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SPORTS

Sunior high school
yolleyball will be
featured this weekend, as
Skeena and Thornhill co-
best the first ‘play-day”’
of the North-west Zone’s
season, .

The Skeena Jr. boys
and girls teams open the
new season with a pair of
exhibition games against
Houston on Friday night
at the Skeena gym. Both
games will start at 8:30

pm.
The Skeena Jr. A Boys
will hoat Thornhill, Mount

Elizabeth from, Kitimat, .
Hazelton, Houston and -

Booth from Prince

Rupertin the Skeena gym
on Saturday. ;

New coach Darrel
Craig expects his team's
toughest competition to
come from last year's
Zone champions
M.E.S.S., and from
Booth. Craig is pleased
with his team's progress,
especially. with the play
of the two grade 8’s who
cracked the team, Albert

_ Alexander and Alan

Hildebrand. His team is
made up of these two plus
Sean Boyd, Russ Benzer,
Don McGhee, Jim Allen,
George Oliviero, Joe

Favorite wins
harness race

DELAWARE, Ohio (AP)

~fayatite..

HOt Hitter won the $226,455
Little Brown Jug in atraight
heats Thuraday to become
the richest harness horse for
a single season. .

Herve Filion, a native of
Angers, Que., drove the
Strike Out colt to a victorious
mile of 1:55 3-5 in the raceolf,
barely beating the onrushing
Tijuana Taxi, owned by Mel
Barr of Ottawa, at the
Delaware County Fair-
grounds’ Malf-ni® track.** ’

It was the middle leg of the
Triple Crown for three-year-
old pacers.

Hot. Hitter, extending his
winning streak to 10 races,
also took the second divialon
In 1:57 3-5. Tifuana Taxi,
with Jim Miller in the sulky,
won the firat division in 1:57,

Fillon put Hot Hitter on top
at the start in the raceoff and
held the lead all tme way
except for a brief time when
Maple Lanes Strike, drivep
by Brent Davis and owned b
Harvey Goldfarb and Fr.
Gagliardi of Toronto, led

Gondola

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is gone

TORONTO (CP) — The fa-
mous Maple Leaf Gardens
gondola from which
broadcaster Foster Hewitt
described many historic
momenta in Canadian
hockey has been destroyed.

“T can’t believe it,” said

_ Hewitt who retired from it in
1978. "That place was home
to me.”

The gondola was removed
this summer during
renovations at the gardens to
make way for new private
boxes rented by companies
at $30,000 a season to en-
tertain clients.

Suspended 16,5 metres
above the Gardens ice, the

rickety wooden gondola with,

a floor .of steel beams was
known to milllons of radio
listeners during the 1130s and

Hewiltt’s broadcasts from
itmade Toranto Maple Leafs
a national Institution and
made famous hia line:
“Hello Canadal .. . and
hockey fans in Newfoun-
dland and the United
States."’

But Ballard, whose staff
fed the 48-year-old gondola to
the Incinerator, said; ‘Hell,
we're not in the historical
business, and that gondola
wasn’t so old anyway.”

“Ballard's attitude is, he
has to build thoae outlandish
private boxes for those
companies, and make lots of
money," - sald--- Hewitt

before the quarter. Hot Hit-

ter regained the lead at that.

point in 28 45, reached the
halfmile in 56 2-5 and the
threequarter pole in 1:26 4-5.

Tijuana Taxi, far off the
pace at three quarters, went
wide in the stretch and
gained rapidly on Hot Hitter
in the fInal yards, but came
up short by a neck.

Striking Force, driven by
John Hayes Jr., finished

third while Set Point was
- fourth, depriving: Billy

Haughton of an un-
precedented sixth Jug
driving victory.

Happy Motoring, the
winner of the Triple Crown's
first leg, the Cane Pace,

finished seventh in the eight-

horse raceoff. His defeat
assured there would be na
Triple Crown winner for the
ninth straight season. Moet
Happy Fella last ac-
compllshed the feat In 1970.

Hot Hitter, trained by Lou
Meittinis for Sclomon Katz
Stables and S.A.J. Stables of
Rye, N.Y., and Alterman
Stables of Paramus, N.J.,
now has won 12 of 22 starts
this season for earnings of
$716,959.

That figure breaks Aber-
crombie's previous all-time
single season record of
$703,260 set in 1078.

He earned $93,787 to push
his career earnings to
$047,076. Hot Hitter has won
2 of 44 starts in two seasons,

Hot Hitter's raceoff ame
was one-fifth of a second off
the alltime world mark of
1:55 2-5 Falcon Almahurst
set In the Jug’s first division
in 1978. That is the swiftest
mile for a pacer of any age
on a half-mile track.

Becawe Hot Hitter was #0
heavily favored among 4
crowd of 41,027, there was
win betting only in the
second division and the
raceof. Hot Hitter paid $2.20
in the second division and
$2.40 in the raceoff. Tijuana
Taxi pald mutuels of $4.60,
$3.20 and $2.90 In winning the
firat division by one-half
length over 69-1 longshot Oi
Strike.

Happy Motoring was
moved to third from fourth
place in the opening divialon
alter the judges disqualifled
General Star, owned by the
Selling Stables of Waterloo,
Ont., the original third-place
finisher, to sixth place for
interference in the stretch.

Maple Lanes Strike was
fourth in the first division.

In the second division, Set
Point finished second, one
length behind Hot Hitter,
while Good To See You
wound up in third place.

Tijuana Taxi earned
447,555, Set Point $23,777 and
Olt Strike $16,964.

.McConnell,

Volleyball tourney here

Sabino, Dave Chambray
and Tom Esperson.

The girls’ season also
opens Saturday morning
at Thornhill.

Thornhill hosts Skeena,
Mount Elizabeth, Booth,
Houston and Hazelton.
Skeena's A coach, Jan
Schaffer, has been
working the team a very
hard four practices a

week, and feels that the -

girls have improved
tremendously. Her team
is made up of Linda
Donna
Wilkinson, Treasa
Kenny, Karen Wideman ,

Roylene Oliary,

Stephanie Cousins, Carol
Abernathy, Lucy
Qualiza , Tracy
Sheridan and Christine
Timmerman,

The Jr. B and grade 8
boys’ ‘teams will be
playing their games at
Caledonia Saturday.
Skeena grade 8 coach
Tom Watkinson is im-
pressed with the talent of
his team members, and
pays tribute to the fine.
coaching at ‘the
elementary school level
as the reason -for this.

All “play-days’’will
begin at 9 a.m. Saturday.

were elected as well.

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HOCKEY HOLDS
ANNUAL MEET

The Terrace Commercial Hockey League held
its annual general meeting Tuesday night in the
senior citizens room at the Terrace Arena, and
the league elected a new executive. ©

The new president of the league is Elsa Dodd,
the new vice-president Sean James, two new
directors, Gordon Hamilton and John Miller

No new treasurer was elected, as no-one at the
meeting was willing or able to do the job .

Practice sessions for the new season began
Thursday night. They continue on Monday,
Sept.24 from 8 p.m. to 12 p.m., ending on Thur-

Blayers interested in Commercial League
Hockey ‘are urged to attend these practices. All}
unprotected players must attend at Ieast two. of
the three sessions to be eligible for thedraft.

Reggie told
to shut up

NEW YORK (AP) —. Man-
ager Billy Martin of New
York Yankees has, in effect,
told Reggle Jackson to play
baseball and quit making
waves.

“Reggie or any other
player,’’ Martin told
reporters covering the club
before the Yankees left
Cleveland ta continue their
current road trip in Min-
negota. “Anyone who doesn't
want to be a Yankee, we
don't want on this club."

The moanager’s lateat
outburst came after The
Associated Press reported
from reliable sources that he
had, twice within the last
several days, urged that the
volatile $2.9 milllon out-
fielder be traded.

Martin denied that report,
aaying he had talked with
general manager Cedric
Tallis regarding trades with
a number of players. He said
this was routine.

However, he told The AP
that he resented being
confronted daily with
headiines airing player’s
gripes against fellow players
and management,

“These things ought to be
handled behind closed doors
— face to face,"’ Martin said.
“All this kind of stuff is
detrimental to team
morale.”

He made a point of not
singling out Jackson,
although Reggie haa publicly
said several times recently
that he wants to be traded
and in the last two weeks has
criticized owner George
Stelnbrenner.

He disclosed a couple of
weeks ago that he feit Stein-
brenner had given him a
racial slur when, during
meeting at which Jackson

objected to Martin as
manager, the owner told
him, “You better get your
head screwed on straight,
boy.””

Last Sunday, at &
ceremony honoring the

retiring Jim | (Catfish) |

Hunter, Jackson said he had
prepared a special gift for
his team-mate

him present. © * |
Steinbrenner denied this,

saying he did not know of the «,

request, Thla waa sub-
tantiated by
Morabito,

said it washe, Morablito, who
nixed the presentation,

feeling one player should not ©

be given special attention.

In Cleveland, Martin
elaborated on his earlier
reaction to the report that he
was trying to get rid of
Jackson.

which °
Steinbrenner '#éfused to let -

Mickey .
the Yankees’ -
director of publicity, who *

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TENNIS TOURNEY

The Herald,.Friday, September 21, 1979, Page 7

Kitimat pair out

" By DON SCHAFFER
Herald Siaff Writer

Kitimat tennis players
Dorothy Cheyne and Ken
-Hutshin gave it a good
shot, but got squeaked in
thelr first match in the
Buick Tennis Challenge
last weekend in Pen-
ticton, and ended up
finishing third.

The victorious Pen-
ticton team of Al and
Wendy McKee advanced
to the final 82 couples to
go to Ottawa for the
Challenge Cham-
pionships, with a chance
to win a trip to Wimledon
next year. .

Cheyne and Hutchin
played the first match of
the tournament against
the Fort St. John team of
Denise Sattele and Brian
Sheckenek, and although
they lost in straight sets
7-6, 6-4 the first match
went to a tiebreaker.
Sattele and Sheckenek
won that 7-2.

In the second match,
McKee and McKee took
Sandy Langstaff and Bob
Haris of Cranbrook 6-4, 6-
1 In the championship
match, the McKees
trounced Sattele had
injured her leg and was
not playing to form.

In the third-place
match, Cheyne and
Hutchin won easily 7-5,6-1
over the Cranbrook pair
of Langstaff and Haris.

The winning couple
received an all expenses
paid trip to the finals at
the Ottawa Athletic Club
Sept. 28. and 29.

Both Cheyne and

Hutchin said they en-
joyed the trip immensely,
They had two good, close
matches and both
recieved trophies and
racquet cases for their
efforts. Cheyne recieved
atravel bag and Hutchin
took home a pen and
pencil set. ‘
- Cheyne: said that she.
would have liked to have
played the eventual
winners,

“It seemed like a long
way to go just to play two
sets, although we both
had a really good time,”
sie commented. ‘‘I've
written a letter to the
organizers thanking them
for a wonderful trip, but I

Suggested that it might be

& good idea to hold a

round-robin type of event .

rather than an
elimination-type of thing
that we had this year.”

Hutchin said that the

' weather was beautiful,

and in fact may have

. been the pair’s downfall.
“Tt was sunny and hot |

New
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seen

WINNIPEG (CP) —
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their firat Natlonal Hockey
> League season, are con-
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uniforms.

The outfits, which require
_ approval by the NHL, in-
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the top of the knees to the
midds of the player's rib-
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Only 36 prototype sults
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after testing at the Jets’
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was fine, but it was so
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were both from Pen-
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the pair looked pretty
hard to beat. ‘“They were
a young couple,about
twentyfour or so, and
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