The Canadian anthem following the national anthem and now the Montreal Expos take the field.

The Dodgers when they saw the expos in Los Angeles were streaking they won five straight finished

up that home stand winning eight out of twelve however they then went to Philadelphia

and lost two out of three the The Expos at home are doing well. Since they beat the Dodgers at Dodgers Stadium, they moved on to San Francisco, did pretty well up there and then nailed the giants hard here to the expos of one six of their last nine.

The umpires are scattering now to their positions, Jerry Dale behind the plate.

Tom Gorman, the veteran umpire of the crew is at first.

Chris Pelicus is umpiring at second and Doug Harvey on the line back of third.

Jim Gilliam coaching at first,

Danny Ozark is third, and we're just about ready.

As far as the weather is concerned, ideal.

In fact, there is only one problem right now and understand that will go away shortly.

That is a pretty good breeze going from left to right.

They tell us that it comes up in the late afternoon and it will just about disappear just as soon as the sun goes down. The sun is a problem here at

Jerry Park at least for the first inning. Ron Fairley was telling us before the ball game

that he cost the expos a game last year because when a ball is hit to the left side of the infield and the throat coming to the first baseman is coming right out of the sun.

So we've all heard about the sun field, but here as Jerry Park in Montreal in the

evening on a bright sunshine evening as we have. First base is a brutal spot at least for about

one inning. More he will, Willie Crawford and Willie Davis in that order.

And of course, the French are very strong in their remembrance.

They feel that Will's defected. They feel that he did not play up to his

capabilities here in Montreal. And of course now doing very well and they booing

but not as strongly as they did in games past and of course it sounds like a pebble in a pond

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