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Karate Champ Faces Toughest Fight Yet by Brad Kelly The man with the nickname nickname 'Nasty' wants to help find a cure for a disease even nastier than himself. World Heavyweight Karate Karate Champion Steve 'Nasty' Anderson will be attempting to break his own sparring marathon record when he steps into the ring on Sunday, Sunday, May 26, at the Holiday Inn in Oshawa. The world record of 14 hours and 30 minutes of con- Steve 'Nasty' Anderson shows the form that has made him an eight-time World v Champion in karate. Anderson will be stepping into the ring on Sunday, March 26, Cat the Holiday Inn in Oshawa to attempt to break his own world record for sparging sparging which he set last year at 14 hours and 30 minutes. The marathon is a fund- 3 raiser to help find a cure for diabetes. tinuous sparring was set in Oshawa last year during the first Karate Fights Diabetes Marathon. "I want the people to come out and help with the fundraising and to donate," said Anderson during an interview interview at Leo Wong's Tae Kwon-Do Club in Oshawa last Friday afternoon. "I want to let the people know that diabetes is a killer." Anderson recited that one in every 20 Canadians has contracted the disease, adding, adding, "it's hard to believe that if there are 20 people in a room, somebody has it or knows of someone who has it." During last year's marathon, marathon, Anderson sparred with over 400 partners, and raised $50,000. The money was donated to Dr. Anthony Sun, a world-renowned diabetes diabetes researcher at the University University of Toronto. Aware of the recessionary' times, Anderson would still like to raise the same total as last year and is optimistic he can surpass it. "I would like to raise $100,000 by ,the end of the year (including a golf tournament tournament and bingos) but, more importantly, I want to find a cure and get there the fastest way possible. That's the bottom line." The event is being organized organized by Leo and Evelyn Wong, whose son, Raymond, is a diabetic. It was while Anderson was attending a seminar three years ago that he witnessed witnessed Evelyn giving some insulin to Raymond. The two spoke briefly at the time about doing some charity work. "I've done some (marathons) (marathons) in the States, but this is by far the biggest and the best," said Anderson who was bom and raised in the States, but now resides just outside of Ottawa. "All the rest of the marathons combined combined don't raise as much as this one." "This one is the most interesting interesting and has the biggest following. It's also well organized." Talking Sports With CFTO by Brad Kelly If Lance Brown, of CFTO Sports, didn't know Bowmanville Bowmanville prior to Monday night, he certainly is acquainted acquainted with it now. C'. ! Scheduled to speak at the annual Interclub meeting at the Lions Centre at 8:15 ip.m., Brown got lost along the way and ended up in the vicinity of the Nuclear Station. Station. He must have got a charge out of the situation, because he certainly electrified electrified the crowd with his ■quick wit and down-to-earth nature. Brown is probably best remembered for a spring training interview he conducted conducted with George Bell of the Toronto Blue Jays in 1987. Some say it was the best minute and a half interview- interview- that was ever done with the outspoken Dominican. Dominican. ■ "Bell came roaring into ■Dunedin and I literally had to chase him with the microphone microphone sticking in his face," recalled Brown. "When I did --catch up to him, he said he -would talk after practice." It was Brown's first trip to a spring training with the Jays, and things hadn't been R well. In only two and a ays, the Edmonton native native had had his share of , problems. Boys' Slo Pitch Registration Bowmanville Hall Fri., April 5th 6 to 9 p.m. Sat., April 6th 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Contact Al Cole at 623-9280 or Rick Powell at 987-2200 for information First, he couldn't get Dave Steib to talk. "He was always too tired or too sweaty," recalled Brown. "The only reason I got an interview with him was because he had to come out of the clubhouse for baseball card pictures." And then, shortly after the Steib incident, there was an encounter with Nelson Liriano and Jimy Williams. "Nelson Liriano came into the stadium in his civ- ies, and I asked our cameraman cameraman to get a shot of him walking by." "Williams - and I'll never forget his words -- says: I don't need you here partner, and hit the camera lens with a bat." Needless to say, he was ready to go through the roof by the time he came face-to- face with Bell. "He said he wasn't going to do any more interviews, but I wasn't going to put up with that. I asked him every question I could think of, and then he blew up at me." Bell didn't hold back in his verbal assault, and even went as far as to use his native native Spanish to get his message message across. "It was a better story than anybody else got. I had a minute and a half of Bell screaming at me." At the time, the Jays had a bad reputation with members members of the media in every city they played. Sneaking out back doors, or refusing to give post-game interviews were common practices among many of the players. "Out of all the Toronto teams, the Argos, Leafs and Jays, the Argos and Leafs were good to the media, but the Jays; left, a lot to be .desired." .desired." 1 "They didn't need the media, media, the media needed them was their attitude." But that problem didn't exist with all the players. Brown 'praised the likes of Kelly Gruber for making himself available to the media media at all times. Gruber even went out of his way during spring training so Brown could get an interview with him and file a report. "I had asked ICelly for an interview after practice and he agreed, but I got held up and was about 30 minutes late. When I walked back across the field, there was Gruber sitting all alone in the stands waiting for me." "Everyone else, including the players and the media, had left the park." Brown's experience in the sports field includes coverage coverage of the Edmonton Oilers from 1979-83, the Calgary Olympics in '88, and various other events including the Skins Golf Game and the Canadian Track and Field Championships. One assignment he is particularly looking forward to is next year's Olympic Games coverage from Barcelona. Barcelona. As an insight to his career, career, Brown let the npprecin- Tnmmy ugl place in senior girls' shot put Ryan Stowart-Sth place in junior boys' highjump Samantha McDonnld-- 8th place in midget girls' highjump Jay; Mothorsill -9th place in junior boys' triple jump The team's next meet will bo the York-Durhnm Indoor Moot at the Oshawa Civic Dome on April 9, Anderson's credentials in the sport of karate are lengthy, including eight consecutive consecutive World Championships. Championships. He will be in search of his ninth later this year when he travels to the World Championships in England in October. His travel schedule has increased dramatically in the past year as people become become aware of his accomplishments. accomplishments. In fact, his schedule has been so busy of late he had to ask for some help when he • was questioned questioned where he was off to next. "Three weeks ago I was in California in the mornings, mornings, Ottawa in the afternoon afternoon and at night I was in Washington, D.C.," he recalled. recalled. "I'm off to Mississauga Mississauga this afternoon, I think. And I can't remember where I was last weekend." Looking back over his career, career, which began 16 years ago, he has no regrets about being the best in a low pro- Lnncc Brown (left), of CFTO Sports, vvns welcomed to Bowmanville by Jim Cryderman at the annual Inter-club Inter-club Meeting held at the Bowmanville Lions Centre Centre on Monday night. Brown spoke about his most memorable interviews with Blue Jay players, and also revealed some broadcasting secrets ho uses to make his shows run smoothly. Representatives from all the town's service clubs attended the annual inter-club meeting, i spo could nave reaped should he have reached the. same level in football or basketball doesn't bother him in the least. "I feel fortunate to have done the things I have," said Anderson, whose nickname, 'Nasty', is by no means a reflection reflection of his personality. "Maybe if I were in football or basketball I wouldn't be at the top." "I'm at the top right now, and I'm not rich yet. But I'm rich in a lot of other ways." And, with any luck, the Sunray Diabetes Foundation Foundation will be a lot richer because because of Anderson's efforts. The public is welcome to attend the sparring session and give théir support to Anderson Anderson as he attempts to break his record. Admission is by donation. Anyone wishing to make a donation, or wishing to volunteer their time, is asked to contact Evelyn Wong at (416) 576-1571. tive audience in on a little secret about broadcasting. If you watch closely, you will notice that when all news or sports anchors do an intro into a report, they will,look away from the camera. camera. It leaves the viewer with the impression that the anchor is looking into a monitor. Not so. No such monitor exists. "It all looks smooth until the guy downstairs pushes the wrong button and the report report doesn't come up on the screen. I'll look to the floor director and he's just standing standing there with his arms up in the air." "Meanwhile I'm left sitting sitting there staring at nothing." nothing." At the end of his presentation, presentation, Brown was given a token of appreciation from the club members. Based on the length of time he spent lost in Bowmanville, Bowmanville, someone suggested suggested a topographic map of Bowmanville would nave been fitting. Wittily, Brown quipped he had seen all of Bowmanville Bowmanville in the night, and would like to return to see it in the daytime in the future. BHS Track & Field Results The Bowmanville High School track and field team took part in the York University University Invitational Track Meet this past weekend. Approximately 120 schools from across the province province attended the meet. Bowmanville athletes competed competed against many fine competitors, some of whom are ranked by Canada's Junior Junior National program. BHS placed seven athletes athletes in the top 10 standings for their respective events. Nicole Devonish put forth another outstanding effort, placing first in both the 60m sprint and the longjump. Other noteworthy efforts wore achieved by: Jason Hoffmnn-4th place in midget boys' highjump Michelle Devonish-Sth place in junior girls' 60m Wi'i Two More Wins For Shoppers a-* team work, Shoppers came and Jonathan Ross finishing up with two more victories. °" the first penod with an- On Thursday, March 21 other goal assisted by Kevin they faced Rotary. Jonathan Dion. _ ... , . , Ross put away - two quick Second and third penod goals in the first minutes of action saw Shoppers notch play to get Shoppers off and more goals as Chns Bumtt, running. A few seconds lat- Nathan Stout, ^ and Zach er, Jonathan scored again on Thoraval got singles while a pass from his brother Jus- Tyson Crocker completed his tin. Shoppers boys continued hat tnck and Jonathan Ross to build their lead with TV- scored three more to bring J&J Enter Playoffs Playoff action for the the period. io per Ear! ni gilt-6 th 5arly in period two, J&J's Brian Ball lit up the scoreboard with two unassisted unassisted goals within 40 seconds seconds of cncli other. The remainder remainder of the period was dominated by Carnation. At the 5:52 mark, Danny MacDonald MacDonald scored with Philip Dragstra getting the assist. With 1:07 remaining, Scott MacDonald found the mark assisted by Andrew Wraith. Third period play was rather dramatic with both teams working their hearts out to gain an edge but only allowing three shots on the J&J goal and none on Carnation's. Carnation's. The final score was Carnation Carnation 3, J&J 2. TIRE SALES INC. 576-1220 KUMHO STEEL BELTED RADIAL 781 ALL SEASON 299 Dean Ave,, Oshawa The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, March 27,1991 9 Inventor Hits Bull's-eye With New Dart Games by Brad Kelly Having spare time on his hands, says inventor Kyrke Innis, only gets him into trouble. However, It's the type of trouble that many would dearly love to have. The 25-year-old Bowmanville Bowmanville resident is currently marketing some new games that will ultimately revolutionize revolutionize the game of darts. Dartball is a series of games-football, hockey, golf, baseball and soccer--on a fabric cover that fits over a standard-sized dart board. The games employ the rules of a particular sport with the skills of the game of darts. After establishing Innis Games, Dartball hit the store shelves in May of last year, and already close to 800 of the games have been sold. And that's just the beginning, beginning, according to Innis. "There's a distributor in England that I'm going over to visit who is interested in taking over sole rights for UK distribution." That probably probably explains why he is in the midst of drawing up plans to add the sports of cricket and rugby to his collection. collection. Closer to home, he is on the verge of striking a deal with some of the bigger stores in Canada. "Right now the games are in 18 of the Dufferin Games Room stores, and they are talking about going chainwide chainwide across Canada which would include 45 stores." "I'm hoping that in May or June I'll hear from the Den for Men and Home Hardware. Right now the games are in the. smaller, independently-owned independently-owned stores." Enjoying great success in the Ottawa area, one particular particular retailer placed an order of 100 in December, and called again in January with another order for 100. In all, Innis calculates that there are close to 800 of the games in the homes of buyers. The idea for Dartball originated when Innis was a student at Algonquin College College in Nepean (near Ottawa), Ottawa), and had just returned from a pub with a friend. The two were aware of a dart game on the market called Par Darts -- a golf game -- but were dismayed that the game retailed for $75. "We sat up one night and came up with a golf and baseball game," recalled Innis. Innis. "It was a matter of drawing it out on paper and making a scale model." "The first couple we drew up were rough, but we knew tne idea was there and was what we needed." Countless hours . were spent, trying to. perfect the games to the point where they were a close simulation of the real sport. "It was like taking three steps forward and four steps back." Once the games were presentable, presentable, he took his idea to a manufacturer in Toronto with the intentions of selling the idea and the patent. People People he spoke to were very cooperative cooperative and gave him some ideas on how to refine the games. "The hardest part was refining refining the rules. The biggest complaint about ParDarts was it took a while to figure out how to play." "Being sports-oriented, I knew a bit of the rules of all the sports and I wanted to get my games.as-close"as I could to the real sports." When Innis had his finished finished product, it was made of a machine-washable, wov en cloth that enables a dart to penetrate by spreading the threads instead of breaking breaking them. By rubbing your finger over the hole, the threads will bond together again. At this point, the games were still a secret to many. "I had to keep it a secret because you get paranoid after after a while." "When I walked into the patent office, they asked me 'what have you got?' and I just stood there and didn't say anything. I didn't know who I could trust." In addition to Dartball, Innis is also involved in the sports travel industry with friend, Jeff Fox, who himself was an inventor of sorts. He was the owner of Fox Sports that prospered in Newcastle Village for a couple of years. In all, the two business entrepreneurs have six weekend baseball trips planned to such places as Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit. But it's Dartball that is taking up most of his time now. The bigger chain stores, including the Bay and Eaton's, are considering the possibility of carrying the games Canada-wide in their stores. It could be the big break he is looking for. "My biggest problem is awareness of the game. It's just now getting to the point where people are getting to know about it." "It takes a couple of games. But, once you learn, it's just something to get away from throwing at targets." targets." And one gets the impres- , si on from Innis that he has many more targets in mind in the world of inventions. He flashed a coy smile when asked what was next. "I've got something else in mind," he replied. A ' '0< Lx '^ * - s ga With the hard work of the defensive squad and Scott Schultz, Nathan Stout, Kris Horton and Zach Thoraval Thoraval and the solid checking of wingers Bryan Stokes, BRHL Atom division opened Chris Burrett, Aaron Cook, on March 21 with J&J pit- Justin Ross, Kevin Dion and ted against Geranium. Michelle Stout, Shoppers Geranium came from the W as able to help Adam Bow- opening faceoff ready for ac- en g e t another shutout. Fi- tion and dominating the n al score Shoppers 13 - Ro- play. tary 0. Late in the first period On Saturday, March 23 the J&J team were reward- Shoppers met VIP in an eared eared with the opening goal by ]y morning game. VIP was Chris Oyler assisted by up for this game. Brad MacMaster. The first period saw a At the 5:48 mark of the see-saw battle between the second period, Jeff Shmyr two teams. Ben McCaffery executed a fine unassisted opened up the scoring for goal for J&J. With 1:07 re- VIP on a pass from Alex maining in the period, Chris Taylor. Moments later, Zach Oyler slipped a pass to Thoraval scored for Shop- Cameron Guest who pers to tie the game at one. dumped home goal number Two minutes later, Jona- three for J&J. than Ross beat VIP's Albert Geraniums' Brock Baker Stoltz to give Shoppers the scored the only goal of the l ead> But before the period game for Geranium with ended, VIPs Brad Wood just 5:07 remaining in the beat Adam Bowen to tie the „ ame game again. With two min- With 58 seconds left on «tes left in the first period, the clock, J&J's Chris Oyler, Jonathan Ross scored again assisted by Jamie Potter *-0 give Shoppers the lead._ and Brian Ball, closed the Second and third penod scoring with a 4-1 victory for QC ^ lon saw Shoppers build J&J. on their lead. Zach Thoraval Every player on both and Tyson Crocker scored teams should be commended singles and Jonathan Ross for their fine efforts. notched another six goals. Early Sunday morning, VIP's Scott Maxwell scored J&J took on the high flying in the last minute of play to Carnation team at the Dar- make the final score Shop- lington Arena. Both teams pers 11 - VIP 3. demonstrated their eager- Everyone on the Shop- ness for action and thirst for pers team played a part in a win. Carnation, with fast- winning this game. Special er and more organized play, mention goes to the follow- could not take off with this ing players who dug out the game but opened the scoring puck and assisted on the with a talented play by Da- goals. Justin Ross with vid Leppert assisted by Ja- three assists, Nathan Stout son Pingle midway through and Brett McKee with two Bowmanville resident Kyrke Innis displays the game he has invented that will revolutionize the game of darts. 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