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Page THE HERALD Sports Editor The colder the sport the better we like it Will the recent ill the winter pint is Stirling to come alive more vividly It is getting more like hockey curling and ill around winter sports weather now it has difficult it i pur of skates into an arena where the temperature is cooler inside thin out Or when there isn even show on the nearest mountain Now Canada is i land of ice and snow and upon which we h iil built major portion of our sports Vii known for producing the elite in hockey curling skating skiing even Winter is our ports domain we do not it during winter Olympics This don I get is excited in our when they hive to phy golf ill or even football which we to play in icy cold condition it liieendof Tin colder tilt sport tin So we ire now just into our own this week with the in We ire more due tuned into our sports heroes We can start watching of Hockey Nil tit In somehow out of synch with mother isnsm I en of us would like tok lie the skies of summer to in into i cold to see for Hut drop the Celsius by and their is renewed interest In our nation winter sport Therefore it could lie assumed that ire not indeed interested m the so much is the conditions it is played m There is more hotkey omg on inside those en ind concrete is wilt re cold is trapped linn outside mi a winter where there is i in the I irm sun in This I hue worked out cm best lie exemplified by the recent attendance at the Rimes of Georgetown s tun major hockey tenuis the Haiders ind Gems teams been experiencing lower thin expected crouds at their home at Gordon this neither team his been burning up the i Rimes but both ire playing good hotkey t pari been neir the mark of I of The ire getting around the mark or most of their gillies on Friday nights while the Gemini lime been averaging somewhere around the 150 to in recent Rimes nights Weekends arc the key speetiitor nights as both mjlits ire considered a out The Hinders with the prune night hue a higher leiei booster club to bolster their The Gems on the hind hue a talented group of young hockey hut because of their no booster club by 1 1 BO rules and the night Hie weekend to contend with teams do their best to build up their respective audiences through promotions and advertising However 1 understand pist figures indicate hit Haider Rimes arc accustomed to hiving triple the number of fins out to their contests and the Gems lower numbers in the stands of the problem could be the overexposure to hockey we get in this country Many feel August to April rcRulor without summer camps is enough of a Rood thing An improved product docs have something to do with the resurgence of the Gemini supporters on hand But as I im about to prove in the next couple of weeks and months it is the skies above which determine whether capacity crowds will once again be the rule of the day rather than the exception NTS XF MPI Minor hotkey parents seem to exemplify my theory Arenas can be seen packed with mothers and fathers first thing the morning when the day is at about its coldest it get Once the day begins to emerge the numbers dwindle Sunday morning the parking lot at is crammed with cars all players and few wives or friends of playing mdusirhl hockey So all can say is the cruder and the harsher the days that he ahead the better off our sporting reputatlOT around the world will be since most people arc a little bit and hams heart who perform better when they know someone Is watching Heritage Council nominations Final nominations for the Heritage Mini Hull of Fame were rcceued this week Voters will be selecting from the following candidates Levy Red Richmond Joe Pent Hud James Due Osborne eke Legion Go rd Arena Staff Business Community Hockey imihcs Auxiliary Clubs Herb Herb Arnold rink Jim Yates Jim Ford Herb Garvin and Del He lumont Squessh teams lose the Georgetown s iiilerel lb on the courts but it isn I is bid iilim the standings were rck The mens only winner tint in fourth snot nine The mens I is in third and the li is I rum led the mens le im with i urn oier Ins from the Cut Com try Thursdiy Skiorarno begins tonight at Alcott arena the day Although there much snow on he ground this is it The first day of Ski O llama at areni and tomorrow from to p m a and skate exchange will tike place as i preliminary event to the evenings of ski Sponsored by the recreation department the twoiiyeient is to provide early opportunity into the spirit of winter Tonight ispecnl presentation on the newest winter sport cross country skiing will lake place commencing it So clock Tomorrow at the time the Ski fount il will i film preset ition on lull skiing ell therewillU booths on where to 1 this do it 1 Him shut defe the lost Gratia n Tom The I ml Smith and all lost the North I liquet lull from Kitchener They all went down meinters ire Boyd Ai Hod I Norm Hertz I idles turn fur hit either losing all of The Ieim of Sandy Morrow I nidi Yirdlcy ill I the I thei niche- Club of Gillespie strikes 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