Times Advocate, 1994-04-13, Page 14Page 14
Times -Advocate, April 13, 1994
SPORTS
Allan Jeffrey of Zurich heads to Base Borden this weekend for
the under -17 camp.
Zurich's Allan Jeffrey
invited to under -17 camp
ZURICH - This weekend could well be the biggest in Allan Jeffrey's
hockey career.
The 16 year-old Zurich Minor Hockey Association bantam player is
heading to Base Borden near Barrie for an under -17 evaluation camp.
What is rare about his selection is that Jeffrey will be one of the few
players there without junior hockey experience.
Last year, Zurich sent goalie Kirk Durand and forward Chad Ramer but
both were playing in the OHA Junior Development League at the time.
A couple of weeks ago, Jeffrey received his invitation to the camp and
with that came information on what he had to do to prepare.
"I have to stretch and do certain weightlifting. My coach (Pat Bedard)
sent in an application and they looked them over and then called me."
The purpose of the camp is to identify the best under -17 players in
Ontario through a series of evaluation camps so they may prepare to be se-
lected to the provincial team.
"I thought everyone who put in an application got invited but that's not
true."
Jeffrey has a calm approach to the game and that will help him down the
road. At almost six -feet tall and 185 pounds, Jeffrey has been a forward all
his life but this year, Bedard moved him back to the blueline.
"I was put back there because of my shot and my size," admitted Jeffrey.
"It's tougher but I'm getting the hang of it."
He approaches the game calmly, doesn't care who he plays for next year
and he's big. A few qualities any coach would notice.
4 Wra
of
Grapes
by Don Cherry
GORDIE HOWE ... MR.
MR. HOCKEY was born in FLORAL SASKATCHEWAN,
and there's a funny story he told me that when he was a kid he
signed his autograph different ways and showed them to his mom to
see which looked the best. Somehow, he knew he was going to be a
star and would you believe it, he played 32 years professional hock-
ey in the NHL and WHA. You must remember he played a rough,
tough rock'em sock'em hockey. No sweetheart, I'm not knocking
people who last a long time playing, but some of them, if they had
eggs in their pockets in a game, they wouldn't be broken at the end
of the game. That's how HAROLD BALLARD used to put it.
Gordie started with the DETROIT RED WINGS, and his sign-
ing bonus was a RED WING jacket. He played 4 years for peanuts.
JACK ADAMS, his GM never gave him a fair shake. He kept the
salaries down all around the league because all G.M.'s would say
"how can I pay you what you're asking (when a player went into
sign his contract) and then the GM would show them Gordie's con-
tract and the player was sunk because Gordie was the best player.
The GM would say, "How can I pay you what you want when
HOWE is only making this much."
This was in the time when players were stupid and did not tell
each other what they were making in salaries. The G.M.'s would say
"lets not tell anybody how much you are making". As I was always
the least paid, I said, "Yeh, I won't, I'm
ashamed of my contract as much as you
arc."
This all changed for Gordie when !�+
one morning he was having breakfast
with a new team mate called BOBBY
BAUN, who asked Gordie how much
he was making. When Gordie told him
he was amazed because BAUN was
making 3 times as much as Gordie. He
told Gordie and he was furious. Gor-
die's contract tripled, but that's how they treated players back in
those days.
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Mass resignation at ZMAA
Five end terms
ZURICH - Just a few short days
after its peewee team won the Onta-
rio Minor Hockey Association
championship, several people re-
signed from the Zurich Minor Ath-
letic Association executive.
Wednesday night, president Bud
Markham along with first vice-
president Ivan Bedard and second
vice-president Nick Littlechild all
told the executive they were fin-
ished.
All three were completing the
first year of a two-year term. Also
resigning on Wednesday were Su-
san Wildfong and Bonnie Du-
charme who headed the social com-
mittee whose main function was or-
ganizing the ZMAA activities at
the Bean Festival.
It appears as though too much pa-
rental interference is one reason for
the rash of resignations.
"I think if parents would leave
the elected people alone to run the
business, we wouldn't have this
problem," said past president Barb
Jeffrey.
She added that parents and any-
one else, are welcome to contact
the nominating committee for the
next election which will be held on
April 26 during the ZMAA annual
banquet.
Markham said the reason behind
the resignations was personal, but
he did however say the orgnaiza-
don is in need of some internal or-
ganization.
"The next executive has to deal
with getting a constitution and be-
coming a corporation," said Mark-
ham. "The new group should make
the mission statement and constitu-
tion as they see fit."
He added the executive also will
have to decide whether or not
ZMAA will promote hockey and
promote those players with excep-
tional ability or concentrate more
on physical activity.
Senior Games
Deadline approaching to sign up
EXETER - The Exeter Communi-
ty Senior Games will be held -May
2-26 but seniors (55 -and -over) are
urged to sign up as soon as possi-
ble.
Winners of the Exeter Games
may advance to take part in the Dis-
trict Games which will be held in
Strathroy. Participants may sign up
at the South Huron Recreation Cen-
tre weekdays 9-12 a.m. and 1-5
p.m.
Entry deadline is April 22 and
particpants can also sign up through
their respective clubs one week
prior to the events.
Included in this year's Exeter
Games are carpet bowling, 5 -pin
bowling and cribbage, May 2; crok-
inole, walking, triathlon, swim-
ming, May 3; shuffleboard, darts,
contract bridge, May 4; shuffle-
board, snooker, May 5; euchre,
solo, May 6; golf, May 25; horse-
shoes, tennis, lawn bolwing, May
26.
For more information contact the
rec centre.
Exeter and Area Minor
Hockey Assoc,
Annual Meeting
Tues. April 19
8 p.m.
Lions Youth Centre,
Exeter
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