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B5 SPORTS TIMES-COLONIST Wednesday. July 10. 1991 Elliott learning there's more to life than car racing vorce from his high school sweetheart. Curiously, as the misfortune mounted, Elliott became more open. "It's really changed me Inside as far as looking things and putting things In perspective and learning to deal with people." he said.

"I'nlil you've been through every thing. It's hard to understand what another guy goes through." Elliott, 35, wants people to understand what he's been through. He was known as Awesome Bill from Dawsonville his tiny hometown with all the stuff sponsors have thrown on us, and then still be able to drive a race car." Klllutl showed last Saturday he still knows how to drive. The red-haired Georgian emerged from a balanced field to win the Pepsi 400, his first National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing victory since last September at Dover, Del. In the Interim, three people close to Klllott died.

A crew member was killed in an accident last November. Last month Elliott lost his mother and grandmother In the space of a week. Those events followed a di took his only lead 30 miles from the finish, it was the first time he had been In first place since March 10. The blue No. Thunderbird edged runnerup Geoff Bodinc by 31 one-hundredths of a second.

Davey Allison took third as Fords finished ,12 3. Drained by his recent setbacks and a malfunctioning coolsuit that made him literally the hottest driver on the track, Elliott was in no mood to gloat. "I've learned not to get too content or else the good Lord will throw something else at you." The Associated Preie DAYTONA BEACH. Ha. When Bill Kllldlt dominated Winston Cup raring in the mid vm, he had a reputation of bt-lnfj is pleasant as a xlx-car crash.

He was a brooding, sometime downriKhl surly champion. But now, after a series of personal setbacks and a couple of lean years on the track, Elliott says he has become more comfortable around other people. "I am a private person," he said. "I've had a hard time learning to deal with people, with popularity, lot of pa dying or any thing else," the elder Elliott said. "We worked, we worked long hours.

"And I think what you do early in life, you tend to stick to it through life." Bill said the past few weeks have been his most difficult. He lost two of his biggest fans, although they did their cheering from a distance. "Mom never really liked to watch me race," he said. "She was Just too nervous." Saturday's race would've had her pacing. Elliott rallied from 12th place with 50 laps to go; when he when he won II races InliM, "You're a product of your environment," he said.

"We grew up in a small town with a small school. "Then 'H5 came along and bam! you're in the middle of the spotlight. Man, 1 didn't know whether to turn around or back up or hatever. I never had anybody tell me what to expect." Ernie Elliott, Bill's older brother and crew chief, said there wasn't much lime to polish social skills In Dawsonville. The brothers were too busy at their dad's business.

"When we grew up, we didn't do a Hull leads Team U.S.A. list Breakaway bases a player's best pal I 1 right winger had 86 goals and 131 points. Other top NHL scorers invited by coach Bob Johnson and general managers Craig Patrick and Bob Pulford were Dave Christian of the Boston Bruins; Kevin Stevens of the Pittsburgh Penguins; Jeremy Roenick of the Chicago Blackhawks; and Pat LaFontainc of the New York Islanders. Barrasso will be joined by New York Rangers goalies Mike Richter and John Vanbiesbrouck, plus Minnesota's Jon Casey and New Jersey's Chris Terreri. "This promises to be the best Canada Cup team we've ever had," said Johnson.

The Associated Press ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. The ventor of a breakaway base has won over the hearts and ankles of softball The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo. -Brett Hull, the NIIL's dominant scorer, and Tom Barrasso, goaltender for the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins, were among 41 players invited to try out for the U.S. team in the Canada Cup tournament.

The trials for 23 roster spots will begin Aug. 9 in Pittsburgh. USA Hockey will run the training camp in preparation for the tournament, which begins Aug. 31. Hull, who also has Canadian citizenship, has said he will play for the United States.

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The higher the number of grommets, the tighter the base is held. When a base separates, the rubber plate remains to mark the original spot of the bag. Hall includes a rule suggestion for umpires with each set of bases. "If the basetop should become dislodged from the base plate during live play, the base plate becomes the actual base for the rendering of the umpire's decision," his instructions read. The Fayetteville (N.C.) Generals, a Class A team of the Detroit Tigers, installed the bases last year.

"I think that as contracts go up and up and the investment in a player goes up and up, injury prevention tools are going to get more of a look than they ever have before," said Matt Perry, the Generals' general manager. "It's tough to be playing sandlot when you know you're supposed to be in the big leagues," Hall said. "If I get major league backing, or get in Omaha, who knows what will KES PRESENT THIS COUPON TO CR WASH ATTENDANT WHEN OROERINC. SEAHAWKS NFL BUS TOURS FROM S109 and baseball players, although his claim that the major leagues will convert could be baseless. Roger Hall, a former baseball coach at an American college, is the developer of the Rogers Breakaway Base, a big league lookalike that detaches when baserunners risk injury on a slide that's too fast or too poor.

"I imagine in 20 years, when my patent runs out, everyone will be using this base," Hall said. A university study found Hall's base reduced injuries 96 per cent during a three-year test, and a sports medicine group found even better results among minor-league teams. Still, Hall is finding the big leagues balking at his safety feature. "It happens every day; someone gets busted up," Hall said. "You have pro players getting hurt under ideal conditions, and then you have millions of Americans playing ball on potholed fields." The U.S.

Centre for Disease Control found more than 1.7 million sliding injuries occur each year, with 360,000 requiring a hospital visit. Outlawing sliding would be impossible and instructing millions of players on safe sliding would be impractical, said the centre. It recommended modifying bases. Hall's anchoring system is the same INVENTOR Roger Hall demonstrates his baseball innovation COLOR YOUR WORLDS i 1 UJll LLVULL i Leiline Flat Late" WHAT'S ON TODAY No events scheduled. TELEVISION meet continues, Sandown Raceway.

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OB The Canadian Press MEDICINE HAT, Alta. The Calgary Flames of the NHL have decided to take a chance on Mark Woolf, a talented hockey player with a drinking problem. Woolf was scratched from the Memorial Cup major junior hockey final in May by head coach Bryan Maxwell of the Spokane Chiefs because he broke a no-alcohol rule. The Chiefs won the game 5-1. The 20-year-old right winger from Redcliff, had been a discipline problem before.

The Chiefs suspended him near the end of the Western Hockey League season for curfew violations involving alcohol. During the summer Woolf began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings in Medicine Hat and is taking counselling. On Monday he signed a tryout con tract with the Flames. "I'm happy," Woolf said. "It's close to home and close to my agent!" Woolf is represented by Art Breeze of Calgary-based Pro-Rep Entertainment Consulting Group Inc.

been my buddy," Woolf said. "He's been more than an agent to me." Woolf, who had 41 goals and 90 points in 67 regular-season games with the Chiefs, was originally drafted by the Boston Bruins last year. The Bruins recently released him. "Calgary offered a tryout contract with a prenegotiated NHL contract based on performance," Breeze said. "It's an enormous opportunity for Mark and further evidence of the progressive attitude of the Flames." "I've done a lot of growing up," Wfiolf said.

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