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- l/Jll/l/II/l/II/UI/ VOL. 97, NO. 24. By FRED SIMPSON Double Trouble?? Sil Steffan is probably the only hockey coach in captivity who can celebrate a victory in one breath and bemoan a defeat in the next one. Both on the same day and with two differ- ent teams, yet. _ “It’s conceivable I might go down in local history as the most losing-est coach in one season ever,” Sil was saying some- what wryly the other day. To explain: Sil started out the season coaching the Richmond Hill Minor Hockey Bantam All- Stars and just lately he’s ‘been appointed coach of the Oak Ridges Junior “B” Kings. The rub is that he’s still coach of the bantams. I caught Sil in somewhat of a psychological hang-up last Saturday. In fact I had to wrest the gun away from his head. Remove the bul- lets. SIL STEFFAN You see, Sil had just come off a bad trip. Namely, his bantams had blown a 3-2 loss to the opposition and his Kings had just been drubbed by Etobicoke. That’s enough to send any wellâ€" adjusted coach around the bend. I should hasten to add that he wasn’t all that pessimistic. Just slightly taken aback for the moment. He was also wrestling with two line- ups at the time with a bantam game scheduled for 6 pm and a junior one for 8 pm. He needed at least one win out of that very badly. a: t a: :I: a: IT’S A CHALLENGE “I guess you could say it was the challenge,” said Sil in answer to the inevitable question of why he would take on two teams under one hat. “The Kings asked me to come out and I liked the idea of coaching a junior team. I like to‘ think I can help them. At the same time, there was no way I was going to forsake my bantam boys in‘mid-season. So here I am.” Sil hasn’t got all that much to despair of to date as his record with the Kings is two wins, two losses, and a tie. “Of course I haven’t had a chance to really figure the situation out in Oak Ridges,” said Sil. I’m still getting adjusted, getting the boys to play under my system which is a handicap when you consider the other teams are pretty well set.” Sil hasn’t got any illusions about the Kings (currently holding down the nether regions of the Metro Junior “B” League with four wins, 17 losses and a tie. it it it t it MISTAKES KILLING US It's only the first year of “B” hockey for the . boys and they are doing well under the circum- stances. We’re hurting with a lot of injuries‘ right now and the puck isn’t bouncing for us. “We’ll get five shots on goal, make a mistake and the other team scores.” Steffan feels his club has the ability to make the eighth and final playoff position in the league “but we’re going to have to skate and check 60 minutes of every game. We can let up a second.” it t t t l HE WINCED It was the loss to Etobicoke that caused him to wince. “They’re a bottom team and we’ve got to beat those guys if we hope to make the playoffs. When you knock off the top guys that’s a pleasant bonus but you never count on it.” Sil also took on the Oak Ridges coaching job because “I want to see that team a success in “B” competition. I think it’s important that it is a success. Junior “B” hockey fills a much- needed void for youngsters in the 16 to 19 year age bracket. It gives them something to shoot for after midget hockey, something really com- petitive.” He has his own ideas about how a club should be run and he’s the boss out there although he’s ready and willing to listen to any sound advice. “One thing he’s against is what he calls his players taking cheap shots at the opposition and drawing stupid penalties. I It i t . NO, NO “You don’t win hockey games in the box and taking cheap shots at people isn't what the game is all about. I’m one who doesn’t like fights on the ice although I don’t expect our players to stand there and take it if someone else is giving him a rough time. I just don't want us to start it.” (Continued on Page 16) By The Christmas 'Spiel was held Friday and Saturday and congratulations go to the committee members Don and Karen Rallis, Dick and Marâ€" lene Augustine, Gerry and Doreen Cole. Festivities began at 7 pm Friday with the last rinks leaving the ice around mid- night. Curlers were back on the ice at 9 am Saturday and the curling was completed by 10 pm. Snacks. special egg nog, and entertainment were pro- vided between games and poinsettia plants were award- ed to all losing leads after the first game. Bill Hall, assisted by Shir- ley Bate on the piano, led an enjoyable sing-song. Dinner and dancing topped off this very successful bonspiel. It’s this type of event that does a great deal toward making RHCC the friendly club it is noted to be. The many guests of Ruth and Frank Ellison wish to thank them for their wonder- ful hospitality Saturday after- noon. There must be some connection between this gathâ€". ering and the noise level of‘ the 5 pm Saturday draw. I TILL'S RINK Winner of the first draw was Ron Till‘s rink of his wife, Lee, Tom and Carol Hodge. One point behind was Bob Taylor‘s rink of Joan Taylor, Barry and Marnie‘ Wilson, with Murray Meeres and his rink of wife Doreen, Ralph and Raye Ryan finish- ing in third place. The team with the lowest. score was also recognized and first draw honors went to‘, Ron Van Toen's rink of Shir-i ley Bruce, Sam and Dawnl McLean. l TOP RINK 3 Second draw winners were‘ Vera Shropshire, Bruce Ste-l phenson and Edna Coulterl skipped by Cliff Brown. This rink not only won their draw by a 12-point margin but also were top point getters in the‘ entire bonspiel with 52 points. Harold Louden continued his winning ways by skipping his strong rink of Audrey Louden, Alex and Clare Wood to second place. Paul Welsh, with his wife Peggy, Brian and Bev Nielsen were close behind Harold to claim thirdl place. The second draw low score prize went to George Greer‘s rink of Jean Brumwell, Bruce and Lola Buckles. ’0! ’0‘ it Don Richard‘s rink of wife Phil, Al and Shirley Shuck- ster won the third draw by beating out John Bate, Shir- ley Bate, Tom and Blanch Leslie by one and a half points. Don Brayshaw skipped his rink-of Cathy Brayshaw, Peter and Doreen Nye to a third place finish. Looking for an ’ 0 QUALITY WORK) 0 CHARGES ONLY PERFORMED DAVID M‘LLB l l l I I I I .2,» ‘ \S\ By RON TAYLOR - 884-7817 Christmas Bonspiel Prizes, Sing-Song, Refreshments Enjoyed ‘trouble at his own club. He gexpected to sign up for a .raise $250,000 for construc- “HONEST MECHANIC GLENC PHONE Automotive Maintenance “““ RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1973 RICHMOND HILL CURLING CLUB All Skip Bill Schellenbeig, his wife Red, with Bob and Hel- ena Sutherland had the dis- tinction of being the low scoring rink on this draw. First game winners in the top division of the second schedule skip entry competi- tion were rinks skipped by Don Richards, Ralph Harley, Jack Shropshire and Tom Bush. Second division first game winners were Jack Rumney. Doug Jenner, Jim Anderson and Frank Ellison. Third division winners were John Perkins, Wes Draper and Armon Tripp. TUESDAY CURLING Tuesday competitive curl- ing. first draw, is now com- pleted with Jack Kreins’ rink of Mike Jaciuk, Steve Kava- nagh and Don' McDonald tie- ing Ralph Ryan’s rink of Al Shukster, Ken Evans and John Braday with five wins and two losses each. In the Thursday schedule, Mike Mulcahy skipped his rink of Dick Augustine, Vern Garlick and Bill Oliver to six wins with Murray Meeres with George Greer, Alex Alexson and Bert Naylor next with five wins. Mike Graydon, partâ€"time bartender and iceman has now added a third dimension to his services. Last Wednes- day he filled in for our “miss- ing“ cook and from all re- ports did an excellent job in preparing a steak dinner for 18 guests. He was also instru- mental in preparing Satur- day's dinner for the many Christmas bonspiel curlers. Well done, Mike! OOPHS! Since Elgin Barrow's suc- cess at the Thornhill Invita- tional, he has been having lost to Jim Anderson on Monday but the big defeat was on Friday evening by Harold Louden in the first game of the bonspiel. Lucky for Elgin it was only a six end game and the scoreboard only shows 16 points, for he was trounced. 16â€"0 and failed to pick up? an end. However, he returned1 on Saturday and redeemed‘ himself by winning five ends in his second game. Unfor- tunately, his third game was: another disaster. This hap-‘ pens to all skips, it is just a‘ matter of time. NEWMARKET: Five hundred snowmobilers with pledges amounting to $25,000 are 100-mile snowmobile mara- thon scheduled for February 3 by the Whipper Watson Appeal Committee. The com- mittee is endeavoring to tion of a therapeutic swim- ming pool in the new wing of York County Hospital. l l ' l y. .Carsl '. f,- 2 88960469 I PLETE IANSHIP FOR WORK AND'5 Sport. AMERON Corvettes Domestic Best Choice OI Three Langstaff Farm Site Of Sport Stadium ?? Richmond Hill Regional Councillor Gordon Rowe wasn’t “surprised at all" that the Metro powers - that - be have finally gotten around to publicly acknowledging that Langstaff Farm may turn out to be the best bet for a stad- ium after all. “I don‘t see how they could afford not to consider it," said Councillor Rowe who has been instrumental in plumping for a stadium at the the farm site at Highway 7 and Yonge Street along with Mayor William Lazenby, and former Councillor Shawn Beggs and local Architect Douglas Allen. Why it's a natural both as to accessibil- ity of the surrounding popu- lation, transportation, you name it." Councillor Rowe was refer- ring to recent statements by Metro Chairman Paul God- frey that of the private pro- posals studied by a stadium committee the one that looked most promising was one at ing on the site. COST $60 MILLION In return for the oppor- tunity to build these profit- able ventures he would throw in a domed stadium. Although the stadium, which would cost at least $60 million, would inevitably lose money, the development as a whole would be profitable. But committee members felt a high density develop- ment would prove unpopular with residents of the Lang- staff area. “Sure you're going to get complaints,” continued Rowe, “especially from those who don't like sports. They com- plain about anything that concerns paying money out for sports. But there are a lot of people who would go for it. “It would be a great bene- fit to Richmond Hill," main- tains Mr. Rowe. “Look at the business it would generate for the merchants in the area as well as the restaurants and motels. People would be coming down from the nor- thern communities and. na- turally, they would be spend- ing money down here." He pointed to the popular- ity of big league baseball which finds numerous “peo- pie from this area travelling all the way to Detroit to watch big league games or to Montreal to watch the Expos. With a major stadium we would have big league ball right here and fill the place. PROFESSIONAL SOCCER “I can envision that from five to 10 years from now you would also have major professional soccer there with teams playing from Europe and other places. Soccer will be one of the bigger attrac- tions some day." Councillor Rowe agrees that federal and provincial funds would be necessary and thinks that they should be made readily available. Mr. Godfrey said earlier that Metro Council probably would be asked to commit between $10 and $20 million of public funds for a stadium to house big league baseball and football and amateur sports. He hopes the provincial government will contribute toward the project which would involve either a recon- struction of the Canadian National Exhibition stadium or a new stadium on some other site. Godfrey and other mem- bers of council‘s stadium sub~ committee have [been inter- viewing prospective private developers of a new stadium during the past three months. Nine proposals, including the Langstaff one, have been studied in detail. As a result of this experi- ence. Godfrey has now given up the idea of a privately financed stadium in Metro Toronto. DOWN TO THREE the former Langstaff Jail Farm. DEVELOPER’S SCHEME This involved a developer's scheme to build a high-dens- ity commercial and housing complex plus a stadium on the site of the former Lang- staff Jail Farm. The 632 acres of vacant land are owned by Toronto City Counâ€" cil which is wondering what to do with the property. Councillor Rowe feels that “if such a stadium was to be built they should go for the whole bundle and make it a domed one." The idea behind the Lang- staff proposal is the devel- oper â€" whom the committee refused to name â€"â€" would buy or lease the land from the city and be allowed to build hotels, stores and hous- STILL GOING FOR TOUCHDOWN The stadium sites have been narrowed to three with Downsview first, Langstaff second and the CNE third. The Langstaff site has the approval of Richmond Hill Council who sponsored a “National Sports Centre" brochure two years ago and sent it all over the country. The brochure dwells main- ly on the accessibility of the Langstaff site as regards highways such as 401, pro- posed Highway 407, and the new Pickering Airport as well as the present one at Malton. He also felt it was up to York Regional Council to “get in there and let itself be heard. If you want something you've got to make yourself available, make yourself heard." “As I said," concluded Mr. Rowe, “it’s a natural." '5‘IlllllllllllllllIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIlllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIlllllllIlllllllllllllllllllIll“IlllllIlllllllllllIlllIIIIlIIIIIIlIIIIllIllIIIlIIIIlIIIIIll“IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'F' Mike Hartman Scores But, Alas, Rams Lose By FRED SIMPSON The Richmond Hill Rams got the first goal Sunday night but the Dixie Beehives rattled in five straight after that. End of story. Except that the Beehivers went on to dump the Rams 7â€"4, relegating them to a fifth place tie with the North York Rangers, three points out of second and four out of first. The game was a rather lack-lustre affair with neither team excelling, although it was Dixie who was there “fustest with the mostest” whey it counted. Brumwell starting and last- ing until the 13:42 second mark of the middle period. He left with the score 6-2 in favor of Dixie. But he couldn’t be faulted on the goals against him. Brian Stankiewicz finished the game. An indication of the way the contest was going was that the Rams only register- ed 13 body-checks during the entire game. Further frustration was added by the fact the Rams iced an almost complete, lineâ€"up â€" with the excep-, tions of Jim Casola, Steve; Glover and Robbie Yoteff who are still out with injur- ies. But still the Rams couldn't get going. Up for the game on defense was Kevin Brillinger from the juveniles. BEST FOR RAMS Best for the Rams were Defensemen Jack Guest and Dave “Digger" Dunkley. The Rams travel to Wesâ€" They trailed by 1-0 early in the first on Rick Febbo's goal at 1:10 from Dave Stu- art. DIXIE GOES WILD Then came goals from Doug Patey and Mike Kasy- cycki at 3:49 and 12:33 as the Dixie squad led 2-1 go- ing into the second after outshooting the Rams 13â€"10 in the first 20 minutes. Three successful goals by Alex Kallinikos, Dave Large and Dan Cormier made it 5-1 before the Rams‘ Jim Clement scored at 13:06 from Jim Graham and Billy Stephenson. Kallinikos wip- ed that one out with his second goal of the game just 36 seconds after Clem- ent scored to make it 6-2. That same period saw the Dixie team manage 17 shots in 17 minutes at the Rams' goalie at one point. TRY TO RALLY Richmond Hill came to life briefly in the third per- iod sparked by two goals from the stick of Mike Hart- man. But Doug Patey also . TRY scored for Dixie. It was , Hartman's 29th and 30th goals of the season. m His first effort came at â€" 4:41 from Bob Bangay and Ernie Takeuchi, with Patey CLEANING CENTRES BULK CLEANING getting that one back at 50¢ PER POUND or 13:49. 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