A6 Castlegar News Hunters to get notice of limited draw Limited Entry Hunting authorizations have been mailed to all hunters whose applica- tions were selected in the ran- dom draw held in Victoria on June 25, a news release from the Ministry of Environment said. Hunters whose applications were not drawn or were received too late to be entered in the draw are also being notified. Applicants who have not received notice by July 15 are invited to contact the ministry’s regional:officé or the Govern- ment Agent’s office in Nelson for more information, the release said. The limited entry system is used to control the number of people hunting in relation to the area, the time period and the type of animal. The system also puts limits on the age, sex and the total number of animals hunters may harvest, the release said. The ministry designated 683 limited entry hunts across the province this season, involving nine species of game animals in 56 areas, A total of 126,049 applications, which is “slightly higher” than the number received in 1990, were submit- ted for the 34,416 available authorizations. Applicants receiving autho- rizations to hunt were randomly selected with the aid of a com- puter, the release said. A licence officer with B.C. Environment’s wildlife branch and a consultant officated at the draw. “The odds on drawing an authorization depend entirely on the number of applications received for a particular hunt, relative to the number of autho- rizations available,” the release said. “For example, the odds on getting one of the authorizations to hunt elk in the Princeton area in the Okanagan region were one-in-52, and the hunt for Cali- fornia bighorn sheep from the easily accessible Chilcotin Junc- tion herd, carried odds of one-in- 318.” More typically, the release said, the 10,695 applications received for 3,175 authorizations for white-tailed deer in the Kootenays gave each applicant one chance in 3.4 of receiving an authorization. And, a few hunts located in areas that are remote or difficult to access were actually under- subscribed. For example, 42 authorizations to hunt mountain goat in the Skeena Region went unassigned. The total number of autho- rizations available for each species were as follows (the number of applications received for each species are in parenthe- ses): Grizzly Bear —.72 (901); Caribou- 180 (1,236); Mule Deer — 8,036 (20,522); White- tailed Deer - 4,300 (15,322); Elk — 9,766 (31,357); Mountain Goat — 2,626 (8,662); Mountain Sheep -768 (6,619); Moose — 8,488 (39,900); Wild Turkey — 180 (1,530). Random gas price unexplained By CasNews Staff Castlegar motorists shouldn’t hold their breath for local gas Prices to come down to 49.9 cents as they did this week in Trail, a representative from Shell Canada said Friday. Castlegar prices were still hovering above the 52-cent mark on Friday. 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Reg. 7.99 Dia; Liners Grew shower gift ‘deal Reg 11.89 HEREFORD Cornéd beet is the lunch or dinner treat! 340 g Castlégar News SPORTS For the best there's no place like ———— SATURDAY STAR GRAEME REDEKOP The Castlegar Aqua- nauts 10-year-old ‘swim- mer set a pool record of 1:04.04 in the 80-metre freestyle on his way to the pic medal in divisior 2 joys at the Robson River Otters swim meet June 29. FASTBALL The Castlegar Mer- chants, Banjo’s Pub and this weekend to try nd pick up some loot in a teak prize tournament. TENNIS Dog days of July for fastballers By CasNews Staff Call it a pit stop for Banjos’s Pub in the Castlegar Men’s Fastball League. With two weeks to go in the regular season and first placed wrapped up, Banjo’s has shifted “The last few weeks we've been playing liké we've had it it’s high p hine into neutral, apparently willing to glide into the playoffs. up,” said Banjo’s play- er/coach Terry Taranoff. “We haven't been intense. When it won ’t be playing in the S. Open which is set for Ym 26. GRAPEVINE Danny Mijovic, the Yugoslav-born Canadian because they criticized him for his poor golf perfor- mances, took the halfway lead in the Scottish Open from Spain’s Seve Ball les- teros. LOSERS The Mountie, a contro- versial World Wrestling Federation character, has m banish from perform- ing in Canada. The RCMP has reached an agreement with the federation to do away with the scarlet-cos- tumed character, who whacks opponents with a night stick. than most. Myhra and his teamm: tion for the B.C. Summer Games In Coquitiam which begin July 25. UH, THANKS A LOT A catcher's life can be a dusty one as Castlegar bantam boys fastball player Mike Myhra knows better were working out at Kinnaird Park Thursday night in prepara- CasNews photo by Ed Mills Players' crazy contracts keep owners protected NEW YORK (AP) - Roger Clemens can’t join a jai-alai game. Will Clark can’t crawl in caves. Wayne Gretzky can’t lift @ lacrosse stick. Jose Rijo can’t play polo. As sal. se, players’ Gor Castlegar golfer Bill Perehudoff took off for Vancouver Thursday for a couple of days vacation before hitting the soures at Shaughnessy Golf Club. NOTES B.C. natives gathered in front of the legislature ursday and w: would target the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Vietoria with protests unless the government moves on land claims. recreational options dwindle. Teams don’t want their high- priced property getting hurt. “The risk is so much greater,” said Lou Gorman, the Boston Red Sox general manager who stopped outfielder Mike Green- well from driving a race car. “When you guarantee that con- tract for two, three, four years, it’s a tremendous risk. “By putting in prohibitions, you're protecting him and the ballclub in the long run.” In baseball, no-nos are nego- tiated and specified in each guaranteed deal and go well beyond the prohibiti in the SATURDAY FEATURE Danny Frisella, then with the Milwaukee Brewers, was killed in a dune buggy accident on Jan. 1, 1977. Oakland third baseman Carney Lansford has missed the entire 1991 season because of a Dec. 31 snow-mobil- ing accident (an activity not pro- hibited in his guaranteed, $5.25 million, four-year contract). General managers admit they're cautious because of pre-_ vious accidents. Clark, the San Francisco Giants’ first baseman, is prohibited from 54 activities, including wood-chopping, ice- boating, (not popular in Clark’s hometown of New Orleans) and spelunking, the sport of cave exploration. uniform contract. Willie McGee, for instance, is banned from ju- jitsu, ka rafting. Rijo’s year contract would lose its guarantee if he is hurt hot-air ballooning or hang-gliding. “They put in, literally any- thing you can think of,” agent Doug Baldwin said. Thurman 4h the New “I sit at home at night.end wh wens te which always starts, quetbell and all the reat ot 1." Players’ agent Leigh Steinberg York Yankees catcher, was not banned from piloting his air- craft. It was the last “Al Rosen has been known to test the of point in the ‘four-year, $1,547,500 contract he signed before ih e 1978 apt 509 He died wreckage - airplane when it crashed Aug. wn. Accidents Homede in the Pitcher agents by flaggi: junking as one of the fisasing spel ited activi- ties in a guaranteed baseball contracts,” said Clark's agent, e! Rosen, Giants’ general about the spelunking ban. “A number of years ago, I read an article about three peo- ple who had gotten lost in the Luray caverns in Virginia,” Rosen said. “It just occured to me with all the free time ballplayers have, they might find that to be something they want to do.” Football contracts aren't as detailed. They merely say play- ers shall not “engage in any activity other than football which may involve significant risk or personal injury.” “What is significant risk?" asked a Leigh Steinberg. “Hang-gliding obviously may be one, but how about basket- doesn’t mean anything, it’s hard.” While some teams can count On paying for it if they’re heads aren't in the game, the defend- ing league and playoff champs have played .500 ball over the past two weeks and, even with less than inspired performances, have won their last two games over Labatts and Salmo. Banjo’s proved right off the start of the season what it can do when it does play inspired ball, winning 12 games straight and virtually clinching first place before anybody could do anything about it. : The league standings cur- rently read: Banjo’s at 17-3, then everybody else. As of Wednesday night, the Nelson Athletics and Labatts were tied for, second with records of 9-7 and 9-9 respec- tively, while the expansion Castlegar Merchants are in the pack at 8-11. Banjo’s antithesis in the league this year, Salmo Hotel, has been a team that can’t put a regular lineup together from week to week and has paid for it with a 3-16 record. The one saving grace for Salmo, and any other team in the league that wants a shot at Banjo’s, is that when you really come down to it, the league real- ly doesn’t mean anything. Every team will be represent- ed at Kinnaird Park when the playoffs begin July 27. And in a two-day, double knockout tour- nament, like all the players are so quick to say, anything can happen. With that in mind the ques- tion is, can Banjo’s put it back ing overdrive when they need to? Taranoff says yes, and he has his reasons. . “We're the defending (playoff) champions, we have first place, we've got the best pitcher in the league (in Eli Soukeroff),” he said. “Of course we're confident, but we're not overconfident, let’s put it that way. If we play our best ball, we're going to win.” If, however, Banjo’s can’t find the gearshift in two weeks, Taranoff said playoff death will come quickly and without cere- mony. - “That's the thing with play- offs, you can’t take anything for granted. With a double knock- out, before you know it you be out of the tournament. If we don’t hit the ball and make mistakes we're going to lose. It’s that close,” he said. That’s exactly what the oppo- sition hopes will happen to the reigning kings of Castlegar fast. ball. and there are plenty who would like to help that situation occur. “I think any team can beat them,” said the Merchants’ Clay Martini, adding that Soukeroff, with his 15-1 record, is the key. “The only main pitcher they have is Eli, and they’ve thrown him so many times, I think everyone's had a pretty good look at him. But if Eli pitches well, they'll win,” said Martini. Games this week include The Merchants meeting Banjo’s at Kinnaird Monday while Labatts plays Salmo in Salmo. On Tues- day Salmo will be at Kinnaird to play the Merchants while on Wenesday Banjo’s will be in Playmor to meet the Athletics. The week’s games wrap up Thursday with the Athletics playing Labatts at Kinnaird and the Merchants in Salmo. All games start at 6 p.m. Batting title means By ED MILLS Staff Writer Of all the individual awards a player can win in the Castlegar Men’s Fastball League, a batting title is the most coveted. “An MVP you could have an argument over forever, but (a batting title) is definitive, there’s no argument about who wins it,” said Banjo’s Pub veter- * an third baseman Phil Angri- non. In 15 years in the league, Angrinon’s never won a batting title, but.the point is, he says, he and every other player in the league stand, more or less, on the same footing when it comes to the title. “Everyone has an equal chance at it and it’s the hardest to strive for. Pitchers might argue that point but that’s the way most players feel,” he said. And it seems every year players are fighting to the last days, the last game, the last at bat, to decide it, said Banjo’s player/céach Terry Taranoff, who has at least six players on his team in a position to win it this year. Taranoff should know what he’s talking about, he’s been in the league 18 years and won three titles himself. Last, year his teammate, rookie of the year Adrian Markin, and Labatt’s Ron Gretchen dueled to the very last at bat before it was decided when neither of them got a hit and Markin won. Markin, who left Banjo’s this season to join:‘the expansion Castlegar Merchants, said the title is an ego booster for a lot of guys. For him, it was something entirely different. “It gets kind of tense, You get really scared about not hitting,” he said. Tense is a good way to describe the current race, which has no less than five, ibly six or seven players’ legiti- most mate shots at the title. Labatts pitcher Joe Tarasoff with a .432 average has built a nice 14-point margin atop the hitting parade. But as Taranoff ADRIAN MARKIN won it last year said, a two week hot streak or a two week slump and a player can go from top to 10th in a hur- Ty. And Tarasoff is by no means comfortable with a quartet of Banjo’s players chasing him. Lyle Stoushnow is in second at .418, a percentage point ahead of teammate Sheldon Sookachoff, who is five points ahead of Steve Kanigan, who in turn is five points ahead of Ban- o's catcher Jim Nazaroff. Way down in sixth place is the Nelson Athletics’ Barry Marsh, who at..400, has a good shot. Following him is Banjo’s Pitcher Eli Soukeroff, still in contention at .395. “Some guys might say it doesn’t mean much,” said Tara- noff. “But I know the guys who've beem up there before, and I know the guys who are up there now. They want it, they talk about it all the time, it’s always on their minds.”