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John Pickett, operations vice-president for the 1988 Winter Olympics organizing committee, said Tuesday he expects organizers to spend about $75,000 sending people to Los Angeles. More than 30 officials at- tended the Winter Games in Sarajevo at a cost of about $159,000. The exact budget and number of people will be es- tablished this weekend at the organizing committee's monthly board meeting. “The Summer Games are Aha’ GETTING IN SHAPE . . Member of Stanley Humphries tennis team gets in shape different than the winter during team practice Tuesday. The team is getting ready to compete in many up- ones,” Pickett said. coming events this season. CasNews Photo by Ryan Wilsor MAJOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP 4-0 a first for Niekro By The Associated Préss Roeat Phil Niekro may be knuckling a little less these days, but rival batters are knuckling under more than ever. The oldest player in major league baseball — he was 45 on April 1 — and the oldest to perform for New York Yan- kees, Niekro did something Tuesday which he failed to accomplish in 19 National League seasons. He is 4-0 for the first time in his career following an eight-hit, eight- strikeout 4-0 American League victory over Kansas City Royals. “At my age, I've forgotten * what young is,” said Niekro, whose 44th career shutout also was his 272nd triumph. He now mixes a fastball, sinker and slider with his famed knuckleball and owns a 0.98 earned run average and a string of 211-3 scoreless innings. Niekro said he re- plied on the knuckleball too much with Atlanta last sea- son. The Yankees snapped a 25- inning scoreless drought with two unearned runs in the second off Bud Black on Butch Wynegar's bases- loaded single. Don Baylor added an RBI single in the fifth and Don Mattingly ho- mered in the sixth. Elsewhere in the AL, it was Seattle Mariners 4 Tor- onto Blue Jays 2, California Angels 8 Boston Red Sox 7, Baltimore Orioles 8 Chicago White Sox 3, Milwaukee Brewers 3 Oakland A's 2, and Detroit Tigers 6-5 and 43 over Minnesota Twins in a doubleheader sweep. The Texas-Cleveland game was rained out. In. the National League, veteran Richie Hebner, 36, hit a solo homer in the top of the ninth inning off Bruce Sutter to lift Chicago Cubs into first place in the NL East with a 3-2 win over St. Louis Cardinals, who lost their seventh in a row. In other NL games it was Pittsburgh Pirates 3 Phil- adelphia Phillies 2, Atlanta Braves 4 Cincinnati Reds 2, San Diego Padres 6 San Francisco Giants 1, and Los Angeles Dodgers 5 Houston Astros 3. New York at Mon- tréal was rained out. ANGELS 8 RED 80X 7 California got solo homers from four veterans — Reggie Jackson, Brian Downing, Bobby Grich and Doug De- Cinces — and Jackson dou- bled in the ninth and scored the winning run on a single by Bob Boone, another old- timer. Jackson, Downing and Grich hit consecutive homers off Dennis Boyd in the fourth, while Boone collected four hits and Rod Carew three in the Angels’ 16-hit assault. That offset Boston slugger Jim Rice's first hitting spree of the season — a single, double “and triple and four RBIs. ORIOLES 8 WHITE SOX 3 Eddie Murray's two-run homer, a solo shot by Cal Ripken Jr. and Scott Me- Gregor’s nine-hit pitching helped Baltimore win for only the fifth time in 17 games. Vance Law and Ron Kittle homered for the White Sox. TIGERS 6-4 TWINS 5-3 Lou Whitaker's two-out single capped a three-run ninth inning in the opener as the Tigers rallied to make a winner of Jack Morris, 4-0, who scattered seven hits. In the nightcap, Lance Parrish hit a three-run homer ia the fifth inning to erase a 3-1 deficit and give the Tigers a five-game winning streak and a 14-1 record. BREWERS 3 ATHLETICS 2 Oakland’s Lary Sorensen came close to working out of a bases-loaded jam in the seventh when Charlie Moore lined back to the mound and Ben Oglivie, who homered in the second inning for Mil- waukee’s first run, was dou- bled off third. But Rick Manning then hit a drive to the gap in left-centre to drive in the tying and winning runs. Soviets to compete LAUSANNE, SWITZER- LAND (AP) — The Soviet Union appeared closer to competing in the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles af- ter a meeting with Olympic organizers and U.S. repre- sentatives Tuesday. “['m very happy with the results of the meetings,” said Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee. “We may say that the black clouds in the Olympic sky have van- ished or will very soon dis- appear.” Samaranch had called the session at the request of the Soviets, who had cast doubt about their participation and charged the United States with violating the Olympic Charter. But after the meeting Tuesday, the Soviets prom- ised they would attend the Games if the Los Angeles or- ganizers “uphold the Olympic Charter.” Peter Ueberroth, presi- dent of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Commit- tee and the chief U.S. rep- resentative at the talks, re- fused to characterize the meeting as a breakthrough guaranteeing Soviet atten- dance. But he said he would guarantee that the organ- izing committee would com- ply with the charter. “There has been some pro- gress, but this is not a break- through,” Ueberroth said af- ter a meeting with Marat Gramov, chief of the Soviet Olympic Committee. GIVE ASSURANCES A joint communique said: “The Soviet Union's National Olympic Committee declares that Soviet athletes have the firm intention of participat- ing in the Games in Los An- geles at the 23rd. Olympiad under the condition that the Olympic Charter is enforced. The Los Angeles Committee gave its in de- intend to boycott the ‘Olym pics as the United States did in Moscow in 1980 to protest of the Soviet invasion of Af ghanistan. But they have not fully ruled out withholding their athletes over alleged U.S. violations of the charter. Among the elements agreed upon were allowing the Soviets and other coun- tries to submit lists of par- ticipants to the organizing committee instead of U.S. clarations that the Olympic Charter would-be entirely respected.” Gramov would not say def- initely that the Soviets would attend the Games. “A step forward has been made, by getting rid of impediments which had been accumulating recently,” he said. The Soviets have said re- peatedly that they do not Eskimos planning to retire? EDMONTON (CP) — CBC says Dave Fennell plans to retire from Edm Es- kimos of the Canadi#&Foot- ball League. The radio report quotes the 11-year véteran as saying in an interview ‘last week that an announcement would be made Monday. However, there was no statement at and a move that should meet Sovi- et complaints its athletes needed visas despite con- trary stipulations in the Olympic Charter. The Soviets have also charged that President Rea- gan was using the Games for election-year politics and that Los Angeles was too pol- luted, too dangerous and too expensive a venue for the Games. veteran that time and an Eskimos spokesman said the team has nothing to say about the report. Fennell, said he spent a good part of last month to get in shape for the coming season. However, he finally decided he doesn’t want to play any- more and will pursue his legal ¢areer in Edmonton. By JOHN KOROBANIK EDMONTON (CP) — Goaltender Grant Fuhr bailed out Edmonton Oilers when they needed it and Wayne Gretzky directed a sputtering offence to a 7-1 victory over Minnesota North Stars on Tuesday in the opening game of the National Hockey League Campbell Con- ference final. “He had a little help from Wayne tonight but I think Grant really held the team together,” said Edmonton coach Glen Sather. “In the second period he was awesome, he was up and down, he made a series of three or four saves, he was great.” Fuhr, who has started all but one of Edmonton's 11 playoff games this season, robbed Brent Ashton and Brian Bellows with the score 1-0, stopped Brad Maxwell twice, Ashton, Bellows and Ashton in rapid succession and Dino Cicarelli with the Oilers up 2-0. “I just got the breaks,” said a modest Fuhr after kicking out 33 Minnesota shots. “The puck seemed to be sitting big and was easy to see.” Both teams were unusually sluggish offensively, a Oilers win game opener Minnesota's only goal on a power play in the final minite of the period Kevin McClelland, Dave Hunter and Kurri with his second ‘of the night and 10th of the playoffs added third-period goals for Edmonton. “We had the good touch around the net tonight,” Sather said of the scoring. “It just seemed our shots were going in and theirs weren't.” Which is about the same thing the North Stars said. “We had the chances to get going but we didn't,” said goaltender Don Beaupre, who was replaced by Gilles Meloche after the fifth Edmonton goal. “They have the good plays in our end, the quick passes, the shots on the fly. “But I just feel we gave them the first game and we only have ourselves to blame.” Although the Oilers had safely secured a 7-1 lead with less than five minutes left in the game, the capacity crowd of 17,498 spectators were hushed when Gretzky, the premier offensive player in the NHL, slumped to the ice after being hit by Lars Lindgren. carryover from their resp tough g divisional finals that ended Sunday night. “That was very unlike our game,” said Minnesota coach Bill Mahoney. “We did not develop the sharpness, the intensity we usually have.” SCORE EARLY Dave Semenko put Edmonton ahead 92 seconds into the game and Gretzky, who had three assists, made it 2.0 before the first period ended. Pat Hughes and Jari Kurri added second-period goals before Steve Payne got By JOHN MACKINNON MONTREAL (CP) — Steve Penney and the Canadiens played about as well as they could Tuesday night, but Montreal coach Jacques Lemaire is still waitin; the real New York Islanders to show up for the National Hockey League Prince of wales Conference final. So, for that matter, is Islanders coach Al Arbour, who said his players looked “fat and lazy” while being blanked 3-0 in the best-of-seven series opener. Lemaire wasn’t as caustic in his assessment of the four-time defending Stanley Cup champions. “I don't think we saw the real Islanders tonight,” said Lemaire. “As for our team, I don’t think we can play any better. “I don't think we were perfect, though, there are still some little things we're not doing right.” Penney didn’t do anything wrong as he blocked 24 shots to earn his third playoff shutout and lower his goals-against average to 1.50. His best among the two dozen shots was a stick save on a bang-bang shot by Greg Gilbert, who one-timed a pass from behind the Canadiens net in the 13th minute of the first period. The Islanders outshot Montreal 8-1 through the first 14 minutes of the game. CHANT HIS NAME “Oh, yeah, that one in the first period,” said Penney, who had the Forum fans chanting his name by the end of the game. “(Bryan) Trottier was behind the net and made a pass. I just got in the way of the puck and I got lucky.” Penney has been getting in the way of a lot of shots and then watching his defencemen clear away the rebounds throughout the playoffs, and that trend continued against the Islanders. Mike Bossy, held to one shot on goal against the The earried Gretzky heavily into the boards behind the North Stars net. Gretzky lay on the ice for several minutes before being helped off. Although Gretzky did not appear in the dressing room afterwards, the Oilers denied he was injured. Sather said Gretzky was merely winded. Dr. Gordon Cameron, the team physician, agreed, saying Gretzky suffered a contusion on his cheek. The second game in the best-of-seven Stanley Cup semifinal will be played here Thursday night. Islanders blanked 3-0 checking line of Guy Carbonneau, Bob Gainey and Mario Tremblay, said the Islander's shooters made it easy for Penney. “Penney made some good saves, but he didn't beat us, we just didn't have any quality shots,” said Bossy. The Canadiens had a number of high-quality shots at Islanders goaltender Billy Smith, particularly in the second period when he kept New York in the game with a handful of splendid saves. Carbonneau had given Montreal a 1-0 lead at 17:41 of the first period when he tapped in a goalmouth pass from Tremblay. Rookie defenceman Chris Chelios started the play by drifting a slap shot at Smith from the blueline. ELUDES SMITH Mats Naslund made it 2-0 when he scooted away on a two-on-one break with Pierre Mondou, took a pass and drilled a slap shot from the rim of the left circle that Smith couldn't geg his trapper on at 1:46 of the third. Steve Shutt scored his fifth goal of the playoffs at 7:45 during a Montreal power play when he got his stick in front of a Chelios slap shot. Shutt, who has rebounded from a miserable season and early-playoff benching to|score some important goals for Montreal, was relieved that Montreal hadn't let down emotionally after a draining Adams Division final series victory over Quebec Nordiques. “Everybody was saying, ‘Well, we beat Boston and we beat the Nordiques, everything after this wil be bonus,” said Shutt. “I was afraid everybody would say, ‘Well, we've done really well,’ and just let up a little bit. “What wasn't the case. We played a little bit scared tonight because they are such a good team we might have got blown out.” Game 2 of the semifinal series goes here Thursday night. Al Cowens off to good start By MIKE RUTSEY TORONTO (CP) — Dave Beard and Al Cowens have pretty big shoes to fill if Se- attle Mariners intend to rise in the West Division of base- ball’s American League. Both players played pivo- tal roles Tuesday night, how- ever, as Cowens went 2-for-3 with two runs batted in, which Beard pitched 22-8 innings of hitlegs relief in Se- attle's 4-2 victory over Tor- onto Blue Jays. Cowens’s first hit, a single to right in the sixth inning, nager Cowens, who batted a pathe- tic 206 last year with seven homers and 35 RBI. “I don’t think anybody can explain about last year: I don’t think there is an explanation.” If there is one, it's escaped the 82-year-old outfielder. “T just can't figure it out,” Cowens said of his 1963 sea- son. “I'm just glad this year I'm healthy and off to a good start.” Toronto starter Jim Clancy, 1-2, and Mike Moore of Seattle were in a pitchers’ duel through the opening five innings as Seattle managed one hit and Toronto two. In the sixth with two out and runners on first and sec- ond, Cowens scored Al Davis with the first run on his single to right, with Pat Put- nam moving over to third. Putnam made it 2-0 courtesty of a Clancy wild pitch. Toronto tied the game 2-2 in the bottom of the sixth on Lleyd Moseby's two-run homer, scoring Damaso Gar- cia who had doubled. It was Moseby’s fourth homer of the season and 12th RBI in his Cowens raised his season's RBI total to eight and av- erage to .302 with his RBI-sin scored the final run on a grounder by Darnell Coles. Beard entered the game in the seventh after reliever Mike Stanton bruised his right hand knocking down a hard grounder. The 24-year- old reliever, who saved 11 and 10 games for the A’s the Gibson last two seasons, respective- ly, kept the Jays hitless to earn his first victory of the season. “He was outstanding to night,” said Crandall. “He's going to contribute to this team and that's all I want him to do.” strikes out 11 players PHOENIX (AP) — Van couver righthander Bob Gib- son struck out 11 Giants en route to a 96 Pacific Coast League victory Tuesday night. Gibson needed relief help from Jack Lazorko in the ninth to get the final out. Cateher Jaime Nelson drove in three runs to lead the Canadians’ attack. Out- fielder Doug Loman was 2-for-4 and drove in a run. Loman, Moore and Ernie Riles scored two runs apiece. The Giants’ attack was led by outfielder Alejandro San- ches. He crashed a two-run homer in the fourth over the centrefield batter’s eye, only the third hitter in PCL his- tory to do so. He followed up with a solo shot in the sixth. ‘Vancouver touched Giants starter Scott Garrelts for four runs in the first inning with a home run by Ron Koenigsfeld and run-scoring singles .by Loman and out- fielder Eric Peyton.