S 4 RSS x e2___ Castlegar News december 4, 1905 SPORTS SPORTS HOCKEY ANYONE? Slocan’s tennis courts double as a skating rink during the recent cold spell as residents of the community keep the blacktopped sur- face covered with wai cellent.skating surface. — Costews Photo Cougars coast to win By The Canadian Press It's no comfort to the New Westminster Bruins but their 7-1 loss in Victoria Tuesday night was a big help for the-Cougars in Western Hockey League play. “We needed this one,” Cougars’ coach Al Patterson said after the game. “We've lost most of our games lately and although we may not have been playing great we were working hard but just not getting anything for-it,” said Patterson, whose team has won only two of the last eight games, both wins against New West. Greg Batters and Chris Calverley scored two goals each for the Cougars, while Dean Ewen came up with the Bruins’ only reply. Victoria is in third place in the Western Division with an 11-17 record while New Westminster is in the base- ment with 5-21. TH Seattle ended a three-year drought with the win over Moose Jaw, the first in an Eastern Division locale since the 1981-82 season. Craig Endean and Brian McFarlane each scored twice for the Thunderbirds. Mike Keane, Garth Lamb, Kent Hayes, Trevor Hendry, Troy Edwards and Jay John- son replied for the Warriors, who outshot Seattle 46-36. “The teams were tied 2-2 and 5-5 at the period breaks. Larry Dyck made 40 saves for the Thunderbirds while Moose Jaw's Darryl Gilmour made 29 stops. The victory improved Se- attle’s record to 9-17, while the Warriors dropped to T-AT-2. RAIDERS 6 WINTER HAWKS 4 Dale McFee led Prince Al- bert with two goals to help boost the Raiders to their 11th consecutive win and tie a club record set last year. The loss was the seventh of the season for Portland, which began a five-game road trip through the East Divi- sion. Prince Albert led 2-0 and 3-2 at the period breaks. Portland tied the game early in the third period on Dave McLay’s second goal of the game. The tie lasted for about three minutes. McFee put Prince Albert ahead to stay and Tony Grenier scored the eventual winner 36 sec- onds later. Both goaltendérs played well, with Portland’s Lance Carlsen facing 48 shots and Roydon Gunn of Prince Al- bert facing 37. TIGERS 2 WRANGLERS 1 In Medicine Hat, Scott McCrady and Al Conroy scored first-period goals in the Tigers’ win over the Wranglers. The Tigers limited Calgary to 16 shots on goaltender Mike Fitzpatrick. Terry Zap- orzan scored the lone Wran- gler marker on a power play early in the second period. In games tonight, Seattle plays the Pats in Regina ind Saskatoon Blades play host to Portland. Lafaive expected to head marketing group | “OTTAWA (CP) — Sports “Minister Otto Jelinek ‘ap- pears poised to pluck one of the top sports administrators in the country to advance his program of greater public fi- nancing of i amateur “programs will not. be in- creased and the increased needs of the sports commun- ity will have to be met from outside government. On Monday, he announced sports programs. Lou Lafaive announced on the d his the g will support the national soccer team's participation in the World as executive director of the Canadian Figure Skating Association effective Jan. 15. . It appears he will be ap- & 365:7241 pointed to head @ group pre- paring a marketing concept 1-800-332-7087 | That national sport governing = bodies can use to help gen- erate more private funds for their operations. Jelinek has said federal financing for national sports (CALL US FOR DETAILS SPECIALIZE IN ALL MODELS IMPORT CARS QUALIFIED W GUARANTEED NSHIP COURTESY CARSA AILABLE YOU SAVE ON PARTS & SERVICE Toll Free — 1-800-332-7087 CASTLEGAR HYUNDAI SALES 713 - 17th St.. Castlegar 365-7241 December 26 - 29, 1985 Spokane Coliseum 4 $69 0 O° Enjoy Kitty & Peter Carruthers, and Per night plus tax meet the Snorks. * Includes Room double occupancy and two tickets, chilled bottle of champagne, 20% off dinner in 1881 Dining Room. Times vary. call for details. Cup in Mexico starting in May by giving 50 cents — to a limit of $200,000 — for every’ outside dollar gathered by the Canadian soccer Association on its Drive to Mexico campaign. The minister gave the asso- ciation $40,000 as the federal match for $80,000 in private funds already collected’ by the association. Lafaive, 57, has strongly indicated he would like to re- tire at age 60 — right after the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics. Director of Fitness and Amateur Sport from its 1968 inception’ until 1973, he moved on to’be president of the National Sport and Rec- reation Centre until 1978, when he took over as director of Sport Canada until Abby was i in Sports Shorts PRICES REDUCED CALGARY (CP) '— Calgary Stampeders have announced a reduction in ticket prices in hopes of attracting fans back to the struggling Canadian Foot- ball League team. Fans deserted the club in droves this season, | although there is some argument whether it was the team's 3-13 record or the fact most seats at quarterback Frank Reich, who has been on the injured reserve list since the start of the season. Ferragamo, an eight-year veteran from Nebraska who spent one pro season with the old Montreal ‘Alouettes of the Canadian Football League, was obtained — along with an undisclosed draft choice — on July 18 from Los Angeles Rams in exchange for tight end Tony Hunter. EXPOS TO PLAY IN B.C: MONTREAL (CP) — Montreal Expos will play a 32-game spring training exhibition schedule next season, including three games against Seattle Stadium cost $19. Ticket prices will return to what they were in 1984 to allow for less-expensive seats along the sideline, general manager Earl Lunsford said Tuesday. % WALKER DISCHARGED CALGARY (CP) — Lewis Walker has “paid the penalty several times over” for exposing himself in public, provincial court Judge Robert Nelles said Tuesday in granting the former football player an absolute discharge. Walker, 26, did not-appear in court to plead guilty toa charge of doing an indecent act in the presence of two women at the University of Calgary last July 30. The guilty plea was entered by defence lawyer Ed 0; gle. Ogle told the court Walker, a running back, was “terminated” by Calgary Stampeders, the team he led in rushing in 1984, the day after the case became public and now is “persona non grata” in the Canadian Football League. FERRAGAMO WAIVED ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Bills announced Tuesday they had waived Vince Ferrag- amo, their starter at quarterback for the first nine NFL games this season. Bills spokesman Dave Senko said Ferragamo’s spot on the roster will probably be taken by rookie in V “s B.C. Place di the club announced Tuesday. Montreal's first Grapefruit League game is March 8 against Atlanta Braves at their West Palm Beach, Fla., training base. ef Montreal plays Seattle at B.C. Place, April 4-5-6. The Expos’ regular season opener is April 8 in Atlanta. PLAYERS INDUCTED NEW YORK (AP) — Former Heisman Trophy winners Paul Hornung and Mike Garrett were inducted Tuesday night into the U.S. College Football Hall of Fame. : Dan Devine, who coached at Arizona State (1955-57), Missouri (1958-70) and Notre Dame (1975-80), also was honored at the 28th annual awards dinner of the National Football Foundation. Hornung, who later starred as a running back with the NFL's Green Bay Packers, was a Notre Dame quarterback from 1954-56. RAINER FIRST IGLS, AUSTRIA (CP) — Italian Mari-Luise Rainer led Olympic gold medallist Steffi Martin of East Germany after the first run of a two-day inter- national luge meet Tuesday by six-one hundredths of a second after two heats down the 1976 Olympic chute. Rainer had a combined time of one minute 24.611 seconds to 1:24.674 for Martin, winner of the women's luge at the 1984 Sarajevo Games. Dream of 100 goals gone By JOHN KOROBANIK The Canadian Press The day before Oilers’ regul opener, Wayne Gretzky casually suggested this could be the year for the National Hockey League's first 100-goal scorer. He suggested two names, Wayne Gretzky and Jari “Both of us are in the prime of our careers,” he told an interviewer. “Jari is playing excellent hockey right now. “Mike Krushelnyski has fit in so well on the left side and, with Paul Coffey dominating so much from his position, maybe Jari or I might have a shot at 100 goals.” He and Kurri both admitted that to have a chance, everything would have to go right. So far little has. Twenty-four games into the season, there are no more realistic thoughts, if indeed they ever were realistic; of 100 Heading into Tuesday's game in Los Angeles, Gretzky had 18 goals and 53 points and appeared headed for a sixth consecutive scoring title. But Kurri had 11 goals, 13 fewer than at the same time last season when he finished with 71, just two back of Gretzky. Kurri had scored just once in the last eight games and that was a backhanded rebound through traffic against Hartford Whalers on Saturday night — not exactly your typical Kurri goal. The most automatic goal in hockey-last season was Kurri perfectly one-timing a Gretzky pass. Even Kurri can't 1979. From there the burly or- ganizer became president of Hockey Canada until joining figure skating in December 1982. Win streak comes By CasNews Staff i rts d to end Dairy Queen is fourth with 13 points, i is one the last time he successfully finished off one of those passes. LOOKING FOR 20 The baffling absence of his scoring touch prompted Kurrito say this week, “Right now I am looking for 20 goals and nothing past that.” At times, Kurri seems preoccupied. But then he's had a— lot to think about this season. He became a husband, a father of twin boys, and only recently signed a new contract giving him about $5,000 a game. Kurri’s early-season problems are typical of what ails the Oilers. They are winning but without the magic, without the emotion. Perhaps it's the winner's syndrome — they figure they can win whenever they want, so they forget the hard work and enthusiasm that originally made them a winner. 5 A record of 6-2-2 in their last 10 games can't be called a slump, but the lack of emotion and execution has prompted coach Glen Sather to publicly criticize his players. The Oilers probably can coast through the regular season and then turn on the jets next spring. In the ime, however, indivi perfor are i and their opponents are getting tougher — tougher to beat and tougher physically. Despite the ever-present threat of retaliation from the likes of Kevin McClelland and Dave Semenko, opponents are“ playing a more physical game against Gretzky and Kurri. HANDLING PUCK MORE Gretzky is having to handle the puck a lot more and like a football quarterback, the longer he hangs on to it the better the opponents’ odds of catching him. Gretzky's passing options have been reduced because opponents are paying greater attention to Kurri. Coffey is not as major a factor in the offence and Krushelnyski-has been replaced on the line by Semenko. Forced to do more himself, Gretzky's offensive performance is 15 points off last season's pace and his plus-minus rating is seven. At this time last year, it was 44. Still, despite their early-season problems, the Oilers were 17-4-3 prior to the game Tuesday with the Kings. They enjoy a comfortable lead atop the Smythe Division and are only one point back of Philadelphia for first place overall. And there's certainly no panic around the Oiler dressing-room. They're as confident as ever. Even Kurri isn't worried. _ He's getting good chances and knows he'll eventually regain his scoring touch. When he does, he may well score 20 goals in one month. : Mid-Week Wrap-up Spor Loomis/AM Ford 3-1 in Castlegar Gentlemen's Hoc- key League play on Monday night to break the team's 15-game winning streak. Loomis/AM_ Ford still leads with 30 points, Gander Creek is in second place with eight wins and seven losses for 16 points, Bill's Heavy Duty is third with seven wins and eight losses for 15 points. K: point behind for fifth place, while Mountain Sports is in the cellar with eight points. For complete statistics, see Mid-Week Wrap-Up, B2. In other games, Bill's tiea Kalesnikoff 7-7 on Sunday. Loomis/AM Ford defeated Gander Creek 7-5 on Satur- day, while Bill's doubled Mountain Sports 10-5 on Fri- Ford, 8:15 p.m., Pioneer Arer HOCKEY — GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Dairy Queen vs. Loomis/AM Castlegar Playboys vs. Sandman Inn, 10 p.m., Community Complex. FRID. AY : 'S LEAGUE: Bill's Heavy Duty vs. Gander HOCKEY — Creek, 9:30 p.m., Pioneer Complex. p-m.; channel 9; Kalesnikolf vs. p.m., Community.Complex. Arena. Costlegar Knights vs. Checkers/Mallords, 7:15 p.m., Community SATURDAY HOCKEY — NHL: Montreal Canadiens vs. Toronto Maple Leafs, 5 Dairy Queen, 8:30 p.m., Pioneer Arena. KUHL: Nelson Jr. Maple Lets vs. Castlegar Rebels, 8 LEAGUE: page Ssndeenion HOCKEY poeerceey CASTLEGAR RECREATIONAL (Standings ex of Dec. 2) Victoria 7 New Westminster 1 BASKETBALL YS28Rs VARBSr £24Y 3 sxBI> SABRES NORE. H : Ge HBEBEY NHBBR EERES? 83 suede HE Q8res Besse 38) GUBIY GayNy 38 snael 131 Chicogo 118 Socroment " Delian 107 Golden Stove 100 aH aad SYRBBBREREEL HH ploce linebocker Kurt Allerman on injured High Three: Holly Smith. 701. Men's High ‘Alston Horswill, 287, Men’ Boy Packers sign detensive bock EH year con: eleore wide NHL, jeol Conodiens send right winger Clouds Lemieux to Sherbrooke Conodvens Hockey Leogue. fork Tlondert recall left winger fom Springtield Indians of ‘New York Rengers recall goaltender Glen the Hanlon trom New Haven Nighthawks of ‘Anas vend’ gosltendet” ton Seowerto New Hover! Lodies Ssien High three: Sondra r jeom High Single: Mugs. 999. Teom Hi Three: Pincurlore’ 2063" Other eon” Corby Stewort, 622; Julie 807. Betty a: = : ogh Sinagle: ‘betty Lengite. 249 TEEEEE STHE E H H ita Tu-Dor Sports Castlegar BIKES FOR ALL .. Sales — Service NUSEEs if iH won-onoo™ ratty A see : tase on Tage St Hp apSeiHTy fy § We i § ~ Ligaments baffle doctors By JOHN KOROBANIK ‘The Canadian Press Dr. Cy Frarfk’s desk at the Health Sciences Centre of Calgary's Foothills Hospital is cluttered with medical Papers, icati ane ks — his h material. : An orthopedic surgeon by training, Frank has spent most of his medical career trying to help solve one of medicine's puzzling problems — how to heal damaged knee ligaments. It turns out that the mysterious ligaments are as puzzling to the medical profession as most medical terms are to laypersons. “They don't know what normal healing is, so they have no idea if treatment is making it better or worse,” he said. “The best parameters that we have clinically is to ask people, ‘How does it feel?’ ” The knee has long been a baffling joint for physicians, surgeons, and ahtletes. Knee troubles have hampered or brought an early end to the careers of many athletes, including hockey great Bobby Orr. Frank has a personal interest in knee ligaments. He suffered a permanent knee injury playing football. “I had the best treatment available, but it didn't work out,” he says. “So I had an axe to grind.” More than a decade later, he's still grinding away. “There's not enough consistency in the success of various tr to reach any ions, he says. Frank and his research team are actually trying to find out “if, in fact, we're‘altering the natural history of any of these injuries with all our fancy treatments.” Or are all the newfangled techniques merely keeping pace with nature’s own healing process? “There's lot of evidence that some.of the things we do are helping,” he stresses. “But it’s naive of us to think that with this complex thing (the knee), we can wave a magic wand and make it normal again.” Indeed, much of the problem is simply trying to figure what.is a “normal ligament.” His efforts carried him to San Diego, Calif., at one stage in his career, to work with one of the best connective tissue research groups in the U.S. His one-year tenure there stretched into three and ended with a national U.S. research award. He returned to Canada a wiser man but still searching for the normal ligament, a conclusion he says is vital to finding the correct treatment. There are a multitude of methods being used to treat knee ligament injuries today. They range from therapy, to surgery and orthroscopic surgery as well as fibre or tissue transplants. “We're just now trying to'sort it all out,” says Frank. What is settled, he thinks, is that if the anterior cruciate ligament is torn and the ends don't touch, “It's history, it won't heal.” ENDS CAREER That situation is career ending for high-level athletes since they simply can't function without the cross-shaped ligament at the front of the knee. Yet is became the athletes’s most feared ligament only in recent years. Previously the medical collateral i was idered the most thr to athletic cart eers. Five of 10 years ago, if the medical collateral ligament was torn, there was surgery to sew it together, six to eight weeks in a cast, a few weeks therapy and back on the field. Today, in most cases, there’s no surgery or it's arthroscopic, a new technique in knee treatment. Usually there's a cast for three weeks, a brace for three more and then aggressive therapy for several months. “The ion is ifthe r ilitation is imp healing of the li or just something that’s deficient,” he said. “Are they doing fine because the knee muscles are so strong (from the therapy) or is the ligament healing?” To answer that question, normal ligament properties must be defined. CHRISTMAS Gift Certificates HRISTMAS GIFT IDEAS 1. 2Day Getaway 98.00 for 2 persons ‘Valid to May 15. 1986 - excluding holidays Stenmark not giving up STOCKHOLM (AP) — At age 29 and preparing for his 13th season of skiing on the World Cup tour, Ingemar Stenmark is no longer con- cerned with titles. “For me, the most im- portant thing is to get the feeling that it's fun to ski,” says the three-time overall champion. “If I train more, there's always a risk that I get fed up and get out of shape.” eee After devoting the off- season to his wife and child, Stenmark set aside 30 days to prepare for the 1986 season. Most racers put in a lot more than that, but he thinks that will suffice. “And this fall has been more productive, better qual- ity,” he said in a recent interview. 2 Stenmark, winner of a rec- ord 79 World Cup races and 15 discipline titles, is trying to recapture the magic after his worst season. He was sixth in the overall standings last year — a fine season for most skiers but a disaster for Stenmark. Worst of all, he failed to win a race. Those who thought Sten- mark would retire in frus- tration over the longest win- less. stretch of his fabled career were wrong. “There was no reason to think about quitting,” Sten- Pacers win By The Associated Press Indiana rookie Wayman Tisdale was around for only nine of the team’s 23 conse- cutive losses on the road, but that was plenty. for him. “Winning one of the road and winning one, period, takes a load off our backs,” Tisdale said after the Pacers defeated Cleveland Cavaliers 98-84 Tuesday night at Rich- field, Ohio. Indiana, 4-14 for the sea- son, hadn't won a National Basketball Association game on the road since last Feb. 15, when it beat Chicago 114-96. In other NBA~ games, it was New York Knicks 111 Denver Nuggets: 94, Wash- ington Bullets 118 Portland Trail Blazers 115, Philadel-' phia 76ers 127 Detroit Pis- AVERAGE PREMIUM ©@ premiums Premiums are down primarily because the cost of claims involving damage to vehicles has been lower than-antici- pated for 1985, and also because of adjustments to various coverages. The result is that premiums will go up for about 1,500 claim-free private passenger vehicles, and down for about 1,400,000. Motorists who have had a chargeable claim in the past year will pay more. tons 107, Boston Celtics 112 Milwaukee Bucks 109, Hous- ton Rockets 118 Phoenix Suns 112, Sacramento Kings 131 Chicago Bulls 118, Dallas Mavericks 107 Golden State Warriors 100, and Seattle SuperSonics 123 San Antonio Spuns “103. CELTICS 112 BUCKS 109 Boston ‘snapped -Milwau- kee’s 24-game home winning streak as Kevin McHale scored. 29 points and Larry Bird 10 of his 18 in the fourth quarter. The Bucks got 28 points from Paul Pressey. ROCKETS 118 SUNS 112 Houston handed Phoenix its 16th loss in 19 games by holding the Suns scoreless in the final three minutes. Lar- ‘ry Nance scored 35 points for Phoenix and Lewis Lloyd led mark said. “I enjoyed skiing last season. aot “It was fun, especially ward the end when I was ski- ing real:well. I enjoyed it al- though I didn’t win.” Stenmark said -“if every- thing goes well,” he plans to _ enter every slalom and giant slalom race, despite the con- troversial Flip 30 format scheduled for use in Decem- ber gate races. Under Flip 30, the top 30 finishers from the first run will Start in reverse order in the second run. And that means the fastest racer in the first heat will start last in the afternoon heat. The old for- mat flipped only the top five. ‘disadvantage for the best be- “I think it’s crazy to change the rules when virtually’ every racer is against it,” . Stenmark said. “But they don't give a damn what we think. “The new rule is unfair and could even be us. The World Cup tracks usually don't last for all racers, and now the new rule will be.a Support Another Choice for Rossland-Trail-Castlegar _ WITH YOUR TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATION cause they will have to start last in the second run. “The gates loosen up and you can get injured. Alex Giorgi (of Italy) knocked out one tooth when hit by a falling pole the other day. T've been hit a few times. You get scared.” Your donation entitles you to generous tax credits. We will issue official recei ts for political contributions that entitle ‘ou to tax credits of 75 per cent on the Vest $200, plus 50 per cent of the next ~ $900. — : road game Houston with 25. SONICS 123 SPURS 103 Seattle posted its fourth straight victory at home by 19 points or more. Seattle got 23 points from rookie Xavier McDaniel. Mike Mitchell led all scorers with 30 points for the Spurs. 76ERS 127 PISTONS 107 Moses Malone scored 12 of his game-high 29 points as Philadelphia outscored De- troit 38-24 in the first quarter and coasted to victory. Vin- nie Johnson led the Pistons with 22 points. KNICKS 111 NUGGETS 94 New York hit 40 of 60 field-goal attempts in the first three quarters, building a 29-point lead. The Knicks’ Pat Cummings led all scorers with 19 points. Mike Evans paced the Nuggets with 18. KINGS 131 BULLS 118 Eddie Johnson scored 29 points, Reggie Theus 27 and Larry Drew 20 for Sacra- | mento. MAVERICKS 107 WARRIORS 100 Mark Aguirre scored 21 points and James Donaldson 20 to lead Dallas. Purvis Short had 25 points and Eric Floyd 21 for Golden State. BULLETS 118 BLAZERS 115 Jeff Malone scored 12 of { his team-leading 28 points in the fourth quarter as Wash- ington beat Portland for its @ sixth straight home victory. Kiki Vandeweghe scored 30 | to lead the Trail Blazers des- pite a stress fracture in his 1 right leg. Mail your cheques to: ~ ROSSLAND-TRAIL SOCIAL CREDIT PARTY Box 512 Rossland, B.C. VOG 1Y0 ~ CHRISTMAS SEASON SHOPPING HOURS Now in Effect until Christmas . Mon. - Fri., 9:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. 1986 INSURANCE & VEHICLE LICENCE. @) Rate GROUPS Adjustments to most vehicle groups in 1986 will reflect _lower market values as , vehicles age. With few ex ceptions, this will reduce premiums for Own Damage coverage. The exceptions will be luxury vehicles costing in excess of $30,000. Premiums for owners of private passenger vehicles in this category will increase according to the value of the vehicle. In dollar terms, for claim-free motorists, about... @ 600,000 premiums will be reduced up to $25 @ 390,000 will be reduced by $26 to $50 @ 300,000 will be reduced by $51 to $100 @ 62,000 will be reduced by more than $100. - @ 1,500 premiums for luxury cars will be increased up to $25 and a small number will be increased by $100 to $300 1986 AUTOPLAN MOTORIST KIT— Information at your fingertips! Pick up your copy from any Autoplan Agent or Motor Licence Office and keep it handy. teers is Eolergrist INSURING A PRO! from 35% to 40%. REFUNDS @ WEEKLY PAYMENT INCREASE The weekly “No-Fault” pay- ments for disability or death will increase from S115 to $130 for accidents on or after January 1, 1986. CANCELLATION A full pro rata share of the DOWN 6 ©) MAXI DISCOUNT 40% The claim-rated discount for four or more years of claim- free driving will increase premium less a fixed fee of $20 will be refunded when a policy is cancelled. This process returns a greater proportion of the unused premium than the previous system. COLLISION COMPREHENSIVE SPLIT The Collision/Comprehen- sive package has been split to make these coverages available separately. This presents more options for the motorist. Some premium comparisons for motorists with a four - \ year claim-free discount: Medium priced vehicle Lower asss5 Pleasure use only To and From Work Business use $441 543 666 VINCE ON THEROVE A INSURING A PROVINCE ON THE MOVE