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LOUIS 3, TORONTO 2 NY ISLANDERS 5, CALGARY 4 NL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES ATLANTA 000 000 000-0 ST. LOUIS 001 005 01x-7 Today Atlanta (Niekro 17-4) at St.Louis (Stuper 9-7), 8:25 p.m. AL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES TODAY California (Zahn 18-8) at Milwaukee (Sutton 4-1), 3:15 p.m. LAJET GOLF CLASSIC FIRST ROUND LEADERS SPORTS QUIZ In what year did one of he three Rochester Americans' Calder Cup champions set the team record for the longest unbeaten streak and how long was it? ANSWER 2D Wayne Levi Mike Morley John Fought Vance Heafner 33-3164 31- 3465 32- 3466 32-3466 FratiG dirps 1l(QMiWiini'd deosBirD 0350 C35CII Loss to Mannion ends chance for network TV bout By Rick Wheeler Democrat and Chronicle ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. Rocky Frat- to not only lost a fight last night and he was beaten convincingly he also lost a chance for a network television bout, and probably his world ranking.

South Boston's unranked Sean Mannion (26-5-1) battered Geneva's Fratto (27-2), ranked No. 9 by the World Boxing Asocia-tion, throughout a unanimous, 10-round junior middleweight decision at the Sands Hotel and Casino. It was the main event on a seven-bout card carried by ESPN, the cable sports and entertainment work, on its weekly Thursday boxing show. ESPN is shown in 18 million homes nationwide, including 96,500 which pick up the station in the immediate Rochester area. "Rocky could have multiplied that 18 million figure by quite a few if he had won, and won convincingly," said Lee Samuels of Top Rank, Inc.

"We had him lined up to go on CBS, from here in Atlantic City, at Caesars Palace on Oct. 23. We figured Rocky would get by Mannion pretty easily. "So we had things in the works where he (Fratto) was going to fight a good junior-middleweight Gary Guiden ranked in the top 10 by both the WBA and WBC." When asked what Fratto's loss did to his network TV future, Samuels said, "Rocky has no future in this city and on TV, at least not on the immediate horizon. TURN TO PAGE 20 i ykC Big games don't scare Don Sutton MILWAUKEE Back on Sunday, after the Brewers had short-circuited the Orioles' post-season hopes, Baltimore outfielder John Lowenstein sat at, his locker for the last time in this 1982 baseball season, dissecting Don Sutton's division-clincher.

They bought the golden goose," Lowenstein said of Sutton, the million-dollar veteran the Brewers acquired from Houston in late August with October in mind, "and he laid the golden egg." Five days later, in this Star Wars series that is the American League playoffs, the Brewers will hand the ball to their golden goose again. The stakes are frighteningly familiar for Sutton: Win today (3 p.m., Channel 13), or pack tomorrow. With the Angels up 2-zip in this best-of-five series over Harvey's Grassbangers the Brewers are in a ghastly slump, staining baseballs green with meek grounders Sutton will face Geoff Zahn in another win-or -else drama, this one at home. ANOTHER PITCHER might relish this assignment with all the enthusiasm of a man headed for the electric chair. After all, the Angels played Games One and Two out West like they invented the game.

They may brew better beer here, but California barrelled the better baseball in Anaheim. Even Sutton observed yesterday that, on a scale of one to 10, the Angels played at "9.9" in the first two games. But Sutton is a special breed of pitcher, a man obviously born for these games and these moments. Pressure? Hogwash. Don Sutton, 37 and aging like a fine wine, Associated Press Geneva's Rocky Fratto (left) slugs it out their non-title fight at the Sands Hotel in with Sean Mannion In night.

Fratto lost a unanimous decision in the 10-rounder. Atlantic City, N.J. last which was televised nationally by the ESPN cable network. Amerks' Bob Mongrain wants to be traded more Skipjacks at the War Memorial. Mongrain wasnt even thinking AHL or the Amerks until Sabres Coach-General Manager Scott Bowman reassigned to Rochester late Monday afternoon.

"I was so upset," he said. "I took a walk for about 1V4 hours, thinking about what I should do. I called my lawyer. Should I report to Rochester? I decided I've got to do what's best for us. If I score 10 goals or get 10 points this weekend, then other teams will look at me.

They don't have a choice." Bowman said he knew nothing about Mongrain's request TURN TO PAGE 50 "I thought I'd never come back to Rochester," Mongrain said yesterday. "It was a disappointing surprise. I'm very upset at it It's not over. I asked to be traded. "I've been married for two years, and I've got a wife who's pregnant.

She wants the same thing as me. I'd like to play in the NHL I don't care which team I go to any more. Maybe in a couple of days I won't be here. "After four years, it's the numbers game. They (the Sabres) have two many good centermen who can play I've been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Deep down inside myself I don't think I belong in the AHL." Mongrain, however, will be in the AHL tonight at 8:00 when the Amerks open their 27th season, against the Balti By Michael Lewis Democrat and Chronicle After four years in the Buffalo Sabres' organization, Rochester Americans center Bob Mongrain wants out Mongrain, who led the Amerks in goal scoring last year, yesterday said he wants to be traded to another National Hockey League franchise. The 23-year-old Mongrain said he asked for a deal earlier this week after he was reassigned to the minor leagues for a fourth straight season. He had been one of the Sabres' 19 protected players before Monday's waiver draft After the draft, he was waived to the Amerks of the American Hockey League. Cards' Forsch pitches three-hitter as St. Louis crushes Atlanta, 7-0 Mm in II III Associated Prasa NL PLAYOFFS nullified our power.

"We didn't play a very good game," admitted Torre. "But I wouldn't say I was disappointed in them. We came back a number of times this year after bad games and we hope to be able to do it again." Atlanta will try to even the series tonight (8:25 p.m. Channel 13) with 43-year old knuckleballer Phil Niekro coming back after pitching 4V4 innings in the rained-out opener of the series Wednesday. The Cardinals will start rookie John Stuper.

McGee got the Cards started, opening the third inning with a shot past first baseman Chris Chambliss and into the right-field corner. McGee sped for third when he saw the ball rattling into the corner. What the youngster did not see was right fielder Claudell Washington slip chasing the hit and Coach Chuck Hiller waving frantically to go for the inside-the-park homer. Instead, he pulled up at third and when he realized what had happened, it was too late to change his mind. It was a rookie mistake, but it didn't hurt because Ozzie Smith followed with a sacrifice fly that brought McGee streaking home with the game's first run.

"I looked up but it was too late," said TURN TO PAGE 2D Associated Press and United Press International ST. LOUIS Veteran Bob Forsch pitched a three-hitter and the St Louis Cardinals staged a record-breaking rally that produced a 7-0 victory over the Atlanta Braves in last night's opening game of their best-of-five National League Championship Series. Forsch, the senior member of the Cardinals, was brilliant, mowing the Braves down, striking out six while walking none and protecting an early one-run lead built on the blazing speed of rookie Willie McGee. "I pitched basically the same way I did the last times I pitched against them, but tonight I really had control," Forsch said. "I didn't have control the last time I pitched against them.

"Pitchers have slumps like everyone else. Tonight I felt comfortable out there pitching. "I'm not as fast as I've used to be," added Forsch, who is completing his eighth year in the majors. "But the movement on my fast-. ball is a lot better." Forsch, who retired the last 11 batters in a row, also contributed a sacrifice fly in a five-run St Louis rally in the sixth that wrapped up the victory, and scored in the eighth inning after his second single of the game.

"He's a gutty pitcher," said Atlanta Manager Joe Torre of Forsch. "He doesn't have a fastball he once had but he moved the ball around and changed speeds and really cor.ir.iEnT Miami vs. Detroit in a Super Bowl deflated by strike By Bruce Lowitt UUCBil AOCl Wljr JlCDDUiC ab au. VUOb uuw ment "My approach to situations like this apparently makes' some people think I should see a psychoanalyst," Don said yesterday, "because they think I should be feeling pressure. But I don't feel any pressure.

This is when it's fun. This is the end of the line, what it's all about When all the marbles are out there, that's the place I want to be." Ironically, Sutton, winner of 258 lifetime games with the Dodgers, the Astros and now the Brewers, might have been pitching this very game for the Angels. HE WASNT A HAPPY ASTRO. Early in the season, he asked for a trade; listing the Angels, the Dodgers or the Padres as his top choices. But nothing came of his request, until late August Aware that he was available, no fewer than six contenders reportedly got on the phone to Houston brass.

They weie the Pirates, the Phillies, the Cardinals, the Braves, the Angels and the Brewers. Eventually, the Brewers landed him to Sutton '8 delight "They've said things to me here that have been very rewarding," Sutton said. "They showed enough to trust me with their future, and I've always thrived on that I wish I could have had that in Los Angeles, too. Now it's in my hands." Right where he wants it Bring on Reggie and the rest Sutton's ready. "I'M PITCHING," he warned, "as effective as I ever have.

I've had better control than I've ever had the past two years." He's a confident Brewer, and a grateful one, too. "Instead of me making the Brewers better," he -was saying now, "I think they've made me a better pitcher. I've just taken advantage of what they were going to do anyway." He's 4-1 since joining the club, and eager to face what he calls one of the toughest lineups he's ever faced as a pitcher. "The Angels," said Don, "fit right in there with that Cincinnati lineup that had Perez and Bench and Rose. Atlanta had a team with Torre and Aaron.

And the Giants, with Mays and McCovey. I've been around a while." So has Reggie Jackson. This is still a series," he warned. "We just haven't heard from Mr. Yount and the boys yet We have to beware of the dog." And the golden goose.

Overheard in the clubhouse: Earl Weaver is beaming. He picked the Angels. Asked who TV sidekick Jim Palmer picked before the series started, Earl quipped, "He didn't pick anyone. He said his shoulder was sore" Ex-Oriole Doug DeCinces was rooting for the Brewers last weekend. Why's that, Doug? "I didn't want Baltimore to sweep four, and come in feeling invincible.

That momentum is tough to turn around. I played with those guys, and I know how they can play at the end of a season DeCinces' play at third this season made a believer out of Rod Carew. "He's one of the best third basemen in the game," said Carew, "and that includes Graig Nettles, anyone" Every Angel starter has played in a post-season game before. "It's nice to have experience," said TURN TO PAGE 2D Cardinals pitcher Bob Forsch held the Atlanta Braves to just three hits en route to St Louis' 7-0 triumph in the first game of the National League Championship Series. won't be canceled said it saw no point to even resuming negotiations.

Garvey released a list of nine private citi zens the union would accept as mediators. It included former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, Archibald Cox, the former Watergate special prosecutor, and three former secretaries of Labor. Jack Donlan, Garvey's counterpart with the Management Council, rejected the proposal two hours later, saying the owners would only accept federal mediation.

Garvey meanwhile, discounted the possibility of the union agreeing to federal mediation, at least in part because of the union's history with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Despite the presence of a federal mediator in 1974, the union's contract dispute with the league was not resolved until 1977 and TURN TO PAGE 40 Garvey: Season Cribbs to" participate in special 'Superstars' Associated Press WASHINGTON Ed Garvey, executive director of the National Football League players union, said yesterday that he believes the NFL season will not be canceled by the players strike, as some owners have threatened. "When the owners figure out how much money they are losing from the strike, how much more it is costing them not to play the games, that is when they will begin to negotiate," said Garvey. "There will be NFL football this year. It just depends when the owners figure out how much they are losing." For the second time in as many days, the NFL Management Council rejected a proposal from the union for a private mediator to end the 171ay players' strike.

It also Football League history to go through a perfect season from opening game to Super Bowl, have a chance to do it This time, of course, it's a bit easier. Tacking a Super Bowl triumph onto the end of a 2-0 regular season (one devoid of playoffs) isn't quite the same as going 17-0 from September to January. And let's not forget that the Lions, too, have a shot at perfection, having breezed through their 2-0 campaign. The Buffalo Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers, Oak err, Los Angeles Raiders (you'd NEGOTIATIONS UPSET FERGUSON 6P think, after a whole season, that mistake would be a thing of the past), Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins also had the opportunity to make it to Super Bowl XVI with untarnished records. But Bart Starr of the Packers, who survived so many turbulent seasons to become 1982's Coach of the Year; Bradshaw, making a sensational, injury-free comeback to win Most Valuable Player honors, and TURN TO PAGE 2D Associated Press As Super Bowl XVI1 approaches, the question is, will the Miami Dolphins chalk up another unblemished season or will the Detroit Lions become the second "perfect" team? And which of them will win possession of the Vince Lombardi Trophy Junior? Terry Bradshaw, Earl Campbell, Dwight Clark, Marcus Allen because of the strike (no asterisks, please), they'll be mere spectators in Pasadena as the Lions and Dolphins battle it out for the Lombardi Trophy a deflated peewee football taped to a plastic base to symbolize a cut-rate season.

The Dolphins, the only team in National.