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Show by Jim Murray MmiiPiraiy ami pODiritg Park City 1 'I. ' 4 VKV if v. l Page CI Thursday, January 27, 1983 i. L r n I , .- - r . g x mimiSBmm Park City's Ocey Leavitt (in white) vs. Bountiful's Thain. Leavitt lost by a 2-4 decision. pnoio dv .iohn Kinch Wrestlers wilt in area meets Park City wrestling coach Jesse Schaub often refers to his successful wrestlers as" "bright spots." But the bright spots were rare last week as Miner wrestlers faded one after another in tournaments held Thursday and Friday. On Thursday the Miners competed in a three-way meet in Duchesne against Altamont and Duchesne. On Friday they had to put their gear back on and wrestle in a nine-team tournament at South Summit High School. On both days they finished on the short end. On Thursday the Miners could manage only three wins against Altamont, losting 37-18, and three wins against Duchesne, losing 44-18. 44-18. Four of those six total victories vic-tories came from two Park City wrestlers: Bill Reed, 167, and Greg Bair, 185. The other Park City winners were Rex Fletcher, 112, with a forfeit against Duchesne, and John Howard, 155, with a decision over bis Altamont counterpart. What most disturbs Schaub is he apparent lack of progress on the Park City squad. When the Miners met Duchesne in December they won four matches. Now it's down to three. "We seem to have lost the competitive attitude needed to be good wrestlers," he said. Things didn't improve Friday, as the Miners finished ninth in the nine-team nine-team South Summit tour nament. However, the I competition was tough; ttln" eluded some of the best 1A, 2A and 3A wrestlers in the state. Bair was the only Park City wrestler to place in the standings, winning two of his four matches, good for fourth place. Single victories were picked up by Howard, Bill Reed, Ocey Leavitt, 105, and Greg Reed, 98. "We have to stay off our backs," said Schaub. "If our strength was equal to our opponents', maybe not our knowledge, we could at least fight for the six minutes, but we keep getting pinned ... and in the early periods." Today the Miners travel to Randolph for a three-way meet against South Rich and North Summit. North Summit Sum-mit holds the edge on Park City this year. However, the Miners did record a 43-18 win over South Rich earlier in the season. After this meet the Miners will end their regular season at the Region 11 tournament Feb. 4. Foul trouble foils Miners by John Kinch Not again! The Park City High School basketball team lost another heartbreaker Friday, succumbing suc-cumbing to South Rich 49-48 in double overtime, dropping its region record to 1-3. The Miners, who played so well the previous week against North Summit before losing by two points, were their own worst enemy against the South Rich Trojans in Randolph, getting themselves into foul trouble early. At the end of the first quarter quar-ter four of the five Park City starters had three fouls and one had four fouls. Because of this, Coach Bruce Reid had to use players off the bench. Park City put 13 players on the court during the game, instead of the usual seven or eight. According to Assistant Coach Kevin Goode, it was questionable whether the Miners deserved all the fouls that were called on them. However, despite that handicap, han-dicap, the Miners were tied with the Trojans at the end of the first quarter, 13-13. Park City forward Chris Cooper scored six points in the second quarter, while the rest of his teammates added nine points, giving the Miners the lead at halftime, 28-23. Thirteen of the Trojans 23 points in the first half were from free throws. Miners' Center Pete Gilvarry sat out the quarter because of fouls. In the third quarter the Trojan defense shut down Park City, allowing the Miners only six points, while they pumped in 12. Park City point guard bill auimiuus sat out this quarter with foul trouble. With several players in foul trouble, the Miners had to play conservatively in the fourth quarter. As they did, South Rich began to pull away. The Miners found themselves down seven points with 2:11 remaining in the game. However, a South Rich four-corner stall offense of-fense backfired. The Miners rallied to tie the score at 45-45 45-45 as regulation time ran out, in spite of the fact that Gilvarry and Simmons had fouled out. Park City controlled the tip to begin overtime play, but missed the shot and South Rich again went into a stall offense, keeping the ball until there were just 40 seconds left. A turnover gave Park City the ball, but the Miners missed the shot, leaving the score the same 45-45 as the first overtime ended. In the second overtime, Peart of South Rich was fouled and went to the line, hitting one free throw. But Park City's Kerry Kusiak hit a clutch shot to put Park City ahead, 47-46. A Chris Cooper free throw made it 48-46. But the lead didn't hold up. With 30 seconds left, Tate of South Rich drove through the Miner defense, hit a jumper, and was fouled. He sank the free throw, giving his team a one-point lead. And that's the way it ended. en-ded. Cooper took a last-second last-second jumper for the Miners, but it was off the mark. The Trojans won 49-48. 49-48. Cooper was Park City's leading scorer with 15 points flu sluxs just wouldn't drop," said , Goode later. "It s like we haven't been able to get over the jump and become a winning team. We have had two games which we have lost by a combined total of three points. We need to get that one win and then we should win, like we are capable of." Hurting the Miners chances chan-ces has been their inability to hit free throws. Against South Rich they connected for only nine out of a possible 24, although it is something that Reid has practiced with the players. Goode said that the players are taught a set routine of dribbling the ball the same number of times at the line, taking a deep breath before shooting, and concentrating concen-trating on visualizing the ball going through the hoop. The players are doing that in practice, but in the games they sometimes forget as their 35 percent shooting indicates. in-dicates. Goode's junior varsity team shot slightly better than the varsity at the free throw line, making nine of 14, but lost to South Rich, 49-43. 49-43. The Miners were in that game until the last two Ik minutes, when the Trojans began putting the game away at the free throw line. Like the varsity, Park City junior varsity was guilty of fouls with six players in foul trouble. Matt Mapstone, the Miners' point guard, had eight points, but fouled out in the fourth when Park City most needed his ball-handling ball-handling talents. Both the junior varsity and the varsity will face North Rich Friday at Park City. The junior varsity game begins at 5:45 p.m. with the varsity at 7:30. it AO0 ft I 1 AC. " . -.a.V A O HO" -B. o3' w vlv .wo- au if I 1 A 1 1 I I 1 I A TV .CO 942-4059 Utah Avalanche forecast Center MWNCHE INFORM4TION Still looking for his second Derby The first racehorse Fred W. Hooper ever owned won the Kentucky Derby. That's like the first poker hand you ever picked up turning turn-ing out to be a royal flush, winning a lottery on the first ticket you bought, or finding a map to a buried treasure cleaning out the attic. at-tic. Fred Hooper wondered how long this had' been going on. What kind of an easy game was this? It was like playing a drunk with a marked deck. That was in 1945. The horse was Hoop Jr. Hooper had picked him up as an afterthought on a trip to buy two brood mares. He just liked the looks of the colt. After that, Fred Hooper got into racing in a big way the stud farm, the training track, the selective breeding, the charts, the auction auc-tion sales the scientific study of the art. To this day, he has yet to win his second Kentucky Derby. Oh, not for lack of trying. He was second with Crozier in 1961 when the unfashionably bred Carry Back carried the day. Hooper had the odds-on favorite, Olym-pia, Olym-pia, in 1949, but he ran up the track to Calumet's Ponder. Fred Hooper thinks this might be the year when lightning strikes again. Lots of owners have won multiple Kentucky Derbys. Calumet Farms won eight of them but no owner has ever won this race 37 years apart. Fred Hooper was a youngster of 49 when he won his first Derby. Now he's 86. It's typical of Fred Hooper that he would keep trying. Discouragement has never been in his saddlebags. Born in the hard-farming red clay country of North Georgia, Hooper's story makes Horatio Alger look as if he was born to the purple. For instance, before World War I when he was a downy-cheeked 17, Fred Hooper set out from his farm home in the suburbs of the metropolis of Cleveland, Ga. to go to Montana and round up a string of wild horses which he brought back to Tobacco Tobac-co Road and sold for $200 a head, after he personally broke them. When he was only 18, he bought the lumber rights to a 640-acre scrub pine and oak stand, erected a sawmill with a portable steam engine and cut a thousand board feet of lumber lum-ber a day to increase his poke. Then he became, successively, 1) a barber; 2) a carpenter; car-penter; 3) a heavyweight boxer; 4) a county supervisor; and 5) a Florida dirt farmer. He went broke trying to grow Irish potatoes in Florida, but, nothing daunted, he bid on the construction of a road outside St. Augustine in north Florida. "They let me have equipment on credit, don't ask me why," he grins in recollection. "Caterpillar sold me tractors, International Harvester sold me drag lines, I got a rock-crusher to supply me on consignment." Hooper Construction Co. thereafter became one of the corporate giants of the South, building levees in Augusta, bayou bridges in Louisiana and 12,000-foot airport runways in Florida. In the Augusta job, the county offered to supply a chain gang and equipment, but Hooper bid the same for the job with or without their help. Pressed for an explanation, he told the city fathers, "Your convicts and equipment would only slow me down." Hooper became one of Miami's Gold Coast rich, but he never completely got the red clay out from beneath his toes. Like most self-made self-made millionaires, he could never resist a sporting proposition. For instance, the horse, Olympia, a speed-burner who had won the Wood Memorial and went off, at 4-5 in the Kentucky Derby, and broke clocks from Aqueduct to Santa Anita in his prime, was challenged by quarter-horse gamblers in the early '50s. Now, this was considered a sucker's game. Charles S. Howard, no less, owner of Seabiscuit, had taken the bait when he matched his fleet thoroughbred, Fair Truckle, against the darling of the cowboy set, Barbara B. Barbara B. trounced Fair Truckle at the quarter-mile. Nevertheless, Hooper covered $93,000 in Texas and New Mexico money, then went out and measured the "quarter-mile" course at Hialeah. It was, he prounounced, 63 feet short. In the race that followed, Olympia beat the quarterhorse, Stella Moore, in the last 20 yards. "Now, I've got a pretty fast filly in the barn if you'd care to try to get your money back," Hooper told the cowboys. They declined with thanks. It had cost them nearly a hundred grand to find out that, just because a horse won the Wood Memorial, it didn't mean he could sprint a long quarter-mile. quarter-mile. Fred Hooper is back for one more try at the Kentucky Derby this year. He has Copelan, a stunning speedster in the mold of Olympia. Copelan, named for a veterinarian, Robert Copelan, who operated on his dam, Susan's Girl, a generation ago, has won seven of his last eight races, including the Belmont Futurity and the Hopeful at Saratoga. Fred Hooper thinks winning the Kentucky Derby every 37 years or so is not too much to ask. Of course, if he misses this year, there's always 2019. (c) 1983 Los Angeles Times GUIDED X-C SKIING 33 minutes (rem Part City If you are looking for a SAFE, SIMPLE cross-country ski outing, call us. We feature long or short day tours with lunch or moonlite overnight outings with informal instruction. &raT8!e&C&8t 0HTF1TTSHS , I!?8 . ROUTE 1-A. 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