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NEW YORK RANGERS Phil Esposito left Ken Hodge centre and John Davidson have outfitted themselves this season with sweater numbers unfamiliar to hockey fans Esposito has doubled up his old No Hodge followed suit with his 88 while goalie Davidson wears 00 on his sweater as joke CP Photo Rutledge still in lead TORONTO CP Wayne Rutledge remains the leading goaltender in the World Hockey Association despite having helped an opposition rookie tat ten his scoring totals during the last week WHA statistics released Mon day showed Rutledge leading the league with 241 goals against average even though he allowed five goals including three by rookie George Lyle in 51 loss to New England Wha lers last Wednesday Lyle is the top scoring rookie in the league with 18 goals and 13 assists in 26 games Winnipegs Ander Hedberg continues as the leading scorer with 10 goals and 29 assists but now is in danger of dropping behind because the Jets are off to Moscow where they will repr eeiit the league in the lzvestia tournament until Dec 23 Durng his absence Hedbcrg likely will be overtaken by Que bec Nordiques leader Real Cloutier who now is just three points behind with 27 goals and 29 assists Barrie Raceway Entries WEDNESDAY FIRST PACE MILE $400 1GYPSY HILL NIKKI Byron 7TAR BATTLES Nicholls +BONNIE HERBEN Brown 2Moorelands Mister Robinson sBrass Pole Golver 5Chief Ellis Taylor GArmbro Racey 11 Cassien BMiss Nevele Dream Dumont SECOND TROT MILE 3400 ZrQUARTER MOON Stincr 4PATRICIAS FROST Lee EBROWN ELEANOR Bax istraight Shot ass 3Celias Caper Jones sRideau Song Breadner GMoorelands Moray Nicholls 7HighLighming Kcays THIRD PACEMILESLM 5ST VINCENT Kennedy 6ARAMAC FLINT Sheldon 7KEYSTONE ADVOCAIE Osborne lGmentree Penny Boyce 2AnxiousAlex Nelson 3HiAlice rowe 4LeesMarie Brown 0AlleyCaiter album FOURTH PACE MILE 450 WLENHOLMEJOE Robinson SKING KOIL vfawson WIL LOR GRACIE Brcthour 10ntario Frost Scrannogi zArgyel Flash Cum +High Attorney row 5Widows Joe nnerud 7ShaariWL Osborne FIFTH TROT 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Scrannagi 2IIIZATHER MARK Keays 1HilltopAuburn sboriii 38prcadSatin Byroi 4SteclMastir Hell SrStadium Kennedy 611 Par Browr SPOR TS BRIEFS MORE REST FOR ORR TORONTO CP Another two weeks rest was prescribed Monday for Bobby Orrs ailing left knee Alan Eagleson rrs lawyer said the star Black Hawks defenceman was exam ined by Dr John Palmer He found no further damage to the knee but it requires more rest said Eagleson KLINESOIJ CLEVELAND AP Right handed pitcher Steve Kline was sold Monday by Cleveland In dians to Atlanta Braves for an undisclosed amount of cash an Indians spokesman said Kline who played with the American League baseball club in 1974 spent last year on the Indians minor league Toledo team where he posted 910 mark with 506 earnedrun average COMPLETED TRADE NEW YORK AP New York Mets received 23yearold outfielder Sheldon Mallory from Kansas City on Monday completing threeway deal with the Royals and Chicago Cubs The deal made at last weeks majorleague baseball meetings sent outfielder Jim Dwyer from the Mets to Chicago sent first baseman outfielder Pete LaCock from the Cubs to Kansas City and sent player to be named laterMallorwarom the Royals to the Mets TWO CALLED UP NEW YORK AP New York Rangers of the National Hockey League called up goalie Doug Soetaert and centre Greg Holst from New Haven of the American Hockey League on Monday to replace goalie John sued Meadowlands raceway Monday charging that it has withheld $1 million in funds re quired to spend to improve the quality of horses at the track Superior Court Judge George Gelman agreed to hear the case Dec 23 The suit filed by the Standardbred Breeders and wners Association allege the track is unlawfully withholding breakage the few cents re tained by the track when parii mutuel payoffs are rounded to the nearest dime MAY OACII JETS NEW YORK AP Walt Micliaels defensive co ordinator with New York Jets for 11 years will be the National Football League teams head coach next season Ihc Associated Press learned Monday Michaels 46 twicc passed over by the Jets for the head coaching job inherits the post vacated last Thursday by Lou Iloltz who quit to return to college coaching at the Univer sity of Arkansas Michacls denied knowledge of the ap pointment QOMOOQOOOWDEO This CHRISTMAS Give Peace of Mind In ml Bernier Que 2127 4H 4H Nilsson pg 1632 4H 11 Turn Que 24 22 4622 Ftorek llix 24 43 41 Hordeleaii Que 1511045 Harris Ind 17 25 42 ll Leduc iii 27 4215 Stoughtoii iii 2019119115 Kenn Min 12 27 J9 Napier Bir 2012 38 Dudley in 14 2337 it Sobchiik in 11124117111 Lacroix S1 in I16 10 Liiidstiuiii Wpi ltl 17115 Webster NE 14 21 lt lti Nuris SI 1111143421 Hordelcau Oiis lo 17311 11111 lhx 1411 Illttlltlll liii 114142 Lyle NE 18113124 Ketola ng 1614111123 Sullitoii ng 12 1H3 Rogers NE to 2t 11 The leading gnoltciiders IIIIS St ti Rutledge lloii l17i 113 4t Wakel SI 91174 72 llilit pi lttl tit 12110 MtIJriti léll I434 39 ll leuisseur 31in 1047 3012 H7 Lapoirite tiii 11821 no Ilioii Ind 770 Alt Ii 12 Dryden Ediii our 11 Landon NII 450210 It 11 iiiraiL Min 72111101117 Cant afford to be host SAINT JOHN Saint John cannot afford to be host of the 1977 Canadian senior baseball championships if the 11team roundrobin format recently adopted by the ana dian Federation of Amateur Baseball is retained tournar ment coordinator says Saint loliii was selected as the site for the tournament at the lcdeiations annual meeting in November Vic Fitzgerald of Saint lohn said Monday that when the city made its bid for the tournament it expected it would be six team doubleknockout tournar iiient as was played in Fred ericton last year We just cant handle the ex pense of playing iotindrobin tournament with 11 teams he said in an interview Sport Canada is to pay tcanis transportation to the lOllfIltl ment but other expenses are to be absorbed by the host 0111 inunity SPORTS CALENDAR MINOR HOCKEY at Eastview Arena pm Spitfires vs Lions Phantoms vs Sabres Hurricanes vs Typhoons 905 Hornets vs Mosquitoes 1005 Tigers vs Mustangs HROOMRAIJ at Lefroy Barrie vs Wall Glover vs Towers BASKETBALL High School Barrie Central at Alliston 330 pm Collingwood at Stayner Gilbert getting there in NHL scoring race MONTREAL CP For most of the 197677 National Hockey League season Guy Lafleur and Steve Shutt of Mon treal Canadiens have been one two in the NHL scoring race But statistics released by the NHL this week showed that vet eran right winger Rod Gilbert has moved into second place four points behind Lafleur and one ahead of Shutt Gilbert who played his 1000th NHL game Sunday night as the Rangers defeated Mon trea152 picked up three assists in the Montreal win to move past Shutt Gilbert led the league with 32 assists to go along with 15 goals for 47 poin ts Lafleur had 24 goals and 27 assists for 51 points going into this weeks play and was two points ahead of his pace of last season when he won the scoring championship with 125 points Shutt had leagueleading 29 goals after Sundays game to go along with 17 assists SCORING LEADERS Ple 24 27 51 Lafleur Mtl Gilbert NYR 15 32 47 24 Shutt Mtl 2917 46 20 Dionne LA 14 30 44 Sittler Tor 1217 38 Robinson Mtl 30 3716 Murdoch NYR 2313 36 Williams LA 1618 36 McDonald Tor 21 14 35 38 Goring LA 1124 35 Salming Tor 20 3512 Charron Wash 2014 34 Young Minn 1123 34 28 Ratelle 305 1419 33 Clarke Pha 1023 33 20 Mahovlich Mtl 27 33 20 Esposito NYR 12 20 32 20 Vail All 1516 31 Martin Chi 1120 31 Potvin NYI 10213141 Turnbull Tor 23 3136 Lapointe Mtl 8233122 GOALKEEIERS RECORDS Emptynet goals bracketed MP GA 50 Avg Larocque 360 11 183 Dryden 1560 58 223 Mtl 1920704219 Resch 1117 39 209 Smith 623 28 270 NYI 1740693238 Desjardins 1422 49 207 Sauve 104 404 Smith 94 574 But 1620650241 Myre 997 44 265 Bouchard 803 40 299 A11 1xoo8542t13 Inness 140 257 Parent 1600 75 281 Phil i7401121283 Gilbert 900 42 280 Pettic 60 300 Cheevers 640 45 321 808 180093l310 Vachon 1559 80 306 Edwards 301 20 399 LA 860100l323 Meloche 1800 57 317 Simmons 720 40 333 Clc 1800992330 Wilson 1241 59 285 Herron 306 15 294 Laxton 253 26 617 Pgh 1800l002333 Giacomin 960 46 268 Rutherford 720 46 383 Det It l680953339 Davidson 1235 59 287 Gratton 625 46 442 NY l8601061342 Palmnleer 1120 50 268 McRae 120 450 Thomas 560 43 461 Tor 18001030343 McKenzie 160 300 Favell 166 321 Plassc 1412 81 344 Col ll4010002145 Johnston 751 35 280 Staniowski 1049 73 418 Stl 18001090363 Esposito 1619 97 359 Dumas 181 14 464 Chi 180011213l3 Maniago 740 46 373 Ridlcy 1120 72 386 Vcr l8601200387 Low 12311 84 407 Wolfe 502 35 418 Wash 21 174012104l7 LoPresti 870 59 407 Smith 810 59 437 Harrison 120 11 550 Mlnn l800131041l7 Outstanding athlete award goes to jockey Sandy Hawley Leads Oilers to win before 15000 fans TORONTO CI Sandy Hawley who this month be came the youngest jockey ever to ride 3000 career winners in North American thoroughbrcd racing has been chosen 1976 winner of the Lou Marsh Tro phy as Canadas outstanding athlete it was announced Mon day The 27yearold Hawley na tive of Oshawa Ont who now makes his home in Mississauga Ont this year became the first rider ever to win more than 400 races in single season three times The trophy named for the Kickreturn leaders are Rodgers Long TORONTO CP Johnny Rodgers with another record yardage total for Montreal Alouettes and Rocky Long of British Columbia Lions re peated as the kickreturn lead ers in the Canadian Football League this season The official FL statistics re leased Monday show Rodgers with record 931 yards was the undisputed puntreturn cham pion while Long was the leading kickoffreturn man with 979 yards Seaver wins honors SAN FRANCISCO AP The National League had five LEOgame winners last season the most since 196977 but 14 gamewinner Tom Seaver of New York Mets won individual honors in the strikeout depart ment league statistics released today show Seaver four times 20game winner posted 1411 record for the 1976 baseball season de spite leagueleading 235 strikeouts and an earnedrun average 01259 third best in the league The Mets star set major league record by striking out 200 or more batters for ninth consecutive season He has led the league in strikeouts five times in the last seven years Randy Jones of San Diego Padres the Cy Young Award winner as the leagues top pit chcr posted 2214 record and was the leader in victories games started 140 complete games innings pitched 313 and least hits allowed 274 Other 2tgame winners were the Mets Jerry Koosman Don Sutton of Los Angeles Dodgers Steve Carlton of Philadelphia Ihillies and Richard of lloustonAstros John Denny of St Louis Tar dinals was the ERA champion with 252 mark followed by the Dodgers Doug Rau at 257 The Mets Jon Matlack and John Montefusco of San Fran cisco Giants bad the most shut outs sixeach Leaders in relief pitching Ill cluded Cincinnatis Rawly Eastwick with 26 saves Mon treals Dale Murray with 81 ap pearances and San Diegos Hutlt ch Metzger who finished the most games 62 SOCCER TEAMS TIE LONDON Router Orient and Nottingham Forest drew in the AngloScottish Cup soc ccr final firsteg game Mon day The sccondleg match is at Nottingham on Wednesday Rodgers improved on his record of 912 yards in punt re turns in 1975 despite ssing two games this year mmy Edwards of Hamilton Tiger Cats was second among punt returners this year with 690 yards barely ahead of Long whohad 688 Six punts were returned for touchdowns including recordtying two by Joe Hollimon of Edmonton Only one ID punt return was recor ded in the East Edwards get ting it with toilyard return against Toronto on the final day of the season Paul Williams of Saskatchewan had the longest punt retum108 yards for touchdown SET GAME RECORDS Two Edmonton specdsters Hollimon and Larry High baugh shared kickoffreturn honors with Long Hollimon set singlegame records of eight returns for 239 yards in game at Calgary The former record of six returns in one game had been shared by numerous players The former record for kickoffreturn yardage was 219 set by Pete Thodos of Calgary in 1952 For the second consecutive year Highbaugh was the only player to return kickoff for touchdown and the only player to return one for more than 100 yards lle scootcd 118 yards against Winnipeg on Oct 17 the second longest return in CFL history two yards short of the record 120 yards set by Mack Herron in 1972 Longs leading 979 was well ahead of Calgarys Larry Catcs with 901 Dave Shaw of Hamilton was the Eastern Conference leader with 726 yards late sports editor of Toronto Star has been awarded an nually since 1936 the year Marv sh died It goes to the top athlete in Canada professional or amateur male or female Last years winner was centre Bobby Clarke of Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League Hawley won it previously in 19721 when he rode record 515 winners in single year That mark was broken the following year Last month Hawley set record for purse winnings in single year when the total won by his mounts topped the pre vious mark of $425106 held by American rider Laffit Pincay Hawleys total now is more than $45 million but Angel Cor dero Jr has since pulled ahead And because Hawley has de cided to take the rest of the year off after Tuesday Cordero is almost certain to finish on top PUBLICINVITED The public was invited to nominate athletes for the Lou Marsh Trophy this year and about two dozen names were considered by committee headed by advertising agency executive Harry Red Foster chairman of the board of gover nors of Canadas Sports Hall of Fame The committee also in cluded George Gross sports editor of Toronto Sun Jim Vi pond sports editor of Toronto Globe and Mail Jim Proudfoot sports editor of The Star Milt Dunnell Star sports columnist and Mel Sufrin sports editor of The Canadian Press The committee voted honor able mention to Kathy Kreiner of Timmins Ont winner of gold medal in the giant slalom at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck Austria Darryl Sit tler Toronto Maple Leafs cen tre who scored the winning goal in the Canada up hockey series Arnold Boldt of Saska toon onelegged high jumper who won gold medal with leap of six feet two inches at the Olympiad for the Disabled in Toronto and three athletes who won silver medals at the Mon treal lympics high jumper Greg Joy of Vancouver canoeist John Wood of Mis sissauga and equestrian Michel Vailla ncourt of Hudson Que PIEVTYOf EURl ROOMH THE 0103 013 fOk MEAHD QPOT 34 OURO fEEI MOREQPAOE The Ontario Hockey Assoc iation Senior Hockey Lea gue now has cup of its own to compete for Carling OKeefe Breweries announc ed Friday major sponsorship of the OHA Senior League Scott McLean left assis EDMONTON CP Bill Cowboy Flett made his debut with Edmonton Oilers on Mon day night and led the stubborn World Hockey Association club to 64 victory over the touring Czech National team before an excited crowd of 15294 the largest ever to watch hockey game in Edmonton Flett obtained last week from Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League got plenty of help from centre Bryan Campbell who earned three assists and was named outstanding Edmonton player inthe game It was the second loss in row for the Czechs who lost 05 Sun day to Winnipeg Jets The Oilers received brilliant goaltending from Dave Dryden and Ken Broderick Czech oslovakia held 3920 edge in shots on goal but Edmonton led 42 after the first period and 52 after the second Broderick made four difficult stops in rapid succession just before he was replaced midway through the second period Dry den faced 26 shots in the final 30 minutes and gave up only two goals Broderick has played several seasons for the Canadian na tional team but Dryden never played top international rivals before Czech netminders Miroslav Krasa and Miroslav Termer were not sharp Krasa gave up goals to Gavin Kirk and Flett in the opening minutes and was replaced at 535 of the first pe riod The other Edmonton goals were collected by Rick Morris Frank Beaton and Randy Rota Eduard Novakscored twice for the Czechs and Lybomir Bauer and Jaroslav Pouzar had goal each Novak and Pouzar scored in rapid succession in the third period to leave Ed monton ahead 64 but Dryden made magnificent stop on Vaclav Sykora to halt the rally Coach Bep Guidolin agreed with the selection of Campbell as Edmontons top player but said everybody played well Flett was super almost ev The Barrie Examiner Tuesday December 14 1976 11 HERES THE NEW CUP tantgeneral manager of the Barrie Flyers Senior hoc key club accepts color photograph of the Carling OKeefe Cup from John Prentice supervisor of promotion for Ontario for Carling OKeefe with Ted erybody was super he said Everybody worked his insides out and thats what we needed Campbell and Dryden were more impressed with the size of the crowd than with their con tributions to the victory Kirks goal was 25foot slap that trickled through Krasas pads and Fletts first was an easy conversion of rebound following Campbells hard shot deflection by Bauer and No vaks wicked 40footer tied the score near the middle of the fir st period but Bobby Russells tricky play left rebound for Beaton and the ilers went ahead to stay Morris got credit for the four th goal and Flett faked Termer to the ice with brilliant move about 25 feet from the net before hitting the top of the mesh with blast in the second period Rota scored Edmontons six th goal when his shot popped in to the net after hitting Termer But Pouzar nudged shot SANTA SAYS For the greatest selection of Electrohome Color TVs in Sim coe County see BARRIE TV Over 10 000 Showroom CU T0 Color Special 48 BARBIE IVo 80 DUNIOP ST it of Moore area representative on hand Mr Prentice has been touring the cities with teams in the OHA Senior League with the real thing sterling silver bowl on walnut base Examiner Photo past Dryden with eight minutes left and Novak connected 50 seconds later The Czechs continue their tour Wednesday with game against Calgary Cowboys FOR BETTER PRINTING JOHN COCKBURN lIMIIED 66 MORROW ROAD BARRIE 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