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April 9, 1989

SPORTS

Doug Coulson (left), Castlegar Minor Hockey
the Dr. Marvin Roy award for outstanding contribution to
minor hockey in Castlegar to John Loo at the minor hockey association's annual awards
dinner last week. Loo picked up the award for the fourth consecutive year.

jeague president, presents t

and inter-city

Taiwan added to
baseball tourney

Organizers of the Grand Forks
Credit Union International Labor Day
Baseball Tournament have announced
that Taiwan, National
Baseball Institute and the Coral
Springs Red Sox from Florida have
been added to the 1989 tournament
registry
Canada’s
baseball

showcase a 12-team roster with this

Canada’s

largest invitational

tournament will again
year’s 25-game parcel scheduled for

Aug. 30 through Sept. 4

The RSEA baseball team from the
Republic of China will be making its
initial visit to Grand Forks this year
The RSEA team is Taiwan's defending
national club team champions and the

team’s participation further magnifies
the international flavor of the Grand
Forks event, organizers say

The National Baseball Institute,
formed to be the framework off Which
Canada’s future national teams vould
be constructed, will be returning
following a year’s hiatus. Canada’s
best baseball athletes are the key
ingredients in this collegiate lineup,
organizers say

The Coral Springs Red Sox are a
skilled ball club from
Florida, This‘competitive and talent
rich Fidrida entry is expected to have
its line-up dotted with several players

southern

with major league experience

The Japanese Amateur Baseball

Association has also confirmed par
ticipation for the ‘third consecutive
year. Japan's representative in the
Labor Day holiday event this summer
will be this year’s national club team
champions, to be determined in early
August

The tournament will also be heavily
sprinkled with the finest northwest
collegiate talent, including perennial
NAIA World Series champions,
Lewis-Clark State Warriors, the highly
ranked NCAA Washington State
Cougars and another Pac-10 Northern
Division tenant, the Gonzaga Bulldogs
from Spokane.

Completing the Grand Forks 1
team package will be a cross-section of
semi-pro teams from coast to.coast

NHL board of governors
to discuss expansion

1ORONTO (CP) — NHL president
John- Ziegler has_made his firmest
commitment about expansion, saying
a report recommending possible sites
and_when_it_ should happen will be
presented to the league's board of
governors in December -
will be

‘The various alternatives

before the board,’ Ziegler told repor
ters after an address
Club. “Whether

more work or Whether they will then

to the Empire

the board will want

make a decision is hard to predict right
now.”’

The committee of league governors

rt won't

recommend specific cities, “but they

probably will narrow it down and

preparing the expansion rep

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describe cities in what they have to of
ferand then it will be up to the board to
say how they will go about the
process

The governors then will decide the
terms of expansion and whether any of
the -possible sites meets the
requirements.

If expansion is approved, ‘‘then
there will be the process by which cities
apply or people will apply

There has been talk of a rival league
forming if the NHL drags its feet on
expansion. Hamilton is anxious for a
Milwaukee and other
American cities

WANTS TEAM
The Compuware organization in

team, as is

Detroit, for one, is interested in
acquiring either an expansion
chise or buying an existing team
Failing that, former NHL goalie Jim
Rutherford, Compuware’s director of
hockey operations, has said th
puter-software company is keen on
helping to start up arival league

“Yes, there will be expansion.
Ziegler said. ‘*We have to avoid the
mistakes we did in the past. We want to
make sure when we expand, itis part of
our business plan."

Earlier, Ziegler painted a rosy pic
ture of the NHL. Attendance and

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profits are up, there is peace with the
players’ union and the international
market needs to be tapped, he said.
“The international area is the arena
where we will see the National Hockey
League making new steps, bigger steps
and a great deal of growth,”
Most growth will come out of the
The second will be in

he said

broadcast area
obr marketing.”

\For the first time, two NHL teams,
the Washington Capitals and Calgary
Flames, will hold part of their training
camps in the Soviet Union in Septem
ber. The teams are scheduled to play
exhibition games in Moscow and
Leningrad and Ziegler said an
agreement was reached with Soviet of
ficials last week to include Kiev and
Rigaon the tour

Ina later ifiterview, Ziegler also said
the NHL
from adding players from
ad Czechoslovakia to their

will move to restrict clubs
the Soviet
Union 2
rosters late in the season

The Calgary Flames were allowed to
add Sergei Priakin
because ‘the NHL doesn’t

Soviets as professionals

to its roster last
week
recognize
Clubs are not allowed to bolster their
ranks before the playoffs with players
under-contract’ to” European teams
because they are considered pros.

Riding
playoffs
slated

A late spring will not hamper this
year’s hopefuls as a strong contingent
of horsemen from Zone | compete for
a berth on this year’s B.C. Summer
Games team

Entrants residing in Zone 1 (Grand
Forks to Invermere) who are interested
in trying out for a position on the Zone
1 team must compete in the Zone 1
playoffs slated fordune 10 in Nelson

Entry deadline is June S

Contact your recreation center, or
your local riding club for further in
formation.

occer association

A coaches’ meeting for the Castlegar
and District Minor Soccer Association
Was held April S at the Complex

The coaches divided up the t
preparation for the upcoming s
which starts April 17, The season has
been delayed one week because of poor
field cond!

Players and parents will be
telephoned by the coaches prior to
April 17 to explain field location ‘and
days and times of games.

ons due to the weather

If players and parents have not been
phoned by April 15, they should call
one of the association executives.

They are president Mike Jenson,
vice-president Pete Redekop, treasurer
Dale —Nietsen, Richard
Young, equipment manager Jim Rysen

d tournament chairman John Man:
sbridge

The following is thé field schedule
six-year-olds Castlegar Primary,
seven- and eight-year-olds — Kinnaird:
Junior secondary school and Twin
Rivers elementary school, nine- apd

secfetary

ears up for season

10-year-olds — Stanley Huniphries
Secondary school, M=and 12-year-olds
Kiwanis field next to the Complex,
and 13- and 14-year-olds — Kiwanis
field,
The association —_— reported
registrations are down to.180 this year

from 210 in 1988. but more

registrations are expected to come in
before the start of the season, Players
will be allowed to register starting night
April 17 and late registrations will also
beaccepted. The cost is $20 per child or
$30 per family

A tournament in Castlegar is being
scheduled for thé end of May.

By The Canadian Press
Imagine this: It’s a balmy 33 €
and Canadians are anxious for the
Olympic gold medal hockey game
because for the first time Canada’s
best will skate against the top
players from the Soviet Union
What's this? Hockey at the
Summer Games?

Ziegler wants
players to sweat

Well, it’s the only way NHL
president John Ziegler can see
Canada’s top hockey players com
peting in the Olympics.

“We have
Olympic authorities that they
make hockey. @-summer sport,”’
“There is no reasorf

suggested to the

says Ziegler
for it to bea winter sport other than
tradition,”

Boggs won't

BO§TON(AP)-— Acspokesman for
the majority owner of the Boston Red
Sox said the baseball club places ‘ta
very high value’? on Wade Boggs and is
‘not going to give away” the five-time
American League batting champion.

We have not been soliciting people
to trade Wade Boggs,’’ John
Harrington, president of JRY Corp,
said

“We would not trade him unless we
got full value in return.””

Harrington
made by general manager Lou Gor
‘mah during spring training in Florida
that the Red Sox would not dump"
or ‘give away’’ Boggs. He said that
has been made clear to teams that have

repeated comments

inquired about Boggs
In a telephone interview with a local

newspaper, Harrington was quord as
saying: ‘*We've resigned. ourselves to
the fact that he’s probably going to be
on our team and we're happy about
that

Hafrington said that he, Gorman,
co-qwner Haywood Sullivan and
probably manager Joe Morgan would
“talk with other’’ about
problems resulting from Boggs’s
recently publicized four-year—affair
with Margo Adams

He'said that all had talked with
Boggs during training in Florida ‘and
would be

each

now these follow-up
discussions to determine how we might
face any particular problems."’
Adams’ s alleged details of her affair
with Boggs were publicized’in Pen:
thouse magazine in February. Several

cheap

of Boggs’s teammates were angry, but
Sullivan, Morgan and Gorman helped
cool things in meetings, with the
players

Then the Red Sox switched flight
plans in Florida Sunday evening after a
bomb| threat to blow up Boggs and
their plane. Players, who had not been
told of the anonymous phone threat,
were angry when they didn’t arrive in
Baltimore until early Monday, just a
few hours before they were due at the
park for the 1989 American League
‘opener with the Orioles

When the team boarded a charter
flight for Kansas City early Friday, two
search dogs at Baltimore-Washington
Airport reportedly sniffed baggage for
any explosives,

The Associated Press

Stat strikes out

Hernandez holds the all-time record, and always

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Something is gone forever from baseball

The game winning run batted in — that maligned
statistic known as the GWRBI — has vanished without a
(race. Eliminated from the boxscore, erased from the
record books. No tears, and mostly sneers. The poor lit
tle thing never found a home and now it’s dead, buried
without a funeral

Goodbye, GWRBI

“It's gone?”"| asked Oakland Athletics slugger
Mark McGwire.

“That's too bad.””

McGwire, like many, didn’t even know the GWR
BI had disappeared. Men in suits decided to kill it this
season and wrote it out of existance

Good. It was an absolutely ridiculous statistic,”
said Mike’ Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies. ‘‘!
believe in the potential of the stat, but not the way it
was.””
Truth be told, no one really like it. Most folks thought

the GWRBI wascheap and tainted

“I think everyone felt it was something that never
said Bill Murray, chairman of
The group made it,

quite hit the mark,
baseball's playing rules committee
official over the winter, without fanfare
Established in 1980, the GWRBI went
player who drove in the run that put his team ahead for
good. That might be a grand slam in the bottom of the
ninth inning for a 10-9 victory or a weak grounder in the

to the

top of the first ina 13-0 blowout

“It could have been a better stat, miaybe for
something from the seventh inning on,”’ Keith Hernan
dez of the New York Mets said

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will, with 129 GWRBIs. He set the single-season mark
with 24 in 1985 with the New York Mets

“If you win 10-0, you shouldn’t have one,"’ he
said. “You,hit a sacrifice fy in the first inning, there's
not that kind of pressure early in the game."

Maybe the GWRBI didn’t present an accurate pic-
ture: Butthe best hitters always seemed to get them

Look at the top five in each league last season: Mike
Greenwell with 23, McGwire, Geroge Bell, Jose Can
seco and Jack Clark in the American League; Eric Davis
with 21, Kevin McReynolds, Andres Galarraga, Andy
Van Slyke and Darryl Strawberry in the National
League

SOME LIKEDIT

McGwire, with 20 GWRBISs last season, said he like
it, sortof

“*There should be one,
be treated like a save. It could start in the seventh inning
and be used in games decided by three runs or less.”

Schmidt had another idea

“*Maybe you could call it the pressure RBI,’ he

he said. **Maybe it could

said. ‘It puts his team ahead after the seventh inning
I'd like to lead the league in that category

“As it is now, it goes to the guy who bats third on
the best team with the best pitching. Keith Hernandez,””

Whatever, it will be along time before any GWRBI
reappears. Baseball doesn’t like to tamper with stats,
especially bad ones

“There are no plans now to revive it or modify it,”
said Murray of the commissioner's office. “Maybe if
someone would come forward with a propdsal, the
scoring rules committee might consider it.”

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By INA WARREN
The Canadian Press
It was a record year at the movie box
office in 1988 and the Hollywood
dream factory, counting again on its
stable of male stars, is hoping. this
year’s take will be even better
The five top-grossing movies of 1988
starred some cool comic dudes named
Roget Rabbit (Who Framed Roger
Rabbit), Eddie Murphy (Coming to
America), Robin Williams (Good
Morning, Vietnam), Paul Hogan
(Crocodile Dundee Il) and Tom
Selleck (Three Men and A Baby)

It’s a little early for the studios to
release their complete product Iihe for
1989, but it looks as if it’s going to be a
fairly mundane ctop.

There will be sequels and comedies
galore, a trend to special-effects un
derwater movies (Leviathan, The
Abyss and Deep Star Six, which has
already been and gone) but not much
for the thinking ian, and even less for
the thinking woman

In what sounds like a sequel to the
Touchstone Pictures film Cocktail, in
which Tom Cruise shook things up as a
bartender, MGM-UA’s Road House
stars heart-throb Patrick Swayze
flexing his stuff as.a bouncer named
Dalton

“He's been shot at, stabbed, and has
broken most of the bones in his body,”
boasts the publicity material.

Things are also tough Tor Selleck in
Hard Rain, a Touchstone drama about
an innocent man who is framed, sent to
prison, gets out and tries to see justice
done

The indestructible James Bond is
back this summer in his 16th movie,
Licence to Kill. With suave Timothy
Dalton as Bond, the movie has agent
007 taking on “‘a ruthless,
Latin American drug lord.” Now
there’s a twist

Universal will present The Return of

vicious

the Musketeers, providing work and
plumed hats once agaifi for Michael
York, Richard Chambérlain, Frank
Finlay and Oliver Reed.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Novelist E. L
long has been identified with New York state.

For 20 years he has lived in a Vintage 1906 New
Rochelle house that inspired his best-seller and the film
Ragtime. But with his three children all grown, he and
his wife Helen think a change of scenery might be in or
der

Doctorow

“New York does mean a lot to me but we've been
ialking about living out West or in Europe,”
torow, who was recently awarded the New York Writers
Institute Edith Wharton Citation of Merit

said Doc.

Wherever the writer may settle, his novels will be
remembered for their evocation look at New York in the
first half of the 20th century. Open up one of Doc-
torow’s books and Harry Houdini may come to visit;
Emma Goldman might offer advice on love; Admiral
Peary may invite readers along on a.trip to the North
Pole

Look up-and see the mighty Hindenburg zeppelin
float by. Hop on the subway and discover the Town of
Tomorrow at the World’s Fair. Sneak on a train and
discover America

But be careful, bad things are everywhere: ruthless
business tycoons; pale-faced thugs; anti-Semitic punks;
and legendary. gangsters such as Dutch Schultz, who

Novelist may
leave New York

loomed large in the Bronx of the 1930s

At that time in the °30s the Bronx was a world of
sweet potato vendors, junk hustlers and ‘capable
like Billy Bathgate, the narrator and adventurer
of Doctorow’s latest novel, Billy Bathgate

“I think Billy isa rhapsodist,”’ the author said in an
interview. “He has enormous zest and the ability to be,
thrilled. Billy really takes the world in. He embraces it
all, No matter how ugly, hideous or bizarre.”*

Doctorow, a ffative of the Bronx himself, returns in
Billy Bathgate to his childhood setting, the backdrop for
earlier works including Loon Lake, and Werld’s Fair

Billy Bathgate, the author's “‘alter ego," lives with
his unstable and lonely mother and dreams of meeting
Schultz, who made a cameo appearance in World’s
Fair

One day Schultz’s Packard pulls up in front of a
local warehouse and Billy has his chance. He impresses
the gangster with his juggling act that involves two rub-
ber balls, an orange, an egg and a black stone. The per-
formance is greeted with applause and a crisp. $10 bill
from a laughing Schultz

The resourceful Bathgate eases hiniself into the
gangster’s entourage, winning the confidence of Ab-
badabba Berman,

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buff says they really object to paying
for commercials.

aB0ss Douglas says that’s the reason
fe is-circulating-petitions—aimed~at
stopping the Cineplex Odeon practice
of showing commercials before films.

Douglas said move-goers resent
paying $6.50 or $7 to see a movie, then
having their lesiure time interrupted
with commercials

“They're what we see on TV —
blown up for the big screen.”*

He said Cineplex is the only theatre
hows the commercials,
which advertisers pay to have

chain that
mt we screened.

Since Cineplex Odeon’ started
commercials about 18
months ago. ticket prices have gone up
three times, he said

Cineplex uckets cost about the same
as those at other theatres.

Douglas also said- the commercials,
known as trailers, are
squeezing out the Canadian animated
short films

showing the

corporate

Canadian animated shorts, like The
Cai Came Back, which won seven in-
ternational awards and was nominated
for a1989-Academy would
cost a theatre $10 to $50 a week, he

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