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1U iilll Sports Classified Pages 31 to 44, Thursday, July 8, 1976 Expos juggle roster after setback Tim Burke effective," Expos' manager Karl Kuehl said about not thinking of making a change at that time and really explaining the reason for the promotion of Kerrigan. After Cesar Geronimo fouled off the first pitch on a full swing indicating that he was not thinking of bunting the runners ahead, Rogers figured that he might be sitting back looking for a "Morgan and Driessen hit sinkers," Rogers said. "I into early action. The Expos are hurting in the bullpen, among other things. Steve Rogers had a 3-1 lead over the reiping World Series champion Reds going into the ninth and the slim gathering of 7,105 were hoping that their heroes could salvage the final game of this three-game series.

Joe Morgan singled to centre though and so did Dan Driessen. "The bullpen has not been Team Canada coaching plan seen steal from grid game Team Canada's coaching system during the games in September's international tournament will bear a strong resemblance to the setup in front of the Alouettes' bench. There will be two coaches behind the team bench. One will be responsible solely for line changes. The other will wear earphones so that a third coach posted on the catwalk aloft can convey his observations to the bench immediately, instead of waiting until the end of the period.

The fourth coach will be scouting other games in the tournament. All four coaches seemed to be enthusiastic about it. One, Scotty Bowman, says "just having another guy there to talk to at certain times will be a nice change. Often during a game you want to compare notes or ask an opinion and you look around and the only guy there is the trainer having a line to the coach up top will be a real help too, because with each game so important, the faster you detect a weakness and correct it the better." Four coaches (Bowman, Al MacNeil, Don Cherry, Bobby Kromm) may appear to be somewhat of a crowd but Al MacNeil points out that the Flyers now have three coaches (as well as Marcel Pelletier, personnel director who wet nurses the goaltenders) during the regular season, and many other teams have two. "Besides," he said, beaming, "I sort of like the idea of being back in the Big Apple for a while, or would you call Montreal La Grande Pomme?" Says Sam Pollock: "European clubs sometimes have five coaches, and as many as three of them are behind the bench.

If you described our (Team Canada) system as being almost the same as in football, you'd be correct." By IAN MacDONALD of The Gazette They haven't exactly shaken up their futile roster but the Expos are making changes. Moments after they had thrown away a two-run ninth inning lead to lose to the Cincinnati Reds 4-3 last night, the Expos announced a few roster changes. Reliever Fred Scherman was given his unconditional release and second baseman vCWiifc mm figured Geronimo would be looking for the same thing. I threw him a curve." Geronimo angled that pitch between right fielder Gary Roenicke and centre-fielder Jerry White for a two run triple which squared matters. Mike Lum then lofted a ball to shallow centre which was deep enough for Geronimo to score against Pepe Man-gual's ineffective arm.

That made it a series sweep for the Reds and a seventh loss against two wins for Rogers who must be the Expos' top pitcher. The Expos have lost 29 of their last 38 starts and are now five-and-half games behind the next worst team in their division the Chicago Cubs. "I hadn't thrown a curve in several innings," Rogers said, "but I was determined I wasn't going to walk anyone on the ninth inning. You have to get some breaks when you play that team. We didn't get any." As a matter of fact, the game's only break went against the Expos.

That came about in the fifth inning when Larry Parrish hit his second homerun in as many nights. Or did he? With one out, Pete Mack-anin walked. Then Parrish unloaded and the Expos figured to be ahead three-zip. Mike Jorgensen had homered with two out in the first inning. But none of the umpires had moved out to left and when the ball bounced into playing territory it was ruled alive and Parrish was held up at third.

Kuehl, third base coach Ozzie Virgil and Parrish argued with third base umpire Andy Olsen but to no avail. It didn't make any difference really because Pepe Frias contributed the first of his two singles to cash Parrish anyway. "It was over the fence," said leftfielder Mike Lum of the Reds, who was closest to the action since the umpires decided not to move. "It hit the second fence and bounced back in. It was a homerun." And so with another routine loss, the story of the Expos last night revolved around the dismissal of veteran Fred Scherman.

At first the Expos announced that the lefty reliever had been asked to report to Denver. Scherman refused. Then he was released. "There's no way that I'll go to Denver," Scherman said. "I've been around a long time.

The last years have been tough. You hate to see it end but this is it. "I'll go home. I might call a couple'of clubs but I won't scramble. "I don't really feel that bad.

I've got seven years in the majors. I've been in the game 13 years. I never expected I'd last this long. "I kinda expected this. I'm older and I'm not going anywhere.

"Maybe now 1 11 be able to spend some summer time with my family." EXPOSES Scherman will be paid for the full year by the Expos Johnson was brought up because the Expos have no backup for Barry Foote. The pleasant Jose Morales can hit but he can't play Gary Carter hopes to have the cast off his broken thumb this weekend but even it he is ready to play on a short time he won't be able to catch The Reds' regu-, lars rested for this 'test' against the Expos last night were Tony Perez, Dave Concepcion, George Foster and Johnny Bench With some Plummer (Bill) behind the plate the Reds nearly sprung a leak this time but they recovered and Bench was in there to catch the final inning. Serge Savard, one of the big stars in the 1972 Canada-Russia series, was asked if he thought there was a dearth of J. P. Parlse-type diggers in this edition of Team Canada.

"Not really," he replied. "You take a guy like Jean Pronovost (Pittsburgh). He's as good a checker as Pa rise and a lot better scorer (more than 50 goals last season). You put him on right wing with Bobby Clarke and Bill Barber and you'll have as good a two-way line as you've ever seen I wouldn't be surprised to see them do that in defensive situations (replacing Reggie Leach with Pronovost)." Jimmy Watson shook his head. "That's the kind of problem this team has.

Replacing a 60-goal scorer with a 50-goal scorer-for defensive purposes!" CP photo to break up double play. Pepe Frias goes high to avoid hardsliding Reds' Dan Driessen who unsuccessfully tries Pete Mahovlich enthusing on Israel's magnificent commando raid in Uganda to deliver the hostages from Palestinian terrorists: "They must have taken their game plan from Vince Lombardi's old playbook." Top eager out Jim Cox was optioned to the Denver Bears. Joining the Expos in Houston today for a four game series, which will thankfully be culminated by a three day break for the all star game, are reliever Joe Kerrigan and catcher Lary Doby Johnson. The 22-year-old Kerrigan started this season with Quebec but was called up to the triple 'A' Denver club and has a 2-0 record there. He will undoubtedly be pressed LIZ SILCOTT conflict' for what I did to the other coaches two years ago." That incident came at Canada's first training camp in Cuba in December of 1974 when then head coach Jack Ottawa stand startles CO A The Canadian Olympic- Association last night issued an official statement of support for the International Olympic Committee in its disagreement with the Canadian government over the admission of Taiwan athletes for the Montreal Games.

COA president Harold Wright from Vancouver said his Olympic association, the organization basically responsible for all Olympic affairs in Canada, never had a hint Ottawa was considering this action to bar Taiwan athletes if they persist in calling themselves the Republic of China Olympic Committee. PHILIPS Remote 333 Code-a-phone MESSAGE CENTRE Bitter Liz raps coach after being cut loose SEND THIS COUPON FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Steve Shutt figures the Russian team will come up with a brand new system this fall, realizing that Canadians have figured out their "total offence" tactics and in the case of the Canadiens Sabres and Flyers last winter, shredded it. "We realized that they played it this way," Steve explained. "As soon as the puck got behind their forwards, it was the responsibility of their defence-men to do something about it. As soon as it got behind the defencemen, well, the goalie was on his own.

No back-checking whatever. This fall, I'll be surprised if they don't come out completely defensive-minded," Steve figures too that Vladislav Tretiak's superb goaltending record in North America he is average in European competiton is due to the fact that Canadian players fire too many slap shots at him. "What we've got to do is bore in on him and pull a 'Gary Dorn-hoefer' once in a while. That means standing right in front of him and then falling all over him, while another guy whips the puck into the net." Answer your phone 24 hrs a "day. 7 days a weak Pick up your massage from any phona in the world.

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CANADA LTD. GE Jimmy Watson, who with Sam Pollock and Claude Ruel is one of the NHL's sagest baseball observers, made this prediction after attending Tuesday night's game of "scrub" at Jarry Park: "Cincinnati won't be there this year. There's the trouble with Bench's shoulder, and their two relievers, Will McEn-aney and Rawly Eastwick, aren't the pitchers they're cracked up to be. That'll tell in the playoffs." The Sabres' Rene Robert, wincing at the way the crowd dumped on the Expos Jim Dwyer after a couple of goofs in right field followed by ineffectual turns at bat, said: "That's why I'd never want to play hockey in Montreal." Company. Address.

City 1 Telephone- Code- OFFICE EQUIPMENT CO. OF 5990 Cote de Liesse Road Montreal. P.Q. H4T 1V7 342-5151 (Mr.J.RShatskoff) Donohue shipped Liz home from Havana. "Then we had an incident where a guy from Quebec came by to tell us how important the provincial government considered Quebec participation in the Games.

That seemed to upset Brian, too. He called me a dingbat and said I was just like the rest of them in Quebec." Contacted at the team training headquarters in Halifax Heaney said he had cut Silcott because she didn't fulfil the requirements of a team player. "Liz was very much an individual on the court," he said, "and what is needed for Olympic competition is a compatible and harmonious unit, not one or two outstanding one-on-o'ne ball players." Heaney, who took over as head coach 14 months ago when Donohue realized he couldn't handle the strain of both the men's team and the women's team, said he had taken Liz back on the team in order to give her a fresh start. "I've spent a lot of time with Liz," Heaney said, "and it's not her Shortcoming she's the way she is. But she simply has not been capable of jelling into a team concept, a team situation." The fact Heaney puts a lot of emphasis on team play was obvious last month when the Canadian girls played a pair of games against Poland at the Etienne Desmarteau Olympic basketball centre.

Heaney was more than critical of the fact Canadian audiences do not suppoit Canadian teams the way foreign teams are supported when the Canadian girls travel abroad. By DOUG GILBERT and RANDY PHILLIPS A distraught and bitter Liz Silcott returned to Montreal from Halifax last night after being dropped from the Olympic women's basketball team 10 days before the Games. Liz, voted the outstanding player in the team's final tournament in Italy last month, said she was astounded at being cut just over a week before the Games. "This has been building up for some time," the Loyola star said." (Coach) Brian Heaney told me when we were in China in January that if he didn't think we had a chance for a medal in the Games he would cut me from the team a week before the Olympics. He said he wanted someone with a more favourable attitude.

"On Monday of this week he called me over and told me I wasn't going to start in the Olympics and then on Tuesday he said I was off the team for medical reasons. "That had started last Wednesday when I went to see a doctor to find out why I was feeling depressed. "The doctor said my white blood cell count was low and told me to take three days off and rest. I did and when I returned on Monday I was told I wasn't going to start in the Games. That made me feel more depressed.

Tuesday I was off the team. Coach Heaney told me he had found another player, Chris Crilelli of St. Catharines "That's exactly what happened, but to leave it at that covers up an awful lot. of dirty business in addition. We didn't get along.

He even told me he was getting even Bobby Hull, most outspoken campaigner among active players against hockey violence, is slightly miffed about the way the WHA is dragging its feet about taking steps to club deliberate aggression the way NHL has (WHA took no definite steps at last week's annual meeting). "I can tell you one thing for certain," he said here Tuesday. "If they don't bring in some reforms, I won't be playing hockey (in the WHA) this coming season." mm Ex-Argo coach 'Bill' Swiacki dead STURBRIDGE, Mass. -(AP) William Swiacki, a former Toronto Argonauts coach in the Canadian Football League, was found dead in his home yesterday, police said. He was 53.

Authorities declined to release any information on the cause of death Swiacki attended Holy Cross and Columbia and received a degree in business administration from the Co lumbia School of business in 1947. He began his football career at Holy. Cross and continued playing during a stint in the Air Force. He returned to college football at Columbia, making the Associated Press all-America team, in 1947 as an end. He later played professionally with New York Giants and Detroit Lions and coached the Argonauts in 1955 and 1956..