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10 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, October 19, 1966 SPORTS MENU By Geo. H. Campbell Associate Sports Editor "GEORGE BABCOCK missed some of the Oshawa Gen- erals' early schedule action, due to an injury, and as a result, Oshawa's scoring punch along suffered, George was back in headed a fine team effort by last-second: victory over the Treasure Island Arena. That always intrigued us but come the right - wing patrol, has uniform last night and spear- the Generals, for an exciting London Nationals, in their name, for a sports site, has to think of it, a couple more of those victory snatches turned into defeats in the dying seconds, and the hockey men along the banks of the Thames may elect to change jumping into the river. the name of their arena, in lieu of » JOHN MERCER, the London ace, got one goal and an assist, to continue as leader in the OHA Junior 'A' scoring race. Nationals hold the top three spots, in the early point with Mercer's linemate thanks Dorey nvitivwu two aosis: Gary Ufger in second spot, ~ to a goal and assist also, While defenceman Jim mainte ae te mave inte « three-way tie for third place. George Babcock scored two of Oshawa's - goals, getting the winner with 4. Same The goal came 'on a brea) cepted London defenceman Bill spurted past Sherwood, then gave Babcock a perfect drop- pass and the chunky right-winter made no mistake, beating goalie "Rocky" Farr with a hard, high one. BARRY WILKINS and Jerry Oshawa tallies but the happy 10 seconds left to play in the pieces tenver te oececnea tens kaway after Bill Scott had inter- Sherwood's pass, Scott Dionne scored the other two note, second to the victory tune, was the fact that the Generals put forth a real team effort to win this one. Coach Ted O'Connor was pleased with his team's showing, not merely because the win kept Gen- erals up in first place in the. league standing but because they were all skating well last night. Oshawa set a tempo that the homesters couldn't quite match and their reward was two points, a coveted prize which usually eludes most Junior 'A' teams, when playing on the road, in this well- balanced league. OSHAWA CRUSHMEN, this city's fine entry in the OHA Junior 'B' ranks, their executive headed. by president "Dick" Donald and the team operation under the guidance of a couple of Bobs -- coach Bob Dionne and manager Bob Heard, is presenting a unique sports program this evening, through the facilities of the local radio station's sports de- partment. The program has been named "booster night" and should be of special interest to those members of the listen- ing audience who are sports boosters in general and hockey fans in particular. The idea is "Crushmen" and through this, to stimulate interest in the obtain more vigorous 'sup- port from the public, both fans and hockey helpers. De- prived of professional hockey's . the new CAHA ruling, it will financial assistance, under become more difficult to balance the budget and, like all other amateur clubs at the age-limit levels, the '"'Crushmen" will need stronger support at the turnstiles. CAPSULE SPORTS: Bill Young, right-winger withthe St. Catharines Black Hawks, underwent an emergency appen- dectomy yesterday and will be for at least a month... BILL lost to the St. Kitts Juniors CROTHERS, the best track star Canada has had in recent years, voices his opinion that Canada has made a mistake in not sending a team to the Little Olympics, currently being held in Mexico. He seems to have a good point -- the visit, if only on an experiment basis, would have gained information and problem of athletes competing ideas, on the at 8,000 feet above sea level -- the situation which will be duplicated in, the 1968 Olympic Games -- at Mexico baseball champions (Japanese Yomiuri Giants, who blanked teday, for their fourth win, in City . . . WORLD SERIES version) are the Tokyo Osaka's Nakai Hawks 40 the sixth game of the set. Canada Hockey Nationals Face Heavy Ex. Schedule WINNIPEG (CP) -- Canada's national hockey team released Tuesday dates for the club's heaviest exhibition schedule since it was formed four years ago. The nationals will play 44 games in six provinces and the United States before the world| championships in Vienna in mid- February. The schedule: OCTOBER 21--Nelson Maple Leafs at Nel- son. 22--Trail Smoke Eaters at Trail. 23--Kimberley Dynamiters at Kimberley. NOVEMBER | 5--Saskatoon Quakers at Sas-| katoon. | @--Yorkton Terriers at York-| ton. 16--Drumheller Miners at Win- nipeg. 12--Kingston Aces at Kingston. 13--ODHA at Morrisburg, Ont. 15--WIHL all-stars at Winnipeg. 17--WIHL all-stars at Winnipeg. 20--U.S. nationals at Winnipeg. 2U--U.S. nationals at St. Paul, Minn. 26--Newfoundland all - stars at 8--Russian nationals at Mont- real. 10--Russian nationals at Kitch- ener, Ont. 12--Russian nationals at Tor- onto. 20--Fort William all-stars at Fort William. Toronto, Brantford. rent, |29--WCSHL all-stars at Regina. FEBRUARY monton. 4--Drumheller Drumheller. 5--Calgary Spurs at Calgary. Miners Donoghue Sparks Argonaut Victory Bowmanville-- Two exciting » u were played Satur-|points, while Bruce Levey, Gi- games department. In the game, Boys' defeated Roughriders 14 to 7. Corner Brook. 27--Newfoundland all -.stare st St. John's. DECEMBER | Minn, are 49 to 25 ia tie otner game. Ron Donoghue scored four touchdowns for Argos, while also converted three touchdowns 3--Edmonton Nuggets at Ed-| day in the Minor Football Lea- gue, sponsored by the recreation opening Training School) SALES PITCH -- Presi- dent Dick Donald of the Oshawa Crushmen Junior "B" Hockey Club believes in going after all potential fans for his hockey team. He didn't have much suc- Oshawa Crushmen are stag- ing a "Booster Campaign" to promote Junior "B" hockey in Oshawa. The Crushmen, who won their {group last year in Junior '"B" jcompetition find themselves in need of public support due to cancellation of professional sponsorship. After this season, Junior teams will no longer receive players signed by NHL teams as prospects for the future. Sub- sequently, the Crushmen and Generals must spend money to scout players for themselves. This needed support can be shown by buying © 'Booster Tickets," either at Civic Audi- 'torium or from officials of the Crushmen. Since the Generals, Oshawa's cess with Kim Munroe, two years and eight-month old daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Pat Munroe, 345 Gibb st., though, but he'll continue his efforts during the Crushmen Booster campaign Junior "A" club must now get players from the ranks of the Crushmen, it is imperative that these two junior teams be able to go out and scout their own players. This of course is not possible without working capi- tal. Until this year, the Junior "B" team enjoyed modest gate receipts and sponsorship from the Smith Beverage Co. How- ever, with the added load of finding their own players, more public support will be needed. RADIO PROGRAM TONIGHT A high point of the 'booster campaign" will be a radio pro- gram tonight on station CKLB from 7:30 to 9. The program will be a discussion on Junior "B" hockey and the Crushmen. Avenues started off the new} |season just the way they end-| 21--University of Toronto atjed last season, when they de-| Joyce, John Dyck, Eddy Hinze} \feated the Bantings 16 to 5 in} 22--OAHA Senior all-stars at|the opening game of the West-| Boswell. jmount Kiwanis Biddy Basket-| 28--Regina Caps at Swift Cur-|ball League, while the Maples|sored and coached by the West- downed the Hurons 16 to 2, in| the second game, on Saturday} | morning at Simcoe Hall. The champions of last year displayed good form in their) |first outing of the season, but atldid falter in the final quarter,|/stars, may take in the first |being blanked after building jup a 16 to 2 lead. | Allan Boivin, 'captain of Av- enues, picked up 12 points, |while Randy Hemmaway han- died the other four for the vic- tory. Serge Dupont picked up two no Pascuzzi and Bryan Haase all scored single points on foul shots for the Bantings. Avenues -- Allan Boivin, Da- jna Holmes, Randy Hemmaway, | Argos won over Blue~Bomb-|John Szczepanski, Gilbert Simp-| (Points) -- Woodview No. 3 son, Kon Boivin and coach Don) Ormiston. Baniings -- Serge Dupont, |\Daryle Osmond and Dave Col-|Bruce Levey, Bill Boyd, Gino|Woodview No, 1 4, Southmead 3--U.S. nationals at Eveleth, well scored one each. Colwell |Pascuzzi, Bryan Haase, Ed {Bowman and coach Harold Da- 4--U.S. nationals at Winnipeg. | and Osmond one. Larry Devitt | Vidson. $--Calgary Spurs at Calgary. 10--Regina Caps at Regina. | 11--Polish nationals at Winni-| peg. } 18--Russian nationals at Vic- toria. } 19--Russian nationals at Van- couver, 25--Russian nationals at Winni- peg. 26-31 -- Invitational tournament at Colorado Springs, Colo. JANUARY 1-6--Centennial tournament at Winnipeg. | More Girls Needed For Hockey Loop BOWMANVILLE -- The rec-| an department said this it still has openings for ts in the Girls' Minor ey League. Girls interested ying should contact the re- ton office. | is Planned to operate two ips -- one for players 10 to years and the other for vers 14 to 19 years. Games Mill be played from 4.45 to + 6.30 p.m. each Friday commen- icing Oct. 28. jand Doug Hayes scored two} touchdowns each Bombers. In the Roughrider -- train- ing School game, Gary Preston scored the lone Roughrider ma- for the Blue jor. Jerome Billett was credit- ed with the convert, SPORTSCOP TODAY ICE, SKATING Public Skating, for Adults: E ea | Oshawa Civic Auditorium, 8.00|-- p.m. HOCKEY Ontario Minor Assoc, Centen- nial Midget Playoffs -- Little Britain at Ajax, 7.00 p.m. THURSDAY HOCKEY Ontario Minor Assoc. Midget Centennial Tournament--Whitby | Kitchener at Little Britain, 8.00 p.m. FOOTBALL Lake Ontario District Senior 'A' League -- Ajax vs Courtice, at Bowmanville and Bowman. ville H.S. at Whithy Anderson both games at 3.00 p.m. Lake Ontario District Senior 'B' League -- Whitby Henry at Oshawa Catholic, 3.00 p.m, CAPTAIN LEADS MAPLES | In the second game of the |}morning, captain Ray . Barto- |dziej led the Maples with nine points and Randy Jordan--sco- jred seven more for the vic- | tory. | Don. Staruffer acquired the ~~ lonly two points for the losing! Hurons. Maples -- Ray Bartodzeij, Randy Jordan, Donald Legere, Paul Boyd, Ran- jdy Towns and coach John | Howson. "HOCKEY SCORES. | By THE CANADIAN PRESS Ontario Junior A | WLT 12 13 5 12 17 12 16 19 11 10 017 | Tuesday's Results wea ee 4 London 3 Thursday's Game {Peterborough at Hamilton Oshawa Toronto jSt. Catharines Niagara Falls | Hamilton Montreal Peterborough London 1 0 6 2 1 1 3 0 et See ene es te WOK K SOME Avenues And Maples Win Biddy Basketball Openers Arthur Dyck,/9 4 F A Pt Hurons -- Don Stauffer, Lar-| ry Norton, Terry Hinze, Bill) Rickey Price and coach Blaine The four-team league spon- mount Kiwanis Club members, plays two. games every Sat- urday morning at the Simcoe Hall Settlement House, Simcoe Street South. Any persons inter- ested in watching tomorrow's game this week at 9.00 a.m., |when Bantings take on the |Hurons and the second game \finds Avenues meeting Maples. | Neighborhood 'Dart League | Following are the results: of jgames played last week, in |the Neighborhood Dart League: Ae 4 Romer Woandviaw No 4 A | WoedviewNo, 2 1;- North. Osh- awa 4, Southmead No. 2-1; o.. No. 1 1. Doubles -- J. Houston 1, G. |Houston 4, E. Ford 1, P. |Andrews 1, A. Kalthner 2, R. Code 2, C, Oderkirk 1, G. Bry-| ---- [Babco As Ge By ERIC WESSLBY Times Sports Editor LONDON -- George Babcock took his place in Oshawa Gen- erals' lineup here Tuesday night and promptly showed why he's counted on as one of the Gen- erals' leaders this season. His second goal of the game, with 10 seconds remaining in the third period, gave Generals a 4-3 victory over London Na- tionals in a hard fought Ontar- io Hockety Association Junior "A" League game before 2,526 } \fans. currently being held, Tick- ets are available from any member of the team and executive. Crushmen open the Eastern Ontario Jun- ior "B" League season at Civic Auditorium Oct. 28, --Oshawa Times Photo Crushmen Conducting 'Booster Campaign Speakers on the show will in- clude Dick Donald, the presi- dent of the Crushmen; coach Bob Dionne; manager Bob Heard; Eric Wesslby and Georg Campbell of the Oshawa Times and some of the players. Manager Heard said Tuesday that the Crushmen, as well as the other teams in the league, would have to depend more on local players. This means that more emphasis will be put on local minor hockey players. Crushmen, who open their season on Oct. 28 against. Tren- ton, will make their first game a "family night." When asked what he thought the new recruiting system and lack of NHL financial support would do to the caliber of play, Heard said he felt all teams would suffer until they could manage to bring their own players along. CRUSHMEN LOSE FIVE Of his own team, he said there were five of last year's starters gone and that at least seven of this season's team would be local players. Man- ager Heard expects to get one or two more players from the Generals, before he settles on his 17 or 18-man roster. Heard and the rest of the Crushmen's staff and players are optimistic, both about the support from the public and the season to come. A league all-star game will be played on January 2. "Rp" for the Crushmen follows: HOME Oct. 2% -- Trenton Nov. 11 -- Kingston 22 ~-- Peterborough "© 2 -- Cobourg 16 -- Trenton 23 -- Kingston 30 -- Peterborough 7 -- Belleville 2 p.m. 10 -- Peterborough v7 Cobourg Belleville Trenton Kingston Belleville Cobourg, 2 p.m. AWAY -- Peterborough 'obour: Dec. Jan, v7 Feb. 10 17 2 25 = 9 -- Bellevil'= -renron Kingston Cobourg 1 -- Peterborough Belleville Belleville Cobourg Peterborough Kingston Trenton Victory moved Generals from sixth place into the league lead, with five points, one more than Toronto Marlboros, St. Catha- rines Black Hawks and Kitch- ener Rangers. Rarry Wilkine with hie third goal of the season, and Gerry Dionne, with his first, complet- Mercer, Gary Unger and.Mac Westgate scored for Nationals. Coach Ted O'Connor's Gener- als appeared to be willing to settle for a tie in the hard bumping game until Winnipeg- er Bill Scott supplied them with the opening they needed late in the game. London defenceman Glen Sherwood, moving in off the right point, fired a shot goal- '\ward that 'Scott blocked. Scott grabbed the puck outside the Generals' blueline, pulled de- fenceman Jim Dorey to him and then passed to Bill White. White eluded the final London checker and, in turn, passed to ed Generals scoring. while John. PEP TT i aie tite Ait, hi nk ck Fires Winner nerals Nip Nats a 7-2 defeat in Peterborough on Sunday, Right from the opening whis- tle they were skating, and for the first five minutes kept Nats hemmed in their own zone. But it was London which op- ened the scoring, after White had hit the goalpost behind Farr minutes earlier. With John Clayton of the Generals serving a tripping pen- alty, John Mercer, London's top scorer, tipped in a long shot by defenceman John Dor- 2, at 15.20 of the opening per- A minute later, Farr made a good move to thwart a scor- ing effort by Bill Little and Brian Morenz, In the second period, Generals scored twice in the first 10 Minuies, Scot ana white set- ting Babcock up for his first goal, and Dionne notching his tae Revan Cluwehnuk daflacted at = nancacer mp ee --_ anew BYVEDT ew VIVA we ve sree amet nee Babcock. The Generals' right winger calmly fired a hard shot past London goalkeeper Rocky Farr for the winning counter. shot by a London .defenceman to Dionne in front of the Na- tionals net. Young, in trying to clear the puck from his crease early in the third period only 'succeeded Morozok Wins Cross - Country Bob Morozak of Dunbarton captured the senior boys' title in a Lakeshore High Schools cross country race held at Eastdale Collegiate this week. Morozak completed the three and a quarter mile race in minutes, 31 seconds, with Grant Osborne of Oshawa O'Neill sec- ond and Jim Peel of Oshawa O'Neill third. Tom Wheaton of O'Neill com- It was a bitter blow for Farr, who had been a standout for the vastly improved Nationals. Both teams played wide open, with Farr and the Generals' Jan Young the busiest performers on the ice. Both made many big saves, with Farr keeping Nationals in the game in the early going. f Genérals were a far differ- ent group of players than the aggregation that went down to in knocking it into the net to tie the score 2-2 but Wilkins regained the lead for Generals with a power-play goal. Four brilliant saves by Farr kept Nationals in the game at the six minute mark, and, less than two minutes later, Unger, using a defenceman as a screen beat Young for the tying goal. Nationals had several more good chances to break the tie but Young, with an assist from By CLIFF GORDON A goal by Rick Meek, 12.12 of the third period, gave York Steelers a 6-6 tie with Whitby Lasco Steelers Metro Junior 'B' hockey game played at the George Bell arena Tuesday. Lascos appeared headed for a sure win on the strength of a five-goal performance by |Paul Reid and led 6-2 midway through the second period. But they eased up and blew the big lead, having to hang on game- ly in the final stanza to gain their first point of the young sea- son. Whitby lost the opener 5-2 at the Whitby Arena to Mark- ham Seal-O-Waxes. Besides the tremendous one- man show of Reid, Tommy Lavender managed a_ single tally, However, it had to be Reid who deserved all the bou- Orphans Win Two goals by Archie Courtice proved the difference at Bow- manville Arena Tuesday as Osh- awa City Hall Orphans downed Whitby Wind Ups 5-3 in an Oshawa Civil Service Hockey League game. In the second game of the doubleheader, Foote's Towing downed Chow's Restaurant 6-4. Walt Bradley scored one goal and assisted on three others for Orphans while Norm Sayers jand Alan Mackie each socred a |goal. Ken Bradley, Sayers, Cec |Lundy and Bill Danford each |had an assist. The Eastern Ontario Junior | Vie Albright, Rich Schram Hockey Leagus schedule|and Gord Williamson scored for Whitby, with Dean Lavender earning three assists and Paul Borchuck a pair. Orphans held a 4-0 lead at the jend of the first period and were in front 5-2 after the sec- ond. In the second game, Foote's Towing were ahead 4-3 after the second, with each team scor- ing twice in the opening period. Jim Curry and Frank Brad- ley each scored twice for the winners with Gary Butler and \Murray Foster scoring one goal eacn, Braagiey and Uurry eacn picked up two assists with Bob Burke, McConnley and Bill Nichol each gaining one assist. For Chows, Phil Long scored twice, the second time on a penalty. show, with Paul Wright and John Hinche add- ing the others. 4 jant 1, L. Shabbrook 1, P. Pelow 2, D. Pelow 2, V. Ross \1, B. Ross 1, J. Elliott 2, D. | Rae 1, M. Rae 1, S. Emm 1, |J: Smith 1, T. Twine 4, C. Thomas 1, M. Taylor 2, D. Mac- kay 1, A. Graves 1, V. Graves 2, A. Muir 1, N. Pullen 1, 'T. Emm 1,,E. Major 1, G. Waites 3, S. Hopkins 1 and §. Harman High Three Darts -- R. Oder- kirk 115 and B. Emm 106. Baseball 1 inning -- C. as 5, D. Young 5, B. Ross 5, 6; D. Donald 6 and T. Twine 7, 7. ' INSIDE STORAGE 2 Boats, Tent Trailers Somhle Rates--15' Runabout with | Troiler $18 per Season @ 6' x 6'6" 5) Tent Troiler $5 per Season, KAMPING UNLIMITED 728-9942 728-4732 $] Free Pickup and Delivery (In the Oshawa Area) ) > Freshly Dug! 36 Varieties of Beautiful Specimen . . SAVE -- SAVE -- SAVE By doing it yourself with our EVERGREENS expert advice and top quality "EVERGREENS. "DROP IN OR CALL" Van Belle "Your Friendly G Gardens arden Cgntre" 5 MINUTES EAST OF OSHAWA ON HIGHWAY NO.2 __ ] 623-5757 Five Goals By Paul Reid As Whitby Claims Tie at) in a} Civil Opener pleted the race in 18 minutes, 29.5 seconds to win the inter- mediate title, followed by Gary McGlashan of Oshawa Mce- Laughlin and Paul Carylon of Dunbarton. Ken Lancaster of O'Neill was first in the two-mile junior race in 11 minutes, 47.3 seconds, with Joe McLauchlan of Henry second and Jim Barr of Dun- barton third. In the team races, Dunbarton was first in senior and junior competition with O'Neill win- ning the intermediate race, Pair Of Apollos Pace CPL Scoring By THE CANADIAN PRESS Andre Boudrias, former stat with Montreal Jr, Canadiens of the Ontario Hockey Association Junior A series, and Bill Me- Creary, veteran left winger, share the scoring lead in the Central Professional Hockey League after the first week of action. Both are with Houston Apollos. McCreary has three goals and two-assists in three games while Boudrais has five assists. The Apollos have two wins and a tie in three games. OSHAWA TIMES PICTURE _ RE-PRINTS Available At NU-WAY PHOTO SERVICE 251 King St. E., Oshawe 8 x 10 -- 1.50 each 5x 7 -- 1.25 each 20% Discount on Orders of 5 er More Pictures his defence, was more than equal to the task. Spearheading the. defensive play of the Generals was the work of Nick Beverley, who turned in a top effort. Nationals, under coach Turk Broka, showed depth up front, with three capable - looking forward lines. Their branch-to- branch transfers from the west, Gary Unger from Calgary and Ken Schutz from Melville, both played well. Mercer, Walt McKechnie and Unger were the main threats for Nationals up front, while all four lines O'Connor used had their moments, Nats and Generals are right quets for last night's games. This big right-winger, in four games with Lascos has potted }11 goals, seven of them in |league competition. He will be | | |a tremendous threat for league |scoring honors at this pace. Tom Foxcroft and Brian Wil- jliams sparked the York attack |with "Wwo goals each, Gord |\D avies. and Meek getting | singles. back at it on Saturday at Osh- Whitby enjoyed a 3-1 lead atjawa's Civic Auditorium, with ithe end of the first, held the! game time at 7.15 p.m. jsame margin at 6-3 after 40| Slywchuk, who didn't dress |minutes of action, but faded in|for Sunday's game, was back \the stretch, giving up three un-jin the lineup for this one, re- }answered goals in the final 20|/placing Fred O'Donnell, who | minutes. |suffered a broken thumb at | Manager Ivan Davie said|practice Monday. He'll prob- after the game he was farjably miss a month of action. |from pleased with his team's) Danny Sandford will resume |showing, and had it not been|workouts today, along with \for the tremendous showing of|Chris Hayes, who has just re- | Reld, his team would have eas-|joined the team after reconsid- ily have been beaten. ering his decision to enter uni- | "Davie also brought out the|versity this season. \fact that his team was not|,weyps |checking and moving the puck| osiuawa: Goal, Young: detence, Clay- |out.of its own end. These samejton, Beveriey, Roberts, Cadieux, Wil- ; kins; forwards, Nevin, Morenz, Scott, |faults were evident on Sunday, | Siywenuk, Little, Babcock, Dionne, but even more so in last night's|White, Robertson, Black, Clarke, Dus- auccunter, Monae Goal, Farr; defence, Goulet 4 + H i" ; ence, oulet, Lavender, besides getting On| sherwood, Dorey, Blain, Horton; for- goal, picked up four assists id Doha! dy oe Pho mie vane nee j j echnie, 'anfield, ercer, lestgete, give this product of Wellington) sronion, schutz, Clairmont, Fifield, Bou: a five-point night. | ghner. Lascos are idle until Sunday! pipsy perion: 1. London, Mercer night, when they will play host} (Dorey, McKechnie) 15.20. Penalties-- to Etobicoke- Indians at the|Beverley 6.11; St. Jacques 6.45; Clay- | eres ; .- | ton 15.09; Roberts 19.33, |Whitby arena, with game time| oe |slated for 7.30. Davie an-| SECOND PERIOD: 2. Oshawa, Bab- ear |eock (Scott, White) 6.18; 3. Oshawa, DI- jnounced that his team is in the|onne (Siywchuk) 10.01. Penalty-- Clair- |process of arranging a home-|mont 11.14, jand-home series with the North|;yiro peRion: 4. London, Westgate |Bay Trappers of the NOHA Jun- (Unger. Goulet) 0.24; 5. Oshawa, Ail 1%, "a? ins jarke, ussiaume |. 58; 5 ,on- jior 'A' league. It is expected | don, Unger (Mercer, Dorey) 7.35; 7. Osh- |that the games would take/awa, Babcock (Scott, White) 19.50. Pen- place the latter part of Novem- alties -- Goulet 1.15; Westgate, Wilkins ber or early December, (maiors) 10.38; Roberts 15.56; White 19.50, That is if you like an easy whisky. If sof you should have no difficulty liking 5 Star. Where things get difficult is In making a whisky this good. Itmeans selecting whiskies from our five distilleries across Canada (only Seagram's has 5, by the way). Then blending and re-blending them to get 5 Star's easy taste, Is it worth all the trouble? Easy for you to find out. | ' 5 Star. Easy whisky.