THE CITIZEN. Prince George — Friday, August 7, 1981 — 13 IN SOFTBALL AND GOLF

W om en have sports spotlight this w eekend

Two women’s events involving round, white balls top the In games earlier this season, Interior Warehousing de­ and a seat belt can participate in a Canadian auto slalom sociation play in Quesnel. list of Prince George sports activities this weekend. feated the Kamloops. Richmond and Victoria teams. final here. Meanwhile. Bencher Logging of the women's commer­ • The defending Western Canadian champion is the pre­ Interior plays the Plaza Blues at 7:30 a.m. Saturday at The Prince George Auto Sport Club stages the Northern cial league competes in Fort St. James. tournament team to beat at the B.C. senior B women’s Spruce City Field, while Vernon meets Victoria at Cawdell Interior section of a unique national competition being held • Prince George stock car drivers head south, as the softball final here. Park at the same time. across Canada. Yellowhead Inn Super Stock Challenge Series continues Prince George teams Interior Warehousing (which won In 9 a.m. games, Nanaimo takes on Graham’s at Spruce Names of local winners are submitted to organizers in with a Saturday night. Sunday afternoon doubleheader in the Western Canadian title two years ago) and Graham’s City Field and Richmond meets Castlegar at Cawdell. Saskatchewan and overall winners are determined. Williams Lake. Moving and Storage play host to seven out-of-town teams at plays the winner of the Vernon-Victoria game All clubs use the same course routes. • Three Prince George baseball teams are among eight Spruce City Field, including Nanaimo Lincoln-Mercury. at 10:30 at Spruce City Field. Prince George’s slalom is Sunday at 10 a.m. at the Pine at a tournament in Smithers. which has basically the same line-up which won last year's • The 14th annual women’s Simon Fraser at the Prince Centre Mall parking lot. Registration is at 9 a.m. Labatt’s and Astoria Inn of the senior men's league, plus title. George Golf and Curling Club begins at 8 a.m. Saturday For more information phone Marilyn Hutchinson at 962- the senior Babe Ruth all-stars are competing. Other visiting teams are the Kamloops Plaza Blues, Cold­ and Sunday. 6874 or Martin Webber at 962-6103. % The Prince George Road Runners have an unusual stream Hotel ofVernon, theVictoria Breakers,Van­ Former Prince George resident Patty Grant of Kam­ • The 10-team season-ending women's slo-pitch tourna­ event at the Lakewood track. couver Vegetable Patch. Scarr Industries of Richmond and loops is the pre-tournament favorite, as she defends the ment starts tonight at side-by-side diamonds. The club begins its first 24-hour relay race at noon Satur­ Castlegar. title she won last year. The Analog Angels play Interior Brokers and Pay 'N day. with the event running non-stop until noon Sunday, “ They’re all tough at this stage,” says Interior coach Bob A field of 112 is entered in the 36-hole event. Save meets Northern Sportswear in the first games al the 10-member teams try to compile the most laps. Fortier, “ but Nanaimo has to be considered the toughest • A class for street machines is included in Sunday’s Kenworth Field ( men’sslo-pitch) and the men’s recreation • The Prince George Cycling Club has its championship right now.” drag racing show at North Central Raceways. diamond, both on Highway 16 West. race Sunday at Pineview Auto Wreckers. Play starts Saturday at 7:30 a.m., with games continuing The local show should have about 30 cars for competition Brampton Homes plays Excelsior Life and the Kal Tire The three-lap event starts at 1:30 p.m.. all day every one and one-half hours. in bracket one and two and the street machines class. Retreads face Sunrise Rentals at 10 a.m. Saturday, while • Prince George tennis players are expected to compete The women’s league diamond. Chuck Cawdell Park at “ We’re asking anyone with a street machine to come playoff champion NR Motors plays Tri-Co Concrete at in the Quesnel open tournament. 12th and Gillett, will be in use for 7:30 and 9 a.m. games out.” says NCR general-manager Gordon Schade. “ We 11:30. About six players from here will likely enter the two-day Saturday. want to make a point to them they’re not racing against Games resume Sunday at 11 a.m.. with the A-B final at 5 event. Sunday’s action begins at 9 a.m. and the A-B final is at professionals.” and one extra game, if necessary, at 6:30. • The Prince orge Pisces continue their summer 4:30 p.m. If another game is necessary it is at 6. Qualifying starts at 10 a.m. and eliminations begin at • Several Prince George softball teams are at Central swimming season with an important meet in Dawson The winner qualifies for the Western Canada final Sept. 5 noon. Interior tournaments. Creek. to 7 in Alberta. • Anyone with a driver’s licence and a car with good tires The Native Sons of the Spruce Crty Men's Fastball As­ The regional championships qualify swimmers for the B.C. finals in New Westminster Aug. 21 to 23. CANUCKS AND OTHERS G rant early pick FOR P.O. PAIR n h l beckons Celebrities playing ball A Dair pair of former former linemates linemates from from their their Toyota Tovota I * in Sim on Fraser Midget King days have been invited to National Hoc­ by DAVE PAULSON rora Centre for the Handicapped) begins at 8. the by MARK ALLAN champion here, has a seven handicap. key League training camps. Citizen Sports Reporter Canucks will be there at 7:15 to sign autographs. Citizen Sports Reporter Others with an outside shot include Right winger Jeff Zilkie and centre Renzo Berra Some favorite sports personalities of Prince Heading the Canucks’ opponents is the team’s will attend the training camp of the Oilers Defending champion Patty Grant of Lil Bullied of Sechelt (nine handicap) George fans are here this weekend. play-by-play announcer . Other mem­ and Nita Lane of Quesnel (10). and the St. Louis Blues, respectively, next month. Members of the are here for bers are: Don Nachbaur, a local product playing Kamloops has a good chance to win her Zilkie and Berra were linemates in 1978 when the second straight women’s Simon Golfers have a practice round today, the second straight year for a charity softball game with the Hartford Whalers; Alan Graves, property of Toyotas competed in the Wrigley national midget the ; Renzo Berra of the Seattle Fraser golf tournament this weekend. with registration at 7 tonight. at Spruce City Field. final in Verdun, Que. Breakers; Jim Dodds and Brian Graves, assistant The 20-year-old Grant, who used to The field is expected to be 112, al­ The Canucks play a team comprised mainly of top Zilkie, 20, played the past three seasons with the coaches of the Prince George Spruce Kings; CJCI live here, returns this weekend to the most 10 fewer than last year and sev­ local minor hockey products Saturday at 8 p.m. Billings Bighorns of the major junior Western Hoc­ sports director Wayne Seaman; Greg Polis, for­ Prince George Golf and Curling Club eral outstanding competitors will be Representing the Canucks, in addition to popular missing. key League, while Berra, 19, has completed one sea­ merly with the Pittsburgh Penguins, New York to defend the title she won last year in Prince George native Darcy Rota, are Dave (Tiger) son with the W H L’s Seattle Breakers. Both were pas­ Williams, Harold Snepsts, Curt Fraser, Kevin Rangers, St. Louis Blues and Washington Capitals the 13th annual event. Two-time champion Susan sed over in the NHL’s entry draft in June. McCarthy, Bobby Schmautz, Dennis Kearns, Blair and Quesnel’s Erro l Rausse, playing in the Last year’s runner-up Laura McCleery of Kamloops (formerly of Zilkie becomes the second Prince George minor Washington organization. Iwasaki, also of Kamloops, is back, Prince George) and 1978 winner Holly MacDonald, Rick Blight, Gary Lupul, hockey graduate to join the Oilers. Mike Winther was and Gary Bromley. Windmill pitching is not permitted, as the contest too. Wame of Richmond won’t be here. selected by the Oilers during the sixth round of the is purely for fun and entertainment. McCleery was third here last year While the game (proceeds of which go to the Au- Iwasaki lost by just one stroke in 1980 draft. Winther finished last season with the The cost is $2.50 for adults, $1.50 for students and $1 1980, but she has a six handicap and and Warne was fourth. junior New Westminster Bruins, after being traded for senior citizens and children 12 and under. Grant has a chance to become only Grant has chopped two off the five from Medicine Hat and Brandon. Last year's game, attended by a capacity crowd of the second back-to-back winner of the handicap she carried last year. Portland standout more than 1,000, raised about $3,000 for the Aurora “ I ’d imagine Patty would be the 36*hole event. Centre. The Canucks won 6-4. favorite,” feels tournament chair­ McCleery, who won in 1972 and 1973 The Canucks have a nine-hole golf tournament at 2 before moving to Kamloops, is the only signs with Toronto man Fran Heighington, but she thinks p.m. Saturday at the Prince George Golf and Curling Iwasaki and Kathy Mears of Prince one so far. Meeting coming TORONTO (CP) - lay. who defected to Club. George have a chance. Play begins Saturday and Sunday at Management and player Canada recently and who They visit the children’s ward at the Prince Mears, the 1980 women’s club 8 a.m. for hockey revival had some often-heard will work out with the George Regional Hospital Sunday between 11:15 and comments Thursday Leafs although, under 11:45 a.m.. then visit the Aurora Centre from noon to LEADING PLAYOFFS The latest attempt to Hurry Kings withdrew when Toronto Maple terms of an NHL agree­ 12:30 p.m. revive a Prince George last season. Leafs announced the sign­ ment with the Czechos­ team for senior-aged hoc­ ing of defenceman Jim lovakian Fed­ The Quesnel Kangaroos key players will be made Benning of Edmonton, eration. he is not eligible and Kamloops Cowboys Special next Saturday. their No. 1 pick in this to play professionally out­ Interior catches up from the BC SH L are The meeting is primar­ year’s National Hockey side of his native country planning exhibitions for DELIVERY SERVICE ily for players, but any­ League entry draft. for 18 months. by DAVE PAULSON tomed to playing there, as they com­ the coming season and or­ body interested is wel­ " I ’ve always dreamed and MARK ALLAN pete in the provincial women’s senior ganizers here have said From 1 1 a.m. daily come to attend the meet­ of playing in the National Citizen Sports Reporters B final this weekend. they intend to do the same ing at the Astoria Inn Hockey League,” said (except Sundays) Interior Warehousing spent the en­ Interior, which won the first game thing, trying to keep Jays' Mets (1145 Second Ave.) at 5 Benning, 18. who set a tire senior women’s softball regular 2-1 Tuesday, had five hits off losing senior hockey alive in P r­ p.m. season chasing Graham’s Moving and pitcher Janice Mainland and reliever ince George. t o w a r m u p Storage. Carol Legere, who entered in the bot­ record for assists. Ill, The B.C. Senior Hockey TORONTO (CP) - To­ But Interior, which finished four tom of the fifth. League, which started The major thrust for a with Portland Winter points back of Graham’s, is making up Interior scored one in the second and Hawks last season. He ronto Blue Jays and New last season with four revival in Prince George York Mets will play a for it in the playoffs. three in the fifth. teams, is all but dead, is coming from Joe also scored 28 goals. 17th and Spruce 563-7474 Graham’s is on the brink of elimina­ Winning pitcher Mary Potskin al­ “ Maybe I shouldn’t home-and-home exhibi­ since the Prince George Russman, owner of the tion series this weekend tion, after Interior won the second lowed Graham’s eight hits. Graham’s Mohawks and Delta Astoria Inn. compare him, but he re­ game of the best-of-five final 4-3 scored one in the second and got the minds me of Bobby Orr,” prior to the official re­ sumption of the baseball Thursday at Spruce City Field. One other two with two out in the bottom of LITTLE LEAGUE Leafs general manager more victory and Interior regains the the seventh, when Debbie Carmichael Punch Imlach said at a season, the clubs an­ playoff championships it relinquished doubled down the left field line and news conference. nounced Friday. last year to the Backwoods Corner took third on the throw home, but was Benning. a six-foot. 19- The teams will play in * * * 0 C E I - 4 ^ Juniors. stranded there. Trail stays alive Opounder, signed a New York on Friday night Thursday’s game was moved to Interior can win the series Tuesday. multi-year contract, Defending champion and in Toronto on Satur­ Spruce City Field from Chuck Cawdell Game time is 7 p.m. at Chuck Cawdell with the winner advanc­ terms of which were not COFFEE Trail is one win away from ing to meet Triangle of day afternoon at 1:30 Park so both teams could get accus­ Park. disclosed. p.m.. The games were ar­ SERVICES LTD advancing to the final of Victoria in Saturday's fi­ Benning's agent, Alan the B.C. Little League nal. ranged to help the players Eagleson, decribed him get back into competitive baseball championship in as a typical westerner. Duncan. The B.C. champion playing condition. Sunrise has early lead qualifies for the Canadian “ He talks and walks slow,” said Eagleson, not­ Fans holding tickets for Northwood Pulp and Sunrise Ren­ pitcher was John Armstrong and Trail, which lost its first final in Vancouver start­ ing his client was almost the strike-cancelled tals have taken one-game leads in the Brian Bottomley was the loser. game of the tournament ing Aug. 15. s' J , Featuring hit by a. truck while he games can exchange men’s slo-pitch playoffs. Sunrise finished second overall dur­ for 11 and 12-year-olds, Freeman Park of Pr­ walked across the street them for the Saturday ing the regular season and Northwood scored all its runs in the Northwood won the season’s- first ince George was elimi­ in front of Maple Leaf was third. The top eight teams in the first inning Thursday and game. playoff game, when it beat Second nated Monday, when it Goodhost 12-team league qualified for the edged Jaycee-Rotary of Gardens. Edition 11-3. Gary Shalansky was the lost 3-0 to Trail. Freeman Also at the conference playoffs. North Vancouver 3-2. winning pitcher and Bill McKinney lost its first game 2-0 to was Czechoslovakian North Vancouver out-hit "Complete Office took the loss. The playoffs resume Monday at . Martin Mae- Kenworth Field, as Simon Fraser Trail 8-3. Coffee Service" In the other game, Sunrise Rentals meets the Brewers at 6.15 p.m. and the took an edge in its best-of-three, down­ Croft Canadians play Six Mile Logging Trail and Nanaimo 564-1122 ing Gang-Nail Truss 10-3. The winning at 7:30. meet in today’s B final. WE w oE& BUY 1824 First Ave., Prince George SUPPORT THE S.P.C.A P.G. Pulp survives Timber Brokers (Cariboo) Ltd. TIMBER The women’s commercial softball playoffs will Help us support those who last at least one more game, because P.G. Pulp won can't support themselves On the stump or on the landing Logging to suit your needs Thursday when it had to. Donations Accepted at P.O. Box 1343 Pulp, the regular season champion, edged Selective or Clear Cut Bencher Logging 6-5 and left Bencher with a 2-1 lead Timber Cruises or appraisals, arranged Introducing in the best-of-five final. Cheryl Vanderlinde went the distance for Pulp, PHONE 398-7712 while starter Brenda Heinrichs took the loss for MOTORHOMES The 4x2 Bencher, which was runner-up during the season. M IN IH O M E S Full Tim e to Part Tim e Conversion Kit Pulp led 4-2 when Anita Trenaman relieved Hein­ richs in the third inning and Bencher trailed the rest T R A I L E R S of the way. C A M P E R S ‘‘It was more like playoff ball,” says Pulp coach Bill Querns. AL Check Us Out “ We settled down . . . more than the first two MATHERS games.” MOTORS LTD.] ..ff.nct.V Bencher won 11-5 Tuesday and 14-13 Wednesday. Phone 563-8891 “ They got a little jump on us at the start.” explains 1877 1st Ave.. Prince George. B.C. Bencher coach Larry Jensen, who admits Pulp NOTICE played well. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Hearing with “ We just couldn’t get our bats going.” regard to application for Development Permit will be held in the City Hall Council Chambers on The fourth game is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday Monday, August 17th, 1981 at 8:00 p.m. at the league’s diamond in Carrie Jane Gray Park, THANK YOU This Conversion Kit is the answer to obtaining increased mileage, prolonged tire but Jensen is trying to have it moved to Tuesday, 1. Mandatory Development Permit No. 91 — To life and reduced front drive train wear. It converts the full-time New Process because Bencher is at a weekend tournament in Fort permit construction of a 3 storey, 48 unit transfer case into a conventional part-time unit It does it for all years. 73-80 The St. James. apartment building on Lots 46 & 47, District Lot entire kit which includes front locking hubs, can easily be installed by any compe­ Prince George Quarter Horse Club 4047, Cariboo District, Plan 9543 as per plan- tent do-it-yourselfer in approximately 2 hours, using only common hand tools. would like to thank the following submitted and providing for the deposit of sec­ Past pitchers all-star heads businesses tor sponsoring shows urity to ensure completion of site development. FEATURES: BENEFITS: • LESS EXPENSIVE • IMPROVED MILEAGE NEW YORK (AP) - pitched in seven all-star Location: 3858 - 3890 West Austin Road. • HUBS INCLUDED • BETTER HANDLING Applicant: Briamar Developments Ltd. Hall of Fame pitchers games and was credited Western Horseman • LESS MOVING PARTS • REDUCED DRIVE TRAIN WEAR with the National League • SIMPLER INSTALLATION • LONGER TIRE LIFE Warren Spahn and Bob Spruce Capital Feeds A copy of the proposed Development Permit may • OPERATES FROM STOCK SHIFTER Feller have been named victory in 1953. Horse & Rancher be inspected at the office of the undersigned honorary captains for the Hyon Bedding between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 1 2:00 noon and 1981 All-Star Game Feller, who pitched 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. At the Hearing, all persons who deem their interest affected by the proposed Umm mm scheduled for Sunday three nohitters and Sponsoring stake classes night, Aug. 9. in Cleve­ finished his career with Pr-mit shall be afforded an opportunity *o be The Feed Bag Phone 562-6760 land. 2,581 strikeouts, two fewer hecrd on matters pertinent to this Permit. Spahn, who holds the than Spahn, appeared in Kal Tire (P.G. Indust.) G.W. Buchanan 1769 Nicholson major league record for five all-star games and Inland Diesel City Clerk (In the Nicholson Shopping Centre) left-handers, 363 career won the 1946 contest for Travel Lodge City of Prince George victories over 21 years. the American League. 3