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Winners jsswjss Vai ■ lE'; Jfj£z 1 T / 4 Conners •'SflfcF?’*. vV 1 " ; 'V j ZWI z * / V rtlu / ii r , M/rAnt j -*r W VTfjfSiSnS k iw I»r > Stanley Cup Rutherford gambled in Indy qualifying By JERRY GARRETT AP Motorsports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — At least Johnny Rutherford can start the Indianapolis 500 next to one Sneva. Not the one he had in mind, though. . Rutherford, the defending ■champion, passed up a chance on the first day of qualifying, (Saturday, to earn a front-row Iseat for the May 29 auto racing FAYETTE MORTGAGE (phone 227-1026 First Mortgage [ and Second | Mortgage Loans. TUESDAY SPECIAL KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN W LIVERS F TENDER, FLAVORFUL, TRULY DELICIOUS BOXED CHICKEN $4 10 LIVER DINNER * | Reg. $1.85 • Special CALL IN ORDERS IF YOU WISH 2 Convenient Locations COLONEL SANDERS’ RECIPE ftentiidty fried OF GRIFFIN 131 East Solomon St - Phone 227-3678 1477 West Mclntosh Road - Phone 228-2432 OF COURSE WE STILL FEATURE SUDDEN SERVICE Owned and Operated by Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Freeman. Original Owners for 13 Years. Jimmy Conners clowns as he receives the trophy for winning the World Championship Tennis Title in Dallas. He defeated Dave Stockton, 6-7, 8-1, 6-4, 6-3. Serge Svard of the Montreal Canadians holds up the Stanley Cup after the Canadiens had defeated the Boston Bruins 2-1 in overtime Sunday. classic. He wanted the pole po sition, or nothing. He got nothing. Rutherford, a two-time pole winner in the $1 million race and top qualifier in five pre vious races this season, gam bled that his backup McLaren would run better than his front line model, which had turned 197.542 miles an hour on its first qualifying lap. But Tom Sneva, the 28-year old mathematics teacher from Spokane, Wash., had shattered the track record and had offi cially become the first driver in the 68-year history of the 2%- mile Indianapolis Motor Speed way to exceed 200 m.p.h. And Sneva did it — laps at 200.401 and 200.535 — in a McLaren-Cosworth, a carbon copy of Rutherford’s mount. Rutherford’s gamble didn’t pay off. The backup McLaren “just quit” on a warmup lap, »I W 1 rrW , 'fIHMH n Byfllka V » s ■“*•■. -b ad* y ‘ SrS* Azi Mi W*A ' .At <?'' >*“ 'lar « -a Cale again and not enough time remained to get the other car through the qualifying line again before the end of time trials at 6 p.m. “We gambled and we lost — nothing more, nothing less,” Rutherford said after qualifying Sunday at 197.325. Though the speed was third fastest over-all, Rutherford earned the 17th starting position because he didn’t qualify on the first day. That put him next to Jerry Sneva, the younger brother of BASEBALL By The Associated Press American League East ..W L Pct. GB Balt 17 11 .607 - NYork 18 13 .581 % Boston 17 13 .567 1 Milwkee 17 17 .500 3 Detroit 14 18 .438 5 Toronto 14 0 .412 6 Cleve 12 18 .400 6 West Minn 22 11 .667 — Chicago 20 12 .625 1% Texas 16 14 .533 4% K.C. 17 16 .515 5 Oakland 16 17 .485 6 Calif 15 19 .441 7% Seattle 11 27 . 89 13% National League East ..W L Pct. GB Pitts 22 9 .710 — Chicago 19 11 -633 2% S Louis 20 12 .625 2% Phil 16 13 .552 5 Montreal 13 15 .464 7% NYork 11 20 .355 11 West Los Ang 26 7 .788 — Cinci 14 18 .438 11% SFran 13 19 .406 12% Houston 13 20 .394 13 S Diego 14 22 .389 13% Atlanta 10 24 .294 16% New league bowls Tuesday The newly organized Tuesday Mixed Bowling League will roll its first games Tuesday night at Griffin Lanes. League officials today announced that there still are openings for a few men and women. Anyone interested in participating is asked to attend the first bowling session which begins at 8 p.m. Cale Yarbrough overcame a pair of penalty pit stops and edged David Person by six seconds in winning the Mason- Dixon 500 stock car race in Dover, Del. \<# '" MA%| , fl . - V » ‘- -- ’ ■ t7 MI .st- • rß*” NHL MVP the pole winner, who qualified a 7-year-old McLaren at 186.616. i Not bad considering the car’s ! age, but slowest of the Saturday qualifiers. Canadiens win Stanley Cup in OT victory over Bruins By DAVE O’HARA AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) - When the National Hockey League train ing camps opened last Septem ber, the major question was: Which club would go on to be beaten by the defending cham pion Montreal Canadiens in the Stanley Cup final? The Boston Bruins sur prisingly “won” the honor. They bowed out in four straight games, as the mighty Cana diens scored a 2-1 overtime vic tory Saturday night for their 20th Stanley Cup title. The training camps for the start of the 1977-78 season are a long summer away, but already another big question is being asked. How can the Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, Philadelphia Flyers or any other hopeful improve enough to beat Montreal? “We’ll be back, for sure,” Boston Coach Don Cherry said. “They (the Canadiens) can’t get any better, but we can. We’ll be better in every way next year.” “We’re not on a par with Montreal and we’re not going to sit still,” said Boston General Manager Harry Sinden. Sinden is openly trying to lure Mark Howe, who has played out his contract with Houston of the World Hockey Association. Sinden thinks Howe could be another Guy Lefleur, the Canadiens’ NHL scoring champion who was voted the most valuable player in the playoffs. However, the Bruins, like oth er NHL clubs, figure to need more than a Mark Howe to match the Canadiens, who have incredible speed, hard, accu rate shooters and a tough de fense anchored by big Larry Robinson, Serge Savard and Guy Lapointe with Ken Dryden in goal. And, possibly even more im portant as Coach Scotty Bow man noted, “We’re a young team.” Montreal lost only eight Vbhi -J Aq .■.AT* 3f «lfe»' '.TZ4■***■<!?• ' . '*<2,.’* 41 4 , as . *■ _ • • , A . r*- s -■ Jlfclrv .’ *#<?****' • ." * <r* ~~ *sF*''■£/wßsr*- * ‘A~ ' ’■ • * 'R ■».. -■* ■ : ■ x jS|Sg£4 •*- -■ , ■ ■ *’^KSrn t ‘ ‘ ’wMllwMffrLTt ■ • X ' Ir '*~" ? Braves Guy Lafleur shares the joy of winning the Conn Smythe Trophy for the Most Valuable Player In the Stanley Cup series with Serge Savard, left, and Yvan Cournoyer. Rutherford, who openly pre dicted the 200 barrier would be broken and that he would be the one to do it, was in no mood for jokes. of 80 regular-season games and two of 14 playoff contests en route to the NHL title. “I doubt if any other team will ever match this record,” Bowman said without trying to boast. “We started to win last fall and we just kept going.” “You can’t lose when you play for Montreal,” Lapointe said. “There’s so much pressure — win, win, win. They let you know that the first day you come to training camp.” “We are afraid to lose," added versatile Jim Roberts. “We want to win all the time.” “This is a great team, and with the assets it has it would be considered great in any age,” said center Pete Mahovlich. TRANSACTIONS 60 Monthly Cash Vou Monthly Total of Percentage Receive Payment Payments Rates I 1,500.00 36.1 1 2,166.60 13.50 I 2,500.00 60.19 3,611.40 14.25 I 4,000.00 96.30 5,778.00 14.75 ; I 6,000.00 144.44 8,666.40 15.00 B-, . ’ I” CREDIT LIFE INSURANCE ~BBgfc J „| /our home does not have to be paid for to ||g|H|fc ''fe I qualify A Peoples Financial Real Estate I Loan does not affect your first 118 West Taylor Street Griffin, Georgia 30223 Atlanta Braves first baseman Tom Paciorek dives for a line drive off the bat of St. Louis Cardinals Jerry Mumphrey in the fourth inning of action Sunday. The Braves rallied to win 15-12. RESERVE MARATHON , t o V • O :: Wg >-• s'" 9 jMjHs Marathon “We thought we had enough to do the job. Obviously we didn’t,” he said. There was little other track activity — only five qualifiers. “No one can compare teams of different eras, but this would be a great team even if it was playing in a six-team league like the other great Canadiens’ teams.” “The essence of this team is hard work,” said Dryden, who had a 1.55 goals-against aver age in 14 playoff games. “La fleur and Steve Shutt (a 60-goal scorer) and the defensemen add the flavor to it, but the basic reason we do so well is the effort everybody gives.” The Bruins beat Montreal three times in five games dur ing the regular season. How ever, they were no match for the Canadiens with the Stanley Cup at stake, a trophy Montreal first won in 1916, the year before Page 9 — Griffin Daily News Monday, May 16,1977 • '' , <V A ,3jL- ,< ’< fli fe s » F ‘-yBB s »wll Crenshaw But the group was a popular one: Rutherford, Gary Bet tenhausen, Roger McCluskey, Jim McElreath and Lloyd Ruby. the NHL was founded. The Canadiens defeated the Bruins 7-3, 3-0 and 4-2 before capturing the fourth game on two goals by Jacques Lemaire, both with assists from Lafleur. Lemaire slammed home a 10- footer on a pass from Lefleur at 4:32 of overtime, triggering the Canadiens’ victory celebration. 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