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j Inside the HERALD TIIFHFKAU1 Wednesday April tt IWi HARVEYS TIRE CENTRE Moors Park Plata Georgetown 8775110 Dance partners didn t see eye to eye Barber hangs up amateur skates World class figure skating dance partner Kris Barber of Williams has announced that he will give up skating Barber along dance partner Kelly Johnson Willow dale won the medal at the Canadian Skating Championships lost February The skating duo also placed twelfth In the World Figure Skating Championship in March IBS The dance pair finished two places ahead the Canadian dance champions Rob McCall and Mane SfcMcole in world competition fast year Even though Rob McCall changed and joined up with Tracy Wilson the Ilarber Johnson duo 1 make gains on the new skating team Only one team was sent to the World Figure Skating championships from Canada this year which left Kris and Kelly watching Rob McCall and Tracy Wilson from the sidelines Even though their coach Roy considered their Canadian silver medal one of their best performances ever It enough to beat their McCall Wilson rivals Kelly will go on skating on an amateur basis with a new partner Kris says but he wjll professional any time Kris his four before he finishes h teaching In skating Ihis us his intiresl In skating that he wants to pursue In the future His courses will be completed In one but hi says it the moment he is with lo Toronto ska ling clubs for I lead services Kris says if lie could have found another female the skill level comparable Johnson in ghl have cont nued on It was a of gelling along and work together It diff cult for both of us Barber says of sir relation Johnson which had deteriorated over the past year We improved some this year together but we could have in proved more if we had seen eye to eye Barber says When it a in effort to Just go down la the rink know It lime slap Kris will skate his last performance with Kellj this which Is taped and could be shown on lie there is a possibility he could turn profess skating and tour In cities but he yet prepared to Join a show The origins of rugby football Ily DAI Herald Sport Editor There is a man who in 1623 Is credited with the beginnings of a sport which has now blossomed Into a game ployed In over countries around the world The game rugby has expanded In Hal ton Rills recently as Acton High School added a third team to the two they fielded last year Georgetown District High School also revived a rugby team from two years ago Webb Ellis has not been forgotten as the man who Impetuously disregarded the rules of soccer His tombstone is thus inscribed This tone commemorates the exploits of Ellis whowithaflnedlsregardfortherulesuf football as played in his time first took the ball In his arms and ran with it thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby Researching the roots of rugby or rugger as some may know the sport by Denis found that Mr Ellis act was ted by an entire soccer mafia which became known as the Rugby Football ion Running with the ball caught on reasonably slowly The sport apparently achieved customary status between lB3Q40and was first legal lied by Levee in 164142 as stated by Judge Hughes The final step toward officialdom was taken in IMG when the rules of the game were agreed upon After a Rugby Union was founded in 1371 to govern the conduct of the game the sport spread to other countries from Great Britain Most of the exposure in other countries can be attributed to armed servicemen overseas and English businessmen who were stationed around the world The Ontario Rugby Union was formed around 1950 when a club called Wonders split up Into three other rugby clubs theWanders the Nomads and the Barbarians As of 1979 there were clubs In the Ontario Rugby Union fielding teams However there are also 130 high schools to private schools and 12 universities oil playing Rugby in Ontario North American football originated from the game of rugby and Is generally credited with a game In Canada played against a Harvard cam around the year 1912 a wing forward from the pack and him up beside the scrum Th floating forward from lie United Stales was countered wilh a Canadian wing foruard ai d thus the beginnings of a lineman or tackle in North football was initiated The growing of the sport in the high schools can be attributed to number of reasons tor school administrators rugby is cheaper than football it doesn take 10 bays to field a team From a players standpoint rugby gives hem an opportunity to run with lie ball even If they are not one of the backs In football the halfbacks and flankers see much of the pigskin Another advantage of rugby Is thai all of the IS arc utilized and no one sits on the bench There Is no offence and defence Rugby lakes speed strength and endurance while football concentrates more on Just speed and strength a school administrators point of vkw rugby unlike is usually played by boys past the age of 18 Rugby can be from teens most any age players in r and arc uncommon a safUy aspect rugby is not the high risk sport observers may think Again comparing rugby to football a study In Boston by doctors showed that a per of rugby players in one season required medical treatment while S3 per cent of football players required treatment A consultant surgeon to the Irish Rugby Union feels that injury Is less prevalent in rugby because body contact is forbidden except in tht vicinity of ball catch Ihe ball behind the line of scrimmage and usually sec their tackier coming They are able the contact large back muscles or roll with the tickle sliding on c turf rather than bouncing off of it IClon High School Junior rugby Iran game again it Georgetown in isl Thursday The two learns battled to a Who loses in war of words SABRE HONORS Coach Join Russian presented the awards last night to uvea Junior Sabre charges In Ihr annual awardsnight Itftlo right Mike en loach J V it left lo It J Mark Itoy a Id phot A rciort published In Ihe Acton Free Press to a letter the Acton Sabres club president last week stirred up a flurry of emotions at the Herald was the second time In which statements had emerged from that newspaper In an attempt to discredit a well respected coach Some skeletons are best left in closets but when former reporter Dave took some uncalled for pot shots at Sabre Coach Jules Russian without witnessing the event he lost our respect and silence on the matter LAST WORD A subsequent justification of behavior by his replacement did nothing but give The Free Press the last word Someone needs to tell the other side of the story Aware that knocking your competitor can be unsportsmanlike sour grapes cut throat or what TIil Herald refrained comment on the Issue last January although coach was phoned by us that week to tell him our opinion on the Incident and subsequent coverage Coach Russian was delivered an injustice by Mr Darken Club Frank rightfully set the record straight after waiting months In silence His words Iwaivery upset by the remarks made by an Acton tree I reporter Jan issue about his actions over an Incident in Georgetown this past season especially when this reporter was not even In attendance at that particular game A RETORT The free Press retort The views reflected come from the reporter and fans in fact the reporter In attendance at the game In Georgetown formerly worked for The Ve find It Interesting to note the author of s letter says there would be more fans if only a handful of fans would clean up their language and gestures and yet condones the same type of language retardless of provocation or motive on the part of the As a tor at the game feel inclined to comment about what our paper saw The game was a typical highspirited affair which Is not unusual for the Acton Georgetown rivalry The Georgetown seemed in tint in Ihe latter stages of the game to browbeat the Sabres not only on the scoreboard but also their physical play Before Actons Denis sneared the referee on the same shift another questionable bit by a Gemini Asareporleruhocovers more Georgetown games than Sabre games my supposedly partisan attitude was SomeonehastoslandupforUieplayersyes madam in abusive language and coach Russian knew the price his disobedience While it is of utmost Importance that we respect our referees for their efforts In officiating the game of hockey the competitive nature of Junior hockey can cause tempers to flair up Coach wos Justified in losing his temper last January Georgetown coaches have been known to sit out three or four games per season because of heir language Gemini general manager Bob Tost says It Is not uncommon for Junior coaches to be given one game suspensions Tost DREAMWORLD Mr Dorken Is living In a dream world if he believes what he writes While a similar vocabulary may be heard in any bar or any restricted movie a hockey game restricted The hockey game should be more on the scale of a Walt Disney flick than some sleazy bur Joke to get one last parting shot at a respected coach before he left town Infact It was Interesting Dorken left Acton to work for the Woodstock paper the same week rather than defend the fan reaction be had Stirred up by writing his editorial The whole incident calls to mind what we need most In sports journalism reporters who will call it the way it Is if they tee it If they don they should never editorial about an Incident NEVER should they assume what another person has told them especially if they were not attributed or quoted anonymous sports editor and fan should have been identified In his story But most of all let consider Interviewing the players on the earn their hockey background give the some publicity and slop concentrating on the coaches We d all benefit from hearing about the game from the player who know It best