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Page 8, The Herald, Wednesday, May 30, 1979

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OTTAWA (CP) — Canada
has top-class basketball
players representing it on
the court and a nickel-and-
dime outfit looking after off-
court needs, says Jack
Donahue, national team
coach.

“It's one thing to play for
nothing but another to have
to pay to represent Canada,"
Donahue said Tuesday prior

- to the national team's

departure for a two-week
training stint in Italy.

Donahue said the playera
were upset over cancellation
by the Canadian Amateur
Basketball Association of a
$3 a day, often spent on food
supplements,

“It's just one more money
thing that could affect
morale,”’ Donahue said in an
interview.

Many of the players have
sacrificed regular and part-
time jobs to play for Canada
at this year’s Pan-American
Games in Puerto Rico.

They draw $215 a month
from the federal government
— a4 amount Donahue
considers insufficient. :

Recreation trends the same
and so are the problems

by Chris Porter

Terrace Recreation Advisory Commission
member Barry Church feels that now is a time
for maintaining and upgrading Terrace's
present recreation facilities, as opposed to a
time for building new ones, an

* Recreation Advisory Commission members feel

much the same way.

- Church recently had the opportunity to attend

a joint conference held by

Association and the Recreation Society of B.C.,
held May 10 through 13 at the University of B.C.
Vancouver. He was one of over 500 delegates
from small communities all over the province at

the conference.

Church said he was pleased with the con-
ference, as he found out that people involved in
recreation in other parts of B.C. are thinking
much along the same lines as our own recreation

advisory commission.

The guest speaker at the conference was Joe
Curtis from New Rochelle, New York, and ap-
parently even as far away as that, the recreation
situation is much the same..

As a result of talking to many of the other
delegates at the conferénce, Church now says he
found out that most.of B.C.’s other small com-
munities are thinking much along the same lines
7 a delegates to

as Terrace, ,

BARRY CHURCH FINDS

“It's gratifying to have my own ideas rein-
forced by people from.other communities”, he
commented. "It was really’ beneficial to: me
personally, and I appreciated the opportunity to
attend the conference’, ~ he. added.

Church was able to convey many of the ideas.
he picked up at the conference with recreation
people here, as Monday he‘spoke to a recreation
workshop consisting of advisory: commisgion ,
members and maintenance people, He feels the .
cost of him attending the conference was money

4

well spent.

the other .
the B.C. Recreation

“It broadened my scope immensely”, he
commented, “and I was able to share my ideas
with recreation people herein Terrace. I hopé I
did a good job of representing Terrace at the
conference”, he added..

The Terrace Recreation Advisory Commission
has voted unanimously to recommend to council
that Terrace become an associate member of
both the B.C. Recreation Association and the
Recreation Society: of B.C.: For a nominal
membership fee, .the commission will receive
newsletters and other inforniation which will
help it keep abreast of the goings on in the rest of
the province, as well as the opportunity tp send
future . conferences, °

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SALE ENDS SAT., JUNE 2,

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP)
— Jack Kent Cooke, the man

- who built the Forum to house
hig baskethall and hockey"

teams, announced Tyesday
that he plans to sell the arena
and the teams to a “Los
Angelea businessman,
Involved the sale, oex-
pected to befor $47 million
and the ldrgest transaction
in sports history, are Los
Angeles Lakers af: the
National Basketball Acsaci-

_ ation, the Kings of the
National Hockey League, the ©
Forum and a ranch that the .

. Toronto-born Cooke owns in,

the California Sierra: .
Dr. Jerry Buss, who pre-

viously owned Log: Angeles -

Strings of “World Team
Tennis, is the prospective

| ‘buyer.

yi 7 : 2

Cooke will retain his 80-
percent interest in
Washington Redskins of the
National Football League
plus. other holdings.

Commissioner Pete -

. Rozelle of the NFL had’

Bowman taking offers.

NEW YORK (AP) —
Bowman, who
coached Montreal:Canadiens
to four straight Stanley Cup

sidering offers from four
-other National
League clubs, his agent said
Tuesday.”

Bowman must decide by

- June 4 whether to accept one

of- them or remain with
Montreal, said Jerry Petrie,

..Who attended a news con-'
- ference-at which Montreal

star Guy. Lafleur waa ‘pre-
sented with an award. |

“We have the right to talk.

to anyone who might be able
to better Scotty’s position.
He has coached 12 years and

-wants to change his Ilfestyle -

so that he can. be with his
family more,” said Petrie.

“As a coach he has to sleep -

in the afternoon, and he lives

is con .

Hockey -

urged Cooke * to divest

‘himself of other sports in-

terests if he wanted to stay
with fhe Redskins. NFL
rules prohibit an owner from
having iterests in other

‘sports franchises.
’" However, Cooke was given

time to settle a divorce sult.
Then last March, his former
wife, Barbara, was awarded

“one-half of his holdings

which were estimated at $100
million, © 0 *
Buss, 46, is a chemical

engineer who made a fortune

in Los: Angeles real estate ©

holdings. He has a doctorate
in physical chemistry from
the University of Southern

’ California, -

‘In addition to owning the
Strings of WIT, he also was
part owner of franchises at.

- San , Diego, ‘ Anaheim: and

Indiana.

Coake, 66, build the Forum
for $26. million in 1967
following disagreements
with the Los Angeles
Coliseum Commiésion over

game by game. At least aga.
general manager he could be
with his wife until game
time.” | ~

Bowman has an open-
ended contract that allows
him. to better his position at
the end of any season. Alter
the news conference, Petrie
was to fly. to his client's
Florida vacation retreat to

: analyse each of the offers,

Petrie said Bowman would

talk ta each of the four teams ©

that have offered him jobs.
_A source close to the
situation said that one of

-Bowman’s offers came from

Philadelphia- Flyers. Petrie
would not confirm that,
“There is. no problem in
regards to money,” . ob-
served Petrie, We have to
check: out things like
Philosophy and what would
be expected. Scotty has heen

although heis rep
East and has been residing: _.
‘in Las Vegas, Nev. .93)°.
Cooke said the sale ip-
cludes no other of his’ -.
business interests. - a
He bought the Lakers from: . -

his teams" use of the Sports

businessman

Minneapolls vir

Hob Short fdr a i

‘million in 1967 and paid §2°
‘million to the NHL for the

Kings as. an expansion .

‘franchise the samé year. .

In addition to.housing' the:

teams, the Forum -has been
successful in ‘luring con-

.ventions ‘and ‘shows: by

various groups.

Earlier this yedr, Buss .

tried unsuccessfully -to buy
Indiana Pacers of the NBA.

with Montreal 28 of his 30
years in hockey and I still

. belleve he has the Canadien

emblem tattoed on his
anatomy.
"He wants to stay part of

-the big league scene and ig”
not yet ready to coach at the

collegiate level,” :

Lafleur, who received an
award Tuesday .aa the
season's most productive

and conslatent performer in -

the NHL, said ‘he ‘rates
Bowman as one of the top
four coaches in the league.
’ “Phere are Bowman, Fred

Shero, Al Arbour and Don ©

‘Cherry and that’s about it,"
said Lafleur. “Good coaches
with Scetty’a knowledge of
the game are hard to find.
But coaching is a tough life.
Most of the good anes want to
become general managers,
so [ don’t blame Bowman.”

They see henefits of joining

WINNIPEG (CP) — Tulsa
Oilers of the Central Hockey
League will serve as the
farm team for Winnipeg Jets

who enter the National °

Hockey League next season.
« John. Ferguson,. vice
president. ..and.... general
manager of the Jets, and
Bobby Gilbert, owner of the
Oilers, made the an-
nouncement in a joint
statement Tuesday.

In their'seven-year history ©

in the World Hockey
Association, te Jets never
had a farm system.

Canada .
wins at |
cricket

BIRMINGHAM, England
(Reuter) —- Canada defeated

Bangladesh by 49 runs in the -

only game completed
Tuesday in qualifying play at
the World Cup cricket
matches, 3

Canada was 19 for 8,
Innings closed; Bangladesh
141 all out.

it was the second win in as
many starts fer . the
Canadians, who picked up
another four points and were
tied with Denmark atop
Group Two with eight points
each,

Their next game is against

Denmark (2-0) Thursday. °

Heavy rains wiped out the
other five matches —
Argentina -vs. Papua New
Guinea, Bermuda vs.
Singapore, Fijl va. Malaysia,
Wales vs. Sri Lanka and the
Netherlands vs. United

States. Those games were .
_Tescheduled for today.

ere Tes

"As far a8 we're con-
cerned this is an excellent
arrangement for an ex-
pansion club,” said
Ferguson, referring to the
Jets entry into the NHL.

+) Mt provides..us. with . the .

Means to develop.our young
personnel and ... [’m sure we
will be receiving some well-
coached hockey players,”

‘Mike Smith, 33, has been
named coach of the Oilers.
Smith was an assistant
coach with Colorado Rockies
last. season and previously
was with Ferguson in New

York where he acted as both
scout and assistant coach
with the Rangers.

Gilbert said he is locking

forward to the association, _
*1 know John Ferguson's

history and. it shows he js a
most ‘réelablo~- individual,”
said Gilbert.

Last season the Oilers had
players supplied ‘from’ the
Atlanta Flames organization
while In the two previous
seasons = Tulsa was
associated with both Atlanta
and Vancouver Canucks .of
the NHL,

SUN CITY, Ariz. (AP)
— Snickers and catcalls
greeted 18 retirement-age

m pom girls when they

rat pranced on. to the
softball field-in April.

But when the panel-
skirted steppers began to
swish their orange and
yellow pom poms to disco
music, heads turned and |
even the visiting softball
players “squatted to
watch.

Silver-haired . Foofie
Harlan bounced along the
sidelines with hand-
springs and cartwheels
while Gerri Parker and
76-yearold squad director
Corrine Leslie stood on
their heads, :

Pom poms swirled an
tennis shoes made-
Rockette-style lines in the
air’ under stadium
floadlights. Then the girls
pranced off the field to
cheers and a standing
ovation.

SILVER POMS
- DAZZLE THEM

“No, ’'m not old enough

make the rounds. of

“That was un-
believable,’ a young
sports writer told a re-
porter for the Sun City
NewsSun, “Did you see
that old gal doing hand-
springs and the splits?”

Handspringer Foofie's
daughter watched the
show and was asked if she
too performed acrobatics.

yet,”’ she replied. “TI feel
like I'm my mother’s
mother.”

The pom pom. squad
performs between games
of softball doubleheaders
in support of the local Sun
City Saints. © Squad
members were recruited
from Corrine Leslie's
dance classes,

When ‘they're not
tossing poms in front of
1,000 fans at Sun City
Stadium, the girls per-
form at high schools and

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