A8 CASTLEGAR NEWS, September 9, 1981 Communications conference _ Ministers are at loggerheads By Estelle Dorals - WINNIPEG (CP) — Provin- cial communications minis- ters are at loggerheads, not only with Ottawa on provin- celal jurisdiction, but with each other as well. During a reception Tuesday for reporters and delegates for a two-day, federal-provin- rial conference of communic- ations ministers, two out- Spoken men emphatically elled out the split. Pat McGeer, British Colu- bia’s minister of universit- s, science and communica- tions. said all talk of controll- ing pay TV is nonsense be- ‘cause the technology has imade things so simple that Yirtually anyone can build a Mish, and neigher federal nor Provincial laws forbid it. =: Pay TV is an issue to be discussed at the close of Zoday’s meeting. Provincial Ininisters want some jurisdic- ion in the matter, if only to license distributors for a national network Ottawa yvould approve. = USELESS TO DISCUSS = Francis Fox, federal comm- aT inister, has said Yepeatedly it is useless to discuss jurisdiction because ¢ has nu mandate to transfer it to the provinces, and the Gssue belongs in discussions between the prime minister and the provincial premiers. = McGeer said Tuesday that Ottawa's attempts to close own earth stations that bring in TV channels from satellites ‘is a little bit of bravado... but they haven’t got a legal teg to stand on.” : Recent provincial court de- cisions on the federal govern- ments attempts to have pri- vate earth stations, or dishes, closed down have gone against Ottawa. But Saskatchewan's Roy Romanow said his govern- ment doesn’t want open skies “because we say that a very, very important aspect of Can- ada is to try and develop an independent Canadian cult- ure. of sible for communications. His answer is a shared jurisdiction between Ottawa and the provinces on the content and distribution of pay TV. WANTS A SAY “Ottawa sees it as coming only from Ottawa, We say that it can be defined by Ottawa and the regions."" He said he is not surprised at Fox's reluctance to discuss jurisdictit but added this last year's constitutional con- ference. ‘is minister respon- isn't a sound position because it is part of almost every item NEW ZONE PLATE, a novel antenna for receivin: television signals from satellites was unveiled Aug. oF Universities, Science and Communications Minister Dr. on the agenda. Saskatchewan was oper- ated a pay-TV scrvice for 18 months that Romanow admit- ted showed first-run U.S. movies, "We want to set the pre- cedent that pay TV is con- trolled by the provinces."’ McGeer said technology ‘has outstripped the issue ‘because the day is fast com- ing when anyone can make a dish with plywood and a pack- age of electronics now worth $5,000. 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V i700: er This offer may b rm Depasits20 Kootenay Savings Credit Union 1016-4th St., Castlegar a w Jim Fanning new manager under that smoke, or if it was negotiations-type talk.” Yankees owner George Stenibrenner denied he had Williams in mind when he fired Gen Michael as man- ager Sunday. Michael was replaced from within the Yankees’ organization with Bob Lemon. McHale cited his perfor- McHale cited his disapp- ointment with the Expos’ performance. “T saw this year too.many ‘instances where there was not a soundness in our play. We were ragged, not crisp, often late with a relief Still a joy for Carl Yastrzemski By The Associated Press Car] Yastrzemski has play- ed more than 3,000 major league baseball games. but it’s still a joy for him, especially with his team in a pennant race. Hardly acting his 42 years, the veteran first baseman collected three hits, including a tworun homer and an RBI single, to lead the Red Sox to a 5&8 victory over Detroit Tigars on Tuesday night. The victory moved the Red Sox within 3% games of the front-running Tigers: in the American League East. Playing his 8,034th major The homer was his 12th of the season. Six of the 10 hits off winner Scott McGre- gor, 10-8, were by leadoff batters. Len Barker, 8-5, was the loser. Royals5 Willie Aiken hit his second home run in two games and singled to ignite a four-run rally in the fifth inning, powering Kansas City past California. Dennis Leonard, who was 18 in Royals Stadium this yyea, scattered nine nits before needing Dan Quisen- berry’s help in the eighth league game, Y had the RBI single in the fifth inning, then hit his homer in the seventh. It was his sixth of the year, and provided the Red Sox with their eventual winning run. Elsewehre in the AL, it was: Baltimore'!4;-Cleveland= 5; Kansas City 6, California 3; Minnesota 1, Toronto 0; Chicago 5, Seattle 3; and Oakland 3, Texas 0. Rain postponed the New York- Milwaukee game. In the National League, it was: Chicago 4, St. Louis 3, in 12 innings; Philadelphia 10, Montreal 5; New York 3, Pittsburgh 1; Atlanta 3, Houston 2; San Diego 6, Cincinnati 1; and Los An- geles 4, San Francisco 0. With score teid 2-2 in the Boston seventh, Jim Rice singled off a tiring Milt Wilcox, 9-7, and came around on Yastrzemski’s shot into the upper right field seats at Tiger Stadium. Boston starter Mike Tor- rez, 8-2, gave up eight hits in the 6%. innings he worked before giving way to Mark Clear. Orioles 14 Indians 5 ’ Eddie Murray hit a three- run homer and drove in four runs for the second straight game as Baltimore routed Cleveland. Dan Graham and Doug DeCinces combined to drive in five runs while ending extended batting slumps. 4 Graham, hitless in 24 pre- vious at-bats, had two dou- bles and two RBI's. DeCinces ahd three hits, including a two-run homer in the third, and three RBI's, after enter- ing the game in a 3-26 slide. Regatta inning. y gained his 15th save. - Twins 1 Blue Jays 0 Rob Wilfong’s ninth-inning double scored ‘pinch-runner Chuck Baker from second base as Brad Haven pitched his first major league shutout “hr Minnesota's victory “over - Toronto. | Glen Adams led off the ninth against Dave Stieb with a pinch-hit single. Baker ran for Adams and moved to second when Stieh walked Hosken Powell on four pitches. Wilfong then dou- bled to score Baker with’the winning run. o Haven, 2-4, gave up four hits while striking out six and walking three. Stieb, 8-10, allowed five hits and struck gut six. White Sox 5 Mariners 3 Wayne Nordhagen hit a game-tying RBI single and went on to score the go-ahead run in the fifth inning to lead Chicago past Seattle. The mariners put runners on base in each of the first five innings, but were unable to score until the fifth when Lenny Randle’s RBI single gave them a 1-0 lead. A’e3RangersO | Rickey Henderson slugged a leadoff home-hander Steve McCatty hurled a_ three- hitter as Oakland beat Texas. McCatty, pitching his sec- ond consecutive shutout and fourth of the season, was never in trouble. He struck out seven, walked none and allowed no runner to reach second base. McCatty’s AL- leading earned run average dropped to 2.20 as he exten- ded his scoreless streak to 22 innings. attracts most entries ever The seventh annual Gray Creek Regatta was held on the weekend in Gray Creek . with a record 72 entered in the x-class’ fleet. ‘The winner was Mike Rie- mann of Cranbrook. Second Competitors came from as far as Alberta and the Okan- agan. Winner of this five-race competition was Colin John- ston of Calgary, sailing in a. San Juan 21-footer. Second was Chris Hillier of Kaslo, sailing in a San Juan 24- footer. Doug McKay of Ross- land and his Venture 21 were third. The cruiser class had 26 entrants. The biggest cruiser was 27 feet. Twenty-three boats were was John L also of Cranbrook. Third was Ian. Stokie of Fernie. All sailed in Coronato 16 dingeys. The laser class received 12 entrants. The winner was , Jurgen DeBruycker of Cran- brook. Second was Chris Walker of Rossland. The windsurfing class re- ceived eight entrants. Julian Walker of Rossland was first. David Lymbery of Gray Creek was the sabot class winner. This category attrac- ted four entrants. pitcher, a pinch-hitter or a pinch-runner.” There were other things, McHale said. “[ don't think Dick wanted to get involved in closeness with his players. He was very detached . He doesn’t hold hands with a lot of people. “He was sarcastic, biting. Sometimes. he was clever, humorous. But these things found their way to the public, and the players didn’t like it.” KNOWS THE PLAYE2S McHale was asked if he thought Fanning would solve the team’s problems. “I thing Fanning will re- move the tension, the tight-. ness. He's a communicator, a teacher. His experience in knowing most of our players from his job as farm director has to help.” “LT had meetings with the players as a group, some in- dividually, the pitchers to- gether, and told. them any time they felt the need to discuss something, I'll talk to them,” Fanning said. He made it clear, however, that in his first chance at directing a major-league team, his main theme was to win. In his managerial degut Tuesday night, Philadelphia Phillies beat the Expos 10-5. “I'm coming into a reason- ably comfortablé situation. There are 24 players out there I helped develop. “I'm not joining strangers. Even the older players, like Woodie (Fryman), he knows me. I'm not new to the bulk of this team.” Fanning has worked his way up baseball's ladder. He was a major-league backup eathcer, minor-league man- ager, scout, assistant general manager and general man- ager. About Fanning’s future as” manager, McHale said: “Next year is open. I've given no thought to next year’s man- ager and won't until this season is over. “We have three or four of the best players, in Ithe leauge and I don't feel they should lose their sense of _ direction.” He said Williams took the dismissal like a true pro- fessional. “I said to him, ‘This is a tough thing I've got to say,’ He said, ‘That's OK, Johnny.’ He was a total professional.” Most successful quarterbacks REGINA (CP) — Joe Bar- nes and John Hufnagel are one of the most successful quarterback tandums in the Canadian Football League this season. When is having difficulty moving Saskatchewan roughriders offence, the other spells him off. So far, there has been no clash of egos between Barnes and Hufnagel, both obtained. by the Riders from other CFL clubs. They have wor- ked well together, each spot- ting for the other from the sideline when not playing. For four consecutive games, coach Joe Faragalli has looked like a genius. He has started Barnes at quarterback and then aroung halftime taken the cap from Hufnagel’s head, held his can of snuff and given him simple intructions: Go win it. MONTREAL (CP) — The National Hockey League's 1981-82 exhibition schedule will allow fans in 50° North American and European cit- ies to watch the NHL's 21 clubs prepare for the league's 65th” season, which opens Oct. 6. The 102-game exhibition season opens Sept. 16 when New York Rangers travel to Finland to play Helsinki IFK, - one of the top teams in the Finnish legue.$ The Rangers and Washing- ton Capitals will tour Finland and Sweden while participat-, ing in the Dagens-Nyheter Tournament in Sweden, Hufnagel, obtained from Calgary Stampeders last year, tas responded with three victories. Against Ottawa, Hufnagel came into the game with Saskatchewan leading 11-10. He completed 10 of 16 passes for 148 yards and two touch- downs as. the MADE FANS NERVOUS His performance had the usually bored Common- wealth Stadium - capacity crows nervous when the Riders went ahead in the third quarter. But the Esk- imos won 44-84. He relieved Barnes again Sunday ‘and engineered a 28 from-behind win won 82-16. -He entered the Toronto game with the Roughriders leading 16-7, completed nine of 15 passes for 154 yards and two touchdowns ‘in a 38-14 victory. He was not intercepted in either contest. ‘Trailing 16-0 against Ed- monton Eskimos, Hufnagel eft the bench to rally Saskat- chewan. He completed 17 of 82 throws for 405 yards and four touchdowns, but. had four passes intercepted. marking the second straight year that NHL teams -have played in Europe during their pre-season training pro- gram. The Dagens-Nyheter tour- . nament features five teams in a round-robin competition, with the Capitals returning to defend the title they won last year. In addition: to the Rangers, the other teams in the tournament are Djurgar- dens, IF, Gothenberg VF and Stockholm AIK, three of the top teams in the Swedish Elite League. Bian The exhibition schedule encompasses 19 days with the final date on the schedule 35- over Montreal Alouttes. “John is mentally playing the game when he's on the sidelines,” Faragalli said. “He sees what is going on, gets a good appreciation of what is happening so when he goes in he is ready.” Faragalli. and Hufnagel study the opposing team’s defence in the first half to determine how the Saskat- chewan offence can be effec- tive in the final 80 minutes of play. Hyfnagel accepts Faraga- _ Exhibition season open being Sunday,’ Oct. 4, when six games are slated. The NHL's regular season opens two days later with 12 teams in‘ action. OPPOSE EUROPEANS Of the 102 games on the schedule, 94 will feature NHL teams only, while eight will have NHL clubs op-, posing European teams. There are two games slated between NHL and minor- league teams. S The total of 102 games is three fewer than the record set in 1979-80, the first sea- son the NHL was comprised of-21 clubs. There are five teams lli’s two-quarterback theory. “In a way, it’s an advantage because you have.seen what the other team has done,” he said. But Hufnagel said another success factor is the confid- ence with which the team is playing. “We've been able to score from almost anywhere,” he said. “I think when you have that sort of confidence in your team, you feel better about. You're not going out with a defeatist attitude right from the beginning.” Saskatchewan, which fin- ished the last two seasons with 2-14 records, now is tied for third in the West Division © at 6-4. z The Roughriders meet Winnipeg Blue Bombers, also in’ third place, Saturday night. scheduled to pay the max- imum 11 games — Buffalo Sabres, Calgary. Flames, Montreal Canadiens, Quebec Nordiques and the defending Stanley Cup champion New York Islanders. Colorado Rockies and Pittsburgh Pen- guins will play the fewest number of games, six each. The exhibition season will see four’men making the. NHL debuts as head coaches. Herb Brooks, coach of the. gold medal-winning 1980. United States Olympic team, will guide the Rangers, Bert Marshall the Rockies, Parker McDonald the Los Angeles Kings and Tom Watt the Winnipeg Jets. He knows the end is near By Steve Mert! CALGARY (CP) — After more than’10 years as a pro- fessional hockey player Bill Clement, a centre for Na- tional HOckey League Cal- gary Flames, is staring re- tirement in the face. “T'm 30,” he says. “If I can play three more years I'd be overjoyed.” Clement doesn't look over the hill. Well-conditioned and vigorous from a summer of training, he wears a Stanley Cup ring, one of two from his years with the Philadelphia Flyers in the early 1970s. The end may not come this season or next but Clement knows it will come. And that sets him apart from many of his colleagues in professional sports. While they're play- ing, they act as though they can'go on forever. But when the end comes,many go off into a kind of financial and career limbo. Clement realizes there is life after hockey and wants to get’ the idea across to other. professional athlets. More~ important, he thinks many desperately need an edu- cation about what goes on outside the cloistered world or pro sports. With friend John Glassey, an Atlantic City, N.J., busi- nessman, Clement plans to start a management consult- ing firm for professional ath- letes. He'll act as a conven- tional agent at first but Clement says he really wants to wean athletes away from their agents and force them to make their own decisions. DO NOT LEARN “Most agents bill them- selves as people who are going to relieve the athlete of their money headaches,” says Clement. “A lot of them do just that but they do it at the expense of depriving the player of the lessons of life.” Pro athletes, especially hockey players who break into professional ranks as young.as 18, are relative in- fants in the business world and their educations. often stop when they start playing. “An athlete wants to be told at 19 or 20: “You don't have to worry'about a thing.” To minimize distractions, players give agents sweeping powers over their finances and are given an allowance from their salaries. “Agents dominate so thor- oughly they never give play- ers time to develop any de- cision-making abilities,” says Clement. 3 That would be fine if a player could retire to find his sports salary had bought him a thriving business or secure investment or that his name had earned hima new career. But that doesn't happen of- en, PUT INTO SHELTERS Agents do little more than sock the money into annuities and other tax shelters, he says. There's little actual spadework done for the day the athlete becomes “ob- solete.” 5 : And despite the high sal- aries, pension plans are not enough to bridge the salary gap after reitrement. The NHL plan, for example, ‘pro- vides a $1,000-a-year pension for eveyr year played in the league. For example, a 10- year career, the average, produces just $10,000 a year if the pension is drawn at age 46. It jumps to $30,000 at’ 65 but inflation will likely erode its buying power. Athletes. compound the problem by not facing the facts. ay “A lot of them play os- trich,” says Clement. “Everybody realizes the end is going to come and it's going to be a real slap in the face when it comes, but even knowing that, they don't prepare.” Clements says his firm won't take its percentage up front, as many agents do wherthey negotiate con- tracts. Instead it will be on retainer to provide the ath- lete with financial counsel- ling, investigate business prospects thoroughly and try to involve the athlete in his own affairs. NEED TO INVEST “What I want to do is be paid for my performance.” Tight-fisted athletes often have to be persuaded to part with some of their money for. investment, he. says. They build next eggs for retire- ment but Clement argues even if an athlete saves a good percentage of his salary- it won't sustain him for the many years beyond his pro career. He's also less likely tp part with it for investment once he. has retired. It's better to invest while earn- ing power is high. ~ “Takes the risks when you have the ability to bounce ck.” If an athlete isn’t inter- ested in his own business Clement plans to encourage him to build up experience in a second profession. “You know what hockey players do? They golf and drink all summer.” It’s the perfect chance to take a second job, like team- mate Randy Holt, who now works for a Calgary car dealership, or former player Bill Hay, who parlayed sum- mers at a city oil firm into a full-time job. * Celebrity can help land those jobs, says Clements, although once there the ath- . lete will have to prove him- self like anyone else. “The big difference is when you're playing the doors to those opportunities open 10 times more often.” Ph, 365-3375 n.at the community, katers taking pai “Yes he can win the U.S. Open By Will Grimsley: - ~NEW YORK (AP) — Can Bjorn Borg ever win the U.S. it, Borg in uncomfortable in the spacious new National Tennis Centre in’ Flushing Open tennis “Yes, many times,” says Lennart Bergelin confident- ly, shrugging off ‘the sugges-. tion tha this stoic Swedish pupil is the victime of a New — : : Winner of five straight Wimbledons prior to this year and six French titles on Paris’ red clay, Bjorg has come. up empty-handed in nine excursions into the American tournament .and now is making a 10th try on the courts at the National Tennis Centre. The tall, hard-hitting Swede next meets Roscoe Tanner, whose scorching ser- vice snuffed out Bjorn’s 1979 bid. They meet in the quarter- finals. Borg has not played since Wimbledon, says Bergelin, a” one-time Swedish Davis Cup player who has been Borg’s teacher, chaperone-and ad- viser since the court prodigy came out of schoolboy ranks * to world prominence at the ageofl6.. - | “I am happy with the way. he looks and seems to feel. _ But when you go against players with services such as - those Tanner and John. Mc- Enroe have you can never tell what will Happen.” . MUST WINONCE ~ , Bergelin and his protege understand Borg must win at * least one U.S. Open, perhaps more, lest he be carved in ; history as only half 4° cham- pion, supreme only on'certain kinds of surfaces and in specific environments. Although he won't admit with its ‘gade, Jimmy. Conmors, seem - to draw sustenance.from the ‘demonstrative flock. Borg, who normally plays in‘a trance of concentration, acknowledged he was dis- tracted by the low, sweeping airplanes and n crowds at first but insists ‘he has been _able. to adjust. : In play so far here, Borg. has seemed to lack the fire and determination: shown in the past, 35 + READY TO QUIT? Even in his; news confer- “ences, he sourds like a man who is ready to retire, says members of the large Swe- dish ‘media corps. which has followed Borg aropnd the world. The old enthusiasm and intensity are not there. lin dismisses any thought of imminent retire- ment for his ace. “It's true that Bjorn has cut down sharply on his schedeul,” says the balding teacher, “But. you must remember he has been play- ing tournament tennis since he was 14 and making the world since 16.” Another factor was Borg’s recluse. He and Mariana have hideaways in Monte Carlo and an island off the Swedish coast. Borg played. Davis Cup tennis at 15, made his first overseas trip at 16. Today he is only 25, financially secure with a yearly income put at | hore than $8 mifllion and with only one more mountain to climb — the slippery U.S. Open.