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FOOTBALL... Carson
Graham Eagles downed
Handsworth Royals 27-6
to win the ninth annual
Buchanan Bowl — fast
Saturday at Kinsmen Field.

Carson's victory gives
the Eagles a 6-3 Buchanan
Bowl record. The game
began in 1986 in honor of
former Carson vice-princi-
pal Jim Buchanan.

in other North Shore
action, Windsor lost 27-0
in Seaside, Oregon, while
West Vancouver wis
blanked 47-0 by Mouat.

SOCCER... The North
Shore Selects came within
one goal of winning the
Canadian Under-15 bays
soccer championship on
Monday.

The team. couched by
Jim = Dunnett, sailed
through the preliminary
round iwinning all three
games and oulscoring
Opponents 13-1. They
opened the tournament on
Friday with a 9-1 drubbing
of the Newfoundland
champion side from Burin

Peninsula. In that game, .

Craig Cuthbert fed the
Selects with five goals,

After shutout victories
against Winnipeg and
Lakeshore, Quebec (3-0
and 1-0, respectively). the
B.C. champion Selects
faced-off against Ontario
champion Wexford in
Monday's gold medal
match.

Deadlocked |-! after 90
minutes, the teams headed
to overtime. But Wexford
netted the game winning
goal with only three min-
utes remaining in the sec-
ond extra-time period.

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CHRYSLER

Kearne

Spectat or

JOHNNY CHUNG and the
Howe Sound Basketball
League have this in common;
both are proof that people
want to believe, and also that
human credulity knows no
bounds.

Both date back marty years and
Vi reminded of them because an
old friend from more rollicking
limes in the newspaper business,
Hugh Watson, is ailing theses days.

Hugh, now undergoing cancer
treatment, was a major participant in
those bad old days when there were
three independentlyowned dailies in
Vancouver. The pay was lousy, but
the fun was unlimited — as Hugh
went out of his way to prove when
he founded the Howe Sound
Basketball League.

With the Wancouver Grizzlies
having just opened training camp, it
seems appropriate to revive memo-
ries of the most famous league that
never was; and of the Michael

om

WHO TO CALL:

Sports Editor

Andrew McCredie

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NEWS phot ers

ARGYLE'S TENNY Bache (left) challenges a Sentinel player during North Shore high school.
fleld hockey action. The Pipers blanked the Spartans 3-0. Argyle plays Howe Sound today at
3:45 p.m. at Hugo Ray Park, while Sentinel travels to Burnaby to take on Burnaby South.

Jordan of his day, a player sa
painfily modest he refused all inter-
views, Take a bow, Leu Sehwarts,
wherever you ure.

Rut first ders deal with Chung,

66 Schwartz started
his record-breaking
scoring spree ina
league that stretched
from Deep Cove to
Horseshoe Bay... 9F

Johnny's football exploits date

"back mere than 50 years to

Plainfield Teachers College in New

: CHRYSLER
1600 Marine Drive, North Vancouver

Jersey, Any of you whu have the
sports sections of Sunday papers in
the U.S, will know that during the
football season they carry the scores
of every conceivable college game.
Most are phoned into The
Associated Press by school publicity
directors.

The Plainfield publicity director
identified himself as Jerry Croydon
and late every fall Saturday alter-
noon in POAT he phoned in the
scores, Halfway through the season,
Plaintield was one of the few
unbeaten, untied college teams, anid
Croydon was asked to suppiy more
details, ; ;

He obliged -— and suddenly
Chung became a celebrity, At that
point this amazing Chinese-
America: running back had scored
57 of thezeam’s 98 points and was
averaging 9.3 yards a carry. Late in
the season Chung was named AP's
college player of the week, and a
writer was dispatched to do a feature
on him.

Then, the awful discovery. There ©.
was no Plainfield. There was no
Chung. There was no Croydon,

There was, however, a New York
stockbroker numed Morris
Newburger, plus some. Wall Street
triends. They drearned up the scam
and for most of 4 college football
season they fooled everyone. \

A decade after Chung scored his
final touchdown, Len Schwartz start-
ed his record-breaking scoring spree
in 2 league chat stretched from: Deep
Cove to Horseshoe Bay, Brittania
and Squamish, and down the other
side wo Porn Mellen and Gibsons,

. Scores, standings and game sto---
dies appeared regularly on the
Vancouver Sua sport pages through
the entire winter of 1951-52.All the
information was orchestrated by |
Watson, at the time a meniber of the:
rival Province sports staff, sind:
phoned in by a news-side reporter
whose voice wouldn't be recognized | -