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s%* # Scotty Munro Looks Back On 28 Years In HockeyBee n His Long-Time InterestREGINA (CP) - The *way his Estevan Bruins tell it, Scotty * Munro bulls Into the dressing room, points a stubby finger and growls: “You, you , you didn’t play wortha’ damn but there.”True, admits the 210-pound Munro, his sand-blast bark softening as he speaks of hisSaskatchewan Junior Hockey League charges, “but I never yet let one of my kids go to bed feeling bad about it.”The “kids” have been Mun-ro’s interest for 28 years since an oil refinery explosion burned his legs and ended plans to turn professional as a goaltender with BostonBruins of the National Hockey League. •Since then the stormy coach and manager has turned out by his count 127 professional hockey players, earned envy for his disciplined teams and gained the reputation of a heart of gold under a tough hide.He’s also been suspended for a year for hitting a referee in 1959 and has sniped at the “useless” Canadian Amateur Hockey Association for years by telling it: “Hoekeyv is a business and not a lousy hobby.”“Yeah, I’ve blown my top a few times,” the 48-year-oldSports Hefty AverageWillie WhacksAwayMerrily(By The Associated Press)t Two weeks ago manager Herman Franks of San Francisco Giants ordered Willie Mays to Stay away from the ball park.“I’ve just gotta slow him down,’’ Franks said. He’scoming along too fast.”■1B1IIII11I11 Mays took another day off to-BowlingHighsCAPRI BOWLSundqalst Ladles Florence Seleski 313; Donna McEwan 2S7; Alma Tolley 267; Janlna Kanys227; Louise Fulton 246; Isabel Kemmet 259; Vera Nicholls 286 (726); ShirleyBinna 236; Betty Hamilton 230; Donna Johnston 282.Pahtilje’s Social Audrey Hardy 298 (737); Pat Kearney233; Verna Matson 235 (684); ShirleyStanford 243; Lena Moore 252 (658); Doris Koma 233; Gergia Westergreen 244; Doug McCarthy 290 (708); Jack Kerr 269; Willis Westergreen 300 (730): Bert Kemmet 257; Bill Hleucka 276 (777); Owen Coaker 249.J.C.C.A.Harry Higa 304; Francis Higa 308 (754); Nobby Tajirl 286; Jack Karta-shiro 314 (783); Tak Katakami 329 (873); Kyoto Shigehiro 276 (777); Dot Mlyoshiro 299 (723); Suml Medoruma 279 (723); Anne Hashizone 307 (773); Masa Goshlnmon 303; Fuml Nakama 256; Fuml Yamamoto 269 (683).GLENDALE BOWLProgressive Roofing MixedGeorge Smerek 341 (835); Gary Tun bridge 316 (792); Arvll Silllto 292 (692);(£b6iPc£tnela !!*% I Thursday, Tony Conigliaro hitB | day, his third since the exhibition schedule started March 12. In between those days of rest the 34-year-old whiz has slowed down about as much as he does during the regular season.In the Giants’ 7-4 victory over California Angeles Thursday, Mays increased his spring average to .382 by lashing two doubles and a single and drove in '.wo runs for a total of 13.Mays has accumulated most of his 21 hits and 13 RBI while playing only five and six and sometimes seven innings in a game. His nine-inning performance against the Angels was his first complete game of thespring.“He just gets better and better,” California manager. Bill Rigney said of Mays, who gained the National League’s Most Valuable Player award for the second time last season.SENATORS BLANKEDIn another exhibition of powerMaleomaon 314 (667); Jean Christie 310 (750); Mary Onofrychuk 294 (756); May Blebert 286 (720); Marge Killens 271 (660); Fran Arnold 266.Finance League Karren Dunn 294 (674); Leona Donate 244# Richard Fair 251; Ed Freedman 235; John Goluk 231; Ed Jankowiak 221; Janet Jankowiak 213; Bonnlo Ger« hart 228.El Ranche Major Ladlei Jeannette Houtekamcr 346 (751); Pat Sherrington 279; Enid Pepper 288; Del Flexhaug 270; Lynn Baker 253; DotAnderaon 251; Marg Held 248 (650); n rBetty Murtland 248. 4Senior Bowler*Jim Free! 210; Fred Beard 192; Jim Whelan 203; Bill Riley 229; Robert Clark 210; Mary Clark 203; HenryBechtold 167; Emil Collins 187; CecilCueU 203; Vi Cuell 213; Quinton Talbot 175.Chinook Stationers Gen Marsh 278; Carrie Fargo 245. ,(624); Vera Nicholls 237 (684); Hilda | Yankees.Tinordl 229; Nina Slndlinger 214; Del Flexhaug 208; Marie Popson 207; Jean Connlx 203; Mary Sallenbach 198; Jeanette Crabb 197.his seventh homer of the spring and drove in four runs as Boston Red Sox walloped Washington Senators 10-0.Cincinnati Reds edged Baltimore Orioles 3-2 on Art Sham-sky’s two - run homer in the ninth, and Mike Shannon and Lou Brock homered as St. Louis Cardinals downed Chicago WhiteSuccessive doubles by pinch-hitter Sandy Valdespino and Jimmie Hall in the 10th inning opened the way for a three-run rally that gave Minnesota Twins a 6-3 victory over New YorkFolinsbeeNewueenDetroit Tigers scored two runs in the ninth on Mickey Stanley’s single and Jim Pagliaroni’s passed ball for an 8-7 decision over Pittsburgh Pirates.New York Mets erupted for four in the seventh and handed Kansas City Athletics their sixth straight defeat 7-3. Ed Kranepool triggered theQUEBEC (CP)—Jean Folins- rally with a triple and scored asbee of Calgary combined accu ^ .°.UK .ronv onrf HnWminntmn Thnrs- Gary Bell pitchedracy and determination Thurs-| v ‘eday night to upset Canadian strong i gs as Cleveland In-champion Sharon WhittakerCARPET CLEANING — Houston pitcher Dick Farrellfields a bunt on the new synthetic grass at the Astrodome. Shortstop Bob Lillis looks on. The grass Is cut in 14-foot wide strips and zippered together. Regular grass won't grow In the Houston park.v*\. s • *\»\*\ *^\*\«\«Vancouver in the final round of ^eak by downing Chicago CubsUnanimous VoteScholarshipsTake BeatingTORONTO (CP)—Athletic directors from 52 universities and colleges in Canada Thursday voted unanimously against awarding athletic scholarships.Seventy - two delegates voted in principle against tne idea at tie conference on physical education, recreation and athletics in Canadian universities.Dalt White, assistant physical education director at the University of Toronto, led a heavy opposition vote by eastern delegates.A Quebec brewery has offered $10,000 in athletic scholarships for students at the University of British Columbia and toe University ofvManitoba. Other breweries are reported considering similar scholarships for other schools.The Western Canada Intercollegiate Athletic Union has supported toe idea of athletic scholarships and is trying to get the rest of the country to ap-mtAirnsons who are not responsible to the athletic director. Van Viiet said. “The revenue is often controlled separately and not given to the general fund of the school.tlWe feel such competition should be a separate part of toe physical education faculty and subject to the control of the athletic director. This would definitely rule out pro' coaches without a university background.”Vayro TopBarebackerSASKATOON (CP) - Kenny McLean of Okanagan Falls, B.C. captured toe saddle-bronc competition Thursday as the annual Saskatoon rodeo opened beforeMunro says in typical understatement, “but I learned mylesson when I hit the referee. That’s competition—but I’venever been mad 15 minutes after the game.“I get a real kick out of the kids. You see ’em turn out good, professionals, lawyers, doctors and It’s worth it. Hockey gives them a way to express themselves. It’s a challenge.”The challenge he throws to his juniors is, as a former Estevan goaltender puts it: “A kind of dare, a bet that you can do your best. You get to feel the way you play is iniportant to him as a guy.”His Bruins placed first in the eight - team SJHL this year for the fourth time since he headed them in 1957, placed two men on the All-Star squad and had Ernie McLean named all - star coach.Roderick Munro, born at Swift Current, Sask., was a slugging baseball player and standout goaltender with Moose Jaw Canucks of the old Western Canada League when his legs were burned in a Moose Jaw refinery.He then coached midget hockey at Yorkton, Sask., junior clubs at Moose Jaw 1942-45, the Lethbridge Native Sons 1945-47 and a now - defunct junior crew at Crows -nest Pass, Alta.In 1950 the father of two took over the Humboldt, Sask., Indians and led them to first place in the Manitoba-Sas-katehewan SJHL three, times before taking the squad to Estevan, in southwestern Saskatchewan, in 1957.Munro has never denied he’s interested in a dollar— “let’s face it, this league is a $700,000 - a - year business— but has turned down many offers of coaching spots in senior and professional ranks. SUPER-LEAGUE IN SIGHTPart - owner of Jacksonville Rockets of the Eastern Hockey League, he went to Florida last year. After a brief coaching spell, an out-of-place Munro headed back to his old stamping grounds.Among his 127 juniors who turned professional over the years were Dallas Smith, Bert Olmstead and Emile (The Cat) Francis, now general manager of New York Rangers of the NHL.Showman Munro says the best has yet to turn pro: 18-year-old Ross Lonsberry, in his third year with Estevan and the SJHL’s 1965-66 scoring leader, most valuable player and all-star forward.Munro, chief western scoutfor Boston since 1950, long has dreamed of a junior super - league in the west, taking in clubs from Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta “with only toe best guys in it.”2,000 fans.McLean.MUee-time CanadianHe says such a league appears to be set up following talks now going on among western hockey men and, if the NHL continues “to pour a flock of dough in here . . . there’ll be some real competition.”
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Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Fri, Apr 01, 1966
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