July 20, 1988

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Sugar Ray may fight Lalonde

By BRUCE CHEADLE
Canadian Press

TORONTO — The World Boxing Council has
opened the door for Winnipeg boxer Don Lalonde,
the WBC light heavyweight champion, to fight Sugar
Ray Leonard in a contest that might well be dubbed

Double or Nothing.

The WBC gave preliminary approval Tuesday
toa title fight between the two boxers in a new super
middleweight class with a weight limit of 168 pounds.
The fight booty will also include Lalonde's light

Leonard, 34-1, already has claimed three world
titles — welterweight,
middleweight. In his last fight, the 32-year-old boxer
won a 15-round decision over Marvin Hagler to claim
the WBC middleweight crown in April 1987. Leonard
gave up the title and retired two months later. He

junior middleweight and

has not fought since.

formality.”

heavyweight row, according to his manager, David

Wolf.
“Ray's incentive for this

(Thomas) Hearns’s four world title:
Tuesday night from New york. “If he wins he'll have

five.”

Wolf said he must §
both the super middleweight and light heavyweight
titles to be contested in the fight, but called it “a

petition the WBC to allow

NEGOTIATE DEAL

No contract has been signed and no venue set

is to beat
Wolf said

fight
November,

underway.

for the fight, which Wolf hopes to stage in early
but the New York manager said
negotiations with the Leonard camp were well

“(Leonard manager) Mike Trainer and I h:
been working on this for about a month,” he said, “I
don't believe there's anything potentially standing in
the way now.”

Lalonde, also reached in New York, said “this is
the experience of a lifetime.”

Lalonde, with a 81-2 record, said he has no
hesitation about dropping a weight class to fight one
of the premier boxers of his time.

“I'm too strong and I'm too fast, which a lot of
people don't realize,” Lalonde said. “I fought-at that
weight last year. It's no problem.”

The WBC has asked for a medical examination of
both boxers to ensure they can safely make weight
before it will officially sanction the 12-round fight.

Wolf said the fight will “most likely” take place
in the United States and Leonard's purse will be

greater than Lalonde's.

While some Canadians may rejoice that
Canada's Golden Boy, as Lalonde is known, is getting
a shot at one of the sport's best known boxers, Ray
Rutter, manager for Willy Featherstone, the
Canadian and Commonwealth light heavyweight
charhpion, isn’t one of them,

The promise of a Canadian world title fight
between Lalonde and Featherstone, 20-3, has been
widely anticipated since Featherstone knocked out
Dave Fiddler in the ninth round to defend his
Canadian title in May. Featherstone is ranked eighth
by the International Boxing Federation and ninth by
the World Boxing Association.

“We were hoping for an all-Canadian show-
down,” Rutter said Tuesday night. “We felt they
were dealing in good faith.

Jays edge Angels

ANAHEIM, CALIF. (AP) — Rance
Mulliniks stranded five runners on
base against the California Angels,
but used his last turn at bat very
effectively Monday night.

His homer in the top of the ninth
gave the Blue Jays a 7-6 American
League baseball victory and reliever
Tom Henke his first win since 1986.

“I was just trying to get a hit
somewhere, but he got a pitch up,”
Mulliniks said. “I think it was a
slider.

“I told myself to just keep trying
after not coming through earlier.”

Henke, 1-1, went the final 1 1-3
innings to win for the first time since
Sept. 1, 1986 — a span in which he
lost nine decisions but got 55 saves.

“We're off to a good start on this
road trip, but we still have a lot of

Bauer

BORDEAUX, FRANCE (AP) —
Jean-Paul Van Poppel andsAdri Van
de Poel, both of the Netherlands,
won individual stages in the Tour de
France cycling classic Tuesday, but
Spain's Pedro Delgado easily held
onto the overall lead.

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games to win,” said Mulliniks, whose
ninth homer left the Blue Jays with a
5-1 record on their West Coast tour.

Rookie reliever Bryan Harvey, 4-3,
allowed his first homer in 54 2-3
major league innings and Toronto
climbed to .500 (47-47) for the first
time since June 26.

HANGS FORKBALL

“I hung a forkball out over the
plate,” Harvey said."And he got all of
it.

“I felt good, but I made one bad
pitch and if you make a mistake here,
you'll get hurt.”

California scored three times in the
seventh for a tie at 6-6. Dick Scho-
field's leadoff single finished starter
Mike Flanagan and reliever Duane
Ward allowed consecutive singles to
Bob Boone and Jack Howell. A wild

pitch allowed Schofield to score and
Devon White hit a two-run single.
Toronto got three runs in the top
of the seventh. Ernie Whitt hit a
two-run single with the bases loaded
and Fred McGriff had an RBI single.
Rick Leach, Manny Lee and Tony
Fernandez hit successive run-: scoring
singles in the Toronto second.

Howell homered in the third, Chili
Davis hit his 13th homer in the fifth
and White's squeeze bunt later in the
inning made it 3-3.

The Angels played the game under
protest after Toronto's Jesse Bar-
field apparently replaced Leach to
start the bottom of the eighth. Bar-
field took the position but was not

_ announced into the game, and Leach

then returned

still in 4th place

Van Poppel, winner of the third
and 10th stages, took the 17th leg ina
final sprint. He clocked in from the
209-kilometre ride through south.
western France from Pau to Bor.
deaux in four hours, 58 minutes and
three seconds.

Steve Bauer of Fenwick, Ont.,
finished 41st in the leg but main
tained his hold on fourth spot overall,
7 minutes 25 seconds back of the
leader.

Delgado appeared on his way to

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the overall triumph Sunday in Paris.
After gaining time on his rivals in the
mountain stages over the past three
days, he recuperated on Tuesday's
stretch, riding with the pack but
conceding no time to his top chall
engers.

Delgado maintained his lead of
4:08 over the Netherlands’ Steven
Rooks.

In the morning run, Van.der Poel
took the individual honors over Bel
gium's Etienne de Wilde, American
David Phinney and Guido Bontempi
of Italy.

DOUBLEHEADER SWEEP

Oakland takes Tribe

The Canadian Press

Home hasn't been home anymore for Mark
McGwire this season.

But on Tuesday night the redheaded slugger
showed h fans a few gli of his dy i
rookie form last year.

McGwire, who had gone more than two months
without clearing the fences in his home park, pounded
home runs for the Oakland Athletics in both games of an
American League baseball doubleheader Tuesday
night.

Both blasts against Cleveland pitchers were good
for game-winning RBIs as the Athletics swept the
Indians by scores of 4-2 and 9-6.

I don't even know when I hit the last one here,”
McGwire said. “But it's no big deal.

“The park is different from last year. The wind is
knocking a lot of balls down. A lot of balls that I've hit
hard, especially to right or centre, just died. Those balls
tonight weren't hit there.”

He pulled both, sending baseballs deep into the left
field bleachers for his first Oakland Coliseum homers
since May 11.

Last season, McGwire set a major league record for
rookies with 49 homers, 21 at home and 28 on the road.
He has 18, only four at home, so far this year.

In another AL doubleheader, Baltimore Orioles
split with Chicago White Sox, winning the first 6-4 but
losing the second 2-0.

In other AL games Tuesday, it was: Toronto Blue
Jays 7, California Angels 6; Milwaukee Brewers 3,
Kansas City Royals 1; Boston Red Sox 5, Minnesota
Twins 0; Texas Rangers 7, New York Yankees 2; and
Seattle Mariners 9, Detroit Tigers 6.

BREAKS TIE

McGwire hit a two-run homer off Greg Swindell in
the first game and broke a tie with a solo homer off Don
Gordon in the fifth inning of the second game.

Dave Henderson also had a two-run homer and Bob
Welch, 11-6, turned in a strong pitching performance in
the opening game.

The Athletics had been swept by Minnesota and
Cleveland in their only previous doubleheaders this
year, scoring a total of two runs.

Cleveland, by losing for the eighth time in 10
games, fell under .500 for the first time since losing its
season opener.

McGwire got his 13th and 14th game-winning RBIs
to tie the New York Yankees’ Jack Clark for the league
lead.

Dennis Eckersley saved both games, raising his
major league-leading total to 29. Greg Cadaret, 3-1, got
the victory in the second game.

RED SOX 5 TWINS 0

Mike Smithson, 5-3, flirted with a no-hitter for 6 1-3
innings and combined with Bob Stanley on a
three-hitter as Boston collected its sixth consecutive
victory. The Red Sox have won 11 in a row at home and
are 6-0 overall since Joe Morgan replaced fired manager
John McNamara last Thursday.

MARINERS 9 TIGERS 6

Steve Balboni and Dave Valle each homered and
drove in three runs as Seattle beat Detroit. Mike
Jackson, 5-2, got the victory and Mike Schooler got his
sixth save.

RANGERS 7 YANKEES 2

Steve Buechele drove in three runs and Texas tied
a season-high with 16 hits and beat New York in game
interrupted by rain for two hours.

ORIOLES 6-0 WHITE SOX 4- 2

Bill Long, 4-4, scattered four singles over eight
innings and Chicago beat Baltimore for a split of the
twi-pight doubleheader.

n the first game, Mickey Tettleton and Jim Traber

homered as Baltimore ended a four-game losing streak.

BREWERS 3 ROYALS 1

Bill Wegman pitched five:hit ball-over eight
innings, and Darryl Hamilton hit his first major league
homer, spurring Milwaukee to its 10th victory in 12
games while Kansas City dropped. its sixth straight.

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July 20, 1968 Castlegar News a3

John Charters

Reflections
& recollections ©

Holmans dies
after happy,
artistic life

By JOHN CHARTERS

Every artist writes his own biography. Tolstoy
Tl: Havelock Ellis

Brenton (Brent) Holmans, artist, gentleman,
Maritimer and storyteller in the old tradition, died
last Saturday morning in the same quiet, uncompli
cated manner in which he had lived. He was a good
man.

He had come about 30 years ago from his home
in Hubbards, (near Peggy's Cove and Halifax) in
Nova Scotia to teach art at the Trail Junior high
school where I was vice-principal.

We fornied an enduring friendship from that
time, for he was one of those special people who have
enriched my life and perceptions over the years and I
was proud and happy to call him friend, and I have
written several columns on our

bemused professor, gently herded by his kindly, but
thoroughly practical wife, Alice, who freed him from
a0 many of the distracting details, he grew and

loped a specific and indivi style of painting.

He had first complained bitterly of the frequent
sea-mists which obscured his shoreline so frequently,
he soon learned to include them with great effect.

His compositions became simpler but more
subtle and his study of the sea, unlike so many
artists, gained not only life of its own but depth so
that one could feel the sea bottom itself beneath the
water.

He was an easy man to be with, gently
humorous and always optomistic, and he had the rare
capacity for accepting people as he found them,
without judgement or rancour. It was what might be
the hot stove approach. One accepts its capacity for
warmth and comfort but, while making no
judgement, avoids putting one’s hand on it.

Moreover, while he was generous with his time
and advice if asked, he never attempted to impose
his ideas or opinions on those about him.

His approach to his work reflected his approach
to life, particularly to people. He could and did talk to
anyone with genuine warmth and interest for
everyone had something new to offer him. In turn his

From his appearance and actions he could have
been mistaken for a slightly eccentric Englishman
but his life and soul were entirely Nova Scotian.

The focal point and purpose of his life was to
capture and make comprehensible to we foreigners
the uniqueness of his beloved land, its rythms, its
sea-going people and its special claims to beauty.
Since he had been associated with fisherman,
fishing and the sea all of his life it was only natural
that his artistic career centred eventually around the
sea, first as a marine artist at the Bedford Institute
of Oceanography, then, when he had had the great
good sense to marry Alice, as a free-lance sea-scape
painter.

He loved the Kootenays for their rugged beauty
and friendly people and returned here once and again
for visits.

On one such occasion I wrote a column on him
which reads in part: “With Alice's encouragement he
established a gallery at his home in Hubbards to
exhibit his work and paint. From here he ranged the
Nova Scotia coast attempting, with brush and
palette, to capture the moods of the rocky shoreline
and the sea.

Success was measured in an ever increasing
number of patrons, both from Canada and the United
States (and later Britain) and yearly exhibitions of
his work in the cities of both countries.

In 1976 he and his wife started spending part of
their winters and springs in the vicinity of New

Orleans where the exotic landscape and the number -

of variety of shrimp boats caught their eye. We
visited them one Easter to experience an entirely
new world and to share some of the quite wonderful
friends that they so readily gathered around them
and shared with us.

Later, Brent and Alice travelled to the
Northwest Territories for further sketching and
painting in preparation for his fall exhibition. Each
new experience broadened his palette and enriched
his style.

Brent described his work as_a‘combination-of.
realism and impressionism and after viewing some
work at a juried art show at the National Exhibition
Centre in Castlegar, hew advised young artists to
“develop what you do best, establish your own
personal style.”

Unlike so many, he was true to his own advice.
He loved life and he loved meeting people and never
stopped learning in his deceptively quiet fashion.
Though he moved through life like a slightly

corresps 's found total acceptance without
judgement for he was totally without guile or malice.

His stories of the characters and events in the
history of Nova Scotia, a cornucopia of characters
and events, abounded in vivid detail. There was an
endless procession of fishermen and farmers, sailors
and New England-type shopkeepers, polikticians and
bureaucrats. But his favorite subjects were the
simple, often naive, but powerfully strong fishermen
and their boats.

Of one such fisherman-rum runner he said: “He
had no neck. His muscles ran from his head to his
shoulders in a triangle. He rarely spoke and never
changed his slow ponderous pace, regardless of
circumstances. He then told how, on one occasion,
several revenue agents intent on arresting him had
pursued him and his boat to his boat ramp. He got
out and taking the tow line started pulling the heavy
boat up the ramp in ponderous silence. The revenue
agents leaped out of their boat and laid hands on the
suspects boat in order to search it. Without a word or
change of expression or a pause in his stride the
fisher continues to pull boat and pursuers, in spite of
their most valiant efforts, up the ramp. When the
agents saw the boat being drawn into the safety of
the boat shed they let go their prey and left, deciding
that discretion was the better part of valour.” Brent
said in his dry fashion, “i think they were a bit afraid
of him, actually.”

In our living room we have one wall covered
with paintings. It is called the Homans's wall for it is
the pictorial sample of the evolution of his genre and
development as an artist. It is much admired by
visitors, particularly the imposing Blue Nose II at
sea against a stormy-sky.

Thad hoped to go back to pick up a sample of his
most recent work and to tape some of his stories but
time and events intervened and as so often happens,
the opportunity has passed forever.

I have no idea what impact Brent Homans may
have on the future of the Canadian art scene, though
I suspect that it may be considerable. In doing what
he-did--best and constantly improving on it, and
belieiving in himself, he has saved a part of the
heritage of our widely varied country for the future.

Just as importantly, he has left this family and a
whole continent of families, the legacy of the memory

gave an extra richness to our lives and a code by
which to live them.

Our deepest sympathy to his wife Alice and the
family who loved him so well.

Recreation news

Tennis Fun

Anyone for a game of tennis?
Castlegar has great tennis facilities
for everyone in the community to
enjoy. We have six courts in North
Castlegar and three courts adjacent
to the Community Complex. You ean
even beat the heat of sunny weather
by playing tennis by moonlight. The
Rotary Courts are lit up every even
ing so even darkness or heat can't be
an excuse not to get out and have
some tennis fun. Grab your racquet
and a partner and get some exercise.
Summer is too short to miss out on
this great outdoor activity.

different age groups so girls eight
years and over can enjoy.
Cross

The Bronze Cross and Senior Res.
uscitation class that was scheduled to
start last Monday did not have
enough participants to run. We are
currently taking an interest list for
any person who has their Bronze

Medallion and would like to take the
course this summer. We are going to
need lifeguards once our new aquatic
centre is passed so beat the rush and
get your quali jons today. Phone
the Recreation Office at 365°3886 to
leave your name and phone number.
The course will be organized as soon
as enough interest is shown.

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Lottery numbers

The winning numbers in Satur-
day's Lotto 6-49 draw were 1, 8, 13,
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the jackpot pool of $1,910,587.60
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The Lotto B.C. winning numbers
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Clothes sales down

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the abundance of half-price sale and
clearance signs plastered on clothing
store windows.

The signs are symbols of the mal
aise gripping the Canadian retail
clothing industry, suffering one of its
worst slumps in years.

Traditionally, womenswear re.
mained strong, even during periods
when overall apparel sales fell off,
says Mel Fruitman, president of the
Retail Council of Canada. But this
time the whole market has gone soft
and women’s fashion is leading the
decline.

Analysts say there are many rea
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last six to 18 months, from consumer
dissatisfaction with recent fashions
such as mini-skirts to the decision to
put their dollars into big-ticket items
such as homes and cars instead of
their closets.

Fruitman pins much of the blame
on the fashion industry's lacklustre
offerings in recent seasons.

LACKS EXCITEMENT

“There's very little excitement in
the market,” he said in an interview
“Women have not been stimulated by
the product enough to change their
wardrobe.”

Joel Cooper, head of Braemar
womenswear stores, said poor sales
are indicative of women’s refusal to
be dictated by the fashion industry.

“This season a lot of women said:
‘If this is what you're saying I have to
wear to make a fashion statement,
and I don't look good, there's no point

That customer disappointment has
been reflected in declining sales,
particularly in the first quarter of

* 1988, said Irv Teitelbaum, chief ex

ecutive officer for Suzy Shier in
Montreal

“Historically, the first quarter has
always been dangerous for retailers
because the level of interest of the
consumer is qlistionable,” he said,
adding that most consumers are
looking for “something new and
dramatic” in spring fashions.

But in 1988, what consumers found
was confusing and, to the minds
of many in the trade, just plain
boring.

Retailers showed little conviction
in their offerings. The short skirt was
there, but so were hemlines just
below the knee and at mid-calf. Tops
came in a variety of styles — from
bum-length to cropped at the waist to
the micro look, and colors seemed to
be scattered all over the palette.

SALES SLIP =

Suzy Shier, a 207-store member of

the Dylex clothing conglomerate,

lex's annual meeting last month,
president Wilfrid Posluns agreed
that less-than-exciting fashions, min
skirts and increased consumer debt
are all valid reasons for the downturn
in retailers’ fortunes.

Posluns believes the apparel in
dustry has overlooked a dramatic
change in demographics that will
dictate buying patterns in the future.
He cited one U.S. study~that shows
the number of women aged 14 to 24
has declined 13 per cent between
1980 and 1988, while the number of
women 35 to 44 has risen by 36 per
cent.

But it hasn't been doom and gloom
for all clothing retailers. Braemar
showed a more than 10-per-cent hike
in sales in stores opened in 1987 or
earlier.

Cooper said the key to the chain's
success is knowing who its customers
are and adapting fashion trends to
meet their needs.

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