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i 1 i a Sports Pages 18-23 ginmiiiuiuiiiuiiiiiuiuiiuMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiuiniiinuiiiuiiiiuuiiiuiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiig I Oldtimers to be honored I VST" Lots of not enough players 1 by Eddie MacCabe I dresses for Hamilton, would have to be scratched. "It's a definite possibility right now that Marv Alle-mang will play defensive tackle against Hamilton," assistant coach Tom Dlmi-troff said. "But really no one will know until Saturday exactly what our lineup will be." The coaches desperately want to give Tom Clements a day off and they may have to do just that. It looks now as if Holloway will likely start with Robinson in the backup the Montreal game and the ticket shortage etc. the following week and with the possibility Riders wlU be minus an import along the defensive line and at quar- terback, and with Hamilton coming on a bit you have to wonder If this isn't being dls- missed as an automatic win for Ottawa.

From the crowd response at the ticket office It would seem that way. Bombers add three WINNIPEG (CP) Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the by the National Football League, who could play there. But that presents other, problems. If Riders' dress Calgle Sunday (he was really Invited for next season's potential) then they'd have to cut an Import the following week who had been on their roster for two full games. Put simply, if Raines can't play Sunday, and right now it doesn't appear he should risk It, then to play against Als in the Olympic Stadium CFL OPENER, SOMEONE OTHER THAN Calgle, if he role but the reverse could be truei Tigers should come in clawing and bead coach George Brancato has expressed alarm over the attention being given the game In Montreal the following week.

Everyone It seems is taking the Tigers lightly, perhaps with some justification. In their four pre-season games and their first two of their regular schedule even Hamilton couldn't have taken themselves seriously. But with all the talk about Alsr Bob Geary claims Clai ir crying over nothing' There's a distinct possibility Ottawa Rough Riders will play one Import short, maybe two, when they meet Hamilton Tigers at Lansdowne Park Sunday afternoon. Kick-off time is 2 o'clock. But team officials ask fans to be there 15 minutes early as it is the 100th anniversary of the club and all former Rough Riders are to be honored.

Silver Quilty, 86, and believed to be the oldest living member of former Ottawa teams, will cut the cake. All former players are invited to phone Scott McLel-land at 235-9827 for further Information. Meanwhile Ottawa's thin troops went through a lengthy workout at Carleton University field Thursday. Riders are on a day-to-day lineup now and won't really know until Sunday just who'll play and who won't. Tom Clements took the protective cast off his injured thumb early in the workout but was uncomfortable and the coaches ordered him to put it back on and he stood and watched the remainder of the practise.

Condredge Holloway participated and while his ankle is still tender it now appears he'll start Sunday's game against the eastern cellar-dwellers. Defensive tackle Mike Raines wore only a sweatsuit and the coaches are now thinking they could be rushing him back too soon for -Sunday's have-another defensive lineman in camp, Jim Calgle, a late cut Western Football Conference added three players to their roster for Sunday's crucial game against British Colum- -bia Lions. The Bombers, in a struggle with the Lions for the third and final playoff spot in the west, added defensive end Elton Brown, obtained from Hamilton Tiger-Cats, defensive back Lee Benard off the injury list, and linebacker John Babinecz, who was on a five-day trial. To accommodate the newcomers, the Bombers released outright two players. Including defensive back Marlon Reeves.

Chop All-Star EDMONTON (CP) Edmonton Eskimos-of the Canadian Football League placed Larry Walkins, a two-time all-star offensive tackle, on waivers Thursday without right of recall. His spot will be taken by one of two players from the National Football League who are on five-day trials Charlie Bray, an Eastern Conference all-star with Toronto Argonauts in 1971 or Solortion Freelon who played two games for the Eskimos last year. "He wasn't playing as Well as he had been," Edmonton coach Ray Jauch said of Watkins. "He seemed to have lost some of his speed and quickness. Maybe at another time he will have regained that." Watkins has been suffering from a back injury.

I Tag end thoughts on Canada Cup I HOCKEY AFTERTHOUGHTS And while most of the Canadian players were touched and I impressed by the spontaneous sweater-swapping after the final game of the Canada Cup i Bobby Hull was not: "My boys wanted my sweaters," he said. "But what could I do? The fellow came over to trade, so I I traded. My other Team Canada sweater I promised I to trade to Ulf Nillson, who plays for the Winnipeg 1 I team and who played for Sweden. So. of Team Canada sweaters, my boys will have one Czech and one from Sweden.

But they'd rather I have the Canada sweaters, I know that and I I told them I'd keep them. But what could I do?" phil Esposito, who was benched for part of the I series by Coach Scotty Bowman, admitted he had been disappointed, and he also said he disagreed 1 with the decision. I "I have to don't I mean, I have to go out i jthere believing nobody can do the job better than I can. That's what I believe. But that's their decl- I i sion, and I came to each game ready to play.

I was I ready, -whether they played-me or not. I was surprised to play in this one (the final game), but I when I got the chance, I went as hard as I could." I The goal he scored was about two inches off the ice, and he said: I rl tjie same guy" 1 MONTREAL (CP) Bob Geary can't understand why Ottawa Rough Rider General Manager Frank Clair is so upset. Clair told a reporter Wednesday that Montreal Alouettes had reneged on a deal to provide Ottawa fans with 5,000 choice seats to the Sept. 26 Canadian Football League clash between the two teams here at the Olympic Stadium. "He (Clair) is first of all crying over nothing," Geary, general manager of the Alouettes, said in a telephone interview today.

"He received exactly what we promised," the Montreal general manager added, noting Rider-fans have been alloted nearly 5,000 seats in three price ranges for the Sept. 26 clash. Geary said the Alouettes lived up to the terms of an agreement to switch the game originally scheduled for Ottawa to-the-Olympie-Stadium by-providing the tickets and a $30,000 payment. "If he (Clair) doesn't want them, he can send them back, I can sell them here," said Geary. "They are charging us a bundle to make the switch, but nobody says anythingabout that," said Geary, who said that the Alouettes agreed to the lump-sum payment to compensate the Riders for expenses incurred by the switch.

"Why did he charge me $30,000 didn't cost him (Clair) a dime to change the game," said Geary. he bought a few newspaper ads to announce the change, that's about it. "You would never know that we are supposed to be in the same conference," he added. All 61,000 seats for the Sept. 26 game were sold out by last Friday.

Geary said 10,000 standing room tickets were put on sale Monday and 2,000 have already been sold. Meanwhile, the team confirmed that installation of artificial turf at the $788-million" stadium is continuing on schedule, and should be completed early next week. Argo rejects trade TORONTO (CP) Centre Morris Zubkewych won't play professional football again unless British Columbia Lions trade him to Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Hours after the Lions acquired him from Toronto Argonauts for future considerations in a Canadian Football League transaction, Zubkewych said the Argos traded him because of a contract dispute. "I'm in the same boat as all Canadians in the Canadian Football League," he said, referring to the dis parity between salaries for imports and non-imports in the league.

"I didn't intend to sign for what they offered." Zubkewych is unwilling to leave the Toronto area because he is in the second year of a four-year program at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. In Vancouver, a B.C. spokesman said Zubkewych would be placed on the suspended list until he reports later in the season. Zubkewych, 24, suffered a broken leg last year in his second' season with the Argos. He began the 1976 season as the Argos' starting centre.

Toronto protected Zubkewych from the 1974 CFL non-import draft because he had played high school football in the Argos protected area. Zubkewych played 1 four years of college football from Simon Fraser University, where be played both defensive end and offensive tackle. 'Hockey needs it' i "That's the only way you can beat that guy. (Goalie Dzurilla) We knew that. We had talked 1 about It." -s Esposito had a working role In this tournament with responsibilities of forechecking, coming back 5 hard as soon as the opposition got possession, and following his check right through the end of the rink if necessary.

"I'll be glad to get back to New York and get 5 back to playing the slot," he said, We mentioned to Toe Blake that Esposito hadn't had anything near the series he put on in 1972, and Blake said: "Well, he was never a skater you know, and he's just lost that step. He isn't the same hockey player he was in '72 either. I'm just glad Bowmen I was coaching that night or we might have lost that game." (That was the game against Russia and Bowman had the courage to bench Esposito and Insert Perreault into the line, making it noticeably more effective.) 1 That Russian denial Russian forward Alexander Maltsev gave an interview to a Czech writer from the Communist I Party in Prague, Rude Pravo, in which he charged Canada with intent to injure. Russian coaches 1 denied Maltsev gave any interview at all, but a veteran Russian TV man told us: 1 "I am certain he did very certain." Then what is the point of denying it? "Well," he said, "both sides are trying to show their best face. It does no good to say things like I that, so it is natural that they are denied.

But I am I very certain Maltsev said them just the same." "We will see" 1 The same source told us that Kherlamov was back skating after an automobile accident, and I that Yakushev, Shadrin, Tzigankov and other stars of the first stripe who did not make this i trip, would be at the world championships In Vien- na. "You can be sure," he said. "We will be much stronger. This was an opportunity to give younger players some valuable lessons and experience. We 1 view the World Championships as much more im- portant." The Czech Coach, Karel Gut, said after the I final game: "We will see in the world championships who 1 is the best." He would not concede that, beaten three out of i four games, Team Canada was better than Team Czechoslovakia.

He would go no more than," we will see." I He did not take into his considerations that 1 Team Canada for that tournament would not be cose (o the calibre of this Team Canada, because 1 the players had other commitments at that time. 1 He parried such suggestions by saying, through an i interoreten Bowman sees more international series -k (CP-Ptwto) This is how a National Hockey League goaltender goes about earning his slx-f Igure salary, at least In training camp. Ken Oryden warms up before a Montreal Canadiens' workout with some leg exercises. The lawyer-puckstopper is coming off knee surgery performed this summer. Bruins tryout brief tition.

But the best move was to have so many people Involved that was the thing that impressed me so much. "The seven people running the team from (general manager) Sam Pollock, Keith Allen and Toe Blake, right through the four coaches when decisions were made they were Joint." Coach Bobby Kromm then ad- libbed, "Now he's got rid of the Cadillacs and going back to the Volkswagen." USSR, Czechs to play WHA TORONTO (CP) Teams from Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union will play a total of 14 games against World Hockey Association clubs In North America In December and January and the WHA --will send an all-star team to play in the Izvestia tournament in December, it was announced Thursday. Ben Hatskin, chief executive officer of the. WHA, said a Czech select team will play six games against WHA clubs in Canada and the United States between Dec. 11 and 24.

Then the WHA will send a team to the Izvestia tournament In Moscow Dec. 16-22, after which a Soviet select team will play eight games In WHA cities between Dec. 27 and Jan. 12. Hatskin said the arrangements were made in several months of He got his chance By JACK SAUNDERS UPI Sports Writer MONTREALUPI) Basking in-the victory glow of a two-game sweep to the inaugural Canada Cup of hockey, Team Canada coach Scotty Bowman Thursday predicted more international series would be forthcoming because hockey's" economics would "need it." "I think if we can sit down and work it into our schedule it's going to be the coming thing," said the smiling coach after Canada clinched the cup by edging world champion Czechoslovakia, 5-4, in overtime Wednesday night.

Last Monday night, Canada shut out the Czechs, 6-0, in the opener of the best-of-three title series. "It's real tough at this time of year to schedule it again, and the officiating is going to have to be right up to the mark that's a big problem in hockey, unlike other sports but I think we'll see the thing. "I think, yes, it makes a lot of sense," Bowman said. "Getting involved in this series where else could you be to get this exposure to the Europeans? I think now you've got a full cycle of hockey how we play, how they play. "I think people want it, I think the economics of the whole game is gonna need it." Bowman, also the coach of the Stanley Cup-winning Montreal Canadiens, said he wouldn't mind taking his NHL club to Europe "if everybody else did it." "I think there's gonna be a lot of new wrinkles in hockey.

They'll take some of ours and we'll take some of theirs." Bowman recalled when he first accepted the coaching post for Team Canada and said his job of guiding so many high-salaried players was 'made- possible only through Joing management action. "I still feel it's too much for one person," he said. "In this series we had no problem leading the team because of all the topflight compe FTTCHBURG, Mass. (AP) For 30 seconds, Dave Goodrich of Grov-eland, lived every hockey nut's dream a tryout with a National Hockey League team. "Every country sends its best to the world i championships that Is only natural." Quiet but still there After the booing of French announcements in Toronto, and after the storm of protest broke, the I fans down there were on their best behaviour: I But a long-time sports type who has had his 5 finger on Toronto's pulse for a great many years, said: 2 "They didn't boo not out loud.

Bufthey still think it. There are very hard feelings about it. I Don't misread it. And don't pretend It Isn't being Jammed down our throats because It is. I'm sure you know many people in Ottawa who feel the same way, but It Just isn't spoken about i And that's true, and the feeling' about the "jamming" is true.

The man said: "It quietened down quickly but don't think It went away." "I'm here to skate and try out for the team," Goodrich said. "I don't want the ice all marked up," Slnden rejoined. "I'm really determined to do it," said Goodrich. Slnden sighed an okay, and Goodrich started around the rink but crashed Into the boards halfway. "I guess I got a little too said.

But he got flashier still. He picked himself up and skated backwards the rest of the way around. "That'll be enough," commented Slnden. Goodrich's brief tryout began with a long trek. He hitchhiked to Fitchburg and ran eight miles to The defenceman's chief experience was that he'd been playing since be was 11 and had made an intramural team at the University of Massachusetts, but what he lacked In ability he made up for with a lot of cheek.

Handed the usual, "Don't call us," line by Boston Bruins officials, Goodrich sneaked into the team's training camp at Wallace civic centre, put on his skates in the penalty box, and darted onto the But the tournament? Well, It didn't take off and light up like previous series against Russia, But there were some fine hockey games, and the 1 finale against the Czechs was an International piece de resistance, bringing the whole thing to an i ice. Bruins motel in Leominster to his caserunsnccessfully. negotiations with the assistance and co-operation of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, the American Hockey Association and-the World Hockey Players Association. The WHA will be the first major professional league ever to send a I team to the Izvestia tournament. "What are you doing here? asked managing director Harry Sinden, a bit startled at the sudden increase In his training camp ros That's when he decided to award himself a chance.

"I wanted a tryout with the Bruins, and I wanted it now," he explained. Alan Eagieson, Invariably it seems, comes In I for a good deal of criticism, and not unwarranted I perhaps. But he does get the Job done, and we have to wonder who else could do It? inipmniiitiiwmiituriniiaiiuiimnininiiiiiiinmtitniiiiiitiimniiiumitiiiir ter..