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1fTnl I I 1 1 1 1 I 1( y- y-n--n 'f gu i "l1-1 1 I IT j-jyyvrTTTT; ij'bj kj u. 39 tktOQ Evening Globe Friday, March 22, 1974 I' Orr: Fifth hat trick, 30-goal total By Tom Fitzgerald Globe Staff It wasn't surprising that St Louis Blues were impressed or maybe a little dumbfounded by what the Bruins did to them last night For the third straight time they were shut out by Gilles Gilbert, and after a hesitant start, the Boston gunners unloaded to make it 7-0. "No "matter what anybody else thought," Coach Lou Angotti said. "I thought our team played fairly well. It was just a matter of mistakes.

You can get away with them against some teams, but not this one. With his own team fading farther away from any remote prospect of a play-off position, it was tough for Lou to contemplate the series which starts early next month. He faced up to it manfully, "It though would be hard not to go with them he said. "Like anybody else, they'll have to stay away from injuries, but they have everything going for them now good goaltending and good defense, and they can score goals by the bushel." That injury business Angotti mentioned already had made itself felt Early in the third period. Ken Hodge had to retire after another good game in which he scored his 47th.

The first word was Ken had a groin pull, and the severity of the injury will be determined some time today in an examination at Mass. General "We just have to hope it isn't too high up," said Coach Bep Guidolin. "At this time of the year, we don't want to take any chances, so I think we probably should keep him out of the next two games here (Atlanta, tomorrow night; Montreal Sunday night). Hodge himself wasn't really perturbed. "I think I probably could play Saturday," he said.

But as in all these situations, the last word on that will be left to the club doctors. To a great degree, this not always scintillating game was one of those Bobby Orr productions. The Wonder Worker from Parry Sound was whirling all over the place to score three goals. These accounted for the fifth hat trick of his career, and he also reached the 30-goal level for the fourth time. It came at an opportune time, too, as a kind of post-birthday cele- bration for Robert who was 26 on.

Wednesday. The other scorers were Hodge, Johnny Bucyk, Dave Forbes and Doa Marcotte. Forbes was part of some experimentation by Guidolin in a game that really was under control after Orr made it 2-0 in the second period. Davey managed one of those picture goals, like the kind that were specialties of Rocket Richard. The A.I.C.

alumnus whirled across the front of the net against replacement goalie Jim Watt and then finished off at Jim's right From any practical point of view, first place was wrapped up last night, even though nobody in the Boston room wanted to discuss it With this win, the Bruins built their total of 105 points. That shuts off the Rangers who have a maximum expectation of 103. The Cana-diens could finish with 105 by winning all their remaining games, but that is an academic matter because a tie for either team also would represent the clincher. Bobby Schmautz, who got a bruise on his foot when he was hit by a Sheppard slap shot in Wednesday's practice will be back in the lineup for the week-end games. --7 Y-1 i f.

4 It $V'J Warriors' ship hits iceberg Master at work. Bobby Orr had a three-goal night during Bruins' romp. (Dan Goshtigian photo) A man likes to come home to Black Velvet. BASEBALL ROUNDUP That smile Quilici wears courtesy of Oliva's bat SporTView JACK CRAIG Make no mistake, Cli. 56 helps self The quick way in which Ch.

56 obtained the BC-UConn NIT telecast last night is one more example of upward momentum of the station towards sports. It dovetails with the manner in which Ch. 56 also snapped up tomorrow's NCAA basketball doubleheader from Greensboro after Ch. 4 signed off to televise the Red Sox from Florida. Another example was the station's pickup of the Patriots-Bears game from Chicago last October when Ch.

4 was also locked in with the World Series. Eight years ago, under a management long since departed, Ch. 56 made the monumental mistake of choosing the Celtics over the Bruins when it was forced to pick one or the other. The error almost is understandable because top management was from other parts of the country and the Celtics were a great deal more heroic nationally than the loss-plagued Bruins. At that time present Bruins play-by-play announcer Fred Cusick, who worked for Ch.

56, told station brass a kid named Bobby Orr was coming up and could change the hockey picture locally. So what? The Celtics already had Bill Russell, the station reasoned. The Celtics in time faded as a TV product and Ch. 56 opted for the Whalers two years ago. Now it has just one more Whalers game to televise, next Thursday against Cleveland.

The station will not cover any of the playoff games of the Whalers. Advertising response, which was negligible before, is virtually non-existent now that the team is en route to Hartford. Present Ch. 56 GM Art Hook indicates interest in the Celtics again, detecting rising support for them. Ch.

56 could give the team the heavy coverage that Ch. 4 cannot, due to network programming in prime time. The Celtics pact with Ch. 4 expires after this season. Agency people who keep their eyes peeled for public service spots must have noticed the absence of them during the BC-UConn telecast last night.

If the 16 minutes of ads during the two hours sold at the regular rate, Ch. 56 grossed more than $10,000 last night, against costs that could hardly have exceeded $5000, a nice pay night. Another bonus was inclusion of some of the sponsors for the five minutes of local time for the NCAA telecast Ch. 56 will carry from 1 to 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Ch.

4 tried to recoup tomorrow's NBC feed of the basketball after being burned by protestors for scrubbing the quarterfinals for the Red Sox game. But Ch. 56 insisted on an exclusive deal with NBC when agreeing to take tomorrow's action. But Ch. 4 will carry the title game at 9 p.m.

Monday. Basketball enters its last big weekend, with competing doubleheaders tomorrow. The Ch. 56 and Ch. 10 action at 1 will begin with Marquette-Kansas, followed at about 3 o'clock by the heralded UCLA-North Carolina State game Unfortunately, the NIT semifinals on Ch.

7 tomorrow at the same time will place the BC-Utah game head-to-head with UCLA-NC State at 3 o'clock The first Ch. 7 telecast will be Purdue-Jacksonville. The NIT title game Sunday will be on Ch. 7 at 1 o'clock. A final basketball note, the NBA game will be blacked out again Sunday from Channels 7 and 12 in deference to the Celtics afternoon game at the Garden against Houston.

The Sox will be on Ch. 4 tomorrow at 1:30 vs. Detroit and the Bruins will be on Ch, 38 tomorrow and Sunday night at 7:30 vs. Atlanta and Montreal respectively Tennis will be on Ch. 2 tomorrow and Sunday at 2 o'clock, about four hours each day of live coverage of the American Airlines Tourney Golf is back, the Sea Pines Heritage Tourney on Ch.

4, tomorrow at 5, Sunday at 4:30 The Sunday NHL telecast on Ch. 4 at 2 o'clock will be St. Louis vs. Philadelphia Auto racing will be on Ch. 5 Sunday at 2, the Atlanta 500.

Associated Press OAKLAND The Golden State Warriors have an excuse, they're tired. "Everyone's tired when they're losing," Buffalo coach Jack Ramsay said with a marked lack of sympathy last night after his Braves 115-102 victory which seriously damaged the Warriors playoff chances. "The schedule has gotten to us. You could see that They just 'outquicked' us," losing coach Al Attles said. His team, in command of the Pacific Division race four days ago, has dropped three straight to fall 1 games behind Los Angeles.

The Lakers can clinch the only open playoff berth by winning their last three games, starting with the one tonight against Chicago. Smooth Canadian. The Astros won their third straight, 6-5, over the Braves in 12. Ex-Pirate Milt May singled home Tommy Helms with the winner; A tough sun caused havoc with the outfielders in the Royals' 10-9 victory over Pittsburgh; Lefty Al Downing (six shutout innings) and the Dodgers collared the Orioles, 3-2. Ex-Red Ross Grimsley took the loss.

still more snow up north Northern New England ski areas received a "spring" bonanza yesterday when a fast-moving storm dropped five to seven inches of snow on higher elevations. This served as frosting on the two feet or more deposited early in the week. VtlVIT tUNOIO CANADIAN WHISKY. SO PKOOr. WVOIfftD BY HEUBLEIN, HARTFORD, CONN, United Press International Somebody else may wind up manager of the year, but Frank Quilici has manager of the spring wrapped up.

Here's a guy whose ball club has won only two out of 15 games and maybe you'll never believe it, but somebody actually caught him smiling yesterday. One swing of the bat, Tony Oliva's bat, did it. All this ook place in Orlando, during the seventh inning of a ball game with the White Sox when Oliva, playing for the first time this season, not only broke a 5-5 tie, but also broke up the entire Twins' bench with one of those unbelievable eye-blinkers which finally stopped rattling around in the second deck of the Tangerine Bowl behind right field. Oliva's tape-measure job, coming with one on, powered the struggling Twins to a 7-6 win over the White Sox. In other games, Mike Garman (you know him) pitched a one-hitter over five innings in the Cardinals' 2-0 win over the Tigers; Tom Bradley limited the Indians to five hits in six innings as the Giants won 5-0.

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