8 Terrace Review — Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1986 “| was a good cheater as a child” by Len Harrington Cheating, which is an intergral part of adult sport has crept into the athletic world of chil- dren. It was recently announced that this years winner of the All- American Soap Box Derby was disqualified for using an_ electro- magnet device to improve his start. Not only that this boy’s cou- sin is suspected to have used the same thing when the cousin won last. year. Holy Artful Dodger! The stigma on the innocent face of youth could be a spreading disease. Next year, that smile on your son’s face won’t mean he’s happy his team won the Bron- co baseball title. It nieans he purposely tripped an opposition player rounding the bases, and got away with it. The day a-four- year-old is caught spik- ing a five-year-old’s afternoon milk so he can- win musical chairs at Tiny Tots, is just around the corner, Mind you we’ve had cheating children’ for years. Remember when you pushed your sister as she neared the east- end rope skipping record? Or how you slipped a couple of hundred off the Mono- poly banker’s pile when he went to the bath- room between turns? I was good at cheat- Len’s pen ing as a child. In base- ball I always dropped my bat between the catcher and the ball when | bunted, hoping he'd trip on the bat if he chased the ball. In foot- ball, I’d untie an oppontent’s shoe lace as we lay on the ground after a tackle. In hock- ey, I’d hold another guy’s sweater when play moved in the other dir- ection, I know so many ways to cheat at golf that I even wrote a column on it. My first recollection at cheating was when I tried to win a kids’ fish- ing derby. Actually my brother was to blame. I was about five years old when | caught a 10-inch bass in the river. Big brother said to keep it alive for the fish derby coming up in a week’s time. I stashed it in the basement in a small tub, At the fish derby I was to find a secluded spot, hook my fish on the line, and toss it in, play it to shore and claim I caught it that ‘day. The morning of the derby, dad found the fish and big brother squealed. We both got paddled cause I said it was brothers idea. My piece de resis- tance came a few years later in swimming. At our summer YMCA Hazelton wins hockey berth It took a default vic- tory and a disqualifica- tion for the Hazelton Midgets to claim the zone berth in the B.C. Winter Games in Terrace next month. And Prince Rupert wasn’t happy about. it. In the five-team zone-7 playoff for “AA’’ midget minor hockey teams in Haz- — B.C. Winter Games elton on the Jan. 11 weekend, Prince Rupert won its first game 13-3 over Vanderhoof. However, a protest that Rupert had used three un-carded (not registered) resulted in the zone co- ordinator awarding the Indoor playground now running by Elaine Parmenter TERRACE — The In- door Playground Pro- gram is a new recreation event for preschoolers. This new program is held Tuesdays from 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. at the Terrace Arena and can be attended on a regular basis or a drop-in basis. It is designed for children 18 to 30 months of age, and will be atime for the toddlers to socialize with others and participate in physical activities designed to enhance co-ordination, motor development and body awareness. Although parents will be participating with their children, there will be time allowed for them to have coffee and socialize as well. Activities will be plan- ned by the parents with the assistance of the recreation co-ordinator and are ted by the parents, . For more information on this new program, call 638-1174, or drop by the Terrace Arena on Tuesday at 10:15 a.m. and check it out. Ice hockey roundup Road conditions and prior committments played havoc with minor hockey’s inter-city rep team league play on the Jan. 12 weekend. In fact, all six games involving Kitimat and Prince Rupert teams were called off. They’ll be rescheduled for a later date. That same weekend saw the Terrace Trojan Ladies’ Hockey Team travel to Kitimat to take on the Kitimat’s Kougars as a warmup for their tournament appearance in Fort St. James. The Trojans came up with an 8-1 win. A Terrace pup house league all-star team travelled to Smithers for a two-day tournament, and came home with a third-place finish. On the first day, they posted two wins — 12-4 over Kitimat and 11-1 over Prince Rupert. The opposition was tougher on day two as they lost 7-6 to Smithers and 5-2 to Hazelton. players - game to Vanderhoof. Rupert. claimed that they only needed 12 carded players, which they had dressed for the game. Their plea in the zone went unheeded. They were considering a protest to the B.C. Amatuer Hockey Assoc- iation to overthrow the decision, but this was still up in the air at press CloseUp magazine. danunry 25-33, 1985 sit time. Later, when Terrace Totem Ford Midgets lost their goalie giving the host club the best record and the zone berth. In addition to the default loss,. Terrace wound up losing 13-3 to Burns Lake, 11-4 to Prince Rupert, and 16-4 to Vanderhoof, Something to Sell? Try Cleesifieds Wednesday, Jan. 29 WXYZ — 6 p.m. and TV7 — 7 p.m.: Additional information — Dynasty — Krystle poses as Alta ln a desperate attempt to flee from Joel Abrigore; and Alexis chooses between Dex and Galen. Friday, Jan. 31 WXYZ — 5 pm: Additional information — Webster confronts the problem of parental kid- napping when a good friend Is abducted by his own father. camp, I had finished second in the big quar- ter-mile race the year before and was favored to win’ because the iast winner was too old. My hopes dwindled when I learned the Y champ of Toronto would be attending our camp instead of his regular camp. To win I had to cheat. My plan was to douse his swim trunks with itching powder on the morning of the race. Did you ever see a kid try to swim with one hand and scratch with the other? He cried foul, our tent leader investigated, found the powder pack in my kit bag (I was known as Dummy in those days) and I confessed. I was disqualified (I actually came in second cause | was busy looking back at the scratcher). I couldn’t enter the race the following year. That day was set aside for my delayed punish- ment, which was peel- ing spuds for supper for all 150 campers. 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