PAGE é, THE HERALD, Tuesday, October 1), 1977 Fun in the mud: The engine revved until I thought we were ready to take off down the runaway, but we weren't. We were about to climb 500 feet in a Jeep Renegade. y last thought before we actually started was that I didn’t especially care for roller-coasters-—-what was I doing in a four-wheel drive hill. climb, facing a 30 degree slope?. ore we got to the: starting position, Juliar McKeand, my driver, who aslo had the best time of the day, tested the Jeep. He wanted to see if it would stall taking off. It didn’t. After that, I held on with both hands. Soon we were in starting position, a snort way up the ill to start on a grade. The dune buggies got a run at the hill, but they had smaller engines and needed the handicap. Dale Anweiler, the flagman, went throught the same procedure with everyone, so knew what to expect. He'd face up the = Winner-of-the-lay Gene McKeand climbs the hill. hill, toward Grace Kett, the timer stationed at the top. First, a friendly wave signigying all clear. Next, the count—one finger thrust out as he shouted the number, tow, barely heard above the rumble of the engine. Then the flag would swoosh down. We were off! We bounced up the hill having no trouble at the rough spot a third of the way up. The rocks there were four to six inches around. We tore up the hill, lickety split. For some strange reason we slowed down just before the finish line. Julain later told me the automatice transmission tried to shift at that point. We reached the top, turned around came down at our leisure. The descent was rather an- ticlimactic. Our time for that run was 10.17 seconds. Jtlian’s next run tried for the top.time of the day at 9.16 seconds. _ He wife Gene shared the - time, shethough the glory as ner best run was in the eliminator round. Gene McKeand stole the show Sunday. She won the ladies modified V-8's with a time of 10.17 after three runs-offs. Also driving the Jeep Renegade, Gene’s times in that class were always 10.17 while her next onent, Lynn Campbell riving a shortbox Dodge took 10.18 seconds te complete her last run. Though they ran in dif- ferent classes, the ladies drove as fast as the men. Teresa Janzen tied her husband Harold with 12seeonds flat in their six cylinder Toyota. Lizette Hibard beat a male op- ponent in her dune buggy. The only mishap of the day occured when a’Camero load of youngsters tried the hill without ission. Kermode Four Wheeler Club members were angry but helped the stalled car down the hill and accepted a Story, photos by Juliette Proom i ea Dale Anweiler gives Lisette Harold Janzen comes back down after his class is over. aa 9 ae matin Hibard the starting flag. Esks down Bombers’ hopes edmonton )cp) Edmonton Eskimos overcame injuries to quarterbacks Bruce Lemmerman and Tom Wilkinson Monday af- ternoon to defeat Winnipeg Blue Bombers 31-24 in a Canadian Football League gare that was vital to the playoff hopes of both clubs. Edmonton overcame a 21- 26 halftime deficit with two third-quarter touchdowns and held on against repeated Bomber threats in the fourth quarter. The result left Edmonton fourth in the Western Conference, two points bwhamt a k s Roughriders and Winnipeg, with a game in hand on each. Dave Cutler, as usual, provided the bulk of Ed- monton’s scoring. He had 12 points on three converts and ield goals 56, 49 and 28 yards. JJim | Germiny and Howard Strickland scored on three-yard runs and Stu Lang took a 2i-yard pass from Wilkinson for the other Edmonton touchdowns and Hank Ilesic completed scoring with a 56-yard single in the fourth quarter. Ralph Brok threw touch- down passes of 27 yards to Tom Scott six yards to Gord Patterson and five yards to Mike HOLMES FOR THE Bomber touchdowns. Bernie Ruoff completed scorin with a 30-yard field goal an three converts. Middle linebacker Dan Kepley was brilliant for the Eskimos with two _first- quarter interceptions and series of important tackles. Broke found numerous holes in the Edmonton defensive backfield in the first half, but the Kepley's in- terceptions plus one by deep back Greg Butler prevented apotential Bomber runaway. Also vital for Edmonton was a _ second-quarter famble recovery by Pete Lavorato ona punt return. It set up Cutler's third field ‘oal, é A crowd of 26,123 watched Edmonton's defensive team rebound in the second half in a stubborn display. Brock cmopleted 18 of 31 passes for 322 yards, but had only seven cmopletions for 71 yards in the second half. The defenders held the highly- regarded Winnipeg rushing game to noly 32 yards in the second half and &8 in total. The Bombers contributed the the own difficulties late in the game. They had ten penalties in the second half compared with three for the Eskimos, . Wilkinson entered the game after starter Lem- Terman damaged his throwing hand on‘ the first. play of the second quarter. Wilkinson eluded pressure ‘on his opening play of the game and lob pass to lang. Wilkinson also threw an 18-yardstrike to Waddell Smith to set up Strickland’s touchdown midway through the third quarter. Wilkinson damaged his left shoulder before the half ended, forcing Lemmerman back into the game, but Lemmerman left for good after throwing incomplete on the first play fo the third quarter. The Eskimos completed 12 of 25 passes for 206 yards, but had only two com: pletions in nine attempts for 53 yards in the second half. Brock’s screen pass to Jay Washington covered 61 yards and set up Patterson’s touchdown. A 55-yard pass to HOlmes was followed by a touchdown two plays later and a 54-yard strike to Paterson came two plays before Broke found Scatt uncovered for the third Bomber touchdown, After that, despite their inconsistent andinjury- riddled offense, the Eskimos took advantage of Winnipeg errores and used Tlesic’s outstanding = punting-an average of 51.5 yards on 1) kicks- to escape with a victory. Washington led Winnipeg with 68 yards on 14 carries and 71 yards on three receptions while Paterson caught five passes for 81 yards. a scoring $16 donation to the club. Whalers prove their worth New England Whalers, who failed in their bid to join the National HOckey League, have made it clear during the. exhibitions season that they fee] they can compete on an equal level with the established leugue. The Whalers, one of six World Hockey Association clubs who had sought ad- mission to the NHL for the upcomong season, con- tinued their domination fo NHL teams Sunday night with a 43 decision over Atlanta Flames. ; The win gave the Whalers an impressive 5-1-1 mark against NHE competition and a 6-1-1 record over all. In other inter-league games Sunday Winnipeg jets of the WhA blanked the NHL’s Detroit Red Wings 1- 0 and the Cleveland Barons of the NHL topped the WHA's Edmonton Oilers 4-2. In contests involving strietly NHL clubs, Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Black Hawks tied 4-4, while. Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres played to a 1- 1- deadlock. Third-period goals by Larry Pleau and John McKenzie seconds apart gave New England the win. McKen- zie's goal at 1:14 was the winner and came on a rebound after Flames goalie Phile Myre was unable to smother the puck. Greg Carroll and Mike Rogers has scored second- period goals for the halers. The visitin Flames rallied in the thir riod with goals from Eric ail, Curt Bennett and bob Lalonde. At Winnipeg, defenceman T as’ na mg power-play goal early in the irst period provided Winnipeg with the game’s lone goal, Berman, a former Red Wing, beat goaltender Jim Rutherford with a35- foot slap shot at 2:19 with Detroit defenceman Terry Harper sitting out the first of nine Detroit minor penalties. But Rutherford was solid the rest of the way in kicking out 32 breakaways. Win- Salmi nipeg goaltender JJoe Daley ahd 19 stops for the shutout. Ralph Klassen scored with six minuites remaining to half an Edmonton rally and give the visingBarons the win. Mike Fidler, Wayne Merrick and Dennis Maruk had given the Barons a 3-0 lead early in the second period but Norm Ferguson reduced the margin by scoring twice on power plays within three minutes. In = Chicago, Borjje 's second goal with 3:58 left in the game lifted Toronto into the tie with the Black Hawks in the fight- m ; handed out 13 minutes in penalties, including 68 after a bench-clearing brawl with 8:01 remaining in the game which began with afight between Tiger Williams of the Leafs and the Hawks’ Dave Logan, Toronto, which trailed 3-0 at one point, also got goals from Lanny McDonald and Pat Boutette. Stan Mikita, Ivan Boldirev, Darcy Rota and rookie Jean Savard accounted for the ‘Haks scoring. m4 Bernie Parent ofthe Fiyers and the Sabres’ Don Edwards engaged i a goaltending duel in Buffato. Dave Hoyda opened” the scoring on a first-period power play, but with less than five minutes to go in the game, Sabres’ defen- eeman Jerry Korab fired from the blue line and Rick Martin backhanded in the rebound from point-blank range. Remember when? Roy Emerson . of Australia, that Wimbledon and United States champion, defeated Chuck McKinley of the U.5., Wimbledon champion, 13 years ago today-in 1964- and so Australia took back the Davis Cup tennis trophy it had lost the year before to the U.S. team. That made it 12 Australian victories since 1950 to three U.S. wins. year's Reds 7, Winterhawhs-4. pay bow aL Ter LR) Clean game turns dirty By Juliette Proom Herald Staff writer Two Kitimat Winterhawks player had to be helped off the ice after battling Terrace Reds players who saw their team post a 7-4 vietory over the Hawks in a game here Sunday that started with good, clean . hockey and ended with dirty play. In an earlier game in Kitimat Saturday night, the Hawks reversed the socre, beating the Reds 7-4. The first period of Sun- day's game was marked by good, fast hockey. The Reds skated well, passing often. The first goal was scored early in the period by Kitimat’s Lee Marleau. Despite the valiant attempts of Winterhawk goalie Danhy Semata, Barry Brown scored for Terrace at 7:13. The Reds scoring so much, the team acted aggressively and pushed hard to bring the puck back into their control. However, the Winterhawks got it a minute later, missing a goal only because of the skillful catching of Reds goalie Tibor Manuur, ; Back to the other end as soon as they could,t he Reds, desperate for a goal, shot wildly in the right direc- tion,k missing the geal. The uck yo-yoed acrtoss the ice ‘or the rest of the period. Between periods, six peewee players had a showdown. Andrew Weisner of Twin River Timber and Rod Philpot of Bytown Diesel shot against goalie — Lance Carlson of Twin River Timber. David Kawinsky of Bytown Diesel and Len MacDonald of Rotary shot against goalie Allan Hildebrand of Rotary. Thje goalles were declared winners presented with sticks autographed by the s The second period wsa distinctly rougher than the first. ithin, a minute players were slugging eac other. Both teams were determined to get a goal by hook or by crook. It seemed as though some players spent more time lying on the ice than skating on it -— they Kitimat Winterhawk player Brad Owen went all out in Sunday night’s hockey either reached too far and fell or tripped. At 3:46.in the second period, amidst general mayhem, Winterhawk Lee Marleau snuck a goal in across the top left corner. Twp minutes later Vie Smoley slammed in a goal for the Reds. At that point, a seuffle was imminent although it never materialized. Instea Lance Legouffe scored the last goal for Terrace. The next ten minutes brought a fight to the rink, leaving Winterhawk Hrad Owen with a cut below his left eye. Tim Kolner was nalized five minutes for ighting as well as getting a match penalty. Almost in retaliation, Winterhawks Ma¢Lelland, Robinson and Walkinshaw scored-one goal each in that period. Despite rough play by both teams in the second period, Terrace was behind in points and well ahead in penalties. Most werre awarded for interfereence in the second periad. Between. periods, fans were treated to _ the delightful figure skating of li-year-old Lee Ann Reimer. She glided through the routine for the sixth figure of her silver level of reestyle skating. The third period was less game against the Reds in errace. rough than the second. It was still marked by questionable tactics, but hte players stayed upright for most of the period. ‘The 500 fans at the game were screamiang for action. They got a lot of fisicuffs and not much hockey. Kitimat placed two goals in . the third period. Terrace collected penalties. The game ended on a foul note, At 19:29 when the uck was the other end of e rink, Winterhawk Brad Owen tried to rip Reds’ Warren Campbells’ face apart. The referees struggled to separate them and gave both players five minute panalties.