by Andy Fraser

callous disregard

WHEN A SPORT continues to destroy lives, then
it is highly objectionable for the defenders of that -
sport to complain about the ‘professional do-
gooders’ who start to question the necessity of the

sport in its present form.

We speak of course of
boxing and the unfortunate
incident involving the young
Korean, Duk-Koo Kim. The
sad thing is that Kim is not
the first, but simply the latest
in a long list of deaths and
brain injury from this ‘sport’.

.--—It’s-easy for the.
and the media is included in
this, to sit back and say that
boxing can police itself and
that the ‘do-gooders’ ‘have to
stay out of it. That’s a callous
disregard for human life.

To knock a person ‘out by
hitting them on the head is
an act designed to create a
type of brain damage. That's
generally the only way they
lose consciousness.

And from that knowledge,
it becomes difficult for some
of us to accept boxing where
blows of this nature are
allowed.

In minor hockey, right up
through junior ranks, the
players must wear helmets,
and in fact in recent years, it
has spread to most of the
pros.

That's done to prevent
injuries to the head.

Boxing, where,the head is
a prime target,’ doesn’t have
that protection.

What is
disturbing is the feeling that
the majority of ‘fans’ don’t
want change.

lf this is the case, then
perhaps the next thing that
should be advertised is the
possibility of death oc-
curring in the ring, ‘right
before your very eyes.’

Sport must not become a
blood sport no matter how
many of the mindless mob
scream for that approach.

Our society does not seem
all that healthy today when

you look through the movie

‘particularly

listings, the magazines on
the high shelves, and the
video material in some of
those cultural palaces that
scream most about peoples’ *

‘rights.’

And in our sporting

events, we're reaching a
i level,

Of course boxing is a sport

designed solely at the

professional level to hurt and
damage the opponent. And .
don’t talk about the points
and the skill. That's a lost art
that survives in very few
corners at the amateur level.
In the pros you destroy.

And hockey too has
reached a new low. Stick
Swinging incidents are on the
rise with players seemingly
having lost any concept of
‘sportsmanship.’

But perhaps the most dis-
couraging of all is the ap-

Softball

meeting

There will be.a. meeting on »

Monday événing regarding z
the establishment of the ©
Softball |

North Shore
Association for next season.
League organizers, Jack *
Hubbard and Tom Tippen, .
are asking ail
parents, coaches,

who would like to be in-

volved in a softball league to .

attend the meeting.

The meeting will be at
Argyle Secondary School is
North Vancouver at 7:30

p-m., Monday, Rooms 411- |
— 413.

parent lack of concern by
the fans, who, by their lack
of -objections to brutish
behavior, are apparently
condoning the blood sport.

As a sporting society,
we're certainly not growing.
And perhaps that’s in-
dicative of society as a

, whole.

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es# 8
RUMOUR HAS it that Tony
Waiters and Alex Peroli are
__the two names left on the
CSA short list for head™
coach of the National soccer
teams. .

Waiters we know. Peroli is
perhaps best remembered
for having pulied his team
San Antonio, from the field
against the Vancouver

Whitecaps in the mid 70s
because he disagreed with
_ the referee.

Waiters should be a shoe
in, but with the CSA, one
never knows.

interested ¢ _
umpires -
and juvenile age youngsters °

: .

LYNNWOOD Inn Canucks,
led once again by Mike
Palmer, ran their record to
an unblemished 2-0 in the
young North Shore In-
dustrial Hockey League
Season, with a convincing
10-5 win over the North
Shore News Red Wings last
Saturday night.

Palmer paced the Canucks
with 5 goals and 2 assists
running his league leading
points total to twelve, on the
strength of 9 goals and 3
assists.

Two points back is
Palmer’s linemate Brent
Miller at 6-4-10, after he

__B3 - Sunday, November.21, 1982 - North Shore News —

chipped in with a hat trick
and an assist.

Similar to their victory
over the Maple Leafs one
week prior, the Canucks,
were leading only 6-4 after
the second period. However,
once the Red Wings legs ran
out mid-way through the

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