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Tony Waiters,-r ‘managet of: =
the Whitecaps. soccer.” team,
tells. the story’. ‘about ” ‘the

_club’s newest acquisition |
from the UK, defender Roger
Kenyon. |

A 28-year-old veteran. with

‘the English League ~ first.
division Everton side, he not.
only. nearly ended his career —

two years ago, ‘but. his life as
well.

A passenger i in the front. of

a car: driven. by. a friend,. he.’

got™
descending a steep: hill, the

driver decided to gear down.
The gear shift ¢ came off in a his o

hand.

: nicked. He: went to! hit the ©

brake pedal, tramped on the.
gas instead, then froze: He

‘‘couldn’t get his foot off the. -
. accelerator. .

APPEARED DEAD

. The speeding. car “missed

a curve, hit a lamp post and.
was. sheered, quite literally,
in two. The police arrived ..
before the ambulance and ~
found Kenyon’s inert form

alongside the road. He had

been catapulted through the _

windshield.

They immediately threw a
sheet over him, figuring he
was dead. When the ambul-
ance people arrived, they
checked his pulse. It was
weak, but he had one. So, off.
'.to the hospital and, event-
ually, complete recovery.

Or so he thought.

your throat when you cough? :

rh ve heard ‘of. people. losin their false ‘teeth.
when they sneeze, but would you. believe cutting ‘Said:

> deri in Britain today.””

one piece. ‘At home .. one

evening, several weeks later, :
“he coughed. ‘Suddenly,: ‘blood .

‘everywhere: - : —

-. Moved’ . and. cut”

“goes,”

4 ‘CALL THE pocror’ |

oe would: suggest, : my
. dear,”*

call the doctor."*

- She. did,

“more - problems ‘since . then.
~- and-his wife has even grown
to love his ‘beard. He. now
‘wears one to hide the scars.

mm
‘Now, you might reason-

ably wonder if the Whitecaps
have bought themselves

- (without naming the price

they claim’ they paid six
figures in dollars) six feet
and 170 pounds of damaged
goods. : ;
._. If you do, you're. entitled.
Bu then. there's the word
‘from former Liverpool
manager Bill. Shankley, one
of the best in the business,
~three. weeks _ago ‘when
Everton ‘blanked © his old

. Enough glass: was remov-
‘ed from his fac -and neck to -
construct “a ‘couple’ of ‘soft. -
drink bottles. But. apparen-:.
tly, the doctors failed to find |

.defender in” Britain today, ©
why would. Everton be selling
him to.a'team in the North
_ American» Soccer . League?
_ And, because under the rules
_as-they apply in. the UK the
.. player can choose the club he
“wants to. go to,-why would
-: Kenyon leave England ‘to
“o> “2° ¢ome out to this Pacific rain
‘The missing piece of ‘glass, a
lodged. in his -neéck, had —
into | his.
jugular ‘vein. .As the. story.” ae
-Kenyon | owas. busy |
. wrapping’ a bathroom towel
,.. around his. neck while his —
‘Wife; in. a:bit of a Panic, was
“ asking, what: to. do... vee

teams wanted him, but he
chose to come here.» .

one wil! have to wait until he.
a arrives, .
-ruary. To the ‘first question i
~ Waiters: replies that Everton:
> is deep: in quality. defensive
players, most of them young- =
 he-suggested, . “that -
you: go to, the telephone and * “the English club was in the: ;

a market for offers.

there. was. a .

“hospital ‘close’ ‘by'-and once —
-more he pulled. through. No.

_ North American sport, where’;
~ hockey and baseball -players - |

their 35th © birthdays;
a Jong-in-the-tooth age in Sy

. The players start out profess-

_ his earning’ future. Another

- first division play at

1-0.. Of Kenyo ay he

team, 1 °
**He’ s the best defen- o

- CAP COLLEGE. HE

_ Manage te come up:v th any of. the ie rises sheng the > games» were: © generally
_ close. {Robert Field photo] eae

a if. he’s: the - ‘best

forest? Other. first” ‘division

“AGE THE REASON.
‘The 2 ‘answer. to the second

‘sometime. ‘in.: Feb

er.than Kenyon. Asa result,

2ae

While 28, is. hardly consid- ra
ered an over-the-hill age in

routinely hang on beyond °, '
‘it’s 2

soccer.

This is a game where a
player has to show he’s
capable of playing for the big
team by the time. he's 18.

ily at such a tender age,
there’s: an awful lot of |
mileage on them = as they.
approach 30. ;
Very possibly Keriyon just
made a cool. assessment of

two or three years in English
the
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