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Gretzky extends streak,
scores in all 43 games
United Press International
DETROIT — Wayne Gretzky
is an act only Wayne Gretzky can
top.
Gretzky holds virtually every
season scoring record of signifi
cance in the National Hockey
League and, despite being just
22, should close in on some
career scoring standards before
reaching the age of 25.
Yet his incredible streak of
having scored in every game
played by the Edmonton Oilers
this season is gripping the nation
much as a consecutive-game hit
ting streak by a baseball player.
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kind of quiet about the streak
out there,” Gretzky said. “I
didn’t realize how much public
ity the streak was getting back
East. Now I’m starting to think
about it.”
Gretzky extended the streak
to 43 games Monday night with a
pair of unassisted goals and an
assist in leading Edmonton to a
7-3 trouncing of the Detroit Red
Wings.
Gretzky has redefined the
word “offense” in hockey. He’s
been player of the week so many
times the NHL would be smart
to name the award after him so
other players could know what it
Was like to win it.
Yet there remain those who
believe Gretzky only excels be
cause today’s hockey is so offen
sive-minded.
“Hockey was great 20 years
ago. It was great 30 years ago. It
was great 10 years ago. And it’s
great today,” Gretzky said, get
ting into his rebuttal.
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over Rockets
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HOUSTON — Magic John
son hit a 12-foot jumper with
1:08 left in overtime to lead the
Los Angeles Lakers to a come-
from-btmind 136-132 win over
the Houston Rockets Tuesday
night.
The win snapped a two-game
losing streak for the West Coast
franchise.
Bob McAdoo, a reserve for
ward for Los Angeles, led all
scorers with 32 points. It was his
first game back in action after
missing three contests to an in
jury.
The Rockets were led by
Lewis Lloyd with 28 points, in
cluding two free throws with
three seconds left in regulation
time.
The Rockets raced to an early
20-point lead in the first quar
ter, opening a 28-8 advantage
with 4:42 remaining and led 35-
21 at the quarter break behind
10 points by Lloyd and Ralph
Sampson.
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nine, 58-49, at halftime*
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Educators push
NCAA reforms
United Press International
DALLAS — For the college
presidents intent on reforming
intercollegiate athletics, Tues
day was a .500 day at the NCAA
convention.
While Proposition 35, a prop
osal drafted by the American
Council on Education to estab
lish a 44-member board of col
lege presidents empowered to
enact and suspend NCAA legis
lation, failed, the university ex
ecutives did become a function
ing entity within the NCAA
structure.
That came by way of Proposi
tion 36, an NCAA proposal to
counter the board of presidents
by creating the panel, but giving
it only advisory power.
“Whatever presidents do
from now on, it’s legitamized,”
said Stephen Horn, president of
California State University at
Long Beach. “And it’s legita
mized by a two-thirds vote of the
NCAA. This makes presidents a
part of the apparatus.
“This is clearly a win, though
we didn’t get everything we went
in to get.”
Though the ACE failed go
gain even a majority, much less
the two-thirds vote needed to
pass Proposition 35, the presi
dents were able to modify Prop
osition 36 so that the university
executives, and not the NCAA,
will select members of the presi
dents commission. Another
amendment overwhelmingly
passed under Proposition 36
gives the presidents the power to
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which failed by a vote of 321 j, v
313.
“I think we were dii
appointed that we never
chance for a roll-call vote," sai
j.W. Pehason, president of lb
ACE. “ We would have gotten
majority on a roll-call vote.”
Peltason said an ACE pol
presidents prior to the comet
tion indicated 69 percent
those surveyed were in favort
establishing a board of pres
dents. He said the two convet
tion votes denying motions
roll-call vote allowed some
waffle.
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presidents to demand a rolkJ
vote on major issues will helpet
force the desires of absent pres
dents at future conventions.
“We’re t hrough the last ye*
of covering up your vote,”
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