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PAGE 34 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 16, 1988 ‘‘To be able to field swimmers for this year‘s Olympics and for 1992 in Spain, the top Canadian clubs such as ROW need adequate funding. Due to a cutback in government grants, the club needs the support of the community to maintain our Canadian World Class swimming stature," said spokesman Harvey Lamb in a letter to the Chronicle. The swim will begin at 4 p.m. at the Wilfrid Laurier University Olympic pool. Sponsors can call the ROW office at 885â€"1310 to pledge their support. They can sponsor per kilometre or give a straight donation. Receipts for tax purposes will be issued for donations over $10. First of all try and remember the last time you saw a youngster severely injured from a clean body check. For that matter, when was the last time you saw a professional player knocked out of action by a clean hit? It just doesn‘t happen that often. As for keeping the game fun, who besides Dunlop says today‘s players aren‘t having fun because of body contact. Fun is ruined by parents screaming criticisms from the bleachers and by coaches placing too great an emphasis on winning, it‘s not ruined by 65â€"pound Billy knocking 60â€"pound Ryan on his butt. Dunlop goes on to talk about fear and intimidation tactics taking part in minor hockey and unscrupulous coaches that direct his or her players to use them. More balderdash. The nature of the business has landed yours truly at more than his share of minor hockey games and I have yet to see fear and intimidation tactics used by a coach â€" even at the juvenile level. In fact while covering minor hockey on a regular basis in Bracebridge â€" the same town Dunlop witnesses the weekly attrocities â€" I became friendly with a large number of coaches at both the select and house league levels. I never once saw intimidation tactics come into play Dunlop‘s final argument is that greater skill development would take place with the elimination of hitting. He goes as far as saying that hitting should no be introduced to a player until he reaches the professional ranks. Is hitting not a skill? In my books a solid openâ€"ice hit or a spectacular hip check is a far greater skill to master than a slap shot or a behindâ€"theâ€" back pass. Dunlop‘s statistical arguments cannot be disputed. There are only 300 youngsters playing Major Junior A in the province. Lless than one per cent of all amateur hockey players in Canada will turn professional and in 1983 only one in a 1,000 kids made it to the National Hockey League. There‘s no question that smaller players fall easier and land harder than their bigger opponents, but they‘re also tougher targets to hit. Once again it comes down to the question of whether body contact is dangerous or not But at least they played hockey the way it sh(;uld'lr)gbl’ayed. It would be a real shame if the kids of tomorrow aren‘t so fortunate. who happens to manage the lanes, it‘s the first perfect game to be bowled at the Princess Street alley "in a few years." The perfect game will result in more than $1,000 in cash and prizes for Roeder, who bowled a more than respectable 1,087 triple on the evening. OWaterloo skater Christine (Tuffy) Hough and pairs partner Doug Ladret from Vancouver will take part in the World Figure Skating championships in Budapest, Hungary next Tuesday and Wednesday. Having spent several hours chatting with the couple over the weekend, I can say they are feeling very optimistic about their chances of improving on their eighthâ€"place Olympic finish. Denise Benning and Lyndon Johnston, also representâ€" ing the Preston Figure Skating Club, appeared to be in good spirits as well. Both teams are shooting for top five. night at Waterloo Bowling Lanes. Says Roeder‘s brother Ron Members of the Region of Waterloo swim club will staging a 24â€"hour fund raising marathon March 25. While his intentions may be sincere, Dunlop‘s visions of the way minor hockey is and could be are slightly clouded. He feels the elimination of contact would improve the game for four reasons. It would keep the game fun for all players, eliminate fear and intimidation tactics, protect the smaller players, and allow for greater skills development by taking the emphasis off hitting. A Bracebridge hockey parent is campaigning to eliminate all forms of body contact from minor hockey. One can only hope he is unsuccessful. In an open‘ letter to minor hockey parents across the province â€" on page 8 of this week‘s Chronicle â€" Kevin Dunlop urges them to band together and force a change at the Ontario Minor Hockey Association general meeting in June. He is hoping to gather 25,000 or more responses, compile the data, and lobby for changes as early as next season. []Dave Roeder.“29. bow_led a perfect 450 game Monday I - f e j s 2 § e % s $ No4 4 . x ?‘3%’;’;;& y s i o. Soaal S 4 i d 4 * j $ 9w . s @ 7~. % will attempt to go over 100 kilometres with Mark Bryson aie uh o i i w t k t & in Warriors‘ failed Saturday in their attempt to reach the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union championships, dropping a tough fiveâ€" game decision to University of Toronto Blues. Toronto captured the OUAA (Ontario Univerâ€" sities Athletic Association) crown with a 15â€"10, 4â€"15, 156, 13â€"15, 156 decision at UW‘s PAC building. Toronto will be one of five conference champions to take part in the tournament along with two wild card teams and the host University of Guelph Gryphons. Winnipeg Wesmen and Calgary Dinosaurs were selected as the wild card teams Monday afternoon, dashing UW‘s final notion of a national title. The Dalhousie Tigers, currently ranked sixth in the CIAU, will represent the Atlantic Universities Athletic Assocation. Third ranked Eight volleyball teams from across the counâ€" try will be vying for the Tantramar Trophy this weekend but the University of Waterloo Warâ€" riors won‘t be one of them. Warriors narrowly miss CIAU â€"championship Laval Roluge et Or will be carrying the hopes of the Quebec Universities Athletic Association, and the number two seeded University of Saskatchewan Huskies will represent the Canada West Universities Athletic Assocation. The topâ€"ranked Manitoba Bisons, representing the Great Plains Athletic Conference, are heavy favorites to dethrone the defending champions from Winnipeg. Play begins Thursday with games slated for 1:00, 3:00, 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. Play continues Friday at the same times with the championâ€" ship match scheduled for Saturday at 2 p.m. Bisons‘ coach Garth Pischke has a assembled a team that is very likely the best in all of North America, recently defeating the defendâ€" ing NCAA champion UCLA Bruins in a fiveâ€" game match in California. The noteworthy part of this meeting was that Manitoba shut out UCLA 15â€"0 in the final game, the first time in school history that the Los Angelel based.team had been blanked in a game.