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Show League leading Utah Stars down The Floridians, 129-116, at Palace warn The Utah Stars put together a pair of back to back victories at home as they dumped The Flori-dians Flori-dians 129-116 Sunday afternoon. The win proved to be interesting inter-esting in the respect that Glen Cooms and Ron Boone who were recently aquired in a trade saw their first action in a Star uniform. uni-form. Arriving just before game-time game-time the two former Texas Chaparrals had no time to workout work-out with the team, yet they proved their ability to adjust quickly as their individual point totals indicate. Zelmo "Big Z" Beaty turned in his usual outstanding performance as he garnered 27 points while favoring an injured right knee. Cooms was high man on the floor with 28 points with Willie Wise and Boone tying for third place honors for the Stars with 18 apiece. Mac Calvin, the leading -scorer in the American Basketball Association, As-sociation, was high for The Flori-dians Flori-dians with 26 points. The Stars play the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis tonight and return Tuesday evening to tire Salt Palace for a bout with the Carolina Caro-lina Cougars. Interestingly, the perennial illnesses ill-nesses of former Stars Donnie Freeman and Wayne Hightower were quickly overcome as they both saw more than their share of action against Denver last weekend. week-end. As the Stars management indicated, tire two players became conviently ill in hopes of obtaining ob-taining more lucrative contracts. GLEN COOMBS it: TV RON BOONE |
