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SLUSHING DOWN THE SLOPES

Unseasonably warm temperatures on the. lower
slopes turned snow cover

into a surface wet enough

for water skiing on the lower slopes of Maine's

Sugarloaf Mountain.
Engum provided the

Sugarloaf ski instructor Aud
bathing suit and ski equip-

ment and operations

manager Bruce Smith

provided the tow on a snowmobile. The.rest of the
mountain provided good powder snow skiing.

(AP Wirephoto)

Offawa squad going to Finland
despite threats by J.F. Ahearne

OTTAWA (CP) — A squad of
Ottawa mosquitoes Monday
heads for Finland to take on the
aging power of J. F. (Bunny)
Ahearne, president of the Inter-
Hockey

national Tee

Federation.

“T think this is a showdown
situation,” said Gordon Juckes,
exacutive secretary of the
Canadian Amateur Hockey

Association, Wednesday.
The mosquitoes are Ottawa

East Voyageurs, a team of nine-
and 10-year-old hockey players

intent on fulfilling a four-game
exhibition towr of Finland end-
ing Jan, 2,

This was planned, with ap-
proval of the CAHA and the
Finnish federation, as long ago
as September when Juckes
raised the question in Prague at
an annual meeting of the IIHF
—with Ahearne in the chair,

Since then Finland has offi-
cially invited the Voyageurs,
the CAHA has approved the
tour, plans have been prepared,
lickets purchased and hopes
raised, : H
AHEARNE THREATENS

But Wednesday Voyageur ar-
ganizers were informed by tele-
gram from Carl Lindblad, Fin-
nish federation president, that
Ahearne had threatened to pull

Hockey czar refuses

the 1974 world hockey champi-
onships out of Finland if the
Voyageurs so much as hold one
practise in Finland with a Fin-

_ nish team.

Both ‘Lindblad and Ahearne
were in Moscow at an DHF
meeting and neither since has
been available for further com-
ment.

At a meeting Wednesday,
Voyageur parents and organiz-
ers of the tour, told they could
reach Finland and find no team
for their boys to play, decided to
go ahead nevertheless.

“The parents all picked up
their tickets tonight and we're
taking cur equipment with us,”
‘said spokesman Pete Belanger
after the meeting.

“Tf the Finns are afraid of Mr.

-Ahearne, then I guess we'll just,
play by ourséives—or sightsee,
If they’re not afraid, then we'll
play the games as scheduled.

“We'll see when we get
there.”

HAVE SUPPORT

He said the team had received
telegrams of support from
Helsinki and from another

federation saying several Euro-
pean organizations were con-
cerned about Ahearne’s atti-
tude.
Belanger said the Finns, the

Swedish federation and others
had asked Ahearne to explain
Why he was taking this action
and had been told by him: “J
don’t have to tell you why.”

His reported reason is that the
CAHA did not follow proper
procedures in arranging the
tour.

But Juckes said Wednesday
the only procedure involving
Ahearne is for him to be kept
informed of arrangements
made and approved by legally
established international
federations.

IHF rules, said Juckes, re-,
quire only that the international
president be kept informed and
Ahearne has no power to either
approve or disapprove of a tour.
Neither has he the right to with-
draw intérnational  chanipion-

’ ships from any country in which
. they are sanctioned by the WHF
board of directors.
MEETING NECESSARY

Juckes said Finland was
Branted the 1974 championships

at the Prague meeting in Sep-
tember by the IIHF general
meeting and only another simi-
lar meeting can withdraw them.

“I don’t think any interna-

tional president has the author-
ity to do what he is trying to
do," Juckes said.

permission to Canada |

LONDON (CP) — John F,

(Bunny) Ahearne, president of -

the International Iee Hockey.
Federation, said today two Ca-
nadian amateur hockey teams
now in the Netherlands for exhi-
bition games will nat be allowed
to play.

The teams are the Glendon
College Gophers- of Toronto’s
York University and a British
Columbia group from Kam:
loops. The IIHF head said they
‘did not comply with federation
regulations,

Ahearne also announced he
has barred a Finland tour by an
Ottawa team on the same
ground,

Ottawa East Voyageurs, a
team of nine and 10-year-olds,
plan to.Jeave Monday for Fin-
Isnd where a four-game exhibi-
tion tour ison tap ending Jan. 2. -

While the amateur hockey
ézar declined to go into detail on
the reasons for his action, he
indicated the main one was that
he had not received notification
in the ‘required -time of two
months before the trips,

He also’ suggested there has
been some. .‘‘commercializ:
ation” of.-the Netherlands.
tours .involving. the teams:

-and KLM, ‘the Dutch national.
Airline, ©: 0). rr

RETURNED :FROM MOSCOW
‘Glendon College is known ‘to

have been.walting ‘la Holland»

for days to hear from Ahearne, '
- Who returned from a visit to
_., Moscow’ Wednesday night. =.
: A game’ against Utrecht

_. Scheduled for Wednesda :

the Netherlands without notify-
ing the federation. .

He said Juckes knew per-
fectly well that the tours had not
been arranged in accordance’
with the ITHF regulations,

In Ottawa, Juckes rejected
Ahearne's statement: .
“E don’t believe he has the
right to veto the tour even if the

two-month period is .not prov- -
ided,” Juckes said. But
Ahearne had been advised Oct.
4 of the Kamloops tour.
Juckes said the only reason
for the two-month regulation ig
fo ensure arrangements are
made so that touring teams are
not stranded in a foreign coun-
try, = -

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“When all federations in-
volved are in agreement on a
tour, the international president
is overstepping his authority to
a great degree in attempting to
coerce a federation into this sort
of action.

“L hope Finland puts up a
fight on this.”

Juckes still was upset at a
Similar move against a team
from Aurora, Ont., in October in
connection with a tour of Swe-
den. Ahearne backed down that
time after a strong Swedish pro-
test.

HIT COLLEGE TEAM

He also expressed similar
opinions regarding a current
tour of the Netherlands by a
team from Glendon College,
York University, that has been

forced to cancel;jts first game
and hopes tobe able to play
Dec, 26. -

The Netherlands federation is
reported to be awaiting official
sanction from Ahearne, but
Juckes Wednesday said, again,
that the tour had the sanction of
the Canadian Intercollegiate

Athletic Union, the CAHA and ©

the Netherlands federation and
as far as he is concerned
Ahearne has no jurisdiction in
the matter.

“My opinion is he doesn’t
have refusal right (regarding
tours),"”” Juckes said.

. “He is simply a repository, if
you want, of agreements in case

’, of problems,””

_-" Canucks blanked by Detroit

served to sharpen the Rangers
and run their unbeaten streak at
home to 16 games, but only after
Pittsburgh had rallied from a
two-goal deficit on Syl Apps
goal at 7:52 of the third period to

Ken Dryden takes his Stip-

porting roles seriously, ;

“When the lanky 24-yearold

im’t minding the goals fo!

- Montreal Canadiens of the Na-
tlonal. Hockey League, he's
backstopping Nader’s Raiders
in the fight against pollution and

consumer

- betterment of
products. -

Toronto Maple Leafs would
have wished the latter role on
the young law student Wednes-
day night after his game-saving
acrobatics carried Montreal
Canadiens past the visitors 4-2
and ran their home-ice un-.

beaten string to 15 games,

_ The victory moved Canadiens
two points ahead of idle Boston
Bruins in their battlefor second,

Hockey

in the National
League’s West Division,

Divisionleading New York
‘Rangers maintained their
three-point margin. on Mon-
treal, struggling. past Pitt-
sburgh Penguins 4-2 while
Chicago Black Hawks used
Bobby Hull's three goals to rout

California’s Golden Seals 4-1.
KINGS WIN SECOND

Elsewhere,
Kings won their
straight—a team high this
season—2-1 over St. Louis Blues
and Detroit Red Wings romped
3-4 over Vancouver Canucks.

Tonight’s lone game finds
Boston going against the lowly
Sabres in Buffalo,

_ Canadiens have lost only four
games this year with Dryden, a
leading candidate for rookie
honors, in goal.

Montreal coach Scotty Bow-
man, normally reluctant to
praise of individuals, doesn’t
hesitate to nod towards the To-
ronto-born former all-America
goalie at Cornell University
when asked what makes the
team click, even when it’s going

Twice the 6-foot-4 210-pound
Dryden stopped tricky Dave
.Keon on breakaways, the first
time with Leafs ahead 1-0, the
second while Toronto held a 2-1
advantage in the second period.
LEAFS START WELL

The Canadiens, who had been
dominated in the first period by
the aggressive Leafs, suddenly
took inspiration from Dryden's
Play.

Henri Richard banked in the

~“first Montreal goal at 2:58 of the,

second period off Leaf de-'

‘fenceman Jim McKenny’s leg

Frank Mehovlich and Claude
Larose—both while Montreal
had a man in the penalty box—
put the Canadiens ahead to stay

"by 9:59.

Dryden said later his biggest
advantage is that he never tries
to anticipate the movements of
any player on a breakaway situ-
ation.

“When a netminder starts an-

- ticipating moves, he can get -

into big trouble,” said the Mont-
real goalie, adding that he was
confident both times Keon was
in alone. :

Jean Ratelle’s dogged play

Los Angeles
second

r

tie the score,
RUTHERFORD HOT

defenders into a corner.

holler. for the puck.”

Rutherford,

each has 56 points.

Chicago's Bobby Hull scored
the first three goals at Oakland,
giving him 24—second to Espos-

ito’s 25.

The Hawks bolstered their po-

sition atop the West Division,
moving seven points up on the
fading Minnesota North Stars.
A second-period slugfest bet-
ween Chicago defenceman
Keith Magnuson and rugged
Seals’ rookie Ivan Boldireyv

Unifo rm
retired

BALTIMORE (AP) — Uni-
form No. 20, wotn by Frank
Robinson for the last six years,
was relired today by Baltimore
Orioles, ‘

In announcing that the num-
ber no longer would be used—
the first retired by the club—the
American League champions

* paid high tribute to the player
they traded to Los Angeles

Dodgers of the National League °

earlier this monthy, ie. vgia:
_ “During Frank's ‘tenure in
Baltimore," said J. Frank
Cashen, executive vice-presi-
dent, “we won fou American
League championships and two
World Series.

“Tt was anything but a coinci-
dence; and we think this is the-
best way to pay tribute and to
tell him just how much he has
meant to us both asa ball player
and a man.”

“His individual game_per-
formances are all a matter of
record,” said manager Earl
Weaver, “but Frank con-
tributed so much more to this
ball club, both on and off the

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Pittsburgh's rookie goai-
tender, Jim Rutherford, had
stymied New York shooters—he
saved 38 of 42 shots—until Ra-
telle set the stage for Rod Gil-
bert’s winner by drawing three

“When you start attracting
people that way, you know
somebody's free,” recalled Ra-
telle later in the dressingroom.
“I just waited-for somebody to

The yell came, from captain
Vic Hadfield who blistered Ra-
telle’s pass to Gilbert who
drilled it past an unprotected

The goal gave the Ranger line
63 for the season and 155 points,
tops in both departments for a
unit in the NHL, and Ratelle,
who picked up an earlier goal,
moved into a tie for the points
lead with Boston’s Phil Esposito

_ hitting game in . which
Hawks held a 29-25 shot
vantage. —

Gary Edwards, .
Glover ssid this week

Kings still had a fighting chance
to make the playoffs, and fight
they did with Ed Joyal taking on

jivened up an otherwise mild-

-

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24,

the
ad-

West Division basement,

eight out of a playoff spot.

Bill Collins' two goals abettedyae
A! Smith’s first shutout of thei
season asthe Red Wings limited
visiting Vancouver shooters ta :

the

"just 20 shots on goal.

1978

rugged Barclay Plager : anc
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from Buffalo, tangling withEm
. - Blues’. Floyd Thompson in
Los Angeles seemed to take — second-period scrap, ©
coach Fred Glover's words to
heart, dumping the Blues in St.
Louis on second-periad goals by
Riel Lemieux and Buteh Goring
and solid goaltending from

But despite their win strealga
Los Angeles remained in thea
six
Points behind St. Louis andi

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