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E5 THE SUN. Wednesday, February 23, 1983 Stars edge Red wings, 3-2 NHL ineuv -j ation. He is 1-3 over that stretch. The victory lifted the North Stars to 32-16-13, while the Red Wings dropped to 16-32-13. Mmraota 1023 DcVort 2002 it at 10:16, when his long slapshot through a screen whistled past Islanders goalie Billy Smith.

It was Wat-ters's fourth goal of the season, and 3 have come against, the Stanley Cup champions. Canadiens 6, Nordiques 1: Center Keith Acton scored his 17th and 18th goals and the Canadiens produced one of their finest defensive efforts of the season to earn a 6-1 NHL victory over the Quebec Nordiques at Montreal last night The Canadiens, under fire for a pair of road defeats that saw them manage only 1 goal, offered a display of playoff hockey over the final two periods, holding the high-powered Nordiques to 12 shots. Acton's first-period goal at 3 minutes 2 seconds provided Montreal with a 1-0 margin that was stretched to 3 goals when Mark Napier, with his 31st and Steve Shutt with his 26th, scored in a span of 3:54 in the middle period. Minnesota's Brian Bellows scored 2 goals and Bobby Smith notched the clincher with just 43 seconds remaining to lift the North Stars to a 3-2 NHL victory over the host Detroit Red Wings last night. Smith took a pass from Bellows and beat Detroi goalie Gilles Gilbert with his 19th goal at 19 minutes 17 seconds of the period, spoiling an otherwise brilliant night by Gilbert.

Detroit's John Ogrodnick scored bis 31st goal of the season when the game was just 16 seconds old, flipping a bouncing puck from outside the blue line past a surprised North Stars goalie Don Beaupre. Reed Larson gave Detroit a 2-0 lead with his 17th goal at 6:44 of the first period. Larson took Ogrodnick's perfect pass on the fly, skating in on Beaupre's right, and rifled the puck just inside the post Bellows cut it to 2-1 with his 23d goal at 10:11 of the first period while the Red Wings' Mark Osborne was off for tripping. It was the North Stars' 10th power play goal in 23 attempts against Detroit tins season. Gilbert made 30 saves, many at point-blank range, in his fourth start since being recalled Jan.

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Mmcwtai Beam (HirH-buri Vouit) larwno nans. Pinod 4. Mmcsoto. Baton (Payn. Smttkl Mmw A 10.815, Jets 2, Islanders 2: Winnipeg rookie goaltender Brian Hayward turned aside 37 shots, including a pair of spectacular third-period saves within a span of 5 seconds, to preserve the Jets' 2-2 NHL tie with the New York Islanders at Uniondale, N.Y., last night Hayward, 22, is 3-5-2 since he was promoted from Sherbrooke of the American Hockey League Jan.

19. The Islanders beat him early with John Tonelli scoring on a power play only 1 minute 30 seconds into the game. Bob Bourne's perfect pass from the right-wing boards came to Tonelli at the goalmouth, and he poked it over Hayward. Jets defenseman Tim Watters tied .0011 Gambling on the odds RENO, Nev. (AP) Setting odds for the new United States Football League is more of a gamble than Nevada bookmakers prefer, but they say they'll be ready for the first USFL game March 6.

"We figure we won't know any more or less than anyone said Chris Zenith, an oddsmaker at Reno's downtown Club Cal Neva. "It's kind of a gamble on our part" Jimmy Brann, an advertising and publicity executive for a Las Vegas firm which helps set point spreads, said southern Nevada bookmakers also were getting ready for the USFL. Union election sought BAL HARBOUR, Fla. (AP) Ed Garvey, executive director of the National Football League Players Association, will file a petition within two weeks for a union representation election among players in the United States Football League. Garvey, meeting with labor leaders attending the AFL-CIO convention, would not say whether his USFL Players Association unit has signed enough players to achieve the certification election.

A union must get sign-up cards from 30 percent of the work force targeted for organizing before it can obtain certification for an election, which would determine if a union can be the authorized bargaining agent for a group. Bits and pieces Navy's unbeaten wrestling team defends its title this weekend in the 79th annual Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament at Lehigh. The Middies return three champions from last year's tourney Frank Shaffer (150), John Reich (167) and Mark Phillips (177). The second Cracker Jack Old Timers Baseball Gassic is scheduled July 18 at RFK Stadium, with Bob Lemon managing the American League and Eddie Sawyer han- dling the National circuit University of Maryland women's basketball coach Chris Weller is one of the nominees for the Stayfree coach of the year award. The Mary lander Slow- pitch Softball League in Aberdeen is looking for two Class teams to fill out the league.

AH interested teams should contact commissioner Jim James at 836-3763. Id Ptnod 1 Montra Acton (Laftaur. Water) 2d Pariod 2. Montr Njpiar (Vftckenhaoar): 3. Montreal.

Shun (Mormt. Lafeur) 3rd Pahod 4, Quebec A. Stattny (P. Stastny. Goutet): 5.

Montreal Acton (Walter): 6 Montreal Robnson (LaHeur. Green): 7. Montreal Nariund (Trembtay) A 17.721. NCAA looks at Walker, USFL pact WALKER, from 1 Berst who went against the NCAA's usual practice of not acknowledging probes. "This is an eligibility issue," he said.

"He would be ineligible if he signed the contract whether he opted out or not In such an instance, he could appeal to the eligibility committee for restoration of his eligibility." Berst said Monday he tended to believe that Walker did not sign the contract "I still feel the same way," he said. "I do put stock in the denials of Herschel Walker, who we've talked with before on other matters. And I am reasonably skeptical of unidentified sources who claim there was a signed contract But I think it's in our best interests to pursue the matter and find out for certain." Berst said results of the probe probably will be released by Georgia. "I have no intention of issuing daily reports on our progress in resolving the matter," he said. "We will communicate directly with the institution and when there is a comment to be made, it probably will be made by them." Earlier yesterday, NCAA president John Toner said he would not be surprised by an investigation of the matter.

"They tend to investigate almost every case if they feel there are sufficient facts to warrant one," Toner said. Toner said the USFL-Walker matter had stirred particular interest because it was a football issue. "The soccer league has been drafting kids in mid-year and having them leave school right along," he said. "Basketball has the undergraduate draft. Hockey is free to draft anybody.

Baseball drafts kids when they are 18 and then again when they're 21, and a lot of them leave school. "I think, though, that football would be wise to leave the colleges alone. It's a game of great numbers and the colleges are a major source of supply. It's a game that demands physical maturity in most of its players as applies to age and experience." No matter what the outcome of the Walker affair, Toner does not see the matter affecting basic NCAA operations. "It's not our right to legislate against any student-athlete going pro at any time," he said.

"I do think the should leave them alone." Skipjacks entertain Whalers By Lou Hatter 17 Civic Center visits. Center Ross Yates leads the Whalers with 25 goals and 65 assists for 90 points. He ranks second in the AHL behind Bruce Boudreau, of St. Catharines, who carried 41-65106 totals last night against the Adirondack (N.Y.) Red Wings. Yates is one point shy of becoming Binghamton's all-time high scorer.

SKIPJACK NOTES Barring sudden relief from Pittsburgh, the Skipjacks' shuffleboard roster will be missing goalie Roberto Romano, de-fensemen Tony Feltrin and Brian Lundberg and left wing Jim Hamilton tonight All were recalled in the last five days by the parent Penguins of the NHL. There is light in the tunnel though. Defensemen Bennett Wolf, Rod Buskas and Phil Bourque and center Doug Lecuyer practiced yesterday at the Memorial Stadium rink, apparently on the mend from assorted injuries and the flu. Friday's 7:30 p.m. game with Nova Scotia is being promoted as "Wendy's Cap Night," offering 5,000 gift painters' caps imprinted with the Skipjacks' insignia.

Sunday's spree by the 20-year-old Lamoureux lifted his season totals to 36 goals and 36 assists for 72 points. saved by 4-goal rallies in the third period. "I had seen evidence all along that this team won't quit but I can't believe what those guys did against Hershey," Angotti said after Sunday's explosive finish before 5,403 ecstatic fans. It was the season's second largest Civic Center crowd. The Skipjacks' third-period comeback from a 5-1 deficit was ignited by two power-play goals from Rob Garner.

His second came with less than l'j minutes on the clock. It was then capped dramatically when Mitch Lamoureux connected twice in the last 53 seconds of regulation time, netting the rookie center a hat trick for the afternoon. "In all reality, I didn't think we had the slightest chance to pull that one out" said Garner, the team captain. "It just shows you what can happen if everyone keeps working." The weekend heroics ended a 1-6-2 slump and boosted Baltimore's record to 25-28-9, 5 points behind second-place New Haven. Binghamton, 3 points astern of the Skipjacks with a 25-29-6 record, poses another test tonight though.

The visitors hold a 4-3 series lead, including 8-2 and 5-2 romps on their last two If ever the Skipjacks are to launch a credible advance into contention foi the American Hockey League's four team Southern division playoffs, the time is now. A 7:30 Civic Center match tonight with the Binghamton (N.Y.) Whalers (WCBM, 680-AM radio) will be the second of nine consecutive home games for coach Lou Angotti's skaters. Two tough Northern Division foes, the Nova Scotia Voyageurs and Fre-dericton (New Brunswick) Express, come here Friday and Sunday nights. Five of the seven AHL South teams the New Haven Nighthawks, Hershey Bears, St Catharines (Ontario) Saints, Baltimore and Binghamton are clustered in that order within an 8-point spread behind front-running Rochester. The last-place Springfield (Mass.) Indians are still in the playoff picture, too, a mere 4 points farther back.

Consistency breeds winning streaks all that is needed from the Skipjacks, who snapped an agonizing skid Saturday, 5-4, in Hershey, then tied the Bears, 5-5, in Sunday's rematch here. Both games were Injured Jacobi shows no brain activity p'chSne'" File Drawer.9 1AC '199 i ZT. a jk Folding? 6 Ft. Folding Tables (L Chair lumperEdge. Frame in-Tl AIISteelApron Golden' JU '48 -fir.

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"They can't tell if the work on his eye left him blind because he does not respond to anything now. "Bruce told me he loved racing so much that if he ever had to go, that's how he wanted it He meant racing, not laying there like he is now." Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP) Driver Bruce Jacobi, critically injured while trying to qualify for the Daytona 500, breathes with the help of a respirator and shows no sign of brain activity, a spokesman at Halifax Hospital said yesterday. Jacobi's critical but stable condition has not changed since Thursday, when his brain stem was bruised in a violent crash at Daytona International Speedway. "We don't really expect any change in the near future," hospital spokesman Jay Sweeney said.

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