NHL playoffs ByTHE CANADIAN PRESS Preliminary Round Bestolth ree Series Atlanta NY Islanders Chicago Thursday Result NY Islanders Chicago NY Islanders win series Series 73 37 Buffalowlnsseries SeriesC 21 11 ll Saturday Result Los Angeles Atlanta Los Angeleswinsseries Los Angeles Series Toronto Buffalo Minnesota Thursday Result Buffalo Minnesota 2201134 202 3110 Pittsburgh Saturday Result Toronto Pittsburgh Toronto wins series Halicki beats Dodgers for fifth time r1 or it the examiner Monday Aprll 111977 11 to give Giants rookie manager win By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rookie San Francisco man ager Joe Altobelli wouldnt have had to wait so ion for his first major league base all vic tory if he had remembered Ed Halickis mysterious powers over Los An geles Dodgers Halicki beat Los Angeles for the fifth consecutive time Sun That first win feels awfully good In the other National League games Sunday Atlanta Braves blanked Houston Astros 60 San Dcego Padres blasted Cin cinnati Reds 124 Chicago Cubs downed New York Mets 52 St Louis Cardinals nipped Pit tsburgh Pirates 87 and Mon Tony Perez drove in four runs as Montreal outscored Phila delphia to sweep the season opening twogame series The Phillies came back from 50 and G2 deficits to take 76 lead in the seventh but Perez cracked threerun homer in the eighth to insure the Expos triumph Righthander Dick Ruthven after an exchange of words Players rushed from the du gouts but order quickly was re stored WILL BE SORE think it was bush said Ruthven of Johnsons charge Im going to be sore tomorrow because he ran into my left shoulder dering Pentz to throw at Gary Matthews Lefthander Bob Shirley made his major league debut by striking out 11 and giving up just four hits to the Reds Ivan DeJesus drove in four runs three of them with his first homer of the year as Chicago downed New York ff da surrenderin 11 hits but treat Ex os topped scattered seven hits and Row The benches emptied again Bake McBride hit tworun suiyviving for ang 84 triumph Philadelphia ghillies 943 land Office drove in two runs as after twp brushback pitches by homerun and added runscor ey THE CANADIAN 555 Tuesday came over the Dodgers That gave EX Pos WIN AGAIN Atlanta beat Houston in game Houston Gene Penis not ing Single as St LOUIS ham QuarterFinals Bestofsevcn SeriesA Quebec New England Saturday Result Quebec New England Tuesday Game Indianapolis at Cincinnati Series Edmonton Houston Wednesday Game Edmonton at Houston Friday Game Edmonton at Houston Series the Giants and Altobelli their first victory of the National League baseball season after two losses Im happy to get that first one off my back said Alto belli who replaced Bill Rigney at the conclusion of last season In games Saturday San Diego topped Cincinnati 63 St Louis whipped Pittsburgh 82 the Mets nipped Chicago 86 Montreal edged Philadelphia Houston shut out Atlanta 20 and Los Angeles bcat San Fran cisco 02 spiced by two benchclearing incidents The first came in the sixth in ning after Ruthven hit the AS tros Cliff Johnson with pitch Johnson headed toward first base but then charged to the going to let anyone run us out of the park said Astros manager Bill Virdon who denied or mered Pittsburgh pitching and beat the Pirates for the third game in row The Barrie Mens Club mound and tackled the pitcher New England atQuebec CW Series Winnipeg San Diego Sunday Result Winnipeg San Diego Tuesday Game San Diego at Winnipeg Indianapolis Cincinnati Saturday Result Indianapolis Cincinnati Tom Watson grimaccs after missing birdie shot on the fourth hole of the Masters iolf tournament in Augusta alif Sunday Watson was an early leader in the day and held on to win sudden showdown with Jack Nickalus Al Australia leads by one point baseball By THE CANADIAN PRESS AMERICAN LEAGUE East Pct GBL Cleveland 01000 Toronto 667 Milwaukee 667 New York 333 Boston 000 Baltimore 000 Detroit 000 21 West Kansas City 000 Texas 000 Oakland 667 California 600 Seattle 400 Chicago 333 Minnesota 333 Sunday Results KansasCity SDetroito Toronto3Chicagol Texas38altimore2 Milwaukee New York Cleveland 19 Boston9 Oakland9 Minnesotao California 12 Seattle Saturday Results ChicagoJToronto2 TexasSBaltimore1 Milwaukee New York Cleveland at Boston pod cold Kansas City 16 Detroit Oakland7Minnesota SeattleSCalltornial Todays Probable Pitchers Detroit Ronma 001 at Toronto Jetfersono Oil 300 New York Ellis at Kansas City Splittorfl 300 111 Cleveland Eckersley at Texaszlylexen 018 35p rn Minnesota Zahn at Seattle Seguri 10 350 Calilornia Ryan 10 at Oakland NorrisO 01030p Tuesday Games Boston atChicago Detroit at Toronto California athkland Minnesota at Seattle NATIONAL LEAGUE East Pct GBL 1000 01000 St Louis Montreal New York 1000 Chicago 6617 Philadelphia 000 Pittsburgh 000 West Los Angcles 667 Houston 667 Cincinnati 500 San Diego 500 Atlanta 333 San Francisco 333 Sunday Results Montreal Philadelphia St Louis Pcttsburgh San Diego 12Cincinnafi Chicagos New York Atlanta Houston San Francisco Los Angeles Saturday Results Montreal Philadelphia New York Chicagoé St Louis Pittsburgh San Diego Cincinnati Houston Atlanta Los Angeles San Francisco Todays Probable Pitchers Chicago Bonham at Phil adelphia TWitchell 35 Cincinnati Frvman 101 at Houston Koniccznv 018 35p rn Atlanta LaCorte 01 at Los Angeles Jonno 10 Jon Tuesday Games Montreal at Pittsburgh St Louis at New York Cincinnati at Houston San Francsro at San Diego Atlanta at Los Angelea basketball By THE CANADIAN PRESS SUNDAY NBA Boston 115 Cleveland 105 Chicago 120 Buffalo 99 Size 55012 55012 60012 87813 C7813 87814 87814 E7814 F7844 G7814 G7814 H7814 H7814 H7844 J7814 60015 F7815 G7815 H7815 H7815 H7815 C7813 B78 F7814 F7814 H7814 G7814 AR7813 15513 CR7813 BR7814 EFl7814 GR7814 60015 67815 HR7815 FR7014 GR7014 GR7015 LR7015 New Orleans 139 Donutr125 Washington 111 Philadllnnia 111 NY Knirks 144 DlerIT I26 Milwauch 133 Son Antonio 125 Los Angelss 113 Scililie 10 Phoenix 126NY Nvts 101 Description ply nylon ply nylon ply nylon 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the title away from the Othtls but bogey on No 18 while Watson snukcd in 20 foot birdie putt on 17 50111th that felt like it was one of those days where no matter how murh you did right somebody else was doing better Nick laus said latcr The only thing was he started with Li hczid shirt MASSENUALICFLUSH Others who challenged but fell back were ltik Massciigiilc 70280 Tom Kllt 67280 llilll lrwin till28 lion rcnshnwg 701383 lim olbirt 74280 and ltod Funsclh 715286 Sale Price 999 999 1098 1099 1099 1499 1999 1799 999 1699 1999 1499 1899 1999 2299 1699 1699 1799 1499 1699 2199 1799 1999 1799 2799 2799 2499 3399 3299 3499 3599 3599 3999 3799 3999 3999 5999 6099 6299 6599 Reg Price 1799 1999 2099 1999 1999 1999 2899 2599 1999 2199 2799 22 99 2299 2999 3399 2399 2299 2249 1999 2349 3149 2299 2799 2299 3699 3699 3399 4599 4499 4799 4999 4999 51 99 4999 5249 5449 7699 8099 8699 9532 Watson 27 who had been la belled choker proved himself under the most stifling pressure that professional golf has to of for First he had to survive bad drive and poor second shot on the first hole to sink fivefoot putt for par Then he had to keep pace with his playing part ncr Masscngale with 32 on the front side that included four birdies Finally after he carded his only bogey on No 14 and fell ill to lie with Nicklaus he had to go oncononc with the livctimc Masters winner down the strcte ch He came out on top Ottawa wins bantam title llWA Tll Ottawa West edged Mississauga 252 to win the allOntario bantznn hockey tournament Saturday hris Kcalcy leun lioisvcrt and iarry lrcmblcy scorml goals for lllllWll West which received the gold medal Scorers for Mississauga win lltl of the silver nicdzil were Scott litzilly illltl lodd KWlt ltll Personal Shopping Only Limited Quantities SALE ENDS SATURDAY APRIL 161h 1977 Visit your Sears Auto Centre today SImpsonsSears Ltd Georgian Mall Barrie Store hours Mon Tues Sat 930 am to 530 pm Wed Thurs Fri 930 am to 930 pm Charge it All Purpose Account Enjoy it now Use your Shop by phone As near as your phone Call 7264411 at halfway mark of meet LONDON Router Aus tralia took oncpoint lead over Canada at the halfway mark of an internalional swim mect Sunday The two Commonwealth countries were locked in tight battle as finals of the first 12 events were completed in the Crystal Palace Sometre pool with Max Metzkers win in the 1500mctrcs freestyle finally tipping Australia ahead 21 poin tsto20 The Australians won four of the events Canadians won three Hungary was strong third with 16 points while the British host team was fourth with For single girl or single guy who wants good transportaflon reliable transportation thats cheap would say get the Honda Clvlc Its great Theyre very easy car to park Andi found even when go and do the grocery shopping lts very eas just to throw the groderles tn the back part of the car You can lay down the back seat and carry lot of things around in it think women find it much easier to handle and its not scary for them to drive Donna LaBranche Peterborough Ontario seven points Noiway and the Soviet Union were tied for fifth Denmark was seventh and West Germany lust Austalia has won thr team title in 1971 and 1974 Jana dian win would be its first team title All three of Canadas wins came from their Olympic women Shannon Smith of Vancouver took the 10lHnetres lrccslylc in 5847 seconds edging Leno lcn sscn of Norway Wendy Quirk of lointc Claire Que was six th and Becky Smith of Ed monton eighth Quirk won the 100mm res but terfly in one minute 311 sec Diane Murphy Kitchener Ontario onds Tracey Lee Wickham of Australia finished second Hel cnc Boivin of Arvida Que was fifth ShlllllSlOl Becky Smith captured the zoomclres individual medley in 22177 to Shannon Smiths 22437 and Denmarks Susanne Nielsson 22544 Boivin was fif th Boivin also finished second in the Womens llXHnetres back stroke 171oot hs of second he hind Australian Glena ltob crtson Andy ltitchic of Thunder Bay Ont had the best showing among 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