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Blue Jays skipper has some tough calls

DUNEDIN, Fla. (CP) — The Blue
Jays will likely take 25 players north
when they break camp next weekend,
club president Paul Beeston said
Friday.

That 25th player would definitely
be a pitcher, manager Cito Gaston
said following the club’s 8-3 win over
Pittsburgh.

Of the starters, Gaston figures only
Dave Stieb, John Cerutti and Todd
Stottlemyre will be strong enough to
throw five innings when the season
opens April 9.

The bullpen, already poised to
come under more than usual stress in
the first few weeks, would be even

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more vulnerable if those pitchers got
knocked out early in a game.

“Even if they're getting hit or beat
up a little bit, | might have to leave
them in there, to save the bullpen,”’
Gaston said. ,

With a 24-man roster the Jays will
bring 11 pitchers north, he said.

Adding to Gaston's concerns is the
sore arm reliever Jim Acker has
developed. Dr, James Andrews, who
performed surgery on Acker in 1982,
is to check him out.

Trainer Tommy Craig said the
soreness is at the back of the
shoulder, a common ailment at the
beginning of spring training. Andrews
will also examine patients Jimmy Key,
Al! Leiter and Tony Fernandez.
tough

Gaston has some roster

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decisions to make next week.
Presuming he takes five infielders
(Fred McGriff, Manny Lee, Nelson
Liriano, Tony Fernandez and Kelly
Gruber); two catchers (Greg Myers,
Pat Borders) and four outfielders
(Junior Felix, Mookie Wilson,

“ George Bell and either Gleralien Hill

or Rob Ducey), it leaves him with
three roster spots.

Competing for those spots are
rookie. first baseman- DH John
Olerud,; catcher-DH Ozzie Virgil,

fielder Tom Lawless, third baseman-
PH Rance Mulliniks and Hill or
Ducey.

Usually a@ team carries 10 pitchers,
but the Jays will carry at least 11 for
the first two or three weeks. It leaves
the of ing a veteran

utility infielder and out-

Atoms a
goal away

LEGIONNAIRES 5 OLIVER 6
LEGIONNAIRES 3 HOPE
LEGIONNAIRES 4 KAMLOOPS 3
LEGIONNAIRES © BEAVER
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Castlegar’s Atom House Team No:
1 finished the season with a chance to
win the B-side championship in a
tournament in Oliver March 23-25.

But the locals lost a heartbreaker to
arch-rival Beaver Valley in the final
game which evened Castlegar’s over-
all record in the tourney at txo xins
and two losses.

Early in the first period of the B
championship, Beaver Valley scored
what would prove to be the only goal
of the game in a hard-fought contest.

No goals didn’t mean no activity
though, as Castlegar defencemen
Darren Crockett, Ryan Davis, Stacey
Bublitz and Ryan Biller were busy
killing 11 Beaver Valley powerplays.
Castlegar goalie Jamie Ross was spec-
tacular in the net’and was honored
with a selection as the team’s most
valuable player.

On March, 24, the Legionnaires
faced off against Kamloops. Dustin
Heagy showed his strong wrist shot
while Kevin Short and Kelvin Bezaire
worked their magic on the
goalkeeper.

‘With the score tied, Josh McInnes
fed the puck to Rance Hall who air-
mailed it in with a backhand shot.
The final score was 4-3 for Castlegar-

Team captain Short was awarded
the MVP honor for Castlegar. The
Atom House, golden boy scored four
goals and had one assist in the tour-
ney bringing his season total to 101
points in 34 games.

Defenceman Bublitz earned the
“*Hustler’’ of the game award.

Earlier March 24, the Legionnaires
faced off against Hope. Hope scoréd
twice early but the Legionnaires came
back as McInnes hammered in two,
aided by Biller, while Dave Evdokim-
off coolly dumped in the third goal.
The final score was 3-2 for Castlegar.
Assistant captain Hall was crowned
MVP for Castlegar.

On March 23 against Oliver, Heagy
scored first for Castlegar with a fine
wrist shot that plunked in over the
goalie’s shoulder. Evdokimoff proved
to be a worthy addition to the
Legionnaires by scoring one and ad-
ding two assists. It was a close contest
but when the final buzzer sounded the
score was 6-5 for Oliver. Bezaire won
the MVP award for Castlegar and
Nathan Dalla Lana earned the
“‘Hustler’’ of the game award.

During the Atom House playoffs
held in Castlegar, Legionnaire Jason
Whiddington-scored three goals with
assists to Mark and Ross.

Honorable mention goes to centre
Bosse for his tenacious fore-
checking and grinding style’ of
hockey:

Flutie released
by New England

FOXBORO, Mass. {AP)}-—— The
New England Patriots have passed on
quarterback Doug Flutie.

Flutie, the 1984 Heisman Trophy
winner from Boston College, won't
be offered a contract, general
manager Patrick Sullivan announced

Flutie was unprotected by New
England under the Plan B free agency
system but had received no offers
from other clubs, said his lawyer, Bob
‘Woolf.

Under the system, any team other
than the Patriots could sign him
before April 1. After then, his -ex-
clusive rights would revert to the
Patriots. Woolf said the Patriots’
statement could bring interest in
Flutie from other NFL clubs.

Fhe B.C. Lions have expressed an
interest in Flutie, 27.

Flutie-came to the Patriots in a
trade_with the Chicago Bears during
the 1987 players strike. He played in
21 games for New England, including
14 starts, completing 166 of 341
passes for 2,203 yards and 14 touch-
downs.

Last season, when the Patriots-used
four diffetent starting quarterbacks
while going 5-11, Flutie played in five
games, including three starts. He
completed 36 of 91 passes for 493
yards and two touchdowns.”

Even after winning the Heisman_

Trophy, doubt was being expressed
that the 5-foot-9 Flutie could make it
in pro football because of his size.

to Class AAA Syracuse until the pit-
ching is straightened out.

There’s always the sudden-injury
route.

“But that’s not legal,’’ he told
reporters. ‘* You guys know that.””

George Bell says his shoulder is
feeling fine. He played left field on
Friday and missed the cutoff man on
his only throw.

Meanwhile Cito Gaston was named
as Canada’s baseball man of the year
for 1989 in voting by the Toronto and
Montreal chapters of the Baseball
Writers Association of America.

Gaston, 46, was named manager
after Toronto got off to a 12-24 start
last year. The Jays went 77-49 under
Gaston to win the American League
East.

The award is voted annually to the
person judged to have made the most
significant contribution to baseball in
Canada. Jays president Paul Beeston
was runner-up and Vancouver
Canadians pitcher Tom Drees was
third.

Sports briefs

King to coach Canadians

TORONTO (CP) — Dave King, head coach of the Canadian
Olympic hockey team, will direct Canada’s entry at the world hockey
championship this month in Switzerland, Alan Eagleson of Hockey
Canada announced.

he also the of V Canucks’
Mike Murphy as an assistant to King. Earlier, Bryan Murray, former
head coach of the Washington Capitals, was named as an assistant.

The Canadian team leaves for Europe on April 3 and plays four
Pre-tournament games, beginning with a pair against West Germany on
April 6 in West Berlin and April 8 in Frankfurt. It then will face the
Czechoslovakian team in Prague for games April 11 and 13.

Canada opens play at the world championship in Bern on April 16
against the West Germans.

Player has Expos remedy

PLANT CITY, Fla. (CP) — Former Montreal outfielder Herm
Winningham says Expos players might be more content in Montreal if
the organization could figure out how to make their wives happier.

“Keep the wives happy, the players would be happier,"’ the Cincin-
nati Reds player said Monday.

**You’re millions of miles away from home and you can’t get the
food you’re used to eating. When you do get back to the States, you
bring the food back but then you have to pay duty on it. It’s a lot of lit-
tle things, but the little things keep guys away from there.’’

Athletes risking AIDS

MONTREAL (CP) — Amateur and professional athletes are put-
ting-themselves-at-risk of contracting AIDS because they are sharing
needles for injecting anabolic steriods, two top Canadian sports doctors
said.

“‘L have no doubt they’re being used in high schools, in weightlif-
ting salons, in junior hockey,"’ said Andrew Pipe, chairman of the
National Committee on Drug Abuse in Amateur Sports. He said many
Police officers and firefighters also like to bulk up by injecting the
drugs.

Smy! up for Masterton
VANCOUVER (CP) — Injured captain Stan Smy}of_the Van-
couver Canucks has been nominated for the Masteft0i’ “Trophy for the
third- straight -year despite a frastrating season

Smyl, the Canucks’ all-time
leading scorer in his 12th NFL
season, was given the nod over
Greg Adams and Doug Lidster in
balloting by the Vancouver chap-
ter of the Professional Hockey
Writers” Association.

The Bill Masterton Memorial
Trophy is given annually by the
writers’ association to the NHL
player who best exemplifies per-
severance, sportsmanship and
dedication to hockey.

Smyl was one of four finalsits
for the award last season.

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SPORTS

CFL nixes equalization

Riders’ signing binge
preciptiates move

The CFL called off its equalization
draft on Thursday after general
managers staged their own version of
Family Feud.

The bickering finally subsided
when commissioner Donald Crump,
citing a spate of recent trades and
free-agent signings, said the draft was
no longer needed,

“These exciting events over the past
several days seem to demonsirate that
there is a definite effort being made
by the teams to create parity among
the member clubs of the CFL,”
Crump said in a news release.

“Because of that it seems un-
necessary to hold the draft so it’s
thereby cancelled."

The equalization, draft was created
in 1987 to help share talent among the
league. It allows the two last-place
clubs to pick three players each from

a list of unprotected players provided
by the remaining clubs.

Asked if the draft will return next
year, Crump replied: “I kind of
doubt it.

“It’s never been a formal
procedure. It’s not in the bylaws or
the constitution of the league, Maybe
this thing will have to be regularized
or abandoned completely.”

Rival general managers had argued
that the draft wasn’t needed because
the 4-14 Ottawa Rough Riders and 7-
11 B.C. Lions, the two last-place
teams last season, had made substan-

tial changes to their lineup ‘through
trades and free agent signings.

The Riders went on a signing haul
that netted high-profile free agents
such as Lions receiver David Williams
and tailback Tony Cherry, Eskimo
defensive lineman John Mandarich
and Argo defensive end Glenn Kulka.
The team then announced it wouldn’t
participate in the draft.

The Lions, meanwhile, signed
several free agents including receiver
Ray Alexander, traded for the rights
for U.S. college quarterback Major
Harris and picked up six players in a

Looking back on NHL

By CHRIS CARIOU
The Canadian Press

A dozen general managers took the
plunge March 6 at the NHL trading
deadline, dealing a total of 17 players.
But almost one month later, how
many can say they made all the right
moves?

Only two — Neil Smith of the New
York Rangers and Lou Lamoriello of
the New Jersey Devils — can point to
tangible benefits from new players
and a coincidental rise in team for-
tunes.

“Trades are always a gamble to a
certain extent,’’ says Rangers coach
Roger Neilson.

Chicago GM Bob Pulford appeared
to have improved ‘his club for the
stretch drive when he obtained
goaltender Greg Millen and forward
Michel Goulet from Quebec the day
before the deadline.

But Millen was pulled from one
recent game and has played poorly in
others, Goulet promptly got injured
and has played sparingly.

Of the swaps, the Rangers’
acquisition of right winger Mike Gar-
tner seems to be paying the most im-
mediate dividends. Obtained from
Minnesota in exchange for Ulf
Dahlen, Gartner had 10. goals in his
first nine games with New York. The

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. Olympic gold medalist coach Lori Fung is

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Fung fracas
getting nasty

VANCOUVER (CP) — Olympic gold-medalist Lori Fung said Thursday

she is angry and frustrated while still wai ing for official word of her coaching
by the B.C. Rh ic G

“My reputation has been tarnished and’ I have retained legal counsel to
help me through this confusing situation,’’ Fung told reporters and well wishers
at a news confe eC.

‘‘Fung, 27,-who-won her gotd -medat in rhythmic gymnastics at the Los
Angeles Games, said she read about her suspension in the newspapers but has
not been officially ii about it by the

“‘I’m waiting for written notification of the alleged-suspension,”* she said.

did receive a letter from the president of the federation saying that she ad-
vised someone else to write the letter but they refused and that she was still
looking for someone to write the letter.””

The federation suspended the former Olympian from coaching B.C. teams
outside the province after Fung sent a competitor not sanctioned by the
federation to a national selection meet in Toronto.

Federation president Adrienne Arnold also said Fung broke the rules by
allowing four of her Vancouver ie Sportive G: ics Club
to wear their own uniforms instead of federation colors.

National team member Camille Martens said the black track suits provided
by the federation arrived only hours before they left for the meet and many did
not fit properly.

“They were really huge and if we had time to alter them we would have
worn them, this despite having to pay for them too. It would not have been wor-
th representing B.C. in something that would have fallen off."”

Martens said the suspension is ridiculous and would have an adverse affect
on the rest of the club members.

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body of trying to emb: Fung.
“I’m annoyed a suspension would be in order for someone who is doing
the type of job Lori's doing and I don’t understand what rules she has broken.
It appears to me they are trying to embarrass Lori.’

Rangers, with a 6-2-2 record in their
last 10 games heading into Thursday's
match with |New Jersey, will finish
first in their division for the first time
since 1942,

The North Stars have also played
well since the trade, clinching the final
Norris Divsiion playoff spot with a 7-
2-1 run. But Dahlen hasn’t been a
major factor with only six points in
the 10. games.

While Gartner helped the Rangers
hold on to first place in the Patrick,
Peter Stastny’s move to New Jersey
from Quebec helped push the Devils
into second spot in the division.

deal that sent quarterback Matt
Dunigan to the Argos.

he decision to call off this year’s
draft, scheduled for April 6, scored
points with GMs like Toronto’s Mike
McCarthy.

“I think it’s a wise one by the
commissioner,’’ said McCarthy,

Lions’ president Joe Kapp said the
club will abide by Crump’s decision to
end the equalization draft but called
for consistency from the league

because his club provided players to”

have-not teams in thé past.

“We're in favor of living up to
whatever the commissioner rules. We
also feel that over the years, the Lions
have compensated other teams and
provided players so let’s develop some
consistency so that our fans don’t
have to be short-changed.

trades

Stastny, obtained for Craig
Wolanin, had four goals—and six
assists in his first 10 games. The
Devils went 7-3-0 over that span to
put some pressure on the Rangers.

The St. Louis Blues and, to a lesser
extent, the Blackhawks, seem to be
the temporary losers among playoff-
bound clubs that made moves at the
trading deadline.

St. Louis obtained veterans Rich
Sutter and Harold Snepsts, both con-
sidered character players, from the
Vancouver Canucks. But the Blues
went to a skid, winning only twice in
10 games following the trade.

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