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The Red Deer Advocate, Friday, October 1, 1971 PAGE SEVEN Rustlers getting plenty of work All the youthful Red Deer Rustlers need to become a force to be reckoned with in the Alberta Junior Hockey League, says coach Bob Thompson, is a lot of work. And the freshman coach is seeing to that. Thompson has arranged two more pre season exhibition games for his young squad this weekend both in Red Deer. Rustlers, who have only one holdover from the team which last year won the Canadian junior championship, will meet the Edmonton Movers Saturday at 8 p.m. and the Edmonton Maple Leafs Sunday at 7 p.m.

The games will be the fourth and fifth of the exhibition season for the Rustlers whose record going into the weekend is 1-1-1. They split a pair with the Calgary Canucks, winning 5-4 in Calgary and losing 5-3 in Red Deer and played to a 2-2 lie with Movers in the opening game of the home-and-home set Tuesday in Edmonton. Thompson plans few lineup changes for the counters other than inserting Doug Lindskog, who missed Tuesday's game because of a charleyhorse, back into the lineup. Lindskog will be re-united with his former linemates, centre Darryl Wallis and rightwinger Kenny Nelson. The other forward lines will remain intact with Terry Wittchen, who has scored two goals in the last two games, working between Greg Scott and Wilf Foord: and Dale Lewis pivoting Randy Merenick and Bill Haynes.

Ron Joel, whom Thompson describes as "looking better all the time," and Brian Trotter will be the extra forwards. Thompson, however, said one of his six defencemen will not dress for Saturday's contest but would not say who it would be. Joe Murphy has been working with holdover Tom Lindskog, Dune Grant has been paired with Doug Gillespie, and John Simkin has toiled with Ron Weiland. Thompson also was undecided about his goaltending. He has three in camp Keith Delaney, Ross Frisken, and Don Stephenson.

Delaney, who appears to have won the number one job for the present at least, and Stephenson split the job in Edmonton Tuesday. At any rate, all three will likely see action during the weekend games. Movers travel to Calgary Sunday to open the regular season while the Rustlers' first league game is a week today, also in Calgary. Their home opener is a week Sunday when their archrivals, the Lethbridge Sugar Kings, invade the Arena. Tickets for both weekend games are on sale at The Bay Ticket Wicket.

Wacky windup in Washington Merry mourners turn funeral into fiasco Torre thrives on steady diet of National League pitching By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Joe Torre has been on a diet -and not just of National League pitchers. Torre, once known as the fat kid brother of Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Frank Torre, lost considerable weight prior to this season, but gained some new headgear: The National League batting and RBI crowns. "I did try to stay hungry-at the plate," said the St. Louis Cardinals' third baseman, whose .363 batting average topped the majors. The versatile Torre was installed this season as the Cardinals' every day third baseman, where he has thrived.

Three players waged a tight battle for second place in the National League batting race, although none posed a serious threat to Torre. Atlanta's Ralph Garr nosed out the Chicago Cubs' Glenn Beckert .3416 to .3415, although both were listed at .342 in the rounded-off figures. Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente finished fourth at .3409. or .341. WINS AL TITLE Tony Oliva, sidelined late in the season by torn cartilage in his right knee-an injury which he suffered in June but which he played with for over two months, won the batting title in the American League with a .337 mark.

New York Yankees Bobby Murcer finished second with .331, while Baltimore's Merv Rettenmund, an outfielder who wasn't even a starter until mid-season, finished third with .318. Willie Stargell of Pittsburgh won the National League home run crown with 48, one more than Hank Aaron. Aaron's 47 raised his career total to 639, not so far from Babe Ruth's major league standard of 714. Torre took the National League RBI title with 137. beating out Stargell, 125 and Aaron, 118.

In the American League, Chicago White Sox third baseman Bill Melton won a close race for the home run title. Melton hit 33 while Norm Cash of Detroit and Reggie Jackson of Oakland clubbed 32. Reggie Smith of Boston had 30 and Frank Robinson of Baltimore, Rico Petrocelli of Boston, Graig Nettles of Cleveland and Harmon Killebrew of Minnesota each had 28. Killebrew easily won the RBI crown, however, with 119. The runner-up was Frank Robinson, who was far back with 99.

WAS PITCHERS' YEAR But if anything, 1971 was a banner year 1 for pitchers. The American League produced nine 20-game winners--four of them on one team-while the National League added four more. Baltimore's American League East Division champions became only the second team in major league history to boast four 20-game winners, the other being the 1920 Chicago White Sox with Urban Faber, Claude Williams, Dickie Kerr and Ed Cicotte. For the Orioles, Dave McNally won 21 while Mike Cuellar, Pat Dobson and Jim Palmer each won 20. Other 20-game winners in the Sports round-up Horton through in Detroit Detroit Tiger outfielder Willie Horton says he is finished with baseball in Detroit.

"I'm not playing any more here." Horton said after the Tigers ended the season with a 2-1 loss to Cleveland Indians Wednesday. "I've made up my mind." Horton, 27, has a reputation of being moody. He has been in and out of manager Billy doghouse all season. "I can't play any more in Detroit until I get peace of mind. I can't take this stuff any longer.

It's killing me inside." ALSO IN BASEBALL Rightfielder Rusty Staub of the Montreal Expos ended the 1971 season as the only player in the National League to play in all of his team's games. IN New York Jets acquired defensive tackle Chuck Hinton from Pittsburgh Steelers Thursday for linebacker Dennis Onkotz An autopsy has revealed a 16-year-old school player in Columbia, S.C., died of a broken neck after ing tackled in a junior varsity game. ALSO IN SPORTS The Manitoba Junior Hockey League all-star team will meet the Torronto Marlboros in Winnipeg, Feb. 1, league president Frank L. McKinnin has announced Richard M.

Gaul of Montreal has been elected president of the Canadian Federation of Amateur Aquatics John McConachie of Montreal has been appointed assistant exeutive director of the Canadian Intercollegiate Athetic Union Bobby Fischer of the United States won the first game of the semi-final chess tournament with Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet Union Thursday, scoring the victory in 40 moves One For All, the Canadianbred five-year-old entered in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, Europe's richest horse race, has made a strong impression in training for Sunday's race in Paris Michel Carrega of Italy has won the world skeet COMING NEXT WEEK! Kiwanis Apples ORDER YOURS NOW! HELP KIWANIS HELP YOUR COMMUNITY WASHINGTON (A P) Washington Senators, their merry mourners turning a funeral into a fiasco, have bowed out of baseball with one of the rarest feats in the team's undistinguished history a last-inning loss by forfeit. The Texas-bound team, a fixture in the American League's basement for many of its 71 years, seemed headed American League were Vida Blue and Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland, Andy Messersmith of California, Wilbur Wood of Chicago and Mickey Lolich of Detroit. JENKINS WINS 20 AGAIN In the National League, the 20-game circle consisted of Ferguson Jenkins of Chicago Cubs, Downing of Los Angeles Dodgers, Steve Carlton of St. Louis and Tom Seaver of New York Mets. McNally's 21-5 record gave for certain victory in the capital finale Thursday night, The Senators held not only a 7-5 lead, but New York Yankees had no one on base and only a single out remaining.

For the long-suffering Senators' fans, it was just too much. By the hundreds they poured out of the stands, roaming the outfield, jam- JOE TORRE NL leader championship for the second year in a row coming out of a shootoff with Jurgen Henke, a young East German Sidney Dakin of Toronto remains the leader in the Hurricane Gingerthreatened world Soling championships in Oyster Bay, N.Y. Britain's latest equestrian star, Princess Anne, could become the first member of the Royal Family ever to compete in the Olympic Games and British sports writers have practically selected her for the team. Lund heads speedskaters Gordon Lund has been reelected president of the Red Deer Lions' Speedskating Club, the club has announced following an organizational meeting earlier this week in which a full slate of directors and officers was also elected. Organized practices are expected to commence in the latter part of October or early November.

The club welcomes new skaters and anyone interested may receive further information by contacting Jean Lalor at 346-5917. DRIVERS PULL OUT WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) Two top stateside drivers, Mario Andretti and Mark Donohue, withdrew from the prestigious United States Grand Prix Monday because of a conflict in race schedules next weekend. The two said they were obligated to compete in the Marlboro 300 for Indianapolis-type cars at Trenton, N.J. That race, scheduled for last Sunday, was postponed for a week because of rain-placing it in direct conflict with the $265,000 Grand Prix here.

ming the basepaths, pulling up the bases and running off with the pitchers' rubber. FIRST SINCE 1954 For the first time since 1954, a major league baseball game ended in forfeit. "We won the game even though they took it away by the rules," said catcher Paul Casanova. "I never expected anything like that," said pitching coach Sid Hudson, a Senator for more than two decades. "What a way to end a ball club, huh?" "That was just the fans' way of expressing themselves over what they thought was a wrong deal," said reserve Tom McCraw.

"I'm not saying it was a good way, but, I guess they thought it was the only way." Almost 15,000 fans were on hand to see the Senators, who lost 96 games with a team batting average of .230, slip into history alongside storied losers like the St. Louis Browns. The fans came not so much to mourn as to heckle owner Robert Short, who engineered the transfer of the franchise to Dallas -Fort Worth. Short was not seen at the stadium, but fans carried an effigy of him through the stands. Signs ridiculing Short blossomed from virtually every corner of Kennedy Stadium.

At least one of the signs was obscene. Police removed that one, drawing a jeer that was almost matched in sheer volume by the cheers for popular slugger Frank Howard. Howard, who has not been noticeably happy about the prospect of playing in Texas next season, gave the fans something to remember him by with a soundly laced linedrive home run in the sixthhis 26th of the season. "We had all the confidence in the world we would have gotten the side out," said outfielder Del Unser, another popular player. But then came the flood of fans, picking at the outfield grass, at the scoreboard signs, even the dugout roof.

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