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spo shorts By BILL CURRAN Final preparations for the opening of first schedules in the men adies and busineSS girls divisions are receiving current attention at Barries Essa Road curling club Frank Hersey secretarytreasurer has announced the men schedule opens on Monday evening Oct 24 with ladies starting in the afternoon For business girls the schedule opens on Wednesday Oct 26 Keen competition is expeCted in all divisions with first schedule playoffs due in December Promoted as club special day funky fashions bonspiel has been arranged for Saturday Nov 12 with draws at 1230 and pm Players will be wearing various curling costumes of past eras dating back to the last century Another coming event stirring much interest is centen nial fun estpiel Qualifying days for business girls and men in this mix competition have been set for Saturday and Sun daY Nov 26 and 27 For ladies the qualifying curling will be started on the following Monday afternoon Nov 28 and con tinue on the Tuesday afterward and then the following Thursday and Friday day Dec with awards to be presented at an evening ban quet dance will close the program Sandy Shannon of RR Collingwood is in charge of en tries for business girls Lilly Webb of Big Bay Point Road for ladies and John Feltis of Perry Street for men Early inquiries have indicated considerable local interest in these curling events FIRST CURLING SCHEDULE AT ORILLIA First schedule for mens local curling at Orillia also starts on Monday night Oct 24 with the womens section beginn ing play on Tuesday at am The mens schedule operates during week nights with games at and pm with the ladies mostly playing during the daytime Like the Barrie club mixed curling schedules and games for business girls and schoolboys also have been arranged social gathering is planned at the Orillia club tonight for discussion of coming events Manager at Orillia Tom Caldwell also has reminded curlers interested in taking part in provincial senior and junior tankard competitions to register before deadline on Nov Club play to decide these Ontario Curling Associa tion rinks will start on Saturday evening Nov The TorontoDominion Bank is sponsoring local bonspiel at Orillia during the morning and afternoon on Nov while the Canadian Legion plans veterans competition on Sun day Nov Deadline for rinks to compete for the right to represent the club in Colts and Consols competition has been set for Mon day Nov Junior Farmers spiel has been booked for next Saturday Oct 29 and industrial competition slated for Saturday Nov 12 weekend First raw playoffs for ladies will be held right after New Years and will be followed by Coldwater club bonspiel at the Orillia rink on Saturday Jan SOME PAST SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS REMEMBER WHEN Nick Owen blasted two home runs and triple to knock in eight runs to lead Barrie CoOp to 10 to victory over Clarkson in Barrie and District Major Fastball League playoff game five years ago At one time the leading batter in the Simcoe County baseball league Owen also proved himself an outstanding softball slugger Bob Wilson and Greg Wolfenden were victims of his batting prowess in this game while Terry Hodgson was the winning pitcher Back in 1964 Nick was the leading batsman for Orillia Majors when they won the senior OBA baseball title and also played major role in helping them again in 1969 Baseball fans of the area may also recall that in 1969 Brad ford native Mike Kilkenn pitched eight wins against five losses for Detroits secon place Tigers in the eastern divi sion of the American league The tall southpaw who was then 24 went up to Detroit after hurling for Montgomery Alabama in the Southern League and for Daytona City in the Florida circuit His blazing fastball enabled him to lead the Florida league in strikeouts with 208 to attract attention of Tiger scouts Ten years ago Don Johnston and John Johnston pitched Thornton Indians to victory in winning the Molson trophy in the 1967 Angus baseball tournament defeating Tottenham Bears Beeton and Toronto Papes Herb Shannon piloted the team and catcher Bill Laycock was awarded the most valuable player trophy Going away back to 1932 Bill Dyment Barrie Central Col legiate student set record for the annual Tudhope track competitions when he ran the 100yand dash in 102 This was equalled by Doug Kettle in 1947 Wayne Gretzkys card is revoked TORONTO CP The Ontario Hockey Association has revoked Wayne Gretzkys playing card but the slick Sault Ste Mari Greyhound centre may not even miss shift with the On tario ajor Junior Hockey League club The OMJHL scoring leader is the centre of financial dispute involving the Greyhounds and Seneca Nationals of the Metro Toronto Junior circuit the team he played with last season Gretzky however was dressed for Friday nights Scheduled game against the 67s in Ottawa and was to dress against Peter borough Petes Sunday after managemet from both teams assured the Sault they would not protest if the 16yearold scor ing sensation does dress The executive directive revoking the players card was issued by OHA president Hugh McLean Seneca general manager C01 in MacKenzie said Friday he is convinced the matter will be settled by Monday Although MacKenzie would not confirm the amount in dispute Seneca is reported to be asking $9000 for Gretzkys release second Seneca demand calls for the release of Gretzky by Sault Ste Marie for $1500 if Seneca owner Reg Quinn is able to secure Major Junior franchise FIRST CONCRETE NEWS Gretzky reached in Ottawa prior to Friday nights game said it was the first concrete news he had heard about the dispute All know from Angelo Greyhounds general manager Angel Bumbacco was that Seneca wanted an arm and leg for my release said the oung Brantford native He added that the problem wouldnt fect his weekend play Going into Friday nights game Gretzky had 13 goals and 19 assists The dispute apparently arose over Greyhounds belated $1500 payment to Seneca for the players release Under an agree ment between the Canadian Major Junior Hockey League of which the OMJHL is member and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association governing body for the Nats $1500 is automatically paid for the first three players Major Junior club signs subsequent to being drafted Soccer matches slated for City Barrie City Soccer Club will have busy time this weekend in the Newmarket and district Soccer League Barrie hosts Newmarket at the Eastview soccer pitch today at pm then travels to Richmond Hill on Sunday to end the season The layoffs for the top four teams begin Oct 29 Barrie is in seco place behind Richmond Hill United Barrie City had win and tie last week losmg 20 to Wood bridge and then blanking Bayview Thistle 30 Easy Patterson scored all three goals for Barrie in the wm making him the leagues top scorer Barrie had its problems against Woodbridge With the oppoSI tion picking off two pa55es and then going in to score in the first half Peter Dawson Barrie goalie played strong game Barrie outplayed Woodbridge in the second half but was unable to score In the game against Bayview rightWinger Stan Loeb was taken to hospital with ba ly injured leg Winning rinks will compete in playoffs and finals on Satur Playoffs for leading teams in the first schedules are due to start on Sunda Dec 11 and continue to Christmas Flyers finally win Hohum becomes thriller Barrie Flyers Gary Iyte 16 pushes and shoves with Steve Ilronozewski 18 in front of the Mississauga goal during the second period Friday night The Flyers defeated the Golden Arrows tL in an Ontario Senor Hockey League game at the Barrie Arena The Flyers scored twice in the final period to win and outsliot the visitors 52211 Examiner Photo Patience is virtue Chicago edges Pacers In league that plays Beat The Clock patience can some times be virtue Chicago Bulls team had it and Indianas Pacers didnt Bobby Leonard The Pacers had 1131103 lead with 642 remaining but were unable to play their game at the end The Bulls were able to play The result was 122119 National Basketball Association victory for the Bulls Friday night We had the game won but we lost it because we werent patient said Indiana coach theirs and that was the obvious difference Norm Van Lier provided the killing points for Chicago with 143 left stealing pass and racing the length of the floor for dramatic threepoint play Masonry blanks Storey Heating and Masonry dumped Bruce Storey Heating no recently in the Huronia Senior Hockey League In other games played Shorneys Opticians thrashed Peter Kurtz Esso 123 Mansfield blanked Storey IN and Kurtz edged Angus 53 Masonry took 30 first period lead with Bob Flemming scor ing twice Jim OBrien also scored OBrien and Ed Cockbum scored in the second period Flemming then scored three more goals in the third period Brian McCann scored pair while Mark McGoey scored once Don Wardle registered the shutout Shorneys took 30 first period lead on goals by Harve Boyko and Wayne Hobbs Hobbs scored twice Boyko scored two goals in the second period Hobbs and Kim McDonald added singles Gary Parish scored for Kurtz In the third period Hobbs Boyko Rick Saunders and McDonald tallied for Shorneys Parish and Larry LeBlanc scored for Kurtz Dennis Patterson registered the shutout for Mansfield in their 30 igidctory Rick Dunn Carroll MacDonald and Tom Micks scor Kurtz scored three goals in the second period and then coasted to the 54 win Parish scored in the first period for Kurtz with Lamers scoring for Angus Parrish scored again in the second period with Dennis Johns also scoring Steve Shell countered for Angus Larry Booth scored for Kurtz in the third period and Lamers scored again for Angus One the keys to the game was the loss of Indianas Rick Sobers who fouled out with 420 remaining In other NBA action Denver Nuggets beat Los Angeles La kcrs 106101 Washington Bullets stopped Detroit Pistons 117109 New Orleans Jazz defeated New Jersey Nets 111 103 Kansas City Kings edged Houston Rockets 9591 Por tland Trail Blazers beat Seattle SuperSonics 10699 and Golden State Warriors tripped San An tonio Spurs 122117 Van Liers threepoint play gave the Bulls 120117 edge and Scott May who contributed nine of his 17 points in the four th quarter added two insur ance free throws to put the game away for Chicago Nuggets 106 Lakers 101 Dan Issel scored nine of his gamehigh 23 points in the final quarter to rally Denver in the final two minutes for victory over Los Angeles The Nuggets playing without scoring leader David Thompson because of groin injury trailed by nine points going into the final pe riod Bullets 117 Pistons 109 Washington built big lead on the thirdquarter shooting of Larry Wright and Mitch Kup chak then held off rally to defeat Detroit Kupchak who came off the bench late in the first quarter finished with 29 oints and Wright had 19 before ouling out Jazz 111 Nets 1011 Pete Maravich scored 41 points including 16 in deci sive third period to lead New Orleans over New Jersey Looking for cigarettes blindfolds Clubs equate kickoff with execution When most National Football League teams get ready for ac tion the first things they look for are helmets and pads But San Francisco 49ers Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are beginning to look for blindfolds and ciga rettes After five weekends of action the three National Football League teams can be excused if they equate kickoffs with executions After all theyve been beaten every time they have taken the field They will try again Sunday to get their first victories of the yearthe 49ers at home ain st Detroit Lions the Chi at San Diego against the Chargers and the Bucs at home against Green Bay Packers Among the NFLs more fortu nate teams Sunday Denver Broncos will be at Cincinnati Bengals Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia Eagles Baltimore Colts at New England Patriots Houston Oilers at Pittsburgh Steelers Cleveland Browns at Buffalo Bills New York Giants at Washington Redskins Oak land Raiders at New York Jets Seattle Seahawks at Miami Dolphins Atlanta Falcons at Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints at St Louis Car dinals Monday nights game is Min nesota Vikings at Los Angeles Rams When our team steps on the field weve got to believe were better than who were facing San Francisco quarterback Jim Plunkett says The problem is they havent felt that way IN THE MINI As wide receiver Gene Wash ington said Its mental Foot ball is mental Were pressing We need to feel we can score and we dont feel that way right now Having the Lions show at this time wont help that eel ing even though Detroit has won only one of its last nine road games Detroit hasnt By WERNER BERGEN Sports Editor What started as hohum hockey game ended thriller Fri day night at the Barrie Arena The Barrie Flyers came from behind to defeat the Mississauga Golden Arrows 42 with Gary MacMiIlan scoring twice for the winners The Arrows built up 21 lead after the first period and the Flyers tied it in the second with Doug Fergusons goal The Fl ers appeared to be on the verge of losing to the last place clu in the league but it took called back goal to set the team on fire BREAKAWAY The Flyers had breakaway goal called back with eight minutes gone in the final period because of an offside call The Flyers then bombarded the Arrows net with 22 shots out shooting Mississauga 5223 in the game Flyers Arrows The win preserves the teams winning streak at home Its hard to get the club up for game when theyre going against the bottom club said Steve Cripps Flyers general manager Their goaltender got hot and when they realized they had hockey game on their hands they started to play Cripps said LOOKED FLAT The Flyers looked flat for most of the first two periods with only their penalty killing teams playing steady hockey While the Flyers had the edge in shots on net the club could not come up with any sustained pressure during the first two periods The goal that was scored by Jon Hammond and then called back started the Flyers hustling Barrie started throwing their weight around and began skating It was the MacMiIlan Wayne Carleton and Hammond line that finally got the Flyers on track The Flyers defence was still shakey Friday night and gave the puck away on several occasions Steve Sly and Doug Ferguson started throwing their weight around late in the game and it kept Mississauga at bay ATTITIDE Cripps said the team still did not have the right psychological attitude Cripps said the team has three practices next week and the Flyers would have to work hard to repare for Brant ford The Flyers play in Brantford on Fri ay He added the team was trying to arrange for fan bus to go the game The Flyers took 10 lead at 51 of the first period with Mac MiIlan scoring from the slot Carleton assisted Dave Large stole the puck from Barrie defenceman Charlie Shaw and Went over the blueline on goalie Dave Johns He boomed shot that went in the stick side Cal Herd made it 21 for Misssissauga at 1802 when he fired the puck through maze of legs during scramble SCOHEI IOAI Ferguson took the puck at the point after Bob Wasson had won the draw in the Mississauga end at 207 of the second period His low shot beat Rick Katanasowski in the Arrows net Les Burgess also assisted The Flyers were bombarding the Mississauga net with shots when Burgess fired home rebound after faceoff Sly and Wasson assisted The Flyers put the game out of reach at 1804 During long scramble in front of the Arrows net MacMiIlan tapped in re bound The action was rough in front of the net and when the goal was scored players were draped over the crossbar and goalposts arleton and Hammond assisted Barrie Flyers sign players Barrie Flych in the Ontario Senior Hockey League signed two new players Friday night Dave Johns and Charlie Shaw were signed just prior to the start of the game and both saw action as the Flyers downed the Mississauga Golden Arrows 42 Johns 21 was one of the Flyers draft choices this spring He played with the North York Rangers in the Provincial Junior Hockey League He started in goal for the Flyers and faced 21 shots on net TOP GOALIE Johns was the to goalie in the league for the past two years Johns was also dralled by the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League Steve Cripps Flyers general manager said Johns had surviv ed cuts from two rookie camps in September with the Red Wings and was the last goalie to be cut in the regular training cam Jolins was sent down to Kansas City training camp but decid ed to play senior hockey PLAYED Shaw 21 played last year with Toledo in the International Hockey League He also played for two years with the London England Lions Shaw is defenceman who played his junior hockey with the Toronto Marlits Cripps said he also has two other players in camp Kurt Muller and Don Gearson EUROPE Muller has played in Europe since 1971 and last year was the goalie with the Austrian National Team He had 225 goals against average He originally signed with the Whitby Iroquois Gearson was with the Houston Aeros in the World Hockey Association last year Cripps said Ernie Miller and Ron Patterson are still the first and second goalies on the team He added Johns came with high recommendations and it was worth using players card to sign him Cripps said the Flyers may be going to the the threegoalie system Cripps said Muller and Gearson are in camp trying for the team but nothing definite had been arranged Cripps said after the game Friday night he was pleased with the way Johns played He was nervous but played good game Cripps said yielded touchdowu in seven periods of play since the open ing quarter of 147 loss to Min nesota on Oct Kansas Citys pmblem says coach Paul Wiggin is too many turnovers So what does Kansas City have to face at San Diego Only the American Football Confer ences No1 team in pass de fence And speaking of defence havent seen very much of it out there lately says Tam pa Bay coach John McKay Hes right The Bucs are 11th in total defence in the AFC Add to that the fact that thevre last in conference offence and you can see why the Bucs are not only winless this year but since the team was formed 19 regular season games ago While the 49ers Chiefs and Bucs try and avoid 06 Denver Dallas and Baltimore try to make their records 60 In an other key matchup Houston and Pittsburgh who belted each others quarterbacks out of action two weeks ago meet again in Pittsburgh with at least share of the AFC Cen tral lead at stake The Steelers and Oilers along with Cleveland are 32 at the top one game ahead of Cincinnati Cook Juveniles lose opener 62 Allan Cook Juveniles dropped season Thursday to Richmond Hill The Juveniles played its first home game of the season at the Eastview Arena and lost 62 Mike Brooks and Barry Brett scored for the Juveniles The next game for the club will be Sunday at 430 pm in Newmarket The team bus will leave the Barrie Arena at their first game of the The next home game for the team will be on Thursday when they play host to Aurora The Juveniles play every home game on Thursday at Eastview Snooker players visits Barrie Cliff Tborburn runnerup in the World Snooker Champion ship will be in Barrie Oct 30 Thorbum 33 will be at Town Billiards on Dunlop Street at 12 noon to give twohour demonstration on his skill Royals dump Aurora Tigers Two goals by John Gibb helped Royal York Royals to 52 victory over Aurora Tigers in Friday game of the Ontario Hockey Association Provincial Junior league In other games Markham Waxers downed North York Rangers 62 and Guelph Platers whipped Norh Bay Trappers 41 Play resumes Sunday with Wexford at North York Dixie at North Bay and Royal York at Aurora Playing at home the Royals got two goals from John Gtilllib Dave Robb John Dixon and Dave Blue added the ers Aurora scorers were Mario Giallinardo and Norm Kujola At North York the Waxers had two from Chris DeGeer and one each from Bob OBrien Jim Heasty Steve Ludzic and Bob Young Bill Wensink and Bob Millard replied for the Rangers In Guelph there were three goals from Mark Aitken and and one from Ted Kewley for the Platers who outsbot North Bay 3346 Olympic plans draw warnings LAUSSANE Switzerland AP Possible plans to reduce track and field events in the Olympics have drawn fire and an ominous warning from one of the sports senior figures We will not consider any suggestion that our events be reduced says Adrian Paulen Dutch president of the Inter national Amateur Athletic Federation IAAF We understand that such plan may be for wardand if that happens it will be the en of our federation in the Olympic Games Paulen said Friday Paulen made his statement during meeting between the executive board of the International Olym ic Committee 10C and leaders of the 26 international erations which control sports in the Olympics The lOCs program commission studyinr what many con sider the unwieldy size of the Olympics recommended earlier this year that all current sports be retained in the Games But it now is considering other ways of making the Games smaller among them trimming the number of even ts Lumber Kings take over first By THE CANADIAN PRESS Pembroke Lumber Kings took over sole possession of first place Friday downing Brockville Braves 163 while Nepean Raiders moved into tie for second place with idle Glouces ter Rangers by beating Hawkesbury Haws 64 in Central nunior Hockey League action In Pembroke Rob Wilson Matt Murray and Dale Wilson scored two goals apiece for the Kings while Stewart Brazeau Warnie Richardson Rick Green and Shane Swan adding single goals Ken Hull Paul Picard and Steve Cherry scored for the Braves Pembroke has won six games in eight starts this year and leads Nepean and Gloucester each with five wins The Raiders scored ive goals in the second period on their way to comefrombehin 64 victory over Hawkesbury Ed Giacomin named top star DETROIT AP Nobody seemed to want to risk $50000 on Eddie Giacomin in the National Hockey League intraleague draft couple weeks ago After all how much value can there be in 38yearold goalie Its that kind of thinking that enabled Detroit Red Wings to slip him through the draft unclaimed Theyre glad nobody grabbed him The former New York Rangers goaltender made his first start of the season Thursday night and was sen sational against Montreal He turned away 25 of 27 shots but the last was Larry Robinson backhander with 16 seconds left that pulled the Stanley Cup cham pion Canadiens into 22 tie STOPPED BREAKAWAY Most of Giacomins saves were of the spectacular variety including one sprawling stop of breakaway by Montreal star Guy LaFleur ED GIACOMIN Stars Sojourner admitted to hospital ATLANTA AP Forward Mike Sojoumer of Atlanta Hawks has been admitted to hospital for observation and treatment at local mental health centre an official of the National Basketball Association team says Hawks eneral manager Mike Gearon is reported to have taken Sofoumer to the centre Wednesday after an incident in which Sojour ner was accused of taking taxicab he had been riding in He was not charged Carlos May becomes free agent ANAHEIM AP Carlos May the first basemanout fielder acquired last month by California Angels from the New York Yankees last month has declared himself free agent the Angels announced Friday Vilas defeats Ilie Nastase BUENOS AIRES Reuter Guilermo Vilas of Argentina beat Romanian Ilie Nastase 26 66 63 in the final of four man international tennis tournament Friday night and claim top prize of $9000 Mexican Raul Ramirez took third place beating Adriano Panatta of Italy 64 63 Red Wings sign free agent DETROIT AP Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League announced Friday the signing of free aguit centre Larry Wright Wri Iayed last season in Europe He was firstround dra ck of Philadelphia Flyers in 1971 but chose to play in Europe after few years In the minors The Flyers put him on waivers in May 1976 The Wings picked him up but Wright asked for and received amateur status Traces found of banned drug HELSINKI Reuter Finnish athletes and other Eu ropeans have shown positive results in prelimlnar tests for anabolic steroids this year an athletics official an Friday CarlOlaf Homen chairman of the Finnish Athletics Feder ation told news conference the banned musclebuilding drugs had been detected in samples taken from the athletes of number of European countries including Finland He did not name the other countries