2 Terrace Review - — Wednesday, November 2 198 3

Sports Editorial

Games forthe elite?

-turfed out for at least one year. ‘office in Victoria brought: out in-'
This comes after B.C. Softball’s formation that next ‘summer’s’ .N

Are the B.C. Summer Games
moving toward elitism in
athletes, or are they merely par-
ing down the agenda to more
workable size?

According to Pete Pauls, who
just relinquished his position as
zone coordinator for slo-pitch
softball, a ‘‘Let’s treat the elite’’
system is moving in to push out
the less glamorous sports and
concentrate on glory sports
leading up to world class com-
petitors.

Pauls, who turned over his ©

zone job to Terrace’s Doug
Sivyer yesterday, recently at-
tended the B.C, Softball
(amateur) Association meetings

- at Richmond.

At this annual general meeting
he was told that masters’ slo-

Shields apprehensive
about national post

Only job security and federal
funding appear to be holding up
the signing of ex-Pririce Rupert
Rainmaker Ken Shields as
Canada’s national basketball
team coach. ,

Officials involved feel the
items are major stumbling
blocks for Shields to replace
Jack Donohue, especially when

you consider his very secure job |

as athletic director at the Univer-
sity of Victoria.

Coming events in sports

The Terrace Curling Club’s
annual cash bonspiel is corning

up this Friday to Sunday. Six-

teen men’s and eight women’s

teams will be accepted. Entry

fees are $240 for men and $140

for women. Phone the club to
enter by Wednesday.

The Terrace Figure Skating
Club has a power-skating course
coming up from this Friday to
Novy, 16. It’s for children aged
nine to 13. For information,
phone Kelly at 635-5133.

A five-pin bowl-a-spiel is
coming up this weekend, start-
ing at 6 p.m, on Friday at the
Terrace Bowling Alley. Ten
more teams are needed to take

Victoria.

‘helping potential top class

- tion, contact the curling club.

Sonsered Super 670
Takes on the

efforts to get the sport on the Games.in Surrey. lack the’ space

agenda for this year’s games at available this past summer at
Victoria, so they cut back ‘the

“The Summer Games. people
have decided to move towards
the more. elite sports and more.
elite athletes, and so they're
eliminating some of the events
that are more participation like
mixed masters slo-pitch, which
were very successful at the Vic-
toria Games,”? Pauls told us.”

We asked if this now meant
the Games would be used for

venues.
An office spokesperson told
us the Oak Bay-Victoria Games

on, while Surrey is all alone.’

Masters slo-pitch. was one.of
11 sports getting the axe. Here
are the others: Masters road rac-
ing, - canoeing, flatwater canoe-

shooting and trap shooting,
masters swimming, underwater
athletes improve towards hockey and waterskiing.
Canada and Olympic Games.
**¥es, They’re working to im-
proving our youth towards the
world-class athlete,” he said.

A check with the B.C. Games

A closer look at the situation
indicates that all masters sports
are being shot down. If you’re
35 and older, you won’t be able
to compete against others your
age. You'll have to go against
the younger ones — if they'll let
you.

Also, you have to hit the half-
century. mark before you can
enter the newly-organized

~ Donohue retired following the Oldtimers games, and chances

Seoul Olympics after 17 years on
the job. Shields is supposedly
top man on a list of five can-
didates. More than 50 applicants
from Canada and the United
States originally sought the posi-
tion.

‘Shields played his high school
basketball at Prince Rupert,
where he was a member of the
1964 Provincial. championship
team.

agenda..

When you take the view that
B.C. Games were originally set
up as a participation by all from

money will be utilized towards a
more ' prestigious showing at

future international Games.
Youth will obviously be serv-

ed in future, while the middle-

sidelines.

After all, it’s youth that wins
us half-a-dozen or so medals at
every Olympics (not counting
steroids).

Perhaps we should take a
serious look at starting up a
Northern B.C. Summer Games.

part. If interested, phone Gary

at 635-4432.

_ Terrace curlers are reminded

that the commercial league starts”

Saturday, Nov. 12: For informa-

“ something for our area people
Three teams have been form- who > are: being dropped from

ed to start the Terrace Commer- B.C. Games’ agenda.

cial Hockey League, however, . - -

had four municipalities to draw.

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are your sport won’t be on their -

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