_ Aggressive hockey played well

‘By SCOTT ABBOTT
The Canadian Press
When Ted Lindsay told
those who were left of
Detroit's hockey fans that
“ageressive hockey” was
back in town for the
current National Hockey
League season, most
thought he meant the Red
Wings: would be getting
sticks and elbows up
more readily.

While the Red Wings
aren’t afraid to mix it
with anybody, they
proved more than 4
match for St. Louis Blues
on: Wednesday night on
the basis of their
firepower, erupting for a
10-1 victory in one of
seven games.

In other action, New
York Rangers downed
Chicago Black Hawks 5-2,
Buffalo Sabres beat
Atlanta Flames 6-2,
Montreal Canadiens took
Colorado Rockies 4-1,
Toronto Maple Leafs de-
feated Washington
Capitals 5-2, Minnesota
North Stars turned back
Pittsburgh Penguins 7-4
and Cleveland Barons
tied Los Angeles Kings 1-

L

Rookie defenceman
Reed Larson had two
foals and two assists to
ead the Red Wings
against the Biues at
Detroit. It marked the
winners’ biggest of-
fensive output in three
seasons and left a crowd
of 10,274 cheering for
more.

‘SHOWED POISE’
“This team showed
poise and character,”

said Detroit coach Bobby
Kromm. ‘When the score
was 6-1, they could have
tried for more goals and
forgotten about the
defence. But they didn’t.”

Bob Ritchie started the
puck rolling for Detroit
with his second goal of
the year at 13:03 of the
first period before Inge
Hammarstrom tied it for
the Blues at 13:44. Andre
St. Laurent’s second goal
of the season at 15:41 of
the opening pericd

roved to be the winner,

ut the Red Wings also
got Larson’s two and a
pair from Dale McCourt
as well as single goals by
Al MeDonough, Bi
Lochead, Nick Libett and
Rick Bowness.

Coach Leo Boivin of the
Blues pulled starting
netminder Eddie
Johnston after Mc-
Donough had made it 4-1
midway through the
second period, but sub-
stitute Ed Staniowski
fared no better as the Red
Wings fired 39 shots at the
St. Louis net.

ENDS SCORING SLUMP

Rod Gilbert ended a 16-
game scoreless string at
New York, netting his
first goal of the season to
spark a four-goal
Rangers rally that
pro uced the victory over

icago. Rookie Lucien
Deblois scored the winner

- at 2:41 of the final period

after Gilbert's score
brought New York into a
2-2 tie.

Swim club splashes

A small team of 23 Cathy Highe
swimmers from the 2nd Runner up
Terrace Blueback Swim
Club placed 4th in team
aggregate points at the 13 & 14 Boys
Prince George annual Ty Martin
Fall Splash on the Winner
weekend, There were 7 Bob Clarkson
teams participating — ist runner up
Prince George, Ed- Trent Martin
monton, Kitimat, Prince 2nd runner up
Rupert, Vernon, Tasu _
and Terrace. Tracy McFarland set a

Individual" aggregate new: pool’record in 25 -
awards were::’ « -**:"'metre breaststroke and

8 and under Girls § Ty Martin set a new pool
Tracy McFarlane record in 100 metre
Winner breast stroke.

Lions coach fined
for criticisms

TORONTO (cP) —
Head coach Vie Rapp of
British Columbia Lions
has been fined $200 for
publicly criticizing the
officiating in a Canadian
Football League game on
Nov. 5, CFL commissiner
Jake Gaudaur announced
today.

Gaudaur also an-
nounced that field official
Merv Pilling, the object
of Rapp’s criticism, will
not receive any further
assignments this season.

Winnipeg Blue Bom-
bers won the Nov. 5 game
31-21 over the Lions. Late
in the final quarter, the
Lions gambled on third
down with a pass to
Charuk who appeared to
catch the ball on the B.C.
61-yard line which would
have been good for a first
down.

But Pilling, the head
jinesman for the game
ruled the play had ende
on the 49-yard line and
B.C. lost possession of the
ball. Rapp’ criticism of
the official’s move
received prominent at-
tention in the press and
on radio. ;

In announcing the fine,
Gaudaur said he tries to
apply some tolerance
when interpreting the
rules which forbid public
criticism of officials,
“but we have to draw the
line somewhere, par-

ticularly because ‘ of-
ficials are forbidden by
regulations from
responding to criticism
from anyone or from
indulging in criticism
themselves of club
personnel.”

Gaudaur said that films
of the game showed
Pilling's placement of the
ball was incorrect.
Pilling -was scheduled to
work in two Western
Conference playe

ames and was a candi-

te to work in the Grey
Cup championship in
Montreal. As a result of
his misjudgment, Gau-
daur said, Pilling will not
receive any further
assignments this
seaason.

The commissioner
added that Pilling’s
mistake was one whic
could be prevented if the
CFL had six on-field
officials, as in the
Nationa] Football
League, instead of five.

On a field 4,000 square
yards larger than the
American field, with two
more players to watch, a
tremendous burden Is
imposed on CFL officials
who have to exercise
their judgment on 60
pages of rules, on 24 play-
ers, who within two
seconds of the snap of the
ball can be spread out
over an area of 2,000 to
3,000 square yards.”

Gilbert Perreault and
Danny Gare each scored
two goals for the Sabres
in their victory at
Atlanta. Goalie Dan
Bouchard of the Flames
mishandled the puck on
three of the Buffalo goals
and took the rap.

Yvan Cournoyer, Doug
Jarvis, Rejean Houle and
Steve Shutt scored for the
Canadiens at Denver,
where the Rockies got
their goal from Paul
Gardner, his 13th of the
season. The game at-
tracted a crowd of 15,-206,
largest ever to watch a
hockey game in Colorado.

Third-period goals by
Darryl Sittler, his second
of the game, Jack
Valiquette and George
Ferguson capped a five-
goal rally as the Maple
Leafs battled back from a
two-goal deficit for their
triumph over
Washington.  Sittler
earned his 500th career

int with an assist on the
irst Toronto goal by
defenceman lan. Turn-
bull. Guy Charron and

Bill Collins had given the
Capitals their lead.

FIRES THREE

Dean Talafous scored
three goals and Pierre
yarry set up four as the
Nor

Stars dumped
Pittsburgh at
Bloomington.

Mike Fidler’s power-
play goal with 2:21 left to
play and stellar
goaltending by Gary
Edwards gave the Barons
their tie at Los Angeles.
Edwards turned in 47
saves against his former
teammates while the

Barons had only 20 shots.

at Rogatien Vachon.

Defenceman Randy
Manery, brother of
Cleveland's Kris whose
rebound was popped
home by Fidler, scored
an unassisted goal for Los
Angeles just 22 seconds
into the game.

In games tonight, New
York Islanders visit
Philadelphia Flyers,
Boston Bruins entertain
Vaneouver Canucks and
Toronto is at Buffalo.

Sports

Canadian

skater
places

in Holland

THE HAGUE,
Netherlands (Reuter) —
David Santee of the
United States was the
leader and Daniel Beland
of Montreal stood fifth
after compulsory figures
in men’s singles com-
petition today at the

nnie Challenge Cup
figure skating meet.

Santee scored seven
ordinals—meaning all
seven judges placed him
first—and 32.24 points
while Fumio Igarashi of
Japan was second with 14
and 30.92.

Beland, the 1977 world
junior champion, had 37
ordinals and 28.56 points.

Third was Helmut
Kristofics Binder
Austria with 29 and 29.04
and fourth was Richard
Furrer of Switzerland
with 34 and 28.64. ulho-
vsinrhhdb6$s third figure
today, a double loop,
pulled him up to fifth
place.

“I was just seventh
after the first two figures
but [ finished third in the
loops and that pulled me
up.”

Louise Seguin, coach of
the 17-year-old Beland,
said she feels he now can
win a bronze medal,

“This is reaally a two-
man competition between
Santee and the Japanese
boy. But the two skaters
ahead of Daniel are weak
free skaters and he
should be able to over-
take them,”

Beland sounded un-

h worried about his ability

to move up in the stan-
ding, “The experience at
the junior worlds has
helped my confidence
here.” he said.

Carolyn Skoczen of
Windsor, Ont., who won
the junior women’s title
this year, is the only
Canadian in the women’s
competition which starts
Thursday morning.

Walk, jog, run,
skate, ski, swim,
paddle, pedal...
don''t lat life
catch you with
your head down.

UOUIESUUES

Local
birdie
news

__ by Juliette Proom

Local birdie bashers
travelled to Prince
Rupert last weekend to
partake in the Annual
Badminton Tournament.
Debbie Anderson was the
top player from Terrace,
taking the Ladies Singles
title.

Pat Kenny and Fran
Power also swung a pair
of pretty mean racquets
to take the ladies doubles
division, A flight. Pat
Kenny also paired up
with Gord Clent to take
mixed doubles, A. flight.

Fran Power took the
ladies singles title in B
flight. Doug Jenion was
the runner up in B flight
mens singles.

Aohout 60 players from
Terrace, Kitimat,
Smithers, Prince Rupert
and Stewart played in the
two-day tournament at
the Prince Rupert Civic
Centre.

_ ELECT

Lions us. Eskimos psychology

By JOHN SHORT

EDMONTON (CP) —
Suggestions by head
coach Vic Rapp that
British Columbia Lions
are decided underdogs
for the Canadian Football
League's Western
Conference final here
Sunday are bein.
disregarded by Ed-
monton Eskimos.

Edmonton head coach

Hugh Campbell said
Wednesday the team
knows better than to pay
attention to Rapp’s
suggestions.

After the rejuvenated
Lions downed Winnipeg
Blue. Bombers ast
weekend to win the
suddendeath semi-final,
Rapp said he knows
Edmonton is a superior
football team and the
Lions are hoping only to
be respectable.

Campbell, who
diagnosed Rapp’s
comments as a ploy to
make the Eskimos over-
confident, said: “I think
we're too smart a football
team to fall for that.”

The ‘Lions defeated
Edmonton twice in three
meetings this season and
Edmonten’s only vic-
tory—in the first game—
came when the Lions
were stalled at the one-
yard line as time ran out,

Campbell recognized
that B.C.’s punt and
kickoff teams are superb,
so he has: had the
Eskimos working on that
aspect for several days.

FENNELL BETTER
The rest gave KEd-
monton

a big boost

Bee]

because it enabled tackle
Dave Fennell, the anchor
of Edmonton’s front four,
to recover from a
nagging ankle injury.
Fennell said he could
have played in the semi-
final game, if necessary,
but he admits the ankle is
much better because of
the extra week off.

Things around the
Eskimo camp are low-
key but not dull. Camp-
bell said he has no cur-
rent plans to use fleet-
footed Waddell Smithasa
deep passreceiving
threat, but he did not rule
out the possibility his
plans would change.

Rapp has made it clear
he expects to see Smith in
the lineup.

Smith showed great
improvement following a
slow start at flanker after
George McGowan was
lost at mid-season due to
a knee injury. McGowan
is back and will play, but
he does not match Smith
as a deep threat.

For Smith to play,
Campbell must juggle his
roster. He could replace
an import running back
with Canadian Angelo
Santucci or, more likely,
could remove import
defensive back Ed Jones
and replace him with
Canadian Dave Mon-
tagano.

Rapp also said he
expects veteran Tom
Wilkinson to start at

quarterback, despite
Wilkinson’s injury-
plagued season.

However, Campbell said
Wednesday he plans to
open with Bruce Lem-
merman.

Lemmerman, often
criticized for in-

THE HERALD, Thursday, November 17, 1977, PAGE 5

consistency, has been
sharp since Wilkinson
was forced out with an
assortment of injuries
several games ago.
Lemmerman has been
playing recently with a

modified cast protecting
a broken thumb on his
throwing hand. But it has
not hampered his per-
formance and the thumb
now is considered almost
fully heated.

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