European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes Friday october 21, 1977 Hie Ball hides the face of the Philadel phia 76ers Steve mix after he lost it to a double teamed Effort from the Detroit strictly up for grabs pistons . Carr 30 and Leon Doug Las 13 in the first half of their National basketball association game wednes Day night in Philadelphia. The 76ers went on to win the contest by a 113-96 score. Associated press photo lakers 76ers both minus big stars but still have no trouble in winning by the associated press so the los Angeles lakers did t have Kareem Abdul Jabbar Winner of the National basketball association s most Valu Able player award a record tying five times. They had James Edwards. And the Philadelphia 76ers were without superstar Julius Erving. It did t matter. Both the lakers the winning est team in the Aba last season and the 76ers, the losing finalist in the 1977 playoffs played Aba Roundup without their top performers wednesday night and won easily. Los Angeles with the overlooked Edwards a 7-foot Rookie Center from the University of Washington replacing the injured Abdul Jabbar and scoring 25 Points and grabbing 14 rebounds beat the Indi Ana pacers 133-120. And Philadelphia minus the ailing Erving got 32 Points and 22 rebounds from George Mcginnis in trouncing the Detroit pistons 113-96. In other Aba games the Denver nug gets whipped the Milwaukee Bucks 133-115, the san Antonio spurs Defeated the Boston celtics 114-109, the Chicago bulls downed the Houston rockets 107-103, the Buffalo braves topped the Kansas City Kings 112 108, and the Golden state warriors Wal loped the Seattle supersonics 116-84. Edwards did a super Job los Angeles coach Jerry West said of his Young third round draft Choice who played a team High 40 minutes and hit 11 of 22 Field goal at tempts and three of four foul shots against Indiana. He did t look that Good when we saw him in Hawaii last season during a College tournament said Indiana coach Bob Leonard. That s Why he slipped by and did t get picked until the third  Edwards started because Abdul Jabbar has a broken Bone in his right hand suffered in a fight with Milwaukee Rookie Kent Benson tuesday night and will be sidelined indefinitely. The lakers also had three other players with 20 or More Points including Earl Tatum with 22, Kermit Washington 21 and Jamaal Wilkes 20. The pacers Adrian Dantley scored 34.Mcginnis, a Flop in last season s final playoff series against Portland made up for the absence of Erving out with a sprained knee by firing in 20 Points in the first half against Detroit As the 76ers opened a commanding 63-38 Lead. Mcginnis was devastating said pistons coach Herb Brown. I came in to training Camp with the attitude of working hard explained Mcginnis. That s the Way it s going to be All the time hard  Doug Collins added 27 Points for Phila Delphia while Bob Lanier topped Detroit with 23. Penguins reassign Laxton Pittsburgh up the Pittsburgh penguins of the National hockey league have assigned goaltender Gordon Laxton to Dayton of the International league. Nuggets 133, Bucks 115 David Thompson and Bobby Jones led surge that enacted Denver to break away from a 100-100 tie against Milwaukee with less than 10 minutes remaining and beat the undermanned Bucks playing without Benson sidelined with a mild concussion. Thompson finished with 36 Points and Jones had 26. Rookie Marques Johnson was High for Milwaukee with 22. Spurs 114, celtics 109 a standing room crowd of 10,466 in san Antonio watched the spurs led by George Gervin s 39 Points beat Boston for the first time in history. Jojo White topped the cel tics with 24 Points. Bulls 107, rockets 103mickey Johnson scored 19 Points including a Field goal with less than six minutes leu that put Chicago ahead for Good 98-97, helping the bulls win their second Road game in two nights against Houston. Rudy Tomjanovich paced the rockets with 29 Points raising his career total Over 10,000 Points. Braves 112, Kings 108 Buffalo made new coach Cotton fit Sim Mons debut a Success beating Kansas qty As Billy Knight scored 31 Points and grabbed 15 rebounds and Chuck Williams replacing injured tiny Archibald had his Aba career High of 21 Points. But Only 4, 198 fans attended the braves Home opener. Ron Boone led the Kings with 20 Points. Warriors 116, sonics 84 Golden state ruined the coaching debut of Seattle s Bob Hopkins routing the sonics behind Rick Barry s 28 Points and Phil Smith s 20. Fred Brown tallied 21points for Seattle. Cd Maidens retain hex Over Caps Bygre Raiello up sports writer nobody thinks this can go on forever. Sometime in the future Tom me vie is con Vinced the Washington capitals will find a Way to beat Montreal. It seems every time we play them and get beat it makes me want to work hard and prepare harder to beat them the Washington coach said wednesday night after the undefeated canadians edged the capitals 5-3. And we will beat them. I just Don t know the Date  it was the canadians 19th Victory in 19 games against the capitals a record that s noteworthy but hardly surprising. The sur hockey Roundup prising development wednesday night was the capitals 2-1 first period Lead and the 3 3 tie they carried late into the final period. We be had some very Tough times with this team said Montreal s Rejean Houle who scored two goals including the game Winner with 3 18.remaining. They impress the hell out of  newcomer Dave Forbes and Tom Rowe scored in the game s first 10 minutes to give the Caps a 2-1 Lead. Montreal rallied late in the first period when Doug Risebrough and Houle beat Caps goalie Bernie Wolfe within a 1 20 Span but Washington tied the game 3-3, 7 20 into the second period on Bob Sirois third goal in three games. We can play games where we make a lot of mistakes and give up goals but that s not the history of the games against the Caps Here last year said canadians goalie Ken Dryden who overcame a slow Start to Blank the Caps through the second half of the game. The goals they score Are Well earned  Washington out shot the Stanley cup champions 32-27. Our hockey team played Well two Peri ods but in the third we lost our concentration on the Job we had to do me vie  s not that the club was t working hard it s that they made too Many  in other games the new York Range Sand Pittsburgh tied 3-3, Toronto edged col Orado 5-4, Cleveland topped los Angeles 3 1, Atlanta routed Minnesota 5-1, Buffal tied Chicago 2-2 and Boston beat St. Louis 7-3. In the world hockey association new England Defeated Edmonton 6-3. Rangers 3, penguins 3 Greg Polis scored the game tying goal at 8 30 of the third period. Polis took passes from Dave Maloney and Walt Tkaczuk and beat penguins goalie Dennis Herron. Phil Esposito and Don Murdoch scored new York s other goals while Pierre Larouche Ron stack House and Lowell Macdonald scored for Pittsburgh. Maple Leafs 5, Rockies 4 defens Eman Ian Turnbull scored on a 35 foot Power play shot at 15 38 of the final period to boost Toronto Over Colorado. Tom eur had tied the game for the Rock ies at 8 03 after Lanny Mcdonald had put Toronto ahead Only 1 07 before. Toronto also got goals from Jack Valiquette Inge Hammarstrom and Dave Williams. Paul Gardner scored two goals for Colorado. Barons 3, Kings 1 Cleveland broke a 1-1 tie with second period goals by Dennis Maruk and Bob Murdoch. The Barons took a 1-0 Lead in the first period on Fred Ahern s tally. The Kings tied the game at 10 03 of the first period on a Power play goal by Ernie Hicke. Kings goalie Rogie Vachon who had two shutouts in his first three starts took a shot on his face mask and had to leave the game. Vachon replaced by Gary Simmons was groggy but not injured seriously. He did not return to the game. Flames 5, North stars 1 Willi Plett s fourth goal of the season capped a three goal Atlanta third period. Ken Houston and John Gould scored continued on Page 24