1980 Moncton Air Canada Silver Broom — Part 5

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 five of the 1980 Silver Broom, we’ll look at the third draw, held in the afternoon of the second day of competition, Tuesday, March 25.

For Draw 3, Canada’s Rick Folk and Company — Ron Mills, Tom and Jim Wilson — were not challenged at all by Denmark’s Jorn Blach.
Coming into Tuesday after two losses on Monday, the Danes knew they’d be in trouble against the Canadians and that became obvious early on.
Folk put up a deuce to kick off the scoring in the second end. After forcing Denmark to take one in three, Folk came back with another deuce in four and a steal of two in five.
By then the game was virtually out of hand. After Blach made the score 6-2, Folk threw up a four-spot in the eighth end and then it was handshakes, with a final score of 10-2.
Blow-outs were on the menu Tuesday afternoon in all of the other games except one.
The U.S. blitzed a Jurg Tanner-less Switzerland. Tanner sat out the game with the hip injury he had aggravated the night before versus Canada.
Paul Pustovar of Hibbing, Minn., stole four points in the second half of the game with singles in six and seven and a deuce in eight to turn a 3-1lead into a 7-1 victory.
Sweden put up the first six of the competition en route to obliterating France 15-3.
After three ends the game was just 2-2 but the six points in the fourth, coupled with steals of two in the fifth and sixth ends and a three in the eighth put away the French.
Norway took what was a close 3-2 game after six ends and scored four in the seventh and three in the ninth to defeat West Germany 10-4. The loss was the first defeat for the Germans.
In the only close game, Scotland’s Barton Henderson and Italy’s Giuseppe Dal Molin went back and forth until Henderson forced an extra end with a single in the 10th. In the 11th, Dal Molin got his single to win 6-5. With the victory, Dal Molin became the unlikely co-resident of the unbeaten ranks with Folk. However, while Folk had defeated Norway and Switzerland, Dal Molin had only defeated the three winless teams.

Scores from Draw 3

U.S. 020 011 12x x - 7
Switzerland 001 000 00x x - 1

Sweden 020 622 03x x -15
France 002 000 10x x - 3

West Germany 000 200 020 x - 4
Norway 021 000 403 x - 10

Denmark 001 001 00x x - 2
Canada 020 220 04x x -10

Scotland 002 000 200 10 - 5
Italy 100 210 010 01 - 6

Standings after Draw 3

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