B4 - Wednesday, November 26, 1980 - North Shore News by Andy Fraser Anyone who thinks the CFL is in a healthy position and that the win by the Eskimos over Hamilton Pussy-Cats is an indication of good football, must have boulders instead of brains. That farcical exhibition have realligned positions on which is supposed to be a showpiece of football talent was one of the most disgraceful bits of garbage to ever be perpetrated on the Canadian public by a greedy bunch of entrepreneurs. And to hear the prattlings of these purveyors of competitive sport claim they Gray moves to Gerry Gray and his rink from the North Shore Winter Club advanced to the Pacific Coast playdowns January 30 by grabbing an 8-7 final end victory over Glen Hillson of the Vancouver Curling Club. The North Shore rink moved into the playdowns the top to improve the product is almost laughable if one wasn't gagging at the same time. The Canadian Football league is in deep, deep trouble. Any re-organization must, in all common sense, start from the bottom. At the GSL after being beaten out in the B event semi finals, then playing off with Hillson the other defeated semi-finalist. Glen Pierce of the VCC took top stop in the A event with a 5-3 win over Lyle Reichert of Burnaby ‘Winter Club. Not BC champs yet Hillside is mot, as was reported in the Sunday News, provincial high school rugby champions. The New Zealand Shield, which the West Van School captured, is emblematic of the Vancouver and District Special for Two weeks of free swimming and two wecks more for just $5 1s being offered by the Chena Swim Club to children who would like to get involved in competitive swimming. The Chena swim season 1s well) underway and the swimmers have already competed successfully in three lower Mainland meets Ihe athictes 9 arc rapidly gaining strength and stamina and are showing well ino all levels of com petloon On December 6 and 7, the winner and no} all of B.C. The Fraser Valley, Island and Interior play their rugby seasons in the spring, so Hillside will have to wait until May before they can lay claim to provincial honors. swimmers Club will host the first 10 and under Mighty Tykes Swim Festival at Wilham (Gonffin Pool. Everyone 1s invited to drop in and see children from all over British Columbia compete Chena swimmers practise at Wilham Goffin, Ron Andrews, the North Van Recreabon Centre and the Hollyourn Country Club To learn more about the special introductory offer of for further information, contact Denise Mahood 987 9B45 on Lynn Newleld 987 S160 NORTHPARK “Use your head MEN’S HAIR Win a Stereo! and get a chance to win a portable AM/FM stereo” cassette deck Open Monday to Saturday Thursday and Friday till 9:00 P_M. (appointments optional) Park Royal North Mall Arcade (near Woodward sf ood Floor) 922-9612 disgraceful farce league here on the North Shore if you will. League officials can babble and rationalize and reorganize as much as they want, but until the product on the field improves, ‘the of the NFL farm system with virtually all U.S. rules and players. And even that is doomed to failure. How long will the fans put up with second rate football? And how long would the major centres such as Toronto and Montreal be content to sit with junior editions of teams when a few more bucks would bring in the NFL? And that, my friends, would spell finis to football in Canada, that is if that disgraceful exhibition on Sunday hasn't already finished it. School football and minor programs are dying across the country. There are hardly two leagues where the same uniform rules are in force. How can the pros expect_ the game to grow probability of ‘any im- provement noticeable by the diminishing number of fans will be in the negative category. Until there is a ‘national’ organization, there can be no improvement unless we are to move in the direction Pacific Reichert was ineligible for the Pacific Coast event because two members of his rink play out of the host North Shore Winter Club. Jim Walker of the Tun- nehttown Curling Club of Delta takes the other place for the Coast cham- when there is no develop- mental system underneath? One builds from the bottom up, not the other way around. What was once a fine Canadian game _ has degenerated to a_ mis- begoten hybrid that is coast s pionships, the first step on the way to the Brier. In senior action, Gerry Jansen of the Winter Club took Dale Longmui of Haney 9-6 while Don Henfrey of NSWC lost out in the E event final to Wayne McAlpine of Delta. neither here nor there. To have shown that game throughout the United States and Mexico is equivalent to playing Russian Roulette with a fully loaded machine gun. Some hard _ decisions regarding the direction of the game must be taken immediately. Those decisions will radically alter what is now in place. If this doesn't happen, the CFL is dead. What is so fascinating is that large segments of the media devote more hype to - this Grey Cup than to any other sporting event anywhere. It’s difficult for even the most rabid fan to understand the build-up for this event which was almost guaranteed to be the epitomy of duit. But media hype will only prolong the life for a while, not save it. Even the drunks, and the stands were jammed with them, were restless. Their tawdry actions as the game droned on served to indicate an aimless restlessness that piel A total of $12,000 in pnze money was up for grabs in the 26th annual Totem spiel hosted by the North Shore club. The Pacific title will be decided also at the North Shore Winter Club. was far from healthy. How long does the league, and those media types who are so locked in to promotion rather than reporting think that they can sucker the public? DEADLINE DOOM THERE’S NOTHING LIKE early deadlines to make a columnist blush. Especially when the column goes to the printer followed Shortly thereafter by a call from the Whitecaps saying the prices for the indoor soccer had come down and that the league had been restructured. With five teams from Canada geared up for the summer outdoor season, it could be that logic might be able to make some dents against the peculiar whimsy of the U.S. portion of the league. — Regretably, might seems to equate with right in the North American Soccer League. LOOK for the. 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