B2 Britain CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 5, 1981 has no world champs LONDON (AP) — British boxing has taken four fierce body blows and is staggering against the ropes. In the last two years, Britain has boasted four world champions. Now it has none, Cornelius Boza-Edwards, 25, a London-based Ugandan who was beaten in five rounds by Filipino Rolando Navarette in Viareggio, Italy, last weekend was the last Briton of the four champs. “Before Boza-Edwards, who held the World Boxing Coun- cil super featherweight title, there were Alan Winter, who held the universal middle- weight title; Maurice Hope, who was the WBC super lightweight camp, and Jim Watt, who held the WBC lightweight title. Winter, who had won the middleweight title from Vito Antuofermo, was cut to rib- bons by their Marvin Hagler at Wembley last year. He attempted to get back into contenton by fighting in the United States, but was b fe CREATES VOID Which leaves a huge void in British boxing. Boza-Edwards appears to have blown his chance at the big-time. Virtually ignored by the British news media after winnng the super featherweight title against Rafael (Bazooka) Limon an defending successfully against Bobby Chacon, he was in the spotlight against Navarette. The left-handed Edwards elected to trade punches with Navarette, who lives in Hawaii, and paid the penalty. His current box-office appeal is nil, although manager Mickey Duff believes he will come back. At the moment, however, British boxing badly needs a big attraction. Sibson, if he has the class to beat Winter, may be that man, although there are a lot of good middleweights about. I Sibson fails there will certainly be shortage of big fights in London. ‘Lottee Mwale, a London- based Zambian who fought h d d y Hameho, a U.S.-based Syrian who will fight Hagler for the title in Chicago on Oct. 3. Winter has to face fellow Briton Tony Sibson for the Saat for the WBC light-heavy- weight title has faded out of the picture, and Michael Dokes put paid to the lum- bering heavyweight John Pp title at sy on Sept. 16, but is still looking for one last chance to by Wildred Benitex in Las Vegas but has never been much of a draw in Britain. Watt, lost the lightweight title to Nicaraguan Alexis Arguello at Wembley earlier ie the summer and is 82 years old. That leaves only Charlie Nagri, 25, who is European ion in the unfashi Ticket prices are unreal By Neil Stevens EDMONTON (CP) — Thousands of unsold Canada Cup tickets. were tossed ir the garbage last week and hockey fans blamed high prices for the empty Coli- seum seats. “The ticket prices are unreal,” said David Graham, a construction worker from Calgary who paid $25 to watch Team Canada’s 8-3 win over Team USA on Thursday night. “I went to one game just to say I'd been. The $25 was OK on a one-time deal. But I'm sure there'd be no way for most families to go.” The Coliseum, home of Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League, seats 17,498, The Oilers, a youthful team built around the scoring prowess of Wayne Gretzky, have no trouble filling the building for 40 regular- season NHL games. A total of 16,606 season tickets have sold for the 1981-82 season. TICKETS $20, $25 The best seats in the Coliseum averaged $18 a game on the NHL season- ticket plan. Canada Cup tickets were available at $25 for reds and $20 for blues. A vocal crowd of 11,848 attended the Canada-US Cup game. The Czechoslovakia- Finland game drew 5,103 spectators. On Tuesday, 8,991 saw Canada beat Fin- land 9-0 and 6,721 saw the US-Sweden game. : Sports columnist Terry Jones put it this way in the Journal: “Tl never understand why Cheers have little effect on team NORTON, Mass. (AP - Hockey fans who verbally abuse visiting teams in pack- ed arenas can make the visitors less aggressive and successful on the ice, but their cheers have little effect on the home team, says a study released “Larger crowds both the inhibit measure of lessened aggress- iveness - and also scored fewer goals, When attend- ance was lower, the goals and penalty minutes of the visit- ors went up. NO EFFECT FOR HOST However, the crowd size had no effect on the home team's conference of the an of the visiting able flyweight division. Nagri, unbeaten as a pro- fessional, packs a punch with both hands. His chin, how- ever, is decidedly suspect. Nagri hit the deck against Santos Laciar of Argentina, who has subsequenly won and lost the WBA title, but got up to get the verdict on points. Lawn bowling attracting more CALGARY (CP) — Lawn bowling, sometimes ‘des- eribed as the turf-borne equivalent of curling, is one the verge of becoming some- thing more. No longer just recreation for a small minority, the sport is being taken more iously and is it In the 1977 finals one member of the.» Canadian team won a silver medal. Even though the team as a whole was unable to win, “we did put on a good show out there.” Bobbie McCosker, 64, from Australia, said Canada has not to ‘ize the more competitiors. Tom Sims, president of a Calgary lawn-bowling club, estimates 350 people, mainly women, bow! locally on the six greens in the city. The players are generally older than 55, although some are teenagers, says Sims. “It has the name of an older people's game here, sport as well as Australia and South Africa but “you'll find it will come.” The greens, usually be- tween 10 and 11.5 square metres, are different. Mc- Cosker said the Canadian greens are much heavier, “mainly because of the freez- ing and they can't cut the grass as short as they can in which is ” he says. “In order to put a game in you have to be very fit.” While the effort has gen- erally kept a low profile, competitions have become a mainstay of local clubs and players look forward to them, Sims says. At least one Cal- gary player has made it to the world championships. CHOSEN FOR FINAL In 1977 Frieda Munro be- came the first and only Al- bertan to be chosen to the ian team. Munro went to the world championship for women in England after she bowled for a gold medal in the 1976 national compe- titions in Ottawa. Munro said there is little tension during championship games. “It doesn't bother me,” said Munro, a bowling vet- eran of 30 years. “I just don't realize anybody is around.” What counts, she said, are the delivery of the bowl on the green and the posture, ity and eti of She associated Canadian greens with “cow paddocks” and said they are very un- even. Some of the rules are also different, said the vet- eran of 28 years of bowling. Although Canadians are beginning to adopt a more Be team,” said Gordon Russell, who presented the study at an international conference on agression. “The visitors come into an arena, the place is filled to the rafters and they don't play as well. “The guess would be they are more reluctant to start fights because they know they have the other team against them - plus 10,000 people in there who are angry, who are hostile and abusive toward them.” Russell, a psychology pro- fessor at University of Leth- bridge, Alta., based his find- ings on the goals scored and penalty minutes assessed during 432 regular-season games in 1978-79 of’ the Western Hockey League, a minor league circuit includ- Society for Research on Aggression, held at Wheaton College. The study considered the fact the home team averages more goals than the visitors, regardless of crowd size, said Russell, a soft-spoken psych- ology professor who said he loves to go to games and sit behind the penalty box “just to watch the fights.” The results of the study would probably be the same in the National Hockey League, he said, “except that in the NHL you have a ceiling effect.” “The Montreal Canadians, for example, are sold out every game, so you can't measure a big crowd versus a small crowd for them.” Teams owners can make home crowds even more ing L Broncos. He found when the crowd was bigger, the visiting team was assessed fewer penalty minutes - which he used as a Winnipeg Jets give notice to Tulsa Oilers WINNIPEG (CP) — Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League have given their financial- ly-troubled farm team, Tulsa Oilers, nt ly-troubled farm team, Tulsa Oilers, notice to get their house in order. John Ferguson, Jets general manager, said in a today that if the PP’ to lawn bowling, many veterans still do it for fun. “We love it,” said Lil Manville, local president of a women's club. “What most of us enjoy is the fresh air, the exercise, walking up and down the green and the soci- ability.” Manville also said: the game is heavily influenced by the weather. “The grass is better when it’s dry. If it’s too wet and rainy you can't bowl on it. It gets too springy.” ———e WON THE GOLD The Toronto Granites won the gold medal for ice hockey at the first winter Olympics the players. inCl ix, France, in 1924. Enter your name for a souvenier Canada Cup 1981 is prov- ing to be one of the most exciting hockey tournaments ever. Now, readers of the Castle- gar News have an oppor- tunity to obtain souvenirs of STR seirwerilie geertitastte.. gre grams, buttons and a sou- venir Canada Cup hockey stick. To have your name put in our draw box for one of these, simply print your name and phone number ona post card or the back of an envelope and mail it to: ‘The Canada Cup, Castlegar ‘ews, Ex BVT, Castlegar, BL. ViN THe Tie treme wil & MW nan wt Pri, Oilers’ problems aren't solved within a week, the Jets will ask the Central Hockey League to suspend the Tulsa franchise for one year or relocate it. , Still openings for bowling in most leagues Interested in bowling? Leagues are now forming in Castlegar. Come and join in on the fun. Castle Bowl still has open- ings for ladies mornings, and afternoons, and mixed even- ings Monday through Friday. Youth Bowling Council registration will take place Sept. 12 and 13. Anyone interested in en- tering a team or getting on a team is asked to phone 365- 5723. Castle Bowl is now open for bowling. by allowing our encouraging beer-drinking, he said. “The practical application of this might address the use of alcohol at these vents,” he said. Twin brothers qualify for final in rowing today MUNICH, West German (CP) — Mark and .Mike Evans, twim brothers from Toronto, qualified Saturday for the final today of the coxless pairs event at the men’s world rowing champ- ionships. The Evans brothers placed third in their semifinal heat behind the powerful Soviet Union and East Germain pairs. The Canadians’ qualifying time was the fourth-fastest of the six qualifiers and they are given an outéide chance at taktag the bronze medal from the Italian pair who won the second qualifying heat. East Germans.:dominated thé semifinal heats before 10,000 spectators, advancing to the finals of all. eight events, while the Soviet Unon and Csechoxlovakia put competitors in six of the To Advertise Your Sports Events Call 365-5210 FEE— Novice A Castlegar Minor Hockey Association REGISTRATION PLACE — Regional District Complex TIME — Sept. 12and 19 10 a.m. -2 p.m. tom $47.00 PeeWee - Juvenile $53.00 $38.00 (Cup organizer) Alan Eagle- son tried to run a rip-off tournament in an attempt to make an obscene profit when he could have run a success- ful tournament with sane ticket prices and local TV blackouts to make a modest profit and allow the Canada Cup and the host cities to emerge with a_ positive image.” In Winnipeg, a crowd of 3,516 watched the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia play Tuesday, while an esti- mated 2,600 — no crowd attendance was announced — wee at the Soviet Union- Sweden game Thursday. Winnipeg Arena seats 15,250. NO LINEUPS HERE Oilers’ season-ticket sub- scribers were offered Cup tickets first and that’s where the bulk of the sales went. There were no lengthy line- ups for tickets as there are on NHL game days. There was no one buying a ticket at the ticket window 45 minutes before the Czech- oslovakia-Finland game Thursday, while 15 people waited to buy tickets for the Canada-US game. A game between the Soviet Union and the US today ends Cup competition here. Russians are tomato lovers WINNIPEG (CP) — While hockey fans size up stick- handling skills of players in the @anada Cup series, hotel employees get a better view of the fork-handling prowess of their muscular guests. For example, members of the Soviet team like toma- toes — lots of them, at every meal — while the Swedes and the Americans love spaghet- “The attack to- ina inteview, commended tho people of Ottawa for snap- ping up Cup tickets made available when two games were switched there from Quebec. Fans in Ottawa lined up as early as 4 a.m. Thursday to purchase tickets. Ottawa Civic Centre seats 9,800. Tom Sneva wins Bettenhausen 200 . MILWAUKE (AP) — Tom Sneva took advantage of Bobby Unser's misfortune to win the Tony Bettenhausen 200-mile championship car race at State Fair Park on tx Tom Sneva Saturday. Sneva, who battled Unser and Rick Mears for the lead most of the day, was leading Unser by one second when he rolled in for his last pit stop under the green flag on lap 166 on the one-mile paved oval. Sneva’s crews changed tires and re-fuelled his Bignotti-Cosowth in 18 seconds. é Unser, who had taken the lead while Sneva was in the pits, didn’t fare as well when he came in for his final stop under the green seven laps later. For 45 seconds, Unser sat in his car, while the Penske crew changed tires and tried to re-start his engine. “I ran out of fuel as I came into turn four,” Unser said. “We just went one lap too long.” “Then when we went out again a header broke on the engine.” Unser's troubles were enough to assure Sneva, of Spokane, Wash., his first championship car victory of the season. Sneva, who aver- aged 118.218 miles an hour, received the $28,265 winner's share of the record $179,655 purse. “Our guys did a great job on the last pit stop,” Sneva said. “We changed tires on the last stop, and that brought us right back in the ball park.” “The car was running great all day. I don’t think we'd have had any problem with Bobby even if he hadn't had the long pit stop.” Mears, diriving a Penske- Cosworth, ‘finished. second,. four seconds back. Unser was: third, one lap behind. Johnny. Rutherford was fourth in a Chaparral-Cosworth, two laps back and Al Unser was fifth in a Longhorn- Cosworth, three laps behind. The race was rescheduled for Saturday because rain prevented its running on the original date, Aug. 2. matoes,” says Cathy Lan- thier, who handles public re- lations at the Viscount Gort Hotel, where the teams are billeted while playing games ere. “If there aren't tomatoes in some form at the table, they'll ask for them immedi- ately. They also like toma- toes and raw onions together and they love fish and yo- gurt,” she added, her lapel covered with pins presented as gifts by the hockey play- ers. “And the Swedes want spaghetti for every meal but breakfast.” Czech players refuse to eat anything fried with breading. Lanthier said each nation- ality has a distinct person- ality but she found the Soviet as a Canadian, I hope it’s Canada, but as a friend, I hope it's you,” she said. “The Swedes are dolighttal le. They are igh- poirited and loose and they love to joke around,” Lan- thier added. She said the Czech team is not as outgoing as some of the others. “The Czechs would be just as happy to have an exclusive right to the hotel. They stay to themselves and I deal pnly through George (J jaroslav + Stanek) the liaison person.” Hotel manager Harvey Nairn said the hockey teams have been ideal guests for two weeks. “We haven't even had a towel stolen,” he said.$ Lanthier said it's food that brings the compliments or complaints and the hotel can thank Pat Clayton, trainer of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, for the smiles at mealtimes. Clayton put together an athletes’ menu for the Cana- dian Football League team when it stayed at the hotel during training camp this: year and Nairn sent the menu to Canada Cup chief Alan Eagleson where it was given a seal of approval. at sent the menu team r and is on a first-name basis with most of the players. LIKED RUSSIANS “The Russians have been very very nice. They are never late, they are always well-dressed and they never direct a request without a please and a thank-you.” “They are into hand-kiss- ing,” she sdmitted. The So- viets call her Katia and she says her loyalities are div- ided as far as the series is concerned. 3 “They ask me “Who's going to win the Canada Cup?” and I have to say that to the other hotels (where players are staying) and said ‘match it’,” the manager said with pride. Lanthier said there have been a few special requests. “One team asked for re- frigerators, so we went out and rented a few small ones. T's hotel policy that if one team has something, then every team shouled have it.” She said an odd plea for 8] telephone. service ase from a member of the Soviet press contingent, .ob- viously not well-acquainted with Canadian hotels. $ OUTDOOR SKILLS | TO THE TEST ies? ee Sweokend hike into ins? }. Can you follow a compass bearing or find North without a composs?- }. Can you '. 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Sentinel Diving School. “That's our biggest’ worry.” Inadequate or poor geak is cited by her as a frequent problem, as well, Karen teaches classes to all ages and levels of scuba divers from the brand-new beginner to the experienced diver who just wants to get certified, The one- and two-week courses start the beginner by jumping him into the pool with the mask, snorkel and gloves on. “This gets him used to the basic equipment.” The next day the novice scuba diver-gets to try out the tank — still, of course, in a pool or shallow ‘lake. Les- sons are always accompanied by lectures on safety and equipment handling and maintenance. The major equipment can be rented through the school, and Karen's classes continue now through October. The Sentinel Diving School, a private enterprise, is now in its third successful year and Karen enjoys teaching. “It's nice to see beginners learn to dive.” . Besides teaching, Karen is an on-call person for Colum- bia Diving and Salvage which operates out of Trail. In this She started diving at team of four divers is used, two underwater and two up top. “You never go down all at once.” Karen lives in Castlegar from May to October and spends the winter months at her home in Kelowna. She was born and raised in Edmonton and learned to 18 following the lead of her older brother: “I wouldn't let him do anything better than me.” capacity she does a multitude of various odd jobs from in- specting the spillgate of a dam to helping out some poor despairing fisherman who lost the motor off the back of his boat. Back in May, Karen and a crew of four, inspected the bottom of the Hugh Keen- leyside Dam. She was also on hand to help locate an anchor cable lost by Calgar. She is sometimes asked to do under- water maintenance and re- pair work. For bigger jobs a ~ Karen readies her equipment dive there. In Edmonton? I asked. Where can you dive in Edmonton? “In muddy little lakes,” was her reply. But she did add that many diving expeditions were taken high up in cold mountain lakes near Jasper and Banff. She started diving when she was 18 following the lead of her older brother, Les. “He did it because it was the macho thing to do and every- thing, and I wouldn't let him do anything better than me.” So they took it up together. She did say, however, that diving has been “something I always wanted to do but never thought I had the time.” This past spring Karen went on a diving expedition to the B.C, coast and thor- oughly enjoyed it. Salt and fresh water diving are “to- tally different,” she ex- plained. “There's so much more life and color in the ocean; sponges, schools of fish, crabs.” With that added life there are also added sounds. “Fish are very noisy.” She explored the under- water life off Powell River and Vancouver. “Even off rural Vancouver is interest- ing. There's just so much to see.” She and diving friends have feasted on more than one meal of freshly-caught crab. What about sharks? I asked her. “That's the big- gest myth,” she answered. ‘ “Pish don’t bother you unless you bother them. They're more afraid of you than you are of them. But if you harass what's down {here you're li- able to get stung. Just keep out of their. way and don't stick your hands in any holes.” Interior lake diving is more of a treasme hunt for, an- tiques Paddlewheelers wich traveled up ad down these lakes with frequency a hundred years ago are all underwater now. “All of them, except for the Moyie LINDA HALL Getting to Know Your Neighbor ies v CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 5, 1981 B3 Karen Pockett: She gets to the bottom of things near Kaslu. The job is trying to locate where they landed.” If youre a fancier of old betth-s, railway equipment, the «ace to look is under the wa‘++s of the Slocan or Koot- enay Lakes. “There's lots of s'ima at the bottom of the luxes,” says Karen, “If tney didn’t. feel like washing it they threw it overboard.” The kinds of relics brought up from boat salvages are interesting, states Karen, who told me that a local diver displays a matching set of chamberpots collected from one of these old paddle- wheelers. Beneath the waters of the Arrow Lakes there's plenty too, “if you know what you're looking for. That lake is up. and down like a yo-yo,” she says, making the pinpointing of old boat landii i underwater? I queried. “Twenty to 80 feet isn't bad for a lake.” I learned that in the ocean visibility is very difficult to determine ahead of time. A diver may be able to see 40-50 feet comfortably, then a tide change might re- duce his visibility to only four feet. Karen usually dives be- tween 80-40 feet deep. Sixty to 70 is pretty close to the limit even for an experienced scuba diver. “Your time limit is very low down that deep. | You have to watch yourself.” Karen wishes more power boats would take note of the diving flag which is placed in the water just above a team of divers. These red flags, with a diagonal white stripe, should warn boats to keep out of the area for the safety difficult, What you find under the Arrow Lakes are “old septic tanks, ds, a of all I was curious about diving equipment and. about the cost. She d that: as few cars, bones, and a for- tune in fishing lures!” A 1927 Chevy rumble seat coupe was recently brought up by divers exploring under the’ Nelson bridge, she told me. How far can, you see sreeaurmerte er in anything else, there is cheap equipment and there is expensive equipment, and that good quality equipment is better in the long run, She has been diving for four years and each year tries to upgrade. her gear. She still Diving is never a solo adventure can't afford too many “lux- uries” she: says like spear guns and cameras. The equipment is heavy, and Karen admitted that “it gets so hot when you are getting ready. It's one of those things that you never want to do until, you get there.” Besides diving, I asked, what are some of the things you like to do? “I'm a jock. Anys sport, yéu name it, skiing, volleyball, raquetball - T ride a bicycle, a motorevel:: A motorcycle?.“I use it around town all the’ time.” Can you carry your diving gear on it? I was genuinely curious. “Oh no," she laughed, “for that I use the ‘beast’," and she pointed ot a‘ large, dark silver van. 3 In the off season: Karen! takes and teaches classes and’ courses in swimming, diving’ and related subjects. She's a qualified lifeguard ‘and just’ returned from an‘ eight-day’ Ranger canoe trip from ‘Gal! ena Bay to Syringa. “They' needed a lifeguard and’ they’ didn't have to ask.me twice!” ~Where would you like see yourself in 10 years? asked. Without a moment's! hesitation she replied, “The x Symbolism so old they are lo At Weddings, Old and New Seeing and reading the ac- count of our latest wedding in Castlegar (one close to the Castlegar News) reminded me of the tremendous num- ber of symbolisms which have grown up with the cer- emony. Many of these symbolisms are so old as to be iosi in the mists of time, togethet with their original meanings, so that now they are mere pretty traditions; what might _ appear to be the oldest tradi- tion is actually the newest. For example, most brides prefer a church wedding and one might assume that that is the most ancient of marriage rites. Actually, it is the youngest, being a mere 400 years old. Prior to a Council of Trent which, in the middle of the 16th century, made marriage a.sacrament, mar- riage, as far as the Church was concerned, was a per- sonal affair and no‘clergyman was needed to make it bind- Every wedding report tells of the white wedding dress, the material of the: bride's veil, her flowers, attendants, her gifts and who gave her away. These are all symbols ing.'A simple declaration be- - fore two witnesses was suf- ficient, while in Renaissance Italy, merely to kiss a woman in public was tantamount to marriage. which today have become mere pretty traiditons. Cash on Delivery The giving away of the bride, usually by her father, harks back to the time when a daughter would be turned over to her groom only after a good solid down payment had been made by the groom and his relatives. The gifts, of course, represent that “down payment” in “bride-price,” originally given to papa. In the course of time, as might be expected, papa was talked into turning over the bride-price to his h “(The bride -will also -have several attendants: Today these are mainly JOHN CHARTERS’ but in the days of ‘the father-ruled families, they were armed retainers and witnesses to see that the de- tails of the bride-purchase were carried out. Only after these had been seen to, would the father hand over his isi to and throwing a dowery in with it. A lot of fathers today are probably wishing that their male ancestors had left well enough alone. The Veil's The Thing Secondly, the bride will not only be wearing white as a symbol of purity (at the moment the thought occurs to me “and why does the groom wear black?”), but she will have, trailing after her, yards of white veil. Probably very few brides realize it but this filmy sub- stance is a symbol of their submission to their‘lord and master who at that moment, in contrast to his assured lady, is probably being sup- ported physically by the clergyman and his best man. “Times,” smiles our bride, “have changed.” her new lord. Ring Symbolism’ When the time for the ring comes around and if the best man (who in earlier times was the guy who helped catch the bride in the first place) hasn't forgotten it, another symbol of great anti- quity has been introduced. It symbolizes not only the un- broken union but also sug- gests the fetters of captive brides of other days. It also recalls the phrase “to obey is the woman's vow” — now Reflections & Recollections me missing from today’s cere- monies. . * The ring is also a reminder of the days when the woman was another chattel or slave, subject entirely to the hus- - band's will — theoretically. When the newly-married “Again,” says our bride, “times have changed.” - Friends or Enemies Eventually, the harrassed couple escape in the bridal car, pursued by sadistically- minded friends who are sym- bolic of the angry relatives of The ring suggests the fetters of captive brides of other days. couple leave the church, they are showered with rice, which like the bridal bou- quet, the flower girls and event he wedding feast is symbolic of good fortune, or what was equivalent in those days — a fruitfu) union, with many children, particularly sons. the captive bride, eager to ‘ avenge her. The shoes danc- ing gaily from the rear bumper are a Hebrew symbol of the transfer of authority from father to bridegroom. And so they are off on their honeymoon, A get- acquainted period? Now, maybe, but in former times, cooling-olf period, ior the rei-: atives who had: just lost a: bride ‘and a bride-price and; were none too pleased about! it. ‘The Modest Blush One thing we forgot is the bride's blush — her symbol of modesty. It really is, too, for the bride in every culture must appear modest and re- luctant, even to involving, in some cases, sham battles on the part’ of the wedding at- tendants, and struggling and crying on the part of the maiden. However, once this is over, it has been noted, brides all over the world quickly dry their tears and complete the ceremony. Women, as has been pointed out before, are the true realists and enough is enough, see!