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Indiana High School Basketball By The Aeaoclaled Press Friday's Games Anderson 66, Richmond 64, OT Anderson Highland 84, Indpls Marshall 66 Austin 62, Clarksville SO Bedford-N. Lawrence 45’ Jasper 43 Betheada Christian 79, Indpls Lutheran SO Bloomington South 71, Columbus East 43 Blue River 80, Wes-Del 58 Boonville 58, Like Central 44 Borden 66, LanesviUe 47 Bremen 54, North Wood 40 Browns burg 62, Cascade 52 Brownstown 63, Springs Valley 60 Cambridge City 84, Union Co. 57 Carmel 52, Lawrence Central 47 Carroll (Allen) 77, Ft. Wayne Luerss7 Carroll (Carroll) 77, Western 66 Caston 95, Northfield 52 Center Grove 47, Greenfield 43 Chesterton 50, Lowell 48 Clarksville Providence 61, N.Harrison 52 Clay City 47, Van Buren 43 Clinton Central 61, Western Boone 60 Concord 65, New Prairie 42 Covington 65, Montezuma 61 Crawford Co. 49, Mitchell 46 Crawfordsville 58, Brazil 55 Crown Point 47, Valparaiso 46 Danville 65, Speedway 60 DeKalb 78, Bellmont 66 Delphi 89, W. Lafayette 60 Delta 72, Eastbrook 65 Dubois 50, Shoals 26 E.Central 69, Brookville 58 E. Chicago Roosevelt 66, Hammond N 11 65 Eastern Hancock 76, Southwestern (Shelby) 46 Elkhart Central 70, S.Bend Clay 67 Elkhart Memorial 56, Penn 55 Elwood 57, Peru 53 Evansville Reitz 59, Mt. Vernon (Posey) 41 Farmdale Christian 60, Mill Road Christian 55 Floyd Central 88, Scottsburg 44 Fountain Central 88, N Putnam 60 Frankfort 62, Benton Central 50 Franklin 60, Plainfield 59 Frankton 57, Madison-Grant 40 FronUer 60, Tri-County 47 Ft. Wayne Elmhurst 82, Ft. Wayne Concordia 55 Ft. Wayne Harding 68’ Ft. Wayne Snider 50 Ft. Wayne Northrop 68, Ft. Wayne North 53 Garrett 49, Hamilton 44 Gary Wallace 58, Hobart 49 Gibson Southern 59, Heritage Hills 57 Goshen 53, Rochester 47 Graceland Christian 78, Evansville Christian 47 Griffith 77, Hammond Clark 66 Hammond Morton 76, Andrean 50 Hanover Central 59, Kouts 55 Hauser 66, Ed nburgh 55 Hebron 65, S.Central 42 Huntington North 52, Jay Co. 30 Indian Creek 57, Mooresville 54 Indiana Deaf 71, Indpls Christian 47 Indpls Arlington 83, Indpls Washington 54 Indpls Baptist 67, Laurel 64 Indpls be.. », Decatur Central 44 Indpls Brebeuf 74, Indpls Roncalli 60 Indpls Howe 64, Indpls Chatard 54 Indpls Manual 52, Southport 50 Indpls N.Central )9, Kokomo Haworth 54 Indpls Northwest 62, Bloomington North 55 Indpls Perry Meridian 72, Lawrence North 62 Indpls Ritter 76, Indpls Scecina 74,2 OTs Jac-Cen-Del 67, Switzerland Co. 65 Jeffersonville 55, Shelby Co., Ky. 45 Kankakee Valley 63, N. Judson 58 Knights town 78, Hagerstown 58 LAM 74, Vincennes Rivet 64 LaPorte 93, Culver Military 61 Lefayette Harrison 59, McCutcheon 45 Lake Central 82, Hammond 66 Lakeland 68, Fremont 55 Lebanon 58, 43 Maconaquah 56, Pioneer 48 Madison 62. Lawrenceburg 58 Manchester 78, Ft. Wayne Wayne 50 Marion 57, Muncie Central 46 Marion Bennett 81, Mississinewa 50 Merrillville 79, Highla d 56 Mich. City grogers 72, Portage 68 Monroe Central 76, Cowan 49 Mt. Vernon (Hancock) 56, New Palestine 42 Muncie Burris 46, Huntington Catholic 37 Muncie North 51, Pendleton Hts 47 Muncie South 62, Anderson Madistn Hts 58 N.Central (Sullivan) 67, Linton 58 N.Posey 86, Wood Memorial 53 N. White 55, Rossville 35 New Albany 64, Jennings Co. 56 New Castle 66, Kokomo 64,2 OTs Noblesville 75, Lapel 51 Northeastern 71, Winchester 41 Northwestern 52, Lafayette Catholic 45 Oak Hill 84, Tippecanoe Valley 74 Oregon-Davis 67, Morgan Twp. 57 30wen Valley 71, S.Putnam 53 Pekin Eastern 68, Henry ville 62 Perry Central 7, Cannelton 38 Plainfield Charlton 72, White’s 48 Plymouth 79, Culver 54 River Forest 60, Whiting 51 Reseda le 63, N. Vermillion 61 Rushville 72, Morristown 32 S.Bend St. Joseph’s 62, Mishawaka Marian 49 S.Dearborn 53, Bates ville 52 S.Knox 53, Princeton 50 S.Ripley 58, Rising Sun 40 Seeger 7, Turkey Run 60 Shakamak 57, CLOVERDALE %? Shelby ville 63, Greenwood 61,2 OTs Shenandoah 66, York town 48 Silver Creek 72, Paoli 55 Southern W ells 80, Churubusco 68 Southridge 61, S .Spencer 56 Sullivan 78, S. Vermillion 59 Switz City 69, N.Knox 63 Tell City 61, Castle 48 Terre Haute North 80, Martinsville 52 Terre Haute South 75, Evansville Bosse 61 Tri-Central 77, Clinton Prairie 44 Tri-West 67, Southmont 62 Triton 73, Knox )8 Triton Central 67, Beech Grove 62, OT Twin Lakes 63, S.Newton 46 Vincennes 56, Evansville Memorial 41 W. Noble 68, Fairfield 54 W. Vigo 70, Rock ville 54 Wabash 38, Alexandria 35 Wapahani 63, Daleville 54 Warren Central 96, Franklin Central 36 Washington Catholic 94, N.Daviess 54 Whitko72, Southwood7l Winamacß9, N. Newton 53 Woodlan 60, Norwell 55 Worthington 93, Eminence 63

Friday’s College Basketball Scores By The Associated Press EAST Brown 70' Columbia 63 Cornell 54, Yale 53 Maine 75, Utica 68 Pennsylvania 77,Harvard 74,2 OT Princeton 61, Dartmouth 49 SOUTH Alabama 51, Louisiana St. 49, OT Morehouse 88, Lane 57 Southern Tech 56, Georgia Coll. 50 MIDWEST N Colorado 85, S. Dakota 76 SOUTHWEST Cameron 94, SW Texas 85 FAR WEST Arizona 65, Arizona St. 64 Friday’s Sports Transactions By The Associated Press BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX-Reached a contract agreement with Mike Brown, pitcher CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Signed Casey Parsons. Dave Stegman, Dave Yobs and Daryl Boston, outfielders MINNESOTA TWINS-Signed Tim Teufel, infielder Nstionsl League CINCINNATI REDS-Reached a contract agreement with Ron Robinson, pitcher. HOUSTON ASTROS-Signed JR Richard, pitcher, to a one-year contract to play for the club's Tucson affiliate in the Pacific Coast League LOS ANGELES DODGERS-Signed Orel Hershiser a o Rich Rodas, pitchers;

Dave Anderson, shortstop, and Sid Bream, first baseman. NEW YORK METS—Reached contract agreements with Ron Darling and Doug Sisk, pitchers, and Herm Winningham, outfielder. SAN FRANCISCO GlANT'S—Claimed Dusty Baker, outfielder, on waivers. FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS-Named Jeff Stanton secondary coach. BALTIMORE COLTS-Released Jeff Delaney, safety, and Lindsey Mason, offensive lineman. MINNESOTA VIKINGS-Announced that Bill Belichick will return to the New York Giants as assistant coach. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS-Fired Jerry Smith, defensive line coach. United Stales Football League CHICAGO BLlTZ—Fired Ron Potocnik as general manager and named Carl Marasco to replace him. Waived Roger Wiley, numingback. Placed Roger Riley, defensive end, on reserved retired list. PHILADELPHIA STARS-Eigned Pete Kugler, nose tackle. PITTSBURGH MAULERS-Acquired Larry Friday, safety, and a draft rhoice from the New Jersey Generals in exchange for two undisclosed draft picks. Waived Jim Perryman, safety. HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS-Signed David Korol, defenseman, to a multi-year contract. Assigned Don Murdoch, right wing, to Montana of the Central Hockey League. Assigned John Beukeboom, defenseman, to Adirondack of the American Hockey League.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W. L.Pct...GB Boston 41 12 .774 - Philadelphia 33 19 .635 7)4 New York 32 19 .627 8 New Jersey 26 28 .481 15)6 Washington 25 28 .472 16 Central Division Milwaukee 31 23 .574 Detroit 28 22 .560 1 Atlanta 28 26 .519 3 Chicago 21 29 .420 8 Cleveland 20 31 .392 9)4 Indiana 14 37 .275 15)4 WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division Utah 32 21 .604 - Dallas 29 25 .537 3‘4 San Antonio 25 30 .455 8 Kansas City 22 30 .423 9)6 Denver 22 32 .407 10)4 Houston 21 32 .396 11 Pacific Division Los Angeles 33 18 647 Portland 32 22 593 2)4 Seattle 27 24 .529 6 Phoenix 23 30 .434 11 Golden State 23 31 .426 11)4 San Diego 17 36 .321 17 Friday’s Games Philadelphia 114, New Jersey 109 San Antonio 111, Chicago 109 Dallas 129, Phoenix 123 Milwaukee 105, Utah 91 Denver 141, Los Angeles 138 Washington 96, Portland 87 Boston 111, Seattle 100 Saturday's Games New Jersey at gnew York Indiana at Cleveland Atlanta at Kansas City Phoenix at Houston Los Angeles at San Diego Washington at Golden State Sunday's Games New York at Philadelphia Detroit at San Antonio Denver at Seattle Utah at Indiana Milwaukee at Chicago Boston at Portland

National Hockey League Wales Conference Patrick Division W L. .T PtiGF GA NY Rangers 33 18 8 74 238 221 NY Isles 35 22 2 72 255 208 Washington 34 21 4 72 228 177 Philadelphia 30 18 9 69 249 206 New Jersey 13 41 5 31 168 249 Pittsburgh 13 41 5 31 185 271 Adams Division Buffalo 38 16 6 82 245 197 Boston 36 20 3 75 257 196 Quebec 31 22 6 68 269 208 Montreal 28 27 5 61 230 219 Hartford 19 31 8 46 210 242 Campbell Conference Norris Division Minnesota 30 24 5 65 263 258 St. Louis 23 30 6 52 211 235 Chicago 22 31 7 51 206 225 Toronto 21 32 6 48 224 281 Detroit 20 32 7 47 215 254 Smythe Division Edmonton 41 14 5 87 332 249 Calgary 25 21 11 61 223 23C Winnipeg 20 27 10 50 247 275 Vancouver 22 33 6 50 234 253 Los Angeles 17 30 12 46 238 272 Friday’s Games Buffalo 5, Minnesota 4, OT Quebec 6, Winnipeg 3 Edmonton 5, Boston 2 Pittsburgh 4, Vancouver 1 Saturday's Games New Jersey at Philadelphia Chicago at Detroit N Y. Rangers at N Y. Islanders Boston at Calgary Hartford at Toronto 3 Quebec at Minnesota Washington at St. Louis Montreal at Los Angeles Sunday's Games St. Louis at Chicago N Y Islanders at New Jersey Pittsburgh at Edmonton Hartford at Buffalo Detroit at Toronto Olympic Medalists SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia (AP) The medals awarded through Friday’s com petition at the XIV OQLYMPIC Wintei Games: Gold. silver. Bronze. Total Soviet Unin 4 9 8 21 East Germny 7 7 5 19 Finlnd 2 3 5 10 Norwy 3 2 3 8 United Stats 3 2 0 5 Swedn 3 0 14 Switzerlnd 2 2 0 4 -anad 2 114 •Vest Germny 2 l i t rzechoslovaki 0 13 4 SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia (AP) - Winners of more than one medal in the XIV Olympic Winter Games through Friday’s competition: FOUR Karin Enke, East Germany, speed skating, two gold, two silver. THREE Peter Angerer, West Germany, biathlon, one gold, one silver, one bronze. Gaetan Boucher, Canada, speed skating, two gold, one bmze. Marja-Liisa Hamalainen, Finland, cross-country, two gold, one bronze. Eirik Kvalfoss, Norway, biathlon, one gold, one silver, one bronze Andrea Schoene, East Germany, speed skating, one gold, two silver. Gunde Svan, Sweden, cross-country, two gold, one bronze. TWO Bent Aunli, Norway, cross-country, one gold, one silver. Kvetoslava Jeriova, Czechoslovakia, cross-country, one silver, one bronze Aki Karvonen, Finland, cross-country, one silver, one bronze Sergei Khlebnikov, Soviet Union, speed skating, two silver. Harri Kirvesniemi, Finland, crosscountry, two bronze Perrine Pelen, France, alpine skiing, one silver, one bronze Natalya Petruseva, Soviet Union, speed skating, two bronze Brit Pettersen, Norway, cross-country, one gold, one bronze. Alexander Zavialov, Soviet Union, crosscountry, two silver. Nikolay Zimiatov, Soviet Union, crosscountry. one gold, one silver

Birds of a feather

Little brother Eddie could be as good as Larry, say coach, Mama Bird

By STEVE HERMAN AP Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Five years ago, fifth-grader Eddie Bird boasted that he would someday be a better basketball player than his big brother, Larry. Eddie, now a 6-foot-3, 160-pound sophomore at Springs Valley High School, is the youngest of five brothers. He’s outgoing, but he no longer talks about surpassing, or even equalling, the accomplishments of his most famous brother —who stars for the Boston Celtics. “He just sorta wants to be himself. He’s an above-average player right now, but you can’t compare him with Larry. You can’t compare anybody with Larry,” says Eddie’s coach, Gary Holland, who also coached Larry Bird in high school in the small, southern Indiana community of French Lick. Because of all the attention Larry received, Holland and the boys’ mother, Georgia Bird, try to shield Eddie from the publicity and pressure. “He’s only 17, and we don’t want him to get a big head,” Mrs. Bird said about the many requests for interviews with Eddie. “The coach and I sat down and talked about it and we thought it would be better for him to wait until next year before starting all that. “It was bad with Larry. Now it’s even worse, because he

Hot competition for Olympic finale

SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia (AP) The Winter Olympics are winding up with two of the best battles on ice: Rosalynn Sumners against Katarina Witt in women’s figure skating and the Soviet Union against Czechoslovakia in hockey. The women’s finale, a fourminute free-skating routine, was scheduled tonight at Zetra Arena. The hockey showdown comes Sunday afternoon in this Olympiad’s e e e e ee ee final hours. In addition to figure-skating, four of the remaining gold medals were being contested today: the women’s 0-kilometer cross-country; the endurance run of the speed skating races, the men’s 10,000 kilometers; the 90-meter ski jump and the four man bobsled. The Soviets retained the lead in the overall medals race with 21. The East Germans were nebt with 19 but led the Soviets in the gold rush 7-4. As of Friday, the United States had won five medals three gold and two silver its lowest number since it won four in 1936 at Garmisch, Germany. Three of today’s gold medals already seemed under lock-and-key. Finnish cross-country ace Marja-Liisa Hamalainen, who’s skied to gold in 5 and 10kilometer races and anchored her country’s bronze medalwinning relay team, was poised to become this year’s first triple gold medalist in the 20kilometer The race, across the Mount Igman plateau, is a new one in the Olympic program. On Mount Trebevic, meanwhile, the East German fourman bobsled steered by Wolfgang Hoppe led after Friday’s first two runs one of which shattered the course record and was heavily favored to finish the last two comfortably ahead. Though Americans have so far been shut out for speedskating medals this year, the

The old days.. • Drivers 'trained on booze and sweated it out in the race car'

c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - They’re going faster and faster all the time. Round and round at 200 m.p.h. The car is quicker than the eye, and the hands and feet must cope with the everconstant blur of asphalt and the pressure of 39 rival missiles streaking around the automotive bullring. That’s how it will be Sunday at the Daytona International Raceway a 2.5-mile tri-oval called a SUPER speedway. But in 1959, when this race track was being created, no one ever imagined that car speeds would reach 200 m.p.h. As recently as the late 1970 s these landbound astronaunts called Grand National stock-car drivers thought they could handle the challenge on instinct alone. “I remember (drivers) coming to the race on a Sunday morning with eyes that looked like two red cherries,” said Tim Flock, a Grand National champion in 1952 and 1955. ‘‘We trained on booze... and sweated it out on Sunday in the race car.” This Sunday, when the Grand National drivers strap themselvas into their cars for the 26th running of the Daytona 500 (12:15 p.m. EST) there won’t be any red-eyed cherries staring through the visors.

U.S. contingent here has derived a small measure of pride from the fact that so far, none of Eric Heiden’s five goldplated times at Lake Placid has been surpassed. Heiden, a television commentator here, said Friday: “The 10,000 could be the easiest one to break. I think (Sweden’s) Thomas Gustafson will win that one.” Witt, the reigning European champion from East Germany, had a narrow lead over Sumners following the compulsory and short lrograms. But Sumners, the 19-year-old world champion from Edmonds, Wash., said she was in just the right place to carry off the Olympic crown. “I don’t really have any pressure,” Sumners said after practice Friday. “I’m chasing now. Whenthere’s something you want and it’s not yours, you want it all that more.’’ Shrugging off any suggestions of pressure, the 18-year-old Witt described herself as “feeling good.” Her program includes four triples, double axels, a camel spin, pirouettes and graceful step sequences. Sumners planned a virtual duplicate of the routine she used to win the U.S. national championship last month in Salt Lake City an athletic display of double axels and fast skating between the triples. On Sunday morning, the Zetra ice will be cleared for the bronze medal hockey game between Canada and Sweden. A tie gives the medal to the Canadians on the basis of goal differential. Then it’s the gold medal shoot-out between the Soviets and Czechoslovakia, the last battle for a medal in this quadrennial spectacle on snow and ice. The Soviets, bidding to recapture the gold they lost to the United States four years ago at Lake Placid, crushed Canada 40 Friday night while

Grand National stock-car racing has changed and one of the biggest changes is in the way the drivers prepare for their work. “The old days are gone forever,” said Humpy Wheeler, who runs Charlotte Motor Speedway and has been an innovative force in motor sports for 15 years. “The competition is about 100 percent tougher than it was in 1958. “There are a lot of athletes with natural endurance, athletes who never have to work to stay in shape. But most guys in this sport are aggressive, hard-driving people, and they need to work on endurance, control and the ability to concentrate.” And that’s why Wheeler is one of the driving forces behind the changes in the conditioning programs for stock-car drivers. Gone is the idea that “just driving keeps us in shape.” Now drivers are involved in boxing, karate, and weight-training programs. It’s gotten to the point where the U.S. Tobacco company that sponsors four Grand National race cars has installed gym equipment in its teams’ garages. U.S. Tabacco, which is in charge of the U.S. Olympic Sports Medicine program, also has helped to produce a guide on physical fitness for Winston Cup drivers. The drivers, particularly the younger ones, are taking it very seriously.

(Eddie) is supposed to be as good as Larry,” she said. Larry Bird, the 6-9 forward who has been an NBA All-Star in each of his five seasons with the Celtics, is the third of the five brothers and was college basketball’s player of the year at Indiana State in 1979, when Eddie was in fifth grade and Jeff Bird, who is now 20, was a freshman at Springs Valley. Jeff also played for Holland. He was “a decent player, but didn’t star like most of the other brothers did. He started a few games, but he wasn’t a great player,” Holland said. Eddie, his mother says, “could be great,” except he doesn’t put out nearly the effort Larry did. Unless he works harder, “I don’t think Eddie will ever be as good as Larry.” Holland agrees that Eddie’s development is in his own hands. “It all depends on how much he works in the off-season. He could possibly play (NCAA) Division 1 ball (in college),” said Holland. Eddie is roughly the same size now that Larry was at that age. He’s thin and “going through some growing pains,” Holland said. A part-time starter, Eddie is averaging just under 10 points a game playing both at guard and forward for the Black Hawks. He had a career-high 22 points in a game last week.

Czechoslovakia blanked Sweden 2-0. The Americans, denied the medal round, defeated Poland 7-4 in a consolation game Friday to take seventh place in the hockey competition, their worst-ever Olympic finish. “I don’t think we have to apologize for our team’s performance. We were .500, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of,” Coach Lou Vairo said. Both the Soviets and Czechs have been awesome on defense, the Soviets allowing just five goals and the Czechs seven in six games. Who’ll win? Ask the only team that’s played them both, Canada, which went down both times by 4-0 scores. “The Russians are definitely better,” said Canadian forward Russ Courtnall. “They’re both great skating teams. They’re great passing teams. They both have great goaltenders.” So what’s the difference? “The Russians are just better.” Meanwhile, there was this sidelight from the Games’ drug control center, which some had • come to regard as the best “bar” in town. A new house limit was put on the center because four hockey players consumed 54 bottles of beer while waiting for a urine test. “They were drunk,” said Prnce Alexandre de Merode, Belgian President of the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Commission. “We can’t accept that.” There is an alcohol ban at the Olympic athletes’ village,and some of the hockey players had made the drug control centers their navorite bar. The berr is given to athletes to facilitate urine tests. But for the lOC, enough apparently was enough. From now on, “After two beers, they will have to stick to water or juice,” Alexandre said.

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First-place Flames burn Checkers late

DENVER (AP) Danny Bolduc fired a goal with less than four minutes remaining to break a 2-2 tie and lift the Colorado Flames to a 3-2 Central Hockey League victory over Indianapolis Friday night. The victory kept the Flames securely in first place in the CHL with a 36-18-2 record. Indianapolis, in third place, fell to 25-29-1. The teams square off again here Saturday night. Indianapolis racedto a 2-0 lead in the second period after

When Wheeler approached rookies Phil Parsons and Bobby HiUin and veteran Tim Richmond to join a boxing program, they jumped at the chance. “He came up and whispered in our ears, ‘How would you guys like to have 50 extra horsepower over the last 100 laps of each race?’ ” Parsons said. “How could anyone turn that down?” Wheeler told them that strength and stamina would give them an edge, and they bought it. “It’s done everything he said it would,” Parsons said. “It’s improved my hand-eye coordination and my leg strength, and it’s helped my neck muscles. I think it really made a difference for me at Talledega last year, too.” At Talledega, Parsons took a wild ride, end-over-end down the backstretch, very similar to the ride Ricky Rudd took here last Sunday during the running of the Busch Clash. The car was demolished, but Parsons only broke a shoulder. “I was sore but only for a day or two,” he said. “I think the boxing really helped me to recover quicker. ” Rudd, involved in weight training, was able to return from his crash by Wednesday and claims to feel none the worse for the tumble. “We’re trying to take some of the emotion out of racing,” said Wheeler. “We’re trying to keep

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“He has the same characteristics that Larry had in high school. He holds the ball the same way when he shoots and he can pass like Larry, but it’s not fair to make those comparisons,” says Holland. Nevertheless, Larry’s celebrity status at the school and in the community shadows Eddie’s every step. The street the school is on was renamed Larry Bird Boulevard in 1979, there’s a big picture of Larry in the high school, he donates sneakers and basketballs to the school every year and drops by for visits every summer. “It’s hard for me to say (how that affects Eddie),” Holland said. “He’s just a young kid. He doesn’t say much. We sat down with the team before the season and explained that Eddie would probably be getting some attention because of his name, and there’s been no jealousy on the part of the other players. I don’t think there’s any pressure (on Eddie) other than what he puts on himself .” In other words, everybody knows Eddie is Larry Bird’s kid brother, not Larry Bird. “Eddie is treated the same as anyone else. (Other teams) don’t say anything to us. They might be in awe of his brother, but they realize Eddie is just another Bird in our community.”

both teams failed to score in the first period. The Checkers scored first on Roger Kortko’s goal at 5:52 of the period and scored again five minutes later on Dave Simpson’s goal, Colorado then began its rally with Jeff Brubaker’s goal at 13:16 of the second period. The second period ended with the Checkers ahead 2-1. Greg Meredith tied the game for the Flames at 6:19 of the third period, and Bolduc then struck for the winning goal •

the pulse rates steady and the concentration at a maximum. In 1967 Buddy Baker and I started boxing. At the time he couldn’t win a race because he was so emotional. Then one day he started sharp-shooting while we were boxing picking his spots like Sugar Ray Leonard. Then he started racing with his head, and he started winning. I think the boxing experience was the key for him winning.” Others, who do agree on exercise programs, don’t agree on what kind of program is the most beneficial. Baker says running isn’t good, because “running is too much of a relaxer,” but Kyle Petty, who runs from 14 to 21 miles a week and works out daily on a universal gym, says running does help. “For so long the competition was in building the best car and finding the mo6t horsepower,” Petty said. “Now the competitive edge has flowed over to the driver’s compartment. It takes a lot of mental conditioning, and anything that can help you concentrate over a four or five-hour period has to help. “I doubt if my father (Richard Petty) or Bobby Allison ever jogged a day in their lives I know they never lifted weights. But remember, they worked on their own cars. They did the physical labor. Drivers now, a lot of them, just show up to drive the race car."

Unknown captures slalom SARAJEVO, Hugosiavia (AP) Tamara McKinney, Chris tin Cooper and Dorota Tlalka all made hasty exits,' making Paoletta Magoni’s task that much easier. Her only remaining concerns were Erika Hess and Perrine Pelen, and the unheralded Magoni of Italy held off both with a blistering second run to capture the gold medal in women’s slalom Friday at the Winter Olympics. The men’s slalom the last Alpine event on the calendar for these XIV Winter Games ie scheduled for Sunday. Italian men have won three Alpine gold medals in Olympic competition, but Magoni’s was * the first for an Italian women. She had never finished higher than sixth in any World Cup race in four seasons on the circuit. No one seemed more surprised about the victory than the 19-year-old winner. “For a long time I have been preparing for the Olympics, but really I couldn’t have dreamed about a medal,” she said in an emotional scene at the finish line. Tears rolled down her cheeks and she was barely able to talk to reporters. Capitalizing on difficulties encountered by many of the ■ favorites during the two runs in heavy fog, Mago i finished nearly a full second ahead of Pelen. After the first run, Magoni was tied with Pelen for fourth place, but they were only 14hundredths of a second off the lead. On her second run, she wasclocked in 47.62 seconds 69-hundredths of a second faster than anyone else. Her combined time las lminute, 36.47 seconds. Pelen, of France, took the silver medal in 1:37.38’ and Ursula Konzett of Liechtenstein won the bronze in 1:37.50. It was Pelen’s second medal in these Games; she won the bronze in the giant slalom on Monday.

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