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Barrie Bosclalr right new president of the Veterans Slowball League hands over the openinggame ball to Simcoe County Warden Bill Gibblns prior to the leagues first game Saturday at St Pauls Ball Park The league enterihg Its se cond season added two teams to the field of six for Its 1979 schedule Examiner Photo Oro Ladies play tonight Rugby East Oro and Orillia Small Motors will be making their first appearance in the Oro Ladies District Softball League during opening games tonight The three new clubs join Hawkestone Fudas Knelson Water Wells and Shanty Bay Mould Fuels in the seventeam league slated to begin play at Best Guthrie and East Oro schools at pm Last years champion Edgar moved to the Barrie and District Ladies Softball League Regulatory changes for the league this season include the addition of designated hitter and reentry rules Intermediate League tourney prize of $225 will be awarded the winners of the seventh annual Barrie Fastball Tournament to be held July 1315 at Queens MacMorrison and Shear Parks The host Barrie and District Intermediate Fastball League announced plans for the tournament on the weekend The event is for industrialleague teams only and deadline for the $60 entry fee is June The league also announced dance June at Legion Hall Admission is $2 per person and all players leagues and fans are welcome For further information or tickets contact Bill McAlleer at 7286164 Cosponsor of the tournament is CarlingOKeefe Brew eries who will be presenting the winners with bags and the finalists with awards No Ontario Amateur Softball Association intermediate or senior teams are eligible and players must have played at least two games for their industrial teams by tournament time Pastime Ruth comes home Pastime Ruth came through in the stretch in her second race this year to capture the top spot in the featured $6500 optional claiming pace at Barrie Raceway Saturday The brown 7yearold mare owned by Frankhurst Stables of Midhurst was driven to her first season victory by Jim McClure in 211 15 over sloppy track McClure took Pastime Ruth out behind Walters Marge at the halfmile pole and the pair battled past early leader Dover Cliff in the stretch At the wire McClure and his Alvin Clarketrained pacer pulled away by length Gautier keeps on winning Paul Gautier of Eastview Secondary School continued his winning ways with two firstplace finishes and personal best at the Flesherton Track and Field meet Saturday Gautier set meet record and recorded personal best for the year in the shot put event at the allmidget competition He also placed first in the high jump The only other firstplace ribbon for Eastview was earned by the 4by100m girls relay team Other high finishers for the lone Barrie entrant in the school event were Jill Lysibald second in girls long jump Sharon Edwards second in girls 50m hurdles the girls medley relay team second Reg McQuarrie third in boys 800m run and Laurie Wood Lorrie Woodstock third in girls 50m hurdles Peewee soccer tryouts start Tryouts for Barrie Peewees select soccer team will be held Tuesday pm at Allandale Heights School All peeweeaged players are welcome to attend Canadian cagers third SEOUL AP Carol Blazejowski scored 25 points and Nancy Lieberman collected 13 as the United States won its first world womens basketball championship since 1957 by defeating previously unbeaten Canada 7761 Sunday in the final game The Americans entered the final day with 41 wonlost record while the Canadians had won all five previous games 72 and needed only to hold the US winning margin down to 12 points to clinch the championship The United States had lost to host South Korea by 12 point in the opening game of the seventeam final round and Canada had defeated the Koreans by 13 points As result of Canadas loss to the US team the hos Korean team placed second after it defeated Italy 6356 South Korea and Canada each had 51 records but Canada placed third on point difference Scheckter wins elgian GP ZOLDER Belgium AP South African Jody Scheckter in Ferrari won the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday Frances Jacques Lafitte was second to take the lead in the world championships in his Ligier Third was Didier Pironi of France in Tyrrell while Gilles Villeneuve of Berthierville Que in the second Ferrari lost certain third place when he dropped out with mechanical failure in the last lap Carlos Reutemann of Argentina was fourth in Lotus 79 Italian Ricardo Patrese was fifth in an Arrows and Britains John Watson was sixth in McLarcn Although Scheckter took the lead in the world champion ship with 25 points Laffite only was one point behind and under the new rules had builtin advantage over the South African sports calendar MONDAY Fastball pm Grenfel vs Midhurst 830 pm Minesing vs Brentwood Midhurst park pm AngUS vs CFB Borden Braves 830 pm Antcn Mills vs Barrie Base Borden park Vespra Senior Fastball League seasonopening games Softball pm Shanty Bay vs Knelson Wells Best Memorial school Orillia vs Fudas Guthrie school East Oro vs Rugby East Oro school Oro Ladies Softball League seasonppening games Cycling pm The Simcoe County Recreation Department is holding cycling safety clinic at Byng Public School Stayner TUESDAY Track and Field The Georgian Bay Secondary School Athletic Association Zone track and field championships to be held all day at Banting Memorial High School Alliston All local high schools entered Rugger pm Brock High School Canningtoni vs Barrie North Collegiate GBSSA senior junior and midget games pm Barrie Central Collegiate vs Eastview Secondary School GBSSA junior and midgets games Eastview Soccer 630 pm Kiwanis Club vs Victoria and Gray Johnson St school Verstraten Insurance vs Ital Fashions Maple Grove school Cooke Cartage vs Downtown Centre Codr ington School Kinsmen Club vs Allan Cook Radio Shack Palermo Railing vs Cholkan Real Estate River wood Barrie Optimist Minor Soccer Association squirt divi sion seasonopening games Cycfing 1230 pm The Simcoe County Board of Education can tinues its series of cycling safety clinics at Bradford Public School MONTREAL CPI Some things are good enough to be savored instead of dissected analysed and interpreted You can lay back and wonder why this is happening but this is too nice to ruin by do ing something like that said Dave Maloney of New York Rangers after their 41 triumph Sunday over Montreal Cana diens in the first game of the bestofseven Stanley Cup final Maloney Steve Vickers Ron Greschner and Phil Esposito scored the Rangers goals as they snapped 10game homeice playoff winning streak by the Canadiens who received their goal from Guy Lafleur Three of the New York goals by Vickers on power play Determined balancing act determined Sherry Brooks of Forest Hill School performs on the balance beam during elementary school gymnastics meet in Midland More than 200 competitors took part in the meet sponsored by Corpus Christi school of Penetanguishene Photo by Diane Waltman Midland Free Press City soccer club loses Canadian fights to tie The Barrie City Soccer club just didnt have the scoring touch as it lost its first Newmarket and District Soccer Association premier division league game 20 Saturday in Orangeville In first division play Barrie Canadian battled to 33 deadlock against host Richvale Murray Hadley paced the Barrie attack with two goals and Hunter Saagar added single marker Missing from the Canadian lineup were middle defenceman Steve Jupp who suffered broken leg in exhibi tion play and may be out for the remainder of the season half Central out at relay meet This years Quaker Relay Races held no luck for Barrie Central Collegiate Two teams of sprinters from Central competed at the annual event but neither placed in the three events they entered The best performance of the day came in the junior girls fourby100m race where Cen trals Dawn Kendall Cindy Pomeroy Jane McDonough and Jennifer Irvine turned in the best time but were dis qualified for an illegal ex change on the first leg The boys team of John Bor rows Mickey Vandervelden Brent McMillan and Ken Leitch also failed to advance past the preliminary races in the medlay relay In the coed race Irvine McDonough McMillan and Leitch ran well but did not qualify for any further competi tion back Lawrence Wright out for at least month with sprain ed ankle and halfback Danny Foster by Greschner at even strength and by Esposito on another power play were scored after Montreal attempts to clear their zone misfired We could have been given assists on their first three goals said coach Scotty Bowman of the Canadiens who earned 25 points more than the Rangers in the National Hockey Habslose Stanley Cup opener Jinx what iinx Rangers say Leagues regular season We had given up 13 goals in the last eight periods and you cant win that way in the playoffs noted Bowman who suggested Michel Larocque probably will start in goal in the second game here Tuesday night John Davidson stopped 31 Montreal shots in backstopping spo For North Cadeauleads at Barons meet Monique Cadeau and Ian Llewellyn picked up firstplace finishes and set meet records in three events for Barrie North Collegiate at Saturdays Algon quin Barons Track and Field Meet in North Bay Cadeau tossed record setting 3994m in the junibr girls discus event and an 1135m in the shot put for pair of first place ribbons In the javelin Cadeau placed fourth with throw of 2620m Llewellyns long jump of 562 set Barons meet mark and earned him irstplace award and in his only other event the midget ran to top spot in the 100m sprint with time of 119 seconds Other firstplace efforts came from senior Michelle Ethier in the 100m hurdles and the junior girls relay team of Sue Reevie Kim Emms Kelly Grantham and Michelle Bouehey The relay teams winning time of 541 seconds was in vain however when the team was disqualified following the race Other highfinishers for North were Reevie second in junior girls 100m sprint the junior boys 4by100m relay team second Murray Lloyd second in junior boys long jump Allan Fahey third in midget boys long jump and Grantham third in junior girls shot put and 100m sprint Barrie cyclist eighth in London road races Barrie Cyclist Jeff Mauch raced to an eighthplace finish in Saturdays Fourth Annual Springbank Park Road Race in London The race was qualifying event for the Ontario road race team and Mauchs best finish in three outings this year More than 40 riders took part in the competition won by Ed Smolinsjki of Torontos High Park Cycling Club Mauch is an cyclist The Barrie rider said he was independent quite happy with his effort he had the lead at several points in the race because of recent illnesses that prevented him from racing and training as much as hed like to Mauch is aiming for the na tional championships at Mon treals Velodrome later this summer Two years ago the Barrie resident placed 11th in the 1000m trial and won one points race Next event for Mauch is the Ottawa road races May 1921 Huron Trial tough but close Trevor Howarth of Aurora former member of the Barrie Motorcycling Association climbs the rocks In section two at the Huron Trial Sunday at Cal dwater Photo Howarth finished second overall Wayne Woloschuk of St to Thomas Examiner Gym club continues growth Emms By GARRY FORBES Of The Examiner Able coaching is one of the most important ingredients for success in any sports organiza tion And for the Barrie Gym nastics Club that bill is more than filled by Nicky Emms The dedicated and ambitious 22yearold Barrie resident has been at the helm since she took the initiative to form summer gymnastics program for the club three years ago Under Emms direction the clubs competitive recrea tional and kindergym pro grams have blossomed and new boys recreational group was formed this year She helped set up the clubs first annual Barrie Gymnstics Club invitational meet last year which the host club won Emms is now preparing her gymnasts for the second edition of the event slated for June at which title in its Central Collegiate Barrie will defend against four Toronto clubs and another Penetanguishene from Midland The number of gymnasts par ticipating in all sections of the NICKY EMMS head coach club has grown to almost 300 not including the summer camp which will run this year from early July to Aug 24 Emms and her staff of 12 are at work almost every day try ing to improve the club in all respects including making the sport recreation and en joyable for local youngsters The interest is there she said durng recent aftemoon session of her girls recrea tional program The kids are really enthusiastic and anxious to learn All that has to happen for things to really get going is for parents to look at gym nastics and to consider it for their children Its an educa tional proceSs people just dont know enough about the sport Emms knows lot about the sport and shes in the process of learning lot more through National Coaching Certifica tion Program at Seneca Col lege The former Eastview Secon dary school student has achiev ed Level of the fivelevel course along with one of her coaches Velia Owen The course is designed to produce professional coaches who will assist the development of na tional gymnastic program major stumbling block for Canada in the past says Emms was the disorganized system by which gymnasts were trained and developed for international competition Everything is covered in the Wayne Woloschuk of St Thomas Ont rode to two mark victory over Auroras Trevor Howarth Sunday to win the difficult Huron Trial at Col dwater sponsored by the Bar rie Motorcycling Association Woloschuk this years leading rider on the Canadian Motorcycling Association trials circuit in Ontario took the lead near the end of the sixlap course when Howarth took the maximum penalty on section four of the eightsection event Woloschuk finished with total of 66 marks Howarth took the top expert trophy with score of 68 John Scott of Burlington finished se cond expert and Sam Pro vendenti of Paris Ont placed third In the senior division Jeff Mclnnis of Mississauga com pleted the challenging course losing 86 marks to win his class Bruno Crosato of Kingston plac ed second with 95 and Roger Berry of Fonthill finished third with 101 Cam Whiffing of Hamilton won the junior class losing 117 marks to edge Streetsvilles Martin Sowden who placed se cond wtth 120 Leo Laframboise of Sudbury took the third place trophy with score of 133 The Huron Trial is an annual event sponsored by the BMA second event is planned for Sept 2930 at the Coldwater site in Medonte Township coaches clinics including the importance of broadbased developmental programs like our recreational sections she said Before coaches were unaware of lot of the techni ques and didnt know the im portance of progressing gym nast by training in stages Next event for the club is parents demonstration by the 65member girls recreational section Saturday at Georgian College The girls aged 613 performed at one meet this the Rangers to their 11th vic tory in 14 playoff games this year while Canadiens starter Ken Dryden gave way to Laroc que after surrendering four goals on 13 shots through the first two periods Except for the 1974 playoffs the third period constituted the only minutes since Drydens ar rival in 1971 that anyone else the examiner Minds May 113 1979 has guarded the Montreal goal in postseason game Dryden embroiled in con tract dispute with the club sat out the 197374 season to pursue his law studies and Larocque played all six games as the Canadiens were eliminated by the Rangers in quarterfinal series They werent bad goals dont know its hard to say Davidson said in reply to re quest for his goalies assess ment of Drydens seemineg shaky two periods It was like he didnt seem to really look for the puck you know what mean They were good goals He was trying to play them with his body but he wasnt seemingto find them Runner coming through Loree Kinney of United Clubs collides with RCAF 44l wing Silver Fox catcher Chuck Dilbey on his way home while RCAF pitcher Dave Mitchell reaches for the throw during the opening game of the Veterans slowball League Satur day at St Pauls ball park Kinney was ruled out on the play and his club went on to lose the game 2l7 In other games on the weekend ANAF Angus beat Kolmar l55 defending champ Hill Union defeated Hill Social 5l and and Auto Body dumped ANAF Barrie 85 Examiner Photo Race against MS starts Today begins Race against Muscular Sclerosis week at harness racing tracks across North America and Barrie Raceway will be chipping in with weeklong program highlighted by special Wednesdaynight card Gary Crowe has been designated the horsemens chairman for Barrie Raceways efforts and local merchants Clark top runner Peter Cark of Barrie was the top finisher among 14 local en trants at Sundays Fifth Annual National Capital Marathon in Ottawa More than 4000 entrants from across North America took part in the event which was won by Jerome Drayton of Toronto in two hours 18 minutes 51 seconds Clark completed the course in 258 24 minutes off his fastest time this year Other Barrie finishers were Don Johnson 306 Ron Richards 308 Wally Grasmeyer 315 Brian Carty 316 George Stroempl 334 Wayne Lucas 341 Murray Legris 348 and John Trott 353 Other local entrants were Stuart and Malcolm Allington Adama Dimitric and Kevin Mc Cron The other Barrie runner Brian Wiles did not finish the race The competition marked the first marathon run for Trott Lucas and Legris putting it all together year and did quite well said Emms but the parents demonstration will be one of the biggest highlights of their season Meanwhile other sections of the Barrie Gymnastics Club continue to plug away occa sionally interrupted by local groups requesting demonstra tions and continue to im prove undcr the watchful eye of their most vital member their coach Austin youngest ever to win ROME tAPi Tracy Austin overcame string of errors to defeat Sylvia Hanika of West Germany 64 16 63 to win the womens Italian Open Sunday Having won the $20000 top prize and her first major inter national title Austin will break away from the tour to finish her highschool year in California She is the youngest woman ever to win here She grabbed the lead in the first set in which both players had trouble holding service with total of five breaks Hanika 18 powerful lefty with wicked slice took com mand in the second set running off five straight games as Austins game fell apart made so many errors it was problem of bearing down she said after the match She said she also had begun to feel the strain from Saturdays semifinal in which she knocked out topseeded Chris Evert Lloyd in threeset match decided by tiebreaker have agreed to sponsor each of the 10 races Wednesday The local horsemen with the assistance of several par ticipating merchants will offer draws for color televisions stereos and other major prizes at the raceway Saturday Toronto horseman Les Ehrlick kicked off the benefit program last month by auction ing off 118 Standardbred Year Books raising $5710 Proceeds from all events which will take place at most harness racing tracks in North America this week will be used for multiple sclerosis research Timbers fall to Houston 2l Mick Poole had tough night Sunday The Portland Timbers goalkeeper had turned aside all but one of the 25 Houston shots directed his way only to fall victim to miscue by one of his teammates which gave the Hurricane 21 overtime vic tory in their North American Soccer League game Portland defender Graham Day playing near his own goal line and trying to deflect cor aminer tIon rt sports hall of fame Thunderfoot Is what they call this fellow and for good reason team leader for the Toronto Blizzard for the North American Soccer League this native of Dundee Scotland played for Leeds United of the English First Division and his shot has been clocked at 80 mph He played for the unbeaten Scottish World Cup youve been following the Blizzard and know his name send in your name address and telephone number to Sports Hall of Fame co The Ex Box 370 Barrie Ontario Christine Riedke of Melrose Ave in Barrie wins last weeks contest for Identifying Jim Price president of the Barrie Minor Lacrosse Associa Contest winners will receive an 18inch special pizza from Mr Tonys Pizzaria and Spaghetti House 47 Dunlop St Barrie ner shot accidentally kicked the ball into his own goal five minutes into the overtime ses sion The shot would have been couple of feet wide Day ad mitted was out of position and didnt know where the post was He said he also kicked the ball with the wrong foot direc ting the ball into the right side of the goal while Poole was try ing to defend the left side team of I974 lf L4M 4T6