SPORTS

Snippets
from the
sports scene

WHEN BUD Peoile wheels
his car through the gates of
Woodcroft Estates on the
border of West and North
Vancouver, he always looks
for his pal Joe Borovich, a
guard with Executive Secu-
rity.

Greg

GOAL LINES

Poile, the original general man-
ager of the NHL Vancouver
Canucks, has maintained living
quarters at Woodcroft since he
arrived on the West Coast back in
1970..

It was Poile, in fact, who paid
Borovich $5,000 for the Canucks’
new logo prior to the 1970-71
NHL season.

Remember when the colors were
blue, green and white and the logo
was a stylized ‘‘C’’ in the shape of
a hockey rink?

Borovich was running his own
art design company at the time
and submitted the winning entry
when the expansion Canucks ran a
province-wide contest to establish

~ their ‘tnew look.”

A North Vancouver resident
and regular reader of the North
Shore News, Borovich called the
other day to suggest that a ‘‘notes
column’’ pertaining to the local
sports crowd appear in this space
periodically, as opposed to keep-
ing the content to a singie subject.

OK, Joe, this one’s for you ...

Molson Indy Vancouver general
manager Jim Heap remains hope-
ful that Olympic bronze medallist
and Canadian flag-carrier Silken
Laumann- will be part of the
opening ceremonies prior to the
start of Sunday’s $1-million race
at Pacific Place.

Heap has been working on it
for the last couple of weeks. His
efforts included a telephone call to
Barcelona shortly after the coura-
geous sculler captured her medal.

Vancouver mayor Gordon
Campbell is on line to utter the
traditional words, ‘‘Gentlemen,
start your engines’’ at precisely
1:22 p.m. Sunday. If ticket sales
continue through the balance of
this week at their current pace,
Heap looks for last year’s record
crowd of 68,500 to be surpassed

B.C.Lions’ owner Murray
Pezim has been getting some help
from his brother, Larry, in his
pursuit to unload the CFL fran-
chise. Seems brother Larry has
been making some calis on Mur-
ray’s behalf to corporate citizens
around town with the hope that
someone will show some interest.

Doug Mason, president and
chief operating officer of the in-

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