The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 15

i i 2 i The Ottawa Journal 15 Pldy Opns Tonight Ontario Champi Wednesday, February 7, 1968 Slabs onships 19 A By DAVID MILLER KINGSTON, Ont. (CP) Picking a winner in, the Ontario men's curling champion ship, i( a little like placing a' bet on the Kentucky Derby-there 'are plenty of dark horses and a lew strong finishers. The double-knockout competition begins at p.m. tonight and every skip Tracy Leads Quebec Curling QUEBEC (CP) Bill Tracy of RCAF Bagotville scored two convincing victories Tuesday to remain undefeated In the Quebec men's curling championship. Tracy, the only skip with perfect 4-0 record after the fourth round, downed Elmer Black of Howick 12-7 and Louis Levesque of Baie Comeau 12-4.

It was the first defeat of the round robin for both rinks. Both Tracy and Black have represented Quebec previously In Canadian title This year's national chanv ponship is to be held in Kelowna. BC, next month. Tied with Black for second place Tuesday night, with three wins and one loss each, were Brock Stackhouse of Montreal Otterbum and Paul Babln of Murdocbville. Stackhouse's only defeat was 13-12 extra-end loss to Tracy la the opening round.

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Reid Wins Gifmour First round play in the Lady Gilmour trophy competition for mixed rinks got under way Tuesday night with all seven sections in action. Alec Reid of Cumberland, who won the Hunt Club bon-spiel in men's competition on the weekend, a a successful switch to mixed with a comfortable 14-8 win over J. Orobko of RA in section six. Blair Coburnof Carleton Heights, a winner several times over the years in mixed 1 1 tion. had no trouble in his game with R.

Cole of the Hunt. Coburn de- feited the Hunt Club rink 13-5 in section three. In section one. Glenn Allan of Rockcliffe ran into grief in his first game. Allen, who has skipped top mixed rinks the past two yean, dropped an 11-7 decision to Howie Britt of RA.

Gerry Walls of the Granite also had trouble in section -one losing 9-7 to J. O'Neill of Navy and John Winford of Glebe knocked off Don Hale of Uplands 11-6 in battle of two of the younger skips. JUNIOR BASKETBALL Mieski Scores 27 In WoodroffeWin Brian Mieski of Woodroffe scored 27 points to lead his team to a 67-53 win over Sir John A. Macdonald. Tuesday.

Dennis Vincent tallied 17 for Macdonald. In the ether two games played in the western division of Junior high school basketball. Merivale wooed 90 24. and Bell won over Laureqtian. 424X Ted Nuar was top scorer for Merivale with IS while Brian Clarke scored 10 for Confederation.

Or rnher led the Ben eager with 16 points and Best was high for Laurent ian with 12. In the central division St. P.us beat Bmokfield 72-44. and Glebe edged Cham pi am 44-43. Brian Cavan was lead scorer for the St.

Phis quadwith 23 and S. Cook was high for Bmokfield wit 14. Glebe's Norm Scarff count- ed 17. while Joe Levi tan Win PKAMK CevmO, SU4AM9USH VAlltY, VT. 3 SOON v.

i.v.tairi wzn my EASY AS Both Phillips and Gurowka agree the 1968 championship will be a toss-up, but both pick Bill Creber and his rink from Toronto's Parkway Curling Club as the eventual winner and the skip to represent southern Ontario at the national final March 5-9 in Kelowna, B.C. Northern Ontario's representative will be decided- in Sudbury during the weekend. Opener and the seven section winners will be declared Friday night at the Granite and City View clubs. The seven winners will advance to Montreal Feb. 16.

Second round play continues tonight in al sections Safety Ski Hints When skiing downhill and overtaxing another skier, pass wrfl clear of the kier below you. Don't follow too closely. turned In a 20 point performance for Champiain. In the eastern division Ottawa beat Ridgemont 83-45. Rideau won over Hill-crest 62-42.

and Usgar defeated. St. Pat's 47-27. Paul Larocque led the Ottawa squad to their w.n with 16 points followed by A. Culhan of Ridgemont with 13.

Lisgar'a Drew Love scored It points and Mark Smith sank nine for St Pat's. Junior Girls Volleyball Results The last games h) the eastern division of girls' junior vol ley ban were played Tees-dav at Rxtrao. Rkleaa won over Sir Wilfrid Laurie. IS-2 and IM and over Fait mew. IS.lt and 15-11 Eastvtew beat Glou-rester 154 and IM.

and SWL and Gloucester split their games 151 and IS. A3 YOU I I UKN, IMIfNU. OF THESE. THKfct LETTERS PfiOP 7M kKvJa tr a you Ce you fS TMEN WATCH VOUR TURNS IMrROVTC Creber was rated the top rink because of bis showing late last year in an all-star bonspiel at Whitby. He won the competition and beat most of the rinks entered in the Kingston championship plus Gurowka and Also Creber his team of Jim Sharpies, third, Larry-Da ree, second, and Pete Phillips, lead, is used to curl-' ing on keen ice something promised by the icemakers at Kingston's Cataraqui Curling Club.

"Cataraqui ice usually, is keen and true." said Gurowka. "That suits Creber's game." 1 But there are IS other rinks and among them Bob Mann of Kingston, Don Gilbert, of St. Thomas, and Ray Grant of Unionville are given good chances. Mann, winner of the prcv vincial final in 1964 and 1965, has veteran Bill Lewis at third and Lewis' two sons, Guy and Dale, playing second and lead, respectively. The three Lewises represented Trenton last year and finished second to Phillips after a marathon playoff in Oritlia.

But this. year, they have moved to Kingston and played well for Mann, -winning the Silver Tankard bonspiel it Welland earlier' this month. Grant knocked off Phillips In the OCA division playoffs A value by equipping every 550 Rebel sedan hardtop and wagon built for this sale, with a special option package at a very special The result is that a Red White Blue Sale Rebel is going to be the best buy you can get this year. But you're going to have to move fast. The supply is limited.

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26 March 2 in Winnipeg. With the last of the six rounds still to be played toi day. Mrs. Wherrett's cre has an unbeatable' 3-0 won-loss record while Grace Saint of Kingston isi 1-3 and Ricki Save plenty on specially-equipped, specially-buDt, specially-priced 1968 REBEL 550's! Rebel is already the roomiest most apie intermediate sized car it goes for remarkably little. Well, we've added to the Rebel by American Motors where the basic difference is a better car 1968 REBELS.

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