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The Province 1984 55 athen tod if his way his two Oilers assistants Ted Green and John Muckler with him, as well as personnel director Barry Fraser and the entire Oilers' scouting operation. Former Winnipeg Jets' head coach Tom Watt will scout the European teams. The six-team tournament begins Sept. 1 and finishes in Edmonton on Sept. 18 or 20.

Along with Canada and the Soviets, Czechoslovakia, Sweden, the VS. and West Germany, replacing Finland, will participate. For the first time, the bulk of the tournament will be played in western Canada, with five and possibly six games in Edmonton, including the final two games of the best-of-three final and six in Calgary. Canadian Press MONTREAL Saying he wants to "put this country back where it belongs as far as hockey is concerned," Glen Sather of Edmonton Oilers officially took charge of Team Canada for the Canada Cup tournament yesterday. Sather, general manager and coach of the National Hockey League Stanley Cup champion Oilers, was named to a similar post with Team Canada.

Before taking the job, Sather set a dozen conditions to tournament chairman Alan Eagleson, one of which was: "If I take this job, you have to believe that we're going to win." With that in mind, Sather insisted on bringing ailHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllllllllllllllllllMIIIIIU I OWNER CAN SEE! I HOPE FOR PENS I News Services PITTSBURGH Edward DeBartolo Jr. said yesterday he expects the last-place Pittsburgh 1 Penguins to become a competitive hockey team within two years. DeBartolo, son of team chairman and presi-1 dent Edward J. DeBartolo spoke at a news conference moments before the NHL's top I draft pick, Mario Lemieux, pulled on his Pen-1 guins jersey bearing the number 66. The younger DeBartolo, owner of the NFL's San Francisco 49ers, said his family saw the i signing of Lemieux as "the greatest thing to 1 happen to this franchise since its inception." He contended an "excellent draft" this year would bring about the change in the Penguins, whose 16-58-6 record last season was the league's worst.

I Lemieux listened to one speaker after I I another extol his virtues, looking at his lunch- 1 GLEN SATHER takes charge aBUtocCxs' it en has wocCi to c3o cuii piaie ur sianng uuo me distance. NOTES New Jersey Devils and Chicago Black Hawks completed a three-player trade which sends defenceman Don Dietrich and forward Rich Preston to New Jersev for for-. Staff Reporter Perhaps it was coincidence that on the day the Vancouver Canucks announced the signing of goalie Frank Caprice, de-fenceman Andy Schliebener and left winger Jere Gillis the National Hockey League team also released its 1984-85 pre-season schedule. General manager Harry Neale yesterday signed all three to multi-year contracts, so their next task will be to show coach Bill LaForge they're talented enough to make the team during the 10-game pre-season schedule. The Canucks will play nine of their preseason games against Smythe Division opponents (three against Los Angeles and two each against Edmonton, Winnipeg and Calgary).

Three games will be played at Pacific Coliseum; Sept. 25 against Edmonton, Oct 5 vs Calgary and Oct 7 vs St. Louis. CANUCKS PRE SEASON SCHEDULE September Sat. 22 vs Los Angeles, at Victoria, 8 p.m.

Sun. 23 vs Los Angeles, at Duncan, 7 pjn. Tues. 25 vs Edmonton, Pacific Coliseum, 730 Fri. 28 at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Sun. 30 at Calgary 5 p.m. October Tues. 2 Edmonton, 630 p.m. Wed.

3 Winnipeg, at Victoria, 8 m. Thurs. 4 at Los Angeles, 730 p.m. Fri. 5 Calgary, Pacific Coliseum 730 pjn.

Sun. 7 St Louis, Pacific Coliseum 7 jn. ward Bob MacMillan. Montreal Canadiens goaltender Steve Penney has undergone ar- throscopic surgery for a sore right knee, but a I spokesman said doctors found nothing seri- ously wrong. aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii: Sports difficult to fathom sf The sports world is awash with' a number of amazing things, including John McEnroe.

Currently under fire by the British press the Daily Mirror said yesterday that "the plain truth about McEnroe is that he is a lout" tennis' No. 1 brat apparently believes there's a vast conspiracy against him. Just because last weekend in London he called an umpire a moron, told a spectator that "one of me is worth 40,000 of you," and scolded a referee and a supervisor because "you sit there like two bumps on a log, doing nothing," people somehow get the impression that he's petulant. But McEnroe put the whole misunderstanding in its proper perspective recently when, after a hassle with a group of French photographers, he said: "People boo for the sake of booing when they don't know what's going on. The photographers show a lack of respect for me.

People just deliberately try to provoke me. It's quite amazing." What can you expect, though, lout uh, John from a world that's so topsy-turvy that someone like John Tate can take himself seriously? If you're a boxing buff, you might remember Tate, who held the World Boxing Association heavyweight title briefly in 1979. Tate, who was knocked out by Mike Weaver earty in 1980, then kayoed by Canada's Trevor Berbick in his next fight, seemingly believes that fight fans just won't get a decent night's sleep until they see him in a ring again. Tate's manager Ace Miller says that his tiger spends all his time fishing and weighs 275 pounds 50 pounds over his fighting weight but modest John insists he's down to 257 pounds and will get into condition as soon as some promoter comes to his senses and offers him $1 million to do battle. Says Tate: "I'm the former heavyweight champion of the world.

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But one man's misfortune is another man's giggle, and a Baltimore savings and loan company has done a tongue-in-cheek commercial promoting its 24-hour automated teller machines. It shows a Mayflower moving van stopping at an automated teller in darkness and uniformed Colt lookalikes rushing out to make a quick withdrawal. The ad begins with the line: "When you need quick cash for those little unexpected last-minute trips The ad agency which created the commercial says the advertisement has received mostly a favorable response. Some die-hard Colt fans, though, have complained that the commercial makes light of a serious situation. "We've had a handful of fans who refuse to accept even a parody about the Colts," says the ad agency's art director.

Just because they've had an NFL team for 30 years or so and a carpetbagger named Robert Irs ay smuggles them out of town, some people get uptight No sense of humor at all. Isn't that amazing? Read Clancy Lorartger's views five times weekly. PEEPHOLES PINHINGES PATIO DOOR PIN LOCKS WINDOW LOCKS AUTO LIGHT SENSOR II CALL US TODAY FOR YOUR FREE IN THE HOME ESTIMATE iny ie'j.