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Show Page 12 Thursday, December 4, 1980 The Newspaper . ' . ; I K2 810 FO I tilt " tvt' ' : V f iO,. . I Arrived flffe : ufffttSKtrirthfct1t& Open Mon.-Sat. 10:30-6:00 1 -V. " ' " ? . Aw- -:. " f 1240 PARK AVENUE PARK CITY, UTAH 84060 PHONE 801-649-9123 f , -t4r' vi ' f r ,? . . .. . j j;' "j:.,. ''' i j . ' "'i-' -x ill JS Buzzards Pick Ap W AA k CL vT ' Qttjk Now Open r f0y& f t , ;, V.: ZjSFjX Every Day, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. . hb i'?j5.'--:-'.jr rtJjMlU Specializing in Handmade Ornaments and Decorations. fflR'' "-''-'J X flSiY Country limits. Ciitts and Antiques - i' v 6499169 IF?Ti-i f 'V'VS'" A J 3asf fw,. .wrv, -rfq. -. .-..-. -.. -I i - Playing their worst hockey since their season-opening !l.!,;.loss!4o ,the .. University of ;:A, Utah,, the; Park City Silver "ji'KKings droppetj a 4-2 decision 'j-.-;!ito the Salt Lake Buzzards at Hygeia Iceland Sunday even ing.: ; Although - the. Buzzards i .wejre -.-.Unquestionably the Nvakestteam that Park City ' f,i nasuaceu una season, uie iiivr 'Kings were unable to art Silver Kings organize anything resembling resembl-ing a scoring threat until halfway through the second period. Meanwhile, the Buzzards already had scored twice against Park City goalie Dave O'Brien. The first goal came off the stick of Buzzard defenseman Randy .Lewis, once a member of, the Park City team, late in the first period. The Buzzards scored a second goal early in the second period, then made it 3-0 before the Silver Kings finally broke the drought. Silver King defenseman Tim Miller put his team on the scoreboard midway through the third period with . a shot from the right side of the goal crease.: But the ' Buzzards put the game out of reach by adding their fourth goal a few minutes later. Park City forward Eric Smith closed out the scoring late in the game on a picture pass play from McQuinney. The Buzzards did not have the finesse of the other teams that Park City has faced this season, but tried to make up for it in other ways.. Their roughhouse tactics resulted in a number of penalties, but the Silver Kings were unable to take advantage of any of them. For one two-minute stretch, the Buzzards had two players in the penalty box, but managed to frustrate frus-trate all Park City attempts to score. The Silver Kings now have an 0-4 record in league play. Their next game will be at 4 p.m. Sunday in Bountiful. by Richard Barnum-Reeee Sports Journal The Kinky Haired Wonder ones, i J Restaurant -JW. mtxarf 7wfl JW?1 v iff-' Snowbird Season Tickets: Save More! Ski More! New lor '80- 81: 42 more chairlilt capacity! New 15-season ticket plan available! New in-season purchase option! No weekend upgrade charge lor tram! 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Ext, 235 or 217 A FAVORITE WITH SALT LAKERS FOR YEARS Breakfast 7-11:30 a.m. Lunch . 11:30-3:00 p.m. Dinner 5:00-10:00 p.m. THE PUB 4:00 p.m. -closing tore d'oeuvres specialty drinks entertainment on weekends Private Banquet Facilities and Meeting Space 649-8659 1800 Park Avenue THE YARROW i In the old days, he wasn't a honcho. But now :he's giveaup on the crazy scenes he used to rgennTOlVeiTin- tiStith of the"nfariasof success, I suppose But I remember when he . wa's''jusi:i'anotherlJitbali'Jtiiymg WMW V living teaching people how to distinguish between a left and right turn. Phil Jones runs the Park City Ski Area. They call him "Vice President, Operations" in the employees manual, but you can bet that titles have little to do with the sort of heavy performance-oriented behavior you see him engaged in if you hang around the resort at all. "The ski business is a whole lot like farming," I heard Jones say one time. "You depend on the weather to come through, but if it doesn't, there isn't much you can do." There was a time, during the ugly drought of 1977 you remember that bad time don't you? when Jones was taking a lot of heat from people because the snowmaking operation he put together wasn't coming up with the goods. "People don't understand that you can't make snow if it isn't cold enough," Jones smiled. So he took the heat. Who can instruct ski maniacs in the arcane, business of artificial snow, anyway? It would take more than the kind of smooth that Phil Jones is famous for. "I remember times when I'd practice my speech about how I deserved more money and how this and that and I'd walk into his office and he'd have me agreeing to hang in there one more year for less money," said one former ski teacher. "I've never known someone who could manipulate people so effectively and still have them come out liking the man; really respecting him." At one time, three ski school directors ago, Phil Jones was the head of the Park City Ski School, and trying to get a job as a ski teacher was about as easy as taking a Ph.D. examination. In fact, at one time, Jones had two college professors and a host of over-educated college graduates working for him jumping at the privilege of the mandatory weekly clinics, skiing behind a line of some 125 ski teachers as they waddled down the mountain, trying to perfect the snowplow under their ski school director's hawk eyes. Two years in a row, no teachers left his ski school. If you wanted to get a full-time job it was almost impossible. One fully-certified instructor paid the fee to enroll in the ski instructor's training program just so he could get his foot in the door as a part-time teacher. But let me tell you some inside stuff: Jones hasn't always been knocking them dead as the Ski Instructor of the Year for the United States. He was involved in that little-known fiasco . called a ski school party at the end of the year when Woody Anderson was the head of the resort. Back then, Woody was called the Mt. Manager. Today, he'd be "Vice President, Operations." Anyway, no one is able to separate exactly where the truth starts and where it ends (just like all good stories), but there were some ski teachers racing each other down the mountain. Which is fine. The problem was a few ski teachers who were feeling the gusto of the moment after a hard year of ski teaching an inexorably difficult year of continually siding with the customer, regardless of the virtue of the customer's position. After a year of that, a few ski teachers cut loose. "Yeah," one former teacher said. "It's h-ue. There were some people who were skiing with fheir pants around'theirankles.' Jt a.new.echnique that'sl ivajiitq.maite sure to keep your legs together when you ski." Jones wasn't one of those errant ski instructors. You can bet on that. We're talking about the current Vice President, Operations. The problem is, he was supposed to be keeping these people in check. Woody Anderson was furious. It looked bad for the Kii :y-Haired Wonder. Still, just like the legendary man that he is, he squirmed out of that one and went on to take over the Mt. Manager job when Woody decided to buy a ski area in Idaho. ; It's not that Jones doesn't understand the ski resort business. It happens that Anderson bought an area that Jones' father, Claude, owned. It happens that Claude Jones is without peei in the pantheon of ski school instructors, area owners, and general all-around opinionated knockabouts. For a man who is pushing 80 and still teaching skiing, despite having busted his back a few times, Claude Jones gives up nothing to nobody no time. Anyway, since the old man believed absolutely in the virtues of hard work and cheap labor, Phil Jones came to understand how a lift works from the inside out. And snow cats he came to understand how to put them together after tearing the contrary buggers down. That was before he escaped to Denver University where he raced intercollegiately for Willy Schaefler. But after a few years of college, ne was back in the ski school business. First stop was a small area in California where he became famous for "Hat Day." That was a tradition that continued for a time at Park City. "The instructors would all go in one day to Lost and Found and come up with the most Godawful-looking hats they could find," a former instructor explained. "Then we'd go to work." . Well, you don't have any "Hat Day" problems at the resort anymore. And I, for one, would like to say that it's good to see Jones settle down. "When are you going to write a story about me?" he asked the other day. "You mean something about the Kinky-Haired Kinky-Haired Wonder or something?" That's when he started laughing. Jones is such a nice guy. At the time, I didn't even mind that I agreed to teach skiing again this year for pauper's wages'. The money is secondary. A few years ago I saw him eat it on Thaynes, and it would be worth it just to stick around and see him at the ski school party at the end of the year, trying to explain that one away, stroking his new wire-brush hairdo, smiling that inimitable Phil Jones ' smile. "Binding problems," he'll probably say. "You have to watch after stuff like that Barnum-Reece. People like you should watch out for that especially if you know what I mean." And I won't say anything because I won't know at all. Either he's shucking me, or he's on to something. I mean, maybe I should get those bindings changed. Who knows? Anybody who skis like a gazelle runs and only falls once every 10 years because of binding problems is the kind of person you have to take seriously, even if he's got a hair problem. |