38 - Wednesday, July 8, 1998 - North Shore News

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STRICTLY a mixed
grill today, a food anal-
‘ogy not exactly mis-
placed in your agent’s
memories of Emery
Barnes, a fine football
player and an even finer
person. .
” In his time at defensive
tackle with the B.C. Lions —
1957 to 1964 with one year
out, in Hamilton — Emery
indisputably was the team’s
champion trencherman. In
those days of late afternoon
practices (most players had
daytime jobs on the side) it
was customary for the team
to provide a daily training-

meet ~ table dinner.

"He and linebacker
; named Walt Bilecki usually
: * Awere in'a dead heat for first
“to reach the table and last to
leave. Second; third and

fourth helpings were routine.
They didn’t merely eat the
provender set before them.
‘They inhaled it.

Indeed, it was a standing
joke among the players that
Emery and Walt had been so
stiffed by the general manag-
er, Herb Capozzi, at contract
signing time, they had to
tuck in all the groccrics they
could handle because they
couldn’t afford te buy them
at the local Safeway.

So, eight years after his
retirement as a player, when
Barnes won the Vancouver
Centre seat for the NDP in
the 1972 provincial election,
his old teammates, whe also
weren’t exactly overpaid,
were unanimous in their
cheers. Partly because Emery
was a good guy, but mostly
because the incumbent he
unseated was their old neme-
sis — the Socreds* Capozzi.

By those Lions’ oldtimers
still with us, his victory
remains in memory as
“Emery’s Revenge.” |

Given his political career
as an advocate for the poor

__ and disadvantaged, it would

be fitting if the Lions and
their alumni association could
get together to create an
award in his name, to be

AUTOMOTIVE;
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given annually to a player for
contributions to community
service.

At the moment there’s
one major problem: will the
Lions remain in business for
long enough to give such an
award a life span longer than
just the current season? Less
than 16,000 customers for

their season opener? Ina
metropolitan area of 1.5 mil-
lion?

Regina, with a smalier
population than the com-

ined three North Shore

municipalities, drew 22,000
to their opener.

Calgary, with half the
population of Greater

the right thing for

Vancouver, drew 29,000 on
opening night.

Winnipeg put in 22,000.

If there’s an inference to
be drawn, it must be the
same one drawn the last few
years in much bigger
Toronto. Very few people
here — or there — give a
continental anymore about

a

My Grandpa has had two lup uperations in the last wo years

ames

the Canadian Football
League. Crowds as small as

the Lions drew last week have .

been regular fare at the
SkyDome despite the pres-
ence, until this season, of
Doug Flatic and a Grey Cup
champion.

See Gridiron page 39.

Sometimes he has o walk with a cane. My mom says the
hospital really helped Grandpa, and wean help the hospital
by participating in the otek Relay. Ie’s cool! Togehes Mom

and | collect pledges. The money we raise goes to’ Em ney:
Services to buy four Bedside Monitors and one Resuscitation’ os

Room Monitor. Mom says thst we will help lots of people.

I dont know “lots of people”, bur | know my Grandpa.

And I do it to help him!

(A True Lund Family Story)

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