European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 28, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 28, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 76ers rip blazers in near riot for a 2-0 series bulge by Ralph Bernstein Philadelphia a hulking Darryl Dawkins stormed from the Phila Delphia 76ers dressing room thursday night almost seconds after his team Defeated the Portland Trail blazers 107-89 in game two of the National basketball association championship series. I m mad at my teammates for letting a Man get behind me and Belt me cold Turkey said the 245-Pound Dawkins who was involved in a near riot late in the fourth Quarter. Get out of my Way snarled Dawkins us reporters attempted to get his version of fights with Portland s Bob Gross and Mau Rice Lucas which wound up with Dawkins and Lucas , play maker Henry Bibby scored is Points and handed out six assists As the 76ers fashioned an in Point halftime Lead bound for the rebound Maurice Lucas clean the rebound after a shot by Julius erring i of the 78en during thursday night s Aba playoff game at Philadelphia. Others Are Larry Steele is and but anon 32 of the blazers and her came eur Jones. The mixers woo 107-m, to Lead the championship series two games to none. A Nordques capture wha Crown Bernier is voted map of playoffs Quebec a Quebec Captain Marc Tardif was so excited after the Nordques Victory Over the Winnipeg jets thursday night that gave them the world hockey association championship he momentarily forgot which league he was in. It was a great season Tardif said after carrying the world trophy around the coliseum ice to top off an 8-2 Victory in the seventh game of the Cloutier won the scoring title. Serge Bevier was the most valuable player of the playoffs and now we be won the Stanley cup. I mean the Tardif reflected on his Days As a member of the Montreal canadians Stan Ley cup winning team in the National hockey league six years ago and went Back even farther to his Days with the Mon Treal Junior canadians. I be carried the cup before be said. I did it with Montreal in the juniors when we won the memorial cup in 1969. But As a pro i guess this is a great thrill. Everybody was cheering. The people Aren t going to forget about this night. I guess they la be celebrating. They be been waiting for five years and now it s Nordques coach Marc Boileau handed out credit to players who weren t in the spotlight in the final game. If one Guy deserves to be the player of the playoffs it s Serge Bevier but i Don t want to forget Guys who helped us All year like de Humphreys in goal after we got him Serge Aubry and Jim Dorey who has to have an Quebec raped for six goals in the second period including Cloutier s 14th of the playoffs in whipping Winnipeg to take the series four games to three. After a scoreless first period the nor piques got goals from Bob Fechner. Marc Tardif clout ice . Tremblay Norm Dube and Paulin Bordeleau in the second i a 6-1 Lead. Christian Bordeleau and Bevier wound up the scoring for the Nordques in the third stanza against the defending Champi on jets who suffered numerous defensive Labraaten and Perry Miller scored for Winnipeg Labraaten in the second period and Miller at 14 09 of the third after the Issue was Long decided. A crowd of 11,461 cheered on the nor piques As they More than avenged a 12-3 loss in the sixth game in Winnipeg tuesday night. The fans accorded Bevier a standing ovation and he Nordques stormed onto the ice to congratulate him when it was announced three minutes before the game ended that Bevier had won the playoffs most valuable player award. He scored a record 14 goals same As Cloutier and had a record 22 assists for 36 Points another Mark. The Nordques fired 25 shots at Winni Peg goalie Joe Daley while the jets had 27 at Quebec s Richard Brodeur. Fechner struck swiftly at the Start of the second period firing the puck past Daley s Glove Side at 11 seconds. Just 59 seconds later Tardif converted a pass out from Cloutier for a 2-0 Quebec Lead. Cloutier then clicked at 6 29. Labraaten scored Winnipeg s first Goa lat 8 39 with a High shot that beat Brodeur from a Sharp Angle. Quebec came Back on Tremblay s goal at 9 24 and Dube made it i continued on Page 21 and then coasted to an easy Victory. Doug Collins scored 27 Points and Julius Erving got 20 As Philadelphia took a 2-0 Lead in the bust of even series which continues sunday and tuesday night in port 6-foot-9, 218-Pound Lucas had Little to say about the Melee which involved players coaches and a couple of dozen fans who leaped from their seats and ran on to the court to get into the fight. You saw it say what you Lucas said in the quiet Portland dressing room. I can t say anything about it Lucas said. All i know is Liat the game is Over. They won. Well see them the fight actually began Between i Awkins and the 200-Pound Gross. We both had our hands on. The Ball said Gross trying to explain what happened. He Dawkins threw me Down. 1 think he lost his Dawkins threw a punch at Gross but it never really reached the Portland player. Instead it caught the to Gers Collins above the right Eye and after the game Collins was sent to the Hospital for stitches. Collin was a peacemaker trying to separate the two big men. He Dawkins just grazed me Gross said. But Dougie got Collins said in really did t know what happened. I stepped Between Darryl and Gross and got it in the Eye said Collins pointing to the bleeding Cut. That s All i but Collins went on to say that there had been a lot of pushing As Early As the second Quarter. A lot was said. Actually i m surprised it did t happen earlier. Darryl and Gross were having words. I Don t know what precipitated it. I just sort of stepped in be tween Philadelphia coach Gene Shue did t want to talk about the fight. The playoffs Are very emotional he said. There were a couple of Calls the players did t like the game got rough. It was just one of them things. The fans want basketball not Portland coach Jack Ramsay was upset because he Felt referee Richie Powers was More concerned with getting him off the floor than he was in stopping the fight. According to the rules the coach is the Only one allowed to come off the Bench to Stop a fight said Ramsay who almost got hit with one of Dawkins punches. I just continued on Page 23 no. 2-rated Boxer Everett is slain Philadelphia up Tyrone Everett a top ranked contender for the Junior lightweight boxing Crown was found dead after being shot in the face thursday in a private Home in South Phila , ranked no. 2 by the world boxing Council and expected to get a title shot in july was found alone in a second floor bed room of the Home and was pronounced dead 10 minutes later at the univer i sity of Pennsylvania Hospital. Police inspector Arthur Matthews said police went to the Everett area after callers reported they heard gunshots. Neighbors then directed police to the Home and they found the 24-year-Oldeverett at 11 20 . Teams of detectives were dispatched to the area to question residents. Matthews said no suspects had been arrested and no weapon was found. It was believed there May have been at least two shots. Everett a Philadelphia who first started fighting when he was 18. Had a 35-1 record. His Only loss was a bitterly con tested 15-round decision to Junior Light weight Champion Alfredo Escalera at the spectrum Here last , who stood 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 133 pounds did not fight again until May 16 when he stopped Delfi Nio Rodriguez at 1 26 of the fourth round Ina preliminary fight As part of the Ali Evangelista card at Landover my. It was expected As a result of that Victory that Everett would meet Escaler again possibly in july in another title bout. But after the Rodriguez fight Everett and his manager Frank Gelb talked about moving up in weight to the 136-Pound lightweight class and fighting Esteban de Jesus Holder of the wac lightweight title. Everett said then Escalera and Deje sus both puerto Picans talk a s my reputation Down there. All they know Styrone Everett beat up about 25 or 30 puerto Picans and it s like they All want to get even. But an of them latin fighters is the same to Everett was noted As a skilled rather than an overpowering fighter but he did have a Good left hand
