J 7 - school relays. + _. Besides 7 “ + Knights games By JOHN SHORT SASKATOON (CP)—A rash . of . last-minute cancellations ke} organizers of the 13th an- nual ts of Columbus Saskatchewan Indoor Games hopping Wed- nesday in an attempt to fill vacancies and Marcel Gallays, in charge of lining. up invitational events, said he was happy with the results. Two-milers Joshua Kimeto of Kenya, Chris McCubbins of Winnipeg and Tony Staynings of Weatern Kentucky University. were among those ‘who dropped: out. Gacy Romesser of Los Angeles was imported at the last: minute -as a lacement in a race that already featured . Paul Cummings of: the Pacific Cozst Club, one of North America’s top miudle-distance indoor sunners. mniigs wil be challenged s eng + Rick Bourrier’ of peg and Dean Childs of Calgary. Bourrier attends Uni- versity of Alabama and Childs is a student at Villanova. ; High jumper Annette Tannander of Sweden, who needs a student visa to begin studies soon at California State Los An- eles, also cancelled out t Gallays felt a replacement was_ not necessary because Cana- dians Debbie Brill of Haney, B.C. and Diane Jones Konihowski of Edmonton, are opposed romising Maggie Garrison of University of Washington. RICHARDSON IN Peter Richardson of Fredericton, N.B. was flown in to run the mile, replacing Randy Makolosky of Calgary wif 1] wenza -hlike FLOWN illness was. diagnosed . Werte ‘as'“possiblé™ A lite bit of lunacy? Perhaps, but this is the type of entertainment fans saw during the Red’-Old Timers match Wednesday night. Old Timers and Reds play a fun game BY Dave Hamilton The Terrace Old Timers and the Teyrace Reds met at the lecal- arena Wednesday night? and the fun, entertaining game ended up 11-6 for the Reds. + Both the Reds and the Old Timers came out. ready to give the fans a funny, entertaining and exciting hockey game. However, seeing lese that m Guuclewid2? = 2 S370! people: 1A#°the : More than 40 athletes will compete in in- vitational events tonight and Friday. but Gallays and other meet officials reiterated that the meet is dedicated primarily to young athletes. More han 1,600 athletes compete each year, in el about a 1,000 in - age class and elementary Brill and Fonihowski, to; Canadians "uelude pole- vaulter Erucé Simpson of Toronto, quartez-miJer Dan Bioeci of Montreal, *400-metre sepcialist Kim. : 4° Jeffery’ o wo sprinters Bryan Samders Toronto ‘and Margot Howe ‘of Edmonton and -Fotget*of Montreal. . - _Meoat -of the = top Canadians are gelling an early start in their quest for. berth on the Cana- dian team for the 1978 Commonwealth Games at Edmonton in August. THREE HAVE M- PETED | | ' "Three young Saskatoon athletes—sprinters Karen Rathie and Bev Britton and middle-dis- tance prospect Bob Reindl—are doing the *. game thing Ali three ‘hava - competed in- ’ ternationally in junior ‘competition and Reindl showed .well over 500 mettes in the recent Pan- Pacific games , Australia.‘ oo Shona fmericdns ‘are not. é for the ‘Commonwealth Games, many use this event, the first. of the 1978 indoor Season, a8 a springboard to future meets. ‘Typical is Herman Frazier of Philadelphia, an Arizona State student who-has five . meets scheduled before the end of January in a. tough coast-tocoast agenda. Frazier, entered: at 400 metres, sharea two relay gold medals as a member of. the American team in Australia less than a month ago. “T like this meet,’”’ he said, “‘A lot of people in the States ask me where Saskatoon is but I've been here before (two years ago) and I know it helped me;" .. - = Calgary, *: bleachers, most of the fun tactics were of little use. Reds coach Red L’Estrange said he was amazed at the lack of support, ‘‘We set up an exhibition game to try and -promote some hockey in this town and we get attendance like this. What does a guy have to do to bring the " people into the building?” To this scorekeeper Jack Stuartt added “these type of games can be entertaining but if there’s no crowd it's pretty hard to perform.” As’ for the game, well known ‘Curly’ Casey _ came cut of retirement to wear the read arm bands.He managed to remain in the game for two and a hal periods before succumbing to weariness. During this time he entertained the few fans with calls against the Reds such as irving to score after the whistle, loitering near the bench, offside on the: . timer defenceman . and : ~ tn Y goalie and a one minute George Blakey and Reg charging call because the Perrault. victim had his head down.. The Reds goals were . scored by Richard Reds. Barry Heit Smoley, Barry Heit and cpenedthe scoring as he stole the puck off an old Art Frenette with two. Legouffe and Kolner also beat ,goalie Clayton Hated witha high Spy mens oe sho. , 2, Jean was offside on Just 48 seconds later Kolner’s goal. the Reds had a two on er | ia + scored ori a stot from. the: Baby Bi wn hi dled the® ine Gord Cochrane ‘an a BF ending. ¢ ‘ ore, dud, ait assisted. "stopped che ’of one with a th Red took lead split save. e s took a 3-D lea at the 17:48 mark when Between the second Steve Smyth backhanded and third period a six a high shot over the Old player deal was made. Timers goalie after s Al Bishop, a shrewd taki it, trader, gave Rick Jones king a pass from Heit. ine’ Old Timers such The period ended with no-names as no further scoring as Frenette, Lance Legouffe McLelland: continually and Tim Kolner. For thwarted the mighty Red these bush leaguers he attack, ending up with 20 received acknowledged saves for the period. .stars Gary Hainstock, For the second period Ray LaChance and Don McLelland took a well Ganson. Look out Sam deserved . rest ‘and Pollock thought the Reds Jacques ‘Samuel took fans. ! ies. This w ‘ over the duties as However, the move ‘ not a strategical move by backfired as Frenette the Oldsters, its just tha MeLelland was too tired and Legouffe suddenly showed hidden talents to continue, with the former scoring a Samuel found how his hat trick and the latter Counterpart felt during getting one goal. Kolner’s e first period as he major contribution was of faced 27 shots, stopping intimidation