sports Mark Allan, sports editor. 562*2441. Citizen Monday, June 27, 1983 — 13 VANCOUVER'S START ALSO MATCHES RECORD Valentine equals record in 'Caps' win VANCOUVER (CP) - Winger Carl Valentine scored two goals to equal a club career goal-scoring record Sunday night as the Vancouver Whitecaps defeated Tampay Bay Rowdies 4-1 for their eighth consecutive North American Soccer League victory. Valentine’s second goal of the game and his fifth of the season equalled the Whitecaps’ career goal-scoring mark of 39 held by Kevin Hector. The game was played before 28,799 fans. The victory moved the Whitecaps’ record to 13-1 to equal the NASL mark for best start to a season set in 1980 by the Seattle Sounders. Vancouver is 41 points ahead of the second-place Golden Bay Earthquakes in the Western Division. The Whitecaps were fortunate to start the second half ahead 2-1 as the Rowdies, winless in their seven road games surrendered an own goal late in the opening half. However, their strong second half was finished by striker David Cross, who scored on a header off a creative set play at 72 minutes. Franz Gerber scored for the Rowdies, who had several good scoring Jaeger waits to try Bassett LONDON (CP) — Wimbledon’s centre court stage was set today for the biggest match of Carling Bassett’s brief professional tennis career. Bassett, 15, who turned pro in January, was a decided underdog as she prepared to play number three seed Andrea Jaeger of the United States for the right to advance to women’s singles quarter-finals. Win or lose, Bassett already has accomplished a great deal. She entered a field of 128 hopefuls unseeded and remains among the final 16, a feat unmatched by any previous Canadian entrant. While the Torontonian — the youngest player in the tournament — attempts to defy the odds, Billie Jean King — the oldest entry at 39 — tries to turn back the clock against Wendy Turnbull. The stunning defeat of Chris Evert Lloyd Friday by Cathy Jordan has left defending champion Navratilova as everyone’s overwhelming bet to take the crown a fourth time. King, a six-time Wimbledon singles champion, is seeded 10th and Turnbull seventh, but King enjoys a 10-1 won-lost edge against the Australian. “Pm not thinking past Wendy,” said King, who says she’s playing her best tennis since last winning the championship here in 1975. “She was tough the last time and I’ll have to be at the top of my game this time.” Besides Evert, women’s seeds knocked out in first-week play were number five Pam Shriver, number nine Sylvia Hanika, number 13 Jo Durie and number 14 Andrea Te- mesvari, who fell to Bassett. “In tennis, you have one chance and if you blow it you blow it,” Bassett said. Bassett’s doubles hopes came to an end Saturday when she and partner Zina Garrison of the United States lost 6-3, 6-3 to Ros Fairbank of South Africa and Candy Reynolds of the United States. On the men’s side, New Zealander Lewis says first seed Jimmy Connors and number two John McEnroe should, as expected, go to the final. "Guys like McEnroe and Connors have something about them,” he said. "Maybe it’s pride. "They feel they cannot lose in any tournament, big or small. That is why they always win.” McEnroe was fined $500 Sunday for offering an obscenity at the end of a men’s doubles match in which he and partner Peter Fleming triumphed. McEnroe had succeeded during the match to have the net judge changed following disputed calls. As the players left the court, he said something to the crowd. The fine raised McEnroe’s total in the last year to $6,250. If he goes above $7,500, he is automatically suspended. Upsets have taken a deep bite from the men’s draw, with number four Guillermo Vilas, number five Mats Wilander, number seven Jose Luis Clerc, number eight Vitas Ger-ulaitis, number nine Steve Denton, number 11 Johan Kriek and number 15 Hank Pfister on the sidelines. Highlights of today’s Wimbledon action is on NBC (cable 6) tonight at 8:30 and 11:30. Evert Lloyd out early LONDON (CP) — Kathy Jordan, playing the match of her career, shocked fellow American Chris Evert Lloyd 6-1, 7-6 Friday, knocking the three-time Wimbledon champion out of the famed tennis championship. It was the first time in Lloyd’s career she has failed to reach at least the semi-finals of a Grand Slam event. The victory was Jordan’s first over the second-seeded Lloyd in six career encounters. Jordan rode her strong serve-and-volley game to an easy first-set destruction of Lloyd, who was attempting to win her fourth consecutive Grand Slam event. NEW SEATTLE BOSS Crandall gets first SEATTLE (AP) - The Seattle Mariners ended an eight-game win-less streak Saturday night and won their first American League baseball game under new manager Del Crandall. But it might have been as much a tribute to ousted skipper Rene La-chemann as a sign of a team turnaround. “A win for Lach?” relief pitcher Bill Caudill said after picking up his 14th save in a 5-2 decision over the Toronto Blue Jays. "I’d like to think of it that way.” Mariners’ owner George Argyros and president Dan O’Brien swept out the clubhouse Saturday, cutting the Ancient Mariner, Gaylord Perry, and shortstop Todd Cruz from the team roster and bringing up Spike Owen from the Salt Lake City Gulls of the Pacific Coast League to replace Cruz. The Mariners had the worst record in major league baseball when Lachemann was fired. The club had dropped 15 of 18 games before Saturday night’s victory. Perry, at 44 the oldest player in the major leagues, is reported to have been a source of dissension on the team, criticizing younger teammates as the Mariners continued a downward slide. For his part, Perry said the Mariners need to stop crying and start hitting. “There’s no fight in them,” he said of the team. “This team has got to get someone to hit homers, to drive the ball. “They’ve got to get rid of guys who laugh when they strike out four times like it was something funny. I saw that happen here this year.” Crandall, who managed the Milwaukee Brewers from 1972 through 1975, was brought in from his managerial post with the Albuquerque Dukes, the Pacific Coast League farm club of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He’s managed the Dukes the past six years. “Del talked to us and made a lot of sense,” Caudill said. “Lach spoke with us and there were a lot of guys with tears in their eyes. “He talked through his heart and he really motivated us. This is like losing a best friend. I’m looking forward to playing for Del, but it was heaven to play for Lach.” Argyros said the Mariners had offered Lachemann a job travelling to the team’s five farm clubs and evaluating talent. “My rabbits have fleeted," Lachemann said ruefully. “I’ll just take all the scrapbooks and the ‘boy wonder of managing’ stuff and see if I can come up with another job. Lachemann, at 38 the youngest manager in the major leagues, began his two-year tenure in May, 1981, when he replaced Maury Wills and became the third manager of the 1977 expansion club. He was 140-180 as manager, including a 76-86 record last year, the best in the club’s history. That was good for fourth place in the American League West. In the strike-inter-rupted 1981 season, he guided the Mariners to a fifth-place division finish. Meanwhile, the Mariners’ newfound success disappeared suddenly Sunday, as the Blue Jays pounded Seattle 19-7. More baseball page 14. opportunities in the first half off counter-attacks. Defensive lapses led to the three first-half goals. The Whitecaps took a 1-0 lead on Valentine’s fourth goal of the season at 16:33 when former Whitecaps’ midfielder Flemming Lund, sold Friday to the Rowdies, figured in the play. Striker Peter Beardsley anticipated a Lund pass back to his defenders, stole the ball and squared it to Valentine and the five-year veteran redirected the ball past Rowdies’ goalkeeper Jurgen Stars from the penalty spot. However, Gerber equalized for Tampa Bay when he broke between defender Bobby Lenarduzzi and midfielder Frans Thijssen to take a through ball from Mike Connell and beat Vancouver goalie Tino Lettieri from close in. An ankle injury to Vancouver defender Mark Nickeas against the San Diego Sockers last week saw some juggling on the Whitecaps back four, as Lenarduzzi moved from the flank to the central defend- er slot and Pierce O’Leary did not start. The Whitecaps took the lead a minute and 10 seconds before half-time when defender Mike Sweeney laid off a ball to the corner and Lenarduzzi drove a low cross that deflected off Tampa Bay midfielder Wes McLeod and into the net for an own goal. Sweeney, who had three assists on the night while shutting down Lund, set up Valentine’s second goal with a chip into the six-yard box that Cross missed on the volley. Valentine tapped it in at the far post. Another Sweeney chip off a Peter Lorimer free kick sent the ball over Stars and on to Cross who had an open net to nod it into. Tampa Bay coach Al Miller said a key point in the loss came when referee Gary Shugarts of Seattle failed to call a penalty when Gerber appeared to have been brought down from behind in the Vancouver penalty area. “The players lost their concentration after that. There was no doubt in my mind that he (Shugarts) put it outside the box. At that point it’s 2-2 and we’re still out there playing.” Teams follow suit ST. LOUIS (AP) -Following the lead of the league, 17 National Hockey League teams have filed a multi-million dollar counterclaim against Ralston Purina Co., as part of the legal battle over the firm’s efforts to rid itself of the St. Louis Blues hockey franchise. The suit, filed Friday in U.S. district court, is almost identical to the $78-million suit filed by the league June 9. Like the NHL. the clubs are defendants in a suit filed in federal court May 24 by Ralston Purina. The clubs met a Friday deadline for answering that suit before filing their own $78-million suit against Ralston Both the league and the teams claim in their respective suits that Ralston Purina violated the NHL constitution by not giving the required two years’ notice before withdrawing as the Blues’ owner. In its $60-million suit, Ralston contends the league improperly rejected the sale of St. Louis to interests in Saskatoon. That suit named as defendants the league; all NHL teams except the Montreal Canadiens, and NHL president John A. Ziegler Jr. District Judge William L. Hungate has not set a date for the Ralston suit. Ralston tendered the team to the league, which took control of player contracts June 13. Ziegler has said the league will try to find a buyer who will keep the team in St. Louis. CANUCKS DEALING SOON? Trade winds whisper Tiger VANCOUVER (CP) -The breeze on the hilltop home of Dave (Tiger) Williams in suburban West Vancouver whispers the word. Trade. Ron Delorme, a Vancouver Canuck teammate, calls to say the hot rumor back in Saskatchewan is that Williams will be traded next week to another National Hockey League team, perhaps the Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers or New Jersey Devils. Williams, the devilish left winger, produced only eight goals last season when given a checking role by Canucks’ coach Roger Neilson. “One reason why I’ve made a living in this game,” Williams said this week, “is that I’ve always been ready to play, wherever it is. ‘‘My own feeling is that I’m solid with the Canucks for another year. That’s how I see the situation. I know we lost quite a bit last season because we didn’t have too many people who could be hard, who could do the physical thing.” Williams said the Canucks missed players like left winger Curt Fraser and defenceman Colin Campbell, who helped Vancouver reach the Stanley Cup final in the spring of 1982. Fraser was traded to the Chicago Black Hawks and Campbell signed as a free agent with Detroit. A player shouldn’t be judged on statistics, said Williams, when the system helps create those numbers. “Roger Neilson sees me as a checker," he said. “He’s made it clear that’s my job and I don’t really see how you can score goals when . . . you have to put yourself between your own net and someone like Lanny McDonald." Williams, who scored 35 goals in 1980-81, said his production delined after he suffered a back injury and “got strict job instructions." The NHL’s most pena- lized player in history is still angry about the sudden end to last season when the Canucks were eliminated 3-1 by the Calgary Flames in the first round of the playoffs. PROCRASTINATION DEFINITION: To postpone or defer taking action, delay, to put off • if you continually “put off” saving money... you will always be hurt by bad times. • it is always better to have money and not need it, than to need money and not have it. 1983 S-10 4X4 EXTENDED CAD V6. auto, radio, radials, lump seats, DURANGO PKG. 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