The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 24

nyii i in 24 Boston Evening Globe Monday, May 3, 1978 I It all adds up pr Flyers 4 ym. mmyymyytmtyyn. i -yy i yy-yyf y-yy 2 mimmMmm- -mxm y-ryry i wymote iiii.nu)'. I1 By John Powers The call against Bruins' Mike Milbury (28) was for high sticking Gary Dornhocfcr of the Flyers, but there were people who thought it looked more like holding. (Frank O'Brien photg) Globe Staff II' The equation was out of whack.

In Stanley Cup algebraics, 1 2 is supposed to equal 3 4, or: somebody takes an early vacation. Things weren't adding up that way in Philadelphia last week, so a little balance work was necessary at the Garden last night. Somehow, 3 had to cancel out 1. "We got our home-ice advantage back," goalie Wayne Stephenson was saying, after the Flyers had crossed out the Bruins, 5-2. "That's what this game meant.

They beat us in Philly, something, we consider a cardinal sin. We had to go out and get that back." The numbers were against that, just as the numbers "nad been against Boston winning in the Spectrum. the Bruins had grabbed a game there shortly after Christmas, but the Flyers hadn't lost at home since 24 in a row, an NHL record. So, after the first game slipped away last week and the second almost did, Stephenson and friends came to Boston burdened by some heavy figures like two victories in 25 games at the Garden. The Flyers claimed they didn't think about the mathematics of it.

"We weren't a very good team until a few years ago," Bobby Clarke would shrug. "We were an expansion team." Now, they considered themselves equals. What worked for Boston in the Spectrum could work for Philadelphia in the Garden. Couldn't it? "We did to them what they did to us in the first game," said Bill Barber, whose goal with 49 seconds to play in the second period turned the tide. "We got on top of them and frustrated them." It was gadfly hockey, not at all the kind of cudgels-at-flve-paces stuff that seems to be people's conception of this rivalry.

If you thought this series was going to be something out of a Johnny Cash prison song, you went home unfulfilled. "The corners," Dave Schultz was saying. 'That's where it's going to be decided. Going into the corners and coming up with the puck. That's where the fighting is now.

Fighting? All we got were fat lips. All we got was punched in the face." So the Flyers played the kind of tight-checking, percentage hockey that you have to play when the equa- tion is going wrong. In a series like this, with two teams playing the same systems, packing equal muscle, good goaltending, and similar tenacity, lapses lead to losses, and one loss throws the balance in the other direction; "It's so close," Jim Watson was saying. "One shot jn that second game and we would have come up here down 2-0. Now, all of a sudden, it's 2-1 in our favor." Now, the arithmetic is simpler.

For Philadelphia, at worst, it is a best-of-three series, with home-ice advantage, no matter what happens here tomorrow. And for the Bruins, it' even blunter. Win game 4 or win all the rest. No quadratic equation there. 1 'Twice now' C.

I- 2' Ml Breakaway blues haunt Schmautz BOBBY SCHMAUTZ By Will McDonough Globe Staff You just don't flush such things out of your mind. Bobby Schmautz knows that he will have some agonizing thoughts until the Bruins get back at the Philadelphia Flyers tomorrow night in Boston Garden. "Twice now," said Schmautz, pulling on his socks after the Bruins were dumped, 5-2, by the Flyers last night. "Two breakaways in the last two games, and I miss them both." Go back a few days to the second game of the series when the Bruins could haue put the defending Stanley Cup champions on the ropes. They lead in the in nr, A if.

Vf i liillSIM I the ice, drew the puck to his backhand and fired. "I had him down," Schmautz said. "All I had to do was put the puck over him. I just didn't lift it up. If I did, the game was tied, and it might have changed after that." Maybe.

But realistically, the game developed just the way Philly would have wanted. They simply forechecked the Bruins to pieces in the third period, allowing Boston only four shots on net "We might have spent ourselves in the second period," said Bruins defense-man Gary Doak. "We were all over them and outshot them something like 15-10. It should have been more than 2-1." Almost all of the Bruins, including coach Don Cherry, felt they let the game get away in the final minute of the second period, when they were playing well and holding onto a 2-1 lead. Then, with their checking line (Andy Savard, Terry O'Reilly, Hank Nowak) on the ice against Philly's big offensive line of Bobby Clarke, Bill Barber and Reggie Leach, the game suddenly turned around.

The Bruins committed an unpardonable sin at this point, letting their defensive line get caught in its own end, allowing the Flyers to break out three on two, resulting in a Barber goal to tie it "We died at that point," said Cherry, "and I don't know why. It just seemed to take the steam out of us. Those things happen in sports." ejaes, one game to none, and were in a Jen-death overtime period when Sch- iJutz broke in alone on goalie Wayne had him beat and my skate caught Ji'4inething on the ice and I went down," 01 4 1. 1 ouuuauu, wuuse snui sua across me crease in front of the net. wide by about four inches.

Minutes later, the Flyers came back to win the contest. Last night, Philly had come from a 2-1 deficit into a 3-2 lead early in the third period. The Bruins were staggering and needed a boost. I Suddenly, Schmautz was in alone I again. This time, he didn't fall down.

He stayed on his skates, faked Stephenson to SporTView JACK CRAIG Derby cameras put you there Skepticism over the Kentucky Derby telecast consuming one hour for just two minutes of racing proved unwarranted Saturday when a whole series of pre and post-race brighteners sped the 60 minutes almost 'too quickly. Interviews, analysis and looks back to the past, along with ABC's 13 cameras placed strategically around the track almost surely left the 40 million-plus viewers at home better informed than the bettors at Churchill Downs. Even Howard Cosell proved palatable, either under network leash or restrained by the fact that he had arrived in Kentucky only that morning from his work on the Ali-Young telecast the prior night. Last year, in its debut covering the Derby, ABC's work was clouded by the miscue of Chic Anderson, who called the wrong winner, after which the network disowned his participation in the telecast. About the only complaint one could make about Saturday, with the benefit of hindsight and in danger of nitpicking, would be to wonder why expert analyst Johnny Sellers predicted that almost wire-to-wire winner Bold Forbes would have to charge from arrears.

This was contrary to the pre-race consensus. A week ago here a contrast was noted between the stellar play of Paul Westphal and stuttering Charlie Scott in the Suns' and Celtics' national TV games. Well, Scott got even and then some yesterday If one dares to look that far ahead, a Golden State-Celtic final series is even more appealing, after the which the Warriors fast-broke Phoenix in yesterday's second TV game TV analyst Mendy Rudolph and ref Richie Powers should not be invited to the same party, but the former offered a balanced description Powers' work yesterday listening to him once more spread the superlatives so freely again yesterday in the GS-Phoenix telecast, Jerry West may just be too nice to be a competent TV analyst. Reggie Jackson's sudden endorsement of the Orioles and the city of Baltimore during an interview Saturday before the rained out Baltimore-Oakland telecast was just a little too much There were three differentTV broadcast teams for Bruins-Flyers last night. In addition to the Ch.

38 duo, Don Earle and Gene Hart were covering for the Flyers, Marv Albert and Phil Esposito-for the NHL network Don Ruck, the NHL's main TV man, predicts that the league will be back on a US network within two years. "We're too good not to be on," he reasons. But mitigating against that is NBC's plan.JiO put college basketball on Sunday afternoons next ter, splitting its Saturday package. This will also cause trouble for the NBA, which hopes to renew its CBS package within two weeks. The NHL moves along sensibly in its Stanley Cup schedule thanks to freedom from network TV, whiclHs more than can be said for the NBA.

For instance, a col lision looms next Sunday when CBS has listed the second Celtics-Cavs game for 1.40 despite a 7 o'clock start that night by Bruins-Flyers. Something may have to give for the sake of the Garden change-over crew. And the fifth Celts-Cavs game will not be played until a week from Sunday in order to place it at the Garden, again for national TV. Jordan given 2 years in prison for cocaine sale conviction PROVIDENCE, R.I. New England Patriots offensive tackle Shelby Jordan today was sentenced to two years in prison for selling cocaine to a federal narcotics agent last summer.

Chief Judge Raymond J. Pattins of U.S. District -Court sentenced Jordan under the youth correctional act, which means he could be placed on parole at any time with the record of the conviction erased after two years on the recommendation of his probation officer. Jordan, calm and cool, said: "I know that I made a stupid mistake. I did this only as a favor and not lor money.

I am not a drug user, nor do I drink He said the arrest and court case created "a con- siderable amount of mental torture to my teammates, A or.o 1i i.iwuu A I. "I have before me a young man endowed wlta every gift a human being could hope for and yet he has commited a narcotics sale, a serious crime. There is' no excuse for what Mr. Jordan did," the judge said. "There are many young people watching tis case and what happens here today may reflect in their impression societal standards." I Stop one.

Wayne Stephenson turns back a Bruin bid. The Flyers' goalie had 26 saves in another strong performance. (Stan Grosfeld photo) Flyer scores turnaround goal Bruins get clipped by Barber There was no excuse this BRUINS Continued from Page 22 there was a moment of bright potential for the already saeeinff off. time." at me." Barber said. "I held up and rUmS' took the puck back.

Then I got off a It developed on one of those Ra- wrist shot that got by (Gilles) Gil- telle passes, not the feathery variety bert, although I couldn't tell where this time, though. It was a eood lone it beat him, A lot of the credit one that sent Bobby Schmautz bust- ing up through the center zone. After that the Bruins just ran out of threats while the Flyers got two more, one by Reggie Leach (another tip-in and his seventh goal in as many play-off games); the other by Tom Bladon with a clip high up under the cross bar behind Gilles Gilbert. The truth was, the Bruins looked as if they had run out of gas in those later stages, after expending so much in the lively but mostly unproductive second period, Joe Watson, one of the original Flyers and a one-time Bruin, de-fenseman had an idea along these lines. "I think it might have been tough, especially on their defense-men," Watson said.

"This is a small rink and the forwards keep penetrating, putting pressure on the de-fensemen. We may be better off cause we use six defensemen and they go mostly with four." SIyBm I I 1 "i i It was Schmautz vs Stephenson inevitably. And it would be a matter of judgment on whether Stephenson won or Schmautz lost. Schmautz faced up to his misadventure quite candidly. "When I got in on him, he was down and gone," Schmautz said.

"I kmade a move and got the puck pn my back-hand. I only had to get it up two or three feet, and I didn't. I don't know how he got it although they tell me he swept his right arm at the puck. Definitely there was no reason I couldn't get the puck up, especially because I don't have the big curve on my stick. It's really, more like the old straight blades." It was a second major frustration for Schmautz who had a big chance in the overtime period at Philadelphia last Thursday, only to fire wide.

"That was different," Schmautz said. "My skate caught in a rut just as I was shooting and I couldn't get should go to Dorny (Gary Dorn-hoefer) who made a helluva move getting in romt to give me a screen." The goal was scored at 19:11 of the second period, a vital point for later reflection. "It made a big difference to us, getting a goal like that in the last minute and going off the ice tied instead of behind, 2-1," Barber said with irrefutable logic. Barber's critic, Don Cherry, agreed with, him and used even stronger terms. "We died after that second goal," the Boston coach said.

"It is a cardinal rule, especially in the playoffs not to give up a goal in that last minute. And it was a very costly blunder for a guy to go by Barber and wave at him." There is reason to argue, of course, that the game was still redeemable after that and even after rookie Mel Bridgman put away a Larry Goodenough pass at 2:11 in the third period. Then, after only a short lapse, Well, Joe. But Don Mar-cotte, a good honest workman, believed the problem was a wider one. "Maybe we weren't ready." Mar-cotte said.

"And after we were ahead, 2-1, we got away from our own game. That meant they were getting some three-on-ones and four-on-twos. That hasn't happened to us for a long time." That's the bis one. Philadelphia's Mel Bridzman as third (and winning) goal nestles into net Frank O'Brien photo).