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This set the scene for Ham who broke up a play at the Markham blueline, got’ the puck from Colville. and sifted in to score on a high shot. Colville, in- cidentally, had three assists to g9 along with his goal. DeGeer finally started to give way as Phil Wood got his second goal of the game at 4:47 from Tom Peden and Hogarth on a beautiful two-way passing play with Peden; and then got his hat- trick at 9:36 on a pass-out from Danny Jones. PENALTY TROUBLE The Rams ran into penalty trouble in the final minutes but goalie Mitch Lovelock rose to the occasion with two great glove grabs. Markham outshot The Waxers‘ Rob McGinnigle got that one back but it was Richmond Hill pressing the rest of the way with goalie Harold DeGeer, of Oak Ridges, forced to come up with some good saves. HAM THE HERO The aforementioned Ham won the day with his goal which culminated a Rams' comeback after trailing 4-2 going into the third period. 7 It {vas Bill Colvilleistarting the rally with a goal from _Johnr Hogarth. It was Markhain walking into the penalties in the latter half of the game and they also paid the ultimate price. That was the story as the Rams ran into a disastrous string of penalties in the opening period, fell behind 3-1, and then came roaring back to win the game 6-5 on Mike Ham’s heroics at 16:47 of the final period. Strictly a dumb shot in most cases and ineffective unless you’re a Bobby Hull or Bobby Orr. No further If he's lucky he might hit the endâ€" boards or the end-stands. He might even get it past the leg of a defen- ceman who‘ by this time. is prac- tically on top of him. GOALIE'S SAFE The most relaxed guy in the rink is the goalie who knows the only likely thing he'll get is a cold from the passing breeze if the shooter manages to get it through a forest of heads. The Richmond Hill Rams were good teachers Tuesday night of last week and the Markham Waxers learned their lessons well, or maybe un-well. How many times in your average junior hockey game have you seen a defenceman get a puck at the blueline and go through his act. First he closes his eyes, lifts his stick toward the rafters and. finally. takes a mighty swing. LOUSY SHOOTERS Besides. how many good slap shooters are there around? For every halfâ€"decent one there are dozens who are as likely to ring the puck off the end wall. the rafters. or even themselves. I don‘t believe in being over- protective to adults so it‘s up to them to get the message themselves. But minor hockey players should be where it all starts. Cut it out there. at all levels. and it‘ll soon die out in the pro ranks. Rams rally nips Markham Waxers Except that it wouldn't be a bad idea in this case. I’d be for doing away with slap shots period. Whether it be amateur hockey or professional. As for the pros and junior hockey players? I suppose it's up to them but I always shudder when I see some of those howitzer-like drives from the blueline that shave, and in some cases, clip defenders who for the most part still play without helmets. I suppose a tragedy is a tragedy no matter what age. I realize it was just one of those crazy coincidences which, un- fortunately, do happen in any walk of endeavour. It doesn‘t mean you rush out and ban everything. I've been turned off slapshots in hockey for quite a few seasons now. That tragic incident on the weekend involving a 15-year-old Newmarket youth only served to strengthen my resolve. As you probably read or heard, the youngster was hit on the side of the head by a slapshot during a midget lapcéwy game in Sharon and later 1e . NEW RULING But especially minor hockey, all classifications. I’m informed that a new ruling does just this up to and including peewee. Not enough as that fatality on the weekend would indicate. Sports @116 Wilma! Section B Down with slapsho ts WedneSday, October 19, 1977 Classified And if someone asks me after this who you buy tickets from for the dance. well, I‘ll just scream. Finally, Yea Argos! Tickets are available from Art Hills at 832-1057 or Bill Lawson, Ian West. John Plunkett. Gary Strangways, Frank Steele. Fred Cook. Jack Cober, Don West, Marg Legere. Linda Hudson. Doug Bice. Maple B.P., European Delicatessen. Music will be supplied by “The Madhatters" with admission $8 per couple plus bar, prizes, coffee (for the faint of heart). Proceeds will go to girls and boys hockey. DANCE A note from the Maple Minor Hockey Association regarding its Fall Face-off Dance on Friday. Nov. 4, at the Maple Community Hall on Keele Stree; in Maple. Congratulations Valerie. Sleep warm. It says here that the Rosetown Insulation prize, as donated by Jim Stockall. was won by Valerie Hart- nett of 420 Wenlock Road in Rich- mond Hill. JUST NOTES I'm happy to announce I didn’t win the recent draw for a lifetime supply of housing insulation. If I had, I’d probably ended up stuffing it in my car to replace my non-functioning heater. Only kidding. Finally. tragedies aside, the average slapshot is mostly inef- fective. And, like I said before, mostly dumb. What about it, coaches? “This will also cut down the in- cidence of injuries to the facial area," he said. “It will also cut down on injuries due to high sticks,” he said. NOW MASKS Another major rule in minor hockey this season is the mandatory use of full face-masks. “It’s been very interesting during the exhibition games,” said Cade, “what with all the wrist shots you see out there. It gives a player a lot more control with his shooting and that should mean more interesting hockey. LIKES NEW RULE Cade termed the new slapshot rule as a “tremendous and very welcome change for hockey at this level although most of our coaches have been applying the rule themselves for the past two seasons.” The new rule forbids a player raising his stick above the waist when shooting at the cost of being penalized. The weekend incident reminded me of a conversation I had the other night with Richmond .Hill Minor Hockey Association president Jim Cade. explanation needed The third period saw the Rams do their thing and avert what might have been yet another horrible tie, one of many so far this season. Riéhmond Hill outshot Markham 40 to 26 on the game. Then it was Wood scoring his first goal from Jones with Markham two men short. Richmond Hill’s Ken Elson picked up the heavy action with a penalty for fighting, a misconduct, and a game misconduct for being the aggressor. Colville also was nailed for a fighting penalty and a 10-minute misconduct. Richmond Hill fell behind 4-1 on a goal by Brian Carroll in the middle period but started to turn the heat on as Markham took up the penalty-habit and DeGeer had to be good on several shots. DéGéer élso looked sharp in the first half of the contest. All were power play efforts with Lovelock helpless on each one after holding the Rams in with two and three saves off the same sequence in the early going. HECTIC PERIOD That opening period saw Markham outshooting the Rams 16-9 as Richmond Hill picked up 41 minutes in penalties to Markham's 20. That was the story. The Rams' Jones opened the scoring from Hogarth and Colville but Markham's Keith Bemier roared back with two consecutive goals and Steve Ludzik got the other one. It looked like a disastrous evening for the Rams in the early going as they spent most of the first 20 minutes in the penalty-box. thg Bamslsjs in Athat final period fred simpson LOSE 2-0 Thev lost their second game to Gatineau 2-0 although they held a wide margin in the play, “We just couldn‘t beat the Gatineau goalie," said Dunnett. “He was the best I've ever played against." Goal scorers were: Matt Kinarri from Jim Barry; Guy Olmstead unassisted: Barry from Merv Dunnett on a Shorthanded goal; and Eric McKee unassisted, another Shorthanded goal; and Cengarle from Paul Carruthers on yet another Shorthanded effort. Julian ’Cengarle and Larry Bray schjed the Richmond Hill goals. They opened their tournément play with a 5-1 win over Val Cartier. Burlington went on to edge Peterboro 3-2 to win the division championship. CLOSE GAME “We were close to Burlington most of the way," said Richmond Hill manager Merv Dunnett. “It was 3-2 until the last three minutes of the game when we collapsed. They poured in three goals." Thé game wéé tied 1-1 at the'end of the first period. Richmond Hill, playing in the strong “B” division, downed Val Cartier 5-1 in the first game, lost the second one 2-0 to Gatineau, beat Balmy Beach 1-0, and then lost 6-2 to a powerful Burlington team in the semi-finals. “Just one of those things,” said coach Ken “Satch” Brookes. “I thought we were in when a 40-foot shot in front of Mitch took a bad hop and that was it. Another tie.” The goal was fired by Don Rehill. The Rams led 6-3 at one point in the final 20 minutes but a threeâ€"goal splurge by the Rangers ruined the evening. The Richmond Hill Oldtimers hockey team came up with an impressive albeit losing showing on the weekend in the 32-team Oldtimers Invitational hockey tournament at Thornhill Community Centre. The same Rams had staged a magnificent comeback Tuesday night of last week to edge Markham Waxers 6-5 on their home lot. TOUGH BREAK It was a tough break Sunday night for Rams’ goalie Mitch Lovelock who was putting together his second straight impressive showing. 2 FOR COLVILLE Leading the offensive way for the Rams was Bill Colville who popped in his fourth and fifth goals of the season. The others went to Danny Jones (his North York scored and the Rams had to settle for yet another tie, their third in the first six games against one win. Final score, 6â€"6. The struggling Richmond Hill Provincial Junior A Rams were 51 seconds away from their second straight win last Friday night against North York Rangers when the fates intervened. 32-team tourney Late goal foils Rams Richmorid Hill bounced back from * Old tim ers 3 till p erky Stranger at the door Division B: Peterboro Purvey Petes downed CFB Valcartier. Que, 3-2 and Burlington, after downing Richmond Hill, won the championship over Peterboro. Division C: The semi-finals saw the Italian 01d Romans edging Port Colbome 2-1; and Markham doing the same to Dorval. The Old Romans then edged Markham +3 in the finals. Division D: Stanky, Mike Hartman on Bowling Green team “We honestly felt we were just a trifle out of our calibre in the B division," he said, “but we were happy the way it went." Big winners of the tournament were: Division A: The semi-finals saw Agincourt edging Pickering 2-1 and Huntsville doing the same to the Italian A’s. Huntsville then downed Agincourt 4â€"1 to skate off with the Carling O‘Keefe trophy. score . . . well.” The win tied them with Val Cartier. Richmond Hill, as a result of earlier defeating the same team, moved into the semi-finals against Burlington. GREAT TOURNEY Dunnet, as did most other club members, enthused about the “terrific way the tournament was run. It was good. clean hockey all the way. Tough, but clean". “That was actually our worst game of the tournament,“ said Dunnett. “When you play seven minutes with a man advantage, as we did, and don’t score . . . well.” that losing effort to blank Balmy Beach 1-0 on Cengarle's unassistee goal. Shutout went to goalie Jim Rich. eighth). Mike Ham (his fourth), Phil Wood (his eighth), and Ken Elson (his second). - ,7 a . John Olds and Bill Stephenson picked up three assists each with the extras going to Paul Gallagher, two, newcomer Jeff Allan, Wood, and Garry Kruze. ‘ For North York it was Scott Howson, Paul Coffey, Bob Millard, two, Dave Hartman was an all- star centre with the Rams a few seasons ago while These are veteran Mike Hartman and rookie Brian Stankiewicz. Two former stalwarts with the Provincial A Richmond Hill hockey Rams are expected to be mainstays with the Bowling Green State University team this season. Richmond Hill Rams' goalie Mitch Lovelock has that “helpless” feeling here as Markham Waxer’s Steve Ludzik swoopd in from the side and is about to deposit the puck in the net. All this occurred during the After leading the team in scoring as a freshman and sophomore, he will enter the season ranked fifth in career-scoring with 148 points. He is Hartman had 12 goals and 18 assists in half a season last year before losing his eligibility. goalie Stankiewicz will be trying to break into the regular line-up after playing with the Rams last season. Wallaceburg blanked East Gwillimbury 2â€"0 in the semi-finals and Buckhorn edged St. Mike’s 3-2. Wallaceburg won the championship with a 3-2 win over Buckhom. It was the same fast start in the second with Rams scoring twice on goals by Colville, North York replying once, before Wood sailed one home. FAST START The-Rams were off to a fast start in the first period on goals by Jones and Ham only to have the Rangers tie it before the final buzzer. Wilson, and Rehill Some of the better-known oldtimers Ugh! Another graduate is Jack Laine of Thornhill who scored 20 goals last year. All three are vying for spots vacated by last- year graduates. Stankiewicz is in a three-way battle with another (ax-Provincial A goalie. Wally Charko as well as 3 Bowling Green product. Mark Mazur. fourth in goal-scoring with 73. Rams’ down point in Tuesday night of last week‘s game in Richmond Hill. But the Rams rallied to pull out their first win of the season 6-5. Ugh. Looks like it might be close. Richmond Hill Oldtimer’s goalie Jim Rich has that uncertain look as the puck sails ominously toward the goal during last weekend’s Oldtimer’s tournament at Thor- nhill. Oh well, it's all in the game. on hand included Dick Duff (who ap- peared for the first game with Kirkland Lake), Jack Bionda and Randy Ellis ( Ron Ellis’ father) who scored two goals in one game with Huntsville. Move over, Ron. “Jeff will only be with us for five games," said Brookes, “while he gets in shape after a knee injury. But he’s here at the right time for us.” Allan played with the Hull Major A’s last season and was drafted by Cincinnati. The Rams are in Hémflton next Monday night. “Mike’s played well in the game Friday night except for being outlucked in that final one.” Broékes was 'pleasec'i with the solid play of goaltender Lovelock in the last two games. Also a pleasant surprise, a continuing one, is the play of Colville who has been setting up goals in fine fashion. INJURIES Injuries still continue to plague the Rams with Larry Kimble, Dave Campbell and Keith Yorke still out. A him was the addition of defen- ceman Jeff Allan who is en route to the Cincinnati pro camp. IMPROVING “We’re starting to come around,” said coach Brookes, “but we’ve still got some distance to go yet. At least we’re tightening up defensively. You can’t score five goals a game when you’re getting seven against you." The Rams even opened the scoring in the final 20 minutes on Elson’s goal only to have the downfall follow. ~. *- Bvuvns pholox leuvns photo)