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“I think it was a case of us running out of gas." said Thom- hill Coach Jack McLaughlin who was quite happy with his team‘s effort in getting to the finals. "I felt we could have done better against Ottawa. The score really wasn‘t pretty indicative of the plaY. We held our own pretty well." A Richmond Hill defender was slow in clearing while the Lions were one man short and Bill Coville got the puck to Brian Anderson at the point. And he whistled it home with about 22 seconds left. Spectators were girdjng them- selves for another overtime thriller but it wasn't to be. He felt that beating Richmond Hill who are “our arch rivals The undefeated Lions kept coming back and pulled off an- other last minute heroic effort as Dave Forster brought the arena alive as he took passes from Greg MacMillan and Chris DeGeer'to tie the game 1-1. "We just couldn't get the boys to shoot or pass the puck en- ough." commented Lions losing Coach Gary Smith. BIG THORNHILL WIN He was referring to the tense 2-1 game with Thornhill which saw Richmond Hill trailing 1-0 nearing the end of the game after a goal by Thornhill‘s Pat Bertrand in the first period. He was assisted by Greg Foy. It was a 50-50 three days for Richmond Hill and l area teams with the exception of the Thornhill Pee- wees who got into the “B” finals only to run out of gas and bow to Ottawa 7-2. THORNHILL CAME CLOSE resulted in us having a little Enroute to the finals. Thom~ bit of a letdown" hill drOpped a 2-0 opener to OTTAWA BEATS THORNHILL Thunder Bay. whipped Lake He said the Thomhill squad Bluff 6-0, edged Richmond Hill trailed by only l~0 against Ot- in a 2-1 thriller. before meet- tawa "well into the second per- ing their Ottawa Waterloo. iod but we couldn’t put the puck As for the tournament as a in the net. Then they got a As for whole? The Hill Lions got off to a shaky start losing by 5-0 to Osh- awa. They came back mm a nail-biting win over Welland only to be eliminated by old rival Thornhill by 2-1 in an equally nail~biting contest. It was a color~splashed finale Wednesday night as Richmond Hill Lion Majorettes performed and the trophies were distribut- ed to the winning clubs. Not so successful were the Richmond Hill and Oak Ridges clubs who just didn‘t have the neccessary weapons to over- come some of the best clubs in Peewee hockey. "We're tremendously pleased with the way it turned out," said Lions Club Chairman Jim Mansbridge. "Everything went like clockwork considering it was on: initial tryout." He was also elated wilh the response from the public esti- mating that some 3,000 spect- ators had attended the three- day tournament. Oshawa Wins Tourney It was strictly no opposition as the well-oiled. well-drilled Oshawa squad passed Kingston dizzy to rack up an 8-0 cake walk in the championship game for their fourth straight win in the tournament. Oshawa opened the tournament Monday with a 5-0 shutout over Richmond Hill Lions, a 7-1 drubbing of Toronto’s highly‘touted Ted Reeves team, and a 5â€"1 win over a gritty squad frdm Thunder Bay. A little red machine from Oshawa made a sham- bles out of the opposition to skate away with the "A" championship at the first annual Richmond Hill LiOfi: Peewee Invitational Tournament Wednesday mg . » VOL. 95, NO. 28. Walter Abbott of 327 Bluegrass Boulevard, Richmond Hill, is shown (centre) receiving an AM/FM Multiplex Stereo combination. He was the lucky ticket holder in the $1,000 Tom Young Benefit Christmas Draw sponsored by the Richmond Hill Minor Soccer Association. Left to right are Les Trotman,-secretary-treasurer of the association; Abbott, and Richmond Hill Min- or Soccer Association President Rob Kernohan. Richmond Hill Councillor Lois Hancey made the draw. Proceeds will go to Young. who was seriously injured in a car accident last April. He has been hospitalized since that time. BY FRED SIMPSON The Ridges gang. coached by Glen Wright and managed by Jim Pincome. went on to get edged by 3â€"2 by Ottawa who went on to win the "B" honâ€" But the big windup came with the presentation of the Harold J. Mills Award to the “inning Oshawa "A" squad by Harold Mills Jr. The trophy was a rose bowl. Each member of the win- ning team also received a rose bowl replica as presented by Richmond Hill Mayor William Lazenby. That game saw two periods of overtime before Glen Wright popped the winning goal past Napanee's Chris Maracle who played spectator hockey all the way. The shot that beat him was a bouncer. Prior to that time he pulled off some dazzle-rs as Oak Ridges poured to the attack. outshooting Napanee 38-13. Members of each champion club also received a custom- designed pin bearing the date of the tournament and the tmm s'mbol. OAK RIDGES HEROIC Also come up with a heroic albeit losing struggle was the club from Oak Ridges who came back from an opening game 7-1 loss to Kingston to shut out Napanee 1-0 in a heart stop- per Tuesday afternoon. The Dr. Cam Cowan Memorial Trophy went to “B” champion Ottawa and was presented by his son, Bill Cowan. Each mem- ber of his team also received rose bowl replicas. McLaughlin feels his team won‘t hit its peak until the sec- ond half of the season but ack- nowledged "we were going ag- ainst some good clubs out there.” He also paid tribute to the Richmond Hill Lions Club “for their tremendous first team ef- fort in holding a tournament. I want to personally thank them." The Thornhill club is mana- ged by? Earn? Nicholls. He said the Thomhill squad trailed by only 1-0 against Ot- tawa "well into the second per- iod but we couldn’t put the puck in the net. Then they got ‘a couple of tainted goals and we let down after that." Bill Covflle and Jerome Flanigan scored for Thornhill. “Our defensive foursome of Brian Anderson. Matt Nicholls. Rob Browning. and Mike Mc- Laughlin all played well against Richmond HUI." he said. McLaughlin was quite happy with his team overall and espâ€" ecially Coville who picked up a hat-trick against Lake Bluff. T om Young Soccer Draw RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6. 1972 Proceeds of the tournament will go toward a variety of Lion projects. Other persons involved on the tournament committee included Secretary Eileen “Goody” Beard; Administrator Ed Sack- field; Director of Operations Stan Hitchinson: Finance Ken Tomlin and Advertising John Blanchard. Monday Brampton 5. Leaside 1 Lindsay 6. Ottawa 5 Kingston 7, Oak Ridges 1 Coordinating of the tourna- ment and the arena activities generally were handled by members of the Richmond Hill Lions Club. By FRED SIMPSON TOO MANY GAMES! Another somewhat old topic that drifted on the scene during the peewee shebang was that there are pro and con opinions that the youngsters play too many games during a season. It wasmentioned that a lot of the teams play 70 or so games a year which, to me, seems somewhat ridiculous. No wonder a youngster is fed up with hockey by the time he gets to Midget. Everyone professes to be doing things for the kids for the fun it gives him. But 70 games seems like something you‘d do if you were a professional. 7 I would guess that it’s a case of some players being precocious and looking as good now as they ever will. Perhaps others lose the desire while still others are late-starters and develop at a later date. I suppose it‘s all a mystery. But with all the expansion going on in the NHL (as well as the proposed new World Hockey League) in the works, there should be plenty of opportunity for any youngster playing hockey today. The only qualification should be his ability to tie his own skates and to carry a hockey stick. From the looks of some NHL games that's the only qualif- ication needed today. Some are real stinkers. I suppose that in the next five or 10 years the talent will catch up with the teams. But in the meantime you see some pretty “eccch” matches. I could be Wrong. but I feel it's time the people who arrange all these games should get back down (Continued on Page 10 ) Well, we made it. Here it is 1972 and lo and behold I’ve suddenly acquired five or six more prob- lems already. That’s not so bad. What puts me off is that I've still got the ones left over from 1971. Even worse. One of them has worsened. ‘ However, I’m alive and it‘s time to go on. A sort of mish-mash here as I attempt to recover my senses after the holiday madness. Have to make a congratulatory comment re- garding the first annual Richmond Hill Lions Invi- tational Peewee Hockey Tournament which turned out to be quite a deal. A few thoughts (it happens once in a while) occurred to me during the tournament. One being the number of fine looking young players I saw on display out there. What happens to all these guys? They tell me that they fall by the wayside somewhere along the way. Unfortunately. none of the local teams made the winner’s circle. But a fine team from Thornhill gave it the big tl‘y for the “B” championship. Just not to be. BIG LIONS EFFORT Sport Spots Some M ish-Mash Ottawa 7, Leaside 1 Oak Ridges 1. Napanee 0 ‘Richmond Hill 2, Welland 1 Thornhill 6. Lake Bluff 0 Lindsay 4. Brampton 3 Kingston 5, Lindsay 3 Kingston 3. Newmarket 2 Oshawa 7. Ted Reeve 1 Thunder Bay 7'. Oakville 6 Wednesday Ottawa 3. Oak Ridges 2 Thornhill 2, Richmond Hill 1 Kingston 5. Lindsay 3 Oshawa 5. Thunder Bay 1 (Oshawa 8, Kingston 0) (Ottawa 7, Thomhill 2) Newmarket 2‘ Napanee 0 Oshawa 5. Richmond Hill 0 Ted Reeve 1. Welland 0 Thunder Bay 2. Thornhill 0 Oakville 9, Lake Bluff 0 Tuesday (Photo by Stuart’s Studio) Z1151): {metal NEWMARKET: York Region should demand from the prov- ince the authority to control spending by the two conserva- tion authorities active in the region â€" Metro and South Lake Simcoe â€"~ regional council was told recently. At present the council may scrutinize the au- thorities‘ budgets when they‘re prepared and can appeal the total figures. but not individual expenditures. Pezzin also rolled the high single game of the night at 333. Other good singles were rolled by Gary Palmer 321, Robert Giles 310, Lorne Cable 305, and John Faber 300. 9; ABC No. 1 9: Richmond Hill Furniture Mart 9: YBC Seniors 6; York Simcoe Sports 6; Hall‘s Fuel 51%;: ABC No. 2 5; Allen- court Lanes 5. The high average race still has Norm Roberts on top at 259. Lan Cameron has 255. Gary Palmer 252. Bob Julian 250, and Bruno Pezzin 246. Games of 1,320. 1.322 and 1 360 gave them a 4,002 total. Bruno Pezzin had an 888. and John Faber led their team to its fine total. Standings: PoWell Fencing 11%: ABC No. 3, 11; Engel's _Gu1‘f_1"0:HSouth Simcoe Sports ABC No. 1 players were big shooters on the last night of league play in 1971. 530mm ‘ RESULTS <_ Datsun 1500. The most popular Datsm: and Rally Champion - hill line of Datsuns to choose from With the supply of new cars now much better we have a good selection of new Datsuns. Take the Datsun 1200 sedan or fastback. They're great little cars that give up to 40 miles per gallon. go up to 93 mph and cost from $2095. The Datsun 1600 series coma in 2-door, 4-door and wagon. It‘s the bestâ€"selling Datsun of all. Datsun pickâ€"up â€" the 1e-ton that works hardest for its living. Zingy Datsun 240-2. Road Test Magazine called it the Sports Car of the Year in 1971. Come see them all. Give the one of your choice a test drive . . . Watch for our next Import Auto Talk. 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