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Never A Dull Moment♦When Munro On LooseBy JACK SULUVAN Canadian Press Staff WriterA couple of years ago hockey coach Scotty Munro was tagged as a screwball when he tried to name his wife as his successor after he was suspended for socking a game official. Now, he is playing around with gadgets.Owner and manager of Este-van Bruins of the Saskatchewan Junior League, Scotty has come up with a one-way spotter-to-eoach shortwave radio communication. They used it for one game, the Bruins won and Scotty now isthinking about going further into this electronics business.He might install a small receiver and speaker in the shoulder gear of the team captain so that the spotter can talk to him while he’s on the ice. Scotty may as well forget it right now, because it probably won’t work.Football coaches in Canada and the United States communi* cate with- press-box spotters by telephone. That’s as far as they go although at one lime Coach Paul Brown of Cleveland Browns of the National Football League tried.to wire his quarterback for sound.' Rutgers Coach John Stiegman said the machine helped him think. Every play of every game was minutely analysed- by Stieg-man and his staff from postgame pictures and .the data was stuffed into the computer. , Lights flashed, wheels whirred find out came 36 pages of numbers and letters. The rows of figures told who did what, when and where on every play. Eachplayer was listed wiLh a grade on how he did his job ranging from al (the best you can. do — a touchdown or blocking two men) to a 6-a complete bust.It didn’t solve much.After all,” Stiegman said later, ‘‘a coach always has to worry that a fullback doesn’t break a leg during the summer or flunk out. There’s nothing a machine can do about that.”Boucher FrownsOn New GimmickRADIO INTERCEPTEDThe gadget became the laughing stock of the league and eventually was discarded by unanimous vote of NFL dubs.The operation became -a joke during a Cleveland • * New York Giants game when the Giants intercepted Brown's orders to his quarterbacks, The Giants had a coach stationed on the sidelines with an interceptor set and he merely relayed the Cleveland plays to the New York defensive team.That was one big bug. Another, Brown found out, was that the roar of the crowd drowned out his voice in the quarterback’s helmet receiving set.The idea of wiring the signal-caller for sound intrigued some Canadian football officials, but it was no dice in Canada. It was against the rules. «\vkbbkSASKATOON (CP) — Frank Boucher, commissioner of the Sas-kateliewan Junior Hockey League, frowns upon any suggestion that short-wave radio might be used to provide contact between players on the ice and the bench during agame.Scatty Munro, owner-manager ofBiics’StreakSnappedS'pf!ATJaLMECHANICAL BRAINLast year, an IBM machine played for dear old Rutgers. A real live quarterback still called the signals and the tackles tackled but the computer put its electronic eye on them all the time. It graded them on how they were doing.MTTA ResultsFollowing are the latest scores in the Manitoba Table Tennis Association accompanied by current standings in Division I:YU,PORTLAND (AP) — The Seattle Totems snapped Portland’s eight-game winning streak by downing the Buckaroos 4-3 in a Western Hockey League Game Wednesday night.-Marc Boileau slammed home the winning goal for the Totems after a three-man rush by Boileau,Guyle Fielder and Tom McVie had broken through the Portland defence. The winning shot came at 8:56 of the final period.Goalie Bev Bentley then preserved the victory for Seattle.Boileau also scored a first-period goal for the Totems and assistedon one by Tom McVie. The otherSeattle goal was scored by Bill MacFariand.Gord Fashoway scored two for the Buckaroos with Ron Matthews adding a single.Both teams scored twice in the first period, MacFariand and Boileau for Seattle, Fashoway and Matthews for Portland.After McVie put Seattle ahead | early a the second period, Fashoway tied it up for Portland, setting the stage for Boileau’s climactic shot.The Portlanders, trying frantically to knot the score, repeatedly, whizzed shots at Bentley in the final minutes. He turned them allthe Estevan Bruins, used a short- p wave radio hookup last Friday to tl pass spotting information to coach Howie. Milford in a game against Prince Albert in Estevan.Estevan won 5-2 and Munro said later there are still a few bugs to be worked out in procedure but it looks as though the idea might be a good one.If it works we are thinking of installing a small receiver and speaker in the shoulder harness of the team captain, so we can., talk to him when he is on the ice,” added. Munro.Boucher said here Tuesday that what goes on between a manager and coach is of no concern but when it involved a player on the ice he didn’t think such a method is right. .As commissioner I would not permit the use of such equipment unless adopted by the league,” said Boucher. He said he is opposed to use of the equipment unless all teams favored it and had access to similar equipment.Majority of the coaches in the seven-team league seemed to consider the use of the radio equipment not practical.Bobby Kirk, coach of Flin Flon Bombers, said he definitely wasn't planning use of radio communication.’’The way most dubs carry theirsticks in this league the special equipment wouldn't last long enough to help,” added Kirk, referring to the idea or supplying the captain with a receiving set.Frank Mario, coach of Regina Pats, said he though information passed between manager and coach was helpful. But he had no comment on instructions supplied players while they were on the ice.The game is too fast,” said John Chad, coach of Prince Albert.“They tried it in football and interceptor receiving sets made a laughing stock of the project.”Metro Prystai, Moose Jaw coach said “not practical.5Cv,V
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