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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-02-19, Page 8Times-Advocate, February 19, 1976 gal 43,0,11c at SportS f Kathy's fifteen minute fame RICK SKINNER OF SHDHS has an opponent squeeze out from under him during a match in Stratford for the Huron-Perth Championships, Skinner came second in the 148 pound class. photo by Creech Surprise, surprise, Hawks win openers Jets stomped by Durham The Lucan-Ilder ton Jets, league leaders in penalties with a new record, took a severe thumping at the hands of first place Durham Huskies Sunday as they went down to a 12-3 defeat in Walkerton, The Huskies, still licking their wounds from a defeat from the cellar-dwelling Woodstock Canadians, were led by scoring leader Dean Symons. Symons scored three goals and assisted on two others in the lopsided contest. Brad Deline and Bob Becker each had a pair and Gerry Herman, Chuck Niessen, Al Lennox, Al Nesbitt and Mike Cain counted singles. Barry Baynham, Randy Roth and Doug Galloway replied for the Jets. The Jets, true to form, had 18 minors and a ten minute misconduct to Bill Bannerman, The Jets surpassed the old record of 869 minutes a week ago and are now nearing the 1,000 minute mark. The old record belonged to Durham, Huron Park Hockey Dance Sat„ March 6 9 p.m, — 1 a.m. CREDITON HALL Music by JOLLY RODGEIRS Admission $2,5 0/pe rson Tickets can be obtained from Hockey Executive Refreshments and Door prizes Bulletin Just before press time the Times-Advocate learned that the protest by the Belmont Sunsets had been all but thrown out by 01-7A officials in Toronto. The Exeter Hawks have been fined $25 by the OHA for using Gerald Weido, The fine is a formality that follows every game misconduct. Both the playoff games against Belmont, which the Hawks have won, will stand and Weido will continue to play. The OHA also criticised the refereeing and par- ticularly the quality of time keeping by officials in Port Stanley. By TOM CREECH The Belmont Sunsets, down two games to none in their best of seven quarter final against the Exeter Hawks have resorted to some off the ice tactics in an attempt to even the series. A representative of the Belmont squad gave a letter to Mrs. Fred Mommersteeg, wife of the Hawk's manager on Monday indicating that the Sunsets were protesting to the OHA the out- come of Saturday's contest in Belmont which the Hawks won 5 to 3. The letter alleges that the Exeter squad played Gerald Weido who was inelligible as he had failed to sit out the required number of games as a result of a major penalty and game misconduct which had sup- posedly been handed out to the Exeterplayerat 4:03of the second period in a game played February 7 against the Port Stanley Sailors, In the Hawks letter of defense sent to the OHA several discrepancies in the actual letter of protest and the game against Port Stanley were cited. According to OHA regulations, a letter of protest must be Ex-local woman to bowl in Windsor A former Huron Park resident, Mrs. Susie Curtis, will be bowling in the Carling-O'Keefe Classic March 13 in Windsor. Mrs. Curtis, who moved to London a year ago, will be competing with bowlers' from across Ontario for over $3,000 in merchandise prizes. The top three women and four men will then represent Ontario at the Carling-'O'Keefe World Championships to be held April 15-17 in Regina. Mrs, Curtis holds a 176 average, and has bowled 698 on the basis of three games at 143, 178, and 277. will now play out of Zurich. The change in rinks has so far brought only one alteration to the playoff schedule, as the February 20 game was bumped back one day to the 21. Steer This Way BY !ARRY SNIDER The Light Touch • By JACK LAVENDER We all hove an axe to grind, but few of us are willing to hack our way through trouble. * * * During the paper shortage, one newspaper corned a notice that because of the lack of newsprint, seven marriages and four births would have to be delayed a week. * There's so much nudity in movies nowadays, the next Oscar for costume design will probably go to a dermatologist. * * * "Automatic"' simply means you can 't repair it yourself. * * * When we're right, no one remembers. When we're wrong, no one forgets. * * We re usually right at JACK'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR 107 Queen St., HHensall 262-2103 Remember us us your Homelite saw centre. Belmont protests use of Weido up again before Knight scored his second goal at 17:06 on a power play effort with Logan off for highsticking. With the second frame only 21 seconds old, Gerald Weido put the Hawks into the lead to stay when he finished off a three way play from Brian Taylor and Knight, Weido's goal came while both teams were playing with only five men. An unassisted effort from the stick of Ingram just past the halfway point of the period cemented the win for the Hawks. Again the goal came while Belmont played shorthanded. Rick Landon closed the gap for Belmont before the end of the period. Jennison put the game away for the Hawks when he tipped Ingram's pass into the ,net at 12:29 of the third period finishing off the scoring. A shorthanded goal, it came while the Hawks had Matt Muller and Don McKellar cooling their heels in the penalty box. Belmont had the lion's share of the penalties, taking 11 of the 20 minors called and a misconduct. Logan was the game's bad boy, as he picked up five minors and a by Fred Youngs Andy Warhol became famous for his portrait of a Campbell's soup can. Warhol is what people like to loosely term an "avant-garde" artist. Since he created the can, he has done other things like make a few movies and promote to brief stardom a bevy of actors and actresses who were, for the most part, rejected from the major studios, I have never pretended to understand his work, as most of my cultural dabblings were pretty well "meat and potatoes." He did however, coin a phrase that will last long after the label on his soup can fades. Andy Warhol said "in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." In that one phrase, Warhol caught an entire aspect of our culture that we quickly forget about. We seem to be in a rush to enshrine things, to immortalize figures. So rushed are we that immortalization no longer lasts forever, in fact, our immortals are lucky if they get two years worth of ex- posure. There are classic examples. Truckers are a good one. In the past, truckers were seen as merely another cog of workers. There was nothing particularly romantic about driving all day and all night. There was nothing wonderful and intriguing about cab-over Peterbilts and Macks. Now, however, there is suddenly a desire to make the trucker a romantic figure, a hero. There is nothing wrong with truck- ing. It is an honorable and essential service that people have grasped and made into an image of the technological frontiersman who never succumbs to the odds and, in the vernacular, "keeps on truckin". In two months no one will care about truckers. They will resume their status with the rest of us, their immortality cut short by another fad. The greatest arena for sudden fame is sports. People rise and fall in sports like mercury in a thermometer. One week you're up, the next you're down as you go through the mill from bum to hero to bum. It takes only one moment to make a star, it takes even less to unmake a star. Last week at the Olympics in Innsbruck, a star was born. Kathy Kreiner, an 18 year old woman from Timmins, Ontario astounded nearly everyone but herself by taking the gold medal in the Women's Downhill Slalom, snapping Rosi Mittermaeir's domination on women's skiing in 1976. And everybody missed it, The Canadian press delegation didn't bother to attend the event, assuming another victory for Mittermaeir; they missed Canada's penultimate moment at the games. They were, however, quick to realize that they had a new star on their hands and the rush to enshrine Kreiner was on . . . with a vengeance. Kathy Kreiner deserves all the credit she will receive. In fact, she deserves more as she came out on top in what must have seemed to most of the skiers to be an impossible feat, considering the seeming invincibility of Mittermaeir. But she did it. She really did it and all Canada owes her .something for, the way that she did, and eventually all tCAnada will forget about her, without ever repaying the debt. Remember Nancy Greene? Nancy Greene was the first worrian who won a gold medal in Olympic Ski competition. Not too many people remember her for that, in fact, not too many people remember Nancy Greene. Those that do remember her for chocolate bars rather then the feat of ski- ing, since she involved herself with a company that tried to make her into a northern version of Anita Bryant. Nancy Greene was a great skier. So is Kathy Kreiner and there is already a rush to love Kreiner and make her into another version of Nancy Greene. The saddest part of the whole story is that in ten or fif- teen years no one will remember Kathy Kreiner. She will be another chapter in a book that will be called "Great Cana- dian Sports Stories." She will have a career or a family or something, and no one will particularly care that on Friday, February 13, 1976, she did something totally unexpected something thought to be almost impossible. Her fifteen minutes will be up, which is a pity, because her accomplish- ment stands head and shoulders above many of the other things that we seem to be in such a hurry to worship. She deserves immortalization, she deserves a lot, and she will go unappreciated and forgotten all too fast, the next time someone scores five goals and assists on two others in a watered down version of hockey or a field goal kicker well past his prime surpasses the highest number of points in league history only because he can make his body last for 300 more games than the previous record holder. There is no place for the true achievers in sports, no place for the one time people. We will too soon forget Kathy Kreiner and her amazing achievement and find ourselves another, less dubious, per- son who's achievement pales but is newer. Fifteen minutes, Andy Warhol said, and the line is get- ting longer every day for that moment of fame. Next please, + + + A lot of people seem to have forgotten an important fact when they discuss world hockey supremacy, They talk of the Russians and the Canadians, but they forget about the Czechs, who almost pulled off what the NHL couldn't. The Czech team came as close as possible to winning the gold in Innsbruck on Sunday, and had it not been for a cheap penalty, they may well have done it. The Czechs play the same brand of hockey that the Russians play tempering it with a little more body work and a little less finesse. They could be a real surprise come this September when Al Fagleson stages his big tournament. In fact, there could be a lot of surprises. The Swedes will be picking up quite a few of their ex- patriat players who were lured to North America by con- tracts unobtainable in Sweden. Solleming and Ham- marstrom two players for the Leafs from Sweden have already declared their intentions to play for their native country, and there are several others who will probably follow suit and join up. I doubt that the Swedes will be contenders for the finals that will be played at Maple Leaf Gardens, but it wouldn't surprise me to see the Canadians out of contention by that time and the whole thing being put up for grabs to the Russians and Czechs. One final note, I'm wondering if the provincial govern- rent is closing old arenas in an attempt to cut down on the number of injured athletes that are going to be needing hospitals that are closed? The homeless Exeter Hawks, playing their half of the opening round of the Junior "0" playoffs in Zurich, stunned Belmont this past weekend by taking the first two games of the series 5-3 _Saturday and 5-2 Sunday. The Hawks won on the scoreboard, but they continued to accumulate injuries, a problem that has plagued them all year. In Saturday's game John Van Gerwen and Rick Mommersteeg both received stitches for cuts to the head. Mommersteeg had just returned from a leg injury that had kept him sidelined for the latter part of the season. Both players returned to action on Sunday night, Sunday saw the most devastating injury, as Steve Jennison, captain of the Hawks, received a broken arm from a third period accident. Jennison will be lost for the remainder of the season. Phil Knight's two goals and an assist led the Hawks to their win on Saturday. Paul Logan gave Belmont the lead at 7:51 of the first period when he opened the scoring. Knight tied it when he converted a pass from Rick Ingram at 13:54, Logan put the Sunsets one Lowered speed limits save gas as well as lives,At 70 MPH you used about 30 percent more fuel than you do now at 50. Ever wonder? 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The game went scoreless until the 6:35 mark of the second period when Belmont again drew first blood when Barry Landon 'scored with Don McKellar off for elbowing. Paul Brooks tied it up from Gerald Weido on a goal that came while both teams were short- handed. Weido came back again in the period with an unassisted marker to put the Hawks into a lead which they never relinquished. John Van Gerwen scored the eventual game Winner at 13:33 of the third period, from Ken Pinder and Noel Skinner, Phil Knight added an unassisted power play effort at 17:13 to start a scoring flurry late in the third period that saw Paul Buchannan score a powerplay goal at 18:59 and Matt Muller round out the scoring at 19:35. The Hawks took 11 minors in the game, to Belmont's 10. 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