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Show 1 The Newspaper Thursday, June 24, 1982 Page B5 31 Newspaper by Jim Murray Rod Carew: in the wrong place at the wrong time MX ) v?i f 4 r X 111 j 1 Iff 1 nit i ilitu i ' ' ; . . - Joi 'v- ' V : . X 4 , ' - ' " ' , V. ? Ml - 4. ' x 1 I 1' f pholo by John Sundquist The Silver Kicks: Front row, left to right, Jane Sullivan, Ann Bowman, Julie Chamberlain, Kathy Benner, Sara Odell. Back row, Nancy Smith, Cindy Fish, Bernadette Ott, Cheryl Johnson, Jill Snyder, Roxanne Toly, Sally Sausold, Vicki Beck. Pan World blanks Silver Kicks in championship game by John Sundquist It could have been worse for the Silver Kicks in their final game of the 1981-82 season. They were playing in the women's Division B Cup Finals against Pan World B, and lost 3-0. The score could easily have been higher, but the Silver Kicks made up for the lack of offense with a stubborn display of defense. Pan World is a young squad which has been together togeth-er for five years, and has developed a tight style of soccer. After finishing third in the regular season, the hard-shooting female boot-ers boot-ers knocked off the league's top two teams in the tournament. tourna-ment. The first half was scoreless, score-less, but not without incident. inci-dent. Park City could not sustain a viable offense, and Pan World set up camp in the Silver Kick end of the field, peppering goalie Kathy Benner Ben-ner with shot after shot. About five minutes into the game, Silver Kick Bernadette Bern-adette Ott, standing to the right of the net. caught a shot from a Pan World winger in her arms. The shot would have gone in the net, and Pan World was awarded a penalty penal-ty kick. Fortunately for Park City, the Pan World kicker booted the ball right over the net. Five minutes later. Pan World again was threatening to score. But the ball was grabbed by goalie Kathy Benner in front of the net after a scramble lasting several moments. "I had the ball in my hands," lamented Benner after the game, "but the referee would not whistle the play dead. A Pan World player tried to dislodge the ball and she almost had a goal." Park City had a similar opportunity at the other end of the field when Pan World could not clear the ball out of its defensive zone with 10 minutes to go in the first half. Cheryl Johnson was in a position to tap the ball in the net as it rolled by the empty side, but could not get her foot on the ball from the Pro promises to purge the poa You may have a little difficulty telling the fairways fair-ways from the rough on the first two holes of the Park City Municipal Golf Course this week. But there's a good reason. They're trying to get rid of the poa. Poa? No that's not the southern pronunciation of "poor". Neither is it Peoa without the "e". Poa is short for poa annua, a type of grass which has become the curse of the local golf course. According to Club Professional Profes-sional Doug Vilven, poa has two major drawbacks. One is that it remains dormant until about the middle of July (those brown patches you see in the spring are mostly poa). The other is that it has very shallow roots and requires almost constant watering during the heat of the summer. So Vilven and greenskeep-er greenskeep-er Bob Johnston have declared de-clared war on the poa. "Our first project will be to overseed the first and second fairways with a perennial rye grass and Marion blue-grass," blue-grass," Vilven said. "Hopefully, "Hope-fully, in six weeks the first two will be all grown in." If all goes well with the pilot project, another two fairways may be reseeded in the fall. "We'll have to do three or four fairways a year from now on," he said. "It will be a constant battle." Vilven explained that poa goes to seed even when cut very short. Those seeds are then carried from one course to another on the spikes of golfers. Eventually, he predicted, pre-dicted, the new Jeremy Ranch course will be hit with the poa plague. He said that poa is an ideal grass for golf courses in some parts of the country, such as Northern California, where the climate is cool and moist. But not in Utah. After the bluegrass and rye grass are planted, the two fairways will be watered heavily for about two weeks, Vilven said. From that point on, the fairways will be watered less frequently (to kill off the poa) but heavily (to reach the deep roots of the bluegrass). The purging of the poa is just one facet of a plan to upgrade the Park City course, Vilven said. Crews have also been working to aerate the roots of the grass by removing hundreds of thousands of small plugs of earth with a special roller. And the sand traps will also be upgraded, beginning with the 11th and 17th holes. "We're going to start with the very worst traps and move down the list." Vilven said he has heard complaints about the condition condi-tion of the course, but asks residents not to expect dramatic improvements overnight. "It's going to take two or three years to have it looking the wav we want." A J. - l- f ' J Doug Vilven position she was in. Pan World broke the scoreless tie in the opening moments of the second period. The attack came from the left side as a winger beat a Park City' fullback near the net. Goalie Benner charged the ball as early as possible as she had throughout through-out the game, but was blocked out of play by the congestion of players. The ball ended up in the back of the net and Pan World had its margin of victory. Pan World scored its second goal at the 10-minute mark, finding the left wing unguarded. The final goal of the match illustrated the ability of the Pan World team to reach the Park City net from far out. Pan World made a break on the right wing and got around the Silver Kick fullback line. The ball was shot from the 25 yard line and high. "I thought maybe I could punch the ball over the top of the net," said Benner. "But the ball just got by my outstretched hands and went in the upper right side corner." The goal came at the 35-minute mark of the second sec-ond half and ended the scoring. Park City finished the season second in the league and second in the Cup divisional playoffs. On July 1, the Silver Kicks will sponsor a Soccer Night at El Papagayo's on Main Street. All proceeds from dinners served will go to help pay for next falls entry fee and equipment. The Silver Kicks will continue to hold practices during the summer on Thursday night at 6 p.m. at the high school soccer field. All women over 14 years of age are invited. The Silver Kicks hope to form two teams by next fall. Just imagine a set of circumstances in which the Mona Lisa couldn't hang in the Louvre but hung on a nail in the back of a body shop in Marseille. What if Michelangelo had to paint the story of Creation on a lavatory wall in Altoona instead of the Sistine ceiling? Suppose Caruso never got to sine in the Met, Olivier never made it to the Old Vic. What if Heifetz never played Carnegie Hall, Paderewski had to give concerts on an old spinet? Would you give Segovia a banjo? What if Napoleon never had anything more than a platoon of pettifoggers to war with? Suppose Hemingway were published only in pulp magazines. To hobble genius is to deny it. An object of art hidden away in a cluttered attic is an object ob-ject of pity. In sports, too, you need the setting to touch off virtuosity. That's why Rodney Cline Carew is, in some respects, a pathetic victim of history. He has always been in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's not always what you do, its where you do it. One of my all-time all-time favorite theatrical lines comes from the play "Magdalena" where the French general, transferred from Paris to the jungles of Colombia, tries to convince his mistress they will be great lovers amid the hibiscus and orchids in the moonlight, but she won't buy it. "In Paris, great lovers," she tells him scornfully. "In the jungle-two monkeys!" Rod Carew has simply never played Paris. Or Broadway. He is one of the certified all-time all-time great strikers of the baseball, a magician with the bat, an artist at the plate, a cinch first-ballot Hall of Famer. Carew at bat is one of the greatest shows on earth. But it, so to speak, closes out of town. It has played only New Haven. Rod Carew has never been in a World Series, that great showcase of the grand old game where even secretaries in insurance offices who never pay any attention to the sport the rest of the year rush home to see if their ticket won the office pool, and where the viewership of the game rises dramatically and it becomes an American ritual, a tribal rite where commerce frequently stops 'til they see whether Valen-zuela Valen-zuela can get the side out. Do you think Babe Ruth could have become the towering figure he did if it were not for the 10 World Series? And the Babe only had radio. Television makes the series star 10 feet taller. President Kennedy said life is not fair, and nowhere is it more evident than in the list of players who have starred in World Series. Banjo hitters get lucky for a week. Sore-armed Sore-armed pitchers find one last no-hitter concealed con-cealed in the hemorrhages of the muscles. In other words, guys who should never be there take it over. Stars frequently fumble the assignments, probably because too much is expected of them or they try to exceed even that. Ty Cobb got in only three World Series and then at the very outset of his career. Ted Williams made only one miserable World Series. Walter Johnson and Al Kaline only made it in the deep twilights of their careers. To give you an idea, Billy Williams and Ernie Banks were absolutely superb baseball players of their time. Billy Williams had the most beautiful stroke at the plate you will ever see. He hit 426 home runs, batted .290, played 18 years and the most consecutive con-secutive games of any player ever in the Not a playground Doug Vilven, head professional at the Park City Golf Course, has asked that parents refrain re-frain from taking young children onto the course during golfing hours. "There were 25 children child-ren killed on golf courses cour-ses last year, and another an-other 400 injured." he said. "A golf ball is hard, it goes 200 miles per hour, and it can kill you. . .Telling the kids to ,. out and play here is like IflilUg U-.-jh: i-.. b .- ' freeway." According to Vilven, part of the problem stems from the condominiums condo-miniums overlooking the golf course. "People sent their tour-year old kids to go out and play in the lake . we're not trying to harass anybody, any-body, but it's a dangerous danger-ous place to go " He has also asked that joggers stay off the course while golfers are still playing. NEW OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Park City Business Commons 1790 Bonanza Drive Fronting on the new Deer Valley Connector Road from State Hwy. 248 Suites from 300 to 5000 sq. ft. Most competitively priced new office space in Park City Contact Gordon Wirick Capson-Morris-McComb 649-8601 National League. He should be in the Hall of Fame but isn't. He should have been in a World Series, but wasn't. Ernie Banks is in the Hall of Fame. But he did it the hard way. He never made the World Series either. He hit 512 home runs and drove in a hundred runs seven times in his career. But Billy and Ernie played on the Chicago Cubs. That's the diamond equivalent of hanging on a wall in a body shop in Peoria. Rod Carew won seven batting titles in his career. Only Cobb and Rogers Hornsby have won more. You talk of Carew in the same breath with the immortals of the game. But Rod played his career with the Minnesota Twins which is not exactly the Sistine ceiling of baseball. Rod Carew was a connoisseur's ballplayer, an acquired taste, an inside secret. Rod Carew is just syllables in the ear to most casual fans. He never played the Palace, Broadway, prime time. He never made the fall classic. The fan knows he's good, but it's on an I'll-take-your-word-for-it, or if-you-see-so basis. When Rod Carew got traded to the Angels in the winter of '79, a lot of fans thought an historical wrong was going to be righted. And, right away, the Angels came as close as Rod Carew was to get to a World Series. They got in the playoff that year, which Carew had done before, but they also won a game in it, which Carew had never done before and which Carew did personally by bringing in the winning run in this instance. But, then, the fog closed down again. Carew was going to be like the actor who never gets the right part. He was doomed to a supporting role in his chosen profession. Does this bother Rodney Cline Carew? Keenly. I went down to the Angel locker room to see how this 16-year-veteran was taking life in the shadows. Not well. "The World Series is why you go to spring training, it's why you go through the 162 games, why you keep your body fit, your mind alert. It's what it's all about," he pointed poin-ted out. What sacrifices would a Rod Carew be willing to make for baseball's big tent? For instance, if he had a choice, would he prefer to bat .400 or play in the World Series? That question was loaded. Batting .400, which Carew almost did five years ago, is almost another dimension, at the very least on a plateau with series stardom. "Individual goals are very nice," Carew admitted. "Individual achievements are stars in your scrapbook. But they are not the object of this game now, are they ? " Would he rather make a World Series than bat .400? "Yes," said Rod Carew. "You show me a player who would rather hit .300 or even higher than play in the World Series and I'll show you a player who's crazy." Well, then, if he had it in his power to say, okay, I'll bat .215 if the team will then make the World Series, would he? Carew grinned. "Well, I have no intention of ever hitting .215," he began. "But I think if you have pride and you want to play where millions are watching, you have to make a clear choice. You have to want to perform at the summit of your profession. You take Billy Williams and Ernie Banks, they played what? 38 years between them? They got what? 3,200 hits and almost 1,000 home runs between them? And they never showcased in a World Series. That's sad." No sadder than a Rodney Cline Carew not playing in it. In fact, not as sad. (c) 1982, Los Angeles Times THE BEST IN PARK CITY REAL ESTATE MARKETING LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS o CONSULTING COMMERCIAL INVESTMENTS DEVELOPMENT Al PROSPLCTOR SQLARk. BONANZA AT HWY 248. PARK CITY. UTAH 84060 801 649-9 IM |