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i 2C Sports ST.LCUIS POST-DISPATCH Jan. 24, 1984 Pstey's Return BStmi Elms' Penalty MV I if vf ,1 --We thing like that happens. It's just a damn shame we came up empty. "I'm kind of going strictly on adrenaline, because I don't think I'm in as good a shape as these guys. I hope I can get my conditioning where it should be by the time my adrenaline runs dry." Patey's return is all the more encouraging for the Blues because of the problems they've had this season killing penalties.

They climbed a couple of notches in the past week and were ranked 18th overall in the league as of Monday. Their penalty-killing percentage stands at 73.6. The Blues appear to be set now with forwards Patey and Pat Hickey and defensemen Rob Ramage and Terry Johnson composing the penalty-killing unit with Doug Wickenheiser and Mark Reeds coming off the bench to spell Patey and Hickey. That combination killed off all four Buffalo power plays Saturday night Patey said he'd like to see the Blues finish the season with a percentage close to 80. "If we can do that it will help us save a lot of games, because our power play wins us some games," he said.

"I hate saying we're going to do well, because it haunts you, but I think we will." The most important thing for Patey is that he went all out against Buffalo and lived to tell about it After months of self-doubt his mind is almost at ease. "I took a few more hits against Buffalo and felt comfortable," he said. "It eliminates a lot of thoughts I had about my well-being. It had been on my mind for a long time." BLUENOTES: Going into Monday night's NHL games, Blues center Bernie Federko was ninth In the league In scoring with 67 points (26 goals, 41 assists) Mike Liut, who will be in goal for the Blues tonight leads the league in minutes played (2,297) and shots faced He is 6-2-1 in his last nine starts with a 1.76 goals-against average in that span. Liut has played in 39 games, second Jy to the Washington Capitals' Al Jensen, who has played in 40.

By Ron Cobb Of tt Pott-Dispatch Staff Larry Patey almost winces now, just thinking about bow much bis back was hurting him in the last few weeks last season. "In some practices we'd have skating drills, and I couldn't go quarter-speed or half-speed up the ice," he said. "It was like I was dogging it I couldn't do anything. "I remember in the playoffs in Chicago I was taking a couple of face-offs, and Mike Crombeen was telling me, "Bend over a little He was just helping out But I couldn't do it "Now I can bend over. I can get right down.

Just knowing that I can do things like that tells me that it worked." In six months, maybe, Patey will be able to say for sure whether it worked, but for now it appears that the surgery he underwent Sept 9 was a success. Parts of two discs were removed In the operation, and 44 months later his back is back in business. Tonight's 7:35 game against the Toronto Maple Leafs at The Arena will be Patey's fourth since he returned to the Blues' lineup. In his first two games Wednesday night against the Rangers in New York and Friday night against the Devils in New Jersey he skated a bit tentatively, unsure of himself. But on Saturday night against the Buffalo Sabres at The Arena, Patey was his old self, buzzing about the ice and making a nuisance of himself when the Sabres were trying to organize a power play.

VI felt as good as I've ever felt," said ''the 30-year-old center. "I was lucky enough to get a couple of games Under my belt on the road before we got back here. I really felt comfortable. "Those first two games especially the one in New York were the first time other than a practice or scrimmage where I got into really fast-moving, heads-up hockey. In scrimmages you've got to be aware of guys bumping you, but in a game you've got to worry about having your head down and getting nailed for keeps." rx AP and Steve Larmer (28) close in.

a 6-2 victory. Goalie Mike Palmateer (29) of Toronto deflects a shot by Chicago's Bill Gardner (14) as Borje NHL Compiled From News Services BOSTON Goalie Tom Barrasso of the Buffalo Sabres has removed the Boston Garden monkey from his back. The 18-year-old former Massachusetts schoolboy star finally chased the Garden ghost Monday- night as the Sabres beat the Boston Bruins, 5-3, extending their National Hockey League-record road winning streak to 10 games. Buffalo moved into first place in the Adams Division, one point ahead of Boston. "I love it when people say I couldn't beat Matignon here (in Boston Garden) for the simple reason I laugh all the way to the bank," tbe cocky Barrasso said.

As a sophomore and junior, Barrasso and his Acton-Boxboro High School team were beaten by Matignon High of nearby Cambridge in the Eastern Massachusetts schoolboy finals in the Garden. Last spring, Barrasso and Acton-Boxboro lost again to Matignon in the semifinals in the Garden. Drafted in the first round by Mets Liked Potential Of Forest Park's Clark Buffalo in June, Barrasso found things pretty much the same on Oct. 15, when he returned to the Garden as a pro and was beaten by the Bruins, 5-3. The loss was so tough to take that the kid brushed aside writers and sportscast-ers as he ran from the building.

"I didn't play well here the last time," Barrasso said as he held court after the victory over the Bruins. "I'm a lot more experienced now. When I came in here the first time, it was more of a special occasion, not just a game. Now that we're well into the season, it's just an every-day occurrence to me." Barrasso, like Boston counterpart Pete Peeters, had 27 saves. But the Bruins in the game with a flock of outstanding saves.

Boston defenseman Ray Bourque pulled the Bruins into a 3-3 tie with his 15th goal with 7 minutes left. But the Bruins couldn't hang on. Dave Andreychuck, who had tied the score, 2-2, with his 20th goal in the closing seconds of the second period, pounced on his own rebound, came around the corner of the net and slid the puck past Peeters into the far corner with 2:09 remaining in Wright City, the No. 8 small school, ripped winless Chamois, 76-41, in the first round of the Hermann Tournament. Greg Hill had 14 points and 14 rebounds for Wright City (17-1).

Two of the area's top girls teams, Parkway Central and Mascoutah, scored 63-27 victories Monday. Parkway Central (11-1), ranked eighth among large schools, got 27 points from Danielle Gurr in a first-round victory over Northwest of House Springs (2-11) in the Suburban West Tournament. Mascoutah, No. 3 In the small-school ratings, Improved to 10-0 with its victory over Collinsville. Salming (21) Chicago scored Party regulation time.

Just 10 seconds later, Paul Cyr backhanded home a rebound of a shot by Mai Davis. "We were outchecked, outworked and, obviously, outscored," said Boston defenseman Mike Milbury. "We didn't come up with the effort we wanted. "Barrasso? I thought he was good. I thought he had an excellent game, but I hesitate to compliment him too much.

He seems to be quite busy doing that himself." Hawks 6, Leafs 2 TORONTO Tom Lysiak's unassisted power-play goal at 17:12 of the first period broke a 2-2 deadlock and ignited a four-goal barrage that led the Chicago Black Hawks over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Chicago, with only its third road victory of the season, climbed to two points behind the second-place Blues in the Norris Division. The fourth-place Leafs, who will play the Blues tonight in St. Louis, remained seven points behind the Blues, but Toronto has played two fewer games than the Blues. Suspension Stands; Cohen To Miss Game The Steamers have withdrawn their appeal of defender Neil Cohen's one-game suspension, and he will be on the sidelines when they play the Buffalo Stallions at 7:35 p.m.

tomorrow at The Arena, Coach Dave Clements announced. Major Indoor Soccer League Commissioner Earl Foreman last week penalized Cohen for intentionally kicking a Wichita Wings player. Cohen also was fined $200. The hearing had been set for today in Washington, D.C. High School Basketball SLUH Shuts Down St.

Mary's By Thomas R. Raber Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Garry Clark didn't do much pitching when he was a member of the baseball team at Beaumont High School. And in his first year of college, he didn't play baseball. But last week, Clark, a rlghthanded pitcher for Forest Park Community College, was the second player selected in major league baseball's free-agent draft. The New York Mets picked the 21 -year-old in the first round of the draft's regular phase.

"I've been involved In baseball since I was real small, and I think it's starting to come to me now," Clark said. "The more I'm playing, the more I'm learning and the better I'm becoming." Clark throws a slider, a curve, a change of pace and two types of fastballs. He has a sinker, and a rising fastball that he throws at speeds of 85 to 87 miles per hour. With weight training, Clark Is expected to throw harder. He is 6-foot-4 and 175 pounds and highly regarded by the pros because of his physique.

"He's long and loose and rangy," said Forest Park baseball coach Ron Elam. "He reminds me of Charlie Hudson of the Philadelphia Phillies. The Mets also made that comparison, and so did the Cubs. They are projecting with him. They know he's noteven close to his potential.

He's got a live arm, and it's a young arm because he's only been pitching for about three years." Clark primarily was an lnfielder at Beaumont before he graduated in 1981. He enrolled at Meramec Larry Patey His performance Saturday night took some of the sting out of the Blues' disappointing, 2-1 loss. The prospect of having a healthy Patey around for the rest of the season gave Coach Jacques Demers a reason to lift his chin off his chest Sunday morning. Demers believes the 31ues might be five victories better off in the National Hockey League standings if they'd had Patey in the lineup all season. "In the first two games, everything was going through my mind what I was doing right what I was doing wrong," Patey said.

"Saturday night, I just started to let it happen. In a way, the worst thing you can do in this game is think, because you lose that half-second. It's got to come naturally." The sight of Patey hopping over the boards for his first shift Saturday night was a welcome one for Blues fans, who hailed his return with a big ovation as he bent over to take a face-off. "It makes you feel good," he said. "It almost eliminates anything you're thinking about.

All of a sudden you're there, and you've got to do it. I think everybody gets picked up when a Community College in the fall of '81, and transferred to Forest Park for the spring semester. He did not try out for baseball so that he could devote more time to his studies. During the summer of 1982, Forest Park hired Elam as baseball coach. Elam had played against Clark in a summer baseball league and, desperate to improve the team's 3-38 record, Elam talked Clark into coming out for the college team in the spring.

Forest Park finished at 3-30 in 1983, but Clark pitched well. Despite posting a 2-6 record, he turned in a 1.98 earned-run average. "He pitched super," Elam said. "Every time he pitched, we lost 3-1 or 4-2. He was really the mainstay of the program.

He took a lot of heat to be playing at Forest Park when our program was down." Clark, who had an 8-1 record for the KMOX Cubs in the Metro Collegians Baseball League last summer, will pitch for Forest Park this spring. He said he expected to sign with the Mets at the end of the college season, but he may choose to wait for the June draft. He could be selected by another club in the secondary phase, which is for players who previously have been drafted. "A lot depends on the season I have," Clark said. "If I have a good spring, I'll have to decide again about what I'm going to do." The Mets selected two other players from the area.

In the third round they took Michael Westbrook, an infielderoutfielder from Soldan High School. In the fourth round, they selected outfielder Dennis Little of seasons at Oklahoma and won 14 conference championships, three national titles and had winning streaks of 31 and 47 games and 73 without defeat in league play. Even before the kickoff at Tampa Stadium, you knew which way the wind was blowing in the family "fuss." Jay Wilkinson, gabbier than Dr. Pat, had adjusted the phony proboscis that made him look like a mashed-in Cyrano. And Bud said, smiling, "The game is between the guys with the white hats and the black hats and I've got the bad guys." Quickly, the tall, silver-haired coach put a finger on what would have to happen for the Los Angeles Raiders to overcome defending champion Washington, a three-point favorite.

They're going to make Theismann beat them, not Riggins," he said. Just as quickly, running back John Riggins got a scant two yards in his first carry. "The Raiders have stacked their defense, moved up their linebackers and the corner men," said Wilkinson. "They're quick, and Theismann will have to throw deep to beat them." Unexpectedly, LA. scored.

After a high snap from center, a Washington punt was blocked and rebounded into the end zone, where several the Raiders scrambled after the ball, scoring seven points rather than two. The brothers Wilkinson groaned. Pop, grinning, applauded. Then he sniffed disdainfully, "Having a kick blocked against you is a high-school play." 1 Garry Clark drafted by Mets Scott City, Mo. Westbrook plays at Johnson County (Kan.) Community 'College.

Little plays at Mineral Area College in Flat River, Mo. Mark Baker, another Mineral Area player, was selected In the third round by Philadelphia. Baker is a a catcher from Elvins, Mo. Also in the third round, the Atlanta Braves selected righthanded pitcher William Clossen of Freeburg, 111. Clossen plays for Rend Lake Community College in Ina, 111.

Paul James and John Bornhop, both of St. Charles, were drafted later. The Cincinnati Reds took James, a righthanded pitcher, in the seventh round. He is a graduate of Francis Howell High and competes for Meramec Community College. Bornhop, an outfielder for Florissant Valley Community College, was taken in the eighth round.

He graduated from Duchesne High. When Washington could do nothing with a major break the 'Skins backbounding punt that touched a black-jerseyed defender and was recovered by Washington at the Raiders' 42 Mark Moseley missed a field goal from 44 yards out Down by two touchdowns, Washington reached the Raiders' seven-yard line late in the second period. The 'Skins had third and two. Wilkinson, annoyed with Tbeismann's garrulous nature, was surprised when No. 7 took time out "Why?" he asked rhetorically.

"That's a wasted timeout and they're down to one. If Riggins can't make two yards in two Play resumed with a missed pass that was almost intercepted. So, of course, a field goal became automatic. Moseley made it from the 24. Said" Wilkinson, "It will be interesting to see what the Raiders do now.

To try to sit on the ball or, aware Washington has only that one timeout left, hope to move the ball even by passing. I hope they go for it" Jim Plunkett and his skull-and-crossboned buddies moved aggressively, yet not sufficiently, so Ray Guy finally did have to punt You know the rest of course. When Theismann tried a fake pass to the right and then seemed to telegraph a lobbed one In the left flat linebacker Jack Squlrek darted In, intercepted and strode five yards into the end zone. 'Pop' Wilkinson Displays Pigskin Savvy LnJAA St. Louis University High, the area leader in scoring defense, limited St Mary's to 14 first-half points and gained a 47-33 victory in boys high school basketball action Monday night.

The Junior Billikens, No. 10 in the Post-Dispatch large-school rankings, got 12 points from Jeff Hummel and 11 from Matt DeGreeff in raising their record to 13-5. SLUH had allowed only 39.5 points per game before Monday's contest. No. 9-ranked Webster Groves (15-2) got 21 points and 11 rebounds from sophomore Sam Ivy and breezed to a 77-56 victory over De Soto (4-11) in the first round of the Suburban South west Tournament No.

17 Parkway Central (13-2) also won its first-round game in that tournament, dropping Parkway North, 63-53. Brett Uldrich had 18 points and 17 rebounds and Steve Smith had 18 for the winners. Wilkinson, reacting to the dismay of his two sons, laughed and then said, solemnly, "With only 12 seconds left I wonder how far and fast they figure even a Joe Washington could take them (on the pass) before time ran out?" By the way, Coach, if you had been coaching Nraska against Miami Wilkinson intercepted the question, interrupting: "I'd have kicked the point and tied," he said. "Ten years from now, all anybody would know would be that Nebraska was national college champion in '83." OPEN HOUSE You are Cordially Invited to Attend an OPEN HOUSE For DATA PROCESSING, ACCOUNTINGFINANCE, BANKING ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY JANUARY 28th ft 29th i From 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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St. Louis, Mo. 631 46 Bob Broeg Sports Editor Father knows best the Wilkinson boys, Pat and Jay, learned from the former great football coach, Bud, at one of the area's many Super Bowl parties. fop took them for a friendly family bet and you would have thought from his paternal glee that he had won another championship at the University of Oklahoma or had done better with the football Cardinals, the team he coached in a two-year comeback. Wilkinson came to town with wife Donna and stayed.

He presides as board chairman over a municipal pension-organizing company (Peibsco). Serves, too, as national chairman of the United States Gymnastics' Federation. Son Jay, a one-time All-America end from Duke, with Pebsco in Oklahoma City. There, older brother Pat a Stanford graduate who also played football briefly, is an ophthalmologist The younger Wilkinsons came to town for a party, armed with an idea, a piece of change and a couple of false snouts, symbolic of Washington's fierce frontline "Hogs." They would show a thing or two and take a few bucks from the manho coached 17 See and compare all the 1984's under one roof at one time. nfju; -Tji3' m'Wim mm FREE discount coupons available at all SCHNUCK'S MARKETS and participating new car dealers worth $1 .00 off adult admission.

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