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40 The GAZETTE, Montreal, April 251974 Only th serious survive uueoecois cam 1 HASLeyS 1 SALE 48 McGILL ST. jutt nur Youvillt Squirt 3 of 10 games, a member of Les Quebecois will be selected the most valuable player by the media and will be awarded the Labatt's trophy and $200. Because Les Quebecois' schedule calis from 20 home and 20 away games, there will be four MVPs picked during the season. Then there's the big prize. The player with the most points after 40 games will receive $2,000.

NOTES: More than 5,000 tickets have been sold to Les Quebecois' season opener May 15 against Toronto Tom ahawks at the Forum. As for season tickets, Les Quebecois have sold close to 2,000. Bradley, incidentally, says he'd make his team if he were permitted to both coach and play. He's keeping in shape, he says, just in case the NLL allows playing coaches next season Davis hasn't set any personal goals for himself but when prodded admits he'd like to pick up about 250 points this season. "I had 226 points in '68 but that was in 36 games," he says.

rr Turn outgrown and un needed items into cash. It's easy with Gazette ClasssiHed 866-4771 ready for bed," says John Davis, Les Quebecois' No. 1 draft choice who played on Peterborough Lakers' Mann Cup championship team last season and was named MVP in the Ontario Senior Lacrosse League. TOUGHEST CAMP Davis admits this camp is the most rigorous he's ever attended. "In other camps, the guys worked during the day so we did about one-quarter the calisthenics and about one-third the running.

The guys ended up playing themselves in shape. You'd try to hit your peak before the playoffs and have it carry-through to the end." Davis agrees with Bradley that there are no pampered players as there are in hockey. "It's a lot harder work," he says, "and there's no easy way to play the game. In hockey a player can glide from point A to point but in lacrosse you have to run." And the running never seems to let up. "If one guys stops running he spoils everything," says Bradley.

"We have a fast break like Cana-diens and the idea is to try and trap one of the opposing players. Then your five players fast break and you bill timing tight By BOB MORRISSEY of The Gazette It's taken just five days to weed out some of the less serious players from Les Quebecois pro lacrosse team. Coach Bill Bradley says "five to eight' players have quit since training camp opened last Saturday. "I don't know their names or the exact number," says Bill, :4 jiV BILL BRADLEY tough drills have players coming out of junior and signing for We don't have any stars just hard work." Les Quebecois are working to the extent they're practising three times daily. The 36 players eat breakfast at the Belvedere Motel where the team is staying and then head to the practice field in NDG from 10 a.m.

to noon. After breaking for lunch, the team works out again from 2:30, until around 5. But even then the day isn't over. After supper, the players work with weights from 7 until 9 p.m. "By the time you get back to your motel room, you're FREE SPARE RIBS CHICKEN PLUS GENEROUS REWARD FOR ANY INFORMATION OR ANYONE FINDING THE BAR MASCOT Answers to the name of "CHIQUITA" Better known as The Banana around The Barn DESCRIPTION FEMALE BOXER, 1 YEAR OLD FAWN IN COLOR BLACK MASK WHITE ON NOSE INFORMATION CALL 931-381 1 1201 GUY STREET and now a Sports Canada football consultant, "was a broad rule to cover everything and make sure we were giving Canadians every opportunity to play this game.

That's our main long-range desire, increasing Canadian content. "We don't think John Carlos should play as a Canadian, but I wouldn't want to say anything on the Australian case because I haven't really thought about that aspect." Obviously, the new law will either have to be brought into form with the CFL rule, or the CFL rule will have to be changed to meet the federal wishes. The CFL feels that it has researched this issue fully and its rule is the best way to avoid a court loss on the question of job discrimination based on nationality. "It's one thing that will have to be looked at," says Lefaive, "but I'm not sure the two have to be the same. As long as.

they don't break any of our rules I'm not sure the CFL can't be narrower In try and set up the open man. But if one of your players stops running, you don't have the open man anymore." For all this work, lacrosse players made nowhere near what most pro athletes make. The average salary on Les Quebecois, says Bradley, "is around $6,000, but that's not counting bonus and playoffs. The players could end up making anywhere from $6,000 10,000." One of the bonuses Bradley was referring to is the prize money Labatt's brewery is putting up. After each series Lalonde (Continued from Page 39) of when the election is called and your guess is as good as mine or anybody's.

We hear everything around here. Some people say there won't be an election at all this year, others say there will be one before the end of June. "I have heard that all par-' ties have been advised by their own strategists to have their nomination procedures ready for May 8 or May 9." Put that against a prediction that the earliest the foot ball bill could win final passage would be around May 6 or May 7 and you can see how close this issue could be at the wire. One thing is sure, the fact there is work to be done in committee where the CFL itself is expected to take a few whacks at the new law's definition of imports and non-imports. At present, the league bases its rule strictly on experience, saying players who receive high school andor college football in the U.S.

are imports and all others are non-imports or "Canadians." Thus, Alouettes' Aussie kicker Mark Harris becomes a Canadian for football purposes, as did John Carlos if he had made the grade a year or two ago. But, Pierre Perreault, the French-Canadian defensive end from Stanford had to try out as an import last year on account of going to California when he was seven and playing all his high school and college ball there. The Lalonde law would change this, or so it seems at first glance, The new law defines an im port as a non-Canadian citizen who has played a game of football outside of Canada before his 18th birthday. Harris is a non-Canadian who never played football before at all. Perreault is a Canadian who did play in the U.S.

before turning 18. No one at present will say how the rule will be interpreted if it stands in its present form. "What we wanted," says Tony Golab, formerly an Alouette general manager v. (7 V7 qs cfnEn Hn rl PrT their interpretation than we are." All of that leaves the Alouettes and the other teams in the CFL very much up in the air on their negotiation lists. For instance, if the law passes, does Gene Gaines have to take out Canadian citizenship to retain his non-import status? CFL commissioner Jake Gaudaur says "no" because "acquired rights will have to be protected and Gains acquired his Canadian status years ago.

Ottawa's Lefaive says But if that's the case Marv Luster could take out citizenship right away and play as a Canadian. Toronto's Dick Thornton could make a comeback. Anyone who has been here more than five years would be eligible. And so would all the players in the U.S. whose fathers have been born in Canada.

Under Canadian law they can immediately come back home and declare themselves Canadian with a minimum of fuss. who won by a split decision in a 10-rounder that was televised in the U.S. Paduano himself, a winner in Miami last week, resumes his comeback, following arm surgery, in Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens Monday night against Claude Gauthier of Quebec City. The match Is a preliminary to Clyde Gray's fight against Art Kettles, the Philadelphian who stopped Marshall Butler here last October. Senior citizens are being admitted free.

"New York tola me not to take him," said Gray's manager Irving Ungerman of opponent Kettles. "But we've got to have good fights. I'd hate to see Clyde lose his ranking through inactivity and we can't fight nobodies in little arenas." McAloon, Leclair set for May 21 at Sauve "because they didn't come and see me before they left. Anyhow," he added, "it makes it easier for me the players we have left all have a pro attitude." Bradley suspects that that's what the players who left didn't have. He feels they didn't take the National Lacrosse League or Les Quebe-cois seriously enough.

ana came to camp too far out of shape to cope with his rigorous program. As a matter of fact, four of the 47 players the team drafted didn't even show for Day One. Bradley's camp is so tough he feels "most of the hockey players playing now wouldn't last. I don't want to knock hockey," he says, "because I'm the first one in front of the tube when it's on. It's just that hockey players are different.

In lacrosse, we don't i 67.66 72.50 80.24 89.89 945 Montee de Liesse, Ville St. Laurent, Que. 341-3548 1 HAsLeys SALE IS AT I 408 McGILL ST. 1 Iff lust nan Yauvillt Squart Uni says, hoops, 2-wheel the Belted count wouldn't our so relaxed and use fantastic." Quebec's parks, reserves not set for trout opener Outdoors George Gruenefeld "We leap off ramps through flaming do hairpin turns, near collisions, driving. That's how we demonstrate strength and traction of Uniroyal Steel Radials." Roy says, "If we couldn't on Uniroyals in hairy situations we take their money." "We don't push luck," says Al, "Besides; steel radials work that they consume less horsepower less gas: Their'tread mileage is New Yorker Danny McAloon, who outpointed Donato Paduano three years ago, has been signed as Jean-Claude Leclair's opponent for a 10-round match May 21 at the Paul Sauve Sports Leclair carries an unbeaten string of 14 professional wins into the ring with him.

"But' I'm through with hams," he said yesterday. Both fighters have the option of 17J2 per cent of the gate with 'McAloon guaranteed $3,000 and Leclair, $1,500. McAloon is supposed to arrive here from Miami a week before the bout to wrap up his training at the Olympic Boxing Club. His best showing since beating Paduano was against British champ John Stracey Tourism, Fish and Game and ask for the Quebec Parks pamphlet, which is free of charge. It contains complete listings of the accommodations available, services offered and the fees.

LATE ARRIVALS Probably due to our unstable weather these days the snow geese have been slow in arriving at Cap Tourmente. By this time of year most of the 150,000 greater snow geese should be on the St. Lawrence River and flats east of Quebec City, but so far the Canadian Wildlife Service has counted only about 80,000 of the big white birds spread between Cap Tourmente and Ste. Anne de Beaupre. This weekend the Montreal Anglers and Hunters L'Aca-die Sports Centre goes back on its summer schedule.

Starting Saturday the shooting club will be open from nine o'clock in the morning to five in the evening on weekends. During the week the Centre is open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 2:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. Dick Tobin has been back on the job as club manager for a few weeks after surgery to remove gall stones. He's working on one of his pet projects, an Olympic trap with A UNiRgm 3H NNI GUARANTEED VXi TO GO 40,000 MILES -f BR 78-13 51.51 GR 78 needed fr 78-14 58.01 hr 78 just your gr 78-h 64.77 JR 78-15 15 15 "-Tr" fair 111111 imii EACH 78-14 Tomorrow is the opening day of the trout fishing season throughout la Belle Province, even though many of the lakes are still frozen over.

Quebec's parks and reserves, however, won't be ready to admit visitors until a few weeks later and in many of these territories the dates might just coincide with ice out. All of Quebec's better known parks and reserves remain closed until the middle of May and in some cases longer, so that the Parks Division personnel can and do the necessary spring cleaning. Unfortunately, many of the opening park dates again fall after the Victoria Day weekend. FIRST OPENING La Verendrye Park is the first to open, its season lasting from May 17 to September 20. Joliette, Mas-tigouche, Papineau-Labelle, St.

Maurice Reserves and Mont Tremblant Park open on May 24 and close on September 8. In Laurentide Park and Matane Reserve the season lasts from May 25 to September 2 while Chibougamau Reserve has the same opening date but closes on September 15. Mistassini Reserve opens June 1 and its closing date coincides with the end of the Quebec trout fishing season, September 15. Gaspesie Park has a relatively short season lasting from June 15 to September 2. This is predominantly, a salmon fishing area.

For more information on the various parks and reserves contact the local office of the Quebec Department of HR 78-14 70.55 LR 78-15 FR 78-15 62.86 field, which is nearing completion. The El Rancho Club, near 81. Edouard, is the site of the Quebec Provincial Trap Association's first official trap shoot this Sunday. Participants will be scored out of 100 singles targets, 100 handicap targets and one set of 50 doubles. On Saturday and Sunday, the Montreal Skeet Club will hold its annual championship skeet shoot for members.

The .410 and 20 gauge event will take place on Saturday and the 28 and 12 gauge events on Sunday. All scorers will be taken on the basis of 100 targets for each of the four gauges. The shoot is restricted to members of the Montreal Skeet Club. The Montreal Gun Dog Club is holding a fun trial on May 4 and 5 near St. Jean.

A total of seven stakes will be run including restricted and open stakes for puppy, derby and shooting dogs. For the first time the club is offering a special stake for hunting dogs in which the pointers and setters will be judged on their, ability to hunt for the gun. In this trial the hunting dogs will not be judged on their degree of finishing but rather on how well they find birds. For more information contact Keith Smith at 667-4386. hi Steel Belted Radials X.

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