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34 THE WINDSOR STAR, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1968 Sports Chatter By KEN FATHERS Green set to quit hockey Bathgate leaves camp, goes home By Canadian Press Boston Bruins' stubborn Ted Green says he's ready to retire one report says he already as from the National Hockey League if he doesn't get a raise in pay. The 28-year-old defensive standout walked out of the Bruins' training camp at London, on Sept. 18 over his contract dispute. He said Tuesday night at his Winnipeg home he would leave for good Detroit before joining Pittsburgh, scored 20 goals and 39 assists in the 1967-C8 season. Pittsburgh general manager Jack Riley said Bathgate was offered a coaching job but wants to play in the Vancouver area.

"Andy hasn't had a particularly good training camp and after meeting coach Red Sullivan and me, Andy decided to go home," said Riley. Bathgate is fifth on the league career scoring list, with 344 goals and 595 assists. Other clubs also trimmed their player lists. Oakland Seals announced at Oshawa, the release of seven players to reduce their training camp roster to 22. Defencemen Aut Erickson and Stan Fuller were assigned to Cleveland Barons of the American Hockey League and centre Mike Laughton to Vancouver of the Western Hockey League.

Four others were not immediately re-assigned. In Minneapolis, Minnesota North Stars trimmed seven off their lists and sent them to their Clinton, N.Y., club in the Eastern League. rather than return at last season's pay. The London Free Press quotes him as saying he had advised a rl Mulchay, Bruins' legal adviser, Sunday night of his decision. "I told him I decided to retire and he said okay that's all there was to it," Green was quoted as saying.

Green was seeking to have the last year of a two-year contract renegotiated. He was turned do vm by general manager Milt Schmidt and Mulchay. Green, who ran up more than 100 penalty minutes in each of his first five seasons with Boston, after joining the team in 1960, said he and a partner have bought 15 acres in greater Winnipeg. He said they are going ahead with development plans but did not say what they were. Another NHL star also was in the news Tuesday.

Andy Bathgate, leading scorer in the NHL's Western Division last season, left the Brant-ford, camp of Pittsburgh Penguins. Club officials said they were trying to arrange a trade for the veteran forward. Bathgate, 36, who played with New York, Toronto and Philadelphia Flyers announced at Moncton, N.B., the signing of six players, two of them to two-year contracts. The latter two were defence-men Ed Van Impe and John Miszuk. Montreal Canadiens signed three players from junior ranks and optioned two others to the new Amarillo, franchise in the Central Hockey League.

In exhibition games Tuesday night, Chicago Black Hawks of the NHL defeated Portland of the Western league 8-2; unbeaten Oakland Seals of the NHL beat Rochester Americans of the AHL 6-2; Montreal Canadiens nipped Minnesota 2-1, Philadelphia Flyers beat their AHL farm club Quebec Aces 4-3 Toronto Maple Leafs were held to a 3-3 tie by Vancouver Canucks of the WHL. Centre Pit Martin scored three goals to pace the Black Hawks over Portland at Las Vegas. Claude Laforge scored in the third period at Moncton to give Philadelphia its victory. Dick Duffs third-period goal was the margin of victory for Montreal at Minneapolis while Vancouver came from behind with Bob Barlow's goal supplying the tie against Toronto. TED GREEN be won't badge Frank Ryan to bench CLEVELAND (UPI)-Coach Blanton Collier shook up Cleveland Browns offence Tuesday and announced he was benching quarterback Frank Ryan and fullback Charley Harraway.

Collier said Bill Nelsen will handle the signal-calling against the Pittsburgh Steelers here Saturday night and Charley Leigh, a rookie, -will take over Harraway's back-field duties. "These decisions are not the result of a one-game affair," Collier said. "I want to win and I think this club is capable of winning." MaeGregor signs9 five Wings lefit DETROIT (AP) Detroit Red Wings announced Tuesday that veteran Bruce MacGregor was among six players to sign new contracts with the National Hockey League club, leaving only five skaters unsigned. Others to sign one year pacts were centre Pete Mahovlich, defenceman Bob Falkenberg, left wing Nick Libett and rookie right wingers Ron Anderson and Danny Lawson. Those still negotiating with general manager Sid Abel are goalie Roy Edwards, left wing Dean Prentice and defencemen Gary Bergman, Bart Crashley and Ron Harris.

Abel also said that Jimmy Peters has reconsidered plans for retirement and that he returned to practice Tuesday after leaving training camp last week. He will be assigned to the Fort Worth farm club in the Central Hockey League. ST. LOUIS It isn't every day that a Canadian-born player has the opportunity to participate in the world series. John Hiller, a 25-year-old native of Scarborough, "never thought it would happen" when he joined the Detroit Tiger organization as a left-handed pitcher in 1962.

But, here he is today ready to participate in the 65th annual fall classic between the Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals. "This is a great thrill for me," observed Hiller Tuesday afternoon as he sat in the visitors' dugout at Busch Memorial Stadium and watched the National champion St. Louis Cardinals conclude their 90-minute batting practice session. "There aren't too many Canadian boys playing in the major leagues the opportunities are few and it's tough to make the grade.

"You don't get the coaching on the Canadian sandlots that you get over here. Most of the Canadian players signed by major league clubs in the past few years have been pitchers. I guess there'll always be a market for good, young pitching prospects as long as the two major leagues continue to expand," noted the six-foot, 185-pound southpaw who posted a 9-6 won-and-lost record and a fine 2.39 earned-run average during the American League campaign just concluded. THERE IS LITTLE likelihood of Hiller getting a starting assignment in the Series. "According to Mayo Smith (Tiger manager) and Johnny Sain pitching coach I'll be a short relief pitcher in the Series," said Hiller.

"For personal reasons, I'd like to get into one or two of the games. At the same time, I wouldn't be angry if our starting pitchers in our first four games won them all. Participating in any World Series is a real honor I'm real happy to be any part of it." HILLER WAS ASKED what he thought of the physical layout of Busch Stadium 330 feet down the left and right-field lines, 386 feet to left and right-centre, 414 feet to dead centrefield. "Everybody's referring to this park as a pitcher's park I guess there isn't likely to be as many home runs hit here as in Tiger Stadium. But, there are a lot of wide-open spaces out there.

I think you'll see quite a few lazy line-drives falling in for singles and some hard-hit line-drives skipping between the outfielders for extra-base hits. They'll have a lot of ground to cover," he observed. Hiller didn't come right out and say so but there was the impression given that he'd like to see Mickey Stanley patrolling the spacious confines of centrefield. Stanley, recognized as one of the finest defensive outfielders in baseball, is scheduled to start the Series at the shortstop position. EDWIN (CY) WILLIAMS, a Tiger scout who works out of Buffalo, N.Y., signed Hiller off the Scarborough sandlots at the age of 19 in 1962.

He was playing for the Scarborough Village Club which was playing in a league much similar to the Essex County junior circuit. "An all star team from the league, the Scarborough Selects, used to play games every Friday night against clubs from other communities in the area," Hiller recalled yesterday. "Mr. Williams saw a couple of those games and gave me a telephone call that winter. I signed a contract to go to Florida." WHEN ASKED IF HE received a bonus from the Tigers, Hiller replied: "Heck, no." His early minor league career took him to Jamestown, N.Y., Woy towich dealt to Pittsburgh MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League today traded defenceman Bob Woytowich, the team's captain last season, to Pittsburgh Penguins for a 1972 draft pick.

A four-year NHL veteran, the 26-year-old Woytowich was Minnesota's third choice in the 1967 expansion draft which stocked the North Stars' club. In explaining the trade for the first-round choice in the NHL's 1972 universal draft, North Stars' general manager-coach, Wren Blair, described the trade as "simply a matter of numbers. We had too many defencemen and Bob is too good a hockey player to go to the minors." Woytowich said he is sorry to leave Minnesota but "happy that I went to another National League team." Blair also reported the assignment of right wing Marshall Johnston to Cleveland's American Hockey League team. Minnesota retains the NHL rights to the former Canadian Olympic hockey star. Alcan golf tournament soggy test SOUTHPORT, England (UPI) It was Billy Casper against the field Wednesday as the 24 qualifiers, including ten Americans, prepared to tee off in the first round of the water-logged Alcan Golfer of the Year tournament.

The field was shooting for a record first prize of $55,000. Casper, who lost last year's inaugural at St. Andrews, Scotland, to Gay Brewer in a playoff, was a solid 4-1 favorite. Brewer came second in the betting at 7-1, Australian Peter Thomson, five times winner of the British Ooen title, was 8-1. At 12-1 7 5SO I I Duluth, Minn, (where he met and married the former Janice Patricia Baldwin in 1965), Knoxvi lie, Montgomery, Ala.

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"I used to weight 170-175 pounds then I hardly think I could help this club as a pinch-runner, now." IN THE OFFSEASON, Hiller resides in Duluth but he has close relatives spread across Canada in Toronto Niagara Falls and at Saskatoon. "My parents and a couple of my aunts are going to be in Detroit for the Series games That's why I have a sort of special interest about getting into one of those games," he added. Hiller left then to attend a team meeting prior to the Tigers' final pre-series workout. He'll be ready when and if manager Smith makes the call to the bullpen and you can be assured that this dedicated native of Canada will make the most of his "chance of a lifetime." SERIES NOTES Just in case you're interested, the Tigers and Cardinals broke even in four Grapefruit League exhibition games this past spring. The Bengals won 6-5 in 12 innings and 4-2 on a two-run, ninth-inning home run by Al Kaline.

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