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Show Thursday, March 8. 1979 Page 7 with Craig Altschul Last weekend was crummy. It rained. My outlook about going skiing was lousy. Somehow I couldn't equate the rain that was falling in the city with the snow that must be falling on the mountain. . I stayed home and felt sorry for myself. Not wanting to let a whole weekend go by without doing something reasonably connected with skiing, I decided to go through my ski closet.... something I haven't done recently. You see, I am a packrat. I have never thrown away a single item purchased for skiing. I am an impulse buyer. Put it near the cash register and I'll buy it. I'm just like you. We complain about the high cost of skiing but if we ever added up what we spend annually on "accessories", we'd have heart failure. I thought you'd like to know what was in my ski closet. It will save you the trouble of taking your own closet inventory. My wager is your closet is as bad as mine. First to catch my eye was a little box. I opened it. It looke like a treasure chest. Everytime somebody gave me a little pin or I bought one, it eventually came off the sweater or parka and ended up in the box. That box could take you from June Mountain, California to Kitzbuhel, Austria and darn near everywhere in between. Never, ever throw out a pin. Bad luck. My fanny pack hung on a hook. The same hook it has hung on since I bought the thing. I used it once. I loaned it to a friend with a camera another time. Great investment. Chapsticks. They reside on the top shelf up near the socks. I have 34 chapsticks. Suzy would be proud, but most of them pre-date her. I have "Kristi" (reserved, it says, "for skiers lips") and Sea and Ski and the old original recipe in the black tin. All have about one lip mark on them. All were purchased on days I forgot my chapstick. I don't know what happened hap-pened to the other 2230 tubes. I have never remembered my chapstick. There are 14 ski locks hanging from another hook. None work. The little slips of paper where I originally wrote down the combinations have long r.ince vanished. I keep them in hopes they will repent and re-open themselves, Never has a combination stayed in my head from one season to the next. Never. Suntan lotion? Name it. It's there. Next to the neckerchiefs I never wear. Sun Ger, Sea and Ski, Piz Buin, Bonne Bell, and a bunch of other stuff I can't pronounce. All were purchased on days that started out sour and turned bright. No one carries little tubes of stuff when the sky is cloudy, right? I counted 39 tubes in my closet, most used for two squeezes. There are even four little bottles of stuff that won't let the sun through. I fantasize that they sit next to the lotions and argue all day. And, safety straps. Do I have safety straps? I have a collection dating back 15 years. I have clamps that snap, crackle, pop and even open. Every time a strap broke, I bought another pair. You can't buy one. The closet is a museum of ski equipment. The technology of the sport is on display. There's a pair of Stratos 210s and, I won't tell you about the Head Standards. I have enough poles to fill Poland. I have ski bags that advertise the entire airline industry. I'm afraid to zip them open for fear of what's inside. There are about 27 gloves. No two are the same, lut it's bad economics to throw out one glove. The glove collection is payment for the habit I acquired early in my skiing career of putting them on top of the car as I take off my boots. I always remember at the bottom of the access road. Driving back I only find one glove. Thus my collection. I am big on sweaters, too. There's everything from reindeer patterns to pin stripes. And, my Captain America set of an-other an-other era is intact. And ski pants. I can't count how many pairs of ski pants I have. One pair fits. I'm wearing it. I've been good this year. So far I have resisted the Ski Tote and the Ski Lokr and the Ski Pak. I have ignored the ski timer that works in the grip of the pole handle and computes your run speed. I haven't bought the "Lunar Mitt." The Ski Tool is not yet in my closet. There may be every kind of goggle that was ever manufactured in my closet, but I have not yet succumbed to the windshield wipers. I thought about it but didn't do it. I don't have parablacks that keep me from crossing my skis and I don't own J waxmgguik But you'll have to excuse me. I'm on my way i to the ski shop. What good is a ski closet if it's incomplete? I Keep your SKI TIPS up. I OF THE PHILADELPHIA 76 en WHO MAKES MAGICAL MOVES ON AND ABOE THE BASKETBALL FLOOR AFTER ATTENDING THE U. OF MASSACHUSETTS, HE BECAME A HEROIN THE A.B.A. WHERE HE LED THE LEAGUE IN SCORING 3 SEASONS. THE 76 ens GOT HIM FROM JHt N. Y. NETS. ERVING SCORED 43 POINTS IN A GAME LAST SEASON. DR. J HAD A20.6PT AVG., WITH A NIFTY FREE THROW PCT. OF .845. Cleveland Leads Cgois Pro Tour THIS 28 YEAR OLD, 6' 6 " 2O0-POUND ALL -STAR DID NOT FOUL OUT ONCE LAST SEASON. DENVER COACH LARRY BROWN SAID, "YOU DOM'T STOP TOE DOCTOR... YOU JUST HOPE THE GAME ENDS BEFORE HE'S HAD A CHANCE TO BEAT YOU " HE 'S A DUNK-SHOT WIZARD. Ladies Bowling The Gazebo won 3 lost 1 from the Silver King State Bank. First Security Bank won 2 lost 2 frorn James F. Park Const. High Indv. Game Scratch Dorothy Wilson 164 Lu Ann Antonio 159 Jessie Johnson 152 High Indv. Series Scratch Lu Ann Antonio 444 Donna Prudence 439 Dorothy Wilson 435 High Team Game Scratch First Security Bank 541 Silver King State Bank 540 Silver King State Bank 529 High Team Series Scratch Silver King State Bank 1573 First Security Bank 1501 James F. Park Const. 1496 Team James F. Park Const. . Silver King State Bank First Security Bank The Gazebo High Indv. Game Handicap Dorothy Wilson 203 Jessie Johnson 184 Beth Marcellin 181 High Indv. Series Hancidap Dorothy Wilson 552 Donna Prudence 520 Jane Nuneviller 500 High Team Game Handicap First Security Bank 680 Silver King State Bank 668 James F. Park Const. 666 High Team Series Handicap The Gazebo 1967 Silver King State Bank 1957 First Security Bank 1918 Lu Ann Antonio had a turkey and a double. Donna Prudence and Dorothy Wilson had two doubles. Judy Putman, Kim Henley and Jane Nuneviller had doubles. Jessie Johnson picked up the 3-7-10 split. Won 18 15 13 10 David Cleveland, 24, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been waiting a long time for this and he gave it everything he's got at Sun Valley, Idaho. The effort paid off as he took first place and regained the overall lead in the Coors Colorado Pro Tour by beating Ken Corrock, 29, Ketehum, Idaho, in the last round by .586 seconds. The steep triple jump giant slalom proved very tough and Cleveland said afterwards, af-terwards, "I skied to my limits and I'm sick with exhaustion." Corrock was equally drained. "I pushed him as hard as I could but I just didn't have it," he said. Cleveland was the first this year and the third in the CPT's history to overcome a penalty disadvantage. During the round of 32, Cleveland fell against Brian Gottfredson, 24, and received a two second disadvantage. In the next run, he beat it by 2.289 seconds, a remarkable feat. Bruce Gamble, 23, Boulder, a three time NCAA champion, took an automatic third when Swiss Nestor Burgener, 23, retired from competition after a spectacular fall in the first run of the consolation round. He was not seriously injured. in-jured. Jim Bergh, 21, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, slid back to second place overall in the Coors standings after being knocked out in the second round by Gamble. The first place slot has been exchanged between Bergh and Cleveland since this CPT season began, and Cleveland was eager to call the title his again. The next race is a slalom at Mammoth Mountain, California March 9-10. Finals are March 16-17 at Vail. 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