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Show rw V r Ml TThe ixiewspapep PageBl Thursday, April 29, 1982 Olympian goalie Evert Lammers heads off disaster in the first half. photos by David Hampshire High Rollers use their heads to defeat Olympians 3-1 How does that go? "Use your head; it's the little things that count?" The Park City High Rollers got their heads together Saturday, scoring two goals on spectacular head shots by Jordan Swen-son Swen-son and Donnie Martinson to defeat the Salt Lake Olympians Olym-pians 3-1 at Rosewood Park. The victory gives the High Rollers a 1-0-0 league record since play resumed in the spring, 10-0-1 in the 1981-82 season. The team is on the top of the standings in the men's First Division of the Utah Soccer Association. Instrumental in the Park City victory was newcomer Shawn Glieden, who scored the first goal and set up the other two. Glieden broke a scoreless deadlock midway through the first half with a high floating kick which drifted over the outstretched arms of the Olympian goalie into the opposite corner of the net. According to team spokesman Garry Moore, Glieden's shot was actually intended to be a pass. "He was just putting a cross-in like a centering pass he just kind of lofted it too far." However, Park City's 1-0 lead was short-lived. Less than a minute later the Olympians came back to score on a scramble in front of the Park City net. Goalie Rick Phaler had stopped a hard shot from the right side, but could not hang onto the ball. "By the time he went to dive on it, there were 20 people there," Moore remembered. That was Phaler's only mistake of the afternoon. He saved one other goal with a diving save to his left in the first half, and survived a penalty kick just before the intermission when the ball sailed over the crossbar. The Park City fullback line, anchored an-chored by Herman Stuiven-volt, Stuiven-volt, helped by keeping the pressure on the Olympians. Meanwhile, at the other end of the field, Glieden and Swenson teamed up to put Park City ahead for good. Once again Glieden lifted a high, floating pass from his right-wing position. But this time the ball came down about 10 feet in front of the net. Swenson, with perfect timing, intercepted the ball in mid-air and slammed it into the corner of the net. With his head. Although the High Rollers added only one goal in the second half, they kept the ball almost constantly in the Olympian zone. Pint-sized left-winger Tom Carley came in after the intermission inter-mission and helped to spark the Park City offense. For much of the time he found himself matched up against an Olympian fullback who appeared to be about 6'4". "He (Carley) could have dribbled under his legs with no problem," Moore said later. The High Rollers' final goal was again set up by a well-placed pass from Glieden. He directed a corner cor-ner kick from the right side across the goal mouth. Forward For-ward Donnie Martinson, again with perfect timing, met the ball on the fly and hit it back across the goalmouth and over the left shoulder of the Olympians' goalie. "It (Glieden's pass) curved cur-ved away from the goalie, which is good," Moore explained. ex-plained. "As the goalie X v ' " f ... i . . i ' . , I, i " it- J A. 4 .MrV&'Oi Park City's Carl Dollhausen slides in an effort to kick the ball away from Olympian defender. comes out, he has to get way the face, courtesy of an consecutive games on their out of position to get to the Olympian fullback, on a home field (at Park City ball." similar play about 10 High School) beginning The goal was doublely minutes previously. Saturday with a game satisfying for Martinson, The schedule now calls for against Ogden. Kickoff time who had caught a forearm in the High Rollers to play five is lp.m. Veteran rugby team set for opener by Jim Murray The Kentucky Derby is just another race John Sundquist The Park City Rugby Football Club (a.k.a. the Muckers) is scheduled to begin its 12th season May 8 against the Utah State University Uni-versity Rugby Club. The game will be played at City Park beginning at 2 p.m. This match is to be followed up by a Sunday game between the Muckers and Idaho Falls Zebras at City Park, with the same starting time. The Muckers are coming off a 15-8 1981 season featuring a come-from-behind victory on July 4 against the Dead Goat. Park City began preparing for the 1982 season in early March with indoor practices held in the high school gymnasium. Now, with the weather easing up and the playing fields dry and clear, the team is back on its home field at City Park, practicing Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5 :30 p.m. Over the course of tho winter, the Muckers have not lost any players to retirement retire-ment (Hall of Fame? but Dave Bodner will not be returning re-turning because he is leaving to live in Idaho. In the scrum or pack, the team is returning a veteran group consisting of, in the front row, props Doug Schewmakerand Craig Har-ren, Har-ren, and Dave Sundquist at hooker. The second row or locks will be Bruce Reid and Tom Lauder. Bill Hart, the on-field captain, will be playing number 8. Rick Phaler, the team coach and rep side player will be playing scrum-half. The two loose breaks in the scrum will be divided up between Blackie Jones, Fury Lewis, and Evil Jeff Wallace. In the backline, the players have been on-six. However, in the past, the backs have had trouble coordinating their play with the forwards. "We are going to use more discipline this year with the backs," said Phaler. "Every game last year we had a different lineup and the guys were in different positions. They could never get used to a spot on the field or the same players." He will be concentrating on basic backline procedure like uniform passing, never turning your back on the ball when returning to your position, and giving support when looping the wing. Returning to the backline are fly halves Scott Thompson Thomp-son and Mark Stokan. In the centers will be B.A. Jameson, Jame-son, Kevin McKay, Don Sturges, and Kenny Tedford. At the wings are Eric Smith, Vinny Buonadonna, Kip Foote, Steve Holcomb, Scott Marshall, and John Sundquist. Sund-quist. Other players on the team include Charlie Downing, Pogo Vance, and Steve Mann in the second row. Al Lamarr is the all-around front row player able to go at either props or hooker. There are better horse races than the Kentucky Derby. There are better golf tournaments than the U.S. Open, better ball games than the World Series, better football than either the Rose Bowl or the Super Bowl. And diamonds don't sparkle, gold isn't precious, sharks don't bite, and Rockefeller ain't rich and Bob's your uncle. Badmouthing the Kentucky Derby reminds me of the time the young reporter of Gene Fowler's acquaintance brought an indignant story to the editor about the rampant necking and romancing on the high school grounds after dark. "Son," the editor told him, "you can rail against it, you can legislate against it, you can boycott it but you ain't ever going to make it unpopular with the masses." Horse trainers gnash their teeth over the popularity of the Kentucky Derby, the way a fundamentalist preacher might at necking in the choir loft. It is the conceit of the horse set that the public cares about the Sysonby Stakes, the Withers Stakes, the John B. Campbell Handicap, or even the Widener, Woodward or even the ever-lovin' Eclipse Awards themselves. They think that they can tell one "San something-or-other" Stakes at Santa Anita from another. They don't. And they can't. If you don't sing at the Met, you're not an opera singer in the American public's eye. You can't be a champ till you fight in the Garden. It's not the substance that counts, it's the image. And the race that counts is that one Saturday afternoon, the first week in May, in Kentucky. The others are just a complicated lottery. The latest to inveigh against the Kentucky Derby ("It's the wrong race at the wrong place at the wrong time of the year") is the veteran horseman, Johnny Nerud. Nerud has just produced (but not trained) the top 3-year-old colt, and thus Derby candidate, in the West, a homely animal who would be called "Freckles" if he were a human. Muttering had won the Santa Anita Derby, a race which has sent six winners to the winner's circle at Kentucky, and the press, after the race, naturally wanted to know if Muttering might try to be the seventh. Nerud acted as if they wanted him to send the colt out into a life of sin, a crooked crap game, a career on the lam. You would have thought the Kentucky Derby should be outlawed or tabbed a health hazard by the surgeon general. "There's a lot of prestigious races," lectured Nerud. "I notice John Henry made Horse-of-the-Year last year when he did a sportsman-like thing. He went back East and ran a race there. But he didn't have to win a Kentucky Derby. "The Derby's forgotten by fall. It's you gentlemen who make the public think it's the only horse race of the year. It's the only time of the year racing gets the coverage all racing deserves. And should get. But the public consciousness of horse race people is a bunch of guys in cheap jackets who would steal from their mothers and who cheat each other and the public. That's not racing, that's fiction. "The Derby isn't ALL there is to racing. It's a shell. They roll the track to make it fast, and they make it cuppy. A Derby horse not only has to be fast but has to have a strong mind. The newsreels, and the newsmen, and the TV cameras come around at all hours in Kentucky, and if you don't open the doors and let them in, they're insulted. Good horses are like good quarterbacks. Lots of guys have the physical ability, but they can't play quarterback because they can't stand the pressure, the outside pressure, not the game pressure." Does that mean Horseman Nerud will go back and try to make do now with the Travers Stakes, the Coaching Club American Oaks or some other of those graduate fox hunts? The question left John Nerud muttering, to coin a phrase. But. it's important to realize John Nerud entered only one horse in the Kentucky Derby in his entire career. Gallant Man in 1957 was the best horse in a blue-ribbon field that included Bold Ruler, Round Table, Iron Liege and Federal Hill. He had the race won when his rider, Bill Shoemaker, misjudged the finish. The quarter pole sticks up in the home stretch at Churchill Dcwns the way the finish pole does at most race tracks. And the home stretch at Churchill is 1,234 2 feet long. To give you an adea, the one at Santa Anita, by comparison, is 990 feet. Was this incident what soured John Nerud on the Kentucky Derby? No. What turned Nerud off was the fact that the stewards at Churchill Downs suspended jocky Shoemaker Shoe-maker for his honest, and already embarrassing embarrass-ing mistake. Shoe couldn't ride in the Preak-ness. Preak-ness. So Nerud and owner Ralph Lowe wouldn't enter either. They scratched Gallant Gal-lant Man. Ten years later, John Nerud had "the fastest horse who ever lived." That was Dr. Fager and he was eligible for the Derby, too. But he didn't run. "He wasn't a mile-and-a-quarter horse," explained John Nerud the other day. Maybe so. But Dr. Fager ran a mile-and-a-quarter in 1:59 35 once at Aqueduct and 1:59 and 45 once at Rockingham. That would win every Kentucky Ken-tucky Derby ever run except one (Secretariat, (Secre-tariat, 1:59 25s in 1973). Should Muttering goto the Kentucky Derby? Well, let me put it this way: Hew many of you ever heard of Dr. Fager? And, as Nerud himself admitted at Santa Anita the other day, "I'm more famous for finishing second in the Derby than for any race I ever won " 1982 Los Angeles Times Syndicate !" Think about her early this year! f) J Flowers will tell her just how you feel - ' Q? r.s, with bouquets like: - j & - "The Big Hug" "Sunshine" J ' ' 's Spring Flowers Daisy Bouquet I ' (M "A Kiss from Me" "Mom's Forever" I (sfS The Flower Box VQ . i I J We wire flowers ail over tht world. Ql The Muckers plan to travel this summer to Vail, Colorado Colo-rado for the Ski Town Tournament on July 24. Other trips are planned to Boise, Idaho Falls, and Caldwell, Idaho. At home Park City will go against the University of Utah, Sun Valley, and of course the Dead Goat Touring Tour-ing Side on Saturday July 3. The llth annual Challenge Cup will be held on the weekend of Sept. 18-19 with the tournament teams to be announced. This past winter the third annual Rugby Banquet was held again at the Claim-jumper Claim-jumper and elections for club officers were held. Re-elected president for his second year was Dave Sundquist. Sund-quist. 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