a TERE ACE-KITIMAT daily he 4 “SPORTS * ‘ a, The Kermode Friendship Society Trail Sie eg blazers: top Percival, Viola Lincoln, Josi Chubak. Bottom row, left row, left to right, coach Frank Adams, Arlene to right, Viola Thomas, Cindy Boyd, Gail Sheasby, Christie, Debbie Rushton, Lorretta Pelletier, Millie Gina Eide, Fritzie Woods, Esther Adams. Women’s basketball here ‘The Kermode Friendship Society Trailblazers, a women’s basketball team based in Terrace, is hosting atournament Nov. 30, Dec. 1 and 2at Caledonia Senior Secondary School in Terrace, to be followed by a dance for the public and'the competitors. ° The team, whic ag, been, together for two years, has invited two t@amis from Kitambat Village, one from Kitimat, one from Kispiox and one from Aiyansh tothe tournament, which begins at 3 p.m. Nov. 30. It will be a nine-game round-robin tournament, allowing each team to play the . others. The team is sponsored by the society, who supplied their uniforms, but spokesman Debbie Rushton says that the team raises its own funds for events like the Rushton also dispelled a myth about the society itself. “It’s not an all-native society like everybody thinks,” she said. “Anyone can come out to be part of it.” . Admission to the games will be one dollar for adults, 50 cents for students and children under 12 years can et in free if they are accompanied by an adult. Rushton hopes that this will be the first tournament in an annual series of events like it. There will be a dance held in conjunction with the tournament on Dec. 1 at the Terrace arena banquet room. Tickets will be $5 for singles and $7.50 per tournament. couple. Schenley. finalists waiting _ By CHUCK SVOBODA CP Sports Editor MONTREAL (CP) — A month ago, when David Green became the first player in Canadian Foatball League history te rush for more than 200 yards in a game twice in one season, the Montreal running back declared: “T hope [ have sewn-up the Schenley Award/as'the’out«'t standing player in the Canadian league, but you never can tell in this business." Thursday night, Green finds out if his two 200-yard fames and season-total of 1,678 yards were enough to meke him the outstanding player of the year. The Montreal Alouettes running back is up against Edmonton Eskimos .wide receiver Waddell Smith in the final balloting for the top prize which includes the Schenley Trophy and a $3,000 Canada Savings Bond. The runner-up gets a $1,000 bond. The award winners in five categories will be announced during a special reception Thursday night, one of the’ highiigh's of Grey Cup-Week festivities, safer Ae The nominees in the four other awards categories; Outstanding Canadian: Leif Pettersen, Hamilton; Dave Fennell, Offensive Liner.an: Ray Watrin, Montreal; Mike Wilson, Edmonton. Defensive Player: Ben Zambiasi, Hamilton; John Helton, Winnipeg. Edmentan. Rookie; Martin Cox, Ot- tawa; Brian Kelly, Ed- monton. Winners in the Canadian, offensive lineman and defensive player receive $2,000 bonds and the rookie winner gets $1,500. Runners- up in the last four categorles receive $500. “' Green, a 5-foot-10, 184 pound = srusher = from Jacksonville; N.C, set an Eastern Football Conference rushing record in hig first full season in the league. His 1,678 yards was also tops in the CFL for the season and he seared 11 touchdowns. A Schenley Award for the 26-year-old rusher out of Edinboro State would be further mud in the eye for coach Forrest Gregg who cut Green in the 1977 Cleveland Browns training camp in the National Football League. Gregg now is coach of the CFL Toronto Argonauts against whom Green twice rushed for more than 200 yards this year. Smith, 25, also carries im- pressive statistica — t,214 yards gained on 74 pass receptions .and 13 touch- downs, making ‘him top receiver in the league. Like Green, he alsp has an off-beat recent history, having been traded away by Edmonton after the 1878 season when the club could not sign him ta a new con- tract. He was sent to Hamilton Tiger-Cats but was traded back to Edmonton in time to start his third season with the Eskimos. Holzman, Knicks winners Jack Ramsay and Gene Clippers 117 Suns 110 Shue have jolned the ex- tlusive 500-win club in the National Basketball Association. Red Holzman, already a member, joined an even more exclusive club when his New York Knicks did a number on Houston Rockets Tuesday night, Ramsay, the Portland coach, and Shue, of San Diego, each reached the euphoric plateau of 500 NBA victorles after the Trail Blazers defeated Los An geles Lakers 114-99 and the Clippers stopped Phoenix Suns 117-110. Holzman, meanwhile, became only the second coach in NBA history to win 500 games with one team when the Knicks defeated the Hockets 130-126 in overtime, Red Auerbach, who did it with Boston Celtics, is the only other NBA coach to win that many games with one team. Elsewhere in the NBA, Philadelphia '7éers defeated San Antonio Spurs 118-214; Denver Nuggets stopped Chicago Bulls 124-61; Atlanta Hawks turned back Detrolt Pistons 109-105; Cleveland Cavallera whipped Utah Jazz 119-107 and Kansas City Kings edged Golden State Werrlors 112-109. Maurice Lucas and Tom Owens led Portland's victory with 24 points each, The Blazers, who had a 12-4 edge in offensive rebounding in the first half, took a 49-37 lead at the half, Guards Brian Taylor, Freeman Williams and Lioyd Free combined for 81 points as San Diego defeated Phoenix. Taylor scored a stason-high 28 points, Willlams had 27 and Free, Don Baylor wins NEW YORK (AP} — Don Baylor became the first member of California Angels to win the American League's Most Valuable Player award when the cuttielder-designated hitter was made an overwhelming choice today by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Baylor collected 20 of a possible 28 firat-place votes from the special BBWAA committee to win by a large margin over outfielder Ken Singleton of the American League champlon Baltimore Orioles, The California slugger, who led the Angels to their first title ever In the AL West with a league-leading 139 RBI, 34 home runa and a .206 batting average, piled up 347 points to 241 for Singleton. Third baseman George Brett of Kansas City Royals was glyen two votes for first place and a 226-point total for the third spot. aiarets ‘setae Baylor, Singleton and Brett were the only players named on all 28 ballots, Hoston’s Jim Rice, last year's MVP, finished fifth in the voting with 124 points, behind team-mate Fred Lynn's 160%. The 30-year-ald Baylor's offensive totals also Included 33 doubles, three triples and 22 stolen bases. The California slugger, one of-the first crop of free agents in 1976, signed with the Angels on Nov, 16 of that year, Singleton, 32, who had three first-place votes, had a .206 average that included 35 homers and 111 RBI, Brett had a big year with the Royals, finishing second to Lynn in the AL batting race with a .329 average that included 23 homers and 107 runs batted in, Mike Flanagan, the Cy Young award winner from Baltimore, coliected the remaining three first-place votes and finished in sixth are78, a © CHEEPER RENT-A-CA *, Hee sPaTatataatetatatala"s* oly Tlalatstetetetatste states rat atetatabet et etate! wtetatatatetate a ete ta tate ttatetatate a ale atetetatetatatale arate bee ete heen ee team ste atatatettet et, CRRA a eit the NBA's leading scorer, contributed 26 aa the Clip- pera won their third straight mame, place with 100 points, He was the only pitcher: to finish in the Top. 10. git WAIVE LINHART. ae Ese | ‘tin the . Te et Canucks come By GRANT KERR VANCOUVER (CP) — So much for the slump of Marcel Dionne and the Los Angeles Kings’ hot line — it lasted all cf. one game. Dionne -and linemates Dave Taylor .and Charlie Simmer returned to form Tuesday night — Dionne and Taylor each scored ‘twice and Simmer had three as- sists — at the expense of Vancouver Canucks, The Canitcka saw their fourgame winning streak vanish as the Kings out- classed them 5-1 in a loasely- played game which proved once again that Dionne centres the most dangerous line in the National Hockey League, Dionne and his wingers were blanked for the first time this season Saturday in Los Angeles by Montreal Canadiens, but showed they have great recuperative powers. “Our first goal, the one I got in the first period, set the tempo for us and showed Vancouver that we came ready to play,”’ said Dionne. “Our line knows that it can score and tonight we played a good team game, with ail the lines working hard. -“Vancouver looked a Little tlred mentally and we were hungry. We didn’t make any real bad mistakes and the Canucks threw away some bad passes which we capitalized on." Dionne now has a league- | leading 19 gonls and 43 points, while Simmer has 17 goals and 33 polnis and Taylor a healthy 13 goals and 32 polnts, giving them the top three places in the NHL scoring race. The Canucks, who had an inspiring win here Sunday over Montreal, came out flat and made more mistakes in one game than they had for the last 12 games, said coach Harry Neale. “We weren't skating, we weren't concentrating, we had fewer takeouts than they did, we lost too many faceofis, we made too many Jong passes and we hadtoo many turnovers in our own end,” Neale said, Glen Goldup also scored for the Kings as they moved to within three points of leading Montreal in the Norris Division, while the Canucks remained atep the Smythe Division with a alx- paint lead over St. Louis Blues and Chicago Black Hawks. Ron Sedibauer scared the Vancouver goal in the opening period, but missed a glorious scoring chance in the last period, as did cap- tain Don Lever. Los Angeles outshot Van- couver 26-25 and the Kings dominated the last period with a 10-3 edge in shota when they gave the Canucks few good scoring chances. “Vancouver didn’t play a d game as such," said coach Bob ‘Maybe they had a let- down after the Montreal win, but 1 thought we got a good game from our goaltender and everyone worked real hard, all the lines,” Los Angeles took ad- vantage of Its few good scoring chances against Vancouver netminder Glen . Hanlon, while goalkeeper Marlo Lessard of the Kings fame up with a few key ‘Baves when needed, -especially in the second -perlod, Dionne scored early in the game when he stole the puck , Vancouver end and NEW YORK (AP) — New,. Sedlbauer tied the score by York Jets. have, waived Jacobs from Syracuse University, the National Football League team an- nounced Monday. Jacobs, a five-fout-seven, 151-pounder who was drafted in the i2th round by Denver, had un- successful pre-season tryouts with the Jets and New England Patriots, »iconverting his own rebound. placekicker Toni, Linhart. - and signed rookie Dave. Taylor got the winner early. in the second on a deflection on a Los Angeles - power, play and Dionne added his second on a rebound, Taylor got an In- surance marker in the third, .on his own rebound, and Goldup scored in the last minute of the game. “We've done a better job lately of cutting down on our up to R27F 75 amp Replace With anew Motorcraft Battery - The Latest in Gatiery Technology. 4631 Keith BATTERY SPECIAL S $63.27 plus tax Terrace Totem Ford Sales Ltd. 635-4984 up very flat goals against,” said Berry. “Our checking lines are doing a better job and: the defence Is getting ime to move the puck from our end. “We've got enough guys who can score goals, 50 it's up to the rest of the guys to make sure we also play well defensively,” Neale said he planned to have defenceman Bob Manno watch Dionne, but that went out the window early when Dionne worked sround Manno for the first goal of the game. Vancouver also missed the aggressive forechecking of winger Stan Smyl, sidelined for seven to 10 days with a badlybrulsed heel. Defen- ceman John Hughes also sat out with an intestinal allment, NHL roundup New York ‘Islanders, a team on the way up in recent years, have been heading in the opposite direction so far this National Hockey League season. The Islanders have been touted as Stanley Cup material the last fbwo winters ‘but have played less than 600 hockey after completing more than onefifth their 1970- 60 schedule, St, Louis Blues, winless in five previous starts, defeated them §-3 Tuesday night, leaving the Islanders with a record of six wins, three ties and eight losses after 17 games. Only five of the 21 NHL teams have fewer points _than the Islanders, sitting fourth in the competitive Patrick Divislon. The islanders have lost four of their last five games. In other games Tuesday, Boston Bruins edged Quebec Nordiques 5-3 and Colorado Rockies tied Washington Capitals 3-3. The Blues got off to a quick start in St. Louls and never relinquished the lead, It was 20 after one period and 3-0 _ early in the second before the Islanders got aon the scoreboard. Blalr Chapman, Bernie Federko, Blake Dunlop, Perry Turnbull, Larry Patey and Brian Sutter scared for St. Louis, Mike Bossy, Brian Trottier and Clark Gillies scored for New York, In Quebec, Don Marcotte’s second-period goal, scored while his club was a man‘ short, praved the winner for the Bruins. . ; Rick Middleton, Jean Ratelle, Peter McNab and Ray Bourque, into an empty net to ensure the win with 21 seconds on the clock, also scored for Boston. - Defenceman Pierre Lacroix had two goals and Bob Fitchner one for Quebec. “[ didn't know what to expect from Quebec,"’ said Boston coach Fred Creighton The Herald, Wednesday, November 21, 1979 Page 5 Veronica and Rick Lowrie Ken's Photo Stualo Skaters return, Veronica and Rick Lowrie, who represented the Terrace Figure Skating Club at the B.C, sectional competition last weekend, have returned with an overall sixth place and a fifth-place finish in the compulsory part of their dance competition, The performance at the sectionals, which took place at the North Shore Winter Club in Vancouver, follows a gold-medal showing at the Cariboo-North Central Regional competition in Whitehorse last month. Thetwo Lowrles have been skating since the Terrace arena’ opened -in 18727" ac: cording to Theresa Brinkac, spokesman for the club, They have attended summer schools in Kitimat, Prince Rupert, the Racquet Club in Victoria and the Arbutus Club in Vancouver, They were invited to a dance seminar sponsored by the B.C. section of the Canadian Figure Skating Association last summer, ._.. t me t In other figure skating news, the Terrace club will be sponsoring a semi- centralized high test day this weekend at the Terrace arena. This event takes place to provide the opportunity for skaters from Burns Lake to Prince Rupert to come to a test day. The Terrace club pays for judges to come to thearena to rate the skaters. Yirua ‘C' Residents Ty sincere thank for your support at the falls. 7 witl do my best ts represent yout tnleredts do well in Van. This weekend's test is for Senior skaters who are on their third figure and up, The club is also bringing up a professional dance partner, Barry Soper, to partner the female skaters in their routines. Brinkac says that 107 dancers are scheduled to come to be tested, and Brinkae says that the public is invited to come and watch . the dance testing. The testing begins at 9 a.m. Saturday and runs around the weekend's hockey games, Times for the = publicadenceme rapa form) ALAS Dum 8 furan iu 1:45 a.m, Sunday, an m 6:15 a.m, Sunday untll 3:15 p.m. Brinkac says that the public can come, but that since this is a test day, the club would appreciate spectators giving the competitors consideration. Quiet in the arena would be appreciated. The Terrace club still has space for new members, and anyone interested can call Charlene Butler at 635-5336 for more Information about the club. Fight the lung cripplers Stan Kerr i+ Majority control of B.C. mining is in Canadian hantis. Foreign investment is important to B.C.'’s mining industry, helping to develop new mines and create more jobs for British Columbians. But the dominant factor is still Canadian,..with 55% of the control of B.C. mining operations in Canadian hands.* Mining development in B.C. is proceeding at a strong, steady rate...and it's happening in a way that benefits our province and our country. THE MINING ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA “Building a stronger B.C." SSeaner TUBE ee Sle tase A “nugget” of information: SEhete CPG etn tay tyes try