idols of yestery

By SCOTT WHITE
‘4 CP Sports Editor

Bring back Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth and Walter
Johnson, Please page the Rocket or even the Pocket Rocket
and tell them to bring along Gordie Howe.

Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? Wherever it is,
you seem to have taken today’s sports heroes with you.

Booze, drugs, trouble with the law — it's all becoming
normal fare in today's wide world of sports and therefore it's
easy to make sweeping assumptions that there are few
athletes left for today's kids to admire.

But a deeper analysis might reveal that the age-old
definition of a sports hero hasn't kept up with the changes in
society.

As long as there has been sports, there have been
sports idols. And there are still a few obvious ones today —
people like Wayne Gretzky, Larry Bird, Gary Carter and
Laarie Graham — but it's a rare occurrence when a day
passes without reports of another sports figure seemingly
gone bad.

Consider these events that happened during one week
earlier this month:

— Dan Kepley, a former all-star defensive end with the
Edmonton Eskimos, was found guilty of assault. To be
precise, he bit off a piece of a man's ear during a bar-room
argument over a coat.

RETIRED SUDDENLY

— Vida Blue, who turned the baseball world on its ear in
1971 when he pitched the Oakland As to the first of three
consecutive World Series titles, retired suddenly from
baseball without giving any reason. It’s later reported he
tested positive for cocaine three times last season — a
violation of a probation order stemming from an early drug
conviction that led to a prison term and a year-long
suspension from baseball.

— Baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth suspended
LaMarr Hoyt for the 1987 season because of his involvement
in three illegal drug incide»ts over the last year.

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— Writing from his Florida jail cell where he is awaiting
trial on a charge of first-degree murder, former NHLer
Brian (Spinner) Spencer warned youngsters to avoid
“associating with young and biker groups” and to
greedy so-called

hoodlums
“ward off women with that evil fish net and
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iness partners.
The days of the squ jean, golly-gee athletes have
gone the way of the six-team and flannel baseball
uniforms. But are today's athletes really that much worse
than the idols we so nostalgically remember?

Yesterday's heroes had their “bad” sides — Mickey
Mantle admits he drank too much, as did another great
Yankee outfielder named George Herman Ruth — but
nobody knew, or made a big deal, about it during their
playing days.

SOCIETY CHANGES

And as Toronto psychologist Caroline Davis points out,
the athletes have simply changed along with society as a
whole.

“Twenty years ago, athletes were heroes because they
usually represented clean living and fair play,” said Davis, a
faculty member at York University’s department of physical
education who teaches the psychology of sport.

But today, says Davis, we live in a different culture
where attitudes towards drugs and sexual behavior are
much more liberal than they were a generation ago:

“We've shifted in 20 years and I don't think our young
people are looking at the athletes as fallen heroes because
they hear they're snorting cocaine . . . or taking anabolic
steroids,” Davis says.

During a reflective moment last summer, current
Yankee great Dave Winfield talked about the pressures of
being a sports idol today compared to earlier eras when the
news media and society in general usually looked the other
way when an athlete stumbled ff the field.

“Now there's even more fécus on everything — more
media, more television — so it’s inescapable that these
things will happen,” said Winfield.

CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP

Sanders team is ready

CHICAGO (CP) — Can- day, Jotun-Bakke toppled

against. Canada’s Marilyn Tuesday morning, it was

Canada 12 U.S. 5, Switzer-

ada’s Pat Sanders may feel
her team is ready for a run at
first place in the round-robin
of the women’s world curling
championship.

Two veteran European
rinks — Norwegian Ann
Jotun-Bakke and West Ger-
man Andrea Schopp — ‘are
still to be reckoned with at
the l1-team competition in
suburban Lake Forest.

Following fifth-round: play
Tuesday night, Canada, Swit-
zerland, Norway and West
Germany shared the lead
with 4-1 won-lost records.

Their closest pursuers
were Denmark and the
United States at 2-3 followed
by France, Scotland and
Sweden at 1-4.

Canada meets Norway to-
night and West Germany on
Thursday morning.

The top four teams at the
end of preliminary play
Thursday night qualify for
the semifinals Friday night.

While Sanders used a
three in the seventh end to
secure a 7-4 win over Jaana
Jokela of Finland on Tues-

jupiss. champion Marianne
Flotron from the unbeaten
ranks, 8-1, in a match that
lasted just six ends and saw
the Norwegians steal six
points in three consecutive
ends.

The West German team,
losing finalists last “year

Bruno

LONDON (CP) — Frank
Bruno, Britain's big heavy-
weight boxer, moved a giant
step closer to a world title
showdown with American
Mike Tyson after an impres-
sive demolition job on James
(Quick) Tillis on Tuesday
night.

Tyson, holds

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Darte, edged Scotland 6-5.

In other fifth-round play,
Elizabeth Hogstrom steered
Sweden into the win column,
12-3 over Agnes Mercier of
France, and Sharon Good of
the U.S. defeated Helena
Blach of Denmark 7-5.

In fourth-round action

land, 7 Scotland 4, Norway 10
France 3, West Germany 6
Sweden 3, and France 9
Denmark 2.

“I thought we would be
pretty evenly matched by the
end of the week,” Sanders
said.

on comeback

World Boxing Association
and World Boxing Council
crowns, was at ringside to
witness Bruno's first fight
since losing to Tim Wither-
poon ina WBA title fight last
July.

Bruno stopped his experi
enced American opponent in
the fifth round of a one-
sided contest.

After dominating the open-
ing exchanges with jolting
jabs, Bruno finished the job
in the fifth with a blistering
attack.

A pair of terrific uppercuts
bloodied Tillis and forced the
former Oklahoma cowboy to
turn away as referee John
Coyle moved in to call a halt
to the fight.

Tyson's camp had said
Bruno would have to look im

pressive against Tillis to earn
the right to meet the world
champion this summer.

“He did a tremendous job,”
Tyson said of Bruno. “It was
difficult for him to look good
at the start as the fellow was
very exerienced, but he kept
his cool, kept working on it
and finally got through.

“He'll be a good opponent
for me.”

Bruno was unhappy by his
performance and said he felt
rusty and nervous.

“I was very rusty tonight. I
was hesitating a lot,” Bruno
said. “I was waiting. I knew I
could knock this man out in
one or two rounds, but I was
very nervous tonight.”

The win was Bruno's 29th
in 31 fights. Tillis's record
slipped to 35-11-1.

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ICY CHARACTERS . . . Members of the Castlegar
Figure Skating Club are ready for the carnival. Pic-
tured above (from left) are: Trina Gleane, Nicole

SARAH JOHNSTON
... former Castlegar skater

Club carnival on schedule

By CasNews Staff

The Castlegar Figure Skating Club will be holding its
first carnival in two years at the Community Complex on
Saturday. The theme will be Journey Through Time.

There will be two shows, at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. and
they have been choreographed by club pro Stephanie
Zoobkoff.

Freelance pro Francis Esposito has assisted in the
numbers and the shows will feature former club member
Sarah Johnston and Beverly Vatkin of Grand Forks.

Johnston, 17, is a Grade 12 student at Port Moody
high school. She skated for the Castlegar club until
moving to Vancouver in 1985.

In addition, Johnston has coached many of the
Castlegar skaters and has passed her Gold Dance.

She has her 7th figure Gold Freeskate as well as her

Hackett, Sheldon Webster, Amanda Crockett and
Stacia Rezansoft.

BEVERLY VATKIN
. . from Grand Forks

Junior Competitive and has competed in the 1986 B.C.
Section Championships in the Junior Ladies category.
Her future plans include teaching skating and attending
university

Beverly Vatkin is also 17 years old and a member of
the Grand Forks Figure Skating Club. At the present
time she is working on her Gold Figure, Gold Freeskate
and Gold Dancers.

In addition she has her Junior Competitive and some
of her other accomplishments include competing in the
1986 Western Division Championships, and placing 6th in
the Novice Ladies, competing in the 1986 Ogopogo
Freeskate Competition, and placing first in the Junior
Ladies, and attending the 1987 B.C. Winter Games and
coming second in the Senior Ladies.

About 80 people are expected to attend the carnival.

TORONTO (CP) — A

season.

Alderman despises
opening game plan

to alderman is crying

foul over a proposal.to cancel a Pity council meeting for
the opéning game of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball

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the first ball, that’s his responsibility,”. Ald. Chris
Korwin-Kuczynski said Tuesday. “But our responsibility
is to be at council, not to take off the afternoon and play
hookey.”

City council usually meets every second Monday to
pass legislation and debate thorny issues. The opening
game of the season — on April 6 — just happens to fall at,
the same time as the regular council meeting.

Toronto Mayor Arthur Eggleton has sent memos to
the councillors, asking whether they want to cancel the
afternoon part of the meeting so that they can watch the
game

Korwin-Kuczynski said he has sent a message back
to the mayor's office and it's a “no.”

But not all council members agree with Korwin-
Kuezynski.

“So long as it doesn’t cost the taxpayers anything
and the work can be arranged for a different time, I think
we should do it,” Coun. Thomas Jakobek said.

Jakobek noted that city hall meetings are cancelled
whenever there is a political convention.

“Quite frankly, I think a Blue Jay game is more
important than a political convention.”

The 22 council members are supposed to send their
responses to the mayor's office within a few days.

Walter Tedman, a senior assistant to the mayor, said
it’s up to the politicians to decide what to do about the
meeting. A simple majority is needed to cancel the
afternoon part ef the meeting.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Castlegar man
passes away

Fred N. Chernoff of Castle-
gar passed away at the age of
15.

Funeral services were held
at the Appledale Hall on
Tuesday and today with
burial in the Perry Siding
Cemetery.

Mr. Chernoff was born
Aug. 11,1911 at Brilliant but
grew up and married Annie
Chernoff and lived most of
his life in Winlaw. He worked
most of his life as a carpenter
and the last few years before
his retirement in 1976 he
worked as a custodian for
Pacific Western Airlines in
Vancouver. He enjoyed sing-
ing and was a member of the

Carpenters Union.

Mr. Chernoff is survived
by one son and daughter-
in-law, Fred and Teresa of
Burnaby; four daughters and
sons-in-laws, Sara and Jack
Polovnikoff of Thrums, An-
nette and Alex Bojey and
Mary and Andy Popoff, both
of Winlaw, and Tilly Ascough
of Edmonton; 11 grandchil-
dren; six great-grandchil-
dren; one sister, Nadine
Shkuratoff of Winlaw and
close personal friend, Mabel
Sopow of Castlegar.

Funeral arrangements
were under the direction of
the Castlegar Funeral Chap-
el.

Former resident
passes away

John Harry Ungarian of
Courtenay passed away
March 15 at Comox, B.C.
Born Jan. 16, 1913 in Wasel,
Alberta, he lived in Hotch-
kiss, Alberta from 1929-1957,
when he married his wife,
Rose.

Later, he moved to Kin
naird where he was employ
ed with Celgar Ltd. (Castl
gar) for 15 years, moving/fo
Courtenay in 1976 whey he
retired.

Mr. Ungarian was a mem
ber of the Canadian Armed
Forces from 1943-1945 as ar
tillery signalman; the Kin-
naird Volunteer Fire Depart
ment for 15 years; the Royal
Canadian Legion for 27
years; and the local senior

citizens and Ukranian Cultur-
al Society.

He was pre-deceased by
his father Gregory, his
mother Domnica and infant
son Larry.

He is survived by his wife
and son Raymond of Cour.
tenay, three sisters — Mary,
Laura and Kathleen, and six
step-children — John, Mary,
Mike, Harold, Rosaline and
Roderick.

Funeral service was March

9 in the Courtenay Baptist
Church with the Rev. George
Paulovich officiating.

Donations in lieu of flowers
please to: The Canadian Can-
cer Society and/or Canadian
Diabetes Assn.

Piercy’s Funeral Home in
charge of arrangements.

FLOWER PRESENTATION
. +. Three-year old.
Shannon MacPherson

Shannon's mothe

one of 75 canvassers who
will be knocking on the
doors of Castlegar next
month in an attempt to
raise money for cancer.
research. Organizers are
hoping to raise $10,000 this
year. Mayor Moore, said
the cancer campaign has
always been a big success
in Castlegar.

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Dynamic and entertaining,
Thero has conducted semin-
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motivational dynamics, com-
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development and supervis-
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registration fee is $55 for the
day and includes lunch. Call
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April Events
Registration for the April
recreation programs started
Monday. Programs include

Music for the Tots, Basic Life
Support Level B, Color Cod-
ing, Easter Bunny Basket
and many fitness programs.
Flyers available at the rec-
reation office. Find a pro-
gram and come register now.
Skating Carnival

This year's Castlegar Fig-
ure Skating Carnival theme
is Journey Through Time.
Guest skaters include Sarah
Johnston and Beverly Vatlin.
Johnston, originally from
Castlegar, is back to ent-
ertain us. She has passed her
gold dance and is working on
her 7th figure and gold free-
skate. Vatkin is from Grand
Forks and is presently work-
ing on her Gold Figure, and
her freeskate and dances.
There are two shows on
March 28 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Tickets are available from
members or at the door.
Come enjoy an afternoon of
entertainment and support
the Castlegar Figure Skating
Club.

Funeral held
for Zmaeft

John W. Zmaeff passed
away March 23.

Mr. Zmaeff was born in
Arron, Sask. and came to
British Columbia in 1939. He
lived at Krestova until his
passing.

He is survived by two sons,
Peter and wife Helen of
Grand Forks and William and
wife Mabel of Robson; three
granddaughters and one
grandson; and six great-

grandchildren; and a close
friend, Mary Legabokoff.

Mr. Zmaeff was prede-
ceased by his wife, Anne, in
1973, a son in 1957, an infant
daughter, and a granddav-
ghter in 1975.

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