- North Shore News ~— Sunday, November 12, 2000

S daa Se Se!
moe “Fre i Foe

WINNING is a way of
life for the Lappan
family.

Three members of the
North Vancouver clan that
trains at the North Vancouver
Shidokan (Karate) Club took
home medals from the Karate
B.C. Fall Provincial
Championships held Oct. 28
and 29 in Kamloops.

Joseph Lappan_ brought
home a gold medal in the
Men’s Masters Advanced/
Black Belt Kata event, while
Mark snagged a gold in Boys
age 10-12 Novice Kihon
Ippon competition — and
Meghan claimed the bronze
for her performance in the
Girls & and under all belts
Kata event.

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-The Capilano . Rugby
Football Club’s. Premier divi-
sion squad tasted that all-too-

elusive victory last weekend,

ending a string of four con-
secutive

And _they did it in. rather
convincing fashion — giving
the Rowing .Club a 51-0
thrashing. The team now sits
_ at 2-5 on the season.

_/ = In other Cap REC action,
“the. first division ‘pes the:

* Rowers 33-10 and the second

. division followed suit with a .

‘27-7: win -over the. Ex-Brits.
The: third division, however,
fell to the Rowers 30-16.

: Meanwhile,’ the
‘defeated : the Ex-Brits 31-14
while the women ended up
ted with Burnaby 15-all.

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NBA :Vancouver
Grizz Ed
‘Education

The -:
Grizzlies’.
Environmental

> Program will be making a -

th; ‘Shore stopover at

U-18s

Mount Royal Elemeniary in
North Van on Nov, 17.

The Grizz Ed Program
provides valuable information
about the need to protect
British Columbiz’s environ-
ment. Students explore topic
areas integral to grizzly bear
survival, such as habitat, biol-
ogy, space requirments, bear
and human contlict and aui-
tudes towards bears.

For further, informaticn,
please call Luke Ferdinands at
the Grizz Ed office, (604)
683-0127.

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Strong driving helped
B.C.-based Rocket Rally
Racing regain the champi-
onship fead in the Production

class of the Subaru

_ Canadian _ Rally

Championship Oct. 29 at the

Rallye International — de
Charlevoix in Quebec.

The team placed first in its
class and fifth overall against
North American and
European rally cars. The next’
race — the Rally of the’ Tall

« Pines — will be held Nov. 24
and 25 in Bancroft, Ont.

Rocket Rally . Racing is
sponsored by Specialty
Subaru of. North Vancouver,
as well as
Absorbers, SPD Tuning
Service and Dragon Eyewear.

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‘The Cypress Ski Club is

recruiting children age 6 to -

12 for their Alcan Nancy
Greene Ski League. The
ANGSL is a nation-wide pro-'
gram run by individual non-
profit ski clubs since 1968
promoting alpine ski opportu-

nities for children. All partici-
‘pants are supervised by a pro-
fessional coach certified by
the Canadian Ski Coaches
Federation.

“o. ‘The League: runs one six

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SPORTS

ing the Everest equivalent

__ Seal

Jan-Christian Sorensen
News Reporter forensen@nsnews.com

FOURTEEN- year-old Edward
Lee and Sir Edmund Hillary
have at least one thing in com-
mon: they’ve both climbed Mt.
Everest.

Well, sort of

Lee, a Mount Seymour area resident
and Grade 9 student at Windsor, climbed
the Grouse Grind for the 54th time this
season — roughly equivalent to one tip to
the top of the world

Lee first attempted the grueling 2.9-
km trek to the peak of Grouse last summer.
This year, as a way to help him get condi-
tioned for hockey season, he got serious
and bought a Summit Secker pass from
Grouse. The program records individual
hiking times‘on a computer database and
lets the cardholder know how many com-
bined ascents would equal the distance to -
the top of some of the world’s most
famous mountains.

Up to 32 wips up the Grind equals the
height of Affica’s Kilimanjaro, 42+ tips
equals an ascent on Mt. McKinley, 53+ is
roughly the distance to the top of South
America’s Aconcagua and 54+ represents

DMS Shock.

the grand prize — Everest.

Lee only missed onic date this season —

October I. :

. “It was just getting dark,” :
“Lee. “T was about halfway through th the first

xplained

quarter and I decided it would be best to

turn back.”

His best time on the Grind this season
was 43 minutes — not bad, considering he’
was clocking an hour when he first started ;

tackling the climb.

Lee offered some advice for those hik-

ers that don’t think they're up for the
ink about
something totally irrelevant to the trail and
he said. “I find the Grind is

more mental than anything.”

Old records are hard to break

climb: mind over matter. “

that helps,”

WISE words from the
past:

Comparisons may be
invidious, but they also are
inevitable.

There are lies. There are
damn lies. Then there are sta-

\ bisties.

- The author of the first is
that old standby gaffer,
Anon. The second belongs .
to either Benjamin Disraeli
or Mark Twain. Take your
choice. In any event they
both fit nicely into that toy-

. land we know as sport.

Three big stories of the

' Jast month involved Lions

quarterback Damon Allen,
their magnificent punter-
place kicker, Lui Passaglia,

and goalie Patrick Roy of the
Colorado Avalanche. Allen
and Roy made the news as
record setters; Passaglia, who
was breaking records — his
own — every time he

* stepped on the field the last
- several years, as the CFL’s

alltime geezer. He officially
retired at 46 after working a
quarter century 1 for the same
employer. _

Those words from the.
past apply, to various

_extents, to the feats of all
> three men. Allen made his.”, .

world’s highest mountain, Everest.

history late last month when ;
he passed Ron Lancaster as

- the alltime CFL career leader!

in passing yardage. So let’s
start the comparison game.

- Or, if you wish, the devil’s

advocate game. For example:

Yes, but Lancaster
remains more than 50
touchdown passes ahead of
the Lions’ quarterback.
Damon likely will have to
play another two seasons to
catch and pass him. -
Furthermore, says the devil’s
advocate, Ronnie spent
almost his entire career in
Regina, throwing passes in
the coldest and strongest. .
winds in the nation. In
recent years,.2t least, Allen -
has had to contend with
nothing stronger at home
than the air exchangers at
the Dome. °

Also, there was more than

a decade-when Lancaster

~ operated the George
Reed-led running game, the ;
. best in the league. He was

giving the ball to Reed.
There was less need to pass -
it. And so it goes.

And what of the future,

with the new overtime for- ° -

mat? The one that gives each
team the ball at the oppos-
ing, 35-yard line. ;
It all but guarantees as
many touchdowns in extra

play as during the previous

four quarters. Because
records are made to be bro- -
ken, some young and
durable quarterback, still
unknown, undoubtedly will

“come along to top them
_ both. As comparisons go,.

will i it be unfair? Anvidious?

Certainly. But inevitable:

Passaglia’s records; on the :

other hand, likely will outlast
the Great Pyramid s. How
miany guys are ever going to

make a 25-year career out of

punting and place kicking?
And Lui likely will be the
first to admit that playing

half his games since 1983 in|.
: and shoot hard

the breezeless Dome did -

"nothing to hurt his scoring

totals. But indoors or out-"
doors, working at one seg-
ment of the game that hasn’t
changed since Annis Stukus
was a pup, fre was and will
remain the very best.

The impossibility of mak-
ing valid comparisons of ath-
letes from different eras was
never better demonstrated -
than a couple of decades ago
in’a computerized fantasy °
boxing tournament to
choose the greatest heavy- ~
weight champion from John -
L. Suilivan to Muhammad

_ Ali, When it was all over, the e
games in extra time:

computer said Rocky

Marciano was the alltime
- best because of one reason:
- he had never been beaten in

his entire ae ane \
codswallop. Everything else
says Ali would have made a

* punching bag of him.
. . Acomputerized compari-

son between two goalies
from different eras, Roy and
the late Terry Sawchuk,
would have produced.a more
accurate picture because
hockey is a much changed
game since Sawchuk broke:
into the NHL 51 years ago”
with the:Red Wings. Boxing,

on the other hand, has been *
_ Years old.

virtually the same since the

. NEWS photo ka Waker:

NORTH Vancouver's Edward Lee, 14, recently climbed the Grouse Griad -.
for the 54th time — which is the equivalent of one trip to the paak of the

Marquis ‘of Queensberry *. :
rules were invoked in 186
It was Sawchuk’s career.”
record of 447 wins Roy wen
by a couple of weeks a: ago
er’

‘But there are valid di

ences in playing condition:
Today’s young Turks gu

“: ning against Roy | doubtlessly

are bigger, stronger,

fact, Terry was -10 years inte

his career before the first
crude facemasks came ont
the market. In comparison
with the over-sized but,”
lighoweight equipment
gas now wear, the rest o

- with the opposing talent:

concentrated into a six-team
league, he didn’t have many
nights on which he could

~ elax.:And possibly most:
» decisive of.all, there was ni

overtime in league play. He.
had no opportunity to win

Given, these differences,

‘statistics lose much of their
. meaning. Comparisons -.
~ aren’t really valid. They --

should be judged only in the *
context of their times: Or, as
the late Babe Pratt replied | :

- one night. at a Canucks game?

in the Pacific Coliseum when

--a young reporter asked him:
. how many goals Cyclone ©

Taylor would ‘score in

", today’s hockey:

Oh, about seven or igh
a season.

Only seven or eight? -

That’s right. But you-.
gotta remember, Oe 's 90°