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C2 EDMONTON JOURNAL, Saturday. February 23. 1980 mi i Pights break out in Flyers' 7-3 win iisiS! St 9:01 of the second period and deflated the Canucks' attack. The win was the Flyers' 12th in 16 starts in Vancouver where they have not lost since Oct 19, 1973. The victory also avenged the Flyers' only home loss of this campaign when the Canucks beat them 4-1 Feb.

7. Kris Manery and Per-Olov Brasar, on the power play, gave Vancouver a 2-0 lead after only 2:55 of the first period. Paul Holmgren and Al H01 pulled the Flyers even but Curt Fraser, with his fifth goal in his last four games, gave Vancouver a 3-2 lead heading into the second period. The Fryers, who lacked cohesiveness defensively in the first period, forechecked the Canucks into making mistakes in the second period when they took command of the game. Leach's two goals, which give him 40 for the season, were sandwiched around Clarke's shorthanded tally.

Mel Bridgman and Bob Daiky added goals 24 seconds apart early in the third period to wrap up the victory. The Canucks outshot Philadelphia 33-28 but failed to capitalize on several power-play advantages, particularly in the third period when they played most of the period with a man advantage. (CP) Reggie Leach scored two goals in the second period and assisted on Bobby Clarke's game-winning shorthanded marker to lead Philadelphia Flyers to a 7-3 victory over Vancouver Canucks Friday night in a National Hockey League game marred by a wild third-period brawL The fighting started at 14:30 of the period when all players on the ice threw punches. Flyer defenceman Frank Bathe ignited the brawl when he charged over the boards from the Flyers bench. i Vancouver backup goaltender Glen Hanlon quickly followed suit as fights broke out all over the ice in a melee that lasted IS minutes.

It took another 20 minutes for referee Bryan Lewis to sort out the penalties. Eight players from each team were given game misconducts. Vancouver delighted a sellout Pacific Coliseum crowd of 16,341 by taking a 3-2 lead after the first period, but the Flyers tightened up defensively after that, outchecking and outmuscling the confused Camicks. Clarke's shorthanded goal the Flyers 13dr of the season, made the score 4-3 at Rockies' goalie Bill McKenzie comes out to smother first-period breakaway bid by Brett Callighen Schmautz likely to rejoin Cherry Sports Lineup By JIM MATHESON DENVER Bobby Schmautz sat on the team bus admiring his new cowboy boots. "Slats (Coach Glen Sather) asked me what size they were," said Schmautz.

"Maybe he figures, I'm going to give them to him as a going-away present" It's no secret Schmautz probably won't be playing right wing for Edmonton Oilers next season The feisty 11-year National Hockey League veteran becomes a free agent on June 1. If you're a gambling man, bet he'U in here in Denver next faU with old buddy Don Cherry, his former coach with Boston Bruins. "We're probably as close as we could be," said Schmautz. "I thought of him as a friend." Cherry, who's never been at a loss for words on any subject, is strangely quiet about Schmautz. But Cherry doesn't want a legal hassle.

on the CCM line for the first time when Scn-mautz caught the flu Jan. 26, Chipperfield has seven goals and seven assists in 14 games. Schmautz barely got on the ice in Oilers 4-1 loss to Rangers in New York Wednesday. Sather would only say he's "not playing wen." He came to Oilers from the Bruins in December with 8 goals (14 points) and collected 16 goals and 29 points. Schmautz certainly isn't thrilled by the way things are going, either.

Bit it's a Catch-22 situation. Obviously, Schmautz feels he can't get more points while on a fourth-line. Sather says he wouldn't be on a fourth-line if he scored more. Schmautz probably won't be a spectator long. Oilers play his old club the Bruins Sunday in Edmonton.

"It would be tampering if I said I wanted Bobby," said Cherry. Schmautz jokingly made his feelings known Thursday at a workout He skated out wearing a Rockies' jersey. Even Sather laughed. But the Oiler coach had the last laugh Friday. He told the 34-year-old forward, who has 253 career goals, he wasn't playing against Cherry's gang.

Strange when you consider Schmatuz had two assists here Dec. 21 in a 5-4 Rockies' win. But not so strange when yoii look at how much ice time Schmautz has been getting lately. Until he sat out for the first time Friday, he'd been skating on a fourth line in the last 10 days. Captain Ron Chipperfield has taken his spot as right winger on the third unit with centre Mark Messier and Cam Connor.

"Chipperfield has just been playing better," said Sather. Since joining Messier and Connor Precision figure skating The novice and junior precision figure skating teams that will represent Alberta at the national championships March 1 in London, will present an exhibition at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Confederation Arena. Hockey 'Edmonton Oilers play host to Boston Bruins at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in a National Hockey League game at Northlands Coliseum.

Junior League play Sunday: Ardrossan at Enoch at 2:30 p.m.; Stony Flam at Fort Saskatchewan at 7 p.m. Finn goalie ready for new challenge Swimming The Alberta short course swimming championships win be held this weekend at the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre. The preliminaries win be today and Sunday at 9 a.m. The finals are at 5 p.m. both days.

Relays take place tonight. Several national team members, including Wendy Quirk, wiU compete. Mack Truck and Southgate Lions meet in Bantam AA division semi-finals play Friday at 8 p.m. at Confederation Arena. Alberta Junior League: At 8 tonight: Calgary Canucks at St.

Albert Saints; Sunday at 1:30 p.m., Canucks at Sherwood Park Crusaders. Americans Peter Amautoff and Mark Snell, last played for Finland during August, 1979, in a 0-0 draw with Denmark. about soccer yet They see a team a real team and say: to heU with it." When Alaja cleared customs Friday, he had but two questions: who won the Finland-Sweden hockey game, the latter was an assistant coach with DaUas Tornado in 1977, but turned it down at the time to accept a deal in Denmark. "The possibilities for training and playing were much better there than in Finland, where there are no professional teams," said Alaja, two seasons in Denmark before again hitting a deadend. Tobogganing Some 40 teams from 10 universities and technical schools in Western Canada are participating today in the NAIT-sponsored cement toboggan races at the Edmonton Ski Gub.

ABOMINABLE DUTCH AUCTION SALE Boxing The Alberta Silver Gloves championships at Spruce Grove Serplex this weekend wul attract more than 60 participants up to 17 years of age. Some 36 bouts are scheduled from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. today and from p.m. Sunday.

"When Timo talked to me last September, I had played two years quite well for jUMs IKAST in Denmark, and for and when will Oilers Finnish defenceman Risto Silta-nen be back in town? But how much does he know about Canada? "Quite a bit, I think," Alaja said. "But really, the reason I come here is because I knew Pierre Trudeau would make a comeback." Oops. A Trudeau fan. In Alberta? "Pierre, no," he grinned. "Margaret, yes." COLE'S NOTES Alaja, slated to be the No.

1 'keeper, ahead of Edmonton's John Baretta and Pertti Alaja By CAM COLE Pertti Alaja has had his Wl of' being a part-time writer of children's books, a freelance newspaper scribe and a foreign accounts officer with a Masters degree in economics. Some day, those things might be nice to fan back on. But Edmonton DriBers' new goalkeeper is here, now, because in North America it is possible to survive as a professional soccer player without having to moonlight as something else. Alaja, a week past his 28th birthday and hopeful of a new challenge in his soccer career, arrived from his native Finland on Friday night with a big, tired grin on his face and a good deal of enthusiasm for the coming North American Soccer League season. "It is, for me, a little adventure to come to North America now," said the 25-time Finnish international who was signed to a three-year contract by DrUlers coach Timo Liekoski late last year.

It's a little more than that, Squash The Tilden Edmonton Open Championships continue today and wrap "PprSunday with finals scheduled from 9 to noon. the national team. "But it was part-time. In Denmark, I must still work four or five hours a day in the bank. I thought I must come here if I want to become better." Broomball Edmonton Broomball Association games tonight at Parkland: Mayfield Inn vs.

Edmonton Police Department at 6.45, Leo Ladies vs. Dynamic Transport at 7:40, LH Lasers vs. Leo and Sons at 8:35. however for, like Dutch goalie Jan Endeman who was coming off an arm injury when he arrived last year, Alaja broke his wrist early last fall during a game in Denmark and has not played since. That is why he win be among the first European players at DriUers' pre-sea-son camp in Irvine, when he joins the team early next week.

Alaja who speaks English weU enough to make himself understood got his first offer to play in the NASL from Liekoski when Highlights on the tube I Much of his information on the NASL has come from countryman Kai Haaskivi, who starred for Liekoski at Houston last year. "I like what Timo tells me because he wants to build a team, not so many individualists. It is like playing for Finland. We are a team. "Of course, fans pay to see individualists.

But the fans don't know so much Fastball Necula of the Edmonton Major Men's vision win be starting indoor workouts shortly. Further information is available rom John at 462-225 1 Roadrunners second division men's 3eam seeks pitchers and outfielders for the CROWNWELL OILERS Senior A Fastball Club requires EQUIPMENT MANAGERTRAINER Phone: Don at 454-0226 SEE PAGES at The r.l Decker sets her third world record this month Ncrthgaie Entertainment Centre 13035-97 Street on Friday, Feb. 22 4 p.m. Midnight Journal News Services Mary Decker win not be going to Moscow this summer if the U.S. boycotts the Olympics.

But if she can't go she would at least like to have the consolation of setting the world record. That, she said, is her next goal. The 21-year-old California runner broke the 880 yard indoor world record with a time of 1:59.7 at a San Diego track meet Friday night Running virtually alone, she became the first woman ever to crack the two-minute barrier at that distance. It was the third world record she has broken this month, and one of two which fcU at the meet. Another record was tied.

Larry Myricks of Mississippi CoHege broke his own indoor record in the long jump when he leaped 27 feet, six inches. Kenya's Mike Boit tied the 880 yard indoor world record of 1 :47.9. The feature of the evening however was the men's mile which pitted Ireland's Eamonn Coghlan against Tanzania's Filbert Bayi. The race turned into a game of tactics which kept the time above world record levels. Bayi took the lead from the start and managed to hold off Coghlan and New Zealand's John Walker, who finished third, at the wire, coming in at 3:55.5.

It was the second straight loss for the Irishman, who had gone 15 straight indoor races without a loss, a string that lasted three years. Saturday. Feb. 23 Noon Midnight Sponsored by POUSH COMBATANTS ASSN. Br.

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