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38 — TH E C ITIZEN , Prince George — W ednesday, February 18, 1981 MORE CASH FOR BOTH to catch new

Jim Two of the best in "We will make an effort, Don Fehr. counsel for the highest this year, topping the fielder Gary Hancock and with Cincinnati , thus major league were on that's the bottom line,” said $395,000 won earlier by Califor­ . Bruce avoiding arbitration that was the receiving end of some good Sox general Players’ Association, said it nia Angels firs t baseman Hurst and Keith MacWhorter. scheduled for Thursday. Coleman news last week. . “ I think was his understanding that Jason Thompson. In other baseball develop­ announced won his battle we've still got a pretty good Goetz ruled Fisk a free agent The Yankees had offered ments. the Angels said seven the signing of with Red Sox for free chance to sign him ... he wants because the Red Sox missed $350,000 to Cerone. who batted players had either signed or Tony Bernazard and agency and won to stay here and we want him the deadline. .277 with 14 home runs and 77 agreed to terms: Marc Hill. his salary arbitration with here. The Red Sox recently offered runs batted in last season* and Dickie Ellis Valentine, . ••Hopefully, we’ll get Fisk a multiyear contract that The Red Sox. meanwhile, Thon. pitchers . coming off an injury-plagued LOW HAVE THE MIGHTY FALLEN DEPART­ The results mean more together very soon.” would have paid him. includ­ signed five players, including . and season with , M ENT: Although Torontonians continue to be mys­ money for both. Fisk. 33. would have become ing incentive clauses, almost , who is Mike Witt and Tom agreed to terms for 1981. tified and monumentally disgruntled by the stum bl­ After the ruling by arbit­ a 10-year veteran with the Red $500,000 a season. expected to replace the traded Brunansky. announced ing performances of their professional hockey team. rator Ray Goetz, the Red Sox Sox during the 1981 season. But While Fisk \sas winning his Riek Burleson at . Junior Kennedy that outfielder Mike Easier they can take some meagre consolation from the promised an all- effort in he sought free-agency after the freedom. Cerone was winning The Red Sox also signed out­ signed a one-year contract signed a multiyear contract. recorded evidence that this isn’t the WORST Maple trying to re-sign their veteran Red Sox mailed bim his 1981 an arbitration that will result Le a f team of the past 25 years. backstop, a longtime favorite contract last Dec.22. two days in a salary of $440,000 for 1981. No, sir! These Toronto hockey players admittedly are in in Boston. after the deadline. The Cerone award was the desperate straits, threatened by the probability of missing the playoffs. However, they still have some considerable distance to fall before they can erase the W A S $ 6 6 5 0 ineptitude-record of the 1957-58 Maple Leafs who had only 21 wins, 38 losses and 11 ties in a 70-game schedule. Mind you, these present Maple Leafs are zeroing-in on a baseball couple of ignominious targets. With 22 games remaining, they are threatening the Toronto club-record of 41 losses, BOSTON (AP) - A salary wasn’t convinced about the est in Mr. Fisk," said Fisk's established in the 1972-73 season of 78 league-games. They arbitrator’s decision in­ club’ s chances when it was agent. Jerry Kapstein. from came close last year when they had 40 losses in the 80-ga me volving another catcher for learned a short time later that San Diego. “ I had a good dis­ schedule. another team could weigh catcher Rick Cerone had won cussion with the Toronto club. heavily on ’s his salary arbitration case for 1979 PLYMOUTH The irony of the present situation is that, traditionally, "We both feel they are a NOW efforts to resign Carlton Fisk, $440,000 a year from New York Toronto has been the second-most-successful franchise in team of the future. It was a HORIZON the history of the . Over the past 50 baseball’s latest free agent. Yankees. 2 D r., 4 spd. economy eng. Boston general manager very productive discussion. years, the Maple Leafs have won the Stanley Cur) 11 times, "No one in baseball puts Mr. Fisk and I have a great h.b ., roily wheels, radio & de­ Haywood Sullivan said Thur­ froster. TEST DRIVE TO AP­ a performance which has been excelled only by the Cerone in Fisk’s class and it deal of respect for the Toronto sday the PRECIATE. . looks like we’ll have to go a lot organization.” team would do all it could to The immediate requirement of these Toronto hockey higher than we figured.” the keep the seven-time all-star in Fisk, who has played his players in a massive infusion of team pride. It’s a good thing official said. cWherey o u ’d send a frie n d , entire nine-year major league that Conn Symthe didn’t live to see this sorry crumbling of the wake of baseball arbitrator , who once Raymond Goetz’s ruling that career with Boston, was the a great sporting tradition. The Old Man must be revolving owned Cerone. are interested Fisk is free to sign with any subject of a grievance filed by in his grave. in Fisk. team he chooses. the players’ association con­ Some names fam iliar ‘ He wants to stay here and •‘ We’ve talked to his agent,” tending he should be declared we want him here,” Sullivan says Javs vice-president Pat a free agent because the Red 20th & Victoria 564-4466 When the League teams conduct their said. “ Hopefully, we’ll get Gillick. Sox mailed him a 1981 contract OLN5324 draft of Canadian college players today, there’ll be some together very soon.” “ I can’t say much except to last Dec. 22 — two days after familiar names on the list . . . linebacker , But another Red Sox official say there is considerable inter­ the deadline. Jr., is graduating from University of .. . Jr. has been attending Concordia in Montreal. . . Mitch Chuvalo, son of former Canadian heavyweight box­ ing champion George Chuvalo, is graduating from Guleph University. Tiny Thompson, the old who died last week in Calgary, got his nickname because he was the biggest kid on his team in midget hockey ...Back 50 years ago, 5-foot-10 goalie was a comparative rarity .. . In fact, really tall players were few in pro hockey... However, ‘‘the care and feeding of infants” now has produced a generation of giants . . . Take a look at the current NHL rosters: Willie Huber is 6-5; , Pat Ribble and Dean Talafous are 6-4... At six-feet-three, there are such players as: Peter McNab, Bill Hajt, Mike Ramsay, Willie Plett, Charlie Simmer, Jerry Korab, Larry Robinson. Rod Langway, Serge Savard, Gillies, Paul Holmgren and Behn Wilson... Anyhow, Tiny Thompson preferred to be known by his nickname because he didn't particularly like his given-name of Cecil. And, Tiny would have been dwarfed in this era when we’ve had such goalies as 6-feet-4 Ken Dryden. Company's team loaded With ex- becoming chairman of Interprovincial Steel Pipe, that company now is loaded with football ta le n t.. . Former All-Canadian defensive end Bill Baker is sales manager; is a public relations executive for Ipsco and , former head of Edmonton, and B.C. Lions, works for an Ipsco subsidiary in Vancouver ... Although Dale Hawrycnuk is expected to be the number one choice at June’s NHL draft meetings, many pro scouts report that Bobby Carpenter, of the U.S. team, outplayed Hawrychuk at the world junior tournament in West Germany ... Car­ penter, who attends St. John’s Prep in Boston, is expected to be the highest drafted American player in the history of the N H L... Presently, that honor belongs to Mike Ramsay who, in 1979, was Number Nine ... Mike has been playing outstanding hockey for in his rookie season. Saskatchewan still is the ‘‘football capital” of Canada ... Although the Roughriders have won only eight of their 48 league-games over the past three years, they have sold 14,365 season-tickets for the 1981 campaign ... And, their season-ticket sale doesn’t end until April 30 ... St. Louis Blues, who attracted a crowd of 19,468 for a recent game against Philadelphia, are certain to set an all-time club scoring record ... The “ high” for the Blues is 269 goals in the 1974-75 season ... Before they skated onto the ice at Montreal last week, Red Berenson’s players had scored 250 goals in their first 55 games of the current season.

Variety of background for Montreal soccer MONTREAL (CP) - The difficulty on artificial sur­ Manic, Montreal’s new entry faces." in the North American Soccer The addition of Towers and League, is beginning to look Hill brings the Manic’s roster more like the United Nations to 21 players, 15 of them under every day. contract. Under NASL rules, The team added to its varied the Manic can carry a max­ ethnic background Wednesday imum of 13 imports and a by signing up midfielder Tony minimum of nine from North Towers and forward Gordon America. There are currently Alec Hill, a pair of British vete­ nine North Americans on the rans. giving the club represen­ roster. tation from 11 different Roger Samson. team countries. general manager, said at the After struggling to a 10-22 moment the team is seriously won-lost record and placing negotiating with three players 22nd in a 24-team league last from France. Of the three, two season as Philadelphia Fury — play in the First Division. before the franchise was "There are two other purchased by Molson players from elsewhere up in Breweries Ltd. for an the air as well. 1 don’t want to estimated $2.5 million — the say anything right now team needs all the talent it can because it might jeopardize acquire. our negotiations,” Samson •‘My concept of fielding a added. winning team is to get the best That’s the last thing the players you can possibly get at Manic needs considering the each position,” said Manic team’s problems in starting coach Eddie Firmani. even preliminary negotiations And Towers, 28, and Hill, 26, with most European players. Cross Country who played for Birmingham City and Queen’s Park Ran­ "They’re asking $450,000 and McBride, B .C . gers respectively last season, often $700,000 to come over seem to have the type of cre­ here,” said Firmani. "The sal­ February 1 7 -2 2 dentials Firmani wants. ary demands are a big obsta­ cle." ” We picked Towers for his In the meantime, Samson Each year Shell Canada sponsors the Canadian technique, and Hill has played and Firmani are preoccupied Amateur Ski Championships. The Shell Cup is over 200 games in the First with preparations for the Division. He’s a winner and Manic’s first training camp, our way of helping Canada’s amateur skiers and has always been one of the which will from March 13- national ski teams compete with the world. leading scorers in Bri­ 27 at the Dade Community Col­ tain," Firmani said. lege in Miami. "He likes to play on firm sur­ faces and I feel the conditions Firmani, known throughout in the North American Soccer the NASL as a disciplinarian, League w ill suit him. We’rehad a word of warning for the looking for players who are players attending the Shell able to handle the ball without twice-daily practice sessions.