- By WILL GRIMSLEY

The Associated Press
If you're confused by all
the ramifications of bigtime
boxing, wait until you get a
load of ono of the four world.
title fights at Madison.

Square Garden Feb. 28.
It's enough to blow your

mind.
There's this guy Eddie

faces an uncertain future, his -

season apparently over.
Podborski, the 23-year-old
downhiller from Toronto who
was ‘not expected to be a
serious contender this season
after undergoing knee. sur-
gery in May, won his second
consecutive event Saturday,
taking a comfortable
atop: the downhill stan:

“EDMONTON (cP) - Hank
(Big Foot) Ilesic would prefer

to keep punting for:Edmon- .

* | ton Eskimos in the Canadian

- "Football League but is con-

~. sidering a National Football
: Le:

fer. ~ :
‘T'm undecided,” -said Hes-"

% an allstar punter in each

CFL.
?NFL scouts have, been

“Watehing © Desic ° since -" he -

broke into the CFL ‘as a i7-

[year-old high school student -

. Chargers:
.. “best. bet’
RENO, Nev. (AP) -— Har-

rah’'s Reno race.and Sports
beet _ Lat an, FT

thes"Natiogalsc UI
. League's Super Bowl on Jan.
20. : ea

“The book ‘places: the odda
Gn the Chargers at 7-5. Phils 5

delphis Eagles were next

hy Dellzs Cor

. be at_24--and. Oakland:

Raiders. at. 5-2,

Harrah's also changed its
earlier. odds for the Dallas-
Philadelphia game today,
making: the Cowboys one-
point favorites. The two

+ teams earlier were rated as.

even in the National Confer-
ence showdown, :

The Chargers remain four-
point favorites over Oakland

in the American Conference.

Bowling
Results

lutiers 3067, OF
Rent Campaeil e26,
‘ey Hedikon cos
AY MORNING COFFEE
2 bey: Pen Campbell 301, LHT
may Stelaett 7 i. “ue Valley

ane
* Kerfoot 692;

TUESDAY 9:30 A.M.
LHS Marle Makaroff 245,
LHT Marle Makaroff 638. THS
- Mottets 1140, THT Mulfets

TUESDAY LADIES 1 PAA.
LHS Wilma Frost 247, LHT
Wilmo Frost 576. THS Waldies
Plumbing 1144, THT Waldies
Plumbing 3026.
ESDAY WIGHT MIXED 9-31
Tire bie ae Ze poll, pea.

a Mykyte 271, LHT -
ema riyhyte Oo? $67, MSF Robert
mot 326, MHT

GHS Tersh Roberts 87, GHD
Terci Roberts 166, BHS
Douglas ‘Chernoff, 88, BHO
Pe a

* Bis Jason Schuepter 177,
BHT oven vschuepter 400.

ae Tecry Colemcn 175,

try Coleman 404; BHS.

Robbie ‘Macbonad 175, BHT
Jett Schuepter 484,

SENIOR
LHS Ruth McDonald 253, LHT
MHS

Florence Ursulck 569.
Faarshail Town 255, HT Mac.
thal Town 614.

his’ three. eéason in tho ©

Marilyn |
Peni Campbell ©

Mustafa Muhammad.

the light hoayypelght
champion of the world, ac-
cording to the-‘World Boxing

mad, He's the’ world light

heavyweight champion, too; -

the World Boxing Counell,
version.
“Meet. my manager, Bilal

and sattings acourse record in
the process.

However, Selebrations by
the Canadian team came :to
an abrupt halt when it was
later learned that Read, who
fell and was being carried off
the course on a stretcher as

* Podborski sped past, is likely

through for tho sonson — he,

too, the victim .of ligament —

damage to his left knee.
“The Calgary’ skier, who

had’ posted the fastest two

times in practice runs Friday,

ad: caught:the edge of his ski

metres short of: the

conference at the Garden. |
““Meet,‘my manager, : Beit!

Muhammad,” said’ Mustafs;)

who added. he: had ‘a sister’

all-star ‘show; next month is

. an organigation called MAPS .
lated, ‘comes out,

Muhammad sitting,
he relatives, not to

4 bag Ellis of Nahaimo de-

broke hig nose and suffered a

4 gash over his right eye that

and-used his size 18 foot to :

average 45 yards a punt.

The Eskimos,:Tlesic said,
have made an offer that “
reasonable, the dollars are
pretty “close.”

Skalbania’s...
‘hoopla team
. .is attractive
VANCOUVER (CP) - Ab-
out -150 people, buying an

‘undetermined number of tic-
kets, Have made $50 deposits

. on season tickets during the

first days of the final drive
for Vancouver’s,. proposed
National Basketball Associat-

hise for the 1981-82

yant to. leave
good situation.

te:
+ chialleny

for Dave Gettee to retire
before he could kick . field
goals for the Eskimos, .

le declined to identify the

-- end.”

required . five stitches. to
sose His tog! ‘was placed i a

investment in the enterprisd

‘but \who.: collects’, around’

$150,000’ for an’ appearance.
Both Saad Muhammad

uh
for street: toughs:. who
adopted pa Islamic. faith.

“My. Tai on Pee

‘perl

i odb:
‘ Motte on Det. 21, was timed

Road was to fly to Vanco- as

yer today and undergo an

‘orthogcope examination Mon- ,

day in eich an incision will

Hbe made in the knee under |

anesthetic and’a light probe ©

‘considering: but said: “It’s
one of. ‘the four teams | which -

Oakland Raiders, San’
Diego Chargers, Philadelphia’
‘Eagles. ada Dal Dallas cowboys
are in the-NFL playoffs.
Tlesic made $17,000 in his
first CFL ‘season, “counting
the Grey Cup money.” His

-- Ht will cost you.
more to go swimming ,

Partieipaction could strain
your wallet’ as well as your
-Euuacles if youn haunt i is the

ARTIC
The’ ‘deponita’ ‘do not-inclide=!

corporat “sales,” which’
being solitited’ separately
“from the drive for public
support by sports-and real
estate ‘entrepreneur Nelson
-Skalbanis.

“The response’ has been
pretty “good,” said Barbara

Cox of Promotions Consul.“
tants, which is handling. the:

campaign,
“Ive had a lot of people

come in. A couple of hundred «and child passes

anyway. I'd say over 100°
filled out ($50 deposit) applic-
ations and quite a few took,
application home with them.”
*Gox said-she only keeps
track of the number or
applications sold. Most ap)
lications ate for more than
one season ticket. .
“Skalbanid set a target of
8,000 season tickets by Jan.
15 — he had already received

* 4,000 $50 deposits — to guage

public support for his NBA
application.

Ladies’
Curling

First half of the season for
the Castiegar ladies’ curling

. elub has come to a close with

the standings of the different
leagues as follows:.
Tuesaday Afternoon

Winner: Belle Gray ‘tink
with Bev. Basran, Pat Ver-
zub and Lynn Miskell.

‘Tuesday Evening

Standings of the firat four
teams after the first round
robin playing for the Bank of
Montreal trophy: Marie
Prokop, 11 points} Ann Stas-
ila, 9 points; Carol Allen, 8
points; Joan Reid, 7 points.

Thursday Afternoon

Standings of the first four
teams after the first round
robin playing for the Super
Valu trophy: Ruth Trickey,
12 points; Belle Gray, 8

- points; Marg VanYzerloo, 8

Sharon Waldie, 6

y
Standings of the first four
-teams after the first round”
robin playing for the Dixie
Lee trophy: Judy Roberts, 10
points; leeh ~Oglow, 8
points; Marie, Prokop, 8
points; Carol Allen, 6 points;
Bev Chernoff, 6 points;
Lynne Johnson, 6 points;
Cherie Lyons, 6 points; Joan

Reid, 6 points.

AES. ;
ture ‘approved Saturday by
directors of the Regional .

District of Central Kootenay

include a 25-cent jump in the

cost for-an adult to use the’
pool and sauna to $1.25.

* Use of the poo! and sauna

has gone to 60 cents from 50

cents. for children. and 80.

sents from 75 cénts for senior .

itizens, Adult passes went
é $22 for 20 uses from $18.
nt to $10
for 20'uses from. $9.

“At the .fitness-centre :ad-
mission went to $2.50 from $2
for adults, $1.75: from®$1.50
for seniors and $1.25 from $1
for Code 24 (with'gwim pass)...
Bulk passes for 20 uses went
t6 $42.50 from $35 while phe-
month ‘passes went. to $30"
from $26 and’'three-month
passes went to $66 from $65.

Rental of the poo! "for one-
hour ‘intervals’ went. to. $45
from $40 for. private; users.
School rates will: remain at
$25 until Sept. .1 when they
will rise to $27.50;

Swiming instructors”. Fate
will rise to 8 an hour from $7

_ on n Sept. 1 and the guard rate
will

go up.to $7 an hour. from

$6,

Swimming ] Jeions’ for chil-
dren went to $14 from $12,
pile adults rosé to'$19 from

"Hental of the fi tness centre’
went to $20 an hour from $15
and the charge for an instruc-
= went to 58a an hour from
7.

Directors passed a bylaw
empowering administration
to borrow. as:much as $1.2
million to ntsot expenditures.

Feceives', its. 1981:

Directors approved a ‘$152.
grant to Blocan. Community’.
“Care

+ key: -Leagu

suffered a Ss fractured facial:
bone in -Pittsburgh’s 4-2.
sloss' = Thursday - night
Montréal Canadiens and it
is uncertain how long. he
will be out. of action. The

Penguins are also without’. °

defencemen Russ Ander-
son, Who broke two fingora~
on his right hand Wednes-
day night, and Ron Stack-
house,‘ out ‘with a leg
injury.

WHITAKER SIGNS

DETROIT (AP) — De-
troit Tigers second base-
* man: Whitaker® has
signed a two-year contract

* with the Tigers ‘worth an

estimated $400,000.. Neit-
her .Whitaker~ nor his
agent, Detroit lawyer Rich |
Brode, revealed details
the contract, which took
two weeks to negotiate,
but it ‘was believed the
1978 American League
rookie of the year would

éarn $175,00 this year and _

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won't be. back this’ year,

tgain until the summer.”
Ellis described the: injury’
ae-similar to the one Podbor

[NFL team whose offer he is: 1980

“For what’ Tm’ ‘doing, only.
plying one: position, I'm ©
being paid well. :

“Td like to say. lea. be.:

Pio ski
tourney:
under. way

VERNON - (CP): — The
Pacific Western professional .
ski. racing tour began - its
‘second season this weekend
with competitors seaking
prize. money, of $85,000" in
series of 10 races. < ‘

The first race was today Bt at
nearby -Silverstar. ski. ro:
in the Okanagan Valley, anne
qualifying. races’ ‘Saturday’ in
the head-to-head competition
which is.expected to draw
about 70 racets.: °°

+ Bruce, Rice of Edmon-

ut di z to
favorite | for the firet race:-He.
won ix of the | sight races last>.

in one minute, 65.48: seonds -

for an average: speed of 103°.

kilometres .an:: hour.’ Peter

Mueller. of Switzerland was
a

“And with ‘the wind

vt
the rain and the snow there's » .

highoat: pel
league, Td want 80 much,

Brant Frostad and Dave):

“Grierson, who tied for second

Jeng Rimmer. again. ~
‘Other races are scheduled z
for Jan. 18 at Edmonton, Jan.
2 Calgary, Feb. 1 at\
Fe in Kimber-
: at Kelowna,
March Lat North Vancouver,
March 15. in loops,
March 22 at Calgary ‘and
‘March 29 at Kimberley.

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American Jamies.‘ ‘Tile: i

rived. at a collision: c
‘aimed at solidifying the frac-

fightin

he ame ane ‘

oefichne: ¢
Dave’ Irwin ey Vernon ,
laced 12th. with a time of
92, While Dave Murray’

-.-of Whistler was‘14th with a

1:58.95 clocking. Robin Mc-°

.. Leish of Ottawa finished 28th’
” with a time of 1:69.86 and
Tim Gilhooly of Kelowna x was
“Bist in 1:59.68.

“T felt. that my skis‘ were.
going very well in the flats,
but I also’ knew that in. the
technical section up above, I
did ‘very well," said Podbor-
aki, who. has finished in the
top’ 10. in all. five downhill
‘events this season,

~-In addition to his win at St,
Morits, Podborski was third
at Val D'Isere, France, in the
inaugural event of the season

atid bad third- and 10thplace” *

finishes at the double down-
hill .at-Val Gardena, Italy.

* ‘The win‘consolidated Pod-
borski’s hold on the downhill
standings..He has 86 points

said as
‘for. the’ fora

£075 for Mueller, In the over-: *

all standings, Podborski, who
compel exclusively: in | the’
is third behing

deh

Podborski | sald. ..“T aact:
believe I had a ‘ichance. of

“season opens.

VANCOUVER (CP)
1981 thoroughbred racing
season at- Exhibition Park
will begin April 18 and end
107 racing days later on Oct.

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