Daily American Republic from Poplar Bluff, Missouri • 14

Dailg Amtrican Republic Wednesday November 91983 Poplar Bluff Mo Page2B Late Goal Allows Kings to Tie Blues INGLEWOOD Calif (AP) Jim ox just hoped he could stay near the net late in the final period with the Los Angeles Kings losing 5 4 to St Louis But the right winger did a lot more than that ox scored with 32 seconds left Tuesday night and the Kings hung on through five minutes of overtime to salvage a 5 5 Na tional Hockey League tie with the Blues The Kings fresh off their longest road trip of the season felt mentally and physically tired during the first period when St Louis took a 3 2 lead ox said look at it as a bonus that we got one point ox said I wanted to do was to stay in front of the net It was really a gift goal It came right to me But take the tie and one The Kings are 3 8 5 in the Smythe Division their worst start in 12 years while the Blues are 7 7 1 good for second place in the Norris Division one point behind a Chicago team that did not play Tuesday St Louis coach Jacques Demeres was philosophical about the tie which gave his team an 0 5 1 road record equalling the worst road start in their 17 year history thought we had it won but happy that we got one point on the Demeres said played a good game for a road Mark Reeds and Wayne Babych led the Blues with two goals apiece unassisted goal his fifth of the season snapped a 3 3 deadlock at 8:03 of the se cond period He added another goal on a power play at 13:57 to stretch St lead to 5 3 Raulston Claims Continued Harrassment rom the NHL ST LOUIS (AP) Ralston Purina Co has told a federal judge that the National Hockey League continued to violate the rights even after it filed suit in May over its unsuc cessful attempt to sell the St Louis Blues The company filed an amend ed suit Monday with US District Judge William Hungate ask ing for $80 million in damages and accusing the league of conti nuing to harass Ralston The amended suit like the original one filed May 24 con tends the league acted illegally when it rejected bid to sell the club to a group of Cana dian businessmen The group had planned to move the fran chise to Saskatoon Saskatchewan Since then Ralston tendered the team to the league which in turn sold it to Harry Ornest who kept the club in St Louis After Ralston sued in May the NHL and its teams countersued The new complaint charged that Bowling BLU LANES Norlhside 1 Whoosiers 192'2 137' 2 Bluff City Beer 181 149 3 Newman Amusement 175 155 4 Outlaws 170 160 5 Sonic 162' 2 6 Kroger 159 171 7 PB Upholstery 148 182 8 Cost Cutter 127 203 High Game: Ken Cook 215 High Series: Dave Davidson 620 High Team Game: Newman Amuse ment 1075 High Team Series: Bluff City Beer 2973 Bluff ettes 1 Crow Tire 31 13 2 iske Plumbing 28 16 3 Misfits 24'2 19'2 4 PB Hospital I 23 21 5 Jokers 20'2 23'4 6 PB Hospital II 19 25 7 Wiedeman arms 16 28 8 Phillips TV 14 30 High Game: MS Bostic 191 High Series: MS Bostic 513 High Team Game: iske Plumbing 800 High Team Series: Crow Tire 2214 the NHL filed the countersuits to assert any proper legal rights but rather to harass Ralston and deter it from its ex cercise of its under the law The countersuit filed in June seeks at least $78 million or an amount equal to 5 percent of the assets whichever is greater The suit filed Monday noted that NHL President John A Ziegler Jr has said that the league will turn over the pro ceeds only after the company releases the league from all legal claims WALES CONERENCE CAMPBELL CONERENCE Patrick Division LT Pts GA NY Rangers 10 4 2 22 67 51 Philadelphia 10 6 1 21 71 57 NY Isles 10 6 0 20 70 54 Washington 7 8 0 14 46 54 Pittsburgh 4 10 2 10 44 63 New Jersey 2 13 0 4 42 72 Adams Division Boston 10 3 1 21 75 42 Quebec 9 7 2 20 94 67 Buffalo 6 6 3 15 51 58 Hartford 7 7 1 15 53 60 Montreal 6 8 0 12 61 62 Norris Division Chicago 8 7 0 16 64 63 St Louis 7 7 1 15 58 62 Detroit 6 5 2 14 51 52 Toronto 6 7 2 14 71 79 Minnesota 5 8 I 11 61 76 Smythe Division Edmonton 13 2 1 27 95 67 Calgary 6 6 3 15 53 55 Vancouver 6 8 1 13 69 69 Los Angeles 3 8 5 11 63 74 Winnipeg 4 9 2 10 56 78 Tuesday's Games Hartford 6 Minnesota 4 Edmonton 7 Quebec 4 NY Rangers 5 New Jersey 1 NY Islanders 4 Philadelphia 1 Calgary 4 Pittsburgh 4 tie St Louis 5 Los Angeles 5 Wednesday's Games Boston at Buffalo 6:35 pm Calgary at NY Rangers 6:35 pm Edmonton at Washington 6:35 pm Minnesota at Detroit 6:35 pm New Jersey at Toronto 7:05 pm Montreal at Chicago 7:35 pm Winnipeg at Vancouver 10:05 pm Thursday's Game St Louis at Los Angeles 9:35 pm BLASTING ONE OUT Dale Murphy connects for a homer against the Houston Astros Dale Murphy Repeats As MVP 1 and to back MVP awards since the honor was created in 1931 Murphy received 21 of 24 first place votes cast by a panel comprised of two writers from each National League city Andre Dawson of Montreal Mike Schmidt of Philadelphia and Pedro Guer rero of Los' Angeles each received one first place vote Murphy had two second place votes and one for fifth for 318 points as each panelist voted for 10 players Dawson got 213 points followed by DAWSON Second SCHMIDT Third GUERRERO ourth Murphy is the second Brave to win the award Henry Aaron won it in 1957 extremely honored and happy to share it with my teammates and Murphy said adding that the individual honor could not erase the disappoint ment in missing the playoffs The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Braves by three games to take the National League West title Murphy will receive a $100000 incentive bonus placed in his contract last year after his first MVP award He has four years to go on a contract setting his base salary at $13 million a year Murphy joined the Braves from their Richmond farm club in 1977 In 18 games he hit 316 The next season he hit only 227 but he had 23 homers and in 1979 his average climbed to 276 with 21 homers He hit 33 homers in 1980 13 in strike interrupted 1981 In his first MVP year he hit 281 with 36 homers and 109 RBI ATLANTA (AP) Dale Murphy insisted he was sur prised by his second straight National League Most Valuable Player award but his philosophy makes the honor seem logical this game if do ing something right you need to do it every the Atlanta center fielder said The Baseball Writers Association of America on Tuesday made Murphy the fourth NL player to win back Schmidt with 191 and Guer rero with 182 never thought of something like that happen said Murphy whose humility has been a trademark just tremendous a thrill Murphy led the league this year with 121 runs batted in and with a 540 slugging percentage He was sixth in batting average (302) se cond in runs scored (131) se cond in home runs (36) sixth in hits (178) third in on base percentage (393) fourth in walks (90) and tied for fourth in game winning RBI (14) He also stole 30 bases to become the sixth major leaguer to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in the same year At 27 Murphy is the youngest of the National Leaguers to win consecutive MVP awards The others were the Ernie Banks (1958 59) the Joe Morgan 1975 76) Schmidt (1980 81) ATHER SON Dale Murphy entertains his son Chad with a baseball Vl'lA i i war rffiV Jr i vz DKWSM Jtp Bl wl i jg 4fc a 7 Bak i f1 Big 8 Roundup Trophies or Plaques for very Need at: 505 Vine Street Poplar Bluff Mo 63901 686 4607 RODG6R 00 785 3533 NITELY 7:00 AND 9:00 NITELY 7:10 AND9J0 UH nmn oi wmitutiwm Stephen DeaDZONE PINE BROADWAY MICHAEL CAINE RICHARD GERE BEYOND THE LIMIT SA PARAMOUNT PICTURE 1 S175 All scats I 1 ItVtRVTUfS TnANIONmRLL cinemo HK3HWAY 67 NORTH 686 1631 RICHARD 7 io PRYOR HERE St A' BtVfRYTUft K9 gomedu nitely 7:00 Sports Briefs UCLA football coach Terry Donahue has ap peared in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena as a player assistant coach and head coach On Sept 10 1963 the Alou brothers elipe Matty and Jesus play ing for the San ran cisco Giants made all three putouts in one in ning in a game against the New York Mets Sam Crawford a member of the Baseball Hall of ame hit a record 51 inside the park home runs during his major league career with Detroit and Cincinnati Gary Player the star golfer from South Africa is one of the few men to have won the Masters US Open British Open and PGA tournaments Pro golfer Peter Oosterhuis is English and was born in London Tigers Hope to Break OSU Stranglehold By The Associated Press Why have Jimmy Oklahoma State Cowboys dominated Warren Missouri Tigers? or Powers the answer is simple played good We and beaten Powers said Tuesday during preparations for the game at Col umbia this weekend Johnson holds a 3 1 edge over the Missouri coach and the Cowboys have won four of their last five games with the Tigers Powers expects Oklahoma defense to be one of his toughest challenges this year may be the best defen sive team had and had some good he said not as big as Oklahoma but probably a lot Oklahoma State coaches meanwhile are concentrating on versatile offense has been playing very well said Cowboys secondary coach Paul Jette been very consistent with the running game and the passing game and got a lot of big play people and that poses a problem for us have to play our best game defensively to have a chance to stop Mike Rozier who has a bruis ed thigh was among the Nebraska Huskers who missed practice Tuesday A chilling drizzle moved the drills inside Also absent from the two hour workout with pads were corner back Neil Harris who has a sore Junior High Scores DONIPHAN 8TII 53 TWIN RIVERS ISK 38 Doniphan (53) eatherston 2 Carson 2 Eddington 7 Englemann 15 Jarrett 0 Reed 12 Dugas 0 Rudd 0 Hale 0 Allen 2 Holland 0 Berry 0 Harber 0 Davis 13 riend 0 Twin Rivers isk (38) Eddington 4 Ja Greve 0 Jo Greve Joiner 0 Loyd 2 Moore 2 Underwood 0 Veatch 2 Whitehead 16 Whitehead 0 Yates 12 DONIPHAN GIRLS 28 TWIN ISK GIRLS 10 Doniphan (28) Walker 0 Ederer 0 Rickus 5 Joplin 4 Risinger 9 Ozbun 7 Patrick 3 Gann 0 riend 0 Hill 0 Novak 0 Bowman 0 Hudson 0 Crain 0 Twin Rivers isk (10) Alexander 0 Sh Bell 0 St Bell 0 Cornell 2 ish 4 Griffith 0 Hicks 0 Nicholson 2 Page 0 Pritchett 0 Richmond 2 Ward 0 Thurman 0 Morse 0 TWIN RIVERS QULIN GIRLS 24 NAYLOR 18 Qulin: (24) Morehead 14 Rhodes 4 Baugus 4 Martin 2 McCroy 0 Jones 0 Naylor: 18) Lassiter 9 Allen 5 Cox 2 Tippen 2 Dollins 0 TWIN RIVERS QULIN 8TH 39 NAYLOR 37 Qulin: (39) Oberkramer 14 Slaughter 10 Patterson 8 Webb 7 Johnson 0 Norden 0 Smith 0 Naylor: (37) Perren 14 Morrow 10 Camper 10 Morrison 3 Seratt 0 CLEARWATER GIRLS 24 SOUTH IRON 14 Clearwater (24) Garrison 4 McMurray 6 Barnes 3 Chilton 7 Johnston 0 Bell 0 Brady 4 Million 0 Mcadden 0 Dean 0 Seals 0 Woods 0 South Iron (11) Hampton 3 Sullivan 0 Keathly 4 Sutton 0 Nichols 0 Barer 0 McHenry 0 May 4 Barnes 0 Kunkel 3 CLEARWATER 7TH 42 SOUTH IRON 28 Clearwater (42) Burns 6 Phillips 10 Hicks 12 Shilt 6 Bell 8 South Iron (28) McHenry 4 Thompson 6 Mills 10 Kunkel 2 Scaggs 0 Barnes 0 Creek 0 Daggett 5 SOUTH IKON 8TH 50 CLEARWATER 39 Clearwater (39) Harper 8 Holiman 4 Bridges 15 Dean 10 Odom 2 Allen 0 South Iron (39) May 31 Gouser 17 Bar nard 0 Hampton 2 Lashley 0 Kelly 0 Stidmon 0 hamstring linebacker Mike Knox who has a sore shoulder defensive tackle Rob Stuckey who has a mild concussion and defensive tackle Mike Keeler who sprained an ankle Coach Tom Osborne said he hopes Rozier and his sidelined teammates will be ready when the top ranked Huskers take on Kansas at Lincoln just have to see what they can Osborne said The Kansas Jayhawks also were contemplating who would and be available for the game Defensive end Mike Arbanas and tight end Ernie Wright were out with the flu and center Ben nie Semecka and tight end Jeff Anderson were recovering from sprained ankles Kansas Coach Mike Gottfried said the players probably would see action against the Huskers in their regionally televised match Oklahoma must beat Colorado if the Sooners are to have any chance of going to a bowl game this year said Coach Barry Switzer game Dec 3 at Hawaii also hurts the chances of going to a bowl Switzer added Stephen DeaDZONE.