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42 ThC Province Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1984 nrvi i a fl eaie reel warm an over AVAILAOU skates but keep their facemasks and gloves on while the other players just drop their sticks and skates," said LaForge, who met individually with every player yesterday and Sunday night. "I think there is a big difference between winning and losing and this is to show that there will be two different treatments for winning and losing this season." LaForge says there are probably "six or seven openings" for newcomers on the team's 20-man roster. OVERTIME Canucks yesterday hired former NHL defenceman Jack Mcllhargey, 32, as special assistant to the general manager. Mcllhargey, who played eight seasons with Philadelphia, Vancouver and Hartford, will handle special scouting assignments and public relations.

overall standings. Meanwhile, LaForge yesterday named Stan Smyl (Team Desire), Ron Delorme (Team Pride) and Doug Halward (Team Hustle) captains of the three training camp teams, which begin four days of play today in a round-robin tournament for the PHD (Pride, Hustle, Desire) Cup Friday night. The 49 players in camp are assigned to their specific team and whole training camp revolves around each team's games. LaForge, who is determined to instil a winning attitude on a team used to defeat, has declared that all losing teams must run in full hockey gear either one mile or put in five miles on the stationary bikes immediately after each game. "The goalies take off their pads and ond straight summer, Neale's biggest move was to bring in an enthusiastic, young coach, whom he hopes will kindle a fire in a team that hasn't had a winning season in nine years.

Neale also agrees he will be the scapegoat if the team doesn't live up to his expectations. "As a general manager you're always in the hot seat but especially after our overall performance last season," said Neale on the eve of today's opening of the Canucks' 15th training camp. "We underachieved as a team and with our point total last season and, with a new coach, if that happens again this year I'm the one that will get blamed." Neale feels the team is capable of "85 points and eighth or ninth place" in the By JACK KEATING Staff Reporter DUNCAN Harry Neale will definitely feel the heat this National Hockey League season. Whether it's warm praise of approval from a satisfied public or blasts of hot air from disgruntled fans depends primarily on how rookie coach Bill LaForge adapts to his new NHL surroundings. Neale, entering his third season as Canucks' general manager, realizes the team has faltered the last two seasons after miraculously reaching the Stanley Cup final in 1982.

The team has accumulated fewer points each season, going from 77 to 75 to 73. Unable to strike a major deal for the sec YT? Colts query claim Baker a gentleman i a- I -n v. ift-fMtr ii. i ivimir niiJi tr.HM.,r.Mi .1 M' 1 i a jy. fit i Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Colts asked the National Football League yesterday to investigate the conduct of St.

Louis Cardinals' Bubba Baker. Baker was assessed two personal fouls for hitting Colts' offensive tackle Jim Mills and linebacker Mike Humiston in Sunday's game. Baker, a 280-pound defensive end, squared off against Richmond native Mills and Humiston during a multi-player scuffle late in the second quarter. Humiston wound up with a cut and bruise under his left eye, while Mills received a bruise under his right eye. "I was trying to be a gentleman the whole game," Baker said after the Cardinals 34-33 victory.

"But I've got to defend myself. "They were trying to make me mad. I can't take this abuse. "I'm the kind of guy who pats guys on the butt. I asked them not to grab my facemask.

No. 76 (Mills) grabbed it and threw me on the ground and the referee didn't respond. No. 57 rt t- jr JIM MILLS bruised eye (Humiston), I don't know who that cartoon is." Baker said Humiston, who came off the Colts' sideline during the fight, gave him a "gut shot." "I'm not a coward," he said. "I'd rather be buried than lose face." Humiston said of Baker's conduct, "In the four years I've been in the game, that's probably the poorest display of professionalism I've seen." I I 4 A I i nft UPi photo Buffalo running back Greg Bell (28) picks up two yards for the Bills against Miami in Buffalo but Dolphins held on for 21-17 victory last night.

against Young because he is not under contract with any team. Fumbles are up 40 per cent in the Canadian Football League this year (187 after 1 1 weeks) and head coach Reuben Berry of Saskatchewan Roughriders and quarterback Joe Paopao are convinced the company that manufactures the balls is handing them a slippery product. Berry says he's filed a complaint to commissioner Doug Mitchell about the texture of the balls and Mitchell has assured him there'll be a review of the manufacturing process. Spalding Canada supplies the balls but they are now manufactured by a small business with Spalding equipment and some of the same personnel. News Services Dolphins 21 Bills 17 ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.

Dan Marino continued his early-season passing wizardry last night, throwing three touchdown passes as Miami Dolphins raced to an 18-point lead then held off a furious Buffalo rally to beat the winless Bills 21-17. It was a shaky third straight victory for the unbeaten Dolphins, who seemed on their way to a rout when Marino hit his third touchdown pass, a one-yarder to Nat Moore, with 10:27 gone in the third period of the National Football League game. But it was all Buffalo from then on. The Bills followed that touchdown with because cocaine showed up in their urine tests, a team official said. The Dolphins' official, who asked not to be identified, told several reporters the problem with Muncie's test was cocaine, not THC or tetrahydrocannabinol the active ingredient in marijuana as Muncie maintained.

The source also said Young's test revealed "heavy traces" of cocaine though Young said he doesn't use illegal drugs. NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle suspended Muncie, who became the property of the Chargers again when he flunked the physical, until he undergoes "a complete drug evaluation." The league won't take any action a one-yard plunge by Speedy Neal that made it 21-10, then closed to 21-17 on a 37-yard scoring pass on a fourth down and three situation from Joe Ferguson to Julius Dawkins with 920 left. It took Don McNeal's recovery of Byron Franklin's fumble on the Dolphin 31 to end a final threat with four minutes left. Marino completed 26 of 35 for 296 yards against a Buffalo defence forced by injury to use Gary Thompson, a second-year man making his first start in the NFL at left cornerback and Donald Wilson, a free-agent rookie making his second start at free safety. Chuck Muncie and Rickey Young failed their Dolphins' physicals last week.