational tour nament here Sunday night when it dropped an 8761 decision to the United States The victory left the US unbeaten in five games and gave them the gold medal Brazil took the silver with 41 record and Canada the bronze with 32 mark Brazil won the silver medal by defeating the young Cana dian squad 8560 Saturday night The Canadian team now travels to Mexico City for the Pan American senior womens championship July1724 Womens field hockey team wins TORONTO CP Sheila Forshaw and Laney Marshall scored two goals each to lead the Ontario womens field sockey team to 52 surprise victory over Scotland on Satur Scotland which lost 20 to Canada on Friday took the lead in the first period on goal by Joan Mackie but the Ontario team got off to fast start in the second period when For shaw collected through pass from Marshall to score in the first minute In the 215i minute Marshall pulled Scotlands goalie Ellen Patterson out of position to score Ontarios third goal Scotland came back minute later when Elaine Graham scored on penalty shot But the Ontario defence stiffened and the team scored two goals in the last two minutes of play In another game Canada beat Ontario 60 Jan Crook led the scoring with three goals Sandy Drever scored two and Gayline Barry added one Mic Macs win junior ball title THOROLD Ont CP Windsor Mic Macs won three consecutive games Sunday to capture the Ontario junior baseball championship The Mic Macs beat previously undefeated Windsor AKO and 65 and then trounced Welland Optimists 113 in the championship final The Mic Macs also took the individual awards in the tour nament which had drawn 36 entries Centre fielder Gerald Plante was selected as the most valuable player shortstop Mike Lessard was the top hitter with 438 average in nine games and Rick Joyal was the top pitcher The Mic Macs will represent Ontario at the Canada Games in St Johns Nfld in August Celtic star undergoes surgery The accelerator jammed as Esau tried to regain control of Blue Jays shortstop Bob Builer takes 5th inning threw from right field off Buddy Bell single Indians infielder Duane Auiper slides in from first base and is called out shortstop Bailer was temporarily shaken up on the play AP Photo Blue Jays bats back first pro win by Byrd CLEVELAND AP T0 ronto centrefielder John Scott turned tail and ran Sunday flagging down ball that broke the hearts of Cleveland Indians and helped Blue Jay rookie Jeff Byrd gain his first major league baseball victory The Indians came back from 20 deficit to tie the game in the third inning but Scotts running onehanded catch of Rico Caitys twoout twoson liner ended the threat and proved to be Clevelands un doing in 53 American League loss The triumph ended Cleve lands string of victories again st the Blue Jays at seven and also stopped Torontos five game losing string Byrd 20 yearold righthander raised his record to 12 with three in nings of relief help from Pete Vuckovich Meamvhile the Blue Jays got all the offence they needed on Doug Raders windblown tworun homer in the secondhis 12thand tworun single by rookie second baseman Steve Staggs in the seventh Pat Dobson Clevelands starter aided his own demise by allowing Rader to score rim on wild pitch Reliever Jim Kern gave up the single to Staggs but Dobson 38 took the loss Byrd bothered in recent weeks by tenderness in his right elbow picked up his first vic tory in his fourth majorleague apperance He entered Sun days game with 771 eamed run average but held Cleveland to three runs on five hits in cluding Ray Fosses solo homer in the third ARM STIFFENING feel Im much better pit cher than Ive shown Byrd said quietly walked the first two guys in the seventh on eight pitches and guess my arm was stiffening up before he manager Rov Hartsfield took me out But ljust need couple more days off and Ill be set to go again When that first bigleague victory was mentioned Byrd smiled brightly and said Im glad got that one out of the way so can start relaxing and just go on with pitching The grin widened when Scottsname came up That was some catch Byrd said thought was in real trouble when Carty hit it Cleveland manager Jett Tor borg agreed noting That kid Scott is pretty tall afoot2 and he jumped for it The ball was rising and if he didnt get to it it might have gone out It turned out to be the ball game Game finishes in 00 draw Nohitter for Scrapper By THE CANADIAN PRESS Hamilton Scrappers Bob Craig pitched complete game of nohit ball against Belleville Bobcats in Ontario Fastball League play Sunday Unfortunately his team mates also were unable to score and Craig had to be satisfied with 00 tie in the bottom half of doubleheader that saw Hamilton win the opener 20 on two unearned runs It was Craigs first career no hitter He struck out eight and walked two In other weekend play Bram pton Globals and St Catharines Mrs Jackets split dou bleheader Sunday Brampton won the first 111 and St Cath arines took the second 20 Kit chener Evergreens nipped Burlington Boys 53 Oshawa Tonys edged Newmarket Chubb 10 On Saturday Hamilton downed Kitchener 21 New market defeated Brampton 62 and Belleville split double header with Burlington win ning the first 10 while Burlington took the second 20 Bob ECcles was the winning pitcher for Hamilton on Sun day He allowed only two hits and struck out seven as the Scrappers scored unearned runs in the third and fifth in nings to win 20 WALKSSIX Scott Reid took the loss for were named Sunday to the Canada Summer Games at St tsplex in nearby Nepean the male and female teams Etobicoke da Parkes 14 Lori OHara Etobicoke utter helps extend their lead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The team was selected after two days of trials at the Spor Swimmers from Etobicoke took most of the places on both Named to the mens team were Alan Swanston of Guelph Steve Sproule 16 of London Dave Miller 18 of Ottawa Craig Samuel 17 of Burlington Greg Henstreet 17 of Win dsor Paoli Rodeghiero 15 of Thunder Bay Bill Young 16 of London and Jay Tapp 17 Richard Nagy 18 Denms Cor coran 17 Danny Rogers 18 and Bill Bevan 16 all of On the womens team are Johanna Malloy 15 of Thunder Bay Suzanne Kwasny 14 of Thunder Bay Paula Parris 16 of London Jody McPhee 15 of Sudbury Sheila Dezeew12 of Burlington Bess Carmichael 16 of Windsor Carol Klim pel 14 of Scarborough Kathy Bald 13 of Ottawa and Lorin the visiting Bobcats giving up five hits striking out two and walking six In St Catharines on Sunday Brampton scored six runs in the first two innings while taking advantage of six St Catharines errors to win 111 Dave Jackson went the dis tance to gain the win He struck out seven walked two and gave up four hits Dick Balint took the loss for St Catharines striking out five and walking two In the second game Dennis Amell allowed only two hits and struck out 13 as St Catharines split the two games Reg Mar tin was tagged with the loss In Kitchener the Evergreens downed Burlington 53 behind the fourhit pitching of starter Keith Wagler and reliever Terry Gallamore Wagler struck out 12 and walked four in registering the victory Few went four innings in losing cause PITCHES ONEHITTER In Oshawa Pete Landers pit ched onehitter to lead the Tonys to the win against New market Landers struck out 16 Losing pitcher Bill Lunney was almost as effective striking out 17 and giving upjust two hits On Saturday Burlingtons Blain Tinney gave up just one hit in the bottom half of dou bleheader against Belleville but still lost Dick Hames Twelve swimmers make Ont team OTTAWA CP Twelve young men and 12 young women Ontano swim team for the Johns Nfld Aug1720 14 and Donna Loucks 17 of Cub struck out seven in gaining the victory Belleville won the opener with Scott Reid picking up the victory The loss went to Bill Drennan In Brampton Mike Lun ney had three hits includin home run to lead Newmar at to its win over Brampton Mike Mohun was the winning pit Leafs end with 135 By TIIE CANADIAN PRESS Leagueleading Toronto Maple Leafs ended fourgame losing streak when they defeated Brantford Red Sox 13 in their InterCounty Major Baseball League game Sunday In other games Cambridge Terriers blanked Guelph F0 rums 10 Stratford Hillers beat St Thomas Elgins 81 and Kits chenerWaterloo Panthers had 52 win over London Majors On Tuesday St Thomas plays in Stratford London is at Guelph Cambridge in Brant ford and Toronto in Kitchener Toronto had 130 lead in the eighth inning before the Red Sox rallied for five runs in the ninth Ron Carrigan gained the vic tory at home and increased his winloss record to 41 In the ninth inning he was tagged for four hits including tworun homer by Alf Payne and threerun home run by Mel GOLF TIPS CPGA Pres cher striking out 12 Paul Wan nanaker took the loss striking out seven Hamilton edged Kitchener when an error allowed Brian Ostrosser to score from first with two out in the 10th inning Winning pitcher Wally Dick struck out 12 Loser Terry Gal lamore had eight strikeouts On Tuesday the Boys are in Oshawa for doubleheader streak victory Kennedy He was relievedby Bob Thomerson Losing pitcher Mike Holt gave up seve runs on nine hits through the first three innings of the game He walked one bat ter and gave up home run GETS THREE HITS Bruno Jurgaitis and Roman Kniginyzky had three hits for Toronto and Brian Semkiw and Marty Chapman had two each Alf Payne of Brantford had two hits and Dave Dix added double In Cambridge Jesse Orosco had his third pitching shutout of the season Orosco gave up three hits in cluding double to Bob Kahn and singles to Ryan Becker and Bart Scrignoli He struck out 13 and walked three Losing pitcher Kurt Felker gave up seven hits In St Thomas Larry Land reth was the winning pitcher allowing four hits striking out eight and walking one By Ross Leeder Professional ented by Horseshoe Valley Resort Deep Rough Youre in the rough stuff You have choice seek relief under the unplayable lie rule see next weeks tip or play it Play it this way Use highly lof ted club such as nine Iron Position your feet so that the ball is opposite your back foot Lean extra weight onto your front foot On the backswing break your wrists early so that the clubhead is picked up and out of the grass instead of being dragged through third on ground out and scored on Fergusons hit Joe Morgan slammed threerun homer for Cincinnati Slayplose and bring in in the first and added an RBI ter said Cubs manager Her grounderimhe seventh man Franks referring to relief pair of warm homers by ace Bruce Suuer surev thats Dave Winfield and George Hen the fonPUIa It has been dricks runscoring single in the season nightcap gave San Diego its it Take full bockswing This next part find difficult to say ecause it goes against everything teach in the normal golf swing But here goes Chop down on the ball With this kind of action and the highly lofted club the ball should be driven up and out of the long stuff Chicago Cubs are leading the National League East Division because they have formula BOSTON AP Longtime Boston Celtic star John Havlicek underwent surgery after an acute appendicitis at tack Sunday in Columbus Ohio spokesman for the National Basketball Association club said The spokesman said Havlicek was resting comfortably at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus The allstar for ward lS expected to be released in about week the spokesman said Havlicek who played his college basketball at Ohio State Bretts mad base running coSts him and Oakland As JV has home in Columbus He had just been resting since the end of the NBA season going camping and fishing and vaca tioning in Acapulco Mexico the Celtics spokesman said Zachry contains Expos to hits NEW YORK AP Pat Zachry is winnerat last Last years National League corookie of the year won his first game Sunday since being acquired by New York Mets from Cincinnati Reds in the Tom Seaver trade setting down Montreal Expos 21 Zack was super Mets manager Joe Torre said He has been trying so hard he has been unable to pitch Its difficult not to press when youve been traded for Tom Seaver Zachry scattered four hits in 13 innings before being relieved by Skip Iockwood who picked up his 13th save Im happy for him said Doug Flynn also part of the Seaver trade This one was good for him Grimsby is in Canadian final OSHAWA Ont CP Grimsby defeated Ottawa twice Sunday to become the Ontario representative in the Canadian junior mens softball championships at Saskatoon in August Grimsby beat Ottawa 21 and 73 in the Ontario junior mens softball elimination tournament final Ottawa had reached the finals in the threeday event by beating Owen Sound Ingersoll 40 Waterloo 10 and Kemptville 10 Grimsby defeated 10 by Kemptville in the second round defeated lakenham 32 Domville Etobicoke 21 and Kemptville 20 to reach the finals Neilson leading Laser class ST ZOTIQUE Que CP lerry Neilson of Ontario led in the oneman Laser class after weekend activity in the national youth sailing championship that saw races scheduled Sunday postponed to today Neilson finished first in the first race Saturday ahead of secondplace Steven Slickenstein of British Columbia The team of Tom Mader and Chris Megasson of Nova Scotia won Saturdays Code 40 class race ahead of Clive and Bruce Robinson of Ontario The overall winners for six races in each class will repre sent Canada at the world youth championships in France later this year The championships are open to sailors 20 years old and younger BARRIE DENTURE CLINIC COLEIlA DT Complete Denture Service 7264721 149A Dunlop St Member Denturist Society of Ontario Barrie By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS George Brett is going to be fined for running stop sign but Oakland As wound up pay ing for the Kansas City Royals third basemans baserunning antics Coach Chuck Hiller was the traffic cop who tried to flag Brett down at third base in the bottom of the ninth inning Sun day with the Royals trailing the As by two runs And manager Whitey Herzog was the judge who decided to lessen what nor mally would have been siz able penalty into mere slap on the wallet He might pick up little fine Herzog said But it wont be as much as if hed been out Herzogs leniency came about because Bretts mad dash sparked threerun rally that enabled the thirdplace Royals to nip the As 54 and climb within four games of the top in the American League West Elsewhere Boston Red Sox vaulted back into first place in the Al East by sweeping dou bleheader from Milwaukee Brewers Hrs in 11 innings and Toronto Blue Jays downed Cleveland Indians 53 Balti more Orioles blanked New York Yankees Detroit Tigers edged Chicago White Sox 65 in 10 innings Minnesota Twins shelled Seattle Mariners 150 and Texas Rangers beat California Angels 42 BLUE JAYS NIPPEI In Saturday games Cleveland nipped Toronto 12 Baltimore edged New York 65 Milwaukee shaded Boston 32 Oakland lumped Kansas City Seattle beat Minnesota 52 lcxas blasted California 72 and Chicago defeated Detroit Brett drew leadoff walk to start Kansas Citys ninth inning rally and ignored llillers frantic stop signal to INSULATION Just Arrived The FULLY FIREPROOF materials Fibreglass Rockwool Insulate Now Free Estimates LIMITED SUPPLY Boss of the Heat Over 20 Yours in Business Simcoe Economy Insulation Scott Muir Minesing 7281267 score the first run when Hal McRae doubled saw the sign but didnt think the leftfielder was going to come up with the ball that quick Brett explained American League figured could make it easy Thats the first time ever rar through sign should have been chewed out if didnt make it McRae went to third on the throw home trying to nail Brett and after Al Cowens walked he scored the tying run on John Wathans sacrifice fly Cowens went to second on the throw home Amos Otis was in tentionally walked and pinch hitter Cookie Rojas delivered gamewinning single Rick Burlesons single and triple sparked Bostons llin ning comeback victory in the first game and George Scotts 25th homer sparked fourrun second in the nightcap The Red Sox won the opener despite stranding 20 rumiers tying the major league record for an 11 inning game Successive two out singles by Butch Hobson Rick Miller and Burleson tied the score 44 in the ninth inning and Burleson tripled home for the goahead tally in fourrun llth RADER HOM ERS Doug Rader slammed two run homer and Steve Staggs hit tworun single as Toronto snapped fivegame losing streak Rookie pitcher Jeff Byrd who gave up all the Cleveland runs in six imiings plus gained his first major league victory with help from Pete Vuckovich Ross Grimsley maintained his hex over New York with fivehitter defeating the Yankees for the fifth time in six decisions over the last two seasons Meanwhile rookie Ed die Murray drove in two runs with homer and sacrifice fly Billy Smith slammed two run triple and Kiko Garcia and Doug DeCinces had RBI doubles Pitcher Dave Hamiltons wild thmw to third base on an attempted force play in the bot tom of the 10th inningAChi cagos fourth errorallowed the winning runto score and en abled the Tigers to end thc White Soxs ninegame winning streak Tom Veryzer was safe on throwing error by short stop Alan Bannister to begir the 10th Ron LeFlore walked and Tito Fuentes laid down bunt which Hamilton fielded but threw wildly past third Roy Smalley drove in foui runs with pair of doubles Dar Ford homered and Geoff Zahr fired threehitter for his first victory in almost two months Zahn who had lost six decisions since beating Cleveland or May 16 faced just two batters over the minimum while thr Twins banged out 16 hits anc took advantage of nine walks by three Seattle pitchers as well as four errors Bert Blyleven held California to one run and six hits in sever Innings andJohn Ellis hit tworun double to lead Texas tr its fifth triumph in row and send California to its fifth con secutive defeat Ellis broke up 21 duel between Blyleven and Ken Brett with his tworun dou ble in the fifth afte Willie Hor ton singled and Toby Harrat walked ELIE 184 Yonge St Hwy 11 Sutter entered Sundays sec ond game of the ChicagoSt Louis doubleheader and gained his fifth victory against one loss He also has 23 saves The righthander struck out three battersin the two innings he worked as the Cubs battled from behind to win 43 after los ing the opener to the Cardinals 83 Despite the split the Cubs lengthened their lead to five games over Philadelphia Phillies who dropped both ends of doubleheader to Pittsburgh Pirates 51 and 1210 In other NL games Sunday San Francisco Giants swept pair from Atlanta Braves 52 and 125 New York Mets edged Montreal Expos 21 Houston Astros nipped Cincinnati Reds 65 and San Diego Padres took two games from Los Angeles Dodgers 75 and 54 EXPOS TRIPPEI In Saturday games St Louis edged Chicago 43 Pittsburgh got past Philadelphia 98 New York tripped Montreal 75 San Francisco nipped Atlanta 54 Cincinnati beat Houston 31 and San Diego shaded Los Angeles 21 Larry Bittner opened the eighth inning of the nightcap with double and scored on Steve Ontiveross tiebreaking single to give the Cubs the vic tory In the opener Ted Sim monss tworun homer and four singles by Keith Hernandez paced St Louiss 15bit attack Pinchhitter Joe Ferguson snapped tie with an eighthin ning runscoring single to cap Houstons comeback victory over Cincinnati Jose Cruzs solo homer leading off the eighth had tied the score for Houston which trailed by four runs Enos Cabell then singled was sacrificed to second took 305 lbs of TWO WHEELED FREEDOM The new Yamaha XTSOOD the great all around machine 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drove in two runs Thomas drove in three runs with pair of singles to give reliever Dave Heaverlo 31 the secondgame victory Mike Vail drilled tworun seventhinning double as Pat Zachry 49 won his first game since being acquired by New York in trade with Cincinnati Zachry scattered four hits in 71 innings before giving way to Skip Lockwood Montreals lone run came on Del Unsers fifth inning homer swept both ends of doubleheader with Phila delphia Phil Garner led off the This shot requires practice so the next time you hit it into the rough explain that youre doing it Horseshoe Valley Resort public recreation area with private atmosphere 8352014 Just 20minute drive from Barrie Enjoy family dining seven nights week in the fully licensed Tundra Lounge We have facilities for wedding banquets and receptions Ours is the most scenic course in the area complete irrigation facilities and modern turf ma cellentcourse conditions intenance equipment ensure ex Tournaments to be arranged at special 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