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game is about the equivalent It just doesnt happen very The Barrie City Soccer Chi in the dying minutes of their the field with 13 win Its not the fact that Barrie Its how the team went about The loss was heartbreak is something to be proud of Even with the loss Barrie teams in the province The tory will htirt for awhile dissipate and the players wil WWW 1W common cause One man does not win Everything that is accoinplis forwards didnt clear the ba forget The baseball spikes aren ting in two weeks For just minute Id like Pittsburgh wont be any bet Soccer club can be proud Blowing twogoal lead in the last 10 minutes of soccer great attempt at the prestigious Ontario up When the cltib started the season to even think of the On tario up would have been just wishful thinking As the season went along the club became more than just soccer team It became group of men pulling together in all these things together and it spells defeat One or two unfortunate players will probany be unjustly blamed for the loss and that ill be the hardest thing of all to Habs will breeze through NHL season hockey season for the Barrie Colts and Flyers will be star IIyers and give you my unbiased opinion of what will hap pen during the 197778 National Hockey League season Montreal Canadiens will continue their domination of the league and will win the Norris Division in breeze the examiner Wednesday Sept 21 1977 Scott Haskins Examiner Sports Writer of blowing 459 halftime lead to the Toronto Argonauts in football game often decided to have little snooze Ontario up semifinal contest on the weekend When it woke up Thunder Bay had snuck off lost the game that really hurts it ing experience for the players but they shouldnt feel too bad What the club accomplished can boast one of the top four bought of being so close to vic but the disaptmintment will end up with fond memories of or lose game by bed is team effort himself The defence wasnt sharp late in the game The goaltender missed shot that he possibly should have stopped and the II when they should have Add on the shelves yet but the to forget about the Colts and ter despite the presence of Jim Hamilton of Barrie and should finish in secondplace 35 points behind the Habs Les Angeles will hold on to thirdplace ahead of the highly improved Washington Capitals and the lowly ctriot Red Wings will finish in their usua lposnion Surprise Surprise The Toronto Maple Leafs will win the Adams Division in tough st and the Buffalo Sabres The Leafs have the talent they will check much better Boston will edge out Buffal rugglc with the Boston Bruins ml with Roger Neilscn at helm for secondplace and for the first time since the Cleveland Barons entered the division they have longshot chance the final playoff position This is the year of the New Division at knocking off the Sabres for York Islanders in the Patrick The Philadelphia Flyers are on the down swing and should pose no threat to the young Parent returns to his allstar form of three years ago The New York Rangers sigi lured Hardy Aastrom away Team They will be improved and should edge out Atlanta for the final playoff position in the weak Smythe Division Minnesota will breeze to be competitive but will finish If youre wondering who pi tonight at the Barrie Arena round of the Wrigley Midget their old rivals Orillia The Chicago Black Hawks will have Bob Iulford the former coach of the Los Angeles Kings behind the bench and thats good enough reason to pick them in first place in Louis and Vancouver will fight it out for third olorado will Most of the players speak French HERE AND THERE The Barrie Flyers have picked tough opponent for its first exhibition game of the season Warriors will have Billy Plager and ircg Neeld in their lineup the COOP midgets are practicing for the first There is big invitational pace at ungry Islanders unless Bernie ted all its draft picks and also from the Swedish National the league secondplace finish while St in the cellar ck to win the cup take guess starting at 830 in Whitby Hockey Tournament against ended 21 Leaf slump Flyers play tonight Tavella packs his bags The one thing the Barrie Flyers of the Ontario Hockey Association Senior League LIE didnt want to happen finally did after Mondays practice John Tavella the clubs top pick in the amateur draft this summer packed his bags and headed for the Saginaw Gears of the International League Steve Cripps manager of the club also announced three players have been released Dietrich Getyko of Orillia Scott Morrison of Alliston and Myles McCauley of Coll ingwood were trimmed from the roster leaving 23 players at camp BIG LOSS The loss of Tavella is really the only one the club is concern ed about He was the top scorer for the Collingwood Blues Junior Hockey Club last season and was expected to be one of the top players for the Flyers According to Cripps all is not lost There is slim chance Tavella could show up in Flyers uniform before the season is over There is chance he might be back Cripps said He in dicated that before he left but right now he is really interested in professional hockey Steve Cripps It certainly hurt when we lost him Hes not the type of guy that likes to be jerked around in the minors and he in dicated that if he is jerked around hell be back up here with us FEW MORE CUTS The Flyers are allowed to use 25 players until Christmas but Cripps said there will probably be few more cuts to make room for players coming back from pro camps The club gets its first taste of competition tonight at the Bar rie Arena starting at 830 pm highly improved Whitby Warriors club will provide the opposition The game should tell the club executive just what type of league to expect this season Were expecting tough time with them Cri ps said We should learn at from tonights game TWO PLAYERS Greg Neeld and Billy Plager will be tw0 of the players the Flyers will have to keep close eye on Neeld who lost his eye in freak accident while playing Junior Hockey and Plager veteran of National Hockey League wars will undoubtedly give the Warriors one of the strongest defences in the league Rick Tomkinson will guard the twine for Barrie and if the rookie doesnt hold up Ron Pat terson will take over If Tomkinson does good job we are going to use him for the whole game Cripps said We want to have long hard look athim Woye Thomas fights to remain Maple Leaf TORONTO Pl New coach Roger Neilson intends to come out of Toronto Maple Leafs training camp with starting goaltender but veteran goalie Wayne Ihomass philosophy is simply to win job not the No job but job on the team Thomas had an uneventful 197677 National Hockey League season after the arrival of young Mike Palmateer but will likely be called on by the Leafs as they try to improve the teams performance Neilson has four experienced goaltcnders in camp which opened this week and says he would like to start the season with No goalie The contenders besides Thomas and Palinatccr arc iord IcRae and Pierre Hamel both coming off fine minor league seasons Thomas is an obvious choice because he will be 30 on Oct an age when most goaltcndtrs hit their peak Ialinateer who when he was first called up performed was the only guy on the team with that smugness We had strange training camp last fall It wasnt the whole reason for slow season but it contributed For month we were missing Darryl Sittler Borje Salming Lanny Mc Donald and Inge llam marstrom who were involved in the Canada Cup Through our camp the atti tude seemed to be Just wait till the big guns get back and everything will be OK Well it wasnt Leafs and Thomas started slowly and made little headway until Palmateer arrived from Dallas Black Hawks of the Cen tral League Thomas says he doesnt care what twogoalic system Neilson decides on but if he is involved he wants to know what the plan is unlike last season when we never really knew the system Red Kellys system last year seemed to be the hothand approach and if one goalie wan to play then he had to stay warm Thomas said Chinese could enter Olympics LONDON Itcutcr Lord Killain resident of the Inter national Olympic Cominittec return home from China on Tuesday convinced he has made progress on restoring the worlds largest country to the Olympic movement The important thing is that we have established dialogue with Peking he told reporters during stopover at London airport en route from Tokyo to his home in Ireland WILLPATROL Steve Sly Doug Ferguson George Milner and Terry Agnew will patrol the bluelines for Barrie Paul Regan Phil Branston and Wayne King will play as line The other forward com binations are John Hammond Robbie Ralph and Ga Mac Millan Bob Wasson Bo Baird and Bill Roach and Ron Lyte Les Burgess and Don West brooke Flyers second exhibition game is Friday in Orillia against the Terriers starting at 830 pm Court rebuffs Neelds suit BUFFALO AP Oneeyed hockey player Greg Neelds leg challenge to National Hockey League regulations was re fedbya John Elfvin US distric ederal judge Tuesday court judge dismissed seven counts of Neelds suit against the league The plaintiff who lost an eye ronto Marlboros was drafted laying amateur hockey for To Buffalo Sabres in 1975 The league would not let him play He seeks the right to try out with an NHL club Five of the counts concerned an NHL rule prohibiting player from competing if he has less than 25percent vision in either eye Elfvin said federal district court in California had already found the rule to be reasonable restraint of trade Any challenge must be dealt with there Elfvin said the appropriate appeals court Two other counts claimed the draft system had prevented the Vancouver native from marketing his talents among all the clubs in the league Elfvin rejected those as irrelevant The only charge that remains fully alive was Neelds con tention that the NHL had conspired with other leagues to prevent the 22yearold from pl will continue aying Arguments on that count Birds funeral march starts slowing down BALTIMORE AP Balti more Orioles just may be whis tling for comfort as they ap proach the cemetery but at least theyre still alive Were on our death bed but were not dead yet outfielder Pat Kelly said after the Orioles defeated Toronto Blue Jays 52 in an American League base ball game Tuesday night The victory enabled Balti more to snap secondplace tie with Boston Red Sox and move to within three games of New York Yankees in the American League East The Orioles and the Yanks with their Tuesday night game against Boston postponed by rain each have 11 games re maining The Red Sox 32 games behind have 121eft Kellys death bed remark re ferred to headline in Balti more newspaper in the wake of the Orioles 31 loss to Toronto on Monday Orioles Get Ready To Call The Un dertaker The Orioles regarded as one of the better teams at executing fundamentals contributed to their own downfall in losses to Boston on Sunday and Toronto on Monday HITSTAINTED Again on Tumday two tain ted its resulted in gift Toron to run in the third inning But Jim Palmer overcame that brief lack of support and not ched his fifth consecutive vic JIM PALMER wins again was his fourth of the season and his third against Toronto Sin gletons hit increasing his RBI total to 94 followed two walks and an infield hit by Al Bum bry DRIVES IN RUN Gary Woods drove in To rontos first run when his liner was lost in the lights by Single ton and the ball fell in for triple Scoring on the play was Dave McKay who ha singled when first baseman Lee May retreated toward the bag in stead of pursuing his grounder inthe hole Had Singleton not been blin Justin Cibirka wins in bowling Justin Cibirka was the top bowler recently in the mens pm league at Kempview Bowl Cibirka had the highest score in single game with 289 and then topped off the evening with the high triple with 778 Les Hook had the second hi hest single game with 283 while Don Morrow was third wit 279 Larry Veinotte had the second highest triple score with 684 and Barrie Boisclair was third with 671 points Ron Schwehr holds the leagues season high average with 227 while Bud Home is close behind with 221 The Bill Hake Trophies team leads the league in the stan dings with 14 points DA Masonry No is second with 12 points and Teds Unisex is third with 10 points The Outcasts and Hammers Well Drilling are tied with nine ints each while Underwood Broadloom Ed Millet Plum ing and Heating and Barrie Tire each has seven points OBrien Sports has five points while Birimcombe Con struction has four Ontario Hydro and DA Masonry No have no points and occupy the leagues cellar Jets bomb Swedes 92 OREBRO Sweden AP Fran Huck and Swedish rookie KKENT ilsson scored two goals each to lead Winnipeg Jets to 92 victory over Orebro Swedish minor league team Tuesday It was the World Hockey Asssociation clubs fourth win in seven games on its Swedish preseason tour New referees ioin NHL NEW YORK CP The National Hockey League an nounced the appointment Tuesday of four newcomers to its roster of game officials The newcomers are referee John McCutcheon of Owen Sound 0nt refereelinesman Mike Foy of Willingboro NJ and linesmen Don Koharski of Dar tmouth NS and Kevin Collin of Springfield Mass Note Thurmond retires CLEVELAND AP Nate Thurmond veteran Cleveland Cavaliers centre announced his retirement Tuesday after 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association Thurmond 36 played with Cavaliers Chicago Bulls and the old San Francisco Warriors Chino defeats Cosmos 2l PEKING Reuter China beat New York Cosmos 21 in an exhibition soccer match Tuesday The Cosmos North American Soccer League champions played to 11 draw in an earlier game against the Chinese last week Eastview wins volleyball Eastview Secondary School boys volleyball teams dominated action yesterday at Barrie Central Collegiate The midget team defeated Central 151 in the first game but Central came back to win 1511 in the second Eastview won the match with 1511 win in the third game The junior teams battled for five games before Eastview came out on top Eastview took the first match 155 with Central winning the second 157 Eastview took the lead again with 156 win only to have Central come back to win the fourth game 1511 to tie the match Eastview won the fifth and deciding game 1510 Skating registration slated The Barrie Figure Skating Club will be holding registra tion for interested skaters at the Barrie Arena Thursday Registration Will take place between and pm Nordiques sign Tremblay QUEBEC CP Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Association announced Tuesday the signing of veteran def enceman eanClaude Tremblay to oneyear contract Tremblay 38 had kidney removed last June and there were fears he wouldnt be able to play again Rod Carew hOSpitoIized KANSAS CITY AP Rod Carew of the Minnesota Twins was taken to hospital Tuesday for what team officials de scribed as lymph gland problem Officials did not say how long they expected Carew to be out of American League ac tion We are trying to restore normal relations with China he said As result of my visit we can make contact with them directly rather than working through intermediaries Killanins fiveday visit to China was aimed at bringing that country back into the Olympic movement which it left in 1958 the Barrie Raceway tonight starting at 45 iii The r1 inconsistentlythereafter amincr Bowling League started play Sunday at Kcinpvicw XllllSSllTiNrZSS Thomas admits he was smug year ago after Leafs im provement in 197576 and tory with sevenhitter ded by the lights McKay would Palmer bidding to become have been an easy doubleplay wgame winner for the seventh victim since he was running on timein eight years now is 1811 the liner which almost struck with 301 earned run average the Baltimore right fielder Bowl ggt in my Ottawo player cuts conti OTTAWA CP Ottawa Rough Riders continued their purge of veteran players Tues day releasing safety AI Bren ner and bringing the number cut by the club this year to 13 Sam ijanovich who played last year Willi Ioroiito Argo iiauts also was released by the Urrutio smashes record SIIJITGAIUI West lei many Router Roberto Lrrutia of Cuba defied the odds at the world and European weightlifting chaiiipioiishiir here by smashing the world lightweight record and beating the more fancied Sovnct liltei Sergei Iovsncr The 21yearold Cuban also set world record in the snatch of 1425 kilos This combined with his clean and jerk of 172 for record twolift total of 315 kilos Urrutia has improved since his seventhplace finish at last years MontreaIOIym ics Former world ampion Zbigniew Kaczmarek of Poland who finished first in Montreal but was disqualified for taking anabolic steroids took the overall bronze medal SOFT 830 pm Queens Park Georgian Sports Giffen Farm PeterReino Convertible Pool Int Division playoffs sports calendar HOCKEY 830 pm Barrie Arena Barrie Flyers host Whitby War riors in the first exhibition game HARNESS RACING 745 pm Barrie Raceway Invitational Pace Church Homes Bradford CANCELLED Senior Softball League semifinal playoff series FASTBALL 645 pm Queens Park PeterReino vs Convertible Pools nue defending Canadian Football League champions The Riders picked up puiitiiig specialist Gerald Kunyk from ILdmonton Eskimos of the Western Conference Kunyk set puriting record with the algaiy Stamptdcrs iii I975 and will take over from Wldlf receiver Jclf Avury Ifiob OHillovich defensive mach of the Itidcis said hard hitting Larry Ilium Will replace trcnmr With Larry Cate and Peter icpin thc outmdc salttics Ictii Sttiici son Will be the cxlia dHp hark ISiIIoVich and injuries haw blifllftlll llfltlfittflélflb Mila Widgci and KM Moot so the lineup for the gum Saturday against the Itliic oiiibi in Wininpcg subjch tothangi WNISIO 1112 ll Marlo Milrlitll from the lltlltltillplllal Ijaglm ol thi Nalioiial Football Ixeach Wlll start at right ot ricrback and Wondcrlul Moiidn Will rctutn fiom the injury list 10 play the left 01 llll Cutting liciiiiIi was the re sult of his play ovvr the whole Henson said OIhllovnh We focl that the dclciisivc back field with Illllf iii llll middle is as quick as weve had all year Brenner was in his third year with the Riders after coin plctiiig four seasons With IIaiii iltoii Tiger Cats BALI Bradford vs Church Homes Equipment CANCELLED CANCELLED pltkttl up scvcngainc Stanley Cup quarr ter final series Wllll Phila delphia Flyers When look back willingly admit complacency says Thomas But dont think Jim Fike of Eastview Secondary School because of the continued membership of Taiwan in the IOC Taiwan remains the obstach to solution Killanin said Taiwan walked out of the Montreal Olympic Games last year when the Canadian government refused to permit its team to compete under the flag or name of Republic of China the of ficial name of the island territory which remains in the IOC through the Republic of China Olympic Committee Bock it goes prepares to return volley Tuesday in midget boys volleyball game at Harrie entinl Collegiate have yr prepares to move in to help Itike Eastview won Illl midget lmyu mntcli wliinlng IiiI boys team from Eastview also defeated entral 32 in Photo IMF and lII The junior tunes in seesaw battle Examiner The 31yearold righthander declined to discuss his chances of becoming the first pitcher ever to win the Cy Young Award for fourth time Solo home runs by rookies Eddie Murray and Rich Dauer provided Palmer with 32 lead and then Ken Singletons bases loaded single provided tWo in surance runs in the seventh Murrays 23rd homer of the season in the fourth off Jim Clancy 47 gave him the Balti more club for most homers by rookie snapping tie which had existed with Ron Hansen Sam Bowens and Curt Blefary Dauers fifthinning homer Beaten Singles by Al Woods Alan Ashby and McKay produced an other run which pu led the Blue Jays to within 32 in the sev enth Palmer walked pinch hit ter Sam Ewing to load the bases before retiring Gary Woods In the Toronto eighth Roy Howell hit into double lay af ter Bob Bailor reached on an error by third baseman Doug DeCinces Ron Fairly then fol lowed with his 300th career double but was stranded Palmer has three more starts scheduled including one in Bos ton on the final day of the sea son onoger files lawsuit ARLINGTON Iex AP Former Texas Rangers manager Frank Lucchesi who sat he still suffers poor vision after being beaten by Lenny Ran Ie said Tuesday night he will file lawsuit against Raiidle because he didnt want another player attacking manager The monetary end of it mg in be fine for some people but thats not the primary inotiVe why filed the 50yearold Lue cliesi told The Associated Press In Orlando Fla where the incident took place The Orlando Sentinel re orted in Wednesdays editions that Lucchesis atv torney won ilc $200000 personal damage suit against Ran dlc today or lhursday Handle upset over losing his second base starting job to rookie llninp Wills punched spring training fracturing tl Lucchesi on March 28 during ie managers cheekbone and cracking rib Lucchesi was hospitalized for five days Raiidlc who was fined $10000 and suspended 30 days by the Rangers was subsequently dispatched to the New York Mets where he has hit near 300 all season He pleaded no contest of reduced charge of misdemeanor battery and was fined $1000 This thing went through four months ago dont want ti happen to anyone who supervises athletes said Lucchesi Wh was later fired as manager of the Rangers This is one time Im not gt iing to turn the other cheek always took pride in my relationship with other players Colts take on Wings Sunday The Barrie Colts exhibition game scheduled for Saturday at the Barrie Arena has been changed to 215 pm start Sunday Pollowin Saturdays 85 loss to the Eto icoke Selects The Examiner was told that the club would be playing Saturday and not Sunday The Examiner was not contacted with the change in playing dates The Toronto Red Wings will be the opposition for the game Last season the Colts upset Toronto 53in similar exhibi tion contest Catharine Moore of Barrie recently obtained the Canadian Figure Skating Association gold medal for dance She is 17 years old and grade 12 student at Eastview Secondary School Catharine Moore receives gold medal Catharine Moore recently obtained the Canadian Figure Skating Association gold medal for dance The 17yearold rade 12 student at EastView Secondary School is the daug ter of Mrs Doreen Moore and the late Allen Moore She began her ice dance training under Mrs Eleanor Guidoliii and also trained with George ORile For the past year coach Tom Harrison has been training er and acting as her dancing partner and she hopes to continue her train ing with Harrison Moore has bronze medal in freester skating and is cur rently working on her fifth figure With Douglas Leigh as coach Besides skating with the Bairie Figure Skating Club she also skates with Innisfil Figure Skating Club in the Winter and Mariposa School of Skating in Orillia in spring summer and fall