McGriff shows stu:

TORONTO (CP) — For a
crowd that numbered in ex
cess of 40,000, the applause
accorded Fred McGriff and
five other Toronto Blue Jay
rookies on opening day was
subdued, to say the least.

Not that it should have
been deafening, but Toronto
fans, like many baseball fol-
lowers, are aware the phen-
oms of spring often become
the bombs of summer.

However, McGriff and
Mike S! son, the two
rookies .in the Blue Jays’
lineup Monday, showed the
throng at Exhibition Stadium
they belong with the Ameri-

_can League East club.

And it wasn't long before
the mild applause of the pre-
game intr i turned to

first in almost four seasons —
and, when catcher Chris
Bando’s high throw sailed
into centre field, McGriff

TROTS HOME

A few moments later, he
trotted home on Tony Fer-
nandez’s triple into the gap in
left-centre field.

McGriff also walked in the
sixth inning and eventually
scored on a ‘loaded sin-

gle by Lloyd Moseby.

“Freddie might not think
he did much today, but he
impressed me,” said Toronto
manager Jimy Williams. “He
showed me a lot.

“He hung. tough with a
very good pitcher and it's not
easy trying to lay off a

thunderous roars in the Jays’
7-8 win over the Cleveland
Indians.

With Toronto ahead 2-0 in
the second inning, McGriff
drew a walk from knuckle-
baller Tom Candiotti in only
his sixth major-league at-bat.
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A big part of this
game, at least in terms of
hitting, is being patient.”

In spring training, the 23-
year-old first baseman col-
lected seven free passes.
While that might have im-
pressed the club manage-
ment, it was his seven home
runs and 16 runs batted in

Lions
step up
search

VANCOUVER (CP) — The
British Columbia Lions have
stepped up their recruiting in
an attempt to replace injured
lineman James Parker, the
top defensive player last year
in the Canadian Football
League.

Import defensive ends
Tony Caldwell and Kenny
Neil have signed 1987 CFL
contracts, the Lions announ-
ced Tuesday.

Parker will be sidelined for
at least half the season after
undergoing knee surgery for
an injury suffered last week
while working out. He has
been the CFL's top defensive
player three times in five
years.

Caldwell, 26, was a line-
backer at the University of
Washington when he was
selected in the third round of
the 1983 National Football
League draft by the Raiders,
now located in Los Angeles.
The six-foot-two, 230-pound-
er will be tried at the end
position by the Lions.

Neil, 27, was a seventh-
round pick of the NFL New
York Jets in 1981. The six-
foot-three, 250-pounder play-
ed college ball at Iowa State.

Caldwell and Neil join
newcomer Walt Bowyer as
potential candidates to re-
place the hard-rushing
Parker at defensive end.

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their job on this team, we'll
be OK. The boxscore will
show I was 0-for-2 with two
runs scored and a stolen base
and I'm pleased with that, All
lever wanted was a shot, to
see if I could. play, and 'm
getting it.”

Williams said that despite
having so many rookies on
his roster, he plans to give

player on the Jays’ roster at
22 years, two months. :

“If Lean have half the day
Fred had, I'll be happy,”
Stark said.

Ueberroth helps
long holdouts

TORONTO (CP) — Base-
ball commissioner Peter
Ueberroth might have
ped in to help trainihg-
camp holdouts if they had
lasted long enough, an official
of commissioner's office said
Tuesday.

Richard Levin, speaking
from his office at  major-

. league headquarters in New

York, said players stich as
reliever Tom Henke and
shortstop Tony Fernandez of
the Toronto Blue Jays and
Cleveland Indians outfielder
Joe Carter might have more
lucrative contracts if they
had protested as long as
Boston Red Sox pitcher Rog-
er Clemens.

Clemens, the 1986 Amer-
ican League Cy Young
Award winner and most
valuable player, rejoined the
Boston Red Sox last weekend
after a 29-day holdout when
Ueberroth helped arrange a
contract.

Since then, Henke and
Carter both have complained

Soviets
down
Canada

CALGARY (CP) — Sergei
Kharin had two goals and
added two assists as the
Moscow Selects defeated
Team Canada 7-3 Tuesday in
the last game of a 10-game
exhibition series.

Team Canada won six of
the games and lost three. The
teams tied once.

Canada opened the scoring
early in Tuesday's game
when Don McLaren tallied
after only 34 seconds in the
first period.

But the Selects came back
with five quick goals from
Kharin, Igor Pazlov.

publicly and said they plan to
confront the commissioner
because he didn't intervene
in their disputes as well.

Like Clemens, Henke and
Carter were just short of the
three years’ experience re-
quired for salary arbitration,

Carter demonstrated his
anger by walking out for only
six days, while Henke’s hold-
out lasted just four. They re-
ceived contracts with base
salaries of $250,000 and
$291,000 respectively.

Alan Hendricks, Clemens's
agent, praised Ueberroth for
“playing an important role in
satisfying his client.

“The difference between
Roger and the other guys
was that he left camp, stayed
out and lived by his convic-
tions,” Hendricks said. “Also,
he’s the MVP and the season
was approaching.”

Henke’s agent preceived
the intervention differently.

“The point that I draw
from it,” said Craig Fenech,
“is that Ueberroth is the one
ywbo put the clamps on the
ownerg and, when‘he ¢hooses
to, he can lift them.”

“If that isn’t further evi-
dence of collusion and direc-
tion from the commissioner's
office, then people must have
a different interpretation.”

“I do.”

complex web of factors means
loyalty will not be satisfied

The difficulties are tied to CTV's decision last year to
end its hockey coverage, leaving Canada with
national network to cover the games’ —- CBC — but two
rival breweries owning the TV rights.

‘Parts of B.C. may miss games
three, four and five of the final’

continue forall the affected areas. é

Meanwhile, in the first round of the playoffs
beginning tonight, Toronto Maple Leaf fans in southern
Ontario appear. to be the first. victims of the so-called
“beer wars” between Molson and’ Carling O'Keefe.

The Leafs game will be available only on the Toronto
CBC affiliate. The rest of the netowrk in Ontario will see
the Montreal-Boston series. .

CHOOSE SERIES
Under the brewers’ contract with the NHL, the two

al

The upshot is Saskatchewan and parts of British
Columbia may miss one of
games three, four and five of the final: The games may be
unavailable in English in Quebec,

the conference finals and

’

northern Alberta. 4
CTV PULLOW

Carling will televise the Nordiques in French in
Quebec, but the pullout of CTV creates problems for

coverage further down the road,

Carling holds the rights to one of the Stanley Cup
‘semifinal series, as well as games three, four and five of
the finals. If the Cup final goes the seven games, Carling
is entitled to a shared broadcast.

With CTV out, Carling has been forced to set up an
ad hoc network of independents and regional networks
for its broadcasts of the later-round games.

‘it's a littl
to see them running with

rights holders alternately choose which first-round series
they would like, with Molson i
Molson also owns local rights in all Canadian-t

. ’
cialis

As of Tuesday, coverage of Carling’s later games was
arranted this: way: CJON in St. John's, Nfid.; Atlantic
Sattellite Network in P.E.1, Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick; Quatre Saisons (French-language) in Quebec;
Global in and central
Ontario; CHBX in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont; CHFD in
Thunder Bay, Ont.; CJBN in Kenora, Ont.; CKND in
Winnipeg; CITV in Edmonton; CFAC in Calgary; and
CKVU in Vancouver.

Vancouver.
hicancd

cities except Quebec City, where: Carling owns the
Nordiques.
. Operating in its Hockey Night in Canada consortium
with CBC, Molson chose the Montreal-Boston series,
Calgary-Winnipeg and Edmonton-Los Angeles.
Carling chose Quebec-Hartford and Toronto-St.
Louis. .*
Carling spokesman Brian Edwards said the brewery
offered to tr the Toronto series for the Calgary-Win-
nipeg series or let Ontario CBC stations run the Leafs
games with Carling commercials, but was turned down.

said has no di
stations.

“The CBC stations in Saskatchewan are very
interested in carrying the (Carling-owned) games, but
they need from network h ters and that.
hasn't been forthcoming,” he said. “Those negotiations
are still going on.”

“Unfortunately, it's a business matter. We paid
many millions of dollars to the NHL for the rights to
these games and we have to get something back for it. It's
a little difficult for us to see them running with Molson
commercials.”

Victoria to bid
for 1994 Games

VICTORIA (CP) — City
council has giyeri approval in
principle to spending $50,000
to. begin ‘preparing a:bid for:

the 1994 Commonwealth "port said.

Games.

It would cost $95 million to
hold the games here, says a
study by Moyes Marketing
Corp.

If a bid were successful,

the B.C. government would
supply $30 million and the

federal government would wa

vide’ $50;million, the te- 5

j@ remaining $15
million would be raised by

ticket and souvenir sales and Chicos

sponsors.

A bid could cost $100,000, Seer

and the province has prom-
ised $25,000.

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More than 50 runners took part in
the race and Ferris, with a time of
37.51 placed second in the 15 year to 19

Last year his time was 44:00.

Ferris runner-up

By CasNews Staff
Castlegar's Jason Ferris came up

with a second place showing in the 10

kilometre Gerrick April Fools Fun Run

44:13.

Nelson's Brent Gallie was the overall
winner, coming in with a new record
time of 32:49, six seconds better than
the previous record.

Other Castlegar racers who com-
pleted the course were Marco Tkachuk,
with a time of 88:39, Mary Asselin who
posted a time of 47:23 and Jerry
Cholson who came in with a time of

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OF POOR

By GEORGE RICHARDS

Bishop Mauro Morelli of Brazil spoke March 23 to a
packed church at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in East
Trail. Morelli is touring Canada to describe the conditions
faced by the poor in Brazil. His visit is sponsored by
Development and Peace, which are celebrating 20 years
of concern and help for the poor in countries all over the
world.

Bishop Morelli heads the diocese of Duque de Caxias
which is part of the large favelas or slums which ring Rio
‘de Janerio. A Brazilian native, he spoke from the centre
aisle of the church starting with the fate of the Indians of
his country.

Genocide, he said, is a hard word and he does not like
using it but nothing else can describe what is happening
to the Indians of Brazil, Of an estimated three million
people at the time of the Portuguese conquest there are
barely 250,000 left, Their last refuge in the Amazon basin
is being destroyed and both the Indians and the rain
forest will be victims of greed. The tropical forest’ is a
heritage for all mankind-and-he urged the audience-to
speak out for the protection of the Indian and the habitat.

Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, rich in

» people and a; land. It is the second
largest producer of agricultural produce. Yet in this
paradise 120 million people are condemned to live in
appalling living conditions and more than 30 million in
absolute poverty. While food is exported for profit people
starve. Peasant farmers are driven off the land into the
favelas to make way for vast agricultural estates.

The Bishop linked any improvement in living
conditions to land reform. President Sarney promised
land reform during the election campaign. A promise
which would have seen 7.4 million peasants get land.
‘After the election this was quickly watered down until it
will take 1,023 years to resettle this same 7.4 million.

Children are of special concern to this gentle Bishop.
Seven million children roam abandoned in the streets of
Brazil, many in the Diocese of Caxias. A child dies of
malnutrition or disease every seven minutes. They
survive as best they can as exploited labor, criminals and
prostitutes.

Morelli has set up special groups who try to reach
these children, gain their confidence and bring them back
into society. One worker had tried for over a year to gain
the confidence of a child. The child was hurt in a street
accident and the worker took him to a hospital. Only then
could he turn to his helper and say “thank you, brother.”
If started today it would take 30 to 50 years to remove
the scars of discarded children from Brazilian society.

Besides the children’s groups, the Morelli has
encouraged the formation of Basic Christian Communities
in his diocese. His method is to help, to listen and to
encourage. A believer in the brotherhood and sisterhood
of people he tries to make the church part of this process.
Saving lives is saving souls. Working together his people
do the best with what little they have and he urges them,
in Christ's words, to “get up and walk.”

Poverty and disease are forever linked. In the
parishes of Duque de Caxias there are 5,000 cases of
leprosy. Leprosy is a curable disease and these lepers
suffer disfigurement and death because they cannot
afford the medication that would cure them. The infant
mortality rate is 65 in 1,000 births, one of the highest in
the world. Many suffer from tuberculosis.

The poor are a source of cheap labor to exploit and
the rate of industrial atcidents is very high. By joining
together in Christian Base Communities, in trade unions
and community associations they are better able to lobby
the authorities for health facilities, safety regulations and
public works. .

The Indians could not fill the labor requirements of
the early colonizers and millions of black people were
brought over from Africa as slaves. Even though slavery
has been long since abolished the black people are little
better off.

Morelli took his training for the priesthood in the
United States. He joined the civil rights marches and
demonstrations of the 60s. Today he carries on that same
struggle in the favelas of Brazil. To be poor and black is a
double burden.

Brazil has only recently returned to democratic
government. For years the ideology of the national
security state dominated politics. The army and police
arrested, tortured and killed with impunity and the
Bishop risked the same fate as he tried to protect his
people. During that time billions of dollars were
borrowed from foreign banks to build mega-projects,
grandiose buildings and line the pockets of the rich and
powerful. Now the banks want the money back, It can
only come from those who received no benefit, from those
who suffered ander the old regime. The poor are asked to
pay the debt of their former tyrants.

At this point Morelli asked how many had read the
Canadian Council of Catholic Bishops “Ethical Reflections
on the Canadian Economy.” He said, humorously, that he
considered it a sin not to have read this document. It
would explain that putting profits before people may take
Canada in the same direction as Brazil. He ended by
urging the audience to become aware of what was

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