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Show St. George Readies Activities For National Collegiate Rodeo Event equipped for his speciality, calf roping. He stands 6-2 and weighs a wiry 185 pounds. Garth finished second in the Rocky Mountain region of the NIRA, but listing him simply as a runner-up may be deceiving. de-ceiving. Each season numerous numer-ous regional rodeos are held, but cowboys can count only points earned in their best five rodeos. competition between Casper Wyoming Junior College and Cal Poly of San Luis Obispo, Calif. Awards will go to "national" champions and "finals" champions. cham-pions. "National" champions are determined on the total points earned during the rodeo season; this includes regional rodeos as well as the finals. Twice as many points are awarded for a cowboy's performance in the finals. Lyne and Ekker are neck and neck for the "national" all-around cowboy prize. Lyne, who was second in last year's national standings, has earned 1280'i points going into the finals. Ekker is a scant 22 points behind at 1258 M. Both specialize in ribbon roping and steer wrestling, wrest-ling, but both work all six men's events. A contestant favored to put together back-to-back titles Is cowgirl Mirianne Munz from Texas Tech. Munz was both "finals" and "national" champion cham-pion last year, and she has a 105 point lead over her Close competition and top performances appear to be certain in the Ntaional Collegiate Col-legiate Rodeo to be held in St. George June 27-July 1, if unofficial rodeo statistics released re-leased this week mean anything. any-thing. Rodeo action, featuring the cream of college cowboys from across the nation and parts of Canada, will be held five consecutive con-secutive days beginning Tuesday, Tues-day, June 27. Starting time for the rodeo will be 8 p. m. each day, except ex-cept the last day. Saturday's final competition begins at 3 P. m- June 24 kickoff activity will be a fun night, beginning at 8 p. m. in the city park. On Monday, June 26, registration for contestants will begin. A western street dance will be held that night at the intersection inter-section of Main and Taber-nacle Taber-nacle Streets. June 27 wil feature a parade par-ade of contestants (over 170 of them) at 5 p. m. and then the first night of rodeo. The next night, Wednesday, the National Miss College Rodeo Queen Contest will be held In conjunction with the rodeo. A western street dance is scheduled after the rodeo. If close competition is what you want, watch the battle for top all-around cowboy between bet-ween Texan (Southwest Texas Junior College) Phil Lyne (pronounced lion) and University Univer-sity of Utah's A. C. Ekker. Or you can watch the team nearest competitor going into the finals this year. Local color for the NCRF will be provided by Garth Lamb, a calf roper from Las Vegas and a student at Dixie College. Those who have seen Lamb rope figure he has a good shot at one of the first place trophy saddles or trophy buckles buck-les that go to event winners. Physically, Garth is well |