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the tribune thursday jamjaby 27 177 a in ballantrae the name sheffield is almost synonymous with judo and small wonder tailihtfce 31 cf field teenagers are noted their skill in the art above and to the right seventeenyearold r a black belt and canadian champion is throwing her younger sister karen pony tails although seeming to i get the worst of it karen is well able to look v after herself bothsheandbrotherstephen 14 will be competing in the junior olympics this winter cathy who recently represented canada at an international match in england is rated fifth in the world in her weight division v john montgomery faa or- a jv7 wsf- av k ox win stouffville- kirleyijohn zchristie s harrison and dave heiru r- by aegrt lam ore ballantrae i can defend myself 100 per cent more than the average girl stated diminutive cathy shef field matteroffactly im strong and i have the timing and technique cathy is only 5 1 tall and tips the scales at a mere 118 pounds but the black belt around her waist adds plenty of weight to her words cathy is one of perhaps ten women to have achieved a black belt in judo in ontario and is a top international con tender t the 17yearold judoka recently jour neyed to london england- for the british open and finshed a respectable fifth competition was tough with contenders from germany holland and as far away as australia fighting for the world title the europeans are very strong said cathy they lift weights and the girls have tremendous huge arm muscles she laughed ruefully they take us like king kong nevertheless she managed to win her first fight against a black belt from holland i was still brown belt at the time explained cathy she was big so i knew i had to think the canadian girl emerged victorious after throwing her opponent a maneuver that won her a full point or ippon cathys next op ponent was a british girl i threw her put her in a ground hold and held her for 30 seconds for another ippon j however at this point her luck ran out and she forfeited the next match by a koka which is a very small penalty that- made me really mad said cathy and her green eyes flashed but i didnt do any better in- the next match she paused and thought for- a- moment the girls- are very strong over there- she continued finally so you cant tink youre going to muscle them technique and con ditioning are very im portant you have to be in shape -v- her sister karen already a brown belt at 15 agreed but suggested mischieviously that in a pinch a judoka might apply a few little tricks and hope the judge wasnt looking- when asked the girls gleefully elaborated oh you can step on your opponents toe a little bit to make him lift his foot so you can throw him or perhaps a little choke use your thumb they advised with every sign of enjoyment you got to learn these little tricks more seriously cathy talked about what it takes to get a black belt apparently it takes about half a year to get ready for the sixpart test in front of a panel of judges and if you make just one mistake you fail cathy pointed out they really put you through the mill you cant go in there and hope to get lucky the board of examiners headed by the president of t canada requires much more than just- good technique from apot- tential black bellvap- iplicants have to ac cumulate a certain number of tourney points and are judged on ability to teach judo attitude towards opponents- and written tests as weft another thing that makes it hard to achieve the higher ranks in judo is the fact that each step is twice- as- hardiasntbe- previous one the process is roughly comparable to climbing a ladder where each rung isspaced twice far apart as the one before its a challenge said cathy you work so hard its something to look forward to j and its an excuse f to t do your homework added the irrepressible karen the girls admitted that they encountered a lot of misconceptions about judo at school they fellow students think youre somebody different but if youre into jt deep enough you learn to ignore those kind of people they dont realize what judo is said cathy there is no such thing as judo chop for instance added karen people confuse it with karate which is quite different is explained 3v judo is more of a sport but karate i fightingv cathy a a- the girls said they never use judo if they get v in a fight me and my sister and brother fight sometimes but we dont use judo outside the dub thats the first thing we learned said cathy we only bite and pull out hair joked karen x i i karen and stephen sheffield are both brown belts and they are also quite successful in competition stephen now 14- has won his last seven tourneys and was the canam champ he will be representing ontario in the junior olympics this year karen was the on- tario champ last year and the canadian champ the year before- this makes it wry easy for cathy to find sparring partners and she practised a jot of the black belt techniques with her sister it was very handy cathy admits but a tourneys a little dif ferent here you stand around with a very co operative partner but at tournaments your op ponent is certainly not going to cooperate cathy started taking lessons at the hotai judo club in ballantrae when she was nine years old a few months after her brother and sister got involved in the sport they were against me taking it up recalls cathy with a grin they didnt think i was up to it but i think i showed them i wasnt a sissy skaters win gold medals at olympics stouffville two local women have really put stouffville on the map as far as speed skating is concerned betty acton and blanche cook competed in the senior olympics last weekend and came home with six gold and two silver medals r thesenior olympics held at lake placid ny are designed to give older persons a chance to compete participants have to be at least 25 years old and competitors are divided into different age groups for the various events betty acton swept the 200 500 1000 and 1500 meter events in the 5054 year old category for four gold medals and blanche t cook skating in the 6670 year old division collected two gold and and two silver medals for thesame events l rs demolish dominion autos but wilt against tou by pete sanderson the ken may clip- pers can be thnkful for two things after this past week of action firstly the duo of kevin barrick and ted asslnck and secondly the uxbridge dominion autostbarrick and assinck have returned to their mid- season form and during the past week provided most of the clippers offensive power as for the dominion autos they furnished the clippers with win sixteen last saturday night the atoms wipe uxbridge the sdss spartans used a fine scoring- effort by eugene reesor to record a close 4741 exhibition victory over torontos 3reteuf redmenv reesorscored a total j both got into the game in each tallied four points- v the scond half and both t played strong games on fthe rednien jjtfir om1 lueience in a game against dr coached by stouffville grad jim hill kept the i of 23 potash lead unaggressive checking nd 3 spartans and good inside shooting for- pf showte davidson added six bui- tne spartans russ r drg w williams entered the game with a nowin three loss record and the spartans came to the match with a great degree of overconfidence the result was a close 62- 60 victory for williams and a dramatic lessening 1 of the spartans chances for first place stouffville uxbridge atom bs received a real drubbing at the hands of the local boys recently when the teams met in stouffville i uxbridge got on the scoreboard early in the game when it appeared the bs were sleeping before long the stouffville soys were flying and hammered in snowardma oak ridges stouffville snowmobilers are invited to participate in the whipper watson snowarama staged in bradford to raise money for the society for crippled children the snowarama is sponsored by the society in cooperation with local snowmobile clubs and the cross ccy riders of oak ridges would be happy to have any in dividuals ride with them a 100 mile course is planned from bradford to orillia and back and food and gas wiltbe made available alonghe way anyone interested in participating in this worthwhile event i is asked to call 8957190 for further information- six unanswered goals scorers were billy blundell- 2 stephen small 2 scott mellor and kevin urquhart autos did little more than get in the way of the clipper skaters who pumped nine goals past the uxbridge netminder for a 92 victory two nights earlier the may ere w had blown a 42 lead in port hope and ended up on the short end of an 85 score sunday night they once again wilted in the third period as the leagueleading bowmanville eagles humiliated them by a score of 104 kevin barrick has been the leading scorer for the clippers all season and is truly an out standing goal scorer he found the net four times against bowmanville and effectively saved the hapless clippers from total disgrace for his efforts barrick was named the games third star- with four league games remaining one played on tuesday past the may crew find themselves in third spot one point up on lindsay bowmanville has com pleted its schedule and is in first place with 51 points port hope has 41 points then come the clippers with 33 points this saturday night the may squad once again hosts their rivals from uxbridge game time is 8 pmtomorrow night the clippers head to frank- ford for an pm contest and they finish up their schedule at home against port hope oh saturday february 5 one week later the may club takes on the nhl oldlimers in a special contest organized for the centennial year the junior c playoff format pits the first and fourth place teams against one another similarly second plays fifth and third squares off against sixth at the moment the clippers j could meet either sixth place frankford or first place bowmanville these last four games of the season will tell the tale uxbridge gcalie wayne cordinglcy had no chance when dong taylor 9 and damon bennett ganged up on him the clipper on the right has just tacked the pack into i of the net stouffville won the match 92