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Show If y , , tw, :tm twit'? . - f "t"" 'I 1 If' -g Si1 r Vf II " ! . - i - i ft. t, . .1 Wiri. . aw!' Rachel Salomon, 7, of Park City dives for Piranhas. Piranhas nip Salt Lake team The piranha has a reputation for swimming in large schools. But it can be deadly even when in the minority. Although outnumbered by 11 team members to 20, the Prospector Athletic Club Piranhas nipped the Salt Lake City Jewish Community Com-munity Center 261-260 in a dual swim meet held Friday in Park City. Among the big winners for by Jim Murray the Piranhas were Heidi Burnett, Ali Salomon and Kevin Holliday. Each of those swimmers went undefeated un-defeated in individual events. Another sterling performance perfor-mance for Prospector came from Julie Burnett, who posted a time of 1:35 in the individual medley, competing com-peting against two boys. "She was in it as an exhibition, but she had a good time," said Sue Broder, coach of the Park City team. Each of the Piranhas had to compete in at least four events. This weekend, the team will travel to Provo to compete com-pete in the "Big C" meet against about 300 other athletes from around the state. "It's the first time the Piranhas are officially entering en-tering an AAU swim meet," Broder said. "You really get to see where the kids stand." m A worthy challenger There was a time in this country when we got our Presidents out of log cabins or military barracks and not Cape Cod resorts or Hyde Park estates. They were tough men, and their ideals were tempered by reality and not abstract philosophy. Our athletes came out of the same crucible. For only a very short while did even college football belong to some sons of wealth from Long Island, who went to Yale or Harvard till they could take over the bond market or the State Department. You get football players today the same way, and from the same places, you get cane-cutters or cotton-pickers or hard-coal miners. Even the greatest golfers came out of the caddy shacks. You couldn't win at sports if you even knew how to cry. If you could even spell "mercy," you were in the wrong business. But, even under those harsh requirements, prize fighting was in a category all its own. These were the toughest guys on the planet. These guys usually came from a long line of people who toiled in the hot sun or over the unyielding earth, whose sinews grew hard by the generation, whose threshold of pain was high and who neither expected nor got very much out of life. Theirs was a cruel existence. They bled for a living. They rode rods, they slept on rocks, they ate like the beasts in the field, whatever they could. Life was one long rabbit punch. Which is why a lot of people thought Gerry Cooney was not a contender but an imposter when he fought Larry Holmes for the heavyweight championship of the world. He hadn't come off a Kansas wheat farm or a Colorado freight train; he hadn't been run out of Galveston by the sheriff; he probably slept in sheets most of his life. You would think, to listen to them, that they had pulled Gerry Cooney off a polo pony to suit up for the fight, that he had to get his governess' permission. "Why don't you stay home and play croquet like the rest of Long Island, kid?" the fight mob sneered. Larry Holmes was certified tough. The champion had come up the hard way. Shined shoes, worked on road gangs, changed tires. He was from Easton, Pa., where they built Mac trucks and the textile mills were having a rough go. It was a hard-hat, blue-collar town, only 30 miles from Philly, so there were plenty of street kids to try your left hook out on. Cooney was portrayed as a scion of Long Island, a child of the affluent suburbs. He had fed on a succession of stiffs, the champion, Holmes, himself complained. "He hasn't paid his dues,". protested Holmes, "If he gets the championship, he'll go bury it. They won't put him with anybody who might even muss his hair." The world should hope Larry Holmes would win, Larry Holmes said, because Larry Holmes would save boxing. Cooney would ruin it. It was an argument that hurt challenger Cooney more than any punch Holmes hit him with. About four days before the fight, Cqoney, dark good looks flushed with anger, met with a group of writers in his heavily-patrolled living quarters at Caesars Palace five British writers and two Americans, one from Cooney's native Long Island, and your correspondent here from Los Angeles. "Listen! " snapped Cooney. "I'm sick of this talk that sounds as if I just rang for the butler when I had to get dressed or I learned to jab from the family chauffeur. When I was a kid, just 11 or 12 years old, I used to have to get up every morning at 3:45, that's a.m.! to bake bagels for the restaurants and bakeries before I could go to school. "My father hung this bag on a tree near our home and used to make me do roadwork and punch the bag. When I wanted to go to college, he said, 'All right, fight your way through!' I had to get fights around town to pay my own way through college. There was no money to send me to Yale or Harvard, any more than there was for Holmes. I fought some tough guys, too, I want to tell you, just to get money to buy books. "My brothers were iron workers. When I was 17, 1 was on a construction gang, walking around four, five stories up in the air, on two-inch steel beams. You think anything Holmes can do would make me afraid after that? 'Afraid' is hoping your foot don't slip so. you don't have to wind up in a sack on the sidewalk." In the fight that followed, Gerry Cooney didn't put anybody in mind of Dempsey. But neither did he look like a kid whose mother didn't know he was out, or who spent most of his time walking around with buckles on his shoes and his little blue silk suits and hats with ribbons on them. Most of the accounts of the fight the next day seemed to suggest Cooney hadn't done much in that fight except hit Holmes in his cup a few times. The story suggested that the judges must have been lodge brothers of Cooney's to have given him any points at all. Well, when ABC finally televised the fight in its entirety, it looked to a few of us as if Larry Holmes had all he could do to keep his poor little rich kid from the other side of the tracks from punching a hole in his side. In fact, if Gerry Cooney had a right hand or instead of just his ribs and kidneys exclusively that fight might have ended up with a different guy on that floor. I've been around fights and fighters long enough to know that repeated hammerblows like that on the side and back give boxers interesting urological problems alter the fight, and my guess would be the champion, like the challenger, bled some in that fight, only not where it shows, like the nose or eye. Larry Holmes is not exactly Dempsey, either, I don't care how many hard mattresses he's slept on. He can hit some, but not much, and, if I had to guess which one they got out of the polo field for this fight, I'd be hard pressed. Larry Holmes is champion, all right. He has a disco, a restaurant, and he's doing a lot better than the textile mills in Easton at the moment. But Gerry Cooney was a worthy challenger and deserves better than to be characterized as a spoiled, no-talent who got his break because his family owns the town. I mean, sometimes, you can't help being white. And it doesn't help all that much once' the punching starts. I salute him as a pretty good fighter, even if he did have a tricycle at the age of three especially if he had a tricycle at the age of three. That doesn't help much in a fight, either. ( c ) 1982, Los Angeles Times Arnie's maintains firm grip on first place The Newspaper Thursday, July 15, 1982 Page B3 The members of Just Arnie's Ar-nie's softball team have discovered the secret to maintaining a perfect record: don't play. While Arnie's was idle in the women's league, Group One moved into second place ahead of the Black Pearl. Meanwhile, first place in the men's league is up for grabs. Doc's and Woodhaus currently share the honors with 6-2 records while last week's leaders, the Alamo Bums, lost twice and dropped drop-ped into third place at 6-3. Here is a synopsis of games played during the last week: Doc's Club 26, End Run 14 A 17-run explosion in the fourth inning carried Doc's to victory over the End Run in this men's game played Tuesday, July 6. Among the big guns for Doc's was Ron Schultz with a triple, two doubles and two singles in five trips to the plate. Tim "Razor" Sharp also had five hits in five trips. Gary Avise, Stan Cordova, John Rusconi and Rick Rodriguez each homered for the winners. Marty Kennedy hit a round-tripper round-tripper for the End Run. Hat Store 12, Alamo Bums 6 The league-leading Alamo Bums suffered their second loss of the season in this men's game played Wednesday, Wed-nesday, July 7. The loss allowed Doc's to climb into a first-place tie. The Bums could manage no more than two runs in any one inning, while the Hat Store jumped on top to stay with four runs on six singles in the first inning. in-ning. Leadoff hitter Gary Kilgore had four hits in five trips for the Hat Store. Chip Pattison slammed a two-run homer for the Bums. Club Employees 16, Club coconuts 15 All good things come to those who wait. The cellar-dwelling cellar-dwelling Club Employees picked up their first win of the season in this men's game played Wednesday, July 7, by cracking to Coconuts. Down 13- after three innings, the Employees Em-ployees rallied for 10 runs in the last three innings. Ken Elliot had four hits, including in-cluding a big three-run homer in the sixth inning, for the Employees. Mike Hogan, Gary Lawton and Jack Turner Tur-ner each homered for the Coconuts. Woodhaus 20, Club Employees Em-ployees 3 It didn't last. The Club Employees, still flying high after their first win, were brought down to earth Thursday Thurs-day by the Woodhaus. Norm Smith homered twice and also doubled as the Woodhaus scored in every inning except the second. This game was rescheduled from June 30. Coconuts 10, Janeaux's 8 Janeaux's rallied for six runs in the last two innings but was unable to catch the Coconuts in this men's game played Sunday. Phil Congino had four hits and scored three runs for the Coconuts, while Ned Lamphier added a triple, a double and a single in four trips to the plate. This game was also rescheduled from June 30. Woodhaus 23, End Run 3 The Woodhaus improved its record to 6-2, and moved into a first-place tie, with this one-sided win Sunday in the men's league. The Woodhaus scored all the runs it needed in the second inning with 10 consecutive Karate master to attempt record feat If this doesn't give you a vicarious headache, nothing will. At about 3 p.m. Saturday, internationally-acclaimed Karate master Toshio Takahashi will attempt to break, with his head, a stack of pine boards nine feet (that's right, feet) thick. Takahashi's demonstration will come as a part of a day-long Karate camp scheduled at the Prospector Athletic Club. Takahashi, who holds a fifth degree black belt, is the director of the Nautilus Karate Academy in Salt Lake City . The Karate camp is free to members of the Athletic Club. The fee for nonmembers is $15. Takahashi already claims to hold the unofficial world record by breaking an eight-foot-thick pile of boards. The Guinness Book of World Records does not recognize claims for breaking bricks or wooden blocks "because of the lack of any agreed standards of friability and the spacing of fulcrums upon which comparisons com-parisons can be made." Toly named to all-star team Steve Toly, a star running back at Park City High School for the past three football seasons, has been invited to represent the 3A1A team in the ninth annual an-nual United Cerebral Palsy High School All-Star Football Foot-ball Game. The game, to be played at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 7 at Judge Memorial High School, will pit the 3A1A all-stars against again-st the stars from the 4A2A schools. Toly, who was also a starting star-ting guard on the Park City High School basketball team during his junior and senior years, graduated last June. hits, including eight for extra ex-tra bases. Norm Smith had a perfect day at the plate with "five hits for the winners, while Greg Boyd came off the bench to slam two homers in consecutive at-bats. at-bats. Janeaux's 24, Alamo Bums 3 Janeaux's rocked Alamo pitching for 15 runs and 13 hits in the first inning and went on to knock the Bums out of first place in this men's game played Sunday. Jeff Richards had four hits, including a homer, in five trips to the plate for Janeaux's. Todd Phillips added ad-ded a homer and two singles. Club Coconuts 17, Hat Store 4 The Cub Coconuts, taking advantage of 11 hits and 10 runs from the top three batters bat-ters in their lineup, improved im-proved their record to 5-4 with this win over the Hat Store in the men's league Sunday. Phil Congino went three for five, Ned Lamphier four for five, and Paul Lamphier Lam-phier also had four hits, including in-cluding two homers, for the winners. Group One 14, Club Clubbers 10 Group One moved into second place ahead of the Black Pearl in the women's league with this victory at City Park Sunday. Vicki Ross provided much of the punch for Group One with two homers and a double. Annette Anderson and Jayne Pelton also had three hits each for the winners. Marty Peterson had two triples and a single for the Club. Prospector Sirloin 38, Club 5 It looked like batting practice prac-tice for the Sirloins Monday night as they battered the Club in this women's league game. Anita McDonald and Allison Child each had six hits, including a homer, in six trips to the plate. Jan Heyd added five hits and a walk. The game was called after five innings. Sneakers 16, Black Pearl 15 Sneakers pulled into a third-place tie with the Black Pearl by winning this squeaker in the women's league Monday. The Black Pearl rallied for five runs in the seventh inning, but fell just short. 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