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Show Utah Stars Return Home For Thursday Encounter The Utah Stars return home this Thursday night to play host to the Memphis Tarns in the Salt Palace, and to say the team is delighted to be off the road would be a gross understatement. The Stars last week played road engagements at Indiana, Carolina, Kentucky and New York and came away with only one victory, a 127-111 conquest of the previously unbeaten Carolina Cougars. The Utahns fell 103-107 to the Pacers, 92-112 to the Colonels and 116-119 to the hot-shooting Nets. That leaves the Stars with a 3-3 record after the initial two weeks of play in the 1972-73 1972-73 season and they trail the Denver Rockets and San Diego Conquistadors by a game and a half in the ABA western division standings. Following the Thursday skirmish with Memphis the Stars have a chance to make up sone ground on the Conquistadors, Con-quistadors, meeting the ABA's newest team in San Diego in Friday prior to returning re-turning to Salt Lake against the same outfit on Saturday night in the Salt Palace. Both of this week's home games feature special attractions. attrac-tions. The Thursday contest will be a regular "Kids' Night" in which youngsters 16 years of age and under are entitle to dollar discounts on all seats, plus they will receive, compliments of the Sizzler Steak Houses, free two-foot by three-foot posters pos-ters of John Beasley. The Saturday game will be a special spe-cial "Gridiron Night" sponsored spon-sored by Auerbach's Department Depart-ment Stores. Auerbach's is selling tickets to both this Saturday's University of Ut.-New Ut.-New Mex. homecoming football foot-ball game at dollar discounts: A $9 value for $7, and $8 value for $6, or a $7 value for $5. Football ticket stubs will' be worth one dollar on Stars' tickets purchased at the Salt Palace Saturday night. The Memphis invasion Thursday will feature there-turn there-turn to Salt Lake of Merv "The Magician" Jackson, traded tra-ded by the Stars to the Tarns just prior to the opening of the season for Gerald Govan. Jackson, a former University of Utah Ail-American, is an extremely popular performer extremely popular performer perfor-mer in the Beehive state. In five games for Memphis (The Tarns had won two and lost three prior to a Tuesday home game with Virginia) Jackson posted a 9.5 scoring average and had a perfect four-for-four on three-point bombs. |