attributed that to some extent to the heavy team had on the morning of the game The Canadiens on the other hand appear to be regaining its Stanley Cup winning form of last year season ing the exit of Red Kelly after the 197677 season Monday night handed the Toronto club 42 loss Neilson said after Montreal year from now Toronto is currently undergoing rebuilding phase and Neilson said there could be new faces in the lineup followin Wednesdays game in Buffalo one fan who was at stated spectator who heard the comment with Leafs By WERNER BERGEN Sports Editor Despite two consecutive losses to the Montreal Canadiens Roger Neilson is rather pleased with the Toronto Maple Leafs progress in the National Hockey Leagues exhibition Neilson took over the coaching duties for the Leafs follow Last week the Canadiens blanked the Leafs 30 and on The Canadiens layed pretty much with set team game Were still in the position of making our team Were little disorganized and Im sure thats the dif ference Neilson stated Neilson said the Leafs would be in the same position as The Leafs appear tired in Mondays game but Neilson workouts the Montreal has started slow this exhibition season and it was the teams second win in the young year The Canadiens now have record of two wins two losses and three ties Particularly impressive was Guy Lefleur Lafleur gave Montreal 31 lead in the second period with an unassisted goal He put on series of shifts moves and fakes that left the Leafs and the spectators shaking their heads in amaze ment He justhe just wiggled through there to score said oss for words That says it all Neilson said the league play would be different from the exhibition season He explained the clubs will become more organized and confident of their play Leafs included and one would then see better teams The Leafs are trying to keep the goals against down and Neilson figured Toronto has an average around three against per game He added low goals against didnt do the Neilson happy club any good if team didnt win Im certainly not dissatisfied with our club Neilson said Neilson said the team had won half its and he couldnt complain too much about that The Leafs preseason games will be paring down its roster following its game with the Sabres and Neilson hoped to send the nucleus of the clubs Dallas Black Hawks farm team down before the Central Hockey Lague team broke camp on Thursday The Black Hawks played the Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Senior Hockey League last week and won 62 Making the trip south will probably be Rocky Saganiuk Neilson said Saganiuk could be real crowd pleaser in Toronto if he worked out alrigh Another youngster Neilson was happy with was Trevor Johansen who scored the Leafs first goal Monday Neilson ports he had received stated Johansen was an ex cellent defensive player but had trouble with the Neilson said Johansen has played steady hockey for the team Neilson stated the numbers game now played big player to keep He added he didnt said re part in chasing which in Dallas puck know if the team could afford the luxury of keeping talents Jerry Korab hopes Johansen exclusively for his defensive and penalty killing to regain old form NEW YORK AP Jerry Korab recognizes that Buffalo Sabres must change their tactics if they are to be Stanley Cup contender this season Korab also knows that he must resort to some old habits if he expects to return to allstar form The 30yearltold defenceman known around the National Hockey League as King ng and 215 he is after all sixfootthree poundsadmits he suffered through poor season last year when the Sabres finished second to Boston Bruins in the National Hockey Leagues Adams Division then were wiped out of the playoffs in four consecutive quarterfinal games by New York Islanders Buffalos failure to live up to expectations prompted the fir ing of Floyd Smith as coach and the hiring of Marcel Pronovost behind the bench Korab already sees different attitude on the Sabres Marcel has us working hard in camp getting us to be more defenceminded he says Hell get us to play defensive style and thats how you win in the NHL Korab realizes his own game depends on how aggressive he is He didnt get his nickname from climbing tall buildings wasnt aggressive enough last year and the team wasnt Thats the first thing that has to change dont mean we have to go out and be goons Just good hard hitting hockey is what we need sort of lost that last year was an allstar for two years 197475 and 190576 by being ag gressi ve NEW YORK AP New York Yankees go into the American League playoffs against Kansas City Royals on Wednesday technically one layer short of the 25 man imit But actually the East 15 Division champions have far fewer usable men than the 24 theirrosterlists Included among the Yan kees eligibles are pitchers Ken Holtzman Jim Hunter and Ken Clay none of whom are likely to see any mean ingfulaction Holtzman has pitched only once since Aug 13 and ap peared in only 18 games all season His lone appearance in the last seven weeks was in mopup role duringa 193 LOS ANGELES AP Philadelphia Phillies will go with ï¬game winner Steve Carlton and Los Angeles Dodgers with 20game victor Tommy John but the big news at the National League la offs today was the Phi lies loss of star centre fielder Garry Maddox The Phillies rospects of winning their first National League pennant since 1950 tookssha digwheMeam ph sician ilip Marone sold Maddox probably will missthefirst two in the best offive game series with the Madd who hit 293 and finished regular season with 14game hitting streak sutsined contusion of the left knsscap which caused fluid to build on New York 59 loss to Toronto Blue Jays on Sept 10 That same game marked the last appearance of Hunter who is suffering from seminal vesticulitis and is questionable at best after going more than three weeks without work Clay rookie has been us ed in just 20 games almost exclusively in mopup situa tions to save more important pitchers for later games Remove those three and theYankee rosterdips t021 KLUITS QUIRK But that includes infielder Mickey Klutts who played all year at Syracuse of the ln ternational Lea ue and is eligible for the ayoffs only by quirk joint limitin the outfielders ability to wa let alone run Maddox referred to in Philadelphia as the Sec retary of Defence may not even be able to play Friday when the series shifts to Philadelphia for game No Phillies manager Danny Ozark tried to conceal his concern by saying he still has hopes Maddox will play MAY MOVE TO CENTRE If Maddox doesnt play and Ozark insisted on the use of the word ifBake McBride will move from right to centre field and either Jerry Martin or Jay Johnstone will play right field Martin or Johnstone pro bably can pick up Maddoxs lost offence but even the ac complished McBride cant Ya =a VI 2gt Downs Slessor Periard 30 Church Homes took 20 lead in its Barrie and District Senior Fastball League finals with 30 victory over Siessor Periard Insurance Monday night at Queens Park After winning the first game in the bestofseven finals 10 in 18 innings Church wasted little time in scoring putting run ner across the plate in the bot tom of the first inning Don McFadden was again the winning pitcher giving up only two hits striking out seven bat ters and walking two Tom McLennan was the losing pit cher and gave five hits He fanned 10 Churc batters and did not give up walk ERRORLESS Church played errorless ball while Siessor committed four Church left six runners on base while Siessor left five stranded Siessor started the top of the first inning as it would score early Bob Mallion led off with walk Then with one out Bill Thurlow sacrificed Mallion to Coaching changes made second base strikeout to Terry Giffen ended the threat Errors cost Siessor the game in the bottom of the first inning Bob Browning reached base on an error to Neil Parker He was then thrown out at second base on Brian McCanns fielders choice McCann advanced on passed ball ADVANCED Dietrick Getyko advanced the runner to third with single and McCann scored on an error to Andy Browning Siessor again threatened to score in the second innin Browning led off with doub but two ground balls and strike out put an end to the potential scorin threat Church went own in orderin the second and third innings Tharlow made it as far as se cond base in the top of the fourth inning for Siessor on single and sacrifice butwas left standin Chur increased its lead in the fourth with McFadden leading off with double throwing error to Parker allow ed McFadden to score and give Church 20 lead Both teams failed to batter on base in the fift inn in Slgssor in the sixth Getyko reached base on an error but was thrown out at second in the bottom of the inning John Church reached base on fielders choice and Jim Burke singled but Church failed to score Church wrapped up the game in the bottom of the eighth inn ing Scoring its third and final run With one out McFadden singled He went to second on wild pitch and to third on an in terference call by the umpire He scored on play that saw Burke strike out The third game of the series will be played Wednesday at 730 pm at Queens Park with the fourth game slated for Fri day also at 730 pm at Queens Park by pro hockey teams By CHUCK SVOBODA The Canadian Press The National Hockey League has new rule this season re quiring players to wear their names on the backs of their sweaters Now if only they would do the same for the coaches About half of the 18 NHL teams and the eight World Hockey Association teams have made coaching changes since last season Billy Reay was the dean among NHL coaches when he started his 14th season behind the Chicago Black Hawks benlt ch last year but he was re laced midway through the sc ule by Bill White who now has been replaced by Bob Pulford That leaves Scotty Bowman of Montreal Canadiens and Fred Shero of Philadelphia Fly ers sharing honors as the long est in office Both men were ap pointed in June 1971 Pulford joins Chicago after five seasons behind the bench with Los Angeles Kings who have hired former New York Rangers coach Ron Stewart as replacement Also in the NHL Johnny Wil son has moved from Colorado Rockies to replace Ken Schinkel with Pittsburgh Penguins Stepping into Wilsons place in Denver is Pat Kelly who coached the WHA Birmingham Bulls last season Bobby Kromm has left Winnipeg Jets of the WHA to replace Larry Wilson Johnnys brother wit Detroit Red Wings General managers John Fer guson of New York Rangers and Emile Francis of St Louis Blues doubled as coaches of their respective teams last sea son but this year have relirr quished the bench duties Ferguson hired former assist ant JeanGuy Talbot to take over the Rangers while Francis installed Leo Boivin as coach of the Blues The other two new facrs in the NHL coaching ranks are Roger Neilson and Marcel Pronovost Neilson formerly junior coach with Peterborough Petes graduated to Teronto Maple Leafs after year of coaching Dallas in the Central Hockey League He replaces Red Kelly who was released at the end of last season Pronovost who once coached the now defunct Chicago Cou gars in the WHA takes over in Buffalo after Sabres manager Punch lmlach dismissed Floyd Smith Barrie oldtimers finish second in Aurora tourney AURORA Barrie Com munity Credit Union Oldtimcrs placed second at the recent Aurora Church Dodgers Invita tional Oldtimers Hockey Tour nament Barrie has been making habit of finishing second said Dave Hogben team publicity chairman Barrie lost 10 to Bradford in the championship game Hogben said Barrie finished second in Holland two years ago second in Switzerland last year second in Peterborough Kiutts was called up to Yankees when third baseman Graig Nettles in ured knee and the rookie appened to be with the parent club on Aug 31 the date postseason rosters are frozen His New York ap pcara nces this season consist of five games Then there are two other infieldcrs both with the club all season who have been us ed most sparingly Fred Stanley last years regular shortstop has up ared in 48 games as lickup for Bucky Dcnt this season iic has total of 12 hits Rookie George Zebcr has appeared in just 25 games as the backup man for second baseman Willie Ran dolpli Phillies start pitching cover centre field like the in jured star The Phillies also had another gripe after Mondays workout They rotested to league officials condition of the dirt in front of home plate contending it was rak ed for Johns style of pit ching Its like beach in front of home plate said short stop Larry Bowa ought to get towel and sun bathe Its better than Florida Hit one in that dirt and it will be lost in the sand for ground ruledouble The Dodgers who won the West Division by 10 games over runnerup Cincinnati Reds were 612105 favorites over the East champion Phillies winners by five enter missing three important pitchers and second in St Catharines lastyear Were making habit of be ing bridesmaids and never brides Hogben stated Barrie needed to win its semi final game and score more than three goals to advance to the finals Barrie defeated Oakville 53 to move to the champion shi Scoring were Larry Reid wit two goals while single goals went to Hogben Dunc Campbell and Ken Robertson The oldtimers had only an hours rest after defeating 2w 22 Also among the eligibles is catcher Fran Healy whose main contribution to the Yankees cause this season has been warming up pit chers in the bullpen Hcaly has appeared in only 27 games ANTFHJJIOLE With the Yankees already short man because of the midSeptember sale of Carlos May to California the club petitioned American League president Lee Mac Phail for permission to fill the roster vacancy Mac Phailrccctcdther ucst Nobi is enjoying the Yankees roster wrangle more than Royals manager Whitey Herog who made his last trip to New York under du mess ace Carlton games Pirates lhe inatcliup of Carlton against John featured two of the leading candidates for the Cy Young Award as the leagues best pitcher John whose 01eration scarred left elbow ooks like map of the Los Angeles freeway system posted 317 record with 278 ERA He started 31 games com pleted 11 Against the hiliies he was 11 with 300 ERA Carlton went 2310 compil ed 264 ERA and com lcted17 of 36 games started was 11 against Los Angeles with 240 ERA Carlton reviously pigeon for ase runners developed new move this season that resulted in 22 over Pittsburgh ay playoffs Oakville before playing the ï¬nalgame Barrie opened the tourna ment by tying Wally Boyer and Midland 11 with Jon Weeks scoring for Barrie The oldtimers then defeated Oak ville 42 with Reid Robertson Jack Graves and Ed Mayhcw scoring Barrie tied Bradford 33 with Hogben scoring two and Weeks scoring one There were 13 teams in the tournament split into two divi sions That was in late August when the Royals had to make oneday stopover at Yankee Stadium to make up game that was postponed in lathuly The Ro als ar ued the gameslioudnever vebeen postponed originally and was called because New York was experiencing pitching prfoblems and needed day Herzog made symbolic rotest that day by listing our pitchers in his starting lineup then technically pinch hitting for three of them as their batting turns came up In the playoffs Yankees manager Billy Martin wont have the luxury of wasting bodies that way pickoffs Its controversial move that has opposing managers and base runners screamin balk But the um pires say its legal Both teams have owcr with four Dodgers hit ing 30 Or more home runsSteve Garvey 33 Reggie Smith 32 Ron Cey 30 and Dusty Baker 30 Philadelphias Greg Luzinski slammed 39 and Mike Schmidt 38 With six others in double figures The Phillies appear to have an edge in speed defence and bullpen the Dodgers have deeper starting pit ching The teams split 12 regular season games with identical 24 home and away records Overall thats about the way they stack Up for the Thurlow doubled for wJrw we is Don McFadden Church Homes Church takes 20 lead pitcher hurls the ball to the plate during action in Monday nights game Church blank ed Siessor Periard Insurance 30 to take 20 lead in the bestoLseven Barrie and District Senior Fastball League finals McFadden struck out seven batters and allowed only two hits He also scored two runs for Church The next game of the series will be played Wednesday Examiner Photo Peewees dump Brampton 32 Barrie Rotary Major Peewees defeated Brampton recently in its first game of the season winning 32 The first period was scoreless but after Brampton took 10 lead Barrie came back to pour in three straight goals Bramp ton scored its final goal int third period Jim Harris tied the score at 11 with goal at 757 of the se cond period with Grant Bouchey assisting Bouchey then gave Barrie 21 lead at 801 with Harris and Danny Worrod assisting Stephen Cadogan scored what proved to be the win ner at 950 with Shane Corson and Doug Archie getting assists Terry Wilson played in goal for Barrie in the first riod and half the second Ricky Schaly took over the goalten ing duties for the rest of the game Oscar Hickling is the team coach Brampton had six penalties in the game while Barrie had five The team will play Peterborough at the Barrie Arena on Saturday zit145 pm liarvey Collier team manager said the team is looking good as the quick outburst of scoring in the second period indicated Reino maintains first place lead Peter Reino continues to lead the Barrie Flag Football League Reino won its game over the weekend 3014 over General Tire and the victory maintained the teams lead over Queens Hotel Queens defeated Bayfield Street Browns 3315 in other games Garner defeated Roberto 146 Oxywcld upset Ron Smith Texaco 1715 Airborne dumped Team 208 Shorney defeated Green and Ross 1411 Ron Smith came back to defeat Team 36 12 and Queen defeated Green $8 TEAM STANDINGS Team PF PA GP Pts Pcter Reino 142 54 Queen 134 77 ti Shoriicy 102 44 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CP Toronto Blue Jays of baseballs American League will lend coaching help to the Canadian national baseball team that will train in Cuba later this month then play in the world amateur championship Bobby Prentice the Jays director of Canadian scouting said Monday that John McLaren has been assigned to the team as pitching coach The team also hopes to ap int second staff member as an adviser but have not ï¬elded who will get that job McLaren was coach with Torontos Utica farm club in the Class New YorkPennsylvania League this summer The world tournament begins in Managua Nicaragua Nov 10 and continues through Nov 25 Other entries so far include the United States Japan Cuba Italy Nicaragua Colombia Puerto Rico Taiwan and the Honduras Brooks Robinson wins award NEW YORK AP Brooks Robinson who announced his retirement this year after record 23 seasons as the star third baseman of Baltimore Orioles was named Monday as the 1977 winner of the Joe Cronin award for significant achievement in baseball The award to be presented to Robinson before Wednesdays American League cham pionship game between Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees was established in 1973 when Cronin retired as AL president Lacrosse meeting scheduled The Barrie Minor Lacrosse Association will be holding its annual meeting Thursday at pm in the Blue Flame Room at the Consumers Gas Building The new executive for the 1978 season will be elected and number of awards will be presented Three ball games slated Three ball games are scheduled for the Barrie area tonight At Queens Park at Howards Heroes take on Bar rie Tanning in double ader in the championship series in slow pitch The third game is slated for Thursday at pm Queens Park In Midhurst second game of the Ontario Amateur Fastball Association Midget series will be played starting at 830 Napanee leads the series also at Youth dies from iniury GREENVILLE Mich AP Gregory Paul Blumberg 15 died Saturday as result of injuries received in high school football game last month He had been paralysed from the neck down since breaking his neck Sept Cleveland Indians sign coach CLEVELAND AP Cleveland Indians said Monday they have signed former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Moeller as bullpen coach and will retain the rest of their 1977 coaching crew Lauda slated to start TOKYO Reuter World driving champion Niki Lauda was included Monday in the official list of starters for the Japanese Grand Prix on Oct 23 despite culation the Aus trian may not drive for Ferrari again is season Lauda who clinched the 1977 championship by finishing fourth in the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen NY Sunday has signed to drive for Brabham next season Jack Donohue builds car TORONTO CP Stock car driver Jack Donohue of Bolton Ont says he is building his own car to compete in the 1978 Daytona 500 race Donohue 33 who has raced in the United States and built cars for several of the top American drivers says he is using his own money and contributions from patriotic Canadians to build the car Flames cut two players ATLANTA AP Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League cut two players Mondayveteran defen ceman Ab DeMarco and rookie right winger Bryan Hill DeMarco who was with Los Angeles Kings last year was being given tryout as free agent and Hill the clubs No draft choice was sent to the Flames Central Hockey League farm at Tulsa Gilbert returns to Rangers NEW YORK AP Veteran right winger Rod Gilbert returned to New York Rangers on Monday af ter meeting with general manager John Ferguson lve been very heavily fined $250 day for the 10 days was gone but dont care about that he said Ill start skating Tuesday mornin and coach Jean Guy Ta bot will decide when should start playing again Gilbert and Ferguson set tled their differences in twohour meeting ending his bitter walkout that began Sept 23 Gilbert had main tained that communication with Ferguson had broken down while Ferguson claimed that his refusal to pick up the two option years of the players contract had provoked the walkout ROD GILBERT Returns Attendance records set NEW YORK AP The National League drew 19070230 fans in the 1977 regular baseball season breaking the previous all time attendance record by nearly two million The previous record of 17324857 was established in 1971 said the National League office The two division leaders Los Angeles Dodgers and Phila delphia Phillies led the way with attendance figures well over two million The Western champion Dodgers drew record 2955087 fans while the Eastwinning Phillies had 2700070 Dodgers Yankees favored LAS VEGAS Nev AP Professional gamblers have es tablished Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankets as 103 favorites in the major league baseball playoffs begin ning today Oddsmakers also are quoting the Dodgers as 101013 favorites over Philadelphia in todays opening game in the National League series Player of year named MONTREAL CP Cat cher Gary Carter was selec ted Monday as Montreal Ex os Player of the Year by he five members of the Baseball Writers Association of America who travelled with the National League baseball club Carter received votes compared with its for first baseman Tony Perez and one for Dave Cash Carter hit 284 in 154 games for the Expos getti H8 hits in522atbatsWh she hit club record 31 home runs most of them came with the bases empt and as result he only ha 84 runs batted in second to Perez who finished with 91 runs battsdin For winning the award Carter 23 will receive GARY CARTER $5000 Awardod