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The Prince George Citizen -Thursday, June 25,1992 -1 3 Don Schaffer 562-2441 v S p o r t s Sports Editor Local 517 CFL Laum ann will h e a d s go to Gam es TORONTO (CP) — Sculler her and her ability to come back Silken Laumann says she will de­ from such a serious injury.” finitely compete at the Summer Two weeks ago, Rowing Cana­ Olympics. da’s medical direct^. Dr. Richard s o u t h “ I’m confident that by the Bar­ Backus said the Mississauga native was breaking barriers with her rate by DOUG SMITH celona Games, I’ll be at the Olym­ PORTLAND, Ore. (CP) — The pic level,” Laumann, who is re­of recovery from the injury. CFL’s great expansion experiment, covering from a career-threateningWhen she finally got out of the hospital, before she even attempted where three-down football heads leg injury, said Wednesday. south of the 49th parallel in search “ Whether I’ll be a medalist or not, to walk, Laumann crawled into a shell June 12 and began testing of fame and fortune, kicked off in I don’t know. earnest Wednesday afternoon. “ I don’t know what I’m capable herself, looking for the miracle. “ I’m still not walking, although Copies of First and 10 From The of yet. I’ll have to race myself and I’m getting around on crutches,” Fifty-Five — a sort of primer ex­ hope it’s good enough to get me to said Laumann from her training plaining rouges, 12 men on a 65- the next stage.” base in Victoria. yard wide field and a mass of mo­ Laumann, 27, leaves Tuesday The boat was modified so the tion in the offensive backfield — for a training camp in France. She right leg wasn’t taking any load. greeted reporters, corporate spon­ has spent the past two weeks re­ She is now rowing 20 to 30 sors and interested spectators as gaining her rowing technique and kilometres a day. In full training, the Toronto Argonauts and Cal­ gradually putting weight on a right she has hit a maximum of 50 km a gary Stampeders took to the prac­ leg that was smashed in a freak day. tice field at Civic Stadium to get collision May 16. Last week, she stepped up her ready for tonight’s exhibition Laumann was hurt in the on-water training to two and three game. warmup area of a course at Essen,hours a day. “We’ll have some fun, it’ll be Germany. A German men’s pair, “I feel great and I’m excited second only to their own game — practicing starts, crashed into her about the progress,” . said NBA basketball,” said Toronto scull. The wooden splashboard ofLaumann, who before the accident running back Mike (Pinball) Cle­ the her boat was driven deep intowas favored to capture the single mons, basking in the 33 C heat her right leg and broke her tibia. sculls gold medal at Barcelona. which has enveloped this normally Laumann underwent four opera­“I’ve been off in my own little wet and warm city of 550,000. tions: to clean out wood fragments,world, focused on what I’ve been “ People are going to see some to repair the bone, her calf muscle doing. wide open, run-and-gun, high-scor­ and some nerve damage, then a “ Some of the other sculls com­ ing football.” skin graft. She spent 10 days inpetitors wrote me notes saying Just how many people see the hospital in Germany before con­how bad they felt for me. They game — the first CFL exhibition tinuing her recuperation in hospitalmay not know I’m coming back.” : game outside Canada since 1958 in Victoria. The increased blood flow ^nd — is the key question organizers Doctors essentially ruled out thepressure during workouts still and league officials want an­ Barcelona Games and some leaves her right leg inflamed and swered. doubted whether she would eventhrobbing, but off the water, Commissioner Larry Smith, row again. Laumann always leftLaumann says she is usually pain completing round after round after the door open for a return to thefree. round of interviews explaining the water and said only five days after She said the fitness base was quirks of the Canadian version of the accident if a miracle were very strong and that her endurance football, said tonight’s game (TSN, possible, she would compete. wouldn’t pose a problem. Speed is 10:30 p.m. EDT) is being viewed “ It’s unexpected and wonderfulanother matter. as a serious experiment at the news,” Mark Lowry, general “ I can’t estimate how fast 1*11 league level. manager of Rowing Canada, said.be compared to what I might have “ We’ve had some very serious “ This is motivating for the entirebeen without the accident. It discussions with the people here team. We’re very, very proud ofshould be fairly close.” and now that we’ve been dancing for a while, we have to see if we want to consummate the relation­ ship,” he said. “ If we get 17,000 or 18,000 and Baseball bans a really good game, we’ll be very, very happy.” The game’s being played on a hybrid Canadian field. The 27,000 Howe for life seat Civic Stadium is set up to ac­ commodate the wider Canadian NEW YORK (AP) — Commis­ for one more chance and the com­ field (65 yards rather than 53 for sioner Fay Vincent announcedmissioner allowed him to come NFL-style football) but it’s only Wednesday that New York back. 100 yards wide long (110 is the Selects player of the game Raynan Johnson gets in the way of 86er midfielder Scott Macey. Yankees relief pitcher Steve Howe He pitched for the New York CFL norm) and the end zones are has been suspended permanentlyYankees last season when he was 10 yards deep, as opposed to 20 in from baseball after pleading guilty3-1 with a 1.68 eamed-run average Canadian cities), However, the to a drug misdemeanor in Montana stadium could be adapted to full earlier this month. Last Dec. 19, he was arrested in CFL size with little expense. Kalispell, Mont, on the mis­ The ruling came after arbitrator demeanor charge of attempted pos­ And, according to a senior offi­ George Nicolau ordered the com­session of cocaine and was later cial with Peter Jacobsen Produc­ missioner to put a time frame oncharged with a second mis­ tions (the firm staging the game), Everybody wins Howe’s seventh drug or alcohol demeanor count of cocaine posses­ repsonse to CFL football has been related suspension, which origi­sion. • great nally had been announced as an “ I think people want to see a indefinite one. He continued pitching for the team here,” said Jim Etzel, a Yankees until the case went to senior account executive with PJP. “ It is my judgment that Steve court, where Howe pleaded guilty “ The corporate response here has at 86ers game Howe has finally extinguished hison June 8. The comissioner’s sus­ been phenomenal, I think the cor­ opportunity to play major leaguepension followed. baseball,’’ the commissioner wrote porate community is very aware of by ED MILLS For the Selects, an all-star squad made up of in his decision. the sports market this type of game Citizen Staff players from local teams, it was a first-hand chance CHANGED FORMAT could reach.” It was a unanimous decision — everybody wonto atplay against the best “ The record amply demonstrates The NHL changed the all-star This isn’t Portland’s first blush Massey Place Stadium last night. “ They’re fast, it’s impossible to go one-on-onethat he has squandered the manygame format in 1969, switching with pro football. The late, unla­ When it was over the score might have said the with them, you can see why they are the best in Ca­ opportunities given to him thatfrom he a matchup between an all-star mented World Football League Vancouver 86ers 9, the Prince George Selects nada,”0. said Raynan Johnson, named the Selects can comply with baseball’s un­team and the defending Stanley and United States Football League But what it didn’t say was what the fans, the play­ player of the game. equivocal policy where illegalCup champions to an East-versus- each had franchises here. ers, coaches and countless kids were all saying — As Johnson alluded to, the outcome of the gamedrugs are concerned.’’ West game. Etzel said the CFL’s background that the Air B.C. Challenge Cup gave the selloutwas the product of a mismatch, and the result not Vincent said Howe has the makes it attractive, despite the past crowd of 1,800 exactly what they wanted. unexpected. longest disciplinary record of drug failures. The 86ers were stronger, faster, more skilled, C A $ H IN A FLASH “The game was a good one, the crowd was a abuse offenses in the history of “Why we think the CFL is a which is what they should be as professionals and Use your boats, cars, tools, good one, I think everybody can go awa/ happy baseball. It dates back to 1982 — ^ _ the four-time defending national more impressive deal is it’s a his­ with the night,” said 86ers coach when he went into drug rehabilita­ snowmobiles, trucks, torical entity,” he said. “ It’s going Bob Lenarduzzi, standing three champs. tion for the firs' time. "equipment or what have you for to be around for a while.” deep in a crowd of kids patiently“They’re fast, It’s Im ­ For their part, the Selects were signing autographs after the game.possible to go one-on- on a par with the pros when it Two years earlier, he had been SHORTTERM MONEY! National League rookie of the year “ Regardless of the score line, oneI with them , y o u ca n came to heart, uand desire, _with t For cash today call: while pitching for the Los Angeles think what we wanted to do issee why they are the “ n”n./md.„goallender John Cole K i n g s h i r e spread the word about soccer.

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