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u- Seriously though, it reminded me of what seems like a thousand years ago when I was that «'oungster with a lot of other ones. We used to Ian all kinds of horrible endings for motorists who insisted on driving along our street in the midst of a dramatic game of shinny. Like landâ€" mines, land-slides, tank-traps, even molotov cock- tails. Nasty little weapons like that. Slow them Usually we settled for the traditional glare, a wave of hockey stick which could be interpreted as a friendly greeting if the particular motorist was a sensitive type. We mumbled a few things too, friendly things like “hope your wheels fall off, fella.” - -r n An v..., -v ..... Thoselwere good old days as I recall. Of course, we weren’t as professional as now. In those seemingly, less complicated times we had to settle for a couple of hunks of dirty-brown snow for our goal-posts.‘ ‘up a bit. ‘ " WHAT NEXT? I noticed the other day that the kids are coming up with regular portable goals with posts and nets and all that. They look pretty sharp and probably are much more efficient. 1 n t0 A youngster gave me a dirty look the other lay and, on second thought, I don’t blame him a bit. I happened to drive along and break up a game of road-shinny at a very crucial moment. “u“ 1"" VV.__ But they’reert bf take the romance and fun out of the idea of road shinny. Seems that way There was always some smart guy who would try to narrow the width of his goalposts during the game when the action was up at the other end of the road. vvvvv (3 'an still remember the heavy meetings that took place before a game to decide how far apart the hunks of snow would be for the nets: It was some fun too when the tennis ball (we always used a tennis ball) would be_shot over the hunk of snow. A great debate would ensue as to whether the ball was inside or outside the hunk of snow which served as the goalpost. Some games never did get completed. There was always someone who would pick up his tennis ball and go home. THE SLASHER There was always the “slasher” on one of the teams. He was usually a somewhat big, awk- ward type who really wasn’t a good hockey lpayer. He always managed to clip you on your shins with his stick as you whizzed by him Ah, those we1e the days Up in the morn- ing, fligid winter days, out on the road and go to it. WWe also used to play hockey on old laneways; in front of garages, and even on an old aband- oned tennis court. Nothing was too good for us. What ever happened {0 those daSIS? That’s why I tend to get nostalgic when I see the young- ste1s shihnying it up out there nowadays. I’ts Extifact thaf tfiings Anever really change, just people} Now I’m the bad guy that breaks up crucial hockey games when I drive along the road. Will just have to go down another road, I guess. You never know when someone will heave a molotov cocktail at you. OL. 97, NO. 28. This'chap had just stick-handled past three ipponents. was about to zero in on goal, when I ,hreatened to wipe‘ him out with my Maverick. [‘here we were. He glaring at me, I glaring at 'We settled the matter quite peacefully. I 'an over him. Speaking of shinny, there‘s a bit of it going on these days on-ice at the Richmond Hill Arena courtesy of Administrator Ed Sackfield. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 8 am to 3 pm theice is open to anyone interested in having a game of. shinny hockey and/or just skating for the price of $2 a head. As Ed puts it: ' “We averaged about 25 to 30 kids during the winter holidays and it was just like the old days when we used to get together on the pond and play hockey. -We often have about 10 to 12 or 15 people out there during the week. Fellows like to get together for a skate, form teams, and have fun.” ‘ y FRED SIMPSON ‘3 Shinny Time It seems to me that it would be an excellent idea for you sedentary office workers to take an hour at noonhour, gulp down a sandwich, and go for a skate at the arena. You can’t miss at $2 a head for 7 hours of skating. Or maybe even go after work? How about it? FITNESS PROGRAM The Richmond Hill and District YWCA’s fit- ness and recreation program (co-sponsored by the local parks and recreation committee) is un- derway this week for boys and girls 7 to 10 years, 11 to 13 in Program A and girls, 9 to 13, boys 9 to 13, in Program B. Sport Spots (Continued on Page 14) ICE SHINNY. T00 RICHMOND HILL, ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1974 The new will be the offi- cial opening of the Markham Centennial Arena Saturday evening. Providing the “old” will be a selection of former hockey playing members of the Markham Millionaires and Stouffville Clippers of the 1950’s era. Something old\and some- thing new will be served up in liberal doses this Saturday night for the benefit of area hockey fans. They’ll be assisted by other “old-timers" when they meet the NHL Old Timers in an exhibition match at 8:40 pin. Area fans will recall with very little effort the Mark- ham Millionaires of the 1950- 51 era and later the Stouff- ville Clippers who sprung onto the scene with the de- mise of the Millionaires. The Clippers‘ lineup con- tained many former members of the Markham squad. Time has taken its toll of those still-active players with the result that only six for- mer Millionaires will be.on skates although the lineup will be filled by other well- known hockeyists of that era. They include: Frank Stevenson â€" Frank started on the road to star- dom with the Weston Junior Millionaires Play Again “B’s". He spent two success- ful years with Springfield in the AHL, on to the Varsity Senior Commercial League and was on the OHA Senior “B" Championship team for the Stouffville Clippers in 1951-52. Ron Bell â€" Ron is a resi- dent of Unionville and coached in the minor hockey system there. He played for Galt Junior “A" and for Philadelphia in the AHL. Home to play Senior “B" at Markham. When the Mark- ham Millionaires dissolved in 1951 he moved on to the Stouffville Clippers where they won the OHA Senior “B" Championship. Ron will be coach of the squad when it takes to the ice against the NHL Old-Timers. Don McIntoshâ€"Don play'ed hockey for the Corner Boys in the DEA Junior B League. Played Junior “A" for Kitch- ener and was a ferocious contender in the East Senior League playing for Latimer Brokers. Don played Senior ”B" for Stouffville Clippers and four years Senior “A", two with Orillia and two with Bradford. ’ Vic Sluce â€" Vic has spent the last 20 years coaching; 14 years for Marlboros in MTHL and six years St. Mike's Buzzers Junior “B". His career started with Scar- Lee, who lives in Unionville, had an illus- trious career beginning with the Marlie Junior “A” squad. He was on three Allan Cup Champ- ionship teams â€" the Marlies and the Kitch- ener-Waterloo Dutchmen, the latter going to the Olympics in 1956. He also played for the Cleveland Barons in the AHL. Heearned the Most Valuable Player Award in lOrillia in In- termediate “A” hockey after a three-year layoff resulting from a serious eye injury. Adding to his laurels was a stint with the Mann Cup Champion Hamilton Tigers of 1948. Members of the now inactive Markham Millionaires senior hockey squad have been practicing hard for their game the night of January 12 during the official opening cele- brations for Markham Town’s new Markham Centennial Arena. The Millionaires will play the NHL Old Timers. Admission is free. Here the Millionaires’ Howie Lee of Unionville makes the ice flakes fly in practice at the new arena. boro Dukes Junior “B’s”, Stouffville Intermediate “A" and Senior “B” for the Mark- ham' Millionaires. Vic had the honor of playing with Lynhurst Motors in the World Hockey Tournament in 1954. Ken Crawfordâ€"This name will be familiar to those of you who follow lacrosse. Ken not only coacneo rccenlly 1n the Major Lacrosse Series but played for such clubs as Brooklin, Toronto Shooting Stars, Port Credit and Peter- horo, the latter two winning the Mann Cup. He also found time to play Junior ”A" hoc- key for Galt and Senior “B” for Milton and Stouffville.~ Ken Brennanâ€"Ken’s start with the Birchcliff Junior “B” Club was a good basis for the Senior competition he had to face while playing for the Navy and in Scotland when the Scottish League Was formed. The semi-pro Sydney Millionaires were the next stop then the Markham Millionaires. Ken played for Latimer Brokers in the East York Industrial League. Other former well known players on hand for the con- test will include George Arm- strong of the Maple Leafs; Norm Gray who played for the Millionaires as well as Lyndhurst Motors in the World Hockey Tournament and still plays hockey in a fun way with his fellow fire- men; Bob Hassard, ex Stan- ley Cup member of the Maple Leafs in 1950-51 as well as Calder Cup and Allan Cup Championship member. Bob coaches an Atom All-Star team in Stouffville. Another familiar name will be Wally Maxwell, now a resident of Thornhill, He for- merly played with Marlie Juniors and is now an active executive member of the Thornhill Church Hockey League. Also playing for the Mark- ham entry will be Howie Lee, former Cleveland Baron star who had the misfortune to lose an eye but came back to star for Orillia after a three year layoff; Joe Kane, one of directors of the Toronto Torâ€" es and former football stal- wart; Moe Galand, another exâ€"Millionaire; and Russ Robertson who had a long hockey career with the Cor- ner Boys Junior “B’s” and played with Lyndhurst Mot- ors in World Hockey. The NHL'ers will be? com- The NHL‘ers will be com- prised of many fa'miliar names such as Sid Smith. Harry Watson, Gus Mortson, Jackie Hamilton. Brian and Barry Cullen and Murray Henderson. . (Photo by Pikulin) Richmond Hill Rams Sag Some But Manage 6-6 Tie, 5-2 Loss Sunday's game saw Rich- mond Hill fall behind two goals in the opening peniod against Dixie, trail by 3-1 going into the third period. going into the third period. The Rams were never really in contention at any point as they were complet- ely outplayed in the first and third periods. The sec- ond period was fairly even. STANKIEWICZ OUTSTANDING To give some indication of Dixie‘s complete dominaâ€" tion of the game the Rams’ Goalkeeper Brian Stankiew- icz was chosen as the third star of the game despite hav- ing five goals scored on him. Most of the 54 shots di- rected at him were difficult chances. On the other end of the rink Dave Legree in the Dixie net had only a handful of tough stops to make even though 42 shots were recorded. Dixie's Doug Pa‘tey start- ed things off with a goal on a three-way passing play with Mike Kaszyckl and Bill Stewart. Time was 10238 of the first period. By FRED SIMPSON The Richmond Hill Rams could come up with only one point in two games last week and it took a three-goal come-back in the final period of one of them even to get that? one point. fil‘vc was rpretrtyv well all Dixie Sunday at Dixie as that club downed the Rams 5-2 in Provincial “A” action. It was 2-0 at 12:15 when Warren Young made an in- dividual rush and hit home with an accurate shot from the blueline which caught the comer. Dixie outshot Richmond Hill 17-11. Afldnirt took a three-goal rally in the final period of Saturday’s game against Downsview Beavers to enable the Rams to gain a 6-6 tie. The home team moved in- to a 3-0 lead at 6:56 at Kas- zycki latched onto a rebound off a hard shot from the point by Alex Kallinikos and batted it home. HARTMAN SCORES Richmond Hill got into the game at 12:23 as De- fenceman A1 Potts shot the puck around the boards to Billy Stephenson at the point and he blasted a hard shot Opportunist Mike Hartman was on the spot to flip in the resultant rebound. Rich- mond Hill outshot Dixie 15-14 in this session. Officer Faulkner told “The Liberal” he was unable to speak for the east side of the lake. It took only 36 seconds of the final 20 minutes for Dixie to move into a com- manding 4-1 lead as Kas- zycki scored his second goal of the game as he broke through the Rams' defence to go in alone on Stankâ€" iewicz. Richmond Hill kept plug- ging and it resulted in its second goal of the game at Ice fishing conditions were described as generally good on the west side of Lake Simcoe early this week by Natural Resources Conserva- tion Officer Ken Faulkner at Maple. Fish Ice Varies On L. Simcoe He noted that the ice- thickness on the west side was “generally all right dur- ing the past weekend" and a number of snow-mobilers were plying their recreation. A number of ice-huts were also in place ready for action. Ice thicknes§ at Cook’s Bay ranged from 10 to 12 inches; Willow and Franklin Beach at Jackson’s Point, up to 12 inches at a mile out; 12 to 18 inches at Pefferlaw five miles out; but only two to five inches in the middle of the lake and considered dan- gerous. He added that in an area of the lake around Fox Island some cracks were in evidence earlier in the Week and could prove to be dangerous to un- knowing snow-mobilers until the proper freezing condi- tions prevail. Ice conditions at Lake Simcoe were variable last weekend with thicknesses varying from 11 inches thick to open water and provincial police were issuing warnings about thin ice. “Yoh just have to be care- ful," he said. Most major fish-hut oper- ators on Lake Simcoe said they would be in full opera- tion by Saturday. Paul Hetherington at Eight Mile Point south of Orillia reported nine to 10 inches in Carthew Bay and already has six huts on the ice." Tom Chillman, who has more than 125 fish huts at Oro Station said conditions had changed considerably over the last 24 hours. “On Saturday we were looking at about two inches of ice, but yesterday we found more than five inches of blue ice for one mile out." Floyd Hales of Beaver-ton. another operator, said there were nine to 11 inches of ice up to five miles out on the lake. 6:31 as Dave Stuart de- flected Rick Febbo’s shot from the point. Stephenson drew an assist on the play. Dixie‘s Kaszyski made it a three-goal night at 16:10 on assists from Bill Stewart and Murray Wright. It was all over. Dixie outshot Rich- mond Hill 23-17 this time OTHER GREAT lN-STORE SPECIALS 20% TO '/2 OFF 16 LEVENDALE RD. 884-7521 OPEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY 9 TO 9 PM. 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