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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, May 16, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Canadians May 1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 beat Bruins for 2nd straight sweep of Stanley cup finals by Peters Boston up Jacques Lemaire scored his second goal of the game at of the overtime session saturday night to lift the defending National hockey league Champion Montreal canadians to a 21 Vic tory Over the Boston a sweep for the jubilant canadians were surrounded by 100 fans prior to the Stanley cup award ceremonies at Center who had brought Montreal to a m tie at of the second netted the cup Winner on a pass in front from Guy sliding the puck inside the far Post past Boston goalie Gerry who assisted on both maltreat was named Winner of the Conn smythe trophy As the most valuable player in the but the leagues leading scorer during the regular stayed m the background As Veter an defens Eman Serge acting As Captain in place of the injured Yvan Cour skated around the hoisting the aged Stanley cup Over his the 20 Stanley cups Montreal has won include one in prior to the formation of the National hockey and in before the Stanley cup was restricted to Competition by nil teams the Toronto Maple Leafs Are second with cup the last in Montreal now has won the Stanley cup eight of the past 13 years and three titles in the six year reign of Scotty saturday denied published reports he is leaving the the second successive fou game sweep tied Montreal own nil record which it set against the Louis blues in 1968 and the canadians ousted the the cup Champion Philadelphia flyers in four games in Montreal thoroughly Dot naked the overtime keeping the pressure in Bostons end throughout and denying Boston any shots on Lem Alres goal came on Montreal fourth shot in the Over the canadians finished the game with 28 shots to 26 for the Bruins got their Only goal into the the first time Boston was Able to get the Lead in the series As Lemaire was skating Back onto the ice following an interference Brad Park passed from he Blue line Over to Bobby Schmautz along the right Wing Schmautz 40footer whizzed under the left leg of Montreal goalie Ken whose mask had been knocked off moments for his Lith goal of the playoffs this tops in postseason the canadians evened the score continued on Page 23 Colborn no hits rangers Jim Colborn mobbed by teammates by United press International Jim Colborn gave Texas a peek at his act in but saturday night he gave them a command the 30yearold right hander pitched the major leagues first no hitter of 1977 As the royals blanked the Texas rangers at royals now faced just 28 walking one and hit Ting on May Colborn pitched his Only on hitter against Jeff Bur roughs broke that one up with a fifth inning Homer off who was wearing a Mil Waukee Brewers Colborn won 20 games for the Brewers that but he struggled to three straight losing seasons before the royals acquired him last Winter in a five player Colborn struck out six including bump wills three and walked Only the defense came to his Aid with several outstanding particularly in the late Bert leading off the Sev lofted a soft Fly into medium Center Field which Al Cowens caught after a Long one out Willie Morton slugged a looping line drive to As the Ball began Tom Poquette raced under it to make a shoestring catch on the dead in the Tom Grieve hit a slicing line drive into that brought the crowd of to its but Cowens snared the Ball in the webbing of his Poquette made an extraordinary catch of Mike Hargroves Fly Ball in the first and in the second Horton sent Poquette to the warning track in right Fred patek knocked in two Royal runs with a bunt single and a Colborn had a perfect game going before he hit Toby Harrah with a pitch with two out in the fifth Harrah stole but Colborn struck out Only one other Ranger reached second base against the 190pound the Only other no hitter at royals Staci Al Roundup urn was pitched by californian Nolan Ryan in coloms no hitter was the first since san Francisco John Montefusco turned the trick against the Atlanta braves John Blue Moon Odom and Francisco Barrios of the Chicago White sox combined for the last no hitter in the american stopping the Oakland As on july the last no Hitler by a Kansas City Pitcher was posted by Steve Busby on june against the Milwaukee elsewhere in the american Chi pole position for 500 Sneva snaps 200 Barrier at indy by Jerry Garrett Indianapolis a Tom who walked away from a fiery crash Here two years splintered the 200milesperhour Barrier at 68yearold Indianapolis motor Speedway saturday and won the pole position for the May 29 Indianapolis the 28yearold former Junior High school principal from embarrassed his stymied Competition with searing and in his Mclaren Bosworth before Cooling off to a average for the 10mile qualifying that erased defending Champion Johnny Rutherford on Lap record of and four Lap Mark of set in i was using up All of the race said who reportedly dusted the Wall lightly after his fastest it got pretty wiggly out there a few but i got away with the first two laps i knew were and 1 lust wanted to get two the car was getting Loose and i Felt there was no sense in taking we gotta be we had a Tough the Guys Crew did a fantastic Job getting the car i didst get too Many practice who wrecked in practice Friday and blew up a motor wednesday trying to join the 200 club in earned a 000 prize and collected the traditional award of 200 Silver almost every other including the unofficial 200 club ran per Foyt  find the same combi nation he used to run in practice last even though he got two the three time Winner averaged Only 193 465 on his first but Auto club officials discovered a broken fitting on the pressure Relief valve they installed on fonts allowed to run Foyt upped it to still it was about the slowest weve run All Foyt time ran out on who turned Down a run at better than tried and failed to qualify his backup and was still sitting in line when the 6 gun Locking in the Days starting Posi a two time pole position starter who ran in practice thurs Day can qualify no better than next to Nevas younger brother who was the Days slowest qualifier at driving the factory mylar enc Osworth which is supposed to be faster than the customer cars Mclaren Soldo Nevas car owner Roger called off his first which was Good enough for the front before he could get up to and frontline mount was Back to the front of the qualifying line for its second attempt when the session Mario Nevas waved off after one Lap at made some adjustments and went Back out Only to average in not but Well take said who ran in practice i gotta leave town so it had to be Andretti leaves for Monte Carlo for a formula 1 race next Gordon who ran in tire tests Here last could manage no better than after pulling out of line once to make a few Chassis about the Only one to be pleased with his tying besides was who qualified his us Honing continued on Page w Cago battered Cleveland Minnesota romped Over Detroit edged Milwaukee Baltimore blanked Oak land new York beat California 41 and Boston downed Seattle 84 Box scores on Page cd lox indians i the White sox hammered out 17 hits against five Cleveland and Jim Spencer knocked in eight runs to tie a Chi Cago club Spencer belled a grand slam Home a two run Homer and a base loaded single to help Lethander Ken Brett to his fifth win against two the eight rib tied a White sox record set first by shoeless Joe Jackson in 1920 and equalled by Carl Reynolds in twins Blue Rich Chiles had four hits and drove in three runs to Lead Minnesota to Victory Over Dan Rod Carew and Rob Wilfong each had three and Larry Hisle drove in four runs to preserve the twins Hal game Lead Over the White sox in the american league Dave Goltz won his second game As the twins won their sixth game in seven starts and 18 of their last including All five against the expansion Blue tigers Brewers 2 Rusty staubs run scoring double in the eighth inning provided the tigers with their win Over the score was tied 11 in the eighth when Tito Fuentes singled with one out and Bob Mcclure re placed Brewer starter Barry staub greeted Mcclure with a Long drive off the right Field scoring staub took third on the throw and later scored when second baseman Don Money babbled Steve Kemps grounder for an Fernando making his first 1977 was the Winner but needed Relief from John Hiller after surrendering a Solo Homer to Sal Bando in the orioles Southpaw Mike Flanagan fired a five hit shutout Tor his first Victory of the year in the orioles win Over Rookie Rick Langford had a four hit shutout until the eighth when the orioles scored both their runs on singles by Al Tony Muser and Eddie Murray plus a walk to Billy Smith and Dick Allens red sox mariners 4 Home runs by Jim Rice and Carlton Fisk highlighted a 14hil red sox and gave Bob Stanley his third with Relief help from Bill Ruppert who went and Dan Meyer hit Solo homers for Yankees Angels Don Gullett tossed a four hitter and fanned while Craig Nettles hit his fifth and sixth homers of the season to key the Yankee Gullett retired the first 14 batters he faced and shut out Cali fornia until Ron Jacksons run scoring single in the Nettles homers came in the fifth and sixth innings off California loser Nolan now  
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