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Jump to conclusions Public School. It will be conducted Talk about jumping to conclusions by National Coach Gord Barry. The for a “cause.” Not showing much fee is a $1 per night and everyone responsibility and or sensitivity in welcome. For information call my eyes. Gerry Van Essen at 889-4302. .alllllllllllllllllllllllllfllllIIMIIIIllllllllllllIllllllllllIllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll .~ u Richmond Hill Rams‘ goalie Brian Sankiewicz is down on this North Bay Trapper shot as flillllllIIIIII|llllllllllllllllllllllllllllIllIlllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllll|l|IlllIlllllllllllll|||llllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE Rams, Trappers change wounds I promised myself not to get in- And that’s what’s wrong. No one volved in this seemingly endless keeps their cool to get both sides of controversy over violence in hockey. the story. I just get tired of talking about it. I heard people in the area (who You can’t win. had only read the story like myself) Thirty years from now they’ll be railing about violence in golf, or cooking, or maybe even sewing. And I’ll be too old, too sick, or too dead to care. The injured player was “cross- checked from behind.” The “other player got a match- misconduct penalty. He took a run at him about about a quarter way across the ice.” Sure, I‘m against violence, un- necessary violence in hockey. I’m especially against it in everyday life because that‘s the game I play. Logic tells me it hasn't stopped out there, is getting worse, so I’m not shocked some of it shows up in hockey. But’ that’s not my point. This violence bit crept into my miserable existence again via a hockey game Monday night of last week at Oak Ridges. On checking with an official of the Oak Ridges team I got a completely different story. Now isn't that just like life. A Barrie Colts hockey player was injured when he struck the boards after being checked. He was taken to hospital apparently pretty seriously injured at the time (broken nose, jaw, concussion). It turned out not to be quite so severe which everone is thankful for. Saw story [’11 start out by saying I didn‘t see the incident. I did see an article in an afternoon Toronto daily quoting the Barrie coach, a Dr. D.F. Crowe (a dentist. apparently) who reportedly said: No match penalty . I was informed there was no match misconduct (see story on front pages of this paper for details) which is a deliberate attempt to injure. The thing that upsets me is that when everyone has a "cause" â€" be fit good or b_ad7â€" they go running off in several directi‘ofis whenéver something seems to support that cause. For example: That story on the Oak Ridges incident was played right up on the front page of the Toronto paper. It was just un- derneath one concerning Attorney- General Roy McMurtry’s in- structions to Ontario Police to lay charges against professional hockey players involved in violent assaults during games. H/'// goalie down but not out on this one Sports Wednesday, November 5, 1975 Zfihtral Violence in hockey Classified I heard people in the area (who had only read the story like myself) go wailing around about all those “animals” in hockey. It doesn’t help anyone to condemn the player who checked the injured one especially when it turns out that it wasn't that way at all. He is just human, too. Just doing his job. Slow down But, ah, I had better slow down. Getting shrill and preachy myself. As for me? I’m against un- necessary violence which is a matter of personal interpretation. What is and isn't necessary? I’m against clubbing people with sticks whether it_be in the rink or on the street. Seems like the civilized way to think myself. To use an old clinker, there are two sides to everything. Just want to conclude by saying that if you’re against violence in hockey, more power to you. Just make sure you know what you’re talking about before you mouth off. At this point I’m especially against all this emotional hand- wringing on the subject. Since when did life become a piece of cake? It also gets a little rough sometimes in the real world out there. Other things This could be in the way of an apology because I’ve been threatening to do something on the new set-up in the Richmond Hill Hockey Association this year re coaching, first-aid clinics, etc. Seems I’m always getting sidetracked. But, aside to Ken Ham, keep the faith. I can almost assure you I’ll write a few thousand lines on the subject next week. That's if I don’t get in the way of violence at a hockey game. Tickets are available at 88445625 at $6 a c0uple. Refreshments, food and dog _prize_s, etc. Finally Some late notes from the Rich- mond Hill Minor Soccer Association and some upcoming events; Let’s see, now, on Nov. 21 the parents of the association will be holding a fund-raising Junior Orange Bowl Tournament Dance at ARC Industries from 8.30 pm. to 1 This, of course, is to provide further financial assistance to send a group of youngsters to the Orange Bowl. Also, a Soccer Clinic for coaches will start tomorrow (Thursday) from 7 to 10 pm. at Crosby Heights Public School. It will be conducted by National Coach Gord Barry. The fee is a $1 per night and everyone welcome. For information call Gerry Van Essen at 889-4302. Fred Simpson teammates Larry Kimble (15) and Jim Clement (18) rush to his Section B Thun derbirds lose two in row Long pass “I don’t think we have to worry about their running attack but it’s the long pass we’ve got to stop. And if we can‘t find the answer to that we don’t belong around here as coaches.” Serjeantson observed that “we’ve had a few problems during the season but I still think we’ve got the team that could win it all." But it was a different story Friday at King as the locals found themselves behind 6â€"0 on a 60â€"yard pass and run play in the first quarter. Castator gets two King forged from behind in the second quarter as starry Gary Castator went all the way on a 60-yard pass and run play. Markham got back in the game in the same quarter on a 50 yard pass to make the score 13-12. The Oak Ridges Dynes Jewellers iisplayed their most explosive brand of hockey to date this season Monday night when they blitzed Owen Sound 9-4 in a Mid-Ontario Junior B hockey game at Bond Lake Arena. But they hope it will be a different story this afternoon when they meet the same team in Markham in sudden death playoff action. “The long pass just killed us,” commented Ed Serjeantson who is co- coach of the King squad along with Rob Wright. It was the same Castator putting his King teammates in front 12â€"6 in the third quarter as he took the ball over from the four yard line. Bob Healip made the convert. King City football seniors blew a 13-6 lead against Markham High Friday and ended up losing 18-13 in the final regularly scheduled game of the 1975 York County High School football season. The winner of this contest will meet the winner of the sudden death game between Dr. G.W. Williams of Aurora and Newmarket also being played today. Final Saturday That final game for the York County championship will be played Saturday afternoon. “They scored two touchdowns on long passes and their winning one came off another long one to our one yard line,” he said. It was one of those days you expect to get but you hate them just the same. A losing day or two. That's what happened to the Thor- nhill Thunderbird Mid-Ontario Junior B’s the last two games. Monday night they went down to a 7â€"3 defeat at the hands of the front-running and powerful Collingwood team at Thornhill Sunday they were taken 7-3 by Barrie in Barrie. rescue Tuesday night. Rams won 7-1. Fade in third “We just can’t seem to put it together but we have a good young club,” commented a team spokesman. “We played well agéinst Collingwood but we faded in the third period as Davey 5 goals Leading the shock troops was Scotl Davey who fired home five goals followed by linemate Davey Stuart whc contributed eight assists (count them) and Ian Cr0ckford with two and one goal. ' Stuart, .in fact, ,wgs in on everyvgoal except one. Markham downs King City Six goals in about seven minutes near the end of the second period literally blew the Owen Sounders out of Oak Ridges. Wallop Owen Sound 9-4 Dynes explode for six goals Ph0?° bV H099 Call 220 minutes in penalties as Rams lose by 7-3 Sunday after winning 7-7 in the Hill The Richmond Hill Rams were still basking in the warm after-glow of having scored four goals against North Bay Trappers Tuesday of last week to come up with a stunning 7-1 win in Richmond Hill, It lasted only until Sunday night when the same Trappers came out thumping and dumped them 7-3 before 2,000 delighted North Bay fans. Penalty parade Most of the hockey game was played in the penalty box as the Trappers came out in a fighting spirit with the Rams only too eager to reciprocate. “They're also good for two goals up there with the fans behind them," commented an obviously disappointed Coach Karl Brimblecombe. “But we didn‘t have too much going for us. Just couldn‘t get going." The first penalty came five seconds after the opening whistle and before it was over a total of 220 minutes had been dished out by the game officials. But it was worse than that.« 4 players suspended By the time the last whistle had blown Coach Brimblecombe had fOund himself missing four players due to game misconducts which means automatic two games suspensions. Then came the fateful fourth quarter and a one yard plunge by Markham for the winning touchdown. Fumble twice King still had two opportunities to win Thornhill got back into the swim with Wally Stankov scoring at 1:16 from Bill Sim and Chris Demeo tying it at 3:47 from Rocky Pantalone and Barry Howson. Crockford made it 2-0 early in the second but Owen Sound’s John Camp- bell came back to score and it was 2-1. Roof sagging The roof started to sag when the visitors ran into a five minute high sticking penalty with 8.39 to go in the period. Oak Ridges came on to score two The Thunderbirds were in the game most of the way against Collingwood trailing 2-0 in the first and then coming back to tie the game at 2-2 early in the second. Collingwood jumped into a 2-0 lead at 14:02 and 18:16 of the opening 20 minutes on goals by Doug Kerr and Garth Beer. The game started out on a low- scoring plane in the first period which saw only one goal scored and that by Oak Ridges' Davey from, naturally, Stuart. seems to be our habit. Those last period relapses kill us." The other goals went to Jim Roffey, Tom Tidman, and Larry Greenslade. A couple of assists also went to Greg Bogaerts who spelled Stuart between Davey and Crockford. Arally? The 490 spectators thought the The fallen King City footballer on the right tells the story as Markham High ball carrier This is the one that got away! Out with various infractions in- cluding fighting are Bill Belzun, Larry Kimble, Mike Rowley, and Jim Clement. Also bounced for two games were North Bay's Gerry Rioux and Claude D’Amour. Horrible start Sunday's game was strictly a horrible start for the Rams who fell behind 4-0 in the first and then 6-0 nine minutes into the second before they could get on the score-sheet. Hopes were high that North Bay. playing its third game in as many nights, might tire in the third but such was not to be as they got the only one of the session. ‘Defenseman Bennie Pedersen finally broke the ice at 9:31 from Rick Febbo. This seemed to kindle a flame of hope in the Rams and they made it 6-2 at 11:11 as Kimble scored from Frank Nigro and Brad Thompson; and again at 16:30 with Bob Osbourne tallying from Pedersen and Jack Guest. Outshot 49-27 North Bay had a wide territorial edge in the play out-shooting the besieged Rams 49-27. The Rams started out with Tony Bak in goal but he was removed after allowing three goals in the first 11 minutes. the game from the one yard line but fumbled away their opportunities on both occasions. n “Fumbles slaughtered us, said Serjeantson. “We had six fumbles." Came the bust It was the boom before the bust. There was less than three minutes remaining in the second when Oak Ridges poured home four straight goals courtesy of Davey, Davey, Davey, and Tom Tidman. All over. Thunderbirds were on their way then but a combination of poor shooting and great goaltending by Collingwood‘s Braden Goodfellow foiled them. Collingwood, displaying a potent offensive especially with a man adâ€" vantage, outshot the Thunderbirds 36- 26. The Owen Sounders changed goalies at this point â€" Perry Davies for Tim Taylor â€" and appeared to come on with goals by Tim Abbott and Russ Smith to make it 4-3. Greenslade scored the only Oak Ridges goal in the final 20 minutes and Pete Playford replied for Owen Sound. They missed three or four excellent chances and then, bango, Collingwood’s Mike Green and Bill Abercrombie scored near the end of the period. Then came the final 20 minutes and Thornhill‘s relapse with three straight gaols by Del Watson, Brian Boyce, and Bill Switzer. Thornhill's Peter Poulos finally got one back at 18:29 from Bill Sim but too late. power play goals during that sequence: Roffey from Bogaerts and Stuart; and Davey from Bogaerts and Stuart . Harold DeGeer’played a steady game dances away enroute to 18-13 win. The same two teams square off today (Wednesday) in Again it was the third period blues which killed Thornhill as Barrie poured home five straight goals courtesy of Bob Coulsen, Terry Giffen, two, Jim Angues and Alf Dameux. Jamie Laws also scored twice and Art Wilson once. Thornhill hosts Midland next Mon- day. Sunday they travel to Midland. But that third goal opened the flood- gates and about five minutes later the Rams were waltzing away by a 7~1 score. The spectators were literally speechless. That made it 3-1 for the Rams who had been hard-pressed to hold onto their lead at that point and only did so thanks to the hot goaltending of Brian Stankiewicz. Came up flat Sunday's game against Barrie saw the team come up real flat in one of their easily worse games of the season. They were outshot 46-18. Scoring for Birds were Bill Sim, two, and Wally Stankov. Om; of the main victims was the aforementioned Castator who com- mitted four of them. Brian Stankiewicz took over and continued his superlative play as he kicked out some 40 shots the rest of the way and couldn‘t be blamed for the four they got by him. Pou! Tuesday night's game in the Hill was a close thriller most of the way until the 14:49 mark of the third period when Nigro scored unassisted as he broke in alone. A sure indication that it would have been a great night for the Rams not to have gotten off the bus: Scores on own net North Bay's sixth goal was scored b; the Rams' Belzun who in attempting to clear fired a high blazer into his own net. Uggh. Ben Bourget was in goal for the Thornhill team. between the pipes for the Jewellers. Oooh! It was a vastly different story in Midland Friday night as the Jewellers blew at 3-0 lead, gave up six goals in the last period, went down 6-3. The Ridges team was hurt in the game by three 10 minute misconducts all taken in the third by Vince Gyles, Dale Roffey and Scott Davey. Tom Tidman, Dale Roffey, and Cam Reston handled the scoring for Dynes. Despite the loss, the third star went to Oak Ridges goalie Doug Brumwell who played a great game stopping 45 shots. The Jewellers are at home Monday night at Bond Lake Arena to the powerful Collingwood squad â€" and Coach Eddie Bush. sudden death York County playoff. 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