DECIDING SERIES STARTS FRIDAY
THE CITIZEN, Prince George — Thursday, October 2, 1980 — 13
 Expos looking good —
MONTREAL (CP) — It won't rank as the most philosophical statement in history but Gary Carter aptly summed up the feelings in the Montreal Expos clubhouse Wednesday night.
“This weekend I’ll settle for Meatloaf and Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad. then it’s Another One Bites the Dust,” said the Montreal catcher referring not only to a pair of familiar songs on the pop charts but the Expos prospects for their crucial three-game series against Philadelphia Phillies.
The Expos preserved their half-game lead atop the East Division of baseball’s National League with an 8-0 triumph over St. Louis Cardinals and will have today off to relax while Philadelphia completes a four-game series against Chicago Cubs.
“Everything seems to be breaking for us right now,”
Carter added. “We’re getting good pitching, timely hitting and good defence.
“I hope it carries over into the Philadelphia series.”
The Expos combined all three qualities against the Cardinals as David Palmer tossed a sixhitter and had his burden made lighter when his team-mates broke up a tight pitching duel with two runs in the sixth inning and five more in the seventh.
Palmer, 8-6, who struck out a career-high 10 batters, survived a severe test early in the game after Ken Ober-kfell opened the first inning with a double and Dane Iorg did likewise in the second. But neither runner got past third as Palmer did not allow a ball to be hit out of the infield.
“It was just a matter of getting my rhythm and having my arm come around,” said Palmer, who recorded his first shutout since Aug. 17. 1979. “It’s like spring training to build myself up again."
bring on the Phillies
   After being handcuffed by right-hander Andy Rincon. 3-1. in St. Louis 10 days earlier, the Expos managed only three hits and a 1-0 lead through the first five innings.
    But Rowland Office stroked a two-out single in the sixth and Andre Dawson followed with a run-scoring triple. A balk by Rincon then allowed Dawson to score Montreal’s third run.
   The Expos sent 10 men to bat the following inning as Chris Speier delivered an RBI double. Rodney Scott scored two more with a single and both Dawson and Warren Cromartie singled home runs
   The showdown against Philadelphia was a major topic of discussion in the Expos clubhouse.
   “Our main objective is to win t*vo in a row and then we don't have to worry about facing Steve Carlton on Sunday," said Dawson. “It comes down to needing two out of three like we did last weekend in Philadelphia.
    “It isn't going to be easy but we have our two top pitchers going in the first two games of the series."
   Scott Sanderson and Steve Rogers, a pair of 16-game winners, will pitch against the Phillies Dick Ruthven. 16-10, and Larry Christenson, 5-1.
   The Expos will have the advantage of a day of rest, while Philadelphia must play tonight and fly to Montreal immediately after the game.
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   PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia’s Steve Carlton hurled a brilliant two-hitter, throwing no-hit ball until the eighth inning, as he pitched and batted the Phillies to a 5-0 victory over Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.
Manager Dick Williams shouts encouragement.
David Palmer raises glove after shutout win,
Cittern photo by Brock (iahk-
Helping hand
 Patty Heffell, 10, gets tips on proper figure skating form from Vancouver instructor Cynthia Trudeau. About 65 youngsters got high-calibre instruction Tuesday and Wednesday in the Coliseum. Several out-of-town instructors came here for the Northern B.C. seminar for skaters.
Lions' pair released in effort to end streak
  VANCOUVER (CP) - Middle linebacker Ollie Bakken and defensive tackle Frank Landy were released Wednesday by B.C. Lions in another roster shakeup following the team's third straight Canadian Football League defeat.
   The Lions released defensive back Larry Riley on Tuesday and Wednesday added middle linebacker Sam Britts to the active roster.
   Britts missed nine games after injurying his shoulder in the league opener back in July.
  “The release of Frank Landy had nothing to do with the losing streak," said head coach Vic Rapp. “It’s just that Rick Goltz and Doug Seymour were both playing ahead of him and he wasn’t playing at all.”
   B.C. acquired Landy, 30, from	Saskatchewan
 Roughriders in 1977, along with defensive end Jesse O’Neale, in a trade which sent Bill Baker back to his native Regina.
   Landy was a Western Conference all-star three years ago. Last season he suffered a knee injury late in the year which required surgery.
   Bakken, signed as a free agent earlier this season after his release by Calgary Stam-peders, played in place of Britts. The Lions, 5-5-1, are third in the WFC, one point ahead of Calgary, and play host to the Roughriders on Saturday.
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FIRST MANAGER
Mauch still follows Expos
  MONTREAL (CP) - Five years and more than 4.800 kilometres separate Gene Mauch from the expansion team he used to manage, but Montreal Expos still occupy a special place in his heart.
   ‘‘I follow their progress daily,” Mauch said last week from his home in Palm Springs, Calif. “There’s not a day goes by that I don’t look at their boxscore.
   “I don’t even know Bill Gul-lickson, but I can tell you how many hits and how many runs he gave up yesterday. Then there are people like Woodie Fryman, whom I go back a long way with. He was with Philadelphia my last year there.”
   Mauch and Fryman had little time to get acquainted, however, because Mauch was fired June 16,1968, after nearly nine years and 646 victories.
  Mauch was recognized throughout baseball as one of the most astute and competitive managers in the game, a view that did not escape the notice of Expos president John McIIale.
  “We programmed Gene Mauch against all other employed and unemployed major league candidates, and Gene’s name came out on top every time,’’ McIIale said
Bank helps
  MOTREAL (CP) — The Royal Bank of Canada will sponsor a $1.5 million extension of the Canadian Olympic Association’s Junior Olympics program through the end of the next Olympiad in 1984. Administered by the COA, the seven;-year-old program is designed to encourage Canadian youngsters to participate in amateur sports, especially those related to Olympic disciplines. More than 2.5 million young athletes have taken part in the progam, and officials expect that number to double by 1984.
 when Mauch’s hiring by the Expos was announced Sept. 5, 1968.
   Mauch quickly learned that guiding an expansion team would require all the patience he could muster.
  There were bright spots early in the initial 1969 season, such as Bill Stoneman’s nohitter April 17 at Philadelphia and some hot hitting by right fielder Rusty Staub.
   But the promise of April and early May dimmed as the club went for a period of 20 games without winning, a losing streak that came within three games of tying the modern-day National League record.
   But the club regrouped and finished the season with a 52-110 won-lost record, the same as coexpansionist San Diego Padres and 12 victories better than New York Mets when they entered the league in 1962.
   “Anyone who won’t bust his gut for these people — there must be something wrong.” Mauch said after the Expos drew 1.2 million fans to Jarry Park. He promised more victories in 1970 and coined the slogan "70 wins in ’70” on a midwinter visit to Montreal.
   Prodded by Mauch, players such as Bob Bailey, who cracked 28 home runs and Staub, whosmashed 30 homers and drove in 94 runs, sparked the club to 73 victories.
   As gratifying as 1970 was, the following year produced disappointment as the Expos slipped to 71 victories, although they moved up to fifth place.
   They were fifth again in 1972 but continued to spin their wheels with a 70-86 record. The fans bid farewell to Staub who was traded to the Mets a few days before the season opened.
   In 1973, however, the faithful contracted their first case of pennant fever, as the Expos went down to the final weekend still retaining a chance at winning their division.
   The end for the club, which
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 won 79 games and finished fourth, 3‘a games behind the first-place Mets. came against Pittsburgh Pirates on the last day of the season
   Buoyed by their brush with success, the Expos attempted to make up the necessary ground by shipping ace reliever Mike Marshall, to Los Angeles Dodgers for veteran centre fielder Willie Davis.
  The temperamental Davis did essentially what was expected of him in 1974, batting .295 with 12 homers and 89 RBIs, but the the Expos did no better than match their 79 victories of the year before.
    At the start of the 1975 season the Expos were enthusiastic about a trade that brought outfielder Rich Coggins and lefthander Dave McNally from Baltimore Orioles of the American League in exchange for right fielder Ken Singleton and pitcher Mike Torrez.
    But. in a series of events that was to typify the season, McNally retired in June with a 3-6 record and Coggins developed a kidney and liver disorder, appearing in only 13 games.
   Pepe Mangual, a prize outfield prospect whom the Expos hoped would pick up some of the slack after a .311 performance the previous September, batted only .245 despite an early 18-game hitting streak.
  "We rushed people like Moore and Mangual,” Mauch admitted. "We tried to hurry them along to accentuate the production of our farm system.
  “Perhaps we were in too much of a hurry."
   Unwilling to wait any longer, the Expos decided the fastest remedy would be to fire the manager and, shortly after the curtain closed on their seventh
 consecutive losing season, McIIale announced: “This morning I advised Gene Mauch that he would not be returning."
   Mauch, who had undoubtedly started to decipher many hints as to his fate as the season progressed, accepted the news without blinking.
    He was playing golf in Palm Springs when the call came from McIIaleand, informed of the decision, he calmly went back and finished his round.
    "We’re all grateful for the job he did," said Expos board chairman Charles Bronfman.
    Mauch, to this day, remains grateful for the opportunity to manage a team that had more growing pains than most preschoolers.
    "The thing that I most cherish about my years in Montreal is my association with some very special people like John McIIale and Charles Bronfman," he said. “I know it may sound political, but you don’t find people like that every day."
  Lupien moving
  PITTSBURGH (AP) -Pittsburgh Penguins said Friday they have acquired defenceman Gilles Lupien in a deal with Montreal Canadiens that will switch the teams’ third-round draft positions in 1983. At 6-foot6, 210 pounds, Lupien is one of the biggest players in the National Hockey League. Coach Eddie Johnston said he was pleased with the deal. Lupien was Montreal's third-round draft choice in 1974 but spent three years with Nova Scotia in the American Hockey League.
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