. PROVINCIAL UTRRARY . . , THE HERALD. Monday Mav 30. 1977 PAGE? rm ose File ate? VANCOUVER WA FA THON Terrace runner fades after 20 With his sides, arms and legs cramped with pain and his head dazed, 22year-old Trevor Whitaker of Terrace dropped out of the 6th Annual Lion's Gate Roadrunner International Marathon in Vancouver Saturday. With only six miles left in the grueling 26-mile race, Whitaker began tripping over cracks in the side walk and telling himself, ‘Never again.” “My legs were screaming. I hit that brick wall they talk ‘about long ‘distance running. My head was spinning,’ he explained. : , |, Whitaker who came to Terrace from Britain In Febuary had not intended to enter the Vancouver |. | race, But when a friend of his entered his name just before deadline Friday, he made the snap decision to run. “J.wasn't really ready. I got the call (irom his - feiend) Friday afternoon and flew to’ Vancouver Friday night. ‘The race, believe it or not, was at 7:25 Satur Aa ene ; _ . ; Whitaker said 300 runners from Canada and the United States entered the race which circled Stanley Park five times. The Terrace runner managed four laps before his legs seized’ up. : -Chris Bolter of Vancouver won the marathon in a i af 2:22:36. Whitak h ks . : aims " : a 2 t : KRG ca Th net yr, ss : e next test for Whitaker, who works for a sign A couple of cowboys wrestle with their event a annual Kispiox rodeo ‘this iding lit i shop in Terrace, will be the Prince George maratfion namesake during the wild cow milking weekend, These boys finally got their milk. vote people get a crack at riding little cows in th in September. , “1l] be training properly for this one,”.he said. | SA TURDA y. BA SEBALL RO UNDUP Lope ate Whitaker, who sponsors his own running, has for- med aclub here. Called the Skeena Valley Running Club, it boast only seven members at the moment, but Whitaker hopes it will eventually expand to a point. agony? where it can sponsor runners for competition. And why would a man put himself Whitaker says "You get a bit eccentric your times getting better an after a while. You watch through ail that it is like a drug. d better and becomes like adrug; the more youdo the more you want,” he-noted. Vancouver boat. wins Swiftsure VICTORIA (CP) — The 4i-foot sloop Kanata skip- pered by Vancouver ar- chitect Viadimir Plavsic of West Vancouver Yacht Club was declared the unofficial winner Sunday of the annual Swiftsure sailing classic. The Kanata crossed the finish line at 2:47 p.m, PDT al the Ogden Point break- water off Victoria. ! The only boat ahead of Kanata was the 46-foot sloo arlock, owned by Bo ith of Tacoma, Wash. She inished at 2:12 p.m, to win e City of Victoria Trophy (or first to finish. However, Kanata beat Warlock for the coveted ‘Swiftsure trophy n corrected time and caplured the T. Eaton Trophy for first beat in Division Two, In- ternational ‘Offshore Rule rating. Placings of the yachts were unofficial Sunday night -because Royal Vic- toria Yacht club officials had not completed com- . puting corrected times for all boats. Plavsic, who races inter- nationally here and in Europe, sailed Kanata. to eighth place in her division in last year’s Swiftsure. Chicago Cubs move int Jerry Morales’ bases- clearing double: keyed a five-run sixth inning and sent Chicago Cubs on to a 6-3 National League baseball victory Saturday over Pittsburgh Pirates. ‘The triumph was the fourth consecutive and 20th - in the last 25 games for the Cubs, who vaulted past the Pirates into first place in the National League East by one-half game. Jim Rooker had a 2-0 lead and a one-hit shutout going into the sixth when the Cubs struck. ‘ - Ivan DeJesus walked and singles by Gene Clines and Larry Biittner produced one run. Bobby Murcer’ singled to load the bases and Morales followed with his three-run double. Singles by Manny: Trillo and- George. Mitterwald off reliever Kent Tekulve produced the final run, The Pirates scored a run in the second on Phil Gar- CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Richard Petty, streaking from bumper-to-bumper traffic early in the race to a Half-lap lead at the checkered flag, pushed his Dodge to victory Sunday in the 18th annual World 600 stock car race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Petty opened the margin over David Pearson, World 600 defending champion and polewinner at this year’s race, in the final 100 laps of the 600-mile, 44-hour marathhon. Bobby Allison took third two laps back. Allison - finished the race in Benny Parsons’ Chevrolet after Parsons became ill and left the car during the race. Another lap down, Lennie Skaters adopt quota system | HALIFAX (CP) .— The Canadian Figure Skating Association (CFSA) has adopted a quota system to determine how many skaters can compete at the national championships each =—s-year, . An age limit of 18 years for novice dance com- petitors and new testing procedures for competitive skaters were also approved — at the association's annual meeting Saturday, a spokesman said. Under the quota system, each of the four divisions of the CFSA will be allowed to division. could send one additional entrant. ; The maximum number of entries for each event would ‘ he six, said the spokesman, send one skater, usually the . winner of each regional competition, to the national championships. _ ‘Thereafter, entries will be limited hy the success at- tained by skaters the previaus If a division had a skater finish in the top 10 at the Canadian championships the previous year, it wou id _ be entitled to send an ad- ditional competitor ti the one ulready selected by winniig a division title.n ff in the previous year a division's skalers Finished in the top five, it would be entitled lo send another competitor to the next National championship Kor each first, second or third. lace finish at the rational evel the previous year, & ear. each division's: “CRSA were Dr. ‘who explained that delegates were concerned ‘over problems in scheduling and judging caused the growing mumher of com: petitors at the national championships. ; in setting 18 as the age limit for competitors in the novice . dance delegates deelded thal the cutoff date would be July 1 of the year preceding the competition. ‘The new testing structure is designed to help com- petitive skaters hone their skills for “international events. In the past, both competitive and non-com.- petitive skaters have used the same — tests, spokesman said. The delegates said there should be Lougher tests for ‘competitive: skalers, who nee more schooling in advance of internationnl competitions Elveled directors af the Sunarine Kraneis of Toranta, Soyer Hisey of ‘Toronto, Bruce - Miller of Portage das Prairie, Man., Bilizabeth Swann of Clarenville, Nfld., and Ann Poherty of Win nipeg. _ Winston ‘National point series going _ Yarborough ‘fo its feet as he event, j the Petty wins world 600 | stock car classic Pond was fourth in a Chevrolet. Cale Yarborough, who was leading in the lucrative Cup Grand into the race, never led. He was plagued bycar trouble . and was out of competition for 37 laps late in the con- test, but he finished. Petty, who slarted the race on the front raw beside Pearson, tangled with Pearson, Donnie Allison, and Buddy Baker in the first 30 laps with the lead changing 25 times until Petty moved in. for good on lap 270. Petty led for 311 of the 400 laps and cilected $35,000 in bonuses for lap leaders as part of his $69,300 share of the $303,550 purse. Petty, whose only other victory in the World 600 ~ came in 1965, brought the estimated crowd of 115,000. . and the others swapped the lead during the early running. Chicago horse sets mark ; MONTREAL (CP) Warm Breeze, driven by Diek Farrington, paced the mile in 1:55 3-5, a Canadian: harness racing record, Sunday to win the §$56,-200) featured ninth race for aged pacers at Blue Bonnets Raceway. - Farrington, 50, of Rich- wood, Ohio, pushed the four- year-old pacer, starting in the: No. 6 position, into the lead by the halfmile mark and beat the national record of 1:56 1-5, set by Armhro Nadie herein the 197% Prix d'Bte. Oniy the world recard af 1:54 3-5 set hy Albatross al Chicage’s Sportsman Park in 1972, tops Warn Breeze's time on a fiveeiphths of a mile oval ner's run-scoring double, added another in the third on an RBI single by Dave Parker and capped their scorin with Willie Stargell’s homer in the ninth inning. Chicago starter Rick Reuschel left the game for a pinch hitter in the fifth and s brother, Paul, worked a ° rfect sixth before leavin, or a pinch ‘batter. Pau Reuschel gained the victory and relief ace Bruce Sulter finished up to earn his 13th gave, — In other Nationa! League . action, Cincinnati feds downed Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 a8 George Foster slugged two buses- empty home runs and Ken Griffey added a two-run smash. Jerry Royster’s two-out,: tworun single in the eighth inning cracked a scorciess tie. and. carried Allanta Braves to 2-1 victory over San Francisco Giants. Ken Reitz slugged’ his second home run in as many games, delivering a three-run blast in the third inning ‘o lead St. Louis Cardinals to a 7-5 victory over Montreal Expos. Richie Hebner’s two-run homer in the 10th inning carried Philadelphia Phillies to a 4-2 win over New York Mets. George Hendrick and Mike Ivie belted two-run homers as San Diego Padres jumped toa six-runtend and Irwin squeaks. held on for a,6-5 victory over Houston Astros. . ., In American League play, designated hitter Jim Rice drove in five runs with a pair of home runs and a single to help Boston Red Sox to rally for a wild 17-12 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Richie Zisk knocked in three runs to pace Chicago White Sox to a 0-4 victory aver New York Yankecs. Dick Pole and ex-Tiger past unknown ATLANTA (AP) — Hale Irwin, faced with the unexpected and -unlikely heroics of longshot Steve Veriato, had to birdie the final hole for a five-under- par 67 and a one-stroke victory Sunday in the s20),000 Allanta golf tour- nament, — . Irwin acquired the eighth . victory of his career. and first of the senson with a 273 {otal, 15 under par on the humid, hilly Atlanta Country Club course. Crucial passed ball gives Phillies victory PHILADELPHIA (AP) Dave Johnson highlighted a four-run second inning with a two-run single = as Philadelphia Phillies capitalized on a crucial two- out passed hall by New York catehoer Werry Grote and went on to beat the Mets 7-6 Sunday in a National League baseball game. Philadelphia starter Jim Kaat, 1-2, went down swinging for the apparent third out of the second. in- nine but reached first safely when Grole let Jon Matlack's third strike gel by him, Garry Maddox doubled and Ted Sizemore walked lo load the bases. Johnson then ripped two-run single and ou third run trotted home on an error by third baseman Roy Staiger. Jerry Martin had fed off the inning wilh his second homer’ and the Phillies led 5-4... Ollie Brown had doubled in a fiest-inning run for Philadelphia. ; The Phillies added a run in the fourth on Sizemare's runscoring single and another run in the sixth on Mike Schmidt's sacrifice y. ‘The Mets scored all their rans oan homers Mike Vail's threerun blast in the first, Bud Harrelson's - leadoff shot in the fifth anda iworun homer by John Milner in the ninth. U.S. wins zone finals in tennis TORONTO (CP) The United States split: twa singles matches with Canada on Sunday to win the North American zone final of the Dubler Cup, a com- petition similar to the Davis Cup” for international amateur velorans. The U.S. won the best-of five series 3-2 to advance 10 the four-country final July 2 at Hamburg, Wesl (ier many. In’ Sunday's matches, ‘Jason Morton of Houston, Tex., beat playing caplain Ken Sinclair of Toronto 6-1, “7-5, then Val Harit of. Montreal downed Del Sylvia. daycotte Beof on SECOCOUSS, ‘THE TERRACE JAYCETTES sincerely thank € Jucrwailed, Totem ‘Beverages, Totem. TV, McGavins, Wilkinson Business Machines and. Dairy Land who all helped Ehrowugh their contribution to make the the dayece Trades Fair a complete the Bun booth at Thankyou -of Nampa, Ila. 65, 64. Morton defeated Harit 6-1, 3, and Sylvia topped Sin- Chir 67, 64, 64 in Satur- day's singles matches, Sinclair and Unrit com- bined to bent Homer Richards of Charlotte, Va. and Chuck DeVoe af In Wianapolis .64, 76 in doubles. 1 Bill Laxton combined . to , Scatter seven hits, while “Ruppert Jones slammed ‘a home run to lead Seattle Mariners to a 3-1 victory over Detroit. ; Jesse Jefferson and Pete Vuckovich combined to pitch a six-hitter, leading Toronto Blue Jays to a 6-4 victory over California Angels. Jim Palmer tossed a five- hitter while Mark Belanger tripled home one run and scored another to give o first place. Baltimore Orioles a 3-1 victory over Minnesota ‘Twins. , Doc Medich and Bob Lacey combined for a four- hitter 1o give Oakland A's a §-1 baseball, victory over Cleveland and snap the Indians winning streak at five. Jim Wohlford, getting his 10th hit in his last 22 times at bat, drove in two runs and scored another to lead Milwaukee Brewers to a 3-1 victory over Texas Hangers. Yes No Inflation protection 440,000 Building 1,400 off premises 100,000 Personal liability Ad48 Lakolses Avene Torrare, 1.0. 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