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Show Newspaper A Page Bl High Rollers make the big game Thursday, June 25, 1981 With a sixth-place finish in a nine-team league, the Park City High Rollers Soccer Club went into last week's Zander Cup (league championship) cham-pionship) playoffs out to have fun. Well, more than fun, they had quite a week, kicking their way into the championship champion-ship game opposite Provo. But the fun stopped there as the Provo team put on an exhibition of run-and-shoot soccer, taking the cup with a 6-2 win Saturday at Riverside River-side Park in Salt Lake City. To find their way into the finals, the High Rollers first had to get past the Apollos, which was no problem as the Salt Lake City team failed to appear for the quarterfinal contest. That put the High Rollers Roll-ers into the semifinals last Wednesday opposite another Salt Lake City team, the Vikings. When the High Rollers met the experienced Vikings team during league play, the Vikings humbled the Park City team, 2-0. So in a gesture of friendship not taken too congenially by the Vikes, the High Rollers returned the favor, winning the playoff game, 2-0. The Vikings might well have taken the Apollos' lead and not bothered to show up. After falling behind 2-0 before the halftime break, the Vikings came out after the intermission more like an American hockey team than a soccer club. The frustration of. the first half seemed too much for the Vikings as they seemed to concentrate more on making contact with the High Rollers than the ball. Consequently, they failed to score (the idea is to kick the ball into the goal). The idea seemed lost on the Vikings late in the game. One Vike threw his toe into High Roller goalie George Hart's head as Hart craddled the ball in his arms after a save. Having already lost control of the game, the officials ignored the incident. inci-dent. So that blew Hart's bid for a solo shutout as he had to leave the game. But his replacement, Mark Cole, kept the record intact. Moments after the incident with Hart, another Viking, displeased with the hustle displayed by High Roller Mike Walker after Walker stole the ball, thought it apropos ap-ropos to place his foot into Walker's back. But this time, he got caught and was ejected from the game. High Roller Captain Garry Moore, though pleased with his team's play, recognized the Vikings' frustrations. "The Vikings just had an off day and it got to them," Moore said. "But we did come out and play hard. We got 'em with two goals in the first half and then just outran them." The first Park City goal went into the scorebook as a team goal as it was not kicked into the net by a High Roller. It seems a Viking fullback was passing the ball off to his own goalie, but the goalie missed the pass and it rolled into his own goal. The second Park City goal was scored by Mike Sullivan after taking a pass in front of the goal from Marty Bonor-den. Bonor-den. Saturday, in the finals, Park City found itself absent several key players, not a pleasant situation when facing the experienced, conditioned con-ditioned Provo team. Provo was led by a 17-year-old transplant from Guadalajara, Mexico, Ar-turo Ar-turo Jimenez. Jimenez showed show-ed why he was the leading prep soccer scorer in Utah this past spring as he scored Provo's initial goal 10 minutes min-utes into the game, going solo through severeal Park City defenders before slipping slip-ping his shot past High Roller goalie Russ Colburn, who had been quite busy up to that point preventing several Provo shots from entering the net. Provo shortly thereafter made it 2-0 when Martin Jueves, also from Guadalajara, Guadala-jara, scored. Brigham Ord soon made it 3-0 with a shot from in front of the net. If not for a late goal by High Roller John Harvey, the Park City club would have been shut out in the first half. Midway through the second se-cond half, Jimenez took control. He first scored again on a head shot from in front, then took a long pass and went the last 30 yards solo before bootine another score, giving Provo a commanding com-manding 5-1 lead. He also assisted Johnny Waddles-worth Waddles-worth for Provo's final score. The lone second-half score for the High Rollers came late when Colburn, who left his goal position midway through the final half, kicked in a penalty shot. The championship loss ended the season until next fall for the High Rollers. -vr . -- 'J I 1 . .-,'r , - -. - - c J ; j,.-- r J Rip Griffith of the Park City High Rollers battles a Provo foe for the ball in last Saturday's championship game as George Hart of the High Rollers comes from behind to assist. Provo won the game and the Zander Cup, 6-2. Landis, Beck win ultra-marathon Running for fun and exercise exer-cise is commendale. Running Run-ning competitively adds a little purpose to the activity. But to run the 36 miles it takes to cover a race course beginning at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon, up the highway past Alta, over Catherine Pass to Brighton, down Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood Canyon and back to the beginning, it takes.. ..well, 4:44.46. That was the winning time Sunday in the 36-mile ultra-marathon ultra-marathon sponsored by the Mountain Goat Track Club. Turning in that time were Rob Landis and Russ Belk, giving the duo a tie for first. It was the second top finish in two weeks in Mountain Goat-sponsored races for Belk. Last week he tied Ed Hagerman in a 10.3-mile race . from Park City to Brighton. Finishing third Sunday, as he did the week before, was Salt Laker Bill Nelsen, coming in at 4:52.00. Ted Heal and Guy Givan finished one-two in the 30-34 age group, finishing in times of 5:14.16 and 6:10.22 respectively. respec-tively. Unlike last week's race in which runners had to brave cold conditions through nearly near-ly a foot of snow, Sunday's race featured dry ground and warmer temperatures. though a slight breeze comforted com-forted the runners through-, through-, out the race. The small field of rrnners kept tightly packed past Alta. Then the crowd thinned to the top four, who stayed close to the finish. Despite miscue P.C. duo scores well in national ride and tie Over the past weekend, three teams from Park City made the trip to Dog Valley, Nev. for the annual Levi's National Ride-and-Tie competition com-petition with the team of Bev Gray and Deborah Pack coming home a little worse for wear, but happy. v v y ff 'IN?.'''' ',ii,inill-t Tll8? . if ,.V !' .X -.7 Just to prove it was no fluke, the Markers, Park City's under-15 girls, champions of the Utah Youth Soccer Association "B" Division, challenged the defending "A" Division champion Orange Crushers last Saturday. And the Markers held their own, battling the Crush to a 2-2 tie. Pictured above are: (front row) Susie Miles, Tori Pillinger, Rhondi Totten, Kris Ruzicka, Wendy Hosenfeld, Marlene Murnin and KoriAnn Martinez, (back row) Coack Bruce Henderson, Debiie Keye, Chris Gould, Nicki Koch, I.ayle Arenskov, Cathy Gould and Michelle Harding. Absent from photo: Kara Glieden, Tarn Conville, Stephanie Holcomb, Kirsten Smith, Natalie Holden and Maile Edwards. by Jim Murray Muninraiy qbb pnirt;g For humble beginnings it's hard to top "The Shoe" "The baby was for Texas quite a speciman. Scarcely a hand's length long, it weighed a measly 2 pounds, was blue all over and dead silent. Not even repeated spankings on its darkish backside could elicit that first cry of life. Lying on her bed, half-conscious, half-conscious, Mrs. Ruby Shoemaker could hear the harsh matter-of-fact voice of the doctor: doc-tor: That baby'll be dead by morning. "' Thirty years ago, in a report to a national magazine, I wrote those words about a young athlete, who, in his first eight months on the American tracks, had won a staggering 218 horse races with 195 seconds and 147 thirds. The legend of Willie Shoemaker had begun. Lincoln was born in a log cabin, Napoleon in a hovel, some people in the fields, but nobody had humbler beginnings than William Lee Shoemaker. He started out life in a shoe box. That was the one his grandmother placed him in seconds after his birth and put him behind a coal stove in the tiny frame house in Fabens, Texas, 30 dusty miles south of El Paso that August night in 1931. The temperature was already in the low 100s, but Mrs. Wallie Harris took no chances with her tiny grandson. grand-son. She lit the oven. American sports is forever in her debt. They fed him with an eye-dropper till he was six months old. Bill Shoemaker never did get much bigger or noisier, but, when they put him on a horse, he became a giant. No one ever brought a horse down a stretch with the style and ease of Willie the Shoe. The worst blade-backed, blackhearted bridle-spitting bridle-spitting cayuse around the barns seemed to behave like a vicar when Shoemaker got on his back. Jockeys have been hailed in song and story throughout our history. George M. Cohan wrote an entire musical about Todd Sloan, an early rider on the New York tracks. "Give My Regards to Broadway" came from it. They called a rider named Garrison "Snapper," in honor of his style of riding at the wire, and the phrase "Garrison finish" may come from him although I don't guarantee it. They called Johnny Longden "The Pumper," Pum-per," and Ted Atkinson "The Slasher," and Arcaro was "Heady Eddie." Damon Runyon wrote a poem about a handy guy named San-de San-de Earl Sande. For effortless style, the old-timers old-timers much admired Laverne Fator but there wasn't much you could do with that name. Shoemaker outrode them all. He won races on three continents. He won races he shouldn't have the 1959 Kentucky Derby, for example and he lost races he shouldn't have the 1957 Kentucky Derby, for instance. But, as they say around the race track, "You get a ride out of Shoemaker, never a lie or an excuse." They didn't write any musical comedies about him or any poems titled "Give me a chillyGuy like Willie," but Hit ;, should have. He's broken most of the bones in his body. Racing a horse who has a 1,100-pound pull on the weights is a risky business and calls for a great athlete. And, while Shoemaker has rid den some of the great runners in American history Swaps, Roundtable, Gallant Man, Forego, Spectacular Bid he's also won with platers in bandages. Watching him ride was like watching Willie Mays get under a fly ball. Lynn Swann running a route, watching Snead hit a golf ball or Spencer Tracy playing a priest. Poetry. A lesson in the art. No one could hold a tired horse together or fire up a fresh one like Shoemaker. I thought of all this the other day when they asked me to present a plaque to the artist, W. L. Shoemaker, in the winner's circle at Hollywood Holly-wood Park, honoring his 8,000 winning rides. The excuse was that I've written "thousands of words" about Willie and I guess I have. I remember sitting with him when he lived in a trailer a real one, not a "mobile home'' across from the race trask in Inglewood decades ago. 1 remember sitting with him in tack rooms from Hollywood Park to (lull-stream (lull-stream Park to Churchill Downs. I don't think either of us thought then he would one day be a statue in the paddock. Willie thought he was going to retire at 30 in those days. In fact, he couldn't understand why Ixwgden kept going. I wasn't sure I was the one who should do it when the track called on me to make the presentation. I was a minor part in the Shoemaker saga, I figured. But, then, I remembered the hours listening to his mother, and his father (BB Shoemaker), his aunt and his grandmother talk about the night the country doctor became the only man in history who wouldn't bet on Shoemaker, and I thought to myself, "Well, I was there at the beginning, at least." I didn't see Shoe win his first race, but I saw him win, like, his loth, I was there for his first ride on Swaps. I've seen an awful lot of his 8,000 victories including two of his Derbies and one of his (five) Belmonts. I saw Nicklaus win his first Masters, Ali win his first championship, and Koufax pitch his first no-hitter. But none of these is etched any more tellingly in my memory than the sight of Willie Shoemaker on a chestnut colt sprinting out of the sunshine into the stretch at Hollywood Park, Santa Anita, or Louisville. Runyon can have his Sande. They gave Shoe a pair of bronze riding boots, size 1'2. That was nice, but, remembering remem-bering back to that trailer on Century Blvd. 30 years ago, and the long talks w ith his parents in the Puente Hills, I couldn't help feeling a twinge of regret that they couldn't have found that shoe box and had it bronzed instead. 19H1 Los Angeles Times Syndicate The Park City duo placed fifth among the women's teams in the 38-mile horse and human race and 40th overall in a field of 155 teams. And, if not for one miscue, they may have come home winners. On one leg of the race, Pack ran past the teams' tied-up horse, not seeing the animal as it had wrapped itself around a tree. She did not realize the mistake until she caught up with Gray and had to back-track four-and-one-half miles back to the horse. '"There are just a lot of things that can go wrong in a ride and tie and that is just one of them," explained Gray. "That isn't too uncommon. un-common. It happens all the time." But the extra miles Pack had to run, though giving the horse an added rest, cost valuable time to the duo. "Still,- we were really excited," Gray said. "Without "With-out that mistake, we could have been up in the money. The horse was in great shape and didn't give out on us at all." . Unfortunately, the team of Marit Glenne and Julie McKay wasn't quite as fortunate. Their horse was pulled during the race at a checkpoint manned by veterinarians ve-terinarians viewing the horses during the race for any problems. Another Park City tandem, tan-dem, Rich and Marsha Groth, placed 48th in the race, only their second National Competition. Next on the agenda for the ride and tie competitors will be the annual Park City Ride and Tie July 18. The best person to see about your HEALTH INSURANCE may be your car, home and life agent! See or call: Max O. Vierig 1700 Park Avenue (Mt. Air Mall) 649-9161 Monday-Friday 9-6 Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. 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