Loto march cancelled but

OTTAWA (CP}-— Plans
for.a march on Parliament
Hill to protest the turnover of
Loto Canada to the provinces

have been cancelled but
sport groupa vow they

eoatinue to put pressure on
tha government to create a
national lottery to support
amateur sports and the arts.

Jo-Anne Lawson,

executlye-director of the
Sports Federation of
Canada, said Monday the
march was a tentative idea
“end we have decided it
would be Inappropriate” - to

Runner offers himself for

EDMONTON {CP)
Longdistance runner Nick
Akers says he is willing to
mortgage the rest 0 of his life

‘anyone who sponsor
him for the 1930 Moscow
Olympics and the 1983
Commonvealth Games.

.. Akers, 23, competed for.
the Cayman Islands in the
Commonwealth Games held
here last year. But moat
pepple won't remember him.
Tn his best effort at the
mea he finished next to
t in a heat for: the 1,500

a runner from Turks a

metres, narrowly defeating.

havea confrontation with the
government.
But‘letters and telegrams

from athletes and sports .

adminigtrators will continue
because amateur sports
wanta “the government to
understand how important
hefrevenves from a national
lettprysare to the future, of

Meanwhile, Sport Minister
Steve Paproski said in an

‘interview he understands

how the sport groups’ feel
about the need for increasing

funds in the future to con. °

Caicoa ~— the island which
took an ‘inventory of sports
equipment before the games
and came up with three used
basketballs, ons pair of track
shoes and a rusty starter's
pistol that didn't work.

He finished last in his heat _

fase the 5,00p-metre event and
Ipped Lesotho and St.
Lucia at the wire to- finish
16th in the 10,000 metres.

Akera now is working in
Edmonton and looking for a
sponsor. -

“Your next question ig
‘How does one of the Com-
monwealth’s worst athletes

‘

tinue their progress in in:
ternational competition. © |

“T think they will be happy
when it (the lottery transfer) -
is all over,” he said, “I don't :
intend to cut them off-at
knees,”

“Tm the minister of sports
and Pm geing into
negotiations with the

. Provinces to get-ag much as I

can” in exchange for the
Provinces gaining control
over Loto Canada. ;
Amateur sport groups
have proposed conversion of -
Loto Canada to Sporto, a

find sponsorship to make the
top?’

“An athlete's Iife is very
short. When I'm 30 years ald,
Pll be physically dme for.
Life is over too quickly, ‘A lot
of people live their whole life
and don’t achieve anything,

“I've got detertnination. 1

believe if [have the money it -

takes ‘to train and attend
varlous meets for com-
petition, that I can get to-the
top despite the odds. Even if
T don’t, just to try... {f will

' be worth it, even if it means I

have to mortgage my life

just to try,”

Coaches respect each

TORONTO Airs _- vane
appeara to be a gro’
mutual respect. between the

usual, they managed to win
18-11 over Hamilton Tiger-
Cats last week.

talent,"" Gregg BAYS. “On
offence there's 7 and 77,” a
reference to Ottawa quar-

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national Jottery which would
‘share its profits equally
between sporta and arts.

Prime _ Minister atk
promised during the May 22
election campaign that a

ve Conservative
_government would get out of
the lottery business by
disbanding Loto Canada.

The sport groupa are con- .
cerned that without Loto
Canada thelr funda will be
severly restricted, Even naw

back out

they fear the Pncet will _ available to businesses in

He is as serious about thig
as he was a few months ago
when, li in London, he
took out an advertisement in
The Times making the same

er,

‘He was urisucceasful then
but he remained determined,

“Ttis not my nature to give
up. After all, I am a Jong-dis-
tance runner,” - :

He returned to Edmonton
hoping someone would show
interest in his offer,

“T figure Pll need between .
$20,000 and $25,000 for three

; years to take me through the

other

McGee was moved to a atart
position when: offensive.

a ee

'

mitments - as
possible, -
~ Paproski sald he thinks the

provinces “are politically
aatute enough to realize the
¥alue in supporting national
sports.” ’ ,

The minister sald he wants
to clear up lottery concerns

. & he'ecan concentrate on

plans to get increased
usiness = support for
amateur athletics, He hoped
tax write-offs and other

P

The previous government
d proposed to provide
sports with 30 per cent of
Loto Canada profits after the
current revyenuesharing
program expired at the end
of 1979,

Sports figured they could
get $20 milllon to $30 million
1 year from the lottery,

r

They were alarmed last
week when Paproskl sald he
hoped to get $6 million to $10
million from the provinces
for sports. But he sald
Monday -he doesn't feel
bound by any figure and will
ny for as much as he can
get.

Last Friday three women

rotest continues

canoeists, all mombers of
the natlonal team, presented
two MPs with 1,500 lettera
written by ng eres and
others supporting Sporto.

Lawson said then that the
sports federation was con-
sidering a demonstration
march on Parliament Hill
this week, .

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time I’m 65 will pay back the
loan several times over,"

'_ Akers is from England, not
_the Cayman Islands. After
only'a year on the island he
became secretary of the
Cayman Island Amateur
Athletic Union, which meant
be had little trovtia being
selected fo the team.'-

“E might not have made it
to the Commonwealth
Edmonton on ; ; oe
ability. But I made it on SE
determination. Name me im ee
me other athlete at the

onwealth Games who
paid $9,000 out of his own Hy
pocket to get there,” .

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