14 - Wednesday. August 24. 1994 - North Shore News SIDELINES FIGURE SKATING... North Shore Winter Club skater Christina McAuley won the pre-preliminary ladies under-9 category at the recent B.C. Summer Free Skate competi- tion at Sunset Arena in Vancouver. GREY CUP VOLUN- TEERS... The Grey Cup Festival Society is looking for volunteers to help out with a number of events surrounding the 1994 Grey Cup game on Sunday. Nov, 27, at B.C. Place in Vancouver. Hundreds of volunteers are needed before and during the week of events leading up to the championship game. To get involved in the society's FootballFest °94, call 683- 2500. MASTER ATHLETICS... Master athlete John Weston walked away with two silver medals at the Pan-Am Games in Edmonton earlier this month. The West Vancouver race- walker, competing in the 60- 64 age group, won silver in the 3,000 metre and 10 kilo- metre events at the master’s competition that attracted ath- fetes from across the Americas. Weston wil! be represent- ing Zone 5 at the B.C. Seniors’ Games in Prince Rupert next month. ROWING... West Vancouver twins Katie and Rachel Dunnet stroked to gold medals at the B.C. Games. held earlier this month. Katie won gold in the sin- gles sculls event, then teamed with Rachel to take the top spot in the double sculls event, The 16-year-old sisters attend West Vancouver sec- ondary school. SO ~ mys —~ UGS GAC pageant 9-1-1 Relay LIONS GATE HOSPITAL 9-1-1 RELAY...“1f you are looking for a reason to get and stay in shape, why not set a goal to participate in the sec- ond annual Lions “Gate Hospital 9-t-1 Relay.” chat- fernwes Sheilah Grant, director of development with the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation. “Ambleside Park will be the setting for this wonderful family day of fitness and entertainment on Sunday, Sept. 25. in support of Lions Gate Hospital’s Emergeney Department.” The Lions Gate Hospital 9- 1-1 Relay offers something for everyone — active runners and beginners alike. The leisure division is the perfect starting point for beginners of all ages. For Tore information call the 24- hour hotline at 984-3782. ae NEWS photo Cindy Goodman CARL SCOUTEN keeps his eye on the ball during recent action at the North Shore Seniors’ Tennis Tournament at the Murdo Frazer courts. A record number of participants took part in the annual mixed-doubles mixer. Following the morning of friendly competition, the players retired for a outdoor lunch and social. For seniors’ tennis information call 984-4181. and diver win silver THREE NORTH Shore women struck metal last weekend at the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Games. By A.P. McCredie Sports Reporter While the mined metal wasn’t gold. the silver medals won by diver Paige Gordon and cyclists Alison Sydor and Lesley Tomlinson shone just as bright. Gordon nailed her final dive in the 10-metre tower event last Saturday in Saanich. moving-her from fourth place into second, Canadians stormed the podium as Montreal's Anne Montminy won gold and Myriam Boileau the bronze. Gordon competes today for a shot another medal. She is the only Canadian diver to be entered in all three events (1m, 3m, and 10m). Out on the highways of Sydney a day earlier, Sydor and Tomlinson were fighting their own duel as part of the Canadian women’s time trial team. The North Shore duo combined with fellow riders Clara Hughson and Anne Samptenius for a sec- ond-place finish in the 50-kilome- tre event. A strong Australian team won gold. (Look to next Wednesday's sports section for a complete wrap- up of the 1994 Victoria Commonwealth Gaines.) Skiers recall climbing the slopes Jim Kearney THE SPECTATOR THE DOG days of August — a time for leisurely reunions. Over in Victoria the last few days Roger Bannister and John Landy. from opposite ends of the earth, turn up for the Commonwealth Games social whirl 40 years after their historic race at Empire Stadium. In the same city. a hometown middle distance runner from the 1930s, Bill Dale. organizes a reunion dinner for veterans of the Canadian team at the 1938 British Empire Games in Sydney. Australia, A resounding success. Fifty-six years later. 14 of them came in from all over Canada. They weren’L moving as quickly as they once did. but there was nothing wrong with their appetites. And up on fHollyburn Ridge last Wednesday. the second annual reunion of that mountain's ski brigade from the 1930s "40s and early “SOs. More than 200 watked in trom the cross-country parking loin Cypress Bow], uplift ail the way to First Lake and Harry Burfield’s Hollyburn Lodge, which is fooking a tite worn these days — and why now TEs just a tad younger than Westminster Abbey. If reunions do anything other than rekindle old associations and friendships. they point up how much the world has changed in half a century or more. Even in the four decades since Bannister and Landy became the world’s first sub-four- Ininute mifers. They ran on cinder tracks, shod in off-the-shelf footwear, ‘hey trained in the spare time they could find from tough university courses, The trophies they wan beter not have been worth more than $15. or they would have been declared pro- fessionals and suspended. Today, world-class runners demand and get fees that would make a substantial down payment ona British Properties oansion. But atleast they got to Vancouver 40 years ago by air plane, Dale and company needed 22 days to get to Sydney aboard one of the world’s first motorships, the Aeranyi, Bad enough they couldn't do any serious training abroad, but this was January, five months afer the Canadian track and field season had ended. 66 Sunday morning, hike to the peak and ski back down. Same thing in the afternoon. Then it was dark and time to hike to the bottom and the ferry dock. 99 The ship stopped. fora few hours on the way down, at Honolulu. Suva and Aukland. The atletes raced off te the nearest park at each port, worked oul for a gou- ple of hours. then raced back. No cinder track at Sydney. They raced See Reunions page 15