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Show by Jim Murray . j Russia Isn't So Bad Page 9 Thursday, August 14, 1980 Janeaux's Puts Hole in Squares, Moves Into First In Ladies League Move over, Prospector. For the second time this season, the defending women's league champion Prospector Squares have been bumped off by relentless relent-less Janeaux's. It was only the second league loss for the Squares in the last two seasons, Dut it dropped the champs into the runner-up spot in the standings. Janeaux's latest triumph came Sunday afternoon at the high school field. Prospector raced to an early lead, scoring seven times in the first two innings and leading 9-5 at the end of four. Then Janeaux's, which is known as a late-inning ballclub, came roaring back with five runs in the fifth and three more in the sixth to come away with a 14-9 victory. vic-tory. The Squares' usually-prolific usually-prolific bats were silent for the last five innings. Janeaux's shortstop Judy de los Cobos had three hits in four trips and played a spectacular spec-tacular game in the field. She robbed one Prospector batter of a hit with a shoetop catch in front of second base, and teamed up with catcher Tami Polychronis to spoil an attempted steal by the Squares' Bev Gray. Maggie Lehto and JoAnn Hondlik also had three nits in four trips for Janeaux's. Jayne Pelton provided the muscle for Prospector with four hits including a three-run three-run homer in the top of the second. Vicki Ross added three hits in four at-bats for the Squares. On defense, Nancy Ladeda made two fine fielding plays in right field, and pitcher Stella Redondo also played a strong game. Prospector's chances of repeating as league champs apparently are in the hands of Digger's Diner. Digger's is scheduled to face Janeaux's Aug. 19 in a game rescheduled from July 28. A win by Digger's would drop Janeaux's back into a tie for first (assuming that neither Janeaux's or Prospector loses another game) and would force a playoff for the league championship. In other Sunday action, Finney's defeated El Papagayo 7-2 and Ml. Air lost by forfeit to the Bagel Nosh. In games played Monday, Prospector bombed Finney's 22-8 and Janeaux's won by forfeit over Mt. Air. ;V , ',' P'Jy'-'y, :-. .;!''': ' Jf'-r-. v.;. .-i;. -,.. . t I t f ! - ' . . Mr f . t ' 1 , .'J V icki Ross disappears in a cloud of dust at home plate as the ball comes in to catcher Kathv Kahn. Muckers Maul Opponents in California Goal Rush , Are these guys for real? The Park City Muckers, who have been gathering steam ever since the July Fourth win over the Dead Goat, outscored their opponents op-ponents by an incredible margin of 70-10 in a doubleheader sweep at Truckee, California last Saturday. Missing from the Muckers' ranks was fly half Skip Schirf, who usually handles many of the kicking chores. But, if Saturday was any indication, in-dication, the team may ask him to stay away some more. Forward Bruce Reid took over the place-kicking duties and had a phenomenal day. He converted 10 tries in 10 attempts, including at least two from very difficult angles, and also connected with a penalty kick and a try of his own to account for 27 points. Mark Stokan took over at fly half and contributed to the scoring barrage with a three-point drop kick against the wind in the first game. The Mucker victories came at the expense of a team from Tahoe (22-10) and a combined Reno-Chico team (48-0). The power of the Mucker forwards was evident in the opening minutes of the Tahoe game. Only about 10 minutes had been played when the Muckers stole a Tahoe five-yard scrum and Bill Hart slammed over for the try. Reid's conversion made it 6-0. About 15 minutes later, Park City added another try with an almost identical play from the other side of the goalposts. Hart again scored from a five-yard scrum and Reid's kick gave the Muckers a 12-0 advantage. Park City wing Keith Cooley, playing in only his second rugby game ever, added the Muckers' third try before the half. Bill Hart missed the conversion, but Park City had a commanding comman-ding 16-0 lead at halftime. Stokan's drop kick early in the second half made the score 19-0 before Tahoe finally crossed the goal line. The Tahoe back line, stretched all the way across the field, gave one of the wings enough running room to score from about 35 yards out. About five minutes later, Tahoe scored again on a similar play. One of the two tries was converted, reducing the Mucker lead to 19-10. Park City's final three points came on a penalty kick off the deadly toe of (who else but) Bruce Reid just, before the end of the game. "We did a lot of things technically right," Mucker spokesman Dave Sundquist said later. "We tried a couple of new things in the scrum that we've never tried before. "It was a pretty satisfying win in that we travelled so far. But we got our butts kicked at the casinos." Sundquist described the second game as a.. "blowout." It was dominated by the Muckers from, start to finish. Every Park City back except one scored at least one try, and every substitute saw action in the game. Scoring tries for the Muckers in the Reno-Chico game were Don Sturges (2), Bruce Reid, John Sundquist (who has been playing . especially well since the Dead Goat game), Vinnie Balch, Hiram Ryan (a recent addition to the team) and Mike Anderson (a back borrowed from the Tahoe squad). The Muckers will be playing at home this weekend against the Pocatello Bull. The game is set to begin at 2 p.m. Saturday Satur-day at City Park. Well, now it can be told now thai I'm out of it the real truth about Russia. And the real truth is it's not so bad. On. 3' 4 weeks in Moscow doesn't entitle you to write "Behind Kremlin Walls" or "Me and Marx. The Russia Nobody Knows." But, I can give you a few firsthand impressions. First of all, it's a handsome city. Oh, it's not Palm Springs. Or even Palm Beach. But, it is surrounded by the swift-flowing Moscow River down which course gay excursion boats, and the barges of commerce; and the waters at night reflect the lighted red stars over the Kremlin; and when you walk along the banks, you can almost hear the balalaikas play. It is an historic city, dotted with the picturesque Orthodox churches built by wealthy private families in the days of the czars. It is a city of movement. Peole stream down the streets like a human River Moscow, and everyone seems to have a purpose. There are now lawyers (the drunks, the children, and the dissidents were floated out of the town for the Olympic party, but those left always proceed as if they were 10 minutes late wherever they were going). They are not a scruffy lot, as you might see along the Champs Elysees in Paris or Carnaby Street in London. The fashions may not be the latest, but the clothes are clean; there are no sweat shirts, patched jeans, and nobody going to work in shorts and a tank shirt with chest hair hanging out of it. Actually, the scruffiest lot in this town were the journalists, and Muscovites' eyes popped to see gray-haired men in shorts jogging through Red Square in the morning. I did not see a single piece of graffiti in my stay. The subway is clean with marble platforms, swift-moving escalators that haul passengers as much as three stories down or up. Muscovites are proud of their subway and do not scribble obscenities on the marble. The city is raked more or less constantly by a brisk, almost gale-force wind. The clearest memory I have of night sounds is the whipping of flags on the hotel portcorcher roof under my window. The wind, which I suppose blows off the Steppes, keeps the temperature in the cool 70s, where it stayed the whole Olympics, except for one merciless, humid day when the Irishman John Treacy passed out after 9,800 meters in the 10,000, and even the Finn, Lasse Viren, had to stagger home. Even on an August day, you could use a sweater, and on an August night, a coat. The hotel Rossiya, where we stayed, is the world's biggest and, if not the best, is certainly comfortable enough, wth large airy rooms and lace-curtained windows. The chambermaids are efficient, hard-working, and appear to work 24-hour shifts. They look at you without interest, but, then, you are just another dirty sheet to them. The natives are neither friendly nor unfriendly, just unsmiling. (The high-spirited Aussies used to have contests to see who could wring a smile out of the strap-hangers in the Metro. No one won.) In 24 days, the only two persons to wave at the passing buses of writers, officials, or even athletes, were both small children. The communication facilities were first-rate, first-rate, including the wildest kind of modernity for Russia, direct phone dialing anywhere in the Western world, an innovation which startled old Russia hands, used to waiting 30 minutes to two days for calls to go through. It is a city rich in history. On the road to the new airport you can see the statue to the tank traps that stopped Hitler's Wehrmacht on a road so close to the heart of Moscow that the German officers could see Red Square clearly through their binoculars. The homes where old Bolsheviks plotted the return of Lenin while dodging the czar's Okruna are preserved in some quarters. The Games were magnificent. In two w eeks, only one event got off late a relay race was three minutes late one night. Every other event honored the announced time. It was a vintage Olympics because of the pole vault and high jump records, and the world's first 28- foot long jump. (I discount Beamon's freak 29- footer at Mexico City. ) American journalists journa-lists were gnashing their teeth in the pole vault because the crossbar, at first, was not put up beyond 19 feet and, when it was, the pole vaulter was too tired to cross over it. The 81 gold medals were not the victory Moscow was looking for. It wanted the hearts and minds of the 5,500 journalists, officials and observers in the capital. The rulers wanted the Soviet Union on Page One for something besides troop movements. They wanted to win this battle of Moscow, too. But the press of the world was harder to fool than Hitler's generals. The Russians got for their pains and it must have been almost physical pain for the censors stories hinting at Russians cheating in the field events, Russian security overkill, and victory stand snubs by dozens of their guest countries. The Olympic Games did not change Russia, and vice versa, and the Iron Curtain wasn't breached, just relocated temporarily. It proved that police states can run Olympics efficiently. But Mussolini could have told them that. Or Hitler. If it wasn't as bad as visitors feared, neither was it Paris in the spring, Athens in the fall, or even Zurich in the winter. The Russians think they made points with the world, and maybe they did. Olympic Games, like indecisive battles, take years to sort out and catalogue. But the Russians feel they made the club and that their performance will minister to group esteem in the Soviet Union. But, as for Mother Russia generally, you have to feel, along with Leon Trotsky, that it's a great place to visit but I wouldn't want to die there. (c) 1980, Los Angeles Times Are Your Teeth Ready for School? Dental Care Now to Prevent Loss of School Time CONSULT A LOCAL DENTIST The Park City Players Co-Sponsor Miller Beer I CORDUROY JACKETS 1 tCJuL' J JfN jjjr cal1 649-9461 J 5W down will holdTM Nov. 15 U QfltO fllrtrthtVlt& Open Mon.-Sat. 10:30-6:00 I It ki jfuj&tn Recreation I I fl 1240 PARK AVENUE PARK CITY, UTAH 84060 PHONE 801-649-9123 imL. . e -v m SOCCER CAMP August 18-22 For boys and girls 6-18. Cost includes expert coaching, t-shirt, insurance, refreshments and awards. Sign up at City Park. Presents 2nd Annual Golf Classic Sunday, August 17 Tee-times 8 a.m. to 1 :30 p.m. Entry Fee $40.00 Entry includes 18 holes of golf, Golf Classic T-shirt, beer on every Par 3, Awards Banquet at Rusty Nail 5-9 p.m. including beer and set-ups and hors d'oeuvres. Many prizes to be awarded. 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