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“consider sharing.

TORONTO

Football League officials are con:
The proposal, which is being

discussed informally on both sides of .
the border, appears to be the -

* brainchild of Richard Bennett, a
‘a number of players in the CFL,

Bennett sald that most football

; executives react negatively to the
~ inter-league proposal’ but “after -

* spending ‘some time examiriing the.

; idea in depth, they. usually seem to.
. league. baseball. “Players try «to
‘Improve'-themselves and keep. in

: Teplize that it’s viable... -

and convince them that it’s a good .
idea. I honestly think that it has-a

good chance (of happerting).””  -

‘Incoming. CFL .

“it proposal, didn’t want to. give the

“USFL any legitimacy,” '

s‘reported that Bennett: recently.

‘HGoutlined the plan to Toronto
a: Argonauts. president Ralph Sario, |
: } who remained . undecided | but .

‘promised to mention it to fellow CFL

> executives at league meetings in.

:. California this week,

: Bennett said that most USFL

(cP) — * “Canadian :
". Football. League and. United: States

sidering the idea of sharing players;.

Washington lawyer who represents

-USFL and = Natl nal F :
League o ootball

'” "1 think Tean alt down with anyone |

‘ta. ‘play “in Both leagues,” said
' Toronto” entrepreneur John _F,
‘Bassett, owner: -of the: USFL's.
‘Tampa Bay Bandits, “In ‘fact, J

‘think it’ vould be beneficial for

everyone invdlved.s
“Y'd be happy. to let one of ‘my. ’
players, say .(second-atring quar:

‘ terback) Wayne Peace go up-to

Canada’ and get some work during .

our off-season.

‘ “Tt might be reluctant to let my

superstars go up and risk injury, but
I think it would be good for certain .

players to get more experience and.

‘keep in condition, It would. he

similar to what. they do in ‘major

condition year-round by: pla :
winter ball, ° =. ving
"#1 would hink. ‘that the players :
"Would be interested because it would |
‘give them a chance to make'more ;

* mhoney,”

‘Mitchell wondered about the wear

- and tear on the players, -

“We've been in‘ existence “for a
decades,"' anid Mitchell. “Thea USFL
vi has been in existence for two years...
The: Toronto.:Globe and Mail i
that: problem: ' an .interleague in- :
surance agreement.

““'m not sure whether a player an
‘withstand the Punishment on his
body year-round,”’he said, = ©

Befinett sald he had the solution to *

“Besides: baseball, players in
professional soccer are often sent
from their “Kuropean clubs to
another league, ' provided the.

‘ seasons don’t: overlap. The USFL

‘la : its sports
betting pool based on.

wats i bell clubs that ‘alee at

- Baseball athintapiond tickets for the pool be

Bowie Kuha's application “suspended until ‘the case

for . an. , injune to’ ;, [8 settled,

_ prevent: federal’. The pool is scheduled to
Sart operating in rmid-

‘= My iittancourt told
baseball scores will: be ; Jawyer Robert Mongeon
heard in Quebec Superior ‘he could not prohibit,
Court on April'30. -licket gales until an in-
Mr. Justice Jacques | Janetten is granted.
' Vaillancourt set the date. On’ April 30, the court
teday.‘while Fefusing a ;Will hear arguments for a
request from lawyers for temporary —_ injunction,
.. Kuhn and: ‘Taafor league Which would suspend

: @rrors

a ae

' siQoaltender

a" officials approve of the concent. ”
“a have no objection if a quy wants

ee fF!

season runs from February to mid- -
-- Jbly while the CFL begins in late
Jone and finishes in mid- November.

ey yfe
AMY

ee Bouchard puts.

e -troubles behind | him:

2

dl QUEBEC (CP)— It has
Been an uphill battle, but
Daniel

“Bouchard of Quebec

2 Nordiques appears to

shave finally put his
1 plavott problems behind

Ri While, Bouchard, 33,
“Sind in his idth National
Hockey League season,
_ has lost only a third of his

“2'pegular-season games —
268 of 193, int S84) years with. < Iouaes in’12 gated with Bo Yate
onthe ‘Novdiqies"-S"Hevhad® an elie.
towed only” wevear 6f°°20"° Calgary’ Flatnes! "Ter then past. As long

‘playoff games before

a post-season. play began.

3Jast week.

“iT But it was a big week

“tfor the Val-d'Or, Que.,

“native. In three con-

“pecutive victories over

:iBuffalo-he allowed only
five goals in eliminating
the Sabres from Stanley
“Cup play. .

‘He may not have been
but
key
“aaves ‘when called upon,
“’éspecially in the . two
“Opening games of the
* series in Buffalo in which
“the Nordiques . were
““outahot by a Poumilative
‘total of 62-42.
., In'the second period of
- Same 2, Bouchard was

‘ playoffs,

peppered. with: 19 shots, shape and he’s a com- Season, Celtics’
_ Including - elght: in nt

period's opening three
minutes. He allowed only
two goals, which came in
8 14-second span when the
Sabres caught fire. -.
Before coming to
Quebec from Calgary in
January 1981 for winger
Jamte Hislop, Bouchard
suffered dismal
compiling 11,
Bown’ Brung ts
Coach Michel Bergeron
of the Nordiques realizes
he will need more heroics
from Bouchard for
Quebec t= eliminate
Montreal’ Canadiens in
the Adams Division best-

of-seven final which:

opens here. Thuraday

night.
IMPROVES RECORD
“I remember we were
19th overall in the league
four years ago when we
traded for Bouchard and
we finished lth,” said
Bergeron. “In this league
you need a good goalie or
you're in trouble.
“A goalie is 50 per cent
of the game in’ the
playoffa,” he added.
“Bouchard is a good

veteran, he's * in rood

“. Disabled skiing

ath BANFF, Alta. (CP) —
“Two atheletes whose
.:vetirement has been
delayed by thelr quest to
abe the best in the world
awwWere among slalom

- Winners at the Macdonald 8

-Digabled Skiing Cham-
- plonships Tuesday.
Calgary’s Wayne
Burton and Lana
Spreeman of Olds, Alta,,
both ‘continued their
winning ways at the
national championships.
Burton won the men’s
four-track slalom, his
seventh straight victory
‘ covering the last three

»-,Hatlonals. Spreeman won

“ the women’s slalom for
. skiers with a prosthesis
and normal equipment,
sheer. record ‘elghth

Canadian title,

.. ‘Burton, a year-old
. salesman who lost both
. legs in a motorcyle ac-
+ cident 10 years ago, has

|been in a class by himself
for the last two years.

+ Tuesday, he was only 1.4
_‘seconds ahead of Stephen
Ellefeon,: also .,.. fram

.. fun down the 43-gate, ae
_ Metre course,

', Burton widened the aap
“to 3.45 seconds and
:- finished with a combined

_ , time of two mintues, 21 78

seconds,
_oy"Last year, I beat him
by ‘almost 20 seconds,"
- #aid Burton, who wants to
«ski: competitively long
-@nough to have one more
-etack at a gold medal at
“Ae. world games in 1986.
Spreeman’: :.i8 .. also
fooking for one last shot at

Vancouver's

gold.

“T was going to. make.

this year my last one,”
said the 28-year-old single
amputee, who lost her left
leg in a farm accident at
e five.

“But I'd Bke to: go- for
gold in "88."

Spreeman “has won
three of the last four
slaloms in her class,
falling in the 1989 event,
Her margin of victory
was one four-hundredth of
a second after coming.
from behind on the second
run to defeat Lana Jo
Chapin of Durango, Colo.,
with a total time’ of
1:55,35.

Otfier men’s slalom

winners were: David
Jamison of Taberwash,
Colo., who held off
Vancouver's Pail Chew in
the final run of the three-
track; Daniel Beaucage

‘of St! Laurent, Qué., an
easy winner of the men's
‘prosthesis with norinal
equipment; “Paul Dibello
. We

. Calgary, after the. first Of Conway,

‘N.H., |’ for.
skiers with disabilities in

‘both legs; Reid Robinson

of Incline, Nev., who was
1.4 seconds better than
Bil’ Harriott - of
Dalemead, Alta.,-In the
race for arm amputees;
. Bedel = of

In the’ other women's
race for three-track
skiers, Martha Hill of
Winter Park, Colo, edijed
Tinda
Chyzyk. ©

petitor who wants to win.

"I don’t agree that he

chokes in the playofis,"
said Bergeron. . “Two
years ago he wai fan-
tastic against Montreal
{in a five-game, first-
round series). And he
single-handedly won. the
seventh game (of the
he's the best fermen
e’s 8 the best

my ad thee!
a

he stops Phe puck this
year, they say they'll
have nothing to complain
about.

“I read once in a
magazine that he has

troubles in’ the playoffs,

but I also know that the
team has a lot‘ of con-
fidence in Dan,” said
‘reserve goaltender Clint
Malarchuk. “As long as
he’s been with the’ Nor-
diques he’s played well —
I should know because
I'm his partner and I’m
saying he’s. a cool
customer.” -

. “We weren't ivith him’
before so we can’t convict
him over his reputation in
other series,” said right
winger Wilf Pafement.
“He's playing ‘well row
and that's all that we care
about,

*“Hoe-has 4 good attitude
now, He's old enough and.

he's played enough to:
know how to take the
"pressure,"

added. )
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BASEBALL
Nationa} League

Atlanta Braves acquire pitcher
Terry Leach fram Chicago Cubs In
exchange for pitcher Ron
Meredith and assign him te Rich
mond of ihe
International League,

Chicago Cubs. assign pitcher
Ron Maredith, acquired from
Atlanta :
Graves, to lowa of the American
Association.

BASKETBALL

NEA

Philadelphia 74ers. extend the
contract of guard Wes Malihews

for the
remainder of fhe spason.
FOOTBALL

CPL

B.C, Lions sign linebackar Alike
Walker and cafensive batk Hugh
Parker.

Rdmenten Eskimos sian ron-
ning back Chris Skinner, slotback
Dan Runge :
and wide recelver Bred Clark.

Ottawa Raugh Riders sign
kickers Gerry Kouric, Bean
Dorsey, Payl .

Watton, lan Ounbar and Scott.

Hay.
NEL,

Chiceso Bcars agree to terms -

wilh running back Calvin Thomas

or

terles of one-year contracts.
Denver Grencos acquire tignt

and Easen Ramin from Sen

Francitce

ators [x exchange for a future

undiechsed aratt choice,

fan Pranciaes ere announce ©

the signing of defensive back
Jamen

Burnham, linebacker David Hodge,
defensive and Dwayne Jackson,
offensive

tackle Mark Bonner, running back
Lorenta Butler, fullbach Gary
Carr,

offensive tackle Greg Foster, and
von wer Ron Weahington.

MME EA a

Winnipep Jets stm coach Garry
Long,

Paiement.

ticket’ sales penting a
fuller. hearing ona’ per-. wor'

‘manent injunction. -

"In papers filed with the
court last Wednesday,
Kuhn: and National and

American League. clubs.

said basing, a betting
scheme - baseball
scores would tarnish the
game's clean image,

“Baseball is not a sport
like horse racing — where
gambling is the at-
traction”

“Tt is a wholseome

McEnroe defeats. Borg

- VANCOUVER (CP) —
John McEnroé used his
big serve and convincing

ground strokes to pound.

out a 63, 64, 3-6, 61:
. @xhibltion. tennis victory
“Tuesday night over the

‘semi-retired Bjorti’ Borg.

before 11,560 fans at B.C.

Place Stadium. ;
McEnroe never’ ep-

peared seriously pressed

by Borg, who committed.

& series of unforced
and — "had

Borg's troubles con- -

~Hnued after the . match
_ when he slipped and fell
in the shower, cutting his
arm, but the Injury was.
not serious. -

- The exhibition gave

“McEnme an announced
‘purse of $50,000 and Borg
$25,000, It was the first
time they have met in two
‘years with thelr career
tournament records
standing at seven wins
each in the 14 meetings,

McEnroe broke in the

Selghth game of the first

set and in the seventh

- game of the second set

While holding his serve.
He dominated the second

“getas Borg mustered only
: three points

against
McEnroe’ B service.

Stunningly, Borg then
broke McEnroe at love In
‘the second game of the
third set with two huge
forehand winners and he
parlayed the break into
the set. McEnroe seemed

ee

NBA Roundup

While Boston has .

nothing more to prove In
the National Basketball
; regular ,

jation
centre
Robert Parish says it’s
time to look toward the
playoffs.

'“We want to win as
many games as possible ,

and keep the momentum “

going into the playoffs,”
said Parish, who scored |
‘nine of his 22 points in the
fourth quarter to lift the .
Celtics to a 96-95 victory ”
Tuesday night over .

o- Milwatkes Bucks. —
2 coe" thas ictory" ban

Boston’s eighth ‘sttaight
and improved its league-
leading record to 60-19.

The loss dropped the

Bucks back into a first- .

place tle with Detroit in

the Central Division with .

identical 47-82 records
‘with = three’. games
remaining for each team.
‘ “Now we're in a
position where we have to
rely on other teams to
defeat Detroit,” sald
Milwaukee guard Sidney
Moncrief, “We certainly
didn't want that to hap-
pen,” ’

. The Pistons took the

season series 3-2 and
would be guaranteed the

. home-court advantage in

the firat round of the
playoffs if the division
race ends in a tie, .

Larry Bird seored 19
‘points for the Celtics
followed by Kevin
McHale with 16. Junior

NBA
Standings

EASTERN CONFERENCE
atlantic Division

WoL Pct, GB.
y-Gosten © 19 759 —
V-Philadelphta sO 29 433 10
xNew York &N M2 14

wNew Jersey 44 35.557 16
‘yw Weahiagton 35 45 .43B 25¥a
Cenirat Olvtaion

«-Detrolt a? 32,595 —
Milwaukee at 32 595 —
x-Atlonta 42.465 10
_ Chicago a $2 442 20

Cleveland a 52 .342 20
Indiana 25 54 31h 22
WESTERN CONFERENCE

Midwest Olvlsion

. teh “as 550 —
x-Dallas Qo 2 Ww
Oenver 7 4] 463
Kansas City % 4d 450 8
San Antonio 34 40 8
Houston 20 0 367 We

Pacitic Division a
y-Los Angeles 53 2% 1671 —
Portland a7 32 «505
x-Seattle 0M S00 154
x:Phoanix 4) 4h
Gaiden State 3% 4] .456 17
San Diego 2 5) 34) 2de

y-clinched division tie
«clinched playolf berth
Tuesday Aeauits
Detroit 100 indiana 98
wm Jersey 106 Philadelphia

penile 125 Kansas city Lik)
Boston 94 Milwaukee 95

San Antonio 121 Houston 111
Phoenix 100 Portland 63
Dallas 116 San Diego 114
Utah 135 Denver 120

Golden State i? Lou Angeles

Ws
Teday's Games
Datralt at Philsdelphia
Milwaukee of Cleveland
Atlanta at Indiana
New York at Boston
New Jersey af Chicago
Denver at Houston
Portiend at Los Angaies
Thursday Gactes

San Antorilo af Kenbes City N

San Diego at Utah A
Dallas at Phoenix N
Galden State at Seattie N

: Bridgeman led the Bucks
‘with 18 points,

In other NBA games
Tuesday night, it was

,Detroit Platons 100,
_Indiana Pacers 88: New
Jersey Neta 106,

' Philadelphia 76ers 102;
, Seattle SuperSonics 125,
* Kansas City Kings 113;
San Antonio Spurs 121,
“Houston Rockets 111;
Phoenix Suns 1&,. Por-
tland Trail Blazers 38;
, Dallas Mavericks ‘ 116,
‘San Diego Clippers ne
pan das A, Den
luggels .120;- and
“State Warriors 117, Los °
Angeles Lakers 115.

EDMONTON : (CP) a

Wayne Gretzky bristles at ©
‘the. suggestion that new

linemate Raimo Sum-
manen has struggled in
his ‘last two National
Hockey League outings
with Edmonton Oilers.
“How can you say
that?’ Gretzky asked
Tuesday. .“‘He's played
five games (all of them
victories), and he's
played very well. Are you
going to judge him on the
basis of two games?”

Swmmanen, a 22-year-
old Finnish rookie who
jolned the Oilers during
the last week of the
regular season, has four
points in three NHL
playoff games and “has
shown. flashes of
brilliance playing left
wing on a line with
Gretzky and fellow Finn
Jari Kurri.

But when Winnipeg Jets
clamped down in the last
two games of the
preliminary-round Oilers
sweep, Summanen, who

Jaroslav
began having

a game, I
aiden are ma
“The” Ben aay again *

to take the fourth set far
more seriously as he

“again dominated the 27-

year-old Swede.

COMING BACK :
“Pm just coming back

from a bit of a layoff so I

didn't really play that

-well,”’ said’ McEnroe, “I

enjoyed playing Bjorn
again, and I. hope the

people enjoyed watching
a8 much as we id
playing. °

“He was actually a
little better than I thought
he would be. But when
you. don't play tour-
naments it’s-hard to get
involved in the big points

and I think that. was hig”

trouble.

“My
level’ is a tot higher
because I've heen
playing. We play ‘once
more and I hope we can
work it out to schedule.a
couple more.”

Borg sald he had fun
playing McEnree..

“John is a tough one to

be playing because he’s ~

on top of his game and
he's had a fantastic start
this season. He's going to
be the man to beat this
year.

‘ “I'm aure he'll win’ at:
least two of the maior
tournaments this -year.

He's playing with such
confidence.

“Myself, 1 might play
two or three. good games
but then in the next two or
three [ miss shois I

wouldn't ordinarily. If 1
wanted to Bet that out of |

world thayeto 'r

e. tennis."
tonight in Ottawa.

trouble in the offensive
zone.

Summanen made his
professional debut with
two assists March 27
against Calgary and he
will be in‘ the lineup
Thursday when the
Flames and Oilers open a
best-of-seven quarter-
final series.

“Sure, he plays a dif-
ferent style,” — said
Gretzky. ‘Jaroslav never
crossed the blue line, he
always hung back, and
there. were a lot of
situations we'd get in
where Paul Coffey would
move up and become kind
of the third forward on the
line,”

Summanen can hardly
apeak in his own defence,

“I'm a little nervous, I
think, but I can play
better,” he sald Tuesday,
without Kurri acting as
translator. “I must play
better.”

FACES DECISION

In Calgary, meanwhile,
Flames coach Bob
Johnson has a decision to
make regarding defen-
ceman Paul Reinhart,

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“These values are too
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lotteries or pool betting.”
. Bealdes, the petitioners
said, “the constitution of
the . National League
prohibits betting on

Rose
— to

CINCINNATI (AP) —
With his 4,000th major
league baseball hit just
one compact swing away,
left fielder Pete Rose of
Montreal Expos is con-
centrating on what he
considers a loftler goal —
winning.

Rose singled and
tripled to drive in three
runs Tuesday night in an
86 loss to Cincinnati
Reds. Although Rose can
become just the second
player to reach 4,000 hits
today, he sald he’ 8 more
concerned with ending
the Expos’ three-game
losing streak and moving
out of the cellar in the
National League East
Division.

“I’m really not

’ about it," Rose sald of No.

Nova Scotia
fink,
unbeaten

PRINCE RUPERT,
B.C. (CP) — Frank Hoar

of Truro, N.S., came from .

behind Tuesday to
maintain an unbeaten
record after two days at

ie

Hoar beat Vic Haut-
zinger of Drumheller,
Alta., &5, but needed a
takeout in the. 10th end to

Prince wupert now is +4,

who centred Jim
Peplinski and Steve
Tambellini- on Sunday
when Calgary eliminated
Vancouver Canucks.

“IT certainly enjoyed
playing on that line but
[ll do whatever he
(Johnson) wants me to,”
said Reinhart, who
sparked Calgary with
three goals in Sunday's 6-

With = Relnhart — at
centre, the Flames: lose
their top defenceman. In
the event. that Relnhart

plays defence, he would:

Charlie

Johnson, whose jeam
lost seven games and tied
one against the Ollers this
season, has yet to decide
whether Rejean Lemelin
or Don Edwards will be in
Fi Thursday night in

17,405: —. 13,123

hitter right, “ga

‘pssebial games . without
any distinction as ta the
legality of the betting
schemes,”

- poo] 5 _ to ‘be

operated by the Canadian |
. government’ s Sports Fool .

Corp., “set: up. by

- Parliament last June with

the idea that revenues
would - be: used to help
finance the, 1988 Winter:

owmples in Calgary.

wants °
win

4,00, "I'm. ‘swinging
good. I'll get my hits. I
just hope we win."

A supportive crowd of
paid —
chanted ‘Pete, Pete’
whenever Rose came to
bat Tuesday and loudly
cheered his two-hita. -

Rose, who would like to
Teach 4,000 in front of the
fans who applauded him
16 years as a Cincinnati
Red, lined out sharply
twice, struck out, singled
home a run in the second
and got hit No. 3,900 with

"a €wotun triple in the —

eighth.

Rose's next hit will put
him in the company of Ty
Cobb in the 4,000hit
category. Rose's main
quest is Cobb's all-time
hit record of 4,191. :

The next single also will
give: Rose 3,000 in his
career, -trailing only
‘Cobb’s 3,052 singles. He
has 711 career doubles —
fourth on the all-time list
— 180 triples and 158
home runs.

However,
lose after leading 3-0 in
the sixth robbed Rose of
any trate of ‘a smile.

“1 don’t liked to talk too
much when we lose,”
Rose ‘sald.

ontreal sndnager Bill

don sald he'l!’’ play

se today in an af-
ternoon game that winds
up the series with the
Reds. Rose, who often
was rested in da ‘games
les last
““tenson with’ ' Philadelphia
Phillies, wants to play.

Gretzky defends Summanen.

"sag will ns whoever is
ready jphygically) - and
mentally,” Johnson said.
“Against the Ollers, it
doesn’t make all that
much difference. They're
tough on any goalie,”

Lemelin had the beiter
goals-against average
during the regular season
— 3.50 compared with 4.09
for Edwards.

However, against the
Oilers, Lemelin’s average
was 7.50 while Edwards
was 5.72,

Both agree they'll have
to be sharp to beat the
Oilers.

“They can burn you on
two-on-ones,”” ss said
Edwards. ‘But I’ve never
had any nightmarea
about the Oilers. rll sleep
well tonight.”’

“I hope the heck I get
hot, that’s ail,” said
Lemelin.

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