s2 Castlégar News November 5.1909 SPORTS Rose says he deserved ban CINCINNATI (AP) — Pete Rose denies in his authorized biography that he ever bet on baseball, but he admits he deserved to get suspended from the game he loves because of his associations and illegal gambling +——/he former Cincinnati Reds manager also says in the book, inadvertantly released Friday in Cincinnati bookstores, that he agreed to loan one of his main accusers $10,000 to try to keep his illegal gambling a secret Rose said he eventually accepted a lifetime ban from baeball last August because it was the best deal he could get in light of his admissions of betting with bookmakers His agreement last August permits him to ask for rein statement after one year, It contained no formal finding he The book, Rose's official biography, was written by Roger Kahn. It contains one chapter dealing with the gam- bling allegations that eventually led to his lifetime ban. The book was supposed to be released next Wed- nesday by Macmillan Publishing Co., but was accidentally shipped to some stores early, said Macmillan spokesman Susan Richmand. The book contains no major revelations, It does repeat Rose’s denials that he bet on baseball or that he knew his close associates were involved in drug dealing. Rose says in the book he knew he could get suspended from baseball for placing bets with bookmakers. He said he agreed to loan former associate Paul Janszen, his main ac- had bet on baseball and Rose neither denied nor confirmed he had done so. +I have no regrets,"” Rose says in the My Story be punished. Making this settlement was metodo.” “1 did some bad and stupid things. I deserve to the public eye book, Pete Rose: the right thing for cuser, $10,000 last winter to try to keep his gambling out of After a falling out with Rose over a gambling debt last winter, Janszen told baseball authorities he placed bets on baseball for Rose. Rose claims Janszen tried to blackmail him to get the money Piniella off to Reds CINCINNATI (AP) — The Cincin nati Reds closed the Pete Rose Era on Friday, hiring Lou Piniella as manager to give them a clean start after a season soured by scandal Piniella was given a three-year con tract by the National League club ata reported $350,000 US annually after spending the last 16 years with the New York Yankees of the American League as a player, coach, manager, general WANTED CLEAN COTTON RAGS Castlegar News 197 Columbia Ave. Castlegar manager and just about everything else. Piniell: 14 with the Yankees, replaces Cincinnati's most famous and infamous No. 14 Rose-was b: ed from baseball on 24 for alleged gambling on his own Tommy Helms had replaced him in the dugout only on an interim basis. From the first day of spring training last season, the Reds Went through a nightmare. There were daily stories about Rose's gambling, and the club played poorly, fading to fifth in the NL West with a 75-87 record after four , who wore No. team straight second-place finishes Piniella said he is not concerned about taking over Rose’s Reds after their disastrous season. ‘NEW START” “Not at all, it’s a new Piniella said. ‘*The most important thing is to go to spring training and in still a positive attitude in the players. | don’t think we'll have an_ attitude problem.”* Piniella said he thanked Yankees owner Steinbrenner for releasing him from a $400,000-a-year start,”’ George CASTLEGAR & DISTRICT RECREATION DEPARTMENT NOV. 5 — Red Mountain Racers 10th Annual Ski Swap. Registration 9.30 12. Buying 12:30-3:30 Complex Hall Public Skating 1-3 p.m — Fitness Classes 9-10 o.m. and 10-11 a.m. Complex Hall. 5-6 Kinnaird Elementary, 7-8 p.m $.S. $2.50 drop in. 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He said Friday, he did not want tomanage the Yankees again. “One is usually enough; two was certainly enough,” Piniella said of his stints as Yankees manager Piniella was a Yankees coach from June 1984 until being promoted to manager the first time in October 1985 He guided the Yankees to a 90-72 record and setond place in 1986, and a 89-73 record and fourth place in 1987, before becoming general manager in October 1987 He resigned that job in May 1988 te- assume other responsibilities with the Yankees, then returned as manager in June 1988 to replace the fired Billy Martin as manager. New York went 45-48 under Piniella. Saints no angels on field By JIM ZEEBEN If you tried to be positive about it, you could say the Selkirk College men’s soccer team finished the season witha perfect record Unfortunately for them, it was a losing record © The Saints capped their ‘*perfect"® season with a 5-3 loss to Capilano here last weekend, making their season record an untarnished no_wins and eight losses There was a glimmer of hope that the Saints were going'to end the futility when they built a 3-2 lead Capilano after the first half. But alas, it was not to be, as the defence simply couldn't keep Capilano off the board in the final half “1 don’t exactly know what hap: pened,” said Saints coach Rob John son. ‘They stopped taking individual responsibilities and waited for someone else todoit.”” | Reg Trapp, Kevin Heatne aid Vahid Pouvmokhtari scored for the Saints. “It’s a frustrating way to end the season,” said an exasperated Johnson over Selkirk College will host the Kokanee Invitational volleyball tour- nament Nov. tand 12at the Castlegar campus. Fifteen teams will compete in the tourney, eight on the men’s side and seven for the women. The CasNews will carry the results. $52,000 up for grabs in curling clash KAMLOOPS (CP) — Defen- ding champion Dan Cleutinx of Vancouver joined seven other un beaten rinks Friday in the men’s draw of the $52,000 Labatts Crown of Curling Cleutinx downed Terry Vankka of Kamloops 11-4 and Fred Thom- son of Nelson, B. Exton and Tom Bucky, Burnaby; Dennis Graber, Grande Prairie, Alta.; Jim Ar mstrong, Richmond, and Steve Skillings, Victoria. Buchy remained in the unbeaten ranks with an 8-7 extra-end victory over Eric Wiltzen, of Kamloops, the runner-up in this year’s provin cial final Jan Wiltzen, however, fared better in the women’s half of the 64-rink competition as she kept pace with seven other 2-0 teams. The others are Tami Mulock, Prince George; Sheril Becker, Cranbrook; Karen Lepine, Surrey; Laureen McCrae, Vernon; Betty Johnston, Abboisford; Petti Jen- nings, Burnaby and Vicki Gould, Coquitlam. Tyson set to fight in London LONDON (Reuter) — Mike Tyson will defend his world heavyweight boxing title in Lon- don, promoter Don King said Saturday. . No dates were mentioned, but high on the list of possible conten: ders are former challenger Frank Bruno, national champion Gary Mason and promising Olympia gold medallist Lennox Lewis of Kitchener, Ont **We will be coming over here,’’ said King, here for today’s World Boxing Council super- featherweight title fight between Azumah Nelson of Ghana and Briton Jim McDonnell. ‘We are just looking around to see who we can go for."" “*T think a re-match with Bruno would be good over here, especially the way he became a hero in America over the way he acquitted himself against Tyson.”” Mason has gone on record as saying he would be ready for Tyson in 18 months, but King said: **Why not 12 months? We're ready and nothing would be better than to come over here and have a majestic performance."” heavyweight Sports shorts infielder in the Blue Jays’ system. CALGARY (CP) ta WINNIPEG (CP) Vikings Jays back with the Hat VORONTO (CP) — The Toronto Blue Jays announced Friday they have renewed their player-development contract with Medicine Hat of the Pioneer League for the 1990 season. A manager for the rookie class club will be named at a later date, the Blue Jays said. However, the coaching staff will include former major league pitcher Marty Pi part of 1989 as an instructor with the parent club, and Omar Malave, an Taipei pounds Canada TAIWAN (CP) — Taipei scored four runs in the second inning off starting pitcher Ray Solomon, then coasted to an 11-5 victory over Canada at the Presidents’ Cup baseball tournament. The host over club pounded Canadian pitching for 15 hits. Solomon, from Windsor, Ont., left with two out in the second after surrendering the four runs on four hits. Mike Keenan of Saint John, N.B., was equally ineffective, being touched for five runs on seven hits over 3 innings MéCrimmon named captain Defenceman Brad McCrimmon was named Friday as the new captain of the Calgary Flames of the NHL. The 30-year- old native of Plenty, Sask., fills the post left vacant by the retirement Tuesday of Jim Peplinski. McCrimmon is the 10th captain of the fran- chise and the sixth since the Flames moved to Calgary in 1980 from Atlan- Bombers sign quarterback One day after releasing quarterback Sean alisbury, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers signed free agent Brent Pease to fill the vacancy, the CFL team announced Friday. Pease, 25, spent two seasons with the Houston Oilers of the National Football League after en- tering the league in 1987 as an 11th-round draft pick of the Minnesota tin, who spent November 5, 1989 Castlégar News 83 Peewees come up large Exhibition play ended Oct. 29 for the Castlegar Pee Wee Rep hockey team as it came out of Nelson with a 2-2 tie following an 9-5 home-ice win over its West Kootenay rivals Oct. 28 Goal posts and an agile Nelson goaltender stymied Castlegar in the 2-2 tie as the team held-aciear edge in play but had trouble putting the puck in the net. Nelson opened the scoring at 3:36 of the first period but Castlegar’s Ryan Coulsen scored to tie the game at 1:59 from a Craig Swanson rebound. At 14:59, Coulsen and Swanson set up Josh Sookero for a 2-1 lead The one-goal advantage held until 15:01 of the final period when Nelson scored from a goalmouth scramble to gain the 2-2 tie. Only six minutes in penalties were called in the fast, clean contest Castlegar took a 3-0 lead by the half way mark in period one in the Oct. 28 match-up on goals by Darren Pottle and Gary Hunter, both assisted by Shawn -Mosby,-and- Rick-Fauth who scored ona play started by goalie Ryan Stoochnoff Nelson scored less than a minute in- to period two, but by the end of 40 minutes Castlegar had an insurmoun table 7-3 lead on goals by Swanson, Coulsen and Fauth, with assists going to Phil Laporte, Hunter, Pottle, Mark Carlson and Fauth Nelson outscored Castlegar 2-1 in the third period with Castlegar’s goal from the stick of Vince Antignani assisted by Derek Read as the g ded 8-5 for Castlegar Castlegar’s first me en regular league game had Beaver Valley visiting the Complex Saturday Castlegar travels to Fruitvale today In Pee Wee house league action, trounced Grand Forks 11-2at the Complex Oct. 28 Casth Castlegar Safeway r scored seven seconds into the first period and never looked back as they led 5-0 after one and 9-0 after two periods Three minutes into the final-period, Castlegar made it 10-0 but Grand Forks ended the shutout bid at 9:51, then adding a second at 15:58 Castlegar rounded out the scoring at 17:11 foran 11-2 victory. Coach Garry Saver was pleased with his charges as every team member figured in the scoring and goalie Robert Case kept Grand Forks at bay. Castlegar goals were scored by Mike Myhra, Kevin Austin, Ryan Ferreira, Wade Stoochnoff, and Emmanuel Pacheco with assists going to Austin, Myhra, Ferreira, Pacheco, Stoochnoff, Karl Welfare and Grant Mosby Ben's return backed GUELPH, Ont. (CP) — Sprinter Ben Johnson wants a second chance to be the fastest man in the world, and the head of Canada's Olympic team thinks he should have it Carol Anne Letheren, also sice- president of the Canadian Olympic Association, said Ottawa should forgive and forget and lift its lifetime ban on federal funding for the shamed athlete “1 think Ben should definitely be able to compete for Canada again,” Letheren said in an inteview after she and Johnson had spoken to academics and industrial leaders at a conference on ethics and technology It was Letheren, as chief of mission of the Canadian team, who had to take back—Johnson's-gold-medat for the 100-metre dash after he tested positive for banned anabolic steroids at the 1988 Seoul Games. Letheren insisted the final say on whether Johnson will compete again lies with the Canadiai Olympic Association — “which has not yet made up its mind.”* Weekend Wrap-up HOCKEY Patrick Division UNOFFICIAL NHL ING LEADERS, AFTER FRIDAY GAMES, Seattle Spokane East Division SCORING LEADERS Ft AMERICAN CONFERE! fost & ge gegtt ° WESTERN CONFERENC! ‘Midwest Division & egbbee gegege TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL manage: and sig BASKETBALL NO ‘ond import running bock Lor CHAPEL HOUSE TOTAL JANUARY VISITOR COUNT DECEMBER 1999 JAN CANADA, U.S.A,, EUROPE AND OTHER COUNTRIES LAK 5: 4 FEO (2\b)