“CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 7, 1983 SPORTS NO REPLACEMENT FOUND Kuhn's exit brings- By JOHN NELSON The Associated Press When Bowie Kuhn bowed out in Boston, the wounds ofa long, often-bitter skirmish among baseball's owners began to heal. i And while the selection of someone to replace Kuhn as commissioner still seemed far off, owners already were beginning to pull together. The cause of the skirmish, a vendetta against Kuhn the man, had been removed. The rallying point was Bud Selig, Milwaukee Brewers owner, and his search committee, assigned the task last November of finding Kuhn's successor. There could have been a fight, even after Kobo said he no longer would be a candidate to succeed hi Studying Canada's isa On the one side, ready 10 ep for bat, were the old-line baseball types, men like Calvip Griffith of Minnesota Twins and Gabe Paul of Cleveland Indians.’ bel wanted a hard-nosed man, like themselve: * integrity-conscious person like Ku! baseball as an American innttutioi On the other side, bran weapons, were the new wave 0' 7 magnate Nelson Doubleday of shipbuilder. John McMullen of H high-powered business types, lookif But this was never really a wif. started by some men who didn’t like Kuhn for small Feasons, perhaps even different from the ones they gave: : Bob Lurie, San Francisco Giants owner and a Kuhn supporter, said he once asked one of Kulin's opponents the . Teason for his stance. “He said it was his (Kuhn's) fault the players’ salaries were so high,” said Lurie. “And this club had just: signed a baseball “That's a pretty bad excuse. Some of this was pretty lousy reasoning. T've never really heard a satisfactory answer.” Ho one goons to have a Braces senna cele. In fact, he might make an iscsi Bs tnd Mis counenttos tegees to have ne nasser ot the other owners, Lurie, a member of the search committee, said he got a sense at the meeting that the other owners were saying, “Maybe you People ought to have the right to do'it (select a commissioner).’ In'addition it has’ become clear, even from the old-line owners, that a man from) outside the game would be of course he other qualities. These men do have-some reservations, but they. have come to recognize what the search committee discovered long ago. There ’isn't anyone available inside baseball. stAittaugh the search committee has been sworn to silence about its eandidaes, which now number five or less, Lurie says it's likely the new commissioner will be an big shooters CALARY (CP) — Canada’s two top rapid-fire pistol shooters, Mark Howkins and Jim Timmerman of Calgary, are a study in really leave. It’s a lot of loss of income when you're talk- ing about 18 weeks a year out of the country.” and Timmerman, silver med- alist at the 1982 Common- wealth Games at lead a powerful Alberta pis- tol team at the Games. Three of the six are on the jets around the world several months a year to compete. Howkins, reigning Cana- dian rapid-fire champion and points leader at the Western Canada Summer Games on Friday, weighs the compe- titive gain of international matches against the expense’ and lost salary. The trade-off isn’t worth it. “We've been pretty close for the last few years but Jim is prepared to put more time into it as far as going out of the country,” Howkins said Friday. “I can't afford the time to PROFESSIONAL) Pool Maintenance national team, including Stan Wills Jr., 1982 champion. Alberta won the team award in free pistol Friday and Howkins shot for 297 points out of a possible 300 in the first 30-shot portion of the rapid-fire competition. Timmerman, who leaves today to compete at the Pan- American Games in Vene- zuela, shot a 283. Competi- tors and officials were shel- tering in the temperatures above 80 degrees Celsius on ‘the indoor range but Tim- merman didn't blame the heat. “It's just sloppy shooting, no excuses really,” he said. ‘Timmerman’s travel sched- ule leading up to the Los An- geles Olympics is hectic. Af- ter the Pan-Am Games he'll train ‘in Australia several Mexico and Cuba. Eros all your ae Bead en mainten- experts. 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GERMANY (AP) — The Ferrari turbos of French dri- vers Patrick Tambay and ~ Rene Arnoux lead the field for the West German Grand Prix today, the 10th race of 16 events in the 1988 world championship. Tambay, third in the title, standings, scored his first Grand Prix victory here last year, a dismal outsider, Grand Prix ».On the thind row-were the pera: Renaults of 1968 apie SEE ieee, ae dicted, his teammate, Jac- paatl ligt coulis mae ambitioh still-is to’ be world weekend for Ferrari. Ferrari's team leader, Didier, Pironi, leading the “Phetidin ‘Saturday mesat the!eultent ‘contenders kept theioptid places from’ the world championship, was in a ::first hospital, his legs shattered in qualifying rt daynompmbay and Arnoux th gee fastest of the non-turbo cars, in, 12th spot to start on the ar Canadian cyclist still in srileg) rae ee + TORONTO (CP) — World. .. _.the smartest weeks and compete at mat ches'.in Fort:/Benning, Ga.;. sees evel Jocelyn when his bicycle collided with a dump truck during a train- night. west of Toronto, when. he collided with a truck. A police said both vehicles ing run “It looks bad, very, very bad,” said Peter Kent, a longtime friend of Lovell, 88, of Toronto, A spokesman at-Sunny- brook Medical Centre said Lovell, who has a broken neck and other injuries, was in the intensive care unit and his condition was unchanged from Thursday. Hospital officials were re- leasing few details about the cyclist’s condition but Kent said Lovell underwent six hours of surgery shortly after tae accident “and I think he was in for more sur- gery one or two more times” on Friday. “The family has requested that there be no of were travelling west at the time of the collision and an : Some eeven seconds off the top turbo times, Rosberg will drive his usual hard race, hoping the Williams's relia- bility will enable him to gar- ner points again. If there is rain as pre- ques’ Laffite of France, who likes to drive in the rain, - could take an’ unexpectedly. high placing. Penguins sued for negligence Pittsburgh Penguins died has sued the team for negligence. Bleven Vs “when his car struck the reputation as the enfant terrible of Canadian. sport, made headlines in 1978 in a was Lovell, voted Canada’s top male athlete of 1975, was taken to a Milton hospital, then flown by helicopter am- ‘Top male athlete in 1975' in treatment of severe head and spinal-cord injuries. Lovell married to former bulance to Sunnybrook which specializes world cham- t sy that he later called the “cookie incident.” While with the Canadian cycling team in Europe, he jokingly pilfered a 50-cent box of cookies from a hote! where he landed a berth on the top amateur team in the his injuries, but I understand that they are very exten- sive,” said Kent. “It's an unbelievable thing for those who know Jocelyn that this should happen to him, that he should be hit by a truck. 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Like you (the reporter) pick- ing up an orange as you leave here and me calling the po- lice.” SUNDAY. — CFL: Qionipes Blue Bombers vs, Montreal Con- a. ie ren =e yond id Chormpronaites: Fi the women’ it put, from ssn ‘rinianel 2p. a Serewies High 3, 12.4.m., channel ‘Toronto Blue Jays vs. Milwaukee Brewers, 2: :90 p. m., channel 13, tspiard 6:30 y channel 4 — .m., channel 4, TRACK & FIELD os {rom Helsinkt, Flolond, 11:25 p.m., channel 9, 12:30 0.1 ame ane BASEBALL — aren M., schon 8 .m., chan. 13, TRACK A FID ~¥ Piterd Chenptoahip Le 11:25 pln, ‘chonnel 9, 12:30 a.m., BASEBALL — Ne You Mets vs. Mor l} Lr Mee League: New vs. Montreal Expos, CK & FIELD — \y A . Teasers vorld Championships 11:25 p.m., channel 9, WE WILL SELL YOU Only the Bike for Cu-Dor YOUR SIZE AND Sporls ma = Castlegar from behind ( Seagull slayer off scott free ONTO (CP) — There were thousands of rung ‘a lifeless victim and a suspect already fitted tri - oe Dave Winfield, now the seagull slayer, said he didn’t mean to do it and Crown Attorney Norman Matusiak decided the charge against the New York Yankees’ outfield wouldn't fly. Winfield knocked off some Blue Jays — the unen- dangered kind — with two hits, and a seagull — a. protected species — with one throw ‘Thursday night. He ; ended up at Toronto police headquarters after the Yankees’ 8-1 victory over Toronto Blue Jays, charged we horeerd “priday, Matusiak, after 2 telephone conversation with Winfield, decided not to Lethe the * charge brought forth by Const. Wayne Hartery, ha’ g been satisfied “no criminal intent was Involved.’ Matusiak will ask the case be dropped at the hearing Aug. 12. e eanwhile, between the time of the arrest and-the | dropping of charges, the media in Canada and the United States had a field day. The morning headlines in Toronto blared: Damn Yankee Charged in Slaying of Seagull At Ball Park. The New York Post front page read: Dave Winfield In Fowl Ball Flap, and a New York radio. sports | announcer reported: “The Blue Jays were not the only birds to take a beating in Toronto last night.” Phone calls from across North America flooded the Metro switchboard as newspapers, radio and television stations checked the unbelievable wire stories, ‘a San Francisco radio station phoned saying that city had plenty of seagulls and would replace the one killed at Exhibition Stadium if police would drop the against Winfield. coitet bird lovers took the matter seriously. “I don’t think it's comical,” said Janet Huling, a spokesman for the Humane Society of the United States. “T think it’s sad and unfortunate.” The body of the seagull was dispatched by the Toronto Humane Society to the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph, Ont., for an autopsy. It wasn't the first time animal lovers have been angered at athletes. The humane society complained to ‘Baltimore Orioles when outfielder John Lowenstein’ swung a bat at a cat. He missed. And in Washington in 1979, a was charged with beating a Canada goose to death on the 17th greem with his putter. He paid a fine. The incident occurred when Alfredo Griffin of the Blue Jays was about to step into the batter's box to open the bottom of the fifth. Time was called and the ball boy in the Yankee bullpen in the right-field corner was dispatched with a towel to remove the corpse. The game went on, Winfield was booed and a few objects were tossed in his direction — a mighty heave since he was playing centre field. juick shower, {gies ascribes ae ty i animals. f Winfield could have faced a maximum fine of $500 and-or a six-month jail sentence. In the Yankees clubhouse, manager Bil Martin d when i by Blue Jays Canucks schedule 25 of their 40 National Hoc- key League home games on weekend dates, the club said Friday in releasing its 1983- 84 schedule. The team has 12 home games on Friday, five on Saturday and eight on Sun- day. Of the remaining 15 - games, seven each will be played on Tuesday and Wed- nesday nights with one game on the Monday, Dec. 26 Boxing Day holiday. In a departure from pre- Cincanett vious schedules when the club had home stands con- taining as many as 10 games, the Canucks longest stretch at the Pacific Coliseum will be just three games and that will happen eight times dur- ing the schedule. The Canucks start their 80-game schedule here Oct. 5 against Calgary Flames and end it 177 days later March 80 when Minnesota North having to play four games in five nights and, whenever we return from an eastern swing, we've got two full days bef teburgh, 142, ys before resuming play at a . home.” x “Given our geographic lo- cation, I'd say this is the best schedule we've ever had.” As they did last year, the Mitwoukes Canucks will face Smythe Division teams eight times — “*veer4 four games at home, four away — and meet the 16 other NHL clubs three times each. officials of the pending charge. “They say he hit the gull o on purpose?” said Martin. “They nite that if they'd seen the throws he'd ear, “It’s the first time he's hit the cutoff man all year.” Winfield appeared embarrassed by the whole affair. He walked into the clubhouse with his arms in the air in mock surrender, sat down and professed his innocence. “All I can say is that it is quite an unfortunate incident because one of the fowls in Canada is now no longer with us,” said Winfield. Alf and Vicki Pether : : ’ Hooked on Aikido The room is quiet. The three of them, pen weaine their | loose-fitting white pants and tops called “dogi,” are sitting on their knees facing the instructor and waiting for the warm-ups to begin. Without a word the instructor stretches one leg out in front of him and pulls himself toward it, The three follow suit. He stretches 'sideways. They imitate. The exercises, I notice, are not unlike the warmups for any other sport from soccer to the Jan Fonda Workout. Finally it was time to begin. One by one they lined up and threw each other on the mat; then they got up and ran around and did it again. Then it was knee-walking all around the room. Forward rolls came next, but they weren't your typical roll, they fell on their shoulders, not thelr necks, and backs. Their backward rolls were the same, on their shoulders. As they went through their routines there was still no sound except their heavy’ breathing; the sweat poured down their faces. The room was so quiet, so still that as I ran around taking pictures T felt as though I was interfering with the sanctity of the place, that I was somehow infringing. Alf and Vicki Pether are a:part of this group of friends who meet and regularly practice the Japanese martial art of “Aikido.” Alf is no stranger to any of the martial arts. He studied Kung Fu, which he found too violent; and Tai Chi ‘which he found too gentle. He also learned Judo and Karate. Four years ago he “Aikido.” “I found Aikido more of an art that I was looking for.” A year after her husband started in Aikido, Vicki decided to put on that white cotton “sweat suit” for the first time and try it out. “I never really did much in the way of sports before,” she admitted. “Alf was in Kung Fu and that is really rough and tough. Then I decided to try Aikido but I remember looking at it and saying to myself, ‘Til never be able to do this,’ but once I started I really got. addicted to it.” Prior to this time she describes herself as “really a slob. I just wore jeans and T-shirts all the time.” Then she began Aikido, joined Weight Watchers and lost a total of 102 pounds. She credits Aikido for much of the change in her life. “It made me more aware of myself. It's like a way of life.” In talking with the Pethers I discovered that Aikido is a relatively new Japanese martial art, founded in the early 1930's by Morihei Ueshiba, a master in the arts such as ju jitsu, kendo, and sojitsu. Since 1984 when Aikido was presented in Japan and ceria, its Popularity has spread throughout the world. Aikido is a series of ‘vecnoriead movements which develop skill and strength. Whereas Kung Fu requires a lot of physical strength; force against force, Aikido stresses “blending” with one's partner in the actual routines, or “blending” with an opponent should the need arise to use it as an actual self-defense tool. The purpose of Aikido, I learned, is not to. defeat one's enemies, but to get along, “blending” again. Says Alf, “it’s being aware of where the openings are. You see how to close them.” So, if you are being attacked, you use swift circular movements all around your opponent until ° you see an opening, then you either move right through it or your movements become suddenly hard and swift as , you defeat your attacker. “You become like a Via ou ty vot to wo ply ervageh weak Sk have to.” These two, however emphasize that pelt dstones is not what Aikido is about. What it’s all about is getting in touch with your body, its flexibility and strength and in so doing, getting in touch with your inner self. “You're dealing with the inner aspect af ‘Chi’,,” says Viki. Alf continues, “it’s important:to get your mind at the centre of your body, , which is 1%” below your navel.” , Come again?7! “Yes . . . that's the approximate. centre of the body and where you should concentrate all your strength, both physical and mental. All the martial arts have a much broader scope than just the physical. (Nou develop s better personality as well as leara a skil/7t also teaches you how to relax.” Aikido’s benefits include self-defense, ineréiised muscle strength, the ability to fall properly, (particularly useful if you fall a lot), plus the overall good feeling at « having mastered a new skill. As an.added bonus ‘the : Aikido enthusiast gets to learn a whale buinch:of Japanese io dlp banetipt Si panes ‘Like the country of Japan itself, / Amide fs a formal aren't bowing to the instructor you're bor ir art.” Sn . Another feature which tes Aikido from other arts is the fact that it is non-competitive. In practically every other sport the main purpose’ is “defeating :an opponent or a team. The Aikido artist‘ never Has:an opponent; he works with a » He p through -LINDA HALL CASTLEGAR NEWS, August 7, 1983 B3 Getting to Know Your Neighbor numbered ranks called “kyu.” Starting : at “5th Kyu" b he works up to “Ist Kyu” and then finally black belt, which can take five years of steady practice and memorization. Alf is currently in his 8rd Kyu and Vicki in her 4th.. They © have just returned from a summer camp near Vancouver where the 70 participants spent practically every hour of their seven days in intense practice. Growing up in this area, Viki “never even considered” that she would one day be so involved in any kind of martial art. She had all her schooling in this area and’ graduated from SHSS. Besides Aikido, Vicki gardens, makes ceramic crafts and decorates cakes asa part time job. Alf was born in Vancouver and grew up all over the country. He lived six years in Prince Albert, Getic elie b nC nse currently employed by Celgar. The Pethers have two children — Andy 8, and Christy 7, who practice Aikido rather sporadically. “But they learn a little bit,” says Alf, “we play with them and- they learn a little bit, of.it.” Viki is seriously thinking of starting up some kind of kids’ Aikido club in the fall. A dream that the Pethers share is to travel to Japan to study the art. “Then'we'd like to go to Hawaii which has the next oldest Aikido club after Japan.” While Viki and Alf and I chatted around the kitchen table, in came a few of their friends for a practice seasion. Their senior instructor, Brian Mauchline, was able to fill me in ona few of the details about the history of Aikido. I also met a young athlete named Kevin Bonde, a former soccer player who has quit soccer in favor of Aikido. “I like Aikido better,” he explained. Brian, who is very close to earning his black belt, said, “To be a top quality instructor you have to work at it day and night.” Some do, I learned. “You keep practicing and practicing until you can't practice anymore,” said Vicki. The Pethers showed me a large glossy book entitled, The New Aikido Complete. I read: “The goals of Aikido are there for all to achieve. To become a person in harmony with others, to become an integrated and balanced individual, and to.explore our full human potential should be the aims of the Aikido student. It is obviously a lifetime pursuit.” Perhaps that’s why it’s called an “art” rather than a “sport.” q “T¢’s unfortunate, but it was an accident.” WEEKEND WRAP-UP _, i oy possessed seeeas eerass, BRSRES SbSSEb3 eescl£ suerss 333ze, FF FF Ssessesssns. HY fe Ese Reshisssss8. fs F 2 yuesssououcne, i" f jften » Houston, 11; Butler, 1. 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The woods camps are busy along the Miramichi River and k have “Pulp and paper, the largest sector, was slower to falter and never fell as far, said, but with an of through County, something to haul and mills are at the height of summer production. “It's shaping up as a normal year for an industry in which normalcy went out the window in the seseretis and deepest downturn in decades, industry on the market, it is taking longer to bounce back. Recovery in lumber began in early spring, the time of year when men accustomed to seasonal work in the woods become uneasy if the mills don't awaken from late-winter And the recovery, they say, is reflected throughout New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and much of the rest of “I had a meeting of my sawmill members today,” said Tony Rumbold of the Maritime Lumber Bureau, “and every one had a smile on his face for the first time in two years.” In the spring of 1982, a New Brunswick cabinet minister described the lumber market as “just about stone dead.” And after that, it got worse. All but threé of the 49 mills represented byt the lumber bureau in New Brunswick were closed for d periods “During the winter they know there aren't any jobs,” says Joe O'Neill, vice-president of woodlands for Acadia Forests Products Ltd. of Nelson-Miramichi, N.B. “When they get to the spring, if they don’t have a job at their normal place of employment, that’s when the panic sets in.” PRODUCES AT CAPACITY Acadia, direct employer of more than 260, is producing lumber and pulp at full stream after resuming Gotan in the spring and taking a Opena mere 10 weeks in 1982, the company y anticipates in 1982, most from the end of September to this spring. Only 14 of the bureau's 51 mills in Nova Scotia avoided long shutdowns, “It was unbelievably bad,” Amherst, N.S., office. Now, almost all are operating. Scores of family businesses went through the same trauma as interest rates climbed to a point where few people could build houses and buy lumber. Most are back in steady production. Cc. said Rumbold from his like and Doak in the economiccally disadvantaged Miramichi area depend on the forest for a style of life and a line of defence against year-round unemployment. Major lumber and pulp mills in the region are going again with the exception of the Northwood waferboard plant in Chatham. More than 2,000 County until Ch but is hoping for improvement in the pulp market, O'Neill said. “People are selling pulp at a loss because it’s cheaper than shutting down.” Ashley Colter (1961) Ltd., a family sawmill operating , more than 50 years in the Miramichi area, was down from September to the spring in the earliest shutdown vi Jim Pike can “I don't really see a boom winter coming,” he said. “But our anticipation is that we'll saw through until Christmas- time and then maybe stcp for a couple of cold months.” The industry limped along through the recession on the market for wood used in home renovation, Rumbold said. But when interest rates slid and the federal and some provincial governments offered housing grants, construction took off and lumber was again in high demand. In New Brunswick, where sawmills sell mostly in the woodsworkers, many of whom just managed to qualify for unemployment insurance last year, are back in the forests and have gocd prospects of putting in a full season, spokesman say. Forestry — primarily pulp, paper and lumber — is New and to the United States, housing starts to the end of June this year leaped to 1,887 from only 240 in the same period last year. And in Nova Scotia, where mills sell to the domestic and overseas markets, housing starts reached 1,448 to the end of May from 728 in the first five months of 1982, Video games introduced on passenger planes TORONTO (CP) — The video game explosion has reached a new high — about 80,000-feet — with the in- troduction of portable video units on passenger panes: and Altus Corp. of San Jose, Calif., has turned the fold- down, seatback meal tray into a mini-video arcade on its Vancouver-to-Amsterdam on the air- The ‘ind. re- dom passengers are sub- jected: to after the movie ends and they've read all the magazines on board could be a thing of the past asa result been positive among passen- gérs on the nine-hour Am- sterdam trips, where 24 por- table sets are available, 12 each on two flights. If response is also good af- ter the experiment on the pocket computer. Air Video Inc. . president Michael Thorek said he came up with the idea for the games when he developed cabin fever on a flight to the Caribbean. flights have been bs Up to play the game trays on their flights for the last two weeks as part of a one-month ex- during which the of an by Canadian Pacific Airlines and two video game manu- facturers. CP Air, with the help of Air Video Inc., of Toronto two manufacturers vie for a contract with the airline. CP Air spokesman Peter Golding said Friday the res- ponse to the game trays has Toronto-V fighter CP Air may consider permanent sets built into the trays to replace the portable units now used, Golding said. FEW BEEPS OR He said sets are about the same size as the tray and are fairly quiet, with no more beeps or flashes than are found on a digital watch or “I was with the tray and it dawned on me that it was used for a very short period of time and the rest of the trip it's blank,” Thorek said. “With a bored, captive audience, I thought it would be fun to do something with it.” Now that CP Air has “broken the ice, there are several airlines interested in talking specifics about tests (on their planes),” he said. Once the tests show what passengers want, the com- pany will make a final pro- totype. A spokesman for Air Can- ada in Toronto said the air- line has no plans to put the video games on board. But Charles Novak, public relations director for United Airlines in the United States, said its only a question of “when, not if, these video games will come on board. We're interested but we're going to have to see how the travelling public likes it.” RUNS ON BATTERIES Test sets by Air Video and Altus incorporate several hand-held games in an inch- thick box, their liquid crystal displays protected from spil- led drinks by a layer of plas- tie, Air Video's set offers three games running on alkaline batteries, but later it may offer more games in a single screen and use solar cells to draw energy from cabin lights. Altus's Airplay has five games a tray powered by a checker-sized lithium battery that lasts two years. Altus, which will lease each tray to an airline for $1.25 a day, plans a number of game trays aimed at different passenters. For the business traveller, the game would contain a mini-com- puter with nine financial pro- grams, a sports game and a blackjack game. For other passengers, there will be a selection of sports games such as foot- ball, baseball or soccer. As well, there will be games of chance, such as blackjack or pinball, and hand-eye co- ordination games such as Donkey Kong. development, said game trays become self-sup- porting or even money-mak- ers. Cost for game-playing passengers is the same price as that charged for a set of movie earphones. In the U.8., where airlines have 420,000 seats, the games could also become fi- nancially successful for man- ufacturers.