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Show I JOCKEY SHORTS !JYSUE NEILSON I Chronicle Staff ffiEK: Last week was 8 of the worst weeks y ay Utah team playing in .'lie Valley. Everybody lS - the professonals to the KICLE LOSES: The siaff started the nega-'i nega-'i tolling as Brigham I Daily Universe staff i the league-leading Utah n Mi Tuesday evening in il ii Complex. ii LOSE: Utah's Stars 'J; the most gallant effort e .i as they battled the eMis down to the final ' iand then lost 98-97 s::; Lewis sank two foul j, i one-and-one situation. -SKINS LOSE: Utah's I much celebrated varsity basketball team lost to Brigham Young 98-87 Saturday afternoon. They also lost the Western Athletic Championship that afternoon to the same team. The pain would not be as great had the Utes mustered a more potent offense to make the game closer and had the team been anyother than the sweet talkers from the land south. This is the third straight year that this team has lost the championship champion-ship in the last week of play. PAPOOSES LOSE: Immediately Immedi-ately folowing the varsity tilt the Papooses took on the Brigham Young Kittens and lost to them 110-100. All in all it was a bad day for the Utes on their home floor. UTAH ROOTERS LOST: Even the Utah cheering section of some 13.000 spectators lost in the vocal dual with Brigham Young's balcony bal-cony bunch. Throughout the afternoon af-ternoon the "Y" rooters out-yelled out-yelled and -more enthusiastically supported their team than the entire contingent of Utah supporters. support-ers. GOLDEN EAGLES LOSE: Rounding out the week Salt Lake's Golden Eagles lost another one which wasn't even close to the Portland Buckaroos by the score of 6-2. Basically the team looked a little tired as they seldom sel-dom followed the puck while the Portland team ferried it around the rink. Eagle Jake Rathwell picked up a couple of assists in the first period as the Eagles scored both tallies. WILL ALI LOSE? Muhammed AM squares off against Joe Frazier Monday night in Madison Square Garden in what has been billed as the fight of the century, among other things. Frazier is favored to win the clear-cut heavyweight title. Ali is pledging no contest. As Utah found out, someone has to lose, wonder who it will be in this "contest." |