B2 CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 14, 1962: 3 —Sports- appear here Champ to Tracey Wainman, 1981: Canadian figure skating champion to perform here. Bristol track tougher : BRISTOL, TENN. (AP)— a morning rain Saturday races on this track. sieal toll on stock car diivens: at... Not only that, but he’s also the way’Bristol International Junior, Johnson on his: “I think it (the layoff: ‘will ate. : Johnson, who ed: Spokane, Re-elected -for tis orld, ‘among them the Can- i ies adian' Championships | since .’:, ‘The Le; will com- 978. In 1980: she, came. in pliment a roster which. al- second at'the competition in ready "includes. the ‘Trail jt. Ivel, England and in 1981 Crown Point Orioles, Beaver she placed first in.both Skate Valley: Blazers,.. Chewelah Ganae and: i the Canadian’ Lumberjacks, Grand ‘Forks ee lonships and : was.‘ edd Canada's fernalo Slag Dusters, Kaslo Kats and 3 ‘ete of ‘the : ear. + dust. _Wainman is well known for. ' The KISBL, asa seguik ‘of h and. ‘the uneven number in mem- er. ‘shore personality’ bership, has adopted an in- which ‘sh easily hedul + elected to the vice-president | ‘ Brian Pipes from Trail, while _ficially approved’ his release, th: the: Republic Gold ‘a Saw Pr ~KISBL ; increases : from Kettle. Falls, Wa., was Setanery of Dixie iti tl - Tuesday noon position vacated by the Feale or ive oy tings can be: li Sosa ot Dante ee ee Castlegar News by Friday noon submit notices to Ea Wer nesday. contact % nation of Frank 5 third‘ year to the vice-presi. dent. poaition ‘as: well, was | HOCKEY — » CASTELGAR Larry Seminoff ‘from Grand Hut, 12:30 Forks, ‘was rejected KISBL President for the sixth gon: secutive year... > Also, ' the -'status: of “the league's" 1981, all-star short- , arena. spring iy 4 ts vs, Badd Manor Pub, 8: Kats, to. whom Lafreniere's Wei playing. rights. belonged, of- thus allowing’ the 18-year-old unday CORMERCIAL LEAGUEY Williams Moving & Storage vs. .m., arena complex. “LEAGUE: Cohoe vs, Goose Creek, 4:15 p.m arena? Kalesnikoff vs. Maloney, 6:15 p. Monda HOCKEY — GENTLEMEN'S 5 LEAGUE: Trans- x a, Crescent Valley, 9:30 Bem; old arena. ‘ jesday “HOCKEY — COMMERCIAL LEAGUE: Mountain Sper. 5, new arena, dnesday HOCKEY — GENTLEMEN'S LEAGUE: Cohoe vs, Maloney; 9:30 p.m., old arena, NHL: Vancouver va. » Washington, 4: 30 p.m, channel 13. : Gk Mountain’ Sports GENTLEMEN'S || lew. stand-outto. play: for the Beaver : Valley Blazérs this’ season,:, The; Blazers“ had gambled in the January Free! Babe «. Ruth 18-game. & Programs, ‘per team for the 1682 cam- Along with Walamss, focal paign. The schedule is ex: figure, skaters: Will be. Inte: pected to be. released. in ences ‘from i ‘for post season play with first ‘meeting ‘fourth facing third in by, hopeful that his: playing J Q& right Derek Trussler + failed to decide on this years and. second Player : Det by. selecting i their first choice int ‘thie ‘free agent der-° f its would be relinquished by Kaslo.\: : The KISBL, ° meanwhile, host for the Casey Stengel. Baseball Champion:' best of three semi-final play- ‘off series, The. successful semi-finalists will then battle forthe KISBL crown ina best-of-five championship ~ playoff. - Meanwhile, Tim Pratt - By IAN MacLAINE FREDERICTON (CP) — “Mert -Thompsett: isn't en- thralled by.the format for the world’ junior ‘men's - curling championship, but agrees ite probably the best one under | existing’ conditions. - ‘Thompsett: and his .Winni- foolipatiahis Saint ‘John, — Bill Koch and:-Dan Simon- N.B,, a year ago after an ex- - eau gave the United States a citing victory in the Canadian sensational. ‘one-two. finish junior men’s final. But there's Saturday - in ‘a?.men’s | 80-. beena d lull in their ‘World: Cup ‘cross _ activity since. sera tart ski race at.the’ Swe ‘Theyive bad:.tqowalt for Nor more than a year for the.1982 championship that’ be-. world:cbem : anevee 8 1: One-two finish | for U.S. at Nordics FALUN, SWEDEN, {AP)..; NS seria ob at the Raceway does. Darrell Waltrip, who -has had the kind of success on this high-banked .583-mile asphalt track in the hills a affect, all of us.out there,” Waltrip said. “We haven't had a really tough race yet , this year. “Usually, ‘we've run at other drivers just Pasa about, expects the Valleydale 500 Grand National race, to- May to be even tougher than usual. For one thing,” the trav- elling Grand National circuit has been involved in a losing war with the weather. Since sthe season-opening’ Daytona 500 on Feb. 14, they managed ‘to get in 250 laps of a sched- uled, 400-lap’ race: at Rich- mond, Va. Then the Carolina 600 at North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, N.C., was delayed twice by rain. ‘The Grand National ‘troops got in their scheduled prac- Rocki and Atlanta by now. But this year we've had the rain at“ Rockingham and Atlanta is after ° Bristol (March 21), This place _is. tough. I can see alot of driver fatigue Sunday- with ‘the schedule we've had. Some guys might not be around all day. — maybe I won't be.” The odds are, though, that Waltrip not only will around at the end of the gruelling 600-lap race, but he's also likely to be running « for the ‘victory. He ‘has his- tory on his side. :- Waltrip, who picked up his third: straight Bristol “pole , Position Friday, won both races here last year and has be short and has “the high: entry to the stock’ car dri- . gins today’ with: round-robin vers’ Hall of Fame with: his action’ that will continue driving skills, now heads up through Thursday... - ‘ one of. the premier ‘Grand Curlers will face two draws National teams, each ‘day, afternoon’ and Cars that be owns and pre-. evening, except Wednesday pares ‘have won three - when ‘the rinks from 10 coun- straight races here and 12 of tries will compete ina single the last-21'—‘nine by Cale ‘afternoon draw. Yarborough and one by Bob-. The top four teams at the «by Allison.” Waltrip. ‘simply: end of round-robin play ad- carried on the Santination in vance-to the semifinals Fri- 1981. day night, with the two win- “This place is ‘a little’ ners meeting Saturday after- different than most of the noon for the ‘Uniroyal Tro- places we run because it’s so phy.” It's: been ‘difficult for banks,” Waltrip, the befend- Thompsett’s: rink to maintain ing NASCAR Winston Cup” es go ange champion, said. “I've had a. months. “The best curling heck of a lot of experience on comes in cashspiels, How- tracks like this, though, and ever, when entry fees run Washin, Capitals’ have. i milli that gives: me a bit of an $500 and up a team, even the macnn aly about $2,000: lars, but T just kick: piss edge. “two or three events the four- “Boaides, it’s a real chal- some did enter wasadrainon more than Colorado this sca- ‘felt that once, the team lenge‘and the more challeng-' their limited resources. clocked ‘in © 1:29:27. “Third place went’ to’ -80-kilometre world’ champion ‘Thomas Wassberg: of Sweden ‘in 1:80:26. Pierre. Harvey of Beaupre, ee was a surprising sixth it 1:31:87. The only other Canadian in the race, Andre Tourigney of St." Leonard, Que,, was 48rd in 1:89:69, Heavy losses for Washington. Caps WASHINGTON. (AP). — per game in’ gross’ receipts ships to be ‘staged in iste August. Enderby has join $ Trai): and: Chewelah. in pe By CasNews Staif questing the KISBL consider: . Rossland: skier Derek their interest in hosting an Trussler emerged the overall SCABA finals. That decision. winner of this year's Fleis-. will be announced April 19, chmann Cup after finals held g q : Tuesday and Wednesday at Red Mountain. ‘Wendy Morrison of Van- couver was named the wom- en's champion. The two will ski in the NORAM races at Panorama if near Invermere this week. It was the first U.S. World As well, they will take part in Cup double and the best per- 9 ‘national team training ses- formance ever'by ‘Simoneau . Sion this summer in New in'a major’ race.’Koch had Zealand, won two previous World Cup _ In the Fleischmann finals, races this season and was a Trussler. was fifth in the “surprising ‘third in’ the '15- ‘giant ‘slalom and _ slalom recent : Faces, but his overall point ‘World Chai O8- ‘gave him the-over- lo, ‘Norivaiys {suits 30 varay sii ital titles oH The top six: skiers‘in' the ‘World Cup standings entered the race. But the: Soviet Union didn’t enter any skiers after its dismal O'Brien, a ie. oath Championships Britain-in 2:06.63. ashes 7 ; Jacques Audet of Quebec ‘Tor Holte’ of Norway fin:’ was third:in 2:07.70, ‘Trus- ished fourth in 1:31:08 and sles timé was 2:09.29. Harri Kirvesniemi of Finland .'\ Glew Dorey of Salmo was wwag fifth in 1:91:21. ' eighth in 2:12.59. Chris Me- Iver of Rossland was ninth in 2:18.04, Ken Stevens, also of Rossland, 15th in 2:14.66. In the women's giant ‘sla- Jom, Pollie Lumby of Alberta was first in 1:41.63, Josee Lacasse'of Quebec second in 1:41.77, 'and Wendy Lumby, Alta., third in 1:41.85, Karen Lee of Rossland was ninth in 1:44.54, Cheryl Ak- royd. of "Warfield, 28rd_ in 1:47.96, Donna Markin, Nel- any The boys’. giant slalom esday was won by Ian White of North Bay, Ont. in two minutes, 5.04 seconds. Second) was Connor ig Great “We have had considerable and keep going. I've always FAMILY PACK MEALS. — NOW AVAILABLE AT BOTH LOCATIONS . Phone For More Details 365-5304 overall: S353 or winner. son, Tammy Johnston, Rossland, 80th in 1:60.04, White was first in the men's slalom race held Wed- nesday. His time was 1:65.21. Sam Nella of Quebec’ was ‘second in 1:57.34. O'Brien of Great Britain was ‘third in 1:57.69, Melver of Rossland was fourth in 1:58.30. Trussler, fifth, had a time of 1:59.03. Shaun Trussler was 13th in 2:08.63. ‘Ross of Castlegar was 18th in 2:05.27, Stevens 17th in 2:08.87, Woodward 18th’ in 2:06.68, David Buckley of . Trail 2ist in 2:09.01, and Peter Bosinger 28rd in: p23 § by |: an Pollie Lumby .was first in 1:49.99, Jennifer Huyche of. Ontario, second: in 1:61.10, - Wendy. Lumby third’ in 1:52.78 and Akroyd of War- field ninth in'2:00.25,° >: Selkirk College Saints | women's. volleyball team defeated three Totem Con- | ference teams Saturday at Vancouver in round robin play to advance to: today’s semi-finals, The feam beat College of, New Caledonia’ (Prince George), Vancouver Com- munity College (VCC) and Okanagan College to Place them in first place in round robin play. The team plays CNC today and the winner will advance tothe champ- ionships at 3 p.m. | data errata ts vit CASTLEGAR NEWS, March 14, 1982 26th in 1:48.70" and eat OOS Dhan In the women's’ slalom; ’ A Event winners, from left, nr Prokop, skip, Judie Roberts: third, clot, Srundy second, and Joan McDonald, | Ho, hum to big fight By WILL GRIMSLEY - The Asscociated Press So the big heavyweight boxing title fight between Larry _Holmes and Gerry Cooney has been placed on the back burner until June UL ss One, two, three — let's all inhale deéply and emit a Mammoth yawn. In mid-June, major-league baseball will be in full swing, Jack Nicklaus and his»par::: busting’: golf, pals “will be sharpening their blades for. the. U.S. Open the following week in Pebble Beach, Calif., and John..McEnroe, Bjorn Borg :and: others will be headed for the French and young, fragile giant from “Long Island, ‘N.Y., who has seen less than six rounds of action in 80 months, and an aging champion who was forced too long to live in the shadow. of the Muhammad Ali. - ‘There's a question of how good either of them is now. and who will be the least jaded when the bell rings in Las Vegas. Cooney i isan bulk Young, Ron Lyle and Ken Norton. Holmes, 82, is a sad case. For the last six or seven years, he has been probably the best heavyweight fighter in the world, a virtual mon- entity you wouldn't recognize. if you bumped into him. - WAIT IN WINGS A former sparring partner . of’ Ali, he had to wait in the wings while Ali, Joe Frazier of a man — 25 years‘old,: €-foot-6, .225 > pounds — yet one, whose arms are too heavy: for his chassis. He can fell a mule with a hook that moves only, seven inches but, in uncorking such W tennis. ships. ‘Meanwhile, the: entire globe will be all agog over the- World Cup, the centrepiece of the most: universal of all sports — soccer — st its long grind two days later in Spain. | Bere Although ‘matching two unbeaten gladiators, this is not the kind of battle that - will have pulses pounding and flares streaking through the skies. It’s a. matchup between a blows, ‘he ‘is! in- “¢lined to pull loose ‘shoulder muscles that hold it all ‘to- gether. This is what forced postponement of the March 16