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BADMINTON... Phil Allard, Capilano College’s best-ever badminton player, won the silver medal at the recent Canadian College

Athletic Association’s i | Badminton &

| Championships.

The first-year Commerce _ student was upset by long-

time rival Mergan {%

Van Heukelum, of | BCIT, .15-11, 7-15, 15-8 in the men’s sin- gles final last week- end at °Sfalaspina College in Nanaimo.

PHIL ALLARD... 2nd in nation.

“I played as hard as I covid,” said” Allard of ‘the three- gare final. “I defeat ed Morgan two ’ straight in the provin- ‘cials, but I guess this “was not my day.”

Allard defeated champions from Ontario, Alberta and Nova Scotia en route to the finals, display- ing some of his most

year. “Phil exhibition,” “BI . coach .. Derek, Hoekman’ said. “He: has . nothing «to . he ashamed of .. his back was bothering | -him - after ~ playing three. - preliminary matches on the hard floor surface but he ‘continued: to | battle. until the end.” ”

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Passing of Forum sign of the times

GIVEN HOCKEY Night in Canada’s over- sentimentalized fareweli to the’ Mentreal Forum last Saturday, one can only imagine what heights (or depths) it will attain on that Inevitable day Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens closes its doors.

The building variously referred to as hockey's Mother Temple and the Carlton Street Cash Box is now the NHL's oldest, built in 1931, seven years after the ‘Forum was constructed in a matter of 159 days in 1924.

In these times of inflated salaries, equalled only by the TV-inspired inflated hype surrounding all pro sport, it no longer is the cash box it used to be. This is reflected in the-fact that the three Canadian cities chosen to host World Cup games later this year are Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal.

Toronto, with only 15,000 seats, has been omitted. The Vancouver and Ottawa build-

- "ings hold 19,000-plus and .

the new Molson Centre seats 21,000.

Once the finest hockey _ arena in Canada, the Gardens is now a relic unable to pro- duce the box office dollars

. the new arenas can.

to be second banana in any building the basketbat! Raptors may eventually put up, the Gardens may outlast’ the Forum’s 72-year lifespan.

In the sports facilities league, 72 years is an eterni- ty. There is no other Canadian sports facility that old. Down south, the Rose Bow] and the Coliseum in Los Angeles still stand.

Remember Empire Stadium here in Vancouver? Built in 1954 for the Commonwealth Games, it was hailed as the finest facil- ity of its Kind in Canada. Within 25 years it was being excoriaied as an out-dated,

" money-losing, down-at-the- heels dump.

The B.C. Lions departed in 1983 for the downtown dome and there wasn't a mourner in sight. Prematurely dead at 30, it wasn’t accorded anything in

* the way of an eulogy. But

then, not many steel and concrete edifices are.

What made the Forum a special sentimental case is a combination of the Francophone passion for hockey — greater, even, than for separation — and the Canadiens’ ability over the years to keep that passion boiling.

The team once known as the Flying Frenchmen — but on current form and content, the rather pedestrian Flying United Nations — has won a record 24 Stanley Cups. Twenty-two of them were fashioned at 2313 St. Catherine Street.

Verily, in French- Canadian eyes, the building became a shrine, up there with Ste. Anne de Beaupre; and the team one of La Belle Province’s leading symbols of Quebec’s French identity.

. Therefore, your agent found it passing strange that

See Shrine page 40

COLLINGWOOD’S STEPHANIE Hume (right) hit two clutch tree throws in the

dying seconds to lead the Cavaliers

st AL. Fortune 34-32 to win tho B.C,

single-A title. team members include (left to right): Emily Hamer, Brandi Halls, coach Jim Burnett, Jenevieve Calla, Merle O'Connor, Diana Yu, Micheela

Becker, N and Penny

alley.

STEPHANIE HUME’S two foul shots broke a 32-32. tie and gave Collingwood a 34-32 win over A.L. Fortune of Enderby in the championship game of the B.C. Girls’ “A” Championships in Rossland March 2. _. The Cavaliers, although never behind by more than five points, took the lead for the first time at 22-20 during the third period. Tournament most valuable player Claire

NEW FOUND success is often a double-edged sword with expectation dulling the sharp, sweet sensation of accomplishment.

Such was the case for both Capilanc College basketball teams at their respective provincial tournaments.

The men’s team, making their first post-season appear- ance in over 10 years, lost 62-

_59 to Malaspina in the semi-

’ finals. The Mariners went on.

to win the B.C. title.:.

“The team played : as well:

as they could,” said Capilano head coach Phil Langley. “To come within three points of Malaspina College was hard to swallow, but I was proud of the way the team battled to the end.”

Similar sentiments were voiced by Lady Blues’ head

coach Greg Zavediuk fol-°

jar Elmieh, Nicky Hartley, Tink Plumb, Kyia Morton Claire Hinneli .

Hinnell scored 14 points: and hauled j in 15 ; rebounds. for the Cavaliers. Hume, was’ selected to the second all-star team. ol Collingwood, who qualified for the tour-

nament: by beating. Pemberton .. 47-32, : downed Pacific Christian of Victoria 51-35: as Hinnell scored 15 and ran‘over Rossland 46-35 with Hinnell hitting for.17 points and Kyla Morton pulling d down: 19 rebounds :

towing his tear : ter-final. Western:

for this: poe and.we really © ‘thought we ‘eould pull it off, on he said... wt ' However, Zavediuk added :

he was. proud of ‘the Lady «

Blues’ season, ; iwhich includ...’ ed wins | over fationally. ranked teams. od

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