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Several Sides Now The trouble in my life is that I always see several sides to every argument. Not two, several. Therefore there are people who accuse me of being unable to make a decision. Which is ridiculous. Every Monday of my life I decide to get up and go to work. As for the argument that I tend to ride the fence. That is also ridiculous. I tried that once. Fell off. Hurt myself. That fall brought logic into my life. Which brings me around to the current con- troversy regarding the Richmond Hill Arena Association and the resignation of President Bill McVean. Oh, you haven’t heard about it? Stay. I’ll do a brief introductory. Thousand lines. Briefly, the executive and-or members of the association were quite upset the other'night, pre-election night, about certain “innuendos” that had been cast by aspiring municipal leaders. Namely aboutâ€"to-be Mayor Dave Schiller. Closed shop? Crux of the whole matter revolved around “running a closed shop" and it “should be in- vestigated." To begin with, I don‘t know a damn thing about the arena association and whether it's run per- ELGIN BARROW fectly, imperfectly, or what have you. That's my fault. Never bothered to find out. Therefore, I can understand Mr. McVean being upset over what he feels is undue and ignorant criticism of how the association has been run over the years. His attitude is that people should “let their fingers do the walking" over the telephone dial before blasting away. He is also resentful that the matter arose during a paign. ‘ Somewhat exitable election camâ€" I’m sure Mr. McVean gave his own time, free time, even expert time to making the whole thing go. Along with his executive, of course. It’s only human nature to be sensitive about criticism under these circumstances. The thing that intrigued me about the association is that since 1969, the “board of directors have opened membership to interested parties at an an- nual membership fee of $5 and a lifetime mem- bership fee at $15." That was changed recently to $15 and $25. Nine since 1969 Now hear this. There are now 223 members of the association in a municipality of 30,000. Of that membership total, only nine new ones have joined Since 1969. I wonder why? Doesn't seem to be too much interest. I can only presume anyone com- plaining is either a present member or someone about to become one and straighten things out if anything needs to be straightened out. One more curiosity before moving on: The an- nual meeting was held a week or two ago, at which 12 spectators turned up including the executive. This was described as a better attended meeting than is usually the case. _ All I can conclude is that if it’s a “closed shop" it might be that way because there’s not too many members who care one way or another. But not to harp on one facet of the problem. I thought the new president of the association, Elgin Barrow, struck the right note. Right, Mr. Barrow To quote: “We might be at a fault to a point. We‘ve always run a low key operation at no expense to the taxpayer and maybe we just haven‘t talked ourselves up enough. . “We know what we’re doing but we haven’t advertised what we‘re doing to the public. We should try to push our story more and let the taxpayer know . it isn‘t costing him taxes to run our arenas." Sounds quite logical. Let people know what is happening. If there‘s a better way, why, do it. Mr. Schiller Now to Mr. Schiller. I talked to him briefly and suggested probably all that was needed was just for everyone to sit down and talk about it. He didn‘t seem to think so. I got the impression he felt the association was simply exuding an atmosphere of resistance. Wanted things just left as they are. For (Continued on Page 18) IlllllllllllIIllllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll|llllllllllllllllllllllllll|||lllIllll|llll||l|Illlllllllllllllll||||l||ll|llllllllllllllllllllllll THE LIBERAL. Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1974 â€" 17 Six straight Wins for hockey Rams The Richmond Hill Rams dominated play for about 50 minutes last night in their game against Whitby and then came close to blowing a 2-0 lead and a seemingly sure win. But it didn't happen. Whitby scored to make it 2- lat 16: 14 and then poured to the attack as Richmond Hill ran into a penalty 17:32. Richmond Hill Goalie Brian Stankiewicz rose to the occasion making one great stop and was lucky on another when he was down and the Whitby player just couldn't lift the puck. It was another sweet victory for the red-hot Rams who have now won six games in a row and are flirting with first place in the Provincial lIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllll|lllllllllllllllllllllllllllili.ltl|llllllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllll||lll|l||l|ll||lllll|llll Junior A hockey standings. The Rams outshot the visitors 4:326 on the game. getting the majority of them in the second when they fired 22$ shots at Goalie Al Me- Sorely but could only manage one goal. It wasn’t an end-toâ€"end thriller but it was a grueling fixture with lots of body and an occasional wood laid on the opposition. Particularly effective for the Rams was Detenceman Jim Rottey who was throwing his body around all night and doing it well The Rams opened the scoring at 11:37 of the opening period when Defenceman Scott Mabley's low slider from the blueline was deflected past Goalie |lllllllllllllllllllllllll|||llIlllllllllllliillllllllllll|llll||l|llllllllllllI||lll||||ll|lll|||l|llllllll Trent McCabe (23) of the Bayview Secondary School Seniors shows his shooting style here against Huron Heights Secondary School of Newmarket. McCabe was one of the top senior scorers in'the tournament The annual nament" handily. powerful Bayview Secondary School Seniors basketball team had little trouble winning the ninth “Referees Tourâ€" on the weekend winning all three games 1 They opened with a 48-26 conquest of Huron Heights RlcSorley. Dave Stuart drew an assist on the play. The Rams were firing blanks from thereon in until the 3:67 mark of the second period on a tremendous effort by Jim Clement. Clement raced after a loose puck in the Whitby zone and made a diving slide to tick the puck over to Rick Febbo in alone on net and he deflected a backhander past Goalie McSorely in the same motion. It was a game which looked like the Rams had locked up until that big goal by Whitby's Larry Wagner at 10:14. Whitby removed its goalie in the final seconds but the Rams held on. They had the edge all night on the visitors who kept walking into a series of penalties which kept nullifying their own chances to capitalize on Richmond Hill penalties. The Richmond Hill Junior A Rams are suddenly making definite motions toward being a first place contender in the Provincial A loop and the least person surprised is Coach Karl Brimblecombe. They are five points away from league leading Seneca. “We‘re getting mileage from everyone,"/he said, “from the goaltending out. We've jelled as a club”. His comments came in the wake of Sunday night's 8-4 win over Dixie Beehives, the Rams fifth win in a row. “In our last 13 games we’ve won we‘ve been pretty hot." Also “pretty hot” lately has been Richmond Hill product Jim Graham who scored another two against the Beehivers. It was his second two-goal effort in the past three games. play mg recent standing when he had to be. Sharp all night. 11, lost one and tied one, so I guess you‘d have to say Select ed most valua blc Rams was Mark Street who scored a goal and was tops at killing penalties Goalie Stankiewicz. his first game in weeks. was out- 'l'he Rams play Toronto Nationals next Tuesday night at 8 pm They are now approxtmately three points from first place. One of the more in- teresting aspects of the contest came in the second period when the Rams thought they had gone ahead by 2h The goal was disallowed. Rams ('oach Karl Brimblecombe. usually impassive behind the bench. actually opened the door and started shouting lle even pointed. llis‘ sudden outburst of emotion might have startled the ref but it was with the flu. “We had to bring Martin up on defence and move Bennie Pedersen into' the ‘centre slot.” said Brim- blecombe. Kimble injured The other missing player was Larry Kimble who was involved in a car accident enroute to the game. The seriousness of the accident was not known at press time. “Martin played well,” said Brimblecombe. “We've started to feel some injuries but we‘re not too bad off. The other fellows keep coming up with good games. If that keeps happening, we‘ll be all right.” (Photo by Pen as the Bayview wrecking crew raced through three teams to win the senior championship at the ninth annual Referees Basketball Tournament held Friday and Saturday at Bayview and Langstaff. championship. In fact, it was an area Secondary School in . Newmarket despatched schools weekend of triumph with Dr. G.W. Williams of as “0”” Secondary Aurora by 60-30, and then dumped Woodbridge High 51-30 to take the. senior rancis Anderson is all business here as she sends .~= Xmas Bonspiel Saturday night. k i 'i k on its way in the Richmond Hill Curling Club‘s ' The win- tStaH photo by Draper) Luck, be a lady. Get that rock in the house a ning rink was one consisting of John Johnston. Helen Greer. Betty and Ted Kerr. School won the juniors by taking all three games in handy fashion with the final one being a 39-19 drubbing of Aurora. Consolation winners was the Bayview Secondary School winners in a tight 27- 25 squeaker with Langstaff Secondary School. Newmarket won the Midget division with a final game win over Dr. G.W. Williams. Bayview Midgets were again the runners-up with a 48-26 win over King City to take the consolation championship. N0 trouble “We didn‘t have too much trouble," acknowledged the Bayview Seniors Coach Cliff Nuttall. “In fact we rested our first stringers after the first half of most of the games." Nuttall figures a con- tributing factor in the wins was a surprise team strategy of applying a “man to man full court press which kept the pressure on right from the beginning. They didn't seem to be ready for this". Paul Jarvie led the opening game win against Huron Heights dropping 17 points although he only played three quarters of the game before being taken out. McCabe 19 points The second game win against Aurora was led by Bayview wins senior Trent McCabe with 19 points and Jerry Chaisson with 14 points. Bayview led 39-9 at half-time and that signalled the entrance of the second stringers for the rest of the way. The Woodbridge win was engineered by McCabe again with 17 points followed by Jarvie with 14 points. “You could say it was an about team effort which is the way I like to see it," said Nuttall. “Steve Dengate also played a fine game for us." The Bayview has now chalked up eight wins against only one loss (to Brebeuff). And the league hasn‘t even started. The first league game is January 8 at Bayview at 3:30 pm. Opposition is Langstaff. “Phew”, was the main quote from the Bayview Juniors’ Coach Harper Harrison as his team came from behind with a minute and a half to go to down Langstaff 27-25. “We were down by five points when at one stage but we came from behind. It was quite dramatic.“ Making it all possible was Dave Mercer with two baskets in the last minute which won it all. The tournament. is an- nually sponsored by the referees. who donate trophies to the various winners as well as supply the food. It was held Friday and Saturday at Bayview and at Langstaff Secondary School. Other goals went to Dave Stuart, Kevin Street, Dave “Digger” Dunkley, Scott Mabley, Jim Clement, and newcomer Randy Martin of the Richmond Hill Legion Midgets. Martin was brought up for the game to help replace three regulars who were . missing including two centres, Rick Febbo and Steve Glover. Both are out Jim Graham Scores two more Illllllll|llll|lllll|||||||Ill||III||Illl|||llIllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllll||I|ll||ll|II|||lllllll|ll|||l||||l||||lllIII|IlIl|ll|lIlllllllllllllllllllllllll|Illlllllll||l||lll|l|llllllll|llll||||l|llllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Karl Brimblecombe . . can relax a little still no goal'. Another highlight of the game was the penaltyâ€"taking of big Scott into a period penalty for high- sticking and then got called for a minor in the second. He protested received a misconduct. Rams continue surge, topple Dixie Beehives defenceman who walked first Rams Mabley ti ve- minute too loudly and. to minute Trail 1-0 The Rams came from behind an early 1-0 deficit in Sunday's game to tie it and then lead by 2-1 going into the second. The score was 3- 2 at the end of the second 20 minutes. Then the floodgates opened in the third with the Rams’ leading by 8-2 at one point. “We've been playing a hard~hitting game lately.” said Brimblecombe, “and it's been working. We've been hitting them hard in the first part of the game and by the time the third period rolls around they start to wear down." Richmond Hill Goalie Doug Brumwell came up with yet another game and Karl has had trouble getting him out of the twines. Coach Brimblecombe has been working on a deal where the goalie who keeps winning keeps playing. He’s had to change that with the recent success of the Rams. His other goalie, Doug Stankiewicz, hasn’t been seeing any action. Doug, who is a top goalie himself, was slated to be between the pipes for last night's encounter with Whitby. Another suspension irks Coach Steffan, ’ridicu/ous’ he says Richmond Hill Legion Midgets‘ Coach Sil Steffan is on his fourth or fifth suspension this season and he’s slightly nettled by it all. The latest came Sunday afternoon when his team not only lost 5-0 to Aurora Toyota but also picked up 46 minutes in penalties. That’s why Coach Steffan will be sitting out the next league game and any others in between. “It‘s getting ridiculous," Steffan told “The Liberal". “They have a league ruling whereby every team that gets over 36 minutes in penalties, their coach is suspended until the next league game. “I’m getting em- barrassed. I come out to coach kids playing hockey and all I end up doing is sitting out game suspen- sions." Realunhappy Steffan was particularly unhappy about Sunday’s encounter which saw some game suspensions handed out. “They’re trying to stop rough play in hockey but I can't see what handing out misconducts for such things as slapping your glove on the boards in protest of a goal stops rough play." He was referring to an incident where one of his players received a 10 minute misconduct for. the “glove” incident. Another game misconduct was handed out when a player hollered “nice penalty. Mike“ to one of his players who had just received one. Against dirty hockey “I‘m against dirty hockey." said Steffan. “but I don‘t see anything wrong with body Contact in midget hockey. “When they start calling everything it means you're practically helpless as a coach. It‘s almost an automatic suspension for you... Sunday's game saw most of the penalty action coming in the last minute and 21 seconds of the game. In that short space of time the Legion players were given a total of 30 minutes in penalties. The legion management stated the calls were definitely unwarranted because at no time was the game getting out of hand. Both teams went out to skate and shoot and they did. As a result two very important suspensions will be in effect for the return game in Aurora Thursday night.” Toyotas scored their first goal midway through the first period. No scoring in the second. Aurora got the insurance goal with 3:49 remaining. Good chances The Legion had many good chances to even the game but just couldn't get the puck between the posts. Aurora put the game away with 1:41 remaining. Coming up: Thursday at Aurora at 8:45 pm. Saturday here with Oak Ridges at 3 pm and Sunday in Orillia at, 7:35 pm. The Legion Midgets hosted Chinguacousy December 2 in an exhibition match and came out with a 2-2 tie. The Blues provided good, clean competition and probably would have given the Legion a stiffer game if they had more bodies. They came to town with only 12 players. Richmond Hill got the only goal in the first period on an unassisted effort by Ross Middleton. The Blues tied the score early in the second, only to have Robbie Dynes score on passes from Mike Ham and David Earl. Late in the game the,Blues tied it again and that’s the way the game ended 2-2. Friday night the Legion squad defeated Newmarket Redmen 6-1 in Newmarket. Goals went to Mike Gallaugher from Peter Kendall, Gallaugher again from Rob Dynes; Mike Ham from Danny Jones; Jones from Ham; Randy Hughes Guest unassisted; and Dynes from Kendall. ('oach Sil Steffan too many suspensions