June 24, 1987 may Welcome to Nelson's Annual Midsummer Bonspiel Parade. We have a_lot to celebrate this summer with the World Famous 43rd Annual Midsummer Bonspiel and Nelson's 90th Birthday! Shop at Chahko-Mika Mall, during your visit to Nelson and enjoy our New Look. We have over 30 ‘stores to Serve You. . HEATHER MORTON __(Miss Teen Canada 1987) Will be at the Mall, Saturday, June 27 — 2 p-m- ‘till 4 p.m. Watch for our Sidewalk Sale June 29 to July 4 TracieS BOUTIQUE ANNUAL END OF SCHOOL - START OF SUMMER SALE ALL JEANS & PANTS 30: OFF ENTIRE BABY SELECTION 2 5% ALL OFF MATERNITY WEAR 25%, 30 ALL SPRING JACKETS % OFF ALL SLEEPWEAR * Intants to Children to Size 18 * Maternity Wear Open Mon. thru Sat am-5:30 p.m. Fridays ‘till 7 p.m. ‘ Boutique 644 Baker Street Nelson 352-6811 1150 Lakeside Drive ison, B.C. Open Until 9 p.m. Thursdays & Fridays Attend the Nelson MiID-SUMMER BONSPIEL PARADE Saturday, June 27 starting at 6 p.m. celebrating NELSON'S 90th BIRTHDAY In honor of the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics, Grand Marshals for the parade will be Heidy & Howdy the official 1988 Olympic mascots Dress Right. . . In the Kootenays Shop at ip i io a 402 Boker St., Nelson 352-2272 Bring in this ad for 10% off your next purchase and help celebrate Nelson's 90th Birthday The Queen City of the Kootenays Welcomes all to this Festive Occasion listen animated. There ore gracious forget the horses with their brai Come and join us for HEATHER MORTON Miss Teen Canada 1987 Representing Canada's Young People it's a band, it's finally here, the parade is n “The Best Midsummer Parade Ever!"’ It's Going to be Exciting — Please be sure to come and join us! < Baker St. ‘annie ’s 354-4448 Welcome Visitors! 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Less than two hours later, the 19-year-old West German had made a successful start to the defence of his men’s title at Wimbledon without a passing thought to the rain that had held him up for so long. “I was probably one of the few players who did not really care about the weather,” Becker said after his 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 first-round victory Tuesday over Karel Novacek of Czechoslovakia, the opening match of the rain-delayed championships. “I don't feel any pressure here “It is the place of my success. But I'm glad we could get out on court today when we did.” Under gloomy skies, Stefan Edberg of Sweden made sure he got into the second round fast, posting a 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 victory over countryman Stefan Eriksson in one hour. Edberg became only the third player in Wimbledon history to have scored a triple-love success at the grass-court Grand Slam event. The world’s No. 1 player, Ivan Lendl, also beat the rain but struggled on his least-favorite surface, losing a set to qualifier Christian Saceanu of West Germany, before prevailing 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. CANADIANS LOST Both Canadians in the women’s singles — Torontonians Carling Bassett and Helen Kelesi — were eliminated Sabrina Goles of Yugoslavia defeated Bassett 6-4, 0-6, 6-4, while Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria defeated Kelesi 6-3, 6-2. The showers that wiped out play Monday returned on the second day and persisted until midway through the Alouettes bring f By NEIL DAVIDSON TORONTO (CP) — Professional football is dead in Montreal — a city that has been part of the Canadian football scene for more than a century League commissioner Doug Mitchell sounded the official death knell today on a once-proud franchise that had been teetering on the brink of financial collapse for several years. “In the final analysis, it’s like a death in the family,” Mitchell told a packed news conference at the CFL's downtown Toronto headquarters. Mitchell said Jim Hole and Norm Kimball, who took over as the Alouettes’ owners just three months ago, “did all they could in order to make the Alouettes succeed.” However, season ticket sales were just 4,000 for this season —a figure that would have produced just $400,000 in gate revenue for the Als, who had a projected operating budget of $6 million this year “Losing a partner is never easy, but the CFL family will carry on,” Mitchell promised. “We remain operational with eight financially viable members who shall continue to provide excellent entertainment value for our fans, corporate sponsors and advertisers.” The announcement came on the eve of Montreal's scheduled season opener. The folding of the team will meana revamped schedule and a new division alignment. BOMBERS MOVE The commissioner also confirmed the Winnipeg Blue Bombers will move into the Eastern Division as part of an amended schedule for the balance of the 1987 season. The Blue Bombers will move from the five-team Western Division into the East, taking the place of the Alouettes as the fourth team in that division. The move means Winnipeg — not Montreal — will meet the Argonauts in Toronto on Thursday night, the season opener for both clubs. Winnipeg was originally s-h juled to open its season in Edmonton on Saturday, but »imos afternoon, further disrupting the program. Among the players who spent another frustrating day in the locker room where No. 3 seed Mats Wilander of Sweden and No. 10 Tim Mayotte of the United States. Both were to make their third’ tries today. Defending women’s champion Martina Navratilova also was to appear today for the first time, as were Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert, Yannick Noah and Steffi Graf, the No. 2 women's seed. And Martin Laurendeau of Montreal made his Wimbledon debut against Pavel Vojtisek of Czechoslovakia. Other seeded men to post first-round victories Monday were No. 11 Pat Cash of Australia, No. 12 Brad Gilbert of the United States and No. 13 Joakim Nystrom of Sweden. On the women’s side, No. 7 Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina reached the second round, as did No. 8 Maleeva and No. 11 Lori McNeil of the United States. WARMUP WASTED Becker and Novacek were thwarted by a short shower the first time they tried to start and went back to the locker room after warming up for seven minutes. Hut the second attempt, an hour later, was successful, and, although he was not at his best, Becker still played like he'd never been away. With his big serve working well, the two-time defending champion never looked in trouble against Novacek, who reached the quarter-finals of the French Open on clay earlier this month but was not nearly as effective on the grass. There were also the Becker antics —one, in particular, which had the crowd gasping and surprised the West German himself. now will entertain the Calgary Stampeders instead. Mitchell said the league was hopeful of some day returning to Canada's second-largest city. But he also admitted it would be hard for a new owner to step in to Montreal under the present conditions. The commissioner said the league's board of governors was told that Montreal was “a total go” on May 11. But last Friday, Kimball called Mitchell to inform him. the team was having a financial analysis of the team done. Kimball called back Sunday to say things didn't look good. RAISES QUESTIONS The death of the Alouettes will raise new questions about the health of the entire league, which also has problem franchises in Ottawa and Regina. At the very least, the 1987 schedule and TV plans will be thrown into chaos. While not totally unexpected, the news of the demise of the Als is shocking. Earlier this month, Mitchell brimmed with confidence about the league's new-found fiscal responsibility and said he had received assurances the Alouettes would finish the season. And it was only three months ago that the Montreal franchise seemed to get a new lease on life when Kimball and i Jim Hole purchased the franchise from Charles Bronfman and Imasco Ltd. Under terms of the sale, Bronfman and Imasco wiped out all debts — the team had lost approximately $$17 million since Bronfman took over the reins from Nelson Skalbania in1982 — and injected $2 million fresh capital into the elub. At the time of the March 6 sale, Kimball seemed confident the Als could survive, but he also had a realistic outlook. “If we continue to draw 5,000 to 7,000 per game, then we won't be in business,” he said. NOT ENOUGH FANS The Alouettes’ average home attendance was about 11,000 last season, although several games were attended by far fewer fans at the 58,643-seat Olympic Stadium. Clash fails to make the Leo’s list VANCOUVER (CP) — Andre Fran- cis has won the starting position at left cornerback for British Columbia in the season-opener Sunday for the Lions against the Saskatchewan Roughriders at B.C. Place, head coach Don Mat thews said Tuesday. Francis beat out Darnell Clash, the popular player he replaced midway through the 1986 season when Clash suffered a knee injury. The position was up for competition during training camp and in the two exhibition games,” said Matthews. “Francis played well enough to win the start, and Clash will be placed on the reserve list.” After hearing the news, Clash asked general manager Joe Galat to be traded to any of the other eight CFL teams. “I think it is only fair to let me move on,” said the 1985 CFL all star. “If I'm not on the field, how much of an asset am I? Galat said the Lions will try to accommodate Clash, “but not at the expense of the overall team.” e to be quality for g that, a No. 1 draft The general manager said there are no deals in the works. Jays slip by Detroit DETROIT (AP) — The Detroit Tigers ran out of innings just in time for the Toronto Blue Jays. The Tigers blistered Toronto's top- ranked pitching staff for six runs over —the last-three_innings, but the Blue Jays escaped Tiger Stadium with an 8.7 American League victory Tuesday night. Blue Jay manager Jimy Williams used four pitchers in relief of Dave Stieb, 64, but none was particularly effective. Tom Henke gained his 13th save after allowing Alan Trammell's two-run homer which lifted the Tigers within a run. “I don't like going to (the bullpen) that many times, but if we're going for a win, I'm going to do it,” said Williams, whose team leads the major leagues with a 3.46 ERA. The Blue Jays maintained their four percentage-points lead over the New York Yankees in the AL East. “We'd like to keep it going. We want to stay on top,” said Toronto's Willie Upshaw, whose fourth-inning grand slam gave the Blue Jays a 4-0 lead. Toronto led 8-1 after Fred McGriff's tworun homer in the fourth and George Bell's major-league leading 24th homer in the seventh. The Tigers used the long ball to make it close, gaining a two-run homer from Darrell Evans in the eighth and ‘Trammell's blast on Henke's first pitch of the ninth. Upshaw hit an 0-2 pitch from Detroit starter Jeff Robinson, 4-4, into the “upper deck in right field for career grand slam. He hit a high fastball. “| was surprised to see the pitch there — I thought he'd waste one,” Upshaw said. “I figured he'd throw another slider. “Then he got up with a fastball and that was it.” Robinson got the first two outs of the inning before walking Jesse Barfield and Ernie Whitt and allowing a single by Bell. Upshaw followed with his ninth homer, tying his 1986 total. McGriff's sixth homer put Toronto ahead 6-0 and Bell's solo shot later made it 8-1. The Tigers got within 83 in the seventh on Lou Whitaker's RBI double off Stieb and Kirk Gibson's single off reliever Gary LaVelle. Evans's homer, his 12th, came against Mark Eichhorn with none out in the eighth. Stieb allowed six hits over 62-3 innings for the victory. Robinson went 42-3 innings before giving way to Mike Henneman. Montreal dumps Pittsburgh 8-2 PITTSBURGH: (AP) — Montreal Expos’ general manager Murray Cook does not have time these days to apologize for trading away star re- liever Jeff Reardon to the Minnesota Twins. He’s too busy getting congratulated for obtaining right-hander Neal Hea ton, the National League's surprise pitcher of 1987. Heaton, who had a 39-56 major league record until this season, im proved to 10-3 by checking Pittsburgh ona run and five hits over five innings in the Expos’ 8-2 victory Tuesday night over the Pirates. The same Expos’ fans who could not believe it last February when Cook traded away one of baseball's best re lievers for a pitcher who was 7-15 in 1986 now can't believe the way Heaton is pitching. “Tve always thought I was a pretty good pitcher,” said Heaton, who left the game with a sprained right knee. “It’s a nice feeling knowing that all of a sudden you're having an all-star sea- son.” Heaton, who.is tied for the NL lead in victories with Rick Sutcliffe of the Chicago Cubs, was 12-15, 9-17 and 7-15 the last three seasons. He split last season between the Cleveland Indians, the team that brought him to the major league in 1982, and the Twins. Montreal manager Buck Ridgers said Heaton’s tender right knee may force him to miss his scheduled start this weekend against the St. Louis Car- dinals. Reid Nichols and Mike Fitzgerald homered during a three-run Montreal second inning as the Expos improved to 3-1 during their current three-game road trip. Both homers came off Pir- ates’ starter Bob Kipper, 4-6, who has allowed 17 homers in 74 innings. Tim Wallach doubled before Nichols hit a tworun homer, and Fitzgerald, batting .215 at the time, followed an out later with a solo homer. Fitzgerald also had an RBI single in the Expos’ two-run eighth inning. It was the bottom of the Expos’ line up that most hurt the Pirates. Nichols and Fitzgerald each drove in two runs. ootball to an end Unlike Saskatchewan, where the Roughriders recently conducted a successful ticket drive, fan support in Montreal showed no signs of improvement this year. The club had not announced its season ticket sales for 1987, but it was not close to the 28,000 average it needed to meet the CFL's new $3.6-million gate revenue target. Defensive end Brett (The Toaster) Williams said late Tuesday that the players had pieced together the bad news themselves after being told they were not going to Toronto and that they were to meet this morning instead at Olympic Stadium. “From sources, we accumulated the information that our team was in the process of folding,” Williams said. “It was really, really totally out of the blue. “We thought that things were really going well and we were really excited about the way things were going for the season.” NOT SURPRISED Winnipeg general manager Cal Murphy reacted to the news by saying: “It's not a complete surprise as far as we're concerned. “It was something that we hoped wouldn't have taken place but with the number of season tickets they sold, it just wasn’t really enough to warrant starting the season.” Montreal nas had a professional football franchise for more than a century, long before the CFL was born, and the Alouettes were once one of the proudest teams in the league. In recent years, however, football in Montreal has fallen on hard times. Kimball and Hole were committed to halting the slide, on and off the field, since 1981 when the Alouettes, under the ownership of Skalbania, slumped to a 3-13 record. The team, which was to resurface briefly as the Montreal Concordes before returning to the old Alouettes moniker, first was rescued by Bronfman and Imasco in 1982. Bronfman and Imasco were actually awarded a new franchise at that time .after Skalbania voluntarily surrendered the bankrupt Alouettes. The new team assumed the contracts of most of the Montreal players and operated as the Concordes until last season, when it switched back to the original name. From 1981 to 1986, Montreal's record on the field was a dismal 2668-2 and the franchise suffered substantial financial losses. LOST MILLIONS The Alouettes lost a reported $4 million last season when the team went 4-14 and finished third in the Eastern Division. The Montreal franchise last won the Grey Cup in 1977 when it beat Edmonton 41-6. The Als were the dominant team in the East during the 1970s, when they appeared in six Grey Cups. . While football foundered in the ‘80s, the city once enjoyed an illustrious connection with the sport. The first acount of a game of rugby football played in Canada was in 1865 in Montreal. The Montreal football club was established three years later. In 1874, the rules of a hybrid game of English rugby. devised at Montreal's McGill University, was first used in the United States in a game between McGill and Harvard, spawning both U.S. and Canadian football Over the years, many of the CFL's greatest players performed in Montreal uniforms — stars like quarterback Sam Etcheverry and receivers Hal Patterson and Red O'Quinn. In the "70s and early ‘80s, the Alouettes recruited top U.S. players, both from the college and professional ranks speedster Johnny Rodgers, quarterback Vince Ferragamo and receiver Fred Biletnikoff. But the fans didn't respond and, like Ferragamo and Biletnikoff, many simply left for good.