Caledonia’s girts volleyball team, pic- tured here, swept up the play Kitimat this weekend, winning six games of seven played. The boys did almost as well, losing only to Smithers. Also’ this weekend, Skeena Secondary hosted the zone finals in soccer and volleyball. day in showing. Thornhill Jur. Secondary came second in the junior boys final, losing to Kitimat, Skeena came in third. Terrace girls didn't make it to the zone finals, which went to Smithers. In junior boys soccer, Prince Rupert sewed up the zone with a strong TORONTO (CP) — It may have been a shock to his downhillers when the Canadian Ski Association sacked coach Scott Hen- derson, but it came as no surprise to the association. “There were no ailter- natives at the end,” Andrzej Kozbial, alpine program director, said Monday at a ; mews conference before’ the Canucks player Walton skates on braced knees VANCOUVER (CP) — A bag of ice and a knee brace have become constant companions of Mike Walton in his comeback bid this season in the National Hockey League. The 32-year-old centre, who suffered damaged knee ligameéits “dlmist “a year. ago, has scored six‘goals so far for Vancouver Canucks and is making a determined bid to prove his worth to the team. “I’m happy with my play so far and the knee really hasn’t been that much of a problem,” Walton said in a recent interview. ‘‘I put a lot of ice on it because it seems to reduce the swelling. “But once the game begins, I really don’t think about the knee. There's too many other things going on. i) Walton was finished after 40 games last season, in- jured in a New Year’s Even game in Long Island against the Islanders. He underwent ee surgery and spen many months rebuilding his leg muscles. The Canucks missed the layoffs in the Smythe lvision, although Walton would have been available for post-season play. PRODUCTION DOWN Walton scored just seven goals in 40 games last season, far below the ex- pected production of a man who had scored 148 previous - NHL goals and 156 more in ihe World Hockey Asso- ciation for Minnesota Fighting Saints. ; He worked hard at getting into shape for this season, dropping 10 pounds below his previous playing weight 76 “T ran a lot this summer and lifted some weights,” Walton said, ‘I wasn't sure how to go about getting the leg ready .. just that I had to do something to show the people here that I can help this team. “Last season was a disaster for me personally, and for tne team. I'm trying to change things around this ear.” Walton takes ice treats for his knee daily from trainer Pat Dunn of the Canucks. He also wears a knee brace each time he steps on the ice. . The brace is much like the one worn by his former Boston Bruins team-mate, Phil Esposito, now with New York Rangers. MEAL TICKETS “Phil and I both need the braces .... they’re sort of our ticket to remain in the league,” said Walton. “I just wish I'd get as much ice time as Phil dees.” Walton's comment about ice time came after Friday’s game here when Esposito scored his 600th regular-season NHL Fo. Esposito centred two lines that night, while Walton worked on only one, between rogkie Jere, Gillis and right winger:Rick Blight. |. He said there is a winning: attitude this season in Vancouver because coach Orland Kurtenbach has instilled more disepline in team activities. Walton added that general manager Jake Milford, in his first year with the Canucks, has also tried to put confidence in the team. What bothers Walton most © about hockey is travel. He points out: that the Canucks travel over 70,000 air miles each season, easily the most of any NHL team. ; “Scheduling sure makes it tough on our guys,”’ he said. “We don’t have much time - to rest and often we miss ractice because of so many ours in the airports waiting for connecting flights.” Walton said it’s important for the Canucks to play well. at home because they can’t be expected to play ex- ceptionally well on the road because of travel. ‘The canucks recently lost - four straight games at home, a development which left Walton in a depressed state. “Maybe seven games at home at once is too much, but we've still got to win most-of them if we're going to make the playoffs,” he said. “And. it’s especially important that we win our games against teams from our division.” LIKES POWER PLAY Walton is please that he is back on the Vancouver wer A ah on a regular basis. le likes to set up to | the goallender’s left of the net and make his plays from ‘there. Three of his goals so far have been rebounds on that side of the net. “You've got to have con- _ fidence in your own play to score goals,’’ Walton added. “A lot of times a.guys will just shoot without looking or thinking about it. “T know. P’ve done it a few times myself, but this year I seem to be able to make the Jays with some thought hind them.” ; Walton admitted that in Minnesota he once walked off the ice in disgust and went out of the rink to his car—with his-skates still on. He said his attitude is much different this season - and he locks for even better oal -production from imself because’ he's a. “slow starter and I seem to score goals in bunches once I get going.” Once considered a management problem when he played in Toronto for the Maple Leais—he was married to the niece of the late Stafford Smythe, one of : the Toronto owners—Walton was been a pleasant sur- rise for Kurtenbach and ilford. , “¥ know I can help the Ca- nucks because we need more goals this year. I may not be the greatest checker in the league, but I still have a move or two left around the goal.” Walton then lim off to ice his knee, the brace sticking out of his equip- ment bag as a reminder of his meal ticket. Briefly BERNE (Reuter) — A 1-0 victory Sunday for Swit- zerland dashed Norway’s hopes of snatching a place in next year’s World Cu soccer finals and clinch Sweden’s ticket to Ar-. gentina as winners of the European qualifying Group K. ACCRA, Ghana (Reuler) — Former world feather- weight boxing champion David Kotey of Ghana outpointed Jose Resto of the United States over 10 rounds Sunday night. The fight was a warmup for Kotey, who hal national ski team departed for more pre-Worl Cup training in Italy. The former Polish national ski team member VANCOUVER (CP) — ” Head coach Vie Rapp of British Columbia Lions says officials who worked Saturday’s Canadian Football League game here against Winnipeg Blue Bombers were “the sorriest bunch .. . Pve ever seen,”’ Rapp was so incensed by the officiating that he chased the five-man crew across the field at half-time as they headed to the dressing room. “They (the league) said they'd strengthen the crew and they lied to us,’’ Rapp said after the game. “That was... disgraceful. “You have two teams playing for first place and you have the worst crew in the league. “IF the coaches screw up, they’re panned in front of the public. The officials are to do the job, but when they don’t do it, they're protected. The officials for the game, won 31-21 by Winnipeg, were referee Bud Ulrich of Winnipeg, line umpire Harol Ferguson of Calgary, deep umpire Maury Mulhern of Van- Pulling of Calgary and field of Calgary and fie judge Tan Skene of Ed- monton, MANY PENALTIES B.C. was penalized 13 times for 137 yards and Winnipeg 10 times for 91 yards. In the first half the Simpson | due for surgery BUFFALO (AP) — OJ. Simpson, the Buffalo Bills star running back who is scheduled to undergo surgery on his ailing left knee, said Monday he thinks he will he able to return to the National Football League team next season. Simpson, who will un- dergo the operation for cartilage damage to his knee either today or Wed- nesday, said the surgery was not expected to be serious. “I'm glas it’s a cartilage and not a ligament,” said. “If you have to have a knee injury, mine isthe kind to have. You often don’t need a cast and are off crutches after three to four weeks.” He said chances of his hopes to challenge world champion Danny Lopez of the U.S. who took the title from him, 11 months ago. any.” AUTOVEST FOR PRIVATE USE OR BUSINESS returning to the Bills next season are “as good as Gefore you buy, Investigate the advantages of this rent-te- ewn plan. All montes paid apnly to purchase, Why tle up your cash or borrowing power. 1st and last months rent and drive away. 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Kozbial said the association had made overtures toward Hen- derson to come into line with its new development pro- gram, in which more em- phasis would be given to the slalom and giant slalom disciplines. However, his continued refusal to co-operate and the Lions received seven penalties for. 64 yards and the Bombers one for five yards. Wide receiver Al Charuk of the Lions was unhappy with a call by Pilling after it appeared B.C. had made a st down in a third-down gamble with about three minutes left in the game at the B.C. 51 yard line. “T could see the marker,” said Charuk. "I was a yard over the line and he (Win- nipeg linebacker Bill Ferguson) just threw me back.” The Lions received a 15- yard bench penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct on the play after Pilling ruled Charuk went out of bounds a foot short of the firstdown marker, Our Top-of-ihe-Inn revolving restau increasing tensions that had arisen over the last year between Henderson and his men’s downhill team led to the decision. Kozbial agreed that these were the problems that led to Henderson getting fired during a critical stage in preparation for the for- theoming World Cup season. “He just did not have their coincidence,” Kozbial said. Henderson, whose ob- session for the downhill developed such world class skiers as Jim Hunter, Dave Lions coach demeans officiating at last game Rapp also admitted that the officials didn’t beat the Lions, “Winnipeg did that.” - B.C. need one point from the game to finish in first Jace in the Western Con- ference. The loss resulted in a three-way tie for first among Winnipeg, B.C. and Edmonton Eskimos, ali with 10-6 records for 20 points. A league formula for breaking the tie, involving points scored in games among the three teams, resulted in Edmonton finishing first, the Lions second and Winnipeg third. Edmonton gets a bye into the conference final Nov. 20 at Edmonton, with the Lions hosting Winnipeg in the semi-final Nov. 12. rant has a fine re THE HERALD, Tuesday, November 8, 1977, PAGE 5 ~ Canadian ski team sacks coach Irwin, Dave Murray, Ken Read and Steve Podborski, has been replaced by John Ritchie, a former national ski team member who joined the staff in 1976. Henderson, informed of the decision at his home in, Boulder, Colo., last week, said he was very upset, that the action is very unfair, and fingered Read, of Calgary, and Irwin, of Thunder Bay, Ont., as the major culprits in the per- sisting dissension. “They just couldn't take what happened last year when they didn't do well— they couldn’t take losing,” said Henderson, alluding to the incredible 1976 season when first Read then. Irwin collected World Cup vic- tories, the first ever golds - for Canadian men skiers. Irwin, apparently . recovered from his 1977 injuries, is nursing a badly bruised right thigh- compliments of an errant skier who unwittingly got cuaught out on the course during a recent European training camp. “T'm still having it treated so I won't be getting back to Europe for another week or _two,” he said Monday. 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