sport

Lynn Valley
baseball results

A total of 21 games weré
played in Lynn Valley Little
League Baseball the week of
May 25-31. Below is a list of
the results.

PEEWEE

Lonsdale Auto Body 17 -
Westube 12, Color Your
World 8 - North Star Lights
7, West Wan Cartage 21 -
_Ken ‘N Cleaver 12, Lonsdale
Auto Body 9 - North Star
Lights 8, Westube 15 - Color
Your World 4, Bad News

Bears 16 - Color Your World
1.

MINOR

John's Welding 16 -
Skyline Sports 3, Nelmaco
21 - Cable 10 - 4, Jack's

HARTFORD, Conn.
(UPI) - Hockey legend
Gordie Howe, who rewrote
the record books dunng a
professional career which
spanned five decades, says
the twilight years were the
most enjoyable

Howe, $2. announced his
retirement Wednesday.
ending the speculation the
past season would be his last
since he had finally fulfilled
one of his oldest dreams to
play alongside sons Mark
and Marty in the National
Hockey League

Howe, who will take a
front office yob with the NHL
Hartford Whalers, said he
has spent the last decade of
his 32-season career free of

Beer

VANCOUVE (UPC)
Spectator sports and beer
drinking have never mixed in
Vancouver at least not
legally, but now BC Lions
and Vancouver Whitecaps

tans will be able to buy beer
at Emptre Stadium

Pacific
Pahibition
Swangard

National
president: Erwin
announced
Wednesday that beer sales
wall probably startin Game for

the June 10 cahibiten game

Kiddy Rides 12 - Taylor-
motive 6, Skyline Sports 12 -
Davis Insurance 6, John's
Welding 14 - Cable 10 - 8,
Nelmaco 10 - Taylormotive
7.

MAJOR

Westar 10 - MG Builders
4, Westiynn Mall 9 - NS
Credit Union 8, Lynn Valley
Lions 5 - MG Builders 2,
Westar 13 - Westlynn Mall 4,
Westar 13 - NS Credit Union
0, Westlynn Mall 4 - Lynn
Valley Lions 3.

PONY

Crash Pad 5 - NS Credit
Union 2, Big Bird Sound 19 -
Davis Insurance 7, Crash
Pad 10 - Davis Insurance 9.

any pressure to play a major
role in his team’s success.

“These last seven or eight
years have been the most
enjoyable,’ he said.
“Nobody expected me to do
what I was meant to do, go
out and skate at my gge.”

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He also said his latest
retirement plans were final
and there was no possibility
of a second retum

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be made by then, Swangard
said the suds would flow by
Junc 14 when the Whitecaps
host Memphis

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Whitecaps,
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Volkmar Gross punched the ball out of danger while Cari Valentine looks on. Gross was a busy man during the
evening but his work paid off as the Sockers downed the Caps 1-0 in a shootout. (Terry Peters photo)

The living legend hangs up his skates

be honest, to be short, no
way,” he said.

Howe said he wanted to
retire while he still had the
opuon of playing.

“I probably had another
half season,” Howe. said,
joined at a news conference
by his family. “I really think
the idea is to leave
something behind.”

“I'd hate to go 32° years
and run short in the middle
of the winter,” he said. “That
would be the sad part. This ts
the happy part.”

Howard Baldwin,
Whalers’ managing partner,
said Howe's No.9 jersey will
be officially retired at
ceremonies sometime
season

next

got the nod last month from
the Liquor Distribution
Branch for beer sales at Nat
Batley Stadium

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sales would not be allowed in
the Empire Stadium stands.
atleast not until the L-DB has

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Howe said he probably
would have retired last year
if the Hartford Whalers had
not joined the NHL last
season.

“That was an opportunity I
couldn't pass up,” he said.”
Howe scored the last goal of

his career against the
Montreal Canadiens in a
first-round Stanley Cup
game, assisted by his son,
Mark

Whalers’ Coach Don

Blackburn praised Howe's
career as the “greatest sports
story ever written” Jack
Kelly, Hartford's director Of
hockey operations said “in
our time, we'll never sce a
player such as Gordie”

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because installathon of
equipment would be too
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Howe will become the Howe recorded a record 801
team’s director of player regular-season NHL goals.
development, responsible He also holds the league
for working with younger record for points and assists.
players and = scouting His NHL career began in
prospects Over his career, Detroit in 1946.

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