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By Milton Richman
UPI Sports Editor
EW YORK — On or off
ice, Wayne Gretzky is cool.
Like, he had this little
re to do — like, jumping
r and picking up this
|(),000 check and trophy
y were giving him. But,
r know, a guy doesn’t like,
telephone iyou know, to go by himself,
he investipBSo Wayne Gretzky brought
DecembetlB'iend along. One of his best
ew leads, [tifrie nds, in fact,
orted. BThe friend was Eddie Mio.
He sagoalie, who was with the
said he hnKw York Rangers last season
m anti-nut and probably will be with
n, and asp them again next season
nadilloCoaipthough he’s a free agent
er was a ii:right now.
But he wasn’t the goalie
ryone was talking about.
Each time goalie Billy
^ Jith’s name was mentioned
7 Monday at the midtown hotel
wh i e Gretzky received the
»gram’s Award as the Na-
liled to tl tional Hockey League’s out-
■nding performer for 1982-
83. the Edmonton Oilers’
ctacular 22-year-old scor-
machine played it cool.
'lot once did he bad-mouth
the abrasive, sometimes bel-
jerent New York Islanders’
rad no prt go die who took a whack at
limbing sl*in) w ith his stick during the
les repu Islanders’ recent four-game
te United!*nley Cup sweep of the
i buildingii'jjojiers.
Atlanta'sPeiMivfio, who couldn’t hear
Los Ai;. w hat his old Edmonton team-
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ate was saying about Smith,
buld’ve been surprised if it
as anything critical.
“To me, he’s everything a
coach would desire as a hock
ey player and as an individual
as well,” Mio said.
Gretzky and Mio get along
great together and like to kid
each other.
“After I left Edmonton,”
Mio related, “he’d say to me
he was gonna really embarrass
me the first time we played
against each other. I’d tell him
he’d never do it with that soft
shot of his. I said to him, ‘you
got the worst slap shot in
hockey. You couldn’t break a
pane of glass with it.’
“Well, we finally played
against each other. And he
beat me so bad, it wasn’t even
funny. Before he skated away,
he sort of smirked and said to
me, ‘Worst shot in hockey,
huh?”’
Today, Gretzky will be in
Montreal where he’s the odds-
on choice to win the Hart Tro-
phy as the league’s Most Valu
able Player for the past sea
son. If he does, it’ll be the
fourth straight time. Nobody
ever has done that before. Not
Maurice Richard, not Gordie
Howe, not Bobby Orr.
But Monday the questions
had to do with Smith, and
when he was asked pointedly
what he thought of the Islan
ders’ 32-year-old netminder,
particularly Smith’s admission
he put on a show and feigned
being injured by Glenn
Anderson in the fourth Stan
ley Cup contest, Gretzky
thought a moment and said:
“Eve always been a big be-
liever in what happens on the
ice should stay on the ice. My
own feeling is that he embar
rassed one of the best referees
(Andy van Hellemond) in the
NHL by doing what he did.
But as for what he did or said,
I just consider the source. If it
had come from a class person
like Bryan Trottier or Dennis
Potvin, I’d be concerned, but
coming from him, I don’t wor
ry about it ”
From Edmonton’s point of
view, was there anything
Gretzky would like to see done
differently if Stanley Cup fin
als were played all over again?
“In Game One, when Billy
Smith picked on Glenn
Anderson, if we had done
something, I think it might’ve
changed the series,” he said.
“That set the tone. If we
would’ve gone after them, it
might’ve been different.
When they found they could
get away with it, that gave
them a boost.”
In the past, there have been
rumors Peter Pocklington, the
Oilers’ owner who has had
some financial difficulties,
ultimately would sell Gretzky
to the Rangers for $10 million
or some figure like that. What
did Gretzky think?
“Peter Pocklington has
sworn on a Bible that abso
lutely no way,” he said, re
garding the prospect of such a
deal. “On the other side, a lot
of things can happen in busi
ness. The bottom line is, I’m
making money in Edmonton,
I’m playing on a good hockey
team and when you play on
one it makes it easier. I’m hap
py Where I am.”
Atlanta
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ir conditioni The Atlanta team has given
ach Kevin Loughery approv-
nale adults al to sign a contract with the
/en homeSt Bulls today in exchange for one
the Bulls’ second-round picks
in the upcoming NBA draft.
Bulls’ General Manager Rod
lorn, who was Loughery’s
istant when the latter coached
: New York Nets of the de
funct American Basketball
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htimistic Loughery would sign
ie three-year contract, re
portedly offering him $250,000
a year.
“We don’t anticipate any
problems, but that’s what San
Antonio thought about their
coach,” Thorn said, referring to
the Spurs’ problems with cur
rent Coach Stan Albeck, who is
attempting to get out of his oral
agreement reportedly to sign
with the New Jersey Nets.
The Hawks also said they ex
pect Loughery to sign with the
Bulls.
“In return for waiving our
contractual rights, we have en
tered into an agreement where
we waive our rights to Kevin and
we get the seventh pick of the
second round in the 1983 draft,”
Hawks’ President J. Michael
Gearon said.
The choice will be the 31st
selection overall.
Thorn said he met with
Loughery last Saturday, indicat
ing Loughery was ready to sign
when he returned to Atlanta.
Hawks’ owner Ted Turner re
portedly made a counteroffer in
an attempt to keep him.
Loughery coached the New
Jersey Nets before signing with
the Hawks in 1981.
The Bulls fired coach Paul
Westhead last month after the
team posted its second-worst re
cord in history.
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Longhorns score late to upend Oklahoma State
United Press International
OMAHA, Neb. — Jamie
Doughty’s double to right-
center in the 11th inning Mon
day night scored Mike Trent
with the winning run as top-
ranked Texas beat Oklahoma
State 6-5 in the second round
winner’s bracket game at the
College World Series.
The Cowboys sent the game
into extra innings when pinch
hitter Kevin Jagielo started a
two-out ninth-inning rally with a
single to left. Kevin Fowler,
pinch running for Jagielo, tied it
5-5 when he scored on Scott
Wade’s single.
The Longhorns, 63-14,
Thursday will face the winner of
the Michigan-Alabama contest,
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ma State reliever Gary Kan-
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winning hit.
Three consecutive errors by
the Texas defense in the third
inning led to the first two Okla
homa State runs. Longhorn
starter Roger Clemens had
struck out the first six Cowboy
hitters to that point.
Third-ranked Oklahoma
State pushed its lead to 4-1 in the
sixth. Joe Gorman singled to
lead off and came around,
scoing on Chris Beck’s ground-
out to shortstop.
'<
Cowboy starter Eric Schmidt
had retired 10 hitters in a row.
until the Longhorns came alive
in the seventh inning with four
straight hits that tied the score
4-4. Johnny Sutton, Trent and
Alan Brown produced the RBI
for Texas in the inning.
Twins pick Belcher No.l
in baseball amateur draft
United Press International
NEW YORK — Tim Belcher’s
next pitch will be to his toughest
opponent, Minnesota Twins’
owner Calvin Griffith.
Annually undermined by the
major league’s most feeble
pitching staff, the Twins opened
Monday’s regular phase of the
summer free-agent draft by
selecting the hard-throwing,
junior righthander from Mount
Vernon (Ohio) Nazarene Col
lege.
The Twins also owned the
No. 1 selection in the secondary
phase — for players drafted pre
viously but not signed — and
they chose Arizona State outfiel
der Oddibe McDowell, who led
the Sun Devils into the College
World Series by blasting seven
homers and knocking in 50 runs
in 63 games.
Under the stern hand of Grif
fith, the Twins have developed a
reputation for frugality and it’s
questionable whether the club
will offer Belcher a six-figure
signing bonus, usually tendered
to the No. 1 player selected.
“I’m happy for the Twins and
I’m happy for me,” said Belcher,
a 6-foot-3, 210-pound junior. “I
know they’ll make an honest
attempt to sign me.
“Everyone’s intention start
ing out is to make it to the top
and I know if I show them
enough, the Twins will move me
along up the ladder.”
The selection meeting began
with the first two rounds of the
regular phase, a special draft for
clubs which lost Type “B” rank
ing players through the Reentry
Draft and the entire secondary
phase. The remainder of the
regular phase will be conducted
today and Wednesday.
In the regular phase, teams
selected in reverse order of their
finish the previous season, with
the leagues alternating choices.
The Twins picked first follow
ing their 60-102 mark in 1982.
The selection order for the
secondary phase was deter
mined by lots drawn by the
league presidents.
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selected pitcher Cal Schiraldi of
the University of Texas and the
Chicago White Sox picked
Wichita State outfielder Russell
Morman.
Cincinnati, selecting second
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shortstop Curt Stillwell, a
switch-hitter from Thousand
Oaks (Calif.) High School.The
Reds announced he had signed
less than 30 minutes after he was
chosen.
Texas picked Rider College
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umpire Bill Kunkel, the New
York Mets tabbed third base-
man Eddie Williams of Hoover
High School in San Diego and
Oakland chose pitcher Stan Hil
ton of Baylor.
The Chicago Cubs took pitch
er Jackie Davidson of Everman
H.S. (Texas) and Seattle chose
pitcher Darrel Akerfelds of
Mesa College. Houston took
Robbie Wine, a catcher from
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mer majorleague shortstop Bob
by Wine, currently coaching for
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H.S., Hacienda Heights, Calif.,
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homa.
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Pittsburgh chose outfielder Ron
DeLucchi of Campolindo H.S.,
Moraga, Calif., and the White
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signing of Steve Kemp, went for
pitcher Joel Davis of Sandal
wood H.S., Jacksonville, Fla.
Montreal took Michigan
pitcher Rich Stoll, Detroit chose
pitcher Wayne Dotson of Estaca-
do H.S., Lubbock, Texas, and
Montreal, on a pick from San
Francisco following the signing
of Joel Youngblood, took pitch
er Brian Holman, North H.S.,
Wichita, Kan.
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