Ski

coaches from across Ontario
demonstrate their skill as they come
down the final run after a day on the

SKi PATTERNS

slopes at Georgian Peaks, north of
Toronto, where they were being
trained as ski instructors,

Minnesota coach says
Detroit contest crucial

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Min-
nesota Vikings classify Satur-
day’s National Football League
game against Detroit Lions as
their most crucial to date,

“This is what we've been
working for since training
camp,’ said coach Bud Grant,

“It should be a spirited, pres-
Sure-type game. The Lions
know that by winning their last
couple of games, they still stand
a good chance to make the play-
offs,

“All of us know what this in-
volyes.””

However, the Lions must win
their final two games of the sea-
son-against the Vikings Satur-
day and Dec. 19 in San Francis-
co—to make the playoffs,

The Vikings, 9-3 and atop the
Central Division of the National
Conference, need only a tie in
either of their last two games-a-
gainst Detroit and at Chicago—
to advance inte the playoffs for
a fourth straight season. Detroit
has a 7-41 record.

If the Lions won their last Wo:
games and the Vikings tied the
Bears, the teams would tie for
the Central championship.

But the Vikings would make
the playoffs because they have
a better record ayainst teams in
the NFC. Minnesota has only
two losses agains! NFC teams
while Detroit’s four losses and a
tie were against teams in their
own division,

Those four defeats and a tie
also could cost the Lions a play-
off spot as the best second-place
leam in the division. The lead-
ing contender for that category
is Washington, at 9-3-1 with one
of its lasses against the AFC
Kansas City Chiefs.

The Vikings can still lose both °

games, and win playoff spot if
the Lions drop their final game.

EXPECTS TOUGH GAME

Grant, at any rate, expects a
rugged game against the Lions,
who have lost seven straight
games to the Vikings including
the season opener 16-13.

“We have felt and do feel they
are one of the premier teams,”
said Grant, “They have a dif-
ferent image from three or four
years ago when they were
known mostly for their defence.
Their offence has big names
stars now like Greg Landry,
Charlie Sanders and Steve
Owens and they are scoring a

._ lots of points,

“That’s not taking’ “anything
away from their defence either.
They have a great set of Line-
backers."’

The world spends more on
armaments in two hours than
UNICEF spends on children in
developing countries in a whole
year. Surely, children are worth
more than 120 minutes of
rocketry,

The Lions have scored 304
points, third highest in the en-
tire NFL and second in the NFC
behind Dallas, while allowing
226. Minnesota has scored 189
points and allowed but 119—sec-
ond lowest in the NFL behind
Baltimore’s 116,

Fhe Vikings report no serious
injuries from the stunning 30-14
loss at San Diego Sunday,

Clifford fifth

at show ski

VAL D'ISERE, France (CP)
— Rosi Mittermaier of West
Germany won the women’s spe-
cial slalom of the criterium of
the First Show ski meet today
as defending champion Betsy
Clifford of Ottawa came in fifth.

The German girl had a com-
bined time for the two legs of
the event of ene minute 15.5 sec-
onds:' The rate was run on.a-400-
metre course with 51 gates and
a drop of 130 metres.

Miss Clifford, world cham-
pion in the slalom, was timed in
1:17.58. Judy Crawford of To-

. Tonto was seventh in 1:17.90.

The race, in which 90 women
from 16 countries took part, is
the only one of the meet which
does not count for the World
Cup.

THE HERALD, TERRACE — KITIMAT, B.C.

- Canucks were pressed
’. at for St. Louis victory —

“Vancouver Canucks were
hard-pressed to defeat St, Louis
Blues 2-1 Tuesday night, a day
when most of the National
Hockey League looked with
concern at reports two of ils
established stars had been ap-

, Proached by the infant World

Hockey Association,

Goals by Fred Speck, his first
of the season, and Dave Balon
wiped out a 1-0 St. Louis lead in

Vancouver in a relatively tame-

game in which Blues’ goal-
tender Jim McLeod was the key
figure.

McLeod, a 34-year-old rookie
familiar to Vancouver fans for

‘his heroics in the Western

Hockey League when that city
was a member of the circuit,
faced 40 Canuck shots and kept
ne Blues in respectable conten-

on

Which was more than could
be said for some of the financial
figures voiced in the reports
that Bobby Hull, the Golden Jet
of Chicago Black Hawks, and
flamboyant Derek Sanderson of
Boston Bruins had been talking
with spokesmen for franchises
in the WHA which begins opera-
tions next October.

TALKED TO HULL

Ben Hatskin, owner of Winni-
peg Jets franchise in the fledg-
ling league, said Tuesday he has
the WHA rights to Hull and
spoke with the Hawks winger.in
Vancouver last weekend.

Hatskin said he offered the 32-
year-old superstar a $1 million
five-year contract to break his
NHE ties, He said there would
be further discussions in
Toronto this weekend when the
Black Hawks play the Maple
Leafs.

Hull’s agent in Chicago, Har-
vey Weinberg, said after hear-
ing the report he was unaware
of any meetings “and if Bobby
had received such an offer T as-
sume he would have spoken to
me about it,”

Huli was unavailable for com-
ment,

Sanderson, however, who has

expressed disenchantment with ©

the lengthy NHL sehedule and
talked earlier in the season of
retirement, was ready to dis-
cuss the WHA's efforts to lure
him to the Miami franchise.

REPORTS CALL
“A fellow from Miami called
me and made me an interesting

offer,” said-Sandergon.of. the.
Monday phone call. He declined.

to give a definite figure, but said
the offer was ‘a lot more’’ than
$250,000 on a two-year contract.

The WHA plans to start with
10 teams, recruiting many of its
players from the 14-team NHL
which has announced expansion
plans of its own, with new fran-
chises earmarked for Long Is-
land, N.Y., and Aanta next
year:

. “Boston and the Bruins have

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Falls).”’

Hatskin explained the WHA's
draft system, saying that each
of the 10 clubs placed four es-
tablished NHLers on their nego-
tiation lists at a meeting 10 days
ago.

WON'T NAME THEM

‘He said he wouldn’t disclose
who the other three players on
his list were. He added that the
full WHA draft next month will
work the same as the NHL’s

junior draft,giving each club’

rights to certain players and
preventing other league teams
from tampering with those
players.

Detroit winger Guy Charron
was to undergo surgery today to
correct a facial bone. fracture
that Red Wing doctors said was
not healing properly.

Charron suffered the injury
Nov. 28 in a game against Mont-

real Canadiens who were also:

hurting.

Yvan Coumoyer was listed as

a doubtful starter against’ the
Wings tonight. The speedy
winger suffered bruised ribs a
week ago against Los Angeles.

Cournoyer, who missed
Saturday's game against
Vancouver, tried to skate

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Mirinesota North Stars invading .

Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens,
New York Rangers at. Chicago
Black Hawks, Los Angeles en-
tertaining, Boston Bruins and
California Golden Seals at
Pittsburgh Penguins.

| Briefs

IN FLANDERS FIELDS
GUELPH, Ont. (CP) — This
city will be officially known as
the Poppy City in 1972 to com-
memorate the 100th an-
niversary of Col. John McCrae’s

birth, city council decided |
Monday night: Col McCrae

wrote the poem, In Flanders
Fields. Born Nov. 30, 1872, ina
Guelph cottage, he wrote the
poem in 1915 during a bloody
First World War battle near
Ypres, Belgium, and died a
year later.

MINK PELTS STOLEN

SURREY (CP) — Thieves -

escaped with 150 mink pelts
worth about $27,000 after a
weekend raid on a mink farm.

PROPOSAL DEFEATED °
VANCOUVER (CP) — A pro-

posal to hold a public plebiscite

on the ward systems concept
was defeated Tuesday: by city
council, In other business coun-
cil decided to hold night meet-
ings on a regular basis next
year,

Artificial turf
topic of probe

TORONTO (CP) ~
Metropolitan Toronta council
has asked for a second look at
artificial turf before approving
it for the Canadian National
Exhibition Stadium.

The council's executive com-

-mittee, after witnessing soggy

conditions with artificial turf
during the Grey Cup game Nov.
28 at Vancouver, appointed a
five-man sub-committee Tues-
day to conduct the in-
vestigation.

Two weeks before the game,

make certain.

‘council approved the turf in
principle for the stadium at a
cost of $400,000.

The sub-committee will look
at the advantages and disad-
vantages of the turf in view of
drainage, injuries and whether
it can be used for other events at
the stadium.

Ald, David Rotenberg, a com-
mittee member, said he was
reasonably certain problems
associated with the turf could be
solved but council wanted to

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