PPPrer riers te ee auras eeeereeanace PAGE 6, THE HERALD, Friday June W. 1997 DESPITE SKETCHY FUTURE _ Business as usual for WHA — TORONTO (CP) -- The. World Hockey Association, still uncertain whether it will operate independently or as part of the National Hockey League next season, went through with its amateur draft Thursday. Seott Campbell, a six-foot- two, 202-pound defenceman from London Knights of the . Ontario Major Junior A league, was the No. 1 pick, going to Houston Aercs. The nine teams would nor- mally choose in order of their finish in the 1976-77 season but an assortment of deals changed all that. Houston, which had the best record during the regular schedule, wound up with the first and 10th choices. And Winnipeg Jets, which had the thirdbest record, had selections No. 3 and 8. The Aeros, hit by the loss of Gordie Howe and his two yee On edge of their seats sons to New England Whalers, took right wing Dwight Foster of Kitchener Rangers as their second choice. Barry Beck, a six-foot- three, 215-pound defenceman with New Westminster Bruins of the Western Canada Hockey League which won the Memorial Cup as Canadian junior champions, was the No. 2 choice, taken by. Calgary Cowboys. innipeg selected Ron Duguay, a centre wht scored 43 goals for Sudbury Wolves, with its first choice and picked Miles Zaharko, a six-foot, 190-pound New Westminster defenceman, with its second. MERGER UNCERTAIN Asked what would happen if there were a merger between the WHA and NHL, league president Bill John Amos (4) first baseman for L.H. & K.and baserunner the action in Bronco league baseball at Agar Park last Reagan Tubbs of Co-op take time out to chat during alullin night. Co-op was leading at the time. — ’ the 11th coac! roe PRAGUE (AP) — Rather than the estimated loss of $300 million, the Montreal Olympic Games had an operational profit of $126 million, the International Olympic Committee was told Thursday. Jim Worrall, a Canadian Seven tied in U.S. open TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A bogey on the 18th hole—the result of a hanging putt that wouldn't fall—kept Arnold Palmer from joining a gro of seven players who bug to one-under-par 69s and a record-setting tie Thursday in the first round of the 77th United States golf championship. ubert Green, Rod Funseth, Grier Jones, Terry - Diehi, Larry Nelson, Tom Purtzer and Argentina’s Florentino Molina shared the top spot and set a record for the number of men tied for the lead in the US. championship. Palmer would have been © in that number but for the troublesome 18th that dashed the ho would-be leaders. Ris fourth birdie of the gloomy day, a_ little -fli wedge to four feet on Vth hole at the 6,873-yard Southern Hills Country Club, put him one under par for the day and in a tie for the lead. On the 16th Palmer nailed . his drive, was short with a two-iron second shot and chipped to 15 feet. His putt hung on the lip of the cup. eh] was four under par after seven holes but couldn’t bring it home— falling victim to a double ey on the eighth. ‘om Weiskopf probably cameé as close 35 anyone to mastering it~—but the course got in-its lumps first. Welskopf went an incredible five strokes over par on the first three holes. Tied at 70 were a group that included Palmer, Steve Melnyk, George Burns, Sam Adams, former tour player Don Padgett, Bob E. Smith Mike Morley and Al Geiberger, who last week set the all-time tour record with a round of 59. ofsomany | member of the IOC from To- ronto, read a report from the Montreal organizing committee that rather than a debt left to Montreal taxpayers, “This excess has been in part remitted to the city of Montreal and the government of Quebec... as a contribution to enormous construction costs incurred by them.” At a news conference, a reporter asked if this meant that, with all the facilities in place, Montreal could now apply for the 1984 Summer ames and run them at a profit. Worrall replied: “TI guess so, if you put it that way.” A six-man delegation from Lake Placid, N.Y., told ~ Olympics made $126 million the International Olympic Committee Thursday the little ski community is well on top of plans for the 1930 Winter Olympics. ROOM FOR ALL The Americans said there now are 10,000 permanent beds for visitors in the Lake Placid area, another 20,000 within a 30-miley radius of the upstate New York community. Additionally, between 1,000 and 2,000 more beds are being planned for 1990. They also said the New York legislature is preparing. a bill to control otel prices during the Games. . Lake Placid played host to the 1932 Winter Olympics, TERRACE MINOR C—O REGISTRATION | SATURDAY JUNE 18, 1977 CLARENCE MICHIEL GYM FROM 1:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. Cost is $25.00 per boy or $55.00 for a family of three or more boys. Registration is for boys born between the years 1970 and 1959. Parent or guardian must register boy. If out of town on this date have a friend register your boy. Only ONE registration will be held. REGISTRATIONS WILL NOT. be accepted ata later date: as has been done in the past. environmental but the Games have grown beyond recognition since then. Lake Placid is a much smaller place than recent host cities—Grenoble, France; Sapporo, Japan and Innsbruck, Austria. ‘Many in Olympic circles have feared that Lake Placid might follow Denver, Colo., which was granted the 1976 Winter Games of 1976 but pulled out after objections. But the six men from Lake Placid, in an interview lasting nearly 1% hours, apparently convinced the IOC that all is well. The IOC also reveived a rogress report on the 1986 ummer Olympics. in Moscow. MacFarland said “I guess there will have to be some agreement, and there might have to be competitive bidding for players picked by teams in hoth leagues.” MacFarland was. presented with a problem when Birmingham Bulls drafted Ken Linseman, an 18year-old forward with Kingston Canadians, on the . 10th and final round. The Bulls had reviously announced they had signed Linseman to a contract despite a WHA rule that | forbids the signing of any player under 20. "Dil indicate to John Bassett (Birmingham owner) by letter that the draft choice is null and void,’’ said MacFarland, adding that the Bulls will be | Kromm named coach — of Wings DETROIT (AP) — Bobby Kromm, coach of Winni Jets of the World Hockey Association the last two seasons, was Thursday as the new coach of the National Hockey League Detroit Red Wings. Kromm’s contract is ior three years. - He replaces Larry Wilson, who took over mid-way through last season. Kromm's appointment - is ig change by. the Red Wings in the last nine years. The Red Wings, who finished last in their division in 1976-77, have made the playoffs once in the last 11 years. —_ Last year Kromm's Jets were eliminated in the — seventh game of he. final round of the WHA*playofis by Quebec Nordiques. The ‘season, before, he guided Winnipeg to a_- first-place finish and an Avco Cup playoff championship { Houston Aeros. Ted Lindsay, general manager of the Red Wings who had.said he wanted Wilson to remain coach, changed his mind because of an agreement the Red Wings had to hire Kromm. Lindsay, who became general manager in March, said Wilson will coach a Detroit farm team in Odlahoma City. named permitted to use Linseman only if the courts rule him eligible. A total of 9 players, most of them from Canadian junior leagues but including a number of players graduating from U.S. colleges and a few players from European national teams, were selected. Edmonton Oilers, who had the fourth selection, went for Mike Crombeen, a right winger from Kingston, and then got Ron Areshenkoff, a Medicine Hat Tigers centre who was drafted No. 11 by New England. The rights to negotiate with Areshenkoff were turned over to Edmonton as part of a deal engineered just before the telephone draft was conducted at WHA headquarters in ‘Toronto. 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