Ss, Re 82 Castlegar News December 1, 1985 ~ 8 SPORTS oung stars | FELIX BELCZYK Canadian Press Year 20 of World Cup-skiing resumes today with the exception that none of the big names of the last decade are likely to challenge for titles. The young chargers of last season have become the stars of the tour. The leaders of the youth movement include men’s overall ch ion Marc Girardelli of L E22; 1984 champion and 1985 runner-up Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland, 22; and Michela Figini of Switzerland, 19, the women's overall champion: last winter. The only old-timer who figures to receive more than passing interest is the winningest racer in history, Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark. At the advanced age, for ski racing, of 29, Stenmark returns for his 13th season in search of victory No. 80. The number means little, since * Stenmark already has 52 more victories than runner-up Phil Mahre of the United States. But a victory would help salve the deep wounds of 1985, when Stenmark failed for , the first time since 1974 to win a race. Of course, failure is relative, and Stenmark in 1985 ead World Cupskiing had a season to relish. He had seven top-five finishes and was sixth e overall staridings. But he failed for, only the second time in-his storied careér to capture a World Cup trophy. He says openly he wants to erase the memory of -that ‘season. To Stenmark, that means winning. ; Girardelli, a transplanted Austrian, won 11 races last season in rolling up 262 points. His seven slalom victories tied Stenmark’s 1977 record. Zurbriggen settled for second place with 244 points, a remarkable achievement in that he lost a valuable month of competition because of a knee injury. * Girardellli and Zurbriggen appear evenly matched in two of the four Alpine disciplines, giant slalom, and super-giant slalom, while Girardelli’s advantage in slalom is offset by Zurbiggen’s skill as a downhiller. If these two follow form, they could wage the closest battle for the overall title since 1975, when Italy's Gustavo Thoeni, the eventual champion, Stenmark and Austria’s Franz Klammer came into the last race of the season. in a first-place tie. Girardelli is the best slalom skier in the world and is an odds-on favorite to win that title for the third year ina row. He and Zurbriggen, along with ‘Switzerland's Thomas Buergler, rate as favorites in.GS and Super-G. The chase for the downhill title, the most fiercely contested individual crown, began in August with a pair of downhills in Argentina. Switzerland's Karl Alpiger. who until the middle of last season was a second-seed skier, won both those races: Canada’s best in the downhill is Todd Brooker of Paris, Ont., who won one World Cup race last season and finished in the top 10 six times to be rated seventh in the world by the Federation Internationale de Ski. Don Stevens of Rossland, ranked 38th on the FIS list along with 42nd-ranked Gary Athans of Kelowna, 47th-ranked Felix Belezyk of Castlegar and 60th-ranked Chris Kent of Calgary fill out the men's World Cup contingent. : TODD BROOKER Three Trail edges Kimberley Horse new By NANCY SHULINS The Press The fan mail pours in from young girls everywhere, from Emilys and Heathers and Laurens and Tiffanies. This. latest adolescent heartthrob, doesn't live in Hollywood, and he's not a rock star. He lives in Jackson, Ohio, and he is a horse. His name is Sam I Am, he's a three-year-old registered paint horse, and, at last count, he had up to 522 owners. Yes, just like Seattle Slew, Canadian-bred Northern Dancer, and many other high-priced thoroughbreds, Sam I Am, valued at about $2,000, is the property of a syndicate. He's owned by a growing gaggle of horse-crazy girls who have paid $23.95 a share for a scale model of Sam, a shareholder's certificate, and the right to visit, brush, photograph and sit on Sam. The syndication of Sam was the brainstorm of Beverley Henderson, whose husband Jerry, a breeder of standard- breds, acquired Sam in exchange for a saddle. The little paint horse didn’t fit into the farm's breeding program, but Beverley couldn't bring herself to part with him: = SELL HORSE SHARES: her own i she decided to fulfil the dream of ownership for other children. With the help of a lawyer, she formed Sam and Co. Inc. and issued shares now being sold through a handful of retail stores and magazine ads. Since the shares became available last October, more than 500 have been sold, all of which shows that in this era of video games, visions of Black Beauty live on in the hearts of American kids. 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FOOT- BALL—NFL: Regional coverage of Tampo Bay Buccaneers vs. GreerrBay Packers, Los Angeles Rams vs. New Orleans Saints or Minnesota Vikings vs. Philadelphia Eogles, 10 o.m., channel 7; Kansas City Chiefs vs. Seattle Seahawks. 1 p.m., channel 6; San Francisco 49ers vs. Washington Redskins, 1 p.m., channel 7; Kansas City Chiefs vs. Seattle Seahawks, 1 p.m., channel 13. HOCKEY—GENTLEMEN'’S LEAGUE: Mountain Sports vs. Loomis/AM Ford, 9:30 p.m., Pioneer Arnea. RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Hi Arrow vs. Sandman; inn, 9 p.m., Community Com- plex. FOOTBALL—NFL: Chicogo Bears vs. Miami Dolphins, 6 p.m. channel 4. 2 TUESDAY HOCKEY—RECREATIONAL LEAGUE: Castlegar Knights vs. Castlegar Playboys, 10 p.m., Community Complex. GEN- TLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Dairy Queen vs. Gander Creek. 9:30 p.m., Pioneer Arena. BIKES FOR ALL, Tu-Dor rade anche Sports ; heartthrob the last 25 years, says the council, which places the current population at 8.5 million. This year, 3:5 million owners will spend over $9 billion on their horses’ upkeep alone. Another 27 million will ride someone else's horse at least once this year. More will attend one of the roughly 7,400 nationally sanctioned — or 29,000 locally sanctioned — horse shows held coast to coast. Most of those shows will feature quarter horses, by far the most common breed. The American Quarter Horse Association expects to register 170,000 animals this year. During 1985, the AQHA has logged 50,000 new owners, up five per cent from the same period last year. Don Treadway, director of public relations, says the popularity of the quarter horse — “the cowboy's horse” — has been bolstered by TV ad campaigns in which horses help sell everything from bubble gum to beer. Conversely, Treadway says, bubble gum and beer are helping to sell horses. Treadway says western movies like Pale Rider and Silverado can also make a major contribution to the trendiness of the horse. Quarter horses, bred for speed over short distances, race on quarter-mile tracks. The world record for a quarter-mile, held by a quarter horse, is 21.02 seconds, or 75 kilometres an hour. Other popular American horses include the Morgan, the Anglo and half Arab, and the Tennessee Walker as well as two color breeds: the Appaloosa, noted for its spotted coat as well as its speed, stamina, and docile temperament, and the Pinto, or paint horse, a good all-round riding horse whose coat is marked by broken patches of black and white or brown and white. Unlike the breed of champions, other breeds, however popular, tend to produce few superstars, a sad state of affairs in Beverley Henderson's opinion. “I grew up with horses like Silver and Trigger,” she says, adding, “But today's children have only ’ space creatures. “Too many of them have no warm animal they can love and identify with.” She's hoping to change all that with the help of Sam I Am, the $2,000 paint horse whose own newsletter, The Sam _ Scoop, is now in its second printing. Boucher tries to regain form WEST BERLIN (CP) — Canada’s Gaetan Boucher, seeking to regain top form, finished third in the 1,000 metres and ninth in the 500 metres at a speed skating World Cup sprint event Saturday. Boucher, 27, the double Olympic gold medallist from Ste-Foy, Que.,. was” fifth overall in the men’s stand- ings after the first day of the 13-country event, which fea- tures most of the best skaters in the world. Boucher, who won this meet last year, clocked a time of 38.52 seconds in the men’s 500 metres, the opening race of the day. He was nearly a full second off the pace of first-place Uwe-Jens Mey of East Germany, who posted a time of 37.67 seconds to break Boucher's track record of 37.78. Defending world champion Igor Shelesovski of the So- viet Union was second in the 500 metres in 37.81, while Akiara Kuroiwa of Japan was third in 37.97. In the 1,000 metres — his specialty and one of the events he won at the Saraje- vo Olympics — Boucher took third place in 1:17.16. Shel- esovski was.a landslide win- ner in 1:16.19, while com- patriot Andre Bakhalov was second in 1:16.97. Shelesovski leads the over- all “standings with 75,905 points (points are figured on a time differential basis, where the lower the point total the better). Another Soviet, Sergei Fokichev is second with 76,700; Kuroiwa is third with 76,790; Soviet Boris Repnin fourth with 76,865 and Boucher at 77,100. Castlegar January 15 ot the Arena C Richord. ‘ice CASTLEGAR & AREA RECREATION DEPARTMENT DEC. 1 — Public Skating, 1:45 - 3:30 p.m. Admission, Adult $1.25. Student $1.00. Children 75¢ DEC. 2 — Lunch Hour Hockey, 12- 5-6. 1 & Tot Skate 11 - 12. Lunch Hour Hockey, 12 - : Public Skating }:30 p.m. DEC. 4 — Morning Aerobics 10-11 Complex. Adult Skate, 11 12. < DEC. 5 — Public Skating 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. DEC. 6 — Before Supper Aerobics, 5-6 p.m. Kinnaird Elemen- sit Santo & Mrs. Claus at the Complex. Share. ond milk and rec . Rebels vs. Nelson Junior Leats. Game Looking for Christmas Gift ideos? Why not buy a couple of tickets to the Mountreal Old Pros Hock Richard, Niven and more. Tickets: Adults $8.00, Children & Seniors, $5.00. ‘2101 - 6th Ave., Castlegar Phone 365-3386 ; Before Supper Aerobics, @ treat. 10:30 - 12 noon. Game foking place jex. Catch o glimpse of Henri Shack, Pierre Pilotte, Bob teams unbeaten PRINCE GEORGE (CP) — Prince George, Mission and Mount Elizabeth of Kitimat were unbeaten after prelim- inary rounds Friday at the B.C. Senior AA Boys’ Vol- leyball championship. Prince George, ranked sec- ond entering the tournament, was seeded first in the championship round Satur- day after winning its three matches, including a 15-13, 15-8 win over Nanaimo to win its preliminary pool. Top-ranked Mission beat Penticton 15-9, 15-10 to win its pool and Kitimat edged Mount Douglas of Victoria 17-15, 11-15, 15-10 in the third. pool. L.V. Rogers, of Nelson, Delta, Windermere, of Van- couver, and Earl Marriott, of White Rock, qualified for consolation round play. By The Canadian Press David Palmer scored his second goal of the night at 7:07 of overtime on a break- away to lift Trail Smoke Eaters toa 5-4 win over Kim- berley Dynamiters and only their second win of the Western International Hoc: and Terry Thomas, key League season. In the only other game, Cranbrook Royals trounced Elk Valley Blazers 9-2. In Trail, goaltender Ken Kinney, who commutes from Vancouver to play for Trail on weekends, was brilliant for the Smokies. He faced 56 shots and stopped nine drives in the overtime. frame. Also scoring for Trail were Barry Zanier, Terry Proulx who scored at 19:05. of the third period to force overtime. Kimberley’s Clayton Fos- ter had two: goals while Myron Luker and Kevin Dairy Queen wins By CasNews Staff Dairy Queen edged: Kal- esnikoff 3-2 Thursday night in’a Castlegar Gentlemen's Hockey League game. ‘In other games, the Loomis/AM Ford vs. Bill's Heavy Duty game on Wednesday was cancelled. On Tuesday, Mountain Sports nipped Dairy Queen 6-5. Stenos host playdowns Cominco Stenos' Curling Club is hosting the Zone 1 (Kootenay) Ladies’ Curling playdowns for the B.C. Win- ter Games this weekend in Trail. Teams of women over 19 -years of age are participat- ing. Early entrants included the Faye Fransson rink of Creston who were Zone 1 winners last year and bronze medallists at the Winter Games. This year's winner will advance to the B.C. Winter Games Feb. 27 to March 2 in Terrace. Other rinks entered in- clude the Sharon Christenson rink of Creston, Carol Wat- ers of Nelson, April Biscaro of Trail, Mary--Hamann of Beaver Valley, Charmaine Staley of Creston, Mary Becktold of Creston and Ger- ry Brown of Trail. Fishing best of season . Those fishermen who have a nice luxury boat with all the comforts of home on board are really enjoying the winter fishing on the North Arm of Kootenay Lake in spite of the cold and other fishermen who really do want to catch a trophy Gerrard Rainbow are sticking it out as fishing is at the height of the season now and both rainbow and Dolly Varden are hitting steady. Floyd Howg and Ervin Bennett from Lamond, Alta. were among the luckiest anglers. They reported into Woodbury Resort with a 20-pound rainbow, a 17-pound rainbow, a 12-pound and six-pound Dolly Varden, a 10'4-pound rainbow and released'25 fish from 10-pounds to 16-pounds in their two-week visit. Many fish were reported in but a few of the lucky anglers are: Jerry and Gary Davis from Livingston, Mont., a 14-pound and 20-pound rainow; Heinz Fikus from Kaslo, a 13%4-pound Dolly Varden; Art Baptie from Calgary, Alta., a 14-pound and 20-pound rainbow; Heinz Fikus from Kaslo, a Varden; Willy Bisner from Kent, Wash., an 11-pound rainbow and 6-pound rainbow; Arty Johnson from Kaslo a i 10-pound 18%-pound rai Tom from B Mont., an from Trail an eight-pound rainbow. anglers are looking forward to the New Year's Day Derby. RENT-A-BOBCAT (With Operator) sixth Loomis/AM Ford still leads the league with 14 wins in as many games for 28 points. Gander Creek has eight wins and six losses for 16 points and second place, while Dairy Queen has a 6-8-1 record for third place and 13 points. Bill's is fourth with 12 points, Kalesnikoff fifth with 11 ‘points and Mountain Sports is in the cellar with six points. Moore rounded out the scor- ing. The Dynamiters remain in second place with a 12-5 rec- ord and Trail is 2-16-1 in last place. “I want to play this kind of hockey,” said Kinney, ‘who plays commercial hockey Vancouver. “I'm getting lot of shots, it's good for me.” In Cranbrook, the Royals put ona strong offensive dis- play to whip the visiting Blazers. The Royals did all their scoring in the first and third periods, leading 5-0 after one and 5-1 after .two. Playing-coach Bill Hobbins, Randy McDonald and Mark Bogoslowski each scored twice for Cranbrook. Mitch Levac, Bob Moore and Kelly Ferner had singles. Stu Tanton and Doug Robb were the only Blazers to beat Cranbrook goalie Mark Tay- lor, who stopped 22 shots. Elk Valley's Rob Beckner and John Tezlick combined to ake 25 saves. The fourth-place Royals are now 5-10-1 for 11 points while Elk Valley is 7-8 for 14 points. COMMUNITY NEWS BELL TOLLS FOR REMARKABLE BR. FRANCIS “Any man’s death diminished me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” — John Donne, from Sermons upon Emergent Occasions. . *. . The long, slow tolling of the death bell rang out over the wide hilltop acreage of Westminster Abbéy last week and was doubtless heard in the streets of Mission just below. It tolled the passing of Brother Francis Michael Dodson, a university science graduate, former band leader, disk jockey,-Ronald McDonald clown, and for the past six years, monk at the Benedictine monastery of the Abbey of St. Joseph of Westminster. This part of the story begins in 1976 when the very successful and worldly entertainer, Mike Dodson, feeling a little rundown entered hospital for a routine checkup. A Jan. 28, 1984 article in The Sun picks up the detail: “On June 21, 1976, he had driven his new Corvette to White Rock Peace Arch Hospital for what he thought w, simple surgery. He was told that he had cancer (Hodgkin's lymphoma) and might die from the ope: that had to be performed immediately and as he had listed his religion as (Roman) Catholic would he like a priest? “The shock (he said) was total. “While waiting for the priest to arrive — he hadn't been near one for 20 years — he looked out of the window at his Corvette and realized the futility of life in the fast Weekend Wrap-up —earricarecearionat — ockty rACUE (stondhnge av et Nov, 20.) ‘a ortiegar Knights Yo Sondmon tan fs 7 Hiroe Arne A Comlegar Playboys 3 EheckSea Publ Malird Sporn 3 HOCK! (Stondings os of Nov. 29) Wout Loomi/AMFord 14 0 0 9% 2 90 10317 Mountoin Sports Hut 311 0 65 92 6 Results Thyrs., Nov. 28° Doiry Queen 3 Kolesnikolt 2 ‘Wed. Nov. 27 — Loomis AM Ford vs Bu s Heavy Duty. concelied Tues. Nov. 26 — Mountamn Sports Hut 6 Prince Albert Medicine Hot loops lew Westminster 3 Victoria 2 (OT) tos 71 % 76 27 Yo 107 21 Bane iB mS 12 ten, Minn Froser. 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