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The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 17

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The Provincei
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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If "Iff" TllE PROVINCE, Monday, March 12, .1962 17 Seattle's Century 21 Space Needle Prompts Cross-country to Pearson as Barry Dargie leads way Enter big tourney College, PW prep champs the race. Only the first live) linishers Irom each team quarter. In that final quarter, Bynir suddenly got hot and CENTURY 21 In the preliminary game at Lester Pearson gym, the hosting Mikes overpowered Britannia Braves 70-31 and sent them to the sidelines. Only 300 spec College had to put up a stout defensive zone to stop the rush. Neil Williscroft, six foot MM five forward, led College with o) 21 points.

He sank 55 per cent VICTORIA (CP) Barry Dargie, a ttwky 17year-old, Saturday led New VVestmin-rw' lister Pearson high school to the provincial crosscountry championship here. Lester Pearson was debited with, only 19 points when it dethroned the defending champions irom Victoria High School, who were second with 68 points. A total of 93 runners from 10 high schools plus single entries from Esquimau and Victoria Central junior High School took part in the race which was run over a 3.8-mile course. It started and ended on a cinder track with a third lap on the track hallway through seeded number one in the tournament and the loser number two. Still in contention lor the third and fourth spots are last year's provincial champion Magee, Lester Pearson, Byng and Jayo.

Magee's Elackshirts, seeking revenge for their humiliating defeat In the city league final, crushed and eliminated their conquerors, Winston Churchill Bulldogs, 53-31. Over 1,400 fans turned out to watch By BAY SOON Vancouver College and Prince of Wales snared two of the four Lower Mainland Zone playoff berths in the 17th annual B.C. Invitational High School EasketbaU spectacular Saturday night with close victories. The Fighting Irish from College nipped the tough Grey Ghosts from Lord Byng 48-46 and PW's Saints struggled past John Oliver 47-46. The two winners meet next Friday for the Pennsylvania counted the scoring.

In which one point is charged for the winner, two points lor the second runner and up to 50 points lor the 50th scorin? runner to cross the finish line. The school with the lowest point count won. Dargie, who has been hailed as the Pruce Kidd of the West Coast, was clocked In 18 minutes and 4.3 seconds. The time was only 10 econds ahead of teammate Neil Bradley. Third in the team standings was Shawnigan Lake wih 93 points, followed by Oak Bay with 124, Milne's Landing with 147, Victoria Belmont ith 184 and Courtenay with 193.

of his shots. Ian Hunter sored 14 points for Byng. CLOCK STOFPED The game had to be stopped tators, the poorest turnout in this season's playoffs, came out to cheer their schools to victory. College grabbed a quick 8-0 lead over Byng and increased it to 17-4 after five minutes. College led 21-12 at the end of the quarter, sinking 10 of 17 shots.

College led 24-18 at the half SALE Trophy and the zone cham College and Magee win at Lord Byng gymnasium. and 41-29 entering the final pionship. The winner will be Penticton coming, too several times because the timer on the scoreboard was losing precious seconds. At the end of the fourth quarter, thirty seconds of playing time was lost and the puzzled onlookers watched in confusion as the two teams played while the timer showed no time left Magee's win was- a solid team effort As a whole, the Elackshirts zeroed in on the target and struck the bullseye on 50 per cent of their shots. It was rapid pace for anybody to keep up to and Churchill's Bulldogs were completely baffled by It v.

Courtenay tops Island tournament contingent champions last season, were VICTORIA (CP) Tsolum Bulldogs had taken a 13-11 eliminated In the first round Saints of Courtenay won the lead at the quarter but trailed 27-17 at the half. Churchiu Vancouver Island high school basketball tournament Satur Friday by Courtenay, 38-35. In other first round games, Victoria trounced A. W. Nell of scored only two out of 14 at day night with a 50-36 victory Albernl, 65-28; Albernl downed over Albernl Chieftains.

tempts from the field in the middle quarters, mainly because of Magee's tight defen Chemainus, 61-38 and Tsolum Tsolum and the Chieftains nicked Esquimalt, 33-32. sive game. now advance to the B.C. tour nament in Vancouver along HOFF HOT PENTICTON Marching with Victoria high school To through a two-day, double Mel Hoff broke out of a tems, who trounced Courtenay 'V i I mTsV k. I I fib Towhees 5331 to nail down scoring slump to hit for 15 points.

Ed Cox had his finest NEW third place. VOLUME Earlier, the Saints upset the ERA game of the season for another 12 and Ken Atkinson, the most improved player on Totems 40-36 and Albernl I DEALING downed Courtenay 53-41 in the Magee team, clicked for semi-finals. 11. knockout tournament undefeated, Penticton high school Lakers wrapped up the Okan-agan championship Saturday to advance into the B.C. finals.

After a 54-37 first-round win over Kamloops Red Devils Friday, the Penticton squad handed Oliver Hornets their first loss Saturday afternoon and won the title when they snowed under the Oliver squad 62-43, for the second straight time in the nightcap. Tsolum's Larry Lehtonen Fouls highlighted the Pear won the most Valuable player BEST trophy for the second consecu-tive year. son-Britannia game. Pearson sank 24 of 35 free throws to almost win the game from there. IN ALL All three Island teams won tournament berths last year.

Bob Shaw spearheaded the CARS! Oak. Bay, defending Island winners with 22 points and Dave Sparkes contributed 12, including eight for nine at the courtesy line. PONTIACi MEI earn JUST SHORT Dave Murphy scored three ACADIAN quick points in the dying sec onds to put PW ahead 47-43 in berths in big tourney the feature game but with two seconds left, Jayo's Olaf if you can drive Westwood BUICK Mennonlte Educational In- Knezevic scored and was foul eliminated Delta 57-52 and Chllliwack stopped last year's ed in the process of shooting, stltute and Abbotsford, both favorites, clinched two of the He sank the single foul shot Cinderella team, Semlahmoo of SURPRISE VISITOR to the Westwood car track Saturday was Canadian champion Phil Murray of Toronto. Paced by Terry Nilsson, Murray woke up hibernating bears as he hurtled his Porsche around the track. His comment afterwards: "Westwood is a drivers' track.

You have to use your head. But if you can drive Westwood, you can drive anywhere." White Rock, 59-48. YAUXHALL CMC Several Valley records were Fraser Valley Zone playoff berths in the B.C High School tournament Saturday night at Queen Elizabeth gym. but it wasn enough. Jayo tallied half of its points from the foul line.

A combined total of 165 broken. Delta Norm Robin son, in a losing cause, scored The powerful Mia Knignts 30 points to break the single game total of 27 set by MEI's Ed Suderman. Robinson also Golf tour profitable from Clearbrook now meet Abbotsford for the Valley championship next Saturday scored 14 of 16 foul shots to and the winner will be seeded erase a seven-year mark of 11 number one. Far East loot to Aussies MEI, paced by Ed Suder- set by QE's Ray Van Ieperen. Abbotsford's Peter Dyck shots were taken from the foul line in the four Mainland games and 106 were made good.

West Van moved to within one game of clinching the lone Howe Sound berth in the provincial tournament by defeating Delbrook 52-24. Lefty Hen-drlckson hit for 23 points and Murray Stewart added 12 In the Highlanders' win. Del-brook's Dave Rice scored 11 points. man ZJ points ana ueorge Heidebrecht's 18, easily de cracked the individual single game total in his game when url Open collected the last prize of $600 for turning In feated Queen Elizabeth 59-38 he sank 31 points. The com i TOKYO (AP) Australians collected the top three money prizes totalling $4,400 of the 5,000 offered for the leading the fourth lowest score card while Abbotsford almost didn't make It as they edged North Good Will bined total chalked up by the scorers in the five tournament of the first Far East golf circuit.

Peter Thomson, w'ho won the $15,000 Yomiurl Open golf championship Sunday, picked of 1,430. Used Cars Surrey, picked to beat Abbotsford in some quarters, 69-66. two teams was also a high. (See Basketball Summaries, Page 18) The Far East circuit was played In Manila, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong In other games, Como Lake Oak Bay and Tokyo. up tne iirst money oi auuu for a grand total score of 1,405 for 360 holes.

Thomson shot a 74 Sunday Pioneers in the final round of the Yo In the Cei Veteran Kel Nagle won sec Birds miurl but his 72-hole total of i ButineM 278 still gave him a 12-stroke ond money of $1,500 with 1,422. Third prize of $900 went to Victoria oak Bay came irom I behind to defeat University of margin overrunnerup AIBald ing of Canada. The victory Frank Phillips, winner of the Hong Kong Open, for his 1,422 was worth $2,000 in addition 0 Ynti score. to the $2,000 Thomson receiv ed turning in the low score of New Zealand's Bob Charles, whq earned $675 In the Yomi the five tournament circuit. mm.

mm i i nunuerDirus a-o in an ex-Ihibltlon rugby match here on Oak Bay held a 6 0 lead at I the half on a try by wing Mur-jray McAlpine and a 35 -yard penalty kick by Don Burgess. 1 The Thunderbirds went ahead 8 6 in the second half Dean MacKinnon and I Bill Vance scored tries. Neal Henderson added a convert. i Oak Bay's McAlpine then 1 scored his second try with less than three minutes left. Kennel champ VICTORIA (CP) American champion Tophlll Stargazer, a poodle owned by Col.

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