an ee ict _ NEWYORK (AP) Jack ‘Dempsey, who had golden’ B- fists in the Goldén Age of: . Sports,:. died’ Tuesday” of natural causes at age 87 ‘in iB Manhattan Bast Bide: apartment." He «was: an: ‘Anerigan hero, a great heavyweight: boxing: “champion.” ‘who. achieved: riches” ‘and 4 - worldwide” Popularity that | lasted long after. his ‘ing | career ended. .. “He was a Tegend," said. Jack | Sharkey; - a former. Barry! Craig of the Terrace Teredoes Water Polo Club (right) presents Grant Holkestad Sand Julie Tang of the Jack Cook Schoo! with.a igus for $500 that the school will use to help - r . fund an ‘exchange trip this weekend “for students and chaperones, The Teredoes ralse . the money through lottery ticket sale. : ; heavyweight champlon who was knocked out by. Demp- sey in a 1927 fight at Yankee . Stadium, “I¢ was universal with him — wherever - he went, people. knew who he ; waa, ” . ' Dempsey, who ’ fighting in 1914" ai ‘Kid: Blackie for less than 42 a _ bout, went on to earn the ° nickname The ‘Manassa biggest paydays in a bygone Rockne and Bobby Jones. boxing into the. American ’- mainstream,” said Harry “PTR wits ‘2 (PARIS {CP) — Defending y the top-seeded Connors 64, ~ ehainpion Mats Wilander of * @4,.7-6 to move into the “Gimeno. . beaten by -Spain’s: Andres | ~ Wilander last top. seed left ‘turned as he led 5-3: in the Markson, head of boxing at + Madison Square Garden. from the 19400 through 1973. “He was the firat to bring in. what was called the million- . dollar gate.” . . America. During: an elght- | Mauler — along with the . - era of sports that inrluded | luminaries such as Babe . ’ Ruth, Red Grange, Knute count fight." “He th - . f cae Put the sport “o ‘Dempeey -and - Tunney . ‘remained close’ friends. ‘part of me is gone.” -Dempaey retired from the. _ Sweden won 23 points in'a . : Tow today as he bounced Johy: -McEnroe out of the’: .Frech=; Open tennis - ehamplonahpe 14, 6-2, 64, Mefinroe's defeat ended: ‘semifinals, He will play:: fellow Frenchman Yannick - Noah, a 7-6;- 2, 7," 60 - winner: ‘over. third-seeded | ’ Ivan: Lend... |. of. “‘Guechoalovakia, ‘ of Roland Garros «16. “‘etadium, McEnroe folded. - And;:in the end, the left- _ibander was was completely _ humillated’as he. won. only ‘Wilander’ a. "phenomenal * pun. of 3 winning points turned the match just when he seemed about to lose the Noah won a tenilow- ‘charged tiebreaker: to take . the. first set, after “BB * minutes.” a The second ‘set baw Noah - ii electric form’ with -a' ‘devastating first serve and “superb cross-court « villeying, Hé took the set 6-2 da 3 minutes before the tide third with Lendl “serving. The’. -grim-faced Czechoslovakian saved two _ match -polnts ‘before win- . ning the game and going on * to take the set 7-5. - But..Noah dragged up "extra reserves of strength , and concentration, charging . to a 60 fourth set and an ecatatic victory dance. __ Organization the key to - success--or failure column by don ‘schaffer Peay be ‘Dempsey won ‘the |; “heavyweight title on Jaly 4, 191, by knocking out Jess Willard and held the crown through Sept. 23,.1926, when © he lost to Gene. Tunney. Dempsey, who won 60 of his © 80 bouts — 49 by knockout, . ‘ defended his tide only five times while manager Jack .’ | I er eee had - vais +4 + pet Re better, they get. A dz: mple of, boven of the last #7, points. “third set, : sah 1 iat rail ay a a. Wie McEnroe tod thd dine eygots hs nlay,the', " oe : Cait a u acid = 4 re tli the. rem aining taeda sy foreHiand for-"' - oF ‘pot one ‘ob ‘those things” ‘that ‘you > quarter-final - etch. abalead, but missed —and - pither have or.you don't:. that started it. “Tt was terrible, the way I. played, ia ‘McEnroe said.” *'I should have won the third “set, but I just missed the - Fourth-seeded Guillermo . Milas of Argentina, the 1977 champion, will play elghth- . paid Jose Higueras ¢ of “It's: something that ‘you ‘haye to work hard at and practice, like playing.a basic chord on’ a‘ guitar, If you-do it enough times, eventually it gets easier and easier — until finally you can ‘almost do. it. in your What organization can do for you. " The high. school track and field final in . Prince Rupert Saturday, was an example - ‘of what lack of organization can do to you. Now, putting on a ‘track meet. isn't an easy thing. A meet is like a huge, delicate . machine with. lots of separate. and < wei American has not won * ‘this Grand Slam clay court event. since’ Tony Trabert did it 23 years ago,. - '. ‘The women have a day of rest, ‘today following the shots and lost my con- centration.” . - McEnroe argued over one . or two line. calls, Wilander thought - ‘this disturbed. his’ opponent's © concentration. sleep. . tenuously connected moving parts that all . _ all the practice in the world won't make a ham-hand Into an Eric Clapton or a- Liona Boyd, but- your average guitar - player can make his box sound just fine-if . have to work well together in order for it . ‘all to’come bff, in Prince Rupert Saturday, it all came is off, but just barely and not well. Alotof the . a hé works at it; Maybe the guitar won't machine's moving parts didn’t get any oil: - . Tuesday by - Chris. Evert Lloyd © and” oo M ‘aempitinal. -” qualifications . Americans | Andrea ‘Jaeger. ; had been seeded - to meet Jimmy Connors in -the final, but Connors was: eliminated: Tuesday by Christophe’. Roger-Vasselin _ Of, France, wtio: is ranked | 190th ‘in. Abe world, “T think he should do this a bit less, and then he would © play a bit better, ” . Wilander sald, _ Wilander. three’ times ’ preevibusly and had always won = match inSt, Louls last year: and-in two exhibitions. sing, but it can hum. . Now, if you combine talent and. hard work, you get.a Clapton or a Boyd, and ' there's ‘music, everywhere, Let up on . problems. before it started and that caused a. few Like: Timers who listened for-the sound ‘in a .é’hour marathon [In a Davis-Cup-— McEnrye ° “had played the work, though, and t's. back’ to’ > aquare one.” The two big local sports events on ‘the weekend were examples of opposite ends -of the organizational seale. The Skeena of the starter’s gun Instead of watching for *. the smoke of the pistol. That takes at. least a tenth of a'second off the time of a: race and results In outrageously Bood times in the sprints. © . Like: Measurera who put the tape in the wrong spots In the throwing events, - an., “But this: was- the ‘frat - time 1 wa:liad met on clay, which ig: mye. Surface,” Wilander said. - an McEnroe,- a three-time “7S. Open champion anda onetime Wimbledon winner,” a "has never made jt beyond » the quarter-finals’: ate the French Open, © He didnot play: in Paris: last year, and entered this year at .the lasts: minute desplie a doctor's warning that it could aggravate a shoulder injury and hurt his -chances at ‘Wimbtedon, which: begins June-20.' ‘ Loyd, 28, who’ defeated Czechoslovakian Hana . Mandifkova 46, 68, . 6-2, next plays Jaeger for a place in the women's final. ‘Tuesday. . emotional: day ‘for the - ao capacity. crowd of. 16,500_at._.: _centre court because of the: _adrenalin-pumping ‘victory. _cbyy.Noah, France's top: cand ‘Roger-. "was . The US,.-atar, who ‘had beep playing with authority spreceding rounds, stawiged off bis elimination “from:the one grand: slam | event-that has eluded him, _. “had a good chance this year,” he said. :"I played | the best I could and it didn't’ work: but it doesn't: “discqurage me. ‘There are guys who are “specialiats-on slow soley on “andepime out only to play on th .e.stuff, Sonte: of them - Jaeger ‘defeated fellow : don'fcome to W mbleden or: American Gretchen Rush 6 the'US. Open.) ip TRERUe | | “pplay on everything, 90 oe ‘when, I. come. Pied boi st ii "a European clay, 1 am.cat Jug ‘some disadvantage,”, ld 5: .: “aim slip away,as hin op- ed ponent, ranked 139 in the 754 ‘Yunodlavtd world, :played,,.a.,claggic, con sat ‘slow, . lay-out; ame, 2.1 ‘em ‘urpeising mypell, “Yooping his returna:, to .;,but that’s tennis," he sald. Connors’ forehene. which “One, day you can beat - jproved to be "woefully } somebody that’s better than tnndequt te. you and the next lose to on regained. the - somebody that's worse than’ ve briefly in the dhind you.” nha he led. 4-0, but . "Noal’s victory over Lendl eg-Vasselin, 25, blunted produced some of the hest ea of bis attack, tennis of the tournazterit so a tiebreaker and won ... far and means thete will be in the semifinals, : # Frenchman in the final for © 2 eee eel, an UN: the first. time since 1972 seeded 25-year-old, “Upset ’ when Patrick Pyoley wa fore Molsoii Kings (why do I keep trying to say. cedar in there?) put on a heck of a show.at” Riverside Park, Saturday and Sunday, and - _ it wasn’t just the talent-of-the ballplayers _ that made the weekend a success. It was the organization beforehand that did it. °°. * Tt. was lack of good organization that’s caused the mess in track and field in this area, despite all the talent and hard work “in getting high school students in the north ‘into 9 sport that’s as ill-suited to this “climate as fastball. - Now, the Molson Kings started. working on this season last August—when-they- finished their first year in senior A ball. )) the parts of some of the people involved . . There was nowhere for them to go unless . " they moved into a league, no way for them toget better unless they had regular, high- . . class competition. Bo, they tried to get into the Norwest - Men's Fastpitch League, the beat of its - kind on the continent and home of both the . Canadian and American national cham. ‘Personally, Ididn’t think the Kinga had a cat's chance in a den of Dobermans of "getting into that league, but the work and. the talént -the teain had. developed and” récrulted combined to get them In: This year ‘they ‘paid the, price of they. im- pudence inthe . More they:: #0 the southern ‘teams the more they improve. :We got a look at haw good they can be when they played thelr home openers on. the weekend againat Seattle ‘Wontside, 4 réspecthble team in-a tough league. The ' oval boys swept them in four garnes and looked impressive. . ; ‘And not only that, but the team’s executive helped get out the crowds to alll it few games, but the four of the games and drummed up a lot of - support. The Kings will need to repeat that ‘If they hope to stay im the league for a while. . "But, so far, like any food team they've improved whe success sand the better they 7 resulting. in mall and inexpertenced _- Competitors getting great results. | Like: Lota of people not showing up for the meet at all, including the zone track , and field head who apparently failed to even ‘wend a: ‘representative to help out, ; Like: The results of the meet not being phoned to. the - provincial” final co- rodinators, resulting in’ wasted effort.for | some of the-few dedicated and. talented athletes who qualified for the. big one, ; As I satd,-a track meet isn’t an easy’ | thing to arrarige, and in the face of all the _ things that could have gone wrong its” surprising it'ran as well asit did. However, that’s not much consolation to the runners. who are heading to Vancouver after a winter of training te sit en the sidelines to | walt for someone else to scratch 80 they. can get in. . Because it's difficult to do well, track ° and field requires a tremendous amount of pre-meet organization, more than many. otlier sports, No one just shows up to - eompéte without relying on the sweat of those who set things up beforehand. * Without organization, a meet falls apart. You wouldn'trun a machine without oil, so why run a track moet without giving the helpers the knowledge they'll need to do " the Job? That knowledge should have been there in the form of an official resource person who could have instructed and — advised as things progressed. _. Next year, one hopes things will run- smoothly in track and field, and. the _kngwiedge and expertise will be a ble at all the meets. Tapeclely at the sone ‘final. Next year, one would hope that Bill ‘McNulty, provinelal sport co-ordinator in “ track and fleld, won't have to say, “I feel Sorry for some of the people up there, They, + fust haven’t got their act together.” But that’s next year. This year ‘s athletes have to suffer for this year's errors now, _ | ead that’s a bitter -way to lear a lesson. These kids can't even go back to square — one. For “one of thém, it’s over row. The Herata, Wedhnesey, June Kear wed patio ‘large purses. "Yet |: ‘Dempecy: did. not « inappoint bus deus during” uain -that: time.'He fought scores a " of exhibitions all over North. ‘year span,” his: his. purtes Tt totalled . - more: than,» ‘We, -mllion; sy , Pesha| ~ reataurtat had ferved t Bs a : ‘fight — Lessee rallying Polat tor’ his fas. ‘talked-about’ bouts “-.in.” history — = gecurred when he o ‘Tost'a 10-round. decision to . ‘Taney ina secant title bout | dn WOT Tn the seventh: round of ‘that: | fight,” Dempsey knocked Tunney down but stood. over .the fallen”. Four years ago, Dempsey.” suffered ; a small stroke and he had: been plagued : b; i “heart problems since then. « 2 J In April, 1962, a pacemaker was ‘implanted. ; wedding in 1952, a his later yeara enjoying a ‘heavyweights . that. ever champion for. several . simple, private life with his lived,” said © “former - seconds, ‘Tho referee did dnt fourth wife, the ‘former heavyweight champion "begin © counting ... Deanna Pieatelli, - Muhammad Ali.” ‘Dempsey: Had moved wm os : woe sO and Tunney was able to get | TRADERS GROUP LIMITED and TRANS -DANADA GREDIT ‘up in time to avold a khocjout. . SO ‘Tunney managed to hold on for. victory in what becanie known as “the long- Despite’ the two losses, -When Tunney died in 1978, ‘Dempsey aaid:."1 feel like a - ring in 1934, but came back to fight three exhibitions — “he” won all -three with : second-round knocko in 1940. He then went on “You wereasking... , ~...about the Kemano Completion Project. . ; . This is one of a series of answers from Alcan” : “people to questions about plans forthe ©: ~ Project asked by residents of the Northivest. 7 What elfortis Alcan making to’ ensure : that the ‘public is adequately informed about : ~ Kemano,Completiop?.... ha SEP tel wep . Aptehipices abirtecd Saartis in yaar, jodest arrets eb “A. s-eAlcan has maintained an active public . wo! “affairs program in connection with Kemaino . Completion for about three years. This program has continued to grow to make: mre people knowledgeable about the we project as planning advances. a 7 In the interests of public information, the company has issued numerous statements — about planning for Kemano Completion, and’ - the steps needed to gain public acceptance. — “Baseline environmental stidies have been ~ made widely available;and comments | on them solicited. These comments, in Some! © cases, have led to. additional study being ‘undertaken... As well, meetings with individuals and: organizations in Northwestern BC. have - Served both to convey information on ithe - game hag ste “Beyond this, news media coverage, news- ; " letters and advertisenients such as this have _ reported extensively on the proj ject as it has developed.: Sans a Our Comraunity Relations Officers olay. a - yolein helping to explain what Alean is. ~ ee planning: with Kemano Completion, and, just. public: concems to Alcan. - “The Community: Relations Officer rlearest _ you can be contacted at the address below. If youhave any concerns about Kemano Completion, dc don't hesitate to get in touch. “Bill Rich. eens Vice President for o British Columbia — “Ityo you u haverd question, or. would ke to knowrnore about Kemerio G nolet Ana Gofapany of Canal lta Centra Alca can in: British Columbia. 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