| Show Ogden Utah Sunday June 7 1981 Surra mo tug destroys eeasemft CoDoims triple cr®wra bod NEW YORK (UPI) — Summing with a week of record-breakin- g workouts behind him performed like a champion when it counted most Saturday destroying Pleasant Colony’s Triple Crown dream with a stirring victory in the 113th running of the $284300 Belmont Stakes Pleasant Colony making his patented move to the outside on the far turn looked to be in fine shape to pass leaders Summing and Paristo as the field headed around Billy Martin three-quarte- rs receives 2nd 114-mi- OAKLAND Calif (AP) — For the second time in a week Oakland A’s Manager Bill Martin received a threat on his life Saturday A’s officials said a male voice called the Oakland Coliseum switchboard twice threatening to shoot Martin On Thursday in Chicago a caller threatened Martin’s life and the A’s manager took the threat seriously enough to wear a bullet proof jacket under his warmup jacket and promised not to go out on the field However he did come out of the A’s dugout on several occasions Martin did not wear a bullet proof jacket Saturday A’s officials said but security was increased around the A’s dugout After the game Martin joked with reporters about the latest threat “I’d like to take him hunting and see how good a shot he is” Martin said “It doesn’t bother me but it bothers my mother She told me ‘if he shoots you I’m going to shoot the son of a gun’ “He better watch out Her word is bond” Martin said that he was not scared of whoever wras making the threats and that he was obviously not an A’s fan “Tell him I told the ballclub and it really made them mad” Martin said “We won so maybe this will him” Syrian boxer earns possible shot at title LAS VEGAS Nev (UPI) — Top-rank- ed Hamsho’s title fight against champion Marvin Hagler was tentatively set for this fall if the champion defeats Vito Antuofermo in their bout June 13 in Boston There were no knockdowns in Saturday’s bout Judge Jerry Roth scored it 4 for Minter but judges Charles Minker and Hal for Miller scored the fight Hamsho In recording his 27th consecutive victory' Hamsho boosted his rewhile Minter fell to 40-cord to 96-9- 97-9- 3 7 Hamsho 160 Y2 The now living in Brooklyn scored heavily in the early rounds with punches to Minter’s head and body Minter 16114 rallied in the middle 26-year-- rounds but Hamsho regained control of the fight in the final three rounds to earn the decision How does the idea of bringing baseball back to Weber State sound? I think Good but it probably won’t happen in our lifetimes Despite the fact that many Ogden fans could again observe a good brand of brand of baseball if the sport were revived at Weber the feasa-bilit- y of resurrecting the game from its shallow grave is not encouraging You learn from experience right? The shameful truth is the suspicion and skepticism emitted by the key persons who are reluctant to get the ball rolling again is Ogden fans have proven they won’t support local baseball teams Moreover the implementation of Title IX makes the economic end of it look sorry from the college’s standpoint And the cost of scholarships the overwhelming cost of travel and the price of equipment is too high Additional reasons abound Northern Utah weather is fickle in the spring leaving the chances of playing a full schedule at the mercy of the weatherman Baseball is well-found- ed “Can’t make no excuses” said Campo “It’s gonna happen It’s just another horse race I’m not sorry it’s the norne of the game” Summing wno only last month vaulted himself into the Triple Crown picture with victories in the Hill Prince and the Pennsylvania Derby grabbed the lead approaching the final turn Martens applied the whip to Charles Wilson’s speedy colt and the race for all intents and purposes was over Summing sent off at odds of 1 returned $1780 $780 and $400 He covered the 12 furlongs in a woeful time of 2 : 29 — well off the record of 2:24 set by Secretariat in 1973 Highland Blade paid $1140 and $560 and Pleasant Colony returned 7-- tw $280 Highland Blade the speedy son great Damascus was just a neck back of Summing as they crossed the finish line and Pleasant Colony was IV2 lengths further back Completing the order of finish of the were fourth-plac- e Jockey George Martens holds his whip aloft as he guides Summing to victory in Saturday's Belmont Stakes At Summing's left is an unexpectedly slow pace at the start Bare Knuckles broke unusually fast and led through the first half mile with Sezyou a 50-- 1 shot just a half length behind Escambia Bay at 45-- 1 also made an uncharacteristic move toward the leaders and was just a neck behind Summing after one mile Pleasant Colony was last after the first half mile Summing trained by Luis Barrera and a son of Verbatim showed a great deal of heart at that point h lead at the opening a as Highland Blade quarter pole under Jacinto Vasquez began to pass tiring Escambia Bay and Tap Shoes who looked about ready to make a move at the mile pole Highland Blade appeared fresh at the quarter pole and closed from four lengths down within a half length of Summing just yards from the finish and closed within the barest of necks as they crossed the wire “What a thrill” said Martens “It’s the greatest thrill of my career At the quarter pole I knew I was home He was really pulling me We wanted to stay back at about third or fourth but the pace was slow and he was pulling me UTEP (UPI) — Texas-E- l Paso without an American scoring points and with Suleiman Nyambui of Tanzania leading the way with his 10th national title swept to its third straight outdoor NCAA track and field championship Saturday night The Miners easily fought off a challenge by Southern Methodist University with the Mustangs’ hopes wiped out when champion Sammy Koskei suffered cramps during the relay Texas-E- l Paso under the coaching of Ted Banks has now finished either first or second in the last 21 track events conducted by the NCAA and won 15 NCAA outdoor indoor and 800-met- 1600-met- er er 13:3880 The Miners thus scored 42 of their in the two distance races that the President's 3-- 70 points Cameron of Jamaica successfully defend- ed his relay title with a time of 4458 the fastest in the world this year and 400-met-er Hanna of the Bahamas captured the triple jump for the second straight year with a leap of 55-1- 1 SMU which finished second behind Texas in the NCAA indoor championships El-Pa- so earlier this year finished with 57 points Tennessee was next with 50 followed by Arizona State with 36 UCLA with 30 Brigham Young at 28 Houston 24 Iowa State 20 and Indiana 18 Other individual title holders from Saturday night’s action were Mike Juskus of Glassboro State in the javelin (273-2- ) David Volz of Indiana in the pole vault Solomon Chebor of Fairleigh Dickinson in the steeplechase (8:2334) Dwayne Evans of Arizona State in the 200 meters (2020) and Leo Williams of Navy in the high jump (17-8V- 4) 3000-met- f r‘- - - er (7-- 4) Czech Mca nd 1 i kovca wiiras PARIS (AP) — Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia defeated Sylvia Hanika of 4 West Germany 2 Saturday to win the women’s title at the French Open tennis 6-- 6-- championships Mandlikova 19 came back from 2 in the first set and 4 in the second to defeat the West German Mandlikova completed the first half of the coveted grand slam — won by only one woman player Margaret Court of Australia The Czechoslovakian star won the Australian title in January To complete the grand slam she would have to win Wimbledon in a few weeks time and the US Open in September A crowd of 15000 watched the final on the center court of Roland Garros Stadium 0-- 0-- Hanika a left-hand- 21-year-- er worn era's toftie from Munich said it was difficult playing in her first major final “Hana had an advantage because she was in the final of the US Open last year” said Hanika “A final is different from any other match “I didn”t play very well at all today I had a 0 lead in the second set and I had a point for a 2 lead but I just couldn’t make it” With the precision of a sophisticated computer tennis machine Bjorn Borg pounded out his sixth straight-se- t victory to advance to today’s title match against Ivan Lendl in the $611000 French Open The Borg beat Paraguay’s Vic5 tor Pecci 4 Friday in a semifinal on the red clay courts of 4-- 5-- top-seed- ed 6-- 6-- 4 7-- two-ho- 22-min- ute ur Roland Garros stadium been revived And today Big Sky member Nevada-Ren- o still has a baseball team as does former conference member Gonzaga Northern Arizona played this spring while Boise State gave its program the ax just two years ago Resuscitating baseball at the college is basically a question Di-of money according to Athletic rector Gary Crompton “It would take $75000 minimum to get the program rolling here again maybe $100000” he said “If some sugar daddy came in and guaranteed us $25000 I’d start the thing up tomorrow It would have to be started again under some sort of trust fund deal But our priorities are we go with the sport that goes with 3-- aq-- v — 0 i f-- r i i m o 4-- 7-- 6-- ur 26-year-- top-seed- ed pay for the umpires We were able to pay for the basic costs of playing at Affleck Park before but to do so our players took care of the infield at the park themselves” Crompton said the old uniforms with “Weber” splashed across the front are still stashed away He said that if any sport has a chance d of gaining status it would be soccer which has 37000 youngsters involved in programs across the state If the program did get started there is also the very real possibility that the women’s sports group would want reciprocation Right now there are eight sports for both men and women Give the men one more and the women will probably want another as well At Arizona State there is a 17000 seat stadium which has been filled many times with Sun Devil fanat league-sponsore- 21-year-- 23-min- ute the Big Sky If they don’t have it we don’t either “That $100000 is a high figure” Crompton continued “We’d have to pay coaches 24 players scholarships and more with very little income from it We could barely way” Sylvester said “I didn’t tell the lidds anything but they sensed something was wrong That first game we gave BYU one of the worst beatings in their history The score was something like 24-- 2 After the second game I told the kids what had happened and they just stood around They didn’t want to come back home “The administration supported us well until the end But there is a question in my mind just a question as to whether they did all they could” Sylvester said The program was eliminated at Weber State only after the Big Sky had dropped it as an official sport along with tennis golf and swimming Tennis and golf have since The Lendl ranked fifth in the world gained his berth in the final by outlasting Argentina’s Jose Luis Clerc 6 fr4 6 6 2 in a four-hoduel “I consider Borg the greatest player in the history of tennis” said Lendl looking forward to the final “He will be dificult to play against but I promise to try” Lendl has won two of his previous five matches against Borg If he does it again he will be the first Czech to win the men’s title here in a decade Mandlikova became the first Czech woman to reach the French Open final Thursday by Chris Evert Lloyd the stunning American who had been favored to win the crown for a fifth time ics The sport even used to outdraw basketball there But could baseball draw fans in Ogden? “No” Sylvester said “There’s just not that muchflatly interest We didn’t draw many fans when we were doing well and there’s no indication that it would be any different The community would have to help out somehow I’d like to see the program start up again Heck I’d help out in any capacity that I could The kids in this area deserve a place to play baseball They have nowhere to go They say to themselves ‘what’s the use to keep on playing?’ What’s the use indeed? Without community support existing there to help provide an incentive for kids to further their participation in baseball the popularity of the sport will continue to decline Soccer has already surpassed baseball in popularity at the little league level and is making a strong move to overtake the good old American pastime completely If someone had presented that possibility to me 10 years ago I would have laughed out loud V -- the In French Open tennis championships and has already been legs funeralized once? Council had voted it down by a 2 vote Boom just like that it was gone “We went down to Provo any is dfoe8rrapora§lh)op cross country titles since 1974 Nyambui who won the 10000 meters on Friday night held off Richard Kaitany of Iowa State down the stretch to capture the 5000 meters in another night of muggy conditions Nyambui ran the 5000 meters in not longer a Big Sky sport either and the college follows what the Big Sky does Recruiting players would be difficult because who wants commit themselves to a program that would be on shakey program Highland Blade who finished second Bringing up the rear favorite Pleasant Colony who came in third sweeps NCAA La BATON ROUGE four-lengt- Fans will have to be satisfied with trips to the memory bank Weber State had a pretty good baseball program from 1963 through the spring of 1974 when it finally went defunct Not great but it was competitive and was building a solid tradition “I remember the day we lost the program” said Blaine Sylvester who managed the Wildcats from 1969 to 1974 “We were getting ready to go down and play a doubleheader with BYU and I was coming out of the basement with my uniform on Dale Gardner (former WSC Athletic Director) approached me and told me we had just lost the X Av United Press InternotioncH VS Without an American scoring points Woodchopper Escambia Bay Tap Shoes Paristo Bare Knuckles Stage Door Key Sezyou and the disappointing Bold Ego The victory was worth $170580 and boosted the colt’s career earn- Pleasant Colony’s demise — one of the more startling surprises in recent racing history — was due to 10-rou- nd 2 ble ings to $381476 middleweight contender Mustafa Hamsho of Syria pounded out a split decision Saturover former champion Alan day Minter of Great Britain setting himself up for a shot at the crown 31-1-- le front-runnin- death threat stop the turn for home But the John Campo-traine- d colt did not follow the script he wrote in his previous victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes Highland Blade finished second and Pleasant Colony who started from the outside post was third Twenty-on- e horses have entered the Belmont seeking to become Triple Crown winners and Pleasant Colony became the 10th to fail in his attempt to place his name alongside some of the greatest horses in the history of the sport Summing ridden beautifully by jockey George Martens began closing on the leaders race of a mile into the g and closed in on Paristo as they approached the far turn That’s when it appeared that Pleasant Colony who backed out of the starting gate on five different occasions before the flag could be raised looked to be in serious trou- |
