Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 9, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tennis tour formed big break on the courts Toronto up american express co. Of Canada announced monday the creation of a professional Canad an Tennis circuit with total prize Money of the challengers circuit with some of the top International newcomers vying for association of Tennis professional Points includes five regional opens leading to the masters tournament at Laval que., aug. 2-6. The satellite tournaments will provide Young canadians As Well As the International tourists an Opportunity to pick up at Points that will put them among the 16 men and eight women in the masters showdown. It s the first time at Points have been involved on the circuit in said California born Harry Fritz now a Toronto resident who is ranked no. 1 by the Cana Dian Tennis association. "1 won the circuit two years ago but it meant nothing since there was no recognition at the world if i should happen to win this one it Means that jump from around 220 to the top 100. It will certainly improve my stature on the pro Tennis cat president Laurie Strong of Toronto said the new tour will provide Canadian Tennis with three major benefits. "the.first, of course is an Opportunity to promote the game regionally from Victoria to Halifax. Second it gives our top Tennis players an Opportunity to compete against their Peers at the International level. And third it s a developing device for some of our Young Amateur Strong said the contract Wilh american express is for three years. The length of the contract is necessary for this Type of circuit to he said the at system Means that whatever Points a player picks up at any of the tournaments goes into a computer which provides weekly world standings. One thing about this Canadian circuit is that it will give Canadian Tennis fans an Opportunity to see some of the Young International stars just before they reach the top pro Strong added. Fritz meanwhile said the five regional tournaments will give Young canadians a Chance to perform against some of the world s future stars. They la see just How much they have to work to get to the top and what they have to work Fritz said. He said he d hate to see Young canadians aspire to beat i d sooner see them a Sirc to beat Jimmy the regional tournaments carrying total purses of 000 each begin in Victoria june 27-july 2 with the Brit ish Columbia open and continue across the country with the Prairie open at Calgary july 4-9 Ontario open at to Ronto july 11-16 Quebec open at Quebec july 18-23, and Atlantic open at Halifax july 25-30. Preliminary play preceding the regional tourneys will determine the 32 men and 16 women who qualify for the opens in Victoria Calgary Toronto Quebec and Hali fax. Points standings will decide the masters players. One feature of the circuit is that men s and women s sin Gles winners in both the regional opens and masters tourneys will win the same amount in the Region als and in the masters. Winnipeg free press tuesday May 9, 1978 bulletin Board it was Tough struggle but Jan Stephenson prevailed late Birdie pays off Hilton head Island . A struggling Jan Stephenson despite a final round 74, the third annual women s International Golf tournament monday with a 72-Hoie total of 283, five under Par and four strokes better than . Amateur Champion Beth Daniel. The australian professional who began the final round with the same advantage Over Daniel had announced she would take no chances but she almost played it too cozy. Three bogeys dropped her Lead to a single stroke on the Back nine before a 15-foot putt brought her first Birdie on the Par three 15th. Daniel a 21-year-old Furman University student who will turn pro in the fall also finished with a two Over Par 74 Over the Devil s Elbow course at Moss Creek plan tation. The four bogeys and two birdies gave her a four round total of 287. Even so it was the Best finish for an Amateur in a ladies professional Golf association event since Nancy Lopez tied for second in the . Open in 1875. The Victory earned Stephenson bringing her winnings this year to More than tied for second among the pros with 288 totals each taking Home were Penny Pulz Donna Young and Higgins. Next were Jane Blalock Judy Rankin and Kathy Postlewait. Susan o Connor s final round g7 earned the prize for Low round in the tournament. Stephenson said she did not consider she played too cautiously monday to protect her Lead. In fact she said she played aggressively for the pin on each approach shot but Tricky winds sent the Ball Over the Green several times. The blonde 26-year-old booked Down on statements she had following two previous Days of play to the effect that i hate of i love she said. When you win you feel so Marlene Streit who plays out of Fonthill ont had a final round score of 75 for a 299 total. She had earlier scores of 80, 74 and 70. Cathy Sherk of Fonthill finished with a 311 total from scores of 70-79-78-75. Earl Grey Community club a fully sponsored member of the metro men s fastball league requires pitchers for this season. If interested Call Garry at 774 1793, Days or 453-4992, evenings. Balmoral orioles of the Interlake intermediate base Ball league Are looking for players particularly left handed pitchers for the cur rent season. For further in formation Call Ross Mcken ale at 1-467-2525. Larry Trupp was recently elected chairman of the newly formed Assiniboine Park fort Garry Wingette association. Glen Torgerson is the new vice chairman Pat Butters is Secretary and Ann Rainboth treasurer. The association also adopted a new Constitution. The Manitoba sports and recreation association for the Blind will hold a run a Thon on the track at Minto. Armoires saturday funds raised will Aid in sending Blind athletes to rep resent Manitoba in the 1978 Canada games for the physically disabled aug. 20-27. Sponsors Are still being sought for the one hour event. For further information Call Doris chop Tain at 586-2604 or John Kinght at 489-5554. Seven Oaks minor hockey association will hold its an Nual meeting wednesday at . At the Margaret Park Community Centre. Area residents Are Welcome. Olympic Star dead West Palm Beach Fla. A Ethylda Bleibtrey who began swimming As corrective exercise for polio and won three Gold medals a year later in the 1920 olympics died Satur Day at age 76. Skating stars will be Here Winnipeg will be the site of the 1979 skate Canada Competition. Ann Doherty a Manitoba director of the Canadian figure skating association said final arrangements for the International event to be held at the Winnipeg Arena in the fall of 1979 Are now Complete. The announcements were made at the sectional meeting in Shilo recently. Skaters from Austria West Ger Many great Britain the soviet Union Switzerland France Japan and the United states will join Cana Dian representatives for what mrs. Doherty termed a senior Competition held next to the worlds in is the last time Winnipeg played Host to a major figure skating event was in 1971, when the National Champion ships were held Here. Ted and Shirley Jones were awarded special recognition for their years of contribution toward figure Skal judges Vivian Black of we nil Pec editor news bulletin Pat Josephson Brandon Manitoba skates Gerry Howard Winnipeg ways and Means Fred Maher win a Loco publicity Vic Edwards por Tage la Prairie National skate test Winter Morden a Rudy Serkes Wynn Lea i does Bureau Maro Mitchell regional supervisors Alvon Lazenby ing in Manitoba. The Jones family has moved to Calgary. Pat Ball of Winnipeg was resumed As Section chairman with Doreen Sharratt of Brandon first vice chair Man and Bill Green of Winnipeg Secretary. Other elected officers Fol Low Reston for the Southwest Arnic Coon cd. Cab Lillo for the Northwest Bill oct Calll and Lynn Wen Zosul of Ston Ewall for the Interlake Jim Toeple of Winnipeg for Winnipeg and Dodic Wardle of flan flon for the Norman Region. St. James Assiniboine figure skat Ino club was awarded the 1979 Mani Toba free skate Competition and it will be in Brandon in 19bo. 13 venture Light weight fibreglass sleeps 4 fridge stove wardrobe brakes no tax Noney lost says minister Ottawa up no taxpayers Money was lost through Federal programs to support Amateur sport and Money owing to the Federal government a total of million last March 31 been reduced to sport minister Lona Campagnolo said monday. She told Otto Jelinek Park Humber Valley in the commons that her officials with the co operation of the sport and recreation association were Able to chop Down the amount owing to the Federal government to at March 31, 1978. But she denied that nearly million of taxpayers Money had been lost As reported by the Toronto Globe and mail monday. The office of the auditor general has helped set up spending controls for the associations she said. Peter Lesaux Deputy sports minister said in an interview that none of the outstanding Money has been written off and the government has worked out repayment schedules with 20 is negotiating with four others. As reported by the Canadian press last week a fed eral audit last year revealed million paid out by the fitness and Amateur sport Branch in the last four years for Only a month whether you need or get it from the people who lend monthly payment shown is based on a Homeowner loan for48 months at an annual interest rate of the interest charge is or a total payment of we find to help i commercial credit corporation limited it a financial service of is c font rpm data Cdr oration 371 Portage Avenue 942-8143 Troosh come Crew credit Patio Pirrim had not been accounted for from the associations. Pressure in preparing for the olympic games inexperience and High staff turnovers in both the sport department and among the associations Many housed in federally supplied quarters in Ottawa were blamed for the situation. But when pressed most associations accounted for their expenditures reimbursed the government or worked out repayment schedules. Lesaux said audits revealed that 80 per cent of the associations did t have proper accounting procedures. One of the four associations yet to agree with Ottawa on a repayment schedule lost its. Bookkeeper who walked out of the office one Day and never came Back. The government has hired an accountant to help the gymnastics federation get its books and accounting proce dures in shape. Gymnastics was almost overwhelmed after the olympic games by youngsters who developed an interest in the sport. Besides gymnastics which owes boxing owes the equestrian groups and sports for the deaf Allan Skalitar takes a Bow a explained Skalitar i started playing again when i was about 35." Skalitar 65, will be com Peting in the Manitoba Veter ans tournament later this month and will travel to Nia Gara Falls ont., for the Ca Nadian National senior championships in late a gust. Former Canadian Davis cup team member lome main of Halifax is ranked first in the Over-45-years-of age division. Ranked fifth is Joseph Orabanec of Vancou ver the Canadian National Tennis coach and a former czechoslovakian Davis cup player. Allan Skalitar has been playing Tennis for a Long time 40 years according to the latest estimate. His Active participation in the sport was recognized by the Cana Dian Lawn Tennis association s latest National men s Veteran s rankings Skalitar is ranked no. 1 among the senior vets 65 years of age and Over and is the Only Manitoban ranked in the senior division. Rankings Are based on 1977 tournament results and Are effective for the current sea son. "1 started playing in High school then gave it up for sports in shorts Junior leaders Are concerned Sudbury ont. Up the Heads of two Canadian major Junior hockey leagues say any Large scale sign Ings by professional teams of under age players those under 20 probably kill Junior hockey in Canada. De Chynoweth president of the Western Canada hockey league said in an interview sunday take our Best 18-year-Olds and we re out of he said Junior hockey is still trying to recover from the drafts in 1975 of under age players by the National hockey league and world hockey association. Another draft would mean a slow he said. The wha is considering the possibility of holding a draft of under age players in an attempt to sign top prospects who have one or More years of Junior eligibility left. Clarence Tubby Schmalz commissioner of the Ontario major Junior hockey league said the wha would immediately forfeit a Bond if it signed any under age players before under the terms of the Bond which expires in november the wha has agreed not to sign any under age players. Injunction plan is scrapped Charlottetown up directors of the Charlottetown eagles said monday they have dropped plans for a court injunction to Force the Canadian Amateur hockey association to Stop the Centennial cup Junior hockey finals. The club said in a statement it was concerned about the problem of reinstatement by the Caha following disposition of the Case. Under Caha rules the moment a member team begins Legal action against the association the team concerned is suspended until the matter is resolved. The directors said at that time we would Only have the Justice of the Caha to look to in hoping for reinstatement. We would not like to be in a position of having to wait on the Justice of the Caha in deciding whether or not we could play hockey in the upcoming boots Home Jive winners Baltimore apron Franklin the leading apprentice jockey in the United states Rode five win ners at Pamlico race course monday including azi Lian the Victor of the featured bundle of love purse. The 18-year-old Dundalk md., jockey brought Azilian from second position in a Field of six to overtake pacesetter Tomasella at the head of the stretch. Three share boxing honors Panama City a boxing champions Eusebio Pedroza of Panama Ricardo Cardona of Colombia and Hugo pastor Corro of Argentina shared honors As boxers of the month in the world boxing association rankings for april. Pedroza took the featherweight Crown by defeating Cicillo Lastra of Spain. Corro got his Mcglum weight title by beating Rodrigo Valdez of Colombia. Cardona won his Junior featherweight title Over Soo Hwang Hong of South Korea. The Aba s heavyweight listings for april Champion Leon Spinks. Challengers 1, Ken Norton 2, Jimmy Young 3, Muhammad Ali 4, Larry Holmes 5, Alfredo evangelists 6, Kallie Knoetzel 7, Gerrie Coetzee 8, Duane Boblick 9, Earnie shavers 10, Stan Ward. Matter of buying some time Buffalo . A Buffalo braves broke their lease on memorial auditorium monday but Norm Sonju the team s president insisted that does t mean the National basketball association club has Given up on Buffalo. The tragedy is that everyone will assume this Means the club is leaving Sonju said. But there is Abs Outley no decision the braves now have 60 Days to leave the Arena and Sonju said breaking the lease before tues Day s deadline was his Only Means of buying time to study the pro basketball Market Here and in other cities. Italians win in opening round Dusseldorf West Germany a Paolo Bertolucci and Adriano Zanatta won the decisive doubles match As Italy beat Chile 2-1 in the opening round of the nations cup Tennis tournament monday. The italian pair beat Patricio Conejo and Jaime Fillol 6-4, 6-4 after the teams split their singles matches. Zanatta Defeated Fillol 6-3, 6-1 and Heinz Gildemeister upset Bertolucci 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. Rice gathers All the votes new York a Jim Rice of Boston red sox who batted .552 with four Home runs and 15 runs batted in was the unanimous selection As the american league player of the week Al president Lee Macphail announced monday. Rice collected 16 hits in 29 at bats smashed two doubles and a pair of triples and hit safely in each of Boston s seven games last week. He compiled a slug Ging percentage of Over 1.000 and knocked in the winning run in three games. Tic ats sign College mates Hamilton up Hamilton Tiger cats announced monday the signing Ofelon College teammates Dan Bass a seventh round pick of Cincinnati bengals in last week s National football league College draft and Bill Murphy. Bass a six foot two 265-Pound offensive tackle who attracted a number of nil scouts in his senior year signed with the tic ats prior to the nil draft. Murphy a 6-2, 235-Pound linebacker also impressed the Canadian football league team s coaching staff that scouted him during the North Carolina school s Campaign. Watson Heads Parade to the Bank Washington a Tom Watson took Over first place in professional golfers association tour winnings this year with following his Victory and first prize sunday in the Byron Nelson classic. Jack Nicklaus is second with followed by Hubert Green Gary player Lon Hinkle Hale Irwin Lee Trevino Bill Kratzert Bill Rogers and Gil Morgan ;