ADRIAN CHAMBERLAIN . .. one of the ‘boys’ They jot their stories on of paper while relistening to bits and pieces of the latest speech through the head-phones of their cassette recorders — ready to make insane dashes to grab the first telephone handy and file their stories when the bus stops. They call them The Boys On The Bus. The Castlegar News decided to get to the bottom of this. I was sent to ride on the nai 1 media bus’ from Castlegar airport to Nelson — f on the heels of PC leader Brian Mulroney scheduled a rally there. I entered the bus — one of the >= and took my seat. I glanced around in anticipation as cameramen began folding up their equipment. The bus was full, the doors were closed, but the reporters and their crews were curiously sedate. And they remained that way all the way to Nelson. The orgy never materialized. I did, however, expect to meet at least one big-name reporter from back East, and wasn't ‘disappointed. My seatmate up to Nelson was Terrence McKenna — a former producer for CBC’s Sunday Mornitig radio show and The Journal; now working as a reporter for The Journal. McKenna gave me « precise, knowledgeable rundown of the recent fall in fortunes — echoed by recent polls. He said the Liberal campaign had been plagued by disorgan- ization and internal feuding. The Liberals had decided to go ahead at the of the ign despite the i over who was in charge of what, because Turner was doing so well in the polls. This was a mistake, said McKenna. Mulroney, on the other hand, was riding the crest of a popularity wave that would carry him through to the end of the election, McKenna said. Mulroney's main concern is to avoid making « major blunder until the election is over. Another reporter, Jason Moscavitch of CBC-TV, sat with me briefly, but was less communicative. “Probably mentally working out how he's going to write his campaign story,” I thought, glancing over at the reporter, who had his eyes shut and was breathing evenly When we arrived at Lakeside Park in Nelson, Mulroney and his wife, Mila, emerged from their bus and walked through the crowd to the speaker's podium surrounded by tight web of reporters who plunged microphones at Mul roney’s face like mosquitoes going for an artery Cameramen dashed around the fringes of the sweaty circle of bodies, bulldozing the odd placard-bearing spec tator After the 20-minute speech, it was back to the buses. I dived for an empty seat with the best of them, an old hand by now. On the drive back to Castlegar airport, I talked to a sound technician for The Journal. He said he used to work as a studio cameraman for The Journal, but decided to go “on the road” because the pressure of studio-work — 45 intense minutes of second-guessing the studio director's next direction -was becoming too much for him Besides, he said, he enjoyed travelling, and over the past few years had visited South Africa, Paris, Rome, Beirut, and areas all over Canada and the United States. I drove back to the Castlegar News from the airport, watching the Air Canada jet carry Mulroney and the national press corps to their next stop — Cranbrook. The big-city reporters were gone, while I looked forward to another typical afternoon. But I was satisfied — the mysteries of being a reporter on a campaign tour, if not fully revealed, were at least some what clearer now than before. And, for a few hours at least, I had been a member of that elite group of Canadian reporters that stick to politi cians like baby opossums clinging to their mothers. I had been, in a small way, ome of the Boys On The Bus. Learn To Fly For Pleasure or Career PRIVATE AND COMMERCIAL PILOT COURSES ADVANCED RATINGS Night, instrumental, Mufti-Engine, instructor NEXT GROUND SCHOOL STARTS SEPTEMBER 18, 1984 LENCE! eH UMIZE Daily & Paid Monthly — ing Convenience a tops Czechoslovakia 3 “HALIFAX (CP) — Team Canada gave itself a *iptich-needed boost of confidence .with. a 54 come- ‘¥lrom-behind win over Czechoslovakia in a Canada Cup exhibition hockey game Saturday. Canada trailed 3-2 heading into the final 20 minutes but they out hustled the young Czech team and it paid off with goals 26 seconds apart by Wayne Gretzky and Steve Yzerman and Rick Middleton's winner at 912. “I am happy that we eame back im the third,” said Middleton, who alse had two assists. “It showed a lot of poise. “We've been talking about having to pull together (as a team) and there is no better way than coming back when you are losing a game in the third period.” Miche! Goulet and Anton Stastny also scored for Canada, which plays the Czechs today in Montreal. The win was Canada’s third in five exhibition games. They have lost one and tied one. Ladislav Svezil, with two goals, paced Czechoslo- vakia, with Vincent Lukac and Peter Klima getting the others. On the winning goal, Gretzky won the faceoff and got the puck back to defenceman Paul Coffey, who drilled a low shot which Middleton deflected. WAS LUCKY “I just beat the defenceman to the net,” said Middleton, “Gretay told me earlier he was going to go forward with it but he drew it back so that's why-I was in front of the net so fast . . . I was trying to tip it and luckily it hit the end of the blade and it went up on him.” Gretzky was pleased with his effort, saying he played with emotion, a quality he said he lacked in earlier games. “I think without a doubt I played my best game,” said Gretzky, who broke a four-game scoring slump with his goal. “I felt good and emotionally I was very excited, and when I play with a lot of emotion that's when I play my best hockey.” Coach Glen Sather said he thought the Czechs were chippy and he was surprised “they spent so much time trying to get even for things that happened on the ice.” Sather, who has said his team lacked the desire to win, praised his team’s effort against the fast-skating Czechs. “It takes a while to develop a team concept and today (Saturday) they seemed very apt at doing what they are supposed to be doing,” said Sather Canada put on an awesome display of power in the third period, outshooting the Czechs 18:9 which had the 7,916 fans at the Metro Centre buzzing. SAGGED FOR AWHILE The third period hustle was a turnaround. Canada get off to a fast start but then sagged for about half an hour before springing to life. Team Canada jumped to a 1-0 first-period lead when Middleton, after messing up a two-on-one with Gretzky, picked up his own errant pass and gave the puck to Goulet, unchecked in front. Less than a minute later, Anton Stastny scored on a power-play — just six seconds after Jaroslav Verfak went off for holding — after being set up by brother Peter. Team Canada then seemed to lose its enthusiasm and at 11:27 Lukac scored a short-handed goal when Ray Bourque gave up the puck at the Czech blueline and Lukac went in alone on Pete Peeters, scoring on a nifty backhand. At 14:53, Klima tied the game after the Canadian defence coughed up the puck. Svozil put Czechoslovakia ahead 3-2 early in the second, a period in which the Canadians were lackadaisical and sloppy in their own end. But the third period produced the kind of hockey Team Canada is expected to play. The line of Gretzky, Middleton and Goulet got things going early when Gretzky scored at 2:07. Just 36 seconds after Gretzky's goal, Yzerman put Canada ahead by drilling a shot from the slot past Dominik Hasek in the Czechoslovakia net. Svozil tied up the game on a disputed goal. 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But aside from a brief fling in the broad casting business, appearing on CTV and TVA during the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Boucher has held strictly to his training for the world championships and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary “I did quite a few activities for them (the Dairy Bureau) in the summer, but I try to do them only on days when ['ve got one training session or when I have an off day,” said Boucher, who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame Saturday. “I don’t feel tired or feel that I'm suffering in any way from what has been a fairly hectic summer. T'm feeling as strong as always, so we'll just have to see how it goes.” A more welcome benefit of his Olympic success has been the promise by both the federal and provincial governments to build an outdoor speedskating oval in Ste-Foy, Que., Boucher’s birthplace. This project, however, has been beset by bureaucratic problems since it was proposed after the Winter Olympics. PASS THE BUCK Quebec and the federal government bickered over who had the right to help pay for the $2.5-million training facility, and now it seems Ottawa cannot directly hand money over to the municipality “They're still trying to straighten out the funding, so I don’t know when it will get done,” said Boucher of the oval which is supposed to be finished by September 1966. Boucher, 25, who lives in St-Hubert, Que., has just returned from a Canadian team practice ‘in Lake Placid, N.Y., site of the only outdoor speedskating oval in North America. It was a welcome break from the repetitive off-season training. “You do the same thing over and over again and you start doing more and more of it,” said Boucher, talking about his May-to-October dry-land training. “We went tu Lake Placid mostly just to get together and have fun.” Aside from the usual running, weightlifting and cycling. Boucher will try almost anything he can think of to simulate the speedskating motion. In summer, Boucher used special roller skates, with four wheels in a line, and an 2.5-metre wax board to practise his side-to-side motion. He doesn't like road work because of the friction resistance. “T can't use roller skating rinks since they're too small.” he said. “You need 200 metres on the straightaway to get the right number of strides used in a race. “The only problem with new pavement is that some body is usually going to be using it. Sometimes I'll go over to a local shopping centre on the weekend.” Heading into the 1984-85 season, Boucher doesn't think his competitive drive has diminished but he has limited his goals. Boucher limits his goals to winning the world sprint title and being in the top five in the all-round championship and setting world retords in his two specialties, the 1,000 and 1,500 metres. Boucher is one of six athletes being inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame at the Canadian National Exhibition The others are: Ken Dryden, former goaltender for the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens; George Reed, former fullback with the Canadian Football League's Saskatchewan Roughriders; swimmer Leslie Cliff; skiing builder Pat Ramage; and sportsman Harry (Red) Foster Dunlop retires ST. LOUIS (AP) — Blake free-agent contract one Dunlop, who played with four month later with Detroit Red RUN WALKED IN. Blue Jays lose in 12thinning MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dennis Lamp walked Andre David with the bases loaded and two out in the 12th jnning to force in the winning run and give Minnesota Twins a 54 _vietory over Toronto Blue Jays in an American League baseball game Saturday Bobby Castillo, 2-0, who worked five shutout innings, allowed only two hits, none over the final four innings. Jim Gott pitched to one batter in the 12th and dropped to 6-6. Ron Washington led off the 12th inning with as double to left and Lamp replaced Gott, who was forced to leave with a sore elbow. Washington advanced to third on a sacrifice by Kirby Puckett and Mickey Hatcher and Kent Hrbek were then walked intentionally to load the bases. Lamp got Dave Meier to fly out to short right but then walked David on four consecutive pitches. Trailing 4-1, the Twins put together four consecutive hits in the eighth inning to tie the score. Pineh-hitter Dale Brown singled and went to second on Puckett's single. Both runners scored on Mickey Hatcher's double to centre to make it 4-3. Hrbek then greeted reliever Jim Key with his third hit of the game, a single to right that scored Puckett with the tying run. Minnesota starter Ed Hodge struck out the first twe batters he faced before Cliff Johnson doubled down the left-field line. After Jesse Barfield walked, Dave Collins, who also had three hits, bounced a triple over Puckett's head in centre field Johnson and Barfield scored, but Collins was out at the plate trying for an inside-the-park homer The Twins nipped Jim Clancy for a run in the bottom of the fourth when Hrbek led off with a double to right-centre. Randy Bush walked and Tom Brunansky singled to left to score Hrbek. Toronto picked up two runs in the eighth inning. Garth lorg led off with a triple and scored on a single by Damaso Garcia, who advanced to third on Lloyd Moseby's single to centre. Moseby then stole second as George Bell struck out, but cateher Tim Laudner’s throw sailed into centre field, allowing Garcia to score. BOSTON 11 CLEVELAND 6 Armas, who leads the major leagues in homers, also took the lead in extra-base hits-with 62. He leads teammate Dwight Evans and Ryne Sandberg of Chicago Cubs by one. ORIOLES 4 A's2 OAKLAND, GALIF. (AP) — Ken Singleton tied the game with a home run and then drew a bases-loaded walk to force in the go-ahead run Saturday as Baltimore Orioles posted a 4-2 American League baseball victory over Oakland A's. Mike Flanagan, 11-11, allowed six hits to raise his career record at the Oakland Coliseum to 10-0. Sammy Stewart pitched the ninth for his ninth save. Ray Burris, 11-7, took the-loss, Oakland's seventh in a row, yielding three runs in the decisive seventh inning. ATLANTA 3 CHICAGO 2 CHICAGO (AP) — Rick Mahler tossed a five-hitter and rookie Brad Komminsk’s tie-breaking, two-run homer in the sixth inning powered Atlanta Braves to a 3-2 victory over the first-place Chicago Cubs in a National League baseball game Saturday. Komminsk's homer, his seventh of the season, came with two outs after Dale Murphy had singled, and snapped a three-game Atlanta losing streak. The loss was only the second in the last seven games for the Cubs and was charged to Scott Sanderson, 6-4. DODGERS 7 PHILLIES 4 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ken Landreaux's two-run homer im the top of the seventh snapped a 3-3 tie and Los Angeles Dodgers went on to defeat Philadelphia Phillies 7-4 in a National League baseball game Saturday Bob Welch, 11-12, scattered five hits in six innings, while Ken Howell, the fifth Dodger pitcher, got the final two outs to record his fourth save. John Denny, 6-4, was the loser GALAT FAVORS RUNNING GAME BOSTON (AP) — Tony Armas capped an eight-run fourth inning with a three-run double and belted his 35th homer in the sixth Saturday, leading Boston Red Sox to an 1146 American League baseball victory over Cleveland Indians. The Red Sox sent 12 batters to the plate in their biggest inning of the year, handing Cleveland its third loss in a row LITTLE LEAGUE South Korea captures title WILLIAMSPORT, PA (AP) Dae-Tk Cho and Myong-Kwan Lee teamed for a four-hitter as South Korea took advantage of early mis takes by Altamonte Springs, Fla., to beat the Americans 6-2 Saturday and capture the Kirkland, Wash., in 1962 and Marietta, Ga., last year. This Jimmy Musselwhite followed with a walk, sending starter Cho to the bench One out later, the runners advanced on a ground out off winning pitcher Lee, and Radcliff scored on a single up the middle by Danny Albert, making it 4-1. Musselwhite was cut down at the plate trying to score on the hit. The run was the first the Seoul team had given up in 15 innings of play at the single. elimination tournament here, teams during an 1li-year Na- tional Hockey League career, bas announced his retire ment. The 31-year-old native of Hamilton played his junior hockey with Ottawa 67s. He was cut by St. Louis Biues in November 1983 and signed a Wings. Dunlup finished his career with 130 goals and 274 assists. Dunlop, who also played with Minnesota North Stars and Philadelphia Fly ers, has been hired as an in vestment broker by a St Louis firm. ineluding a 10-0 win over Coquitlam. South Korea went ahead § 40-in the first inning. did not get a hit until Chris It was Lee's second series a double to victory. Earlier, he had in the blanked Panama City, Pan ama, 40 with a twohitter By the Canadian Press Joe Galat believes the best reason to do something is because nobody else is doing it While most Canadian Foot. ball League teams have pass- oriented offences, Galat has his Montreal Concordes run ning with the ball (202 rushing plays) almost as much as they throw it (219 pass attempts). Ottawa Rough Riders co me closest among the other eight clubs in combining the pass and run, but they've still gene through the air on 31 more plays than they've ran. And nowhere will the Coneorde’s attack fall into greater contrast than today in Toronto (CTV National 2 p.m. pdt) against the run- and shoot Argonauts, who've passed 153 more times than they've run. In the other CFL game today, the best in the Wes tern Division, Winnipeg Bluc Bombers at 6-1, plays host to the worst, Saskatehewan Roughriders, 141 (CBC National 2 p.m. PDT). “The most important rea- son for running it the CFL is that most teams have sel- ected their defensive person- nel to go against the pase,” said Gaiat. Head conch Bob OBI ovich, whose Arges have picked up only 581 yards out of their league-leading 2,895 total offence on the ground, is reacquainting his team with this form of attack. “We've been concentrating on it in this week's prac tices,” said O’Billovich. “We have an extra day to work this week and we're trying to make the guys more aware of the run.” When Galat was asked why only his team has gained almost half of its total offence with « laugh: “Probably they’re (the other coaches) not as intelligent.” giddy as the Concordes, 3-4, could pull within two points of the Eastern Division leading Argonauts, 5-2, with (Edmintoa) Eskimos (44-24) last week), I've been telling my players we're playing for first place,” said Galat, who has never beaten the Argos — the last Montreal team to best Toronto was the Alou