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The Huron Expositor, 1987-01-07, Page 2Russian tactics• unacceptable li the yoke Ditto clay s disaslerous. Final ',hn c of the World key( hockeyyfinall FROM THIS ANGLE shill~ (uiadian hockexmoguls may finally Champion- he.forced to face a very disheartening reality, .,... ., b Patrick Raffia ('an idtaw.. the inventors of contact shinny, y who once, dominated • the sport, the, way the Soviet Union•dominates its satellite noun - tries. are really net 'wanted by those who play The 'Team Canada Jumois.;were not a team fights because of the Strict international rules " the game at the internatianal.level, of rs>Iigitnecks and policemen sent over togoverning such actions, The problem was, lust When it seemed the rest of theworld's •terrorize the mild European opposition. nothing' was said about finishingfights. if hntJ1S } hl iy ii> r , in in in Bassin • yha�rn iia hocks lea tie in this country ,• • I Y• II re •, e std the necessity of allowing Canadians the and checking ability were. handpieked to junior; professional onotheie-from vvnich. (win: tonal diplomatic boardroom victory in • take on Europeans at their own game, The 20 playetscould have been drawn who would order to insure fair competition - along comes .•prominent role played by Huron County. have sat still when the Soviet bench emptied, • II giant Bettina( zamboni and mows down our ` native Davi. McLlwain,• of Seaforth, a • .l neither: know abeut, nor do I want to, • whole leant. smallish centre whose scoring totals far Since Canada's return, ta.international outnumber his penalty minutes, and his Proponents is of non-violentnadinJorsforneed not competition beginning with the 1972' Canada- equally finesse -oriented linemates testifies to pl place proudtifboli Canadian ,e Juniors for failing al Russia Mummit series things have became° • that, phitc symbolic .gold ahead of .a physical progressively better for our boys on overseas ' Still, 'they were a team accustopied to the • �hamed '! he Canadian playersBut neither s mply Made tee. our unabashed.professionals were I'inallyahowed li> compete against the bogus "nmateu s" which. made •up the 'teams pliaying at 'the highest levels of 'European. hockey al the World Championships. • "I hi•n, wonderof•wonders, the Internation • l:Ice Hockey Nederation.even went. so far. as• alter the rules to ,illnw Canada's • best available players • fo t,ori>pete, in : Olympic . hockey. The old soli les. • Naw -however, owing to Canada's 'recent - disqualification fronn the junior tourney with the team assured.' a minimum bronze -medal and Nell do their way to geld,_ we may be -on rtur way to a return to the,Dark Ages - .that ilisnra5l period prior to the '72 •series during which (Canada tient no teams to international cotrnpetitioirs. '\cid who could blame us? Lots of• SINCE 1860, SERVING THE•,COMMUNITY FIRST OPINION 7—* Incorporating ....,.�rurti��l� 1'tttit'.... • .• 10 Main Street -527-0240 Published in • SEAFORTH, ON:TARIQ, , " Every`uvedneatlay nil ruin:;.-- • EP BYRSKI; General Manager• HEATHER MCI'LWRAITH, .Editor" ' The Expositor• is brought••toyou each week by'the efforts of: • Pat Armes 8essie,'Broome, Marlene. Charters, Joan Guichefaar,.Anne Huff. Joanne Jewitt, Diairni>.MOGrath,. Lois McLlwain, Bob McMillan. and, pathy.:Melady,. •' BLUE RIBBON AWARD 1985 �FWSRAPf RS COMP Member Canadian: Community ,Newspaper Assoc. Ontario Community. Newspaper ,Association. • Ontario ..Press Council Commonwealth- Press Union • . International. Press Institute Subscription, rates: Canada $20.00 a .year, In advance . .Outside Canada' $60:00' year', in advance &ingle.Copies. - 50 cents each . WEDNESDAY, 'JANUARY i, 1987 Second class mail registration Number 0696 ue. . stions It was definitelya disgrace. But -= for all.the wrong reasons, '.. The 20 -minute brawl which resulted in both the Canadian and Russian teams being ousted :from the World Junior Hockey. Charnpionshi.p _ tournament in Piestany, Czechoslovakia May never be. forgotten. It may never stied'its .dubbing as, "the most deplorable display •in'international amateur hockey history.'' It maynever cease.. to be a topic- of• discussion, a • topic to contemplate, a:'topic to debate, • And it most certainly will never.'cease to be a sore spot with: most • Canadians, who are'growing tired, of being characterized as the ruffians of hockey in general. • , There is no cut and"dried explanation for what happened, except that it happened. And the majority.of us, if reviewing the situation objectively would have to concur;; there was really no other alternative but to default the game.' But we -tan, still •resent the unprofessionalisro' of the tournament and the officiating which prompted the fateful event.. As Canadians we will find it hard toaccept what has happened without placing• blame. We will remember other instances (the 0-0 tie Russia and' Czechoslovakia a couple years ago) when Russia has contrived to change . fate - and succeeded. Like -everyone else we will:speculate about-the.circumstances that . surrounded the brawl. We will scrutinize the coaches, the players and the officials, looking for someoneto blame. But perhaps it is time the tournament itself be more closely examined. The final game between Russia and Canada should never have taken place. The game meant absolutely nothing • to the Russians and . everything to:the Canadians. The Russians,. who had played terribly in the tournament, and whose loyalties lie, if anywhere, as far away from Canada as possible; had.no reason not to make an attempt to sabotage. Canada's try for the gold medal. What the tournament organizers should bane advocated to avoid a ,brawl like that one that -erupted, was a round robin tournament with a playoff. .But for now, there's no erasing what happened. . • The only solace -there is is that our Junior team will not suffer their disappointment alone. When It comes,to hockey we Canadians do truly band together. So, we will suffer with our. Junior Team Canada, for the most part defend their' actions, and writhe in- disgust at the political innuendos that surrounded the "distasteful" incident in Piestany, Czechoslovakia. -- l-l.M. , LOE's THE BEEF by Carolanne Doig • openly -aggressive North American style -of a; natural response. to an unreasonable act of- hockey, style in which " the loss of - face provocation. - Incutred by refusing to stand up to an opponent's challenge to lay down the gloves • The team. already•oUt of the medal and fight:, is at least equal to the disappoint, . nlnni ng; had nothing .to lose., when their `ment of failingto, earn two. points on the, coach instigated the brawl by opening the scoreboard- • The Canadian team could have stood. idly by while•the Soviet players swarrned'onto the icer.- and 'engaged in fisticyffs . with- .their outnumbered teammates. By doing so, they might very well have'co ie away with a gold medal by. default: , Flowever,..by Canadian "standards, thevictory would have been. a hollow one. Canada did all they could: to insure the'team sent to Czechpslovakia would stick to playing hneke•y. The players'werr 1'arniserrint to start door'and sending Players onto, the ice. •While• Citnadians have been accused of trying to Win hockey games by intimidating their .oppon- ents through -fighting, attempting 'to incite another team to lose through disqualification is something no team but the Russians have - yet thought of.. . It is the calculated tactics used by the USSR' entry which fall below the acceptable level of sportsmanship for international Competition not thepredictable- response made by the Canadian side. • /T'S A TRENDY . APP. R0Achl 70 .TNE SuAIDay coLaecroil. PLATE Bull calf sold. for ,1.%Nt1A1t1'7,1887 Mt•. Appelton (coat has sold to Mr. James Somerville. of Roxboro. McKillop, a thor- oualibred yearling buil calf far $120. This animal is a dark roan and is from 'Hawthorne the R ase and by —The Doctor,'. from an fli � did M best imported cniv, hi he county. has one et the treat bred bulls hi the toasty, . .fust as Don Cherry said, we like eounttess :by their performance and Canada was taking other families were crowded around the them to the cleaners. •The Russian players lwk -lsttm set on Sunday afternoon all keyed can"t fight their way out of a wet paper bag, up for a big. Canadian game against the ,as nnllions can now testify), so they couldn't ltassitttis. Emotions ran high as we watched have expeeted to win the battle of the brawn, atn°titins town boy so many miles (min home They wanted Canada oUt, and they did iL ttoiing Seaforth and Canada proud. The noise Malty 1 come to the question of why did WIN sa y i as .e y ` s scored to d( fin rig the C.ana�dian tore , . per team.. guaranteed practically of a silver take the lead. tHow Could nine people stake medal. and very likely le come up with the sri nnuelr Noise?n We taped the program for gold. be drawn into such a fiaseo? T may<not native thrills. we knew we had a winner this he an inlernationat hockey coach, or MAIL time! Well everyone knows what happened +er.orplayer,but1think/understand Ott ...tendisqua. t, this ..p..... • atnd With the final announcement on disquali- the reason behind fateful decision. This fixation the silence was even more deafening was a team, and a team right to the heart. titan the cheers from moments before, flew Hefter the teamwaspattogetheraridthel(ids timid tlnti be` . r were called to the ei nip, each player is an l<Tepinreviolence inhockey. Aftergnowing -ilndiiidual, doing his best, giving an extra up in a hnckey house i have seen father, effort, just ter be chosen to represent „his Ju hi an international championship. brothels. and fizends Wilted inert ice batt es• Country _.._. .. 'Then the team is chosen. Now they are at well as in the general play n the game, I _ . , Hate seen theincradle broken bones, and -spit together. as a team, through thick and thin. out useless teeth. 1 have heard them groan in T ase dozen and a half players are young and liaiii•but always they return to the lee later.; emotional as welt as highly skilled hockey Hotke+v and everything that goes with it is players. As they practise they beteme even their genie. l hated tq see that brawl in closer together. Then the leave families find t'zechosinvakia last Sunday, but frankly I fr•ierids behind at a tittle of the year when overtone cherishes beteg together. They hdusands of miles tin New Years night sortie of the members of the ['entail South Methodist Church stole at a !Mellow': into the stable of the Rev.. It ,• d cutter whteh (Todfrey aril look away ail 0 the reverend gentleman had borrowed. Now, - Ihls action en the part of the brethren soaks decidedly wrong and wicked and as if they were, even in lite very time of a rousing revival season, failing from grade; but when we add, by way .of explanation, that. they restored the old cutter to its owner and left a handsome new one with their pastor, the iftpatenl evil -doing was at- once removed, anti e have every reason to believe that the brethren are not fatting away, but increasing alike in grace and generosity. The carnival -held at Mr. J. Coxwortli's maii>moth rink on this week was fairly well attended, but not as largely at • were'tho'se of last winter,. owing' no doubt to the saint net being as moth ,as a novelty as in the past, 1)1 r. Gilbert has sold out lits interest in the bakery here to Messrs. Beam and Dunlop, and will remove to Fordwich to establish a bakery there. JANLIABY 5, 1912 ' The hockey season opened on New Year's night. when Seaforth played their hist game in the Intel -Mediate' series m Godeneh and wan nut by a score df six goals to Who, T.h game was a good nee but spoiled at tirn'es lay t`o'ughness, its which Gocietich were the offenders. drily think any less of.our Canadian. Junior WWII. M v goestiops of why? ehyl why? are • travel to a' foreign country t • different customs language elu`ei�f'e at others, iron) with dills \t liviieret'i"t Ciinsidai)rltliemtt'dStates -aid evert ideals---Ttte=-team becomes eTos>r t: the •fdtyrriafnefit several and cldser....they are like family They eat e mas and New Years as a unit, and deal With trietony' and defeat at • a unit: These a" leen-aged players playing a tough nnatit's genie With all the skill and efcpertise 8f the prey, but I'M sure with' muds more emdf on n the battle began ti Took lopsided and some of the team wa'scaught outnunnliered it was the heart of the team that broke and spilled out onto the ice.• They did what they 'had le do. and sadly WOW Mutt suffer, the eel s'e uenees. The teamwill never knowh'ow conte the rest the-teains, There certainly_t5 _fhe _could have farted'- whether the. would an e lemeht of doubt (n my mind that the refs have tame home withi a gold, silver, or did all they could. 'they could have visited Mentz Disappointei t'eafii members, pat, eath bench while the four were fighting and ents. and• fans'wi11 a5ivays wonder at this turn reaffirmed the consequences of an •all oitf of fate. Many, particularly those who have title'. Let the four fight to exhaustion, dject• never dealt at first hand with hockey, will g get lu g.. ,r ilieii from the ams mid on with the make d em'enfs about the "black mak shr —., With one linesman at each, bench it the press has awarded' us with. W e should wouldn't be difficult to assess who went over have come home with a medal but a medal is• the hoards first and eject them too Why did . stamped out from a form or the .suit of a Ifiev'iust ieave the ice? Pm sure all refs were mould. Hockey pl'ayets are not stamped oaf, tot i1 tip to date on the tournament results norformedfromniuulds, theyare'individuals should the Canadians be disqualffied..,aie`t ' With individual hopes,. dreams, emohdns, interesting; g. ane • b and skills who sacrifice a real deal to deco;,,..., Why did the Russian coach send his• ench a part of a team. They did their best, the/ 1hst ualifred from •day's hetet* after- the bl'awl that Deem ed together, ttav T as a' Unit, celebrate elitist= during fhe pregame w,armi'p. So wffat if the game had net started. The brawl oceUfred during the tournament in front of thousands of fans If the rule says disqualification these two teamshave been long gone h td the final brawl woufdnot have occurred Why did the referees allow th'e scrap to go froth' a fntir man alttri ation titan all out bench clear ing battle? It started between two—lie-0)e in One corner. spread hf four and then t"vtten it ti ati ohvious the•refs were doing nothing, out players into the fight? Why not? ,Russia had . gave it everything theyhad. We cannot siteir An appreciative and enthusiastre audeliee greeted Mr. livens at his piano recital last Pndaj-evening, given rn Case's hall', under the auspices of the Chancel Child Of St. Tb`oinas' Church. The program utas of exceptional . interest, ,not only for the eXcellence, but because it wes the first Hintz Mt. Ivens has been heard m ,t insert p• his honn'e towit. • re erTotre in" ., Mr W M ., Czovehlock secretary . of the Northern life ` u "an ` a itehead -.tris ranee Comp y t , .:.. . office in Landon' for several yeaii�'sr will leave ;for Winnipeg in a few' days,, wherre Hti • succeeds the late R L, Lewis; wiry was manager Of 'the company its Manitoba for' several years iKr. venloclt wolf ha "e the ggood wishes` of a '.ett of fri""n ls• Who Wilt ..,... ,..... • ,host .... ,,gg., . r, ..... . congratulate ltnhl• tine his it p tcnnit appoint Ment. ' Goverllocit it a graduate of and" a frir"mer teaefrer in die Seaforth Collegiate institute and a br`othe'r of Mr J.M t ovenlock, reeve of"1Vtct illeli and df Mss Arch Scott, Seafort '. nothing. to lose. They were already disgraced out` eotiehes and ask for more. „u .. _ ... , : •. $1-20 in,1887 IN T E: YEARS AGONE from' the Archives JANUARY x 1537 held Ibe office the past two years.. The beautiful and -gaily illutninated Christ= ' - .1:livltAlil"-4, f Orr'y mas tree, which stood at. the -head of Main Street' dotting the holiday season was the object of vandalism,on New Years, when a large number of eteittrie tight bulbs were stolen front hie tree. Two weeks grace have been granted - motorists who are still driving ears with 1936 license plates. tf earbwners do not pnrehase new markers on orbefore January 18 they will find themselves in conftiet with the law. The recent move on the part of the town month to declare closed a portion of the old Market square, molls that it is some fifty five yearsagesince the former town hall. which was situated there, was destroyed •hy fire. The building was burned to the ground early Sunday morning, August 22, 1851. Mr. Donald' itiaeTavish was the winner fast week of a three -stone diamond ring valued At S1Oa The ring was given as first priie in' the December "Ring of the Month" contest sponsored by Bridal Wreath Diamond Co. Members of the Seaforth Branch of the Canadian legionrat their annual meeting in _the club teems eleeted J.E. Keating, president. He follows Charles Holmes, who Representatives Of all levels of government mingled with longtime friends from Huron and -Perth on 'tuesd_services _ ay. as funeral weI'ebeldforSenator'winfant , Golding. He was buried in Staffa_Cemete'ry, "overlooking That part of Hibbert 'Pownship.where hewas horn and grew no. An inquest has beenordered into'the death of Mrs. Donald Currie, whose bedywas found by searchers about 11 p.m. Sunday in ,the debris o f her hotne in f3russets. Searchers had pulled down sections of the walls with a truck. in an effort to find her body following the time which tnoyed the-' house ,first before supper. The body. was discovered on the fining. mom'- floor on the west side of the house - illiks S"uzannnJ. Cask. daughterof Mit and kits, Harry Cook, of Clarkson and grand- tlanghf ernf Mts. Cpi ielius Gook of Hensall,' was awarded -a $500 scholarship by the Hospital for Siek,Children, in '` en nito. Mr. and Mrs. Thofmas A. Kno,f the former Harriet Dale, Constant who were married on C hnistmas Day',.1Jtl'1, ••celebrated their nni ry a diamond anniversa December 26 with fancily dinner in ;the f rndesboro Commitmty -1 'all. • - i vel •era.. -#ra a Weather a Real: Another holiday season Is over and a lvew Year has irlread'y began.The weather has bed ideal for' Visitors who had to travel over the' holidays. That has riot always been the case'. • The Branch was well patroiiiied by vfsitert and Members alike with a eapae tycni. ed for life New Yeats dare On behalf of the President and ertecutive, thanks, goes to Entertainment Chairman John tahsihk and his' committee for a.job•• well done. The Wee. on New Yeats Day was also welt attended' by differentsegments of tris town -oriel surtrothi iiigtonnfr"yfnde ii�iih over 10O assts 15i_ iii " g g fig fhe',hegistef. Tire Earl -Bird cam"at n in now Y_. .. ,.. P g .. over. A paid-up membership of 92 .6, per dent Was reported bymembership chairman Al NfeSolr soh, Al. would also like to• thank alt the menibers for their co, operation in this `" caiiipaign Maybe next year that illusiyejtld Ne cent may be realized,° On the sports scene. the stag cud 1 -es are Startingagainthis . g Wednesday at .8 p.m. (tonight) and, will be held every two weeks froth now' till the end of March,. Cribbage every Monday night at •8 p,rn. baits 'are played every Saturday night at 7:30 There will be a otluek supper and euchre ` the end of the Menai pa_ ..The onth (January 24): The shuffleboard is in operation again and was _ - • Bever in better condition in all the 23 years ..r sili'ee'its purchase, than right now. The branch was sorry to heard the sudden. passing of Comrade, Either Rivers on 'the weekend. Elmer had served a number years oh the executive council' in various; Opacities, A memorial service was head, Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. TO Eimer s 'wife and family, sincerest sympathlet in the loss of a iusband, father and brother. Theyrow not old as we that'are' left' g °row g v old. Age shall not weary there nor the years condeinn. At thegoing down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.