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There's the flash-and-dancc imports 5'B' jitterbugs with fancy monikers like I'inbuII. Gizmo and the Whiz and fearless, unsung Canadians like Wally Zatylny and JclTTrv'ftliiv. Then there's Darrell Wallace, the U.C. Lions' rookie find in 19U9. An in-betweener at 5'9" and 183 pounds, the St.

Louis native set CFL records Tor kickolT returns (57) and return yardage (123). He was third in the league with yards in punt returns and he rushed for a 5. 1 -y ard-average as a part-lime starter at running buck. But he was more steady than he wa electrifying: more quiet than he was brash. And there was no catchy nickname.

Jubt plain Darrcll Wallace. Fast forward to 19U0. And a cynic would suggest maybe it's time to find Wallace a nickname. How about Invisible Man? In four games two exhibitions and two regular-season games as the designated import he has averaged a puny four yards on six punt returns and a disappointing 16 yards on nine kickoff returns. His rushing average 1.1 looks like a World Cup soccer score and if you throw out one 24-yard reception in the pre-season, his receiving average is a lowly 4.3.

"It's not a matter of being tentative," said Wallace, who looked just that in Edmonton last week while returning five kickoffs for 57 yards. "There's just been nothing happening." He broke a kickoff return and a punt return for touchdowns in 1989. But this year, he looks like he couldn't break a finish line tape. "There really hasn't been an opportunity to make any big things happen." said Wallace, while suggesting that there's been too many guys on the other team "running down the field free and untouched. You've just got to be patient about it, go with the flow and it's bound to happen sooner or later." "We've got good return people, we got people who can take it all the way," said Wallace, who lines up on kickoffs with starting tailback Ken- Its our 1990 Model Green Light Super Clearance Sale! Wliile supplies last, your Suzuki dealer is ot tering savings of up to $1,000 on the few remaining 1990 Suzuki Swifts, Sidekicks and Samurai.

Its your green light to save like never before on the superb Japanese quality of Suzuki cars and four-by-fours. And its our way of saving THANK YOU BRITISH COLUMBIA! for making Suzuki one of the fastest growing car companies in the country! V- ay --H i steady than electrifying seam, he'll hit it. But at some point in time, I'm looking at the whole picture. We've got to get more out of our returns." Running back Lorenzo Graham, who returned kickoffs for Kuharich in Calgary last season, was added to the practice roster this week. But if Wallace is feeling threatened, he doesn't let on.

"I'd like to have more work, I feel comfortable with a load. But I'm a team player. I don't bitch and gripe a lot because I'm just here to play, the game and as long as I get that opportunity I'm happy." makes talent (or lack of it) a major factor. Tracy's success, however hasn't caused sponsors to parade to his door. His father, Tony, who got his son started by buying him a motorized mini-bike at age lour, has had to finance most of Paul's racing season.

It costs about $350,000 a year to run on the ARS circuit. Tracy's win Sunday was worth $17,000, boosting his winnings this. season to S127.9U0 SaO.Uuu more IViom Dfinnoc hie noQQct man i lapao, nio iiaioi tumpvu tor. Tracy's goal is to be Canada's next Formula One star, but first he'd like a crack at an Indy-Car ride. He's hoping for a chance to compete in the Vancouver Molson Indy, scheduled for Sept.

2 at B.C. Place. "Anv of the toD drivers in an ARS" car, with the right opportunity and a good team, could finish in the top eight in an Indy-car field," Tracy says. "I'd like to try an Indy-car ride hut I nppH tn finrl suionsorshiD for this year or next year." Last week, Tracy was fitted for a test drive by Truesports Racing, move that could lead to Indy-car competition. "I have a test with Truesports," Tracy says.

"But that's all it is, a test." Still, it looks as if the hard-driv ing kid Irom Ontario is about to blast iU- -i. VT A DARRELL WALLACE: more nard Martin. "But we've got to be able to run to something first. That's what we haven't had." The young, rookie-laden return team is almost entirely new this season, with such blocking stalwarts as Wes Cooper, Anthony Parker and Jamie Taras either gone or injured. "That's a factor," says head coach Lary Kuharich.

"But you don't need experience to knock guys down and that's what we're missing." Kuharich maintains he still has confidence in Wallace. "History tells me that if he has a Paul is the most talented driver I've seen since Ayrton Senna 9 Ralph Firman far, leading 406 of those laps. Tracy's Landford Racing Team spent two weeks in Arizona testing and working on his car prior to the start of the season, and the driver says that setup time has given him a big edge. "The amount of testing we've been able to do is the big reason why things have gone so well," Tracy says. Even so, while his machinery has been flawless, so has Tracy's technique.

"Paul is the most talented driver I've seen since Ayrton Senna," says Ralph Firman, managing director of Van Dieman Racing Cars of England. "He's as good as Emerson Fit-tipaldi (two-time world champion and defending Indy-car champion) and Roberto Guerrero were at the same stage of their careers." Tracy's success is all the more remarkable hen it's realized that all the cars in the ARS series have identical engines a 450-horse-power, 4.2 litre non-turbo-charged Buick V-6 on the same open-wheeed Wildcat chassis. That Tracy looks to hitch an Indy ride 7 Lli r- SUZUKI SWUT FOUK DOOR SLUAN SUZUKI SW1KI UI bUZUkl SIDbKlCKJLX Vehicles shown come with a 3-year, 80,000 kilometre, zero-deductible, bumper-to-bumper warranty at no extra charge. By MIKE BEAMISH Sun Sports Reporter TORONTO If you're looking for the next Canadian motorsport star, Paul Tracy could be the man. Tracy, 21, from Scarborough, has been called the best Canadian driver since Gilles Villeneuve, and it's a pretty hard claim to dispute.

He may be the country's most consistent sports performer. After all, what other Canadian has won seven of eight events in a game where attrition is high, and one popped bolt or a small puddle of oil can send you spinning out of contention? In another masterful, flawless performance, Tracy continued his domination of the ARS (American Racing Series) Sunday with a victory on the Molson Indy street course at Exhibition Place. The win was Tracy's fourth straight in the series an ARS record and his seventh of the season another first. Only a mistake by the starter of the restart of a race in Detroit June 17 has prevented a Tracy sweep in a series established as a training ground for the Indy-car World Series. Tracy nailed pole sitter Ted Prappas of California with a slick pass on the second lap of Sunday's 42-lap event and won with a comfortable margin of more than eight seconds.

Tracy has completed all 431 laps in the eight ARS events so SO StJ SCI Oflw only aameiiMtiiig ftiwi.