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IS IT SKIING or is it skateboarding? Whatever the mode of transportation, Wayne
Leroux from South Africa had fan at Mount Seymour with his ‘snow-board’, a
skateboard mounted on a very small surfboard. (Ian Smith photo)

Hockey final tonight

THE FINAL game of the
North Shore Winter Club
International Midget A
hockey tournament will be
, played tonight (December
30) atthe Winter Club.
The game will take place

at 7 p.m., with the B final
taking place at 1 p.m., and
the C final at 4 p.m.

After the A final, the
Winter Club Midget Flames
will play Umea, Sweden.

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Team 2,
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Sixteen teams are taking
part in the tourney. More
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December 30, 198f | ‘Tel. 985-2131

By DAVID TUCKER -
UPC SPORTS EDITOR

CANADA’S NATIONAL sport showed signs of
future shock in 1981 as a squad of Soviet hockey
players shot NHL pride to smithereens during a
late summer’s nightmare in Montreal. But there
were plenty of heroes among the men and women
who compete under the less-hallowed term

THE YEAR THAT WAS

Fabulous dinn

“amateur.”

You

could tuck the

memory of the Canada Cup’

in with the Christmas
neckties if you wished; you
could even forget the whole
hockey fiasco by cheering
the NHL's version of the
shooting gallery as the 198!-
82 season unrolled.

But skiers Steve Pod-
borski, Gerry Sorensen, and
Diana Haight; swimmer Alex
Baumann; Tracey Wainman
and Brian Orser of figure
skating; ski jumper Horst
Bulau; trapshooter Susan
Natrass, boxer Shawn
O’Sullivan and the women's
rowing team from Upper
Canada College were the
nation’s “true international
winners. They were all
amateurs.

FIRST AND GREATEST

Wayne Gretzky was again
the nation’s foremost
professional sportsman as he
broke scoring records on an
almost routine basis,
compiling 164 points during
the 1980-81 campaign. The
20-year-old centre , was
rattling off points at record
pace again in the current
season and was closing fast
on the NHL record for the
quickest 50 goals ever
scored.

But there were suggestions
that he may be the first and

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greatest in a line of hot
house flowers, grown from
an era in which children
learned their hockey indoors
in disciplined competition
and did not practice because
there was ice time only for
games, and did not have
much fun anymore because
play was mercilessly
organized.

While Gretzky and others
were running up football
scores—10-2, 11-3, 9-8—
Bobby Clarke, of the no-
nonsense era, was suggesting
the nets be made smaller
since few NHL players were
hitting anybody cleanly
enough to stop the sharp-
shooters in this age of the
scoring defenseman.

Bobby Orr was saying, at
year’s end, that the failure to
teach hockey basics to the
five- and six-year-olds had
landed the NHL a peck of

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trouble. Children, under the
tutelage of grownups who
trotted into lockerooms with
chalk boards and big-league
lectures, deserved some of
the credit for producing a
questionable league.
Lacrosse anyone?
_ The most memorable
quote of the year came. on
the 35th floor of a Montreal
hotel where Nelson
Skaibania disclosed that
being young, rich, dashing
and sporting with one’s
money would get you the
Montreal Alouettes and a
cup of coffee.

WRITING CHEQUES

“I had no idea that I would
be criticized so much just for
writing cheques. I only
wrote the cheques; I did not
carry the ball,” he said.

With those words,
Skalbania closed the doors
on his empire of sports
franchises in disillusion-
ment. .

The busy entrepreneur
disclosed that the Alouettes

had cost him about $7
million. His Calgary
Boomers, of soccer, went

bankrupt in the summer and
he also divested his inte rests

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