1980 Moncton Air Canada Silver Broom — Part 6

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 six of the 1980 Silver Broom, we’ll look at the fourth draw, held in the evening of the second day of competition, Tuesday, March 25.

Rick Folk was starting to develop a pattern at the Moncton Silver Broom — huge victory in the afternoon draw followed by a tight game in the evening draw. That continued in Draw 4.
Even though Scotland was winless in its first three games, Silver Broom rookie Barton Henderson of Aberdeen Curling Club (in what would be his only world's appearance) was anything but an easy mark for the Sasktoon rink.
The two teams went back and forth with only deuce by Folk in the third making a difference. With a 5-4 lead in the ninth end, Folk salted the game away with an excellent angle raise to get his two and win the game 7-4.
The victory put Folk all alone on top at 4-0. He called being on top, unbeaten, "a super feeling."
On another sheet the game was anything but close between the only two former world champion skips in the Silver Broom, Norway's Kristian Soerum and Sweden's Ragnar Kamp.
Kamp was having trouble with his team and had a meeting midway through the game against Soerum. According, to The Canadian Press, Kamp and his third Hakan Stahlbro had "minor differences" throughout the game.
The problem was the fact Norway scored two in the first and then singles in the second and third for a 4-0 lead. After Kamp put up a single in the fourth, Soerum threw up two more deuces, including a steal in the sixth.
After the game, Kamp was asked about the meeting. He said the rink discussed some changes in tactics but the strategy turned out to be wrong as Norway won the game 10-2 in eight ends.
As for Switzerland skip Jurg Tanner, he took a painkiller and froze his injured hip before the fourth draw so he could return after missing the third draw.
Tanner admitted that the hip, which he had banged up several months earlier, still bothered him during the game — but you wouldn't know it based on the result as he dropped a five on Giuseppe Dal Molin of Italy in the fifth as part of a 10-3 drubbing. The win unceremoniously dropped Italy out of the unbeaten ranks while Tanner moved to an even record of 2-2.
For seven ends, France looked like it would have a serious shot at winning its first game. After seven, France led the U.S. 3-2.
However, in the eighth, Paul Pustovar plopped a big six down on the French and ended the game 8-3.


Here is the scores from Draw 4:

Norway 211 022 02x x - 10
Sweden 000 100 10x x - 2

Denmark 010 010 011 0 - 4
West Germany 200 101 000 1 - 5

Canada - 102 010 102 x - 7
Scotland - 010 101 010 x - 4

Italy - 000 101 10x x - 3
Switzerland - 030 050 02x x - 10

U.S. - 010 100 06x x - 8
France - 100 001 10x x - 3

Standings

Canada 4-0
Italy 3-1
Norway 3-1
U.S. 3-1
West Germany 3-1
Sweden 2-2
Switzerland 2-2
Denmark 0-4
France 0-4
Scotland 0-4