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Young leaping into Lions’ den Pez gives Kapp axe SURREY, B.C. (CP) — Former manager-coach Joe GalaL Kapp player Jim Young is the new front then fired Galat and hired Lary office savior o f the B .C . Lions Kuharich as head coach, spiriting after the Monday firing o f general him away from the Calgary Stam- manager . peders. Team owner Murray Pezim dis­ The Lions have floundered for missed Kapp three days after the last month and Pezim indi­ ordering Kapp to fire head coach cated, after a 4 9 -1 9 loss last Lary Kuharich following the CFL Thursday to Toronto, that changes team’s fourth consecutive loss. would be made. Pezim named Young, an as­ “ We didn’t see eye-to-eye,” sistant coach, as the full-time Pezim said about Kapp. “ I’ve general manager and temporary learned a few lessons . . . made a head coach. few wrong choices.” Y oung, 4 7 , still the team’ s Pezim summoned Young from career leader in pass receptions, the practice field Monday morning said he would immediately inter­ and they struck a deal at Pezim ’ s view Bob O ’ Billovich for the head downtown Vancouver office. coaching position. Kapp apparently was informed O ’Billovich arrived in Vancou­ o f his dismissal by letter while he ver on Monday night and was to attended the CFL semi-annual meet with Young and Pezim today. management council meeting at a “ The main thing is to find a downtown hotel. He stonmed out coach so we can start progressing and was unavailable for comment. again,” Young said after a hastily The owner told reporters he called news conference at theheard something about Kapp — team’ s training centre. “ Bob Pezim wasn’t specific — that O ’ Billovich is my first choice — bothered him and he fired his at the m om ent.” general manager “ because I’ m the O ’ Billovich was fired during the owner.” off-season by the Toronto Argos He had threatneed to fire Kapp New B.C. Lions general manager Jim Young greets the press with a smile and a shrug not long after his appointment Monday. after eight years as head coach. and Kuharich the last week o f Pezim jettisoned Kapp less than August, but reconsidered after Y ou n g ’ s new contract had not assigned to community relations University. “ Now this team needs that sent Kapp to the N FL M inne­ 24 hours after stating in a televi­ meeting wilh them. The Lions then been completed. by Kapp. Young became an as­ to be turned around right aw ay.” sota Vikings. Young played one sion interview that Kapp would be lost 68-43 in Toronto. Then came Young, who played 13 seasons sistant coach again in carly July Y oung still holds several B .C. season in the NFL. retained despite the team’s 2-7-1 the 30- loss at home against for the Lions before retiring after after assistant Charlie W est sud­ career pass-receiving records, in­ Kapp was the popular B .C . quar­ record. the Argos. the 1979 season, said his longtime denly left the team. cluding most catches (522), most terback when the Lions won their Kapp, 52, became president and Pezim confirmed he offered has been a management posi­ “ When I applied to come back, yards (9,248) and most touch­ first Grey Cup in 1964. general manager last November Kapp a cash settlement on his tion in the C FL. it was in the front office rather downs (65). Young worked in hotel manage­ after the Lions missed the W estthree-year contract, apparently a He rejoined the Lions as an as­ than coaching,” said the Hamilton, Ironically, Young joined the ment after his playing career Division playoffs under general severance package of S100,000. sistant coach in 1989, but was re­ Ont., native who attended Q ueen’ sLions in a complicated 1967 deal ended. M o n ta n a c re a te s Late-season 4 9 e r w in roll giving NEW ORLEANS (AP) — You can rock Joe Montana. You can sock Joe Montana. You can chase him like a cat chases a mouse and Blue Jays lift toss him around like a rag doll. But you don’t give him the ball KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — games. with any lime left in a close game. David W ells can’ t help but believe But facing a rookie pitcher The learned the Toronto Blue Jays are heating doesn’t make il any easier, Gruber that lesson well Monday night. up at just the right time. said. They sacked him six times, chased People like Kelly Gruber are “ No, il doesn’t. You don’t know him all over the Superdome, then pounding the ball. Ajid people like what he’ s got, and you don’ t know watched as he drove the 49crs 60 David W ells arc pitching as if they what he likes to throw,” Gruber yards in the final minute-and-a- were in the middle of a divisional said. “ I only had two hits, but the half to give the 49ers a 13-12 race, which they are. guys kept getting on third base for victory in a stumbling but success­ W ilh W ells and John Candelaria me. That makes it easy.” ful start to their quest for a third setting down the last 20 batters Gruber’s sacrifice fly gave straight Super B ow l. and Gruber driving in four runs, Toronto its first run in the opening " I t ’ s like fighting a rattle­ the Blue Jays won their fifth inning, then he hit a two-run snake,” said Eric straight Monday night, 6 -1 , over double to put the Blue Jays ahead Martin of the Saints. “ Give him hapless Kansas City. 4-1 in the fifth. enough time and he’ ll turn around Combined with Boston’ s double- Tony Fernandez opened the and bite you.” header split with Milwaukee, theseventh with a double and scored The 49ers, who have seen it Blue Jays are four games out o f on a Gruber single. After Mark before, couldn’t have agreed more. first in baseball’s American Davis relieved Wagner, Gruber “ G ive Joe Montana the ball League East. stole second and scored Toronto’s with less than two minutes left and “ It’ s going to be tough,” said sixth run on a single by Pal 80 per cent o f the time he’ ll win W ells (11-5), who held the Royals Borders. the gam e for you ,” San Francisco to four hits through eight innings. After Brian McRae reached on a fullback Tom Rathman said in “ Boston’s got a good squad. fielders choice in the third, not what might be a summary of his “ But w e’ re fighters and w e’ reanother Kansas City batter reached ’s Hall of Famc-calibrc going to give them a run for their base. career. money. I think w e’re going to win “ The way I was going, it was so Montana’s heroics — aided by Jo« Montana gets caught by New Orleans linebacker Vaughn Johnson early In Monday's game. this thing. W e ’ ve got the hitting, hot and I was sweating so much I his favorite playmates, Roger w e ’ ve got the pitching and w e’ vecouldn’ t get a grip on the ball,” Craig, Jerry Rice and John Taylor points on Morten Andersen field yards short. to hit Brett Pcrriman deep. got the experience.” W ells said. “ The best thing I — took place at the sight o f one o f goals, the last with 9:1 8 left, had But the Saints, who themselves The ball went long, the clock Gruber, who started the season could throw was a fastball or Montana’s greatest triumphs, the stopped the 49ers after Chet self-destructed — two John Four- stopped and the 49crs and M on­ on a hot streak, is swinging one o f changcup, or my sinker. 5 5 -1 0 victory over Denver last Brooks recovered a Dalton Hilliard cade passes were intercepted inside tana got the ball back. the most potent bats in the league “ 1 was struggling with my January that made the 49ers thefumble at the Saints’ 35. They the San Francisco 25 — couldn’t Montana, under pressure all right now. Picking on Hector W ag­ curvcball. I’d throw it a few times, first team in a decade to win two stopped Roger Craig, forced an m ove either. The 49crs used theirnight from a group o f interchange­ ner, who lost in his major-lcague hang it or throw it in the dirt. But straight N FL titles. illegal procedure and timeouts and on third down, in­ able linemen, finished with 26debut, Gruber had a single and a I moved the ball all over the place And they came suddenly after forced Mike Cofcr to try a 55-yard stead of running the ball to keep completions in 43 attempts for 210 double and a sacrifice fly, giving and that’ s whal helped me out.” New Orleans, which got all its field goal, which fell a couple o f the clock moving, Fourcade tried yards. him eight RBIs in his last three More baseball, page 11. Carson has good cam p as Murray drools by Canadian Press He proved that M onday, scoring two choslovakian national team last year, has $ 9 0 0 ,0 0 0 to $1 million a year on a team. In other N H L happenings: goals and assisting on two others while adapted quickly in Calgary. Jimmy Carson is having the best train­ Hockey is far from being as prosperous as I Pittsburgh Mario Lemieux, ing camp o f his hockey career and Bryan lining up against Steve Yzerm an. Carson’ s “ He has a high skill level, to pul it baseball and it’ s going to have to stop team beat Yzerm an’ s 4 -3 . who had back surgery earlier this summer, Murray, the Detroit Red W in g s’ new head mildly,” said assistant coach Paul Baxter. somewhere.” is not participating in drills. He skates by coach, says he expects big things from the Soviet rookie Sergei Fedorov was“ Two days doesn’ t make or break anyone, New York Islanders right winger Brad himself between team practices. slick centre. clipped above the left eye on his firstbut he’ s impressed us with the case of hisDalgam o, trying to return after a one-year “ He looks terrific,” says Murray. “ He camp shift. He was stitched up and didn’ t adjustment so far.” retirement, lived dangerously during hisI The Winnipeg Jets announced Monday knows this is an important year for him. return to the ice. Calgary signed Al Maclnnis to the ri­ first workout. He had two teeth broken they’ve re-signed left winger Doug Smail. and four others loosened when he was “ He has to bounce back. I have great Fedorov still doesn’ t have a work permit chest deal in club history Monday. M acln­ I With John Ogrodnick a holdout, the expectations of him.” but the Red W ings hope that issue will benis, an all-star dcfcnccman, will be paid a high-sticked by Dean Chynoweth, who later apologized. are taking a long look Carson, who scored 55 goals in 1987-88 cleared up by the end o f the week. guaranteed $4 million over four years, at centre Rob Zamuner of C&kville, OnL, for the Los Angeles Kings, quit the Ed­ Meanwhile, Czechoslovakian rookies making him the club’ s only million-dollar “ It was a pretty brutal sw ing,” said who scored 44 goals with Flint, Mich., in monton Oilers last autumn and demanded Jaromir Jagr and Robert Rcichcl have im ­ player. Dalgam o. " I t was totally ridiculous. the IHL last season. Zamuner had two to be traded. That eventually happened, pressed in Pittsburgh and Calgary, respec­ In Quebec City, new head coach Dave " I t was on purpose. He said he felt sick goals and an assist in an intrasquad game with the Oilers getting Peter Klim a, Joetively. Chambers is adjusting to being under a about it and admitted it wasn’t an acci­ Sunday. Murphy and Adam Graves from the Red Jagr had four assists in his first scrim­ media microscope. Am ong commentators dent.” W ings in return. mage during the weekend. working Nordiques games this season will In one exhibition game Monday, in I Calgary centre Doug Gilmour weighed Carson scored 21 goals in the 48 games “ For an 18-year-old kid in a new en­ be former Detroit coach Jacques Demers. Stockholm, Stcphane Richer, who recently in at 174 pounds — up 13 pounds from he played last season. vironment, who can hardly speak the lan­ Nordiques’ forward Guy Lafieur, 39 on signed a contract worth $ 7 0 0,000 a year, one year ago. His weight dropped to the “ I look back at last year and I hope to guage and doesn’t know whal to expect, Sept. 20 and earning $400 ,0 0 0 a year, has scored two goals as the Montreal low 160s during last spring’ s playoffs and turn il into a positive,” said Carson. he has shown tremendous hockey sense,” this lo say about rising N H L salaries: Canadicns beat the A IK elite division team he says he was running on empty. " I want Carson worked out all summer wilh Bob Penguins veteran Randy Gilhen said o f “ They’ re going to kill hockey if they con­ and former NHLer Boije Salming 7-1. to keep the weight up this year. I’ m eating Probcrt and Sheldon Kennedy. Jagr. tinue. Professional hockey certainly can’t The exhibition schedule begins inmore. I’m taking lots o f protein.” “ I am prepared. I am ready to g o .” Reichcl, 19, Jagr’s linematc on the Cze­ support six or seven guys earning earnest Friday wilh six games. More NHL, page 13.

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