a RS EN gt &__ Castlégar News April 15, 1990 Tewksbury may ne next top swimmer SASKATOON (CP) — Backstroker Mark Tewksbury just might be the next golden boy of Canadian swimming. ‘At 22, the tall, lanky Tewksbury is ready to take on all comers in the swim world. His is near-perfect and best of all, he’s fast. Very fast. few enough that his coach, Deryk Snelling, says iry’s @ good bet to follow the tradition of Alex and the late Victor Davis by winning a gold or two for Canada at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Bafcelona. “I don’t know that he has any weaknesses,”’ Snelling Says thoughtfully. “When he believes he can win, he can win anything. But “*Right now he doesn’t really have anything in the way that should stop him having a shot in Barcelona to squad. Olympic gold, medley relay record by the University of Calgary men's The times were set in a 25-metre pool. That's a faster course than’ the 50-metre Olympic-length pool because have twice as many chances to push off from the wall, so the marks aren’t officially world records. But Tewksbury’s ‘performance in the 50-metre and 100-metre backstroke followed a pair of gold medal wins at the Commonwealth Games in Auckland last January, establishing him as one of the world’s top swimmers. The 22-year-old political science student — to his teammates — says he isn’t quite used to the idea of holding a world-best time, let alone being a contender for “Tewks"* he’s growing accustomed to the cameras, microphones, autograph sessions and pressures that go with being one of the top athletes in the world. win.”* “*But I’m not used to it right before I'm going to per- At last month’s winter national championships in Saskatoon, Tewksbury set two world-best times in the It short-course pool and earned a share of a third for a this.’ KOOTENAY: HAPPY EASTER! FREE Estimate for Pool Liners 1403 Bay Ave., Trail © 368-5606 form — it’s just different,”’ he adds. ‘‘I’ve learned to deal with all that sort of stuff before and:I’ll learn to deal with HE'S GOTIT. Koodrin, 1 Greg at Tarrys elementary school. The lunch hour league wrapped up play | winners will appear vin the Castlegar News next week. — couews photo by fd Mills brilliant save in floor hock: »makesa pe Fung saga hits courtroom VANCOUVER (CP) — Olympic gold medallist Lori Fung filed a B.C. Supreme Court suit Wednesday seeking to overturn a decision of the B.C. Modern Rhythmic Gymnastic Federation that bars her from being named__provincial team coach this spring. Fung, who xon her medal in the 1984 Olympics, said she learned of the federation’s action through There's something for everyone! 365-2212 Castlégar News Buy a Golf Car in April & Save! 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Attached to Fung’s affidavit is a letter from Gordon Burlison, who was meet director at the Elite, ex- Castlegar Golf Club GOLF LESSONS The » Castlegar Golf Club. offers three qualified CPGA ig_ your golf game CASTLEGAR fairer and golf a better game! Group Spring Session Six Lessons Covering Golf's Fundamentals APRIL 16-MAY 22 MONDAY SESSIONS 10-11 a.m. © 11-12 Noon JUNIOR Five Lessons Providing Juniors with an understanding of go! Thursdays: April 26-May 24 Boys 6-12 —4-5 p.m 13-17 — 5-6 p.m. Girls — 6-7 p.m. COST $10 TUESDAY SESSIONS 5-6 p.m. * 6-7 p.m. © 7-8 p.m. LIMITED CLASS SIZE SO REGISTER NOW ¢ COST: $40 PRIVATE Arranged od appointment for Individuals or Small groups Cost: $25 Half Hour to $60 Hour EQUIPMENT plaining that the annual event is an Open meet and does not require en- trants have sanctioning from any provincial federation. “If B.C. chooses to reject (Fung), it is B.C.’s loss and will soon be some Opening By CasNews Staff The team of Ruth Trickey, Sharon Bystrom, Marie Prokop and Karen Zavaduk set the pace early in the season by winning the opening event of the Castlegar Ladies’ Golf Club Tuesday. The team checked into the Countdown to B.C. Games b meals and accommodation are also’ By CasNews Staff The countdown to Prince George and the B.C. Summer Games has begun with the announcement of the Kootenay track and field team qualifying events. Athletes from Zone 1 — an area stretching from Grand Forks in the west to Golden in the north and to the B.C.-Alberta border in the east — will other country’s gain,’’ the letter says. “‘Canada can’t afford to lose Lori Fung, even if B.C. can.” Fung said the uniforms sent for her club members did not fit and arrived too late to be altered. success for clubhouse with a score of 40 in the nine-hole scramble, just edging out two teams tied at 41. Coming second was the team of Linda Moorey, Bert Jarret, Bella Moran and Genevieve Jackson. In third was the foursome of Mary Ish, Cherie Greep, Jean Young and Leona converge on Haley Field in Trail May 25 and 26 to compete for one of the 36 Positions on the team. In a news release, zane represen- tative Roger Toogood said there are no qualifying standards for the game so all interested athletes are en- couraged to attend the trials. Qualifying athletes will receive free transport ion to Prince George and She said the performance of her club members would assure her of being named B.C. team coach on the point system in use by the federation. No date for the hearing of Fung’s petition has been set. golf club Sorenson. The opening event of the season was declared a success with 43 mem- bers attending. During the membership meetj club welcomed new members Ethel_Ma son, and guest Jar gins included. The games begin July 12 and end July 15. Interested athletes are asked to con- tact their high school track coaches for more information. Prince George will host $5,000 athletes, coaches and officials from across the province, which is divided into eight zones for the Games, WEEKEND WRAP UP HOCKEY Eorly gomes 10 be played in itrertond locations — Bern ond. Fribourg. Al ais ime Eastern (Switzerlond is six hours cheod Soviet Union vs. “E30 a.m. berm: Conede vs. West Germany, 7:30 @.m., Fribou: jeden vi Fintond, noon. bern: Cxechoslovekie ve. United States, 11 o.m.. Fei T B:300. Norwey. Ii'a.m., Fribourg, Finiand we, Cascheslove Kio. 12 noon, Barn. Wednesday, April 18 Off day Thursday. Apeil 19 Czechoslovakia ve. Norway, $ 0.m.. Bern: Conade vs. Fink 30 a.m., Bern; Soviet Union vs. United Stotert1'e.m.- Frisourg, Sweden va. West Gormomy 12 noon, Bern. Feidey. vs. Norwoy, 5 sweden’ 8:30" o'm Ape 20 m.. Bern: United States vs Bern: West Gormony ve c: 1) @.m., Fribourg: Finland vs. Soviet Union, 12 noon, Ber Sow wa Sweden, Been, Filend. 11 em. Fribourg Conde vs. Cxechoslove hie, Bern. gemes in Bern.) a . Apel 23 Norway vs. United States, 6°30 .m.: West Germany vs. Finland, 12 noon. u ce . Apeit Sweden ve. Conede © $0-0-m:. Crechostovakte vs Soviet Union, 12 noon. jednesdey. April 25 Norway va. 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No. 8, 100.m, Tart thedele Komioops at Sects, tethondge ot Prince Albert ‘Tesedey x-Seattle ot Kemioope, x Prince Albert ot Leth. “— Wednesday. April 18 x Lethbridge ot Prince Albert ‘Aen 19 Kamloops at Seattle Adey, Apeit 20 x-Seattle at Kemloops: x-Prince Albert ot Leth. bridge: Mitwoukee ot elt take” . Aart 17 Muskegon ot Fo Woyre SASKATCHEWAN JUNIOR LEAGUE pon Nipewin ot Yorkton. soe SPORTS Who will ever for TORONTO (CP) — Outrageous. That was Harold Ballard. He was also boorish, colorful, Senerous, miserly and vulgar. From prod er seats to the private boxes, ly had a view of the owner of Maple Leaf Gardens, who died Wednesday in a Toronto hospital atage 86, In the final years of his life, while his health ebbed and his family and hockey team appeared in chaos at times, Ballard continued to do what he did best — make headlines and money. Booking the Gardens for everything from the Rolling Stones to wrestling, Pal Hal built a fortune estimated at up to $150 million while he survived years of diabetes and heart problems, including a quintuple heart bypass in 1988. ‘WANTED CUP “Listen, we're all scared to die — me too — but I love life,’ he said in his later years, adding: ‘And I want to win the Stanley Cup.’ -As owner of the Leafs he never did, having to settle for a Grey Cup when he dabbled in football, buying the While the young Ballard attended high school at the private Upper Canada College, playing football and speed skating, his father made the millions that passed to his only child in 1936, Harold enjoyed running amateur hockey teams — “‘I’d like to have Played professionally but I wasn't good enough” — and he got his beefy, six-foot frame through the gates of the Gardens when he took over a Leafs farm team in the 1930s, He gradually built up stock in the company founded by Conn Smythe and control of the gardens was bought in 1961 by Ballard, Smythe’s son Stafford and media tycoon John Bassett. Stafford Smythe and Ballard bought out Bassett’s interest for $5.9 million in 1971. Within months, Smythe died at age 50 and Ballard became Gardens president, borrowed $10.5 million and gained control of the company. YEAR IN PRISON At-69,-Ballard-was convicted on Aug. 15, 1972, after a six-month trial ‘on fraud-and-theft charges. He was "Listen, w e all scared to die — me too — but I love life." Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1978 and selling the CFL team for $2 in 1989. While his final years were a soap opera, with his live-in companion Yolanda and his three children fighting in and out of the courts, many said his greatest sorrow came when his wife Dorothy died of cancer in 1968. Pehaps his greatest shame came when he went to prison four years later. Yet he boasted he lived the high Jife_while in _jail_forfraud-and-theft — outraging politicians and writers of letters to the editor. Always leading with his lip, Ballard appeared ready to take on all comers — his children, colleagues, coaches, players, feminists, journalists, Com- munists and anybody else. Harold Edwin Ballard was born in Toronto on July 30, 1903. His father, a machinist making $15 a week, rose from the slums of Cabbagetown to found the Ballard Skate Co., one of Canada’s first tube skate makers. sentenced to three years at Millhaven Penitentiary near Kingston, Ont. He served about a year before being paroled in October 1973 and always refused to express guilt for his crimes. As the Leafs slid from mediocrity to the cellar, Ballard fired coaches, traded local heroes like Darryl Sittler and Lanny McDonald, filled the Gar- dens with customers, and blabbered all the way to the bank. He .sprinkled his pronoucements ‘with-raciat-and-ethnic”sturs-andin- sulted everyone. On women: ‘You know where they’re at their best, don’tcha?’’ On journalists: ‘‘Four-eyed bastar- ds.’" On hockey players: expendable.” On Communists: ‘‘I slapped a Leaf sticker on the Commie Lenin’stomb. That's what_I think of those jerks.’” Ballard— barred Soviet hockey teams and the Moscow Circus from the Gardens. “They're all Friend and foe pay last respects Harold Ballard, was remembered as someone with a warm heart and an exterior as cold and hard as a hockey puck. People in the hockey world paused to pay tribute to the bombastic Ballard, who had spent the last three months in hospital with heart and kicney problems. Many people, including those who had drawn Ballard’s ire and paid the price, praised the cantankerous oc- togenarian for his humanitarian ways. Former Leafs Lanny McDonald, Darry Sittler and Rick Vaive, fan- favorites in Toronto who were traded by Ballard for petty reaasons, had TRIVIA ANSWER: The Philadelphia Flyers Tim Kerr was second in scoring in last year’s playoffs with 31 points, which was six points behind Calgary Flames defenceman Al MacInnis. Our Action Ad Phone Number is 365-2212 CLIFFE CHURCHES , BC. ‘Tel: 365-6136 You have big dreams and ambitions for your family. And reaching those fond memories of their former em- ployer. “*A lot of bad things have been said about him, but there were a lot of good things that are never talked about,”’ said Vaive, whom Ballard stripped of his captaincy in 1985 for sleeping in and missing a team prac- tice. ‘‘He was a great old man. I was very thankful to him.’” Sittler, who ripped the C off his Sweater after Ballard traded Mc- Donald in 1979, also harbored no ill feelings. “There was always a good feeling between us,’’ Sittler said about visiting Ballard at Maple Leaf Gar- dens. ‘‘I can remember after scoting the overtime goal (in the champion- ship game victory over Czechoslovakia) in the Canada Cup in 76 that he had the receptionist an- swer the phone with ‘Maple Leaf Gardens, home of Darryl Sittler.’ I'll never forget him for that.’* McDonald said: ‘‘He may have been cantankerous and stubborn at times but he really cared about people, the Maple Leafs and the National Hockey League.”’ Former Leaf Dave (Tiger) Williams said: ‘‘April 11 should be a national holiday from now on. To me, that’s how significant Harold Ballard has been to Canada, to hockey and especially to the city of Toronto.”” Canadiens vice-president Jean Beliveau said that under Ballard’s cold exterior there was a warm heart. “I’ve been involved in events where he'd donate everything to charities,”” said Beliveau. ‘‘I’ve known him for a long time. He was a great supporter Moving into ‘an apartment beside his office in the I Yolanda MacMillan's intimate, arena,-he put up-a barrier between almost with Ballard began when she showed up at her. He was convicted and fined $500. Bill's lawyer described her as a con April 15, 1990 Castlegar News 83 get Ballard? giving as much as $250,000 a year to those in need. himself and his three children: Bill, Harold Jr. and Mary-Elizabeth, Growing up, Bill recalled his father as “‘like a coach, never a man of lec- tures — just a quick cuff, and if you agreed to see her, the Gardens with a cake one day in 1982 and refused to leave until he She later moved into his apartment artist out to get Ballard’s money. Harold Ballard balked just before a Planned wedding last Jan. 3 — Yolanda’s $7th birthday — and checked himself in to hospital in the But many said he was mean-spirited and miserly with employees. Ballard fired coach John Brophy Just before Christmas 1988, shortly after announcing his job was safe. didn’t get caught he didn’t care.” The senior Ballard kicked his sons out of the family business before declaring in 1988 the Gjirdens would be left to charity — ‘The worst thing that could happen_would-be for my three kids to take over."’ and legallychanged her name to Ballard. Some of Yolanda’s background — her conviction for perjury and con- spriacy to commit fraud in witnessing @ $3-million will with a former lover — emerged when Bill Ballard was on trial in 1989 charged with assaulting ‘Cayman Islands where they were vac- ationing. The next year, without notice, he fired a poorly paid flunky who had Ballard was known to be generous, — even cleaned his boos’s bedpans. front page I'm just doing my job.”” take your clothes off too.’’ not break any of them.”” shrimp.”” dogsleds to get around.”” and pregnant.” ON HIS LATE WIFE DOROTHY: ‘‘The best thing that ever happened to me was when I met her. The worst was when I lost her.’” ON HIS MANAGEMENT STYLE: “‘When | want your opinion I'll give it to you.”” ON HIMSELF: “I'll say any damn thing that pops into’ my head.”” The owner of Maple Leaf Gar- dens, made headlines more with his behavior than with his hockey team. Here’s a sketch of the sharp- tongued millionare. the Grey Cup in 1986. Our Pal Hal never ata loss for words By The Canadian Press. Hockey czar Harold Ballard often shocked, amused and confoun- ded Canadians with his off-the-cuff remarks during his colorful life. Here are some of his more memorable quotes: ON BUSINESS: “‘I’ll propose anything where I can make a buck.”” ON PUBLICITY: “When I get my hockey team or my arena on the ON WOMEN SPORTSWRITERS IN THE LOCKER ROOM: “| told them once, if you want to-go in there you can — but you've got to ON MILD-MANNERED LEAF FORWARD INGE HAMMAR- STROM: “‘He could go into the corner with six eggs in his pocket and ON NHL PRESIDENT JOHN ZIEGLER: “A k hing ON SOVIETS PLAYING IN THE NHL: ‘‘Loyal Canadians and Americans shouldn’t let them anywhere near these shores.”” ON AN NHL FRANCHISE IN SASKATCHEWAN: “Who the hell wants to go to Saskatoon, anyway? I don’t want to be taking ON BEING CHARGED WITH TAX EVASION: “‘If you get @ chance to screw the government out of a few bucks you'd do it too.” ON WOMEN: ‘Women should be kept in the kitchen, barefoot BORN: July 30, 1903, in Toronto. EARLY YEARS: Son of the wealthy owner of the Ballard Skate Co., he attended high school at the private Upper Canada College, where he played football and competed as a speed skater. CAREER: Ran amateur hockey teams before joining the Gardens organization in the 1930s. Along with Stafford Smythe and John Bassett, Ballard bought control of the Gardens in 1961. Took sole con- trot of the Gardens — including the Toronto Maple Leafs NHL team — in 1971 after he and Smythe bought off Bassett and Smythe died. Owned the CFL’s Hamilton Ticats from 1978 to 1989. The Ticats won PERSONAL: Had three children: Bill, Elizabeth. His wife, Dorothy, died in 1968. Served about a year in prison after being convicted in 1972 of fraud ‘and theft involving $205,000. Began a live-in relationship in the early 1980s with Yolanda MacMillan, who later legally changed her name to Ballard. ANNIVERSARY BINGO $500 war Playmor Hall WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 Early Bird 6 p.m. Reg. 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