Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Iso Philips dem6 Sale a Low. If you would like to see How a Pockel memo will fit into your pocket and your business Call for a Demontra 786-6611 National typewriter office equipment co. Ltd. 639 Portage at Sherbrook lion. Winnipeg free press sports saturday March 12, 1977 pages 71-92 before you buy any car drive a Volvo a. Matthon motors Ltd. 574 Erin St. At Portage 5 blocks East of Polo Park 7u-349i How so dims Hal Sigurdson sports editor we become salesmen and cab Drivers electricians and accountants housewives and sports writers but somewhere buried in our psyches there must be this unfulfilled desire to marshal the creation of a major building project. How else do you explain All these closet contractors who keep popping up and every one of them claims to have the answer to providing Winnipeg with a Brand spanking new Arena. We have All Learned perhaps More than we really care to know about Al Golden s thoughts on the subject. We wait with varying degrees of eagerness to see those thoughts translated into bricks and mortar. Or at least a Good sized Hole in the ground. Golden however is far from our Only budding builder. One gathers great West life May have an other Arena proposal simmering somewhere on a Back Burner. Various aldermen Are sizing up the feasibility of adding More seats to our present Arena. The other Day an Earnest Chap called to say he could t under stand Why somebody did t simply put a roof Over Winnipeg stadium and flood it thus creating a Mas Sive Arena and a domed stadium in one master stroke. The week s mail is certain to include at least one More scheme on How the deed can be accomplished. Some even make some sense. One came from a person who chose not to reveal his or her identity. The writer s notion suggested costs could be financed through the Sale of equity shares one third to the City one third to the business Community one third to the general Public. Like Golden the writer suggested financing could include Sale of first refusal rights on each individual seat but proposes such rights should be sold for an average of Only apiece. 11 is not an unreasonable idea. Most Arenas Are built with borrowed Money. Paying the interest is what has turned Many of them into White elephants. An intelligently and imaginatively run debt free Arena should make Money. The writer suggests investors could reasonably expect a Good return on their investment. That could be True. Percy Downton the manager Winnipeg Arena has turned a profit every year since it opened in 1955. And there Are those who claim it could be kept busier than it is. Remember too. That in a lot of those years there was no professional hockey team As a major Revenue producing tenant. Sooner or later some plan will actually be converted into Concrete and steel. It would be Nice if it happened before the City is again left without a professional hockey team. To keep the jets i d say we have a maximum of two years to actually get started. And far less than that to make up our minds on How we re going to do it. Close Unes Why is everyone picking on poor old Luy vintners just because he s slow moving does t have much to say and is 45 years old All three Are obvious attributes not defects and maybe the skip of . S Brier entry misses More shots than the purists like but he s been making the ones that count has t he not Only that he did a first rate Job of shipping my car from . To Winnipeg last year when the Windsor Park royals won the suburban conference senior boys basketball Crown thursday evening the parents threw a party for them the party was t just because they won but because they had to pay to play in the first place St. Boniface school District is the Only one in greater Winnipeg where kids have to pay for each inter collegiate sport in which they participate Diaute pms army has been selected to the Canadian women s wheelchair basketball team which competes in a tournament in Champagne til., March 25 Diane is the Only Manitoba representative Portage terriers winning Monar Clis and flin flow bombers will carry the province s colors at the inter provincial midget hockey championships april 8-11 in Swift cur rent sask. Bill Fry who recently Hung up his whistle after 30 years of officiating in Canadian foot Ball has been named assistant director of officiating for the Cal by Hap Shouldice in 1973 Fry worked the Grey cup the National senior final St. Vital is Bra Malea and the National Junior final. This jets act can go places by Reyn Davis that funny Little City with the Small building and All those crazy fans who own and operate the hockey club was conveniently forgotten when merger talks began last week. All they wanted was our said Bob Graham chairman of the Board of Winnipeg jets. Now Graham has been assured after much discus Sion that the jets and Winnipeg Are a part of the parcel of world hockey association teams being considered. Meanwhile the assets in uniform looked More danger Ous than Ever Friday night As the refurbished jets using three new players in their lineup Defeated. Cal Gary cowboys 4-1 before a curious crowd of Liere were More Coule than seats in tie Arena eager to see the three new jets Mike Ford Danny Law son and fran a Lucic and one new Cowboy Atli pukka Ketola. All four played Well especially Ford whose Zeal for hockey in a jets uniform is comparable to a Soldier s dedication to his country. For Ford a fairy talc has come True for Lawson the Shock has and for Huck it s like new times. There were players every where 23 of them to be exact. And Only one Thom tic Bergman is Hurt. Anders had Twig and Dan Labraaten scored two Joau apiece to slake the jets 10 a 4-0 Lead. Joe Daley Stinky As usual came within three minutes and 11 seconds of posting his third shutout of Pic scion and second in a Row. Peter Driscoll scored for Only two lines were con Stant and Thev produced two goals apiece. The hot line of Llyd Berio Bobby Hull and Ulf Nilsson was checked closely but still managed to be exciting. And the line of Labraaten. Mats Lindh and Willy Lindstrom victims of four goals the last ume the jets played in Calgary played Well defensively too. The first. Period was scoreless. After these cond the jets led 1-0 thanks to Hedburg s Quick conver Sion of a Peter Sullivan Perry Miller arrangement. Miller led a Rush dropping for Sullivan who tied up two Calgary defence Man Paul Terbenche and John Miszuk As he Cut toward the net. Neatly he slipped through a pass to the oncoming Hedberg for his 56th. Before the 10-minute split in the third period the jets had scored three More goals. Labraaten finished a 3-on-2 Rush lifting a 30-foot shot out of the Middle High into the net. It was his 21st. Hedbert s 57th improved the Lead to 3-0. As the flow moved across the front of the Calgary net Hedberg reached Back and snapped a wrist shot by a surprised Gary Bromley. The fourth Winnipeg goal was Labraaten s 22nd, and a glistening example of the Speed of the Rookie left Winger from Sweden. Blow ing by the last Cowboy at Centre ice he caught up to a pass and snapped a Low wrist shot by Bromley. Driscoll a ridged a Back hand shot under Daley after Ron Chipperfield left the puck when sandwiched by Ford and Miller. T thought we played a near perfect said jets coach Bobby Kromm. Who thinks defensively. "1 was sorry to see Joe Daley lose his shutout. Mike Ford left Driscoll not because he was afraid of him but be cause he thought he could help Perry Miller cover pleasant problem now is keeping 23 players hungry and working. Bench kits Al. The local entrepreneur who plans to build a Arena by Public subscription has the Blessing of the jets if the Public wants a 20.000-Seal Arena this . And if there Are indications that people Are going to nil it for 40 tames then we would certainly sell tick cheaper because the economics would be there and we re a non profit opera said jets president Jack my Keats the three stars a Labrana in 2. Daley. 3. Anders the cowboys coach and general manager was called to a club directors meeting in los an soles assistant coach Larry Hillara took his place the cowboys feel there is Only a "25 per cent Chance hex Rii Hilaira will join them sunday night at 8, the jets entertained Monton oilers. Summary by Daw Johnson Heads up play lets Larry Long himself to the limits in a Effort to top a second period breakaway by Calgary s Lynn Petit Lut All Lent for Hie efforts was a rude reminder of a and a tripping penalty. One win away from Brier Tankard Ursel nothing against Winnipeg but. By Don Blanchard Montreal Jimmy Ursyl gave serious consideration to transferring Back to Winnipeg last summer. Now he s glad be did to not that he has anything against his old Hometown. Ursel is on the threshold of winning Quebec s first Brier today. The Montreal team of Ursel Art Lobel Ursel s former Gordon Bell school mate Don Aitken and Brian Ross were within one Victory of claiming the Silver Broom trip to Sweden. Quebec emerged from Fri Day s wild action at the Velo drome with an 8-2 record. The fast fading . Team skipped by Roy vintners which has the final round Bye finished with an .8-3 Mark. They lost their Jast three games to Alberta que and never say die Newfoundland. Vintners Only Hope is mat Nova Scotia s Bob Fitzner knocks off Ursel today. That would create a playoff. We be just going Back to the hotel to relax. Well worry about tomorrow when it said Ursyl who received a standing ovation after Curling superbly in an easy 7-2 win Over Manitoba s Johnny Sackis. Ursel waved his Broom to the cheering throng of 6.500 when the two teams Shook hands in the ninth end. While Sackis was fighting his weight Ursel was Curling with All the Confidence in the world. He agreed later one of the key shots in the game was a Brilliant double and Don Ibn Chard column Page 72 Roll in the sixth end that bailed Quebec out of trouble. The turning Point came perhaps even earlier when a scalds pulled the string on an open hit for two in the fourth end. The writing was already on the Wall. Ursel said the fact his team had gone All the Way without one sweeper had t affected their play third Art Lobel started the Brier with a Back problem and did not want to take any chances on aggravating it doing any serious sweeping. It seems kind of lonely out there when they have Only one Guy sweeping the Rock but i Don t think it Cost us any said Ursel. The fact he s had the crowd on his Side has been a decked advantage As it was when Don Duguid won the Winnipeg Brief in 1970. The fans never gave up on me even when it looked like . Was going to run away with it. We just kept plugging away and hoping we d still be in this thing when we got around to play ing said Ursel he made the most of it trimming the emotionless . Skip 9-6. Manitoba had kept its Hopes alive by demo Lishing Rusty Tate of North Ern Ontario 10-1 on the Aiter n o o n draw. But against Johnny Sackis could t make routine shots when he needed them. It was the Story of the Brier for Johnny u. I n other games Friday night Saskatchewan s los Rogers of Regina dropped Reed 9-3, Toronto s Paul Sav age skipped Ontario to a 7-3 decision Over roly Voekler s Brunswick rink from Fredericton and Nova Scotia s Bob Fitzner from Hali fax downed Rusty tale s Northern Ontario Crew from Sudbury 4-2. Don Twa s territories rink from Whitehorse and Prince Edward Island s Ken Macdonald of Charlotte town were Idle. Ursel s must game Over the Nova Scot ians in the final draw was scheduled to get under Way at . Cost today. That would give him first place and the right to represent Canada at the world championship at Karl s t a d Sweden later this month. Pm scores Page 75 Central Amateur hockey league Semi finals Best of 7 series St. Is. Game 1 . But Titi at St. I my. 14 Numez game3 . By Mai i sun., 20 game St. At . He Nind games . At so Sim. 27 games so at . Pm moot wa4. 30 a Bob. game r sat april 2 a is. Boniface Home games played at Bertrand Arena All e. K. Elmwood Mhz Tonais games played at Rev breast Arena. Bomber safety signs Brian he Kouan three years ago a 23 year old defensive Back found his football career possibly slipping away As a member of the Baltimore Colts. So the Young Man headed North Landing in win n i p e g where he has emerged As of the Premier sat ties in the Canadian football league. Brian Herosian today signed with the bombers a move that will surely cause shudders among receivers and running backs across the nation. Herosian a Canadian football league All Star in 1976, is returning for his third season with the bombers. Herosian s signing Cou pled with that of All Star Middle linebacker Harry Walters earlier in the week gives Winnipeg the nucleus of one of the c f l s Cost respected and feared defensive units. Acclaimed As one of the hardest hitters in the nation the 200 Pound Herosian is coming off a season in which he made 80 unassisted tackles 69 assists and intercepted five passes one of which he returned Yards. For a tote who want a Contr than Jutt a car i co Gaft May mans cower to match a cat 555 Empress St. 772-2411 ;