. honours after.54-hole regular

, weekend. ons

‘ after opening. week. oe

nicetlng ekt: Tues

An dpen ‘letter. of apprecia-
tion.to Mr, Foster Husoy.
Dear. Mr. Husoy,

Word: ‘of the | Soe: ‘cy of .

Prince Rupert - council ‘meeting

has just reached Terrace. It:was,
comforting . to shear“ that’ the

council of the city:of: ‘tain’ and
rainbows is still willing: ‘to take |
on the serious issues of the day

and wrestle them to thé ground.

“In particular, the passage of
your ‘motion. ‘recommending
that the Society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals
undertake to research into the
lamentable, practice ‘of. catch- -
and-release as. practised : by
steelheaders. on the Skeena
should: be vigourousty applaud.
ed.

_Not only i is this motion spot
on, but it is timely, as catch-
and-release (I’m sad to report}
is being inflicted not only on
steelhead but upon thousands

-SPORTSCOPE-
Half-

marathon
date nears

LOCAL RUNNERS are war-
ming up fer the Skeena
Valley Runners Club event of
the fall season: the Ail
Seasons Half Marathon,
The itth running of the
local race will be Oct. 13 at
noon at the Northwest Com-
munity College parking lot,
Entry fees ($12-17 depen-
ding on membership status)
include commemorative
‘T-shirts. Runners are asked
to register by Oct. 1.
More than 70 participants
competed in fast year's 2ikm
half marathon, 10kin or ‘Skit
races, ‘
Prince Rupert's Mike
Flege! won the half
marathon, finishing with a
time of 1:14:25 — just ahead
of Terrace master runner Ed
Ansems.
Entry forms are available
at All Seasons Sports. For
more’ information call .Ed
Ansems at 635-4670,

Golfer
near top

TERRACE ‘golfer Jean-
Francois Malenfant captured
the championship flight low
net title at the Smithers golf
club’s Northern Open on
Labour Day.
.Malenfant was among 240
players from across the nor-
thwest competing at the
event.”

-Burns Lake's George Noth
won. overall, low. “gross

play. - put . him... even with.
Prince: et pole Jason

of salmon, char and trout, and
itis spreading through the coun-
‘try Jiké influenza," >

Why just the other day I wat-
cheda flyfisherman | trick a trout
into accepting, a phoney thayfly.
The: ‘instant: the ~ poor :, little

creature felt- the. sting: cof that

barbless, needle-sharp hook, ‘it
took to the air,. whirling and
shaking’ like a thing possessed;
at least three-times it. hit the sur-
face of the water with-a sicken:
ing smack, and with each j jump
the fisherman. seemed to get

more excited - _ what a pitiful.

- spectacle!

After what oust have been at

least two_minutes, the torturer
had his victim helpless and pan-
ting’ at’ -the- shore. Now, I
thought, the torture must, surely
stop. I waited, for. the fisherman
to pick up'a: stout. stick and
relieve the ‘suffering with .a

The Skeena
Angler |.
by Rob Brown.

Bui, alas, it was not ta 0 be.

_ The bully held the trout up so
it could drown in air for another
three or four seconds while his
partner squeezed off a few

-snapshots. After. ‘the agonizing
ordeal, the creature was set free.

I fought back a tear as the noble
: fish swam away.

Now you've probably. heard
that fish survive ‘this shock

treatment. As a reformed catch-:

and-releaser and -former - fre-
quent reader of sportfishing

propaganda, I can assure you. ~

before,
Smithers ° ‘ib
Maskiewich. -
Overall iow. ‘nel: ‘went to
Smithers golfer Don Oulton.

IT'S TIME:to. put ‘0
sliders’ ‘and pick
broom : ‘again;

arourid ‘the: corner’. and
registration got ‘started last

The rink tentatively ‘plans
Is, ‘open’ Oct, 4, says.’ cab I
manager Bruce: “Carruthers; |’
with a-Curl Canada instruc- §
tional, week. planned. shortly

“The big event: on the curl.
ing alendar this season. will |.

‘Curling: ‘season’ 5 ‘Fast

epee when t the club-ye

"T Athens' ABK division-11
» helped the ‘Terrace team salvag
ot one-wiii,

smack across the animal's skull. .

that stories like the one about

the cutthroat trout. of
‘Yellowstone National Park —
which are reputedly released as
many as ten and twenty times —

- are just so much fish meal: in-

‘sidious. misinformation spread

. by--unserupulous sporties to
“cover..up the. high mortality of

released fish.

Ihave no doubt that the ever-
vigilant Rupert squadron of the
SPCA — those redoubtable

. foes of actions inhumane —‘will
* welcome your motion, action it,

and be after those brutes with
bait rods like Socreds after civil

‘ servants,

_ But don’t give up after only
one motion, Mr. Husoy; please
continue.to champion the cause
of the meek and defenceless.
We must pursue the dragon of
cruelty-to-his slimy lair and slay
him.. Sportfishing. is riddled
with cruel practices.

Consider the actions of the

‘sportfishing small fry, aided.

and. abetted by their angling
dads, who head streamward
with.cans“of worms writhing, at
the bottoms of their recycled
tomato cans and visions of leap-
ing. fish: ‘dancing: in- ‘their
misguided heads. |

. Foster, [urge you to get hold
of the agenda committee and
table a motion which charges
the: SPCA to investigate cruelly
to. worms. ‘Season after season,
year after year, budding sport-
smen throughout the land tear
defenceless annelids from the

SPORTS NEW

Youth soccer teams clash

y.
whence It came in the: under-16 final Friday night.
3 hockey ple: ae

a]

‘TERRACE — After losing both:
their goalies to injuries in thelr
first. game, Terrace’s oldtimer
soccer Players figured they | were.

“eorhae tie through the first
‘half between Terrace and an im-
‘pressive | team from Pitt
«Meadows that. went on to an

_ history. . undelegted . ‘record in the
“But - team. ‘spokesmen ‘Nik ‘over-40 ‘Chdivision.
“Kollias sald they never thought" That’s when starting goalie”

- they'd end up getting help at the:
~ Royal-Canadian Masters: Socce
‘Tournament in Burnaby from |
» former: Greek: professional so
cer player, 2" ;

Paul. Ayecrinos: :
§0-year-old . “ex-goalie with:

‘and: backup.goalie John Black
‘took his ‘place in: the Terrace
net; Pitt‘Meadows scored four
Ates second ball, and

: but. -‘Aygerinos

at ch Appented on the

3 yAuge Sto: Sept:2:
the first game. had ‘been. ay

PLAYERS: for. Sight & ‘Sound and Wildwood chase a runaway ball in the under-|2 vauth s soccer final at
drning. At right, Takhar goaltender Byron Mikaloff sends the ball back from

John De Wacht broke.his wrist
: Sohn of goals, while;Mike Brady and

(He was 1s fantastic, that guy,"”
said Kollias. “‘He was playing
really good."?

They lost the game 4-0, but in
Game 2, with Aygerinos in goal,
the northwest. team battled back

to defeat Seattle “4-2. Richard —

Hugon led the way. with a pair

Nick Kolllas each ‘chipped in
another,

"; Their third game saw the nor-
thwesterners. fall 3-0 to the
Oregon Masters.:

“We deserved to lose,”
Kollias said..‘‘We didn’t have a

The players we had

By together all the.

TERRACE — High-energy ac-
tion and shootouts marked play
in Terrace Youth Soccer
Association playoff. finals on
the weekend,

In the under-16 final, Takhar
jumped out to a 2-0 lead that
held io halftime, But the
tenacious Manuel's squad
blasted back with five goals to
take the bragging rights...

Under-14 action was even -

more intense, Northern Drugs
and the Bavarian Inn battled
through regulation time and 10
minutes '-of . overtime, , but. re-
mained in a 1-1 deadlock, .
The teams went to shootouts,

after their opponents missed on
the final shoctout.

Sight and Sound thundered to
an 8-3 final victory over
Wildwood in the under-12 divi-
sion final.

In semi-final action
Wildwood had captured a 6-1

The other ¢ teams they. faced
were generally stronger, he said.
“It’s good when you play with
those guys -~-you learn a lot.
You -always learn, , it. doesn't

. matter how old: You are.”

Terrace’ "8: team placed second
last year, losing: to the Van-
couver Whitecaps | the final.

This year's, tea was, in an
over-40 division: Against, three
other teams at the tournament,
which had: a total f 28 teams
entered. ©.

To be beat i ‘the teams,

meetings,”’

Temes 8 Standard, Winesday, September 18,1991 — ease a

ctie

security of their warm and:slip-
pery tunnels in compost heaps :
and transport them in the.alien |
- environment of jars and cans to:

lake and stream, whereupon

they must endure the agonizing .
and terrifying wait for their turn

to be threaded upon a rusty.
hook. I feel faint just thinking
about it.

The next time you sit down to.

a dinner of salmon steak, ‘or
perhaps a roast of beef,-lift'a
glass of wine skyward and toast
‘yourself for a job well-done i ina
battle just begun. :

Consider and take strength
from the words of Jeremy Ben-
tham, the great philosopher and
advocate of animal rights, who
said; ‘The question is not ‘Can

they reason?’, nor ‘Can they .

talk?”, but ‘Can they suffer?’’’.

- -Yours truly,

A. sportsman who ‘has - seen.
the light.

“New. coach.
= = Page C2.

win over Bandstra.
But the under-10 final was a
more evenly matched contest.

Shoppers Drug Mart leapt
out to a 2-0 lead that carried
them through to halftime. But
two quick goals by Co-op put
them right back in it. A third
goal by Stavros Darvoudis seal-
ed the Co-op victory.

The under-10 league winners
— Bandstra — were honoured
with the association’s new Ray
Homeniuk Memorial Trophy.
Homeniuk, a dedicated youth
soccer coach and organizer,
died of cancer last year.

The Terrace Youth Saccer

a Association's - annual general

meeting is slated for Oct. 2 at
7:30 p.m. in the library base-
ment.

“We need lots of people for
the executive and also people
whe will volunteer their time
even if they can’t make it to
says Mary Hernes.

young as 35,

The Terrace side consisted of
16 players, most of whom play
together in Terrace, although
this year there were a couple of
‘members fram out. of. town,
Kollias said. . -

But despite their elintination ,
from the tourney’s main event

with a 1-2 record, the: team

managed to. power their. way to
a first-place finish, in moini-

soccer.

The event featured’ 12-minute
"games of three players a side. ©
We beat. everybody. down :

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