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Show f v A 1 I M The ewspaper A fnrfnrpi po Page Bl Thursday, December 17, 1981 Young skiers shine in season debut Did you finally get the hang of that system the Park City Ski Team adopted for classifying its racers? You know, the mini-mites, and the peewees, and the intermediates, inter-mediates, all that stuff? Well forget it. They've changed the system. It's now Jl, J2, J3, etc. Henceforth, skiers who are nine years old and younger will be classified J5. Skiers who are 10 and 11 years old are now in the J4 class. The J3 class is made up of 12 and 13- year-olds. The 14 and 15-year-olds are now called J2s. The Jl class is for those ages 16 and 17. And 18-year-olds are now in the A class. That seems fairly straightforward, straight-forward, doesn't it? But, as with most systems, there are exceptions. If, for example, your age puts in the J2 class, but you're really good enough to ski with the Jls, you can qualify to ski with the older kids. "There's a select group of people who will be able to race above their level," is the way Park City Coach Bob Marsh explained it. A case in point: in the Park City Preseason Slalom, held last Sunday and Monday on the Clementine Run, Park City's Tori Pillinger qualified quali-fied to race with the Jl and A racers even though she's only 15 years old. Not only that, she whipped the rest of the field oh Sunday's race, finishing a -staggering four-seconds four-seconds ahead of Pam lien-derickson lien-derickson of Idaho Falls. Sun Valley's Jim Grossman, Gross-man, another J2 skier who qualified to race with the big kids, won Sunday's men's race over Frederick Lundk-vist Lundk-vist of Sun Valley. Park City 14- year-old Jason Lawson finished in third place" and ; another Park City racer, Matias Alvarez, finished fourth. But Monday was a different dif-ferent story. Both Pillinger and Lawson ran into trouble and didn't make it through the course. That left the door open for Nordic Valley's Kathy Hoffman, who relied on a strong second run to beat Pam Henderickson by more than two seconds. Third place went to Nancy Williams of Sun Valley. Andrea Peterson of Park City, another J2 racer, finished sixth. In the men's race, Troy McRae of Brigham Young University edged Grossman for the top spot. Third place went to William Keith of Snowbird. Matias Alvarez finished fifth. Marsh blamed the lack of on-snow training for the relatively large number of skiers who failed to finish the weekend races. "People have not had the chance to ski," he said. "Everybody was a little rusty. I think it took its toll on the results, especially in the slalom." The schedule now calls for the Park City Ski Area to host a slalom for J2 and J3 racers this weekend on Clementine. Starting time both Saturday and Sunday is set for 9:30 a.m. Also new this year is the creation of the "Intermoun-tain "Intermoun-tain Division Cup," to be . awarded at the end of the year to the man and woman skier with the most points earned in Intermountain Division Di-vision races. "We've adopted the World Cup scoring system," Marsh said. Results from last weekend's week-end's races and current Intermountain Division Cup standings are listed in the Scoreboard section. TOP: Park City's Tori Pillinger shows the form which took her to first place in Sunday's race. CENTER: Andrea Peterson slips past a gate during Monday's second run. BOTTOM: Jason Lawson, who finished third Sunday. (Top and bottom photos courtesy of Pat McDowell) 4 A A " X- i V ; k'v " v 4 Vv : -N v W' ' "f - " J '4 ' f r - y ' - ' " '-' t I I - 7 M V ' jAryi Jim Ibbotson (formerly of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) PARK CITY COWBOY BAR Dec. 27-John McEuen (Dirt Band) Jan. 6- New Riders of the Purple Sage Big New Year's Eve Party Call for details 649-4146 Fine German Food open for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Seating from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Daily Specials Specializing in Fine German Pastries Cappuccino & Expresso 402 Main Street, Park City Now Open the Ritz Beer Garden sidewalk cafe by Jim Murray Mhniriray (Dim pnnttg Now we know what a 'Hawkeye' is I don't have any trouble dealing with Big 10 football teams. They're all big, fast, rugged, aggressive; they play black-and-blue football. foot-ball. It's their nicknames I have difficulty with. They wear me out. You can bet me if you go out on the street and stop the next 30 people you meet, not one of them will know what a "Buckeye" is. How many people know right off hand what an "Illini" is? For that matter, what exactly does "Hoosier" mean? Is "Boilermaker" the worst nickname you ever heard for an athletic team? Now, we're going to get something called the "Hawkeyes." Are these guys kidding? A "Hawkeye" is an adjective, right? Or a character in a James Fenimore Cooper novel. I went over to the Tournament of Roses mansion in Pasadena the other day to get a look at something new in Rose Bowl scenery, a coach who isn't from Ann Arbor or Columbus. Do you realize the last time a Big 10 football coach who wasn't from either one of those places showed up at the Rose Bowl; Lyndon Johnson was President, interest was 5 percent, and gasoline cost a quarter a gallon? By now, thanks to the thrushes of the pressbox, most people in the country would identify a "Buckeye" as a six-foot-four, 240 pound fullback, who carries the ball three out of three times. And "Illini" would be a team that usually lost annually to Michigan State. A "Hoosier" is a guy you could sell the Brooklyn Bridge to. But, if the coach is representative, a "Hawkeye" is a guy who lives in Iowa City and speaks with a Texas accent. Hayden Fry showed up in a three-piece black suit, full mustache, everything but a $20 gold piece on a chain. He looked like the kind of guy you'd want to be sure to cut the cards with before the deal. What I mean is, you're pretty sure this guy won't punt on third down, or fold a hand just because it doesn't have any aces in it. We're used to coaches out here like Woody Hayes and Bo Schembechler, coaches with a positive flair for the expected. Woody Hayes used to keep his teams locked out of public view, largely for fear that if anyone got a look at them, the other team wouldn't show up. The only way you knew Woody's team was in town was by the number of nosebleeds on the practice field. We never did find out if Schembechler's team could talk. You don't have to be a genius to coach in the Big 10 but you have to be plenty artful to do what Hayden Fry did-beat out Ohio State and Michigan for the Rose Bowl and knock off Nebraska, UCLA and Michigan in the process. Hayden Fry, whose cousin was Lyndon Johnson, has been to the city, all right. Dubuque doesn't scare him at all, and neither will that hotel in Pasadena where the local time is 1927 and there's almost as much blue hair as in Cedar Rapids. Hayden Fry is a typical Big 10 coach in one respect. His teams tackle people. Eight times this year, his defense held the opposition to one or no touchdowns. He's also going to keep his practice closed in the best Woody Hayes tradition. He thinks he may have the best defense in the country, but he proposes to have Washington wait till New Year's Day to find out. He's as defense-oriented defense-oriented as the armadillo. Only once in his career did he toy with offenses. Frank Broyles at Arkansas hired him to find ways to get this ball to this one guy. It wasn't much of a strain on Fry's ingenuity. The one guy was Lance Alworth, football's Bambi. Since it's well-known that most of Southern Calif ornia-and all of Long Beach-was settled by a slow leak in Iowa, the Rose Bowl will have a higher concentration than usual this year of people who will say "set" for "sit" and who will pronounce the name of the Pac-10 team as "Warsh-dun." But the team that's coming out will not have any straw in its hair. They have a kicker whose average-get this!-is 49.8 yards! The kicks stay up so long they come down with hair on them. As one UCLA coach, pressed for description of Iowa's style of play, expressed it, "Well, you don't get the football much, when you do, it's over your head." Hayden Fry brought Iowa its first winning season in 20 years. In 1973, the team lost all 11 games it played. In 1971, it was much better. It won one. Michigan beat it, 63-7, one year, Nebraska beat it, 57-0, and Ohio State walloped it, 55-13. Fry departs from the Big 10 mold in that he proposed to let his kids smell the roses along the way. He will not lock them up in a monastery in Sierra Madre or take a bed check every half hour after 9 p.m. "You have to remember, to these youngsters this will be the trip of their lifetime, their career trip. And it's not life-or-death. This game is supposed to be fun." Now we know what a "Hawkeye" is-a guy from Iowa with a Texas accent and who thinks the Rose Bowl is just a game. Woody Hayes would get sick to his stomach. 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