1980 Moncton Air Canada Silver Broom — Part 3

With the 2009 Ford World Men’s Curling Championship underway in
Moncton, New Brunswick, Curling into the Past will focus on the last men’s world championship in Moncton, the 1980 Air Canada Silver Broom, with a day-by-day, draw-by-draw look at that event from 29 years ago.
For part three of the 1980 Silver Broom, we’ll look at the first draw
on the first day of competition, Monday, March 24.

On each of the first four days of the round-robin, there would be two
draws per day, with five sheets and all 10 teams in the event in each
draw.
For Canada’s Rick Folk, his team would not have an easy start. Folk
would start the Silver Broom against the defending champion, Norway’s
Kristian Soerum.
In the evening draw would be another tough match, the 1978 European
champion, Jurg Tanner of Switzerland.
Before the start of the event, Folk told The Canadian Press he was
looking forward to the challenge right off the bat.
“It just might be good for us to play Norway and Switzerland. If we
win, it would get us off in high gear,” Folk said.
Folk also indicated that he felt the calibre of competition here was
about the same as it was at the Calgary Brier he had just won.
He also talked about the Saskatoon rink’s strategy.
“We’ll take gambles ... go for the freeze instead of hitting. It’s
just a matter of going afte the other team instead of waiting for them
to come to you.”
The strategy obviously worked in the opening draw.
Folk curled 88 per cent in hammering Soerum 7-2.
“We decided we were going to go right after them and whatever chance
we had, we put a draw in behind and kept them looking at tough shots
all the way through those first three ends,” said Folk to The Canadian
Press.
Canada scored one point in each of the first three ends and did not
look back from there.
Another interesting game had Paul Pustovar of the U.S. scoring two in
nine to take a one-point lead and then stealing two in 10 to cement a
7-4 victory over Barton Henderson of Scotland.
Here are the results of the first draw:

Canada 111 010 03x x - 7
Norway 000 101 00x x - 2

Italy 120 020 010 x - 6
Denmark 001 101 002 x - 5

U.S. 010 100 102 2 - 7
Scotland 100 011 010 0 - 4

Sweden 010 101 010 0 - 4
Switzerland 102 000 200 1 - 6

West Germany 000 100 202 x - 5
France 010 001 000 x - 2