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Wednesday, May 11, 1988 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix Sports D3 subdue Spitfires CHICOUTIMI. Que. (CP) Adam Graves of the Windsor Spitfires isn't considering acting as a second career, but he knew when it was time to add a little drama to the game. Graves fell to the ice after he got nicked on the side of the head and referee Dave Jackson sent Medicine Hat's Ryan McGill off for a slashing major in the third period of Tuesday's Memorial Cup game against the defending champion Tigers. The Spitfires scored twice in a span of one minute and 33 seconds on the power play to break open a close game for a 5-2 triumph that sent Windsor to its first berth in the Memorial Cup major junior hockey championship game on Saturday.

"I figured since I felt it, I might as well fall down and get a penalty," said Graves. "I was lying there looking for the referee when it started to bleed." McGill said there was no way Halifax eliminates thunder Bay PEMBROKE', Ont. (CP) The Thunder Bay Flyers were eliminated from the Centennial Cup junior hockey championships here Tuesday after losing 6-4 in overtime to the Halifax Lions. Three teams are now battling for the championship. The final game of the round-robin series will be played tonight when the unbeaten Notre Dame Hounds take on the Pembroke Lumber Kings.

Duane Saulnier led Halifax to victory with a hat trick, and with two assists he took over the tournament scoring lead with 11 points; Other Halifax goals were scored by Rod Macintosh, Colin Power and Steve Kinch. Darryl Blazino, Dwight DeGi-acomo, Shawn Jourdain and Wayne Sawchuk scored for Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay was unable to connect during overtime play. Halifax coach Jim Bottomley was pleased with the Lions' performance. "We're guaranteed a playoff spot and that's what we wanted.

We didn't want our whole season resting in someone else's hands." Added Saulnier: "Our goalten-der was just great again tonight and kept us in there when we really needed him." Darin Baker guarded the net for Halifax while Todd Jones was the Thunder Bay goalie. Halifax had 34 shots on goal while Thunder Bay had 56. If Pembroke wins tonight's game, the three teams will be tied with two wins and one loss each. A comparison of goals scored and goals allowed would break the tie, If Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League champion Notre Dame wins, the Hounds will advance to the championship game on Saturday, leaving Pembroke and Halifax to battle for the final berth in the semi-final game Thursday. Spinks set for 'death match' Tigers other slashing major to Tigers goalie John Fitzpatrick.

"When we got those two quick goals, that was the turning point," said Windsor coach Tom Webster. His Medicine Hat counterpart, Barry Melrose, agreed. "You can't kill 10 minutes and expect to beat a good club," said Melrose. The game was tied 2-2 in the second period when a shot by Ron Jones got through a maze of players and dropped on the goal line. Tigers' centre Rob Dimaio tried to bat it away, but his effort struck Fitzpatrick on the pad.

The puck sailed into the back of the net at 16: 12 of the second period. The winner came less than two minutes after Graves deflected a shot past Fitzpatrick to tie the game. Darrin Shannon, deked Fitzpatrick and snapped a wrist shot into an open net for his third goal of the tournament. McGill and Vince Boe scored for Medicine Hat. seems to go downhill," Futch said.

"He throws fewer punches, and his punch selection is different. "Tyson looks great when he's on target, but what happens when he doesn't have a target and doesn't hit anyone," added Futch, referring to Spinks's speed and craftiness in the ring. "Then you'll see the mistakes of a young fighter." One of the big question marks about Spinks is his strength when matched against the enormously powerful Tyson. Spinks put on 25 pounds to move up from the light-heavyweight division to beat Larry Holmes for the IBF heavyweight crown in 1985. He was the first light-heavyweight to do that.

But often a fighter will be slower and not as strong when he moves up in weight to face the big boys. "I think he hits harder as a heavyweight," Futch said. "Both are pretty good punchers and could end within the distance." Dr. Love, a pudgy but strong sparring partner who went toe-to-toe with Spinks for two rounds on Monday, said Spinks was just as fast as he was as a light-heavyweight, and just as strong. He predicted Spinks would stop Tyson in seven rounds.

he hit Graves hard enough to draw blood. "I went to slash his arm and my stick got up and accidently brushed him in the helmet," said McGill. "I didn't hit him hard but there was no "blood." Then again, McGill didn't see the blood-soaked gauze on Graves' right ear. The victory ran Windsor's round-robin record to 3-0 and it extended their winning streak to 21. It also marked the 57th consecutive time the Ontario Hockey League champions took a lead into the third period and held it.

The Tigers had previously qualified for the semi-final and the Western Hockey League champions will meet the winner of tonight's game between the tournament's two entries from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League the Hull Olympiques and Drummondville Voltigeurs. The game was even until McGill's major, followed by an MICHAEL SPINKS $13.5 million payday the end of the month, Lewis said. The contract will be formally signed after the convention. "We'd prefer 15," Lewis said. "We've been there.

Tyson, when he goes 12, seems to be very grateful when he doesn't have to go 15." Eddie Futch, Spinks's 77-year-old trainer, who has worked with Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier and Ken Norton in 55 years in boxing, agrees. "After seven rounds, Tyson Short start Ward Edwards, the Cubs starting pitcher Tuesday, injured his arm in the first inning and was replaced by Don Roach, who recorded the win, as the Cubs defeated the Royals 9-1 In Saskatoon Senior Baseball League action. Pat Moser was tagged with the loss. (S-P Photo by Todd Korol) KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y. (Reu-ter) Michael Spinks, already intensively training for his heavyweight title fight at the end of June against undisputed boxing champion Mike Tyson, said on Monday that he sees it as a "death match." Spinks, who worked mostly on close-in fighting in the four rounds he sparred on Monday at his Catskill mountain training camp, said: "I'm going to act like I'm in a fight for my life, I'm going to act like it's a death match." Spinks, 31, will attempt to take the 21-year-old Tyson's title on June 22 in Atlantic City.

Spinks, heading toward the $13.5 million U.S. payday, said the fight is-a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity. Spinks, 31-0, probably will enter the ring as an underdog against the 34-0 Tyson who will receive at least $20 million. But the odds on Spinks could improve if the fight is finally scheduled for 15 rounds. Butch Lewis, Spinks's manager, said on Monday that the contract for the fight calls for either 12 or 15 rounds.

Robert Lee, president of the International Boxing Federation, said that his group will sanction the fight. The IBF will probably decide on the number of rounds at its convention in Miami Beach at Budd's decision to quit draws mixed reaction Kingsbury, said she was in no fit state to continue running. "She is enormously distressed and disturbed," Kingsbury said. "She hadn't slept for nights she was in a very highly stressed condition." Anti-apartheid leaders said Budd got what she deserved. "Her return to South Africa now literally vindicates our position that she is a South African," Sam Ramsamy, head of the South African Non-racial Olympic Committee, said.

"It shows she merely used her British passport as a flag of convenience." Last month, the world governing body for track and field recommended Budd be suspended for at least a year for breaking "the spirit of the rules" by going to two track meets in South Africa last year. Budd denied she had broken any rules just by being present. But the International Amateur Athletic Federation said that if her national federation refused to sanction Budd, it would consider barring the whole British Olympic team instead. Fisk injured NEW YORK (AP) Chicago catcher Carlton Fisk suffered a fractured right hand Tuesday night when he was struck by a foul tip in the eighth inning of the White Sox" 17-3 loss to the New York Yankees. The injury occurred with two out when Jack Clark fouled a pitch that nicked Fisk between the thumb and index finger.

X-rays disclosed a fracture of the first metacarpal bone. "It just didn't feel right," said Fisk, whose three-run homer in the fourth inning was the 312th of his career. A club spokesman said the 40-year-old Fisk would be out of action from 4-6 weeks. imiiiiiiBiiinmiiiiiMtifinnin mi-mi, Yn-ftftiiniianrr-rtit imr-'-'iTT -riTi Mrc, LONDON (AP) Zola Budd's decision to quit international track and return to her native South Africa prompted mixed emotions Tuesday in Britain, her adopted country the last four years. Her coach, fellow competitors and the British government's sports minister offered sympathy to the 21-year-old farmer's 'daughter as she finally gave up the fight for world-wide recognition in the face of a relentless anti-apartheid campaign.

But opponents and track administrators said Budd only had herself to blame after repeated visits to her homeland, barred from international competition because of its racial policies. "I have seen her crumble as a human being," said John Bryant, Budd's coach. "She is suffering from complete mental exhaustion. "The doctors tell me she is incapable of rational thought. It is terrible to see someone in that state." Budd's British doctor, Ken South MiSnvmS.) the smell, sounds but first to your Co op Camping Lifestyle Clothing Gore Tex Outerwear Water Skis Sail Boards Scuba ph- 664-3151 to nil the barbecue tank A SPRING INTO SUMMER SALE? TENTS Eureka Pop Up 2-man Summer Speca24B.3S Outbound Bison Summer Speca 1 59.95 North Face VE24 Summer Speca 629.95 SLEEPING Outbound Athabaska Summer Speca 129.95 BAGS Adventurer I Summer Speca 74.95 PADDLES Clemente Canoe Paddles Summer Speca 21.95 Grey Owl Canoe Paddles Summer Speca 1 5 Off WETSUITS Bare Lunar John Summer Speca 99.95 Bare Viento Triathalon Suit Speca 1 14.95 WATER SKIS O'Brien Water Skis (selected skis) Summer Speca $50 off Connelly.

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