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Show f Page 6 Wednesday, April 26, 1978 Sports Keport By Brown Golf Reverting back to his characteristic black attire, at-tire, Gary Player became the tenth player in PGA history to win three golf tournaments in a row as he once again came from behind in the last round to win the Houston Open Golf Tournament. Tour-nament. In his two previous tournament victories, the Masters and the Tournament of Champions, the hard working South African came from seven strokes back to win. This weekend, Player made his move from five strokes back to overtake leader Andy Bean, who finished one stroke behind. The ninth hole was the turning point, as P'cyer gained three strokes when Bean double bogeyed. Player's 270, 18-under-par, was the best score so far on the pro tour this year. The victory was worth $40,000 and brought Player's three week earnings to $130,000. Bean, turning in a 271, took home $22,800. Tennis Tokyo was the site this past weekend of a $100,000 four man invitational. Bjorn Borg, surprisingly, sur-prisingly, had little trouble with Jimmy Connors in the finals and won in two sets 6-1, 6-2. Connors, who had problems winning his series, repeatedly missed approach shots and when he did get to the net Borg succeeded in shoving the ball down Connors' throat. Connors' second place finish earned him $50,000. In the consolation match Manuel Orantes of Spain defeated Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 3-6, 7-6, 6-4. In women's tennis, young Tracy Austin paced the U.S. team in its victory over Russia in the Weisman Cup American-Soviet tennis series. Austin defeated Natasha Borodina 6-1 in the women's singles to give the U.S. a 30-26 victory Sunday. It was the Americans' second triumph in a row for the Cup Series which began in 1976-77. Hockey In the NHL quarter finals, the Boston Bruins swept their series with the Chicago Black Hawks in four straight as they won Sunday's game 5-2. The Black Hawks haven't won a Stanley Cup game since 1975. The Montreal Canadians had little trouble with the Detroit Red Wings winning 8-0, to take a 3-1 lead in their series. The Canadians can wrap the series in Montreal Tuesday night. In the Philadelphia-Buffalo series, the Flyers hold a 3-1 advantage over the Sabres as the series goes to Philadelphia for the fifth and possibly last game. The Toronto Maple Leafs scored a 3-1 victory over the N.Y. Islanders on their home ice as that series is now tied at two games apiece. Boxing Last week Leon Spinks' nose got him in trouble; this week it was his mouth causing him problems. The heavyweight champion was arrested last week for the possession of cocaine and marijuana but since it was his first arrest and he was considered a good risk he was being considered for a special program with the charges being dropped. This was before he claimed the police framed him. At this point Spinks will face the charges as they stand with no special treatment. Muckers Win Convincingly In Season Opener . 1 , - . ,' ? J, ' ST ' - ' t V4 " C-Bones Kicked By Pioneer, 4-2 By Bruce Henderson Last week's results: Silver King United-2. Wm. Penn-2 Raquet Club Bueks-2, Rosecrest-1 Timberhaus Flyers-2, Oakridge-2 Alamo Drifters-1, Eastwood-1 Eastwood-1 Claimjumper Rangers-0, Morningside-4 Capson, Morris & McComb Pacers-0, District Six-3 P.C. Resort Sunshines-1, District Three-4 Park City C-Bones-2, Pioneer Cavalry -4 In the premier game of the week, the C-Bones lost a very close game to the Pioneer Cavalry, 4-2, at Mt. Jordan Jr. High on Saturday. Satur-day. The Cavalry, the current state champs in their age group, have been regularly doing away with their opposition in very easy fashion, that is, until they played a fired up C-Bones team. Shawn Glieden, playing right wing for the first time this season, fired a perfect shot over the Cavalry goalie's out-stretched arms for the first goal of the game early in the first half. It was the first time the Cavalry had been behind all season. After two Cavalry scores, Glieden scored again on a shot identical to his first goal to tie the game. The score remained knotted.until late in the second half when the Pioneer squad called on their experience (they have been playing together for 5 years) and skill to score their two remaining game winning goals. Plaudits have to be given to C-Bones forward Steve Toly, halfbacks Kenny Lawson and Scott Williams and fullbacks 'Pig' Hazelrigg and Paul Mawhinney for their outstanding out-standing play. Both of Park City's under-8-years-old teams, the Raquet Club Bucks and the Silver King United, are continuing con-tinuing to prove themselves Baseball . . , . f' ' Taking a brief look at the major league standings stan-dings this week, the Montreal Expos hold a V-' game lead over Chicago and New York in the National League East, while in the West Cincinnati Cincin-nati and L.A. have taken up their usual battle for the lead with the Reds on top this week by '2 game. In the American League, Detroit holds a one game lead over Boston in the East and the Kansas Kan-sas City Royals lead Oakland by V2 game in the West. Basketball Looking at the NBA playoffs this week, it was the Philadelphia 76er's, behind Julius Erving, taking four straight from the N.Y. Knicks to win their quarter final series. The 76er's will meet the winner of the San Antonio-Washington series in the Eastern Conference finals. In that series the rejuvenated Washington Bullets hold a commanding 3-1 lead with a chance to wrap things up in San Antonio. In the Western Conference series, the Milwaukee Bucks bounced back from a 2-0 deficit and defeated the Denver Nuggets 143-112. The series stands at 2-1 Denver with the Bucks trying to even things up at home. Meanwhile the defending champions, the Portland Port-land Trailblazers, have fallen behind in their series with the Seattle Sonics, 2-1. Portland sorely misses center Bill Walton, who is out for the remainder of the season with a broken ankle. the class of their leagues. The Bucks, behind the outstanding out-standing play of Trent Martinez, Mar-tinez, Cameron Symonds, and the McComb brothers. Scott. Billy, and Colin, defeated Rosecrest 2-1. Zach Craigle, Brent Conner, Con-ner, Billy Hansen. Justin Rino, and Paul Johnson led the Silver King United team to a 2-2 tie with a strong Wm. Penn squad. Probably the most exciting ex-citing game of the week took place at Churchill Jr. High on Saturday. With no time remaining in the game, Ocey Hansen scored on a penalty shot to tie a fired-up Oakridge team, 2-2. It was Hansen's second goal of the game and earned him this week's Corner Kitk Player of the Week Award. Congatulations Ocey! Greg Reed, playing his first game as goalie, also earns special commendation for his outstanding play. A couple of his saves were just short of spectacular. Special Notes: There will be an organizational meeting on Tuesday, May -2, for all,.. l&dies 18 years and older who would like to play Saeeer.; Noi experience is necessary just a desire to get some exercise and have a good time! If there is enough interest, games will be scheduled against local University and other ski area teams. The meeting will be at 7:00 p.m. at the Memorial Bldg. on May 2. Little League teams will begin playing their games in Park City on Saturday, .May 6- -Watch for Park City Soccer Club will hold its 1st Annual Picture Day on May 13 at the City Park. This activity ac-tivity will be held in conjunction conjunc-tion with the Alamo's Fund Raising picnic. The Park City Rugbv Football Club held off Motherlode R.F.C. of Boise. Idaho in the early stages of their match Saturday, then went on to ride good handling han-dling and some dynamic running to a 16-0 victory. Park City dominated the lineout throughout the contest, con-test, giving space for their backline to work against the Boise club. Bill Hart, Dan Fradenberg and Bruce Reid continually gave Park City the possession they needed to set Skip Schirf's line in what appeared to be mid-season mid-season motion. The Muckers opened the scoring twelve minutes into the first half from a scrum in front of the posts, fifteen yards out. Scrum half Rick Phaler broke across the gain line and distributed neatly to Number 8, Fred Grambau. on his outside. Grambau rambled through two Motherlode defenders to touch down near the right goal post. Schirf converted the goal to give the Muckers a 6-0 advantage. In the opening stages of the second half Park City brought down a lineout possession and sent the ball nicely through the centres to Dave Brown on right wing. Brown broke outside for forty for-ty yards until the Motherlode cover defence boxed him against the sidelines. The new Park City winger found support on his inside to keep the movement alive and the ball never stopped until Grambau once again dotted down beneath the Boise posts. Fradenberg missed the kick at goal but Park City was mightily in command, 10 to nil. Moments later, the Motherlode tried a desperate attack from inside their own twenty-five. A strong tackle by Don Sturges forced the ball loose near the defenders' defen-ders' line. Scott Thompson was able to get the ball off the floor and beat the flagging Motherlode defense to the line. Phaler sewed up the days' scoring and the game with his first goal attempt at-tempt of the season, and the Muckers protected their 16-0 lead from that point on. The Muckers will now travel to Logan, Utah, May 12-13-14, to play in the Utah State tournament. Recreation Benefit Set For May 13 A cooperative effort of the Park City Recreation Department Depart-ment and a summer recreation committeecomposed commit-teecomposed of Darrell La Franier, Digger and Riva Hazelrigg will coordinate a May 13 fundraising raffle, barbeque and outdoor concert con-cert to be held from 11.00 a.m. until dark at City Park. All proceeds from the event will be disbursed among all organized summer sum-mer sports leagues; including in-cluding little league, youth soccer, rugby and soft-ball soft-ball to use at their discretion for the purchase of equipment, uniforms, etc. Local merchants are being asked to donate cash or product prizes for the raffle. A group will canvass the town and tickets will be available from all team members for $1 each. Channel 4 sports commentator commen-tator Bill Orwig and KPQR radio personality Jay Meehan will be offering spot plugs of the event and Salt Lake distributors contacted to date are cooperating, according ac-cording to La Franier. "If we do well with this event, we would like to start a fund through the recreation department to start building a new park," said La Franier. "We have to start small and our thinking is that we will eventually even-tually get more cooperation with state and federal funding fund-ing if it's felt there is grass roots cooperation at the city level to start things going." The event will be called the Park City Sports-A-Rama Fundraiser. Raffle tickets will be sold by all W-rk City sports teams and available at the Park City Chamber of Commerce office. 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