Show ftp TT® May®0® Park the short Mfrfoot fence use of the Little League Diamond and cutting back to Just one game a week petition with over 140 signatures of the members of A Logan’s Slow Pitch League will be presented to the Logan City May 30 requesting increased facilities with better The little League diamond used for two of the six games each round has proved undesirable with its grass infield the absence of a fence the doseneas of the backstop and the baseball mound The players also expressed a upkeep In the Board of Directors meeting held May 21 the team representatives discussed at length the problems of water in the outfield at Worthington i Ask F®n° Immpip®v®dl Fa®Mitfi®§ desire to play twice a week something impossible to do unless the Commission can either lengthen the week or provide additional facilities The first four rounds of action were completed fay playing two games a week But with the ginning of the fast pitch season and the inclusion of Church Ball the softball diamond at Logan is now available only one night a Logan Utah Thursday May 26 f 1172 fraig Watts wrote the petition and passed it around during the games on May 22 and plans to present it to the commission on Tuesday hopefully with the support of the several sponsors present In other board action Sunday several changes were made in the byla jf the League “Aiv team unable to field a team or to meet the league schedule will forfeit the game OMAHA It Hurts To mu Anyone Lyle: By MILTON i Neb (UPI)-To-n- ight it Stander Fraxier-Ro- n heavyweight championship card tonight meeting Mike Boswell of Youngstown Ohio in a preliminary By now Ron Lyle a hea vyweightborn in Dayton and raised in Denver is used to all the questions used to being asked if he feels any remorse ‘‘It hurts I wasn’t trying to kill anybody" he says quietly looking you straight in the eye Ron Lyle has 14 straight wins including 12 knockouts in as many professional fights He has been out of prison now 1 ' 23-1- -1 a girl think the only thing Ron Lyle ever did in his life was kill someone Every place he goes they ask him about Especially at a time and a place like this where he's on the Joe Ron Lyle's trouble wu over ROMAN UP1 Sports Writer OMAHA Neb (UPl)-Yo- u'd three years For shooting and killing another boy during a gang fight in Denver when he was 17 Lyle was tried for first degree murder There was a mistrial and in the trial which fallowed Lyle drew 1525 years in the Denver State Penitentiary after being found guilty of second degree murder Counting time off for good behavior he was released after serving 7 2 years Lyle did not come out of n prison a hardened He emerged instead a far more mature and far less agressive individual than when he went in someone bent on ex-co- making something of himself “1 don't even like to talk about it” he says of the time he spent in Jail Hedoesnt enjoy talking about what got him into prison in the first place either but he does because he is completely open and knows he'll be regarded suspiciously if he tries to hide the put the fighL Not his girl but a girt who wu the friend of the boy who wu killed Actually it wu a friend of Lyle's who had become involved in the original Stander on the other hand visited his family in nearby Council Bluffs Iowa toured the downtown business districL and ended by having his locks trimmed at a Bluffs barber argument "There waa this argument between a friend of mine and the other fellow" says Lyle “and soon the other fellow had five other boys with him and they began following us around It didn’t bother me at first but to one after they fallowed place and then to my uncle's house it did It started getting on my nerves a little’' Lyle uys the other boys had weapons so he got a 22 from his uncle When Lyle and bia friend left his unde’s house the other boy said “follow us” “Being kids we did” Lyle says “They had a truck and we had a car and when they pulled up in an alley this other fellow got out of the truck and I got out of the car Nothing wu said nothing had to be We knew we were there far a fighL” The fight lasted about 10 or 16 minutes Lyle going up against the other boy Lyle uys the other boy had a pipe and tried to hit him with shop Wednesday He seemed confident displaying his boyish grin—but in the past he has reportedly become very nervous as a fight approached Stander scoffed at reports that there would be an early end to the fight before 10500 in Omaha's Civic Auditorium still maintaining he would defeat Frazier and then take on "Big Mouth" Muhammad All was scheduled for Weigh-i- n about noon Managers of the two said a news conference would be held following the bout possibly canceling out post-bodressing room inter- u it Four shots from the and a make-u- July p game be tween Logan Paint and Miller's Real Estate has been set for One of the main items of business concerned uniforms “Full uniforms are suggested" boy-wond- er - In other action games set far Bley 27 have been moved to June 17 those set far July 1 moved to tponement” is the night of reckoning— whether heavyweight champion Joe Frazier can stretch Ms pro career record to 29--0 or if local Ron Stander can pull off the upset of his career Few veteran sportswriters gave Stander termed the “Bluffs Butcher” any chance to better his record of Frasier had gone into seclusion in his hotel suite as is his normal custom He had slated no public appearances before Phae752-21- 2l j- according to bylaw No 20 “Softball shirts are required for league play with sponsor's nane attached No appeals” The revised ruling takes effect on JiineS 'unless the coaches of both teams agree to postpone the game and notify the league director at least 21 hours prior to the start of the game “Special consideration may be given when the coaches are unable to agree upon a pos- June 30 Favored Tonight §nD®n°its f - Frazier Meewily The Herald Journal 1 week— Saturday— for commercial alow pitch “What we really need la a complex with more than one diamond” noted league director Larry Jacobsen Another problem one which has caused several forfeit games is the early starting hour of 6:30 “Almost all the games that have been forfeit were the 6:30 game" explained Jacobsen 22 followed “He wu trying to hit me with the pipe” Lyle remembers “If I wu trying to do that to him I think he would've done the same thing to me" ut views RON STANDER relaxes with Ms family at his home on the eve of Ms heavyweight title fight against Champion Joe Frasier Gathered around SUnder was expected to go into the clash weighing 210 to 214 pounds well down from the 240pound stature he had been carrying into other contests That may have been one reason that four months ago Stander the challenger are Ms wife Dariene (left) Ms waa dedsioned by Reco Brooks son Frankie 6 (right) and Ms daughter Angela an unknown in Denver in the L On Stander 'i knee is their pet dog Heidy (UPI first loss of his career Telephoto) There seemed a slight chance Stander could land that one Philadelphia might stop the if he aeea Stander punch to hurt Fraxier He is a fight early burly type— a la Rocky Marcia- bleeding Fraxier hu said he wasn’t no— and can take punches If the fight lightly noting could taking be that happens Fraxier in trouble especially should it that anyone after the crown will be ready go into late rounds Frazier and Stander have had One problem Stander and common opponent Mexican one Noland Dick worry Manager about is past easy bleeding by champ Manuel Ramos Fraxier the contender They are also kayoed him in two rounds worried that the referee Zack while Stander won a draw and a lOround decision Clayton of Frazier’s hometown Jalbbar West To Miss Game NY UNIONDALE (UPI)-- An eager bunch of American Basketball Association Mayers takes on a disinterested group of National Basketball tion players tonight Coliseum m a unsanctioned which already hu been condemned by NBA Commissioner J Walter Kennedy which is the The game brainchild of the NBA and ABA Players Association and la disapproved by NBA owners hu crated much excitement among the ABA players who will participate but hu failed to generate much interest at all among the NBA stars who have been selected to play In fact two NBA superstars Kareem Abdul-Jabbof the Milwaukee Bucks and Jerry All-St- ar ar West of the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers already have decided not to play in the who Mu game Abdid-Jabba- r foiled to show up for last year’s game given no reason for not playing this year but West hu hu cited fatigue from the long for keeping him out of the contest As of Wednesday afternoon only two NBA stars Nate Archibald of Cincinnati Royals and Bob Love of the Chicago Bulla had made an appearance and more NBA players were expected to beg off for a variety of reasons before the 7:30 pjn EDT stating time The NBA got some sort of a lift Wednesday however when Wilt Chamberlain of the Lakers announced that he definitely would play in the game Chamberlain had several commitments in Los Angeles but he knew his presence especially with Abdul-Jabbnot playing wu vital to the welfare of the game if For awhile it didn’t look the ABA would have anyone to contend wife Chamberlain but the Kentucky Colonels’ star center Artis Gilmore also hu agreed to play and his anticipated duel with Chamber-lai- n could be one of the highlights of the game ar u 00000££000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 DAIRY DAYS The other boy turned and ran Lyle uw him run and didn't even think he had hit him but the boy died in a hospital that same day The police came for lyle In Jail Ron lyle learned how to box When he came out he turned professional and knocked out A J Staplu in two rounds in his first bout 4 Cagers Sign With JUtah State Utah State University head basketball coach announced today that four outstanding high school basketball players have been awarded USU granta-in-ai- d to enroll at USU this fall Darryl Owens twice te at Madisonville Ky will be a candidate for the varsity at USU this fall With the new NCAA ruling that freshmen are all-sta- in scoring with 24 points per game and also averaged 15 rebounds per game Peterson lost valuable playing time a Junior due to a knee u injury However Logan coach Rod Tuelfer stated that Peterson's knee is completely sound and he should have a successful freshman season at USU Aggie assistant coach Dutch eligible Owens and other freshwas impressed with Belnap men have a chance to play hi varsity games Owens 4 has the speed aid quickness to help the Aggie varsity this fall He scored 21 J points per game and had 16 rebounds per game last season at Madison ville's North Hopkins High School Coach Plain said of Owens “He’s the type of player we want he can (day inside and out We feel that Owens is the but high school player in the state of Kentucky" Owens started for four years at North Hopkins and compiled a four year soaring average of 17 J points per game Don Parson Owens' prep coach said "Darryl hu all the talent in the world and he can be he wants to be He's great been a great player for us and I know he’ll contribute to the success of Utah State” Nick Peterson a unaminous basketball selection at logan High School last season has selected Utah State University for his college education and will play basketball for USU and coach T 6-- u u u all-sta- L Plain Peterson 6-- 2 Peterson during a summer basketball camp last year and followed Peterson dosely during the 1972 season Bob Stokes a teammate of Peterson’s on the 1972 Logan High team will also be a member of the 1972-7- 3 USU freshman team Stokes was named to the all toumament team during the 1972 Utah State basketball championship tournament in March Stokes was also named by the Ogden Standard-Examin- er all-sta- te Stokes 64 averaged 14 points per game and 13 rebounds He was also allregion on Iegan'a championship football team Mike Rock 2 guard from Richmond Calif figures to be a candidate for the Aggie guard line 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