B2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 30, 1981 American League Minnesota wins By ‘The Associated Press Minnesota Twins might have found a new way of scouting major-league base- ball talent: by sticking to their own backyard. The Twins, who have lost some star players to free agency in recent years be- cause they could not afford them, have gotten a taste of their future this week, thanks to Kent Hrbek and Tim Laudner, the most valu- able players in their minor leagues this season. Hrbek and Laudner, who had spent parts of their youths in the Minneapolis re- gion, were called up this week from the minors. To celebrate their return home, they each hit home runs in their major-league debuts with the Twins. Laudner’s two-run shot in the seventh inning off pitcher Dave Rozema and three hits and three runs batted in by Gary Ward led the Twins toa 6-0 win over Detroit Tigers in an American League game Friday night. On Monday, Hrbek's solo shot boosted Minnesota to a 3-2 win over the Yankees. Could EDMONTON (CP) — Joey Walters is threatening to break Saskatchewan Rough- riders’ single-season records for pass catching. : Heading into today's Can- adian Football League en- counter with Edmonton‘Eski- , + mos at Commonwealth Sta- dium Walters had 40 catches for 700 yards — within range" of the Saskatchewan records of 73 receptions and 1,319 yards. The man who set the rec- ords in 1965, Hugh Campbell, now is the head coach of the Eskimos. “He can have the records Laudner, 23, hit 42 home runs at Orlando and was named MVP in the Class AA Southern League. Hrbek, 21, is a firts base- man from VIsalia of the Class A California League, where he too was MVP after hitting .380 with 27 home runs and 112 RBI. Elsewhere in the AL: Bos- ton 12, Oakland 5; California 9, Baltimore 2; Cleveland 1, Seattle 0; New York 6, Chicago 1; Milwaukee 6, Texas 8; and Toronto 4, Kansas City 3. RED SOX 12 A’s5 Rookie pitcher Bobby Ojeda, called up from the minors Aug. 9, coasted after being handed an 11-0 cushion. The REd Sox used 165 hits, eight walks, a hit batsman, a wild pitch and a passed ball for their biggest run output of the year. ANGELS 9 ORIOLES 2 Rookie Mike Witt, who carried a 27.00 earned-run average against the Orioles into the game, trailed 2-0 after facing three Baltimore batters, but settled down to pitch a complete game against the error-prone Ori- oles. Six California runs were unearned because of five Baltimore errors, three by third baseman Doug De- Cinces. INDIANS 2 MARINERS 0 Rick Manning's soft single in the ninth inning produced the game's only run as John Denny (5-4) threw a six-hit- ter to hand Seattle its eighth loss in a row. YANKEES 6 WHITE SOX 1 Switch-hitter Jérry Mum- phrey hit triples from both sides of the plate and also homered from the right side for only the second time in his career to lead the Yan- kees to the win. BREWERS 6 RANGERS 3 Held to five hits in their previous 20 innings, the Brewer bats came alive as Cecil Ceoper lined a threerun homer and Robin Yount had a two-run single to spark a six-run first inning. BLUE JAYS 4ROYALS 3 Toronto ended a five-game losing streak when George Bell scored from third on a passed ball by Royals cat- cher Jamie Quirk. break records before returning to the Roughriders helped him. “I accomplished some of the things I wanted to ac- complish. If I couldn't make the team I wanted to make it a difficult decision.” + Walters said Saskatche- wan’s rise from a pair of 2-14 seasons to a 4-3 record this year has happened because new head coach Joe Faragalli did not clean house. “Before it was always nothing but first-year play- ers. Now we've got two, three and four-year players and you can't beat exper- ience. If anybody really ob- served there really haven't been that many changes. We're basically the same team that was 2-14.” ‘Besides winning, there is another major difference for Walters this year — more fun. “There's no doubt about it, when you're winning a little bit you tend to have a lot’ more fun and you're more enthusiastic.” Kickoff time for today's game, televised on the CTV western network, is 1 p.m. PDT. te Summer hockey school at the complex. — CosNewsFoto by Chery! Wishlow Still talks a good game By Gary Kingston COURTENAY (CP) — The co-ordination has slipped a bit, his throws tend to sail off line more than they used to and the number of ringers can probably be counted on two hands, but David Lucas can still talk a good game of horseshoes. “These shoes here cost $35 when I bought them two years ago,” he says, proudly pulling a battered looking pair from under his seat. “These look rought. Now you can see the amount of ringers that’s’ been on with those shoes.” The 72-year-old retired Vancouver fishermen plays every Sunday “with all the old cronies” at Central Park in Burnaby. “It’s better than sitting in- side watching television.” The sport is one of 25 at the B.C, Summer Games, but as is usually the case, tends to take a back seat to the more traditional sports like baseball, swimming, tennis and track and field. In fact, if it wasn't for the inquisitive types wandering over from the nearby base- ball diamond, the horseshoe pitchers would be playing only to other competitors. So Lucas, who has been ptiching shoes for more than 85 years, jumped at the chance to bend the ear of a reporter. “This is a game that is good for you in your later years in life when you retire,” he says. “In Vancouver, we play all winter. Sometimes we shovel the snow in between the pits to play. AHEALTHY GAME “It's wonderful for the health, especially a friendly as long as he doesn't catch too many against us,” said Camphell,...whose club. is locked: in a neck-and-neck struggle for first place in the Western Division with Brit- ish Columbia Lions. Walters, 25, hag played with Saskatchewan since mid-season 1977, the year he came to Winnipeg Blue Bombers from Clemson. But, due mostly to a recurring pulled thigh muscle, he has never played a full season. His best year was 1979, with 48 catches for 402 yards, including a team record 14 receptions in one game. “I'm a competitor but ba- sically didn’t allow myself to heal,” Walters said of his partial seasons. He risks further injury by returning kickoffs and punts. Walters said a trip to San Francisco 49ers National Football League camp in 1580 Baarts makes B.C. games a family affair COURTENAY (CP) — Alex Baarts was so deter- mined to make the B.C. Sum- mer Games a family affair that he made his wife a 89-year-old soccer player. That's the way Gloria Baarts is listed in the Games master list of competitors and officials. But the man- ager of the ladies soccer team from Surrey doesn’t get off the sidelines. Each zone is allowed to send 17 athletes and two coach-managers. Since Alex's nephew, Steve, already helps as assistant coach with the Surrey team, there wasn’t any room for the wife. “She's the manager of the team,” said Alex Baarts. “We couldn't have a coach and a manager and an assistant coach so we put her as an athlete. She's not playing or anything, she’s just come with us.” Actually, Gloria acts as a den mother for a team that includes two daughters and another girl who lives with the family, with another young daughter waiting in “There're really all athlet- ic,” says the proud father. “All in my family they've been girls and that's the kind of sport (soccer) we got into. Kinsmen Park provides fun and enjoyment for young athlete: Most versatile Charlotte (Lottie) Dod (1871-1960) won the Wimbledon singles title (1887-1893) five times, the British Ladies Golf Champ- ionship in 1904, an Olympic silver medal for archery in 1908, and represented England at hockey in 1899. She also excelled at skating and tobogganning. Mildred (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias (U.S.) was an All- American basketball player, took the silver medal thehigh jump and gold medal in the javelin throw and hurdles in the 1930 Olympics. HIND END A DRAG Seals cannot use their hind flippers on land; they hunch along dragging the flippers behind them. Turning professional she first trained as a boxer, and then, switching to pro golf, eventually won 19 champion- ships, including the U.S. Women’s Open and All- American Open. She holds the women’s world record also for longest throw of a baseball — 296 feet. To Advertise Your Sports Events Call 365-5210 CosNewsFotoby Chery! 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The school is for boys from 8 to 16 years old. The boys have 1'/ hrs. of ice time and the same amount of rec- reation time. Hockey Season Hockey season will be starting this year at the be- ginning of October. Castlegar Minor Hockey Executive this year is: Tom Biln — president Past pres- ident and West Kootenay Rep — Gibb Lind, Vice pres- ident — Jerry Hurd, Sec- retary — Nona Paulson, Sailing held in The third. annual West Kootenay Open i Championships held at Red- fish Campground east of Nel- son last weekend was again claimed a huge success by all competitors. This event, The game is played by two players on a pitch of two 1.8-metre square boxes with two steel pegs set firmly in the centre 12 metres apart. Each player throws two 2%-pound shoes from one peg to the other in an at- tempt to encircle the peg with the shoe, scoring a ringer worth three points. “T used to be a 50 percenter (five out of every 10 throws a ringer),” says . Lucas, be- moaning his lost co-ordin- ation. “Now I'm 35 — if I get 35 that’s good.” The best players average seven or eight ringers for every 10 throws. One of those is B.C. men’s champion Matt Zablotny, 68, of Van- conver, wha only, tock up.the, sport seven years BBP: je: “It looks easy, but it’s even: more scientific than bowl- ing,” says Zablotny. “I bowled myself once upon a time — competed with the world’s best — and it didn’t take me as much practice as this takes. “Here you've got distance, you've got to have an open shoe, proper turn and you're got to have your line — three combinations, that’s a must for ringers. In bowling, you can have your line and even if you haven't got a perfect role, if you're hitting the pocket you'll still get your - strikes. “Well this here is just dif- ferent. The opening of the shoe is only 3%: inches. So there's a lot to it.” Pp by ¥V Kootenay West of Nelson, attracted 41 competitors from as far away as Portland, Oregon and Toronto. Although winds were light - on Saturday for the Olympic Triangle events, a good breeze blew on Sunday for the Long Distance Race with 27 of 31 starters completing that course. All 41 compe- titors took part in Saturday's Triangle racing. The Overall winner of the regatta was Bruce Johnson of Nelson with a low 4%: points from two first place finishes and one third place. Rick Galliver, also of Nelson, fin- ished second with nine points from two seconds and a fifth; and Sandy Babin from Nelson light winds on Satur- day proved advantageous for the lightweights and those with large sails but fierce competition still made for some excellent racing. In the lightweight Cate- gory, it was Bob Smyth from Kelowna taking first place, followed by Sandy Babin of Nelson in second and Wayne Spector of Creston in third. The medium weight class was won by Rick Galliver of Nelson with Rich Mooney of Rossland taking second and Caroline Paquet from Port- land, Oregon in third. In the heavies, Bruce John- son of Nelson fir first, with Simon Walker . in second place and Simon's brother, Treasurer — Sharon Isfeld, ice cu-ordinator and Rebei Liaison — Jim Corbett, Equipment Mahiager — Doug Coulson and Merv Roshin. sky, Re, = Ellena Car- ee Pees inchiet — Fred Lalonde: Lad Other executive members are Marcel Audet and Marty Carew. Esther Swanson is the president of the Ladies A uxiliary. Vacancies are still open in all divisions for league coaches, Rep coaches, and Division Manager. Appli- cation forms can be picked up at the Recreation office. The executive is looking, forward to a good year. The, rep coaches — Pee Wes to Juveniles — should be ap- pointed by early September. Registration for Minor Hoc- key will be held Sept. 12 and | 19 at the complex. champs Nelson Julian Walker in third, In the of Nelson in third. The Long Distance race on Sunday proved to be the best race of the regatta, The stronger air made for better competition, and the specta- cular display of colorful sails scooting across the water which pleased the many locals and tourists who flocked to the beaches on the sunny weekend. Simon Walker and Rick Galliver shot well ahead of the rest of the fleet, the lead changing back and forth until Simon finally nosed ahead enough to take first place in one hour and 16 minutes. Galliver was behind a few minutes to take second. The rest of the fleet showed some great racing and it came down to the wire for Julian Walker to win third place. Aquanauts having wind-up Tuesday Castlegar Aquanauts are having a wind-up no-host barbeque on Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the arena complex. Awards will be presented to: the swimmers. As well, new executive will be elected. = Many Aquanauts recently, took part in the provincial. swim meet in New West-: minister. The Aquanauts: placed fifth overall. 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These are enclosed in specially designed ventilated white wooden chambers encased on three sides and exactly 39” from the ground. “You can always tell where due north is when you come to an airport,” he told me, It's the ‘side with door off.” Castlegar’s temperature is recorded every hour, 24 hours a day. Back inside the weather office I saw satellite pictures of B.C. which had just arrived by wire service from Vancouver. The day I visited no clouds were in sight for any part of southern B.C. He also showed me maps of pressures. I learned basically that when a weatherman’ says “high pressure” it AAt \eteorolog LINDA HALL e u ists IMAt wy I ers Getting to Know Your Neighbor gar weather office “maintains weather network indices of how the weather is affecting the dryness of the forests.” Ina dry summer, a good 90% of Jim's time is spent trying. to predict where lightning might strike next. This past winter, as we all remember, was again an unusual one with “record low snowfall in January and February.” It's been a long time since we had the kind of warm weather common to 80 years ago. “The 40's and 50's were the warmest years in many hundreds of years.” I asked Jim what's in store _weather-wise for the coming months. He refused to com- mit himself. “The best we can forecast is two or three days. - A five-day forecast is often wrong.” Jim has been in weather work for twenty-two years now. He was born in Van- vouver and as a boy. “was always fairly interested ‘in the weather.” The beginning of his career found him sending up radiosondes in the Arctic. These balloons with — Airport's crystal ball isn’t used to predict weather means hot, sunny weather ahead, and “low pressure” it means cancel the picnic. Almost all of the forecas- ting is done in Vancouver he told me. “It's our job to disperse the forecast, make sure it’s correct and make — minor changes.” The Castle- small radios are used in daily forecasting and send back During the winter he handcrafts musical instruments because they were inspecting it for ships and icebreakers. “Lenjoyed it (the Arctic), but I wouldn't do it now. It was very cold. It got down to 58 degrees below, fahrenheit.” Jim has also spent some time at the Vancouver wea- ther office; and he studied meteorology in Ottawa and Toronto, I asked Jim why weather stations are always located near airports. He answered, “historically the department of meteorolcgy was born because of a precise need for correct weather information by pilots.” Fifty per cent of their work, in fact, is briefing pilots. On one wall of the office is a large nautical map This highly by pilots. The other half of the work of the weather office is on and pressure from altitudes of up to 100,000 feet. ‘He and the crew also'spent’ alot of their time‘observing ice, not because there was nothing else to observe, but SURPRI .C. GRANUL the public. They do this with tén radio broad- casts a day'and one TV progranra'week: Thursday'at’ 5:80 p.m. on-channel:10 Jim orone of the other weather- overview of the week's wea- er. ‘ The. business of weather, -according to Jim, is “some- thing of a challenge most of the time, but I wish we could be much more accurate when it comes to\the hay farmers. They phone us and may or may not cut their hay by what we say.” Jim and his wife Sandra are “quite avid squaredan- cers” who enjoy getting out on the dance floor twice a week. The Fishwicks have three children, Christine, nine, Karen, seven, and Tom, four. In the summer Jim tends a large, productive garden and in the winter he handcrafts the sound is the top, and B.C. cedar is one of the best woods in the world for tops.” He did tell me, however, that wood must be dried for ten years before in can successfully be used in this craft. Jim is “looking forward to the first of September when I can get back at it.” He plans this winter to make another violin and maybe another dulcimer. John Charters’ Reflections.and Recollections will appear in the Wednesday issue of the Castlegar News. PICKING out a melody on one of the | hobby during the winter, and during the dulcimers he has made is Jim Fis! icrafting musical hwick, Is musical Ten - years ago, after a short evening school course in “Vancouver, he made his first guitar, an s vy of his summer, he tends a large garden. cop: a Martin. He also showed me another prize creation, a copy of a Stradivarius violin. He has handmade numerous dul- cimers, zithers, and thumb pianos, “instruments made to be played,” he calls them. And play them he does. I listened while he did a melodious interpretation. of © “Greensleeves” on the dul- cimer. He used a variety of expen- sive woods from all over the men give a Bag... SAVE...