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Boxing

Face and fiction about
fighting. Prose and poctry on
pugilism. Let’s get rrreeaad-

ddy to read The Book of

Boxing edited by W.C. Heinz
and Nathan Ward
(Toral/Sports  Hlustraved).
Before you see Norman
Jewison’s sure-to-be-nomi-
nated-for-an-Osear movie,
read Hurrivane: The
Miracutons Journey of Rubin
Carter by James S. Hirsch
(Houghton Mifflin). It’s the
true story of how a boy from
Brooklyn sprung a wrongly
accused boxer from jail, with
the help of some Canadians.
Muhanmad Ali: Ringside by

various authors (Bulfinch
Press) is the greatest book
about the Greatest. Jt features
’ dramatic photos and a collec-
. tion of reproduced. bout
posters. .

Curling

- Ever wonder why people
throw rocks.at ice houses?
Vancouver’s Warren Hansen

has the’ answer in Curiing:
' The’ History,: the Players, te -

Game. (Key. - - Porter).
Everything you ever: wanted

Dick

to know about Scotland’s
ond-greatest: export: (hage
being number one).

Cycling

Keep the rubber side
down is a message from Dr.
Saul Miller and Peggy Maass

Tite,
okol, the Vancouver
Canucks, New York Mets and
Canada’s aational — cveli
team find their me
Hill is a top Ame!
who now coaches — in
Vancouver. Together, they
want to help cyclists pur their
pedals to the mental.

Football

The dawg pound has
reopened! Read all about it i
The Cleveland Browns: The
Official Illustrated History
(The Sporting = News}.
Defensive tackle Bob Lilly
was the Dallas Cowbovs* first
draft pick and first Hall of
Famer. He tackled the num-
ber 10° ranking in The
Sporting «News — Selects
Footbali’s 100 Greatest Players:
A Celebration of the 20th
Century’s Best. He had to be
good to play in 196 consecu-
tive games during a 13-3
career.

Golf

Golfers are screaming
Fore! and not because they
have bad aim. Fore! The Best of
Wedchouse an Golf is the title
of a collection of a dozen
short stories about the royal
and ancient game by the jolly
good satirist P.G. Wodehouse.
Pass my tee, Jeeves!: (Mariner
Books/Houghton Mifilin)

50 goals in nine games before
he was 11? If Wayne Gretzky
is your final answer, you get
99 points! Gretzky's early
scoring, binge came at the
Hespeler, Ont., minor he:
tournament in 197]}-72
had 328 other goals that year.
The trivia is part of 99: My
Life In Pictures (Total /Sports
Canada), the pictorial autobi-
ography of — Brantford,
Onraric’s most famous son.
According to Don Weckes’
The Great Gretsky Trivia Book
(Greystone) Gretzky rook the
Edmonton — Oilers’ _ first
National Hockey League
penalty; Two minutes for
slashing at 5:19 of the first
period on Oxt. 10, 1979.
One Hundred Years of
Hockey: The Chronicle of &
Century on Ice (Key Porter)
features a gallery of historical
photos and the puck prose of
five golden scribes: . Ezic
Duhatschek, Red Fisher,
Trent Frayne, A! Strachan and

_Rejean Tremblay.

The Hanson Brothers of

~ WWF Wrestelmania

Slap Shot were inspired by
three plavers on the World
Hockey Association’s
Minnesota Fighting Saints.
Learn more about the WHA
and its quirks in Scott Adam
Surgent's The Complete
Historical and Statistical
Reference to the World Hockey

acintion 1972-1979 (Xaler

Font}.

Riddle uf

Russian Rocket
(Greystone) is Kerry Banks’
look at the mysterious life of
the dark prince of hoe!

The Glory Barons: The
Saga of the Edmonton Oilers
by Douglas Hunter (Viking)
goes behind the scenes in the
City of Champions while The

Leafs: An Anccdotal History of

the Toronto Maple
Jack = Batten (Key

Leafs by
Porter

Books) is a paen to the boys

in blue. Guardians: The Seeret
Life of Gonlies by Gary
Mason/ Barbara Guan
(Andrews McMeel) goes
behind the mask with the
great puckstoppers of yeszer-
day and today.

Two words describe The
Girlfriend's Guide ta Hockey by
Teena Spencer with Will
Ferguson and Bruce Spencer
(Key Porter): relationship saver!

Rowing

Rower/writer Craig,
Lambert waxes philosophical
about rowing and the mean-
ing of life in Alind Over
Water: Lessons On Life From
The Art of Rowing (Mariner
Books/ Houghton Mifflin).
® See page 24 for your
chance to wina copy of

. Wayne Gretzky’s 99: My Life

In Pictures or Curling: The
History, the Players, the
Gamez by Warren Hansen.

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