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THE EDMONTON JOURNAL, Monday, April 7, 1969 25 Jim 4 Coleman Extra hole win for Gene Littler GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) Milt Schmidt wishes he had Punch's record TORONTO Stafford Smythe, his face burned i i I v. ri i cu uy luc riuiiud sun, iMdieiicuucu in me uiaiii-uuui press lounge at Maple Leaf Gardens, just as the buzzer ended the hockey season for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Stafford walked up to Milt Schmidt, general manager of the Boston Bruins. Schmidt had been pacing the press lounge throughout the final five minutes of Sunday's game; he was so nervous that he wouldn't watch and Boros chipped up well for their pars and Littler just missed his birdie try.

On the final extra hole, the 15th, Moody put his second shot in a trap, came out 15 feet short and missed his par putt. THE LEADERS Gne Littler 274 ($32,000) Julius Boros 274 (412,373) Orville Moody 274 Tom Weiskoof 274 (S12.373) Gary Player 275 (ta.MO) Bobby Cole 276 440) Chi Chi Rodriguez 274 (15,40) Ken Still 277 Deane Beman 277 (S4.520) Bruce Cramoton 278 ($4,000) Harold Kneece 27 ($3,136) Bob Charles 27? (S3.136) Al Balding 27? ($3,136) Dave Warr 27 ($3,136) George Archer 279 ($3,136) Dow Finsterwald 89 ($2,400) Dick Lotz 280 ($2,400) Bob Murphy 280 ($2,400) Don January $281 ($1,920) Rod Funseth ft 281 (1,20) Wiif Homeniuk 284 ($416) George Knudson 284 ($416) Won Playoff played Sunday. He shot 35-34 69 over the course, mking 16 pars and two birdies, to gain a tie for the regulation lead. Moody shot 34-3367 Boroso carded 36-33, an eagle three on the ninth getting him even for the day. Weiskopf finished 36-32-68 after being two over for his first five holes.

He drove into the rough on the first extra hole, was short of the green with his second, chipped 12 feet short and missed the putt to bow out. Boros stayed alive on the second extra hole to match par threes by Littler and Moody when he knocked in a 12-foot putt Littler was the only one to hit the green on the fourth extra hole in regulation, but Moody the action out on the ice. Smythe shook hands with Schmidt; offered some cor- -AM Viceregal injured in alloivance race Gene Littler, professional golf's leading money winner of the year, knocked in a 12-foot birdie putt on the fifth extra hole Sunday to win the $160,000 Greater Greensboro open tournament The $32,000 top prize pushed his year's total to more than $86,000 as he fought off Julius Boros, Professional Golfers As sociation champion, Orville Moody and Tom Weiskopf in the sudden-death play. The four had tied over 72 holes with total of 274, 10 under par. Weiskopf dropped out of the contest with a one-over-par five on the first extra hole, leaving the three veterans to match pars through the first four holes of the Sedgefield Country Club course.

On their second time around Littler ended it with his birdie just after Moody had taken a one-over-par five. It was the fourth time in six trips around the 442-yard hole that the 38-year-old Littler made a birdie. Weiskopf, Boros and Moody divided second, third and fourth money, each winning $12,373. BALDING HAS 279 Al Balding of Toronto shot a 73 Sunday after a 66 Saturday and finished with a 279 total to win $3,136. Wilf Horaenuik of Winnipeg and George Knudson of Toronto finished with 284 totals and picked up $416.

Homenuik shot a 73 Sunday and Knudson had a 75. The four' leaders finished only one stroke ahead of South African Gary Player who birdied the last hole for a 275 total worth $6,560. Littler, winner at Phoenix, Ariz, in February, became the first man to win two tourna ments on the tour this year. Ther have been 14 major events. Playing in the steady, meth odical manner that helped him win the U.S.

Open and amateur titles, Littler never went over par on any of the 23 holes yXwrt i-1 4 MILT SCHMIDT LEXINGTON, Ky (AP) Viceregal, Canadian Horse of the Year last season, suffered an apparent injury Saturday to his left front leg in a six furlong allowance race at Keeneland. The race was the first start of the year for the three-year-old son of Northern Dancer Viceregal, owned by E. P. Taylor of Toronto, won all of his eight races last season and has been considered one of the leading contenders for this year's Kentucky Derby Viceregal finished third, three lengths behind the winner, Walking Stick. Ack-Ack was second, three-quarters of a length back of Walking Stick.

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A reporter speeding for a telephone booth, stopped in front of Schmidt who was standing there, looking mildly stunned: "Punch has been a good man for the Leafs," said Schmidt with a shake of his head. "He has won them four Stanley Cups. I just wish that I had his record." And, that's the way the Imlach era ended: suddenly, while the faces still were red with emotion after the Maple Leafs had been blown out of the Stanley Cup playoffs in the legal minimum playing-time of four consecutive games. Imlach has gone and you can bet that King Clancy will follow him. The Maple Leaf organization would like to appoint Clancy to their board of directors but, Clancy is an Imlach-man to the very depths of his Irish soul and he'll walk out of there without a backward glance.

Smythe, in his blunt fashion, made it plain that the die had been cast, long before the Leafs had suffered humiliating 10-0 and 7-0 whippings in Boston last week. "It would have been the same decision, even if we had gone on to win the Stanley Cup," he said. Jimmy Gregory will be the new manager-. I informed Gregc of this, four weeks ago. I told him that there's immediate work to be done.

I'm going to recommend that Johnny McLellan gets the coaching job." Depths of disenchantment Smythe's next caustic remark revealed the depths of his disenchantment with Imlach. "McLelland must be a pretty good coach," he said. "McLellan has won three championships at Tulsa. He must have been winning with some indifferent material because, apparently, none of his players was good enough to be brought up to help Leafs." While reporters milled around him, Smythe said that all but one of the Silver Seven (the inner group of directors who operate the hockey team) had agreed to Imlach's summary dismissal. Paul McNamara declined to be involved in the discussion of Imlach's future.

McNamara once was a coach himself with St. Michael's College in the O.H.A. Junior group and he maintains an empathy with the constantly harassed members of the coaching profession. Personally, I feel quite sure that the Maple Leaf owners ultimately are going to miss Imlach much more than Imlach will miss them. Imlach will be paid in full for next season's salary as general manager and coach of the Maple Leafs and certainly, other NHL clubs will be clamoring for his services.

A man who has won four Stanley Cups in 11 years isn't likely to remain unemployed, at the age of 50. Leafs Mill miss Clancy And, the Maple Leaf organization will miss Clancy. The irrepressible Clancy as a player, coach, referee and goodwill ambassador has been one of professional hockey's greatest assets. The conflict between Smythe and Imlach long has been apparent to the hockey public. Imlach's attitude TORO LAWN BOY TECUMSEH HIRTH WHEEL HORSE REO DAVIS PICK-UP NEW LOCATION coast Wednesday, and if she gains approval, she'll be riding at Sandown Park on Vancouver Island this weekend.

HIGH HOPES Her hopes are understandably high, because the B.C. group has already granted a license to 35-year-old Mary Cowan, whose husband is a trainer. Mrs. Cowan started riding competitively this weekend. "My plan would be to commute," Viola declares.

"I would ride at Sandown for their weekend cards until the Northlands season opens, and then come back to work horses here during the week." Mike Cojocar, who is campaigning at Sandown until it's time to ship to Edmonton, has already promised to give Miss CITY SNOOKER TOURNAMENTS get under way next month. Edmonton City Snooker Championship Entries will be taken at Golden Nugget Billiards 10217 Jasper Ph. 422-2870 Up to April 12, 8 a.m. to Midnight Please enter early i in dial if difficult words of congratulations; and, then, Smythe walked purposefully towards the door of the Maple Leaf dressing-room. Approximately two minutes later, it became apparent that Staff had driven a marlinspike into Punch Imlach's nude pate.

Smythe had returned to the press-room; he was leaning against a wall; and, a passing reporter heard him say: "I told him that it was the end of the Imlach era." The reporters surrounded Smythe, this hockey team my way Homuth second and Joe Gal lagher third. Ron Stachurski of Winnipeg won the novice division with Robert Fraser. also of Winnipeg, finishing second and Dick Wong of Edmonton, third. In a demonstration match Ted Marton of Toronto, the AH Canadian champion, defeated Bill Hind, the U.S. Midwest champ.

Teams from the Lakehead Edmonton, Calgary and Winni peg competed in the tourna ment. Of The Journal If girl jockeys are the "in" thing at the thoroughbred tracks these days, Northlands Park isn't about to be left out. Not, at least, if Viola Thomas has her way. She submitted her application to the Alberta Racing Commission for a riding license this morning. The commission presumably will make a ruling on her bid within a week.

She is the first of her sex to apply to the Alberta Commission. Meanwhile, it is apparent that she means to put the show on the road. The 27-year-old native of Calgary, who has been galloping horses at Northlands for several years, also hopes to obtain a jockey license from the B.C. Commission. She plans to leave for the No decision on Detroit bid OTTAWA (CP) A Detroit Red Wings bid to establish an American Hockey League club here was still up in the air following a meeting of the operators of the local arena.

The grounds and recreation committee of the Central Canada Exhibition Association discussed the National Hockey League club's proposal Thursday, but deferred a decision for at least 10 days on the use of the Civic Centre By that time, the committee expects to have held another meeting to decide on a recommendation to the association. The Citizen said in a story that most committee members feel it would be unwise to bring an AHL club to Ottawa now due to ice shortages. Take your always has been: "I'll run I MIS fell Sl Sil 1 fxSSI Sfg I 1111 pPIII 2 I w3 I SCTffSt ssx-zzr: I -Ssx Sal if you don like the way I run the team, fire me! Last December, the Maple Leaf directors attempted to force Imlach to give up the coaching job: they suggested that he should concentrate on being general manager of the team. But, Imlach defied them. He told them, in effect, "buy up my contract." After a long session of soul-searching, the directors backed down and they called a press conference at which they announced that they had given Imlach "a vote of confidence." No one who is close to the sports scene was mislead by that "vote of confidence." It was evident that the knife would be shoved into Imlach, the first time that he left himself vulnerable.

left himself vulnerable last night when the Maple Leafs lost their fourth consecutive playoff game to the Boston Bruins. The entire crazy scene, last night in the Maple Leaf Gardens press room, seemed to be a sad joke, in rather poor taste. Possibly, Staff Smythe and the directors of Maple Leaf Gardens are planning to offer Punch Imlach as their donation to Canada's National hockey team. Thomas mounts. Then presumably she would continue to ride for Cojocar on the Alberta circuit.

She has exercised Cojocar horses for several years. "I'm not expecting much of a delay getting a license at the coast," she said. GOOD IDEA "I've worked horses there in previous years, and they undoubtedly have a pretty good idea of my ability." Bobby Ainslie, who hustles Sandy Shields' book, will likely be Viola's agent. And how does she like her chances of cracking a previously exclusive domain of male riders? "There shouldn't be any problem," she insists. "All the jocks a round here know I'm pretty good around a horse, and I'm sure I have their respect.

"Sex won't enter into it. Boys or girls, we'll be just riding to win. Just because I'm a female, I won't expect any favors, not that of the fellows would be prepared to grant any." pick. Call and reserve your choice of new Chevs and Pontiacs, Chev and GMC trucks. IVJ in world-wide car rentals.

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