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MINNEAPOLIS (AP)
-— Red Carew of Min-
nesota Twins, baseball’s
Beeaiested the sports per.

mn vO! 8 per-

sonality of the year in
Minnesota. The 32-year:
first
baseman thrill
baseball fans during 1977
by chasing the elusive
440 mark for much of the
season. Carew received 17
of the 18 first-place votes
in balloting by sportcas-
ters and sports writers at
Minnesota Associated
Press © member
newspapers and radio
and television stations,
The other first-place vote
went to quarterback Fran
Tarkenton of Minnesota
Vikings.

DANISH ACE BEST

PARIS (AP) — Danish
soccer star Allan
Simonsen was selected as
the recipient of the
“Golden * Tuesday,
an award honoring
Europe's best soccer
player for the 1977 sea-
son. The first Dane to win
the award since 1956,
Simonsen edged Kevin
Keegan, a __ British
transfer to Hamburg, and
France's Michel Platini
for the honor.

HEAD BALLOT

BUDAPEST (AP) —
World sabre fencin
champion Pal Gerevic
and Mariann Ambrus, the
women's world silver
rowi medallist, have
been chosenas athletes of
the year by Hungarian
sports writers, the Hun-
garian news agency MTI
reported Tuesday.

CHASER RETIRES
LONDON (Reuter) —~
Pendil, one of Britain’s
finest
retired Tuesday after
being pulled out of his
first race of the’ season
with bad joints. The 12-
year-old considered by
many..
never’ to

never’ to win, the
“Chielfenham -Gold* Cup,”

wort 21 a 2g Faces, ‘in-
uding the King George
VI chase twice.” rs

TWO-YEAR PACT’

SAQ PAULO, Brazil
(AP) — Former Grand
Prix racing _ driver
Emerson Fittipaldi has
signed a two-year con-
tract with the Copersucar
Formula 1 auto team.
The contract will give the
Fittipaldi team §2 million
in the first year.

PLAY DISRUP-

Australian
Ray Ruffels defeated Tim
ikson of the United
States 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in a
rainy, windblown third-
round match at the
$200,000 Australian Open
tennis tournament .
Tuesday. Ruffels will
play the winner of a
Match between
Americans Vitas Geru-
laitis and Dick Bor-
nhstedt, which was
postponed Tuesday. In
women's play, Ra
won one game before her
match with fellow
American Pat Bostrom
was postponed.

WASHINGTON GOES.
BOSTON (AP) —
Boston Celtics of the
National Baske
Association traded guard
Charlie Scott to los
or
veteran former Celtics
ard Don Chaney plus
orward Kermit
Washington, currently
under suspension.
Washington will not be
able to play for Boston
until Feb. 9 because he
was suspensed after
Line Rudy Tom-
fanovic of Houston
kets ina game earlier
this season, breaking the
‘Houston plyer's jaw.

steeplechasers, —

the best horse .

‘one = point

i Fox —

of

Most Valuable Player in the league and Erian Dorrington (right)

Awa g

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TAM eo

Two players on the Terrace Manuel’s Soccer club were awarded
tropes recently for thelr outstanding performances in the Kitimat

.
Tt ey

te ney

won the Highest Scorer trophy for 1977 for scoring 20 gos rf
the season. Mike Brady (centre), a representative of the league,
District Soccer League. Peter Simpaon (left) won the awardfor presented the trophies. This is an exceptional honour for the
Manuel’s who are the only Terrace team in the league.

‘THE HERALD, Wednesday, December 28, 1977, PAGE §

— Win and loss
for Flyers

is durin

Canada and Sweden favorites for junior cup

By LARRY HARDING
THE CANADIAN
PRESS
Following convincing
ee

WwW

Canada and Sweden are
the favorites heading into
the Championship Series
of the Junior World Cup
of Hockey.

Wayne Gretzky scored
three goals and set up
three others Sunday as
Canada humbled
Czechoslovakia 9-3 and
won the Blue Division of

Victor Shkurdjuk led
the Soviet attack with
four goals with two by
Aleksandr Gersimoy and
single goals by Nikolai
Varjancy, Sergey
Makarov, Viacheslav
Rjanov and Aleksandr
Kozhevnikov. -

SCORES THREE GOALS

Reijo Ruotsalainen had
three goals for Finland
with the other by Timo
tai.

The Soviet Union
outshot Finland 39-37,

Czechoslovakia
finished second in the
Blue Division.

Sweden, with three

oals from Mats Hallin,

owned upstart Swit-
zerland 8-1 in Cornwall,
Ont., on Monday to win
the Gold Division.

In another ame

‘Monday, the Soviet Union

dow! Finland 10-4 in
Chicoutimi, Que., to fin-
ish second in the Gold
ahead ol
Finland.

Apart from Hallin’s
three goals, Sweden got
two from Conny Silf-
verberg and single goals
from Dan Hermansson
Claes Henrik Silfver and
Anders Wallin.

As was the case in
Switzerland’s 18-1 loss to
Finland on Friday, Reto
Duerst was the only Swiss
player to score. Sweden
outshot Switzerland 46-9
in the game.

orts

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Ste. Marie Greyhounds of
the Ontario ‘Hockey
Association Major Junior

series, has been the «

standout of the tour-
nament, mesmerizin
opposing defencemen an
goaltenders and almost
scoring at will,

“I was lucky,” Gretzky
said after his effort
Sunday. ‘‘The defen-
cemen seemed to be
making the first move on
me all the time.”

Most hockey followers,
however, think the
oungster scores so often
use he always has an
extra move for the op-
position.
Although the Junior
World Cup was not
created for Gretzky, he
has turned the  tour-
nament into a personal
showcase and is proving
to be the greatest sen-
sation in Canadian junior
hockey since Bobby Orr
left Oshawa Generals of

Hershey Bears
grab lead

Rick Bragnalo scored
at 16:02o0f the final period
Monday night to give
Hershey Bears a 2-1
American Hockey
League victory over
Nova Scotia Voyageurs.

The Bears had grabbed
a 1-0 lead on a goal by
Jacques Richard at 2:31

of the second period but |

Dave Lumley tied the
score slightly more than
two minutes later.

Then, with less than
five minutes left to play,
Hershey's Brent
pemblay pices a

Dp pena give
Nova Scotia the man
advantage.

But 11 seconds later,
Bragnalo poke checked a

Nova Scotia defenceman
at the Hershey blue line
and broke in on
Voyageurs netminder
Maurice Barrette to send
the Bears out front.

The loss left Nova
Scotia in third spot in the
Northern Division with 32

ints on a 12-14-8 record.

ershey is third in the
Southern. Division with a
13-12-3 mark.

In the only other game
Monday, ndy
MacGregor scored three

dropped a 7-3 decision to
Roch

Game Time 8 p.m. |

the OHA 11 years ago. ©

The Canadian team
was the only one to win all
three of its games in
regulation play and had
the best defensive record,
allowing only six goals.

OFFENCES STRONG
The Soviet Union and
Finland had the strongest
offences with 31 and 26
g oals reg
compared with 28 for
Canada, however, the
Soviet Union and Finland
were in the same division
as Switzerland which
allowed 44 goals in three
games. The weakest
team in Canada's
division, West Germany,
allowed 21 goals.

The playoffs

begin
Wednesday and

the

Trin

By AL COLLETTI

NEW YORK (CP) -
Veteran centre Fhil
Esposito let off some
steam Monday night,
criticizing what ‘he ter-
med a “money hungry”
National Hockey League
for schedulin, in-
ternational exhibitions at
Christmas.

Esposito made the key
play on defenceman Dave
oney's goal with 15
seconds left to play that
gave New York Rangers
a 4-4 tie against Kladno, a
club team that had nine
layers from the
echoslovak national
aquad in the lineup.
adno bombed goalie
Doug Soetaert for three.
first-period goals by
Bohuslav Ebermann,
Milan Novy and Jaroslav
Pouzar while rookie
Lucien DeBlois scored for
the Rangers.

. In the second period,
Pouzar .got his second
goal ona power play for a
4-1 lead. New York goalie
John Davidson played the
second period and Wayne
Thomas blanked the
Czechoslovaks in the
third period, when Carol
Vadnais, Walt Tkaczuk
and Maloney brought the
Rangers even.

Esposite, the Rangers’
captain who collected two
assists, said he was glad
the match against
Kladno, which drew only

' 10,128 fans in Madison

ware Garden, is over.
‘I eouldn’t care less
about them. It’s over. Let
them go some place else

-and play and make

money.”

y CENTRE COMPLAINS

Esposita complained
about “giving in” to the

Championship Series will
include the two strongest
teams from each division
with the two weakest
teams from each division
involved in a Consolation
Series,

In the Championship
Series, Sweden will take
on Czechoslovakia at
Montreal while Canada

I will go against the Soviet

Union at Quebec City.
The Canadians downed

the Soviets 7-3 in an
exhibition game in
Montreal before the

Junior World Cup star-
ted.

The Consolation Series
will start the same day
with Finiand playing
West Germany at Chi-

whims of the
Czechoslovaks, recalling
some of his previous
experiences with Team

Canada against Czech-

oslovakia the world
tournament at Vienna
last spring.

The point he was trying
to make was that the
North Americans always
seem to wind up on t
short end.

“ do we always

ive Ie? You know why?

m going to say it and
I’m going to get in trouble
for it. Because “we, I
mean the NHI. Players’
Association and the
owners are money
hungry.

“We give in to them all
the time, They want 50
extra tickets, they get 50
extra tickets. We go over
there and we can't even
get a steak.
~ “Look, 1 don’t like the
idea that we always give
in. Last year in Vienna
we gave in. We were sold
down the river.

“The referees,
helmets, we. couldn't
have advertising on our
sticks, us and.the United
States. Evergwther team

could.” ty
WANTS = Int:
ORGANIZATION

Esposito said if the
NHL is going to play
against international
teams, ‘Let's organize it
and not play on Christ-
mas, on Dec. 26.

“Practising on
Christmas Day. Why us
and Philadelphia first? I
don’t like it. If they're
going to organize
something, let’s organize
it properly. Let's have a
series or a tournament,

the

coutimi while the U.S.
will get a chance to score
some geala against
Switzerland at Cornwall.

The ayofis = will
conclude Sunday, Jan. 1
with the two top teams
from the Championship
Series meeting in a
suddendeath final on
Tuesday, Jan. 3 at the
Montreal Forum.

COVER MUCH OF
LAND

In total, the Great
Lakes are more than
$5,000 square miles in
area—34,000 in Canada
and 61,000 in the United
States.

«Ksposito slams =:
Christmas games

But not right when we're
in the middle of our
season.

“Who gives a... about
these guya. We've got to

0 out there and play as
rd as we can because
we have pride.

“Lets. get some
organization. Not all of a
sudden throw it in and
say it’s on, then say it's

~ off.

-fad defeated

By THE CANADIAN
Pepckane Fl
ne Flyers came
up with a win and a loss
over the holiday weekend
to extend their margin in
the Western International
Hockey League to six
ints over idle Cran-
‘ook Royals.
ne, which had an
eigntgame win streak
snapped in Kimberley
Friday, losing to the
Dynamiters 63, bounced
back to rout Trail Smoke
Eaters 94 Monday. Trail
elson
Maple Leafs 9-6 in Trail
Friday.
Spokane has 44 points
an Cranbrook 38.
Kimberley has 32 points,
while Trail and Nelson
Maple Leafs have 20 and

12 points respectively.

._Monday night, Peter
Morris an Garth
Morgan each scored two
goais for the Flyers,
while singles went to Don
Borgeson, M. S, Schur-

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Seoring for Trail were
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Norm Dennis and Gary
Johnson.

Frank Turnbull
stopped 33 shots in the
Spokane goal, while Bob

lanchet and Kel
Erickson combined for 26
saves for Trail.

In Kimberley, Jim
Cruise led the

Dynamiters attack with
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went to Ken Ireland,
Gene Strate, Jeff Ablett
and Ray Creasey, .

Venerus, Huston and
Kirk Fyffe scored for
Spokane.

Wayne Bell made 35
saves in goal for Kim-
berley. Turnbull blocked
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In Trall, Ernie Gare
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