A random harvest teday and, for openers, tet Ss.

begin with some. unfinished “business—stadium
“business at the. Pacific National Exhibition

. grounds.

PNE president Erwin
was on.the blower

-Swangard |
the other day to point out.

: what he describes as a major
fallacy in last © Sunday's
column about that stadium-

exhibition space project

known as ‘Multiplex.

"Your agent icted he
will not get the $100 million
in. Loto Canada funds he
_ seeks to get Multiplex off the
ground; that the eventual
compromise will be a

rebuilding and enlarging of

The first partis subjective.
He says your agent is entitled

part also is subjective. Your
- agent, he adds, is all wet.

If, Multiplex. does not
materialize, will be no
substitute. PNE is not

interested in operating any
sort of free-standing
stadium, including the

present one.
"NO UPGRADING
' [mn that unhappy event, he
adds, Empire Stadium will.
not be upgraded. It will be

worth’ the

_ phased | out “because: it is a
Classic ‘money-loser and not
repairs” and
maintenance to keep it
going. ee
Without major ex-
; he adds, to halt
deterioration. of the
stadium’s footings, it will
have to be closed down in
another three or four years
on safety grounds alone.

The PNE doesn’t intend to

the now antiquated facility.
It has a lot of antiquated
show buildings that will get
first crack at available

-money should there be no

Multiplex.

Is he bluffing? Swangard
insists most definitely he’s
not. In which’ event, ‘if
there's no Multiplex, there

will be no Whitecaps or

Lions either, after the early
1980s.

As for his chances of
landing $100 million in Loto
lolly, did you see or hear
what... Loto ~~ Iona
Campagnolo t innipeg
and Quebec City, “following
their, enquiries about

financial -hstp to enlarge

their ice arenas?
NO LOTO LOLLY

If there’s an NHL-WHA
merger that includes these

-tw6 cities, their buildings

will need’ another 5,000
seats. To which she replied -.
that Loto money likely will
not be available, because it

‘is meant to help amateur

sport, not the professional ©
sports entertainment
business.

All they were looking for
was about $5 million each:
Swangard wants $100
million. Good look, Erwin.
You'll need it.

one

SOME WRINGING | of

hands hereabouts, on behalf —

of the Canadian Football
League, in wake of the news
that the world’s greatest
salesman, Montreal mayor
Jean Drapeau, is pitching to
get a National Football
League franchise for his city.

Monsieur le maire, who
took in the Super Bow! game
at Miami and was properly
impressed, wants to add to
his string of spectaculars

. Expo 67, the Expo’s ball team

in 1969, the Olympics in

1976.

' An NFL franchise in

The Corporation of the District of

‘WEST VANCOUVER
invites qualified development
proposals for prime,

prestigious location

Development proposals are invited for a
2.8 acre prime commerciat land site on
Capilano River frontage at the entrance to
West Vancouver, adjacent to Park Royal
Regional Shopping Centre (serving a
North Shore population of 133,255).

The site is 5 miles from Vancouver
City central business district and is
accessible via Lions Gate Bridge and the
North Shore Upper Levels Highway.

For information conceming accept-
able development and land use criteria,
please write or telephone in confidence as
indicated below. Proposals to be re-
turned by 4 p.m., March 30th, 1979 to:

Director of Development

The Corporation of the District of West Vancouver

Municipal Hall
750 - 17th Street

West Vancouver, B.C. V7V 3713

(604) 922-1211 (local 287)

healthy CFL.

Montreal would effectively

. kill the CFL, because ‘if he

‘does pull it off, the NFL will
move into Torento as well:
Unwring the hands,
however. It's not going to
happen. For two reasons:

A UNIFYING FORCE _

Rightly or .wrongly, Ot-
tawa believes the CFL is one
of the country’s major and
distinctive unifying forces.
When the now—deceased
World Football League tried
to invade Toronto in 1974,
Ottawa rode to the
protection of the CFL.

With Marc Lalonde laying
down the government line,
the WFL backed off. So

- there is a precedent. It will
_be revived if Drapeau looks.
as if he might pull off: his

great scheme. Only one
thing could stay the heavy
‘federal hand: An outside
possibility that by the time

‘Drapeau is ready to move,
. Quebec no longer is part of _
Canada .

The second reason is the

NEL itself. It is to this

league’s advantage to have a
In providing
alternative employment for
American players, it keeps
the congressional] anti-trust

_hawks off the NFL's back.

IF SOCCER IS CAUGHT
in the U.S. federal labor
department crackdown on
imported players, can
hockey be far behind? The.
North American League's
U.S. cities employed 245
~ imported soccer players last
season. This year only 220
will be permitted.

WN LZ

_ @

That's the. order from
Washington. The
government is ‘telling the
NASL:- giving

players. Executive director.

‘Alan ‘Eagleson of the

National Hockey League
Players’ Association sees this

as an omen. Hockey. onthe. quate

will be put on the-qtlo
system, too, restricting the

number of Canadians and
Europeans who can be
employed by pro teams in.

the U. S.

When’ it happens, the NHL
likely will- scream blue,
bloody murder. But as usual,
the NHL will be wrong. Such
a move would be a great
incentive for many more

good American athletes to’

get into hockey | as seriously
as they get into football and

baseball. a

Jf they do, the quota
system could go a long way

. towards: solving
U.S.

the

over—expanded league's

“chronic -talent ‘shortage. . Of .
‘em:
ployment ton more American -

the. 340 players now inthe
league, only 39 are

-American.. There are 30
Europeans and .the rest are

’ What about the Canadians
who have the ability to play
in the. NHL, but who won't

be cable td. do so ‘in the

States? Could there be any

greater incentive for the
NHL to get off its butt and

bring Edmonton, Winnipeg
and Quebec City into the
league? To provide jobs for
Canadians who belong in the
league but can’t go south to
make a living? |

As your agent has men-
tioned: in this space before,
merger and a_ bigger
Canadian presence in the
NHL is coming. “The
prospect of a quota system
should hurry it along.

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