PAGE B2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, September 15, 1976

538 boys ready for Minor Hockey season

Terrace Minor Hockey
has 538 boys registered for
the upcoming season, which
gets underway ‘Monday,
September 20 at the Terrace
Arena.

This figure is dawn about
10 from last season, bul
President Don, Parr says
that considering time
allotment, it will mean
fewer players per team and
more playing time for each
boy. The registration break-
down is 71 Bugs, 98 Peewee
Pups, 138 Peewees, 125
Bantams, 76 Midgets and 30
Juveniles.

The Juveniles are a
problem. There’s nol
enough to form a minimum
three-team division and the
Commercial Hockey League
says they don’t want a-
Juvenile entry this year.
However, the Juvenile
situation is similar in other

minor hockey organizations
and a cure will be sought at
the Annual B.C.A.H.A,
Mecting in Prince George,
September 18 weekend.
Terrace Minor Hockey
Officials will be at thal
meeting where the
possibility of an inter-city
league will be discussed.

Although the league starts
September 20, teams will
hold practice sessions only
for three weeks. House
league games won't start
until October 11.

Also coaches. from last
year and any newcomers
interested in coaching are
asked to attend a coaches’
meeting (his Saturday from
12 noon to 2p.m. al the
Terrace Arena, Teams will
be assigned at that time.

Acouple of major changes
concerning equipment were
made durimg Wednesday's

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executive meeting of the
Terrace Minor Hockey
Association,

Equipment Manager
Andy Kolner said Minor
Hockey went through $785
worth of goaltender slicks
last year. He said that at the
end of the season, they had
only two sticks left. The
executive accepled his
recommendation that minor
hockey eliminate gaslie
slicks as an item supplied to
players.

He said they now have 72
goalie sticks on hand. These
will be sold at cost to young
goaltenders and boys will
have to supply their own
sticks afler thal, The cost is
approximately $7.50 per
stick.

The execulive also passed
a motion concerning ankle
guards. Wearing of ankle

Buards will no longer be
mandatory. This piece of
equipment will be con-
sidered optional from now
on. :

Internal mouth guards
were discussed but this
malter is coming up at the
B.C.A.H.A. meeling Sep-
tember 18 in Prince George
where a ruling is expected.

. Referee-in-Chief Len

Trudeau ‘said Bob Blackburn
of Smithers will be con-
ducting a Referee’s Clinic
somelime after the
B.C.A.H.A. meeting.
Trudeau said he hopes the
clinie will take place before
the end of this month.

And, parents seeking
refunds from Minor Hockey
will have to apply before
October 11. After that date,
they won’t get one.

CANADA CUP MAJOR
STEP FOR IN-
TERNATIONAL HOCKEY
PREPARED BY THE B.C.
SPORTS WALL OF FAME

The Canada Cup in-
ternational hockey series is
proving to be just as ex-
citing and enlertaining as
advance billing promised
and for Canadian fans it
marks a giant step forward
or backward — take your
choice.

It's aslep back to the days
when this country
dominated international
hockey prior to the political
troubles of “amateur vs.
professional” which put the
fame into its Dark Ages.
(Those early days of hockey
are well displayed at the
B.C, Sports Hall of Fame
including mementoes of the
famous Penticton Vee,
Kimberley Dynamiters
and Trail Smoke Eaters.)

It's also a Step forward oul
of those same Dark Ages
when Canada was relegaled
by choice to a spectator role
.as olher world hockey

. powers took over the centre

“ stage vacated by this nation

: ‘HELICO

“which look an

“all or
nothing” stand against the
International Ice Hockey
Federation.

Hockey fans are familiar
with that situation, in which
the IIHF ruled _ thal
Canadian professionals
would not be allowed to play
against the national
“amateur” sides of other
countries. The Canadian
Amateur Hockey
Association, to briefly
recap, said that if Canada
could not send its best
players — naturally they
were our professionals — ta
internationa] competitions it
wasn't worth the bother.
Canada pulled out of in-
ternational hockey com-
petition.

And so began the Dark
Ages.
Fortunately they didn’t
last too long and the first
light of day was seen in 1972 -
when the classic Canada-
Russia series was held. This
wasa break, but at thesame
time it was also a rude
awakening for Canadians.

Turkey
shoot

The Terrace and District
Rod and Gun Club is holding
a “turkey shoot’’ on Sunday,
September 19, getting un-
derway al 10 a.m.

This is afamily affair with
big bore, small bore, trap
and archery compelitians.
Food and refreshments will
be available,

The place is the Red and
Gun Club, Range Road. This
is a pay as you go event.

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While we slept, content to
ignore international hockey,
the Soviets had improved
remarkably. Canada just
managed to win the eight-
game series wilh Paul
Henderson's memorable
goal in the final seconds of
the final game. .
Shock or not, however, the
series did break the ice and
pull both the Europeans and
Canadians from
isolationism. The
Europeans — particularly
the Russians — learned just
how good they were and
wanted another chance to
take on the Canadians.
Canada, on the other
hand, had its old dream of
being number one for so
many years shaken badly
since the best it could
muster — a National
Hockey League all-star
team — barely managed Lo
defeat the Soviels.
Arematch was a must and
in 1974 an all-star World
Hockey Association took on
the Soviels. The move from
the Dark .Ages quickened
last year-— Red Army and
Wings of the Soviet — mel
National Hotkey League
teams. No tonger was it all-
star against all-star, but
rather club against chub;
and that was progress.
Probably one of the most
memorable moments in that
series was lhe game bet-
ween the Red Army and
Montreal Canadiens. It
ended in a tie and perhaps
thal was justice served. At
the end of the game there
was a touching scene of
Montreal's Peter Mahovlich
and goalie Ken Dryden with
their arms around little
Soviet goaltender Vladislav
Tretiak. Later, during a
television interview, an
obviously excited Pete

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‘millions of viewers: “That's

the way we used to play it on
the pond.”

In international hockey,
the lights went on again all
over the world.

Today, the Canada Cup
series marks our official
return to international
hockey with competition
among Canada, the US.,
Russia, defending world
champion Czechoslovakia,
Sweden and Finland.

Next year, for the first
time since 1969, Canada will
send a team — complete
with professionals, to the
1977 World Championships
and, if politics doesn’t in-
terfere again, hockey fans
all over the world can ex-
pect many enjoyable hoars
for many years to come.

It's interesting to note that
both Canada and European
nalions have changed their
atlitudes towards hockey in
the last few years. There

seems to be more harmony
and cooperation now on both
sides and those problems
which do arise are being
salved.

In some ways though,
Canada has won ils point on
professionalism. Only
recently, the president of
the | International Ice
Hockey Federation told a
luncheon in Montreal prior
to the Canada Cup series
that European nations must
accept the fact that they are
as professional as our NHL
and WHA players.

While they may not be
paid huge sums of money to
play the game, they are
supported to play hockey
and it is their hockey skills
which provides them with a
means of-support.

It appears that everyone
involved has accepted that
fact quietly. They've let
bygenes be bygones and
have pul the skates back on.

Ron Hartill - world's greatest logger

Unbeatable Ron Hartill of
Sooke easily regained the
best all-round logger title in
the Official Open World
Championships at the
Pacifie National
Exhibition's timber Show.
Ron has consistently won

. the "Bull of the Woods" title

at the annual Lion's Club
Loggers Sports Day iy
Terrace. |

Hartill, the champion in
1973 and 1974, did nat
compete last year but
returned in convincing
fashion to easily beat
challengers from four
countries. :
Despite pouring rain.
throughout much of. the

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championships,  Hartill
placed first in the single
bucking and = springboard
chopping events, second in
the obstacle pole bucking
and third in the underhand
chop. He also scored points
in every other event he
entered.

Sportsman Award in the
Open Event went to Arden
Cogar of Webster Springs,
West Virginia.

U.S. loggers dominated
both the Intermediate and
Novice Champicnships.
Arden Corey of Mill Bay,

Oregon, won the In-
termediale and 20-year-old
Eyler Adams of Kalispell,
Montana, tock honors in the
novice events.

Most popular winner was
David Summers of Burnaby
who was given the Sport-
sman Trophy in the Novice
Division, Summers, who fell
50 feet from the spar during
the tree climbing event,
returned to the Action
Centre in a wheelchair to
receive his trophy.

The world relay cham-
pionships were won by (the

United States. Led by
caplain John Grant of
Philomath, Oregon, the five-

man U.S. squad narrowly °

defeated Canada which was
vaplained by Hartill.

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second in an eight-day sea-to-sea Bicentennial Econo-Rally shifting their
Mazda Mizer over 3200 miles of U.S. highways and recording an average

of 53.76 miles per imperial gallon (44.8 MPG U.S5.).

The U.B.C. team, headed by fourth year Mechanical Engineering
student Doug Worden finished second in emissians control and third in
fuel economy and performance in the over 2000 pound category to achieve

_a second overall rating. First position was captured by a two cylinder

vehicle,

The rally started in Bellingham, Washington on August Ist, at the.
Campus of Western Washington State College, who sponsored the event.
Competitors travelled through Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin, all at the legal 55 M.P.H. limit, and on to Detroit where cars
were checked for exhaust emissions and U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency mileage results. The Mizer scored a remarkable 65.8 M.P.G, (54.8
U.S.) in the highway.test cycle and 44.46 M.P.G. (37.2 U.S.) in the city
portion of these taboratory tests. The rally then resumed with a run to
Pittsburgh, ending in Washington, D.C, on August 9th. .

-U,B,C.’s Mazda Mizer was only slightly modified for the event from the
basic design, and its four cylinder overhead cam engine was not altered.
The nase was lowered two inches and air vents and other irregularities

- were taped over to improve air flow over the car’s body. One of the in-
tents of the rally was to show that factory stock cars can get phenomenal
gas mileage if properly driven.

The U.B.C. feam was loaned the car by Mazda in the U.S. through an
arrangement wilh Mazda Motors of Canada Ltd. Shell Oil and the Society:
of Automotive Engineers also made donatiens to the pro[ect.

_According to Mazda, the Mizer 1300 Coupe used in the rally has an of-
ficial U.S, Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) rating of 50

;  M.P.G. (42 U.S.) on the highway and 35 M.P.G. (32 U.S.} in the

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