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He lost control at high speed, caught his arm in a picket fence and cartwheeled until landing hard on an icy, flat section He suffered a fractured pelvis and internal injuries and was reported in serious but stable condition at University Hospital in Innsbruck follow ing three hours of surgery Mahrer, with his fourth career victory on the World Cup downhill circuit completed a shutout of the highly favored Austrians. Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg, an ex-patriate Austrian who placed second Saturday, won Friday's race on the Hahnen kamm Rob Boyd of _ Whistler, who -had—become depressed by bad luck and poor results this season, said his morale received a huge upiifting by placing sixth After making a mistake by swinging too wide in the Steilhang, Boyd flew courageously down the last two-thirds of the course “‘L feel it's really coming back,"’ said Boyd, the RCA 20” COLOR TV With Remote Control Stemmle injured the race, Thousands of spectators flooded the finish area and ‘lined the picket fence borders from top to bottom, ringing cowbells and shouting ‘Hup! Hup! Hup!"" as the ‘skiers skidded past them. At the bottom, vendors drenched the air with the smell of boiling frankfurters and steaming cider But the Austrian crowd was left with a wild cheer drowned in their throats. After dominating the training runs, Austrian skiers had only Peter Wirn sberger’s third-place finish Saturday to crow about Their rivals, the Swiss, took three of the top five spots. Pirmin Zurbriggen captured fourth place and Peter Mueller, the 11-year veteran who desperately wanted his first win at Kitzbuehel, placed fifth 14 BREAK BARRIER Mahrer led a group of 14 skiers who broke the two-minute barrier as a temperatue of -4 degrees kept the surface icy fast. On Friday, when wet snow covered the course, none of the competitors broke two minutes “It-was hard-and fast and that was good for me;"'—said-Mahrer;-a~broad-shouldered--man with curly dark hair Mahrer's time was one minute 58.42 seconds. Boyd ran the course in 1:59.44 “Today it was more how good a skier you were and not how good your skis were,"’ Boyd said, referring to Friday's sticky, strange conditions. The surprising Ralf Socherof Fernie, finished third-ranked downhiller Tast Season going “The Steilhang gave me problems, but the main thing was I came out of it with good speed. Then I knew I had to make up time so I just tried to tuck it (crouch in an aerodynamic position) through the end At the finish line I thought peshaps . . . but I knew it was lost at the top His time through the first interval was ranked 29th. Then he moved up to 10th at the second interval and finally to sixth A ‘carnival atmosphere pervaded the town for Twas reatty 21st, Daniel Moar of Revelstoke, 27th and Fettx Belczyk of Castlegar, 34th Belezyk ran the course immediately after Stemmle, whose*crash forced race officials to suspend action for about 20 minutes as a helicopter hoisted him off the course “The worst thing was-not knowing how badly Brian was hurt,” Belczyk said There is a slalom race today, then skiers move on to Wengen, Switzerland, next weekend for the last downhill before the world championships in Vail, Colo. Records & Tapes ’ EDDIE MONEY Special Feature Crimes of Freedom Now Only SWEAT SHIRTS = Clearance ( Audio Technica, Comp! \ Merle captures Super-G GRINDELWALD, SWITZERLAND (AP)_— Carole Merle of France ended Switzerland's 13-race winning streak Saturday by capturing the women’s World Cup super giant slalom . Merle, who won the season's only previous super-G just before the Swiss string began, covered the hard-packed course in one minute 26.24 seconds, nearly two seconds ahead of runnerup Sigrid Wolf. Wolf, an Austrian, gained on the lower’ part_ of the 2,115-metre-long Tschuggen- hill and timed in 1:27.97 ed Walliser of Switzerland, who will be defending kher Super-G and-dowahill titles at the Alpine world -cham- pionships starting Jan. 29 at Vail, Colo “I'm surprised myself,"". Merle said after winning with the second biggest lead ever recorded in a World Cup Super-G. Karen Percy. of Banff, Alta., was the best Canadian, finishing in 1:30.21 for 18th place. Kerrin Lee of Rossland, was 23rd in 1:30.83 follow ed in 26th place by Lucie Laroche of Lac-Beauport, Que., 1:31.36, and in 31st place by Michelle McKendry of Orangeville, Ont., 1:31.69. Headed fot her best season on the tour, Merle gave a skiing lesson as she flawlessly mastered the course's fast top, curving middle. and bumpy bottom in bright sunshine Mateja Svet of Yugoslavia was the day's most prominent victim, crash ing on the lower part of the run Merle, 24, is the only non-Swiss winner-on the women’s circuit this winter. Until Saturday, the Swiss tri umphed in every event since her victory in the season-opening Super G last November. The victory lifted Merle into sec ond place of the women’s overall standings “7 munity Complex. The Castlegar squad easily han PEE WEE REPS . . . Trail was in town yesterday died Trail in a 15:5 decision visiting the Castlegar Pee Wee Reps at the Com TWO-GOAL GAME Audio System Cleaning Kit 99 Third with 1:28.31 was Maria NOTHING TO LOSE GEORGIA SATELLITES OPEN ALL NIGHT BLUE OYSTER CULT IMAGINOS ROBERT PALMER HEAVY NOVA DEF LEPPARD angae CKT. 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In fact, some nights can be downright miserable Frenzied fans in the stands holler obscenities irate coaches bellow belligerently and every now and then the players come ungiued and do their best to knock each other's numbers off. With all this emotion swirling around an arena during a hockey game, a and officiate to the best of his abilities. No easy task because no matter what the ref calls, someone is not going to like it and he will hear about it Sporting Views By Bregdan Nagle But the emotions of the fans and the coaches are just a sidebar to what the ref’s main concern is keeping control of the game. And keeping contro!’ is difficult for an on-ice official when a single incident can turn a hockey game into a potentially dangerous situation Take last Saturday's KIJHL matchup between the Nelson Maple Leafs and the Grand Forks Border Bruins. The game appeared to be sailing along when emotions suddenly erupted and a pair of players engaged in-a little extra-curricular activity During the fight, the Grand Forks player attempted to kick the Nelson player in the face — I don’t think I have to tell you just what a skate blade can_do to a person's faces — so he got a match penalty for it As that altercation was sorted out, another broke. This time a Nelson player pulled the hair of a Grand Forks player. Another match penalty. The Border Bruin player was getting up when he spat in the face of the Maple Leaf who pulled his hair. You Refs have it tough guessed it, another match penalty * But it didn’t end there. The Border Bruin was leaving the ice when the Nélson player shoved the linesman who was holding him to get at the Grand Forks player. Match penalty number four Those" two scuffles ended in four match penalties. The rest of the game saw only two minor Penalties called hat's the point? Canadiens ice Leafs the first period with a shot from the top of the left circle, beating Blackhawk goalig Ed Belfour on the stick side TORONTO (CP) — Russ Courtnall returned in Maple Leaf Gardens in fine fashion, scoring twice to lead the surging Montreal Canadiens toia S-3 triumph NORDS 1 SABRES over the Toronto Maple Leafs in NHL action Saturday QUEBEC (CP) — Marc Fortier scored with less night than three minutes remaining in the third period to give Courtnall, in his first-appearance at-the-Gardens the Quebec Nordiques a 1-1 tie with the Buffalo Sabres since the Nov. 7 trade that sent him to Montreal for in NHL play Saturday night John Kordic, scored his ninth goal of the season with six The Nordiques, who saw their winless streak seconds left in the first period for a 2-1 lead extend to nine games;—were applying pressure and He made it 4-2 at 7:26 of the third period, breezing buzzing around the Sabres goal when Michel Goulet around the Toronto net and beating goalie Allan Bester _ picked up a loose puck and let go on a quick. backhand on a wraparound shot for the game-winner. toward Buffalo goaltender Darren Puppa Mike_McPhee. Shayne —Corson_and Ryan Walter. -Puppa-made_the initial save but Fortier-picked—up. goes something like this: Hockey. is an extremely fast-paced emotional game. You've usual ly got 12 players and three officials on the ice. The officials have to keep control of the game while the players are busily engaged in trying to out-score each other But there's no love lost between players who are on the ice trying to win a hockey game. Tempers flare, rules are broken and the ref has to step in and enforce the rules. Sometimes, the volatile nature of the game can lead to potentially dangerous out bursts Things get ugly Sticks swing, fists fly and the officials have to wade in and break things up. The officials are the only ones, so it now seems, who control the game Coaches and players may be able to stay cool, but the very nature of the competitive beast will, at times, blind even the most sgortsmanlike player It’s this emotional unpredictability that makes officiating a difficult task. And yet just about everyone is going to blame the ref for a bad game. It is true, a ref is only human. He will make mistakes But I look at it this way: A ref in Castlegar with 25 years of minor hockey officiating experience goes to, Nelson to ref a game. He spends 45 minutes on the road to get to Nelson, three hours at the rink and another 45 minutes driving home He gets $30, a mileage fee and probably a giant migraine for his efforts . . . not to mention the abuse he’s taken from coaches and fans while trying to keep control of the game. Linesmen get $20 plus mileage For the price, I figure they should be allowed to make a couple of questionable calls a game But guess what? Nine times out of 10 there won't be a single bad-call in a game. Think about it the next time you’re going to rip an official for-a call Could you do any better? with an empty net goal with nine second remaining, also the rebound and banged it home for his 10th goal of the scored for the Canadiens, who have lost only one of — year at 17:03 their last 13 games The Sabres. who were leading by virtue of Mike Tom Fergus, with two goals, and Al Iafrate scored Foligno’s goal early imthe second period, were clinging for Toronto After the trade; Kordic had threatened to take out of Puppa The Buffalo netminder kicked out 40 shots, while Ron Tugnutt stopped 20 shots in goal for| Quebec Despite being outshot 23-14” margin after 40 to their advantage thanks mainly to the outstanding play some frustrations on his former teammates but the Maple Leafs enforcer failed to follow through. Kordi¢, in his first_game after serving a 10-game_high-sticking Sdspension, was cut on thenose for several minutes, the Sabres were able to take a 1-0 lead into the third period Puppa made key saves off Jeff Jackson from the right faceoff circle and against Peter Stastny -on a deflection from point-blank range as the clubs battled through a scoreless first period stitches on his first shift by a teammate and was ineffective all night Montreal received a rousing cheer from many of the 16,382 fans when they took the ice to start the game and the Canadiens attack quickly went to full throttle Toronto was lucky to survive the first nine minutes of The Sabres then took advantage of a giveaway by the game, during which Montreal held a 10-1 margin in Quebec defenceman Jari Gronstrand tg go ahead at 1:35 shots of the second period. Gfonstrand made an errant HAWKS 'S ISLES 3 from behind his net that Buffalo’s Pierre Turgeon UNIONDALE, ‘N.Y. (AP) — Steve Larmer scored _ picked off in the slot twice in a four-goal first period, leading the Chicago BRUINS 5 WINGS 5 Blackhawks to a 5-3 victory over the New York Islanders BOSTON (AP) — Ken Linseman's goal midway in a battl@of NHL cellar-dwellers Saturday night through the third period lifted the Boston Bruins into a With the loss, the Islanders dropped for four $-S NAIL tie with Detroit on Saturday despite two goals points behind the Blackhawks in the overall standings and three assists by the Red Wings captain Steve with the worst record among the 21 teams Yzerman The Blackhawks, 2-2-1 in their last five games, Garry Galley, Cam Neely, with two, and Don improved to 12-26-6, while the Islanders, 1-4 in their Sweeney also tallied for Boston while Detroit got two last five, dropped to 12-29-2 goals from Paul MacLean one from Dave Barr The Islanders took an early 148-lead, but then the RANGERS 4 PENS 4 Blackhawks scored four straight in the first period to go PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tony Granato. scored his ahead for good third goal of the game with 3:18 left in the third period Pat LaFontaine scored all three goals for the to give the New York Rangers a 4-4 tie with the Islanders, with his third career three-goal game. His Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday third goal of the night late in the third period brought Granato, who had two goals-in-the second period, the Islanders within 4-3, but the Blackhawks clinched it~ scored his 2Sth of the season ona powerplay. With with Dave Manson's empty-net -goal with 27 seconds Paul Coffey off for holding, Granato backhanded Brian remaining shortly after Chicago killed an Islander power . Leetch’s rebound past goaltender Tom Barrasso. to play complete his second three-goal game this season, both LaFontaine scored his 21st of the season at 1:12 of against Pittsburgh