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Winner of the 1974 tour- nament was Kitchener Kiwanis. A total of 42 midget players who participated in that event were sub- sequently drafted by Ontario and Quebec Major Junior “A” hockey clubs. ' hockey clubs. An auditors report of Minor Athletic Tour- paments Incorporated will The Canadian provide free meals to players throughout the week. More than 500 boys bet- ween the ages of 14 and 16 will participate and' those residing outside an 80 mile radius of the town will be billeted with local families. ..-v. rvl uyyu, a non-profit organization, and is operated in close affiliation with members of the Royal Canadian Legion and the Richmond Hill Hockey Association. The tournament is sponsored by Minor Athletic Tournameth Incorporated, The tournament will be held in Richmond Hill over a period of seven days beginning Monday. March 24. A Sunday meeting s51}; 32 teams selected out of 61 chips applying. Name teams Midget t0 urne y Working sessions are already underway in preparation for the eighth annual Richmond Hill International Midget Hockey Tournament which will see 32 teams competing. States Cbach Karl Brirhblecombe: “Any com- bination of four wins for us and four losses for Dixie puts us in." States Coach Karl Brimblecombe: “Any com- (Continued on Page 16) The Rams accomplished all kinds 0? goodies for themselves by winning two games on the weekend against Markham Waxers and Aurora Tigers to tie for second spot with Whitby. Both Bill and Dick were one of the more popular members of the old Richmond Hill Rams some four season ago when they played along with such fellows as Daryl Rice, John Barnett (now of Colgate) and Wayne Stokes who is still a team mate of theirs at Cornell. They’re taking an administration course in hotel management at Cornell and are playing their hockey careers strictly by ear. The boys and their Cornell team mates will be at Varsity Stadium for an exhibition hockey game with the U of T January 22. What a race Speaking of the Rams: Now isn’t that a something of a flapâ€"doodle playoff race going on in the Provincial Junior “A” hockey League? Don’t worry The boys had something of a fire prevention problem because their “palace” was located right in the’middle of the woods. This was solved at Christ- In v ¢ . . mas time when their team mates and friends presented them with fire extinguishers as presents. Now they’ve got enough to put out a major fire in Ithaca and still have an extinguisher left over for the cabin. That‘s a GOO-foot split-level log cabin replete with authentic fireplace and a sleeping loft which, of Course. you reach by a rickety old ladder. Man, that’s living. It all began with the boys becoming acquainted with the owner of a farm containing a great tract of woods. Presto. Bill has always been the builder-type while Dick prefers the artistic side of life such as music and thumping the opposition on the ice-lanes. Grab the Axes The owner went along with the idea, the boys grabbed some axes, hewed down some trees and started to work. What resulted is what you would see right now in those woods in Ithaca. But the thing that got me was their decision to build a log cabin in the woods just outside Ithaca. New York, about five miles from the campus. Ac- cording to my information it was brother Bill (or was it Dick) who decided to build the cabin. That’s right. Both are currently in their third season with the Cornell University hockey team and are doing just swell thank you. Wouldn't mind it myself. In the meanwhile I'll get ready for that day by continuing to take lessons on how to replace washers in leaky kitchen taps. You have to start small you know'. What brought all this drivel up? That’s what a couple of well-known former Rich- mond Hill Rams’ hockey playing brothers, twin brothers yet, have done recently by the name of Bill and Dick Weber of 31 Wright Street. I know that out there in that big world there are a lot of you people who can hardly wait to reach the time of your life when you retire and go build yourself a log cabin in the woods. Get away from it all. Bill Weber . . .as a Ram Shades of Thoreau who? Some “heavy” deciding here Sunday as mem- bers of the Tournaments Incorporated executive pick the 32 teams who will be competing in the eighth annual tournament starting March 24. Clock-wise are: Harold Barnett. Rene Fournier. Bob Reeves. Detroit. Michigan; Fraser, Michigan; Lansing, appear in The Liberal. Teams approved for entry in the 1975 event are: Fred Simpson Dick Weber . .as a Ram Michigan; Sydney, Nova Scotia; Kentville, Nova Scotia; Hull, Quebec; Chateauguay, Quebec; Levack. Sudbury, Hamilton. The Hill ended the first period a goal up as Mike Wood evened things up on a pass from John Oakley and Scott Davey and Richard Hopson picked up the go- ahead counter from Bob McCullough and Tony Robinson. In losing their first game of the season January 6 the entire Alliance Sports Juvenile club came up with a poor defensive effort. Also adding to their woes was a new addition to the Thor» nhill club, Dave Cour- temanche, who skated through the entire Hill team several times, scored three goals, set up three and was seldom off the ice. The result was a final score of 74; in favor of Thornhill. Alliance Juves lose first game This is the way the Richmond Hill Provincial Junior ‘A’ Rams were doing it on the weekend as Mike Rowley fires home his club’s second goal Friday night enroute to a 6-3 win over Markham Waxers at Markham. The puck (circled) is shown catching the net just inside the post behind Markham’s Jim Baxter. Thornhill opened Richmond Hill didn‘t get really going until the dying seconds of the middle period. even though at one point in It was just one of those types of contests where the Rams never really got um tracked. But still could have been last-second winners when Steve Morrison‘s blazer from just inside the Dixie blueline missed the top corner by an inch, or maybe two. By Fred Simspon The Richmond Hill Rams were scoring goals in their sleep last night, two of them. And it was good enough to tie an equally sleepy Dixie Beehive team 2-2 in a Provincial Junior ‘A‘ game at the local arena. the Oshawa, Ottawa, Sarnia, Niagara Falls, Kitchener, London, Burlington, Com- wall. Etobicoke, Guelph, St. Catharines, Georgetown, Walt Donkin, Erick Chapman. Rita Hopson. Stan Thornington, Russ Andrews, Doug Hopson. Marha Amos (President). Jack Sanders, John Clephan, Don Bromley. Harold O’Rourke, George Wood, Sterling Reid, Ken Addley, Paul Ducharme, Al Webster. Playing back in form again Alliance Sports defeated Aurora 5-0 January 12. John Oakley opened the scoring in the first period, The third period sa'w both -lubs exchange a pair of goals each, Don MacPhee .and Dave Berseth fro the Hill with Arnold Van- derweyde assisting on the latter. Dan Somer picked up the winner for Thornhill with two minutes left in the match. ’ second period with three goals in a row, all scored when the Hill had a man advantage. Before the second period ended Alliance got two back as Jeff Miller connected on a long shot and Rick Sackfield lifted one home from Arnold Vanderweyde. His luck ran out with 22 seconds left when Dixie’s The surprised Rams waited around to get another goal. Dixie stormed in. around and over Goalie Brian Stankiewicz. He came up with some great stops. It was 2-0 at 17:00 when Clement deflected Jim Roffey‘s drive from the blueline. the early going they led 2-0. First goal They opened the scoring at 5:41 of the first period when Tony Robinson got hold of the puck in the Dixie corner. He passed to Jim Clement. who relayed to Mike Rowley, who shot. The puck was blocked but came back to him and it was in. Barrie, Dixie, Peterboro, Mississauga, Oakville, Whitby, Toronto But- terbeeps, Newmarket, Thomhill. Richmond Hill. Although the Hill had the edge in play throughout the game Gerry Tipold had to be sharp on several occasions to earn his shutout. After a scoreless second period Lamb got his second goal early in the third when he was set up by MacPhee. Jeff Miller connected to make it 4-0 with MacPhee and Berseth again com- bining to set it up. Closing the scoring Mike Woods drifted one through the Aurora goalie’s legs with Darryl Condy assisting from the point. assisted by Scott Davey and Mike Wood. Before the close of the first period, Tom Lamb put Alliance Sport in front by two on a neat passing play from Berseth and MacPhee. ‘ The second period saw both teams in an even more somnolent mood with action at a crawl at times. All tied up Dixie finally tied the game at 11:22 when a face-off saw the puck come back to Alex Kalinikos at the blueline. He sent a patented slap shot which had Stankiewicz beat all the way. Even this didn't seem to rouse any particular action An indication of Dixie‘s territorial control in that period is indicated by shots on goal. Dixie had 20. Rich- mond Hill 8. Paul Richard roamed in from the blueline. He laced him a Sizzler that caught the net just off the post. (Photo by Hogg) (Photo by Wynne) Legion fought valiantly in the third to tie the game and could have won it had not the referees assessed 20 At 4:08 of the second Mike Gallaugher scored for the Legion on a pass from Danny Jones. Barrie tied it at the eight minute mark. At 8:14 Randy Martin went down in front of the Legion net after receiving a stick in the face. He came out of it with an elbowing penalty â€" nothing to Barrie. Sixteen seconds later Barrie got the goâ€"ahead goal. At 11:57 Mike Ham tied the game on a nice setup by Gallaugher and Robbie Dynes. With 1:33 remaining in the period and Martin in the sin bin, Barrie players advised the referee they had scored â€" he didn't see the play as he was busy picking up his whistle in the corner. Mike Doyle in the Legion net still maintains no goal was scored, but after the referee checked around with the Barrie players he decided to award the goal. There was no scoring in the first period but a lot of skating, a lot of hitting and only three penalties â€" two to the Legion and one to Barrie. An excellent game of hockey was put forth by both clubs until the referees decided to step in, near the end of the second period and all through the third period. Richmond Hill Legion Midgets and a goodly number of supporters journeyed to Eastview Arena in Barrie January 8 and came away in a very disgruntled mood after winning on the ice by their play but losing where it counts â€" on the scoreboard â€" by a 4-2 score. But Coach Brimbl'ecombe had reason to be, well, pretty optimistic after Sunday’s big win in Aurora. Stun Tigers The Rams stunned the red-hot Tigers by skating with them most of the way and not collapsing despite a scoreless first period which saw them outshoot Aurora 11-4 but fail to score. “We could still end up out of the playoffs,” ruminated Coach Karl, “and yet we could still end up in first. I’ve never seen a season like this one". Eight teams make the playoffs in the 12- team loop and nine of these are still in the running. Then why did he arise Monday morning not happy, just delirious? Easy. He was concerned about his team making the playoffs even though they had only eight games to play in the regular schedule. Crazy But that’s the way it is in the topsy turvy league this season which sees only four games separating ninth place Dixie Beehives from second place Richmond Hill and Whitby. And those two are only five points from front-running Seneca gFlyers. ’Old Nemisis’ Barrie outscores Legion 4-2 The two wins also meant a tie for second place in the Provincial Junior A Hockey League. His team had just com- pleted a merry weekend which had seen it down Markham Waxers 6-3 Friday night and then stop Aurora Tigers’ win streak at six games via a 5-3 Sunday night defeat right in Tiger- town. reason to happy. Whe_n Richmond Hill Rams hockey coach Karl Brimblecombe went to bed Sunday night he had every H/'// Rams bounce back with key Wins 0 var Markham, A urora 7:04 mark and involved Steve Morrison and Doug Heslip. They grabbed. fell to the ice, were separated. Nothing serious. One other near-miss for Richmond Hill came with 10 minutes left when Dave Large sifted in alone and his That third period was also scoreless and saw its livelier moments in a few half- hearted shoving matches. One of them occurred at the and the score remained at 2-2 going into the third. The Rams outshot Dixie 11-7 this time out. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1975 be deliriouslSI The' minor atoms travelled to Oreillia three times winning all three games â€"- 4-3, 5-2 and 4-1. The team played well, killing off one penalty but allowing Orillia to score a power play goal. Chris Austin played exceptionally well in goal facing many difficult shots. Richmond Hill Lazenby Pill Rollers came home Sunday with their third win away against Orillia. Scott White led the attack with two goals assisted by Roy Hayward on one and Stephan Quigg on the other. Eric Mabley scored the first goal unassisted and set up the second goal scored by Derrick Baker with help from Ronnie Grimmer. At the seven minuute mark Barrie got the big fourth score. To ensure the victory and with the Legion coming on really strong the Hillers were assessed 14 minutes in penalties in the last seven minutes of play. They found it pretty hard to battle such odds, but it was a downright shame to have an excellent game spoiled by the asinine calls of the minutes of penalties to Richmond Hill in the 15 minute period. One one occasion two Legion players had a clear two on none breakaway when the play was whistled down because a Barrie player “took a dive" in the Legion end zone, and feigned injury. He recovered quickly enough to take the faceoff and resume play. Pillrollers defeat Barrie two. And this is the reception you get when you do score an important goal in an important game. Naturally, it‘s Richmond Hill Rams’ Mike Rowley being surrounded (left to right) by teammates Jim Clement, Bennie Pedersen and Scott Mabley for getting that goal in Friday’s Markham game, one of The Tigers struck back on goals by Randy Humphries and Brian Moore but it was Mike Rowley tieing it at 17:39 from Jim Clement and Tony Robinson. Robinson, a juvenile, has been playing Richmond Hill got something of a break five minutes into the second when Dave “Digger” Dunkley took a pass from Kevin Street and his sub- sequent high bloop shot from near centre eluded Goalie Peter Heintzman. Richmond Hill‘s Scott Mabley and Dave “Digger” Dunkley were sterling in killing penalties throughout the game and the visitors had no end of trouble with them. The Rams walked into a minute penalty at 13:15 as Rowley was sent off for roughing. But the Dixie squad couldn‘t get loose for any real dangerous shots. subsequent sliding shot kissed itself off the far post with Stankiewicz cleanly beaten. Richmond Hill was outshot Sports: Coming up: Wednesday at home against Orillia 9 pm. Friday 7 pm. against Brantford and Saturday at noon or 1 pm. in the Georgetown Tournament. No scheduled game Sunday to allow for finals in Georgetown. Monday 9 pm. against Thomhill. Sixteen seconds into the third period Ham sank a pass from Danny Jones. Next came goals by Dynes aided by Wallingford and Kendall, Randy Hughesâ€" Guest unassisted, Danny Jones from Ham and Randy Jones and Martin unassisted. The Redmen got their only goal early in the second by Tom Tidman on a pass from Mike McLellan, and Gallaugher scored from Martin. referees in the last 20 minutes of play. The Legionnaires hosted and bombed the Nwwmarket Redmen 10â€"1 January 12. Newmarket unfortunately walked into some injuries, all accidents. Tommy Tidman, the class of the Redmen, stopped a deflected puck on the bridge of his nose laste in the third period. After stemming the flow of blood, he returned to the wars and was his usual self once again. on a goal by David Earl waiting at the goal mouth for Gallaugher’s and Ross Middleton’s setup passes. Dynes scored unassisted right from a faceoff. Then came Peter Kendall’s goal from Dynes and- Wallingford. Doug Hodgson finished the scoring for Legion in the first period on passes from Wallingford and Dynes. That’s when things started to happen as the Rams burst through with two quick goals shortly after the midway mark of the period. Aurora bounced into a 3-2 lead at 1:01 of the third on Dave Poole's tally but Rich- mond Hill's Jim Graham tied it at 3:09 from Jim Roffey and‘Kevin Street. ’l‘wo quick goals tremendous hockey since being elevated to replace the injured Rick Febbo. The all-star game will be played at Aurora January 22. The proceeds are to be shared. The Ontario Sport- swriters and Sportscasters Association will use their part to assist them with their work for the Ontario Society for Crippled Children. The 39-29 on the game. filAllStars Results of the allâ€"star balloting saw the Rams placing three players on the Eastern All Stars. They are forwards Kevin Street and Dave Stuart and defenceman Mabley. (Photo by Wynne) Richmond Hill plays Deer Park Friday night. Mixed Doubles: Hilda Baxter, Cam Cairncross splitting 15-10, 10-15; Jill Dalton, Randy Carlson splitting 15-7, 9â€"15; Joan Freeman, Arnie Balogh losing 11-15, 13-15; Jill Johnson, Larry Marchbank losing 3-15. 6-15; Carol McDonald, Derek Smith losing 10~15, 1-15; Joyce Collier, Syd Redgate losing 3-15.5-15. Mens Doubles: Cam Cairncross, Larry Mar- chbank losing 11-15, 12-15; Randy Carlson, Arnie Balogh splitting 11-15, 15-6; Derek Smith, Syd Redgate losing 15â€"1, 15-1. Richmond Hill did not play up to its potential and lacked the spirit shown in the previous week’s win at St. Clements. The scores: Ladies Doubles: Hilda Baxter, Jill Johnson splitting 15-10, 15-17; Joan Freeman, Jill Dalton losing 4-15, 6-15; Carol McDonald, Joyce Collier winning 15-9, 17-15. The Richmond Hill Badminton Club lost its second home game of the season by 18-6 to a very strong A. Y. Jackson beam in the Toronto Interchurch Badminton League last week. Hi/l badminton lose by 78-6 The Rams are at Wexford tomorrow night (Thursday) for a 7:30 pm game and are then idle until next Tuesday when they host Aurora at home for, yes, yet another key game. Kevin Street and Glen Balfour were the other scorers for the Rams. For Markham it was Steve Harrison scoring twice with Wilson getting the other one. Brumwell handled six hard blasts during that span but the Waxers were unable to dint his armour. Jim Clement’s goal at 12:36 salted the contestraway. The relief was very brief however as 11 seconds later the Rams ran into a pair of simultaneous minor penalties which caused them to play two men short for two minutes. Following Ron Wilson's goal for the Waxers which narrowed the margin to 4-3, Markham came ,on strong and peppered Doug Brumwéll with a number of shots but the Ram goaltender, who played brilliantly throughout, held his ground until Mike Rowley restored the Rams' two goal margin at 9:09 with the second of his two goals of the game. Assists went to Robinson. The Tigers outshot the Rams by 36-35 with Rich- mond Hill’s; Brian Stankiewicz playing some great hockey in the nets. Control game Friday’s game at Markham saw Richmond Hill managing to keep the game under control most of the way but having some anxious moments during a five minute span in the third. Approximately .a minute and a half later; Dunkley checked all-star defen- ceman Doug Coufiter at the Rams' blueline, broke into the clear and delged Heintz- man before flipping the puck into the net for the clincher. s. Mitch Edwards started it by firing a shot from the right wing which missed the net. Glen Balfour managed to get his stick on the puck in the opposite corner and tip it to Larry Kimble who faked a shot and then swooped around Goalie Heintzman and slipped the puck into the open net. Time was 13:23. Teams playing for the east (Seneca‘s George Dale will coach) are Seneca, Wexford, Richmond Hill, Markham. Whitby. and North Bay. For the west it will be Aurora‘ Dixie. Toronto Nationals. North York. Royal York. and Weston. Charlie Conacher Cancer Foundation gets the rest. Aurora Tiger Goaltender Peter Heintzman was top votegetter in balloting for positions on the two all star teams as chosen by coaches and managers of the OHA Junior 'A' league.