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.16 The GAZETTE. Montreal. Tus 13 1976 Sarazen has reason to pass up preps illusionment because a financial strain led the club to unload eight of its top players, "Blame a lousy franchise and a lousy operation for what has happened," he said. "Don't blame soccer." Dink Carroll fi If Marv Moss Honolulu lawyer Roy Cohn, struck by a racket tossed by Ilia Nastase in outrage against a call by an umpire, has filed a damage action for 865.000. saying "when' I lose a' case I don't throw pens at the judge" At 75 Golf's Squire Gene Sarazen disdained a practice round before the British Open with the explanation "when you're my age you can't remember a practice round the next day anyway" In his hometown of Houston.

George Foreman was fined $27,50 for negligence after his auto collided with a police patrol car. "I heard the siren and pulled to the right and we hit," Foreman said afterwards Walter CMalley told a luncheon before an A Dodgers old- timers game: "It feels good to be around ballplayers who aren't playing out their options" Mac Wilklns of the U.S.. the world record-holder in the discus throw, made a 196-foot toss in the hammer throw and was asked when he would take up the hammer seriously. "When I become a carpenter," he replied Remember Hubert Vogel-singer, the soccer kicker who couldn't take the rush with the Alouettes? After coaching the Boston Minutemen to the Northern Division championship of the North American Soccer League the last two years, he has resigned in dis- Waterloo teammates rated good chance to crack roster The death of Bill Swiacki at 53 under unexplained circumstances last week in his hometown of Sturbridge, touched off recollections in Toronto where he coached the Argonauts for two inept seasons in the 1950s. Milt Dunnell wrote that few got to know him and that's apparently the way Swiacki wanted it.

Danny Shaw, who played under him, recalled the 1955 playoffs when the Argos upset Hamilton in the Big Four semi-final and were leading the Als by 14 points at halftime in the final at Mol-son Stadium. "Our guys were whooping it up in the dressing room at halftime when Swiacki walked in." Shaw recounted. "Bill looked around and said: 'Let's cut out this rah-rah horse That was pure Swiacki. You could just feel the. enthusiasm seeping away." The Als snapped back and won it 38-36.

And after a last-place finish the following season Swiacki was gone Paul Richards, the Chicago White Sox manager, was asked if he'll try to communicate with his hard-to-handle acquisition Blue Moon Odom. "I don't communicate with players," Richards. 67, replied. "I tell them what to do. I don't understand the meaning of communication" Ion Tiriac, who introduced Hie Nastase to tennis and now coaches the Boston Lobsters in World Team Tennis, was a standout defence-man with Romania's hockey team in the 1964 Olympics.

"I could see the boom coming even then," he says. "I left ice hockey probably because of it" Nastase has told organizers of the $150,000 Rothmans Canadian Open in Toronto Aug. 16-23 that he'll be there if his Hawaii Leis in the WTT miss the playoffs. "He may not like me," says Don Fon-tana, who exacted a $6,000 fine from the Bucharest Inferno for abusive behavior last year, "but he has a lot of friends in Toronto and obviously likes to go there." 1 Jf GLEN LEACH defensive back CHARLES McMANN utility back Discoursing on his one-year contract with the Expos, Karl Kuehl told Phil Elderkin of the Christian Science Monitor "if I can't please the team's front office, then I expect to be fhcd. A longer contract Isn't going to make me a better manager or a happier manager.

But if I'm given the time I need, like three years, I think I can win with this ball club" George Knudson's tempo may not be what it once was, but his swing is workable and productive, says Moe Norman, because Knudson. "better than anyone else still moves his body laterally into the ball while his hands are going back. How can you miss if you've got that action?" Moe says Lee Elder has dropped his $5 million damage suit against the U.S. PGA and associated interests and obtained the membership card renewal he was denied because of a bad debt at a golf club outside Washington. C.

In the interests of accuracy. Jim Dent, acknowledged to be the longest-hitter on the tour, has gone to a one-iron off the tee on par-five holes, leaving his driver sheathed. How far does he whack the iron? "I wish knew." sighs Dent. "Anywhere from 150 to 350 yards." team my freshman year mainly because it was probably the best team the school ever had. But I practised every day with the 'hamburgers' the junior varsity." What pleased Leach more than anything else about the draft was that Montreal took him.

"That's the team I had hoped to play for if I was drafted." he said. "From what I had heard. I certainly didn't want to get drafted by either Toronto or Hamilton I'd heard too many stories and seen too many-good players who didn't get a fair chance with those teams. And Doug Smith (Alouette centre and former teammate of Leach 's always talked highly of the Alouette organization and it's just as good as he said it was." Leach didn't hurt his chances in the Alouettes first two exhibition games against. Hamilton and Ottawa, recovering a fumble in each game with both turnovers leading to Montreal touchdowns.

Against Saskatchewan he played only the first two series and spent the rest of the night on the specialty-teams. "I guess Marv wanted to win that game in front of the home crowd." he reasoned. (Saskatchewan won the game. 35-7). Leach survived the first three cutdowns and has one to go But he admits the spectre of the axe was no great emotional thing "I'm sure it's probably a lot tougher on the vets and players who have been around awhile and are trying to catch on.

But I have nothing to lose." Gaines has been "very patient" with Leach, by the rookies own admission. "In fact. I've learned more here than I ever did in college, mainly because we (the secondary) were sort of Levy, though concerned chiefly with the offence, is well aware of Leach "He's got good intelligence, good toughness, good feet, he's a hard hitter, has lots of attentiveness and is very coaohable ET ALS The Als will bus into Montreal tomorrow lor their game the same night against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, their last of the exhibition season Guard Gary Chown's knee continues to give him trouble and Frank Pomarico has been moved from tackle to guard The Argos have cut former Alouette defensive end Steve Booras. They also released QB Brian Dowling and defensive back Bobby Myrick. Games on disaster course with politicians at wheel The Olympic spirit, which is supposed to bring the greatest athletes of the world together in brotherly sportsmanship, has become almost a myth.

Nationalist rivalries are too strong. The young men and women are imbued with a fierce desire to win not only for themselves but for their country. It could hardly be otherwise when they have been hearing for years what an honor it is for them to be representing their country. The flying of national flags, the playing of national anthems, the uniforms and tabulations of medals won and unofficial points scored that accompanies the Games creates an hysteria that has undermined the Olympic spirit. All those trappings weren't there when the modern Olympics began in 1896.

It must be that they have been introduced gradually in the intervening years to dress up the Games and make them more of a spectacle. The Games don't- need that kind of showmanship, which has been used so successfully to promote professional sport. They are amateur in essence, or supposed to be, and because of their international aspect they are a great spectacle in themselves, requiring little or no promotion but plenty of organization. As Lord Killanin. president of the International Olympic Committee, pointed out recently, political overtones are endangering the real purpose of the Games, which is "enjoyment and competition, athlete against athlete, not country against country." Thus, only individual athletes should be winners, not countries But tlie heads of national amateur athletic unions have been ignoring that for years, and preaching that the most important thing is to win more medals and score more points than any other nation.

'Saw a red danger signal' "We saw a red danger signal at Helsinki and the red was Russia." said Douglas F. Roby. president of the United States Amateur Athletic Union, after the 1952 Games in Helsinki. "The United States excelled in the major events, but in many we were woefully weak and in others we squeezed through by a narrow margin The AAU program will be expanded so that interest in amateur athletics may be stimulated in all areas large or small whatever talent is available. Roby concluded his exhortation with the following: 'if we are going to win the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia, we have got to start an intensive period of training right now and become proficient in some of the events to which we have not attached enough importance in the past.

Our organized movement must begin with our youth, not only in the schools and colleges but in industry and the athletic clubs of America, and the time is now." That talk about winning the Olympic Games in 1956 -didn't sound well coming from Roby. A little he had been elected a member of the IOC and as a member of the committee he should have known that no nation has ever won the Olympic Games and no nation can win them under the existing rules governing competition Individuals, and not nations, are winners at the Olympic Games. If Roby wanted to see the United States win at Melbourne, he would first have had to talk to his fellow committeemen into adopting an official point system to decide the winning nation Russia claimed victory at Helsinki, and so did the United States. Each country reached the same conclusion by using a point system. The point systems differ.

The United States awarded 10 points for first place. Russia awarded seven points. Other nations had other systems. By the use of different scoring systems it was possible for two nations to claim they had won the Olympic Games. Neither had any official right to the claim.

Glory not for the athletes Lord Killanin would like to see only one flag waving at the Olympic Games and that's the Olympic flag. When a medal is hung around an athlete neck accompanied by blaring anthems and waving flags, the implication is that it's not- the athlete who is best but the country he's from. If the Olympic Games are going to survive, politics must be 'kept out ol them. Everyone who has been watching developments here in the last few weeks knows how difficult, that is going to be Interference by our own federal government almost scuttled the so-called "Montreal Games." which are due to open next Friday. But.

the bickering continues and anything can still happen. The 1980 Olympic Games have been awarded to Moscow, In his book "The Russians," Hedrick Smith, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent, has the following pertinent paragraph: "Big-time sports in the Soviet system are noi entertainment, as in the West, but politics, which is one reason why Soviet sports are so thoroughly subsidized and why top performers are secretly provided extra perquisites and handsome cash bonuses, especially lor gold medal showings abroad. Sports champions, so goes the party line, prove the superiority of Soviet socialism It is not accident that the Soviets are so often Jhe ones who seize every opportunity at the Olympic Games or other international competitions to insist on playing national anthems, displaying national flags, or performing march-pasts and other rituals that cater to national feelings and keep aflame the Soviet sense ot patriotism and national pride. Sports, like World War II. arc a perfect vehicle for this type of propaganda." Sports in the West are usually entertainment, but in international competition like the Olympic Games they have become poltical.

What Douglas F. Roby had to say-after the 1952 Games in Helsinki makes that quite evident. Lord Killanin is fighting valiantly to keep the Games alive and to preserve what is left of the Olympic spirit, but the odds seem overwhelmingly against him In spite of the spring training lockout, strike talk, litigation, one-sided divisional races and sagging interest at Pare Jarry, major league baseball appears headed for an attendance record. At the July 5 midpoint in the schedules of both leagues, paid admissions totalled 15.904,989. And since the second half customarily produces a higher count, the projection is in the vicinity of 32,000.000 by the end of the season against the record of 30,108.926 set in 1973 at tower ticket prices Whitlock is the latest Montreal golf club to spurn overtures to obtain a site for the Canadian Open in 1980 A golf course architect 91 years old named William Diddle says the game needs a shorter ball.

He feels a ball with all the characteristics of the modern ball except for the distance would be an impetus to golf because the cost of land to build courses long-plus is prohibitively high. Two share lead in amateur golf after first round By MARV MOSS of The Gazette Francme Larue of St. Hyacinthe. under no illusions anymore about where she is headed in golf and Louise Chaine. who works in the pro shop at the Du Moulin course in Trois-Rivieres and goes to the University of Ottawa, share the first-round lead in the Quebec amateur championship for women.

They shot 78s four over women's par in a light drizzle yesterday at Candiac in a tournament that innovated revisions toughening the 11th and 12th holes. One shot back going into today's second round of the 54-hole competition are Louise Larochelle of Cap Rouge, winner the last two years and Toronto's Liz Hoffman. Six-time winner Judy Darling Evans ofr Royal Montreal is five shots back at 83. Larue turned 28 Saturday and yesterday she was saying she no longer believes she is going to become a tour player and has revised her objectives to simply play as well as she can in Quebec. "If I played bad.

I used to teel bad but not any more." she said. Can her good friend Larochelle be held off? "She's a better golfer than me." Francine conceded. "She hits the ball 30 yards farther than I do. But maybe my short game is stronger. We'll see come Wednesday." Chaine.

21. disclosed that she. too. has adopted a less intense approach to golf and doesn't beat balls regularly anymore Her four birdies yesterday were more than anyone else's production. But she wrapped them around eight bogyes Larochelle.

a physiotherapist at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Quebec City, finished with a double-bogey seven on the final green alter three-putting the par-three 1 7th for a four. "I was mad at myself for what happened on 17." she said afterwards, "and let it get away from rue." Miss Hoffman said she was underclubbing on the front nine before making a correction after the turn She was 38 on the back nine and that included a whiff on the 15th hole where she struck a tree on her backs wing The leaders By DICK BACON of The Gazette LENNOXVILLE The mortality rate on Canadian college draft picks in the CFL has been pretty high over the years, despite the fact the quality has improved dramatically. The Alouettes protected two territorial selections offensive tackle Pierre Ge-linas. Iowa State, and safetylinebacker Rodney Ward of Bishop's. Only Gelinas is still with the team In the Canadian college portion of the draft, the Als didn't have a selection until the third round and wound up signing five of-fcheir choices.

With only the final cut July 17 to go. two are still around running back Charles McMann and defensive halfback Glen Leach Both are out of Wilfrid Laurier in Waterloo. "They're both hard working guys who have earned the respect of their teammates." coach Marv Levy noted last night. "They're coming along well and both are very definitely in the fight to make the roster." McMann. 25.

6-0. 200. couldn't be blamed if he didn't know which end is up. "He's basically a running back." Levy explained, but we've been using him everywhere but running back tight end. split end.

and wingback." One thing in Leach's favor is the position he plays defensive back. The Als are thin in Canadian secondary types, both as starters and as backups. Tony Proudfoot has one halfback spot nailed down and playing-coach Gene Gaines is at safety but at 38. the UCLA grad is not exactly looking ahead to his best days. The Als picked Leach in the fourth round, not considered a strong bargaining position.

But it didn't bother him at all '1 was surprised I was picked as early as 1 was." he said just after a stint the laundry room. "I onv played two years in college and really didn't have that much exposure." Leach, who graduated with a double major in Phys. Ed. and political science, didn't make the team his first year "I injured my ankle and I guess I just wasn't good enough to make the Bruins expect few rejections BOSTON (UPD Although the Boston Bruins have raised ticket prices cgain. they expect only a 10 per cent cancellation in season tickets.

Of the first 117 season ticket renewal forms the team has received, the Bruins reported 13 cancellations. The Bruins have a waiting list of about 2,000 for season tickets and -the teani said it would have no problem filling the vacancies. Th" increases for next season range from 50 cents to $2.50 per ticket. Last season, the Boston Garden was scaled for $105,266 per game, one of the lowest in the National Hockey League. Team president Paul Mooney said with the hew prices, the Garden will scale out at about $122,000, NOTICE TO ALL FISHERMEN Even in July, fishing is still good at "KAN A St.

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