Off to Pr_
George*

LJ .
These two rinks will be off
to Prince George for the
Ladies District

playdowns to be held there
January 5th, 6th,

and 7. ‘The semor Ladies
rink, In the top photo, con-
sists of skip Norah Jacques,

third Gladys Myers, second
Dot Bartlett, and lead
Dorothy Mercer. The ladies
rink in the bottom phote had
to wina 3 rink Club playoff to
qualify .for the District
Playdowns, They are, from
left to right, skip Joan

a

Clifford, third Sally Barry,
second Adele Mohn, and lead
Rose Thomas. Prince
George winners will qualify
for the Provincial Cham-
pionships to be held in
Burnaby in February.

SUFFERS BAD FALL

The Herald, Friday, December 15, 1870, Page 7

Irwin out until January

VAL GARDENA, Italy
(CP) — Dave frwin of
Thunder Bay, Ont., suffered
a bad fall Thursday af-
ternoon in a training run for
this weekend's World Cup
downhill race and will not ski
again competitively until
January at the earliest.

Irwin lost his balance as he
landed on top of the last of
three bumps in the middle of
the course, sulfering a con-
cusston, an injury to his arm
and his hand = and
aggravating a knee injury.

"I was out for about 10

minutes,” Irwin sald later,

as he limped around hig hotel
room.” J didn't have any
idea that I was in trouble, but
1 was going very fast
because I had come through

1476, only weeks after

winning a World Cup
downhill at Schladming,
Austria. Irwin spent several
weeks in-a Swiss hospital as
a result of head injuries
suffered in that mishap, and
then missed last season after

a taining accident when
calcium deposits formed on
his thigh.

oui weekend at
diming, despite starting
Sth, Irwin finished seventh,
jolning three other

Cutler wins

fifth title

TORONTO (CP) — Dave
Cutler of Edmonton Eskimos
won his fifth Canadian
Football League scoring title
in six years in 1978 with 167
points, the CF'L announced in
official statistics released

Cutler barely topped two
other Western Football
Conference kickers this
season, Cyril McFall of

Calgary Stampeders had 163.

points and Lul Passaglia of
British Columbia Lions had

Canadians who placed in the

top 10.

Ken Read of Calgary and
Dave Murray of Abbotaford,
B.C., were one-two in the
race while Steve Podborski
of Toronto finlshed ninth.

Read had another ex-
cellent day in training
Thursday, finishing first on
his second run with a time of
two minutes 9.92 seconds. He
was fifth on the first run, won
by perennial downhill
champion Franz Klammer
of Austria.

Murray was fourth and
seventh in training Thursday
and Podborski was sixth and
80th.

“Our results are an in-
dication that we are in ex-
cellent form going into the

the upper parts of the course ursday. : “ two races this weekend,”
perfectly. The Edmonton place- nee Bernie Ruolf of Winn sald Canadian coach John
It's too bad. Every time kicker's total was the third- foi with 144 Ritchie. ‘This course js
I'm ready to ski again highest in CFL history, ‘ extremely fast and difficult.
something seems to hap- urpassed only by his own The Eastern Conference “There is a lot of air time
" record 196 points ecored last leader was rookie John Hay because of three huge bumps
Irwin fell at Wengen, yearand the i@dheranupin o Ottawa Rough Riders, and because of a lack of
Switzerland, in January of 1975. fifth over-all with 136 points. snow, the course is rough.

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Smith, Read co-winners

TORONTO (cP) —
Swimmer Graham Smith
and World Cup skier Ken
Read have been named joint
winners of the Lou Marsh
Award as Canada’s athlete
of the year for 1978.

It was the firat time in the
history of the award, first
given in 1939 In honor of the
late sports editor of the
Toronto Star, that joint

_ winners have been picked.

The selection was made
Thuraday by a slx-man com:
mittee headed by. ad:
vertising executive Harry
(Red) Foster.

The 20-year-old Smith led
the Canadian swim team to
victory at the Com-
monwealth Games last

t.

He won a record six gold
medala at the Games and
then set a world record while
winning a-gold medal at the
world swimming cham-

shooter Susan Nattrass of
Edmonton; football player
Tony Gabriel of Ottawa
Rough Riders; auto racing
driver Gilles Villeneuve of
Berthierville, Que.; pen
tathlete Diane Jones-
Konihowski of Edmonton
and Montreal Canadiens
hockey star Guy Lafleur,
who won the Marsh Award
last year.

Smith, a student at the
University of California at
Berkeley, was the first

athlete even to win six gold
medais at any Com-
monwealth or British Em-
pire Gamea.

At the world cham-
pionships in West Berlin,
Smith set a world record of
two minutes 3.65 seconds in
winning the 200-metre in-
dividual mediley.He had
earlier briefly held the world
record in the same event
vies a time of 2:05.31 set in

Team NHL victorious

STOCKHOLM, Sweden
(Reuter) — Ed Johnstone
and Bob Neely scored twa
goals each Thuraday night to
lead Team NHL to an8-2 win
over a Stockholm com:
bination team before a
crowd of 4,300,

The squad, made up from

Hamel, Bobby Simpson and
Jean Savard also tallied for
‘the visitors.

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