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91 FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1986 The Record BUSINESS Comics B-6 Real Estate Religion WeeEsefiM Extra Fans salute Pelle with, one last start By Sherry Ross Staff Writer HE EULOGIES have been delivered, the somber memorial services are long over, but National Hockey great goaltender. I think if he had lived, he'd still be the No. 1 goalie in the league. It's right that the people voted for him." Had Lindbergh been just an average goalie, there would have been no groundswell of public support. But the Swede led the Flyers to the Stanley Cup finals last season, in which Philadelphia was beaten by Edmonton.

Lindbergh won the Ve-zina Trophy as the NHL's best goalie, posting a league-leading 40 wins. He was second in the NHL in save percentage (.899) and third in goals-against average (3.02). Before his death, Lindbergh had shown every indication that this season, his fourth in the NHL, would have been as good as the previous one. Lindbergh had a 6-2-0 record with a 2.88 goals-against average and an .884 save percentage. See PELLE, Page C-5 when his Porsche sports car spun out of control and crashed into a wall in an early-morning accident Nov.

10 in South Jersey. His family decided several days later to remove him from life-support systems. Lindbergh was 26 years old. Voting was underway when the tragedy occurred, and Lindbergh led at the first tabulation. Despite his death, the votes continued in his favor.

When voting ended for the All-Star Game in early January, Lindbergh led Quebec's Mario Gosselin by more than 15,000 votes (134,982 to "I called it in Quebec when he died," said runner-up Gosselin, who will assume the starting role for the Wales Conference. "I thought the fans would vote for him. "The way he played last year in the playoffs and at the start of the season, he showed he's a really League fans will not let the memory of Philadelphia's Pelle Lindbergh die. In a gesture unprecedented in professional sports, fans throughout North America voted the late Flyers goalie to the starting spot for the Wales Conference in Tuesday's All-Star Game in Hartford. This is the first year that fans have voted for the hockey all-stars, and this is one from the heart.

"It's a great honor for Pelle and his family," said Philadelphia de-f enseman Mark Howe. "I'm not surprised by it. It shows that people know how much he meant to this hockey team." Lindbergh was fatally injured File photos Hockey fans have honored the memory of Pelle Lindbergh, the late Flyer goalie. Games take a hack seat to drugs or something I'd recommend, that's something else," Fehr said. "But who am I to tell the players what they can or can't do with their doctor? It's not the Orioles' plan, and it shouldn't be called that.

The Orioles are involved only because it's their players." Yet it was the Orioles who announced the program yesterday morning at a news conference in Baltimore, and the Orioles who will be paying for it. If it works according to plan, they will become the first team in Major League Baseball to undergo routine spot checks for drugs. Fehr and Baltimore general manager Hank Peters said the program was confidential. Peters said he won't even know when players are being tested. Peters said he would know about a problem only if a player had to See ORIOLES, Page C-4 :26 Orioles agree to join i baseball's first program By Richard Justice The Washington Post Donald Fehr, executive director of the Major League Players Association, said yesterday that he did not oppose the Baltimore Orioles' new drug-testing program, because "it's something the players have done themselves." But Fehr stopped short of endorsing the program and emphasized that he would not endorse it.

"If you're asking me if it's something I'd do myself Two of those five players who tested positively for marijuana said they had taken the drug only once during the year and were not even occasional users of the drug, Nicholi said. All seven players, who were not identified in the statement, had been drug-free for several weeks, or, in some cases, the entire season, he said. Each player tested "absolutely free of any drug" for the Patriots' 46-10 loss to the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XX, he said. Nicholi said the Patriots' drug problem is "almost negligible," strongly disputing published reports in the Boston Globe that "a major drug abuse problem" existed on the team. After being confronted with six names by the Globe See PATRIOTS, Page C-4 Patriots tested clean during Super Bowl week By Christine Brennan The Washington Post Seven New England Patriots who admitted using drugs were tested by the team during the past season, but all tested drug-free during the week of the Super Bowl, Dr.

Armand Nicholi, the team psychiatrist, said yesterday in a statement released by the team. Nicholi said test results during the season showed that two players tested positively for cocaine and marijuana and five players tested positively for marijuana. ionics iin Nets under the weather By Dave D'Alessandro Staff Writer EAST RUTHERFORD Welcome to the Byrne Arena Infirmary. Tonight's guests are the Seattle SuperSonics, a team with a style as appetizing as an intravenous solution. Take your seat and please remain quiet.

Pillows will be provided upon request. Tonight's concession-stand special is Novocaine Soup. All in all, as you can see, it's a great night for a pharmacists convention. If those good folks are looking for willing patients, they should try the Nets, a team so wiped out by the flu, it literally should have stayed in bed. Tar Heels can 't click at Virginia From The Record's wire services CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.

University of Virginia basketball coach Terry Holland knew top-ranked and undefeated North Carolina, down by 13 points at halftime last night, would make a run at his team in the second half. What he didn't know was whether his Cavaliers stand up to the pressure. Virginia 86, North Carolina 73 "If you're ahead like that, it's easy to lose your aggressiveness," Holland said. "But we went hard to the ball, turned and looked for the open man, and attacked their pressure. Virginia withstood a Tar Heel surge in the second half and cruised to an 86-73 Atlantic Coast Conference victory.

The Cavaliers broke a seven-game losing streak against the Tar Heels dating to 1982. "It was a great team effort and we're deliriously happy," said Holland, whose team improved to 14-5 overall, 4-3 in the ACC. "We played hard. But I'd like to think we didn't put our whole season out on the floor tonight." Olden Polynicc scored 19 points to lead six Virginia players in double figures. John Johnson added 13, Mel Kennedy and Richard Morgan 12 apiece, and Tom Shcchey and Tom Calloway 11.

North Carolina coach Dean Smith said the key was rebounding. Virginia held a 44-31 advantage on the boards, including 21 offensive rebounds. "I know they had 14 points on offensive rebounds in the first half, and they went hard to the boards the whole game," Smith said. "Terry had them well-prepared and they were waiting for us. Maybe wc weren't ready for them.

Or maybe we were prepared and they just beat us." North Carolina, losing for the first time after 21 straight wins and falling to 5-1 in the ACC, was led by Brad Daugherty's 21 points. Kenny Smith added 20 and Steve Hale 14. See TAR HEELS, Page C-3 Sonics 89, Nets 82 run against, good day to stay in bed. New Jersey shot 37-percent and scored the fewest points since a 79-point output in 1979 the bad ol' days, when performances like this were a way of life. The Nets fell behind by 10 in the second period, by 13 in the third, and trimmed the Sonic lead to 86-78 with two minutes left before deciding that the only fast break they should make was to bed.

Darryl Dawkins, an outpatient in this sickly scene, had just one shot, coming with three minutes left. The best defensive team in the league used its slowdown tactics, broke the Net press late in the game, closed off every pass lane into the paint, and rarely failed to make the defensive transition. "They did a real good job shutting our big people down," said Buck Williams, whose scoring slump, which peaked during the recent five-game, seven-day road trip, continued with nine points on 3-of- See SONICS, Page C-5 No, Otis Birdsong and Bobby Cat-tage are not here: They stayed home. Yes, that's Mickey Johnson and Albert King you see jumping as if they are wearing cement suits. Notice how elegant Darwin Cook and Kelvin Ransey look hoisting jump shots with 10-pound bracelets attached to their wrists.

"Everyone," said Net coach Dave Wohl, "seems to have caught the flu bug at the same time. Everyone is struggling with it." Struggling? Actually, New Jersey provided a new meaning to the term "lethargic" in last night's 89-82 loss to Seattle. "I've got the blahs like never before," said Ransey, whose missed his only four shots and turned the ball over three times in 11 minutes, "I've got a pile of bricks on my back," said Cook, who shot 1-for-ll. "Running in sand with combat boots on." "Never did I ever see so many guys flat at once," said Micheal Ray Richardson. Sick team, resulting in a sick performance.

Bad opponent to try to Sl I 1 mm-vr, JT .7: -II 4 fi Stall photo by Robert S. Townsend Buck Williams of the Nets loses Ids fooling in a run at Seattle's Jack Sikma. fVlOrC Minnesota, playing its first basketball Alex English puts on a one-man show In Cliff lcU Park, Holy Angels, and Glen Cl tffcfvtf game since three were char9ed Denver, scoring 39 points to carry the Rock win first-round games in the Bergen fQOi with rape, surprises Ohio State. C3 Nuggets past the Knicks. CS girls basketball tournament.

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