Dennis Smith Hans Becker He's about the only guy whocan get —_I think he'd be all right . . the job. y I guess he's the best we've got. Meredith Klit I think he'd be a better prime as the next guy. minister than Mulroney or Trudeau. Blyth Elliott He seems straight forward . . . you want to think he'll be telling the truth. Seouttu lange 9 berm, apis evel tommy hhame with all emenitioe including 16x Kidney shoped heot i qe The other “Olympic “inners, the dance team of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean of Britain, skate Thursday and are favored to win their fourth consecutive title. Witt, 18, added a first in the women's short program to the first she posted Monday in compulsory figures. Kay Thomson of Toronto redeemed herself for a poor showing at the Olympics, where she finished 12th, by skating an excellent short program that catapulted her to fifth place overall. Elizabeth Manley of Ottawa, who fell in her short program, is 10th. Hamilton, 26, also going for a fourth straight world title, received top marks in figures as the men’s competition opened. ORSER SEVENTH Brian Orser of Penetanguishene, Ont., failed to get the top-three placing he had hoped would put him in striking distance of gold. He was seventh in figures. “First place now is pretty much out of the question,” said Orser, third last year. “I'm happy with the way I skated the figures, but I'm disappointed I'm not higher in the standings.” Gordon Forbes of Brockville, Ont., is 10th and Gary Beacom of Toronto is 11th. Thomson, like Underhill and Martini, had something to prove here. She had a disastrous short program at the Olympies, but was on the money Tuesday. “My goal today was to finish fifth and I made it,” said Thomson, who should improve on her seventh-place finish last year. “I'm really happy. I'm ona roll. I just want to keep it going. She gets that chance tonight when the women's medals will be distributed after the free-skating final. West German champion Norbert Schramm, silver medallist the last two years, withdrew before his third compulsory figure after becoming disheartened by 11th and 12th-place finishes in the first two figures. McKinney wins final giant slalom ZWIESEL, WEST GER- MANY (AP) — Tamara Mc- Kinney of the United States won the final’ women’s giant slalom of the World Cup ski season today but, despite the victory, the defending overall champion has no chance of sinning this year's title. McKinney, with the fastest second run, finished with a combined time of two min- utes, 183.28 seconds, with current leader Erika Hess of Switzerland, who jumped from fifth after the first run, { Placing secbnd in 2:14.06. Unhefalded Blanca Fer- nandez-Ochoa of Spain was third im 2:14.28. West Ger- many’s Marini Kiehi led after the first leg but dropped to. Capitals in the Face for thd top spot in the Patrick Divi- sion. final giant slalom standings with 115 points, but she failed to add to her overall total — only a vietory would have done that. However, she maintained her lead with 247 points. McKinney, now with 190 points, did manage to move into third place in the dverall standings. She also placed third in‘ the - giant standings with 85 points, ‘fin- ishing behind Hess atid American teammate Christin Cooper, with 90. Downhill specialist Laurie /Graham of Inglewood, Ont., who did not compete finished 14th in giant with 82 points, 25 of those on the strength of a victory in'a super giant slalom in January at Puy-Saint-Vincent, France. King Richard may start for Canucks Friday By RON SUDLOW VANCOUVER (CP) — King Richard Brodeur, who led Vancouver Canucks to the Stanley Cup final two seasons ago, might be re. turning from self-imposed exile in coach Harry Neale's doghouse. Two shaky performances by other Canucks goaltend ers in consecutive home-ice losses could mean Brodeur, who hasn't played for more than a month, might start when Vancouver plays the Jets in Winnipeg Friday. John Garrett was the vic tim in the Vancouver goal Tuesday night when he stop- ped only 14 shots in a 6-3 Na- tional Hockey League loss to Detroit Red Wings. Frank Caprice was below the usual standard in a 5-2 loss Sunday to Buffalo Sabres. And Brodeur, who has been criticized by Neale for being petulant in practice, might get a chance to lead the Canucks’ crusade to fin- ish ahead of the third-place Jets in the Smythe Di: TOUGH NIGHTS ice had tough “Garrett had a tough night and Bro- deaur is the other goalie. 'm not going to let you talk me into telling you who's going to play goal in Win- fipeg on Friday but a week ago Richard wouldn't have been under consideration and on two or your job to be ready to go and don't think anything’s etched in stone. “Who would have thought he'd be a third goalie three months ago? I've told him I'd like to get him in and if he's got a little spark to himself instead of moping around something would happen here. But I couldn't promise anything.” Ron Duguay scored one of his two power-play goals through Garrett's legs and Dwight Foster also put the clinching 5-3 goal between the Vancouver netminder's pads before a sellout crowd of 16,553. “It was one of those games when you don't get too much to do but the shots you do get are fairly good ones,” said Garrett who stopped a Lane Lambert breakaway in the second period but allowed Lambert to give Detroit a 3-2 lead early in the final frame. “I stopped a few good ones but when the big save had to be there, I didn’t get Workmanlike checking by the Wings and Duguay’s suc- cess on the power play, which ran his season goal tally to 32, kept the Wings in the game until rookie sensation Steve Yzerman, Foster and Blake Dunlop, into an empty net, scored in the final four minutes and 21 seconds While the Canucks were blanked on four power-play chances, the Wings scored on two of three to record their 77th goal with the man ad vantage That's 40 more than all of last season when they missed the playoffs but Tuesday night's victory kept them four points behind second place St. Louis Blues in the Norris Division. Darcy Rota put the Can ucks ahead 1-0 in the first period and Cam Neely gave them a 2-2 tie after 40 min utes when Peter McNab's passout (his 700th NHL poing) bounced past Detroit goalie Greg Stefan off Nee ly's leg. Patrik Sundstrom, who scored his 37th goal to tie Thomas Gradin for most goals and points (86) in a sea son by a Vancouver centre, was the only Canuck to beat Stefan in the third period. The Detroit netminder play ed a solid game, finishing with 30 saves. “He's been playing like that all year,” said Detroit coach Nick Polano. “He's kind of emerged as the No. 1 goal. tender on the hockey club and we plan on using him quite a bit in the stretch drive. ¥ GENO PETRALLI'S FUTURE Cox faces decision By MIKE RUTSEY LAKELAND, FLA. (CP) — While the pitchers cop- tinue to play musical chairs with the vacancies on Tor- onto Blue Jays’ roster, one of their battery mates, catcher Geno Petralli, shares their uncertain future. Petralli, 24, has gone quiet- ly about his business while most of the attention during spring training has been focused on the pitchei Wheter Petralli makes the final 25-man roster will not be an easy decision for Tor. onto brass headed by Pat Gillick, vice-president of baseball operations, and man. ager Bobby Cox. Petralli has run out of op- tions, meaning he cannot be sent to the minor leagues. He will remain with the Jays — which means Toronto will have three catchers (the other two are veterans Ernie Whitt and Buck Martinez) — he be traded or he will be put on waivers. ‘We haven't decided one way or the other just what we'll be doing with Petralli,” Cox said Tuesday after the Jays’ 7-5, 10-inning victory over Detroit Tigers. “We haven’t made a decision whe ther we'll go with three cat chers or not.” HOLDING UP Petralli, a native of Sac ramento, Cali i nerves are holding together, despite the uncertainty. “Mo, I'm not nervous at all,” .Petralli said. “I came down here in good shape and when I get a chance to play, I think [I've done a fairly decent job. “If I continue to do my job, things are going to work out in, my favor. ~ “The uncertainty wears on you a little bit if you let it, but I'm not letting it wear on ime at all. I believe some- thing’s going to happen and it “will happen in my best inter- ests, so I'm really pot that game, during which he went 0-for-2, in the seventh inning. In eight pre-season games, the switch hitter is 3-for-13 with no runs batted in. But Petralli figured in the outcome Tuesday. In the 10th inning, with runners on first and second, he hit a groun- der down the third-base line that went under Howard Johnson's glove for an error that brought the Jays’ sixth run across. FORCES THROW Fred McGriff followed with a potential inning-ending double-play ball. But Petralli went hard into second and his aggressive base running for- ced second baseman Scott Earl to make a poor throw to first that allowed the second run to score from third. Petralli wasn't the star of the game. That honor was shared by George Bell and Cliff Johnson and pitchers Jimmy Key and Joey Mc Laughlin. Bell went 3-for-4 with one RBI to raise his average to .579. Johnson smashed a two- run homer of more than 450 feet in the sixth inning. Key, a rookie left-hander, performed solidly, going four innings and giving up two runs on six hits. Both runs and three of the hits came with two out in the fourth. McLaughlin, who has given up five hits and one run in 11 innings, fa¢ed the minimum number of batters i in his two innings. “Tm just about that far away from being right there,” said McLaughlin, holding two of bis fingers an inch apart. “Each outing has been better than the other.” RULE CHANGES CONSIDERED HONOLULU (AP) — controversial calls by omcan may be seen twice and some theatrics may not be seen at all during National Football League games next season if two rule-change proposals are adopted by team owners. The competition commit- tee was expected to present a number of possible rule changes to the owners at to- day's session of the NFL winter meetings. Among the proposals was one to use an extra-game of- ficial to review television re- plays and reverse some calls and another to end “exces- sive’ demonstrations by players during a game. On Tuesday, club owners voted to approve the sale of 40 per cent of the Denver Broncos. Industrialist Edgar Kaiser of Vancouver has agreed to sell his majority interest in the Broncos to Pat Bowlen of Edmonton, an oilman and de- veloper, and a minority in- terest to Denver business- men John Adams and Tim Borden. The same is said to be for $70 million, most for a sports franchise. Since Bowlen was dis- closed as a potential buyer only Monday, a vote on his purchase must await the "s routine background and financial check on him. owners will not vote on that part of the sale at these meetings, but probably at their May 23-25 spring- gathering in Washington, D.C. A few son-playing rule changes will also be consid. ered, including one to give teams better access to play- ers they have waived and another to loosen restrictions on signing players frém the Canadian Football Leauge.