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SPORTS THEATRES T.V. FOURTH SECTION PAGES 41 -48 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 199 Maniago leads Stars to victory Leafs snap Bruins win streak By PAT CURRAN BLOOM! NCiTON, Minn. (Gazette) Backed by the brilliant goaltending of Cesare Maniago, who never played a better game against his old Montreal mates, tlw North Stars posted a well-earned upset victory over the Canadiens, 4-1, last night before 14,038 funs at the Met center. Maniago, backed by some Balon, scored with five seconds to go. First Period 1 New York, Fairbalrn (2) Nellson 4:19 2 Pittsburgh, Morrison (2) Schlnkel, Hextall 11:11 Penalties McCreary 6:19, Hamilton 7:09.

12:49, Prentice 19:09. Second Period No scoring. Late games OAKLAND (CP) NHL Wednesday night: SUMMARY First Pemrt No scoring. Penalties, Marotte Koroll P. Martin DlllabouQh 16:26.

LOS ANGELES (CP) NHL Wednesday night: SUMMARY First Period MM mm Wi-(WW-M- MMMMMMMMMV WIM' MMB JMMf fr I 'C I jMMMMM9 BR 3k-- -L MM JHMKHK i MP ji" v' WMK-i jfMk "rtWrtw 'nHflK llllBiiiT9l Schock, Penalties Selling 5:52 2:44 far Third Period 3- New York, Tkaczuk (1) Balon 4 New York, Selling (6) Tkaczuk, Balon Penalties Park 13:01, 15:28, Hadfleld, Hextall 18:37. 19:55 Ralelle 10:29 12:05 16:01 Cahan, 1 Detroit, MecGregor (3) Llbett 2 Los Angeles, Joyal (l) Rolfe, Lonsberry 3 Detroit, Howe (4) Delvecchio, Mahovlich Penalties Monahon, 5:29 Stemkowskl, 17.41. Second Period No scoring. Penalty MacGregor 8:28. Shots on goal by: New York 13 8 1536 Pittsburgh 17 9 8-34 Goalies: New York, Sawchuk, Pittsburgh, Smith.

Attendance 4,081. Canucks dealing with U.S. group TORONTO (CP) Toronto Maple Leafs snapped Boston Bruins' unbeaten string at seven in the National Hockey League last night with a 4-2 win before 16,485 fans. Boston outplayed the Leafs but Marv Edwards, Toronto goalie, stopped 42 Bruin shots many from his crease to preserve the win. Murray Oliver, Jim Mc-Kenny, Ron Ellis and Dive Keon scored for the Leafs anu Ken Hodge and Wayne Cash-man for the Bruins.

Keon's goal in the third period was the most spectacular of the night. He took a pass from Floyd Smith at the Boston blueline, skated past Dallas Smith and then went in to beat Gerry Cheevers, who twisted to his right but was. too late to stop Keon. The Leafs, with three wins, three losses and a tie. have had more luck with Edwards in net.

He has been in goal for all three wins. First Period 1 Boston, Hodge (2) Murphy, Esposlto 0:28 2 Toronto, Oliver (3) Walton, Keon .1:33 Penalties Orr 1:04, Quinn 18:13. Second Period 3 Toronlo, Mc Kenny (2) Ullman, Walton 17.21 Penalties D. Smith 5:37, Murpny 15:31, Awrey 17:29. Third Period 4 Toronto, Ellis (5) Ullman, Henderson 1:51 5 Boston, Cashman (3) Westfall, Doak 3:06 6 Toronto, Keon, Smith, Horton 7.H Penalty Ellis 12:16.

Shots on goal by Boston 19 11 1242 Toronto 15 13 1341 Goal: Cheevers, Boston; Edwards, Toronto. Attendance 16,485. Rangers 3, Penguins 1 PITTSBURGH (AP) -Walter Tkaczuk slammed in a 10-foot backhand shot early in the third period and Rod Seiling added an open net goal in the final seconds to give the New York Rangers a 3-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins last night. With the score tied 1-1 at 2:44 of the final period, Tkaczuk took a pass from winger Dave Balon and rammed the puck past goalie Al Smith to put the Rangers in front. The Penguins were unable to deadlock the game again and in the last half minute lifted Smith from the net.

Seiling, taking a pass from Claudio Rivera, left, misses left in bowing to Russia's Geandos Kukumov in 106-pound bout Russian boxers lose only onte nearly backfired on the North Stars when Bobby Rousseau had a clear breakaway but was thwarted by Maniago's fine save. Fergy had no sooner come out of the box than he was checked carrying the puck at centre ice by Goldsworthy. The rest of the Habs went to sleep and Goldsworthy wound up scoring into the empty side of the net after Vachon had stopped a soft shot by Jean Paul Parise. The Canadiens came to life during a tripping penalty to Danny O'Shea but Maniago was brilliant in successive stops on Beliveau, Ferguson and Lemaire. Shortly afterwards, the tall North Stars netminder came up with another grand save at the expense of Ferguson on a sole rush.

The North Stars said thanks for that by coming right back for their fourth goal with Nanne's bouncing shot trickling through Vachon's pads. SIDELIGHTS: Jean Beliveau played his NHL game and had a lot of ice time. However, he failed to reach another milestone 1,100 points alter getting 1,099 in 17 seasons on 465 goals and 634 assists. Wren Blair would like to give up his dual role as general manager and coach of the North Stars to concentrate only on the executive job. But he hasn't been able to find a coach to his liking.

Blair doesn't want to subject the club to the same problems of last season when he stepped off the bench and the Stars went into a slump that knocked them out of a playoff berth. Gary Bauman, former Montreal gou'e prospect, plans to retire rather than play for Vancouver after being sold by- Minnesota to the NHL team. After three straight sellouts, last night's qrowd was short of capacity. "Our problem was to let people know there were tickets available," said publicist Dick Dillman. "Fans figure that tickets for Montreal games will be at a-premium.

The North Stars have 8,300 season subscribers. First Period 1 Montreal, Bordeleau (1) Rousseau, Mahovlich 2:57 Penalties Minnesota bench 3:17, Ferguson 12:13, Lemaire 18:18. Second Period 2 Minnesota, Cullen (2) Goldsworthy 3:55 3 Minnesota, Grant (6) Larose 16:33 Penalties Harper 4:59, Parise 9:28, Ferguson 16:09. Third Period 4 Minnesota, Goldsworthy (3) (Redmond, Parise) 4:25 5 Minnesota, Nanne (1) (Larose, Burns) 16:46 Penalties Ferguson 2:08, O'Shea 6:52. Shots on goal by: Montreal 10 12 931 Minnesota 10 14 1539 Goals: Vachon, Montreal; Maniago, Minnesota.

great defensive play from veteran Leo Boivin and John Miszuk and forwards who skated and checked, came up with 30 saves and time after time foiled the Habs trying to make a comeback. It seemed that each time Maniago thwarted the Canadiens, his teammales camu back to get a goal. The North Stars gave up the only score of the first period by Chris Bordeleau before bagging two of their own in each of the second and third periods. Ray Cullen and Danny Grant tallied in the middle period before Minnesota sew-' ed up the triumph on third-period scores by Bill Golds-worthy and defenceman Lou Nanne. It was the hard-working North Stars' third win in five games against eastern division clubs.

On the other hand. Canadiens were left with only one victory and two ties in four starts against expansion teams. The Canadiens took less than three minutes to open the scoring. Maniago was still down after close-in shots by Bobby Rouseau and Pete Ma-hovlich when Bordeleau tapped the rebound into the open side. Bob Barlow has the best other chance in the period for the North Stars when he suddenly found himself alone in front of Vachon but failed to shoot, permitting the Hab goalie to smother the puck.

Henri Richard was robbed twice by Maniago after cutting in alone early in the second period but failed to deke the Minnesota netminder. The North Stars rallied to get the equalizer oefore the four-minute mark. The Habs' defence was slow clearing the puck out of the crease and Cullen snapped at Terry Harper's stick to knock it past Vachon. Roggie came up with the save of the game shortly afterwards when he dove and reached with his stick to thwart Barlow, in alone on Leo Boivin's pass. But an interference penalty which John Ferguson argued hotly set the stage for the North Stars to take the lead.

Claude Larose checked Claude Provost, penalty-killing at centre ice, and set up Grant who let go just as he reached Hab defence-man Ted Harris. It was a sizzling 35-foot shot that beat Vachon on the far side and gave Grant his sixth goal of the season. Ferguson drew his third penalty of the game for interference early in the third period and the power-play Medicor president Tom Scallen, 44, of Minneapolis, expanded into the sports entertainment field three years ago. The company's best known asset is the Shipstad and Johnson Ice Follies which it purchased in 1967 from Shasta Corp. of San Francisco.

The NHL announced Sept. 11 ti'at it planned to expand the league from 12 to 14 teams for the 1970-71 season. Applications and a $1,750,000 down payment on the franchise fee are due Dec. 1. McLean said the move to seek outside financing was initiated after the NHL learned the Canucks were the instigators of a compromise plan involving three other expansion candidates Cleveland.

Buffalo and Baltimore. Had the league accepted the plan it would have had -to admit four cities instead of the proposed two but with each paying $3,000,000 for a franchise instead of $6,000,000. McLean reiterated his previous pledge that Vancouver will have the financing arranged and the down payment on the franchise in the NHL office in Montreal by the deadline. VANCOUVER (CP) -President Cyrus H. McLean of Vancouver Canucks of the Western Hockey League confirmed yesterday the club is negotiating with a United States company for a deal that will pave the city's entry into the National Hockey League.

However, he said that Med-icor Investment Corp. of Minneapolis is only one of six groups that the Canucks are dealing with in an effort to meet the NHL's franchise requirements. "Everything is conditional and I hope for further developments at the end of the week," he said. He would not name the other five groups but did confirm Medicor, which was revealed in a copyright story earlier in the day by The Sun. The newspaper said that the negotiations were for Medicor to assume either majority or outright ownership of the Canucks.

"I want to stress that the Vancouver directors prefer a joint venture to an outright purchase," Mr. McLean said. Negotiations with Medicor. which was started in 1957 to lease medical equipment, started Monday, continued Tuesday and are to resume tomorrow. were so kind towards us that we wanted to co-operate with them in every way possible so we went along with the headgear." Briere's bout was one of three that didn't go the full three rounds.

Abdrashid Abdrahmanov stopped Montreal Olympic's Paride Baldassarre in their 147-pound fight while Valery Tregubov no relation to the old Russian defenceman halted Andre Ste. Marie of Palestre Nationale at 156. Abdrahmanov was especially impressive, hitting as hard as a light-heavy. Russia's Valery Sokolov, the 126-pound Olympic champion, was selected the best winner of the night and Larry Ward of Milwaukee the best loser. Sokolov outpointed Denis Groleau of Palestre Nationale while Ward, at 165, bowed to Vladimir Tarasenkov.

In other bouts: Geandos Kukomov outpointed Claudio Rivera, New York, at 106 pounds. Victor Zaporo-jets outpointed Edouard Santiago, New York, at 112. Alexander Melnicov outpointed Paul Collette, Palestre Nationale, at 119. Valery Frolov outpointed Marshal Butler, Montreal Oympic, at 139. Vladimir Ba-barika outpointed Edward Duncan, Philadelphia, at 175.

Alexander Vasushkin outpointed Earl McLeay Calgary, heavyweights. By MARV MOSS Michel Briere's offbeat triumph prevented the Russians from scoring an 11-bout sweep last night at the Paul Sauve Sports Centre in an international amateur boxing card against a combined team. Briere, from Palestre National, was given a severe lacing by Russia's Nikolas Hromov in the opening round of their 132-pound go. But somehow a cut Hromov apparently suffered over the left eye in his U.S. appearance last weekend was reopened.

The Russian referee, Boris Savin, stopped it and that was the only fight the Russian's didn't take. No one at ringside saw the blow that did it. But Rosario Baillargeon, a judge, said later it was a stiff right. The show drew a crowd of 1,900 under Knights of Pythias sponsorship. Arid, as usual, the big factor seemed to be the Russians' super conditioning.

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