WINTER GAMES... .

' As reported in the
Wednesday, Feb. 28
issue, North Van's
Katie Paterson won 4
silver medal in the
female J2 giant slalom

at the B.C. Winter :

; Games, What wasn't ’

: reported was that she
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| RUGBY.. The West

Vancouver Secondary
School senior rugby
team is raising funds
for a trip to Asia by
holding an annual
2 spring
Manure Sale.

A door-to-door sale
will take place prior to
March 9 in West
Vancouver and on-site
sales will be available

! on March 9 in West
Vancouver at the Park
and Ride lot adjacent
to Gleneagles Golf

7¢ Course and at the
: Caulfeild Exit. The

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cost is $5 per bag or 5 5:

bags for $20, including
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PITCH... The North
Shore seniors slo-pitch

club will field three.

teams — one compet-
itive, two social — in

: the upcoming season,
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SLO- §

practices | Fx

start this month for the ;

club, and: all players
age 55-plus are wel-
come to come out.

- League play begins

in May, with league
games on Tuesday and
Thursday momings.
«For more informa-
; tion, contact Biil (921-
7844), Del (986-1813)
or Bob (922-0094).

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Gone is the
loyalty from
today’s game

LOYALTY? WHO dragged loyalty into this?

If it must be known, certain members of the Vancouver
media did in all the journalistic kerfuffle over Wayne
retzky’ 's move from Los Angeles to St. Louis.

_fhere was this criticism that he was

that made hae ishes and aggran-

the growingly disorganized and sada
Kings.

How quaint. Had they not noticed that
loyalty has become an outdated word in
professional sport? Indeed, inasmuch as
sport is held up as a microcosm of the real

the world, isn’t it just part of what we are
pleased to cali the market cconomy?
Spectator Certainly. Greed is good. Loyalty? Forget
it.

The only loyalty currently in vogue today is to one’s own best inter-
ests. There are, of course, exceptions tu the rule. But you don't need an
adding machine to count them.

All of which brings us back to the Gretzky critics. Would any one of
them in the position of working for a firm on the business skids, tum
down an opportunity to make more money with a company on the rise?
Of course not. Which is exactly what Gretzky did.

Before he leaves the scene, he wants a chance at being part of a fitth
Stanley Cup winner. Nothing wrong with that, With the Blues — espe-
cially if they make one or two more deals to beef up their scoring —-
he'll have that chance.

With the Kings, no chance at all. Actually, he did them a favor, inas-
much as St. Louis had to part with three young prospects and a first round
draft choice in order to land him. He could have played out the season in
L.A. and then signed with another team. And the Kings wouldn't have got
diddly as compensation.

Loyalty — or, actually, lack of it — has become a two-way street in

ro sport ever since the arrival of free agency. In the bad, not-so-old
days, loyalty went only one way. The reserve clause bound the player to
his team for life; or for as tong as the owner wanted to keep him around
before trading him, firing him or sending hiri to the minors.

Before free agency found its recent way into hockey, Gretzky found
out the hard way about the one-way nature of loyalty. That's when cash-
strapped Peter Pocklington sold him to the Kings.

Now the skate, so to speak, is on the other foot.

But as players move from team to team with ever-increasing frequen-
cy, and as some team owners all but match them in moving teams from
city to city, and all team owners keep raising the price of admission. the
one remaining source of loyalty is sorely tested.

That would be the paying customer, whose capacity for punishment
seems infinite, but whose foyalty remains undiminished. When and if
that loyalty goes the same way as loyalty everywhere else has gone, lis-
ten for the choking noise. It just may be the death rattle of pro sport as
we know it.

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