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quick quinn saves teacher terrors b2 second section sports classified tuesday v- j is blue pasta orchid night mm iiw 6407724 o u24 main st w stouffville j a metroland community newspaper tuesday december 23 1986 tourney in europe blind date for bruins the uxbridge bruin dressing room is buzzing with talk about the upcoming european tour the junior c hockey squad will leave dec 26 for a 12day tour of germany switzerland austria and liechtenstein seven games are scheduled with german and swiss hockey clubs bruin coach randy hall says hes not sure what to expect from the european teams he calls the by kelly connelly before i get down to the nittygritty my christmas wish list for certain sports people in whitehurchstouffville i have some bad news for some of you its probably good news as of december 24 1 will be vacating the sports editor post at the tribune that means i will be giving up my daily diet of sports jocks and jockettes sweaty locker rooms muddy soccer fields and foul balls for a new beat ill be moving on to the brampton guardian to assume the position of education reporter ive heard it said that writing sports is toy land journalism i recall toronto sun sports editor wayne parrish defending his job in a col umn a few months back a man of many adjectives parrish wrestled with the toy land accusation and came to the conclusion that writing about athletes about people and why they do the things they do is anything but trivial news never underestimate sports theres a heck of a lot that goes on behind the scenes that you dont see or hear about thank god i only did a few controversial pieces during the last 18 months i guess you may have noticed i liked to write feature stories on referees umpires goalies rambo hockey players weightlifters equestrian riders any thing that breathes i wish the new sports editor al shackleton all the best at the tribune hell be relieved to know he wont have to drink the omni potent carrot wine for initiation because i tossed it out months ago the firewater belonged to former sports editor jim holt i guess jim thomas and chris shanahan will have to think up a less throatburning sorority pledge before i depart the pages of this newspaper i want to extend my kindest regards and thanks to the following people who made my job easier without them you dont have a sports section cliff dunkeld ted lowery dave fockler alfons rubbens martin johannessen dianne white jeff carney kerry keller joanne steel barry england paul murray wayne emmerson barbscaife dave connell jim fletcher dorothy pollard randy hall marg cosgrove tom morton audrey gibson wayne ellis the parents who write the hockey allstar reports the bowling statisticians and finally a big hug to my editor jim thomas for boldly straying from stouffville tradition and hiring a female sports editor christmas wish list glenn whitebread another quebec international cham pionship for his peewee clippers cliff dunkeld dry and level softball diamonds with adequate benches alfons rubbens soccer field lights dave connell a bigger school gymnasium joe lewis heaters for the arena stands wayne emmerson a slowpitch league to play in next summer j kerry keller a penaltyfree hockey game hacheysisters athletic scholarships to the school of their choice j sports volunteers more recognition for the time they give to i help the kids games blind dates we cant go over and scout the teams hopefully its going to be fairly competitive i presume there will be some mismatches he noted bus tours and the odd encounter with the alps on skis should keep the bruins well entertained prom ised hall who played with a toron to select team that went to england and scotland in 1982 the uxbridge club which in cludes stouffville players lee and chris brown kevin smith ken burrows and joe risk has financed the trip partially through fundrais- ing events in total 19 players and seven assistants will tour europe the larger international ice sur face will provide a challenge for the bruins the coach pointed out he also wouldnt be surprised if a few of his players decide to spend a season or two in europe playing hockey he used mike van veghel as an example the uxbridge athlete plays with hollands second divi sion hockey team trias during the winter for bruin scott harper a resi dent of goodwood playing hockey for a european team isnt a bad idea some of us have thought ab out it he said as for not having a clue about the calibre of foreign hockey talent he will be facing this week harpers not concerned were really cu rious were not sure who were going to play and whether the guys are the same age or older he re marked it doesnt really matter thats the exciting part about it we dont know what to expect redshaw on board goodwoods shane redshaw scored his fourth and fifth goals of the season with western michigan broncos in a series with ohio state nov 28 and 29 redshaw a freshman right win ger with wmu earned three points in the twogame confrontation which the broncos handily sweeped 94 and 42 as of nov 30 redshaw has eight points for the season wmu is in fourth place in the central collegi ate hockey association with an 86 record 97 overall redshaw is a former pickering panther on a fouryear scholarship with wmu throwing a few punches stouffville secondary physed head dave connell right is restrained by referee dan martin before he laces student charlie barrotta with a right hook get ting ready to double barrotta is teacherscolt croucher left of course these guys were only fooling around before the big game last tuesday at the rec centre where the sdss teachers took on the grade 13 students in more ways than one kelly connelly by kelly connelly sports editor what eric and arlene lehmann of stouffville went through to import two straight egyptian arabian mares from cairo egypt is not unlike a james bond movie political intrigue an exotic setting powerful men interna tional jetsetting a former egyptian army general lots of red tape money anonymous contacts expensive hotels and most important beautiful horses provided for a colorful horseshopping escapade it all began two years ago the lehmanns who own a 20acre arabian horsebreeding farm north of ballantrae off hwy 48 decided to fulfill a longtime dream and import two very rare and expensive mares from the desert in egypt in the history of canadian ara bian horse breeding there had only been one successful im portation of bloodstock from the source thus the odds were stacked against the lehmanns from the very beginning the canadian goverment banned importation from african countries and the couple was lead to believe that the survival rate of horses ship ped half way across the world and then quarantined for sixty days in a concrete stall was not high it was a big gamble arlene lehmann told the tribune last thursday it took a while for us to take the whole thing serious ly she admitted however her husbands eru dite knowledge of straight egyp tian bloodlines coupled with a friends offer to link him up with a vital business contact in egypt was too appealing to pass up the adventure began doug lunau a relative new comer to arabian horse breed ing introduced eric lchmann to a business friend general sonny equindy formally of the egyp tian army mr eguindy said lie had government contacts in egypt and could use his connec tions to expedite the purchase of some breeding animals lehmann and lunau wrestled with the proposition were there any worthwhile horses left in egypt was it a smart business move given the current eco nomy could they afford the horses and transport them into canada how real was the egyptian contact the lehmanns farm cher ry hill arabians has 30 pureb- read arabians at present all have predominantly egyptian bloodlines the attraction of the straight egyptian arabian mare is her rarity there are only 2000 in existence her beauty intelli gence history and strong blood lines for this type of horse the average sales price in 1970 was 25000 this climbed to 63000 in 1976 147000 by 1981 arlene lehmann pointed out that an see arabianb2 arlcne lchmann with straight egyptian stallion arabian marcs from egypt last summer the mameluck imported from germany the second such importation in the history of canada lehmanns imported their first straight egyptian