FOOTBALL... While. its
unlikely the’ traditional uni-
versity football game pitting
SFU against UBC will

“change its name ‘any time

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soon, a possible replace-
ment name‘ could be: the
English Bowl.
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English. has

‘UBC RECEIVER Andrew
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proved’ ‘the difference in the
Jast- two. Shrum’ Bowls

(number’s 17 and:18- if a
‘you're counting). : M

Last Saturday ‘night the on
-North Vancouver:
‘hauled: in: two ‘touchdown

native

ASSCS, pacing the

- Thunderbirds to a 29-7 win,

‘over their cross-town rivals
“from? Burnaby Mountain,
On. the strength of his" per-

formance: —-'10- receptions

t for. 137 ‘yards, two TDs —

1 English
‘offensive

ence, this

was named the
player of the
game,

Two ‘years ago. — - last
year’s match’ was: scrapped
because of scheduling con-
Nicts — it was’ English
again who was the differ-
tine kicking the
vinning field .goal inthe
ying seconds to give- UBC
a 20-17 decision, ‘This
“year's victory. gives UBC a
9-8-) Shruin Bow! record,

4. Last'year, English led the

‘Munson
 Trollers..
. game is Sunday, Sept. 24 at

Canadian College league in
receptions (5G), “and set (a
UBC record. for receptions
in a game (13),

RUGB ;
Rugby Club first division
team kicked off the new seu-
son last Saturday: at-home
with a- 10-10 tie against the
Ex-Brits..

Cap” winger, Steve
Eastman’s penalty kick
was the: sole score in, the
first half as boty teants tried
lovshake off the summer

cobwebs, The .Ex-Brits ral-

lied in the:second to jump
ahead 10-3, but-a late Cap
rally — including a try and

nan convert — knot-
ied the | game at 10-10.

SOCCER... West
Vancouver Trollers opened
their) Vancouver. » Metro
League ‘season: in. impres-

‘sive “style. as’ they blanked

defending. °B.C.. champs
Pegasus 2-ni!_ on Sunday

‘afternoon.

Lake and: Scott
scored for the
Their next’ home

Steve

Ambleside against
Wesburn:.°

Kick- oft is 2 2 p. m.

Capilano

~ Canadians. ;

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1 READ somewhere recently
that for our population, more
Canadians play golf than in
any other country in the
world.

If this is true, then it begs the fol-
lowing question: why has Canada
produced so few world class golfers’?

They've just played the Canadian
Open at its permanent home, Glen.
Abbey in suburban Toronto. Twelve
Canadians qualified. All 12 missed -
the cut. The only Canadians to be
seen during the final two raunds
were the spectators. |

Can you imagine no Americans

~ in the final 36 holes of the U.S.

Open? No Brits in the final two
rounds of the British Open? Or no ./

nationals of any other country hold-
ing its open championship making i it
past the halfway point?

(can’t. Butit’s in keeping with
the Canadian image. Do you realize’
that Canada is the only country in
the world to host the Olympics and
not win a single gold medal’? Not
only that, but we fell off the gold
standard twice — at Montreal in
1976 and at the Winter Games in
Calgary in 1988, | ”

_ We've had the occasional shoat-
ing star briefly light up the Canadian

. sport scene with an Olympic or: .

world championship. Or a world
record of some sort. But they didn’t .
start a chain reaction, They have 7
been, in the kindest interpretation of
the expression, inspired freaks.

As d nation we are much bigger
on participating than winning. And

‘that’s nota bad thing, It eqdates with —

a healthy lifestyle. That 60-year-old
Swede of a couple of Hecudes 5 BO no
longer can out-perform our 25-year-
olds. We have; indeed, made
progress, ”
*- On the whole, our women haves
done better at the top echelon than
our men, International sports history
in the last 50 yeary bears this out.
Currently i in’ golf, which is what
today’s prose piece ix supposed (0 be

“about, Dawn Coe-Jones, the tilent:

ed young woman from Cawiehan
Lake now resident in Florida, has
earned more money on this year than

vany_ of Canada’s male golfers. And

sheileft the tour more than a month

ago to.await the birth ofa baby.
Admittedly, the world of

women’s golf is smaller chan the?

international men’s world! But so‘is

the prize money, It all evens out.

Canadian pros have been nowhere;

on the tour this year, which must be”:

a disappointment to them all. And.
espectally to Dave Barr and Ray

Stewart,

They. along wi ith Rick Gibson,

“who works the Asian circuit: had

that inspired week in St, Andrews a
peur azo when they. won the Dunhill
Cup against the world’s best.

: Greatness in golf is measured by -
the winning of the four majors —
the British and U.S. Opens, the U.S.
PGA championship and the Masters.
No Canadian has ever won any one

of them, The.ULS., England,

Scouand, Australia, New Zealand.
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Germany,
Spain and Irekuid have produced
winners in the big four, But not
Canada.

Given our proximity to the States
and the number of Canadians i
who've nxinaged to go to university
there on golf scholarships, this is
passing strange. Barr came close
once in the U.S. Open. Stan Leonard
twice came within a couple of | h
strokes of winning the Masters. But
he’s no longer available, Ee turned

. 80 earlier this year.

‘This Canadian famine now seems
to be reflected in the Canadian. :
Open. At one time it attracted all the

big names. But the PGA Tour sched-+

ulers have gradually pushed it back

“from July to September and many of

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“the biggest names in the game
passed it up.

There are a few reasons,
September isn't a favored month
among touring pros. They're busy
putting their kids back into school
and they're looking for a rest from
the long tour grind, And this year the
biggest names are taking time off to
prepare for Ryder Cup play.

And there’s yet another reason.
Many of the tour goifers-don’t like
Glen Abbey. Toronto may think that
having the Canadian Open anchored
there is the cat's whiskers, but -

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would like to see it moved around,
as it is in other countries. Both the
tourmaunent and ils sile have lost
some of their luster,

This part of the world has finally
gate-crashed the tour and hay been
assigned better dates next-year than
our mitional Open. The Greater
Vancouver Open will take up the
week of Aug. [9-25,

if it draws a classier field than
last week's Glen Abbey entry, it will
be a classic case of one-upmanship.
And it would be éven better if some
Canadian golfer would yet hot for

Toronto is in the minority. The rest
ef Canada and the PGA “nomads

four days and win the damn thing.
- But don’t bet on it

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