Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 6, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba 16 Winnipeg free press tuesday february 6, 1968 Gordie Howe s hockey one of the most honest hockey players in the National hockey league to my Way of thinking is Dean Prentice. red wings Are fortunate to have him. I have my own nickname for him the old somehow it fits him although he certainly is not that old. In fact he was just 35 this past october and is now in his 16th nil season. Since coming to wings late in the 1965-66 season from the Boston Bruins along with defence Man Leo Boivin he s played a lot of hockey for us. matter what line you put him on he does a Good solid Job on left Wing. During his seasons with the new York rangers and with the Bruins i always considered him a standout player and that is not a statement based on Hindsight or foresight. It s just a candid opinion that i be always held of Prentice and i think anyone who has watched him play will agree with me. With wings this season he s As Good or better than he has Ever been and i m sure hell become a 300-goal scorer before he quits. Going into this season he had a career total of 265, so he s not that far away. And i m sure he can get his 20 or better this season although he was having some trouble around the net Early in january. When i say Prentice is an honest hockey player i mean that he has a Pride in what he does. There Are some players who Are concerned with Only what they can get out of hockey. Dean is not one of them. Like everybody else he is concerned of course with what he gets for playing the game. But what is More important he is concerned with what he can put. Into the game. Prentice has had a rough time in the National league with injuries too. Perhaps there is no better yardstick with which to measure him than to Point out that twice he has had his Back broken since playing in the nil. It was t until he broke his Back the second time that he found Iii that he had fractured it second serious injury came on dec. 27, 1964, and it put him out for the balance of the a neck to Waist cast for 13 weeks there was an ironic or an almost believe it or not twist to the second injury. He scored on a penalty shot minutes after the injury for goal no. 14 of the season. The penalty shot was awarded when Chicago s Stan Mikita pulled his skates from under him while he was breaking in on goal. He skidded into the boards with his Back taking the Brunt of the blow. I did t realize until i was Back on the Bench that my Back was he recalled in. Discussing the incident with us recently. They took me to the Hospital for a rays and that s when they found i had broken my Back once before. In fact the doctor told me my Back was in a Prentice claims today that his Back has never Felt better. I said it before but i la say it again he a never played better. Mcleod tries out revised lineup it by Carl Mollins Grenoble up coach Jackie Mcleod drove Canada s olympic hockey squad through a stiff practice monday night in a warm up for the team s tournament opened today against West Germany. Mcleod skating with the players and giving them individual advice at close Range was testing a somewhat revised lineup. With defence Man Gary Begg of Winnipeg Back in Canada nursing a knee injury Mcleod placed Ted Hargreaves normally a left Winger on defence with Mai shall Johnston. The general manager coach gave his two goalkeepers Ken Broderick and. Wayne Stephen son equal time in the hour Long workout hoping to Sharpen their Glove and stick work on Long shots. The. United states scored three times on Long shots in los ing 6-5 to the canadians in Geneva Switzerland saturday night. Both goalies saw action in that game. Gave away three goals that should not have said Rev. David Bauer the team adviser. I d hate to say who is our no. 1 goalie right now. Nei ther has been too Sharp although West Germany is considered a weak sister Iii the eight team championship Divi Sion Mcleod has been remind ing his squad that there has been at least one big upset in every recent world or olympic hockey tournament. While the canadians have been having defensive prob lems the forwards have been shooting Well since arriving in Europe a week ago. We re starting to get goals from people we d been worried said father Bauer. Meanwhile Bunny Ahearne Boss of the european ice hockey federation held a news conference at which he picked the defending Champion soviet Union to win the olympic tournament. He also warned the referees to Rule strictly by the Book if they want to see further action and reviewed the rules for breaking ties in the standings. Russia must be favourites to retain the said Ahearne hereby agreeing with Many other observers. The czechs too look very the european hockey Boss said he regards the . Team As a potential dark horse. He was not quoted on Canada s chances. This is the Day of the official opening ceremonies and. The Only olympic events scheduled Are three hockey matches. In addition to the Canada West Germany clash the soviet Union takes on lowly regarded Finland and the . Meets Czechoslovakia. The eight teams making up the championship division Are Russia. Canada Sweden Czechoslovakia the United states mixed female reaction for olympic sex tests East Germany West Germany and Finland. As usual a Victory will count two Points in the standings for the tournament in which each country meets the others once. A tie counts one Point. In the event of two teams being tied on said Ahearne the team that won the game in the match involving the two teams be named the top one. If the match happened to be a tie then the position will be decided by deducting goals against from goals scored and the team with the biggest differ ence will be placed on top. If that system fails to work out the deadlock then it will be decided on goal the goal average is calculated by dividing goals against into goals scored and the team with the better average is placed higher. If three or More teams Are tied for one spot Only the goal records will be compared first by goal spread and then if Nec Essary by goal average. Tie breaking was an important Factor in the 1964 olympics won by Russia with seven straight victories. Canada Sweden and Czecho Slovakia ended in a tie with 10 Points each from five victories and two losses. Sweden got the Silver medal because it had a goal spread of by Bruce Levett Canadian press sports editor Grenoble France a women Alpine skiers at the 1968 Winter olym Pic s Are both amused and chagrined at hav ing to submit to saliva tests to determine their sex. . Ski coach Bob Beattie called the ruling by the International olympic committee just Plain All these edicts about dope tests sex checks for women blotting out labels on skis have unnecessarily disrupted training he said. The Ioc decided sunday that it would not ban an entire team in some sports if one member was found to be taking dope. It ruled that Only the guilty party would be disqualified. However the Ioc retained its previous penalty of disqualification of the entire team in the summer games in such sports As soccer basketball and track relay races. In such sports As gymnastics and tile modern the team would be considered com prised of individuals and the ruling on dope would not apply collectively it said. It said that sex tests would be carried out in such a Way As to ensure secrecy and avoid any embarrassment to athletes. But it warned that any competitor refusing to take either the sex or dope tests would be automatically disqualified. Why you would think we were a Bunch of race said Christl has of Austria the defending downhill Champion. Bunny Field a British skier burst into loud laughter when told about the ruling. Personally i can t wait to take the she said. The British girls brought along certificates from their doctors attesting to their femininity but the Ioc was t Satis fied. The rumblings about olympic sex started last summer when Ewa Klobukowska of Poland was disqualified from the euro Pean cup track meet in Kiev Russia on the basis of a chromosome count. There Are 16 chromosomes in the human body which Are referred to medically As xxx for women and mys for men. If a test shows an imbalance of these chromosomes a woman athlete can be declared ineligible. It s not funny for said striking Dikke Eger Ger Man of Austria. None of us want to race against some of the competitors Al ready have undergone the tests. The results Are known in 36 hours. 31, Czechoslovakia the Bronze for a goal spread of 19 and can Ada placed fourth with a spread of 15. Canada s two losses that year were to Russia 3-2 and to the 3-1. The olympic tournament or Oliree sweeps in vets league fort Rouge 2, . Garry and . A s s i b o i a All scored sweeps Over St. Georges 2, . Young 1 and Winnipeg legion respectively in a recent vets billiard league session. League standings Are Sti vital 31 pts. St. James 2, 30 Weston 28 St. Georges-1, 27 a. N., Young 1, 27 fort Rouge 2, 26 . Garry 26 . Assiniboia 25 Winnipeg legion 25, . Young 2, 24 St. James 1, 24 St. Georges 2, 23 and fort Rouge 1, 20. St. Louis a Veteran linebacker Bill Koman of St. Louis cardinals announced his retirement monday from professional football. Gani Zers have Given the canadians a schedule As in the past which builds to a Climax after Early games against the weaker teams. Canada plays Russia in the final game on saturday feb. 17. They remember in Manchester Manchester England up Manchester United currently the top team in eng land s professional league takes time out today to commemorate the grim begin Ning of what has been a decade Long Saga of sports resilience. On feb. 6, 1958, eight Man Chester players died when a plane carrying the squad crashed on Takeoff from Munich West Germany. It will take 10. Years for us to get Back lad but Well do was How one of the survivors manager Matt Busby tried cheering up a dazed player As both fought for life in a Hospital hours after the disaster. The remnants of their club bolstered by men signed from other teams in the English foot Ball league staggered through to the season s end. Busby pledged that he would emerge from his oxygen tent and rebuild the stricken team. I realized that the whole Point of life and living is to build and he says. He started his monumental Job in the 1958-59 season. Work ing for him were a first rate scouting system geared to spot Ting Youthful Talent and a Bank account. But Early experiences on the Field proved that the gaps left by such dead stars As Duncan Edwards were cruelly Large. By the Early 1960s, Busby s team was sufficiently resurgent to be battling again for top league rankings. In 1963, Manchester won a i Competition separate from the league championship but packed with even flashier a football association cup. In 1964-65, Manchester Cap tured the league cup a feat it repeated last year. Today with current nine month season More than half Over Busby s club sports a three Point margin Over its nearest rival Leeds United in the first . I mighty Matt has proved he s one of the 1958 crash survivors enthused in summing up the achievements of a dec Ade sealing Busby s 10 years of Triumph was last weekend s Manchester United Victory Over a bitter league Tot Tenham hotspur with Manches Ter Star Bobby Charlton. 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