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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1979-06-13, Page 8Page 8 Times-Advocate, June 13, 1979 More than 200 at banquet Sports Spotlight Sy ROSS HAUGH 1 With every passing day it appears to be coming a little more likely that Roger Nielson will be back as coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs for the 1979-80 NHL season. Leaf owner Harold Ballard has let two of the top choices in coaching prospects slip away. Don Cherry is moving to the Colorado Rockies along with his mother and his pet terrier Blue and Scotty Bowman is huffling off to Buffalo as general manager. Ballard apparently was not willing to loosen the rubber band to coax Cherry or Bowman into the fold. Neilson appears to be the pick of the crop of anyone that does not have a job at the moment. As late as last Thursday, Ballard said he was 90 percent certain that Bowman would accept his terms, a reported salary of $150,000 to serve as general manager and director of operations. It’s likely that a lot of good hockey talent will be available for the NHL expansion draft scheduled for today, June 13. The Toronto Maple Leafs will not be protecting veteran Ron Ellis and penalty killer Jimmy Jones and the Chicago Black Hawks are making Stan Mikita, Bob Kelly and Mike Walton available to other teams. One of the surprises was in Colorado where the Rockies failed to protect Forest native Bill Lochead who was a promising rookie as the Red Wings first draft choice in 1974. Others free to go from Colorado are Don Awrey, former London Knight Andy Spruce and goalie Doug Favell. One surprise was in Montreal where Doug Risebrough is apparently unprotected. Knowing the cunning of the Canadiens brass they have probably worked out deals where he will not be selected until they can bring him back. A lot of WHA players will likely wind up back on NHL rosters. Since its inception, the WHA has been sort of tagged as a bush league, but, now all of a sudden NHL clubs want to reclaim a lot of talent. TV contract needed NHL president John Zeigler said recently that about half the present clubs in his league finished in the red financially this past season. One thing that is a must for the American clubs is - to get a contract with one of the major television networks. If the NHL is ever going to get a strong agreement with the US networks now is the time. The excitement, tension and viewer interest that collared fans in New York and Boston during the just concluded playoffs was undoubtedly the highest in many years. Hockey ratings in the New York area alone were awesome with pro basketball playoffs at their peak and big league baseball already starting. During the recent Ranger-Montreal series, the NHL network telecast of the series opener according to the Nielsen Rating Service attracted a 13.5 rating and a 31 percent share of the New York City television audience. In comparison the NBA playoff game between Seattle and Phoenix posted a 4.3 rating and a 10 per cent share of television viewers during the same time period. At the same time ABC’s Wide World of Sports had a 3.4 rating and only an eight percent share of the viewers. NBC’s Sport World also gained eight percent and a 3.2 percent rating. There appears to be growing resentment among TV viewers about the so called junk sports on televi sion. Many feel that hockey with its body contact, fast moving presentation is much more attractive than the celebrity type super star shows the three major US networks are promoting. There is one man around who still thinks the NHL has a chance on US television programming if they are willing to make a few rule concessions. He is Ralph Mellanby who is the award winning executive producer of Hockey Night in Canada. Mellanby has a few ideas of his own that would make hockey more attractive for US watchers. Most of Mellanby’s proposals would speed up the game. Here are a few of them. He would toss out the red line to open the game up, minimize faceoffs by allowing them only after goals, penalties and offsides. Line changes would be allowed only when play is in progress except after goals and penalties and in troduce two halves instead of three periods. He would extend playingrosters to 21 players and two goalies from the present 18 and two if the two halves system would be too strenuous for the players. His last suggestions would be more frequent use of the penalty shot, eliminate tie games by having a shootout and reduce games to a two hour duration . Many of the producer’s ideas would certainly speed up the game. Allowing line changes only on the fly would certainly eliminate much of the jockeying which some coaches seem to delight in. Reducing intermissions to one a game would be a big help. He didn’t mention as to what would happen when the puck ended up in the crowd which it does quite often. Maybe they could sort of copy soccer and have one of the players throw the puck back into play. We would like to see the game streamlined for television not only in the United States, but, here in Canada, too. The majority of games go on too long. The first move in rule changes should be to penalize any player which leaves the bench to con gratulate a team-mate when he scores a goal. They are professionals and are paid to score goals. Leave the pat on the back routine to the true amateurs. Bad and good It is estimated that the Los Angeles Kings lost about one million dollars during the past NHL season mainly because of a drop in attendance at Jack Kent Cooke’s Fabulous Forum, the loss of Rogle Vachon and the failure of Dale McCourt to report. Cooke appears to be much happier in recent weeks and he has 75 good reasons. He has sold the team and the Forum to a California real estate executive for 75 million dollars. Top athletes selected at SHDHS Mere than 200 students, parents and friends attended Thursday’s annual South Huron District High School athletic banquet. Presentations of awards, trophies and honourable mentions were made for all 22 sporting activities at the school. The major awards were naming the four athletes of the year. Karen McAllister was named the senior girl of the year and the senior boys award went to Doug Hoff man. Ronalee Bogart was judged the top junior girl athlete and the junior boys award went to Dave Bell. A new award presented for the first time went to Paul Wareing. The grade 12 student from Hensail won the Panther award for outstanding athletic per formance. Wareing has won numerous honours in Huron- Perth, WOSSA and all Ontario in cross country and track and field. Representing South Huron at the Ontario Athletic Leadership Camp this year will be Lisa Stretton Doug Hoffman. Principal Joe Wooden praised the athletic program at South Huron. He con tinued, “Athletic programs are a big question with budget problems, but, I would hate to imagine what a high school without athletics would be like.” Wooden added, “Every effort will be made to maintain our athletic program and with the help of all the local fund raising which has been very in strumental in our success in the past I know we can do Physical education director Ron Bogart said participation in intramural sports increased this past year and more emphasis will be put on that level in the future. Doug Ellison who has been on the staff and an active coach in football and wrestling for many years said, I have a strong belief in extra-curricular activities, whether they be in sports, drama, debating, etc. Quoting from a US survey, Ellison said there is a strong relationship abetween T-A photo Athletes of the year were named at Thursday's annual athletic banquet at South Huron > Doug Hoffman, Dave Bell, Karen McAllister and TOP ATHELETES AT SHDHS — , District High School. Above, principal J.L. Wooden presents plaques to Ronalee Bogart. TRACK BEST AT EPS — Individual winners were named in Thursday's track and field meet at Exeter Public School. Back, left, Brett Batten, Tammy Alexander and Kristin Lovie. Front, Bren da Waldeck, Matt Tuckey and Steve Batten. T-A photo Holtzmann wins again For the third time in the new season, Dave Holtz mann carded the best gross score in the A flight at Tuesday’s men’s league play at the Ironwood golf course. Holtzmann fired a 37 and Don Gifford was second with a 39. The low jiet scores were recorded by Gord Ross and Wayne Pearce at 31 and 32, respectively. The best turnout of the season saw a total of 69 golfers competing in the three flights. In the B flight, Stu Homuth won the low gross award with a 40. Close behind at 41 was Mark Cronyn. Ralph Wareham at 25 and Bob Forrest with a 30 were best in low net. Fred Mommersteeg’s 45 was the lowest gross score in the C flight. Next came Marvin Bowdr at 46. Stan Frayne with a 30 and Bill Mickle with a score of 31 were tops in low net. The prize for the shot coming closest to the pin from the fourth tee went to John Morgan. His shot was seven feet from the hole. WANTED Cars & Trucks for scrap and resaleable parts. Highest prices paid. Turn that old fence, appliances, batteries, copper and farm machinery into cash. Give us a call.call. Miller's Auto Parts Scrap Metal Dealer R.R #2, Credifon 234-6343 Londoner tops shoot at Kippen There were 49 competitors in Sunday’s open trophy trap - shoot staged at the Kippen Gun Club. Bill Boussey, London, took top honors in the 50-bird “A” competition with a score of 48, while George Wood, also of London, won the runnerup p spot with 42. The 50-bird “B” class was topped by Paul Ritchie, Exeter, with a score of 45. Lloyd Venner, Hensall, had: 42 for runnerup honors. | The 20-yard handicap 50- bird class was won by Dan | Crerar, Hensall, with 47. Gary Coleman, St. Thomas was second" with 46. I Lloyd Moore, St. Thomas, ; copped the 100-bird event with a score of 91. : Club executives Jamie Caldwell and Dan Crerar thanked everyone who helped in any way to make the event such a success. successful student in acadamics and his or her participation in extra curricular activities. Following were winners of the individual sports awards: Boys volleyball Sweet, Steve Horn. Girls volleyball — Karen McAllister, Susan Stretton, Lisa Stretton, Ann Dearing, Jill Tuckey. Girls field hockey — Jeannette DeVries, Sue Chapman. Boys basketball — Jamie Chaffe, Dave Shaw, Brian Horner, Matt McClure, Ian Sweet, Paul Bies, Mike Smith, Doug Hoffman, Dick May. Girls basketball — Maureen Gans, Mia Gans, Brenda Riddell, Heather Riddell, Nancy McCurdy, Karen McAllister. Tennis — Randy Parsons. Badminton — Mia Gans, Brenda Pinder, Dave Bell, Ronalee Bogart, Lisa Stretton, Sheila Snider. Gymnastics — Jackie Hyde, Liz Scott, Helen Muller, Lisa Westcott. Cross country — Paul Wareing, Diane Verlinde Soccer — Doug Willard, Mike Glavin, Pete DeKoker, Doug Hoffman. Junior football — Brian Rader, Dave Bell’. Senior football — John Byrne, Doug Hoffman, Brad Taylor. Wrestling — Phil De Haan, Tyler Goudie, Vince Winters, Frank Vermaeten, Tim Martens. Track and field — Jackie Hyde, Doug Fischer, Karen Ford, Steve Pearce, Lucy Van Esbroeck, Dorothy Van Esbroeck. 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