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I 1 Vj The Citizen, Ottawa, Monday, November 15, 1982, Page 25t BllSinOSS Rip-roariMg Riders tame Ticats as Walker rums into record book Starkey sparks minor miracle who did a great job coming off the bench to spark the comeback, ran for another. "I can't believe a team can come back from 17-0 down with a running game especially in Cana-" dian football," said Hamilton cor-nerback David Shaw, The blocking of guard Val Belcher and Rudy Phillips was exception-: al, but tackle Kevin Powell played well and fullback Jim Reid was an imposing figure on the "It's very simple how Walker got" all those yards Ottawa's offensive line just whipped our defence they whipped the hell out of Ottawa 30 Hamilton 20 By Tom Casey Citizen ttafl writer HAMILTON The Rough Riders called it "controlled rage." In an amazing halftime session, Ottawa defensive line coach Joe Pascale told his players: "Calm down. We're over playing we're too anxious to win." At this stage, Riders were down 17-3 and it should have been more. But head coach George Brancato returned for the second half full of optimism. "For a while in the second quarter I thought we were out of it but after the last four minutes of the half and the intensity in the dressing room between halves I knew we could come back and win." Brancato said his offensive line tackled him at the interval.

"Hey, we can run against those guys. Let's run the ball," they said. And they ran the Tiger-Cats ragged, won 30-20 and advanced to next Sunday's sudden-death final in Toronto against the Argos. Skip Walker ran like no running back in Canadian Football League playoff history. He carried 30 times for 253 yards (the third highest total in CFL history) and 201 of those yards came in the second half.

Walker scored one touchdown and quarterback Kevin Starkey, j. 71'', i iurr i i Dave Sidaway, UPC disallowed touchdown Greg Marshall argues over Skip Walker leaves defenders us," said Hamilton coach Bud Riley in disgust. Riders were aroused by what they felt were two bad second-quarter calls. The first was a fumble by Hamilton quarterback Tom Clements, who was blasted from the blind side by Williams as he was poised to throw. The ball fell loose and veteran defensive end Jim Piaskoski recovered and ran 10 yards for a touchdown.

But referee Blair Shallow ruled Clements' arm was in the motion of throwing and called it an incomplete pass. Then Hamilton cornerback Leroy Paul wrestled the ball away from Ottawa wide receiver Carl Powell on a slow whistle for another Hamilton turnover. Riders were guilty of four turnovers in the first half but Hamilton managed to score only one touchdown. The score could have been 28-0 but the Ottawa defence played relentlessly and made Clements look bad. He was menaced by a vigorous pass rush.

Doug Seymour got a rare start at noseguard and was a factor. Deep back Ricky Barden, only 185 pounds, often lined up as a linebacker and was effective. John Glassford and Rick Sowieta played well. Clements fired a TD pass to Keith Baker in the second quarter and the rest of the Hamilton scoring came from the kicking of Bernie Ruoff. Hamilton managed only 200 yards total offence only 46 in the second half.

Starkey played like the seasoned pro despite little playing time this season. "He was the last guy we wanted to see come into the game," said Shaw. "Starkey is a better athlete than (Chris) Isaac. He moves better." Isaac had a brutal day no completions in five attempts and one first down in 26 mimutes of action. "I lost my confidence," said Isaac.

"I'm glad Kevin came in and did well. I think he should start the next game. He deserves the chance." Starkey completed eight of 13 passes for 136 yards and tossed one to Jim Reid for a major in the third quarter. Don Little accounted for almost half of his yardage with three catches for 67 yards. Ottawa's comeback was among the most dramatic in recent playoff history.

General manager Jake Dunlap summed it up. "They're a bunch of Raggedy Annes but they have a heart this big." field goal by J.T. Hay Winnipeg quarterback Dieter Brock fired two touchdown passes, 12 yards to newcomer James Murpy and five yards to fullback Dan Hu-clack. Brock was good on 13 of 22 pass attempts for 255 yards, while Dattilio completed 23 of 42 for 163 yards. boxer alive HAMILTON A sign in the airport, held aloft among several hundred fans greeting the victorious Rough Riders last night, read in part: "genius George does it again," and if Reggie Jackson is Mr.

October, then George Brancato has to be the Signore November of Canadian football. It was minor miracle time again yesterday and the underdog Riders, forced by injury to improvise a lineup, came from a 17-point deficit to stun the highly-regarded Ticats 30 to 20, and stretch the Tabby pelt to dry for the second year in a row. And, coaching imagination had a role, and we'll get to that. But, this one belongs to the players, and especially Kevin Starkey. It's true that Skip Walker set a CFL rushing record for a playoff game, 2S3 yards.

The old mark was 204, set by Saskatchewan's George Reed in Calgary in 1967. It is true, too, that Ottawa's offensive line simply blew the Ticats off the ball in the second half and made Walker's mileage possible. But then, it's also true that nothing was happening offensive-' ly for Ottawa, like nothing at all, until Starkey came on in relief of Chris Isaac in the second quarter. Under Starkey, everything galvanized and Ottawa came from behind 17 to 3 at the half to out-score Hamilton 27 to 3 in the second half. And there were no odd developments, as there were when Ottawa upset Hamilton last year with unlikely, long plays.

Starkey has been riding the bench for most of two years, taking the abuse quietly, maintaining his interest and morale and waiting. Last year in the semifinal, he came on in relief against Montreal and fired bombs to Jeff Avery and then Tony Gabriel to win the game. Last week, in a shabby outing by the Riders against Toronto, Starkey came on late in the game and made things happen. Yesterday, he came off the bench with three minutes, 44 seconds remaining in the first half and to that point, Chris Isaac had zero completions in five passes, and two interceptions and the offence looked indecisive and flabby in execution. In his first series, Starkey hit Carl Powell over the centre and Powell fumbled.

The second time he got the ball, he steered an attack 57 yards to the Hamilton six and set up a field goal, Ottawa's first points. That drive, and another thundering great blunder by the officials, this time refereee Blair Shallow of Beaconsfield, ignited the Ottawa players. On that bad call, Jack Williams fired in and Ktvin Starkey Pryor facing stimulant claim MIAMI (AP) Aaron Pryor's personal physican denied allegations Sunday the World Boxing Association junior welterweight champion used stimulants in his successful Friday title defence against Alexis Arguello. While Arguello's agent said a formal protest has been filed, Dr. Ronald Cheeks of Cincinnati dubbed the charges "ridiculous." "I can guarantee everyone in this room that there were no stimulants of any kind used in Mr.

Pryor's water or inhalation." Arguello, sporting stitched cuts around his left eye, told reporters he was beaten by "a great champion" and wouldn't question Pryor. But agent Bill Miller said the protest was filed with the WBA on behalf of his fighter, but without Arguello's consent It asks that the bout, won by Pryor with a 14th-rouod technical knockout, be declared no contest A V'; i Eddie MacCabe blasted QB Tom Clements just as he lifted his arm to throw. Jim Piaskoski picked up the ball on the bounce and went into the end zone for what should have been a major score. But the official ruled Clements had started his throwing motion even replays confirmed the impression that he had not and called it an incompleted pass. The Ottawa players were incensed.

"That call really got the guys hot," Brancato said, "and then when Starkey took them down-field for a score, even three points, just before the half, they knew they could move the ball. They knew they were back in the ball game." And they were indeed. The first time Starkey got the ball, he ran for 25 himself, gave it to Skip Walker for 11, then Walker for one yard, then a shot over centre and a great catch by Don Little to the 29 and then a nine-yard pass and crash by Jim Reid for the score to make it 17 to 10, and the Riders had the wind in their sails. Walker had a great day. Star-key said he had never seen him run harder, and he had never seen the line as tough.

So he kept giving it to him for the very sound reason: "I knew every time I gave him the ball, we'd make good yards." In one TD march in the last quarter, the muscular parade that buried the Ticats for this season, the Riders pounded 75 yards in 10 plays, all on the ground, eight of the trips by Skip Walker. So they rammed it at them and the front liners were absolutely bullying them. Kevin Powell, too long unrecognized by too many as a quality tackle, was burying people and gave Mike Walker a particularly unpleasant ride. Jim Reid was blasting the corner linebacker, Phillips and Belcher were swinging wide and setting up the freeway for Skip Walker. But Starkey was the engine.

The Ottawa defence had played well all afternoon and three times in the first quarter when Hamilton struck deep into Ottawa ground, they came out with three points, one point and then three points, and Brancato admitted later: "Without the great defence, they (the Ticats) could have come out with seven, seven and seven, and we'd have been blown out." Williams, Greg Marshall, Jim Piaskoski with a superlative effort, Bill Hardee calling the signals in the defence, the two Canadian linebackers, John Glassford and Rick Sowieta, Ricky Barden and so on had a very solid effort, from start to finish. But, until Starkey went in, the Riders were nowhere. Brancato, when pushed about next weekend's eastern final against Toronto, said: "Well, we'll have to look at it and think about it (starting Starkey), that's for sure." All the coaches said the difference between the first half yesterday, and the second half, was all in the execution. But all the preparation aside, this one belongs to Kevin Star-key, and the ball players. Ray Mancini watches as Duk III a Dave Sidaway.

UPC Hamilton end zone Bennett, Johnson run Calgary into ground groping as he waltzes into Calgary 24-3 in the Canadian Football League Western Division semifinal. Most of the praise was aimed at safety Paul Bennett and receiver Nate Johnson, who pulled the Bombers out of holes with long gains on punt and kickoff returns on a cold and windy afternoon. Bennett, who set a CFL career record for punt returns for total yardage this year, ran back seven punts for 116 yards. Johnson gained a total of 95 yards on one kickoff return and three punts, while adding 70 yards on two receptions. Gotta also praised the Winnipeg defence, which continually hounded quarterback Gerry Dattilio and held the Stampeders to only a 17-yard Machine keeps felled Winnipeg 24, Calgary 3 WINNIPEG (CP) Running back James Sykes of Calgary Stam-peders couldn't say enough about Winnipeg Blue Bombers' specialty teams Sunday.

Neither could Jack Gotta, coach and general manager of the Stam-peders, after the Bombers defeated Koo Kim lies unconscious after Si (i LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) Lightweight boxer Duk Koo Kim clung to life Sunday despite no sign of any brain function, while a distraught Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini attended an impromptu Mass to pray for the South Korean. "I pray for him and I ask the people of America and my family to pray for him," said Mancini, the World Boxing Association champion who knocked out Kim in the 14th UPI photo 14th round knockdown round Saturday with a vicious right hand to the left side of the face. Kim was being kept alive by life support machines in hospital, said neurologist Dr. Lonnie Hammar-gren.

There was no sign of any responsiveness," Hammargren said early Sunday. "What functions remain we don't know." Hammargren, who operated on Kim for nearly three hours Saturday night said the fighter had a blood clot on the entire right side of his brain. He said Kim, 23, took a turn for the worse during the night and indicated there was little hope for survival. Hammargren said it was "most probably the last blow' that tore a blood vessel in Kim's skull. Mancini said he was numbed by Kim's condition.

"I'm very saddened, very sorry it had to happen. It hurts bad to know you're a put of it" "I just hope people will under stand that in this profession it's one of the risks we take," Mancini "I didn't intend to hurt him." Mancini said his boxing future was uncertain. He was "going to have to sit down and seriously think about it" The 21-year-old champion said he was not thinking about retiring, but; was not thinking about fighting; again in the near future, either. Kim, the WBA's top-ranked con-! tender who received $20,000 for the: nationally televised fight at Caesars Palace, took a beating throughout' the scheduled 15-round bout but did not go down until Mancini caught him early in the 14th round. Kim struggled to his feet but' then fell unconscious to the Meanwhile, boxing promoter Bob Arum, who staged, the fight called for the suspension of professional boxing for.

a few months while a bhw-ribbon panel of medical experts studies the safety of fighters in the ring. A I i--.