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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.

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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.

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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.

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