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Bantams defeat Richmond Simcoe Minor Hockey League County Sports Tournaments for oldtimers By BILL CURRAN Oldtimers hockey teams arent lacking in opportunities for Earticipation in outstanding tournament play again this hoc ey season The Canadian Oldtimers Hockey Association has listed six major competitions to teams which are interested in travelling and those inc ude Barrie and area Oldtimers Murray Valiquettes Barrie Credit Union hockeyists have entered the Florida classic which is to be held at St Petersburg and Lakeland April 15 and 23 The players already have had much activity highlighted by good showing in the Molsons invitational tournament at Toronto where they won three games and lost only one with Jon Weeks leading the attack and Don Wardle starring in goal Dave Hogben Ken Robertson Jack and Don Graves Arnold Neal and Ed Cockburn were among other local standouts Orillia Oldtimers are returning to Europe for third year in row having decided to visit Copenhagen Denmark where an international tournament is scheduled to take place March to 12 Former New York Ranger Dale Rolfe and former veteran pro with Los Angeles Blades and Vancouver George Ford will again head the Orillia veterans Last spring they won their division of the tournament at Switzerland with five vic tories and are anxious to try for more awards to add to the trophy and medals received then Teams which do not wish to travel outside of Canada have other fine opportunities threeday tournament for Oldtimers is planned at Victoria Jan 13 14 and 15 The Charlottetown tournament on Prince Edward Island is to follow on Jan 20 21 and 22 Cornwall Ont is having angther tournament the latter part of January on the 27 28 an 29 fourday event is planned at Regina Saskatchewan opening on Friday Feb 17 FORMER BARRIE PLAYERS WITH ORILLIA With Bill Red Barrett having decided to remain on the sidelines four former Barrie players are still active with the Orillia Oldtimers and are looking forward to another Euro pean flight George Ford who played for Barrie seniors in the early 1970s after retiring from 15 years of pro hockey has been flashing some of his oldtime sharpshooting skills with Orillia Whitney Mousseau and Billy Burtch also have been going strong up in front while Max Richardson has shown he still retains some of his old defensive skill Along with exNHLer Dale Rolfe these veterans played leading roles in the Orillia victory at Switzerland Goaler Bob Shropshire and sniper Gary Kennedy were other stars of that series Walter Windy Varty is manager of the Orillia team and Blake Uren coach Both were onetime players with Orillia teams in the Georgian Bay League Another wellknown area hockeyist of few years ago Terry Gordon is also member of the Executive In their first two exhibition games the Orillians lost to Owen Sound and Orillia Kinsmen both by close margins But officials were far from discouraged We are just trying to gradually get into shape explained trainer Merv McDonald we hope to be at our peak in March when the games count SENIOR LRLING AT STROLI RINK Art Hudell is currently busy with final preparations for the Ontario Curling Association 10A division senior curling games slated to take place at the Stroud rink Eligible to compete are rinks from the two Barrie clubs Stroud Alliston Borden Bradford Collingwood Churchill Cookstown Creemore Elmvale Schomberg Shelburne Stayner and Thornton Games are scheduled to open on Fri day Dec and continue on Saturday Dec 10 and Sunday Dec 11 The 10A division winners will meet the 108 victors later for the right to represent this area in provincial playdowns at Orangeville in January Ontario semifinals and finals are scheduled for St Thomas in February At Cookstown Doug Brown is making arrangements for the divisional Junior Tankard games which are to be held on Saturday Dec 17 Other provincial championship 10A divisional games plan ned this month include the British Consols and schoolboy events The Consols will be held at the Barrie rink Dec 27 28 and 29 and schoolboys play is to be held at Borden on these same dates Jack Lloyd is convener in charge of the Consols games Finals in the centennial fun bonspiel are being held at the Barrie rink today with dinner and dance tonight The Midland rink is the scene of oneday mens bonspiel this Saturday At Elmvale Colin Elliott and his executive are getting ready for the annual invitational bonspiel which opens next Friday and continues on Saturday and Sunday WINTERTIME GOLFING INSTRUCTION CLASSES An announcement of interest to golfers was made by Ross Leeder wellknown progolfer that he will be starting his wintertime instructions in Barrie on Monday Jan 30 The local arrangements were made through the city parks and recreation department He also will be giving lessons at Orillia starting the same week and thae may be extended to Midland and other places depending on further ar rangements As youngster Ross learned to play golf at the Lake St George course in East Simcoe which was formerly owned by his father Ed Leeder also wellknown progolfer for years After becoming pro Ross has given lessons at various county courses as well as wintertime instruction at Georgian College He and his father hold numerous records at different county courses Neilson not upset TORONTO CP Roger Neilson isnt letting the per formance of his Toronto Maple Leafs in recent starts send him to the panic button The Leafs blew 40 lead last Saturday before settling for tie with Washington Capitals were hardpressed for 32 win over Cleveland here Tuesday and looked defensively inept in dropping 53 verdict to the same Barons in Cleveland the following night Its when the team loses be cause it doesnt try that get up in the air the rookie National Hockey League coach said Friday So far this year we havent had that situation In dropping their first game in 12 starts to team that fin ished well below them in last years Adams Division stand Bruins or Buffalo Sabres Barrie United Rubber Workers Bantams defeated Richmond Hill 53 Thursday at the Eastview Arena in the York Barrie led after the first period but the game was tied 11 going into the third Barrie then outscored Richmond Hill 42 in the final period Mike Hoffman scored for Barrie in the first period with Gary White and Terry Tilleczek assisting White scored on powerplay in the third perod with Steve Na and Tilleczek assisting Neal then added two more goals for Barrie with White ad ding one Darryl Sly playing coach of the Barrie Flyers in the Ontario Senior Hockey League evades the forechccking of Don Nicholson of the Whitby Warriors Nicholson scored three goals in losing cause as the Flyers won 74 Friday night at the Barrie Arena Les Burgess and Gary Lyte scored two goals each for Barrie Examiner Photo 77s defeat Brocebridge 96 for second consecutive win BRACEBRIDGE Oro 77s won their second consecutive game in the Georgian Bay Junior Hockey League with 96 victory over Bracebridgc Bears Friday night The win moves the 77s into fourth place tie with Parry Sound On Thursday the 77s host the Bears in Oro Brian Cole led the 0m attack with three goals while Don Mc Cuaig scored pair Oro led 41 after the second period but the lead was cut down to 34 entering the flilill period ro outscored Hraco bridge in the final period ROIGII in rough game the Tis had 14 minor penalties two majors and two miscondiicts tractbridge had to minors one major and two iiiisconducts Mcfuaig opened the scoring for Oro at 911 of the first period Willi lioiig Slitlswtll assisting The 77s llltll exploit ings the Leafs made it games in which they havent looked overwhelming adver saries for divisionlead Boston Innlsfll Central Public School won the area elementary school girls volleyball championship Innisfil defeated Prince of Wales in the finals Front from left are Cheryl Sutton Debbie Blue Jays look for new players TORONTO CP Toronto Blue Jays will be looking lor sleepers when major league baseball gathers for the annual draft of minor league players at winter meetings in Hawaii next week General manager Pat Gillick says the second year American League team expects to draft at least two players By virtue of the worst record of 26 major league teams last season lllt Blue Jays get first pick Only seven players were taken in last years minor league draft for the $25000 price tag lot of players who normally would have been available became free agents at the end of the 1977 season Gillick ex plained But weve gone over the lists of those available and checked our scouting reports and we think weve got chance at couple of sleepers Some of the borderline major leaguers available in the draft are lefthanded pitchers Stan Wall and Mike Cosgrovc out fielderfirst baseman Bob Jones infielder Tom Heintzclnian and outfielder Dave Moates Weve been talking to lot of teams Gillick said and gery conversation starts out the same way they all want pit ing California Angels are still trying to acquire catcher and lefthand hitting designated hitter and have expressed interest in Jays Alan Ashby and Ron Fairly lot of interest has been shown in reliever Pete Vuckovich who had 77 record and 347 earnedrun average lowest on the Blue Jays staff Blue Jays are not trying to peddle Vuckovich but they are limited in trading material ed for two minutes At 1749 olc scored from Darrel lraiit Fred MatGregor then scored at 1853 with Scott Brown assisting Greg nllow ended the scoring spree at 1937 with than assisting rant scored the only goal for ro in the second period Shelswell assisted on the marker three goals in Hy IliIfifANAlllrtN PRESS Huston cltics coach Tom my Heinsohn is fed up What this team needs is good kick in the butt Hein sohn said following Friday nights 11109 embarrass ment at the hands of the low ly 5illll0 SuperSonics The onceproud Celtics champions of the National Basketball Association two years ago now are 713 and facing road games at Wash ington tonight and New York on Tuesday night The 11101 fans at Boston Garden who watched the Celtics get clobbered voiced their displeasure and Hein sohn agreed with them When we stink we deserve to get booedand we heard the boos tonight said Heinsohn We seem to take one step forward and then two backward We have new system of play working the ball in close more and it seems to me the problem is Heinsohn fed up with his Celtics Mcuaig scored his second goal of the night at 10 ot the third period with Yole assisting The 77s again went on scor ing spree scoring twice in 17 seconds Cole scored from Mcunig at 521 and then ole scored his third goal of the night at 558 Willi Shclswell assisting Brown rounded out the scoring at 1714 with ole assisting finding people who can play the system lus Williams and Dennis Johnson starting in the backcourt for Seattle because of Slick Watts demotion to the bench and Fred Browns injury com bined for 47 points for the Sonics Seattle raised its record to 717 overall and 20 under new coach Len Williams had 23 points six rebounds and six assists for Seattle which burned the eltics all night with its fast break Centre Dave Cowens scored only 10 points for the Celtics but hit the 10000 point mark in his seventh NBA season In other NBA games Fri day night Denver Nuggets routed New Jersey Nets 12692 Kansas City Kings defeated Detroit Pistons 10897 Washington Bullets topped Milwaukee Bucks 10895 Elementary school volleyball champions Shakcll Jill Parker Laura Hynd Helen Schaly Pat Posius and Rla Kleinveld Back from left are Gloria Webber Shelly Collins Ilebbic Emma couch Krista Dulmage Darlene Squibb and Ilarb Ellsworth Examiner Photo By WERNER BERGEN Examiner Sports Editor Barrie Flyers came up with an impressive effort to defeat the Whitby Iroquois 74 Friday night at the Barrie Arena in the Ontario Senior Hockey League Les Burgess and Gary Lyte paced the Flyers attack with two goals each while Bob Wasson and Phil Branston each had goal and three assists Lyle and Wasson teamed up with Branston to form new line Friday dubbed the Action Line The line completely dominated the play when they were on the ice and things hap pened when they got hold of the puck think we found us new line said Steve Cripps Flyers general manager GREAT EFFORT cripps said the whole team put out great effort to win and the victory boosted the Flyers into fourth place in the league standings The Flyers are tied with Whitby and Brantford for fourth place The Flyers were in sixth place going into the game Gord Coatcs team president and coach said he was pleased with the way the team played but the club still played in streaks He said the Flyers played an outstanding first period when they held 41 ead Whitby came back to make it 43 hockey game going into the final period The Flyers broke loose late in the third period with three goals to put the game on ice We played bad second period Coates said EXPLAINS oatcs explained the Wasson Lyte and Branston line had been formed with the signing of centrcnian Don lannahill He said the Branston Paul Regan and Wayne King line had not produced and as result had to be broken up The logical place to put Tan nahill was at centre Regan has played leftwing before so we moved him over Coates said We needed leftwinger for Wasson so we moved Branston with him Gary Lyle is star ting to come around and we felt and he said he was ready to play We thought it would be good move to put him with Wasson and Branston From the opening faceoff the Action Linc took the play to the lroquois and never slowed down ripps said Lytc added LES BURGESS goals the right balance to his last linemates It didnt take long for the line to score At 105 Wasson stood all alone in front of the Whitby net and steered pass from the corner by Branston into the net Jim Thompson also assisted 20 LEAD Barrie made it 20 56 seconds later when Burgess scored Wayne Carleton set up the goal with some good moves after stealing the puck from the Whitby defence He moved around another defenceman and fed pass across the crease to Burgess Bob Baird also assisted At 516 Lyte scored his first goal of the season when Bran ston fed him pass from behind the net The Flyers had several close calls but Lyte was finally able to poke the puck home Wasson earned an assist Whitby made it 31 on powerplay with Branston in the penalty box for tripping Rick Kessel scored on screen shot from the point that went in just under the crossbar Branston rounded out the scoring in the first period at 1004 when he fired in re bound Branston and Wasson had twoonone breakaway and Wassons hard shot bounc ed off the goaltender to Branstons stick TROUBLE The Flyers had trouble get ting organized in the second period and had difficulty mov ing the puck out of their own end As result Don Nicholson scored twice for Whitby The Flyers had trouble early in the third period but several great saves by Dave Johns Flyers goaltender kept the Barrie lead intact Lyle scored his second goal of the game after the line had bombarded the Whitby goal with shots Wasson and Branston assisted Burgess made it 63 on breakaway He had three other breakaways in the game but this time he made no mistake Steve Sly fed long pass up ice and the speedy Burgess moved in on net and scored on quick wrist shot Carleton also assisted THIRI GOAL Nicholson scored his third goal of the game on screen shot with less than two minutes remaining to be played Carleton again set up goal with his forechecking He forc ed defenceman to loft clear ing shot to the bliieline where Doug Ferguson stopped it Ferguson moved in on net and scored with slap shot Burgess had an assist on the play The Flyers had 10 of the 16 minutes in penalties handed out and outsnot Whitby 4433 Alexanders edge Orillia Terriers By TH CANADIAN PRESS goal by Bob Sicinski with 58 seconds remaining capped thirdperiod rally and lifted Brantford Alexanders to 65 win over Orillia Terriers in an Ontario Hockey Association Senior game Friday Barrie Flyers downed Whitby lroquois 7r in the other game Play resumes tonight with Brantford at Cambridge and Barrie in Mississauga On Sunday Orillia travels to Whitby Away from home the Alexanders scored three goals in the final period to overcome 51 deficit Sicinski scored twice for the winners who got their other goals from Mark Dumcsnil Fred Speck Dave Walter and Larry Mavety The Terriers replied with goals from Corby Adams John Hammond Hill Beauchamp Kevin Healey and Gerry Methe Conodo wins gold in Pacific Conference ANBIIRRA Australia TPJ Canada picked up four gold medals two silver and four bronze as the Pacific onfer encc Games got under way to day at the windswept National Athletics Stadium The four Victories all came in field events and left Canada right in the thick of the com petition which has brought to gether more than 200 athletes from Canada Australia the United States Japan and New Zealand Australia leads with 18 med als six of each while the US is next with five gold four sil ver and two bronze Japan fol lows Canada with one gold three silver and three bronze while New Zealand has cap tured one goal two silver and three bronze Debbie Brill of Aldergrove 150 set an Australian open record when she topped the field in the womens high jump with leap of 188 metres Bruce Simpson of Toronto won the pole vault with jump of 525 metres Phil Olsen of Na naimo BC captured the mens javelin with throw of 8098 metres and Jane Haist of Montreal took the womens dis The boys volleyball team from Prince of Wales Public School won the area volleyball championship Thursday in tour nament at Barrie entriiL Prince of Wales defeated St Monica iii the finals Front from left are Jamie Bulawka ciis with throw of 55 or met res SEtONl IN SHOT IIT Debbie MitchellPearson of Toronto finished second in the womens 1500 metres and Bruno Pauletto of Montreal got Canadas other silver medal with heave of 1832 metres in the mens shot put MitchellPearsons clocking of four minutes 1909 seconds was 37 seconds off the winning time of American veteran Francic Larrieu while Paulet tos toss fell short of the 1962 metres accomplished by Colin Anderson of the US Canadas bronzemedal per formances came from John Ca rozza of Moncton NB with throw of 7354 metres in the mens javelin Debbie Scott of Victoria in the womens 1500 metres with time of 42682 Peter Butler of Toronto in the mens 10000 metres with clocking of 302002 and the womens 4x100 metre relay in time of 4599 seconds The relay team was com prised of Fatty Loverock of Vancouver Anne MackieMore iii of Vancouver Joyce Yakov bowich of Victoria and Joanne McLeod of Toronto The host country won the evi iii 11 44 21 seconds setting second Austalian open record in the process third such mark fell in the mens version of the same event as the US squad won with clocking of 3885 seconds Briil found herself favorite among many of the 10000 in at tendance as she attempted to break her on ii ommonwealth record of 191 metres Stroud Ios es 70 Sundridge bombed Stroud 70 in the peewee division of the Thornton Minor Hockey Associations tournament Fri day at the Thornton Arena In other games layed Wasaga Beach defeat Lefroy 41 and Sunderiand edged Thornton 21 The tournament winds up tonight with two championship games At pm the peewee championship will be played At pm the atom champion ship will be played Ron Dubols Stephen Surette Ileiiry St Siekicwici Kevin iLangill and Scott Saunders Back from left are Lou Braiiiles coacli Blair llrabi Mike Suntic Isoyd Cooley Ilill ocoraii Todd Sherwood and Mitchell St Sinckicwicz Ex piniincr Photo