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14 the examiner Thursday Feb 1978 Lynn Morton displays her form in throwing curling rocks during the Trillium Bonspiel at the Barrie Golf and Country Trillium Bonspiel Club The Morton rink from Port McNicoll won the bonspiel winning all four games in the two day event The Stella Clark rink from Dunnville was second Examiner Photo Lynn Morton rink wins The Lynn Morton rink of Port McNicoll hung on to win the Trillium Bonspiel at the Barrie Golf and Country Club Wednes dav Morton led the curlers after the first day on Monday with two ICIOIIES and 3575 points Weve been second so many times and now weve won 1ortonsaid 111 second place was the Stella Clark rink from Dunnville Both Iark and Morton were the only teams to go undefeated in the bonspiel Marg Bourgeois Diane Vollick and Vivian Shaw were on the winning team The second place rink only had Clark from Dun lllllt on it Since the registration came from Clark from Dunn vile she was officially given the team although she played lead up Flyers hurt by injuries By WERNER BERGEN Examiner Sports Editor II was sick and limping team that took to the ice Wednes day night for practice at the Barrie Arena The Barrie Flyers in the Ontario Senior Hockey League are hurting with almost everyone on the injury list The Flyers are currently in battle for second place in the league standings and if things keep up the way they are go ing they may have trouble hanging onto third place Steve Cripps the usually jovial manager of the Flyers was all business Wednesday without smile to spare Its terrible Cripps said shaking his head Were hur ting Add to the list of injuries the absence of Charlie Shaw Shaw requested short leave of absence month ago when everyone was healthy and the Flyers agreed Now the team could use the steady defenceman The Flyers take on the Orillia Terriers on Friday at the Barrie Arena at 830 pm The Flyers have always had trou ble with the Terriers and Barries best games of the season have been against their perennial northern rival Theyre always the best games Cripps said To top everything off the Terriers have won only one game in 1978 and will be out to end lengthy losing streak That is what the Flyers dont need right now hungry opponent Topping the list of injured players is Gary MacMillan MacMillan underwent knee surgery and it wn first thought he would miss the rest of the season It went really well Cripps said referring to the operation His knee is responding well and hell be on skates week Monday if things go well The rest of the team is case of the walking wounded Cripps said Les Burgess pull ed tendons in his ankle in practice several weeks ago and the injury is hampering the teams top goal scorer It really bothered him in the Cambridge game Cripps said Its going to take long time to heal We cant afford to have him sit out Phil Branston and Wayne Carleton are both playing hockey with pulled groin muscles Although the injuries are not serious enough to keep them off the ice they are serious enough to hamper the players effectiveness Cripps said there were several other bruises and minor in juries to slow the team down Everybody has either the flu or cold Cripps said There isnt player who doesnt have it Ernie Miller goaltender who started the year and retired only to return again will be missing this weekend because he will be in Montreal on business The Flyers have been hot the past two months After dismal start in which the Flyers were fighting to keep out of the leagues basement the team has come on and at one point was tied for first place loss to Cambridge last week dropped the Flyers into third place in the tight team standings win over the Ter riers will put the Flyers back into second place LOOKING AROIYNI Ed Menihery who is handicapped will be participating in the Whipper Watson Snowarama in Bradford on Sunday He works at Ski Haven in Gilford and is looking for sponsors If anyone wishes to help they can call Membery at 4562026 Scott llutehison of Huntsville made clean sweep in the mens slalom races in Sault Ste Marie recently in the first Eastern Pontiac Cup races He is member of the newly formed Ontario team The On tario alpine ski championships are being held at Georgian Peaks today The juvenile time trials for the alpine divi sion Ontario championships will be held at Craigleith on Fri day and at Blue Mountain on Saturday GARY MacMIIJAN injured Karen Brown was the second place team skip with Pat Mat salla as vice and Lilly Webb as second All three curl at the Barrie Curling Club Winning the hi three from the Barrie dra Bertram and Sue McGoey ame title was the Joan Osborne rink rling ub On the team was Liz Worrall San Points in the bonspiel were awarded for top placing win gave rink 10 points while team received one point for each end won and 25 of point for each rock scored There were 20 rinks in the bonspiel with out of town teams coming from Newmarket Midland Avonlea Richmond Hill Cookstown Stroud Oakville Tam Heather Humber Dixie and Meaford Stacom leads Celtics to win By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Boston had to fight for its life Wednesday night and Kevin Stacomdropped and recalled by the team earlier this sea son was suddenly hero one of the good guys Stacom scored careerhigh 19 points as the Celtics regis tered 103100 overtime victory over Los Angeles Lakers in National Basketball Association game This game never should have gotten to overtime com plained Lakers coach Jerry West Any team that cant score point in the last 212 minutes of regulation doesnt deserve to win We just didnt execute well Stacom played like be belonged on the all world team tonight They were gratifying words for Stacom the 1974 second round draft choice out of Provi dence who has shown only the most fleeting examples of his college promise AbdulJabbar of the Lakers led all scorers with 30 points Sidney Wicks and John Havli cek had 17 apiece for Boston Girls tournament planned Friday Eastview Secondary School girls senior volleyball team will be out to defend its title at the fourth annual Stayner Col legiate Institute senior girls volleyball tournament Satur day On Friday midget girls volleyball tournament will be held Eastview and Central Col legiate will represent Barrie in the senior girls tournament with other teams coming from Stayner Thornhill Orillia District Collegiate and Voca tional Institute Collingwood Collegiate Institute Grey Highlands Secondary School from Flesherlon and Sudbury Secondary School The tournament starts at am with two games being played at the same time in roundrobin event At 230 pm the semifinals start with the championship game scheduled for330pm On Friday there will be six teams competing in the first midget girls volleyball tourna ment Teams will come from St Thomas Stayner Sudbury Collingwood Hamilton and Barrie Central Collegiate The round robin event is scheduled to get underway at 330 pm on two courts The semifinals are scheduled for pm with the championship game planned for8pm Joe McBride and Mike Simo of New Lowell were named top trainers for 1977 at Barrie Raceway Grant Wade racing secretary announced the winners Wednesday McBride and Simo each had 28 victories McBride ac complished the feat with just four horses Wade said while Simo handled stable which included 11 horses over the season Last years champion Bob Scrannage had 27 winners coming from his stable Im thrilled McBride said about winning McBride and his JustMere Ranch won with WB McLyo Garrison Inn Dathney Herbert and Farm Tarra McBride said Gar rison Inn is currently racing in Florida and he acquired another horse three months ago McBride said Bound To Be In holds the world record for 15 miles on one mile track and is racing in Toronto Hes real classy horse McBride said MORE HORSES Les Dixon won the driving championship He took the lead in April and held on to win at the end of the year Dixon drove in 261 races and won 68 times he was second 42 times and placed in the show position on 27 occa sions Dixon had universal driver rated standing of 384 The percentage is worked out by multiplying the number of first place finishes by nine multiplying his second place finishes by five and his third place finishes by three The total figure is divided by the number of times he com peted after it had been multiplied by nine Scott Rowe was second with an average of 315 with Bill Byron third with 295 MIKE SIMO shares Gary Crowe led the drivers in December with 607 Brett scores winning goal against Barrie THORNTON Thornton defeated Barrie Credit Union Minor Peewees 32 in an exhibi tion game Tuesday On Wednesday Green and Ross Minor Bantams and Unionville played to 22 tie Thornton took 10 lead at 452 of the first period with Todd Colwell scoring from Wayne Brett Steve Bauchman tied the game for Barrie with 615 remaining in the second period on powerplay with Tim Viktil and Dennis Siewert assisting 21 LEAD Two minutes later Viktil gave Barrie 21 lead with Ron Daniels assisting Andrew Laycock tied the game early in the third period with Bobby Morrison and Chris Grant assisting Brett scored the winning goal with Vince Morgan and Chris Sturgess assisting Thornton had three of the five minor penalties handed out in the game Green and Ross outshot Unionville 309 and had only four minutes in penalties com pared to 20 for the home team but were unable to beat their goalie Allen will coach Rams LOS ANGELES AP jubilant George Allen promis ing harmony excitement an end to the Allen myth and wielding plan designed to put the Rams into the Super Bowl has made his return to Los An geles Allen who first became Na tional Football League head coach in 1966 with Los Angeles then was fired after the 1970 season and went to the Wash ington Redskins had said he would be back Wednesday at press conference to formally in troduce him as the new Rams coach beaming Allen said Its like dream come true Its home to us Fired by the Redskins two weeks ago and Rams owner Carroll Rosenblooms much preferred man to guide Los Angeles Allen replaces Chuck Knox who left the Rams last month to become head coach of Buffalo Bills Allens contract with Los Angeles is multi year agreement worth an estimated $200000 annually Some Rams players did not want Allen as their coach it was reported but he said dont see disharmony as any problem here think maybe some of the Redskins felt the same way at first when Colts play tonight Barrie Colts of the Mid Ontario Junior League host the Oak Ridges Dynes at the Barrie Arena at 830 pm to day The Colts are in second place in the league while Oak Ridges holds commanding lead in first place The Colts will be out to close the gap Top player in January Les Burgess left winger for the Barrie Flyers in the Ontario Senior Hockey League was named the teams top player for the month of January Presenting Burgess with his award is Ted Moore Barrie Carling Keefe representative Examiner Photo went there After we get down to working think everyone will feel good about our team KNOWN FOR DEFENCE Although known for his em phasis on defence Allen said the Rams offence will be more entertaining than in the past One of Rosenblooms chief com plaints with Knox was that the teams offence lacked imagina tion Were going to have an in teresting exciting offence Al len stressed The players will enjoyit and the fans will enjoy it Allen said he plans to install multiple offence which means lot of variation in sets and the frequent use of man in motion He added that he had intended to install that of fencewhich sounds similar to the one used by the Super Bowl champion Dallas Cowboysat The teams were tied 00 after the first period and each club scored twice in the second period Barrie took 10 lead when Ian MacSpurren scored with John Gran and Steve Knowles assisting Unionville then scored two goals in 21 seconds with goals going to Bill Wym inga and Wally Weibe Gray scored with 503 left in the period to tie the game for Barrie with Knowles and MacSpurren assisting Green and Ross host Boltor at the Barrie Arena on Sunday Washington last year but in juries to key personnel forced him to abandon the idea Allen said he hopes to dispel what he called the George Al len myth about his closeddoor approach to running the team He said most of the Rams practices would be open to the press and that he would be readily available to the media At Washington Allen served as general manager as well as coach and said all the responsi bilities ate into his coaching time Rosenbloom said that Allen free of his responsibilities of managing can prove what he can do The Rams owner em phasized however that no trades or other major moves would be made without Allens OK and that he will be free to run the team as he sees fit Hersey Swain win bridge game Olive Hersey and Ella Swain placed first in the north south bridge game on Jan 20 at the Barrie Duplicate Bridge Club Second were Lea Bailey and Heino Lentsius Marg Powell and David Kaye were third In east west Ann Reid and John Franklin were first John MacBeth and Ed Wojnarski were second and Mary Woodstock and Sean Burke were third On Jan 23 Dave Higgins and Ed Donnelly won north south with the team of Lucie Taylor and Lentsius finishing second Ihird were Audrey and Martin Forrest Swain and Hersey were fourth with Maud Met calfe and Grace Collins fifth In east west MacBeth and Wojnarski were first Marg Powell and Gladys Webb were second Dave Kaye and Doug Cowan were third Marie Oegrott and Wyn Smith were fourth and John Hazel and Gary Edmunds were fifth Lean and Ken Bailey were tied with Lentsius and Larry Gartner for first place in north south on Jan 25 Marnie and Sherman Boulter were second with Rosemary and Dick Spratt third Edmunds and Bill DeWitt were first in east west Swain and Marg Flewelling were se cond Midge Stubbins and Hersey were third and Gail Reid and Nellie Schnell were fourth in York Simcoe standings Barrie teams lead leagu Four teams in the Barrie Minor Hockey Association are in first place in the York Simcoe Minor Hockey League according toleague statistics released on Monday Civitan Minor Bantams have six point lead over second place Thornhill while the United Rubber Workers Bantams have six point lead over Thornhill Cardinal Cash and Carry Peewees hold commanding 16 point lead over second place Aurora with Douglas Mercury Bobcats Minor Midgets 23 point lead over second place Thornhill Rotary Club Peewees are in second place nine points behind Thornhill while Barrie Credit Union Minor Peewees are in fifth place Green and Ross Minor Bantams are in third place MINOR BANTAMS Team GP Pts CivitanClub 20 17 36 Ihornhill 19 15 30 RichmondHill 20 19 Orillia 19 18 Newmarket 20 12 13 Aurora 20 17 BANTAMS BarrieURW 19 16 33 Ihornhill 20 12 27 RichmondHill 20 12 26 Newmarket 19 11 12 Orillia 19 13 16 Aurora 19 14 SECOND MINOR BANTAMS Sharon 22 13 29 Ihornhill 22 12 27 GreenandRoss 19 12 26 Keswick 19 10 23 was JOE McBRlIE top Spot average with Rowe second with 389 Byron had 319 ship Allenby defeated Mikko Markkula of Finland ing six games enter the semifinals by the Ontario Golf Association and senior championships on June tam division will be held on July 26 playing for the Lady Eaton Trophy onJuly games Country Club Bay train tressel Talbot will not be fired should remain as coach say that Talbot is still the coach Also at Golf Haven the Ontario junior cham McBride and Simo raceway tOp trainer title Error is costly in chess game typographical error by Ed Allenby of Barrie cost him game in the World Cup Correspondence Chess Champion Unionvale 21 Bolton 17 Richmond Hill 16 MINOR PEEWEES Cardinal of Barrie 20 Aurora 20 Ihornhill 20 Newmarket 20 Orillia 20 Richmond Hill 20 PE IWEE Ihornhill 20 Rotary of Barrie 20 Richmond Hill 20 Aurora 20 Newmarket 20 Orillia 20 SECOND MINOR PEEWEES Staron 17 Unionville 19 Bolton 18 Thornhill 18 Barrie Credit Union 16 Richmond Hill 16 SECOND MINOR MIDGETS Barrie Bobcats 22 Ihornhill 15 Schomberg 19 Bolton 18 Maple 21 Unionville 16 Sharon 18 Oro 22 Richmond Hill 17 19 the Golf events scheduled in area Four golf events have been scheduled for Eastview boys win two games Eastview Secondary School swept two game boys basketball series from Twin Lakes Collegiate of Orillia on Tuesday in the Georgian Bay Secondary School Association Greg Caicco scored 12 points to lead the junior team to 4334 win The junior team now has eight wins and one loss and are guaranteed spot in the playoffs David Gourley scored 18 points to lead the senior Eastview team to 4342 win The senior team has four wins in eight top sports shorts average while Mike Harris fourth with 274 ONWONN aweame wa ONfiNJBN wwwowwvHe average John Brooks was fifth with 250 Harris was fourth overall in 1977 with an average of 259 Crowe had 266 Robert Scrannage had 264 Ole An nerud had an average of 243 while Willis Jones had 215 Joe Edwards was fourth in the top trainer race with 23 i2 wins while John Brooks had 21 Bill Cass and Bill Acton had 20 wins each with An nerud having Spinks had 18 victories while Rowe had 17 Wade said trainers won 28 per cent of all ii the races in 1977 The raceway opens for its 1978 season on March 18 It had originally been schedul ed to start again on Feb but because of the weather conditions it had been decid ed upon to push the opening day into early spring Lloyd 10 said he had written 7273 for move when he in tended to write 8283 in game against Hans Bouver of South Africa Allenby said his error in recording the wrong move clearly cost him what was an equal game The method of writing moves is an international system of numbers used for correspondence games In another contest Ferdi Gottstein of East Germany Allenby said he holds two pawn advantage against Gary Abram of New York one pawn advantage against Carlo Dellabella of Italy and Gottstein He is equal in his remain He hopes he will be among the top 20 per cent that will Simcoe County In the associations 1978 championship tournament schedule released this week Golf Haven in Gilford will host the amateur qualifying round for the Ontario championships pionships ban The Barrie Country Club will host the Ontario junior ladies championship on July 2526 Competitors will be The Ontario junior qualifying tournament for the Ontario championship will be held at Canadian Forces Base Borden It was close game with the lead changing hands four times in the last 20 seconds of the game Steve Wall hit for two points with two seconds remaining in the game with jump shot from 10 feet 305 out to give Barrie the win Woodland owners hold meeting The Huronia Woodland Owners Association will be holding general meeting on Feb 13 at the Shanty Bay Golf and Walter Humphries and Dick George will be the guest speakers at the meeting The meeting starts at 730 pm Humphries has recently returned from two year term in Nova Scotia as maple syrup specialist He will give slide presentation on Nova Scotia and its maple syrup industry George an association member and local historian will speak on the history of Simcoe County His presentation will deal with logging and wood related subjects such as the Hog NEW YORK AP New York Rangers president Wil liam Jennings has been overruled in his desire to fire coach JeanGuy Talbot the New York Times reported today The Times said that Jennings called for the dismissal of Talbot at meeting with John Ferguson general manager of the National Hockey League team and Sonny Werblin new president of Madison Square Garden which owns the team Ferguson apparently convinced Werblin that Talbot Jennings asked whether he had recommended Talbots firing told the Times will make no comment except to