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Show 8 Vernal Express rridoy, August?, 1 985 Express s SWIMMING INSTRUCTOR, Maralee Palmer, right, helps a girl learn to float, the final session of swimming lessons will start Mon- The Strike Life without baseball occured for two days when the American and National Na-tional League players went out on strike Tuesday and Wednesday night. The baseball races were heating up as the New York Mets overcame the St. Louis Cardinals for a half game lead in the National League East, Los Angeles overcame the San Diego Padres in the National League West and Kansas City was making a race of it with the California Califor-nia Angels in the American League West. Toronto had only a game and a half lead over the New York Yankees, but a hot streak by the Blue Jays and a cold spell by the Yanks increased in-creased the lead to nine games. All of a sudden the fans were denied the baseball thoughts of: "Can Toronto keep it going? Can Kansas City or the Oakland A's catch California? Can the Mets maintain their slim lead over the St. Louis Cardinals? Car-dinals? Can the L.A. Dodgers keep ahead of the Cincinnati Reds and San Diego Padres?" The whole season had turned into a i ' i GOGGLED EYED $.v nef pntUzt, h i an ti,-t s-4 b?ro. irg a ta-cMM en l-e lesson pathvcz'ct t D'a-s O'scn. t gi Hatha Yoga Iso-Tonic Exercise Creative Visualization and Biofeedback Technique For more information a to Cost etc, call: Christian E'e 789 0037. v ' - w 'w . ' sir question mark, but finally the problem pro-blem was solved and baseball is back. However, some fans are upset with their treatment, but since the strike was a short one instead of a long one like the first one I think the fans won't stay away from the ball park. Whenever, a strike in baseball takes places no one knowns how long it will last. Will it last one, two, three, four days, a week, a month, a whole season or forever? So with the forever question in mind I watched the last scheduled baseball games, Monday before the strike, Tuesday and Rod Carew of the California Angels was going for his 3,000 hit and Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox was seeking his 300th win in a game with the New York Yankees. I thought if Carew and Seaver fail in their bids, Monday will they be forced to wait until next season to gain their precious hit or win. I didn't have to worry as Carew got his 3,000 hit and Seaver netted win number 300 in the very same day. I'm a Yankee fan, but Seaver, who played for the New York Mets, gained his 300th win and wondering how long he would have to wait to join the 300 club wasn't a problem anymore. It turned out there was nothing to worry about because the strike lasted only two days. No Scorn I'm a baseball fan and I look forward for-ward to watching and listening to all w - ' . V- 4 1 " ..... pt, . tat t)a . t t t-r i5 r- ""-rr4( tf- Sf ( t ft t--l .H I t f..-. v0 irp day, August 12 at the Vernal Community Pool. The session will last for two weeks. the game scores. During the offseason off-season I keep track of all the new players, management changes and the announcement of the upcoming season schedule. Once spring training starts it's time to focus on the pre-season ball games and-when the regular season begins it's all for keeps. I turn the television on every night to catch the ball scores or if I'm working late I turn the radio to an L.A. station to get the scores. I went through this system for four months and all of a sudden it came to a sudden halt. There weren't any major ma-jor league scores on the TV set and no baseball scores on the radio. The sports programs were almost a total waste as I was forced to listen to reports as follows: "There were no baseball games in the majors because of the strike, but the rookie league's Salt Lake Trappers won two games, 16-4. The Utah Jazz have signed their top draft choice and are getting ready for rookie camp." Minor league games are ok because the fans get to see a lot of future and some has been major leaguers, but it's just not the real thing the major leagues. April through September plus a little lit-tle bit of October is major league baseball time, but basketball news in August seems out of place as the basketball time usually runs from late October to early June. I made it through the strike and I can go back to my baseball watching ways. However, I might watch a movie from time to time such as the "Natural" and "Pride of the V H A. y. mm "'tl " """" A A --v v ' Y I I k-J I 523 West Main " Vernal K8 SgfcK Yankees". Strange Accomplishment Johnny LeMaster, shortstop, on the Pittsburgh Pirates has achieved an ununusual non-honor as he started the season with the last place National Na-tional League West, San Francisco Giants, was traded to the last place American League East Cleveland Indians In-dians and then was traded to the last place National League East Pirates. Many trades usually help a player by putting him on a better team and some trades sent a player from a better bet-ter team to a cellar dweller, but LeMaster didn't gain any improvement improve-ment as he got traded from last place to last place to last place. LeMaster probably wishes he was in Al Oliver's postion. Oliver was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays and shortly after his former team the Los Angeles Dodgers moved into first place in the National League West, but he wasn't too upset as his new team Toronto was the first base team in the American League East and increased in-creased their lead from 1 1-2 to nine games. Dave Collins was traded to the Oakland A's by the Toronto Blue Jays and now his former team is a first place crew. He spent all last year chasing the Detroit Tigers with the Toronto Blue Jays and ended up in second place. Donnie Moore wasn't on the Braves' protected list and he was taken by the California Angels. The Braves have been near the bottom for most of the year and the Angels have been at the top of the American League West standings. Milt's Merchandise Mart rhon.783.aiM 3 : A DIVER leaps off the board Vernal Pool. Lssm If IT Swimmers have one last chance to take advantage of swimming lessons at the Vernal Community Pool. The last session of lessons will begin Monday, Mon-day, August 12 and will last for two weeks, Monday through Friday. The lessons are held from 9 a.m. to ' 12 noon and some are held at 6 p.m. Every 45 minutes a new group of swimmers enter the pool. "We've had a fair number of swimmers swim-mers come out for lessons this summer, sum-mer, but it was down compared to last year," stated Al Frank, pool manager. "We will have a new schedule at the end of the month when the schools start using the pool." The last innertube movie will take place Saturday, August 24 at 8 p.m. The movie will be "Warlords of Atlantis". For more information on swimming programs contact the pool at 789-5775. - In other swimming related news the annual Triathlon will take place Saturday, August 10 and will start with a half mile swim at Steinaker Reservoir. Check-in will begin at 6:30 a.m. at the Steinaker Reservoir Boat Ramp. The swim will start at 7 a.m. The run will start at the edge of the reservoir and runners will travel along the Steinaker Reservoir road to U.S. Highway 44. turn south toward toward Vernal. The run will end at KVELFM 93 parking lot and will consist of 5 2 miles. A 15 mile bike race will begin at the radio station at the conclusion of the run. The bike racers will go south on during swimming lessons at the U.S. Highway 44 to 500 North in Vernal. Ver-nal. The bikers will follow the Maeser Highway, past the Dry Fork turnoff, past Green Field Downs, up the first "real" hill. The turn-around will be clearly marked with a checkpoint. At the turn-around, bikers will begin the final leg of the race, east on the Maeser Highway and into Vernal to 900 West. The racers will turn south on 900 West, turn west on 250 North , then back north on the small road between Ashley Elementary School and the tennis courts. The finish line will be at the parking lot north of the baseball complex. WE'RE FIGHTING FOR VOURLIFE American Heart ( Association 5. ? 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