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Show ...I THEp Thursday, June 21, 1979 Page 7 USST Home f ' v " V4 "vim, 1 ' . v - f.Hb '-Ekea Club tennis pro Tea And Tennis Time In conjunction with National Tennis Week, the Prospector Square Athletic Club will unveil its four new outdoor tennis courts this Sunday by staging an open singles and mixed-doubles tennis tournament. The tournaments are open to members and non-members non-members of all ages and ability levels. The mixed doubles competition is being sponsored by the Lipton Company and is part of a national Lipton's Iced Tea tournament. The local winners win-ners will go on to a regional tournament in Salt Lake City this August and, if successful suc-cessful there, would travel to the Woodlands Inn and Country Club in Denton, Texas for the national finals. The national finals will be held along with the nationally televised Lipton's ATP Doubles Championships, Champion-ships, which will feature some of the top male tennis stars. The athletic club's new courts consist of a Laykold surface over asphalt, which club pro Ronn Cooper describes as "very fast." One of the courts is a stadium court with grass seating on three sides. Players participating in the singles tournament will Hot Line For Race Results Effective June 15, 1979, the United States Ski Team will have a hot-line installed at its Park City headquarters. headquart-ers. The service will provide a recorded message of up-to-date race results, training schedules, and upcoming up-coming competitions for the Alpine and Nordic teams. "We felt a need to establish this communication link so that the skiing public would Located on Highway 224 Between Park West & Kimball Junction in Snyderville Open 7 days a Week 9:00 a.m.- Full Line of Outdoor Stock including Quaking Aspen trees from $10.00 W9 if A Ronn Cooper be matched according to age, sex and the new ntaional tennis rating system. Under the new system each player is rated from one to seven on 0.5 intervals. in-tervals. "The previous system of rating players was very vague," Cooper said. "Now each player will have a rating number designating a specified ability level and will be able to compare himself with any player in the country." Information on the rating system will be distributed prior to Sunday's tournament, tour-nament, which is open to everyone in the Park CitySalt Lake City area. There are no entry fees and free iced tea will be served. Play starts at 10 a.m. and all participants are urged to sign up at that time. Officials Of-ficials and balls will be sup- plied and players are required to wear tennis shoes. The singles tournament will be a single elimination best-of-nine pro set competition com-petition with a nine point tiebreaker tie-breaker if the score reaches four games apiece. The single elimination mixed doubles tournament will consist of regular best-of-three-sets match play. be able to know where the athletes are and how they are doing," commented Arlene Gaber, Public Relations Director. The hot-line number is 801-649-6666. Additional information in-formation can be obtained by contacting the U.S. Ski Team, Box 100, Park City, Utah 84060, or by calling 801-649-9090. Greenfields 649-8858 5:00 p.m Quaking Aspens Austrian Pines Colorado Spruce Potted Plants BEDDING PLANTS wide selection including petunias, marigolds, pansies, zinnias and many more 'I 1 I TEE TIME Three Wedges - v ; 'XX?' 'Y ' I , , v"4 - : i ,:: - j -f ';! 11 " ., I "4 1 . C if, , ' ' ; ", i J 'i , ' By Bud Tonnesen The new thing in golf this year is the ap pearance of three wedges instead of one or two Spalding has introduced this into the market with their Elite Plus clubs. The, purpose is to improve one s game close to the green and in crease the percentages to the hole. The wedges used are: one for 10-50 yard pitch shots from 50-90 yards If you don't have a already have one get one or two more to compliment com-pliment your game. These clubs will increase your touch around the your score. of getting the ball close one for sand play only, shots and one for pitch out. wedge, get one. If you greens and surely lower . - js If 1 BIKE-A-THON JUNE 25, 3:00 p.m. Sponsor sheets may be picked up at various businesses Call John Sloan, 649-8024 of Prospector Square Athletic Club, 649-7100 From Oregon The United States Alpine Team completed a training camp at Mt. Bachelor in Bend, Oregon June 3-13. Members of the men's and women's teams underwent on-snow training each morning mor-ning and a dryland program in the afternoons. The training included technical free skiing, slalom and giant slalom as well as physical conditioning. The men's team trained with Head Men's Coach, Harald Schoenhaar, and included in-cluded National Team members: Cary Adgate, 25, Boyne City, MI; Karl Anderson, An-derson, 25, Greene, ME; Billy Dorris, 21, McCall, ID; Mike Farny, 18, Aspen, CO: Steve Mahre, 22, White Pass, WA; Pete Patterson, 22, Sun Valley, ID; Billy Taylor, 23, Orchard Park, NY; and Eric Wilson, 21, Montpelier, VT. The women's team trained with Head Women's Coach, Hermann Goellner, and included National Team members: Christin Cooper, 19, Sun Valley, ID; Holly Flanders, 21, Manchester, NH; Viki Fleckenstein, 23, Syracuse, NY; Jamie Kurlander, 21, McAfee, NJ; Tamara McKinney, 16, Olympic Valley, CA; Cindy Nelson, 22, Lutsen, MN; and Heidi Preuss, 18, Lakeport, NH. In conjunction with training, the team conducted conduc-ted a development camp. Young athletes were able to test equipment for use over the next season of competition com-petition as well as work with the athletes and coaches of the national team. Representatives of the Alpine Pool Suppliers were on-hand to assist athletes and coaches with selections of boots, bindings, poles, skis and goggles. In commenting on the training, Alpine Team Director, Bill Marolt, said, "We had perfect conditions at Mt. Bachelor and were able to do good technical work with our athletes. The snow conditions were excellent ex-cellent and we accomplished accom-plished our training goals to this point." The next alpine team activity ac-tivity will be July 8-14 with Physical Testing for the men at the Olympic Training Center at Squaw Valley, California. The women are training on their own until they depart for on-snow on-snow training in New Zealand the middle of July. 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