Sather stalis on
trade talks while

team stalls on ice

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS’ senior vice-president Bob
Pulford phoned Edmonton Oilers’ president and general
manager Glen Sather last week with a desperate plea for

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“We're just not scoring goals,
and we need your cooperation,’’
Palford said, approximately.
“You've got a proven 35-goal
scorer sitting on his butt in Joe
Murphy. What would it take tc
move him to Chicago?”’

As timing would have it, the
Blackhawks were scheduled to
play in Edmonton last Friday
night.

“Let’s talk about it after the
game,’" Sather suggested.

4nd as timing would have it,
‘this was a night Chicago leftw-

inget Steve Larmer would snap
out of a season-long coma with a
six-point performance — two
goals and four assists — con-
tributing to an enibarrassing 8-1
loss before an owly Edmonton
home crowd.

(The next night Larmer scored
three more goals in Chicago’s 5-2
win at Calgary.)

“Uh, pardon me,”’ Sather said
to Pulford in. the weekend after-
math. ‘‘What’s this about your
club not scorzing goals? Fil tell
you what: give us Larmer and
you’ve got Murphy!”’

End of conversation.

‘Murphy and 13-year veteran
Kevin Lowe have been locked in
contract disputes with Sather since
training camp last October. They
_ continue to skate on their own,
waiting for Sather to make a
"move.

... The New York Rangers, Mon-

»' teal Canadiens and Quebec Nor-

_ Giques have ali tried to dea! for
Lowe.) And Chicago wasn't the
... first teant to inquire abou! Mur-

phy. ;

“With. Edmonton struggling to
escape fourth place in the Smythe
Division behind the Canucks,
Flames and Los Angeles Kings,
Sather is deing monitored on a
daily basis, —-
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Next. Monday major league
- basebali’s executive council meets
in Louisville, Kentucky, for the
ential winter meetings, at wiiich
time. there is a strong chance Cin-
cinnati Reds* owner Marge Schott
will be asked to resign.
Schott has been accused of
making racist and anti-Semitic
remarks.

GOAL LINES

She told the New York Times
on the weekend that her references
to “niggers’’ were joke terms.

Schoit was quoted as saying:
“Of course nigger is a demeaning
word. But I know that blacks call
it to each other, too. I’ve been in
the business world for 24 years
and never had any problems with
discrimination. i've got a Jewish
manager in my car dealership who
is like a son to me.”’

Schoti told The Times that it’s
true she keeps a swastika arm
band at home.

“Hitler was good in the begin-
ning,” she says, ‘“but he went too
far.””

Former Cincinnati Reds’
employees have said in depositions
taken in a lawsuit filed ty ex-
conuoller Tim Sebo that Schott
made derogatory references to
blacks and Jews and discriminated
in her hiring practices.

Los Angeies Dodgers’ president
Pete: G’Malicy told the L.A.
Times that Schott should resign if
the statements attributed to her in
the depositions are accurate.

One major league executive
said: “If an investigation proves
her statements are accurate she
will probably be asker to resign at
Louisville.’’

Her defence will be any racial
slurs were made in a ‘‘kidding’’
fashion.

Quite a sense of humor,
wouldn’t you agree?

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36 YEARS AGO -

Harzy Jerome, North Van-
couver’s record-holding sprinter,
is expecied to remain in hospital
for at least two weeks following
an operation to correct a thigh in-
jury sustained at the British Em-
pire & Commonwealth Games.

Eleven-year-old Betsy Whit-
man, a member of the Capilano
Winterclub, won the juvenile girls’
title in the B.C. Coast figure
skating championships at Ker-
risdale Arena in Vancouver.

25 YEARS AGO

North Shore boxers won two ti-
ules and three runner-up placings
at the Pacific Northwest junior
boxing championships held in
Lake City, Washington. Ian Pye
(60 Ibs) and Chris Tus (70 Ibs.)
both won their weight divisions,
while David Johnson (112 Ibs.),
Soe Cooke (306 Ibs.) and Leslie
Hamiften (80 ibs.) were runners-

up in their divisions. All five box-
ers belong to the North-West
Eagles boxing club.

20 YEARS AGO
The southwest corner of

Kinsmen North park has been -

chosen by North Vancouver City
engineers as the most suitable
location for a permanent softball

diamond. Estimated cost of pro- —

viding the diamond is $13,800.

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Losing to only one school in the
B.C. ‘*A’’ Championships, the
Sutherland Sabres senior girls’
volleybuil team came home from
Gibsons with a silver medal and
the highest finish ever for a North
Shore school in 20 years of ‘‘AA”’
and ‘A’ competition. Bonnie
Lene was named to the first all-
star team, while her teammates
Liza Snoaeck and Lisa
Cepeiiauskas were named to the
second all-star squad.

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