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The Acton Free Wednesday Dec 28 1977 Turkey Roll winners WINNERS OF THE Juniors turkey roll at the bowling lanes Saturday were sitting Mary McArthur Rita Andrew Roach and Sharon Gavin Standing Tom Shannon and Albert Harris ALL READY FOR Christmas dinner are members of the Bantam bowling teams who won the turkey roll at the bowling lanes Saturday Front row Little and Karen Little Back row Grant Smith Wayne Bobby Warren and Bobby Gibson Coaches comer The origin of hockey By Bill Richmond young house league player asked me Is truly a Canadian game Did it really start here A little research shows that no game inspires more enthusiastic Support from its devoted fans or engenders more intense emotion on the part of the players than does hockey Canada national winter sport From the smallest member of a neighborhood squirts hockey team to superstars of the professional leagues the charisma of hockey exerts a powerful influence Hockey s origins seem inextricably linked with the old world It Is true that Brother Gabriel The Long Journey Into the Huron Country published in France in 1632 recounted that Indian boys on the southern shores of Georgian Bay played a game with curved sticks making them slide over the snow and hit a ball of light wood However it Is generally agreed that the game as we know it is a development of the English game bandy or field hockey still played In Canada by college and privateschool girls teams in turn Is a direct descendant of the old Scottish game of shinny and the even older Irish game of hurling whose violence in play is closely akin to that often exhibited in today s hockey encounters There Is evidence that field hockey was brought to Canada by British soldiers who make up the garrisons at Halifax Montreal and Kingston from 17B3 to 1855 The possibility of combining it with Ice skating which was so popular In Canada was most inevitable Born In Kingston Conflicting claims say the first ice hockey game was played in Halifax Montreal and Kingston In 1W2 however a Canadian Amateur Hockey Association committee decided that Kingston was hockey place It reported The playing of hockey games In Kingston on the ice of Kings ton harbor as early as 1855 is certain Early manuscripts letters and even sticks and pucks used In the early days of hockey have been located In those days as many as or more players on each side participated Notwithstanding Montreal claims that the first organ ized game definitely called ice hockey was played at the Victoria Skating Club March 3 1875 There were nine players on each side Including a goalkeeper This an innovation as there were no goalkeepers in bandy or W Robertson of McGill devised a code of hockey rules in 1878 using English field hockey rules as a guide This required thai a team consists of six players a goalkeeper two points points rover and centre Rinks were 112 feel long and feet wide The lie sit kneel on the ice during play and he could not hold the puck Moreover there could be no change of players during a game unless a man was injured And proving that player reaction to referees changed over the years it is the ruling that Any player guilty of using profane or buslve language to any officials or other players shall be ruled off by the referee One wonders what the players and fans of 187B would think about the hockey brawls of In early Canadian hockey the hard rubber ball used In field hockey was the playing object This was soon found unsuitable and was replaced with a flat circular piece of wood It was eventually succeeded by a puck made of natural rubber The first hockey used in Canadian hockey games were imported from England and cost four shillings each They were quite unlike present day hockey slicks being shorter and similar to those used in field hockey Within a year of the playing of the first Montreal the city had at least five organized hockey teams Soon teams from Montreal Ottawa Quebec City Halifax and Kingston were playing against each other Mean while hockey teams were clop rig In Toronto By the game had become to popular the Ontario Hockey Association formed and champions were Cup In 1893 Lord Stanley of Preston then Canada Governor General offered a sterling silver bowl to be competed for by Canadian amateur hockey teams The Stanley Cup remains the most coveted prize in the North American hockey world though now only professional teams compete for It Today hockey Is played by thousands of youngsters teenagers and mature letes across Canada There arc now two professional groups in North America the National Hockey League formed in 1906 and the more recently organized World Hockey Association Professional quality hockey pucks arc now molded from a special SBR compound specified by the NHL Other pucks ore made from NR reclaim Many hockey players also make effective use of a moldable thermoplastic rubber based on Polysar 141 trans poly to fashion injury protecting splints and pads PROUDLY DISPLAYING turkeys won at Saturdays turkey roll at the bowling lanes are the members of various junior teams Sitting Graham White Christine Parker Debbie Lumbers and Cheryl Gilbert Standing Julie Heatley and Brian Patterson Football injuries not a concern The danger of injury in football apparently t worry school trusties In like it does tin Ontario Chiropractic Thursday Board of received a letter from the Chiropractic which stated foothill can be dangerous without a single comment Chiropractors said the sport played at most high schools can be particularly dangerous to adolescents he members of this profession through their involvement and for reosnn Chiropractors urged the board to direct principals to drop heavy foot bill and replace it with touch or flit or another potentially less sport MODEL CLOSEOUT Acton Sabres vs Oakville Tonight Wednesday December 830 pm ACTON ARENA ADMISSION SEASON PASS or ADULTS SI STUDENTS CHILDREN SENIOR CITIZENS FREE jj BIG SAVINGS ON A LIMITED NUMBER OF NEW 1977 MODEL JOHN DEERE SNOWMOBILES SEE US BEFORE YOU BUY AND SAVE Country Mart Ltd R Acton 3 Mlloi Won of Acton an Hwy No 8533901 Choose it TILDEN ANDREW MURRAY MOTORS Flyers top Brampton ninth game without loss Milton Myers are coming alive and haven been defeated for nine straight Flyers hosted Chevys Friday evening at Milton Memorial Arena and walked away with a fl 3 win Inglis said the game dragged on after hit the ice after being Idle all week without practice time He was impressed with Pierre has been turning in super perform and Is coming along said Inglis Inglis pointed to checking abilities and said he is playing a tough game Pilote scored twice on Flyers two markers In Friday nights game Pilote opened the scoring at 16 unassisted and was fol lowed by Paul at 15 from Rod Good Brampton got Into the game with their first goal at on a power play as Danny MacDonald scored assisted by John Dave Turner popped Flyers ahead two goals with four seconds remaining in the opening period Mike Murray and Gasper Paul drew the assists In the second period Brampton fired two goals the first at 16 from Wayne and at 1 Delghton fired his second McDonald assisted on all three Brampton goals grabbing two assists and Jim Roberts one Flyers scored once In the middle frame and that came off the stick of captain Ron Twiss nailed the goal that kept Flyers one better than Brampton after two periods at IS assisted by Gooding and McCann The Twister goal proved to be the winner however insurance tallies were netted in the final period by Pierre at and Steve Wilson at 7 flew Years In hut SATURDAY DECEMBER 31st 800 PM IT Music By AIRPORT Admission 20 Per Couple FOR TICKETS PLEASE PHONE 877 or 1433 SPONSORED BY THE GEORGETOWN NEWFOUNDLAND HOCKEY CLUB January 5 1978 Extra one million dollars for 100 bonus priies of each cket and series numbers Sfc Eightdigit Bonus Draw number bonus A buck and youre in for both Din Ihono odour Getyourtickfitnow bonus n subsequent s h Bonus Draw J OIL CHANGE and FILTER Oil Oil Filler and labour 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