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ffikgg 4n Its downhill from here Get out the boards the first snow has fallen Well might be jumping the gun slightly but up around Haliburton many cottagers enjoying the fall colors of the Thanksgiving weekend woke up Monday morning to find bit of wmter creeping inabout an inch of snow had fallen the night before So in keeping with the spirit of Christmas coming bring you report of my annual run to the Ski Show at Torontos International Centre Oct 48 As an avid skiier always look forward to going to the ski Show watching some ski movies and the ramp show view ing the new equipment and ski fashions and drooling over all the places Id love to ski Not to mention my favorite part of the showcollecting all the posters and paraphanelia can get my hand on and signing up for every free trip and bargain offered This year friend and worked our way systematically around the whole Show The booths are set up such in way that if you follow down one aisle then work your way up the middle aisle and back down the far aisle you wont miss anything Then you head over to the ski movies area after which its time to check out the annual ski swap The first booth hit was chance to win free pair of skis poles boots and bindings Naturally filled out the necessary card The catch was they they also wanted you to sign up for will that be cash or card passed TRAFFIC JAM We made our way along the first aisle stopping to pick up pamphlets and information on places and equipment that in terested us We hit traffic jam about halfway down as most of the crowd had gathered to watch the Ski Acrobats Having little choice we stopped and watched too This show the early show of the evening was based on disco music and disco costumes The acrobats danced and mimicked for bit which hardly felt related to skiing However they combined the disco aspect with some good trampoline displays and some outstanding skiramp jump ing especially by John Eaves World freestyle champion As we had caught the show in midsession we decided to push on and come back later to watch the 930 show Probably the highlight of the evening for me was found in France or the booth that advertised various skiing areas in France Here met Leo Lacroix threetime world ski champion who skiied on the French National Ski team with Jean Claude Killy winner of three gold medals in the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble France Monsieur Lacroix no longer skis competitively but is now technical director at Les Menuire one of the areas in the wellknown Les Trois Valles Three Valleys in France It was his second year at the Toronto ski show Our conversa tion started in English but when he learned spoke some French he requested to speak in French as his English was he felt limited Stumbling along when it became my turn to speak somehow still managed to have quite an interesting conversation with Lacroix Since he was former World Cup skiier asked him what he thought about the races in the modern Coupe du Monde Lacroix told me that he thought that the Canadian men had better chance of winning gold medal in the downhill at the 1980 Olympics than the men skiing for the French na tional ski team He mentioned that Frances womens na tional team with skiers like Fabienne Serrat strong slalomist were strong contingent the mens team was not particularly strong However Lacroix hoped that in future years France would have better team on the national scene Booths advertising ski areas both far away like Lacroixs area in France and nearby were present at the show Many of the local Barrie ski areas were out with pamphlets maps and one or two areas representatives guess Ive been skiing about 10 years now When was only 13 my family took its first ski trip out of the province down to Stowe Vermont Well nostalgia took firm grip on me at the ski show when saw Stowe booth You see we enjoyed ourselves so much that first time that weve been back to Stowe almost every year since We stopped and talked to Al Woods who runs the ski school at Spruce Peak the smaller of the two mountains at Stowe Woods filled us in on the details of the developments that took place at Stowe this summer including couple of new runs and new Chairlift Then we just reminisced as we watched movie on skiing in Stowe It was like being therewell almost Finally it was back to the ski acrobats show The music started but wait this time it was country theme and the acrobats sported cowboy hats and tight red outfits Instead of dancing to the disco beat they struck up small square dance Besides all the dancing and stomping this show again featured some difficult trampoline acrobatics and some ex Citing ski jumps off the ramp Eaves best response from the crowd came on thrilling and wellexecuted spreadeagle lavout back somersault All in all the two hours we spent there were quite enter taining With exhibits of grass skiing ski exercises ski jum ping ski movies ski equipment ski places ski patrol and ski fashions to see it was busy two hours As the song goes can hardly wait for winter can hardly wait for the snow sports hall of fame This weeks mystery sports person was perhaps the greatest detenceman ever to play in the Na tional Hockey League He was the only defenceman to ever win the Art Ross trophy as the leagues leading scorer and he won the Norris trophy for best detenceman record seven times It you know his name send in yours along with your address and telephone number to Sports Hall of Fame co The Examiner Box 370 Barrie L4M 4T6 Winners are selected at random from correct entries received by Saturday Austin Cunningham of Wood St in Barrie is the winner of last weeks contest for identifying Muhammed Ali world champion boxer were timitst winners will rticiw an cighlslirr lllrtt lltm pllll from vfi lothirs Iiua larlnur and cg Spaghetti llltllI llfl llailitld 51 Mar llflt Hamilton TigerCats quarter back Tom Clements is pursued by Torontos Ecomet Burley as Ed George 65 gets ready to clear the patch durina Canadian Eskimos romp over Als Argos dumped by Ticats Whenever Edmonton Eskimos and Montreal Alouet tes meet it seems one or the other is thirsting for revenge The Eskimos slaked their thirst in grand style Monday dismantling the Alouettes 476 in the last regularseason en counter between the Western and Eastern Conference leaders of the Canadian Foot ball League That left the Alouettes and coach Joe Scanella hoping for another rematch in the last week of November for the Grey Cup Right now theyre better team Scanella said of the Eskimos and we have to do something about it would like to play again Ireally would In other CFL games Sunday Hamilton TigerCats moved in to tie with Toronto for third place in the Eastern Con ference by humiliating the Argonauts 423 while Calgary Stampeders survived two Win nipeg marches late in the game to defeat the Blue Bombers 1813 them Football League game in Hamilton Monday CP Photo Sunday Ottawa Rough Riders edged winless Saskat chewan Roughriders 2019 thanks to failed twopoint con version attempt by Saskat chewan on the final play of the game Everybody did what theyre supposed to do Edmonton coach Hugh Campbell said after his team displayed the balanced offensive and defen sive punch that carried the Esks to the Grey Cup over Mon treal last year Colts lose two games penalties Still problem The Barrie Colts fought back from threegoal deficit in the third period but the comeback fell short as they were 54 by the Geminis in Georgetown Sun day On Monday night the Colts travelled to Oak Ridges and ended up on the short end of 42 score In Georgetown it was penalties an old story that ultimately did the Colts in Georgetown scored goal in the first period and three more in the second and all of them came while the Colts were play ing with manpower disad vantage It appeared the Colts were headed in the right track when Steve Bouchey tallied from Clint Irwin with just 21 seconds gone in the game UP BY TWO With just under five minutes gone in the game Jim Miles finished off play set up by Dave Stephens and Vince McGrath and the Colts were up by two goals Less than minute after the Mile goal Georgetown got on the board John Barnes beat Colt goaltender Dave Campbell with Stephens off serving highsticking penalty The first period ended with the Colts leading 21 In the second period it was all Georgetown as they scored the frames only three goals and they came in rush Mark Bra bant David McGilloway and Ken Allen were the marksman The Colts John Sugenor RICK BOWMAN scores Shorthanded received match penalty mid way through that second period and each of the Geminis goals came while he was off With only 37 seconds gone in the third period McGilloway got his second of the game and the Gems were up by three It was after that goal that the Colts finally came back to life Less than two minutes after it was scored Vince McGrath put one away from Stephens The Colts got to within one goal with 38 seconds remaining in the game as Scott Johnson tallied an unassisted marker They could not come up with the tying goal in the dying seconds In all three Colts were sent off for the duration in the se cond neriod Besides Surgenors costly match penal ty Irwin and Doug Lougheed received game misconducts Two Gems Andy Broadbent and Tony Giannini also receiv ed game misconducts in the se cond frame In Oak Ridges Sunday coach Gary MacMillan somehow managed to cool off his troops and they received only five minors and one fighting major through the entire 60 minutes of hockey STARTED SLOWLY As has been the case in most of the Colts games in the young season they got out of the blocks too slowly The Dynes got goal from Brian Risk in the first period and two more in the second from Mark Roberts and Geno Cauplini before Colt found the mark It was captain Rick Bowman who finally got the Colts going He tallied on shorthanded ef fort with just less than five minutes remaining in the se cond period Bouchey set him up With 721 gone in the third period Bouchey got the Colts to within one goal as he converted on play set up by Bowman and Terry Myers Midway through the frame Cauplini got his second of the game and the Dynes made the twogoal bulge stand the rest of the way The Colts will try to get back on the winning trail this Thurs day when they host the Orillia Travelways at Barrie Arena Camp Borden walker wins lOkilometre race NIAGARA FALLS NY CP Canada edged the US by single point Saturday to win for the first time since 1971 the annual racewalking com petition involving the two coun tries Canada scored 2221 victory based on scoring system established by the International Athletic Federation The teams Jets seeking Hull team needs help WINNIPEG CPt Win nipeg Jets have asked Bobby Hull to come out of retirement and play for the team in its first National Hockey League season feel he could help bring our younger players along quicker because of his experience general manager John Ferguson said Sunday Without him well have competitive team but with him well have very good team Ferguson said Hull said Sunday he promised to give Ferguson an answer in the next few days The former superstar who jumped to the nowdefunct World Hockey Association in 1972 retired after only eight games with Winnipeg last year Ive had it in my mind for while to come back Ive always wanted to do what could for the Winnipeg Jets said Hull part owner of the team When John Ferguson call ed he said the team has been picked but that it looked like it could stand fusion of some kind Hull said The Jets have been trying un successfully since joining the NHL to deal Hulls playing rights to Chicago Black Hawks where the left winger scored 604 goals in 15 seasons Hull has two years left in his cmtract with the Jets entered four competitors in each race but counted only the first three finishers Canadians finished onetwo in the 30kilometre race Helmut Boeck of Toronto finished first with time of 23328 and Pat Farelly of Hamilton took second place in 23453 Fifteenyearold Helene Daviau from CFB Borden near Barrie Ont the Canadian senior womens fivekilometre champion won the womens 1ft kilometre race Mike Stones of St Johns Nfld took first place by mere four seconds in the mens 15 kilometre race Stoness winn ing time was 11041 Americans swept the next three spots and Frank Johnson of Toronto finished fifth Stafford Whalen coach of the Canadian team said most com petitors take up the sport after trying running He said racewalking re quires the endurance of marathon as well as strength flexibility and coordination The sport is an Olympic event but Whalen says Cana dian athletes stand well behind the Europeans and Mexicans who dominate the sport Quarterbacks Tom Wilkinson and Warren Moon led an attack that rolled up 496 yards while the Edmonton defence held the CFLs leading rusher David Green to 68 yards Edmonton built quarter leads of 140 380 and 460 Green scored the AIS only touchdown early in the fourth quarter and twopoint con version attempt failed Edmonton collected three touchdowns passing two by Waddell Smith and 77yard passandrun effort by Brian Kelly two TDs rushing and another on Larry Highbaughs 55yard return of Joe Barnes interception Dave Cutler kicked six con verts field goal and single and punter Hank Ilesic con tributed single The Esks who had suffered their first loss of the season last week inCalgary improved their record to 1012 and took threepoint lead over the secondplace British Columbia Lions in the WFC The Alouettes now are 841 three points ahead of Ottawa In Hamilton the playoff hungry TigerCats sunk their claws deep into the Argonauts to sweep their homeandhome series and hand Toronto its sixth loss in row The biggest crowd of the year at Ivor Wynne Stadium 27293 watched as quarterback Tom Clements played havoc with the Toronto secondary The Minesing fastball midgets reign as allOntario division champions after defeating Wellington in the final over the weekend On Saturday Minesing travelled to Wellington for the first game and emerged 93 vic tors They wrapped up the best of three series with tight 21 win at home Sunday On Saturday the game was close battle until Minesing began to pull away in the sixth inning John Adam had put Minesing ahead 10 when he scored on single by Rob McNabb in the first inning TIED IN SIXTH The teams went into the sixth inning tied at one In the sixth Adam Kevin Giffen and McNabb all hit singles Clean up hitter Dale Giffen cleared the sacks with triple and Minesing was up 41 Well ington got two of those runs back in the bottom of the frame In the seventh Adam led off with his third single of the game Giffen and McNabb also hit singles Each of those players came around to score with the last hit being one bagger from Robert McLean EXCELLENT DAY In the ninth third baseman Adam completed his excellent day by doubling and coming around to score his fourth run of the ballgame McNabb threw an excellent game for the winners He allow ed seven hits over the nine inn ings and struck out 13 batters On Sunday McLean took over on the mound for Minesing and Mahovlich decides on reti DETROIT AP The com eback of Frank Mahovlich with Detroit Red Wings of the Na tional Hockey League is over before even getting off the ground It was his decision said general manager Ted Lindsay didnt have to influence him atall Mahovlich 41 worked out for the last three weeks at Detroits preseason camp Lindsay said it was clear Mahovlich would not make the team It would have been the second tour of duty with the Wings for Mahovlich who also played for Toronto and Montreal and spent four seasons in the defunct World Hockey Associa tion In his 18 years in the NHL Mahovlich left winger scored 533 goals Developing horses and riders Olympic veteran likes it here 5y CATHY HEATHER Of The Examiner Robin Hahn knows horses He also knows lot about training them and what it takes to make champion ship horse and rider After all Hahn himself is three time Olympian Hahn Plain Saskatchewan has on ly spent about four years in the East year ago August Robin and his family moved up to Dalkas Farm owned by David Billes just outside of Barrie There as manager Robin is using the knowledge he has gained in his many years of riding na tionally and internationally to develop farm that will produce good horses and good riding students The turnout paddock has couple of innovative ideas says Robin on tour of the 260acre farm First the eight paddock areas are preshaped which makes it easier to turn the horses in and out We have also used divisional fences with elec tric wiring This is much safer for the horses as they dont chew it and they respect it which keeps them from fighting over it But while the horse feels shock if it touches the wire the shock wont hurt them WOOD RAILING Hahns fondness of horses is clearly expressed in some of the ideas at the farm For instance at the end of the paddock nearest the barn the fence is wood railing in stead of electric wire Hahn explains that horses like to play and that they always run hard towards that end of the paddock so it would be dangerous to have anything but wooden rail ings It only takes simple bit of thinking to keep the horses happy says Robin simple bit of thinking led Hahn to an original idea rotating grazing paddocks The farm has eight paddocks and Hahn says that the horses will spend certain amount of time in four of the native of Bell the youngster turned in sparkling performance However Keogh was also throwing bullits for the Well ingtons side and the match turned into classic pitchers duel For awhile it appeared neither team was going to score as the two hurlers allowed nothing but goose eggs on the scoreboard Wellington finally put the games first run on the board in the top of the sixth inning CAME T0 LIFE In the seventh the Minesing bats came to life McNabb led off the frame with single and Brad Adams followed him by also getting on base McLean and Dale Giffen then combined to get the two runners home with the tying and winning runs McLean and Giffen were left on base but as it turned out their runs were not needed Minesing champs taking Wellington McLean retired the Well ington batters in order in both the eighth and ninth innings to seal the victory McLean allowed just four baserunners through the nine innings of play He fanned 13 batters to match his teammate McNabbs performance in that department the previous day The Minesing midgets are now old hands at winning pro vincial championships They took the crown as Peewees few years back Members of the Minesing championship club are John Adams Allan Priest Paul Priest Dale Giffen Kevin Giffen Don Gratto Peter Cole Robert McLean Rob McNabb Bob Weatherill Doug Murphy Brad Adams Allan Maw Geoff Kenny and Paul Morgan Ken Maw Allan McNabb and Rick Borneman handle the coaching Tap two juniors draw in showdown By THE CANADIAN PRESS Kingston Canadians and Sud bury Wolves battling for top spot in the Leyden division of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League played to 22 overtime tie Sunday night In other action Sunday Wind sor Spitfires edged Toronto Marlboros 54 Kitchener Rangers defeated Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds 65 in over time London Knights downed Niagara Falls Flyers 63 Oshawa Generals beat Peter borough Petes 41 and Brant ford Alexanders defeated 0t tawa 675 103 In Sudbury both teams head ed into the game tied for first place in the Leyden division and the tie left them that way Both have identical records of four wins two losses and one tie Lee MacKenzie and Frank Perkins scored for the Wolves while Scott Howson and Jim File replied for Kingston The Spitfires held on to first place in the Emms division and extended their homeice unbeaten streak to four games thanks to goals by Jeff Mit chell Vic Morin Todd Kwie cien Blair Barnes and JP Leroux Marty Howe cut but Gordie will play HARTFORD Conn AP The National Hockey League roster announced Monday by Hartford Whalers included veteran Gordie Howe and his son Mark but another son Mar ty has been sent to Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League The Whalers said the 51 yearold father would play this season his 32nd in professional hockey His status for the clubs first season in the NHL was in question because of dizzy spells Veteran Larry Pleau was not on the 19man roster The Whalers said he was consider ing retirement In addition to defenceman Marty Howe also assigned to Springfield were centre Jean Savard and right winger liol Stephenson Don Kouik was assigned to Cincinnati of the Central Hockey League The Whalers also reassigned three players to Saginaw of the International League from Spr ingfield George Kotosopolous Paul Minaker and Greg Foy The Whalers said goalie Terry Richardson was to go to Springfield but will stay with the NHL team as replace mentforinjured AlSmith Robin Hahn guides Warden over double fence in petition in Calgary Both in Mexico where Robin specialty paddocks and then more time in the other four The idea behind this kind of rota tion is to help manage the grass better in the paddock areas Hahns horse knowledge has also gone into building the large indoor riding arena The footing consists of sand shavings horse manure and road oilthe lat ter especially important because it keeps the arena dustfree As well as the footing the arena has win dows that all open making the arena practical even in hot summer weather CROSSCOUNTRY Hahn is an Olympic three day eventer and his special ty or selfacknowledged strong point is cross country Naturally Hahn has crosscountry ideas in mind for the farm Were going to build stadium jumping com the horse and rider competed at the I968 Olympics finished ninth his best finish in three Olympics Stadium jumping is one component of threeday every type of crosscountry fence there is says Hahn It will really be schooling area for horses and riders there wont be an actual course While Hahn is concerned about getting resident and working student program started in January he is also thinking about his own riding career He says that he will be riding more seriously himself now that he has the opportunity to get the horses ready Hahns whole family is in volved in the horse business He and his wife Maureen worked at the Eglinton Equestrian Club in Toronto before they made the move to Barrie Both his daughters Amber 17 and April 21 are competitive riders Even their son Jason has started riding even though he stays on ponies event riding Hahns We moved from Eglinton because we put in very long hours an it was too hard on the familysays Robin But also wanted to get away from teaching as much and move into more training of horses We feel the move has been quite good Two of the kids Jason and Amber at tend high school in Barrie and we feel they are getting better education heremore personal The Hahns like the Barrie area and Robin feels that the interest in riding in the area is quite strong He believos that there are some good stables in the area and that good instruction is offered Robin got into threeday event riding because it was stadium jumping and it allowed more average people to compete at high level successfully