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20 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, September 19, 1963 LACKED LEADERSHIP Blame Brutality For Downfall Of Lacrosse By PAUL RIMSTEAD Canadian Press Staff Writer Indians many years ago used lacrosse as a substitute for war to settle inter-tribal disputes. A tendency to revive the bru- tality of those days in modern times is one reason for the game's downfall. Canada's neglected national sport substituted brawn for brain when the calibre of player began slipping. There are still outstanding players today but not nearly as many as in the heyday of la- crosse when Newsy Lalonde, Lionel Conacher, Alex Turnbull Joe Lally, Lance Isaacs_ and Didier Pitre were national idols. Lack of promotion and lead- SPORTS BRIEFS WOLVES BUY PLAYER LONDON (AP) -- Wolverham- pton Wanderers soccer team has paid about £55,0000($165,000) for Ray Crawford, Ipswich Town's centre-forward. It was the big- gest transfer fee the Wolves ever shelled out. Crawford has scored 173 goals in 237 games for Ipswich. MARIS SIDELINED MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- New York Yankees sent slugger Ro- ger Maris back to New York Monday for rest and examina- tions due to a back ailment in the area of the sacroiliac. Maris has been out of action since Sept. 11 and has appeared ia only 82 games this season. Al- though Maris is expected to be ready for the World Series open- ing Oct, 2 his continued injur- jes may handicap him. EZINICKI WINS MONCTON, N.B. (CP) -- Bill Ezinicki, the former National Hockey League star from Win- mipeg and now a golf profes- gional from Plymouth, Mass. Monday won the top prize money of $1,000 in the Maritime Open golf tournament. Ezinicki defeated Errol Nicholson on the third extra hole after they had tied with three-over-par 73s in| their 18-hole playoff for the prize money. DIED FROM DISEASE ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Football player John Anders suffered from an inherited rare blood disease and died as a re- sult of the disease, an Albu- querque surgeon told University of New Mexico Saturday. An- ders, of Moline, Ill., died Sept. 1 in hospital after collapsing on the football field. His death had been blamed on fatigue and heat exhaustion. AL FANS STAY HOME NEW YORK (AP) -- The 'American League, with New York Yankees having clinched enother pennant, shows a 7.6 drop in attendance as the ma- jor league baseball season heads to its final two weeks. The Yanks are among seven Amer- fcan League clubs behind their 1962 pace. They have played be- fore 1,251,434 at home compared to 1,443,025 in as many dates ae season, The decline is 191,- 1. BLADES OPEN CAMP ! SASKATOON (CP) -- Los An- " geles Blades opened training Monday for the 1963-64 Western Hockey League season with 27 players. Coach Alf Pike intends to run prospects through two practice periods a day until the club plays its first exhibition | nd here Sept. 24 against the taniey Cup champion Toronto Maple Leafs. TITTLE BRUISED ' NEW YORK (AP) -- Y. A. Tittle was bruised on the ribs and chestbone Sunday while | adel York Giants were beating altimore 37-28 in their opening ame, X-rays showed no breaks onday. Although Tittle's exact status will not be clarified until Tater in the week, he was ex- pected to be ready for action Sunday at Pittsburgh. PLAYERS GET JOBS RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) All members of Brazil's world ehampion basketball team will become civil servants, the Na- tional Sports Council has de- eided here. Brazil, which will be leading the challengers at the lympic Games in Tokyo next ear, has won the world cham- jionship for two straight years. TAKES THIRD TITLE MONZA, Italy (AP)--British ace Mike Hailwood clinched his third world motorcycling title as he rode his Italian M.V, Agusta to a record victory in the 500-c.c class race, top event of the Grand Prix of the Nations, here Sunday. Australia's Jack Find- lay, on a Matchless, was second. Third was Britain's Fred Stev- éns, on a Norton. MOVES UP IN $ DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) -- Don January has moved into 10th place among professional golf's top 10 money winners in offi- tial PGA tournaments. Bill Cas- per Jr., moved up to ninth. Ar- nold Palmer stayed at the top although his $101,555 total was the same as the preceding week. Jack Nicklaus remained second gl his official winnings of $83,- ership was the main reason for the sport's decline. Everything that followed was a result of the lack of effective administra- tion. Now played seriously only in British Columbia and Ontario, lacrosse is on the verge of dis- appearing altogether. Unless something is done soon, the ¢ tted stick may become a relic seen only in trophy rooms, B.C. HAS PROBLEMS The situation is brightest in B.C. but there too there are) problems. Some players are be-| coming lackadaisical and_ it} shows im their play. And Van- couver and New Westminster) clubs have dominated Inter-| City Lacrosse League play 80} much in the last five years that) other teams can't compete. A! result is declining fan interest. One of the bright spots, how- ever, is that the league has a! commissioner in charge. With there's no indecisions or wrang- ling, | Ontario has many problems, and lack of money isn't the least of them. "IT can honestly say there isn't a team im our association which could be described _as prosperous," says Jack Wilson of Brampton, secretary of the Ontario Lacrosse Association. | The West blames the Ontario) style of play--plenty of rough- ness but as little running as} possible--for its difficulties. PLAYERS SCARCE This, however, goes back to leadership problems. Instead of | being able to discipline players| who refuse to practise or keep | themselves in condition, the coach in Ontario has to spend much of his time persuading them to play. Instead of running, which was one of the features of the game, an ill-conditioned player discov- ers he can walk and still control the ball. This has turned the game into a dull exhibition that leaves fans yawning. It does lit- tle to inspire youngsters with a desire to take up the sport, A common complaint in the East is about the inability to line up sponsors. Buy from an advertising standpoint, a dull sport is hardly likely to attract business firms. On the west coast, where the Inter-City league drew 100,000 fans last season, lacrosse has been kept respectable. Sponsors have been found and some of the teams started paying salar- les. It remained, a running game and anycne who didn't run ome man making the rulings,|couldn't hold a place on the team. IMPORTED PLAYERS Next came imports, Jack Bi- onda, considered the _ finest player in the country in recent years, had been a drawing card in the East. But he left his home n Huntsville, Ont., the West. Then Bobby Allen, considered best after Bionda, left Peter- bor: gh, Ont., for the coast. The reason was simple, There was money on the coast and players in the East, performing don't get a cent. it easier to hit than run. Offi- ciating didn't move quickly enough to stamp it out. Even today some players are quitting because they feel referees and officials don't give them enough protection. | Western clubs continucé to) complain about the rough play | in the East but it seemed to) make little impression, And even the junior clubs began thinking this was the way the| game was 6upposed to be) played. | COULD GET HELP There is a feeling among} many that if lacrosse was cleaned up it could get exten- sive aid from the National Fit-| ness Council. Not only is it the | national sport but the director of the council, Gordon Wright, happens to be a lacrosse tan. "We feel that by eliminat'ng| the blood-and-thunder aspects of } the game it would be a terrific) activity for kids," Wright says. | "The game involves a terrific) amount of running and is a} |great conditioner." | Last year the council granted the Canadian Lacross- Associa- jtion $3,000 to help sponsor clin- jics throughout the country. | Another of the game's prob- iplaying rules and _ conditions. 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