Mewmgaba Si erably ate es the. ‘Terrace Blues main: . talned the: slatus* quo ‘at: the ‘Terrace ‘Arena Monday night . and hung on Lo first place in the Terrace Commercial: Hockey __ > League but they needed a lot of | - hhelp~from. Gordon and “An-— derson. - The Blues entered the night with a shaky hold on first pace, two points up on the Mantique Blazers. When the games had - _ ended the Blues had lost but still held: (hat two point lead, commeretal hockey ‘teague, “Pohle Lumber stung: the. Blues. 5-4 winning the game on a penalty shot late in the third — period of the match, «The Mantique Blazers, out next and with achanceto graba - ‘. Share of first: place, were © hammered 4-0 by Gordon .and Anderson, The Blazers, played. without high’ scoring forwards Lyle Godenir and Jack. Heller and_ali-star defensemen Don game of the year played in the Gillispie :.and™ Keith Colwell, couldn't cope with the G & A atlack and fell. : _ In what was perhaps the best _ I grew up at the wrong time to be a fight fan.. The world of professional boxing was never close to me or even held interest for me until brash, young Muhammed Ali, a.k.a. Cassuis Clay came along and pounded the stuffing out of Sonny Liston to win the . world heavy weight: crown and -capture the - imaginations of the world. ce _|_All was everything a boxer was net supposed ta be, if you listened to his critics. He wasa lound-mouthed, overly-aggressive punk kid. As far as [ was con- cerned’ he was a great fighter. I can remember listening to early fights on-radio or seeing replay of In the frat game, the. Blues "were forced to play without all- round all-star Marcel Tookenay and the ‘effect. was fell, -.- Although both teams opened’ fast and hard it was Pohle’s who * contralied a good portion of the apening minutes of play and it was Pohle's who took a.1-0 lead - to the dressing room at the end of the first period. ‘Kevin Olson.’ ‘had been the marksman for the goal,-. intercepting an-errant: Blues . pass‘ in’ the ‘slot ‘and bealing Kenny Senger on 4 low _ hard shot. : Prawdzik was screened by two ~, Players on the play and didn’t * even make 4 move for the puck, _-Pohle had thelr second best chance of the night to regaln the lead ‘at 7:48: when the. Blues picked up Lwo penalties at once and had lo play’a full two minules, twa men short, The “Blues killed the. penally ef- feclively,.. - They weren't. "as effective ininutes tater though when Tn the second period Pohle . ~~ tan their lead to 2-0 before the ~ Blues found the mark. ~: Ken Klippert did the damage on the : second goal, picking up a loose puck alter Kevin ‘Olson af- a fectively tied up. (wo - Blue's. defenders. freeing Klippert.”” Two minutes: after ‘that Martin Hamhuis scored his first, goal of the evening to put (he Blues back in: the running. Hambuis was set up: perfeclly Nevison and his quick shol from theslot was all the Blues need to *” geton track. « : After.a minute and.thirtéen’ ‘seconds of play in the third and final frame, the score was tied,” Hambuis again doing the'deed, again from the slot,’ This time he’ took a pass ‘from’ Brian Kormendy and rifled a shot past _. When the teams in the Terrace Commercial Hockey League resume play early next month, they'll be out to catch ’ a - the Terrace Hatel Blues, : by Rino Miachud and Lanny... The Blues are currently out in front of the league with sever wins and two’ losses in nine ~. outings for fourteen points. +"Phe -Mantique Blazers are in second place buthave a game in hand on the Blues, having taken to the ice only 8 times, They have six wins for 12 points. . “© In third. place. with 8 points, four back of the Blazers and six playing one man short, With Pete Jones in the sin bin for hooking, Dale Kushner- took a drop pass form Join Taylor and pula wrist shot into the top left hand corner of the net to boost Pohle back into the lead. . Thirty-one seconds later that lead evaporated when Hector Moore swept al a loose puck after Daryl DeWynter had done much work to center the pass. Martin Hanuis drew the second _assist on the goal for his third _ peint of the night, with Terrace Blues: out front ~~ behind the leaders's areG & A who have split their four games. The Buller Glass Bullets and Pohle Lumber are sharing. _fourth spol, each with two wins thus far. The Bullets, however have one game in hand on Pohle Lumber, In the raca-for the league's goal ‘tending crown Eric ‘Chapman of the Mantique . Blazers and one of the league’s rookies is leading the way. with a 3.12 goals against average. Ken Senger of the Terrace Hatel Blues is in second place with a 3.66 --goal: against average. . Two minutes later the Blues grabbed the lead for the first time that evening, Ross Fedy re-direcling a shot from Sonny Coven after Gord Bentham had done some hard work at the blue line to maintain possession for ‘the Hotel- team. an That lead lasled a minute and. five seconds, Jchn Taylor came back down ice, took a pass from Ken Olson and” unleashed” a -wrist .shol thal. caught. the bottom of Ken Senger's‘aut- : flung leg and trekled into lhe net lo once again tie the game.. -. League. recesses for Christmas) tere : me : aia c2% iv the game -and- the biggest - =s°* peason had to. be Len Prawdzik.- = Prawdzik, Inthe space.of four. - ~ minutes of play, stopped no less Iban seven’ shots,: séveral of ° ‘them’ |appearing lo -be~ sure goals. ‘One af.ihem was‘a shot: average for Pohle Lumber. °° As well as having the best goal tending in the:first half of the scheduls, ihe Blazers have a slight lead in goals. per game average, with §.12.. The Terrace Hotel Blues are right. behind, © - averaging 5.11 goals per game. - Last year’s powerhouse Gordon and Anderson lias averaged 4.75 goals per ‘game this year. . Pohle Lumber is averaging 3.66 goals per game and the Buller Glass Bullets are right behind them, scoring an average of 3.50 goals per game. g factor in Pohle victory _ Len Prawdiaik in the Pohle net, ~All scoring ended at 14:16 when Kevin Olson broke away, with the puck, from the last Blues defenseman. . The defenseman didn’t like the laok of things and hurled his stick at the fast retreating puck.:. An automatle penalty-shot. ” ; Olson, who had been robbed. ‘by Senger on one’ previous orcasion, made no mistake this time around, He pulled Senger’ out of Lhe net and swept the -OfF the tip of his stick for what _proved to be the winning goal. __:Thatgoalcame al the end ofa: “wild four -minutes and Five: seconds -af. baru: yard“ hockey, - ~ that saw five goal scored, “There was no further scoring from the. point that made it's way through a small chink in 4 wall of players. Some-how Prawdzik managed to keep his ' aye onthe puck and make the , save. ., oe For Pohle it marked only their second win of the year bul it was (heir best showing of the. season and spoke of better \hings to come forthe cellar dwelling team, : In the second game, the ? THE HERALD, Wednesday, December 18, 1974, PAGE All Mantique ‘Blazers were. badly... only by”. thelr G & A opponents. A quick” count between perlods revealed {here were more spare sticks . out-numbered, and not than .players on. the’ Mantique MCN. oe, aaa : - Despite their “short -han- dedness, the Blazers manag to keep the game scoreless in 7 the first period. G&A, however, made it clear. who wasn command afler,.55_- -seconds of play In the second,’ Jim: -: O’Brien. was.” the. marksman, banging home’ the: ~ rebound off a Dick Shinde shot That: goal proved to” be "the winner. Before the end ‘of the | period the .G-&-A squad had) ' doubled, their production, Rick . : Olson scoring on the rebound af. his own shol, after being set-up by Les Thorsteinsen. ~~. “Olson scored his second of the ° ~ evening “seven miniites and — thirty-eight, seconds: into the: third period. and,:-with’ four miniles and three secands lo be _._played Dick Shinde poked in 8 loose puck*for "the fourth and : firial G &.A goal.-: ° Erie Chapman ‘had .a ‘busy | night in the Mantique nets, handling 43 shots. For the shut- out Pat Hays had to put himself behind thirty. shots.: Commercial hockey league action will resume in the new year. ' his fights on television. It was through Muhammed Ali that I became even -.,’ faintly interested in the world of professional boxing. _' Third place is held by Pat +... Hayes, who has had an average a of 3.77 goals scored against him. Not that J follow it closely, 1 have, for instance, ‘never bought a copy of The Ring, or-Ring World. When talk: amongst.my elders turn to boxing I'm’ generally left far behind, The names Ezzard Charles, Jack Sharkey, Jimmy McLarnin, Ike Williams and - Hammering ‘Henry. Armstrong meant little to me. : Hell, [d always thought that the only Hammering Hank was-Aaron. ne a Then] discovered a thick paperback called ‘In This Corner” by. Peter Heller... Heller, -a. young ABC “newsman, has interviewed some forty boxers, from ‘the 1912-1919 era right up tothe present. Each in- Floor hockey set. 7 to go January 5 Come January 5, 1975 the Terrace Floor Hockey League will be ready to‘go with four. teams battling iL .out for dominance over a. 24° game season. © . On he sth of January there |. will be a ‘series :of -exhibition _ games. and league~ play will Jan, 12 ¢ ft 11:00 Taylor's vs. Bert's °- 12:00 Herald vs, Caledonia” wn Gerry Lamming «and Ken “Deane have.a combined goals against.average of 5.37 for the Buller Glass Bullets and Blair Mitchell and Len Prawdzik are J sharing. a: 6.11 “goals: against mtd “* Pidal Theory . F2 Qeean water moves around the Jan. 19-2 “ 11:00 Taylor's. vs. Heraid © 12:00 Caledonia vs, Bert's Jan. 20 11:00 Caledonia ‘vs:. Taylor's | Earth in response to the gravl- '- tational’ pull of the moon, High tide follows low by half a lunar , day —- 12 hours, 26. minutes, A THE _ terview is short -but gives a resume of the boxers .“yoy're:all: swollen,’ your head us swollen, your‘eyes 3. 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