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THE HERALD Wednesday December 1989- Page ONLY PER WEEK 1989 HONDA CIVIC GEORGETOWN QQE3GE3 Gualph St 7 LOW COST Georgetown LEASING SALES SERVICE 81 8 and I Recreation COLIN GIBSON Herald Sports a DOWNTOWNFAX SERVICE Evenings Saturdays Too vouncf a itd Downtown Georgetown 8772761 Curling scuttles opposition North Halton Golf and Country Club was the scene Friday Satur day Sunday and Monday evening of the Zone 9 Seagram Masters over curling STERNFACED Ken Scovell signals where he wants the next rock placed during play in the Seagram Masters Zone curling held at North Jolt and Country Club over the weekend The Scovell rink from Brampton emerged as A side winners Herald photo by Colin Gibson Twelve teams from the region including teams from Georgetown and Acton competed in the doubleknockout bonspiel for the right to advance to the regional scheduled for Dec A and B side one loss winners advanced to the bonspiel The Ken Scovell rink from Brampton with vice Bob Knight second Doug Reid and lead Walter File won the A side with the Ken Phillips rink from Milton with vice Leo Furlan second Reg Corp and lead Morley advancing from the side Representing the host club North Halton Golf and Country Club was the rink of skip Graham vice Irwin Noble second George Mcintosh and lead Bill Currie The North Halton rink lost both their games to rinks from Dixie The Acton Curling Club was represented by the Del Hickling rink Other members names were not made available Acton failed to advance after suf fering losses to rinks from Bramp ton and Oakville Sabres struggling Losing skid runs to four By COLIN GIBSON Herald Sports Editor The Acton Sabres battle wagon was loaded and ready to head into enemy territory for a pair of Mid- Ontario Junior Hockey League clashes last weekend Unfortunately for the Sabres the wheels fell off during battle and Acton suffered a pair of lopsided losses 147 Friday night in a game played in and 105 to Hornets in a game played Sunday afternoon at the Acton Community Centre Sabre coach Ken Steen could of fer little in terms of explaining why his charges performed so badly It was just a bad weekend all- round said a disappointed Steen We obviously didnt get good goaltending but we didnt do that well from a team defensive stand point either The defencemen werent clear ing the area In front of the net pro perly too many rebounds were left up or grabs and the forwards didnt help out much in our end continued Steen Just bad efforts overall You would have to say it was a team letdown Sabres had entered the weekend games hoping to end a twogame losing streak coming on the heels of a fourgame winning streak Instead the losses have mounted to the Sabres season record drops to and the team must regroup before heading into the leagues Christmas break Jim Mantione started in the Sabres nets Friday evening against but was lifted for Jason Nicholson then re inserted as the score got out of hand Orangeville led 73 after the first period and 106 after two periods en route to the 147 win Jeff Shevalier and Jason Lucas each scored a pair of goals against Orangeville with Bob Watson Dale McNiven and John Van Dam chip ping in with singles Van Dam also had three assists while Bob Gagnon had a pair of helpers Jim ManUone started in the Ac ton nets against Sunday afternoon but was yanked after 15 minutes and three questionable goals Jason Nicholson played the balance of the game between the pipes for the Sabres Alliston opened up a first period lead jumped in front after of play then coasted to the win Mark Bob Gagnon Vince Rogers Mark Guardino and Jason Lucas shared the scoring for Acton against Craig and Jeff each picked up a pair of assists Sabres were scheduled to journey to Caledon for a Tuesday night scheduled game at press time the score was not available Friday night 8 pm at Acton Community Centre Hornets pay a return visit the weekend debacles Sabre coach KEN STEEN is not out beating the bushes looking for replacements well be making a few calls and looking at some players said Steen But I dont foresee any wholesale changes The Sabres ranks will be a bit thin this week BOERSMMA will miss at least one game because of university PETER CARGILL is still nurs ing a sore back and is ques tionable BOB WATSON is out in definitely with a neck muscle in jury suffered over the weekend and CRAIG CULLEN is not at 100 per cent because of a shoulder in jury u nj J feV mKSm 1 r A A SWEEPERS from left Bob Knight and Doug Reld work at direc ting their rock into the house during play In the Seagram Masters curl ing at Golf and Country Club Knight and Reid members of the A side winning Scovell rink advance to regional in Dec Herald photo by Colin Gibson Dick Beddoes one of a kind The bubbly bom bastic and Dick paid a visit to Georgetown Satur day to flog his just released tome on Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard entitled Pal Hal at Oxbow Books on Main Street The former sports columnist and sportseaster is an irrepressible sort who will neer turn down an insult justified or not It gives him a chance to masticate on the rebut tal He thrives on the spotlight and on controversy and takes his hat off to no one when it comes to the wonderful wacky world of sports especially hockey The book Pal Hal is an unauthorized biography of the carrottopped owner of the Multi ple Laffs but according to Bed- does Harold has read the book and likes it however it was the chance to meet in the flesh rather than the opportunity to get a glimpse of Ballard between the covers that drew the curious to Oxbow Books Beddoes even went gladhanding down Main Street to the delight and surprise of Christmas shopp ing Georgetowners While autographing copies of his book was more than hap py to answer any and all questions about hockey that the public put forth and once he got rolling anec dotes and sidebars from the past came gushing forth Beddoes has been pilloried by many critics over the years for bis often irascible and arrogant style but it is clear he loves what he does loves the public and can em pathize with the ordinary sports fan in a gracious and attentive way that all too often has been sadly missing from the airwaves and newspapers in recent years He was this way at Oxbow Books on Saturday Beddoes reports that he has served his relationship with Hmtuon tfelpyislQn ta- Asl See It Colin Gibson Sports Edilor tion after years but that a deal is in the works that might see him surface with radio station CFRB sometime in the new year Beddoes has had a type of adver sarial relationship with Ballard over the years and is the first to ad mit that Ballard is at the crux of the Leafs problems Simply put Hes hired bad people to run his hockey club so he must shoulder the blame On deposed Leaf general manager Gerry McNamara Bed- does stated I wouldnt hire him to clean out the store Beddoes has never been barred from Maple Leaf Gardens by Ballard for one simple reason ac cording to Beddoes How can he toss me Ive had season tickets for years Beddoes is against expansion because he feels the NHL is healthy now and that further growth at present would only dilute the product He is iffy on fully integrated play but would like to see a world series matching the Stanley Cup champion and the champion of Russias elite league On the Russians now playing in the NHL Beddoes feels only Alex ander Mogilny of the Buffalo Sabres and Viacheslav FeUsov of the New Jersey Devils are calibre players The rest he noted are over the hill Love him or hate him Dick Bed- does is a character His book on Ballard has already sold over copies thanks mainly to the personality of the author rather than the subject himself AsJseeitr anyway