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i hp i i 20 The GAZETTE, Montreal, Mon Feb. 16. 1976 Ursel sweeps to nationals for third consecutive year 4 was shaken up in a 14-car pileup outside Beloeil while driving to Alma. Hrycko then was knocked out 8-7 by Girouard. Meanwhile yesterday Ursel was appraised of a decision by the Ontario Curling Association to reduce the game to 10 ends from 12 and to support a motion for a similar cutback in the Brier and other national championships.

Jimmy concurred. "It's too much of a young man's game when it becomes an endurance test." he said. J0 jl visor with Air Canada. Third: Art Lobel. 40.

a native of Virden. and engineer with CIL who plaved with Bill Kent's 1970, 1972 Quebec champs before joining Ursel. Second: Don Aitken. 31. a native of Tillsonburg, and sales representative with his dad's firm, also a member of Kent's 1970 and 1972 rinks.

Lead: Brian Ross, 28. a passenger agent with Air Canada who comes from Alma where the Consols were decided. The rink, represents a club that has no ice of its own since the Bonaventure became a skating rink and exists as a tenant at the Town of Mount Royal Curling Gub. At Alma. Girouard drew a bye in the playoff Friday while Sherbrooke's Rocky Chretien was eliminated 8-1 by Andy Hrycko of Ste.

Anne de Bellevue whose rink 4 Malaysia near Games date JAKARTA (Reuter) -Malaysia swamped Papua New Guinea 10-1 and Singapore held Indonesia to a 0-0 draw in the first round of the Asian Group 2 pre-Olym-pics soccer tournament. into ass 3495 s4795 s3495 OHIWCIKOHIY GUARANTEED 1212 -BANKING RATES FINANCING JIMMY URSEL off to Regina in the second. Jimmy did not need to throw his last rock. Later. Ursel was asked for an appraisal of his chances in Regina.

His response was couched in terms of characteristic caution. "It's stupid to say you're going to win because you look foolish if you lose." he said, "but I know we have the capacity to do it if we really work hard." In his first crack at the Macdonald Tankard, as a Quebecer he was a member of a rink representing his native Manitoba earlier Ursel wound up at 6-4. Back with a revised lineup in front of him last year in Fredericton, he was 6-5. But his rivals obviously regard him with a great deal of respect and his rinks were a factor in both championships when the crunch came. In the off-season since Fredericton, his stature was further enhanced by a toiumph in the $24,000 CBC Curling Classic.

In driving to 60 wins in 66 games now. his year has been further distinguished by a mid-season turnover at Icarj Lfiuren Steventon was replaced by Brian Ross who the previous season declined an invitation to join the rink, citing employment commitments. "Lauren was disappointed." Ursel says, "but he understood. He was having all kinds of trouble and he knew it." This is how the roster looks now: Skip: Jimmy Ursel, 39. a native of Winnipeg and personnel administration super CiOSe but nO Dan Ripley of the Pacific Coast Club comes close to breaking the new indoor record in the pole vault but fails in his attempt at 18'4" during a meet at Richfield, Saturday night.

Poland's Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz had set a new record of 18'3'j" at the Maple Leaf Games in Toronto Friday night. 1972 THUNDERBIRD Air conditions! cetnc ws(s. tiUic windows AM-FM stereo-radto. an quiped, electric rear defroster, very clean 1 year guarantee or 12.000 1975 FORD STATION-WAGON Low mileage very good condition, automatic 400 motor power. steenng.

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Capes and Larrieu are both ranked No. 1 in the world in their respective events, both are loquacious and they know how to excite a crowd. Larrieu set a Canadian Open record in winning the women's 1,000 metres with a tremendous finishing kick that destroyed the victory hopes for fellow U.S. runner Jan Merrill. Larrieu, the first female member of the highly-rated Pacific Coast Track Club of San Jose, sat on Merrill's shoulder until the final 100 metres when she simply burst past Merrill to win going away in 2:44.5.

The previous record was 2:45.9 set in 1971 by Penny Werthner of Ottawa. The victory avenged a loss to Merrill suffered two weeks ago by bad strategy on the part of Larrieu, who incidentally was married the week prior to that defeat. The loss was Larrieu's first to a U.S. woman since 1971. "I had to beat Jan here just to let both her and myself know that I'm still better, and to restore my confidence," Larrieu said after the victory.

"But I don't like the way I did it, sitting on her shoulder until the final lap. I feel bad letting my competitors set the pace but that's the way my coach wants me to do it this year. "I'm not interested really in the times anymore, just winning. I gave up running for records and have changed my tactics to give me a better chance of winning, especially against the Europeans." Capes, meanwhile, won the shot put with a heave of 68-feet-10 equalling his previous best mark and easily beating Bishop Dologiewicz of Montreal and Bruce Pir-nie of Winnipeg. But while the crowd obviously appreciated Capes' put, the veteran British athlete wasn't too happy.

"I was disappointed Mac Wilkins didn't show up," Capes said of the last-minute withdrawal of the American who last week became the first man to beat Capes this season. Only one other record fell, in the women's 4 400-metre relay when Canada's Pan-Am Games gold medal-win ning team won in 3:47.4, more than a full second under the previous Canadian open mark. Their victory didn't come until the final 15 metres when Joyce Yakubowich displayed her strong finishing kick for the second time in the program to nip June Smith, the final runner for the Washington, C. Striders. Yakubowich, the Victoria, B.C.

girl who won the Pan-Am gold medal in the 400 metres with a stunning 51.6 second clocking, beat Smith in similar fashion in the 400 metres but the result there was even closer. Both run-' tiers finished in 57 6 seconds. Rochelle Campbell of Guelph, Ont. was third in 57.7. Ron Martin of Britain was the only runner among the top three finishers who did aot fall during the men's 3.000 metres and that provided the margin of victory for him.

Martin won in 8:02.0. with Joshua Kimeto of Kenya second in 8:11.0 and Chris McCiibbins of Winnipeg third in 817.0. McCubbins grabbed the early lead and held it until the third lap when he was tripped on a corner by an official who unknowingly extended the pole vault bar onto the track. Kimeto was battling Martin for the lead going into the final two laps before his hopes were destroyed by the mishap. The Ness dynasty of curlers from Howick have produced another Quebec champion.

She is teenager Diane Ness who skipped her rink to the provincial title for junior girls at Rosemere yesterday and qualified for the national final March 12-20 in North Bay, Ont. A 16-0 blanking over a freshman rink from Quebec City introduced to the game only last December yester-day rounded out a 6-0 achievement for Howick in the round-robin playoff. In a game where shutouts 637-5861 378 By MARV MOSS of The Gazette A rink from Val d'Or with an improvised lineup fell twke to Jimmy Ursel at Alma's Riverbend Curling Club Saturday and the skip from St. Laurent is Brier-bound from Quebec for the third consecutive year, Ursel qualified for the national final March 7-13 in Regina with a two-game sweep of a best-of-three windup against a rink from the Sigma Curling Club led by Ted Girouard. normally the third.

The regular skip. Gerry Lawlis, was incapacitated by a disc ailment and relinquished the assignment to Girouard after the opening draw of the 16-rink Consols as the provincial championships are called. A Sigma club member who accompanied the rink from the mining community was recruited to play lead and the others moved up ono in the lineup. At the end of the week, after Ursel and company had conclusively established themselves as the power in the top half of the round-robin draw by going 7-0, Girouard and his gang were bracketed at 5-2 with two others and it took a playoff to resolve St. Laurent's opposition.

The Val dOr rink emerged. Saturday Ursel's incessant pressure prevailed. He beat them 7-5 in the first game and then 8-7 on an extra-end left with room to play a takeout and made it to score two for the victory. Eight rinks were supposed to contest the championship. But there was no regional representative from the St.

Maurice Valley because the trials there apparently conflicted with the more popular Quebec Games preliminaries. Final standing Oiane Ness, Howick Diane Grafton, Wentworth Diane Tremaine. Rosemere Loreen Davison, Dawson College Rene Crocker, Shefferville Arlene Roy, Arvida Oanielle Cote, Quebec a 4 3 3 2 4 1 5 0 Paivarinta described his drive in the event as "smooth," noting that he only had one minor drama in the speed test sections. "On the last selective, we just stuck our nose in a snowbank for a couple of minutes just to see what everybody else felt like." "The roads changed character constantly and we just didn't know what to expect next." Luc Brien nets title in tennis Golf tournament organizer Luc Brien won the $1,000 La-batt Pro Golf-Media tennis championship at Val des Arbes Saturday with an 8-7 triumph over Henri Hommel-berg of the Mozart Tennis Gub. Brien is the former club pro at Pinegrove and executive director of the Quebec PGA.

His victory on a tiebreaker Saturday was worth $500. Hommelberg made $250 as runner up In the semi-finals. Brien eliminated Marv Moss of The Gazette 8-6 while Hommelberg ousted Claude Briere of the Quebec Sports Confederation 8-7. also on a tie breaker onder the pro set-style format The golf pros presented a plaque for 50 years of dedication to tennis to Paul Bedard. secretary-treasurer of ifie Quebec Laf Tennis FederaUoE.

The um-nr the final match was an official at the last two LEASE THE Capri II Laval driver 'skates' to victory in 24th Canadian Winter Rally fromM20 per month 30 Month net lease wide (election of models colon are even less common than the albatross in golf, it was the third shutout setback for Dianelle Cote's rink and left it with a scoring record of nine points against 108 by the opposition in six games. Ness is the kid sister of Quebec's 1975 schoolboy champ Barry Ness. Debbie McCartney plays third for her, Joanne McCaig is the second and Lynne Chi 1-sholme leads. Scott Grafton's kid sister from Wentworth, Diane Grafton, finished as the run-nerup at 5-1 after an 8-6 victory in the final draw yes- and 54 seconds in penalties, 6:45 ahead of the Vancouver team of Lauri Paivarinta and Lome Nicklason in a Fiat 131 Third was the Volvo team of Jim Walker of Ann Arbor, and Joe LeBeau of Midland, 4.00 back. Slippery going proved to be a deciding factor on the 200 miles of high-speed closed roads where the rally points are scored.

Last year's winners, John Buffum "and Vicki Dykeme of Burlington, in a Porsche, slid off the road on the second special stage, putting them out of the event. Irish rally star Adrian Boyd and co-driver Beatty Crawford also had difficulty with the slippery conditions. The truly extraordinary sexy European Road Car from Mercury. UPt Vvireplwto terday over Dianne Tremaine's rink from the host club, Quebec's representative in the girls national championship last year. At 4-2, Tremaine wound up third.

Under a draw that sent Ness against Cote in the last round, the issue was, for all intents, resolved Saturday in the confrontation between Howick and Wentworth. Ness won 9-7 on the final stone. Grafton was counting one and elected to play a guard. It came up light. Ness was In only his second rally on ice, Boyd had been running as high as fourth before he put his Renault Aipine into a snowbank for a costly 11- minute stay that dropped him to fifth behind the Dat-sun of Burckhard Skowron-nek of Saskatoon and Tony Woodlands of Mississauga, Ont.

The win gives Perusse 20 series points to bring his total after four of 13 events to 55 points. Paivarinta is second with 24. A number of the favored teams failed to half distance at Bancroft, Saturday. In addition to Buffum, who won the special stage at Toronto's Woodbine race track, five-time national champions, Walter Boyce and Doug Woods of Ottawa, went out with mechanical problems. The Porsche of Bob Houri-han and Doug Shepherd of Ann Arbor, a Datsun driven- by Randy Black of Toronto with Tom Burgess of Vancouver, and a Dodge Ramcharger piloted by Scott Harvey of Rochester, and Wayne Zitkus of Toledo.

Ohio, were among the notables who failed to complete the event. Only 23 vehicles of the 56-car entry crossed the finish line. Patriots down Gaiters 92-75 TROIS-RIVIERES (CP) University of Quebec-Trois-Rivieres Patriots defeated Bishop's University Gaiters S2-75 in Quebec University Athletic Association basketball play yesterday afternoon. Top Patriots scorers wer Andre Vallerand with points and Pierre Ber-with 18. LEASING CHATEAU MOTORS LTD 3314020 TORONTO (CP) -Rain that turned icy roads into "skating rinks" couldn't stop the factory Fiat 128 team of Jean-Paul Perusse of Laval, and co-driver John Bellefleur of Toronto from scoring their fourth win in five years yesterday in the 24th annual Canadian Winter Rally.

"It was just like a skating rink." Perusse said at the finish. "At one point, we jumped up a snow bank and the car just rode along the top of it. I thought it was going to roll over, but it straightened itself out and kept on going." The reigning Castrol rally champion of Canada completed the weekend-long, 700-mile route with 263 minutes NOTICE TO CONSUMERS AUTO HECK does it again! Eastern Canada's largest AMC Centre offers: 1 976 PACERS FOR .00 Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price S4069. $3,595 Only 43 models available Transport, preparation charges optional equipment extra, on every PACER sold and oVlrvered out of our present new car stock befora the end of. February 1976 or as long as they last Ottawa Rideau rink wins Gilmou' irling The Ottawa Rideau rink of Wally Morns won the Lady Gilmour mixed curling championship yesterday at St.

Lambert with an 11-6 victory over Otterburn's Ksvin Adams. The Sails Trophy for rinks beaten in round one went to Jack Weedmark of the Ottawa Recreation Association for his 7-2 triumph over clubmate John Nielsen. Doug Macklem of Arnprior, took the Lem Cushmg Trophy for rinks beaten in the second round, scoring an 8-5 win over Lachine's Art Lamb, secretary-manager of the Canadian Branch of the Royal Caledonian Curling Gub. Thistle's Centenary Bonspiel. marking the club's 132nd anniversary, meanwhile was won by Royal Montreal's Harold Atwill with Mel Johnson at third, Ron Greig second and Des Desroches at iead.

They downed Pointe Claire George Chipps 7-3 in the windup to a 10-day. 64 -rink competition that featured entries from Kapuskasing, and Quebec City. In consolation play. Pointe Claire's Earl Wakefield won the event with a 7-6 extra-end triumph over Ted Elidoras of Gienmore and onetime national senior champ Ken Weldon from Caledonia fell 7-6 to Otterburn's Larry Lynch in the event final. Every new AMC car it ACT NOW and sm backed up by the exclusive AMC Buyer Protection Plan.

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