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10 the examiner Ftuay August 24 1979 Sounds of crunching metal tilled Thursday night when cars smashed into each other during the Demolition Derby at the Barrie Raceway The emolition derby Tires squealed as cars pun wildly to avoid being frontended Thursday night Highway 400 was never like this Youngsters were kept well away capacity crowds roared approval as the trained drivers bumped each other into submission Examiner Photo by Peter Hsu from the fence and the thriller drivers did not injure themselves although they thrilled the crowd with several spectacular crashes Examiner Photos by Peter Hsu Bu rka veteran speedskater making her mark as cyclist WINNIIEG 1li Sylvia Burka has been the foremost speedskater in Canada for so long that her teammates call her Grandma But as cyclist shes an up start The 25yearold is perhaps the only Canadian athlete to be worldranked in two such different sports She competed in her first world speedskating champion ship at the age of 14 There have been 10 since then along with two Olympic games and another Olympics is fast apr proaching Ive been around so long guess people think Im stringing them along when tell them my age she says Come on they say Youve got to be more than 25 Youve been around for years decades even But in cycling its another matter HAVING PROBLEMS took up cycling one sum nier about four years ago be cause was having cartilage problems and couldnt do the running required for my sum mer training program Riding bike was lot easier on the knees It was also new challenge and thats something Burka has never been able to resist The famous thighs that pow ered her to the overall womens world speedskating Branttord BRAITFtltD tint iCPl Brantford Golf and Country club may be 100 years old but theres still lot of fight in the old lady The course isnt long at par TZ 6598 yards but its leaving lot of golfers in the Canadian amateur championship with long faces following the first two rounds young Mexican Rafael Alarcon is leading after Thurs days round with fourunder par 140 total Thats good enough for one shot lead over Graham Cooke of Dorion Que and two better title in 1976 and the world sprint championship the following year took her to the Canadian cycling championship in her second year of competition She placed fourth in the 1977 world championships It looked as if she was about to achieve something new in sports double world cham pionships in different sports but it wasnt to be IIIIIT BACK had really disappointing year in 1978 in speedskating as result of couple of things hurt my back and that didnt help but also suffered from lack of skatingoriented train ing with weights and the kinds of excercises specifically for speedskating As result she decided to compete in cycling only in Can ada She captured the Canadian cycling title again last year but declined to go to the world championships prompting asides that Canada was sending its secondbest and making her less than popular with Karen Strong No on the list know how they feel must seem less than totally dedicated and guess thats true cycle for fun and to keep in shape Although her international career sparkles with successes there have been dis appointments There were suspensions from the national speedskating team for unorthodox training meth ods which she admits resulted from her headstrong manner But she says some things were unjustified Burka was handicapped by the loss of an eye as child On more than one occasion this has been the subject of protest that her blind side makes her hazard for other athletes It happened at the Canadian cycling championships she says The team from Quebec claimed was dangerous It probably seemed like good way to get rid of me SYLVIA Bl RK speedskater and cyclist course challenges amateurs than Doug Roxburgh of an comer Two Americans Bill Buttner of Plymouth Mass and Greg Jones of Colorado Springs Col share fourth spot with H3 t0 tals After two rounds of play the course has given up just 12 sub par rounds to the field of 164 which was cut to 73 after Thurs days round Cooke who had threeunder 69 on Wednesday was content with his par round Thursday He came away from the round with little more respect for the hilly course At first glance this course is deceiving he said It is much trickier than it seems to be at first glance When you first see it in practice round you say to yourself Heres birdie hold and heres an easy par but once youre out there if you arent coming into the greens at the right angle you find yourself struggling for par After magnificent round Wednesday when he carried out 67 Alarcon found himself wallowing in bunkers on six oc casions twice on the 13th hole which he double bogeyed his first of the competition Seventythree is super round the way played today he said It could have easily been 77 or 78 Doug Roxburgh was one of three golfers to record twoun der 70s He was also responsible for returning the Willingdon Cup trophy for interprovincial play to British Columbia after two year absence All four members of the BC team Hoxhurgh Steve Berry Kelly Murray and Rick Gibson are members at Marine Drive Golf Club in Vancouver um institutions RICHESI IIIOIIING EVENT AT GREENWOOD SATURDAY NIGHT night to remember With $100000 purse you know the competition Iij will be fast 1979 94 and fierce aiiiwoon Post time 130pm Maple leaf Trotting ClaSSi satire So dont miss the harness racing action Saturday night as the Maple Leaf Trotting Classic proves once again that it truly is Classic CLASSIC Eight teams ready to compete World Cup lacks glitter MONTREAL CP Several of the brightest stars in the trackandfield galaxy will be missing when the World Cup of Athletics begins tonight at Olympic Stadium but officials are confident the event will lose none of its glitter Heading the list of absentees is Great Britains triplerecord holder Sebastien Coe who has sought seclusion after estab lishing world marks in the 800 and 1500 metres as well as the mile within the last 41 days Certainly its shock not to have him and certainly Im dis appointed said Larry El dridge executive vice president for the World Cup The whole philosophy behind the Cup is to have the best and because hes getting all the headlines these days people feel he is the best Coes archrival and fellow countryman Steve Ovett as well as New Zealands John Walker 400 and BOOmetre star Alberto Juantorena of Cuba and Soviet high jumper Vladi mir Yatchenko have also skipped the Montreal com petition for variety of rea sons BEST IN WORLD But Eldridge derived solace from the fact that 18 world record holders will be part of the eight teams competing in the World Cup last staged in Dusseldorf West Germany in 1977 The eight teams include East Germany the Soviet Union and the United States as well as the continental representatives of Asia Oceania Africa Europe and the Americas Canadian athletes gained 18 berths on the Americas team in trials at Que bec City Aug 1112 You have to be realistic said Eldridge We still have meet organizers dream and one athlete isnt going to make any difference The entire weekend in fact shapes up as series of show downs pitting worldrecord holders against some of their nearest competitors In the mens 400metre hur dles Edwin Moses of the US boasts the four best perform ances in the world this year but he will face severe test against 19yearold Harald Schmid of West Germany whose best performance this year is 4491 seconds The womens high jump brings together three athletes at the peak of their careers in world record holder Sara Sim eoni of Italy Rosemarie Acker mann of the German Demo cratic Republic and Canadas Debbie Brill who shattered Commonwealth mark with jump of 194 metres at Quebec City spo Kolmar over AM for twogame lead Kolmar edged and 1110 to take twogame lead in their bestoffive series with in Bar rie and District Ladies Softball League playoff action Thurs day at Shear Park Kolmar won the opening game of the series 217 and came closer and came close in the second game as Kolmar were held to the sixth inning before they scored the winning run In other playoff action Ivy tooquaftwogame lead in their scries with Complete Mobile Wash when they defeated CMW 50 Sherry Raycroft led Kolmar to victory scoring four of their eleven runs one in the first se cond fourth and sixth innings Stevenson was the winning pit cher Antiques get easy 70 win Barrie Treasure Chest Anti ques won the easy way Thurs day night the team they were scheduled to play never showed pOfficially Barrie is credited with 70 win over Richmond Hill in North York Girls Soft ball League game But Rich mond Hill defaulted the game when they were unable to round up enough players for the match The two points Barrie picked up keep them in first place in the league with record of 15 wins and two losses The next game is Sunday at 830 against Aurora ill 11 rrnriunumn lllllllllllllun 1le Jill IM tilln lillll in itylhwillh Linda Hodginson hit home run and single and Judy Wilson hit two singles to power Ivy to the 50 shutout over CMW Ivy pitcher Sue Leighton held CMW to five hits Judie Pezzetta hit two of CMWs singles Anglers at tournament SIOUX NARROWS Ont CP Amateur bass fishermen from the United States have been teaching lifelong anglers on Lake of the Woods few things about the sport There are many more lar gemouth bass in the lake than local residents ever dreamed Where are all these lar gemouth coming from asked Bill Hatfield who has owned gift shop here for several years Ive never even seen lar gemouth come out of these wa ters This is amazing Hatfield and others were sur prised at the catches of lar gemouth up to 412 pounds turned in Thursday by com petitors in the US National Bassmaster Chapter Cham pionship tournament which concludes today The tournament pits the best six amateur anglers from each state against other teams from across the US Its the bass angling groups seventh annual fishoff and its first to be held in Canada Leading in the national championship is the Iowa State team which has weighed in 91 lbs 12 oz nuiiii in llllllllllllillllllll till it Amullfllllllllllllliiuij Illlllllllllllilllllllllll 1Ill World records are expected in both the womens 100 and 400 metre hurdles as Grazyna Rab sztyn of Poland and Soviet hur dler Marina Makeyeva attempt to improve on the record they hold in their respective events Brazilian Joao de Oliveira who holds the world triple jump mark with 1789 metres is definite threat to erase that record at the World Cup Meanwhile track and field fans who were denied view of the top African athletes as re sult of boycott of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal will wit ness brilliant Ethiopian runner Miruts Yifter in the 5000 and 10000 metres His time of 13 minutes 318 seconds in the 5000 metres at the Spartakiad Games in Mos cow at the end of July was just enough to defeat Valeriy Abra mov of the Soviet Union one of the men he will face in Mon treal Other newcomers to Montreal will include eight athletes from China marking the first time in 25 years that what is commonly known as mainland China has sent athletes to visit the West ern world In spite of the attractive pro gram ticket sales continued to lag for the weekend event As of noon on Thursday only 16000 tickets out of capacity 60000 Mr victory leads to final Mr Transmission earned the right to meet Starr Electric in the Barrie Intermediate Fastball League championship series by defeating Bayfield Furniture 21 Thursday night at Queens Park The series had been tied two games apiece with last nights match the deciding game Bayfield Furniture faced elimination on Tuesday but pulled out 31 victory to force the fifth and deciding game Mr Transmission shortstop Larry Murphy led his team to vitory Murphy knocked in run in the fourth inning to tie the game 11 Then in the seventh inning with the bases loaded and two out Murphy singled to drive in the winning run and move Mr Transmis sion into the championship 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