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Show Page 12 Thursday, October 25, 1979 oiler Skiers Gather Green For Ski Team A rolling stone may gather no moss, but a rolling ski could collect as much as $250,000. As a promotional effort for the upcoming 1980 Olympics and a fundraiser for the U.S. Ski Team, eleven hearty souls from California have undertaken a once-in-a lifetime trip: roller skiing 3,631 miles from Los Angeles to Lake Placid, New York. To understand the magnitude of such an adventure, one must understand what a roller ski is. It is a summer training ski with wheels and is about three feet long. The base is aluminum with one central wheel iifclront and two side wheels in the rear. The front wheel has a forward-moving ratchet allowing the ski to move only forward. The rear wheels are for balance and are attached to a brake bar that is operated by the skier leaning back. The group began the trip September 20 in Los Angeles, and last week they rolled their way to Park City, leaving a little more than a month and 700 miles behind them. Their ultimate goal is $250,000 and the funds are raised mostly through public support. The United States is the only government that does not subsidize national teams, and it is the intent of the group to let Americans have a hand in supporting their athletes. The funds are generated by donors pledging money for each mile traveled in the 1980-Los Angeles-to-Lake Placid Ski-Athon. Ski-Athon. The U.S. Ski Team receives 70 percent of the money collected, while 25 percent goes to the Winter Olympics and 5 percent to the National Ski Patrol System. The eleven-member team includes Nils and Dianne Kristiansen, who are celebrating a rather populated honeymoon, Pat Moffett, Barbara Rulex, Bruce Bell, Bill Carr, Judy Banks, Steve King, Shari Watson, Linda Levenstein and Gayle Levin. Each member must take nearly five months off from work andor family, which means a great financial and emotional sacrifice. The trip will take nearly 127 days, with the expected arrival time in Lake Placid about January 25. To date they have traveled through many cities in California and Nevada, with many more to be seen throughout Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and finally New York. The impetus for the trip began with team member Bruce Bell, who in 1976 roller skied from Los Angeles to Mammoth Lake, California 311 miles in six days. Back in L.A., Bell considered the possibilities of an Olympic fundraiser across the country and got enthuisiastic support from teammates Nils Kristiansen and Pat Moffett. The three also are members of the National Ski Patrol System and were selected for the Olympic Ski Patrol attending to emergencies at the ski jumping, biathalon and cross-country ski courses. They have spent training time for the past two winters at Lake Placid, and will be returning anyway in January for the big event. The idea of making money for the ski team on the way across the country seemed like a good one. "I told myself after the last roller skiing trip that I'd never do it again," 48-year-old Bell chuckled. "But we've left our hide on the highway from California to here!" Bell said the Energetic Eleven didn't all know each other in the beginning, but met through various crosscountry cross-country citizen races and ski club contacts. They all get along just fine, he commented, despite the long hours they spend together. They travel in two motor homes and stay in hotel rooms that are offered them along the way. Their basic needs are being met through the support of sponsors for clothing, roller skis, crosscountry cross-country skis if they run into snow along the way, pace cars, communications and vitamins. Depending on the road conditions and weather, the team travels about 30 to 50 miles per day a hard workout in anybody's book. Bell said the group rises early, eats a high protein breakfast, and then hits the skis. The five men generally ski the entire day's distance, while the six women switch off driving the motor homes and leap-frogging the skiing legs. "We pretty much try to stay together during the day," Bell said. "The women will drive the motor homes down the road a ways, and about every three miles or so we take a short liquid break. We take a lunch stop and ski till we're ready to quit. We try to set a mileage goal every day and meet it. This is for sure a real workout and we are all used up at the end of the day. You figure our day is equivalent to running two marathons-everyday." marathons-everyday." Teammate Bill Car, Bell's junior by 16 years, echoed the sentiment. "When we finish a day, I'm glad it's over, but I look forward to the next day," Carr said. "This is a once-in-a-Iifetime experience and I'm really glad to be here with this group. It's a lot of hard work, but what we stand to gain by it is so rewarding. We can make some money for the athletes, and see the country in a way I probably never will again. "This project has been nearly four years in the making," Carr continued. "These people are giving up a lot to be here, ana it's difficult finding -sponsors and generating the money. We go into each town and try to drum up enthusiasm for the 1980 Olympics, as well as interest for upcoming Olympics. If everyone would just give a little, we could do a lot. "So far, people have been just fantastic. We get a lot of support when we come into some towns. One day near Cedar City, some guy driving by handed us a $100 bill out the window. He saw our mobile homes and the banners and signs, and wanted to help us out: It was PS! . . . SEATTLE SEA HAWKS' JIM ZDRN HAS TO BE ONE OF PRO FOOTBALL'S BEST QUARTERBACKS. QUARTER-BACKS. ZORN PASSED FOR AN AMAZING 3,283 YARDS LAST SEASON... TOPS IN THE. A.F.C. HE HEAVED 443 aerials. jim, in his 4 year with Seattle; is a left-hander, who can fire - PIN-POINT PASSES ON THE DEAD -RUN. AND HE SPRINTS FAST, LIKE A HALFBACK. WHEN HE SCRAMBLES IT REMINDS US OF FRAN TARKENTON. THIS 6 '2", 200 POUNDER WAS SELECTED ON THE LITTLE ALL-AMERICAN ALL-AMERICAN TEAM WHEN HE ATTENDED CAL. POLY-POMONA IN CALIFORNIA. Photo: Pat McDowell fantastic. So far our best reception has been in Caliente, Nevada. It's a small community of only 1,000 people, yet they got four other communities together and raised $2,000 for us! When you figure it costs about $20,000 per year to train just one athlete, we need all the support people will give us!" Nils Kristiansen commented that roller skiing is easier than snow cross-country skiing in some respects, but technically it is more difficult to master. Continued On Page 14 Rowdies Get Worked Over 14 s n 'i ' i The Job Corps went to work on the Park City Rowdies in Clearfield on Saturday, and the result was a 5-0 defeat for the local soccer team. The Job Corps scored two goals in the first eight minutes of the game and that set the tempo for the emainder of the contest. M The weather was bad and so was the play of the Rowdies. The defeat came under cold and drizzling skies and put the team's record at 3-2-1. The Rowdies' next game is this Saturday against Berlin "B" at 1:30 in Salt Lake City's Riverside Park. Ladies Bowling 'Norma Cowin had five strikes in a row, Fawn Workman three strikes in a row, Phyllis Sweatfield and Rosemary Cyphers had two doubles, Donna Prudence, LuAnn Antonio, Dorothy Murnin, Ehtel Pedersen had doubles. LuAnn Antonio High Game Indv. Scratch Norma Cowin 200 Fawn Workman 174 LuAnn Antonio 165 High Series Indv. Scratch Norma Cowin 473 Fawn Workman 453 Ethel Pedersen 451 High Team Game Scratch James F. Park Const. 783 The Gazebo 727 The Gazebo 719 High Team Series Handicap James F. Park Const. 2652 The Gazebo 2624 First Security Bank 2574 Team Standings Won Lost The Gazebo 18 6 James F.Park Const. 13 ll First Security Bank 10.5 13.5 Silver King State bank 6.5 17.5 picked up the 4-7-10 split, Beverly Mandrell and Norma Cowin the 3-10, Yvonne Murnin the 5-7, Kathleen Kilby the 4-5-7-9, Becky Crawley the 2-7, and Ethel Pedersen the 5-7-9 split. High Game Indv. Handicap Norma Cowin 231 Fawn Workman 209 Ethel Pedersen 206 High Series Indv. Handicap Ethel Pedersen 577 Norma Cowin 566 Phyllis Sweatfield 566 High team Game Handicap James F. Park Const. 984 First Security Bank 921 The Gazebo 900 High Team Series Scratch The Gazebo 2105 James F. Park Const. 2049 First Security Bank 1821 FRESH Mussels, Clams, Oysters, Salmon, Snapper LIVE MAINE LOBSTER ?' 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