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Santa gets sports mail By ED HARPER Chayl Here it is Christmas time again and good old Santa has been receiving letters by the bagfull from good sports everywhere The following are few of the letters that had the jolly old gentleman laughing so hard that he forgot to put the red paint on Rudolphs nose Dear Santa Claus If you could possible find good quarterback in your bag would be forever greateful am back with the Toronto Argos again and want to give the Toronto Fans winning team Please help me Santa dont want to end up like Russ having people say am lousy coach So if you could leave great quarterback under my tree am sure could have winning team next year Merry Christmas Santa LEO CAHI LL Dear Santa Just few lines to thank you for all the winners you left me last Christmas had great year and have now ridden over 3000 career victories It was confirmed today that am the winner of the Eclipse Award as North Americas outstanding jockey for 1976 Please dont stop bringing me those winning horses love you Santa Your faithful believer SANDY HAWLEY PS Santa why dont you trade in the reindeer for some horses Dear Mr Santa Claus Remember that magic goal scoring powder that you brought me last year Well used it all up at the end of November And since then have had to work so very hard without being able to put the puck in the net was fortunate enough to score two goals last Monday night against the Atlanta Flames but those were my first goals in 11 games Please Santa leave me good supply of scoring powder when you call on Christmas Eve would leave couple of hockey tickets on the table for you to come and see me play at Maple Leaf Gardens All the best DARRYL SllTLER Hello Santa How are you old friend bet that you have been busy talking to all the good children all over the world Well Santa my Job over the years has been lot like yours have done lot of talk ing and it has made me several mition dollars over the years gues am afar better talker than you are But you dont have to worry about getting your face punched in like do or becoming punchy As have everything need will only ask for your opinion this year Do you think should retire or should fight Just once more return bout With George Foreman would make me so rich Santa that could help you do good for the children of the FLYERS GEORGE Miliiir 12 goes alter wayward puck after save by rillia Terriers goaltender lydc Harris in Thursdays IIA world Please let me know MUHAMMED ALI In his mailbag Santa also found two letters from Barrie Dear Santa Thank you so much for sending me my gift early this year When received the gift of scoring goals for the Buffalo Sabres received the best present that have ever had It not only made me very happy but it made Mr lmlach hap py also There have been few Barrie boys who have made it in the NHL and hope can now know the thrill of playing in the big leagues and this is where want to stay Thanks again TERRY MARTIN Buffalo Sabres DearOld St Nick Well old fellow another year has gone by and great year for sports The Huronia Bicycle Club is coming along fine but we would like to have more riders So if youre givmg atway any racing bikes to kids in Barrie would you please leave note asking them to contact the undersigned if they are interested in learning to be bicycle racer Santa you could also put another 52 sports stories in my stocking to keep me going for another year YourUld Buddy ED HARPER PS Merry Christmas to everyone Ge thons earns shutout in 10 win by Glover LEFROY Glover rallied behind the shutout goaltending of Terry Gethons and edged Wall Real estate 10 in lnnislil Ladies Broombatl League ac tion this week at Lefroy Arena Judy Wilson scored the only Sue Marshall adding Singles Sue Winders goal for Pauleyanna broke Speedys sevengame shutout streak Standings lts goal of the game Speedy 16 In the other contest Speedy Clover 11 Muffler stopped Pauleyanna Pauleyanna 14 41 Barb Blogg had pair for Towers the Winners Brenda Scott and Wall WAYNERll2lt in uniform against tfic Prague Selects of Ztclios lovakia Monday and chncs day at the Barrie Arcna Carleton returned from TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR EXHIBITION GAMES Trying to get ticket for either the midget game Jan between Sweden and Barrie oOp Major Midgets or for the twogame series between Barrie Flyers and the Prague Selects Here are the outlets For Flyerszech series Iec27 and 29th Iacksons 435 Tm CNN mas bicak is the Grill Blue Mountain hrysler ollingwood Centennial radmonal mm 1mm mm Plymouth Chrysler Barrie Arena Muntz Hayfield Mall year hold mnmrhmky ml Ice ream lnlimitid Johnson Travel and Mothers namemS And Smymg that Mlk way this year ost S4 pt rpc rson or$4 per series There are Barrie teams com For olps Sweden game Jan team members etin in toiirniiiicnls executive members Barrie Arena Garners orts Mister throughout southern Ontario Barrie Allan ook Juveniles and the Ho Partridge Juveniles Will be part of the Silver Stick elimination hockey tournament which starts Sun RIO ornbeef and concession booth at Eastview Arena ost $2 per adult 31 for children All games are at the Barrie Arena ii fleal IAfl TAMBIYN ROBBIE IiiiEKllllIZEi JIM ANDERSON Jim Anderson Paul Tam btyn and Robbie Bcekhiiizen Will have their work cut out for them when the Barrie To Up major midgets meet Swedish team in an exhibi tion hockey game Jan at pm in the Barrie Arena Theirs is one of the top deten sivclines in their York Sim coc Minor Hockey League diVision where the Coup team has 1311 record Anderson centre has nine goals and 13 assists left winger lamblyn nine goals and 12 assists and right Winger Beckhuixcu lllltt goals and live assists oltlps Will be in Burlington Monday to compete in the annual Golden Horseshoe Tourna mcnt Senior league game at the Barrie Arena Flyers revenge ed 113 thumping handed out by rillia last time tfic stint Willi the ltockcy Association Bulls in time fourrgamc World Birmingham for Iliursilays It Win over trillia lcriicrs Photo tlilxannncr Christmas break is tourney time day at the ro lownship oni munity cntrc Barrie ps Major Midgets llt1l iiilo Burlington Monday to compete in tfic annual ililtltll llorscshm tournament lohii fullis Construction minor atoms begin play Monr day in the Stratford Rotary hockey tournament This is lourrday tournament ending With the championship liiial lhursday ro Byers Equipment midgets step into second round action of the Silver Stick regional playoffs at Wasaga llcach on Monday io defeated llcavcrton in the opening round and now face Stioud Rotary Major Iccwccs Will be 111 Burlington for tour nainint action next week Wllll iii lcnetaiiguishcne the annual Midland Silver Stick elimination tournament for midget hockey teams has drawn an entry from anadian IliS llasc llordcn Another team of the IfMllA in Burlington for tournament play is the insiiien Major Atoms BRIEFS LOSE MONEY HOUSTON Af An ol liciat of Houston Aeros said lhursday the World Hockey Association club Wlll end up in the red again this year unless there is sharp increase In at ltlltllllltl corgi tlolin chair man of the board said the Acros are averaging less than 6000 game and added we need to average 11000 to break even Holin said the team payroll is $16 million Acros lost about $400000 last year RENWI CK DI VISION LEADERS two clubs met with 53 win last night Flyers came back With four goals in the final period to get by rillia Barlt Carleton will be playing when Flyers meet Czechs It appears that Vtayne arlcton Will wear Barrie Flyer unilorin for the balance of this hockey season General manager Steve rip ps said lhursday that the 30 ycarold centre is committed to us for the year arlctoii wasnt quite so llllll lllllllttl comme ca he said of the likelihood of his playing the rest ol tfic seasontorthifycrs llc Illlllll from gamc stint llll lllt lift niiiigliain Hulls of the World Hockey Association Ill llltlt for lhursday ftr lVtlIttt game against lllt rillia tiriicis He took regular shift and was skating hitting and shooting iith authority lliougli hcld pointless he hit too goatposts and set up some fine opportunities for his lllltll£tlS arlcton has one goal in seven games With the Flyers He had onc in tolir games llll the Bulls ripps understanding is that Carleton is aparentiy nee gotiating for next years con tract Willi llirmiiighaiii but will be With Barrie for the rest of the Senior season arlclon did confirm that he Will be iii uniform for next Weeks exhibition games again st the fragiiiSctccts SPORTS CALENDAR SI IItlit tour Hotkm ittlioAiiiia llilll liik tliiiiiiialioiiloIiinJiiiiiiit It ii iii llill il Hltlllttl Jiiiliiilc all star gainr ii iii All Cars from Fri morning Dec 24 TO lues Noon Dec 28 Only 443 including 100 free milesexcess mileage 12 mile 43 Essa Rd Barrie rie now waits to start two game exhibition series with the Prague Selects of Czech oslovakia Monday Second Barrie Recreation AdVIsory Committee wants number of changes made to its present for mat which it feels Will help its role in asmsting recreational development in the City Artvisory Committee met recently primarily to teal With the future role of the Come mittec in order that ap propriate recoiiimcndations could be made to the incoming city council Committee is ltrttllltli number of rccoinniciidalions to mayorelect Ross Archer for tfic consideration of the Striking mllltllltt special group of city council which decides the members to serve on the various committees boards and commissions Included in the list of four recommendations is one calling for name change The Ad Visory Committee would like to be known as the Barrie Recreation Planning om niittcec The Committee also recom mended that aldermanic representation be reduced to one With the otticr members ap pomted for staggered terms of one two and three years This is the present practice in appointing members to the Barrie Planning Board and flame Library Board ommittee also wants to see change in their reporting procedure to city connoil The ommittee would like to report to the Public Works Commit tee It presently reports to the City Development Committee Art Storey discussion leader at the recent Barrie Community Recreation Con ference attended the meeting at Sunnidalc oniiiiiinity Cen tre BARRE DRIVE CAR 7266474 Advisory Board recommends changes Flyers back in first pl game is Wednesday Cost is $7 for the twogame series or $4 per game Examiner Photo Mr Storey spoke of the results of the Conference and the possible relationship of those results to the Recreation Advisory Committee Committee then discussed With Storey his general ob servations regarding the Con ference It was generally agreed that the conference was an excellent mechanism to receive input from the public on recreation l1IllS The holding of the onie munity Recreation Zontercncc was onc rccominendation by the Advisory ommittee thcr accoiiiplishiiicnts for the 1976 term include meeting Will rtpltSttIlllllVOS of the Barrie Kinsmen lub to discuss development of Little Lake Park Studying the need fora stated city policy in Park Street tron tage Recommended establishment of third beach area im mediately north of the NR station 7v TheBarrie Examiner Friday December 24 1976 17 ace When to pull goaltender late in close hockey game is tough decision Urillia Terriers coach Dale Rolfe can appreciate the com plexity of the problem all the more today in the wake of his teams 53 defeat at the hands of the Barrie Flyers in Ontario Hockey Association Senior League action at the Barrie Arena Thursday Rolfe called starting net minder Clyde Harris to the ben ch with almost minute and half to play and faceoff in the Flyers end The score was 32 for Barrie There was confusion after the draw but then Flyer rearguard Steve Sly snapped up the puck and fed winger Bob Baird who was in full flight at centre Baird will never have an easier goal than the shot he fired into the open net from ISfeet out With not Terrier in the vicinity It came at 1858 of the third period The goal knocked Orillia down but not out Tim Snyder rifled quick shot by Flyer goaltender Tom Fancy off faceoff 38 seconds later to pull the Terriers to within one They didnt get another chan ce however and Senior League scoring leader Paul Regan rubbed it in by scoring with one Second left on the clock Regan had pair of goals to pace Flyers Ken Knapton Doug Ferguson and Baird had theothers Rick Prien who made brief appearance at the Flyer rookie camp in September had the fir st two goals for Orillia and nearly tied the game With backhand from directly in front of Fancy with Just over minute showing on the clock ritlia fed 10 after the first period and after the second The score wasnt really representative The com bination of strong standup goaltending from Harris and inaccurate shooting by the Flyers enabled the Terriers to hold the slim lead through most of the contest Regans perSistence resulted in the tying goal at 1254 of the third period Harris had blocked his original shot but was knocked off balance by the Flyer centre in the scramble to get the rebound Before Harris could regain his balance Regan tucked the puck by him Doug Ferguson with his first goal of the season put the Flyers ahead for the first time in the game at 1441 of the third With slapshot from 20 feet out pass from Bob Monteith behind the net came right to liergusoii positioned directly in front of Harris ILYERS NOTES Barrie out shot rillia 3932 The Win lifts the Flyers back into first place in the RenWick UlVISlon Barrie has 28 points to Cambridges 27 Win for the Terriers would have earned them share of thirdplace with Brantford The Alexanders have 23 points Each team served Just five minor penalties but the game was chippier than that statistic suggests Barry Lutes twice came to blows They got twominute Baird and rillias roughing minors for second period alteration and nothing at all for trading punches in the third Monteith of the Flyers and Kevin Heatey of Orillia squared off in the first period each receiving roughing and highsticking minor And Bar rie defenceman Jack Smith traded slashes with goalie Har ris also in the first frame Bob Pepplar did not dress for Barrie Next opponents for the Flyers are the touring Prague Selects from Czechoslovakia Exhibition contests have been scheduled for Monday and Wed nesday at the Barrie ArenaThe Selects will be flying in Monday They play the first game of their tour against the Nova Scotia Voyageurs in Halifax Sunday last nights win helps erase an earlier 113 whipping in Orillia SUMMARY First Period rillia Prien Snider 546 Penalties Monteith Heatey double minors roughing high sticking Smith Harris slashing Second Period Barrie Knapton Polanic Sly 737 Oriltia Hughes 1440 Penalties Lutes trip ping Baird Lutes roughing Polanic high sticking Third Period Barrie Regan Branston Lyte 1234 Barrie Ferguson Monteith 1441 Barrie Baird Sly 1858 China Snider Cook 1936 Barrie Regan Branston 1959 Penalties None Senior Standings Renwfck Divlllon 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