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C4 THE PROVINCE, Tuesday, August 4, 1981 Haymao flying in Gastown tance between himself and Boroznowski and the rest of the field. Boroznowski and Hayman came around the final corner and finished in a group of lapped riders who were in not position to win the race. "That was a bit unfortunate for us," said Hayman, when asked about the pack with them at the checkered flag. "Those riders were out of the race but it kind of slowed us down. I don't think Tom could have gotten by me but you never know," he added.

The win was a sweet one for Hayman, who not only won in front of a home crown" but also avenged a loss to Boroznowski in Port Town-send, Sunday. "He (Boroznowski) just blew away the field in that one," said' Hayman. "I was a bit depressed after that loss because I really wanted to win here in Vancouver before the home crowd, added Hayman, one of three Canadian professionals on the world circuit. For Hayman there will be little rest. He will compete in 15 races in 30 days in Belgium.

lap behind the Garneau group, Martin Willock crossed first, seventh over-all. Brian Spicer of Vancouver finished eighth and Port Moody's Kory Sinclaire took ninth. Defending champion Alex Stieda of Vancouver finished 11th, as racers averaged 43 kmh. A crowd estimated by police to be about 10,000 filled the Gastown area to watch the event, which also included races for women, juniors, seniors and novices. In the 20-lap women's race, Winnipeg's Verna Buhler won easily.

She was all by herself for the final two laps, well ahead of Vancouver's Dawne Deeley who finished second and Christine Ingram of Lloydminster, Sask. Toronto's Armed Noor took the 30-lap junior race, ahead of Steve Ingram, Christine's younger brother. Elmar Bertelson of Haney, the winner in the veterans race at the Canadian championships Sunday at University of B.C., was also successful Monday, winning the 20-lap veterans Gastown race. By TERRY BELL Late Monday evening Vancouver cyclist Ron Hayman boarded a jet and travelled around the world to Brussels, Belgium, so he could compete in a month-long series of international races. But it was Monday afternoon when the 26-year-old professional rider was really flying.

Hayman helped set a blistering pace in the ninth annual Gastown Grand Prix and turned in several record breaking laps on the 65-lap (58.5 kilometre) course on the way to his first Gastown win in eight tries. He crossed the Water Street finish line about a length-and-a-half ahead of runner-up Tom Boroznowski of Seattle, a U.S. Olympic team rider. Ste. Foy, Quebec's, Louis Gar-neau finished third, leading a small group of riders who finished a full lap behind Hayman and Boroznowski.

Another Quebec rider, Dany Deslongchamps of Sept lies, finished fourth with Victoria's Bernie Willock fifth and West Vancouver's Brent Mudry sixth. In another cluster of bikes, a half Stieda lifts up his sights 8 1 JL. SS.t'?'! 'Iff. i E3ISS: '''W''''''''' V.Y.V.MJ. Tff 1 But the main stage was definitely reserved for the men's event.

With the Canadian championships here last week, many riders stayed for the Gastown race and when the starters gun sounded 88 cyclists took off in a sea of flesh, rubber and metal. "With so many riders in the race, we wanted to get off to a fast start and get the reckless riders out of it," said Hayman, who was speaking for himself and the dozen or so racers who had a serious chance of winning the race. A blistering pace was set through the first 10 laps as Garneau, then Willock, Boroznowski and Hayman took turns holding the lead. As riders were lapped by the field they were forced out of the race and only 17 riders were still peddling at the finish. With 25 laps gone Hayman and Boroznowski had lapped everyone in the race and turned it into a two man affair.

Hayman completed laps (.09 kilometres) in 63 and then 62 seconds before breaking the record with a 61 second clocking on the 45th lap to put even greater dis vice in the beginning and helping me get started. "Harold Bridge (a neighbor) lent me a decent bike, and that helped a lot. "Then there are guys like Ron Hayman (the 26-year-old Kerris-dale rider, who is now riding successfully as a professional on the emerging U.S. circuit). He was someone to look up to.

Whenever I have a problem I can go to him." Unlike many top professional and amateur riders, Stieda is not a slave to the increasingly-expensive (upwards, of techologically-advanced machines on which he lives. His body is his master. "I don't place a lot of emphasis on lightweight equipment. "What you have to do is work hard until it hurts. I must train three or four hours at a time, eight months a year.

"It leaves little time for anything else. This is the first time I've been home in three months." Where Stieda has spent his time recently, other than the Belgian expedition, is in Pennsylvania, where he attempted to qualify for the Canadian track contingent for the upcoming world championships in Bueno Aries at the end of the month. Travelling to a U.S. track to qualify for Canada's national track team leads to questions about where cycling is headed in this country. Stieda comments: "In the States, they have a system of sponsors that contribute to cycling through tax writeoffs and things.

tion at the Word Games Sunday in Santa Clara, Calif. In women's competition, Canada-was defeated 3-0 by the U.S. for the gold medal. Kathy Arendson of the U.S. pitched a perfect game, striking out 16 of the 21 batters she faced.

In men's competition, Canada, represented by a team from Brook-field, N.S., won the bronze as the U.S. took both the gold and silver. MANITOBA BOYS and girls teams took first place in the preliminary rounds of the Western Canadian bantam softball championships in Kamloops Sunday. Manitoba Whitemounth Cubs enter the boys double knockout playoffs with a 3-1 record, losing only to Kamloops Roma Steak and Pizza. The girls team, Manitoba Cham-plain, suffered their only lost to Alberta Calahoo in a 5-3 decision Saturday.

Champlain had earlier beat Saskatchewan and B.C. CANADA LOST its third cricket match in a row, losing to Ireland in an international cricket tournament Monday in Copenhagen. Ireland was 146 for three wickets while the Canadians were 145 all out. BRIAN FINDLAY pitched a no-hitter to lead defending champion Trail to a 3-0 victory over Prince George in the third day of the B.C. Little League championships in Duncan Monday.

Findlay struck out 10 batters and walked two to keep Trail's chances of retaining the title alive. Ron Hutchison took the loss for Prince George, which was eliminated from the double knockout tournament. Nanalmo remained unbeaten with a 9-4 win over Coquitlam. Scott Callow was credited with the win and got strong relief pitching help from Darren Biggs, who struck out seven of nine batters he faced. Meanwhile, Duncan was eliminated when it dropped a 12-11 decision to Vancouver Dunbar.

Craig Barsky was the winning pitcher while Dean Crawford took the loss. -David Clark photo fSP Hayman on his way to winning Gastown race before 1 0,000 fans Monday. Heinonen catches lobster in N.B. By DON HARRISON It is not a difficult name to spell; just six letters in the surname. But, for cyclist deluxe Alex Stieda (i before just after the t) the frequent misspelling of his name is perhaps representative of the problems facing the sport of cycling in this country.

For the fair-skinned, blond-mopped, 20-year-old from Coquitlam is among the elite in the gruelling world of amateur cycling, yet the corporate sponsor of this week's Canadian road cycling championships in Vancouver did not spell his name correctly in its publicity information. "You get frustrated," Stieda admits, when asked how it feels to be a ranking athlete in a province that regards cycling with such contempt that its lone track was allowed to deteriorate to the point where it became an easy target for redevelopment plans. "A lot needs to be done to open' people's eyes," he said. "Cycling can get bigger. Then, people would be interested in the sport and might vote (funds) for a track." Maybe.

But, money and a vastly improved public relations effort will require a high-profile winning effort internationally from the likes of youngsters like Stieda, and fellow Canadian cycling stars Steve Bauer, Louis Garneau, Bernie Willock and Karen Strong to get the wheels turning toward national recognition. Spinning wheels towards international success is what the confident, well-spoken Stieda spent the months of May and June accomplishing. Sports total of 6,917 followed by Manitoba with 6,290 and B.C. with 6,243. Saskatchewan was last with 5,942.

Although Alberta was the points winner, B.C. will send more skiers to the national championships to be held in Kelowna August 21 to 23. THE FRENCH YACHT Midnight Sun, skippered by Jean-Louis Fabry, won the third race in the Admiral's Cup yachting series Sunday, off Cowes, England, but Britain took the lead in team standings. Moonduster of Ireland, with Dennis Doyle at the helm, placed second in the race, while Ian Gibbs took the entry from New Zealand to a third-place finish. Britain now leads the sixteen competing countries, chasing their eighth win in the 13-year-old series.

Pre-race leaders, the U.S., slipped to fifth with a dismal showing in the third race. TOM MAGEE, a 23-year-old health club employee from Van B.C. breaks Canadian Press MONTREAL The University of Victoria won the men's heavyweight eights event at the Canadian rowing championships Sunday, one of the few wins that got away from Ontario competitors. Ontario clubs claimed 17 of the 26 gold medals, including four by the St. Catharines Rowing Club.

The Vancouver team of John Bodnar, Peter Wood, Marc Fon-tane and David Orr put another small dent in the Ontario monopoly with a first-place finish in the men's heavyweight fours in 6:30.74, while the men's four with cox was a match race between the University of Victoria and the Peterborough (Ont.) Rowing Club, won by Peterborough in 6:30.09. Jim Purcer captured the men's 145-pound single event in seven minutes, 50.27 seconds and his St. In his first year as a senior rider he has just finished a brilliant stint on the Belgian circuit with four firsts and six other placings in 17 starts. Then, on his return home, the victories kept coming as he captured the senior pursuit and anchored the winning B.C. team in the team pursuit at the Canadian track championships last weekend in Calgary.

Winning major events, or just winning cycling races of any kind, is nothing new for Stieda. Despite having a mother who has and continues today to race competitively, Alex got off to a belated start at the ripe age of 16. But what a start! "I had been on the tours at UBC (the summer trial series on the highway section in the University Endowment Lands) and I was getting exceptional times. "I won my first three novice races and then kept moving up. "I never really thought of why I was doing it (cycling).

I guess it was something I could do. "I started playing hockey when I was a kid and it was alright. I liked the team element. But, I guess I liked the idea of pushing myself." When he found cycling was something he could do well within himself, Stieda set out punctuating his faith with victories in the junior circuit locally, capped in 1979 and 1980 with sparkling, record-breaking performances in the national track championships and an eventual No.5-ranking junior in the world. "I had good people giving me ad in brief couver, became the first Canadian ever to exceed the mark in powerlifting Saturday in SaultSte.

Marie, Ont. Magee totalled 910 kgs. (2,006 pounds) 340 in the squat, 222.5 in the bench press and 347.5 in the dead lift in the 125-kilogram class of the Canadian powerlifting championships. A HALIFAX TEAM led by triple-threat Stan Hennigar won the gold medal with a 4-1 victory over B.C. in the Canadian midget boys' soft-ball championship Sunday in Swift Current, Sask.

Nova Scotia had forced a sudden-death clash earlier in the day with a 2-0 victory over the B.C. team from Campbell River in the first game of an A-B final. B.C., which won the A final with a 6-4 victory over Nova Scotia in Sunday's first game, took the silver medal. CANADA WON a silver and bronze medal in softball competi- monopoly Catharines teammates also captured the men's lightweight singles, doubles and eights. Victoria, with Paul Tessier as cox, won the men's eights in 6:02.88, besting teams from Vancouver and Bedford, England, while a crew from Toronto's Han-Ian club took the women's heavyweight eights in 3:21.40.

The men's heavyweight doubles was taken by Jamie Hansen and Tony Novotany of Toronto's Don club in 6:56.51 and Danielle Lau-mann of Toronto, a member of Canada's national team camp, claimed the women's heavyweight singles final in 3:46.12. Mark and Mike Evans, representing Ridley College Grads, won the men's heavy pairs in 6:56.67 and Alain Rochon and Luc Main-ville of Boucherville, won the youth doubles in 5:08.09. ALEX STIEDA. training In Canada, there is no such benefit to the sponsor." "It is essential to get the sponsorship (to help defray travel, among other expenses), if we want to get better. You can't stay around town if you want to improve.

It takes money to get better. Money and better are the two words that now, and probably in the not-too-distant future, will mark his career. While still waiting to hear if he made the grade for the trip to Argentina, the visions of his future in cycling are clear. "I am gearing for Brisbane (Australia) and the 1982 Commonwealth Games. After that? I would like to.

turn pro in the U.S. "With the likes of Eric Heiden (U.S. Olympic speedskating hero, turned pro cyclist), cycling is going to get bigger." Queen of track rules road Canada's top female cyclist, Karen Strong-Hearth, dominated the Canadian road cycling championships Sunday at University of B.C. Strong-Hearth, 27, from St. Catharines, won the women's 65-kilometre race in one hour, 48 minutes and 50 seconds, to finish well ahead of Carol Vanier of Montreal, second in 1:49:11.

Genevieve Brunet, also of Montreal, finished third in 1:55:20. It was the second victory for Strong-Hearth in the championships. Two days earlier she won the women's individual time trial. Two weeks ago she captured the women's championship at the National Track championship. Elmar Bertelsen, 48, of Haney won the veteran men's 91-kilometre race in 2:23:25.

He also captured the veteran's individual time trial race on Friday. Finishing behind Bertelson in Sunday's race was Dieter Tschauner, of Victoria, in 2:23:36 while Montreal's George Hclaouct finished in 2:23:36 as well. In the championship's final event, the junior men's 91-kilometre race, Paul Crowley of Montreal was declared the winner followed by Paul Robitaille also of Montreal and Noor Ahmed of Toronto. All three finished in 2: 17:24. Burroughs back SEATTLE (AP) Outfielder Jeff Burroughs, highest-paid member of Seattle Mariners, finally rejoined the American League club Monday.

He was the last of 25 Mariners roster players to show up alter a tentative agreement was reached in the major league strike. Piquet 1 gets lucky Associated Press tTHOCKENHEIM, West Germany Racing luck. It's a "Term most race car drivers talk "about. It's something Nelson Piquet had a monopoly on in winning the German Grand Prix. Piquet probably didn't consider himself lucky when Sunday's Formula One race got the green flag.

By the first corner, he had Already collided with the rear of Hene Arnoux's Renault, damaging his front wing and puncturing Arnoux's rear tire. Not much later, Piquet's -Brabham lost its left plastic Skirt when the car drove over a piece of metal on the Hocken-heim course. The skirt improves the aerodynamics of his car. While the Brazilian was adjusting, France's Alain Prost, in another Renault, was leading with defending world champion Alan Jones of Australia in hot pursuit. Prost held the lead for 20 laps before Jones' Williams moved into the lead on the 21st lap and Piquet started moving up.

Jones held that lead until the 39th lap. was ready then. He moved into the lead and held it the remaining seven laps. Prost finished second and countryman Jacques Laffitte was third in a Talbot-Ligier. Gilles Villeneuve of Berthier-ville, finished 11th in his Ferrari.

At Talladega, Ron Bouchard, a rookie on the circuit, won a dramatic three-car to the finish line Sunday to take the $294,000 Talladega 500 NASCAR stock car race by less than a metre over Darrell Wal-trip. Bouchard's first place winnings of $38,805 was almost as much as the $39,205 he had won in 10 races earlier this year. Province News Services TAISTO HEINONEN of Surrey, scored his second victory in a week in national rally championship competition, winning the New Brunswick lobster rally in Moncton by two minutes over Randy Black of Mississauga, Ont. Heinonen, with co-driver Tom Burgess, of Burnaby, covered the 20 special stages in one hour, 22 minutes and 13 seconds in their Toyota Corolla an average speed of 112.4 kilometres an hour over the 154-km course. CHRIS JANEWAY of Whister won Saturday's triangle-heavyweight race and the slalom competition Sunday to capture first place over-all in the men's division of the B.C.

wind surfing championships atAltaLake. Andrew Stoner of Whistler, the medium-heavyweight triangle winner finished second over-all with Frederick Buxbaum of Vancouver third over-all. On the women's side, Kim Relper-Klng, also of Whistler captured the over-all title, ahead of Jinny Ladner, of Whistler, the winner in the slalom on Sunday and Monday's freestyle events. THE FEDERAL COURT jury in the anti-trust trial in which Oakland Raiders and Los Angeles Coliseum Commission have sued the National Football League completed its fifth day Monday in Los Angeles without reaching a verdict. Court clerk Richard Johnson said that the jury would reconvene this morning to continue its efforts in the case.

The Raiders and L.A. Coliseum Commission sued the NFL over the league's refusal to allow the defending Super Bowl champions to move south from Oakland. The jury received the case last Wednesday after 55 days of testimony in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Harry Pregerson. ALBERTA was first in 12 events to emerge over-all winner at the Western Canadian Water Ski Championships at Sproat Lake, near Port Alberni Sunday.

The Albertans amassed a point.