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All quiet on Canuck front had intended on using his bench more in the New York game, but when he wasn't able to get people like Paulin Bordeleau and Richard Lem-ieux into the game in the first period he was reluctant' to send them out later. "When I was playing I knew how tough it was to go if you didn't get enough ice time in the first period to work up a sweat." said Maloney. He said that in Saturday's game he was about to send defencemen Dennis Kearns and Gregg Boddy into action in the second period, but at that point Islanders began dominating the play and he didn't feel it was fair to send Kearns and Boddy in at that time. Maloney said he hadn't made up his mind who would play goal in Oakland. "I'll look at Gary Smith in practice today and talk with him later to find out how he is," said Maloney.

"I've no complaint with Ed Dyck, and I want to give Gary as much time as he needs to come back. If he can't stop as many of my shots as I think he should then he's in trouble." Maloney later met ith special assignment scout Larry Regan and club president SPORTS SECTION Coley Hall, but the Canuck G.M. said he didn't expect any trade developments at the moment. "I've been here for two weeks and I think I can now assess our players. I'm not disenchanted with anyone on the hockey club, but we've still got a long way to go." Tuesday, February 5, 1974 11 By TOM WATT At any other time the serenity around the Vancouver Canuck offices Monday might have indicated a calm before the storm.

But, things were apparently as quiet as tliey seemed. Coach and general manager Phil Maloney says he prefers the Canucks' performance on the ice to indicate the atmosphere around the Pacific Coliseum between games. Following Vancouver's 2-2 tie against New York Islanders here Saturday a decision that extended Canucks unbeaten string to three one would imagine spirits to be high. They are to a degree. "You might have noticed there wasn't a lot of laughing or gagging around by me during the practice," said Maloney.

"I don't think a tie at home is anything to get too happy about. In fact, I don't want anybody to be too happy as long as we're in eighth place." Canucks leave for Oakland today where they play California Golden Seals Wednesday night. Canucks have two 3-2 wins over Seals this season. No matter how they do there they will still be in last place in the National Hockey League's Eastern Division, since they trail Islanders by seven points. Maloney said he will take all his players to Oakland, with the exception of Bobby Lalonde.

who is coming off an injury, and Bryan MeShef-frey. The Canuck coach said he OILERS HERE TONIGHT LaPierre joins Blazers 7) if I will be out for sevea days with a badly bruised knee, suffered against Chicago Cougars last Wednesday. Blazers will siart Peter Donnelley in goal while the Oilers will likely'counter with Chris Worthy. Edmonton coach Brian Shaw will be without Steve Carlyle (bad knee) and Ed Joyal (broken wrist) for tonight's game. "Every time we come into the Coliseum we're complacent," said Shaw.

"But this time we'll be serious. The Blazers really have a good club and we haven't, been doing' too well against teams in our own division." ICE CHIPS In seven meetings between the clubs this season, Edmonton holds a 4-3 advantage. Eddie Ha-toum, released Saturday, is still looking for employment with a hockey club somewhere. The WHA will hold a business and expansion meeting for general managers and coaches Monday and Tuesday in Chicago. Blazers GM Phil Watson will attend.

Despite the problems the Vancouver Blazers have had this season, coach Andy Bathgate hasn't lost his sense of humor. "You need a miner's helmet to find out where we are in the standing these days," Bathgate joked Monday after putting his club through an hour of calisthenics and a 90-minute skate in preparation for tonight's game at the Pacific Coliseum against Edmonton Oilers. You don't realiy reed a miner's helmet to find out that the Blazers are in last place in the West Division of the World Hockey Association, with 38'points. 11 behind the fourth place Minnesota Fighting Saints, who hold down the last playoff berth. That fact hardly has Bathgate laughing.

"I'm still looking for some-better team work," said. "But you know, you get so impatient after I still feel we can put something to-g and make those playoffs but we have a rough schedule coming up." After tonight's game, the Blazers play the next three of (Uordon Croucner pnoto) Cocktail waitress Diane Lee shows off new Vancouver Whitecaps insignia to team's first capture, Clen Johnson. 'DIVE' DENIED BY BATHGATE Whitecaps the name, soccer's their game By JACK LEONARD Coach Andy Bathgate of the "I remember the game," Whitehead YANGOUVER 1YHITEGAPS their four games at home. But after that, it's a brutal grind. Starting Thursday, Feb.

21 in Chicago, they'll- be on the road for 12 days, playing seven games. Bathgate also gave warning to those players who "haven't got pride in what they do. If they don't, they might as well try doing something else. I can always get guys up here who are hungry and want to win." One of those "hungry" newcomers is centre Camille La-Pierre, who arrived from Roanoke, Monday just in time to catch the latter part of practice at the Coliseum. LaPierre, a five-foot-ten-inch .160 pounder, has been scoring at a convincing clip at the Blazers' Southern Leeague the Blazeds' Southern League season with the Roanoke Rebels he has 44 goals and 39 assists for a league-leading 83 points.

These totals include six hat-tricks and four short- said Bathgate, "We lost it And I remember saying to my wife and family later that there was something phoney about it. But there's so much politics over there you never know what's going on. "There's so much hatred among teams there they'll do anything. In this particular game it didn't make any sense though, because the game had no bearing on the playoffs. (It was a round-robin, total-goal playoff.) "Not knowing the language, I has some difficulties.

All I know is that I was over there to play to the best of my ability. If my club threw a game, I didn't know about it." Vancouver Blazers Monday, night denied allegations from some amateur hockey players in Switzerland, that he was allegedly involved in the throwing of a playoff game while acting as playing coach of the Ambris there two years ago. "I have never thrown a hockey game in my life," said Bathgate. 'T can't understand this. If they were throwing games.

I had no idea. I couldn't even speak the language. How would I know?" Tne Ambris club, leading its division, allegedly threw a game to the Sierre club of Switzerland in the playoffs. was abandoned because we didn't feel the name White-caps could be improved upon." BRIEFLY Woosnam announced Monday that the NASL's most valuable player, Warren Archibald of Miami and rookie of the year Kyle Rote Jr. had been named to the All-Star team to meet Moscow's Red Army squad in an indoor game at Maple Leaf Gardens" Feb.

7 Norm Sutherland, former general manager of the Washington Darts and Miami Gatos has been named g.m. of the new Denver franchise in the NASL. Ken Bracewell, former general manager-coach of the Atlanta Apollos will be the coach fifteen teams will play in the league this season Toronto, New York, Boston and Rochester in the North; Philadelphia, Miami, Baltimore and Washington in the East; Dallas, Denver and St. -Louis in the Central; and San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle and Vancouver in the West. By JEFF CROSS Laugh if you want, but the latest game in town is being played by the Vancouver Whitecaps.

"Whitecaps" is the name that has been hung on the newest prolessional sport franchise in the city the team that will compete in the North American Soccer League this The Whitecaps, who also announced first playa signing Monday, will kickoff. their NASL venture here on May 4 against San Francisco. The remainder of their league commitments will be finalized later this week when commissioner Phil Woosnam puts his seal of approval of the 1974 schedule. First player to be signed by the new Vancouver team is striker Glen Johnson, the sturdy 23-year-old local product who played 10 games for West Bromwich Albion in England's First Division during his British career of 1969-72. Johnson was introduced to a press conference Monday as "the only Canadian to Dlay the English First Division" not strictlv correct, but near THINKING ABOUT LAUNDRY? THINK ABOUT particularly in places like San Francisco," he said.

With regard to the new team name, Veitch explained that it was synonymous with British Columbia and particularly Vancouver "a name that conjures up visions of snowcapped mountains whitecapped waves." "We considered holding a name-the-team contest," said Veitch. "But while we wanted community involvement, we felt we had the name we were looking for. The contest idea handed goals. Bathgate plans to spot LaPierre on the power play and penalty killing "to see what he can do." Otherwise, he is going to shift Danny Lawson back at centre. Lawson needs just three more goals to become the WHA's first 100-goal scorer.

He, had 61 goals with Blazers last season. Left winger Mike Chernoff DEPENDABILITY FROM Y. FRANKS! fa CROWN TIRE SERVICE TAIII RADIAL TIRE CENTRE I VVI RADIAL TIRES What do these qualities mean to you? NANDI, Fiji Well, here we are heading back a distance of 8.000 miles from the playfields of Christchurch and back to the saga of the Vancouver Canucks and other such stirring chronicles of our times. The song has ended but the melody lingers on as the epic moments of the 10th Commonwealth Games glow even brighter in retrospect. That 1,500 metres run won by Tanzania's Filbert Bayi is the classic example.

Proper critical appreciation of that jewel of a race in which both Bayi and New Zealander John Walker smashed the seven-year-old world record of Jim Ryun can be likened to that of an oil painting by one of the great masters. 1 One must step well back for a measured second look before its full genius comes into focus. Much of the true clinical measure of that run in New Zealand last Saturday, that must go down as one of the most remarkable in history, was lost in the blur of action and the attendant emotion of an event that whirled by in an historic space of just a flash over three and one-half minutes. Much of the impact of the marvellous race was lost to our part of the world because of the conversion of the onetime mile run irom the linear to the metric standard. In major international competition, the 1.500 metres, not the mile run, is king, and values are lost or at least misplaced in the mental transition.

But now, especially for the folks of Vancouver who became emotionally involved in another classic running event nearly 20 years ago, let's put it this way: That 3:32.2 time by Bayi over 1,500 metres is the metric equivalent of a 3:49 mile. A mile in In Empire Stadium that Saturday afternoon of Aug. 7, 1954 when John Landy and Roger Bannister duelled in what was up to that time the greatest footrace in history, Bannister won in a then stunning time of 3:58.8. Had Bannister been hi that race last Saturday in Christ-church and clocked the same time, he would have finished 75 yards behind the winner. He would barely have just rounded the last turn into the stretch as Bayi, with John Walker on his heels, snapped the tape at the finish line.

Had you suggested such an eventuality that afternoon in Empire Stadium, you would have been led firmly off the premises by a squad of men in white coats. Bannister, now Dr. Bannister, saw that race on Saturday, and was queried as to his reactions as he left the stadium. Roger, a low-key fellow, had. a one-word critique: "Incredible." Said he, speaking from a wealth of knowledge as a student of physiology and the absorbing conundrum of man's limitations in athletics: "I had set my estimate of the outer limits of human performance over the mile distance at 3:45.

After today, I'm ready to re-assess. Bayi made his run look easy, and he has not yet reached a miler's full maturity. And the New Zealand fellow (Walker) looks nearly as good. The best of them all is probably today's third place finisher. Kenya's Ben Jipcho.

He may have just run himself out earlier this week winning the 5.000 metres and the steeplechase. This seems to be a whole new breed." The next day Sunday at the Christchurch airport, another doctor and one-time international runner. Dr. Doug Clement of Richmond had further to say on the fascinating subject of the human limits. Clement too is a highly regarded expert on the relatively the '50's was enroute with his wife to Sydney, Australia, for the World Congress for Sports Medicine, which Bannister will also attend.

Clement too is highly regarded expert on the relatively new science of sports medicine, and will deliver a special paper on the subject in Sydney. Said he of the future of the 1,500 metres: "Yesterday, Bayi ran the equivalent of four quarter times of 53 seconds. One day soon somebody is sure to run four 50's. That would produce the equivalent of a 3:40 mile." Curiously, as Clement was speaking Bayi himself was striding through the airport lounge that was jammed with people homeward bound after the games. He and three other members of the small Tanzanian team were headed for the milk bar.

Dressed in high-heeled western mod shooes, checked slacks and wearing a knitted red cap with a black tassle on top. the youth who just 18 hours before had been acclaimed by 35,000 fans in Queen Stadium as the hero of the Games, went totally unrecognized by the mob in the terminal. He und his buddies each bought a 10 cent ice cream trumpet we call it a cone and sat down to wait for their overdue flight to Africa via Singapore. It was a humble exit for a hero, but this young Tanzanian had left his mark in the record books and it was a shocker that cracked open a whole new kettle of conjecture as to running limts. 1.

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