Vaive wins bet

VANCOUVER (CP} —
Rick Vaive has converted a
$20-aweek job playing major
junlor hockey into a mult.
year National Hocke
League contract wit
vancouver Canucks hecause

was willing to take a
calculated risk.

‘Valve, 20, signed a long-

term contract Thuraday with
Vancouver Canucks
following a brief—one year—
stretch with Birmingham
Bulls of the former World
Hockey Association. The
WHA folded last spring and

four teams were absorbed by
the NHL, but not
Birmingham.

stallations.

‘SKI HILL MEET
TO TALK RATES

BY DON SCHAFFER
Herald Staff Writer

There will be a meeting Tuesday of the Kit-
sumkalum Sid Hill Development committee at
the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District office. .
This meeting will be closed to the public, and will
deal with next year’s operation of the hill.

The meeting is being held to discuss operating
hours, new rates and special events to be
scheduled next ski season. .

According to Jos Konst, ski hill manager , new
facilities including a T-bar lift and lights for
night skiing are expected to be ready for the
opening of the hill at the end of November.
Improved intermediate and beginer's facilities
are also being prepared.

According to Konst, a rate increase can be
expected, bu the exact amount of the increase

be determined at next Tuesday's meeting.
Konst said that the increases would be small,
and that skiing on the hill would be much better
this year than last as a result of the new in-

Iliness doesn't
stop this one

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Rolf
Bonirachke, qu the brink of a
National Football League
record despite an incurable
ailment, said he doesn’t give
any thought io Hs treak of
13 consecutive “féld goals.

It is understandabie,
considering he has mare
important things on his
mind

"T'm really struggling,”
said the 24-year-old kicking
star with San Diego
Chargers. “It’s difficult. It's
areal trying experience that
plays heavy in my mind.”
Son of a prominent
Germanborn eesor who
has been hailed for his
zoological contributions,
Bentrachke is battling
Crohn's disease, a rare
ailment that attacks the
digestive system.

A year ago, when his
weight plunged to 150 pounds

She sees

gold ahead

EDMONTON (CP) — The
itinerary is set: Diane Jones
Konlhowski has pencilled in
the gold-medal stand at the
Moscow Olympics next
summer as the last stop.

She hits the road next
Thursday, beginning a
schedule that includes three
atopa In Europe and @ four-
month stay in New Zealand.

She also takes on a new
training partner soon in the
person of younger aister
Joanne JonesAnderson —
“her name is hyphenated,
mine is not hyphenated” —
who has followed Diane into
the world of pentathlon and
is currently competing at the
World Student Games in
Mexico.

Firat stops will be Poland
and West Germany, where
she intends to work of
hurdles. She admits it's her
weakest event.

“'T'my going to Poland for 21
daya and then I'm golng to
Munich to meet with my
coach, Lyle Sanderson”
Jones Konihowsid said in an
Interview and she and
busband John rejaxed in
their apartment.

She will train with Polish
hurdles and pentathlon
coach Stawomir Nowak, an
opporiunity for which she
credite her fusband. He
arranged the meeting in
Ukrainian. Nowak can't
speak English except far two
important words: “sprint”
an ‘rq! /

"He has slx of the top hur-
ders in the world, including
the world »frcord holder
(Grazyn yn), Jones
Konthowsld said.

She said Nowak has
followed her progress for
some time, elnce the Poles
have no worldclass
pentathlete ard would ilke to
pee someone challenge the
Weatern Eu n stars in
that event, And she was
looking forward to working
with him,

“What you learn from Eu
ropean cas you can’
read in books,” .

He helped her two yeare
ago when che was § ing
in the hurdles, teking off on
the wrong leg during a race
in Spain. Lee

from 173, he connected on 18
of 22 field goal attempts —
second best in the NFL to
Miami's Garo Yepremian.
Henirschke had made a
remarkable 39 of 49 atlempts
in his two-year career, a
success rate of 80 per cent.

In last week's season
opener at. Seattle,
Benirschke tied a -club
record with four field goals
and moved to within three of
the NFL mark that is held by
Kansas City’s Jan Stenerud
and Don Cockroft of
Cleveland.

Sunday, he takes his
streak against Oakland
Raiders. — the team that
walved him two years ago.

“T hold no grudge against
them," he sald. “In fact, I'm
looking forward to seeing a
lot of old friends after the
game.”

Benirachke was the last
player taken in the 1977 draft
and the last Oukland player

cut.

“The Raiders won the
super Bowl that year and
there -ivas a story that Al
Davis (the club's general
managing partner) doubted
whether a rookie could
handle the pressure.”

Five w later, hia two
fleld goals helped San Diego
defeat the Raiders for the
first time in nine years, 12-7,

This is the second streak of
13 in his brief NFL career.
“The other one ended
against Oakland last year.”

He talks of the illness, but
reluctantly, saying: “I don't
want it to be an excuse. But it
has reversed my lifestyle 100
per cent.”

Because he has no
appetite, he must
supplement his dally diet
with milkshakes and other
nutrlents to keep his weight
from dropping.

Even with that, “i have no
energy,” sald the 6-foot-1
kicker.

While sclentists know little
about Crohn's disease, Ben-
irschke sald it can be con-
trolied, “‘but because they

don't know what causes It,

they don’t know how to cure

He said there is only a re-
mote chance that be could
have contracted the virus
through his work with
animals. -

Meantime, he attributes
his success to an
exaggerated follow-thra:
and the fact that his kicks
rarely hook, a problem for
most soccer atyle booters.

The six-faot-one, 190-
pounder who patrols the
right wing, gaid it was worth
taking the tamble a year
ago, when he turned pro-
fessional with Birmingham,
rather than another year of
junior hockey’ with
Sherbrooke Heavera of the
Quebec Junior League.

“<7 was ready for a change, I
had nothing more to prove in
unior,” said the curly-

jred native of Ottawa who
nowresidesin |
Charlottetown. ‘1 didn't
think i couid learn anything
more in’ junior and the
money, of course, waa
inviting.

“When you're earning $20
a week, anything looks good
after that. I wanted a mare
comfortable lifestyle, and 1
found that in the WHA.”

‘The Canucks made Vaive
their first-round draft

_ cholee— fifth over-all—in the

NHL’s entry draft last

month, the third time *

they’ve cliosen a player from
the Quebec junior league in
their 10-year NHL history.
The others were defenceman
Jocelyn Guevremont of Mon-
treal in 1971 and left winger
Jere Gillis of Sherbrooke two
years ago.

“There's no doubt that
we're counting on Vaive to
help our goal production in
the coming season,” sald
coach Harry Neale of the
Canucks, “All reporta we
have on Vaive say he can
score goals and he’s willing
to pay the price in the cor:

Vaive said it wasn't a
tough decision to turn proa
year early last season
because the WHA “offered a
lot more than major junior,”

"It was tough for a few
weeks, even a few months,
getting used to the travel, the
Nfestyle and the
competiveness," Valve said
in an interview. ‘1 had some
doubts about my decision
early in the season, but after

-a few times around the
league, I gained a little
onfidence and before long 1
liked the kind of way I was
living.

"y don't think the
transition to the NHL will be
that difficult because there
shouldn't’ be that much
difference between the WHA

and the NHL. I got used to.

the travelling last year and I
certalnly like the way the
pros live."

Vancouver has a definite
weakness on right wing,
where only Stan Smyl and
Rick Blight seem to have
NHL credentials. And,
Blight Is coming off a poor
season, after averaging
better than 25 goals a year in
his first three seasons in the
NHL."

“Dm “ap... up-and-down
winger, a guy who tries to do
his job,"* Valve said. “I don't
mind going into the corners
or mixing it up."

That should be good news
for the Canucks, who have
had more than their share of
timid wingers in their first
nine years in the NHL.

McEnroe
takes
Dibbs

NEW YORK (AP) |
Eddie Dibbs played three
games Thursday against

third-seeded John McEnroe, .

then retired from their
quarter-final match in the
United States Open tennis
tournament.

The start of the match was

delayed twice by raln and -

was just barely under way
when the umpire announced
Dibbs could not continue.
Moments later it was
announced that he had pain
in his back.

Serving at 1-2, Dibba was
down 0-30 when he retired.

It was the second walkover
tor McEnroe, John Lioyd de-
faulted from their third-
round match with a stomach
disorder.

McEnroe advanced the
semifinals against defending
champion Jimmy Connors.

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NEW JOB

CINCINNATI (AP) ~
Dave Bristol probably was
pretty tired for his coming:

_ out party 8 the interim

manager of San Francisco
Giants on Thureday night.
- “] found a country station
last night," Bristol said
Thursday, “‘and I stayed up
all night. Listened to the
words in every song.”

That's because hours
earlier, in the city where
Bristol got his major league
manager's atart, he got
another job as a big league
baseball bogs, San Francisco
owner Bob Lurle named
Bristol to replace Joe
Altobelli, last year's
Natlonal League manager of
the year.

Bristol. managed
Cincinnati Reds for 3%

ears, .

He also directed Atlanta
Braves to two consecutive
lastplace finishes in the
National League Weat in 1978
and 1977, losing 101 games
the second year,

In his two-plus years

_managing Milwaukee, the

Brewers were in sixth twice
and fifth once.

But Bristol knowa that
sometimes losing ian’t the
manager's fault. That's what
John Curtis, a San Francisco
pitcher, sald about Altobelli,
The ax that fell on Altobelll’s
head could just as quickly
fall on Bristol's.

“Any manager always
lives with that,” Bristol said,
“I lived with it here. 1 know
some guys who can’t put it
out of their mind, [ do. You

have to.
Altobelli was let out after a
225-239 major league

managing record. The -

Giants, after Wednesday's
loas to the Reds, were 61-89,
or 18% games behind the
division-leading Astros. The
team was 417 in the last
three weeks and 16-32 since
the all-star break.

He mansged Baltimore
Orisles' Rochester farm
team to five {first-place
finishes in six years, The
Giants, after finishing fourth
in Altobelll’s first year, were
in first place for three
months in 1978 before
slumping in August 7. +6

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Cosmos sell th

EAST RUTHERFORD,
NJ. (AP) — Tony Waiters
knows it, Vancouver
Whitecaps know it and the
North American Soccer
League coffers will soon find
out — a Soccer Bowl without
New York Cosmos means
less fans in the stands,

THe Whitecaps eliminated
the Cosmos last week in
semi-final action, putting
ticket sales for Saturday's
Soccer Bow] againat Tampa
Bay Rowdies at Giants
Stadium in a state of limbo.

The revenue from the :

60,000 seats sold before the
Ccamos lost is money in the
bank, but a box office survey
showed that not many tickets
were being purchased this
week, There are likely to be
plenty of no-shows Saturday.

“There's a strong rumor
going around the NASL, ABC
and | Warner
Communications that they
all failed to send us the script
to loge-so the Cosmos could
be in the Soccer Bowl,’ said
Waiters, the Vancouver
coach.

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Coamos is good to sell the
game. But they have an
ambition to became the best
club in the world and they
need competition from
within the league. This also
shows that a chequehook
doesn't answer all prayers.
It's definitely a team game.’

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