ay March 12, 1980 - North Shore News

Canadian indoor tennis title now underway

Competition started today
(Wednesday) in the
preliminary rounds of the
Penn Canadian National
Men’s Indoor’ Tennis
Championship held at the
Lions Gate Racquets club in
North Vancouver.

The championships,
which will include the top
B.C. players and top

competitors from outside the
province has been described
by Davis Cup captain Jossef
Brabenec Sr. as “definitely
the biggest tournament in
Canada.”

Prize money this year has
been doubled from last year
to provide a total of $8,000,
with the winner of the singles
event picking up $1,800.

Games will be played all
this week, beginning at 10
a.m. on Wednesday and
Thursday and starting at
noon on Friday, Saturday
and Sunday.

Semi-finals will be played
on Saturday at noon, with
the singles final scheduled
for 1:30 p.m. on Sunday and
the doubles final at 3 p.m.

Among those _ players
competing will be the Lions
Gate professional, Ian
Brady, who was ranked

number one in B.C. last.

year, in both men's singles
and doubles.

Brady started 1980 with
double victories in Singles
and Doubles in both the
Western Indoor Open

~the Court

Tournament and the B.C.
Indoor Classic.

He qualified for the
tournament by eliminating
House West
professional Ken McBean,
6-2, 6-1.

‘Also competing will be
Josef Brabenec Ir., the
winner of last year’s Penn
championship: and the third

ranked player in Canada in
1980.

Other competitors in-
clude, Dale Power, Harry
Fritz, Bob Bardsley, and
Robert Bettauer.

Tickets for all days are
available at the Lions Gate
Racquets Club at 1185 West
26th Street in North Van-
couver.

sacrificed, their strict
discipline and dedication

c . Clifton said. “And then to
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turmoil in Afghanistan ‘you have
can't go’. It’s absurd.”
About 25 people in the

joined his” effort,
Clifton said, and he = is
hopeful the sentiment will

URBANA, Il. (UPI) - A
man who calls himself “no
one in particular - just a
great American sports fan”
says he is tired of American
athletes being used = as
political pawns and is
organizing a group to fight
the Moscow Olympics
boycott.

Walter Clifton, 27, a third-
year law student at the
University of [llinois, said his

group - Olympic Action -
would fight President
Carter's “absurd” boycott of
the Summer Games.

As part of the effort,
Clifton its having 1,000
bumper stickers printed that
say: “Jimmy Carter, Let My
People Go... to the Moscow
Olympics”.

“Tl think there are milhons
of people out there who
share my outrage - outrage

at how we are using oul
athletes as pawns for
politics,” he said.

Clifton said he decided to
form the anti-boycoltt group
because it looked like
nothing was being done or
organized anywhere to
support the athletes.

“Look at what these
athletes have done for the
past two years, the way they
have trained, practiced,

Intermediate Cup action

West Van Bears will be
going up against West Van
CF’s at Ambleside F, while
Edgemount Hycaps will take
on Bir Bird Sound at Eldon
Park for the semi-finals of
the North Shore In-
termediate Soccer League
Cup play.

In quarter final action on
Saturday, Big Bird Sound
knocked off West Van
Rowdies 2-| to advance while
the CF'’s were upsetting
North Shore Bulls behind the
two goals of Clyn Davies and
the single from the foot of
Callum Fernes.

Eric Eugertson registered
the shut out.

Other quarter final action
saw West Van Bears down
Edgemount United 4-2 while
Edgemount Hycaps' were
overwhelming West Van
Lions 7-2.

Ringette tournament set

The Provincial
Ringette tournament starts
Friday on the North Shore.

With all games
eliminations, the action
starts Fnday at Hollyburn at
seven p.m., and the North
Shore Winter Club at seven
and at the North Van Rec
Centre also at seven.

North Shore teams will be
playing at Hollyburn and at
the Winter Club on Friday
evening.

On Saturday action will

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shift to the Karen
Magnussen arena with North
Van taking on PoCo at nine
a.m. followed by the official
opening ceremonies at 10
a.m.

Iona Campagnola will be
one of the official guests as
well at Mayors Don Bell and
Jack Loucks.

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North Shore Winter Club
and later in the day action
will shift to the Rec Centre
where Squamish will take
part in an exhibition game
starting at noon.

Finals for the Petites,
Tweens and Belles will get
under way at the Rec Centre
starting alone p.m.

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