Are there any hockey fans
on the North Shore? Will the
Nor Wes Caps fold at the end
of the season? Is there a
major junior franchise about
to be established here?

First questions first. At the
Caps home game with the
Vancouver Bluchawks on
Sunday. night, they drew one
of: their ‘better paid at-
tendances of the season with
only 126: people .on “hand.
This coming as the two clubs
played their second game of
a best of nine playoffs:-to
determine. a. round “robin
. candidate for the B:C. Junior
Hockey League - “coast

The break even point in
the league, according to the
Caps owner Jim Harrigan, is
around 300 per game. For

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‘con't comment’

the Caps’ average
tendance this year you're
looking in the neigh-
bourhood of about 100 each
match.

at-

This fact disturbs “the
players and coach Jim Hall
quite a bit. Last week Hall
said, “Tf I were Mr. Harrigan
I don't know if I'd continue
to operate here. The team is -
playing good hockey. We've
got two of the top. five
scorers in the division, we've
got fighters, we've got
hitters, we've got everything.
The trouble with people in

this town is they just: don't

jhave time to support junior
hockey.

“Where I come from is a

" place of maybe 1000 people"

and 700 would show up for a

hockey gametthere.”_-
After Sunday's contest, a

6-5 loss, Hall fumed, “It’s no

‘GIRL'S BASKETBALL ACTION

Hillside, West Vancouver
and Carson Graham senior
giris basketball squads have
all clinched a spot in the
North Shore Round Robin
playoffs which started
Tuesday.

Sutherland Sabres and
Windsor Dukes arc still

Yora

Not only is Terry Yorath a
top ranked = mid-field
general, but the newly
signed Whitecap is, ac-
cording to G.M. Tony
Waiters, ai ‘fanatical
Welshman”.

Yorath, a 30 year old six
footer started his carcer with
Leeds, then moved to
Coventry City before joining

Tottenham in 1979.

At present, he is captain

Hepa

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vying for the fourth and final
spot, and. if Windsor beats
Sutherland on Thursday,
both could end up in a two-
way tic.

If the tie occurs, a tie
breaker game, to be played
on Friday would be
necessary.

of the Welsh World cup
entry, and has SA “caps”
picked up since 1969.
Waiters says Yorath will
be allowed to rejoin. the
national team for their game
against the Soviet Union on
May 30 and again on August
9 when Wales takes on
Czechoslovakia.
Maintaining a connection
with the North American
Soccer League, Wales is

g toN.

use. I don’t care any more or
wish to talk about it again.”

But despite -the poor’ at-
tendance figures, Harrigan
says at this time that he plans .
to operate the club next
year, and hopes to see better
support. But possibly the
support will be for a major
junior club, and it could be
the New Westminster
Bruins.

“I can’t comment on that.
Maybe in two weeks. there
could. be something,” . says
Harrigan in answers to
‘rumours of this situation, He
notes that he has spent a lot
of money on the Caps and
that they would have folded
last year if he hadn't stepped
in. In an effort to get people
out, he switched game nights
from Friday to Sunday, but it
hasn't worked.

CAP COMMENTS

While most of the playoff
spots have already been
decided, West Vancouver
Highlanders continued to
impress the entire. province
with two exhibition vic-
tories. .

West Vancouver knocked
off the second ranked

managed by former Seattle
Sounder Mike Engtand.

Earlier in the season
Yorath had expressed
concern about where he
played because he did not
want to ‘jeopardize his
standing with the Welsh
national] team, which is in a
position to move into the
final 24 teams in Spain in
1982.

While with Leeds, Yorath

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_are performing regardless,

-a “fanatical Welshman’

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. Despite outplaying the
- Bluehawks Sunday, the Caps

- up on the scoreboard for the

lost 6-5 after blowing a 4-1
lead. They suffered a lapse
in their own end at times but
‘were victims of some soft
‘goals, according to Coach
‘Hall ... In the series opener
on Friday. at Kerrisdalie
Arena, the Caps ran into
indifferent officiating and
took many penalties, losing
the game 6-1 ... Caps are
playing with just nine for-
wards and five defencemen.
Five of those’ players have
assorted injury problems but

which isn’t- surprising
knowing the competitive. i
nature of the present edition

. Next games are at North
Van Rec Centre tonight and
on Sunday. The current
municipal workers’ strike
hasn't affected the North
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Friday.

played with Whitecap coach
Johnny Giles, and assistant
coach Peter Lorimer.
Along with Irish cen-
treback Jimmy Holmes,
Yorath now gives the
Whitecaps a range of

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Scots to go along with the
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