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34 The Windsor Stur Wednesday, January 22, 1975 Jim McKay Chance for golf fame iff i a ft 0 9 A viii. iw 1 ft Denis Potvin (foreground), Darryl Sittler watch as Phil Esposito's shot deflects wide of Bernie Parent just super mismatch NHL in clutching a altogether, towel to his Bobbv Orr CHANCES ARE I MIGHT not get to take my annual trip in 1976 and I tell you true, I wouldn't be unhappy over the prospect. I'm talking about the Canadian Open golf championship. And if I don't get to cover it from another area, it will mean something unprecedented in the history of Windsor sports they will be staging the tournament right here. Far-fetched? Not on your life.

Essex Golf and Country Club has made a strong bid to the Royal Canadian Golf Association to have the 1976 championship on its lush acreage in Sandwich West township. The selection committee is down to about three courses and Essex has as good a chance as any. "EVERYBODY AT THE CLUB is optimistic and excited about the possibility and what it could do for golf in this area," says Dave Moote, manager of the Essex club and a man close to the situation since Essex put in its original bid for the '76 tournament two years ago. The RCGA will make the announcement of the site of the 1975 Open next month, in all probability, and I hope it has dc its homework. Whci ou really think about it.

is there any reason why the Ontario region shouldn't be allowed to present Canada's most prestigious golf tournament for once in its life? On balance, I like Essex's chances but as Windsor's Canadian golfer of the year, Bob Panasiuk, puts it "there are a lot of politics involved" in the selection of an Open site. The rumor is that only two other courses are still involved in the appraisal, London Hunt and Fort Erie's Cherry Hill, although there is talk that two Toronto courses, Board of Trade and PGA National are IT IS UNLIKELY THE RCGA will read them, or do anything about it if they do, but I'd like to offer some arguments in favor of holding the tournament here just one time. 1 It has never been here before. London Hunt, five years ago, was the closest ever to Windsor. 2.

It will never be held any place else except Toronto and Montreal after 1976. Why shouldn't some Ontario community with the proper resources get one last crack at it? 3. Any Open site other than Toronto or Montreal must have proximity to a large American market. Windsor has Detroit, Cherry Hill has Buffalo. London has nothing.

In the history of Detroit ranks high in ability to support good tournaments. 4. Would the RCGA like to see a Canadian ever win? Panasiuk's chances would be expanded if the tournament was at Essex. 5. Air accessibility to the site.

There are direct flights from anyplace to Detroit and Windsor. Ask NHL referee Art Skov if this isn't true. THE RCGA HAS HAD ITS people investigate firsthand the situation at Essex and Moote claims they went away impressed. "Bill Hamilton, the RCGA's top field man. and another chap were here in the fall," said Moote.

"They checked over the course and gave us a favorable report. "Then two weeks ago, Dick Grimm and Bruce Forbes, the top two men in the organization, paid a visit to the committee, looked over the clubhouse, heard all our plans. I'm sure they were impressed." Obviously, the Essex committee has or will solve some problems that exist, such as parking, a practice area, crowd control because of the club's flatness and relatively-small acreage. "The problem of a practice area is solved and there is no problem," says Moote. He would go no farther.

"Parking won't be as much of a problem as people think, either," he claims. "We have several options and I can't disclose them. Yes, the race track is a possibility with shuttle busses but we also have other things in mind." MOOTE SAYS CROWD CONTROL will be handled properly. "There is more room here than you think, or there will be if we should get the tournament," he says. "We have many wide fairways here that will be narrowed somewhat for the tournament.

There will be plenty of room for the petiole outside the ropes." wondered about the fans being able to see anything on a Hat course then I did some thinking about it. Twice in the last four years the Canadian Open has been held at Richelieu Valley in Montreal which is almost as flat as Essex. 1 didn't hear many complaints. The golf fans see what they want to see, even if they have to climb a tree. Adroit placement of bleachers alleviates most problems at key areas.

It wouldn't be any different at Essex. The same thing goes for accessibility by automobile. There are three ways to get to Essex, even if they're not four-lane highways. If the people want to go see the big stars, they'll get there and survive any traffic problems to do so. I WONDERED WHAT PANASIUK had to say about the Essex bid.

"It would be great to see it here. It's something Windsor has never had. Personally, I'd be ecstatic for one I feel I could win it." Panasiuk gave the golf course an A-plus as far as the competition is concerned but spoke immediately of parking and practice problems. "That's the only tough part I can see," he said. "If they have the answer to both of them their chances would be reasonably good.

With a few changes, the course is well-qualified to handle the championship. There won't be any 61s cr 62s out there." Moote says the course would play at par 70 with No. 10 remaining a par-five but with a deeper tee tunnel and No. 13 becoming a par-four and a super one. "THE TEE ON NO.

10 WOULD go back 20 yards and a fairway trap installed in the tee-shot landing area," said Moote. "This is a must. We can also move the tees on the first, ninth and 14th." Essex's yardage is 6,639 yards on the present card but already the short seventh hole has been lengthened 30 vards. So it could play at around 6,700 yards. "We can make our greens as slick as Oakland Hills or Mer.cn if we want to, make them dynamite.

But I don't think the RCGA particularly wants that. They don't like having a course tricked up like the Americans do for their Open or PGA championships, concluded Moote. So let's all keep our fingers crossed, folks. Sure, it's just a sporting event but it is one which spells M-O-N-E-Y, not to mention fame, for the Windsor felt 'C4A But there wasn't another excitement except in the dressing room where the girls Rohin Herman, sports writer for the New York Times, and Marcelle St. Cyr, a Montreal radio broadcaster scared naked players (some, not all) back into shower stalls, and to clutch towels in defence of modesty.

It was a runaway, hitless bout on the ice. The Oranges Bobby Clarke, Garry Unger, Brad Park, Stan Mikita, Rod Gilbert people like that were outplayed from here to there. It was Fancy Dan hockey, far more polite than anything one would see in a pre-season exhibition game. These players mostly make salaries in six figures. They were playing for their pension fund and S400 watches.

There hasn't been anything this lopsided since the fourth All-Star Game 25 years ago when Ted Lindsay scored three goals for Detroit, over the selects. It was a mismatch, really. Said Fred Shero who couched the Oranges, "they had the scorers, we had the checkers. We lost in the first period when we got behind 3-1 and then couldn't score in the second when I thought we might get back in." Shero said he had several young players who were nervous. Well, Apps, playing his first All Star game, said he was nervous, before, during and after the game.

He knew his old man in the seats was watching. Syl, the elder came in the dressing room, but had difficulty approaching his son to congratulate him about the car because the lady reporters were causing traffic jams. Hardened reporters were blowing their quotes. When Miss St. Cyr walked up to Lafleur and thrust a microphone in his teeth, and the poor guy kept By JACK DULMAGE V.

indsor Star Sports Editor MONTREAL Ken Dryden, the Montreal goalkeeper who leans on his slick and studies law, looked up from his stool and said: "It's not possible to have animosity in an All-Star Game." Maybe not, but it is now possible lo have girls in the dressing room interviewing naked hockey players. The Whites clobbered the Oranges, 7-1 here Tuesday night in the 28th National Hockey League All-Star Game. The Whites, if you insist, was the Prince of Wales Conference Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Guy Lapointe people like that. And Sylvanus Apps. Not old white-haired Syl of years-ago Toronto Maple Leafs but his son who plays for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The son scored two goals and won a new automobile, a Dodge Charger, the most valuable player choice of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association. They could have given it to Lafleur who had three assists and excited the record 16,997 crowd every' time he touched the puck. Playoff cash set by NHL (CP) The National Hockey League player-owner council met Tuesday and announced the playoff cash awards for the new division and conference alignments. First place in each of the four NHL divisions will be worth $2,000 a player, with $1,000 going to each player on the second-place teams and $500 each for the third-place teams. Each player participating broke up.

"Look at this," Orr howled in glee, clutching a towel himself. "I don't believe it." Bep Guidolin, coach of the Whites, was nonplussed. He had said before the game he would allow women (not players' wives) into his dressing room. But he had to convince door attendants who at first shooed the girls out. "They're reporters," said Guidolin.

"They're entitled lo work." Was it the first time? "Yes," said Guidolin. Would Guidolin open the doors again to women reporters after a tough regularly-scheduled game? "Certainly," he replied. Said Esposito at the back of the room, "it's kind of silly if you ask me. They should have a separate room." Some players were obviously embarrassed. Some were not.

It was the same over in the dressing room of the losers, the Oranges -that the Clarence Campbell Conference. Shero said he missed the girls. He said he didn't know they had been in his room. But he offered no objection. Said Mikita, "Women's lib is here, I guess." Were the Whites six goals better than the Oranges? "You know when you get behind in a game like this with no hitting and have to open up it can just get worse.

We made a lot of mistakes at the start and dug a hole it wasn't possible to come out of." Don Luce, Darryl Sittler, rEsposito, Terry O'Reilly and Orr scored the other goals for the Whites. Denis Potvin, star defenceman for New York Islanders, scored the only Orange goal. Miss Herman is the first woman member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association. Truly this event was a time of many firsts and definitely not lasts. Which way did the 'rubber biscuit' go? ask J.

C. Trembiay, Andre Lacroix (8), Gordie Howe Howe still 'amazing' EDMONTON (CP) Centre Andre Lacroix of the victorious Western squad said it for almost everybody as he discussed the immortal Gordie Howe after the two linemates sparked a 6-4 victory over the East in the third annual World Hockey Association All-Star game. "He's amazing," said the nimble Lacroix, who earned three assists and helped Howe make his final All-Star game memorable. "It's hard to say how much Gordie means to hockey," said Lacroix, named third star in the contest. "He's the star of every game, just because he's still in it at 46 and because he's the greatest that ever, lived." Howe set the pace for the winners, setting up son Mark for the opening goal in the first period and adding one of his own in the four-goal second period that clinched victory for the West.

Howe has insisted this is his last season. He made the All-Star team last year but did not score. The best individual line for the West featured Andre Hinse, Larry Lund and Frank Hughes, who play together regularly for Houston Aeros. Hinse had two goals, both with help from his linemates. Tops for the East was the line of Rejean Houle, Serge Bernier and Marc Tardif, regulars with Quebec Nordiques.

Houle was the Most Valuable Player with two goals, both on brilliant shots, and two assists. Tardif had a goal and an assist and Bernier completed scoring in the third period. At least six goalposts were hit with net-minders beaten. Howe's goal was perhaps the most surprising of the night. "I was trying to pass into the goalmouth," said Howe.

"But I knew it was in when Andy Brown (Eastern goaltender) called me a lucky bleep." in the first round of the playoffs gets an additional $1,000. The team with the most points in each conference will get an additional $2,500 a man. The players also suggested, and the owners agreed, that players should have a voice on the rules committee. Regarding suspensions, the players recommended that any player penalized for deliberate injury or attempt to injure be automatically suspended pending hearing and suggested that such hearing take place as soon as possible and within five days. Dulmage bows out MONTREAL (CP) Dan Stoneking of the Minneapolis Star today was elected president of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association at -the association's annual meeting.

Stoneking succeeds Bill Brennan of the Detroit News, with the latter joining the association's board of directors. Bob Verdi of the Chicago Tribune succeeds Stoneking as vice-president of the association. Don Wilno of the Trenton, N.J., Times was elected secretary-treasurer. He succeeds Jack Dulmage of the Windsor Star in that position. Elected directors for the coming year were: John Iaboni, Toronto Sun; Jay Greenberg, Kansas City Star; Yvon Pedneault, La Presse, Montreal; Hugh Delano, New York Post; Chuck Newman, Philadelphia Inquirer; Hal Sigurd-son, Vancouver Sun; and Gary Mueller, St.

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