‘AS a senior citizens
- gathering, the celebra-
tion of Jackie Turner’s

probably won’t:
1 again. in these here
parts, at Jeast not in this cen-

World championship con-’ ~
bout as
in”:

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hing, the only.tune-up needed for Saturday’s clash
a the. University of Washington. Huskies and the |
f Nebraska Cornhuskers was one on the vocal

ble it, and you're getting -
to the sonic you 2
3 created by 80,000
id football fans... *
And rabid they are.
“C’mon ¥ou guys, stick
BYP a :
i “HURT that dude!!!” :
So extolled the season ticket-holders in Section 12, the loca-
tion-I found myself in after separating from my two travelling
companions for the duration of Saturday’s game in Seattle (sin-
goss were the only ones available through Ticketmaster fast
Wednesday). .
“Hey, i’'m Tom and this is Johnny,” roared the purple clad
to my immediate right as I plopped myself onto the metal
bench seat. “You better be a Huskies fan.”

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NORTH. Shore: boxer
_Jackle: Turner © (right)
swaps secrets. with. leg-
‘endary : pugilist Joe
Louls.. Turner..: passed
away ‘earlier. this: month
at the age of
infancy and died suddenly of
a heart attack at 502°.
This was the level of pro
ing in Vancouver 50 years:
. ago. It played.to full houses :-
at the long ‘gone Georgia
-, Auditorium and the PNE

He could take'a

fe celebrated by friends and foes

towards his mouth, he barfed and I caught all:

"give away weight.”

of it. He decided Tight then he’d contin’

Turner gave away a few pounds in three
fights with Lindsay and camé out even —

win, a loss and a

w. Ditto with Almond in

.« two fights, All went the distance...

~ He and Lindsay shared the same deficiency .

— wemendously clever boxers, neither had a
- knockout punch. ’. - - rr
When they fought the best in the business,
they proved they could step with them: But:
‘they couldn’t hurt them. Tum ice foughr.
~ Honotulu’s only ever world champion, fly-”
weight Dado Marino, and lost two close 10-
round decisions. © 7 we
Lindsay had tide‘fights with then ban. .-
tamweight champions Lou Salica and Manuel
“+ Ortiz; losing 10-round decisions to both. He ;
- made the mistake of fighting Ortiz twice 2."
more and was kayoed both times. When he
“retired, he moved to Los Angeles, got into |’

TV production when the medium was in its :

. and now the No

"High fives and “whoop, whoops” filled the.
air when I told my neighbors that 1 was from

* North Vancouver and was down to see Jerome »
: Pathon play. : {

“The Kid? You saw The Kid play high...
schoo! ball?,” Bruce, to my left and with his.
wife, asked. .
Pathon, a Carson Graham
graduate, is in his second year with the :
University of ‘Vashington after lighting up the
Canadian college league with Acadia. -
As a 17-year-old receiver, Pathon won the
Peter Gorman Trophy as the top rookie in the
Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union. The
fleet-footed wideout led the CIAU with 868
yards and eight touchdowns.
' Not surprisin By, the Huskies came calling,
Vancouver product isakey
offensive piece of the Huskies’ puzzle. What makes his story
unique is that it is typically 300-pound linemen from Canada
that make the U.S. college rosters. Rarely does a Canadian
receiver attract interest from the elite Division 1 programs.
Last year, Pathon led the Huskies receiver corps with 618
yards and seven TDs. .
Saturday’s game against the legendary Cornhuskers was to
be the Seattle-based school’s biggest challenge of the young
season. Going into the game, the Huskies were ranked second

JEROME Pathon — .
‘Former Eagle now a
Washington Husky.

¢ Kid started -thingsoff fo
as he, fielded the opening kickoff wi
runback, - Saecenn
’ High fives and Swhoop; whoops’-all
_ later figured out that these: weren’t;
" Whoops’ at all, bur rather “woof, woofs”:
“vocal malamute).° 0"
But the dog calls quickly turned to cat ‘calls ‘as
the immense, corn-fed Nebraska offe: :
linemen ‘dominated the much-vaunt
Washington ran ‘defense. © (#0) 000". ;
“And when Huskies starting pivot Brock: Huari
_ left the game late in the first quarter with:a
_Sprained ankle, the Huskies’ hopes of that elu-
sive number one ranking dimmed. However, -
even after. Nebraska quarterback Scott Frost
ran in majors from 30 and 34 yards to give th
visitors a 14-0 first-half lead, the Husky faithful kept the faith
“C’mon Lambright, forget running it up the middle,” ‘Tom
screamed at the Washington sideline. “Go deep to The Kid.”,.°:
Pfffsssst! Crouching beside me Tom fumbled with his back-
pack and began to pour a smuggied beer (Labatt’s no less) into
a Huskies coffee mug. .
“Look at that head, must be a Canadian beer,” Tom

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