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DESPITE LOSING

Ottawa happy with play

By GRAHAM COX

OTTAWA (CP) — If quarterbacks Tom Burgess and
Todd Dillon improve as expected on their performances in a
25-19 Canadian Football League loss Friday by the Ottawa
Rough Riders to the B.C. Lions, even general manager Don
Holtby might start smiling again.

Plagued by four straight previous losses, the Ottawa
management had watched crowds dwindle weekly. But,
despite the loss and the disappointment of head coach Joe
Moss, the 23,177 fans — Ottawa's biggest home crowd of the
year — left Lansdowne Park buzzing over the game they'd
just seen.

The win gave the Lions a 7-1 won-lost record as the top
team in the league while Ottawa dropped to a 2-5 record tied
with the Montreal Alouettes who lost 21-10 Thursday to the
Stampeders in Calgary.

Three times the normally conservative Moss used short
snaps on punting situations — direct to Burgess who he's
sneaked onto his special punt team — and it worked once
with a long pass to wide receiver Clorindo Grilli to keep a
drive alive.

And the Ottawa pair put more passes up than Ottawa

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fans have seen in a long time, completing 26 of 43 tries for
831 net yards while Roy Dewalt and Tim Cowan were good
on 21 of 36 for 275 yards for the Lions.

Although B.C. outrushed Ottawa 148 yards to 52, it was
difference,

its defence that made the sacking Burgess,
starting only his third professional game since graduating
from Colgate University, and Dillon — who only arrived
early this week from New Jersey Generals of the moribund
United States Football League to replace cast-off J.C. Watts

— six times.
TURNOVERS HURT

The Lions also picked off three errant Ottawa passes
and grabbed up Ottawa's only fumble, converting three of
the turnovers into scores — one of two touchdowns by
veteran slotback Jan Carinci and two of Lui Passaglia's
three field goals.

Converting Carinei’s 15- and nine-yard passing scores

from Dewalt, Passaglia also kicked a pair of singles to round
out B.C. scoring.

Ottawa got running touchdowns of one and two yards
from veteran back Lester Brown, a convert, and two field
goals from Dean Dorsey. An attempted two-point con-
version pass on Brown's two-yard score in the fourth quarter
went astray.

But, as pleased as the fans were at the non-stop effort of
their club, Moss and Dillon wanted more.

“I went into the game with my priorities wrong,” said
Dillon, playing for the first time in 15 months. “I wanted to
do well instead of wanting to win. I won't do that again.

“Some things worked, but on some other stuff I just
looked like a horse’s patootie. But the more reps
(repetitions) we get and the more defences I can look at the
better it will get.

“But let me tell you one thing, these guys play damned
good football. I just can't wait ‘til next week now.”

All Moss could see was one more loss in a game he
hoped would be “the start of a new season for us.”

“When you lose, you're foolish to be satisfied that we
played well at times. I'm not satisfied with that and, even
better, the players aren't satisfied with that.”

Other games this week had the Edmonton Eskimos beat
the Blue Bombers 33-5 Friday in Winnipeg.

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By CHRIS MORRIS

MONCTON, N.B. — Bill Lee lives life as if he has a
no-hitter going with two men out in the bottom of the
ninth.

But Lee hasn't always got the third man out.

He was once one of the American League's brightest
baseball stars, and for almost 10 years he was a fixture
with the Boston Red Sox.

He's most remembered, though, as one who flouted
tradition, sometimes appearing on the pitcher's mound
wearing a raccoon hat and on other occasions, a gas mask
or a beanie with a propeller on top.

Following a short, painful stint with the Montreal
Expos, he’s now in New Brunswick in baseball's boonies
— still pitching at 40 and having, as he puts it, one helluva

time.

“I love it here,” he says putting his feet up after an
invigorating morning round at a local golf club. “I go to
farms and pick own b ... I eat in-fed
chickens and fish and lobster.

“I love my Moosehead beer, but I try to drink it
sparingly. This is a great place to live — I think it's one of
the sanest places to live on continental North America.”

FOR THREE YEARS

This is the home of the Moncton Mets, the team to
beat in the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball.League. Lee has
been starting pitcher for the Mets for three years, doing a
lot for his team and doing a lot for baseball in general in
the Maritimes.

Fans in these parts are still in awe of Lee's
performance last year.

‘The long-legged, gangly Californian broke his ankle
trying to field a ball near first base and he was laid up for
most of the final series in the now defunct New Bruns-
wick league. The Mets joined the Nova Scotia league this
year.
It was a tight series, and when it came down to the
sixth and final game Lee hopped in the tub, ripped off his
cast and hobbled out to the mound to pitch the last inning
and save the win for the Mets.

“Baseball is the greatest sport,” he says with a kind
of childlike enthusiasm. “It's in my blood just like resin is
in a tree.

“It draws me back every year. I've got to play it. I've
played it since I was eight years old and I've played it
every year since.”

Californians in general have a reputation for being
exotic and offbeat, and Lee fits the pattern. People don't
call him the Spaceman for nothing.

He says he's a cross between a Catholic, a Hindu and
a Rastafarian, and he figures a person has to be a Zen

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to play baseball well all the time.

“To hit a round ball square is the most difficult thing
to do in sport.”

Lee is still on contract to the Expos and says he will
be paid by them for a least another six years. But he is

‘Spaceman’ still
loves the game

loudly and to anyone who
will listen — that his former wife picks up the Expos’

divorced and he grumbles —

paycheque.

He also forgets occasional

martial arts.

WAS SUSPENDED
He was recently suspended for four games following
cation with the pitcher for the Kentville (N.S.)

an alter

lly to practise his spiritu-
ality on the diamond — when Zen Buddhism goes out the
window and he turns to that other oriental practice, the

Wildcats.

“Td had a fight with my ex wife just before the game
and I tried to keep it into myself and centre myself with
yoga breathing and everything,” he recalls “But when he
threw at me, I didn't breathe yoga like, I breathed like a
full-fledged fascist and I attacked him.”

He thinks his troubles in big-league ball stem from
different philosophical approaches to the game.

“I believed in perfection and they believed in
winning at all costs.”

He doesn't mention the 1982 season with the Expos
and the game when he sat and fumed in a tavern in his
uniform for seven innings, waiting for Expos manager
Jim Fanning to show up and explain why Lee's friend,
Rodney Scott, had been dumped from the team. Or the
furore over his infamous comment that he sprinkled
marijuana on his morning pancakes.

FRIES OWNERS

“My whole concept of why I got thrown out of
baseball was not because I fought so much, it's just that I
thought the owners had no business in the ballgame
whatsoever,” he says, a touch of anger coloring his lazy,
American drawl.

“Who comes to watch the owner sit up in his luxury
seat and run the thing? No, they come to see Gary Carter
hit a two-run single or see him make a great throw to
second to save a run.”

Lee is still popular in Moncton, a city that has had a
lot of hard knocks lately with CN Rail threatening to close
the area’s largest employer, the locomotive and car repair
shops.

There were fears after Lee briefly left the team
earlier this summer to teach baseball to Italian kids that
he might ultimately choose the canals of Venice over the
Bay of Fundy’s tidal bore.

STAY WITH METS

But Lee says that although he hopes to return to
Venice next summer for the week-long baseball clinic, he
wants to keep playing with the Mets.

"My wife wants to live in Italy and live next to a
contessa and swim in a spring-fed pool,” he says. “But I
like Moncton.

“It's safer here. You know there's not going to be any
bombs going off — there's not too many terrorists coming
in from Buctouche.”

Because Lee a year-round in
Moncton, he'will be able to play in the Canadian senior
baseball championships for the first time this. year. -The
national series will be held in Moncton Aug. 21-24.

Habs trade
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TUESDAY

GOLF — CASTLEGAR LADIES CLUB: Bingo, Bongo. Bongo. tee off
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top
hurler

Curt Fuller of the Re
public-Curlew Bears has been
named the Kootenay Inter-
national Senior Baseball
League's Pitcher of the Year
for 1986.

In voting by the league's

netminder Steve Penney and
Swedish left-winger Jan Ing-
man, the Jets said Friday.
Winnipeg general manger
John Ferguson said the trade
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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.
(AP) — Teams from Valley-

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Saturday to qualify for the
Little League World Series
haseball tournament.
Valleyfield won the Can-
adian title with a 5-0 win over

runs, including a grand siam.
Norridge won the Central

regional title with a 20

vietory over Wabash, Ind.
Other teams qualified are

Tainan Park, Taiwan, for the
Far East; Torrejon Air Force
Base, Madrid, Spain, for
Europe; and Maracaibo,
Venezuela, for Latin Ameri-

ica.

The Little League World
Series begins Tuesday, with
the championship game
scheduled for Aug. 23.

COUPLE WED
AT CHURCH
OF GOD

Wanita Joan, daughter of Mr. and
Command, became the bride of Norman
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wickett in a recent
candlelit ceremony at'the Kinnaird Church of God.

The bride, given in marriage by her father,
radiant in an Italian lace satin gown featuring
chapel-length train, all overlaid
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and white baby roses.

The bride was attended by her two sisters, Lisa
Nevakshonoff of Stettler, Alberta, as matron on honor,
and Jana C d as br d. Deb of
Chilliwack and Jane Webber of Calgary also attended.

Danielle Command, in a gown designed by
Madeleine, was flower girl and Matthew McCarthy was
ring bearer.

The groom and his attendants were all attired in
black pinstripe tuxedos. Their accessories were of
electric blue taffeta.

Best man was Geoff Yule of Vancouver and atten-
dants were Gregg and Pat Wickett of Castlegar, brothers
of the groom, and Lawrence Gordon of Perth, Australia.

MR. AND MRS. NORMAN WICKETT
. .. double ring ceremony

Ushers were Bob Horst of Castlegar and Randy Hutcheon
of Edmonton.

A reception and dance followed at the Fireside Inn
with feature music by the SHSS Stage Band. Bryan
Keeler of Toronto was master of ceremonies.

The wedding party was “piped in” by Brenda
Lowden of Vancouver Ladies pipe Band.

The toast to the bride was given by Glen Wilson.

Out-of-town guests were from throughout B.C.,
Alberta and Spokane, Wash. The bride and groom felt
especially grateful to guests from Rosetown, Sask. to
Susan and Bryan Keeler of Toronto, to Elaine Gordon,
Ian Kishi and Toni Tomasso of Montreal and Vicki and
Lawrence Gordon of Perth, Australia.

The newlyweds are residing in Vancouver.

Traditional ceremony

Zoyia Maloff, daughter of
Harry and Verna Maloff of
Krestova, and Michael

A lawn reception was held
after the wedding. Larrissa

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