1980 Moncton Air Canada Silver Broom — Part 4

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 second
draw on the first day of competition, Monday, March 24.

With Canada’s Rick Folk getting off to a stellar start by trouncing
the defending Silver Broom champions Norway, skipped by Kristian
Soerum, the team was ready for another tough challenge against the
1978 European champion, Jurg Tanner of Switzerland.
This game was not as easy as, according to The Canadian Press
reports, Folk’s team struggled somewhat.
The trouble really started in the fifth end, when Switzerland the
hammer and was down 3-1.
“We got a little careless in the fourth end, allowing Switzerland to
score three points,” Canada third Ron Mills said to the media.
“We missed two back-to-back takeouts, which put us behind at the
time. But we got two key points in the sixth end, which gave us a 5-4
lead and we played better after that.”
In the seventh end, Tanner aggravated a hip injury and pulled himself
out of the game in the eighth.
Folk made an open draw to the eight-foot in the eighth, when
Switzerland was shorthanded, to go up 7-5. After a single in nine for
the Swiss, Folk and crew ran the team of three out of rocks.
Norway’s Kristian Soerum was able to put the thumping by Canada in
the afternoon behind him. Norway stole three in seven and a deuce in
eight to solidify an 8-1 drubbing of the U.S. and Paul Pustovar.
As well, 1977 champion skip Ragnar Kamp of Sweden came back from a
loss in the afternoon to Switzerland to defeat Denmark 7-3.
In its game against France, Italy opened by scoring in each of the
first five ends to take a 7-0 lead before closing it out 8-4 in 10.
Here are the scores from the evening draw on the first day.

Scotland 000 020 103 x - 6
West Germany 020 302 030 x - 10

Switzerland 010 030 101 x - 6
Canada 102 002 020 x - 7

France 000 000 110 2 - 4
Italy 212 110 001 0 - 8

Norway 000 101 321 x - 8
U.S. 000 010 000 x - 1

Sweden 101 001 011 2 - 7
Denmark 010 110 000 0 - 3