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10 the examiner Friday August 11 1979 visible and tennis certainlyinvolves play with racket By THE CANADIAN PRESS Its called ball control and New York Cosmos are masters at it After toying with Toronto Blizzard through scoreless opening half of their North American Soccer League play off game Thursday the Cosmos came to life following the inter mission and opened the scoring in the 60th minute From then on they were on the ball all the time en route to 31 victory in the opener of their twogame National Conference quarterfi nalseries In Thursday night contest San Diego Sockers defeated California Surf 42 in an American Conference quarter final opener Bjorn Borg just keeps playing Borts wheel Tennis history still mystery TORONTO CP Bjorn Borg who some say has nerves of steel and icewater in his veins let everyone in on little secret Thursday have emotions like every body else Its just that keep them inside me With that out of the way the topseeded Swede in the mens draw at the Players Inter national Canadian Open tennis championships went on to ex plain how he proposes to im prove his almostflawless game Ive got to become more ag gressive Borg said following his 62 64 win over 19yearold Yannick Noah of France in OMJHL names Branch LONDON Ont CP Dave Branch executivedirector of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association will be named commissioner of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League next Tuesday The Free Press haslearned Branch who was secretary manager of the Ontario Hockey Association before taking the position with the CAHA two years ago will replace interim commissioner Sherry Bassin Bassin who took over from Bill Beagan last February will return to his former job as general manager of the OM JHLs Oshawa Generals fvy meets Kinnettes Ivy Bears and Kinnettes begin play in the series final of the Barrie and District Girls softball League on Mon day Ivy defeated Orioles 109 and 106 to win their bestofthree series while Kinnettes eliminated Junior Jays 1810 and 226 to advance to the finals In the consolation series Allandale Raiders meet Mighty Millers Raiders defeated Whalers 1511 157 to win their series while Mighty Miller took three games before ousting Blue Knights Both finals are bestoffive series By El IIARIER Chay Tennis is fast becoming one of the most popular sports in Huronia where sports seem to grow by leaps and bounds Tennis courts and clubs are springing up all over Barrie has many tennis courts There is an indoor tennis club in this sporting city several golf clubs have tennis courts well Tennis is one sport where every effort to establish the ex act origin has failed Many historians have gone delving for the possible date and nation of its birth and the only result is more guesswork Most folks seeking the origin of modern tennis leap quick ly to the conclusion that any game was tennis provided it was played with ball and stick and not on horseback These people ignore the possibility that such game might have been golf or field hockey In fact one expert went so far as todeclare the game undoubtedly polo played in com paratively modern France was tennis on horseback Were Romans first tennis players ne historian is positive the the Romans were first to play tennis He said the game was called lusio pularis although the term does translate into tennis The faction which claims tennis is traceable to Rome and Greece bases its contentions on almost undecipherable jj drawings These drawings show someone tossing ball over net or holding netted stick The latter may have been an ancient racket or frayed palmfrond or Grecian fly swat ter Homers Nausicaa contains sketches showing the Princess of Ihaeicia throwing ball over what looks like net to some ladies on the other side This it is said proves that tennis was played in that era However no racket is Even the ball in the picture might upon close examina tion prove to be powder puff which the princess was loan ing to classmate with shiny nose Iersians played similar game It is established that in Persia in 490 80 game wa played on horseback with ball netted stick and net In asmueh as Persia was then quite polo centre this was un doubtedly one of the twelve forms of polo In bad weather it was played indoors on court without horses Was this ten nis or indoor polo Tennis as definite game in France was not established until the 12th century Its official name was Le Paume and in French Le Paume means the palm of the hand The French first played Le Paume by batting the bal against wall Two players lacking court one day started batting the ball over mound of earth about two feet high and the net concept was born Tennis was abandoned as an outdoor game in the 13th cen tury when the King of France built an indoor court if was about that time when the game began to be referred to as Royal Tcnez the tenez meaning playl The British im ported tennis in about 1365 Edward II King of England if demanded that the game be played in his presence so that he could determine whether it was suitable for his subjects He gave immediate approval Although the origin of tennis is speculative there is no doubt many enjoy playing tennis today 20km race route Maher Shoes holds one point lead over Firenze Restaurant in the overall stan dings of the Barrie Optimist Minor Soccer Association Atoms division Both teams kept the battle for first place tight with recent vic tories Maher Shoes shut out Jellco Jellybeans 10 while Firenze trounced Jaycee Jets 71 In the MaherJellco match Darren Rumble scored the win ning goal for Maher while goalie James Oosterdag record ed the shutout Frankie Dirracolo scored four of Firenzes seven goals againt Jaycee Jets to led his team to victory Marc Bosco Adam LeBoeuf and Sean Tomlinson scored Firenzes other goals Ken Dunbrook scoredJayceeslonegoal LaffinPilgrim Insurance moved into tie for sixth place with Ys Mens when they defeated Ys Mens 80 John Milne played an outstanding game scoring five goals and earning part of the shutout sharing goal duties with Chris Ashwin Runners course for 20km race Su ny sponsored BxlsTigrsmlnillZmanh 935 in by Human Energy North shows star it the CKVR atom game Chris nan television tower off Hwy 27 Registration opens at am for postentry the race starts am and runs along country roads ending back at the start Jeff Harris and David French scored the Wismer goals while Paul Lemay and John Edwards replied for Buns Master Theres not much you can do if you dont have the ball said Blizzard coach Keith Eddy Once theyre in front they keep the ball As soon as they got that first goal they just killed the tempo of the game Toronto which finished the regular season with the worst record in the conference didnt grab the last wildeard playoff berth until the final night of the season Yet the Blizzard held its own in the opening half against the vaunted Cosmos who boasted the leagues top record Cosmos goalkeeper Hubert Birkenmeier came up with sparkling saves off George Gibbs and Ivan Lukacevic to Editor David Fuller72642537 Enters quarterfinals Borgs cool no hot secret thirdround match Thursday think Ill become more con fident the more play on this type of court The synthetic surface at York University Tennis Centre home of the $210000 Grand Prix event appears to be to Borgs liking And that can only be bad news for quarterfinal con testants here and those entered in the US Open to be played on an almostidentical type of surface at Flushing Meadows NY in two weeks Seventhseeded Gene Mayer of the United States who beat American Brian Teacher 36 76 Thursday to advance to the quarterfinal meeting with Borg agrees the Swede will be tough Meeting Borg in any final is brutal Mayer said He makes so few errors and keeps the ball in the court The best time to beat him is in the first or second round of tourna ment After that he is mar vellous In other thirdround matches Thursday secondseeded John McEnroe of the US easily de feated Tomas Smid of Czech oslovakia 63 60 fourthseeded Vitas Gerulaitis of the US beat David Schneider of South Africa 641 62 Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia sidelined Tom Okker of the Netherlands 62 Merchants edge Simcoe Barrie Merchants scored three runs in the fifh inning Thursday on the way to 41 victory over Simcoe Hotel in Barrie and District Recrea tional Legue quarterfinal playoffs The win saved the young club from elimination in the best of five series which Simcoe leads 2I In the other playoff game of the night at MacMorrison Park Canplas Industries took 21 lead its series with Barrie Op timists winning by he same score Georgian Sports meets Clifton Hotel pm tonight at MacMorrison followed by Gif fen Farm Equipment against Molsons Goldens at 830 pm Georgian and Giffen both lead their series two games to none BARBIE OPTIMIST MINOR SOCCER ASSOC BARRIE ONTARIO Downtown Centre maintain ed threepoint lead over Cholkan Realty in the squirt divison helped by victory over Allan Cook Mike Crawford scored Centres winn ing goal Cholkan lost ground in the standings when they lost 10 to Ital Fashions The win moved Ital Fashions to within three paraserve the scoreless first But after Johan Neeskenss goal at 6026 the game be longed to the the controlled of fence of the Cosmos who can advance to the conference semifinals with victory Sunday night at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford NJ Should the Blizzard prevail 30 minute minigame would en sue If the two clubs were tied after the extra session shootout would take place Vladislav Bogicevic at 80 16 and Rick Davis at 8708 got the other New York goals To ronto captain Colin Franks spoiled Birkenmeiers shutout bid when he beat the goalkee per on header after cross from Peter Roe at 8738 Sockers Surf At Anaheim Calif the Sock ers spotted California 20 lead on pair of goals by Laurie Abrahams and then struck for four unanswered goals in span of little more than five minutes midway through the second half Forward Hugo Sanchez scored two of the Sockers goals with Bobby Smith and Pete Nover getting the others The series resumes Saturday night in San Diego BOB BROWNING senior batting champ Browning wins title with 444 Bob Browning knew he won the Barrie and District Senior Softball League batting cham pionship last week but it became official this week The Church Homes third baseman passed defending champion Doug Keans of Slessor and Periard Insurance in the final game of the season Browning hit safely 16 times in 36 appearances at the plate for season average of 444 Keans finished the season with an impressive 25 hits in 57 trips to the plate for 439 Slessor batters dominated the top positions in the final stan dings with nine hitters finishing among the 16 best in the league Keans was followed closely by Gerry Raycraft who hit 28 times in 64 at bats for 438 average Also finishing in the top 16 for Slessor were Doug Shedden fifth 1641390 Rich Saunders eighth 1336361 Jim McPherson ninth INS354 Dae Raycraft 10th 1544341 Terry Giffen 11th 12663331 Bill Thurlow 14th 15483113 and Neil Parker 15th 1860300 Elmvale Merchants were shut out of the batting race altogether with none of their batters placing in the top 16 Secondplace Church Homes only batter in the standings was Browning Corby Adams ISM390 lead the five Beatrice Foods hitters to finish among the top 16 Warminsters Bruce Teskey was the only out of town player to finish among the leaders at 13th 1341317 Maher atoms hang on lead Firenze by point points of second place Mike Merkley scored Ital Fashions goal assisted by Mari Fumeo Frank Manieri scored two goals and Tony Garland scored one to pace Palermo Railing to 30 victory over Kiwanis Club Keith Davis scored five goals and Joey Manzone scored three to lead Cooke Cartages to an 81 drumming over Victoria Grey and Trust Clinton Fox scored Trusts only goal The scoring among Henry Verstraten team members was well spread out in Verstratens 100 shutout over Kinsmen Club Jason Triemstra scored two goals Jeff Mahoney scored three Stewart Connelly scored two and Colleen Duffy Jordan Scroutin and Keith McGee scored one each NEW CONCEPT IN lEISIIIIE llVING RUSTI CEDAR FURNITURE IDEAL FOR HOME COTTAGE R815 Cedar Shoppe COOKSTOWN our nm um 4589922 Toronto Blizzard player Cliff Calvert gets his foot between the legs of New York Cosmos defenceman Eskandarian in this attempt to gain Bayfield downs Transmission vVvf rv control during playoff North American Soccer League game in Toronto Thursday CP Photo Starr overruns CoOp Starr Electric proved once again its race for the playoff championship of the Barrie and District Intermediate Fastball league is no fluke Thursday Starr jumped all over Barrie CoOp in the fifth inning taking advantage of three errors to score eight runs on the way to 107 victory In the other semifinal game of the night at Queens Park Bayfield Furniture tied its series with Mr Transmission winning 41 CoOp took an early lead in the third inning scoring twice on single by Bob Thompson but Thompson also committed an error in the fifth inning that allowed one of Starrs runners to score Losing pitcher Ken Payne held Starr to one hit until the fourth inning when he allowed one run and three hits Starr hammered Payne for four hits and eight runs in the fifth Alex Smith earned the win for Starr allowing runs on 10 hits and one error Ron Hoggarth hit threerun triple in the seventh inning to spark rally that brought Co Op with three runs Smith capped his victory with solo homer in the sixth inning BAYFIEUN TRANSMISSION Bayfield Furniture finally turned things around in its series with Mr Transmission tying the semifinals 11 After being battered by both Transmission in the league playoffs and by Starr Electric in Ontario Amateur Softball Association Intermediate playoffs Bayfield held the powerhitting Transmission club to eight hits and single run Jim Fife went the distance for the firstplace club earning the victory Don Penfold gave up six hits on the mound for Transmission until he left the game in favor of Ron Giffen who gave up two more in the seventh inning Nick Owen drove in the wind ing run on single in the third inning scoring Brian Newhouse Juveniles fall to Gaels in first playoff game Oshawa Green Gaels defeated Barrie Juvenile Hurons 118 in the first game of the Lakeshore Lacrosse Leagues playoff series bet ween the second and fourth placeclubs At the end of the regular season Oshawa was in second place while Barrie finished fourth Whitby finished first and plays off against third placeMimico llllllllllllnn lllllllllllwmi llllllmlm llll Id HMlflnlflltlllllu llllllllllllllllti1ln1 Ill 31111 iillillilllliilll Warren Long Danny Roberts and Scott Torrie each scored two goals to lead the Barrie at tack but Oshawa showed fine offensive power jumping to SH lead after two periods Rob Stevenson and Greg Larkin scored the other Barrie goals The series resumes in Oshawa Friday Aug 17 The winners in each series meet for the league championship Jmflmllllllllltm my 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