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WEST VANCOUVER guard: Pau! Mutgrew (with ball) floats
through a grove of ME! forwards during the Highlanders’
quarter-final match at the B.C. triple-A tournament. West Van
lost to eventual second-place finishers MEt 69-60. Highlander
guard Tim Englebert was named to the B.C. second team ail-
star squad. See story on page 15.

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SPORT B.C. AWARDS...
West Vancouver's Max Meier
_has” been. presented “a
President’s Award by the ama-
teur athletics governing body.

Sport B.C. honored Meier
for his years of dedicated vol-. &
unteer work in the sport of 2
alpine skiing. Meier’s daugh-
ter Monica recently won sil-
ver medai in skiing at the
Canada Winter Games.

In all,30 volunteers. were
presented President’s Awards
_at the 29th Annual Sport B.C.
Athlete of the Year banquet.

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the
Spectator

THE TYPICAL owner of a
professional sports franchise
is a wealthy businessman on
an ego trip. He may have
made his fortune manufae-
turing widgets, but the pub-
lic doesn’t know who he is.

When he walks into a downtown
Testuurant, people don't nudge each
other and whisper: “There goes Joc
Blow, the world’s biggest widget
niaker.”

But should he have used his
moncy to buy a major league sports
operation, he gets immediate recog-
nition and acclaim, for sport gives
people and events exposure far
beyond their real importance.

“Hey, isn’t that Joe Blow, the
owner of the Giants?” they say
when he walks through the door.
And he loves it. A quarter century
of building the world's best widgets
and nobody knows who he is. A
year or two of owning a middie-of-
the-standings sports team and he’s
the most famous — or notorious —
businessman in town.

That’s how the puck bounces.
But not for all of them. For every
rule, there’s an exception. And it

_ Seems John McCaw of Seattle is

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the NEIL's newest example.
Majority owner of the under-achiev-
ing Canucks, the putative Grizzlies
and the avarly complete GM Place,
this guy is the Greta Garbo (“1

sant to be alone”) of pro sport,

They say money, of which he
has truckloads, can't huy every-
thing. But in his case it certainly
has bought hin the right to persons!
privacy, as it has his mother and his
three brothers. The family worth ts
estimated at about $12 billion.

With now minority owner
Arthur Griffiths still running the
show up here and the new majority
owner not about to use his status its
un cgo-trip vehicle, why would
MeCaw want to be involved ina
Vancotiver-based sparts canglomer-
ate’

That's for him to know an the
rest of us to guess. But given the
business backgrounds Gt both fami-
lies — the late Frank Griffiths
made it in radio and television, die
McCaws in cell-phones and cable
TY — all [can do is hoist my litle

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antemir and suggest that pay-per-
view TV can't be too far down the
road.

John MeCaw may be, as the
press releases say, a sports fan. But
he and his brothers have never lets
this get in the way of hard-headed »
business success. Flushing money
down the drain in sports ventures is
nota family trait

He is now the owner of an oper.
ation that takes in GO-cent Canadian
dollars and, for the most part, pays
out those L00-cent American eagles.
The Griazties will add to this imbal-
ance. Also add to this.the fact they
will be, as an expansion team, a
loser on the Moor Factor inaimid- :
die of the road hockey team thal
hasn't had a sellout this season, and,
toll booths on the electronic high-

vay have to be the cush cows of the
future. ; :

‘Tuke the current shortened hock-
ey season. Of the Canucks* 24
home games, 14 have been or will:

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