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Thursday, November 9, 1 978 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix Sports 33 of drug usina new Gymnasts Strasbourg, France, world championships when Romanian star Nadia Comaneci, who swept the Montreal Olympics two years ago as an elfin 14-year-old, was consistently outclassed. At 16, she has a woman's figure and carries 20 extra pounds. Klein said he had seen photos of a leading Soviet Union gymnast showing a steady regression of breast development during a four-year period. The president of the Danish Gymnastics Federation, Niels Peter Nielson, said: "I do not like the way we are going. We see small girls who I suspect are being controlled by drugs they are being stopped from becoming women." PARIS (AP) Western officials say women gymnasts from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe may be using a new 'brake" drug to keep them in top form by delaying puberty.

Dr. Robert Klein of France, chief medical examiner at the recent world gymnastics championships, says he suspects that some Communist-bloc trainers have used a drug he could not identify that apparently acts on the pituitary gland, slowing development. Smaller, lighter female gymnasts outperform their seniors of equal ability because of the high strength-to-weight ratio needed in the sport, doctors say. The difference was clear at the bloc's' women gymnasts were systematically using drugs. "Doping is counter-productive in gymnastics because it impedes the physical movements required in competition," he said in a telephone interview.

"I have never heard of a doping case." Commenting on the near-complete absence of physical maturity among women gymnasts in their late teens, Bangerter said high-level gymnastic training can retard breast growth. Dope tests have never been applied in world championship competition, and only once in the Olympics, at Mexico, Bangerter said. Under existing regulations, only the IGF can initiate the tests that in the past have been left to national federations. While Klein does not reject genetic selection based on "small types" or even deliberate falsification of ages, he repeatedly stressed the possible use of "brake drugs which act on the pituitary glands." To his knowledge, he said, such drugs, which are assumed to slow or even reverse sexual and physical growth, have never been used on athletes in the West. Nielsen, suggesting another possibility, said he was told by a Czecho-slovakian trainer at the 1977 Euro-" pean Gymnastics Championships in Prague that "Czech trainers were using male hormones on girls to keep them at a low level of development." Max Bangerter of Switzerland, secretary-general of the IGF, said he did not believe the Communist were available in Strasbourg, but International Gymnastics Federation president Yuri Titov, a former Soviet Union gymnast, did not request them.

Klein quoted Titov as saying: "Gymnasts don't use drugs." Even Comaneci expressed bewilderment at the child-like proportions of 17-year-old star Maria Fila-tova of the Soviet Union, saying: "I can't believe that Filatova is a year older than I am." The Communist bloc won 30 of the 43 medals awarded at the Strasbourg championships. Two of the world's top three female gymnasts, both from the Soviet Union, weigh 79 and 92 pounds, and are aged 17 and 18 years, respectively, though they appear years younger. A British expert who asked not to be named said the available physi- cal evidence suggests the use of such a drug "is entirely possible." But, he added, it could hardly be proved without sophisticated drug tests and the willing co-operation of the athletes concerned. Prior to the Strasbourg meet, Klein said, officials from an unnamed Communist country sought assurances that there would be no doping tests before signing in their team members. There were no tests.

"I am afraid this throws wide open the door of doubt," said Klein. "Those who have nothing to hide would be willing to submit to anti-doping tests," he said. He said full dope test facilities Hockey career key to Dutton's success defenceman who loved to flatten opponents. He played four seasons with Montreal and six more with New York before be coming manager of the Americans in 1936. His construction com pany at home went bank rupt in 1933 but his hockey value continued rising and he funnelled his earnings into Ins business.

He finally quit hockey and returned to Calgary but was soon back with the NHL, this time as president, in 1943. But he turned down a 10-year contract to remain as president, for reasons he has never re vealed, and returned to his business. Dutton says the NHL nearly died during the war but CD. Howe, then minis ter of munitions and supply, saved the league by showing the government CALGARY (CP) The story of Mervyn (Red) Dutton is more than just the, tale of a man who skated into the Hockey Hall of Fame and became president of the National Hockey League. It's the story of a man who had to convince doctors not to cut off his leg before he even had a chance to become a hockey player and then used his ability to establish himself in business.

The 80-year-old Calgary millionaire construction magnate says unequivocally that he owes his business success to hockey. The game twice saved him from poverty and later boosted his growing earth-moving company. When he retired from active involvement in the day-to-day affairs of Standard Holdings Ltd. 10 years ago, the company, which had started as one road scraper, had become an umbrella corporation for 20 firms. Dutton still works in the office he shares with Rea Jennings, his partner for 40 years, but his work for the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, Calgary Stam-peders football club and the Shriners finally convinced him it was time to take things easier.

But it was difficult for a man known for his drive and toughness, the qualities which brought him fame as a combative de-fenceman for the old Montreal Maroons and New York Americans of the NHL. Dutton was born in Russell, the son of a Winnipeg contractor. He was in school when the First World War broke out and he lied about his age 16 to enlist. He served nearly four years before being wounded at Vimy Ridge in 1917 and it was probably his yelling at army doctors that prevented them from amputating his right leg when it became infected with gangrene. It took 18 months in hospital for Dutton to recuperate but when he returned to Winnipeg in 1917, his mind was set on playing hockey.

He strengthened the leg by working with his father's company during the day and playing hockey in different leagues at night, some times several games a night. "I worked 10 hours a day and on Sundays we worked repairing equipment," he says of his job. "I know what it is to work and it didn't do me a bit of harm." His first attempt to succeed in business as a subcontractor in 1920 failed miserably, leaving him penniless but too proud to approach his father. "My dad was a tough old character," he says. "He didn't leave me lots of money, like some people think, but he taught me to save and appreciate the value of a dollar." So Dutton turned to hockey when Pete Egan offered him $2,500 to play for the amateur Calgary Canadians of the Big Four Hockey League.

That league folded four years later but Dutton had made mark and was signed by Montreal general manager Eddie Gerard to a three-year contract giving him $6,000 a year plus a signing bonus. He soon was earning a reputation as a bruising how much support it had and how valuable it was to appeal to the country dur ing radio broadcasts of the games. It was Howe who con vinced Dutton the NHL presidency was not for him. "You better get back home," Howe told Dutton. "We are going to need people like you and companies like yours to get this country re-established." So Dutton went home and his business prospered.

Dutton says he feels indebted to hockey and for that reason refuses to talk about the current state of the game. "Since I resigned from the NHL I have never been in an NHL rink and 1 have turned down hundreds of requests for interviews to discuss the calibre of modern hockey." Nil km -I iJ I Check these good reasons. You'll likely find lots more of your own when you see and price the impressive 1979 Plymouth Volare lineup at your Plymouth dealer's space, plus optional lockable storage bin covers and power liftgate release. 2f A powerful 225 6-cylinder engine S0 comes standard. It's economy minded, and built for performance.

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