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Page 14 SCHREIBER NEWS There was so much enjoyment, both for players and spectators in the recent UCW-CWL broomball game, it was decided to do a repeat next year. Rev. C.E.Prinselaar addressed the group on the importance and meaning of the Church in the comm- unity. Lunch was served by Mesdames P.Herliby and W.T. Wallace. ST. JOHN'S WOMENS AUXILIARY DONATE TO MISSION . The Women's Auxiliary of St. John's Anglican Church held their April meeting in Mrs. Ted .Wilson's home with Mrs. A.E.Rigelsford presiding. Plans were made for a bake sale on April 15 in the Joe Cebrario store. Arrangements started for the annual Mother's Day Tea. Mrs. Bruce Lidkea, Dorcas secretary, reported sehding a cash donation and box of clothing to the Shingwah Mission at Sault Ste. Marie, and presently packing clothing for Indian Missions in the west. Notice was received that the annual Women's Auxiliary meeting will be held in Sudbury in May. Miss Ora Mae Harness, of Toronto, spent the holidays with her parents, Reeve and Mrs. F.V. Harness. The Cancer committee met on April 5 to organize their annual appeal, dividing the town in sections and selecting canvassers. Making the arrangements were Mrs. W.Campbell, president; Mrs. B. Macadam campaign chairman; Mrs. D.Rummery, service to patients convenor; Mrs. Teresa Stortini, treasurer; Mrs. A. Niemi, secretary! Mrs. Agnes Bryson, past president; and Mrs. Inez McCuaig, publicity. The collecting will be done April 17 and 18 with all returns to be taken to the town hall on the I9th at 7 p.m. where the count will be made. W.T. Wallace is in Terrace Bay hospital . Friends were sorry to learn of the death of "Sammy' King in London, Ontario on April 2. The funeral. took place in Collingwood. Mr. King had been making his home with son Ray in Glencoe, Ontario. Lester McCuaig visited Mr. & Mrs. Chal. McCuaig in Atikokan last week. Mrs. George Lemieux has gone to Ottawa to visit her daughter Olive (Mrs. C.L.Snyder) who is ill. Mrs. Edwin Holmes returned over the weekend from Ottawa where she visited her son Allan and family and other relatives. TERRACE BAY NEWS SPORTS BEAT - April 13, 1967 by GLEN MAY The end of an era Although it received little mention, Sunday, April 2, was the end of an era. Since 1893 the National Hockey League has been a tight little circle with no more than six teams any one year The NHL moguls have sur- vived two world wars, count- less minor wars, H-bombs, Dr. Tim O'Leary and The Beatles. But now the era ends as no longer will there be six teams playing for the Stanley Cup after completion of the 1966-67 finals. The new half dozen will form a separate division and play an interlocking schedule against the superior six which now comprise the league. How then, did six new en- tries wangle their way into the select upper echelons. of professional hockey? Money, baby! Perhaps the entire farce was neatly summed up in one tidy remark by Stafford Smythe, president of the Toronto Maple Leafs, when he said: "These guys have paid their $2 million apiece, and now its up to them to come through with a team and an arena." He was making reference as to how the new clubs would fare in the big time and what the NHL governors felt about the situation. The present NHL owners f are rich men collectively and individually. They are excel- lent businessmen and none of them have ever been known j not to count their change after making a purchase. With the vast audience television now controls the revenue is poten- tially astronomical if your product has market appeal. Needless to say, the world's best hockey players have ap- peal. The new owners from San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Minnesota, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are also rich men. They, too, are crafty busi- nessmen with an eye to the future and of course, money. It is no secret that today professional sport is big busi- ness. In fact it has been big business for at least the past decade, but only in the last five years have the athletes themselves realized this and only now taking advantage of the situation, demanding huge contracts sprinkled liberally with bonus clauses. In the pastthe athletic serfs have worked for junior execu- tive wages. Today they can match dollars with many cor- poration presidents. And what about the owners? Today they are making more money from their product than ever real- ized. It seems today that whenev- er a person makes a million or two the first move is to at- tempt to purchase any team in any professional sport. The owners and players will benefit greatly from the expan- sion, even if it flops after two or three years. As Staff Smythe said, "who cares?" But some- body has to come out on the short end of the stick. Right -- Joe Fan. He'll be the middic man, fall guy, or whatever you prefer to call a sucker. He'll pay his $6 for a box seat and be conned into thinking he's watching professional hockey at its best when, for example, the Chicago Black Hawks visit Los Angeles to play (2?) the Kings. Fortunately the present NHL clubs won't be matched against the newcomers on a regular basis. They only meet each pretender four times, and naturally, they won't put out 100 per cent., unless they need the win for a better posi- tion in their own league. It'll be' like the Christians against the Lions while the 12 Caesars sit and fiddle. We won't discuss the draft system as its been bandied about thoroughly. Briefly it means the,new clubs are al- lowed to select a few old men or fringe players from each NHL club and as many un- wanted juniors as they like. It's like leaving a starving man the pits from a grape after you've eaten it in front of him. The end of an era -- you bet -- the -dollar has replaced class.