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Come to think of it, it was a good start all around as the Thornhill Tudor Glen Homes squad kicked off the weeklong marathon with a 3-2 triumph over Don Mills. It was strictly landslides-ville as far as the visitors from Fraser, Michigan, were conâ€" cerned as they were buried 10-1 by the Legion before over 1,000 quite happy spectators. SPREE But it was the Richmond Hill triumph that put the final shine to the first day of the tournament as they rambled to a victory behind the three-goal performances of Ross Cramer (plus one assist) and Danny Henderson (plus one assist) with Shawn McDowell coming up with two goals and singles to Dave Allen and Doug Jones. It would be unkind to say the Legion Midgets blitz Fraser 7 0-7 The bubble might burst but it was a delightful beginning for the Richmond Hill Legion Midgets Monday night as they celebrated the start of the 12th annual International Midget Tour- nament in Richmond Hill. Another missive on my desk informs me that Video Real Estate, last year’s Richmond Hill Major Fastball League champions, have a new sponsor. This year they will be known as Kinnear Leasing Ltd. Welcome aboard. CASEY ‘ Finally, old maestro Russell “Casey” Cripps of the Wilson Niblett OFL fastball entry reports a good turnout of 17 players at his last practice. He’s also signed Ron Schnobb, of last year’s team, and newcomer Gary Preszcator, an outfielder. MARY Softball items here: Mary Williamson and her merry band of junior girls ballplayers will be going again this season and they're still having the same problem. No sponsor. C’mon fellas, surely one of you out there can get behind the girls. They play good ball and'they certainly need some encouragement. You can reach Mary at 884- 7620. I was guilty of not even dwelling on the possibility of encouraging violence or condoning it with the article. I simply thought it was rather interesting that a seven- yearâ€"old girl was making the boys wary. We all take some lumps as youngsters and, in fair- ness to Laura and her father, I hardly think they should be linked with the violence that seems to be dominating hockey these days. Having said that, I generally agree with Mr. Olm- stead’s viewpoints on violence in hockey. What I’m realy trying to say, I guess, is don’t be too hard on Laura or Mr. Crowe. They’re really nice people. A.;d so am I, honest. Just notes: It’s busy, busy right now with that big Legion Midget tournament at the halfway point with the grand wind-up next Sunday at 2 pm. with the final championship game. A lot of sweat, worry and fretting goes into the tournament every year but its success speaks for itself. Hang in there fellows and keep the end-of-the-week aspirin bottle replenished. LETTER Hence a letter from G. Olmstead who has two boys, ages 4 and 5, playing in the Richmond Hill Mite division. You can read the entire letter in the front section (Page 5) of this week’s Liberal. Mr. Olmstead takes the writer (me) to task for the violent nature of the article and I’m probably guilty. He says at one point that “it is obvious from the article that the father is proud of his child’s devastation. It is also clear that the writer of the article has never seen the child on the ice or else he or she condones violence in hockey.” I confess at the outset that I wrote the article. From this moment on I’m not too sure of what I did. The first two paragraphs, in case you missed them, read like this: My mistake was to forget that little boys also have mothers and fathers. “You can always tell when seven-yearâ€"old Laura Crowe is on the ice with the Richmond Hill Dairy Queen House League Mites hockey team. I even humored myself by recalling the time back in Grade 2 when I got in a fight with a girl and lost. I still think some psychiatrist could trace that incident down and come up with something. Especially since I still lose fights with them. “There are boys toppling like 10-pins. ‘She’s a terror,’ says Laura’s father, Bob Crowe. ‘I sometimes have to turn my head’.” BLEW IT Well, I blew it. My sole intention was to write (hopefully) a light-hearted article on a little girl’s tur- ning the tables on little boys by bouncing them around. How do I get myself into these situations? Let me explain. I’m referring to an article in last week’s ‘Liberal’ which was headlined ‘This girl’s no lady on the ice.’ ' G’bye I’m off to the tournament ' ING’ §V§$E'EPAENM7 DAYS 06") OINDOOR SHOWROOM ’8 Qv' OOPEN7DAYS ‘ f 4:: 5 OINDOOR SHOWROOM OOFF HWY. 7 BETWEEN YONGE 889-3161 Ooops NOTES This offset two second period scores by Don Mills' Rob Dye and Tony Digiovani with Thornhill's Steve Mallett getting one of those back from Thompson. Other results: CLOSE GAMES It was the only lop-sided game of the day as Thornhill started it off with itslqnarrow win over Don Mills courtesy of two last period goals by Gary Curley and Jim Jones. Dave Thompson assisted on the first one and Paul Howson on the second one. LED EARLY The Hill team led 2-0 at the end of the first period and 8-0 going into the final period and could easily have had four or five more. Fraser finally got a puck by Richmond Hill’s Jim Roberts in the final period but it was much. much too late. visitors were inept but they certainly didn‘t have one of their finer games as they give up at least three Shorthanded goals in a game which was no contest right from, the start. fred simpson Brampton Legionnaires 3. Libéral Richmond Hill Mayor Dave Schiller will be all wet come April The swimmers, who have been canvassing the town for sponsors. will swim distances of 50 to 200 For a good reason. He‘ll be again participating in the annual Richmond Hill Aquatic Club's Swim-a-thon at the local Centennial Pool on Newkirk Road at Crosby Avenue. Mayor Schiller all wet He 'added th'at: despite the decisive score, the Jewellers gave it a determined shot Under adverse circumstances. Namely: Injuries and various other ailments. The statement came in the wake of an 11-3 drubbing at the hands of the Oakville Blades Tuesday night of last week in the seventh and final game of their best-of-seven Central Ontario JuniorlB hockey playoff series. “We were whomped,” was the succinct way Oak Ridges Dynes Jewellers’ coach Pete Artem- chuk put it. . , UGll David Allen makes it look easy here as the Richmond Hill The constant changing of Legion Midgets score again in 10-1 romp over Fraser, Shoesdhe Sprints from one area Michigan, (Photo by Hogg), to the other, effectively broke her concentration and Jane had to Finally; providing Richmond Hill won Tuesday night's game against Burlington, the next game is Friday night at 8:30 pm. Opening ceremonies were highlighted by the presence of the Legion Color Guard as well as other tournament dignitaries such as Harry Copps, president of Branch 375. Richmond Hill Legion; Richmond Hill Coun- cillor Al Duffy; Tournaments Incorporated President Marsh Amos; Bob Reeves, president of the Richmond Hill Minor Hockey Association and others. Dynes Spring comes early Niagara Falls 3. This one was won, in overtime by Dwayne Doettger at the five minute markl Al Kerr and Ralph Kelly got the other Niagara goals. Wayne Meger and Paul Nagey scored for Brampton. St. Clair Shores 3, Barrie Co- Ops 2. Another close one with Bob Gray, Tony Curtale and Larry Lulich scoring for the winners. The final gahxe saw Burlington blanking Welland 1-0. Kitchener 3. Peterboro 1. Dave Ostrander led the winners with two goals with Carl Schlegel getting the other one. Oakville Rangers 6. Detroit Northwest 1. For Oakville it was Joe] Bowen, Steve Meldrum, John Hicks, Sean Doyle, Bob Bernier and Dave Taylor scoring. North York Flames 4, Brant- ford 1. Derm Gushue got two goals for the winners with singles to George Finn and Chris Kontos. “It’s not an excuse,“ he said Sports Wednesday March 21, 1979 lengths, depending on their age and proficiency. “We lost Brent Dobson in that period when someone whacked him across the arm with a stick. He couldn’t lift it above his belt after that and he was finished. “And Craig Halliday couldn’t get rid of his charleyhorse and, along with his bad ankle. he had They have been asking for pledges for each length or the total distance covered. The money collected in this way is used to help support amateur swimming in Richmond Hill. The Swim-a-thon, sanctioned by the Canadian Amateur Swimming Association, is held all across Canada and the proceeds “Oakville would be tough to beat under any circumstances but we simply ran out of bodies. It could have just as easily been Oak- ville." Artemchuk was missing manpower after a good first period which saw the Jewellers take a 1-0 lead against the hometown Blades. Richmond Hill Legion's Doug Jones pulls the trigger here and he’s dead on in Monday night’s 10-1 cakewalk over Fraser, Michigan, in the 12th annual International Persons wishing to pledge may do so by calling Shirley Clarke at 884-8003, Pete Evans at 884-4594, and Audrey Crockford at 669- 1840. are important in supporting Canada’s most successful gold medal sport. Besides it will be fun seeing Mayor Schiller get soaked and in doing so help foster competitive swimming in Richmond Hill. to call it a day. From there on we were down to about nine reasonably healthy people and we just ran out of steam.” ’ WHAP The result was inevitable and didn’t take long. Oakville came up with three straight goals in the first five minutes of the second period, the first two within 53 seconds of one another. Earl Deamond managed to get that one back at 5:04 from Darren Ross and Andrew Damonze but the floodgates had been opened. The Biades pumped ih two more to make it 5-2 before Dynes‘ Trouble started during her high jump event on Saturday, for girls under twenty years of age. when the start of shot~put was called midway through the jumping affair. Toporowski had a horrendous week-end of competition which carried right through until the final event. the open womens high jump, which Jane lost to Branda Rigus of Chicago. because of a previous knock down at a lower height Jumper-thrower Jane Toporowski, now competing for the North York Track and Field club, loaded four second place trophies into her bag after the threeâ€"day competition. while runner Mike Smith was pleased with his third place award for the 600 yard sprint. ByBOB THOMPSON settle for second place in both Local athletes did ex- events- ceptionally well at the 9th annual The next day in [he $911101 AFL-CIO indoor track and field W0men5 events, errors by th‘ meet in Detroit last weekend. shot-put officials turned th1 returning home with four second. lhI‘OWing competition mo 3 53‘ one third, one fourth, one fifth affair. anda seventh place award. "My coach tells me not tl ltwasn’t Jane’s day at Detroit track meet Section B If you have any youngsters who might like to take part in com- petitive swimming, bring them along and have a chat with the coach and have a coffee on the Aquatic Club. Besides it will be fun seeing Mayor Schiller get soaked and in Mayor Schiller will be doing his dive between 9 and 11 am. Sunday, April 8. FLAT “Strangely enough,” said Artemchuk, “Oakville could have been had in that game. They came out flat in the first period but we just couldn’t finish them.” Artemchuk said that “despite Before the period ended the Blades scored another two to make it 7-3. It was just a case of how many more in the final 20 minutes and that turned out to be five. Damonze opened the scoring for Dynes in the first period at 4:24. Earl Hachborn scored from Kevin Johnstone and Damonze. Team~mate Mark Dimpfel tried his hand at the 300 and 600 yard sprints and presented the 1000-plus crowd with some ex- Bantam Dryw Thompson recorded a seventh place ranking in the boys shot put where three inches separated the fifth place award from his seventh place distance. While Toporowski was having her troubles. the young bantamâ€" midget competitors of Tri Town Track Club were competing and» just missing the major trophy and ribbon awards. Jane lost. both throwing events by a mere two inches in each case. "My coach tells me not to criticize officials" said Jane, “after all they are volunteers, but when the Sunday officials didn‘t have a clue where to measure from, missed faults, and just performed in a general slipâ€"shod fashion, all the competitors in the womens‘ shot put lost their in- centive.“ The next day in the senior womens events, errors by the shot-put officials turned the throwing competition into a sad affair. Midget Hockey Tournament. The Hill team had numerous breakaways and scored three Shorthanded goals. (Photo by Hogg). MEETING ROOMS FOR COMPANIES PARKWAY HOTEL HWY. 7 & LESLIE ST. Big scorers for Oakville in that final game were Lou Carnevale and Shane Payette with three goals apiece. As for next season? ‘ “We’ve got a lot of good rookies," said Artemchuk. “The team should do Very well.” As for himself? “I haven’t thought one way or another about my position next year," he said. “I'll have to give it some thought over the next few weeks. I just haven’t decided.” “He was eating a lot of rubber in that last game but he came up really big. It certainly wasn’t his fault.” Artemchuk acknowledged there was “some question about our goaltending before the playoffs but I’d like to say at this point that Steve Latimer came on like gangbusters in this past series. “Quite frankly,” he added, “I was surprised we got as far as we did this season. We had the youngest team in the league, a lot of rookies, and not too many veterans left at the end." He said it was “also our first year in the Central league and it’s a pretty tough place to play.” the loss I was proud of the guys. They gave it all they had under very trying circumstances. Mike was happy with his time, but claimed it came a day late. “My Sunday time of 1.17 would have wori the Saturday race, but it took me almost the entire race to adjust to the tight corners on the 160 yard track." citement with a gutsy per- formance in the 300 sprint to win his heat in the last few strides. Unfortunately, for 13 year old Mark. the only people who didn’t see it the way the crowd did were the officials who ultimately placed him in second place, ef- fectively eliminating him from further competition. HIGH JUMP Midget girls Lori Bordignon and Patty Murray performed effectively in the high jump with fourth and fifth place efforts while Dianne Bordignon con- tested the 60 yard and 300 yard sprintsi A bright light for The Hill was Mike Smith gaining third place in the 600 yard competition for boys under 20 years, and then, the following day. a repeat effort in the same event against the senior men and 3 1.17.2 timing. Pow! HAPPY 881-2121