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Sports

Recreation
Leisure

‘Mark Hamilton

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Curling Club Starts
This Weekend With

Mixed Spiel

Although the Terrace Curling
Club will start this season in

their old building they will be -

curling in the new rink by the
beginning of next year.

The new facility will be over
six hetts of ice as well as ex-
panded viewing and !ounge
area. The two storey spectators
section will feature 60° of
window on the bottom floor and
90 up top.

Thecurling season opens next
weekend with the traditional
open mixed Bonspiel. Anyone
interested in entering the event
is asked to contact either Harry
Davy at the Sportsman Barber

In 1968 it was:
Liberal 33%
The P.6’s 15%
The NDP Ys 52%

shop or Norm Miller at Miller's
Mens Wear.

The league will run from now
ta April with many bonspiels
aad other attractions as well as
the league play. The annual
Ladies Valentine Bonspiel and
the Big Loggers Bonspiel will be
back as well as the north-west
zone women’s play downs which
will also be held here.

The curling league, which
attracts nearly three hundred
curlers annually, has something

to offer everyone, There are

reguiar mens and womens
leagues, a mixed league, a

commercial league, and ex-
panded high school . program
and a ladies day session,

For the new curlers there is
instructionavailable and ifyou
already know how and just want
to curl give them a call and
they’ get you on a team. This
year, with the expanded

facilities the membership is.

almost limitless, you won’thave
to worry about not making a
team.

Further information about
any, or all curling requiremzats
canbe obtained from either Me.
Davy or Mr. Miller.

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THE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C,

Commercial
hockey by
month end

Team play in the Terrace
Commercial Hockey League
will get under way at the end of
this month, says the league's
secretary Jim Penner,

In a telephone interview
Friday Mr. Penner noted that
the four teams have been lined
up, there ‘are players a plenty
and only minor points are left to
clear up. .

.The league schedule was
finalized at a meeting last night
as where admission charges

‘There will be a three-session

basketball clinic this coming

Friday,
Caledonia.
The provincial basketball
coach John Olsen aid an as yet
unnamed provincial referee will

October i3, at

‘ke giving the classes in the

Sport.

The first session in the’
Caledonia gym will be at 4 p.m.
for elementary school coaches.
During this clinic basketball

‘and the minor administration

points, clearing the way for a
successful season,

The four teams inyolved will
be sponsored by Buller Glass,
Gordon and Anderson, the
Terrace Holel and Pohle
Lumber. Uniforms for the four
leams, as ‘well as equipment,
are on orderat the present time,

The league will have ice time

" two nights a week Mondays and

Thursdays with each team

‘playing once a. week and
practicing every. second week.
The organizers af the league.

are happy with the way things

are going, Already in the short. §

time the league has been in

‘ existance they have sue-

cessfully tackled most of the
problems connected with
establishing a league of this
nature. future commercial
hockey activity on Terrace now
has a strong base to grow on.

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will be explained and gone into.

‘Luen from 6-7 the elementary
aged “laskethall players will
have a chance to learn,

The final clinic of the trio will
be from 7-8:30 when secondary
school coaches, players and
referees will take to the court.

There wiil be no charge for

_ the clinie and interested per-

sons from the community are
inviled to come on out and take
a lock.

The Harlem Clowns are
coming to Terrace. Thats the
latest news from Caledonia

‘eoach Ed DeVries,

The Buraka, California based
team will ‘be’ here Tuesday,
October 24th to do battle witha
group of local teachers at the
Caledonia gym,

Watch the Herald for further
news and details of this match,
which will prove a delight for

Open letter to

The following article
was sent along by
Caledonia High physical
education teacher, Ed
DeVries. Coming as it
does with the completion
of the arena and the start
of the various hockey,
leagues the thoughts it
-expresses are. very

Note: The following letter
was written by Ted Kolva,
Assistant Lacross coach at
Ohio State University. It was
included in the May, 1972 edition
of the Chio High School Athlete.
Coach Kolva accurately defines
a problem for us. His criticism
is justified. He points up the

, ‘reason why some student-

athletes may be. withdrawing

from competition.
Clifford B, Fagan, Editor
National Federation
Publications

T have just finished working
at the Ohio High School State
and the
deplorable action of many of the
coaches there created an urgent
need to call attention to an in-
creasingly more noticeable
problem. As a coach in another
sport I am well aware of the

' intensity with which these

young men compete. They have

: worked hard to reach this high

peak. As the saying goes they
fnaw the thrill of victory and
‘the agony of defeat, Surely no
“one can believe a young man
would advance this far then fail
to give his best, And yet far too
many coaches exhibited the

‘. game syndrome. If a wrestler

won he was greeted with open

' arms, helped on with his warm-

up equipment, and walked off

the the coach’s obvious ap- .
proval, But after a loss the

following action was more

likely - a disgusted look and

shake of the head, a jacket
tosged at the wrestler, and a
rapidly departing coach.
These same actions can be
translated into meaningful
terms. for other’ sports. Too
many coaches (not all, ob-
viously). are on their own ego
trip, willing to bask in the glow.
of borrowed victory but
rejecting any asso ciation with

the loser, And how big a loser is ©

not the a young man finishing
second, or sixth or even seventy

“sixth in any competition? The

real loser Is.not the athlete, nor

even rejecting coach (although

that is a tempting conciusion),
but c athletics iin. general.

coaches

lives. |
T am a firm believer in the

contributions that high school

and college athletics can make
to young men and women. I am
alsoa firm believer in winning —
i’s much more fun than losing.
But I totally disagree with
Minnesota basketball coach
.Musselman’s reported locker
room sign “Defeat is worse than

death’ you have-to live with
»,, defeat,"
developing | these kinds of

If. .athletics are

B.C.
Winter
Festival
of
Sports

VANCOUVER - The second’:
British Columbia Festival of- .

Winter Sporls, January: 18 -
February 5, 1973 is fast. ap-
proaching its target of close to
150 events in 75 communities.

“The response to date has
been great,” said Festival
Manager, Bob Groulx. “We
have on hand now more than 76
events in 35 British Columbia
communities”.

Sports involved currently ,

number 22. They are figure
skating, volleyball, squash,

synchronized swimming, water |

polo, dogsled racing, . ice

hockey, speed skating, fencing,

ice boat racing, boxing, ‘bad-
minton,
equestrian, archery, curling,
skiing (cross country and

Cont’d on Pane 7

gymnastics, |

values, we all need to take a
second leok, Let’s keep things in
perspective - the only person
who never loses is the ane who
never tries anything. And after
all, without losers there would
be no winners. Winning is
desirable, but defeat must
become acceptable. If not,
many young people will drop
out rather than face its
humiliation ~ it’s not‘worth it to
them. And they are right. .

We -- and I mean coaches in
particular -- must work to in
sure that participation in
athletics remains a highly

” desirable and worthwhile part

of a young person’s develop-
ment experience, Because only.
then will our own chosen field be
meaningful to anyone =| in

. cluding ourselves,

‘Friday Mixed League
‘Team Standings:

High Flyers
Wine O's 6

Team High Triple ~ Yah Hoos — 31M
Team High Single - Yah Hoos - 1060.”

Mens High Triple - Del Bjornson ~ 789

Mens High Single -- Del Bjornson ~. 344 a
Ladies High Triple - Aurora Schulmeister ~ 6416
Ladies High Single — Aurora Schulmeister - 299 ,
Ladies High Average ~ Del Bjornson -- 249. |
Ladies High Average ~ Rose Salvisherg — 205

Thursday Mixed League

Team High Triple - Tillicum - 3135

Team High Single - Tillicum - 1091

Mens High Triple - Del Bjornson - 721

Mens High Single - Terry Irving -236 © |
Ladies High Triple - Lorraine Welton - 623
Ladies High Single - Doris Nielson. - 259

Tuesday Night Mixed League

Team High Triple - J&H Home Service - 3326
Team High Single - §&H Home Service- 1145
Mens High Triple - Ray Taft - 751

Mens High Single - Joe Schulmeister. - 304
Ladies High Triple - Aurora Schulmeister - 714
Ladies High Single - Joyce Ray - 292

League Leaders - G.H. Trucking - 28 points —
‘Mens High Average - George Haugland - 255 -
Ladies High Average - Joyce Ray - 215

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