Eye injuries to amateur’
hockey players have been
ed by 60 per cent last:
season, due to the increased
use of eye protectors ac-
cording to Dr. Tom Pashby,
a Toronto Ophthalmologist
and Chairman the
Canadian . Standards:
Association’ (CSA) -Com*
mittee on Face Protectors
for Ice Hockey and Box
Lacrosse Players.

During the 77-78 season
there Were 59 eye injuries
compared to 98 the previous
year, Elght players were
medically blinded, while 12
were blinded the year
before. .

- “None of these players
were wearlng face protec-
tors,” explains Dr. Pashby.
“T-have only received one
reported eye injury lo a
player wearing a mask and
that eye recovered almost
normal vision. The change in
this year’s statistics is the
age group. For instance, the
youngest player to be
blinded was 19 years old and

most were in their mid-20’s..
This is because the younger —
players are having to wear
masks but the older ones still
are not wearing them. These

‘figures certainly support the

need for face protectors.”

-Out of 53 injuries, only one -
player was under 11 years of

-age. The vast majority oc-

curred lo people over 20

years. Although the stick .
slill;-remaing “the major..
cause of injuries,.this figure

has dropped sharply due to

the Canadian. Amateur

Hockey . Association's
(CAHA) high sticking rule.

The puck is now becoming

the major cause of eye in-

juries.

Dr. Pashby's CSA com-
mittee has now revised a
preliminary standard on
face protectors making the
standard more siringent and
therefore suitable for goal
tenders. Before this action,
there were no standards for
goalie masks.

“T am very proud of the

Kk_ FUNERAL

1000 attend |

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Funeral services were held
Thureday for baseball star
Lyman Bostock, and team-
mate Ken Brett told

mourners:

“He enlivened our
clubhouse and tvok us out of
the darkness of defeat, But
he was a winner. He enjoyed
life so mich because he had
so little at the beginning.”

Bostock, 27, who played
this season for California
Angels, was shol to death
Saturday night while riding
in a car at Gary, Ind. After
three seasons with Min-
nesota Twins, he had signed
a five-year contract with the
American League team call-
ing for $2.7 million,

There wasa standing room
throng of about 1,000 for the
gervices at the Vermont
Square United Methodist
Church and another 500 were
autside,

The entire Angels’ squad,
headed by general manager
Buzzie Bavasi and manager
Jim Fregosi altended the
services. Owner Gene Autry
does... not,, attend . funerals...
heeause of persorial religious:
bellefe.

Bostock's widow,
Youvene, and his mother,
Annie, were flanked by the
team-mates and Lyman’s

four brothers, His father,
Lyman Sr., who had played
in the Negro American
League, also was in at-
tendance along with several
players from other major
league baseball clubs.
Bostock was killed while

the Angels were in Chicago «

on Lheir last road trip of the
1978 season,
successful ever.

Police said the target .

apparently was one of two
women in the car, Barbara.
Smith, the estranged wife of.
Leonard Smith who was

arrested on a murder |

charge.

During his .three . years."

with. Minnesota," Bostock.
became orie of major league
baseball's top hitters and his
.334 in 1977 was second in the
American League only to
team-mate Rod Carew.

Becoming a free agent at ‘

the end of last season;
Bostock chose to signwith
the Angels after several
other teams bid for his
services. . -

. Hig start. with Californie,
proved. woelul and, after

hitting just .147 in April,
offered ld return his month's
salary. When the Angels
refused, he gave the money
to charity.

Bailesteros has —
one stroke lead

AKRON, Ohio (AF,
Spain's Severiano
Ballesteros, at 21 the

gest man in the -elite
field, lashed his way to a one-
underpar 69 and the first-
round lead Thursday in the
World Series of Golf.

Ballesteros was given the

ing for his pace-setting
fort when Bill Kratzert iost
the lead with a horrendous
elght on The Monster, the
s75yard 16th hole on the

Q

~ gouth course of the Firestone

Country Club.
‘Ballesteros, the only man

in theselect fielduf 26 able to
break par this chilly, windy
day, birdied the 17th off a
wedge shot to three feet just
about the time the distraught
Kratzert visited two hazards
on the way lo his disastrous

tripte bogey. He finished |

With a two over-par 72.
Defending champivn
Lanny Wadkins and Hubert
Green were a single shot
back at 70, even par on the
7,180-yard layout thal played
tougher than it has in years.
“Firestone is extremely
lough, as tough as I've ever
seen it,” said Wadkins.

Guidry notches
24th victory.

NEW YORK (AP) — Left-
hander Ron Guidry fired a
ihree-hitter for his 24th
victory of the season as the
first-place New York
Yankees defeated Toronto
Blue Jays 3-1 Thursday

l, edging a notch closer

nigh
toa third straight American _

League East championship.
The victory reduced the
Yauks' magic number for

clinching the division litle to
three, and keep their lead
over secund-place Boston al
one game. The Red Sox
defeated Detroit 1-0.

Guidry, 24-3, struck out
nine, shattering the club
record uf 239 set by Hall of
Famer Jack Chesbro in 1904.
Guidry finished the game
with 249.

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CSA committee who wrote
- this standard. Represented
on the committee are hockey
players, university
researchers, the equipment
manager of Maple Leaf
Gardens, technical experts
and manufacturers, Thisis a
very talented, hard working
group that has put together,
what I consider, the beat
standard of its kind in the
vot Pashhi js urging! the

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federal government to make:
the standard law, so, that
only certified protectors can
be sold. At the present time,
the program is voluntary
and manufacturers are
under no obligation te have
their products certified. The
federal government has
made it law thal all hockey
helmets - must meet CSA
standards,

“IT am also very pleased
that the Canadian Standards

==,

ofa s

Association is testing fack
projectors and the wise
consumer will only purchase
masks that have the CSA
mark on: ‘them, although
many now In use and in the
stores ‘could meet -CSA’s

_ standard. When manufac-

turers put thia mark on their
ducts they are telling the
yer that their product has
been tested ‘by an. in-
dependent organization
namely CSA."

The manufacturers who
have received CSA cer-
tificatlon for thelr protectors
are: Frikon Industries
Limited, Toronto; Diagnault
Rolland Limited, Montreal;
‘CCM, Weston; Cooper
Canada Limited, Toronto;
Normac Marketing Corp.,
Vancouver; St. Lawrence
Steel .and Wire Co. Ltd.,
Gananoque; Sherbrooke

(Canada) Lid, St-
Jean, Quebec.

Dr. Pashby warns thal
face protectors musi fit
properly to be effective and
cracked or damaged masks
should be discarded. The
mask should also be
removable without taking
the hockey helmet off which
provides access to the face in
case of injury, Also, plastic
masks should not come in
contact with vinyls because
lines may appear on_ lhe
shield. Face protectors can
be carried in a colton or
nylon bag, The masks should
be cleaned with only soap

and water or a mild liquid

detergent rather than with
an abrasive, which may tend
to serateh the shield.

In addition to creating
safety standards for better
hockey equipment, Dr.
Pashby would like to see
international standards for
ruley as well as equipment

and says Canada should lead
the way. .

“Our kids are, playing
mure and more international
hockey and Lreally feel that
these games should be
played under the same rules
and the players chould wear

The Haratd, Friday, September 29, 1978, Page 7

standardized equipment.
The width of hockey stick
blades should be stan-
dardized internatlonally to
make sure they won’t be able
to peneirate a wire mesh
mask. 1 know of two cases in
Europe last year where an

LADIES AMATEUR GOLF
Can. has good

&

OTTAWA (CPY— Vanaga
has never won the ladies’
world amateur. team golf
championship since it began
in 1962, although’ the team
has finished consistently in
the top five.

But this year the Leam will
have its best chance ever at
the championship being held
in Fiji, said Les Whamond.

executive director of the
Ladies Golf Association.
Led by Cathy Sherk of
Fonthill, Ont, the 1978
Canadian and United States
amateur champion,
Whamond said, “there. are
great hopes this year for the
three-member team." |
Stacey West of Toronto,
Canadian junior champion
from 1975-77, and Marilyn

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