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Galaxy novices edge fish bqyg Legion Midgets over Newmarket Hill Peewee B’s Open with loss The Richmond Hill Legion Major A Midgets eked out a 4-3 win over Newmarket in a league game Sunday with Chris DeGeer leading the way with two goals. 1 Richmond Hill Peewee B’s began Qrillia‘ggoalscameinthe second and their league season with a 20 loss m‘rd penods- against Orillia although both clubs Special mention to Richmond Hill goalie Stephen Harris for a fine per- played exceptionally well. Richmond Hill came out skating and passing well in the first period with Phil Woods scoring at 4:21 from Randy Martin. Then came a goal by DeGeer assisted by Doug Lewis. Sag in second The Legion boys sagged slightly in Eight teams will be competing in the “Court of Kings” senior basketball tournament December 13 at King City Secondary School. Bond Steel whips Scarboro 4-2 ’Court of Kings’ basketball Action begins at 8 a.m. with King meeting Western'Tech of Toronto and If you can't go through them, well, you gotta go around them and that's what Keith Bishop (left) of the Michelangelo tea team is doing in this hectic The Richmond Hill Bond Steel Midget hockey squad picked up two wins and a loss in recent hockey action. Sunday night they dropped a 5-1 game to Thornhill in Thornhill after previously whipping Aurora 9-3 Saturday night and Thornhill 9â€"4 Nov. 4. The game Sunday night saw the Steelers in Thornhill for a return engagement and minus two of their top players, Jamie Gropp and Blair Lewis. I Despite this the Hillers gave a good account of themselves for the first two periods. Greg Walton opened the scoring on a nice pass from Jerry Leger only to have Thornhill come back and tie the score before the period ended. Penalty problems The Steelers ran into a series of penalties in the second and Thornhill went ahead at the 2: 10 mark. The third period saw Thornhill capitalizing on the mistakes of a tired Richmond Hill crew scoring three unanswered goals to History records John Audubon’s death as 1851. Soon after 1800, Mr. Audubon wrote his account about the Passenger Pigeon which was similar to “I estimate the numbers I saw in the vast migratory flight that darkened the sky and took hours to pass, exceeded either one or two billion birds". No other bird on this earth ever occurred in such numbers. Survival for the future was assured, especially in central Ontario Hard- woods. Albion Hills and the Credit River Valley was loaded with these birds. In 1878, 112 million birds were shipped by railroad to markets in the United States. The last specimen was shot twenty years later in 1898. The last survivor hatched in cap- tivity and died in a zoo in 1914 at the age of 29. The chapter on the Passenger Pigeon was now closed â€" forever and final. Unfortunately. protection of the animal itself is not enough; habitat and food supply have played a major role in the disappearance of 12 Then there were none The fight for conservation of endangered species gained ground and several nonprofit organizations, as well as government institutions have taken a much harder look at our vanishing wilderness. THE LIBERAL. Wednesday. Nov. 19. 1975 Disappearing species Faster than a speeding bullet the second as Newmarket scored twice to tie the game out-shooting them 154?. Richmond Hill got back on the track in the final period with DeGeer blinking the light from Lewis in the hard hitting which saw both sides drawing penalties. Newmarket tied the game but Rich- mond Hill came back with the winner by Woods. continues throughout the day and evening. Each team will play a minimum of two games with the losers going into the consolation bracket and the winners meeting in a grand championship game at 9:30 pm , Alex Eberspaecher take the game 5-1 w-S-grrtiéfieicellent goaltending by Dino Capotosto saved the score from being doubled. Start slowly Saturday night in Aurora saw the Hill squad start slowly as Aurora jumped into a 14) lead at the 10 second mark, The period ended'that way despite a lot of end to end action. Wallop Schomberg A Nov. 12 game saw the Legion boys Aurora finished off a pretty three- way passing pattern in the second with Gary Wellman kicking the puck from between his skates to his stick and beating goalie Steve Shadoff for a 2â€"0 species in Canada alone. The Big comeback Richmond Hill started its comeback at 3:17 as Jamie Gropp scored on a sizzling drive with assists to Blair Lewis and Steve Madden. Gary Gentry followed this up with a tip-in helped by Greg Walton and Gropp while Aurora played a man short. I - ,J _..:u_ ‘lnml’ lead Passenger Pigeon was followed by the Labrador Duck, Great Auk, Wild Turkey, (since reintroduced), Sea Mink‘, Northern Otter (also rein- troduced), the Great plains Wolf, the Queen Charlotte Island Caribou, and, finally, the Eastern Wapiti. w .3 m . itrollblozer} 7 There af'e a few which are con- sidered extinct, but with an oc- casional sighting, we fool_ our‘selves by not adding the species to the extinct list. Even if there should be some authentic sightings, the numbers are so small that a suc- cessful survival is virtually non existent. The latter list include the Eskimo Curlew, the Plains Grizzly Bear, and the Stellar Sea Cow. Canada’s list of endangered wildlife includes 13 mammals, 16 fish, 9 birds, 19 rep- tiles, and 9 amphibians, including salamanders, one type of toad and two species of frogs. Sterile nests As recently as 1946, the late C.L. Broley. known as the Eagle Man, was writing glowing reports of the large Bald Eagle population in w- .. “v, Deter Halliday combined with Mark OUTDOORS WITH piece of action in the Richmond Hill House League. Every Saturday it‘s the same. romp to a 9-5 win over Schomberg with DeGeer checking in with two goals. Other goals: Dave Baker from Randy Martin and Rick Girard; Roy Russell from Girard; Phil Woods from Tom Peden and Martin; Girard assisted by Russell and Steve Bishop; Peden from Martin. Assists on DeGeer first goal went to Doug Lewis and Danny McVeigh; on the second to Lewis. Delefabro also scored from Russell and Bishop. Florida. One year later, he .was startled to find that 41 percent of the nests he examined produced no offspring. ' By 1957, the failure had risen to 86 percent and now experts tell us that over 80 percent is sterile. Insecticide was blamed for this; man’s hunger for food and better productivity had once again forgotten our obligation to our wildlife. Teams competing are W.A. Porter, Humberside Collegiate and Western Tech of Toronto; and other schools from Woodbridge, Stayner. Orangeville, Brampton Centennial and King City. There still are good numbers of Bald Eagles in British Columbia, Alaska, and the northern parts of the Prairie Provinces, but how long will they last? Man may be next In 1949, Harper Hall, a noted or- thinologist, studied the Perigrine Falcon nesting on the Sun Life Building in Montreal. In 1975, it is on the Canadian endangered list, and only a few pairs exist today. The Osprey, a fish eater, is another that is in serious trouble. Although still holding its own in some parts of its range, the numbers are dramatically declining in others. formance as well as forward Mark Lockerbie. ‘ I could add about another fifty-five names to this list now, but perhaps it will not be long before we will have to add Man to the endangered list, if we don‘t stop fooling around with nature, NOW. not tomorrow. Perhaps the Passenger Pigeon was trying to tell us something! The boys tried hard for a win for their ailing coach Gerry Thornhill who, it‘s hoped, will soon be back with the team. Gossman to make it 3-2 and 42 seconds later Gentry scored hig second goal when l Walton Battle royal The third period developed into a battle royal as both teams tangled and the game officials let them slug it out with the result that a total of 46 minutes were called during one fracas. game Throughout all of this the Steelers scored five consecutive goals: Blair Lewis from Gerard; Phil McLaughlin from Lewis; Steve Bowers from McLaughlin and Lewis; McLaughlin with his second goal from Bowers; and Jerry Leger from Bowers. 119 minutes There were a total of 119 minutes in penalties called. Steve Shadoff was in the nets for Richmond Hill. The Nov. 4 game against Thomhill saw the Steelers again having to come :ffieflgame ceasved to be a hockey Eg-Wasrset up beautifully by (Photo by H099) Novice Galaxy Restaurant 2. Allencourt Fiish & Chips 1. Goals by Martin Devlin and David Redpath and assists by Redpath, Devlin and Gavin Dandy won this one for Galaxy. Michael Trumble was unaided on the lone Allencourt counter. Bob's Boys 7. City-Wide Rental 1. Danny Alexander led Bob's to this decisive victory with two goals and an assist. Patrick Mulcahy added a goal and an assist. Sean McKenna. Wayne Miles, Joel Gentle and Bobby Davis a goal each and Scott Young an assist. Mark Plaxton was set up by Douglas McIntosh for the City-wide tally. Minor Peewee Barrow's Insurance 3. Charlton Hardware 3. Barrow's goals were netted by Ben Carbone, Billy Eas‘ton and Derek Schope, the latter helped by Mike McLeave. For Charlton the goalgetters were Brian Newbeck, Brian Hull and Herschell Jacobs with helpers from Rick Murphy and Bruce Strain. Fred‘s Towing 7. Dan‘s Esso 2. Pat Morro wielded the big stick for Fred’s with {our goals. Brian Dunnett con- nected for a pair of goals and the same number as assists. Ken Lennox had a goal and two assists, Chris Reynolds, Steve Moritsugu and Coppala an assist each. Rice's Flowers 4. BAIF l. Rice‘s tallies were shared by Eddie Iafano, Tom Kirisit, Neil Smith and Billy Tsotsos with help from Iafano, Wayne Moffett and Claudio Favero. Paul Grice scored unassisted for BAIF. Peewee Dynes Jewellers 3. Record Shop 1. A pair of goals by James Gwillam. a singleton by Bob Genoa and assists by Peter Mills, Jim Barton and James Gwillam were the winners' entries on the scoresheet. Kevin Robin sank a Bill McGrath pass for the Records. Shields Footwear 4. Bob's Bottoms & Up 3. A hat trick by Mark Lockerbie and a single counter by Paul O'Toole earned a win for Shields. John Palmer, Leona Stone and Bldg. Supply 6. Unionville 0. Goalie Ricky Kalkanis shutout Unionville as Scott Richardson and Dave Koteff scored twice each and Jeff Menczel and Ken Therien once each. Oak Ridges old timers meet CFTO . . head on Oak Ridges Kings 5. Nobleton 2. A hat trick and two assists gave John Lalonde five points in this game. Michel Van- derploeg, Carl Koteff accounted for the other tallies and Neil Wilson and Mark Millard earned assists. Glen McKenzie turned in a good game in the net. Peewees ’Ridges atoms win 6-0 Oak Ridges 7, Sutton 3. Oak Ridges Peewees got off to a strong start and kept Sutton hemmed in their own end for the first five minutes. They then drew a penalty allowing Sutton to score. Sutton scored again when the puck slid in off a defender. Wayne Jones and Fred McArthur scored to tie it up, and in the third with only 10 minutes to play Jones got another. Sutton pulled their goalie in favor of an extra attacker and McArthur got the final goal of the game. Oak Ridges 5, Maple 0. Goalie David McQuarrie earned a shutout as the peewees outskated Maple. The Ridges scored twice in the first period, once in the second and twice in the third, nine players picking up points. Rick Harris, Brent Reid, Bob Mashinter, Lawrence Millard and Dave Mashinter were the goalgetters with assists by Neil Wilson, Reid, Jones, Dave Mashinter, Lance Ryman, Bob Mashinter and Paul Beck (2). Oak Ridges 4, Oro 0. The peewees earned their second shutout in as many games, this time with Daryl Alworth in the net. Bob Mashinter and Lawrence Millard scored in the first period and from behind to win as 'I‘homhill jumped into a 1-0 lead after only 53 seconds. Richmond Hill’s leger tied it on an unassisted goal but Thornhill went out in front again. It was a 2-2 tie on a goal by Reine Pleschberger who was set up by Steve Madden. At the 8:02 mark Ray Roberts finished off a pretty play Gentry and Walton assisting and 17 seconds later Madden scored his number three with Gerard assisting. The persistent Thomhillers jumped into a +2 lead in the second but the Steelers started to roll after that 3 straight goals They rapped in three straight goals to lead 5-4. Scoring were Danny Gerard from Pleschberger; Madden from Gerard and Greg Walton set up by Gentry. A rag-tag group of Oak Ridges Old Timers will be facing 3 probably ragâ€" tag group of CF‘TO hockey players next Wednesday night in a benefit game at Bond Lake Arena at 8 pm. ' The one sure winner ivill be the Oak Ridges Minor Hockey Association with all proceeds goipg to_ Other goals saw Mark Gossman banging one home to end the period with Bowers assisting. There was only one'goal scored in the action-filled third period and that was cbmprising' thé Oak Ridges Old By Bob Ross rIGlIlIIUl Iu I nu minor hockey Blackthorn Men's Wear 1, CFGM 0. Gary Bubeloff was set up by Kevin Burnett and Norm Wright for the only Martin Fox and Bobby Petrot’f were awarded assist points. For Bob‘s Brian Cates led the scoring with two goals and John Hughes added one. Harold Thornhill got two assists and Bruce Morrison one. Minor Bantam Chariot Collision 4. Rotary Club I. David Corless came up with a pair of counters. Chris Hishon and Brian goal in this game. CFGM 4. Surf Marine 3. This win came by way of a pair of counters by Chris Arbuckle. singletons by Glen Fehily and Rodney Nelson and assists by Arbuckle, Fehily, Shawn McKenzie, Chuck Lusk, Hugh Kerr, Tom Stubbs and Paul Shewchuck. Surf ‘5 marksmen were Robert Vandervelde. Scott Casselden and Tom Reaume with help from Reaume and Rod Graham. richmond hill minor hockey] Chariot Collision 4. Rotary Club 1. David Corless came up with a pair of counters. Chris Hishon and Brian Scriver with a goal each for Chariot. Assist points went to Donald Johnston, Hishon. Leslie Wookey. James Mitchell and Jason Bailey. Rotary's singleton came from the stick of Ross Cramer. unassisted. Brian's Shell 5. D & D Excavating 1. Stephen Bialkowski clicked for three goals and two assists for Brian's, with Eddie Opatowski getting two counters and two assists. lan Forsythe also had two assists and John Abma one. For D & D the scorer was Thomas Mitra on a pass from Russell Thompson. Chariot Collision 9. D & D Excavating 4. Mike Bell wielded the big stick for Chariot with four goals. David Corless scored a hat trick and Dan Gooley and Wookey each one goal. In the assist department Hishon picked up four points, Corless 2, Scriver, Bailey and Mitchell one each. For D & D Gordon Fournier had a hat trick and Thompson a singleton. Cam Moss was credited with two assists, Chris Stewart and Mitra with one each. Brian‘s Shell 3. Rotary Club 0. In this shutout Bialkowski, David Mason and John McLaughlin shared the Brian Shell goals and John Follows, Forsythe and Opatowski the assists. Bantam Surf Marine 2. Gormley Sand 8: Gravel 2. Surf's goals came from Rod Graham and Howie Hill with Marty Green aiding. Gormley's counters were netted by Brian Buchan and Russell Thornhill with help from Gary Boyle, oak ridges minor hockey Bob Mashinter and Neal Wilson in the third. Assist points went to Paul Beck and Wayne Jones, each with two, McArthur, Dave Mashinter, and Rick Harris. Bradford 2, Oak Ridges 0. The peewees dropped a 2-0 decision to Bradford in an exhibition game played Saturday. Bradford got both goals in the second period. Oak Ridges Garden Centre 2. Unionville Mill Paper 4. Hitting the target for the locals were Lee Collister and Henry Tanzos. Bill Wyminga scored twice for Unionville, Jeff Volpe and Brett Steels once each. Juvenfle Oak Ridges IO. Maple Juveniles 2. Oak Ridges Sharpshooters had a field day at Maple Arena November 12 as Paul Smith hit the target four times, John Lenneville three times, Tony Roffey twice and Ray Winter once. Lenneville added four assist points, Ray Winter three, Smith two, Ron Winter, Roffey, Chris Smith, Larry Wilkinson and Robert Herd one each. Scoring for Maple were Brian Mur- chison assisted by Bill Wright and Ken Jellison aided by Peter Pflug and Al Reaume. Timers will be such familiar names as (some of them not so old) as Frank Mashinter, John Lenneville, Tony VanLoon, Shirley Smith, Alex Wilton, John Wood, Tom Simpson, Nelson McArthur (goalie), John McQuarrie, Bob Tomlinson, Howard Gray, Bonner McKenzie, Bill Reddy, Ken Summers WOak Ridges 10. Cookstown 0. Oak Ridges Juveniles hosted Cookstown at Bond Lake Arena November 4 as Roffey contributed four goals, Ray Winter and Lenneville two goals each, Doug Jones and Chris Smith a goal apiece. Assist points were earned by (back-up goalie) and-Royce Keown 3 goals Madden Steve Madden picked up three goals while Gerard had a goal and two assists in a relatively clean hockey game by both teams. A total of seven penalties were handed out, three to the Steelers. Dino Capotosto and Steve Shadoff shared netminding duties. The Richmond Hill Bond Steel Minor Midgets downed Scarboro’s AA Voyageur squad by 4-2 in an exhibition match last Sunday. H Richmond Hill’s record to date is a win, tie and two losses. The next game is tomorrow night (Thursday) at 7 pm. Richmond Hill goals were scored by Gary Gentry from Greg Walton and Ray Roberts; Gentry again from Jamie Gropp; Blair Lewis from Gentry and Roberts. erteve Madden put the icing on the cake when he scored a pretty unassisted goal at 13:27. by Bowers who was aided by Gossman and Halliday. Blackthorn Men's Wear 5. Gormley Sand & Gravel 2. The winners‘ sharp- shooters were Brooke Lawrence and Brian Russell. each with two and Kevin Burnett with one. help being given by Curtis Barry. Mark Brooker and Gary Bubeloof. Neil McGregor and Mike Barnett accounted for the Gormley goals with aid from Brian Buchan and Matt Knight. Neil McGregor, Mike Barnett and Troy Edwards. EMF 6. Kent's Clothes 3. Greg McMillan hit the target twice, Doug Anderson. Barry Saudy. Scott Taylor and Rob Frater one each for BAIF. with assists from Taylor (2), Frater, Lorne Davidson, and Richard Thomp- son. Kent‘s goals were by Keven Gibson, Mark Wilson and Ronald Mahew. with assists by Gibson, Bill Barton, Mike Neilson and Brad O‘Hara. Midget EMF 3. Little's 2. Another pair of goals by McMillan and a single counter by Doug Daniel with assists from Doug Anderson (2) and Taylor gave BAIF‘ their second win of the week. Jim Burnett got both Little goals with Andy Beckwith helping on both. Bowden Lumber 4. Kent's Clothes 2. Sharing Bowden's goals were Bill Byres. Scott Jordon. Gunther Bauer and David Genda with helpers by Brian Smith, Louis Reid. Bruce Street and John Tuck‘ Kent's counters were netted by Brad O'Hara and Dennis Reid with aid from Mahew, Bill Gregg, Wilson and Kevin Gibson. Lenneville, Ron Winter, Jerry Madaleno and Glen Wright each with two, Chris Smith, Paul Smith and Steve MacKinnon each with one. Lefroy 7. Oak Ridges 3. Scoring for the Ridges were Lenneville with two and Chris Smith. Paul Smith came through with three assists, Lenneville, Chris Smith and Dennis Griffith with one each. Bantams Oak Ridges 4. Richmond Hill 1. Scoring for the Ridges were Ken Clague with two and an assist, Mark Smith with a goal and three assists, Ricky Greenslade with a goal, Danny Degeer, John Cummins, Mike Rice and Steve Nolan with an assist each. Norm Murphy and Gary Bubeloff assisted Dean Logan on the Hill counter. Maple Bantams 8. Oak Ridges Kings 3. Maple’s goals came from Sutherland and Lawson with two each, Boudreau, Horner, Hoare, and Massareila with one each. Assists went to Lawson (3), Sutherland, Boudreau, Homer, Hoare, Massarella and Weese. Ken Clague accounted for all three Ridges’ goals with Mark Smith getting two assists, Bill Carsell and John Cummins one each. OMHA Midget Oak Ridges 7. Maple 2. Tony Roffey had two goals and an assist. Karl Taylor two goals, Doug Jones a goal and two assists, Glen Wright and Bruce Wilton a goal each and Bruce Wilson‘an aassist for the winners. Sutherland from allen and Neilsen were the Maple goalgetters. Exhibition Richmond Hill 4. Oak Ridges 2. Oak Ridges 7, Thornhill Minor Midget 11 2 Oak Ridges 6. Aurora 3 Among the participants will be such wellâ€"known Channel 9 names as Der- wyn Smith, on camera reporter; Wally Mocht, newsman, plus a host of others. r VMés'ter-of-cerer'fionies for the game will be Kim Hesketh of Radio Station CFGM. Richmond Hill Mayor Dave Schiller will drop the puck to start the game. Goalie Dino Capotosto played brilliantly in the Richmond Hill net. Beat Newmarket On Nov. 13 the Steelers took on Newmarket in the Hill and skated off with a 4-1 win. It wasn't all that easy as Newmarket jumped ahead 1-0 when the Steelers were playing a man short. Ricfiménd'Hill came on after that with Gentry tying the game after stealing the pucka The third period was all Richmond Hill with goals by Greg Walton on a beautiful set-up by Jamie Gropp who skated the length of the ice; Alan Clark coming with Phil McLaughlin to score the third goal. Late in the game Blair Lewis outskated the entire Newmarket club to score unassisted. Goalie Steve Shadoff played a strong game in the nets and came up with several key saves. Greg Walton foiled a breakaway in the third period with a flying effort which deflected the puck from a Newmarket player.