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PAGE 4, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1977. WHITBY FREE PRESS whîtby S Voice of the County Town Michael lan The only Whitby newspaper independently owned and operat ERVING OVER 28,000 READERS n Burgess, Publisher-Managing Editor ed by Whitby residents for Whitby residents. Communlty Editor Published every Wednesday Çontributing Editor Production Manager Print & Promotiona' by M.B.M. Publishingi Manager and Photography Inc. CIassified Ad Manager Phone 668-6111 Circulation Manager Mailing Permi The Free Press Building, Member 121 Brock Street North, Better Business Bu P.O. Box 206, Whitby, Ont. Whitby Chamberc -Brian Winter -Jim Qua il -Marje Burgess -Robin Lyon -S. van Deeleni -Sharon Lyon t No. 460 r of the: ureau of Toronto of Commerce Russian game honors Dunnies On Sùinday night at 7:30 p.m.; a moment of history will be recalled when the Whitby Iroquois Senior A hockey team nmeets the Russian team Traktor of Chelyabinsk. It is nearly two months short of the 20th an- niversary of the day the Whitby Dunlops won the World Amateur Hockey Championship in Oslo, Norway, March 9, 1958. Sunday's game bas been chosen as an occasion to commemorate Whitby's finest hour and nany of the Dunnies and their supporters have been in- vited back for the event. The Russians are no pushovers and never have been. The Dunnies romped to easy victories with scores like 10-0 over other teams in the early part of the 1958 world hockey series, but when they met the Russians, they almost lost. It was the toughest gane the Dunnies ever had, said Manager Wren Blair at the tine,and during the first period, burdened by penalties, it looked like the Dunnies might not make it. The brilliant playing of Bob Attersley, who scored two goals in that final gaine, helped secure the victory. Mr. Attersley is still very much a part of the Town of Whitby, serving as the West Ward member of the Town Council and as a sponsor of the Iroquois. Wren Blair, who is pursuiig his hockey career in Saginaw, Michigan, is also one of the Iroquois sponsors. We encourage as many Whitby residents as pos- sible to come out and take part in this special event,not only to remember the glories of the past, but to cheer on the team of the present. The Iroquois deserve Whitby's support and against the Russians, they especially need that sup- port. The days of good hockey in Whitby are not over. They are still with us. This time we do not need to listen to a game 4,000 miles away while seated in front of a radio. We can see the Russians long ago when Whitby was the hockey capital of Canada. The world championship is not at stake this time, but it is not every day that Whitby's own hockey team gets to meet the Russians on itshome ground. Let's see the Civic Auditorium packed for this special anniversary exhibition game. It is a treat no Whitby citizen should miss. Tommy is a poet Councillor Tom Edwards is a man of many talents. At the final council meeting of 1977, Councillor Edwards closed the meeting by proving that he is a poet of some ability. Before moving for acjournment, he read the tollowing poem, which sums up his feelings on the events 6f 'the past year: THE MEETING BEFORE CHRISTMAS It's the meeting before Christmas and all through the Town News Editors are wearing an unusual frown, For the next 2 weeks there's only seasonal greeting, Not a chance to complain about a council closed meeting. The Mayor's obligation to smile will elapse And everiiJoy's greenhouse may coliapse. And Carson may limit his concern for expansion By opening to all the doors of his mansion. Attersley should remember he'll never sell a tire, If ail cars like his after meetings expire. Mr. Drumm, it is rumored, has called ail the papers, Ever since he was featured in "Corridor Caper." Mr. Emm should be mentinned and we will permit, Or else he's the councillor that nobody missed. 0f course a bouquet for our Mr. McEwen Despite claims from Pinker that we don't know what we're doin'. Mr. Wallace I'm conscious, although he may not look it, Is learning a French version of "A Hole in my Bucke t." The Advertiser, The Times and Free Press will agree, Things wouldn't be- worse if there was no0 Cable TV. Let's roll up our sleeves when in New Year we alight, So to all, Merry Christmas, and to all a Good Night. Brian Winter's H istori 'Whitby cal THE WHITBY DUNLOPS When the Whitby Iroquois meet the Russians Sunday Jan. I at the Oshawa Civic Auditorium, the event will coincide almost to the month with the day 20 years ago, when the Whitby Dunlops won the world amateur hockey championship. The date was March 9, 1958 and no one who lived in Whitby at that time is likely ever to forget it. The Dunnies, originally considered a "Cinderella teani." defeated the Russians 4-2 in that final game, taking the world championship for Canada for the 17th time since the series was started in 1920. The Whitby team had seven wins and no losses when it met the Russians for that final game, and from the first il looked like they were in trouble. At 2:35 of the first period, the Russians scored when the Dunnies had one man serving a penalty, and until three and a half minutes before the end of the game, they ap- peared capable of winning. After that first goal the Dunnies suffered three penalties, but they held their own. Late in the second period, centre Bob Attersley scored the first of his two goals and tied up the game. This was followed by another Dunnie goal by Connie Broden half-way through the third period, which was matched by the Russians two minutes later. Again the score was tied. Again Bob Attersley came to the rescue and scored the winning goal, followed seconds later by the clincher by Bus Gagnon, assisted by Attersley. Three minutes and nine seconds remained in the game. The crowd went wild as the buzzer sounded and it took 10 minutes to restore order before the official presentatien': could be made. It was Whitby's and Canada's finest hour in hockey. It was Canada's first world title since 1955, and the country had not even entered a team in 1957. Captain Harry Sinden accepted the gold medal for Canada, and team-mate Charlie Burns won the award as the outstanding forward of the series. It was Burns who helped kill those four first period penalties that could have spelled disaster in the game against the Russians. Three of the Dunnies were the top scorers in the tourna- men'ft, which included Russia, the United States, Czechoslo- vakia, Finland, Sweden, and Poland, and Norway. Connie Broden led with 11 of Canada's 82 goals, and seven assists, followed by Jack McKenzie with 12 goals and five assists, and Bob Attersley with 10 goals and seven assists. As the game ended, pandemonium broke loose in Whitby, which until the 1958 International Ice Hockey Series was just another unknown Canadian town. The town's fire siren sounded as the game ended, and cars lined along Brock and Dundas Streets honked their horns in a rousing chorus of delight. The downtown became one massive traffic jam with cars backed up from the Four corners to Anderson Street. Town Works Foreman John Rae was ready for the great victory. Within minutes of the end of the game, he had at- tached the announcement of the world championship win to the signs at the entrances of the town which proclaimed Whitby as the home of the Dunnies. The fire siren sounded twice again, likely set off by overly enthusiastic fans. Hundreds of firecrackers were tossed into the streets and more than 2,000 cars jammed Brock and Diindas Streets for three hours. Mayor Harry Jermyn who listened to the game at home on his radio (there was no way to televise live international games in 1958), declared how proud he was of the team, and Dunnies President Col. Arthur Welsh said the Whitby Dunlops were the best team ever to represent Canada in in- ternational hockey. The Dunnies' General Manager Wren Blair, in a trans- Atlantic telephone call an hour after his team beat the Russians, said the Russian team was the strongest, most aggressive team the Dunnies had met. He described it as a tense, nerve-wracking game, in which "for a time we felt our number was up." He considered that the Russians had held back in the earlier games of the series, saving their final strength to de. feat the Dunnies in that last crucial game. The prestige of Canada in international hockey rode witt the Dunnies and there was tremendous pressure to bringthe title back to Canada again. There are hundreds of footnotes to the day the Whitby Dunlops won the world hockey championship. The rallying of "Go Dunnies Go" was shouted during the game by 500 Norsemen, thanks to Thor Mygland,a Norwegian who had moved to Whitby 30 years before. Mr. Mygland, an interior decorator who kept a store on Brock Street, took 500 "Go Dunnies Go" hats with him to Oslo, and recruited enough Norsemen to cheer for the Dunnies, even though the Dunnies had just defeated their home team by.a score of 10-0. Mr. Mygland's coup de grace with the hats almost failed, for the Norwegian customs officials wanted him to pay $170 duty on them, but with the help of the Canadian envoy in Norway, he got them into the country free. A Toronto advertising man ruffled the feelings of the Norwegian partisans by announcing that Canada Dry drinking water had been airlifted to the Dunnies. The Norwegians claimed that their drinking water was the best in Europe. Cont'd on P. 5 A FATtrOIA oopr WI.4ZZvoU , .4 - --A