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28 The Windsor Star, Wednesday, January 26, 1972 Esposito dividend, 3-2 Star '4 Ken Fathers iW1 5 I Js I CIO say where Hulls shot struck him. Between here and here, he cracked, waving a hand between his belt and his knees. Simon Nolet of the Philadelphia Flyers scored the other west goal just ahead of Ratelles. Asked what happened to the 2-0 lead, West coach Billy Reay of Chicago said: They had a lot of good players on the other side and I guess we ran out of a little steam, too. If the game was unusual for All-Star games, it was because the retired Gord Howe and Jean Beliveau werent in it and nobody bothered Howes 22-game record of 10 goals and eight assists.

It was unusual, too, for press busses. Reporters were served champagne on them by beautiful girls in hot pants. But the Super Bowl and Pete Rozelle watches improve on that. a breakaway goal some thought was offside. Said McKenzie: I wasnt offside.

The puck hit my foot on the line. Espositos winner early in the third was, as Detroits Red Berenson put it, the dividend of a good $10 investment. While police were talking to Hull and Company, East stars were talking to themselves in the dressing room between the second and third periods. Said Berenson: We chipped in $10 apiece to give to whoever would get the winner. Said Esposito: Collect? Sure, I collected from him, from him, him Phil kept pointing around the room.

The Boston pair of Bobby Orr and Dallas Smith assisted on the goal. Orr, bruised by one of Bobby Hulls cannon shots late in the game, was awarded the games first star by New York manager-coach Emile Francis. Orr smiled when asked to detective. We played some of the tape back in case there were any good-byes on it. But there wasnt just business matters that didnt have any connection.

Police questioned the hockey players late in the afternoon. When they came back for more during both intermissions there was speculation the investigation might be interested in foul-play theories. Meyer was a reportedly-wealthy mining company owner. He bought the Salt Lake club five years ago and represented it on the board of governors of the Western Hockey League. Frank Udvari, a supervisor of referees for the National Hockey League, said he went out on the pool roof through a lot of snow at 15 below zero temperatures.

They left the mans body out there for an hour, said Frank. I looked at it. Every bone in his body must have been broken. Meyer had been attending WHL meetings involving merger with the Central League but had given his partners no indication anything was amiss when he went to his room to make a telephone call. Meyer was well-known among the minor league fraternity but his name was unfamiliar to many.

The East has won three of four All-Star games since the NHL expanded in 1987-68. They were down 2-0 in this one early in the second period when New Yorks Jean Ratelle started them back. The score was thus 2-1, West, when new goalkeepers came on Gilles Villemure replacing Ken Dryden for the East and Gump Worsley of Minnesota North Stars, who got the only standing ovation at the introductions, going in for Tony Esposito. Boston players did most of the damage after that. John McKenzie tied the score at 18:45 of the second period with THE ONTARIO UNIVERSITIES ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION obviously doesnt adhere to the old bromide: Dont tamper with -a good thing.

When the next OUAA football season rolls around this September, member schools will be part of a completely new format. Last fall, when the revamped OUAA launched its football program, there were six schools in the West and six schools in the East, each playing an eight-game schedule, four games at home and four away. The only sore point of this schedule was one mid-week game at mid-season. It had been anticipated, even after Laurentian University scrapped its football program, that the eight-game format, minus the mid-week game, would be continued. Two early meetings of the association seemed to substantiate this im-; pression.

1 But, when the final football schedule was drafted earlier this month, there were suddenly seven schools (Windsor, Western, Waterloo, Guelph, McMaster, Waterloo Lutheran and York) in the West and four schools (Toronto, Queens, Ottawa, Carleton) in the East, each playing a six-game schedule, three games at home and three away. s- While disappointment has been expressed throughout the Western Division, there doesnt appear to be anything that can done to ressurect an eight-game schedule until a 12th university ventures into football. if ITS UNFORTUNATE that the eight-game schedule was so shortlived, observed University of Windsor football coach Gino Fracas Tuesday, We had a good thing going last season, par-; ticularly our home-and-home series with Western and Waterloo. But, this move to a six-game schedule had to be made to help the overall situation. If York had stayed in the Eastern Division, it would have meant that each of the eastern schools would have had two byes during the season.

The eastern schools are now able to play a balanced six-game schedule without any byes and their winner to join the top three finishers in the Western i Division in the playoffs. THE WESTERN DIVISION SCHEDULE willl contain one bye for each school, which isnt exactly an exciting prospect, but three of the seven teams will qualify for the playoffs and there is ample time between the opening of training camp on Aug. 28 and the opening of the schedule on Sept. 16 for one pre-season (or exhibition) game. Western has already scheduled a pre-season game against McMaster in Hamilton and York will play a pre-season game against Toronto.

Windsor has not yet committed itself for any i pre-season test. Were pondering an exhibition game, says Fracas, and it would have to be played Sept. 9. At the moment, weve got some feelers out among the other schools in our division. Frankly, Im a bit apprehensive about playing such an exhibition game so soon after the start of our practice sessions.

ij Windsors schedule will feature home games against defending champion Western, Guelph and York. The Lancers road games will be against McMaster, Waterloo and Waterloo Lutheran. Im not the least bit overjoyed about playing six games in seven weeks, notes Fracas. But, well have to go along with it for this coming season, at least. I think the OUAA people explored all the possibilities and this figured to be the best.

refill 4 i I 'Xi 4 1 Pi I i 4 iV; 5 -v A 2 U- cy s' A By JACK DULMAGE Windsor Star Sports Editor MINNEAPOLIS The 25th National Hockev League All-Star game, more richly-appointed and celebrated than any before, was won by the East, or old division, 3-2, over the West, or new. But the spectacular suicide of Salt Lake City hockey club owner Daniel Meyer Tuesday afternoon was still knocking the starch out of everything as late as the second period intermission at the Metropolitan Sports Centre in suburban Bloomington last night. During both intermissions, Minneapolis police interrogated Bobby Hull, Pit Martin and Chico Maki, three members of the Black Hawks competing for the West team heavily-padded with Chicago stars, also Toronto's Paul Henderson, playing for the East. The four had been witnesses to Meves 17-storev fall from a rai'ing outside his room in the Radlsson South Hotel to the roof of a swimming poo! two floors above ground level. Hull, who scored the games first goal in front of a crowd of 15.658, (Phil Esposito of Boston scored the winner at 1:09 of the third period) was the first person to enter Mevers 19th floor room after a number of people had seen him fall and more had heard a loud crash on the roof over the pool.

Chico and I were one floor down, said Hull. We saw him climb out on the railing, hang there momentarily then fall. I called the desk, then I put some clothes on and Chico and I went up. The key was in the door. I didnt know what to expect so I sort of flung the dov ooen in case there might have been some crazy guy with a gun or something in there.

The room was a shambles. The picture window had been knocked out with a chair. There was blood on the door. His glasses were on the floor and broken. His wallet was on the floor with some other odds and ends.

Also there was a tape recorder. I guess I wanted to play NBA owners rapped by congressman WASHINGTON (UPI -The proposed merger of the National and American Basketball Association was opposed by a congressman Tuesday on the grounds that owners cf the Cincinnati Royals have underworld connections. Rep. Sam Steiger (R-Ariz.) said that the NBAs Royals are owned by Jerry Jacobs of Buffalo, N.Y., and run by his brother, Max, and introduced into the hearing record a New York Police Department report assuring that the Jacobses had many admitted dealings with hoodlums and admitted mafia leaders. In reply to a question by Sen.

Roman Hruska concerning the relevancy of his statements, Steiger said that organized crime thrived in a monopoly situation and that approval of the exemption from Federal anti-trust laws requested by the leagues, would create a monopoly. Walter Kennedy, commissioner of the NBA, said he had investigated the allegations against the Jacobs brothers and was satisfied with the answers he received. Steiger and Kennedy appeared as the Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee opened three days of hearings on the two leagues request that under the merger they be exempted from Federal antitrust laws. if1 DRYDENS PADDLE BLOCKS WAY IN CASE THERES A PASSOUT Boby Clarke battles hidden East player tcliile Rod Selling (16), Greg Polis (22) lurk close by for loose puck- NHL still two divisions DANIEL MEYER 17-storey plunge Owner killed fall BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Daniel H.

Meyer died instantly here Tuesday when he fell 17 floors from the window of his hotel room. He was owner and founder of the Salt Lake City Golden Eagles of the Western Hockey League and was attending meetings here concerning merger of the WHL and the Central Hockey League. Meyer, 45, is survived by his widow, Juanita, two daughters, Linda, 20, and Lesa, 8, and a son, Danny, 20. An official of Minnesota North Stars quoted persons who had breakfast with Meyers as saying he appeared cheerful Tuesday morning. Pit Martin, a centre for Chicago Black Hawks and a member of the West team for Tuesday nights National Hockey League All-Star game, was in the next room, heard a crach and saw Mevers fall, the, North Stars official said.

Martin said later: We were next door and heard the crash. He stepped on the ledge and let himself go. I didnt know who he was. I never met the man. It happened so fast there was nothing we could do.

Paul Henderson of Toronto Maple Leafs, who was in the room with Martin, said: It was a terrible thing. We saw him climb out on the steel, beam outside the window. Martins team-mates, Chico Maki and Bobby Hull, were in the room below Meyers. Maki was sitting near the window reading when he saw the man fall past. Hull said he and Maki rushed upstairs and saw a key in the door of the room above theirs.

Hull said they found a pair of glasses on the floor. Henderson and Martin emphasized they didnt hear any struggling in the next room before the window crashed and they sav Meyer on the beam outside the window. York whips U-T cagers TORONTO (CP) York University Yeomen defeated University of Toronto Varsity Blues 80-69 Tuesday in an Ontario Universities Athletic Association basketball game. York led 36-31 at the half. Alf Lane netted 18 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to pace the York attack.

Bob Weppler added 13 points for the winners. Super Bowl ratings up NEW YORK (UPI) Super Bowl television ratings continued to soar this season as the total number of viewers watching the game jumped from 60 to 65 million. For the third consecutive season, the Nielsen rating for the Super Bowl went up this time to an all-time sports record of 44.2, a CBS spokesman announced Tuesday. That means 44.2 per cent of all the TV sets in the country were tuned into the Jan. 16th game and 74 per cent of all the sets in use were tuned to the game.

The audience was 65 million fans in 27,450,000 homes. Shires goes doicn ST. LOUIS (UPI) The St. Louis Blues Tuesday returned Jim Shires' to their Denver farm club of the Western Hockey League. MINNEAPOLIS (CP) The decision Tuesday by the National Hockey Leagues governors to continue to operate two divisions under an expanded 16-team setup for at least another two seasons further encroaches on the arch-rivalries that existed for 40 years before the 1967 expansion from six to 12 teams.

In announcing rejection of a proposed four-division realignment to begin with the 1972-73 season, NHL president Clarence Campbell said there would be no increase in the 78-game schedule. The original six teams Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs developed natural rivalries between 1926 and 1966 and, beginning with the 1949-50 season, met each other 14 times during the schedule. With the unbalanced schedule that existed between East and the expansionist West Divisions from 1967 to the 1970-71 season, these rivalries continued to be top drawers although on a lesser scale. Then with the addition of Buffalo and Vancouver to the East in 1970, and departure of Chicago to the West in a realignment program, the new balanced schedule saw old rivals meeting on home ice only three times each during the schedule. The decision to hold the balanced 78-game schedule under the 16-team setup means that NHL teams will exchange visits only twice under normal programming next season, with the Dulmage returned MINNEAPOLIS (CP) Red Burnett of Toronto Star was elected president of the Professional Hockey Writers Association at the associations annual meeting Tuesday.

Bill Brennan of Detroit News was elected vice-president and Jack Dulmage, Windsor Star, started his sixth term as secretary-treasurer. Retiring president Jack Berry of Detroit News heads the list of directors elected. Other directors elected were Hal Sigurdson, Vancouver Sun; Bertrand Raymond, Journal de Montreal; Tim Moriarity, Newsday, Long Island, N.Y.; Charles Barton, Buffalo Courier-Express, and Dwayne Netland, Minneapolis Tribune. possibility of a third visit being determined by the luck of the schedule-making draw. Each team will play the other 15 teams twice at home and twice away for a total of 60 games.

Each team will then play the other 15 teams once more during the schedule with home and away games to vary each of the next two seasons, bringing the total to 75 games. Each team then will play three more games against opponents by a draw. Campbell assured reporters that the NHLs schedule maker, Brian ONeill, league executive director, will sort the games out so that each team will have 39 home dates. Campbell said at least six members implied Tuesday they were not in favor of the proposed realignment to four divisions at this time. He said Long Island would be added to the East Division and Atlanta to the West to complete two eight-team divisions.

He announced at the same time that a proposed merger of the Western and Central leagues would go into effect with the 1972-73 season, creating a 12-team league with two divisions under the WHL banner. The WHL has franchises in Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Denver, Phoenix and San Diego with the CHL teams going at Dallas, Fort Worth, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Omaha and Tulsa. An expected proposal from the NHL Players Association seeking a maximum of $25,000 for each player whose team won a division title and went on to win the Stanley Cup was not discussed by the governors. Campbell said the owner-player council did not hear the proposal since it was not formally presented. However it was agreed a four-member committee, consisting of two players and two NHL owners, would consider the demands and report to the March 19 meeting.

Alan Eagleson of Toronto, NHLPA executive director, said after the meeting Stan Mikita of Chicago Black Hawks and Red Berenson of Detroit Red Wings would represent the players, Charles Mulcahey of Boston Bruins and Bill Jennings of New York Rangers the owners. He added that he would also sit in on proceedings along with Bill Wirtz of Chicago, chairman of the board of governors. With all-star games being played in New York in 1973 and Chicago in 1974, Campbell added game dates for three more years Montreal 1975, Philadelphia 1976 and Vancouver 1977. i FRACAS, OF COURSE, is hoping that Brock University of St. Catharines may soon venture into the gridiron wars or that Royal Military College of Kingston will switch its affiliation from the Quebec Universities Athletic Association to the OUAA.

That would bring about the necessary balance for a return to two six-school divisions and an eight-game schedule. And, theres always the prospect of the 11 schools being tossed into a common pot and an eight-game, conference-type schedule being adopted. Maybe that will be the new format ivhich will come into being in 73! I THE CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUES annual draft of graduating Canadian university players is coming up shortly and five University of Windsor gridders will be available in the draft. Quarterback-flanker Mike Urban, tackle Geoft Owen, linebacker Tom Norris, defensive end Derek Merrill and linebacker-end Terry Johnston are the Lancers who will be up for grabs! There is every indication, according to Fracas, that Urban, Merrill and Norris will be returning to the University of Windsor in September. Urban is probably the biggest name among our players in the draft, notes Fracas, but, I doubt very much if hed be drafted as a quarterback.

Some CFL team may be interested in him as a flanker, however. Which player in the Western Division of the OUAA is liable to be tabbed as one of the prime picks in the draft? I really havent had an opportunity to look over the complete list of the draft eligibles and the last football season seems so far away, now, added Fracas. Off hand, however, that McMaster quarterback, Barry Finley, looks like one of the best prospects in our league. But, I honestly dont know if hes draf-table. i UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR LANCERS are involved in a couple of dandy OUAA Western Division title races at the moment.

Paul Thomas basketball team is halfway through its schedule and boasts a 3-3 record. Cec Eaves hockey team is halfway through its schedule and sports a 5-5 mark. Both Lancer teams are hotly contesting four division playoff berths with five rival schools. I WINDSORS BASKETBALL TEAM trails Waterloo (5-1), Guelph (5-2) and Western (4-2), is dead-even with Waterloo Lutheran (3-3) and has a one-game bulge over McMaster (2-4). its interesting to note that the cage Lancers have suffered narrow defeats to the three teams ahead of them in the standings 89-85 to Waterloo, 76-75 to Guelph and 66-65 to Western.

The fact that the cage Lancers have suffered two of their three defeats at home does little to boost their playoff stock. Their remaining schedule is a toughie a two-game road trip this weekend to Guelph and Brock, single visits to Waterloo to play the league-leading Warriors and Golden Hawks and home games against Western and McMaster. Id have to say that the Lancer cagers are going to have to win at least five of these six games to qualify for the playoffs. 3 The hockey Lancers have nine games remaining, five of them away from home. They trail Guelph (7-4-1) and Western (6-4-2) in the standing at the moment but have two games in hand over both the Gryphons and Mustangs.

Theyre dead-even with McMaster (5-6), Waterloo (4-5-2) and Waterloo Lutheran (4-5-2) and have one game in hand over each of these three clubs. There no longer appears to be any dissension in the ranks and the Lancer puckmen will carry a three-game winning streak into tonights home game against Lutheran. This game, plus Fridays contest against McMaster in Hamilton and next Wednesdays game here against Western, will have a vital bearing on the Lancers playoff hopes. Judging from attendance figures. University of Windsor students are all but ignoring their hockey teams battle back to respectability.

Maybe thats why this team is trying so hard to the basketball squad which rarely plays before anything other than a full house. Payoff of $17,941.20 in quadactor Lucky night for one patron Squeaker EAST 3, WEST 2 First Period 1 West, R. Hull (Martin, Maki) 171 PENALTIES Hadfield 4:02. Second Period 2 West, Nolet (D. Hull) 1:11 3 East, Ratelle (Tremblay, Gilbert) 3:48 4 East, McKenzie (Park, Selling) 18:45 PENALTY White 5:26.

Third Period 5 East, P. Esposito (Smith, Orr) 1:09 PENALTIES White 2:28, P. Esposito 5:34, Tremblay 8:42, Mohns 19:05. Shots on goal by EAST 9 8 13 30 WEST 10 11 6 27 Goal Dryden, Villemure, East; T. Esposito, Worsley, West.

Attendance 15,658. By far the biggest payoff in the history of Windsor Raceway was registered Tuesday night when one lucky patron picked off a $17,941.20 return in the quadactor. The lone winner was an unidentified resident of Paincourt, the small rural community near Chatham, who correctly predicted the order of the first four finishers Command All, Tip Hy, Stephen Mir and Langs Lass (numbers 2,4,6 and 3). Command All, handled by Ray McLean, was rated a 5 to 1 shot by the crowd of 3,342 fans, and finished a neck ahead of Lonnie McCorkles Tip Hy, who went postward at 10 to 1 odds. Both heavily-backed entries, Charley Knight and Genes Hilife, were far back at the wire.

The previous high quadactor payoff was $11,385.40, also to a lone winner, on Nov. 25. Ray McLean carne back to complete a driving double in the tenth race with Topical Bonn at 4 to 1 odds and set up another hefty payoff in the triactor wagering. Star Threat and Flapjack were second and third to make the winning combination 3-1-4 which returned $758.20 to 26 winners. The featured Spitfires Pace went to Dixie Tomboy, who was nicely handled by young William Gale.

Leading all the way, the eight-year-old gelding finished a length ahead of favored Vi and Tony Boy who were noses apart for place honors. Dixie Tomboy paced the mile in 2:08.3, despite ten degree weather, and paid $10.70 to win. The co-featured trotting event, sixth on the card, was captured by Doug McIntosh with Charles Uphams Dilly Vic. They came from fourth at the head of the stretch to beat out Peacemaker and Sweet Emma. The third heat unveiled a youthful prospect in Hilltop Red, a three-year-old gelding owned by Carl and Edith Casaceli of Belle River.

Mike Novick was named by trainer Bruce Fulmer to rein the colt who had won his only other two starts at Dresden. Hilltop Red made it three-for-three with an easy triumph. IJEM1 ul iifLtffl UlBiL.ll I tm jif iniipiuinn.