Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 5, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba On before you by any an angelic looking Freddie patek carried a mighty a photo Hal Sigurdson sports editor half Way through the first round of the alleged main event of tues Days professional boxing card at the convention the paying customers began walking Tom Tex the beat most of them to the i stand to i he was saying wednesday after pulling himself Back when i saw that Guy come out of his Comer for the first round and Start to cover i knew it was going to be a Why did i leave because i was Embar you cant ask much More than that from your neigh boyhood boxing promoter in terms of but an obvious question after tuesdays boxing card which More than customers paid Good Money to should not the Manitoba boxing commission Call Burns into its of fice and have him explain Why his licence As a promoter should not be revoked one does not question the sincerity of Burns efforts to present qual Ity professional boxing cards to the Winnipeg but about you have to wonder if this May not be a Case where a sport is More in peril from its friends than its ene tuesdays events at the Conven Tion Centre did boxing in this town no it will be difficult to convince Many most of his customers to part with their Cash for any future Burns the name Burns was flogging for this show was Scott which is Ledoux is a reason ably competent whose major claims to Fame Are a draw he should have won with former heavyweight Champion Leon a to Over Howard co Seils Hairpiece and the Good taste to have Canadian in a secondary feature Burns signed up Leroy Moses a Milwaukee heavyweight who had proved himself a in two previous Winnipeg appear he also had a couple of local favourites for his preliminary middleweight Terry Jesmer and Wayne the ingredients for an entertain Saleable card were but Burns neglected one detail suit Abie the opponent for one Sylvester was a joke an joke whose sole objective was finding a soft place to land since he was weighed by More than 40 it is perhaps unfair to fault this Strat egy Caldwell s Harold was outweighed by some 25 he could but he could not if be entered the ring with any intention other than u was never Caplette bout wifi can of Cleveland Ted its moments Tot referee Sieve Trouart stopped it in the third a m Sii Iaus but saw something fp8 of us Dmit Fig Teh fee opener Jesmer it eff m the cards Lone re apart from a 57 but Hung in gamely until the fifth of six scheduled one realizes Burns is still a rela Tive Rookie in the promoting Busi his dilemma was compounded by the fact three fighters cancelled for one reason or an forcing him into a late search for never we Are forced to the conclusion the Man is either incredibly naive or a painfully slow card after card he keeps bring ing in sight card after card these Las minute refugees dump All Over him and the each time Burns explanation is the same a Friend told me they make a Good oppo after tuesdays fiasco Burns says Hes considering throwing in the in Case he there Are a couple of things he might Bear in for instance dont announce any bout until you have signed contracts from both the people in your game Are rarely known for do not bring in any fighter you have not seen with the kind of friends you appear to have in you will never have need of perhaps you noticed on these pages wednesday a letter in fan forum from one Bernard you May even have noticed the same letter in Vic Grants column in Brand Patoux is obviously big on writing no less than three copies arrived in this the number delivered to Brand x is not in his Patoux attacks your Humble servants View that the Manitoba sports through its last two executive has developed a disconcerting habit of inserting its nose where it does not this is his undeniable but he will excuse me for feeling a trifle he accuses me of suggesting the mss needs an executive director More in tune with politics than in confused because id have sworn i offered precisely the opposite the notion Here was and is the goals of the mss would be better served if the people it hires As executive director concentrated their efforts on serving the needs of sport rather than issuing press releases condemning government policy and challenging the veracity of its or concerning them selves with the hiring and firing policies q the surely someone should be paying attention to the needs of Manitoba there were nearly 2s0 ath letes on our Canadian common wealth cames team in Edmonton last Only two were Mambo bans gut then i confuse was roof used Back in of a a top mss Grajew allowed it atoms to the lured As tectonic a director of Jesmer my prov Ciai Aji piste ski until twist very i Feid Al Fri Zavad in rat than a of flare Iris saw a whew 9 w Cwm w Tec Tucal director was required to i bad Cut were Al Jeff an Esse it Ian Gura rises to smite yanks Kansas a Larry Efto want 0006 cf80gh to stick with new York proved Good Fiji Fri Gib in flu Hob of Kansas cites the Wengs teeters not there Gura said after pitching six Strong innings in a 104 royals Victory wednesday that squared the bes five american league playoff series at 1 just wanted to Settle us Down and help us win because we knew we had to win this Gura it was a must for traded to the royals two years ago for Catcher fran gave up eight hits and two runs and had this to say about silly the former Yankees manager who decided he was Ulf Billy Martin was still managing the wed be playing the red the royals got started in the same fashion that dogged them in the opener tuesday night when the Yankees breezed to a 71 with one pred patek made a throwing error on thin Man Mun sons ground Ball and Reggie reaching base for the 12th consecutive time in postseason a but Gura got Graig Nettles to ground out to end the threat and George Brett quickly smacked what was to be the first of 16 royals hits Leati ing off tire Bottom of the first one out of staff autos Otis singled Brett to followed by a Long sacrifice Fly of the Bat of Darren Porter that put the royals tin 14 the Yankees immediately mounted a threat in the second the first of Chris Chambliss four Roy Whites fielders Choice Ami a single by Fred then patek made a Stope Bonfey dents grounder behind second and started a deceptively easy double the royals chased starter id Figueroa with a four run burst in the second that got started on live singles by Clint hurdle and Al Gowens and kept rolling when Short Stop Fiuek dents throw to Nettles at third hit patek and he trotted Home As the Ball rolled into foul runners wound up at second and third and Frank White then hit a chopper through the Middle for two More reliever Dick Tidrow got a Quick out and then gave up two More sin Gles As the royals took a w that was the end of the scoring until a tense and bizarre seventh that saw a an embarrassing lapse of memory by umpires and players alike and a Homer that patek called the most satisfying hit of his Chambliss and White singled Lead ing moved up a base on Cliff Johnsons grounder and pulled the Yankees to of than three of dents a single by Mickey Rivers brought Marty Pattin from the royals he coaxed a Popup from Munson and a Fly ban from Lou a double by Pete Lacock and hurdles triple the right Field Fence gave the royals a m Lead and Rookie Willie the fastest Nan in the major ran for Al Cowens grounded a single to ties at third and Wilson broke toward the plate where he collided with son on the both men went but Munson was up like a eat and ing toward players from both stood tentatively on the Periphery of the action while umpires pacified the angry Yankees who later took several stitches for a Cut on his when order was patek leaned into a High fastball and popped it into the Loftfield bleachers for a two run Sparky Lyle then came in and retired White on a ground Ball but in All the confusion nobody remembered that was the third the Yankee fielders held their position and the next came to the but before a pitch could be plate Umpire Rich raising his As if to nobody per and signalled the end of the Bonscore Page 87 Al Hrabosky dodger fire refuses phils explosion9 Philadelphia a Philadel phia third baseman Mike Schmidt predicted an offensive explosion and Phillies manager Danny Ozark forecast a three game yet it was los Angeles that did the led by Steve and its the dodgers who May do the sweeping after their 95 Victory wednesday night in the first game of the National league championship i hit a curve Ball a fastball and a screwball said who rapped two homers and a triple in a dodger assault that set a no playoff record with 30 total we Are extremely High and we Are going to be extremely difficult to said dodger spark plug Dave who along with Steve also homered for los Angeles to hush Phillies yet the dodgers secured by the poised Relief pitching of baby faced Rookie Bob left Ozark outwardly going into the Besto five Ozark flatly forecast his no East champs would win in three i didst say wed win the first Ozark amended with a thin smile in the pos game interview i think i said wed take three and in still going with three dodgers manager Tom whose team took three of four games to oust Philadelphia in the same postseason series a year maintained a reserved when you give up five runs like that and you win a big i think youre very said Lasor what did he think of ozarks bold optimism he said the same thing last said All i know is we won the first now were thinking about the second among several Phillies whose Bat production fell off this had said he was looking for dynamite hitting against los but it was the dodgers who Ive always enjoyed pressure said that is what life is All about challenges and in my profession that Means Batter against the score was m in the third when game dug in against Larry Chris Tenson with two runners on base before the Christenson had a conference on the Mound with cat ctr or Bob Boone j wanted to throw a curve Ball in the dirt and said Boonie wanted me to throw an in Side i threw a curve and Hung it game drove the pitch Over the left fiend Wall and the dodgers had 41 i like to see 9 Pitcher a Little Catfish gets third game nod Garvey i think that Homer really broke the Lopes made it 61 with his two run Homer in the and he circled the bases with More than playoff pressure on his the los Angeles infielder then revealed that the dodgers dedicated their play to coach Jim in a coma since sustaining a brain Hemor rage last were going to do our damnedest to win it for said Hes with us every single every i we love the in the Garvey chased Tenson with a then scored on a single by Ron the Phillies made their prime push in the Bottom of the knocking butt Hooton out of the game with three runs on five including a two run liner by Garry but that when Lasorda called the 21yearold Welch from the bullpen and he yielded two including a Solo Homer to Jerry and no walks Over the final 4 13 Hes extremely said if you look in his i think youll see the Twilight the dodgers 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