Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 9, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba 54 Winnipeg free press tuesday May Robinson can t answer dinner Bell by Keyn Davis the Man who came off the Bench to help Boston celtics win eight National Basket Bull association Champion ships is coming out of the broadcast Booth to succeed sugar Ray Robinson As the keynote speaker of the Nymha s sixth annual sportsmen s dinner. John Havlicek is a Verita ble institution in pro Basket Ball whose tear filled fare Well on National television last month was preceded by a nine minute standing ova Tion in Boston Garden. Nicknamed the Hondo he appeared in 1.270 Aba games and scored Points putting him third among the game s All time scorers. Only Oscar Robin son and Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain have scored More. Havlicek became Avail Able through the Courtesy of his new employer lbs which has made him Avail Able during broadcasts of Aba playoffs. The dinner will be held next monday at the International inn. For the second time in the dinner s history the original keynote speaker has been unable to attend. The first Rocky Graziano opted out the Day of the dinner and a Chicago writer was recruited at the last minute. Now another former Box ing Champion sugar Ray has been unable to appear for reasons that have ranged from his wife s illness to pending meetings with presi Dent Carter and California governor Jerry Brown. The dinner s speaker s list will also include Emmett Ashford major league base Ball s first Black Umpire and one of the most popular after dinner speakers in the . To introduce Havlicek the dinner organizers Hope to at Tain the services of Jack Donohue coach of Canada s National basketball team. Donohue is an adept speaker in his own right. The dinner committee will Honor the outstanding achievement of a Manitoba athlete. This year s Choice is the scoring of Bobby Hull s career goal. John Havlicek canadians proving too much for Leafs Toronto up toe Blake after watching Montreal canadians throttle to Ronto 6-1 saturday night to take a 3-0 Lead in their Stanley cup Semi final with the Leafs produced a statement that would have made the late baseball Hall of Famer Casey Stengel master of the double talk proud. Blake elder statesman of the canadians Hierarchy who has been around the National hockey league club since the 1930s As player and coach before assuming the duties of a Semi official advisor observed i m just Happy that we Don t have to play the smiling Gladiator was expressing what in fact the Leafs were feeling As they prepared for tonight s fourth game in the Best of seven series at the gardens. It s not that Leafs Lack the Effort in this All Canadian showdown. They just Aren t Able to contain the Montreal attack that explodes from the opening face off and persists until the canadians have either assumed the Lead or left their opponents in a state of exhaustion. Toronto one of the Best conditioned teams in the nil does t have the depth to Cope with the canadians. They seemed tired to said Mon Teal s All Star right Winger Guy Lafleur. Toronto meanwhile has played Mon Treal without the services of All Star de fender Borje calming out for the duration of the season with an Eye injury suffered in the islanders series calming is to Toronto what Larry Robinson another Norris trophy candidate As the league s outstanding defence Man is to the Cana Diens. More so because Toronto lacks Montreal s depth along the Elueline. Now they be had to play recent games without rugged Dave Tiger Williams who can usually be counted on to stir things up when Leafs need motivating. He s gone with a knee injury. Montreal defence Man Guy Lapointe s. Status remains a question Mark until just before game time. He dropped by the Montreal forum to watch his teammates work out monday. It s a Day to Day he conceded so i probably won t know my situation until like another former Montreal great goaltender Jacques Plante Lapointe Fig ures Toronto to be his Jinx town after the two painful injuries at Maple Leaf Gar Dens this year. Plante invariably begged off playing Here with a legendary allergy attack that cropped up game Days. Maybe on my next contract i la ask them to write in a clause that i Don t have to play in Lapointe quipped. Only once in eight meetings with the canadians this season has Toronto been allowed to score the first goal. That was in the opening game of the Semi final series which turned into a 5-3 Montreal Victory. 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The ice normally is pretty Good Here. It hurts both teams now though. You have to work a lot harder because you have to work just to skate. The puck does t slide along the ice Well so los s harder to handle it. You have harder you have to concentrate both teams May have some changes for tonight s contest. The speculation while the teams worked out was that Boston coach Don Cherry might switch goal tenders for the fourth game putting Veteran Gerry Cheevers Back. Neither Cheevers nor Ron Grahame who played Sun Day night knew who would be starting in the game Al though if Cheevers s sore knee is All right Cherry will most Likely go with him. Cheevers had a six game winning Streak going against Philadelphia including four games in last year s Semi final series and the first two games of this Spring s set. The flyers came with a Strong for checking style against the Bruins some thing cheery expected them to do and something he expects again tonight. They always for Check Well at Home. Actually they for Check Well All the time. The flyers Montreal and maybe us Are the Best fore checking clubs in the league. Watson noted that the game sunday night featured the same Type of play that has been the style Between the two teams during the last few years. They always have been close scoring he said. It s usually exciting hockey. It s aggressive and it s played hard by both teams we had t beaten them in six games until sunday night. I m glad we finally won. Last summer we had a lot of time to think after they had beaten us in four straight. It was not a Nice Watson admitted. Boston defence Man Brad Park said the Bruins had to work on a couple of things for the fourth game. But i m not going to Start revealing our game plan to the series moves Back to Boston for the fifth game thursday night. Bruin Victory creates logjam at Carter Chev. Olds. New show room on display special edition India Polis pacer Corvette bumper to bumper values than Ever uttered before in our history. 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Up Stan Smyl scored three goals and assisted on two More to spark new Westminster Bruins to a 6-4 Victory Over trois rivieras Drav eurs in the memorial cup major Junior hockey championship tournament monday night. The Victory was the first in two games for the Bruins champions of the Western Canada hockey league and left All three competing clubs including Peter Borough petes of the Ontario major hockey league with banquets weddings wind Montcalm Gordon hotel pm. 269-1406 1-1 records Halfway through the double round Robin tournament. Trois rivieras winners of the Quebec major Junior hockey league title plays Peterborough tonight in Sud Bury ont., the co Host City. The top two teams after the double round Robin meet in the championship game in Sudbury of saturday. Brian Young John Ogrod Nick and Ken Berry added goals for the Bruins defend ing memorial cup Cham pions who Are making their fourth consecutive appear Ance in the National championship series. Normand Lefebvre scored two goals for trois rivieras while Richard David and Carey Haworth added one apiece. The Bruins had 39 shots on goal against Jacques Clou tier while the Drav eurs directed 31 at Richard mar tens. Yaz socks it to . Carl Yastrzemski hit a three run Homer in these Venth inning off reliever Al Hrabosky to Power Boston to an 8-4 Victory monday night Over Kan Sas City royals the red sox s sixth straight american league base Ball win. There were no other Al games. In Only National league contest Bruce Boisclair s loth inning Pinch single off the Glove of shortstop Dave Concep Cion scored Lenny handle from second leading new York mets to a 3-2 Victory Over Cincinnati reds. At Boston the sox were leading 5-4 on Fred Lynn s fourth Homer of the year when Dennis Leonard 3-5, intentionally walked slug Ger Jim Rice. Royal Man Ager Whitey Herzog brought in Hrabosky his Relief Ace who surren dered Yastrzemski s Sec Ond Homer of the season. 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More than fanatical soccer fans were there to witness and enjoy a classic match Between Preston North end whose lineup was dominated by scots Man and Wolverhampton wanderers. Although the game took place 42 years ago we can still remember writing Back to Winnipeg that without question it was the most exciting sports spectacle we had Ever seen. A lot of water has passed under the Bridge since then but to this Day that statement still holds. Perhaps it was because it brought Back Many fond me Mories but watching the 1978 renewal of the a cup Between Ipswich town and Arsenal on the television screen saturday proved almost As enjoyable As when we were on the scene at Wembley those Many years ago. There is something special about the a cup final that we have never experienced at any other sporting event. One is gripped by the excitement generated by the huge crowd the moment you walk into Wembley stadium. The continuous Roar and singing of the supporters of the competing teams and the Flag waving does something to you. While one could not Call saturday s match a great one since the favored Arsenal gunners apparently did not play up to Par it was nevertheless dramatic and entertaining with the outcome in doubt until five minutes before full time. There was no question underdog Ipswich town play ing in the final for the first time in the Long history of the club was for its Victory. Except for the first minute or so they carried the play to the famed gunners of Highbury throughout the contest with an outstanding and Complete team Effort. Yet time and again until Roger Osborne scored the Only goal it appeared Victory might be denied them. Twice once in each half Ipswich Sharp shooters hit the goalpost with the Arsenal goalkeeper completely beaten and on another occasion the crossbar. Little wonder the frustrated manager of the Ipswich team after one near goal pointed his Finger to the sky As if to indicate that the Man upstairs was smiling on Arsenal. A Young Man named Brian Talbot who at one time played soccer in Canada for Toronto Metros enjoyed an outstand ing afternoon for Ipswich town. But then one might Well say the same about each of the 11 men who carried the Blue and White Ipswich colors into Wembley. Finally after the match Well bet two of Wembley s Best know pubs greyhound and the Green Man Well known hangouts for the Canadian hockey players when that sport was popular in Wembley were packed with supporters of both teams either celebrating or drowning their sorrows in Good English Beer. That elusive organization known As the Passwa incorporated shooters society of Friendly Fellows held its 15th annual game dinner at the Winnipeg Squash club last wednesday. Needless to say it was the usual rousing affair thanks to the hard work of guv John Baldner head Flunky Gerry Dennehy Diamond Jim Ashdown Art Tooley and Sammy Zubro to name Only a few. No doubt Many were troubled with upset stomachs the next Day As result of Over indulging in such delicious food As game Pic Rainbow Trout Walleye clams of slurs Gold Eye mallards and Caribou All of which or. Dennehy managing to scrounge one Way or another. Even the sarcastic Charlie Joyce who made a special trip from Toronto to attend was complimentary. Back in january 1973, some 150 Manitoba athletes representing 10 different sports spent an enjoyable two weeks in Curacao one of six islands comprising the Netherland Antilles. There they enjoyed Competition against athletes of that former dutch Republic. Now five years later the visit is to be returned. Sufficient funds have been raised to Send 20 Amateur swimmers and water Polo players to Winnipeg for Friendly compete ton against local athletes. The visitors will arrive in Winnipeg june 2 and remain until june 18. Mean time accommodation and transportation is required. Anyone who can provide either should get in touch with Guy Simonis organizer of the trip to Curacao at 175-0880. And it s Happy birthday greetings to Jack Wells. The popular Winnipeg sportscaster will be 67 years Young on saturday. His thousands of friends across Canada can Only wish him Many More years of health and happiness. Guelph players take command Guelph ont. Up George Mcphee scored two goals and assisted on three others to Lead Guelph players to a 6-2 win Over Prince Albert raiders monday. The win gave Guelph a 2-0 Lead in the Best of seven Centennial cup finals. Don Mcleod Brian Mcclellan Tim Sittler and Dave Brazel scored the other Guelph goals. Eric Ponath and Alvin Moore scored for Prince Albert. Guelph led 3-0 at the end of the first period and 4-0 at the end of the second. The players out shot Prince Albert 37-36. The third game is in Guelph on wednesday. Fan forum dear sir it has come to my attention that our City Council has instituted a Blanket reservation system for two of the Public Golf courses Kildonan and Windsor Park. This allows a few privileged people to enjoy the benefits of a private Golf club at the expense of the general Public. I can t accept the fact that As a taxpayer i am being refused admittance to a Public Golf course every saturday and sunday morning of the entire Golf season. If such a system were necessary for economic reasons which i Don t believe it is then All interested golfers should have an equal Chance at this reservation system. The present method allows those golfers who had reservations the Previ Ous year to renew their option which of course they do every year. I urge All golfers who resent this unfair system to Contact their City councillors and get the Public Golf courses Public again. For your information. Emfs truly pm me Mcl 345 Royal ave ;