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Times -Advocate, May 13, 1981
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By ROSS HAUGH
Neilson will be missed
One player who will miss Roger Neilson as a coach
of the Buffalo Sabres is young Derek Smith of London.
Derek's father Julian was the guest speaker at
the Stephen minor hockey banquet Saturday at Huron
Park and said the players liked Neilson and will cer-
tainly miss him.
About Bowman Smith said, "He seems to be a bit
aloof from everybody else and the way he looked
behind the Montreal Canadiens bench with his chin up
in the air. that's the way he really is and is of the old
school of coaches while Neilson is quiet and cheerful."
He also talked about Punch Imlach being an ex-
tremely superstitious person. Imlach has been known
to carry a rabbit's foot and often had his wife bring
along a spare hat or two so he could change headwear
during a game if things were not going his way.
The big problem between Bowman and Neilson
seemed to be communication. Bowman said in a re-
cent Hockey News. Roger doesn't ever talk to me
about lineups or anything like thaat, while Neilson
feels the coach's job is to run the team and the general
manager should run the front office.
May be back in majors
One of the major league's most exciting pitchers
in quite a few years is in the minors and threatening to
make a comeback to the big-time.
Luis Tiant, now at the age of 40 has recorded a no-
hitter plus a one and two hitter for the Portland
Beavers of the Pacific Coast League in recent weeks.
A veteran of 17 major league seasons, Tiant had 10
strikeouts and walked only two as he recorded his no-
hitter against the Spokane Indians on April 18.
Better known as El Tiante, he was signed as a free
agent by Portland this spring after missing out on the
re-entry draft. Last year in 25 games with the New
York Yankees he won eight games and lost nine times.
Tiant was sent to spring training this year with the
Pittsburg Pirates before joining the Portland team.
Double winners
For the third time in 32 years, that the Hockey
News has been selecting its player of the year, two
winners were chosen this year.
In making the announcement the paper said,
"While Gretzky was the obvious choice it would have
been a tremendous injustice to have ignored the more
subtle but no less significant achievement of MikeLuit
of the St. Louis Blues.
The only other times, the honour was shared was
in 1967-68 when Jean Beliveau and Wayne Connelly
were chosen and in 1950-51 when two of the greatest of
all time and both wearers of No. 9 were selected. They
were Maurice Richard and Gordie Howe. Big Gordie
was chosen four other times.
The only one to come close to Howe's number of
wins is Phil Esposito with four.
The record of Howe for actually four and a half
wins should fall in another four years as Wayne
Gretzky continues to improve. He was the sole winner
a year ago.
This year the coach of the year was Red Berenson
of the St. Louis Blues and the executive of the year
honour went to Emile "The Cat" Francis.
Toe Blake with five wins leads the coaches with
Punch Imlach in second spot with three selections.
There hasn't been a repeat top coach for the past 13
years.
Tough tickets to get
What would you say is the sporting event which
causes the most problems in securing tickets?
A recent story in the Sporting News suggested that
the Kentucky Derby would be the toughest. We don't
agree with that assumption.
The 1968 World Series in Detroit was a perfect ex-
ample of a mad scramble for tickets. A draw was
made for the lucky tickets and if our memory serves
correctly. something like one out of every 15
applications were accepted for the more than 50.000
seats.
Crowds of more than 130.040 watch the Kentucky
Derby. hut. most of the spectators are in the infield
and they don't have a seat as only about 45.000 seats
are available
Churchill Downs is swamped with ticket requests
through phone calls and letters in the months before
the Derby Bill Rudy. the director of public relations is
in charge of ticket distribution and he publicly admits
to having ulcers.
The letters on Rudy's car licence plates are ON
TUMS. That clearly leaves no doubt as to his health
problems
Change in menu
Some of the Texas Rangers didn't really
appreciate the food they were offered in their
clubhouse after their season opener at. Yankee
Stadium in New York.
Instead of the usual cold cuts. hot dogs and pastas,
they were expected to gobble up cottage cheese, fresh
fruit. fruit nectar and tuna salad.
Doesn't really sound like the proper food for grow-
ing boys More of us should be so lucky.
The reason offered was. "An attempt to eliminate
nutritional habits that are counterproductive to
achieving a maximum level of physical conditioning"
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Could be last season
Tigers open against Clinton Colts
The Dashwood Tigers open
a new season in a new
league, Friday, but the op-
position will be anything but
new.
The Clinton Colts will be
the visitors for the 8:00 p.m.
contest at Dashwood and the
two teams are the only rem-
nants of the Huron -Perth
who will compete in the
Great Lakes Baseball
League this year.
Kincardine. the only
senior team remaining in the
WOAA, makes up another of
the entries and the other five
are from the London area.
Arva and Thorndale return
along with junior teams
from London, Byron and
Strathroy.
"Baseball is a dying
sport," lamented Bob Hoff-
man of the Tigers,
suggesting that this may be
the final year for senior
'It
WIN TWO AWARDS— The LaBatts were the Tuesday night champs of the Exeter ladies
Bowling League and also took the grand champion award at Saturday night's banquet.
Winners were, back, left: Lia Snell, Lois McCallum, Lorrie Symons, Val Sweet, front- Wilma
Truemner, captain Lynne Farquhar, Marg Relouw and Joyce Morgan.
hardball in Dashwood, as
slow -pitch and softball at-
tract more participants due
to limited travel and shorter
games.
Hoffman said four or five
of the veterans on the team
have agreed to take to the
field for at least one more
year to keep baseball alive
in Dashwood.
It is expected the Tigers
will have about 18 players in
uniform and one of the few
newcomers is infielder Luc
Gagnon, who played hockey
for the Exeter Mohawks this
past winter.
Inclement weather has
cancelled most of the team
workouts to date, according
to Hoffman.
Glenn Thurman and Barry
Baynham will be handling
the coaching chores and
they'll have four pitchers to
choose from for the starting
assignment. All are retur-
ning veterans in the persons
of John Bruijns, Jim
Guenther, Danny Heywood
and Perry Stover.
The schedule for the
Tigers is as follows:
MAY
15 - Clinton at Dashwood - 8
p.m.
17 - Dashwood at Arva - 1:30
p.m.
22 - Strathroy at Dashwood -
8 p.m.
24 - Dashwood at Strathroy -
7 p.m.
29 - Byron at Dashwood - 8
p.m.
JUNE
2 - London at Dashwood -
8:30 p.m.
6 & 7 - Tillsonburg Tourna-
ment
12 - Arva at Dashwood - 8
p.m.
14 - Dashwood at Kincardine
- 2 p.m.
17 - Dashwood at Thorndale -
8:30 p.m.
19 - Kincardine at Dashwood
- 8 p.m.
21 - Dashwood at Byron - 7
p.m.
24 - Dashwood at London -
7:45 p.m.
26 - Byron at Dashwood - 8
p.m.
28 - Dashwood at Arva - 1:30
p.m.
JULY
3 -Dashwood at Clinton - 8
p.m.
8 - Dashwood at Clinton - 8
p.m.
10 - Kincardine at Dashwood
- 8 p.m.
15 - Dashwood at London - 7
p.m.
18 8& 19 - Kincardine Tourna-
ment
21 - Strathroy at Dashwood -
8:30 p.m.
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24 - Thorndale at Dashwood -
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