(CP) — Fied:Coleman would 1 : this story: After almost 100 years, people are still talking, bumped into éach other in the alee ot eraiiiige when teh eet = He ’ re poze ths Utark wad babd yo Ma Bains: ‘weighing about 7.9 pounds (3.6 kilograms) when it jumped into the boat that fateful day. But over the next few years the frog assumed gargantuan proportions, helped along by regular meals of buttermilk, cornmeal, whisky and June ‘The friendly hotel proprietor, known for his promotional talents, would frequently take guests out to the lake to watch for the frog. He used to tell people that if you picked the frog up, stretched it out and let its legs dangle, it stood about five feet (1.5 metres) tall. Brent Wilson, curator of the York-Sudbury Histori- cal Society Museum where the creature's remains oe NEW HALL .. . Construction ~ contig on saat be ile Fire Hall, mid; March. Industries of Trail. The new hall, is being constructed by Veri —-Cosews Photo, displayed, said Coleman and his frog were app: fond of each other. TRIED LEASH “There was even one story that he tried to put a Jeash on it and take it for walks, the same way you would a dog,” said Wilson, “but of course it was so large that every time it took a leap forward it would yank the leash out of his hand.” Then, one day in 1899, a heart-broken Fred said he had found his amphibious buddy floating face down in the lake, the victim of poachers’ attempts to kill fish by blasting with dynamite. spogramneeer eat qeath, the frog nla plets D pry reantenres pleat tinder tee staffed. ‘The skin was said to have been sent to a taxidermist in Maine, the stuffing done, the remains enclosed in a giass case and the frog came back to Fredericton where it resides to this day. Wilson said that when the frog first arrived in the a while, the huge served as in the hotel's bar, thew’ it ston shoved toe eth. There are lots of Frederictonians who rentember seeing the frog in the hotel lobby. Witz, Sage ot Colempaat'c ecat ware Dying pi all ei For} Peter John Zaitsoff of Pass Creek passed away Jan..4 at Trail Regional Hospital, age Zaitsoff funeral held He was born April 8, 198¢ at Pass Creek where he grew up and lived all his life. He worked during his lifetime as a driller in the construction trade. » Mr. Zaitsoff was a member of the Union of Spiritual Communities of Christ and ents and his wife, Mary, in the Rock and Tunnel Work- 1976. ers’ Union. He is survived by two sons, Rh rdeecthis oo cons, p.m. tonight in Castlegar Poznikeff, both of Pass Creek, and Helen Walker of Cemetery: Prince George; one brother, John Zaitsoff of Robson. He under the direction of Castle- was predeceased by his par- gar Funeral Chapel. Funeral services begin at 7 Funeral Chapel and continue Funeral arrangements are eweom Watchers Weng Call Toll-Free 112-800-683-3354 Winnie Pomibotf of Neloon, St 30 am. 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Castlegar Rebel, (12) scores one of three first-period goals against Cranbrook Colts in Kootenay International Junior Hockey League action Saturday night at the arena complex. CosNews Photo by Phil Caiderbonk RANGERS BOSTON (AP) — der Doug Keans DEFEATED Reed Larson and slid a shot along the ice past his 26th birthday with a aur on his return from the injured ranks Saturday as Boston Bruins rode a three-goal first period to a 5-2 National Hoekey League victory over New York Rangers. Keans, who missed 10 games with strained knee ligaments, had 29 saves while in for flu-stricken Pete Peeters, last year's Vezina Trophy. as the NHL's top Mike O’Corinell, Peter McNab, ‘Tom Fergus, Rick Middleton and Ray Bourque shared the Bruins scoring, Bourque hitting an empty-net goal in the final minute of the game. Barry Pederson collected three assists in the contest. Barry Beck and Mark Osborne scored for New York. Rebounding from their worst home loss, an 8-3 rout by Quebec Nordiques on Thursday, the Bruins blitzed New York in the first period en route to snapping the Rangers’ five-game unbeaten streak. ISLANDERS 5 BLACK HAWKS 3 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP)— Anders Kallur deflected Dave Langevin's shot from the point into the net halfway through the third period to break a 2-2 tie and send New York Islanders on their way to a 6-3 victory over Chicago Black Hawks. New York opened up a scoreless game with two second-period goals, the first coming at the one-minute mark on defenceman Langevin's 60-foot shot from the point through a screen by Mike Bossy and past Blagt Hawk goaltender Tony Esposito. Ken Morrow, returning to action after missing five games due to arthroscopic knee surgery, celebra' with a goal at 15:01 of the seeond period on a 25-foot shot from just inside the circle. NORDIQUES 4 LEAFS 2 QUEBEC (CP) — Centre Peter Stastny drilled a low shot into the right-hand corner for his 21st goal to break a tie at 17:42 of the third period and Quebec Nordiques went on to a 4-2 National Hockey League victory over Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night. The goal by Stastny made up for a missed opportunity in the early moments of the period when, after taking a cross-ice pass from Michel Goulet, Stastny had an open net to shoot at but rifled a shot off the post. The muffed chance grew larger at 2:18 when Bill Deriago, while standing amidst heavy traffic in front of the Quebec net, had a shot from the point deflect off him and roll by the screened Daniel Bouchard, in the Quebec goal. SABRES 4 CAPITALS 2 LANDOVER, MD. (AP) — Dave Andreychuk’s third-period goal capped 2 three-goal comeback by Buffalo Sabres, who posted a 4-2 victory over Washington Capitals. The Sabres, 24-18-4, have not lost to Washington in five seasons. The Capitals, 19-20-3, got both their goals in the first period. Rod Langway scored a short-handed goal at 6:30, breaking deep into the Sabres zone and shooting over the glove of goaltender Tom Barrasso. Alan Haworth made it 2-0 at 10:36 with a power-play goal from 16 feet out. CANADIENS 5 BLUES 0 MONTREAL (CP) — Steve Shutt scored twice and drew an assist and Perry Turnbull scored his first goal in a Canadiens uniform as Montreal beat St. Louis Blues 5-0. The victory improved Montreal's record to 20-19-2 as the Canadiens teetered above .500 again. The club has been below that plateau for most of this season. Turnbull, acquired from the Blues on Dec. 21 for Doug Wickenheiser, Greg Paslanski and Gilbert |Delorme, had managed one assist in six previous games with the Canadiens. The rugged left winger drew a vigorous ovation from the 16,679 Forum fans after he snapped a shot past St. Louis goaltender Michel Larocque at 1:30 of the third period. FLYERS 8 RED WINGS 4 DETROIT (AP) — Tim Kerr scored three goals and linemates Dave Poulin and Brian Propp added one each to lead Philadelphia Flyers to their third successive National Hockey League victory, a 8-4 triumph over Detroit Red Wings. Atter Bill Barber gave the Flyers a 3-1 lead 3:18 into the second period, Poulin itole the puck from Detroit 5 Detroit netminder Greg Stefan for his ninth goal at 7:22. Kerr converted Thomas Eriksson's rebound for his first goal 1:29 later to increase the Flyers’ lead to 5-1. OILERS 5 WHALERS 3 EDMONTON (CP) — Wayne Gretzky scored three Podborski humiliated LAAX, SWITZERLAND (CP) — Urs Raeber of Swit- zerland, skiing at top speeds of more than 130 kilometres an hour down a curving, bumpy track, won his second straight ‘World Cup race Saturday, enhancing his ranking as the world’s No. 1 downhill racer. But for former World Cup-holder Steve Podborski of Toronto, it was a bitter result of an afternoon when he was to saddle the Canadian hopes after teammate Todd Brooker was forced to watch after a potentially serious fall Friday. Brooker, 23, of Paris, Ont., escaped serious injury, but Canadian team medical personnel felt that a mild concussion and minor ankle injury were sufficient to warrant a rest. In a race held one month before the opening of the Olympic Alpine skiing competition at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Raeber beat Austrian veteran Franz Klammer by 11-hun- dredths of a second down the demanding 3,230-metre Crap Sogn Gion course near the Grisons resort. The vertical drop was 960 metres. Trailing Klammer, 30, at the intermediate point, the 26-year-old Yugoslav rallied in the sescond half of the race, going airborne to exploit the bumps and closely cutting corners before a powerful spurt on the steep final schuss. He was timed in one minute 56.76 seconds, an average speed of about 103 km-h. “This counts more than Val Gardena last month,” Raeber said, referring to his victory ‘in Italy last month, his first in six years.“The track was more difficult, and I lke it better that way.” “He (Raeber) is undoubtedly in top form,” said Klammer, who has won 24 downhill races in his 12-year World Cup career. “But I hope I can prevent him from monopolizing the victories.” Michael Mair of Italy finished a surprising third although he had posted excellent practice times. He had injured his knee in the season's opener at Schladming, Austria, last month and said he still was not in top form. Podborski, 26, called his performance humiliating. He had finished no worse than seventh in any of the December races. His time Saturday was 1:58.40 and put him in 17th place, the best performance by a non-European, but well below his standards. But for the veteran Canadian, the placing was under- standably unfortunate because he was ahead of Raeber at the first interval timer. “I don’t really know why I was so slow,” the ll-year veteran of Canada’s national ski team said. “But I sure hope to after I have a look at the video. “I was just plain slow, especially the last part.” Mair was the.only challenger to Swiss-Austrian.domin- ation of the field of 86 racers from 12 countries. Seventy-five finished the race. Chris McIver of Vancouver crashed 30 seconds from the finish line and Paul Boivin of Montreal, “finth in his last World Cup start, careened into the spectators just short of the finish line. Brooker’s absence allowed Raeber and Heinzer to slip ahead of him in the World Cup downhill standings. Raeber has 74 points, Heinzer 52 and Brooker 50. Podborski slipped a notch to seventh place with 39 points. The second-best Canadian finisher was Gary Athans of Kelowna, in 38th place with a time of 2:00.23. Chris Kent Kent of Calgary was 40th in 2:00.38 and Robin McLeish of Kanata, Ont., was 49th in 2:01.41. Scott Shaver of Ottawa was 56th in 2:01.76 and Don Stevens of Rossland was 59th in 2:02.12. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sometimes it seems as though the one incongruous element on Los Angeles Raiders is the coach — low-keyed Tom Flores. While the Raiders have for years endured — or fostered — the image of uncontrollable renegades, their coach is the very model of decorum. Flores, unlike his pred John Madden, doesn't raise his voice and goals, giving him 50 for the season, and Ed: Oilers survived a lackadaisical performance to defeat Hartford Whalers 5-3. ‘The win kept the Oilers unbeaten in their last 11 games. Dave Hunter and Jaroslav Pouzar scored the other Edmonton goals. Rookie Sylvain Turgeon, Bob Crawford and Joel Quenneville scored for Hartford. After scoring 21 goals in their previous two games, the Oilers struggled to get their explosive offence in high gear against the lowly Whalers. NORTH STARS 2 CANUCKS 0 BLOOMINGTON, MINN. (AP) — Keith Acton and Brent Ashton supplied the goals and Gilles Meloche turned aside 23 shots as Minnesota North Stars blanked Vancouver Canucks 2-0. After the teams skated through a scoreless period and a half, Acton took a feed from Gordie Roberts and pushed the puck past Canuck netminder Frank Caprice. Acton, who came to Minnesota on Oct. 28 in a trade that sent Bobby Smith to Montreal, now has collected 12 points in his last 12 “ae ‘VIS 7 PENGUINS 4 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bob MacMillan scored three times in a six-goal third period that carried New Jersey Devils to a 7-4 victory over Pittsburgh Penguins. MacMillan scored the winner at 13:31 on a scramble in front of goalie Roberto Romano. Mel Bridgman set up the play with a rush and MacMillan banged in the loose puck for his 10th goal of the season. his second three-goal game of the season at 17:14, scoring his eighth goal in the last seven games. Joe Cirella closed the scoring at 18:24 on a long slap shot. Sorensen wins downhill race PUY SAINT VINCENT, place Veronika Vitzthum of FRANCE (AP) — Gerry Austria, with Swiss veteran Sorensen scored a surprising Maria Walliser third in vietory Saturday in the 1:42.02. World Cup women’s downhill. Canadian women's coach ski race, her first triumph in Currie yman said Soren: nearly two years and the first sen’s handling of the Table by a Canadian skier this Top turn near the bottom of season. the course was responsible “It was important forme to for her win. win,” said Sorensen, who HITS TURN won the world downhill “She hit that turn absolu- championships at Schlad- tely perfect,” said Chapman. “We know from the speed “That proves that at last I traps she came!out of the turn four kilométres faster “Even if the track at Sar- than the next (fastest) com- ajevo (Yugoslavia for next petitor and she carried that month's Olympie Games) speed to the finish.” Sorensen, who failed to think I can do something produce the results expected there.” of her last season, revealed Sorensen, 25, of Kimber- Saturday she didn't start out ley, blistered the fast 2,890- healthy and lost her confi- metre track with its 700- dence. . “I thought too much. To Gay, I had the impression } nds faster than second fina] run.” doesn’t wave his fist. Someone wondered, as the American Football Conference championship gifftie against coach Chutk Knox and his Seattle Seahawks approached, how the Raiders reacted to Flores behind closed doors, whether they were as coachable as other teams. Flores never cracked a smile. “When we have a general meeting, the first thing I do is open the door and throw in some raw meat, then close the door real quick,” Flores said. “Then, when the noise subsides, I'll come in and start talking. “By that time, they're a little docile, some of them are kind of dozing. I have a guy in back with a machine gun in case something happens and I have a guy on the other side with a whip. Eventually, they'll pay attention and come around. “They'll get out of their four-point stance and sit up in their chairs and they'll listen. Sometimes you have to grunt a little bit because some of them don't understand exactly what you're trying to say, how you're trying to communicate. Then, eventually, you say, ‘OK, let's go, on two,’ and we break and get out of there — and usually we have to repair the door all the time because they forget to open it. “Did I answer your question?” Completely. It was as good an example of the contrast between Flores and his counterpart. If any coach owns the patent on the “game face,” it is Knox, all business from one game's final gun to the next one's kickoff. WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington head coach Joe Gibbs knows his team belongs in the National Football Conference title game today against San Francisco 49ers. He just wishes everyone else wasn’t so sure the Redskins are going to advance to the Super Bowl. “These are the two teams that are supposed to be here,” Gibbs told a news conference Friday. “I see this as a very close, » hard-fought game.” Anything can happen in the NFC playoffs When asked Friday night for some examples of the Seahawks’ lighter moments, Knox, his jaw set as always, his-eyes as steely, replied unsmilingly: “We like to hip, hip, hooray in the locker room after we win, get excited about it. We like to have fun and in football the fun is winning.’ Flores said it’s not all fun and games for him, as calm and loose as he might appear. “There are. times when my ‘holars grind and my heart beats a little faster and my stomach turns upside down, but those are usually behind those closed doors. “T'm actually more nervous early in the week than I am as the game approaches . . . This is fun. This is exciting. This is really big.” And with his version of a game face still firmly in place but his eyes smiling once again, Flores added: “I'm gonna go outside and get sick in a little while. Other than that, I'm all right.” WORRIES A LITTLE If there has been anything for Flores to worry about, it has been the prospect of an overconfident team, particularly with so many fans already looking forward to a Raiders-Washington Redskins Super Bowl. A week ago, Flores said, most’ of the stories and broadcasts speculated on a Miami-Los Angeles AFC title game. “It was as if Miami wasn't going to play Seattle and we weren't going to play Pittsburgh,” Flores said. “That bothered me.” Then, including Seattle in his comments, he said: “Any team that gets this far in the playoffs has earned it . . Once you're in the playoffs, anything can happen because it’s a very short season. “I know what it’s like to be a wild card and go all the way, so I have total respect for Seattle and what they're doing, what they've done so far.” A9ers are NFC underdogs type of thing before,” said Walsh, who guided the-then lightly regarded 49ers to Super Bowl victory over Cincinnati in 1981. “This a better tea! ur the one;| in °B1. I just can't guarantee at what level We will play.” Theismann, winner of the Associated Press most valuable player award, completed more than 60 per cent of his passes while throwing 29 touchdowns and 11 The Super Bowl own a 10-game winning streak and a league-best, 15-2 record after their 51-7 decimation of Los Angeles Rams last Sunday. The 49ers, 10-point underdogs, are 11-6, including a 24-23 scare in the playoff semifinals with Detroit Lions. “I don't think we should be considered (invincible) and I don't think we are,” Gibbs said. “That kind of talk does nothing but help them. I wish we were being put in a different light. There have been people that have been better than us this year, two different times.” Asked if he'd rather be the underdog, the position the team held on its title drive last year, Gibbs replied: “Yes, I think I would be.” AGREAT TEAM Perret ches rooster! eapemnall ed “It's justified,” weuhs said. “It’s a great team with a great record. “We have yet to play our best game this year and we will haye to be at our best to be in the contest against the Redskins.” The Redskins rode the passing of Joe Theismann and running of John Riggins to roll up a National Football “He's the guy that makes us tick on offence,” said Gibbs. Riggins rushed for 1,347 yards and a league-record 24 touchdowns during the regular season. Against the Rams, he scored three times and became the first back in league history to rush for more than 100 yards in five straight playoff games when he gained 119 yards on 25 carries. “0; , the Redskins have a di that no one in football has and that's John Riggins,” Walsh said. “There are fullbacks and there are fullbacks. Riggins is in a class by himself.” The Redskins, who have not lost in six playoff games at home, are 19-2 overall in the last three years at Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. “We haye played well on the road,” said Walsh. “I think we have broken through on being intimidated by a hostile crowd.” Gibbs said the 49ers’ strength comes from the experience gained in their Super Bow! season. “This team was an underdog in the Super Bow! and they performed very well then. They have been there before and they won the Super Bow! with the same quarterback (Joe Montana). “They have the confidence that they can get the job done.” Gibbs, AP’s coach of the year the last two years, i¢ 31-11 as a head coach in three years with the Redskins. The only NFC team he has not beaten is the 49ers.