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“| Games in Vancouver in July.

ago also saw Burns ‘Lake

: “Our r knowledge of trout is
like. Mar’s tenancy. on this

". planet: precarious ‘and ten-

tative, In a world where men
scarcely ‘ktiow each other, and
are at pains to fight endless wars
to confirm this-sombre fact, it is

perhaps a gratuitous display. of |

ignorance: for dny mani to pre--
tend extensive knowledge of the
aly and secretive trout. They are

_. dwellers on another planet.” :

So wrote John Voelker under
the pseudonym Robert Traver,

‘‘Flyfishing,’’ he wrote
another time, “is so much funit
Ought to be done in: bed.”

Voelker was born on June 29,
1903 in Ishpeming, ' Michigan,
the son'of German immigrants.
“My. father,” he writes, ‘was a.
tall man -with big hands and the
disposition.of a bilious gnu. He.
was;also the world’s most suc-
cessful galoon-keeper: that is he
hunted’ and. fished all the time

-SPORTSCOPE-

Ravens win
berth

THE NORTH COAST
Ravens hammered the
Kitimat bantam girls in a
best-of-three playoff two
weekends ago to clinch the.
bantam girls’ softball berth
at the B.C, Summer Games.

Terrace’s Ravens beat
Kitimat in two straight one-
sided contests, winning 34-1
and 42-4, -

Winning pitchers in the
two zone final games for the
Ravens were Lisa Van Hulle
and Sherie Postuk.

The ‘team ~— which was
third at the provincial cham-
picnships two years ago —

Tornados
take 1st

THE TORNADOS baited
their way to first place in
rookie division at Terrace
Minor Baseball’s Lew Lar-
mour Memorial rookie/bam-
bino tournament May 24-26.

Runners-up in rookie divi-
sion were the second-place
Petro Canada: squad and the
third-place Northern Drugs
team.

In bambino. division, it
was Burns Lake’s team that
triumphed in the end,
finishing first ahead of
second-place. McDonalds.
-CUPE took third place.

McDonalds was named
most sportsmanlike team.

A four-team double-
knockout junior tournament
‘at Rotary Park two weekends

come out on top. .

The out-of-town team
cruised to first place. Ter-
race’s All Seasons was’ se-
‘cond, followed by the third-
‘place Kinsmen and fourth-
place Speedee Printers.

Golfer on
zone team.

‘JOHN. YASINCHUK shot
top scores to take a spot on
‘the zone -seven amateur
men’s golf team at playoffs
in Prince Rupert: - ~

The Terrace golfer came |
up.with fourth: place overall
‘two weekends-ago to nab the
final ‘spot-on the. four-man
7one team that will head for |.
‘the. | provincials - atl.
Shaughnessy inJuly

Yasinchuk’s 153 total also
got him the zone seniors title,

Joining him om the zone
team is first-place Larry Gor- |
‘don, of Prince’ Rupert, who
birdied the first. two holes to

shoot:67 and 71 for a 138
two-under-par total

That. gave lima 10-strake
‘win over’ George Noth, of
Fraser Lake. Rupert's “Jason

and only visited his’ saloon. to
raid the iron safe and cuss out
the bartenders and Jay on more
hooch.’"

AS is:the case with almost: all
pre-yuppie-era © outdoorsmen,

Voelker was introduced to that |

vibrant, cryptic and endlessly
complex .array. of whirring
ecostructures we like to call the
woods by his old man,-“I have
never in my life seen a man so
crazy about the woods, about

hunting and fishing, as my.

- ‘The Skeena
Angler. _
by Rob Brown

‘famous novel ‘Anatomy of a

‘Murder — which was based on
a trial in which-he was defence

books and pursuing wild native
brook trout: on the rivers and

beaver ponds of the Upper.

~ father,’”’ wrote Voelker. ‘When

’ we wished we were.”

-education in law, Voelker began

attorney Voelker served three

Peninsula.

he wasn't in the woods he was
so crabby and bad- -tempered,

' After what. he characterized
asa ‘fourteen carat gold”

- “Sometimes he fishes not because he regards.
fishing as being so terribly important, but because
he suspects that so many of the other concerns of
men aré equally unimportant”.

practising in Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula .as prosecuting at-
torney. of Marquette County.
Before an early’ retirement,
made possible by the sales of his

Court. . 7

years as a justice in the Supreme

After. retiring Voelker ‘could
devote. all. his ‘Gime to writing

PORT

“The true trout. fisherman is
_like’a drug addict;’* Voelker
once wrote, “‘he dwells in a tight
little dream world all his own,
and the men about him, whom

‘Torrac: | s

he observes “obliviously spen-
ding thelr days pursuing money
and power, genuinely puzzle
him, as he doubtless does them.

-“"Hee prides himself on being
an unbridled soul. So he is by

. .way of being a: philosopher,

too, and’ sometimes he fishes
not because he regards: fishing
as being so terribly important,
but because he suspects that so
many of the other concerns of
men are equally unimportant.
Under. his smiling coat-of tan
there often lurks a layer of
melancholy and disillusion, of
quiet awareness — and accep-
tance — of the fugitive quality
of man and all his enterprises. If
he must chase a will-’o o-the-wisp
he prefers that it be a trout. It is

at once an act of humility and .

small rebellion. And it is
something more. To him fishing
is an island of reality in a world
of dream and shadow.’’

JEFF NAGEL 638-7283

_ TERRACE STANDARD -

ing breed”

week,

"Ba ntam. batters

MAKING CONTACT: Terrace bantam boys’ softball player Andrew Focker displays his: Bo
Jackson swing during zone softball action last weekend. The Terrace team was taking on their
_tivals from around the northwest for the right to go to the B.C. Summer Games. Results next

Ruggers get No. 7

SMITHERS — In what was described by many

, a8 the best match to date in North Coast Rugby

Union action, the Terrace Northmen extended

their undefeated string to seven league games _

with an 11-0 victory over the Smithers Camels on
‘the Camels’ home field. -
The Northmen have yet to lose @ regular

“season game and are-1-0 in pre-season action and

aii in tournament play. -
~The Camels fielded their best squad on the

° Tune ‘2nd clash and: made the: Northmen work

hard: for the shutout win. .

Terrace took a 3-0 lead in the. first half on
‘Doug Wilson’s 35-yard: penalty kick into a stiff
wind. . The penalty: came -after a marauding

‘Camel hit Terrace scrum half George Da Costa ©

with an Ulf Samuelson-style- body check, rather

than: the normal opens armed. tackle permitted i in -

rugby.’

sy

a slim 3-0 Jead. .. > ba
The Northmen scored on the: fi inst play after

the kick-off to. begin. the second, half... ‘Tony |
Pavao completed: ‘a series of great passes: by the .

Northmen backs by powering actoss: ‘the iryline

~ to put the Terrace squad‘ahead 7; Kicking 3 with
- fi. the wind, Doug Wilson missed the conversion at: _
T ‘tempt and the: postible two, pein: ome ms

- Three, © plays. at

ne ee ee ee ere ty cay

The half ended with the Nothin din 0 o

nent week. . J

Camel territory again and sent George Da Costa

. across the line to put Terrace up. 11-0,
Wilson missed the initial conversion attempt .
but got a second shot at it when referee Glen -

Green ruled the Camels charged the kick too ear-

ly, The Terrace kicker, however, missed that op- :

portunity as well.

The score remained unchanged at 11-0 Terrace —
‘through to the final whistle despite extreme ef-

forts by both the Camels and the Northmen.

’. Game captain Graham Bayles led the Terrace
team admirably in the absence of perennial cap-
tain Ernie Dusdal, who was on sabbatical from
rugby for a week. ;

Other post-game notes:

© The Northmen were short a few regulars :
fon the lineup for the Smithers game, including

Al “Bundy” Davis, who damaged his leg in a
skydiving accident June 1 and may be out for the
season. Several Northmen. were overheard

;,. wondering why Al wanted to jump out of a
“perfectly good airplane in the first place.

© The Northmen were in the City of Rainbows
this past weekend for Prince Rupert's annual

‘Seafest extravaganza, duting’ which the Nor:
thmen took on the Rupert. RFC-Saturday’ night :
we

and: the Smithers Camels on: Sunday. Ri

as INE 12 1991 — Pap BS

In his delightful book Trout
Madness, Voelker: closed. the
last chapter with these words:

“To this fisherman, at least,
with all of its niadness’ and
nostalgia the. end of ‘fishing is

hot unmixed with a sense of
relief and release. One day we
tired fishermen drag ourselves
abroad only to discover that the

stricken. summer has waned into’

colourful northern autumn, like
& beautiful woman flushed with’
the fevers - of approaching

death, It is the last day. of -

fishing.’?

‘John Voelker died on. March
18th at the age of eighty-seven.
The small jewel-like brook trout
on his beloved Frenchman’s
Pond will see his flies no longer.
Like those delicately painted
native American ‘fishes, men
like John Voelker, alias Robert
Traver, are rare and rapidly

vanishing.

Best year
for Cal's

track

TERRACE — Kannin Osei-
Tutu led Caledonia’s contingent
on the zone track and field team
to the school’s best-ever perfor-
mance at the provincial cham-
pionships.

Osei-Tutu, in Grade. 12,
‘qualified for the finals ‘and then-:
leapt for an eighth place finish
in the high jump at the provin-
cialis two weekends ago.

And he was one-quarter of
Caledonia’s 4x100-metre ‘relay
team that finished sixth in the
final of that event against a field
of 32 teams.

Caledonia’s Joe Murphy said
the relay team —- comprised of
Osei-Tutu, Chad Croft, Kerry
Smith and Chris Wilkinson: —
turned in one of the school’s
most impressive finishes at the
provincial tourney.

“It’s the first time in many
years we've actually finished in
the final competition,” he said.

The runners were up against
hot competition from - large
schools in the Lower Maintand,

‘and, as was expected, those

schools prevailed. Surrey's
Queen Elizabeth finished first
overall in aggregate points,
while Burnaby Mountain was

second.

The team finished second in
the initial qualifying heat, then
turned in their sixth-place finish
in the BCTV-televised final.

Croft gave another stellar in-
dividual performance, racing-to

. aa’ Lith-place“6verall’ “finisif“in

the final of the 400-metie race,
David Shepherd qualified and

- faced in the final of the

5,000-metre race, although he
did not place.

Terrace’s Megan Reid com-
peted in the 400- and 800-metre
events, although she did not
qualify for the finals. ,

Two Smithers runners on the.
zone team’ ended up in the
medals. Peter Douglas won the
silver in the steeplechase, while
Smithers Secondary School

teammate Ryan Turner earned

the bronze for his time in the
2,000-metre steeplechase.

“It’s one of- the big
achievements for the year here
in sports,’ Murphy said: of the
Caledonia athletes’ perfor-
mances. “Iwas really pleased,

It's a really highly competitive:
meet, The people you’re com--

‘peting against are the best in the
province."”

soccer

the end of regulation time,

deadlock,

.

four attempts,

. Aiyansh,

- victory,

t. Dhal wal was picked as most
: Kollias waa named conch of th

Selects win

TERRACE — It took a period of overtime and ther.
shootouts, but in the end the Terrace Selects men’s soccer
tenm beat their rivals from Greenville (0 win the B.C. Sum. -
mer Games zone playoff here two weekends ago.

The Terrace team and Greenville went- head-to-head in a
defensive battle that produced nothing but a scoreless tle at

By the end of overtime, nothing had ch
two teams advanced to shootouts to break

Terrace’s shooters blasted the ball past the Greenville . = ‘[-
keeper in two out of three attempts, while the Greenville
squad was stymied by the Selects

The victory in the four-team zone playdowns here June 2
gave the Terrace Selects the zone title and a berth in the Ju- :
ly 26-28 B.C. Summer Games in the Lower Mainiand, ‘The
soccer events are to be played In Coquitlam.

The other teams competing were Kitimat and New. vote

_ The zone victory was a vindication for the Terrace -
Selects, who had been narrowly defeated two weekends
earlier at a 12-team tournament in Aiyansh,
That tourney saw the Terrace Kickers defeat the Selects -
“in the final in another shootout. This time a 1-1-regulation
time deadlock went unbroken through overtime. The
Selects fired in three of five kicks in the shootout, while the
Kickers succeeded on four out of five kicks to sécure the

Greenville took third-place in that tournament, while
New Alyansh finished fourth. Several Ti
honoured at the tourney’s award session. Terrace’s Lorearo

mpahelli was named tournament MVP, while Surinder
tesa player and Nick -

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