The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Page 15

Friday January 19, 1979 Gary Picknell His future up in the air Horst Bulau has heard ft all before. "Aren't you a bit insane to be doing this sort of he was asked. "Some of my friends think I'm crazy. Everybody thinks it's a crazy sport. But it's not dangerous at all," Bulau replied in a matter-of-fact tone.

"It's just the first few jumps. But once you've done it the first few times, you get over the fear. Some of the best jumpers have never ever been on a pair of downhill skis," he continued. If anyone should know about the inner fears of ski-jumping, it's Horst Bulau. The Grade II Gloucester High School student is one of Canada's premier ski-jumpers.

If he's not the best in the nation right now, he certainly will be in a few years. Bulau took a liking to the sport at the tender age of 10. Since he's been untouched as the Canadian junior champion and he's highly favored to recapture the honor next weekend in Thunder Bay. Last winter, at an international meet held on the 90-metre jump in Thunder Bay, he gained the respect of the world by placing 26th in a senior competition. Because of his past performances, Bulau has an excellent chance of representing Canada at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Not a bad record for a 16-year-old. Bulau started skiing when he was under three years old. His love for alpine skiing eventually led him to the jumps at Camp Fortune. After one or two leaps, Bulau was totally hooked. "I liked downhill and skiing the moguls (bumps) and stuff like that.

I tried the jumps and some of the other jumpers convinced me to try it with jumping skis," said Bulau. Since then he's devoted most of his training to improving his distance and last year set a personal best with a leap of 105 metres. In six years, he's been seriously injured only once. "It was on the 90-metre hill at Thunder Bay last year. I cracked my ankle and tore some ligaments.

That was it. I wasn't very steady and I panicked a little. It was a little windy and I caught a gust of wind underneath me when I wasn't ready for it," he explained. Perhaps his biggest problem is finding competition. There are only about 10 jumpers in the area and about 60 in Canada.

At the national championships, Americans are invited to compete to add to the competition. Nevertheless Bulau refuses to face discouragement. "The junior World championships are in Quebec City (Feb. 13-14) and that's where I want to really do well." If his past record is any indication, Bulau should do very well. Weekend events Edelweiss conditions are reported good to excellent because of snowfall.

Strife will be occupied by the North-American eastern ski-series Saturday and Sunday. The following weekend the Can-Am freestyle competition will be held. This is the first time two countries have competed in amateur freestyle competition. Camp Fortune good conditions on cross-country and downhill facilities. Freestyle clinic scheduled for Saturday.

and arerial ballet event; Cassel Lodge, 10 a.m. Vorlage hills reported in good condition. Mont Cascades conditions good to excellent, ice-slide in operation. Mte. Pakenham good conditions.

The official opening of lighted cross-country trails and high school invitational cross-country meet go on Saturday. Freestyle skiing, ballet and aerial events, and all age-groups are scheduled for Sunday. Calabogie good conditions reported. Hansen waived by SuperSonics SEATTLE (CP) Canadian Lars Hansen was put on waivers by Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association Thursday after journeyman centre Dennis Aw-trey was placed on the club's active roster. The 6-foot-10 Awtrey was acquired by Seattle on Wednesday from the Boston Celtics for a first-round draft pick later this The Sonics also will receive cash considerations from the Celtics.

The 6-foot-10 Hansen, drafted in the third round by the Bulls In 1976, signed two 10-day contracts with the Sonics before signing a pact for the balance of the season. His best game In the NBA saw him score 19 points and grab 10 rebounds. Hansen also played semi-pro basketball In Europe. Awtrey, 30, will back up centre Jack Sikma, the Sonics' power forward who moved into the middle when Tom LaGardc was lost indefinitely in November after undergoing knee surgery. That was the job, origi nally given to Hansen, a native of the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam who played for the University of Washington Huskies here and for Canada's 1976 Olympic team.

Appointment Jim Tubman Motors Ltd. Jo Turner John Harcourt, General Sales Manager of Jim Tubman Motors (1973) Ltd. Is pleased to welcome Joe Turner back to the sales team. Joe, a lifelong resident of Ottawa, is well known In the community and has a total of 30 years experience in the automotive field. Joe would like to take this opportunity to Invite his many friends and customers to view the exciting 1979 line-up of Chevrolet and Oldsmoblle cars and trucks.

Drop in at Joe's new location, 1770 Bank Street (corner of Alt Vista) or telephone TU-4090. 1 Jttawn Journal I I VHQ Yiini i 1 (Tn7i lf20 the lrsv wou'" rf 1 4. tV 1 IMtolY MAZES! Page 15 Austrians slick in Canadian suits KITZBUEHL, Austria (CP) Canadians didn't dominate the downhill run in Thursday's practice sessions for the Hahnenkamm race Saturday but their ski suits did. Peter Wirnsberger and Werner Griss- -mann of Austria, both wearing new suits of the same type as the Canadian an Swiss skiers have used in recent races, posted the fastest times in both practice runs. Ken Read of Calgary was the fastest Canadian, placing third and fourth in the two runs.

Steve Podborski of Toronto was 11th and 16th and Dave Murray of Abbts-ford, B.C., suffered a slight concussion when he fell on his first run but recovered sufficiently to place 20th on a cautious second try. The new Austrian toggery followed a quarrel between the home team and Its clothing manufacturers, who withdrew from the team pool after some Austrian slower than those worn by their Canadian and Swiss rivals. The Austrians, a traditional power in downhill events, have finished well back of the Canadians and Swiss in World Cup competition this season. Read, whose practice times of two minutes 8.38 seconds and 2: 09.66 Thursday compared with Wirnsberger's 2: 07.88 and 2: 08.88, suggested that the difference in clothing was not the Austrians' main problem. "The new suits may give them a psychological boost but you can still see that most of their team isn't skiing very well," he said.

"It doesn't surprise me to see Wirnsberger and Grissmann up there because those two have been skiing well. But you look back further and you find (former world champion) Franz Klammer has a 2: 12. That's no different than before. He has always been four seconds behind this year." Athans two points back TIGNES, France (CP) World champion Greg Athans of Kelowna, B.C., was in fourth place Thursday after the preliminary round of the ballet section in the World Cup freestyle skiing competition. Athans, who won both the ballet and moguls on last year's tour, compiled 21.70 points In the preliminary round.

Ernst Garhammerr of West Germany was the leader with 23.50 points followed by Bob Howard of the United States (23.10) and American Bruce Bolesky (22.70). Now Read, who had a World Cup victory taken away from him two weeks ago when his new Swiss-made suit was ruled ineligible because it did not meet wind-resistance regulations, finished third a week later in a similar outfit that passed the laboratory tests. "I contend that it is the outside material that makes a suit fast or slow," he said Thursday. "The difference between the old Austrian suit, which is made by Ender, and the Descente suit, which we and the Swiss use, isn't that great. The surface material isn't substantially different." He expressed satisfaction with'-his: practice runs.

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