More than sport We were reminded on Wednesday that sport can be so much more than winning and losing, than point spreads and statistics. We were reminded by a bunch of kids on the North Shore, that sport can truly bring out the better side of human nature. A group of grade 10 kids at Hamilton Secondary, plus a bunch from Prince Charles school for the handicapped put together a series of floor hockey games culminating in a grand championship Wednesday at noon. It was more than a sporting event. It was a visible manifestation of the kind of thing more of us should be doing — but don’t. Last year Jim Martin, a phys ed teacher at Hamilton became aware that there was no inter-play with kids at Prince Charles. It wasn’t long before a group of grade 10 students had organized lunch hour floor hockey games — the showpiece event which took place Wednesday. And through that action, much more than games has taken place. According to sources from both schools, there is far more openness between the two schools, and the kids at Prince Charles have in a very real sense been able to break through the barrier of fear and ignorance which so often we throw up in front of the handicapped. The students at Hamilton, along with Martin, have taken an action which is far beyond the playing field and one which is probably greater than they are even aware of at the present. Three North Shore boys are one step closer to a dream of a career playing pro soccer following the NASL amateur draft on Monday in Tulsa. Doug Jensen of Sutherland was a third round draft pick of Vancouver Whitecaps with Greg Borrie of Carson Graham fourth round pick of the Caps. Jim Easton, the son of the Whitecaps first coach, and a student at Sutherland, was selected by the Tampa Bay Rowdies as their second choice. The drafting however, is only one small step on a difficult path to a pro sport career. The youngsters and their families will have to decide priorities very soon, deciding whether to aim at the game or opt for an education first. It’s a very difficult choice to make. Very few of us ever have the chance at grabbing the golden ring as we ride by. No matter what decision is made and no matter what happens down the road, at least these three students will have had the op portunity to go for it. In one sense, and it ap- plies in life as well as sport, it’s far better to try and fail on the field than to sit high up in the stands wishing ... Vancouver gets Bowl VANCOUVER (UPC) - Soccer Bowl, the North American Soccer League's showcase, has been awarded to Vancouver's new 60,000- seat domed stadium for carly September 1983, Whitecaps’ spokesman Jack Leonard said Thursday. The game was awarded to Vancouver — provided the stadium is completed on schedule by the summer of 1983— at the NASL's meeting earlier this weck in Tulsa, Okla. The announcement was delayed unfil consultation with officials at B.C. Place, the site where the stadium 1s under construction “Needless to say we're delighted,” said Whitecaps’ chairman Herb Capozzi. “I know a lot of people here had been expecting this news and some had even taken it for granted Van- couver would get Soccer Bowl as soon as the new stadium was ready. But it had not been = discussed formally with the league until the mectings at Tulsa, Okla. cartier this week.” Whitecaps president Tony Waiters said the club would likely move into the new stadium as soon as con- struction was compieted — possibly in the midst of the 1983 NASL campaign Body Shop & Mechanical! 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