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VOL. 97, NO. 20. By FRED SIMPSON V Memories Of Fish I realize it’s hardly the prOper way to start a column on fishing by announcing that you know nothing about fishing. That the closest you’ve been to a fish in the past seven years was one that was lying soggily on a plate arm-wrest- ling with some limp-looking French fries. ‘ But no matter. It’s true. I’ve always had a romantic yearning to be a fisherman. To be able to talk long and lovingly about the one that got away, to discuss the merits of certain types of hooks, to plan that weekend in the far north which will find you frying fish over a camp-fire, a cook stove, ah, you know what I mean. I think it must have all began away back in those times when grandmother used to fry white fish quite regularly. I say white fish because with me it’s either white fish or dark fish. Don’t know one name from another gener- ally and getAvery remorseful about this at times. I’d sit there carefully picking at those slight slivers of bone which used to infest white fish but seem nowadays to have magically disappeared from those very same dishes. Wonder if it’s because they slice the fish differently or whether they’ve just managed to eliminate fish bones? I’ll probably never know. GONE FISHING Then a little later came that old song about “Gone Fishin’, ’Stead of Just Wishin’ ” or some- think like that. And you can see that Huck Finn- type boy sitting in the sun on the river bank with his line dangling lazily into the yater. . Sure, pure escapism but I still see that long- ago scene which, I think, was on a calendar. We all should be able to get away and join him but we never get the time. ..- V-_ U, Then a few years after and it was Sudbury and the French River region where it was very easy to rub shoulders with fishermen and listen to their ruminations about the glories of past fishing days on the river. As I recall, there was a lodge hardby the river, a. restaurant, and small bar where you could sit and do some indulging while the Amer- ican fisherman rattled on about their escapades on the French River and the many years they had been coming up on holidays from Ohio or somewhere else. It was a relaxed atmosphere, kind of mag- ical, and it has stay ed with me. The wide river flowed by outside and the fisherman flowing by inside telling you how he was going fishing that midnight because that was the best time to catch them. Funny, I don’t know if he ever did go fish- ing that midnight because I left shortly after talking to him and have never been baclg. _ Then there was that place south of Sudbury called Lake Kuchegami (the name might be very well mispelled, it’s been a long, long time) where there was another lodge and a sandy beach. I was there only once for a few days and remem- ber that tortuous dirt road winding around, up and down enroute to the lodge. But it was worth it. The people who ran the lodge were tremen- dous, very obliging, kindly, unbusinesslike, and I remember them very well except for their names which have disappeared from my memory. MUNCHING LAKE TROUT I can still recall sitting in the spacious, knotty-pine walled lodge looking out at the lake while munching the lake trout they served and which was about as fresh as you could get it. Memory dims but it seems to me you would order it first and then, only then, would they go out and catch it. That’s how fresh it was. At night the loons would make the scene on the lake, you’d hear the odd bear crashing around in the bush, and then the lodge owner’s dog bark- ing at him. When we left I was to return very soon but that was 10 years ago and I’m not even sure I could find my'way back again. Sometimes I wonder if I was ever there now, if it ever really happened What’s all this got to do with fish? I don’t know except that when I think of fish all the above scenes pile in on me. There they are, those people, the background scene of lake and wood, the sense of getting away from it all. 7 That’s m} onlyfiexcusve. But it’s good enough for me. And, well, maybe someday I will go back to Lake Kuchegami and sit in that lodge again and munch on that magnificently cooked fresh lake trout. It do say here that the Richmond Hill Ball Association will be holding a meeting at 8 pm in the recreation room of the Richmond Hill Arena. Purpose is to discuss the co-ordination of all softball organizations throughout the now enlarged Town of Richmond Hill. All interested Sport Spots I hope so, anyway. JUST MARY NOTES (Continued on Page 14) RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1973 ....Rams Lose By 7-4 Richmond Hill looked like winners in the first two per- iods building up a 3-1 lead despite being outshot by the North Bay squad 29-21. Third Period Blues Again it was Mike Hart- man showing the scoring way for the Rams with two goals in.the game with the others going to Rick Febbo and Al Potts. Randy Stojkiewicz scored twice for the homesters With singles going to Claude Noel, Joe Ommicciola, Dave Nad- eau and Brian Kuruliak, and Barry Callahan. North Bay opened the scoring at the 9:38 mark of the first period on Callahan’s counter but the Rams evened it at 11:57 as Febejwhipped one home from Jim Casola and Bill Stephenson. North Bay outshot Rams 13-10. Richmond Hill played tight, defensive hockey during the middle session with Doug Brumwell play- ing brilliantly in goal for them as well as getting help from his defence who were forcing the Trapper shooters to fire most of their shots from fairly well out. The rearguards were also clearing loose pucks well during the first and second periods. The Richmond Hill Rams showed up for the third period in North Bay Sunday night and that was their first mistake. North Bay pumped home six straight goals in that final 20 minutes to the Rams’ one and skated away with a 7-4 win in a Provincial Jun- ior “A” league game. The win pfit the northern boys in second place with the Rams dropping back to do the lower end of the top four or five closely-bunched clubs. In the meanwhile, the Rams moved into a 3-1 lead as Hartman scored his first goal of the game at 4:26 on a pass from Dave “Digger" Dunkley. He chipped in with his sec- ond one at 18:08 assisted by Ernie Takeuchi and Rick Febbo. North Bay outshot the Rams 16-11. Then came the fatal third period and the Rams suddenly forgot to back- check. North Bay snipexs were getting two or three whacks at the disc on a number of occasions and what resulted was six straight goals. They came in bunches of three in a span of one minute and nine seconds just past the five minute mark and another trio in a space of two minutes and 13 seconds at the 10 minute mark. Oak Ridges Midgets Win 2-], Tie By 3-3 The Oak Ridges Alex Brockton Midgets won their opener in the York Simcoe Minor Hockey League last week edging Nobleton 2-1 on the strength of a two goal performance by A1 Heintzâ€" man. Assists went to Bill Metcalfe. Frank Woods was the goalie. The same team came up with a 3-3 tie against King on goals by Dale Roffey, Tim Watt and Paul Smith. Assists went to Heintzman‘ Roffey. Jim Gerber and Bernie En- gels. - Dan Pincombe was in goal for this one. Bantam action saw the Oak Ridges squad open with a 2-2 tie against Nobleton on goals by Bruce Wilton and Karl Taylor. Randy S p e n s 1 e y picked up an assist. Terry Robinson was in goal. The same team blanked King 5-0 behind the shutout goaling of Harold DeGeer. Goals went to Ted Clague. Tony Roffey. Randy Spens- ley, Dave Topp, Doug Jones. Assists to Glen Wright, Ran- dy Spensely. Randy Bullock, Doug Jones and Tom Roffey. There will be a referee’s clinic Saturday from 10 am to 11 am under the aus- pices of John McQuarrie, referee-in-chief. Locale will be Bond Lake Arena. Anyone 15 years or over and aspiring to be an offi- cial is welcome to attend. There will be no charges. Brumwell could not be faulted on any of the goals as the Rams' defence com- pletely collapsed and allowed North Bay players to get in close for direct shots and puck clearing was noticeable for its absence. The defence, of course. was not entirely to blame for the onslaught as the forwards suddenly decided that back- checking had gone out of style. Richmond Hill‘s only con- solation in that final 20 min- utes was in scoring the final goal courtesy of Potts from Casola. An indication of North Bay’s dominance in the play can be discerned from the shots on goal. They out- shot the Rams 23 to 7. The Rams visit Downsview Saturday and are at home next Tuesday to North York Rangers at 8 pm. Player GP Mike Hartman 14 Dave Stuart 14 Dave Dunkley 13 Jim Clement 14 Rick Febbo 13 Jim Casola 11 Bill Stephenson 14 Ernie Takeuchi 14 Jack Guest 14 Alan Potts 14 Steve Glover 12 Bob Bangay 14 Steve Morrison 14 Jim Graham 14 Rob Yoteff 14 Benny Pedersen 8 Vaughan 15 North Bay 15 Aurora 15 North York 15 Seneca 13 Richm’d Hill 14 Wexford 15 Markham 16 Dixie 13 Weston 14 Whitby 13 Downsview 12 Alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll\l\\llll\ll\llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Markham Belleville Pickering Bramalea Wexford St. Michael's Peterbor’gh Oshawa Toron. Nats Etobicoke Oak Ridges King City The Oak Ridges Kings ran into a well-oiled ma- chine in the persons of the Markham Royalls Monday night and dropped an 8-2 game at Bond Lake Arena. Markham has won 12 and tied two of 15 games thb season. Kevin Street and Ed Sa- sarey led the Royalls with two goals each. Brian Crichton, Kip Churchill, Doug Todd and Joe Colli- nimo each scored once. North York Kings Lose 8-2 tobicoke 15 2 11 2 l 'ak Ridges 15 2 12 1 I ling City 11 0 10 l ' Monday’s Results Markham 8, Oak Ridges 2 PROVINCIAL JUNIOR RAMS " TUESDAY, NOV. 20 Time: 8 pm. RICHMOND HILL NEW ARENA Adults $1.50, Students 75. Hockey Provincial 0.H.A. Junior “A” RAMS SCORING STATISTICS 1' GP G VS. A spunky little team, bol- stered by a few extra players, Barrow's Insurance nipped Royal Bank 4-3 Sat- urday. Tournaments Beat Aurora, Lose To Don Mills MINOR ATOM - 2nd Team Royal Bank started out strong in the first period with goals by Barry Munro and two from Brian Hull. Assisting were Steven Morit- suga, Carl Boyle, Derek Ve- itch and Wayne Langdon. Barrow’s scored an unas- sisted goal by Steve Ritchie in the first period, and shut- out Royal in the second while Ritchie scored two more unassisted goals. In the third another unassisted goal by Allan Jones proved to be the winner. ATOM “A” Barrie 5 Perry Hill Industries 0 For their third league game of the season, the team travelled to Barrie Saturday afternoon. After falling behind 2-0 early in the first period on goals by Steve Neal and Peter Whel- an, the Richmond Hill team never got untracked. Second period goals by Mike Forbes and Kevin Tus- tin. and a third period goal by Mike Hoffman made the final score 5-0. Had it not been for su- perb goal-tending 'by Doug Macklin the score could have been higher as Richmond Hill were out-shot 28 to 8. The next home game will be this Friday night at 7 o‘clock against Camp Bor- den. See you at the arena. MINOR BANTAM “A” THERE IS HACKEY THEN THERE’S HOCKEY Richmond Hill Tourna- ments Inc. Minor Bantam “A’s” had to play both kinds of teams this past weekend. Tournaments 3, Aurora 0 Tournaments Inc. came home November 10 with some bruises and a 3 to zip win from Aurora. The game was scoreless and 11 minutes to go in the third period when Phil Wood did his thing from Frank Nigro. Blair Lewis from Steve Bowers and Ray Roberts made it 2-0. Nigro put away a boomer from Lewis to make the final count 3-0. Stephen Price did a fine job in the nets as the score indicates. i From 8 am. to 3 p.m. - Play Shinny ' ADMISSION $2.00 PER PERSON I The Richmond Hill Arena Assoc. is not tresponsible for injuries or missing articles. ““““II““‘ ““ Some fast exchanges here at the first annual York County Secondary School Athletic Association Volleyball Tournament two weeks ago at Thomlea Secondary School. Opponents above are Stouffville and Langstaff Secondary School. A total of 18 teams participated in 25 games with Stouffville Secondary winning the senior division by beating Wondbridge in Don Mills Flyers 6 Tournaments 2 The Greenmen_ pAl 1y e d Corner Bayview & Markham Rd. 0 884-1054 ‘ o0.9.0000...ooooooooooooggg OOOOOOCQMQOOOCOOOOOOOOOO ALLENCOURT PLAZA, RICHMOND HILL EVERY MONDAY, i WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY : Richmond Hill Arena ARENA 23 (old) host to a very fine hockey club, the Don Mills Flyers Sunday. This team played one of the cleanest games of hockey we’ve seen for quite a while for this age group and for their size. They used their skills â€"â€" passing, skat- ing, shooting â€"â€" the position- al play was beautiful to see. Nigro from Wood and Jamie Gropp scored in the first period for the Hillers and Wood scored unassisted in the second period. The Phatom Minor Bantam MINOR BANTAM - Second Team Victoria & Grey Trust 4 Oakville Bantams 3 Victoria & Grey Trust eeked out a 4-3 decision last Sat- urday over Neal’s Electric who play in the bantam league in Oakville, with a little over two minutes left in the game as Greg Mac- Millan pulled the trigger on passes from his red hot line- mates, Billy Byers and Ross Querengesser. The Hillers, who were‘ sporting a two game winning streak, came out of the dressing room with great enâ€" thusiasm, and were reward- ed with a quick goal off the stick of Querengesser from MacMillan and Byers. The older Oakville squad regain- ed their composure and knotted the game at 1-1. Be- fore the period ended, how- ever, Querengesser fed the puck to defenceman Greg Walton at the point, and Greg whistled the puck into the net. Victoria took a 3-1 lead when Jim Wood alertly sped Dave Cates into the clear for a picture goal. With the Hillers to run out of gas, the bigger Oakville club took over at that point, and with relentless pressure scor- ed two goals to tie the game with six minutes remaining. until MacMillan potted the winner. LUA L, no uu. “luv-l v- v------- Gates and Wood. and Bed- ford John Burnett and Mc- Laughlin checked ferocious- ly. The defensive fivesome of Tuck, Tilpold, Putnam, McGregor and Walton play- ed their hearts out while goalies Steve Shadoff and Kevin Brown came up with hot hands. 7’7Ir'his was a fine team ef- fort. as the lines of Greinep, Coaches Bud Wood and Gary Tuck had to smile a Get Tlrat Volleyball! littles a they witnessed some of the fruits of their labor evolve. During the Witching hour of 7 am practices, they have been emphasizing that to be effective, Victoria & Grey must hit. From the smallest to the tallest, this they did! Markham “A” 13 Victoria & Grey 1 Victorla & Grey Trust shot into a quick 1-0 lead the next night in the new arena at Markham as Jim Wood converted a Pete Ti- pold pass into a goal. The jubilation, however, vanished more quickly than the aspirations of a Toronto Argo Grey Cup victory as a well balanced, extremely talented Markham club scor- ed 12 unanswered goals. The Victorian team was treated to a hockey lesson that night as the Markham club dis- played the art of hitting, passing and scoring. So well was the lesson inflicted, that the Hillel‘s were mes- merized. One would have to compliment Coach Doug Tourgeon on the talents of his well disciplined team. The greatest praise, how- ever, was yet to come. As the public address announ- cer, Pat Jones, advised' the spectators of the 12th tally, “Markham goal, scored by Number 2, Tim Horton", Coach Peter Tipold quipped to Manager Bud Wood, “No wonder we‘re losing; we’ve been conned. We’re playing the Toronto Maple Leafs"! MIDGET Whitby Midgets retaliated for a previous 5-1 loss to the Legion Midgets with a 2-1 victory last Sunday in the new arena. two straight games. The one-day competition began at 9:30 am in the morning with the finals at 8 pm. Woodbridge won the junior crown by defeating Stouffville two games to nothing with the same school taking the Mid- get division by two out of three games over It was obvious from the onset that the Whitby club was out to make amends as they skated and passed with authority, and exhibited a marked team spirit. After Whitby took a 1-0 lead, Richard Hopson ac- cepted a Dave Berseth pass, and fed Brian Kellett a per- fect pass. which Brian con- verted to a 1-1 tie in the second period. Markham. Mike Doyle, in BUY STOP 'N SHOP STOP 'N snap DISCOUNT MARTS RICHMOND HEIGHTS CENTRE, RICHMOND HILL 0 384-0423 Hours: Mon. to Fri. 9 am - 10 pm 0 Sat. 9 am - 6 pm 0 Sun. 10 am - 6 pm 2%" T 0Y0 TA 52$); @JAPAN CAR SALES 7756 YONGE ST. the Legion F“““““i“?“ net, kept the Killers in the game with his skill, but Whitby scored the clincher in the 3rd period on a de- flected shot. The Legion simply could not get un- tracked on this day. LEAGUE LEADING ' Vaughan Nationals: VERSUS AURORA TIGERS SATURDAY, NOV. 17 - 8:00 p.m. MAPLE ARENA lAdults $1.50, Students $1.00, Children 50¢ ' “““““““! (Photo by Susan Samlla) JUNIOR “A" THORNHILL " ° KITS in BALSA and PLASTjC‘ . Accessoriesrb Engines 0 Fuel Dopes 0 Batteries 0 Balsa o Knives 0 Remote Control Units A meeting will be held on Sunday, November 18 at 8 pm in the recreation room of the Richmond Hill Arena To discuss the co-ordinaâ€" tion of all softball organ- izations through the now enlarged Town of Rich- mond Hill. 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