+ Saturday, January 18, 1992

Golf is a strange game. It’s the on-
ly sport I know of that so many people
really suck at, but continue to play re-
ligiously, as if one day, poof! they're go-
ing to figure it all out.

T fall into the above-mentioned cat-
egory. I like golf. I like it even though
I’ve only had one birdie in my entire
life — and it was a fluke. I like it de-
spite the fact that I hit balls into any
body of water within range of any giv-
en shot. I like golf even though — in
what has to be one of the worst shots
of all-time — I actually broke a club
around a tree. Despite it all, I still
think it’s a great game.

And I think it’s an even better game
since I moved to the West Kootenay,
where one of the best courses I've ever
played is right in my back yard.

Which sort of brings me to the point
of this column:

Point being, that when I grab the
clubs and play a round at the Castle-
gar and District Golf Course, I don’t
give much thought to the people who
run the course. And that’s good.

Isuppose if I was knee high in grass
on the greens, or walking through a
desert that doubles as the fairway, I
might start wondering who was run-
ning the show at the home course.

But it’s precisely because those
things don’t happen, and because the
course has everything that a good golf
course should, that I don’t feel the
need to run around looking to tee off

on whoever’s in charge.

Which, in a roundabout way, brings
me to the main point.

Point being, that for the last four of
six years that ‘whoever’ in charge at
the Castlegar course has been Barry
Jackson. And as the man at the top of
the pyramid on the 12-person execu-
tive of the course, Jackson deserves
credit for the initiatives begun and
completed during his tenure. (Just as
he would likely be accorded the blame
ifthose initiatives had been disasters.)

Among the clips in Jackson’s high-
light ._package as president. is the
$500,000 water supply system in-
stalled a couple of years ago, a new
maintenance shed, new full-service
washrooms, renovations to the club-
house and repair of a couple of holes
that needed work.

Those are just the highlights. He al-
so has to be given his share of kudos

. for the club’s $70,000 profit last year,

club membership that has risen five
per cent annually over his term and
all the sundry improvements that are
often taken for granted by locals, but
go toward making the course respect-
ed by golfers across the province. *:

Which, I suppose, brings me to the
main point; Point being, the news that
Jackson decided not to seek re-election
as club president this year.

“I was on the executive for six years
and it was a very busy six years. We
did a lot of projects and it just kind of

Free
Agent

wears you down,” said the 53-year-old
personnel manager at Selkirk College.
“So I just decided hey, I’ve had enough
fun, let somebody else do their share.”

As is his style, Jackson didn’t take

any parting shots at his co-workers on -

the executive when he had the chance.
He did the opposite.

“As I told the general membership
(at the chub’s annual general meeting
in December), I'll praise those people
who helped a lot, and I'll leave my
bitches and complaints under my hat
and bow out gracefully.”

Then he went on to name names.

“I have to give special recognition
to Gerry Lee, Lou Lalonde, Nick
Ogloff and Joe Papp. Those are the
people I think have ahad a major con-
tribution to the work done over the
years.”

Jackson just laughs when asked if,

The point is — thanks Barry

in retrospect, he would have done
some things differently.

“I could go on all day.”

But I get the feeling he probably
couldn't.

And unlike some people, who join
volunteer organizations for reasons
that are less than altruistic, Jackson
remembers exactly why he got in-
volved in the first place.

“Of course, I’m a real avid golfer,
and I also felt it’s the responsibility of
the membership to aid or assist in the
running of the golf course. I wanted
things to go ahead and I didn’t want
them to be stagnant.”

While Jackson won't take any ver-
bal shots for the road, course head pro-
fessional Denny McArthur will.

“T think he’s done a great job. I
think he’s been a good, progressive
president. Sorry to see him go,”
McArthur said.

The good news about Jackson’s de-
parture is that his replacement is Ver-
na Chernoff, a person I believe would
be great in any organization she
worked for.

With Chernoff at the helm, I’m
confident I can continue to mangle golf
clubs, lose golf balls and six-putt at the
Castlegar and District Golf Course,
without ever giving a thought to the
people who make my miserable affair
with the game as enjoyable an expe-
rience as something like that can be.

Barry.

Sports Centre
takes turn at top

News Staff
Maybe it was just their

Castlegar Sports Centre
moved into first place in the
the Castlegar Recreational

CASTLEGAR RECREATIONAL
‘tari HOCKEY LEAGUE TO JAN. 15

Castlegar Sports 12
Banjo’s Pub 12
Tuesda ikea Wash : z
Hock: ie Tues night Kootenay Computers

py ee Woodland Park Woodland Park Shell 10

w

Shell 6-3 at thé Community
Complex

Sports Centre,

which

But if the the league holds
true to form, Sports Centre’s
stay at the top should be a
brief one.

Sports Centre is the third
team to have occupied first

- spot overall in the five-team
league since the new year
dawned. Kootenay Computers
and Banjo’s Pub have also
been there.

And‘it was another team,
Castlegar Pressure Wash,
which had held top spot for
most of the season prior to the
new year.

Tuesday's result isn’t likely
to add any stability in the

i ich cur-

at 25, 24, 23 and 22 points re-
spectively. :

trailed Shell 3-2 going into the
third period, got goals from
Lorne Anderson, Cam Barlow,
Chris Owens and Dwayne
Weir in the third, while goalie
Dan Wallace kept Shell off the
board.

Anderson’s first of the game
tied it at one in the first period
and Weir’s first tied it at two
in the second for Sports Cen-

tre. -

Shell’s Dave Rugg scored
twice and took three consecu-
tive penalties, one in the sec-
ond an two in the third as the
game slipped away.

Dan Friedal scored the oth-
er goal for Shell, which
dropped to last place in the
league ings:

Benton Hadley and Kevin
Gay both had two assists for
Shell, while Owens set up a
pair for Sports Centre.

DOWN UNDER STYLE

News photo by Ed Mills

It’s either the haircut or the earring that Australian basketball player Craig Young is showing off
Thursday at the SHSS gym just prior to his team’s game with the SHSS senior boys team.

@ Saturday, January 18, 1992

178

Equality better for some
in men’s basketball

@ Is parity really parity
if the same teams keep

winning and the others,
more or less, keep los-
ing? It depends on how
you look at it.

SPORTS EDITOR

There’s something funny
going on in the Kootenay West
Men’s Basketball League. ©

On one hand, players in the
league believe there is parity
— that one team can beat an-
other on any given night.

But on the other hand, the
same teams keep winning and
the others, more or less, keep
losing. de

The question in this case
then is — does parity really
mean parity in the KWMBL?

It depends on how strictly
you define parity, according to
Cowan Office Supplies’ Ron
Norman.

“Well, I think they’re (the
teams) closer than the games
indicate. Three of our games
have gone into overtime and
they easily could have gone ei-
ther way,” Norman said.

“I think there are two quite
good teams — Selkirk College
and Castlegar Realty — but
the other teams can beat them
if they are off and those other
teams are on.”

Cowan provided an exam-
ple of what Norman’s talkin;
about in a 64-43 loss to Selkirk ©

Cowan led 30-23 at half--
time, then went colder than an
iceberg in the second half and
ended up losing by more than
20 points.

“It was a whole team thing,”
Norman said. “Everybody
went cold at once and when
you do that you're in trouble.

“They (Selkirk) played well,
but like I say, they are not an
overpowering team and nei-
ther are Castlegar Realty.” _ _

In the other game, the
league leading Realty team of-
fered the other example ofhow
parity works in the leaguein a
73-66 win over the Winlaw
is ist tons.

John Ritchie led the way for
Realty with 20 points, while
Brian Turlock had 15.

Realty led 33-29 at the half,
but Ritchie said Winlaw tied
the game at least twice in the
second half.

Ritchie is another who sub-
scribes to the loose definition
of parity, even though his team
hasn't lost a game in seven
starts.

“Could they have beaten us?
I guess, why not?,” Ritchie
said.

>»

“For the most part, I think
there’s parity. The games are
never blowouts,” he said.

Tony Kabatoff had 14 for
Winlaw, which drops to 2-5,
while Ken Soukeroff and Mike
Poznikoff had 13 each.

Realty beat Winlaw without

in one of two games at the col- »the services of top scorer

lege Tuesday night.

Wayne McCarthy, who broke a

KOOTENAY WEST MEN'S
BASKETBALL LEAGUE
w

RHC Realty

rib last week in a game in the
Trail Men’s’ Basketball

League.

McCarthy is expected to be
out at least two more weeks,
which further weakens a Real-
ty team that lost one of the
league’s best guards when To-
by Reichert had knee surgery
early in the season.

Perhaps the truest test of
parity will be Tuesday night’s
game between the unbeaten
Realty team and winless RHC
Realty at 7 p.m. at Mount Sen-
tinel Secondary School.

In the other game Tuesday,
Winlaw plays Selkirk at 8:30
p-m. at the college.

Meanwhile, Realty’s entry
in the Trail league got 27
points from Greg Larson to de-
feat Flying Steamshovel 68-56
Wednesday night at the Com-
inco

Realty, which won the
league and playoff titles in
that league last year, sits in
third place with a 3-5 record.

In the other game, Rock Is-
land Tape Centre beat Victoria
Place 75-70.

The win moved Rock Island
into a first-place tie with Vic-
toria Place at 6-2, while
Steamshovel is last in the four-
team league at 1-7.

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