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We were left a bit puzzled after the past. weekend's games with - St. Francis Xavier University, last year's very good representatives of this district in the

' intercollegiate hockey finals, According to the billings the same two teams were to play on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. In the first contest we saw a smooth skating, fast and smart X groap out- play (our judgment of play is the number of times a team puts the puck in the net in relation to its opponent's success in this endeavour) a rather lacklustre group of Panthers to win 5-1. Brian Ostroski was the sole Panther able to beat the X—men's out- standing goalie, Mark Hull. How a student from VIRGINIA acquired the hockey skill that this young man has is a“ mystery to us. We, after the game, advised scme of our players that, in

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skate by the X goal and make derogatory remarks about Robert E. lee's ancestry in the hope of upsetting the agile net- keeper. It seemed to us, however, in Sunday's contest, that two entirely different sextettes faced off. The Panthers were out to play winning hockey and did a great job of it for all three

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Quite fortmately‘the banished participants were not seated adjacent to One another. All this ' gave rise to the prize booboo of the season when Jamie ‘gave out mo ‘ simultaneous double penalties. He just shouts something like"Blue 24 & 18....White 16 & 8... roughing" and we transposed it and announced it to be something like: "St. F.X. 16 & 8...U.P.E.I. 24 & 18." Everything was so confused at this point we were surprised that any— me noticed. Later (:1 Yvon Blais (X 21) and our Brian Ostroski had a slight disagreement, in which Brian, with admirable and surprising restraint, threw no pundes while Blais landed a beaut. Both drew 5 minute penalties and tmreupon entered violent argument from opposite ends of the official's bendm. We may look forward to future ‘meetings between these two teams. Isague play commences this Saturday, still in the local ice box, where the spectators seem to be participants, with Acadia at 2:00 on Saturday and Saint Mary's on Sunday at the same time. Our schedule this year is a peculiar one with all pre—Xmas action being with the tough Nova Scotia teams while after the New Year we will play only N.B. teams until the playoffs. IF WE ICE THE SAME TEAM WE HAD SUNDAY THERE IS NO DGJBT WE'LL BE IN THE BIAYOFES. If ‘we have Saturday's team it will be a long season. We might add to our account of the games that we [thought goalkeepers Howie Murney and Neil MacKenzie played well and were in no way to blame for’ any goals scored upon them. . .and we were also pleased and surprised at/the greatly improved play of Brian Cameron.

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/ the present UPEI's outclassed the Alumni by a lopsided score. Last year's mainly freshman (phase don't insist ‘cn "Freshmnen") has now. become largely a Sophomore team and we thought the difference apparent. The girls play two exhibition games this weekend against the Memorial University girls ("Beothuckies"???)

cope with the dashing rugged game of the locals. After X hadrjumped into

a 2-0 lead, our Dave Cameron-and Brian Ostroski took (marge and potted no less than three» goals in one minute and three seconds. later on both Brian and David scored again and singles were added by Gary 'I‘rainor, Wilfred MacDonald and Trevor Crawford. 'I‘reVOr's girlfriend (too bad, girls, he's taken) and her parents had travelled to P.E.I.

to see the games so we were very pleased to add his name to the list of scorers. We think those who saw this game will agree with us that the

noon, and we can‘t give him too much praise, was our former assistant postmaster, John Mad<ay. Jd'zn handled the positions of statistician and penalty timekeeper and Referee Jamie Kennedy passed out no less than 98 minutes in punishments! We've never seen this before. . . .at one point

bench at the same time! As all had to sit out their terms, with four returning after the first two minutes, four after the interval of four minutes and the remaining two at the expiration of six minutes, things were difficult. To further complicate the situation, some of the players on the ice kept up their misdeeds and were, at varying times during the remaining minutes, also Confusion really reigned. Of course the players did nothing to help as each one kept up directing questions to John about. how many minutes he had ' to stay out of play.

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in St. John's, Nfld. ~ Massage to the Panther- ettes: "Tell no Newfie jokes and eat at the . Starboard Quarter. . .sea- food casserole and Irish coffee réccmmended." I 'Ihey will win many games this season as they

start it off on the 17th and 18th against U.N.B.

in Saint Jd'ln. The basketball Panthers are covered, at length, in this issue by Jdm Neville so we won't dwell too. long cn their endeavours and prospects but we are pleased to report that they made a short sojourn to the Rabbi's home state of Maine where they were successful in three games, the first a 78—70 win over the U. of Maine at Farmingtcn, with subsequent triumphs. over Thomas College 85—71 abd 84-71. « Next action will be at Acadia for the annual Tip-Off Tournament this Friday and Saturday. We'd like to report on our experience as we, for the first time, sat in the official's box as announcer (all'voice..'

no brains needed) and, had an excellent opportunity to hear the comments '

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opponents from opposite sides of the penalty box. In~the old St. Dunstan's' days, when intercollegiate debating was an

organized activity that drew great interest we rarely missed a contest and St. F.X. ALWAYS sent over :a very able duo to face up to the sometimes Canadian champions, S.D.U. Sad to relate. the level .of debate, as heard from

our weekend vantage point, has sunken to a

regrettably low level and we are sure that sud1 former enthusiasts and consultants as Doctors O'Grady and Bolger would be shocked if, indeed, they could follow the remarks greatly interspersed with ‘ invitations to biological absurdities. May we - respectfully suggest to the coaches that courses -in-public speaking could be Very well adéd to the curricula of their 'charges. Perhaps we 'might paraphrase Conny Smythe's "If you can't beat, 'em

in the alleyway, you can't beat 'em on the ice" to "If you can beat them on the podium you can outclas‘s them‘on the ice." Wouldn't it be novel. ... and interesting!