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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1976-04-22, Page 18MEMBERSHIPS Men $ 75 Ladies $ 50 Juniors to 17 years $ 35 Family - Man & Lady $1 15 with 1 Junior $135 GREEN FEES Weekdays $3.50 Sat.-Sun.-Holidays $4.00 Pro Shop - All Lines of Golf Equipment LUNCH ROOM — OPEN DAILY BAYVIEW GOLF COURSE Highway 21 7 1/2 miles North Grand Bend Now Open Page 10 . Titrio*-Advpotq, April 22, 1970 Practice Calls • iv* *wok at Sport* will be allowed until Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. Submissions will not be sought, and must be volun- teered. DASHWOOD April 25, 2:00 p.m. Dashwood Com- munity Park. EXETER ROYiti_S: April 26, 7:00 p.m. Exeter Baseball Diamond, Coaches, managers and league conveners are ,%velcome to submit the time, place, date and team scheduled to practice for ppblica don in this space to the 'T'- A. This will be a weekly feature, published in order to allow the players and fans to know the proper times. Submissions must be in the T-A office by each Tuesday al 4.:00 p.m. Changes LADIES CURLING WINNERS received their trophies at the Exeter Curling Club banquet Saturday at Kirkton-Woodham Community Cen- tre. Some of the winners are, from the left, front row: Audrey McDonald (third draw), Beatrice Richardson (second draw), Lois Learn (first draw) back; Shirley Griffeth (first draw), Eileen Ross (third draw), Karen Shirray (second draw), Dorrie Finnen (president) and Ruth Skinner (first draw). T-A photo by Sharon Specht New Ontario Hydro microwave stations are being built in Southern Ontario to provide a communications network for line protection and control purposes for the utility's power system. EATON'S THE FASTEST CANOES at last Saturday's races near Varna were paddled by Rene and Julian Boogemans of Hensail in the expert class, and Warren Knight and Murray Bremmer of Brussels in the advanced amateur class. They are shown here in front of the Hully Gully chalet with their trophies. CATALOGUE Final soccer registration NOW OPEN Located A Mile East of Exeter GOLF CLUB Off Highway 83 Official Opening May 1st LIMITED PRE-SEASON RATES $2.00 The final day of registration for the Exeter Centennial Soccer League will be held April 24 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. This is the third day of registration the club has held, extended from two because of the number of last year's players who have yet to register. Club president Damian Solomon said people wishing to play should make a point of registering because the league executive has to determine the number of teams and provide the Huron Minor Soccer League with this information by April 25, Registration will be held in room 116 at South Huron District High School It will cost $6 to register a player, who will have to provide a picture of himself as well as proof of age. The club is also interested in obtaining new people to help coach and manage teams, and anyone interested is urged to contact Solomon or Les Webb. For the first time this year, the Centennial Club will be entering at least two teams in the Ontario Cup. There could be more teams entered depending on the response in the final registration. Thank you Exeter and Area for your patronage SEASON RATES Men.. $75 Women $40 Couples $110 Family $125 Junior (17 & Under) $35 DAILY FEES Weekdays $2.50 Sat., Sun. & Holidays $3.50 LONG ON VALUE SlionoNmILEAGECARS Rec softball The Exeter Recreational Softball League, a low key, strictly uncompetitive league, will be holding its organizational meeting April 29 at 7:30 p.m, in the library of Exeter Public School. The league, which had six teams in play in 1975, is hoping that people wishing to enter a team will attend this meeting to make their wishes known, RAP director Jim McKinlay said there has already been a request from two new groups interested in forming teams. The meeting is also scheduled to elect a new executive, and set entry fees for the coming year, The league schedules games once a week in the summer. Eaton's catalogue sales unit will close permanently on April 24 After sales service will continue to be available on all serviceable merchandise. '2295 '2495 '2195 '2195 '1395 '3195 $795 If you're in the market fora good used car you don't have to look any farther than Don Taylor Motors, These are lust a tewot the values we have on Our lot that will provide you with many miles of troubilpfree driving. 1974 VEGA two door with three speed transmission. This is a one owner car with low mileage. Licence DD0449 1973 VW SUPER BEETLE one owner with low mileage. This car has been rustproofed. Licence EZX521 1972 VW 412 SEDAN one owner with low mileage. Automatic transmission. Attractive red finish with black leatherette interior, Licence DDM697 1973 VW SUPER BEETLE — completely reconditioned. One owner. 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YOU COULD WIN A 1 8" ADMIRAL PORTABLE TV JUST BY VISITING US AND TEST DRIVING ONE OF THE SENSATIONAL NEW RABBITS No obligation to buy. The setriner Mil be announced during our anniversary sian In June' Don Taylor Motors EXETER 2154100 Ah, the World Hockey Association. The other hockey league, who started out with tremendous promises for providing alternative hockey, They are the essential reason salaries for hockey players are so inflated. And what dis- mal showings at the box office. John Basset's alternative to the Toronto Marlboros loses millions each year. It is preposterous to think of the Toros as the alternative to the Leafs, no matter how lacking the Leaf team is. The WHA has tried various formulas for success, even to the point of overtime in the regular season. Nothing seems to work for them; the league is all but a failure playing poker with its franchises, most of them underfinanced. The WHA may have turned the tide however, with a popular, logical decision as they come down hard, fast and heavy on violent upheavals during hockey matches. Rather then following the NHL, who is allowing the courts and legislators to stifle the problem, they themselves have come out against it, heavily penalizing the Quebec Nordiques and Calgary Cowboys. In effect they are saying: This will not be a regular occurrence in our league, and offenders are going to find themselves dealt with harshly. Both of the situations the two leagues are dealing with are similar in one aspect. Players on both teams in both leagues lost their tempers and the resultant brawl, well publicized and carried on national news, led to action from two points. Where this similarity ends is the action or inaction, taken by the leagues. The WHA stepped in and policed itself, suspending Rick Jodzio from the Cowboys and Gord Gallant indefinitely, along with Calgary coach Joe Crozier. Jean-Guy Gendorn, Quebec coach was given a one game suspension as was Danny Lawson of the Cowboys. Then the cruncher. $25,000 each from both teams in fines, over and above individual fines and the resignation of league vice- president Bud Poile. Swift, decisive action. Meanwhile in the NHL, a brawl between the Philadelphia Flyers, a characteristically rough team, and the Toronto Maple Leafs, brings no action despite the fact a policeman is struck with an errant hockey stick while stan- ding behind the penalty bench. It does prompt Attorney General Roy McMurtry to hand down charges against three Flyers: Don Saleski, Joe Watson and Mel Bridgeman, that include possession of a dangerous weapon. An absurd charge! Now nearly every eight year old in Canada is a potential criminal. Obviously McMurtry is laying it on thick so the players will cop a guilty plea to one of the charges in order to have the other two dropped. + + + Clarence Campbell, who seems to be biding his time just waiting for the league to find his replacement, said the hoopla over the violence is nothing more then a play up by the media. Come on Clarence! Get out of the cave and take a look, People are fed up to their teeth with brawls, stick swinging and sham-hockey. They want some action taken and not from the Attorney General of a province, The NHL con- tinues to insist there is no violence in hockey, that things go along like the sixties . . . hockey as hockey should be. This jaundiced, partisan, pedestrian view is not only damaging the league, it is damaging the game. The NHL is still con- sidered the top gun in hockey yet they refuse to accept this responsibility, preferring to allow McMurtry to prosecute and handle their problem cases. Whether or not McMurtry is successful in his prosecution of the three Flyers is not im- portant. What is important is McMurtry's use of hockey violence to make a name for himself. Violence in our national sport is one of the more often discussed topics at the supper tables of Canada. Even those marginally interested in hockey know the increase and regularity with which gloves are dropped. Hockey is impor- tant, particularly at this time of the year, and McMurtry, for whatever good intentions he might have about cleaning up the game, cannot fail to realize the political impact his charging the Flyers would carry. Not only has he invoked the latent sympathies of the public. he has gone to the heart of the matter as far as many people are concerned, He has charged the Flyers. The Flyers, whether it is true or not, will always be viewed by hockey fans as the team that made violent, excessively aggressive tactics popular in hockey. Although brawling and fighting, stick swinging and emphasis on the elbow in the corners has occurred in hockey years before the Flyers and Shultz and Shero were head of, it seemed the Flyers were able to combine it with enough hockey savvy to take home the hardware two years in a row. Despite their vic- tories in Cup competition, they received no respect and prestige outside of Philadelphia was minimal. It was decid- ed by the mass public opinion the Flyers had 'won on the basis of their strength. So McMurtry, who had brought down one other charge against the NHL in the season, that being against Maloney in November, seizes an opportunity to hit the heart of the matter as far as most fans are concerned. It matters little that other teams are engaging in the Flyer style. It matters little that unbridled violence takes place in other forms of hockey in the lower leagues . . . McMurtry wanted a Flyer, the opportunity arose and he took three , . . Three Flyers in the court are worth how many votes in the next election? It will obviously be a popular move. + + + Whether or not the NHL is ready to realize it, they have to begin to look at themselves as "big boys" now. For too long they have seen themselves as sacred cows, un- touchable pillars of sport. They no longer have a monopoly on the hockey market. Even though the WHA is a substan- tially second rate league, their decision to handle their own dirty business rather then waiting for courts to step in has gained them untold amounts of respect amongst hockey fans and the media, That too is a moot point, what is really the point of the controversy is the NHL's arrogant attitude towards its fans, For too long now, the people who make this game profitable to the owners and the governors of the NHL have been crying for stiffer penalties for those who would prefer to wrestle then play hockey. The NHL has perennially refused, The W1tA has a lot more to lose by severely hampering one of its top teams in one of its strongest financial cities, Their actions show they are responsible. Blaming it on the media won't work anymore Clarence Campbell, just as allowing a law enforcement officer in Ontario to charge players won't work because most of your games are in the States, Clarence Campbell, where the charges are void, Heed the WHA actions well, the unlikely day that they will catch you is still far off, but their insistence on being a better run, more pliable league is the firSt step, a big first step in that long race. •