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FRIDAY Calgary Herald SECTION July 17, 1992 Comics D6 Business D7 Poster page D14 Editor: Tony McAuley 235-7377 MOLSON INDY 1L SI The last laugh may belong to Tracy 44 TV (, :1 f' SPORTSBEAT JAYS' PROFIT SLIDES Despite anticipation of another record attendance total in baseball's American League, Toronto Blue Jays' profits will plunge this season because of a significant increase in payroll, a leading investment dealer says. Burns Fry, in a research report, says the defending AL East champions should make about $5 million in 1992 before interest and taxes, down from a record $19 million last season. And the firm says profits likely will remain close to $5 million in '93, Page D2 COURSE DEFENCELESS Ray Floyd and Steve Pate made the most of their opportunities Thursday when mighty Muirfield turned mild in the absence of winds and offered itself to plunder. Pate, a wounded warrior in the Ryder Cup matches, and Floyd, the old man with the eagle eyes, compiled 7-under-par 64s on the vulnerable, suddenly defenceless links along the Firth of Forth and shared the first-round lead in golfs British Open at Gullane, Scotland. Page D3 GREAT SCOTT! Calgary Cannons stole Charles Scott from Tucson Toros a month ago in baseball's Pacific Coast League.

Based on the 28-year-old righthander's performance for Calgary, highlighted by a five-hit, 9-1 win Thursday afternoon over Vancouver Canadians at Foothills Stadium, it was quite a coup. Page D3 SCOREBOARD Football CANADIAN LEAGUE Calgary Stampeders 34 Hamilton Tiger-Cats 22 Toronto Argonauts 61 B.C. Lions 20 Ottawa Rough Riders 29 Winnipeg Blue Bombers 14 Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota Twins 7 Boston Red Sox 6 Kansas City Royals 3 Cleveland Indians 2 Texas Rangers 5 Baltimore Orioles 2 Chicago White Sox 5 Milwaukee Brewers 4 Toronto Blue Jays at Seattle Mariners Detroit Tigers at Oakland Athletics New York Yankees at California Angels NATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal Expos 7 San Diego Padres 4 Los Angeles Dodgers 7 Philadelphia Phillies 5 St. Louis Cardinals 5 Cincinnati Reds Pittsburgh Pirates 2 Chicago Cubs 1 San Francisco Giants 6 New York Mets 4 Atlanta Braves 4 Houston Astros 2 THIS DAY IN BASEBALL 1936 Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak, over two years with New York Giants, begins he beats Pittsburgh Pirates 6-0 on five hits. TVRADIO FRIDAY 7 p.m.

(TSN) Golf: Second round of British Open. 5:30 p.m. (TSN) Baseball: San Diego Padres at Montreal Expos. (WGN) Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh Pirates. 6 p.m.

(WSBK) Baseball: Boston Red Sox at Minnesota Twins. 6:30 p.m. (TBS) Baseball: Atlanta Braves at Houston Astros. 7:05 p.m. (1140-CFXX) Pacific Coast League baseball: Vancouver Canadians at Calgary Cannons.

8:30 p.m. (9-6, 24-16) Baseball: Toronto Blue Jays at Seattle Mariners. (WDIV) Baseball: Detroit Tigers at Oakland Athletics. mBmm iiliill 4 Frazer Dryden, Calgary Herald TORONTO (CP) Paul Tracy's in the driver's seat Rick Mears's seat, to be precise. When practice begins this morning for the Molson Indy, Tracy, the No.

3 man on the Team Penske pecking order, will be in the No. 1 car while Mears is sidelined with a sore wrist. It doesn't matter to the 23-year-old Toronto racer which car he drives. "They're just a different color," said Tracy, whose main job this year has been to test Penske's new V8B engine for Mears and teammate Emerson Fittipaldi for their '92 Chevys. "I used to drive the '91 car," said Tracy, a burly, bespectacled blond with short-cropped hair.

"I had a '92 car that was waiting for a '92 engine. We were just waiting for enough engines to go around." It was while subbing for Mears earlier this year that Tracy got his big break. When Mears got hurt in the Indianapolis 500 in May, Tracy took Mears's car and led the Detroit Grand Prix for 19 laps before pulling out of the race with a gearbox failure. How big a deal is leading a race for 19 laps? Well, in statistics kept by PPG IndyCar organizers, the 19 puts Tracy fourth in laps led on the season. Michael Andretti (618), Bobby Rahal (377) and Al Unser Jr.

(87) are the top three. By comparison, Scott Goodyear of Newmarket, who garnered a lot of attention with his second-place finish to Unser at the Indianapolis 500, has only led four laps this season. He has been on TV and radio shows and is going to write three columns for a Toronto newspaper over the weekend. The city even paid tribute to him Tuesday by declaring it Scott Goodyear Day, despite the fact he was back in Indianapolis at the time. Thursday, Goodyear was awarded the John F.

Bassett Award for contributions to Canadian motorsports. The award, announced by the Molson Indy Board of Trustees, was named in honor of John F. Bassett, who helped bring Indy-car racing to Canada. Tracy, who was present for the ceremony, got a "Oh, yeah, Paul Tracy is here, too," kind of introduction. He didn't get to make a speech.

Singer Donny Osmond did. Tracy, who signed autographs and spoke to his home-town friends afterward, joked with another driver, Teddy Prappas, about the attention Goodyear is getting. But it's Tracy, driving Penske's top car, who might get the last laugh. Tracy was snapped up in mid-1991 by Team Penske which was looking to fill the void created when Danny Sullivan bolted to join Unser on the Galles-Kraco team. "He's in a great position as far as being on a team like Penske's," said fellow driver Scott Pruett.

"He's got three of the best coaches in Mears, Fittipaldi and Penske. "You just have to spend time with them, listen to them. They're the perfect coaches." Tracy had dominated the Indy Lights series in 1990 he won nine of 14 races, including a victory in Toronto and was looking to move up and join the big names in the sport. He joined the IndyCar circuit in '91 with Dale Coyne Racing, but signed with Penske which offered him a chance to start in the Indianapolis 500 a big jump from the developmental series. "There's more horsepower," said Tracy.

"And the level of competition is just that much better. Getting a top five is really hard." Tracy, who's won at every level from go-karts to Can-Am to Formula 2000, said moving to the Indy Lights was the most important move of his career. The Lights are support races on the Indy circuit and gave him a chance to impress the big names in the sport. "You get to go all around the circuit and get to meet the guys every weekend," said Tracy. "And it's a tremendous opportunity to be in front of that crowd." There'll be about 150,000 that includes 60,000 on Sunday taking in the three days of the Molson Indy at Exhibition Place.

Saturday, the Player's Ltd. Atlantic and the GM-Motorsport races will be run, with the Indy Lights and Firestone Firehawk races preceding the big race on Sunday. NOSE FOR END ZONE: Keyvan Jenkins scores fourth touchdown of season, Calgary bounces Makarov happy to remain here beating John Motton along sideline Ticats the first quarter. Jenkins scored his fourth touchdown of the year, skirting right end for a seven-yard scoring play midway through the quarter. Mark McLoughlin later added a 39-yard field goal.

It was the Ticats, though, who scored first. A Corris Ervin interception snuffed out a promising Calgary march off the opening kickoff. He picked off a Flutie pass at the Hamilton 22 and, a couple of plays later, quarterback Damon Allen hit Ken Evraire on a 44-yard pass. That put the visitors in field-goal range and Paul Osbaldiston kicked one from the 37. The Ticats came out with a much better offence than expected.

It just had trouble getting into the end zone. OLYMPICS 'Gold' for Calgarian Calgary's Randy Gingera isn't even in Barcelona, but he already has won an Olympic prize. The 24-year-old member of Canada's national men's volleyball team won $3,000 in the art competition for Olympic athletes. Gingera's silk-screen print it featured a Bulgaria-United States volleyball match, with the pyramids in the background won the Puma Olympic Centennial Prize. "I had no idea that people would receive it that well," Gingera said from his hotel in Birmingham, England, where the team is playing in an international tournament.

"It makes the trip even more exciting now. Hopefully, things go as well on the court. "I don't want to seem like I don't appreciate this, but I'd trade it in anyday for a medal." The competition, which featured about 20 cash prizes of up to was to include works from American basketball star Patrick Ewing and tennis star Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. Calgary 34 Hamilton 22 By Murray Rauw (Herald writer) Disaster seemed only a footstep behind Calgary Stampeders all night. But the superior talent overcame the mistakes Thursday as Calgary pulled out a 34-22 victory over Hamilton Tiger-Cats in its Canadian Football League home opener before a crowd of 25,144 at McMahon Stadium.

As they left the field, it was apparent the Stamps would have to play much better than that to have a successful season. That won't be difficult. The key play in the game didn't come until 13:24 of the fourth quarter when Keyvan Jenkins burst 16 yards for his second touchdown of the game and fifth of the young season. FLAMES Roberts scoring 53 goals, just over $200,000. But there may be other NHL teams interested in Makarov's services.

Any could make an offer but, because Calgary has offered him a raise, it has a chance to match the offer. "He's not testing the open market," said Barnett. "There are one or two teams he would be interested in playing for but, at this point, his principal interest is to get a satisfactory contract in Calgary. He is fairly happy in Calgary. His son is in school there.

Right now, he is happy." To aquire Makarov, the Flames were required to pay the Soviet Ice Hockey Federation a transfer fee of about $350,000 over the last three years. Since that agreement has expired, combined with the political changes in the former Soviet Union, it is not clear whether the Flames will have to pay another transfer fee. In the NHL salary jungle, $200,000 is a pittance for Makarov, a strong playmaker and fan favorite. So, it would seem logical that, if the Flames don't have to pay a transfer fee to the Soviets, they could offer him some Calgary had entered the final quarter ahead by five points and the clubs exchanged field goals earlier in the quarter. It was the eighth straight time Calgary has beaten Hamilton, a streak that began in 1988.

With the win, Calgary improved its record to 2-0, while the Ticats dropped to 0-2. The first half fell well short of the crowd's expectations. Flutie's passing was on target, but the receivers were mistake prone. Even the receptions turned into fumbles or near fumbles. The vaunted passing attack didn't faze the Ticats, but the running of Key-van Jenkins and Flutie did some damage as Calgary surged to a 10-3 lead after more money.

General manager Doug Risebrough is on vacation for another week and Barnett expects to begin negotiations as soon as he returns. Two other Calgary free agents are in the same boat. Joel Otto and Gary Leeman have been offered raises of 15 per cent, again giving the Flames the right to match offers from other teams. Both Leeman and Otto could end up in the Patrick Division. Otto, a tough, checking centre, has often been mentioned in conjunction with Patrick teams looking for a shadow for Mark Messier, something Otto did when Messier was with Edmonton.

And there is a trickle of speculation that Philadelphia has interest in Leeman. The speculation is the Flyers want to try Leeman on a line with Eric Lindros, figuring that might help him find the enthusiasm to score 50 goals as he did two years ago with Toronto. ICING The Flames will open the preseason with a couple of tough games at the Saddledome when they play Montreal and Pittsburgh back-to-back on Sept. 18 and 19. The next night, they travel to Vancouver.

Other home dates are Sept. 22 (vs. Quebec) and Oct. 2 (vs. Edmonton).

Calgary is offering a raise of 15 per cent By Mike Board (Herald writer) Calgary Flames' Sergei Makarov couldn't be lured to Switzerland as was Igor Larionov, his former linemate on the powerhouse Soviet hockey teams. Makarov, 34, is happy in the National League and, for now, in Calgary. "He had the opportunity to go on the same package (to Switzerland as Larionov)," said Makarov's agent, Mike Barnett. "He chose not to. He wants to play in the NHL." Larionov, after three years in the NHL with Vancouver, signed a contract this week to play for Lugano in Switzerland.

On several occasions last season, he asked Calgary media if Makarov was considering going to Switzerland. Both players became free agents last month. Calgary has made Makarov one offer, a 15 per cent hike in his salary of $175,000. That would inch Makarov, who finished fourth last season in Flames' scoring with 70 points (22g 48a) and was a big reason for Gary.