Strain, tension and hard training paid, ott tor Betty Craig at the 1977 World Champlonships.
{leh) and Susan Antoft as they row towards a bronze medal

GRINDELWALD, Swit-
terland (CP) — Canada loat
its first game at the world
junior curling. sehamplonship
today when the Paul Gow

&3 decisionnto Sweden,

The loss means Canada
will not get.a bye into
Friday's championship final,

part inna playoff -involy
te to op four rinks: startt
y night.
ana now has 4 te
record and is tled for first
place with Scotland while
Sweden is 6-2 and the United
States 5-2, .
- Swedish skip
Hakansson sai

Thomas
hig rink's

. By Susan Antoft
Re at tens any team that

ne with the jokea, the
eet prin, the one always
the centre of mishcief, |

a ewornen ‘a pair seems to

‘syoonymous with trouble.
‘@ don’t even have to go

for it. Just before we
“for Europe this past
er, Betts found it first.
.) funny: this baich —

,

it Betts had stitches around

& rainbow. All she needed
lastic fangs — that

"te two. We had just won
bi ‘West German Cham-
ips on, the Olympic
rae in Munich. We
our medals. The,

Gees, Sage ct TERY

er and oar in a | antle.
ed buoy;

ti grandstand,

al minutes we finally

id ourtelves to great

of applause and a:

How em-

“matches for us. The
a went 1-1, carawomen
visitors (males, All I can
‘about it is have you ever
ea S'7° (sorry 5’8”)
ying dunk shots? =
f:-Was it Bett’a smile or her
fty Canadian rowing pin
hen the those Russian
The pin, eh? ‘They
fst it a0 ly that they
paried ‘ageing her o
prc fought them off,

‘Would have had to row solo.
th the help of a translator,

“Witried to bargain with

ya. One pin for a

iolce of four‘ of the best
Ipoking oarsmen (nyet!-

a ut ‘you are ever in Ottawa
dneed a good joke, Iyakus

Spero that haven't Bot.
ay: legs. Moat‘ wouldn't
é it past the editors of

't at least one. down?
he individual who is always -

Woiadbavorealy card our
’ Thomas, ‘we trained to race
- for. nothing less than -firet: ~
place. Who would believe it if
they saw us on ow continous. |

‘sudden .

contention for the gold. Betts

Wet re pretty cockey.
. We're net conceited — just

very positive about what we
can do. We were not even the
Number One boat as far as.
coaching priorities go. Our
first coach was going for the
eight. We were his “orphan
crew". To give you some
history, in 1976, the eight, my
boat, just missed a bronze to
the Americans. In 1977,

_ everyone was training to be

a better, faster eight. The
pair in ‘76, Hett’s boat,
hadn't lived up to gold ex-
pectations and there were no
great plans for it. in ‘77. -1
wanted to bein the, eight
again. But a few days before

the case of B. Craig - vs."

Smith Transport, we were
ordered to. be the pair. A
surprise and we had to race

_ two weeks later! We decided
ber right eye and a face like

to make that pair smoke and

forget about the politics and” ,
‘elsewhere. .

personalities

Patrick's Day. parades goes

~ Pranksters turn top competitors

All-we want is another
chance to go after the gold

We raced with... it may.

sound silly... courage. We
were like the Cowardly
Lion in the land of Oz. We
‘didn’t get the gold but came
up with the bronze; the first
rowing medal since the days
of George Hungerford and

again next y
without

Roger. Gackson in the pair-
in Tokyo.
boatman said that if any
crew was going to win a
medal it would be us the way
we had been carrying on

Our.

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FARMRESIDENTS
MOVED

About 90 per cent of the
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’ KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— The big bass drum in St.

because -

back to the days of the saint.
On his journeys throughout
Ireland, St. Patrick sup’.

With our new coach, Ana “9 .

cruise for a bruise?
We arrived he “the World

_broke the course. record and.
“went straight to the final. -
Ditto for the East Germans
in the second ‘heat.. At this

time, we lost most of our —
.joviality ‘and started. the

triple doses of antacids.
. Thus far we had outshone
‘our teammates, 20 all of a

dangered species. We even

- got seconds on dessert. Betts
discouraged my gentlemen ..
"She's mine until -
Saturday. After that..." If we:

callers,

were caught standing up
unnecessarily,

gently. Ana was always
whisking us away from the
course after our showers.
Once, when she had her back

turned, we escaped, but it J

was also the one time when.
none of our buddies were
around to visit. Some
freedom! -

Race day. We asked that

we be left alone by almost
everyone and we avoided the
rest. Good thing the press
wasn't thick like it was in
Montreal. We were pretty

sick with nerves and fear. -

We just wanted to race our.
very best.
women's pair had also gone
straight to the final after the
heat,.and. also. were . in

often, recalled. the great

di pressure by the media and
: by well-wishers, She:had —
. nightmares of their bad start .

ond, ‘Bteer problems .b
Oe oan fifth.

’t need-any of that. 1°

Boe

we were an. en .

there were:
orders to put uson our asses, —

In 1076, the f f

to let her down. .

drummer whose ominous
pounding had @ pronounced
effect on the i
Irigh. The saint alsois said to
have used the drum to drive

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While Sweiten: did! not: mils
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- Canadian.

THE HERALD, Thursday. March 16, 1978, PAGE 7

- Ganada breaks
winning streak —

Hankansson promptly made
good use of it by blanking the
ninth and taking two in the
ith and final end.

* “Pgul is still not curling a3
sald
team coach
Warren Hansen of Ed-
monton. This time it caught
up with them. The Swedes
curled very well indeed.’
HadiCanada: wopn ths
game and ita: deat) match
“Germany it

the ‘winner of a playoff
between the ‘second-and
third-place teams.

Canada 100 O10 010 0—3
Sweden 000 102 000 2—5

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