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. ‘Brewed for extra flavour, extra smoothness and extra taste satisfaction, John Labatt’s Extra Stock is our newest premium hae i i \ { quality product. You'll find it smooth and mellow going down. Founded by John Labatt in 1828, and still owned by Canadians, Labatt’s is proud to introduce John Labatt's Extra Stock. It commemorates our 150 years of brewing fine, quality 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. 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