race

_. VANCOUVER — The
Canadian Automobile
Sports.
nounced

gay nted the Carling

"Keefe: Ice Challenge:

series National Cham-

weekend Ice Challenge
‘faces in Janu and

Laie, a miles. south.

Clubs has an-.
that it has‘

‘Asheroft on °°"

Figuas Valley Road.
; ch race is held over
atwo day od, the first
‘yaces ning January
7 and 8% The rema ining
‘yaces in ;the series
‘be staged January 21 and
22 February 11 and 12 and
Fi 35 and 26.
Anew ovation in this
race’s. series is the Honda
Clags. Races consist of
dead stock Hondas with

no modifications allowed —

except for safety gear.
‘The’. engines, —tran-
-smissions, et al, are
ealed iby the factory and
tires ‘and studda allowed
are’ specified, thereby
enguring this will be

éxtremely Clove Mert

arm many ame
vers i)
ear’s series are Andrew
eld: of Richmond in a
Honda; Kees Nierop of
lowna, last year’s Ice
lenge Rookie of the
Yea; national rally
driving champion Taisto
Fayne Jamieson of Rich:
‘Wayne Jamieson of Rich-
ond, one of the coun-
bse. 'g outstanding road
a Mazda.
False’ an will be
Joe Frykberg and Gerry
Trainor, who lead an

tcar contingent from
Kentcops Donia
mioops’ Dona.
Watkinson.

. "Expected to join the
-geties after two races is
Bob Brown of Winnij
wh will be bringing

and run ;through 4:30

Error the first time in
Ice

ourse,
“The course is 3.6
pmeters long and is

Homes of having cars:

produce 3 in escess
of 200 kilomeers per hour.

Maximum number of
cars ‘allowed on each

paris grid is 40.

Penalty
ce « filled
-game

"HOUSTON (CP)
Blair .MacDonald’s 12th
Blatt ite ‘season at 11:38
fF te. ascond period

the winner
a Ve Ae atom.

Oilers
Houston Aeros 4-. Wi
Jin a.penaltyfilled World

oer the me
pered Houston
i an Wayne”

f Hedge ‘with 42 shots,
whi n:McLeod was
ad only 19 times in the -
onton- goal.

by. - ‘416. minutes in
ea Jncluting 5 i
whe
e ror of the Acros
ap assessed a double
fninor, fnajor and game
Pier iGuite gave the
ierre

Oilers allead after “ius

“17. of play, with E
fon Frying it for the

| with his 12th of the

put Edmonton
nt at 18:57 of

ste ont and the
were never

I Kidre Lacroix, fit atin
80
i, - apsisted “in the
wo: Seroe bee giving
A foc season,

lace
Club oan
points 3h
pointe in’

BY Association game

ithe rey was marred

} Golf Cl

Canada Employment Centre rinks battled it out on the sheets
Wednesday night. Above, the Fish and Switzer rinks sweep al

away: in fierce clneion

By. SCOTT ABBOTT
MONTREAL (CP) —
The host Pointe Claire
Swim Club won the over-
all team champicnship
Sunday night at the end of
the three-day Canada
Cup swim meet, the first
of a series of. four, ear-
ning 891 points to beat
second-place Thunder
Bay T underbolts of

Ontari

Individual titles went
elsewehere, however
with Steve’ Badger of
Winnipeg's Cardinal
Swim Club the top male
after two fing -night
victories in the 25-me
pool and Nancy Garapick
of Halifax Trojans
Aquatic Club the top
female.

Thunder Bay had 803%
points in the over-all
standings, while third-
tobicoke Swim

men's com-

that category, while

Pointe Claire women had:
oints, second to

me
under Bay with 520%.
Teco had 345

points for second place in |

men’s events, and

Three goals for Jets

WINNIPEG (cP) —

Winnipeg Jets scored

three oals in the second
Sunday night -

efeat

lace in the World
ockey Association. | ..
The win was the Jets’

10th straight in- league -—
_ play, and gave them 47 |
fr , compared with 52 -
‘or fitstplace New Eng-

d Whalers. Winnipeg

leo, has three games’ in

hana Labraaten, Kent.
Nilsson Bobby Hull and
he Ni scor ore the sc
a
Maggs rate Drisedll
who had their three-game
wanted streak halted.
Ww
S Bais and took
of the six” minor
The*Racers put up a
good defensive showing

scored for the. Racers,
outshot In-

naltles.  °
and although they had a

Watson's triumph close:

\ DeUESON, Ariz. (AP) —
Despite a round of 63 and

aquick victory alread in

the bag, Tom Watson |

a lot o work. to do.

“]’m glad that’s over,” . a”
plad -tournament in Janu of.
~ 11977, but he was setting

whe said Sunday after a.
too-closefor-comfort. :

triumph in the kickoff *

event of the 1978 PGA
Tour golf season, the Joa
GaragiolaTucson Open.

Watson had ‘to

- manufacture a hard-won

final round of par 72 to
secure a one-stroke
victory over challenging
Bobby Wadkins, finally
winning with a par to.
Wadkins’s bogey on the
final hole at the 7,305-
yard Tucson National
ub course, -
“If T don't start drivin
the ball better, I'm no
golng to have the season I
last year. Even
winning ¢ the tournament,

4

1:04.88.

id 487.--

Mdiacapell W
Racers 4-2 and move to.
within five points of first

- titles
winners

‘average on the tour.

for Canada Cup

Thunder Bay was third
with 263. Halifax, led by
Garapick who picked up
her fourth gold medal of
the meet on the. final
night, was third among
women with 155% points.
TOP THREE SCORE

Individual events
carried. a count of 5-3-1
points for the first three
places, while team stand-

is counted points for all
six places in both: final
and consolation heats
except sixth in the con-
solation race. Relays
counted double.

Garapick won the 100
metre butterfly event ina
time of one minute, a y
seconds, beating W
Quirk of Pointe, Claire aa
Edmonton’
Susan SI Sloan was third in

Sloan holds. the
Canadian record with a
time‘ of.- 1:02 00, while
Quirk. «is «the »

jennifer. ‘Boulianne of o

Pointe Claire had the ee, ;

record tiie-of the’
setting a Quebec mar’
2:19.81 -in the Stee
backstroke. It broke her
own 1977 -standard of

limited number of shots
on goal, often hemmed in

‘the Jets with strong fore.
to

reine and reed

Daley to Pee Ae arerely

sharp on numerous oc-
casions.

CHECKING TIGHT |
Playing their - third
me in three nights,
acers didn’t appear 27th

‘tired at a int as they
: tired af apy Th

heir usual

closechecking™ brand of

. play for. the crowd of

8,601, me!
Labraaten
scoring at 12:12 2 with a 15
foot wrist shot, but three
minutes later Maggs
intercepted. a wea

Cea Pema Bary
Long and beat Daley wit
a 2 a toot wrist shot.
Both Indianapolis.
defencemen split to the

‘outside-to follow Hull and

Anders Hedberg’ in the

. first: minute of. the second

- don't feel the :Tom

“Watam of. January, ° 1978,

as well as the
Tom, mm Watson Of. January,

Matson. “didn't: win'‘a

k for

Jack Nicklaus in dra-
matic, head-to-head ‘con-
froatations in the British

pen and Masters,’ won
three other . American
- the mon

had the loweat stroke

TOOK TIME OFF
-Mentally — and
physically tired, he took
2% months away . from
the game at the en
yea r, devoted himself. to
ying- lessons and came

* 67,68 seconds,

- ‘Quebec:

- record-holder“ at 1:02.15."
L Both marks were set last
elilin a to take first place - y

2:20.22, .

In other women’s
events, Johanna Malloy
of Thunder Bay won the
100-metre {reestyle in
58.15 seconds; Ca
Groot of Winnipeg’s
Cardinal club won the .
800-metre freestyle in
8:54.35; and ‘ointe
Claire’s A squad won the
400-metre medley relay
in 4:21.55, —

Badger; who came to
Cana
1972, won the- men’s 100-

metre freestyle for the.

Cardinal club in 52.42 sec-
onds, with Pointe Claire’ ‘3
Peter Szmidt second in

52.45.

WINS BUTTERFLY | .
Badger later captured

the 100-metre buttertl in

with

Hemstreet of Toronto's

Etobicoke second in 38.90.

Dan Rogers of Toronto,

swiroming without elub
affiliation; won’ the . 200-
metre ‘backstroke in-
2:08.85; where Jay Tapp

of Etobicoke squad was.

second ‘in 2: 11.18.
 Semidt won the 1,500-_
metre freestyle in
15:47.74, while: chuck
Bauman of Philad elphi: la
finished second
15:49.41. The Sueber |

period, aid that allowed
ent Nilsson to go up the
middle to beat. Gary.
Tnness wi with a high: wrist
a
That. camie ‘atthe 55
second mark and less

-than. four: minutes later;

Hull's, quick wrist shot
from. about: 20 feet. was
into the net before Inness |

the could mae. It was Hull's’

oal of the year and:
left him just 17,short of a
career. total of 7,000.

Driscoll * - Kept ” the”

- Racers in the contest
opened the

when he scored at 8:59 on ©
a low shot on a two-onone
break after. Winnipeg
defenceman Dave Dunn

k fell at the Winnipeg blue
pass by Win- line.

But Ulf Nilsson gave
the Jets an insurance
goal at 10:51 with a high
rectaraepehind shot after
a pass from

Hull. there was no
acoring in the | third

period.

to Tucson: with ab
cheerful: attitude a
certain doubt about what

he was going to pull out of
his golf bag.

He «answered . any
doubts with an o g.
round 63 and finished out

the week at-276, 12:under’

a x. He ‘collected $40,000
onors. Before the season eae
was over -he’d beaten.

m -the total purse of
$200,000 and immediately
returned $1,-000 to the

ond on-
on tadore for: use in their
local chari

ey.
Ty $310,000 mee. gn peward Twitly cht

in for a birdie on the
‘hole for a 68 and ans

. total. that put ‘him third
- ~~ glone. The. grou

at 279
included Lee Trevino,
Charles Coody and Kelth

Ferg Coody and
the: Fergus ‘each shot 70 in the

warm" suns and

Trevino had:a 71.

from Australia in:

/etablshing himselt a

record in the event is
1546.40, set .in 1976 by
Paul. Midgley’ of Pointe
Claire.

Pointe Claire: A cap-
tured the mew's 400-
metre medley relay in
4:00.64 ahead: of
Etobicoke A in 4\: 01.34,

Badger won the .men’s

_ Host club wins swim meet

200-metre butterfly and
200-metre 'reestyle
‘events Saturday night,
the first in 2: a3 dsand the
second in 1:53.50. tw
0

eyaatanick worl
in women's

compe satition takin.¢ the |
200- metre butterfly in
2:14.96

— Swedi sh Skier |

Germany
Ingemar. Stenmark of
Sweden overcame fog
and a tricky course
Monday to win his sixth
consecutive World Cup

@ ski race this season to

virtually assure himself spec
of his third title in as
many years.

The Swedish’ ace won

the men’s spécial Slalom‘ ”
egate' time of Frenchm

withan a
one minute 52,99 seconds
to. surge ahead in

"Standings. with 150 Pointe

Second place went to
Italian rising star Mauro
Bernardi with a time of
1:53.50 seconds.

Phil Mahre the
United States fisted

58,

firm medal contender for
the Alpine skiing world
championships scheduled
at Garmisch-Parten-
kirchen, West Germany,
later this month.

Mahre also shot into.
‘second place in the over- -

ali World Cup standings
' with-72 points, ahead of
Italian. downhill .
specialist H Merbert Plank
Stenmark has won all
three special slaioms and
an equal number of Giant

slalomna this season.

appears un table in fi hs
Most for merce succes-.
ve World Cup title.

‘Under new

established only this

six -slalom ‘events — an
ace among the top 10 in
| Eee
am ver
this weekend Beye at
Zwiesel,’’ said Mahre, 20.
“T am satisfied with my
current form, and it
er. oes We.
sould ek 5 shot at a
medal ‘in Garmisch,,

Piero. Gros of ‘ytaly
placed fourth wilh: an
over-all time of 1759.68.

The bearded Italian,
noted for his aggressive
‘style, went allout in the
second run down the 500-
metre-long track at Great ©
Arber Mountain near
German-Czechoslovak —
border, and established
ihe best time the
second heat vith 55.13
seconds,

~ — field put the

d then

-end of the first per

the with

wins race

Peter Aellig, a Swiss:
youn ster with litéle

races, fifth with a time
a

Pris +54.12, ahead of Anton
Steiner, an Austrian
‘dow: er-turnedsialom
jalist who had also
fared” poorly until thea.
Talia Paolo de
Chiesa: and*"""Bruno’

‘an Alain
Navillod' and “italy’

- Franco Biels, completed

the top 10

The conditions were far
from ideal. A. dense fog in
the midsect'on of the
track ham) ed the race
fal'ls,

‘Twenty-six of 81
original” starters made
the official finishers’ list,
The event was watched
by about 15,000 spec-
tators.

Sabre’s
goal

BUFFALO (AP) — Ron
Schock’s second goal 0!
the season late in the
second period proved to
be the winner as Buffalo
Sabres defeated Boston
Bruins 5-3 in a National
Hockey night! game

Sunday night Fred Stan-
ame out of
reach with second
goal of the season at 18:24
of the final

season, the three Buffalo’s win moved
best results only ech of the the Sabres to within one
three categories of Alpine point’ of of iS, gitadin
—downhill, special dams Di-
and giant slalom— are vision and endeue Baton
counted for over-all unbeaten streak at e'
ctory. HAS P. ECT games. It also exten “=
SCORE the Sabres unbeaten
Stenmark hasw:perfect string to 10 games.
score in three .:To - The Bruins outshot the
he denied: ‘the ##tle, he. Sabres 39-18. —
would have tofaloplace The Bruins took a 2-0
- among -the top Rfin the lead early in the opening
 daloma “ae four special period as John ucy’

Mf scored a powerplay goal

on & long pa from .

n Bobby Se muatz, who

beat Buffalo

goaltender Don Edwards
om close range.

Andre Savard scored
the Sabres first goal from
about 20 feet out near the
iod and
Rene Robert tied it it early
in the second od on a
power play w! en n he beat

netminder Gerry
Cheevers on a 45-footer.

- The Sabres, outshot 29-
12 in the first two periods,
took a two-goal lead after
40 minutes on fais by
Rick Martin and Schock,

The Bruins narrowed
the p early in the third

ohn Wensink’s goal,

' Robert's pass
putting Stanfield in the
clear for a 30-footer to
complete the scoring with
96 seconds left in the
contest.

- gaily descriptions

THE HERALD, Tuesday, January 10, 1978, PAGE § ;

Snowgolf
in Prince

by Nancy Coldham

Snowgelf has
snowballed into the fun
event of the year at
Prince George, British
Columbia approximately
77 km (484 miles) north of
Vancouver,

It's a zany winter sport
that began in 1970 when
some members of the
Prince George Golf Club
tried golfing in ;the snow
just for the fun of it.

The recognized the
tential of the game,
ormed a board of
directors and, by 1973,
had established a World
‘Championship of
ii

sixth annual

“cham jionship will be

‘eb. 1 aang 1978,
Prince Georg’s
Mardi Gras of

Winter (Feb, 10-19).

Five hundred le
y attired in toduuntes

ap
peared on

Prince
George golf course in

' 1973, Agood time was had

by all and the 1974
tournament found a co-
sponsor, Labatt’s
‘Breweries.

That year saw the
aeleee rrh
course, and as many
strokes as you want, grow
‘to a nine-hole format and
normal ‘sounding pare.

‘Some pracical
problems. were sojved
with the introduction of
plastic six-inch tees and

illiiard ball size golf
balls colored birght

- purple.
ence in World Cup
finished a sut- .

. ‘was

A further dimension
added to the
imnowgolfers’ antics in

“1976 when the Aurora

Centre for the Physically

ben efici

Noeckitr’* followed’ " © Brotvag Tovtnanet

Eveityonee's a winner
at , sno wolf, wit prizes
and niementos worth
nearly | $10,000 being

distributed annually to :
participants for: the most
promotion conscious;
snowfolf booster of the
year; best costume;
unique footwear, and ::
“booby” prizes in such -
catagories as coldest *-
celebrily foursome.

So opular is

#
Es
=
z
3
i

-

Snowfelf Championship, ~ "
Pacific Western Airlines ‘2

offers a 8
flight to

jal charter <
nee George -

from Vancouver arriving !

Friday, Feb. 17 at 6 p.m.
Welcoming ceremonies

3

cinlude a ‘Sno Loa” for ¢
visitors and celebrities ;;

and a handshake from
Snowbear the Tour- .

* nament Mascot.

t

oo

The ‘World's Worst 3

followed by a Cele
Dinner and Dance at 10 ,
p.m. The celebrity linew

ws

Parade” starts at 8 p . 3
i

usually includes weill- =

known names from
worlds of entertainment *
and sport.

Tournament opens Sat. .
Feb. 18 at 9 am, and
continues until 4 p.m.

ret
~

=
=

with dinner and dance 4

from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m.

The three nine-hole
courses at the ce
George Golf Club ac-
commodate about 250
snowfolfers percourse
with forusome tee-offs

ant five-minute intervals.

Round two resumes
Sun., Feb. 18 again from 9
am, to 4 p.m., with the.
wrap awards dinner at
6 p.m. The charter flight
returns to Vancouver at
10 p.m. that night.

Snowfolf has led the
way for other equally
ridiculous but fun events
like sno-football, ice
bowling, ice tennis and
snow-basketball. There’s
no telling where Prince
George's winter madness

might end.

kor Be - i
‘formation uengral
travel destination contact
the Canadian Govern-
ment Office of Tourism,
Ottawa, Canada, ‘KA

One Goal Victory

By THE | CANADIAN
PRESS

Ron Garwiviuk's goal at
2:01: of siidden-death
overtime gave Rochester
Americans a ‘43 victory
over Spri fied Indians
in the o American
Hockey . Lengtie game

“Sunday night. .

The win °
Rochester a
record, tops — ila
Southern Division , while
Springfield has an 18- 134

‘ mark, good enougth fo
’ first ¢

ce in the . Nor-
vision,

thern
night, 1Nova

: Saturday

* Scotia Voyageurs downed

Maine Mariners 5-2, New
HzvenNighthawks
whi pede Binghamt on
8-2 arid

Ruchester and Hershe y
skated to a 4-4 tie.

The visiting Vo ageurs ‘
got & goals from five
erent players, In includin

aying-coach Fr:

arseilie, for their on
over Maine.

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up a 2-1 lead at the end of

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