The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 25

ional soccer Back in town It was 1967 all over again with modifications when professional soccer was reintroduced to Vancouver Tuesday. In 1967 the men at the head table were Brigadier Ted Eakins, the bristling, nonsense ex-military a from New Westminster and San Francisco tycoon George Fleharty. Tuesday at ihe Hotel Vancouver the spokesmen were Herb Capozzi and Denny Veitch, a couple of former general managers of the B.C. Lions. But the message was basically the same.

Pro soccer is coining to Vancouver again. And the failure of the 1967-68 Vancouver Royals venture in the North American Soccer League is not about to scare off the new boys. Together with NASL Commissioner Phil Woosnam in New York and spokesmen in Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles, the Vancouver group joined in a telephone hook-up press conference to announce the addition of the four west coast cities to the North American League. It will bring the league up to 14 teams it may be 16 by the time the first ball is kicked next May 4. Already in the NASL are Montreal (where new ownership and financing is reported), Toronto, Rochester, be drawn from North American players which in Vancouver's case means purely local talent.

Officials of the Canadian soccer establishment (CSA president Bill Stirling, B.C. Soccer League president Bill Coleman and new national team coach Eckhard Kraut-zun) were present at Tuesday's meeting. So was Mayor Art Phillips who wished the venture well and joined in a champagne toast to that effect. The coach has not yet been named. But Veitch is looking.

And among the promises made Tuesday was "he'll speak English." Money appears to be the least of the new team's problems. Capozzi heads a syndicate already formed. He'll be the president. Veitch will bo" executive vice-president 'and, for the moment at least, general manager. Veitch will also be a shareholder, along with C.

N. (Chunky) Woodward ot Woodwards department store, Mrs, Wendy McDonald, president of B.C. Bearing Engineers, Vancouver restaurateurs, Harry Moll and Pat Mc-Cleary, lawyer Chuck Wills only member of the board who was associated with the 1968 Royals and two more still to be named. The four new teams will By JEFF CROSS Dallas, St. Louis, New York, Baltimore, Miami, Philadel-, phia and Atlanta.

The 1968 Royals ran into a lot of grief a complete roster of pros imported from a dozen different countries, a co-coaching fiasco between England's Bobby Robson and Hungary's Ferenc Puskas and problems with the amateur soccer establishment among others. The 1974 Vancouver team (the name will be chosen later In a public referendum) has already learned lessons from some of those errors. The new team will have "a nucleus of mature professionals" according to Veitch. The rest of the 18-man squad will See Page 26-NASL SPORTS 25 Wednesday, December 12, 1973 -kit-kit 732-2711 ifeSlLiP Whitehead Russ Kemvard photo Montreal Canadiens' goalie Michel Larocque prepares to stop a Canuck shot in the early going at Pacific Coliseum Tuesday night THE CANUCKS Crosstoien trade SANTO GOES TO WHITE SOX First goal big for Bordeleau "The Miracle of Main Street" would be a bit strong for the title of today's Christmas story, but as a sporting yarn ith a happy ending it sure beats the heck out of the unending Saga of the Losers the Lions, Canucks, and the Blazers. Anyway, once upon a time there were these tough East End kids born of poor but honest parents, named Lyle Crawford and Len (Scotly) Taylor.

Right from the cradle, Lyle was a hustler headed for the perdition of a misspent youth on the local golf courses, in and out over the fairway fences. Miraculously, he made it to the 10th Grade at Britannia High before being expelled for chronic absenteeism and related delinquencies. Despite his ignorance of Latin and algebra, the kid went on to become a pretty good golfer. In fact, by the lime he was 21 he had won every major western regional championship, including back-to-back B.C. Amateur titles in '54-55.

He had also led the B.C. Willingdon Cup Team to a record triumph with a 67-67 that still stands as an individual low for the national team championships; went to the 40th hole of the Canadian Amateur finals before losing to Moe Norman's birdie; turned pro as assistant to Benny Colk at Langara, and then the next year won a $1,500 bursary for a shot at the U.S. PGA tour. When he reported to Colk's pro-shop, that other East End kid. Scotty Taylor, was already there, working on club repairs.

In fact, he'd been there for the past six years, since he was 13. In school, Scotty had gone one better than Lyle, making it to the 11th Grade at John Oliver before quitting to make his part time job at Langara into a full-time chore. At Langara, in Crawford's words: "I was Benny's hot- shot assistant, Scotty was the working-stiff in the back room." In February 1958, the hot-shot assistant was playing in the Phoenix Open, and the working stiff was his caddy. When Lyle popped an opening round of 69 that tied Billy Maxwell and Shelley Mayfield just one stroke off the pace, the wandering East End Kids had their picture in the sports page of the Phoenix Gazette. But then Crawford added rounds of 72-74-74 and finished out of the money as Ken Venturi took the top prize of $2,000.

Scotty went home, but Lyle, who had joined the tour back in Tijuana, stayed with it into Louisiana. He made all the cuts, but very little money. And when his $1,500 ran out, he too went home. For a couple of years they stayed together at Langara, but then their paths diverged. In 1959, Lyle became head pro when Benny Colk moved to the job at the new club in Richmond.

Then Scotty went off to take a post as golf director at the plush Castle Harbor Resort in Bermuda. They didn't get together again until 1965, after Scotty had returned with the new missus, a girl from Boston. "At Castle Harbor," says Taylor, "every night was like New Years Eve. We just couldn't take all that whoopee." What Scotty could and did take was a partnership with Lyle in a new golf-club repair service, in association with some other local club pros. Business boomed, so much so that the enterprise started to become competitive with city pro shops and came into disfavor.

To clear the air, Crawford and Taylor bought out their partners. CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago White Sox obtained Ron Santo from the Chicago Cubs Tuesday for pitchers Steve Stone and Ken" Frailing and two other players. Santo, a 14-year veteran with the Cubs, earlier refused to be traded to the California Angels and said he would only accept a trade to the Sox which would allow him to remain in Chicago. A spokesman for the White Sox said catcher Steve Swisher and a player to be named later would also be sent to the North Siders for Santo, who was an Ail-Star third baseman nine times in his National -League career which started with the Cubs in 1960. Santo became the first player? to invoke the baseball rule that a 10-year veteran who played at least five years with one club could not be traded without his consent.

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17 5 59 83 17 Western Division. 6 3 IISIl Pil. BlISSI 16 13 Vi 11 7 7 Philadelphia Chicago Atlanta St. Louis Los Angeies PitU'uurgli California (13 11.12 10U ner for his 11th goal of the season. Canadiens almost made it 3-1 soon after when Frank Mahovlich rapped a shot off the post.

Then it was Vancouver's turn when rookie defenceman Bob Dailey's blazing shot hit Larocque on the arm and ricocheted off the post. Canucks' big break came when Montreal defenceman Pierre Bouchard went off for holding at 15:55. Don Lever and Dennis Ver-vergaert almost combined for the equalizer moments before Bordeleau's magnificent effort. Boudrias was selected first star of the game, but he had his own idea and took Bordeleau onto the ice with him to the delight of the crowd. The game marked the first appearance for Mike Lamp-man, the left winger obtained from St.

Louis Blues in a trade for John Wright Monday. Canucks are idle until they leave Friday for Boston to open a six-game road trip. There were plenty of rumors at the Coliseum that Canucks had made yet another player trade but nothing was announced by club officials The second period also belonged to Montreal as big Frank Mahovlich put them in front at 3:07 with the Canadiens' power play goal, and brother Pete made it 2-0 at 11:25 when he beat Vancouver goalie Gary Smith with a 40-footer while Montreal was shorthanded. Canucks' bounced back early in the third period to make it 2-1 while Vancouver was on the power play. Schmautz had tested Larocque with a blistering drive from the slot and the puck bounced off the Montreal goalie's arm to the comer.

Dave Dunn fished it out to Boudrias, who relayed it to Schmautz in the slot. This time the Canucks right winger made no mistake as he ripped a hard wrist shot into the cor- Montreal 2, Canucks 2. By TOM WATT Young Paulin Bordeleau turned Jacques Laperriere inside-out and the Pacific Coliseum upside down Tuesday night with a classic goal that gave Vancouver Canucks a come-from-behind 2-2 tic with Montreal Canadiens. It was Bordeleau's first National Hockey League goal and it's unlikely that he or anyone who, saw it will forget it. It came with just over two minutes remaining and with the Canucks on the power play.

Bobby Schmautz and Andre Boudrias combined to send Bordeleau away down the right wing. He faked to go around Laperriere on the boards and when the veteran Montreal defenceman made his move, Bordeleau dragged the puck through his legs. Then he bursi in alone as Laperriere was sprawled helplessly on the ice. Bordeleau. who has been frustrated several times on breakaways this season, made no mistake and made several moves on goalie Michel Larocque before slipping a backhand under him.

The overflow Coliseum crowd gave Bordeleau, who was a second round draft choice in the summer, a rousing ovation that came close to matching the prolonged-applause given the Canucks in the first period when they killed off a five-minute penalty to defenceman Barry Wilk-ins. The Canucks not only prevented the Canadiens from scoring during that time but held Montreal off for two. minutes while they were two men short after defenceman Dennis Kearns took a penalty. Those heroics enabled the Canucks to get out of the first period with a scoreless tie, despite being outshot 13-4. GENTLEMEN'S APMRIl ANDY CAPP They expanded into merchandising, the local PGA eventually, if reluctantly, acknowledged the legitimacy of the competition, Crawford remained a member in good standing, and they have never looked back.

So now there they are in their Western Golf Sales on Main Street with their instructional range, fast repair service, $200,000 worth of stock, and a business that last year grossed more than $300,000. Crawford, now 40, hair combed carefully down over a balding spot, is still the restless soul. Taylor, 33, is still the solid back-room working stiff, but up front at the counter. The JO dropout thoroughly relishes his new role as successful merchandiser, and the stories that go with it. One of them: "One day this Greyhound bus pulls up out front with a load of Japanese businessmen just in from Banff.

They came swarming into the place, knew exactly what they were after nothing but the top lines and in a half hour had spent more than $6,000. We had seven of those very expensive new graphite shafts in stock and there was a mob scene to get at them. The tour director came to me and whispered: 'For God's sake don't bring them out now. There'll be a riot. Give them to me and I'll allocate them on the "There was this one Japanese who rummaged through our barrels and found an ancient black glass-shaft that he was sure was graphite.

I just wasn't able to convince him otherwise, and he marched out with that club clutched to his chest, dead sure that he had the world's greatest $5 bargain." Scotty laughed. Lyle. standing nearby, did likewise. And why not? The East End kids have come a long way to their Merry Christmas. Cambridge man isa sophisticated spectator ITx tat WON miracle Aro and he makes the best dressed list at casual country weekends with this handsome sport jacket ot tweed textured wool, the superb natural fibre that adds lite and colour to every wardrobe.

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