Peter Murray, neclnamed the Friendly Giant by his New Brunswick team-mates, became a mean ékip Tuesday and knocked Alberta from the undefeated ranks in the Canadian men’s curling championship. Whi Murray, a 6-foot-3, 230-pound salesman from Saint John was defeating the Mike Chernofi’s rink from Medicine Hat 7-5, Alan Derragh and his Nova Scotia tink was dropping a similar decision to the Territories, Howie Brazeau of Fort Smith, representing the Territories, stole one point on each of the eighth and 10th ends to defeat his Dartmouth opponents 7-5 before 4,533 fans at the Pacific Coliseum in the only draw of the day. The losses drop Alberta and Nova Scotia into a five-way tie for first place after four rounds in the 49th co h am pionshl Alberta and Nova Scotia with 3-1 records were British Columbia, Manitoba and the Territories. “This championship im't over by any means," said Murray, who stole three points on the elghth end and two on thellth to beat Alberta, “We weren't expectingnto steal three in the eighth end but we got a couple of shots that he just couldn’t get aton this kind of ice. We were fighilng the ice early and I guess that’s why we fell behind 6-1." DECLINES PREDICTION PAGE 6, THE HERALD, Thursday, March 9, 1978 -°-* Friendly Giant Bor a zeau, Canadian firefighte curling champion, ined ta make any predictions. “All the are tough at this stage. A record of 8-3 will get you awfully close to a championship; $2 will win it. You can't play the come- around game on this ice, you've just got to make sure you're on the broom all the time.” In other fourth-round matches, nBernie Sparkes of Vancouver defeated Nor- thern Ontario's Barry Mutrie of Kapuskasing 95, Doug Harrison of Winnipeg rallied again to beat defending champion Quebec, skipped this year by Steve. Ducat of Montreal, 7-5, Peter MacDonald of Charlottetown upset Ontario’s Gerry Hodson of London 7-3 and Saskatchewan's Rick Folk of Saskatoon needed an extra end to beat Newfoundland’ Bob Rowe of Goose Bay 7-6. Mutrie, who opened the 12- rink, round-robin _ tour- nament with a 96° win Sunday over Ontario sald: “Everyone’s havin; trouble adjusting to the ice. But the guys with Brier experience, guys like Sparkes,nare adjustin much quicker, and it shows. “Qur inexperience is hurting us badly so far. The seore (against B.C.) really flattered us because we weren't really in the game after the fourth end. “This is typical arena ice, running fairly straight Vikings, Bruins. - Recent losers — The two teams battling to stay out the British Columbia uae Hockey League’s Interior on eellar both lost Tuesday, With Vernon Vikings edged 6- 5 by Kamloops Chiefs and Revelstoke Bruins trounced 133 by first-place Merritt Centennials. The Vikings pulled even with Kamloops early in the third thanded goal bx Ward Ww with 2:25 tonplay gale the Mee Vegpon. tie huee velstoke, playing at Merriit, trailed 5-0 after one and %1 after two as the Centennials rolled to thelr victory. Merritt got goals from 11 players. Pat Rabbitt and Ed Beers each scored twice Deschamps, Ian Tennant, Ken Stroud, Blake Stephens, Gary Sirkia, Ron Flockhart, Ken Perrier and Greg Aiken. ‘Scoring for Revelstoke were Darren Field, Randy Zinn and Ian Ramsey. The Centennlals blasted 68 shota at Bruin netminder Darryl Krahubel while Rob PolmanTuin had an easy night in the Merritt goal, makeg 14 stops. The Bruins tock five of elght minors, four of seven majors and the game’s only misconduct. . period, but a shor-— SCORES THREE In Vernon, Dale . Slous’ second goal of the night early in the third period tled the game at 5-5 for Vernon, but Sparrow's 50-foot blast from the blue line gave Kamloops the win. The Chiefs jumped out toa 3-2 lead in the first period on three goals by Mike Mesic, and led 5-4 after the second. Jay Kozac and Brian Graves got the other Kamloops markers. : ‘Darcy Wilkinson; “Dave}" Gaasoff f Schneider and Gary Gi also scored Toe Verriba, three game migconducts and Vernon was given a match . penalty after a brawi broke out - with nine seconds remaining. Until then, the Chiefs had picked up three minors and the V; two. Darrell Morin and Rick Hugi shared netminding . duties for the Vikings,. making 47 saves. Blair McKie stopped 30 for the Chiefs. Lo Revelstoke holds fifth place, four points ahead of the lastplace Vikings. Merritt now leads second- place Penticton Vees by five points ‘while Kamloops is ensconced in: fourth, 15 behindnKelowna Buckaroos and 35 ahead of the Bruins, Abbotaford Flyers play the Clippers in Nanaimo in tonight’s only game. Second place _ Battle even | Cranbrook Royals beat Kimberley Dynamiters 9-1 Tuesday to even the batile for second place in the Western Internatio Hockey League '§ while Flyers, assured of firat place, bombed Nelson Maple Leafs 11-4,nalready assured of last, n The Royals took ad- vantage of home Ice to dump the Dynamiters and move into a secondplace tie with Kimberley, The teams ead: have 62 polnts, 15 points leas than Spokane. The Flyers blasted Nelson In a game re-scheduled from November when a strike by civic workerf in Nelson forcednthe postponement of the originalo contest. Barry Marcheschuk fired three goals for the Royals while Jim Miller had two. Singles came from Rob Neale, Billy Martin, Jolin Migneault and Marty Feschuck. Playing coach Jim Mc- Crimmon scored the goal for Kimberley. OVERCAME DEFICIT : ° In Nelson, the Maple Leafs, -eliminated from playoff contention last. weekend, took a 2-1 leadnat the end of the first period, but Spokane stormed back with seven straight goala in the second to go ahead #3 after 40 minutes. : Bob Trembecky had three goals for the winners with Peter Morris. andnDon Borgeson adding two each, Kirk Fyffe, Steve McKnight, Oliver Steward and Don Dirk scored singles. Vern Quaroni had two goals for Nelson.. Kim Hilkewich and Rick Klassen added the others. ¢ outshot Nelaon 44- a1 and took elght of 12 menor penalties. | Nelion ‘plays Cranbrook Friday while Kimberley travels to Trail for a game against the Smoke Eaters, By THE CANADIAN PRESS REMEMBER WHEN ., , Canada regained the world amateur hockey cham- pionship 20 years ago today~-in 19583— when Whitby Dunlopa beat the Soviet Unton 4-2 ln a thrilling final game at Oslo. Tied 2-2 with only 34 minutes to Play, the Ontario players fired two goals through the . weakened Soviet Union defence. Dunlopa won all seven games and = the U.S.S.R. won five’ in the eightteam round-robin. ; Two North Americas. teams weresoundly defeated. .. f by European teams in the World Hockey Championship 13 years ago today—in 1965. Each team was assessed | only. Ww. (Sparkes) les to Kory the es eep the game. as simple as posalble was a.mean skip and that way he doesn’t have to make too many tough ots. Winnipeg Jets Face problem WNIPEG (CP) — Alan Eagleson, the executive- director of the National Hockey League Players Association, spoke Tuesday neght of problems Winnipeg Jets face in their bid to jump to the National Hockey League and retain the ser- vices of Fwedish stars An- ders Hedberg and UN Nilgson in the process. Eagleson appeared at a fundraising dinner. for. the poration that owned the World Hockey Association team until its sale 10 days ago to a group of private businessmen. ; He suggested the best means of switeming to the NHL would be to wait and bid to take over an existing Cleveland, Colorado ornMin- nesota. : At the same — time, Eagleson noted that the NHL is seared of court action ‘imder U.S. antitrust laws. "Unless it can. be established that we won't be sued by a disgruntled WHA partnernor their - players’ or even a player, the NHL won't even consider - moving into a WHA city,” he oN . ‘ eet Nm AAT eh : tea & : Bday ao & £ ay i STR DAILY HERALD “STRIKE IT RICH” ADS | . said. “Untl lawyers for the and WHA have met anti-trust. lawyers and established that it is not annantitrust violation for the Jets to leave the league, they won't be considered by the NHL.” Eagleson sald he finds it impossible to believe that the - Jets could possibly know their future spects by ating the deadline ken pul Up the money to Hedberg and Nilsson under contract for the next two years. He said he belleves the pair will wind up with New York Rangers. “Hedberg will be good in the NHLnNilsson not so *. good, and neither will make the all-star team," he Predicted. Finally, commenting on reports of Ottawa's interest in getting Canadian WHA teams into the NHL, Eagleson said that expecting political pressure to work on the NHI is akin to exvecting Canada to lave any say ina merger of American Motors and General Motors. ‘TAKE A LOOK AROUND YOUR — " ATTIC, . ‘PAGE, RUMPUS ROOM | .AND TURN YOUR DON’T WANTS INTO CASH | ATTHIS SPECIALRATE 8=—si(C