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NEW YORK (AP) — With
one set of numbers reviewed,
baseball's owners and gen-
eral managers turn to ano-
ther line of figures as they
try to strengthen their teams
with free agents.

Batting averages, home-
run totals, won-lost records,
innings pitched and dozens of
other statistics have been
dissected and decisions made
on who among the 41 eligible
players would be selected or
ignored.

CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 15, 1967

Reggie Jackson No. 1 again i

Now attention focuses on
the bottom line — that string
of digits, preceded by a dollar
sign and often containing six
zeroes, that will determine if
a team can lur a star free
agent to new environs.

“This weekend is when we
really start to work,” general
manager Hank Peters of
Baltimore Orioles said ‘after
the sixth annual re-entry
draft Friday.

Conducted under a new set

-of rules because of the mid-

summer strike and with some
of the biggest potential free
agents already signed to
new, multimillion-dollar con-
tracts, the draft contained
fow surprises.

Reggie Jackson, the first
player chosen in the initial
re-entry draft in 1976, was
No. 1 again, selected by Tor-
onto Blue Jays. Some see
Jackson as past his prime at
age 35, but seven other
teams also picked him.

Toronto president Peter

Bavasi said he'd try to sell
Jackson on the challenge of
playing for a young organi-
zation.

“He's been on champion-
ship clubs and I think at this
stage of his career he might
be in the chall

: outfielder. Dave Collins, with

Cincinnati Reds last season;
first baseman Lamar John-
son, with Chicago White Sox
in 1981; and outfielder Joe
Rudi, who played for Boston
Red Sox last season.

of building a young team like
ours into a contender.”

Ron Guidry and Dave La-
Roche, two of Jackson's New
York Yankees teammates,
also were selected by the
Blue Jays, who also picked

M Expos also sel-
ected Guidry and LaRoche, a
well as pitchers Larry Chris-
tenson (Philadelphia Phillies)
John Denny (Cleveland In-
dians), Sid Monge (Cleve-
land) and Bill Campbell (Bos-
ton) and catcher Tim Black-

n baseball draft

well (Chicago Cubs).

Guidry was the most pop-
ular player of the day, sel-
ected by 17 teams. The Yan-
kees also retained negoti-
ating rights.

Guidry’s agent, John
Schneider, said Guidry would
seek a five-year guaranteed,
no-cut, no-trade contract. He
rejected a Yankees offer of a
three-year deal worth $2.4
million.

Pitchers led the selection

‘list. Guidry was followed by

Te
Denny, with 13, and Joaquin
Andujar, with 11. Collins was
picked by 10 teams, but his
old club, Cincinnati, failed to
retain his negotiating rights.
* (Phe Reds and Houston As-
tros both made Guidry their
first-round pick, then
dropped out of the draft.
Minnesota Twins, San Diego
Padres and Detroit Tigers
made no selections.
Pittsburgh, coming off a
disappointing season, picked
the most players — 15 — and

pushed the draft to 18
rounds.

The Yankees had an-
nounced last week, after ac-
quiring outfielder Ken Grif-
fey in a trade from Cincinnati
and thus removing his from
the free-agent market, that
they would forego this year's
draft. But after passing on th
efirst round, the Yanks
plunged in, drafting five
players and retaining rights
to Jackson, Guidry, LaRoche
and outffelder Bobby Murcer.

e

Athletic ballet is

in.

well displayed here as the Selkirk Saints men's vo

lleyball team (left) and

the

women's team (right) battle the Okanagan College teams.

The tournament held Friday and Saturday was the only Totem Conference tournament scheduled for Castlegar. Results not available at press time.

Has bitter memories

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Coach Bob Berry of Montreal
Canadiens has some bitter
memories about his last sea-
son with Los Angeles Kings.

Berry guided the Kings
into the NHL ___ playoffs la:

VOTE

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ALDERMAN

spring with the fourth-best
record in the NHL before Los
Angeles was eliminated in
the first round of the playoffs
by New York Rangers.

The Kings, through owner
Jerry Buss, and Berry ag-
reed to part ways following
the season and Berry signed
to coach the Canadiens fol-
lowing the resignation of
Claude Ruel.

“I left L.A. because ba-
sically we had a target of 88
points and we got 99,” Berry
said Friday. “But going into
the playoffs, the quote (from
Buss) was that the jury was
still out on me.

“Then we didn’t play our
best lineup in the playoffs. I

was told who to play and
when.

“I told them (Buss and
general manager George
Maguire) after that they may
as well go behind the bench
and oper and close the doors
themselves.”

SAME METHODS

Berry, who began his pro
career in the Montreal organ-
ization, said he hasn't
changed his coaching. meth-
ods with the Canadiens.

“They had 108 points last
season and they won the
Vezina Trophy,” he said.
“The. only. disappointment
was losing to Edniontdn in
the first round of the play-
offs.

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HAMILTON (CP) — From
the likes of tight end Tony
Gabriel to quarterback Tom
Clements, the outstanding
players in the Canadian Foot-
ball. League East Division
were honored Friday in an
evening of nostalgia.

Gabriel, who started 11
years ago with Hamilton Ti-

-ger-Cats and will retire from

Ottawa Rough Riders at the
end of the season, was hon-
ored with the Lew Hayman
Trophy as 1981's outstanding
Canadian in the East.
Clements, who leads Ham-
ilton Tiger-Cats against Ot-

tawa in the East playoff final
today, received the Jeff Rus-
sel Memorial Trophy as the
outstanding player in the
East.

Ticat Ben Zambiasi won
the James P. McCaffrey
Memorial Trophy as the out-
standing defensive player;
Val Belcher of Ottawa took
the Leo Dandurand Memoria}
Trophy as the i

Gabriel caught 73 passes
this year for 1,006 yards, an
average of 18.8 yards a catch,
and five touchdowns, He also
has caught at least one pass
in 187 consecutive games — a
professional football record.

Clements, the outstanding
CFL rookie in 1975 with Ot-
tawa, guided the Ticats to a
first-place finish in the East,
largely on the strength of his

offensive lineman and Ced-
rick Minter of Toronto Argo-
nauts .was awarded the
Frank Gibson Trophy as the
rookie of the year.

passing. He on 301
of 523 passes for a 67.6
completion percentage and
4,636 yards. Twenty-seven of
his throws went for TDs and
he was intercepted 23 times.

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VOTE
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for Alderman

blacklisting of athletes who
compete in South Africa. The
former Wimbledon cham-
pion, competing in a Grand
Prix tournament at Wembley
Arena, confirmed he will be
playing in the South African
Open in Johannesburg later
this month. “I'm a sportsman,

not a ”" he said.

CASTLEGAR NEWS, November 15, 1981

B3

Mgjority of ball players may be underpaid

MONTPELIER, VT. (AP)
— Reggio Jackson has been
called about every name in
the book during his colorful
and cont baseball

ballplayers not only deserve
their exorbitant salaries,
they may even be

value of the top 14 agents in
the 1977 draft. The results
are to be lished in the

said Sommers, who has ocm

career,

But underpaid? A Middle-
bury College professor says
you can add that to the list.

“I probably would not have
winched if I would have
found out Reggie, Jackson
was worth his weight in
jellybeans,” said Paul Som-
mers. But with the aid of a
mathematical model he fig-
ured Jackson was worth his
weight in gold.

In fact, the majority of

leted a detailed statis-
tical study of the top 14 free
agents in the first re-entry
draft.

Sommers found Jackson
was by far the most valuable,
player — and not just on the
field, Jackson was the only
player in the first family of
free agents to generate more
than $1 million in revenues,
he said.

Working with an econom-
ies major, Sommers looked at
the effectiveness and the

Waiting for

WHISTLER (CP) — ‘The
upcoming ski season will be
the first real test for this
European-style village about
two hours by car from Van-
couver that would like to be
the Aspen of the North.

A few years ago Whistler
was a small village where
Vancouver residents came to
aki for the weekends on the
two side-by-side mountains
with their vertical drops of
ore than 1,200 metres, the
highest in North America.

Now Whistler has gabled
chalets where skiers can pay
as much as $200 a night in the
winter and can golf in the
sumimer on a course Arnold
Palmer charged $100,000 to
design. ~

But with $551 million to be
spent on an organized pro-
gram of development in the
valley between 1979 and

* 1987, many people are in too

deep to think of partying.
They worry about the
trend to warmer winters, the

projects stalled by high in-
terest rates, the crisis for the
waiters and bartenders who
cannot afford to live here
without two jobs and even
about the jet-set image it is
developing.. ‘
HOPING FOR SNOW

Day after day nearly ev-
eryone in town has been
watching the snow swirling
around the peaks, hoping it
will soon lanket the stillbare
lower slopes. i

Business hit the skids last
winter when warm, wet
January weather made ski-
ers feel as if they were slid-
ing on wet cement.

So this year the push is on
as Whistler boosters hit ski
shows from Calgary to Chi-
cago pushing “Canada’s rew
world-class ski experience.”

The typical buyer in Whis-
tler today makes at least
$100,000 a year, is about 50
and wants to spend more
time with his teenage kids
before they move out of their

Journal of Human Resources.
+ The key to Sommers's con-
clusions was a formula by
which he determined the
players’ “marginal revenue
product,” based on, in part,
the number of points each
player contributed to his
team's slugging average.

The formula was designed
to compare the effect of
player performance on team
winning and the effect of
team winning on team rev-
enues,

Using players’ salaries,

stadium ticket sales, conces-
sion sales and the over-all
amount of broadcasting rev-
enues, Somers analyzed the:
$23 million in contracts
signed by the 14.
SAYS SOME UNDERPAID
“Contrary to popular op-
inion among fans, the model
indicates that some free
agents are still underpaid,”
Sommers said. “The salaries
of free agents currently seem
exorbitant (but they merely
relfect what fans and man-

Perform at a level commen-
surate with their salaries.”

The only two to fall short:
of their worth were Bobby
Grich and Joe Rudi of Cali-
fornia Angeles, who were
benched with injuries,

The biggest bargain of all
was Willie McCovoy, Som-
mers said. E

agers are willing to pay for j

the game of baseball).
“Free agents did not lose
their ambition to play and did

snowflakes

have quiche, fresh fruit salad

own, says realtor Drew Mer-
edith,

Hotel rooms in the town
centre are being sold off as
strata-title tax shelters for as
much as $565,000.

But Whistler Mayor Pat
Carleton, a retired coffee
salesman who came here to
fish but now is too busy with
the burgeoning resort, ob-
jects to the exclusive image.

NOT JET SET TOWN

“We are not creating a
town for the jet set,” Carl-
eton argues. “When Whistler
was first organized the place
looked like a bunch of junk
yard hovels.

“Sure, if you stay in the
town centre it will cost you
more than if you were
outside it. But there will
always be room for the
average person in Whistler.”

Nevertheless, there are no
McDonald's hamburgers in
the town centre. Instead
there is the Gourmet Bakery
take-out where for $5 you can

and Perrier.

Rooms in the town centre
this winter will go for about
$60 to $100 a night and $200
will rent a two-bedroom suite
with a loft and its own jac-
uzzi. Cabins where 10 people
can sleep on the floor rent for
$1,000 a weekend in ski
season,

The real estate boom
bumped the price of a two-
bedroom condominium from
$40,000 three years ago to
$180,000 today.

“These prices have a lot of
people scrambling to find
ways to stay,” says Diane
Eby, outgoing president of
the Whitslter Ratepayers’
Association.

“People who come for a ski
holiday are not going to be
bothered by the high prices
as much as someone who has.
to live here. It used to be that
we all knew each other but in
some ways the residents are
on the outside looking in.”

Lacrosse not alive in Canada

WINNIPEG (CP) — La-
crosse, Canada's national
sport, is alive and well and
being played all over the
world — except in Canada.”

The 12-man game was first
played by the Indians and
refined in the Montreal area
during the 1860s by dentist
George Beer.

for isloated pockets of very
competitive lacrosse in On-
tario, British Columbia and
Quebee, field lacrosse is: all
but dead.

Its successor, the six-man
game of box lacrcese, is also
floundering and Manitobans
who remember the game at
the peak of its popularity say
it's a shame.

Ernie O'Dowda, one of
three brothers who played
the game here during tho
1920s and 1980s, was one of
several old-timers who gath-
ered recently at the fourth

reunion of the Manitoba

Ne hn

Lacrosse A torem-
inisce about the old days.
“Lacrosse is a great game,”
said O'Dowda, whose small
Winnipeg home has become
the unofficial repository for
the sport's archives. He has
also written one book on the

early year of field lacrosse in”

Manitoba and has another in
the works covering more
recent years.

HAD NO TROUBLE

“It was played by some
great players. And it turned
out some great kids. In fact,
in all the years I played and
coached, I can’t think of one
kid who ever got into serious
trouble.”

Ross Fargey, another local
enthusiast, said the young
didn’t have time to get into
trouble because they were
too busy playing lacrosse and
hockey.

“There were some terrific

hockey players who played’

lacrosse,” Fargey said. “Peo-

ple like Andy Hebenton (of
lew York and Jol

Ferguson (of Montreal Can-

adie: y

ns),

D'Dowdr said ‘field la-
crosse disappeared com-
pletely in Manitoba and box
lacrosse, after several dec-
ades of popularity, has de-
clined because it is no longer
part of the school curriculum..

“In 1928, mainly because of
an administrative change, it
stopped being taught in the
schools,” he said. “Three
years later, 1931, it stopped

.
more intensive game played -

in out-of-season hockey rinks,
took its place. It has been
played continuously since,
although today’s Winnipeg
Senior-Junior Lacrosse Lea-
gue is a slender link to the
bright past the sport once
enj ;

“I guess the biggest prob-
lem with lacrosse is that

learning to handle the stick
takes a lot or practice,”
O'Dowda said. “You can’t do
it overnight. It probably
turned a lot of people off.”

That, and the violence in
the sport. Because cross-
checking is legal in lacrosse,
anyone who ducked a well-
aimed swat was likely to be
clouted on the head — and
that was before helmets were
mandatory.

The sport is alive and well
elsewhere in the world. In
the eastern United States,
field lacrosse holds a high
profile among sports played
in the Ivy League colleges.

‘O'Dowda still holds a
flickering hope lacrosse will
return to the prominence it
once enjoyed.

“They play it all over the ;

world,” he said. “I think it
will come back here in
Manitobs. It's teo great a
game to allow to die,

" “And it is our national
sport.”

Could be literature of hockey

WINNIPEG (CP) — Peter
Gzowski says when he ap-
plied for a Canada Council

it to finance a recent
writing project, he wrote
simply: “I'm going to write
the best goddamn book on
hockey.”

Gzowski did not get the
grant but he did write the
book —
Lives — a work he hopes will
become a part of Canada’s
hockey literature.

“[ have always thought
this country should have a
literature of hockey as Amer-
icans have a literature of
baseball,” Gzowski said in an
interview.

The and former
CBC radio and television host
said a golf game with Edmon-
ton Oiler superstar Wayne
Gretzky spurred him to ap-
proach team. owner Pete
Pocklington with the idea of
spending a year with the Ed-
monton NHL francise.

“He (Pocklington) said only
the good stuff, not the bad,
could be in the book,” Gzow-
ski said. 2

REJECTED LIMITATIONS

Gzowski said he rejected
that kind of limitation and
Pocklington said he would
leave the matter to Oilers’
coach Glen Sather.

Sather wasn't enthusiastic
about the idea at first.

“He said ‘I'm interested in
winning the Stanley Cup and
you're not going to help me.’
But he finally agreed.”

The next hurdle to over-
come was winning Accep-
tance by players and mange-

‘The Games of OUrment at training camp. It

didn’t come easily.
“Everyone was very wery
at first but over the year,
much to our amazement,
Sather, Pocklington, the
players and I became friends,

“It was a long process
though: hanging around,
knowing when I was invited
and when I was not, not
going where I wasn't
wanted.”

So far, the book has done
well, despite the lack of en-
thusiasm the Canada Council
had for the concept, and the
year Gzowski spent trailing
the Oilers about the conti-
nent looks like time hell
spent.

RETURN.
MAYOR
MOORE

Gzowski won a national -

sports writing award for a
profile on Gretzky and he has
scored a kind of literary hat
trick,

Pocklington bought 7,000
copies of the book, sight
unseen, to be distributed to
each season ticket holder.

During a presentation at
centre ice at the Edmonton
Coliseum this month, Gzow-
ski gave Gretzky the first
copy, something he said he

promised ' the young
player.

Gzowski scored again
when Edmonton players
praised the book.

“It was quite moving
stuff,” Growski said. “Gret-
zky said it sent chills up his
spine. Another player said it
gave them some sense of
history to their careers and
lives.

“I want to get a copy of
that tape, send it to every
radio station in Canada and
sell 40,000 books.”

His third triumph wass a
review which he said he con-
siders the ultimate triumph.
His book and what it has
done for hockey was com-
pared with Roger Kahn's The
Boys of Summer and what it
did for baseball.

“With a slugging average _

of .5600, the 89-year-old Mc-
covey produced a marginal
revenue product of $571,378,
more than 10. times his
$50,000 salary.”

For Sommers, the conclu-’

sions show Yankee owner
George Steinbrenner, one of
the biggest free agent in-

‘SCOOPING IT UP is Tom DePaoli in a gathering bet-
ween street hockey enthusiasts at Twin Rivers
Elementary School. Bounding after him is Gabe Jar-

To act

as B.C.

Games hostesses

A key element in the suc-
cess of the B.C. Winter
Games, to be staged in Trail
district.March 4 through 7,
will be the staff of 51 hos-
tesses. Those girls who in-
quired through regular appli-.
cation or by personal contact
were accepted as hostesses.

Fashionably attired in
their white dresses, and
“B.C. Green” jackets, the
lovely goodwill ambassadors
will assist the games ex-
ecutive, competitors, and
public in a number of ways.

Five will handle regis-
trations, special events, early
arrivals and late departures.
They will also help with lunch
box distribution each day of
the games, as well as medals
presentations in badminton,

Raquetba

judo,. netball’ and weight-
lifting. Thirty-six others will
be on duty at 21 sports
venues during the three-day

action, 10 will be assigned to

specific guests, while all 51
will be involved in the official

opening ceremonies and ban-"

..quet on’ March ‘4,

_. Chariman of protocol, Dor-
eeen Robinson, is coordin-

ating the activities of the

games hostesses, as well as
medals presentations, hos-

Pitality, socials and special

events.

Information regarding the
1982 B.C. Winter Games in
the Trail district is available
through the Games . Office,
1050 Eldorado Street, Trail,
B.C. V1R 8V7. Phone
364-0281.

Il playoffs

in Trail Saturday

Raquetball zone playoffs
for the B.C. Winter Games in
Trail will take place Saturday
at the Trail 1 Centre.

Crescent, Trail or phone
864-1726, or 868-5591 during
office hours.

The entre fee is $5 and
Canadian Raquetball Associ-
ation members only are elig-
ible. Entry deadline is Wed-

and under, 18 and under and
16 and under. Competitors
must be between 18 and ,23
years old to enter. .... 3

Competitors may enter an
older age group, but not a

. younger one, and not more

than one.

For more information con-
tact Richard Baril, Assistant
Sports Chairman, 204 Diana

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vestors; may have been right
when he said: “You measure
the’ value of a: ballplayer ‘by
the number. of people he puts
in the, seats.” Pee)

That. may.mean Jackson’

may only.have, been worth
“his weight in silver daring

joked:
He began the study won-

dim with David

the last season,” Sommers’

dering if the players were
really worth the hefty pay-
cheques, like the estimated
$7 million, five-year contract
recently awarded Ken Grif-
fey to put on the Yankees’
uniform.

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