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The Mercury, Pottstown, Pp. Friday, July 1, 1977 25 THREE FIRSTS Billy Barber, left, and Mel Bridgeman, right, help No. 1 draft choice Kevin McCarthy try on a Flyers uniform Thursday in A Lasvrphoto Philadelphia. McCarthy signed a three- year pact. Barber was a first round pick in 1972.

Bridgeman was a No. 1 choice in 1975. Confident' Kevin McCarthy never thought he'd be a Flyer PHILADELPHIA (AP) Kevin McCarthy says he knows the difference between confident and cocky and confident. The curly-headed 19-year- old Canadian had a dream come true Thursday when he signed a three-year contract with the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers. He was the club's No.

1 draft choice. never pictured myself in a Flyer the confident (and maybe a little cocky) defenseman said. thought be picked but probably by a lesser team. I wait for training camp to make the most of the opportunity the are providing me." Coach Fred Shero, aiming to regain the Stanley Cup Philadelphia last won in 1975, called McCarthy an outstanding prospect, but said have to fight for his job. never seen him play but our scouts have always been Shero said.

say Kevin handles the puck above average, and that he knows how to make an opening when he passes. a talent born with. forget the Flyers now have six of the best defensemen in the world. And if Kevin makes the team going to make the defense even McCarthy, a tough, 185pounder just short of six feet, said as a rookie he expects to be challenged and shoved around but promised to stand up to it. go after he said.

I think I can handle Shero said he hates to carry a young defenseman who play regularly, and indicated he would probably send McCarthy down to the American Hockey League farm team, the Maine Mariners, if he crack the squad. help his confidence sitting on the bench and I want him to get a lot of Shero said. McCarthy, though, has his sights on winning a job with Philadelphia, and has star statistics in the junior Western Canadian Hockey League to prove he comes to Play. In four seasons with his home town Winnipeg club, he scored 80 goals and had 276 assists. Last year he set a scoring record with 22 goals and 105 assists.

want to make McCarthy said, I sure am going to give it a helluva think one of the brightest prospects ever said general manager Keith Allen. can really take the puck and go. The fans are going to like him. want a winner and Kevin is certainly a Allen added. McCarthy posed smilingly for news and television cameramen and excitedly chatted with reporters, who learned his airplane mechanic father decided a decade ago his son was going to be a professional hockey player.

Reds club Giants as Driessen stars CINCINNATI (AP) Dan Driessen drove in four runs and Joe Morgan scored five times as the Cincinnati Reds defeated the San Francisco Giants 11-5 Thursday. The hot-hitting Driessen. who has driven in 12 runs in his last 10 games, raised his average to .309 with three singles and a walk. Morgan walked three times and also reached base on a choice and an error to move into second place in the National League with 62 runs scored. Woodie Fryman.

4-5, who limited the Giants to two runs on two hits in six innings, was the winner. Dale Murray picked tip his second save of the season with 11-3 innings of shutout relief. San Francisco starter Ed Halicki, 7-7, took the loss. Murray relieved rookie Joe Henderson in the eighth inning after Gary Thomasson slammed a three-run home run. his 10th of the season.

Henderson, making his fourth appearance since being recalled from the Indianapolis farm club, saw his earned run average balloon to 14.31. Fryman shut the Giants out on one hit through 52-3 innings before tiring. Mets win in 9th MONTREAL (AP) Lee Mazzilli streaked home from third with the winning run on Mike roller in the ninth inning as the New York Mets came from behind to defeat the Montreal Expos 4-3 Thursday night. who entered the game as a pinch runner in the seventh, led off the ninth with a double off Steve Rogers, 9-7. He advanced to third on Joel Youngblood's sacrifice and scored as pinch- hitter Vail grounded out slowly to third.

Braves nip Dodgers ATLANTA (AP) Darrel run-scoring single off Los Angeles relief ace Charlie Hough in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the Atlanta Braves a 5-4 victory over the Dodgers Thursday night. Gary Matthews had tied the score 4-4 by leading off the ninth with his 10th homer of the season, a shot over the left field fence. Steelers absorb costly setback The Pottstown Steelers not only lost the game 5-4 Thursday night, but also were denied a share of the first half BuxMont Legion title. A Steeler win would have caused a three-way tie, but some loose play and the old nemesis, the base on balls, helped host Quakertown reverse a 4-2 deficit and claim the first half championship. With the score 4-2 in the last of the seventh.

West Chesterbound Dave Clay walked Tim Neiman to open the frame. Randy Rush reached first on an error at short by Nick Yonas and a free pass to NorChester posts 10th NorChester broke a 1-1 tie with a four-run sixth inning and went on to a 5-1 Ches-Mont Knee- Hi A League win over visiting Coaches AC Thursday night. Darin Domin cracked a two- run double to highlight the sixth. Bill Salindong added three hits for NorChester. now 10-0.

Tim Sough tabbed the mound win over Kevin Kabilko. SYO A upped its record to 3-5 with a 10-8 triumph over Pine Forge. Tom Parrish. Dave Guadagno. Jim Keller and Artis Freeman each cracked two hits for the winners.

In the Pottstown Knee-Hi A League Ron Stauffer hurled and Green to a 9-3 verdict over and Gold. Stauffer allowed three hits, fanning nine while walking six. John Martin added two hits, including a triple, and drove in two runs for Green. The Montgomery Elks topped Elks 814 12-6 in another Pottstown Knee-Hi A contest. Matt Gauger drove in two runs and Matt Gombos went 3-for-3 with a double as the and Rams thumped the Optimists 9-1 in the Pottstown Junior League.

Mark Pufnock fanned nine hitters while picking up the mound win. Gene Lare went 2-for-3 for the losers. pinch hitter Paul Roberts loaded the bases with nobody out. After Clay recorded a strikeout, lead-off man Dave ground ball rolled off Greg glove into shallow right, scoring two runs. When Norris uncorked a wild toss to the plate, Roberts scampered home with the winning run.

A nine hit performance by the visitors, highlighted by two apiece from Dean Gulotta and Bob Cocci went down the drain in the loss. Eric two-run double in the sixth had previously given Pottstown a short-lived 4-2 lead. Frain delivers Denny Frain slapped two doubles and a two-run homer Thursday night to lead unbeaten Boyertown to a 9-4 win over host West Lawn in Berks County Legion action. It was Boyertowns 20th win without a loss. The Bears pounced on West Lawn starter Ted Miller for four runs in the third when Ed Schiavo singled, Mark Nuscher walked and Pete Hiryak doubled and came all the way around when a throw to the plate went out of play.

Frain then hammered his double and scored when Barry Moyer tripled to right. In the fourth. Boyertown scored the deciding run when Schiavo, who went three for four and scored twice, tripled to left center and scored on Tony sacrifice fly. That was enough for Bear hurlers Hiryak and Kevin Frain, who checked West Lawn on five hits. Hiryak went five innings, fanning six and walking a portly eight.

Frain finished with two innings of hitless relief. Frain gave the Bears some more breathing room with a two-run homer to left following a Hiryak single. Rusty Simcox belted a two run homer for West Lawn in the fifth. Legion boxes Pottstown Steel GREEN STUFF by Alan Maver iAfi-y O' 7PC9P MG rfCrt toop ANP HOrf Me PN TPPJ MTH H'S OP A HUBERT GREEN A1AJ0P 77rp ae. apErt, a JOLY 6 9.

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Louis Cardinals a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs Thursday- night. The Cardinals, despite Bob two-hit pitching through the first eight innings, trailed 1-0. Duffy smacks CLEVELAND (AP) Frank Duffy smacked two solo home runs to back the five-hit pitching of Wayne Garland as the Cleveland Indians recorded a rain-shortened 4-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles Thursday night. Garland struck out four, walked one and retired the final 11 Orioles batters for his fifth victory against eight losses before heavy rains halted the game after 6 Mi innings. He has won four of his last six starts and five of his last eight.

Baltimore starter Ross Grimsley, 7-4, was tagged for nine hits in six innings. Duffy's two-homer effort raised his season total to four to surpass his seasonal totals of three in the 1975 and 1976 campaigns. Cliff belts Jays TORONTO (AP) Designated hitter Cliff Johnson blasted three home runs Thursday night, two coming in an eight-run, eighth-inning explosion, as the New York Yankees crushed the Toronto Blue Jays 11-5 homers accounted for four runs, while Thurman Muson also drove in four with a sacrifice fly in the third inning and a three-run homer in the eighth, which also included a solo shot by Lou Piniella. Tigers postponed DETROIT (AP) Thursday American League baseball game between tho Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers was postponed because of a heavy rainstorm The game has been rescheduled as a night game on Sept. 22 ysv RBI 0 0 2 I 3 Major League boxes NATIONAL LEAGUE SAN FRAN CINCINNATI ab bt ab bt Andrs 7b M00 Rose 3b 4 0 0 0 Harrislb 7 7 10 Kmghflb1 11 0 rt4 111 Griffeyrt1110 Clark ct 110 0 Morgan 7b noo Elliott If 10 10 Drssen lb 4 7 14 Thmssn lb 1114 GFostr It 7 7 7 Lemstr ss4 0 0 0 1) Hill 7 0 0 0 Plumer 10 0 0 Crnutt 0 0 0 0 Bench toil Sadek ph 10 0 0 Aurbch ss 4 0 11 Toms 0 0 0 0 Frymn 7 0 0 0 Whittidph 1 10 0 0 JHndsn 10 0 0 Haltcki 10 0 0 Murray 0 0 0 0 Rudlph c10 0 0 Total 10 4 Total 14 11 10 11 NEW VORK Ac an aerltbi Ratal 0 1 0Cash7bS 11 0 Harlsn SS 4 0 7 0 Speirr ss 4 11 1 Hendsnft 4 0 0 1EVlfne rt 0 7 1 Milner lb4 0 0 lb 4 0 0 0 HNm c4 17 1 Carterc 4 0 7 1 ranpt rt 10 10 Blk Wit 0 0 0 0 cf17 10CrmrteIt 4 01 0 Yngbld rt 7 0 0 0 Dawson cf 4 0 0 0 Flynn 7b 7 0 0 0 i.

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7, 6 OS Pittsburgh (Candeleria 8 3) delphia (Kaat IS). 8 0S pm Chicago (Bonham 8 6) (Forsch 9 4). 8 35 pm Atlanta (Coiims 16) at Houston ard 6 6) 8 3S Cincinnati (Norman 8 3) at San (Shirley 6 8) Id pm Los Angeles (Rau Ml at San Francisco (Williams 11) 10 IS and Todd 7 7) and Stanhouse at Phila St Louis (Rich Diego Pius bumps Pennridge Chris dumped in 24 points to lead St. Pius to a 4843 win over Pennridge Thursday night in the Spring-Ford Summer Basketball League. Dave Detweiler scored 14 for the losers.

In other league action. Curtis Garlington canned 14 as stown tripped Upper Perkiomen 49-42 despite 17 points by Angelo Gentile. In a third game, Neil Mansur burned for 38 points to lead Spring-Ford to an easy 95-36 triumph over Northern Chester County Vo-Tech. Mike Devlin had 17 for the losers..