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THE TITANIC

_ HALIFAX (CP) — Mention the Titanic and Russ
Lawnds smiles. The great ship and her tragic fate have kept
the amateur historian and marine buff enthralled for 40
years.

“The Titanic isn't so much a mystery,” he says in a voice
made raspy by years of pipe tobacco.

“It's mythology.”

Lownds, 66, jumps from his chair to make the point and
stabs the air with a finger — startling the family dog, Lucky.

Energetic and silver-haired, Lownds has just bounded
upstairs from a tiny basement room with a low ceiling — “I
call it my den” — crammed. with some 10,000 pictures of
ships, detailed models, books and memorabilia.

Today the former CBC broadcaster talks about the
Californian, the cargo ship long reviled for failing to come
to the aid of the Titanic after she struck an icebetg and sank
— taking more than 1,600 lives — early on the morning of
April 15, 1912.

In the intervening 75 years, Capt. Stanley Lord of the
Californian has been castigated in literature and movies.

Lownds, an acknowledged Titanic expert who used
to work as an historian for the Maritime Museum of the
Atlantic, is doing his part to change history's perception of
Lord.

The evidence is drawn from his own knowledge of the
disaster and a new book on the Californian-Titanic
relationship by Briton Leslie Harrison.

SEEKS PROBE
Harrison, a former general secretary of the Mercantile
Marine Service Association, has been pushing — unsuccess-
fully — for a new inquiry to clear Lord's name.

Lownds leaps up, snatches a newspaper article from a
nearby table and races a finger down the page until he finds
the pertinent passage.

He points to the well known fact the Titanic’s crew fired
rockets and used Morse code messages in an effort to catch
the attention of a ship whose lights could be seen in the
distance.

: Those aboard the Californian say they saw a ship in the
distance firing rockets.

“Therefore, argued the court of inquiry, the Titanic
could see the Californian and the Californian could the
Titanic and should have gone to her aid,” Lownds reads, as
though he were still behind a CBC microphone.

“But, argues Leslie Harrison, the ship which the Titanic
could see was moving. The Californian was stopped.

“The ship which the Californian could see was also
moving but the Titanic was stopped. Therefore, there must
have been other ships in the area: that night, ships which.
have never been identified.”

Later that night, passengers and crew on the Titanic
saw the lights of a vessel as it approached the sinking ship,
then veer away. Lownds does not believe it was the
Californian.

“What's the name of the ship?” he asks rhetorically.
“Well, 75 years later there’s nobody who's going to come
forward and say ‘I was aboard the ship that could have saved
all on the Titanic.’ ”

HALTED IN ICE
The night the Titanic went down, the Californian was

Mystery in dispute

aboard the Californian could have known about the tragedy
until 8 a.m., he says.

“It took the Californian two and a half hours to steam
from where she lay hove-to in pack ice to where the Titanic
sank,” he adds, “If she didn't know about it until 8 o'clock the
next morning, and the ship had gone down six hours
previous, how in the name of God could she have got there?”

He has corresponded with Lord’s son — the
Californian’s skipper died in 1962 — who described what a
‘Titanic survivor says she saw.

According to the younger Lord, the woman was
prepared to swear in court the Titanic was so close to the
Californian she could see passengers on the freighter’s deck.

“Well, the Californian had no passengers —she was a
cargo ship,” Lownds says.

The also said the Californian bad four funnels or
smmokestaghe.

“A cargo ship with four funnels? No way,” he says. “But
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stopped in pack ice about 375 nautical miles southeast of St.
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Lownds says the Californian’s wireless operator, named
Evans, was reporting on ice conditions when he was told by
the Titanic to stop sending messages because he was tying
up circuits.

“When Evans was told to buzz off, and there was no
need for an overnight wireless operator on a cargo ship,
those days, he went to bed at 11:30,” Lownds recounts.

The Titanic hit the iceberg at 11:40 p.m. on April 14. It
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Sex scandal hits Habs

MONTREAL {CP) — The Montreal

~<Ganadiens- have- threatened tor ew *

“when the investigation: is not even
a-wh ni latnio'e

Quebec City radio station for broad-
casting a report of a police investiga-
tion involving three of the National
Hockey League club's players.
Quebec Justice Miniter Herbert
Marx had said the Crown was looking
into allegations that members of a
professional sports team were involved
in sexual misconduct with minors.
Serge Savard, the Canadiens general
manager, said in a statement that he
deplored the fact the radio station had
broadcast the names of the players

if charges will be laid.

“As far as I am concerned, and after
having been made aware of the facts, I
sincerely believe in the innocence of
the players involved.”

Marx said Crown prosecutors in
Montreal were studying the report and
would “take whatever- action is nec
essary.”

Crown prosecutor Serge Authier
said he will decide within the next two
weeks whether to lay charges.

Montreal police spokesman Real

Cantin said an investigation began
after parents. of juveniles filed com-
plaints at a local police station.

Veteran Canadiens defenceman Lar-
ry Robinson, not one of the players
involved, said he first learned of the
investigation when a reporter from La
Presse asked him about it last week.

Robinson said he was convinced that
even if the story was true it would not
adversely affect the performance of the
team in the Stanley Cup playoffs. He
added the players being investigated
might be upset the allegations had
been publicized by the media.

The “Fight of the Century” has
been over now for about two weeks
but the controversy surrounding
the bout still continues.

It now appears that Nevada
boxing officials and that state’s at.
torney-general have launched an in
vestigation into whether any one of
the judges were paid money to give
their vote to Sugar Ray Leonard.

Leonard took the fight“in a split
decision from Marvin Hagler. Lou
Filippos scored the fight 115-113 for
Hagler, Dave Moretti had it 115-113
for Leonard and JoJo Guerra saw fit
to score the fight 118-110 for Leo-
nard.

Ever since that decision, the heat
has been coming down on Guerra.
As a writer for MacLeans’s maga.
zine si

“Which fight was he at?”

A Boston-based television station
is now saying that a gambler al.
legedly paid at least one of the fight
officials to do everything he could to
swing the fight in Leonard's favor.

The odds were against Leonard
going into the bout so anyone who
wagered on him to win obviously
cleaned up.

Like most of us, I have only heard
second-hand reports about the fight
and I really don't pay much at
tention to second-hand information
so I can’t really say if Leonard was
deserving of the win.

Surj
Rattan

T'll watch the fight this afternoon
when it’s aired on BCTV to see if in
fact JoJo Guerra was watching
another fight on a TV set he might
have had stashed on the floor.

But I won't be watehing the
Hagler-Leonard scrap as much as I
will be looking forward to seeing the
fight behind the fight.

The promoters punch-out is the
fight that interests me the most.

The Hagler-Leonard bout was
promoted by Bob Arum. Don King,
who looks like he stuck his finger
into a light socket, is the guy who
promotes most of the big name
fights.

Although King did not handle the
Hagler-Leonard scrap, he was on
hand to watch it from ring side.

After Leonard was handed the
victory, King, who hates being on
centre stage and in the spotlight as
much as fish hate water, got up from
his seat and began shouting, “I told
you, I told you,” as he started to
make his way over to Leonard's
corner.

King was half way up the stairs
leading to the ring when Arum
grabbed him from the back and
yanked him back down.

Arum’ was determined that King
would not get in the spot light and
rain on his parade.

It amuses me how King and Arum

can act in such a childish way. It's
like they're both little kids fighting
over a toy.

I sure hope they show the. scuffle
between King and Arum on the
broadcast this afternoon because I
can sure use a good laugh on my day
off.

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It’s nice to see Doug Mitchell
receive the Fair Play Award. Mit
chell is the coach of the Port Elgin
Bears, a junior C hockey team in
Ontario.

Earlier this year he pulled his
team from league play because he
did not like the increasing amount of
violence connected with the sport.

Mitchell sought the views of the
players, parents and executives of
the team and they were all in agree
ment that the team should not play
the rest of the season.

Ironically, the Ontario Hockey
Association is thinking of penalizing
the Bears for not wanting to be
a part of violence in hockey.

Instead of penalizing the team,
the OHA should come to its senses
and look for ways of cutting back on
the violence associated with the
game.

It seems like a lot of hockey
teams, especially the Moose Jaw
Generals, could learn a thing or two
from the Port Elgin Bears.

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Blacks not banned

CINCINNATI (AP); — Cincinnati
Reds officials say there is no ban on
blacks for front office or managing
positions within the major league
baseball team's organization.

Reds owner Marge Scott says it’s a
matter of talent and if and when a job
opens, like the managership, the can-
didate with the most talent will get it,
no matter what his race.

She was reacting to statements by
former Reds players Joe Morgan and
Bobby- Tolan that the city is too
conservative to accept a black mana-

there?”

Morgan, a star

r.

Tolan was an outfielder with the
Reds and Morgan, a second baseman
from 1972-79.

“It's just a conservative town,” said
Tolan, now a batting instructor with
Seattle of the American League. “But I
liked the town. I enjoyed playing
there.”

Morgan, now a businessman, said: “I

was there.

think it's a conservative situation. One

answer the phone?) How many are

The Reds currently have one black
front-office employee, who works in the
ticket office, the Cincinnati Post said.

Machine of the 1970s, said he discussed
the lack of black front-office employees
with Dick Wagner when he was the
team's general manager. Wagner now
is president and general manager of
the Houston Astros.

“People write about what's visible,
but what about the jobs that aren't
visible," Morgan asked. “I talked to
Dick Wagner about that once when he

“There weren't any black people an-
swering phones. I said black people ean
answer the phone:

type,” he added.

“Not at all” said Mrs. Scott. “It's
the talent. I don't care if it’s a monkey,
a bear, a Chinaman, a German, an
Irishman, as long as somebody's capa-
ble to do the job.”

General manager Bill Bergesch be-
lieves the city would respond to a
manager based on ability, not skin
on the Big Red color.

“I believe the fans are very rabid and
loyal to the Cincinnati Reds, and as
long as the man did the job called for, I
don’t think he'd run into any opposi-
tion,” Bergesch said. “There've been
white managers they haven't respond-
ed to.”

The Reds have one minority mana-
ger in their farm system. Former Reds
outfielder Sam Mejias, a native of the
Dominican Republic, manages the
Reds’ rookie team in Sarasota, Fia.,
and serves as chief scout in his native

black people can country.

Edmonton breathing easier™
now that Flames are golfing

By JOHN KOROBANIK

EDMONTON (CP) — None of the Edmonton Oilers
openingly admitted they were glad to see the Calgary
Flames beaten by the Winnipeg Jets, but there was an aura
of relaxed confidence in the Oilers’ dressing room Friday
morning.

“I guess we can say pretty well anything we want now,
it doesn't matter,” goaltender Andy Moog said with a huge
grin when asked about the Flames losing in six games to
Winnipeg in the NHL's Smythe Division semifinal.

Winnipeg won the series with a decisive 6-1 victory
Thursday night.

“That's hockey,” said Moog as he wiped the sweat
pouring down his face. “It’s happened to everyone a couple
times in their lives, it’s just Calgary's turn to go out early
this year.”

The Oilers, who meet Winnipeg in the ‘best-of-seven

beginning here on Tuesday, had said earlier
they were cheering for the Jets to beat the Flames.

The reason was obvious.

Calgary upset Edmonton in last spring's division final
and had a 6-1-1 record against the Oilers this season.

“You're always going to cheer for the team you might
want to be in there but . . . it doesn’t really matter,” winger
Glenn Anderson said after Edmonton's high-speed 75-minute
workout.

“It would have been nice to play Calgary and be able to
beat them to clear all the critics and say we can beat them,”

added veteran defenceman Charlie Huddy.

One thing the Oilers did admit is that they won't have
an easy series against the Jets. Edmonton won five of eight
regular-season games, three of four in Edmonton and two of
four in Winnipeg.

In eight games, Edmonton outscored Winnipeg by only
six goals, 83-27. In their final of the regular season,
in Edmonton, the Jets rallied from'a 40 deficit before losing
5-4 in overtime.

“They played us tough all season and from watching the
playoff games, they've been playing extremely well,” Huddy
said of the Jets who finished third in the division, 16 points
back of Edmonton.

When the teams met in the division final two years ago,
Edmonton swept that series in four games and outscored
Winnipeg 22-11.

italized on and
the absence of Winnipeg: offensiyesleader,Dale Hawerchuk
who was injured.

“In the past, however, Winnipég’s goaltending has
improved noticably with rookies Pokey Reddick and Daniel
Berthiaume, who played all six games against Calgary.

“With the speed of the twé teams, it could turn out to be
a goaltending dual,” said Andersoii, “The bottom line could
be which goalie makes the big saves at the right time.”

The first two games of the series will be played in
Edmonton on Tuesday and Thursday with the third and
fourth games in Winnipeg on Saturday’ and Monday.

Sabetzki called a dictator

. By NEIL STEVENS

VIENNA (CP) — Gunther Sabetzki relaxes on the sofa
in his downtown hotel suite with a gentle expression on his
broad German face.

He smiles, speaks softly, looking nothing like the man
Canadians see as the dictator of international hockey.

He must be a different man behind the closed doors of
the International Ice Hockey Federation, the world
governing body he has ruled as president since 1975.

“Dictatorial? Democracy is dictatorial,” he says. “You
can have 10 meetings but you must reach a decision.

“When the decision is made it seems you are a dictator
to some. But, as long as you have success, it is right.”

Gordon Renwick, Canada’s man on the federation’s
executive council, has presidential aspirations and would
like Canada to have a greater say, like it used to.

“He's a dictator,” Renwick says of the egocentrical
Sabetzki.

With 21 of the 36 national federations in the IIHF in
Europe, Sabetzki and the Europeans are in little danger of
losing control.

Sabetzki is 72 and his term of office goes to 1990. He
says he's undecided about serving again, but he doesn't see
Renwick succeeding him.

RULES HIM OUT

“T have told Gordon Renwick, ‘You have no chance. You
don't know what happens in the 21 European federations.”

Sabetzki’s 12 years on the job have seen major
advances, chief among them inclusion of professional players
in world championsips. He also has been a champion of small
federations, ensuring they get all the help the IIHF
canmuster.

He's worked out some big deals.

Adidas puts its logo on jerseys, or subcontracts the
sweater space to other companies. Teams are paid to display
the logos, and one source said Team Canada’s jersey display
of logos would earn it $70,000 (U.S.).

All national federations, except the top six most
influential countries including Canada, get $10,000 (Cdn)
worth of new equipment annually. Sabetzki says he prefers
sending equipment becasue that way he knows the help is
going directly to the players.

Sabetski succeeded the notorious Bunny Ahearne as
president.

Ahearne, who died two years ago, was the man who
devised the board ads and separated the strong from the
weak with the pool system of eight teams each.

He also had a running feud with Canada

“He admired Canadian hockey but he was against it
because they didn't book their airplanes through his office,”
Sabetzki says.

“And he did not want pros in the world tournaments
because he was hot the head of pro hockey

“He liked to be the head of things: nobody should be
over him. He didn’t want to become the No. 2 man.”

Unlike Ahearne, Sabetzki has close ties with North
America.

CALLS HIM BUDDY

Alan Eagleson, Hockey Canada’s main negotiator, and
NHL president John Ziegler are old buddies. Sabetzki was in
Quebec City for Rendezvous.

Eagleson is here and Ziegler is on his way.

Gabetski has no patience for Canadian hockey when
fighting occurs.

“It is not usual in European society to see fighting,” he
says. “When the spectators see two boys fighting on the ice
they are not happy for them.”

The IIHF agenda for the April 27-29 annual meetings
will not include the suspensions, until July 1988, of the
Canadian and Soviet teams involved in the bench-clearing
brawl at the world junior tournament last January in
Czechoslovakia.

“There is nothing to talk about,” Sabetski said. “It is
decided.”

His opinion is expected to rule the day. He's touchy to
criticism and is known to ititimiate IIHF delegates who
disagree with him.

He must be doing something right. When he was
re-elected last year, it was with unanimous approval.

Gallivan on the
road giving talks

and grace the head table to
attract people to get money
for charity, that to me is
very, very satisfying,” th
retired announced said in an

HALIFAX (CP) — The
hockey:players Danny Galli
van keeps company with
these days don't fire “can-
nonading shots” or get their
“pucks caught up in para- interview from Montreal.
phernalia.” “And I think it gives a

Gallivan, whose broadcasts stature to sports that's edify-
filled with outrageous phr- ing.”
ases amused Montreal Can.
adiens fans for over 30 years,
now keeps banquet audiences
entertained as he treks
across Canada raising money
for charity

“When I go to banquets
and I see so many hockey
stars, football stars. baseball
stars who give of their time

g.

The son of a Cape Breton
coal shipper, Gallivan became
the voice on English-langu
age broadcasts for the NHL
club in 1952. When he left in
1984 he said Hockey Night in
Canada to continue working
“in a high-falutin thing they
called an ambassadorial
role.”