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Wheelchair Athletes Have Busy Three Days Here Ron A llerton, sports editor. 562*2441 s p o r t s C itiz e n Thursday, May 20,1982 — 13 SOME OF B.C.'S BEST COMING Wheelchair athletes have busy three days here by MARK ALLAN students, has dinner with the athletes and a get-acquainted The Duchess Park Condors are the opponents for ateam basket­ for four and one-half years. Sports Reporter session later Monday. ball exhibition at 7:45. Steve is an assistant coach of the Canadian wheelchair voln The visitors conduct a demonstration at the Edgewood The visitors will be at the opening of the Northern Interiorleyball team. Some of the best wheelchair athletes in B.C. are in PrinceElementary School at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday and visit the Highglen Special Olympics Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. and conclude their Pat Madsen, the team captain, competes in archery, vol­ George next week to demonstrate the sports opportunities Elementary and School for another demonstration at 11 a.m.Prince George stay with a demonstration at Malaspina leyball, track and field, slalom and tennis. The White Rock capabilities of disabled people. They’re guests at a noon meeting of the Downtown RotaryElementary at 11. Two coaches and six athletes arrive here Monday at noon Club for at Delta’s Inn of the North, then they have demonstrations native has-competed in the past three B.C. Winter Games, a three-day stint of clinics and demonstrations, starting withat Glenviewa Elementary at 1:15 and Lakewood Secondary at 3. Langley coaches Patty and Steve Schlafen accompany theincluding last year in Prince George. athletes. Patty is the program co-ordinator of the B.C. division 2 p.m. clinic for local wheelchair athletes. The Monday sessionExhibition games start at the Prince George Secondary Other team members are Dennis Day (Bellingham, Wash.), of the Canadian Wheelchair Sports Association. is at the Lakewood Elementary School. School at 7. The B.C. Wheelchair Sports Association athletes Murray Brown (Vancouver), Bruce Teichman (Squamish), The local co-ordinating committee, a group of Lakewoodplay a media team in the first game. She’s coached the women’s provincial wheelchair volleyballKen Hinton (Surrey) and Marshal Smith (Vancouver). No ruling BY VANCOUVER CANUCKS on Rockies from NHL Minor pro league plan shelved NEW YORK (CP) - The proposed minor professional hockey leagueformation for of a B.C. league. National Hockey League the B.C. Interior appears to be shelved. club owners will meet again WINNIPEG (CP) — Sherbrooke, Que., has been Vancouver Canucks’ assistant general manager Jack within a week to decide accepted as a member of the American Hockey League, Gordon said Wednesday there will likely be no progress whether the financially says a spokesman for the team's parent club, Winnipeg in plans for at least another year, because the Winnipeg troubled Colorado Rockies Jets of the National Hockey League. Jets, a key cog in the plan, recently moved their chief will move to the 20,000-seat farm team to Sherbrooke, Que. Hartley Goldman said the 11AHL governors, holding Meadowlands Arena in New their annual meeting this week in Boston, gave the Jets The Canucks initiated a plan to place minor league Jersey. teams in B.C. Interior communities, as farm teams forpermission to locate a franchise in Sherbrooke for the 1982-83 season. The NHL’s board of gov­ the Canucks, Jets, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, ernors recessed a two-day Los Angeles Kings and Colorado Rockies. Goldman said in an interview a league committee is meeting Wednesday with no Prince George was one city being looked at as a sitemeeting to discuss divisional alignments and schedule resolution of the Rockies’ for a franchise. arrangements for the 1982-83 season. future. The Canucks are keen on establishing a farm team inThe Jets former farm team was located in Tulsa, “ It is a total package or B.C., because it would greatly reduce costs. The team’s Okla., and played in the Central Hockey League. no package,”, said NHL minor league team remains in Dallas, Texas. The hockey arena in Sherbrooke seats about 4,500 president John Ziegler. The instability of the Rockies is also a drawback forwith standing room capacity for 2,000 more. “ Until all the elements are agreed on, we have no­ thing.” 'CAN ONLY LOOK UP' New York Rangers, who recently completed a deal to remain at Madison Square Garden, voluntarily surrendered their territo­ Expos really floundering rial rights to the Meadow­ MONTREAL (CP) — Tim Raines found a grain of “ Too many guys can do too many things on this team lands last month and consolation as Montreal Expos packed for a six-gamefor a player to get carried away and put too much on his agreed not to block the road trip after a humiliating 9-1 National League base­back,” Horner said. "There’s no reason for a guy to say transfer of another franch­ ball defeat to Atlanta Braves on Wednesday night. he has to hit 40 homers and drive in 150 runs.” ise to the $82-million “ We don't feel down," said the Montreal second base­The strong pitching Wednesday night came from facility. man. “ You can only look up.” rookie Ken Dayley, 1-1, making only his second major Members of the New Expecting to recover lost ground during a 14-gameleague start. He failed to finish the second inning in his Jersey Sports Authority, stand at Olympic Stadium, the Expos instead left towndebut, but limited Montreal to only three hits in 6 2-3 which runs Meadowlands, with a 4-10 won-lost record and a promise from managerinnings. Steve Bedrosian relieved and finished the were anxious to lure an Jim Fanning “ that we’ll get the ship righted on game.the NHL team to the facility, road.” Dayley was handed a 3-0 lead before yielding Andre which opened last July. The already-battered vessel sprung another leakDawson’s fourth homer in the fourth inning. But the The only pro hockey against the Braves, who unleashed a 13-hit attack andBraves produced four runs in the fifth and added two game played at the pounded starter Ray Burris, 0-7, for seven earned runsmore in the seventh to give Daley plenty of breathing Meadowlands, a Rangers- in the first five innings. room. Philadelphia Flyers pre­ As they had done Tuesday night, the fourth, fifthThe and ineffective outing by Burris left Fanning contem-' season exhibition contest, sixth-place hitters in the Atlanta lineup inflicted mostplating of a move to the bullpen for the right-hander. drew more than 19,000 fans, the damage. “ We won t do anything until (pitching coach) Galen making sports complex offi­ Dale Murphy, the cleanup batter, had a solo homeCisco and I have talked with him," said Fanning. cials optimistic a market run, his 12th, and scored three runs. “There’s no question he’s pressing trying to win No.l exists for a third NHL team Bob Horner, who bats behind Murphy, went forand 4-for-4 pitch away from loss No.7.” in the New York area. and drove in three runs, two of them with a double.Burris, dejectedly toying with a baseball in front of Peter Gilbert, owner of Chris Chambliss, in the sixth spot, stroked a pairhis of locker, said he hadn’t given much consideration to a the Rockies, said: “ I am singles to knock in two runs. bullpen move. more optimistic that a team The well-balanced production has removed the need"We can’t give up on ourselves,” he said. “ We’re * will be in the Meadowlands for Horner to establish personal goals. going through a period every team goes through.” than I was a week ago.” Gilbert could either re­ SEMI-FINAL SERIES ODD tain the team, which he said lost $4 million last season, or sell it. A group headed by John McMullen, owner of baseball’s Houston Astros, Celtics rout Sixers this time has made an offer to buy the BOSTON (AP) — Boston Celtics and Philadelphia If a seventh game is necessary, it will be played in club. McMullen, a New 76ers usually fight furiously to the bitter end. Recently, Boston on Sunday. The winner of the series faces Los Jersey resident, then would the end has come long before the final buzzer. Angeles Lakers, who swept their two playoff series in transfer the Rockies east. Just 10 days after burying the 76ers by 40 points andfour games each, for the championship. That move would disrupt only three days after being crushed by 25, the Celtics the NHL divisional align­ walloped Philadelphia by 29 points Wednesday night to ment and require other stay alive in the National Basketball Association East­ teams to shift — which ern Conference final playoff. appears to be the main Boston’s 114-85 romp slashed the 76ers’ lead in the stumbling block in the best-of-seven series to 3-2. The sixth game is Friday UPDATE affair. night in Philadelphia. One plan had Winnipeg “ This game was over in the latter part of the third switching from the Norris period,” said 76er guard Andrew Toney, who sank just Division to the Smy the to re­ six of 20 field goal attempts after hitting 14 of 21 in a The Celtic* and ’76ers meet in place Colorado. That would 119-94 Philadelphia victory Sunday. game six Friday at 11:30 p.m. on create a nearly all- Boston has outscored Philadelphia by 34 points CBS in (cablethe 7). Canadian division of Van­ Citlxrn photo hy Kir Krnulcurrent series, but still is just one loss away from being couver, Edmonton, Calgary If you’re going to learn to golf, you might as well learn to do it right foiled when in its attempt to successfully defend its title.
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