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Times-Advocate, 1979-03-21, Page 10P«»ge 10 4 Times-Advocate, March 21, 1979 Sports Spotlight By ROSS HAUGH An example EJvery once and awhile we run across an article or poem about conduct of adults at minor sporting events. The latest was a copy of a poem apparently written by an 11 year-old boy in the Borden Citizen who apparently couldn’t talk to his father. It was dropped into the office by Agnes Appleton. Setting an Example What kind of so-called “grown ups” Are those who choose to thrust, Such mean and angry words of hate On little guys like us? We skate so hard to make that goal Like we are told to do, But folks yell, “Get him! Kill that kid!” And often start to boo. We’re told its sport, not win or lose But how we play the game. If adults want to teach what’s right Why don’t they do the same? So Moms and Dads, I ask you please Leave anger at the door, And fill the rink with Brotherhood That’s really what it’s for! A coaches' weekend The Ontario Hockey Association is sponsoring a Coaches Weekend this coming June at Elgin House in Muskoka. Included in the list of instructors for the clinic to run from Friday, June 15 to Monday, June 18 are Leaf coach Roger Neilson, University of Toronto coach Tom Watt, Harry Neale, coach of the Vancouver Canucks and OHA technical director Ron Smith. Each instructor will make two presentations, one hour in length on aspects of offensive and defensive play to the whole group of participants. Each of these presentations will be followed by a one hour small group discussion with each of the four groups of 10 led by one of the instructors. Emphasis will be on the exchange of ideas and creative thinking, all in a casual relaxed setting. Each evening a special session will be offered with Tom Watt and Harry Neale teaming up for dis­ cussion bn fitness, motivation, discipline, practice organization and tactics. Saturday evening, Roger Neilson will explain his use of videotape and statistics along with a clinic on how to use the machines. Ron Smith will lead a film and discussion session on teaching skills and all coaches will be involved in a drill exchange. More good books Two of the latest Canadian sports books on the market take a look at what one could call both ends of the spectrum. The first production is probably one that all coaches in our country should take a look at. It is call­ ed “Lloyd Percival’s Total Conditioning for Hockey”. It is written by Joe Taylor who was a disciple of the late Lloyd Percival who came out in 1950 with some strong theories in his Hockey Handbook. In 1950, Percival’s thoughts were called, “the product of a three year-old mind” by the coach of the Montreal Canadiens Dick Irvin. At that time, sports leaders in the Soviet Union were looking for training methods that would turn their teams into a power in world hockey. Percival’s theories were studied thoroughly by Russian coach Anatoli Tarasov. These training techniques for physical develop­ ment have been followed by the Soviet Union for almost 30 years and the just concluded Challenge Cup series is “the icing on the cake.” In the early 1970’s Percival was planning an even more specialized book on training and conditioning for hockey, but, he died before it could become a reality. Since that time Joe Taylor has gathered Per- $ cival’s notes and put them together with research in­ formation developed after Percival’s death and the end result is the new book. It extends Percival’s theories on total playing capacity with psychology, energy processes and neuromuscular functions. In the February 10, 1979 issue, the Toronto Globe and Mail said, “This book is good for coaches at any level; of particular value as well to players, amateur or pro who really think about their game.” The second book, “The Joy of Hockey” takes a humorous look at the game over the years. Early in the book on the origin of hockey it is noted, “The Indians were probably the first North Americans to play toma-hawkey.” Eric Nicol says the reason the Soviet Union beat Team NHL in the recent Challenge Cup is summed up in two words, “foreign skating along with their superb physical conditioning.” He suggests Canadian players could include “walking to the bank” in their training program. Good prospects While we will admit that performances in baseball spring training are sometimes misleading, it looks now as if the Toronto Blue Jays should enjoy a much better season in 1979. The Blue Jays are winning about half of their grapefruit league games to date and several of the wins have been by good margins. The acquisition of shortstop Alfredo Griffin in ex­ change for catcher Allan Ashby appears to be a big plus for the Blue Jays. Griffin is showing a great glovfe and his speed on the bases should give manager Roy Hartsfield the basis for much better running game this year. Thp Blue Jays will meet the Kansas City Royals on Friday, April 13 atCNE Stadium in Toronto in their first home game. Hopefully it will prove to be an un­ lucky day for the Royals. Game time is 3:30 p.m. Trouble on smaller ice Back in Exeter,Saturday at 4p.m. Bantams even with Tilbury in semi-finals The Exeter and Tilbury bantams -each won their home games over the weekend in the OMHA semi­ final, but by virtue of losing the coin toss for the extra game in the best-of-five, the locals are faced with the task of winning in Tilbury if they hope to advance to the Ontario championship final. Exeter started out in high gear at the rec centre on Saturday as they dumped the visitors by a comfor­ table 6-1 margin. However, they had more difficulty on the smaller ice surface in Tilbury where they lost Sunday’s contest by a 4-2 count, although they showed signs in the last half of the game of coping with the smaller dimensions. The teams get back into action tonight (Wednesday) in Tilbury and the fourth game is slated for Exeter this Saturday at 4:00. If athis Saturday at 4:00. If First place tie in darts The close race for first place in the Exeter Legion mixed dart league gets more intense each week. Friday night the Sassenachs swept five points and moved into a first place deadlock with the Itchy Niters. Each team has 80 points. The Doublers also with a five point night are right behind with 79 points and the Flying High and DR’s are all even with 77 points apiece. The Winkers hold down sixth place with 75 points and the Family Affair follow with 70 and Out of Space has 67. The Scotties are in ninth place with 64 points, the Sabres have 61, Outlaws 60, CB’ers and Nicky Tams 53, Shiphunters 52, Canscotts 46 and the Chances 42. Walter Romaniuk is the top individual competitor for the men with a high score of 174 and 35 games on. For the ladies Anna Romaniuk holds the top score with a 140 and Barb Hearn has pick up 33 victories. This week’s scores were: Sassenachs 5 - Chances 0 Doublers 5 - CB’ers 0 Out of Space 4 - Scotties 1 DR’s 3 - Itchy Niters 2 Canscotts 3 - Shiphunters 2 Winkers 4 - Outlaws 1 Family Affair 3 - Nicky Tams 2 Flying High 3 - Sabres 2 fifth game is needed, it will be in Tilbury the following day. The Essex squad took quick advantage of their home ice situation in Sun­ day’s tilt, potting two goals in the first period, and they were never headed after that although Exeter did enjoy the margin of play throughout the contest. Coach Jack Fuller es­ timated his squad fired close to 40 shots at Tilbury goalie Allen Barnier and missed the net with another 40 in the hard-hitting affair. In the second period, Bill Glover finally found the range on a blistering drive from just inside the blueline to whittle the lead to 2-1, but Tilbury came back to score two more before the period ended. Their first marker in the second was on a power play and the other score came on a disputed play after the clock mysteriously ran out of time about mid-way through the stanza. The Tilbury team started to skate off the ice when the buzzer sounded, but Exeter supporters managed to con­ vince the officials that the period was not over. It was finally determined there were eight minutes left, but when play resumed, the referees took the ensuing faceoff into the Exeter zone rather than centre ice and Tilbury scored one second after that disputed faceoff to enjoy a three-goal lead at the end of the second frame. Exeter came out flying in the third in their effort to get back into the contest, but were thwarted by the fine net play of Barnier, plus their own erratic shooting. Late in the period, Glover notched his second goal of the game on a play with Mike Clark, and shortly after they enjoyed a man ad­ vantage and did everything but put the puck in the net as they swarmed to the attack. Tilbury never managed to get the puck out of their own end in the final three minutes, but they did manage to keep the puck out Pee wee honours don't last very long The Exeter pee wees had the honor of participating in the opening ceremonies of the 30th annual Young Canada Week tournament in Goderich, Friday, However, that was all the locals got for their at­ tendance as they were quickly ousted from the week-long event. They faced Goderich in the opener right after the ceremonies and were dumped by a 7-1 count, the hosts scoring three times while playing short-handed. Mike Tiedeman scored Exeter’s lone tally late in the game on a shot from a dif­ ficult angle. In their second outing Saturday afternoon, the local pee wees faced Delhi and were clipped 3-1 to send them to the sidelines. Darren the lone Exeter. Vandergunst was goal scorer of their net to preserve the win. Take first game After a slow start, Exeter had a comparatively easy time in posting their 6-1 win at home. Tilbury scored in the final minute of the first period, but Dave Underwood got that one back in the first minute of the second and Mike Clark then scored the winner at the 6:40 mark. Clark came back with his second tally later in the mid­ dle frame while adding singles in the third as Ex­ eter pulled the game out of reach were Dave Shaw, John Kernick and Scott Brintnell. Kernick and Tom Coates picked up a pair of assists to lead in that department. Helping out on one goal each were Underwood, Shaw, Brintnell, Jim Siddall, Scott Pincombe and Scott Batten. Exeter scored on two of the 11 minors picked up by the visitors, while they managed to kill off their own eight penalties, including one session of a minute and a half when they played two men short. Net minder Peter Dearing played well in both contests, stopping three beakaways and coming up with some deft glove saves on some close-in attempts, especially in Tilbury. Fridays schedule is as follows: 8 p.m. DR’s vs Out of Space CB’ers vs Chances Sassenachs vs Doublers Outlaws vs Flying High 9:30p.m. Canscotts vs Nicky Tams Shiphunters vs Itchy Niters Winkers vs Sabres Family Affair vs Scotties. r FOR INFORMATION ON fathers in South Huron Phone 235-1834 We Need More Big Brothers Now! N.H.L. HOCKEY TORONTO AT DETROIT AFTERNOON GAME COACH EXCURSION I Sun., Mar. 25 $21.50 Includes Admission And Transportation Seven Seats Left Book Now For Your March Break Treat EXETER TRAVEL CENTRE 451 Main St. JEXETER, OHT. 235-05711 Whatever Your Sport. .. 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