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Show Page C4 Thursday, February 10, 1983 Park City News by Jim Murray Recreation basketball Kelly Mutcher grabs league YOU JUSt have to scoring lead grin and bear it Free f 5 1 1 Totiriai Visit Utah's finest mountain development for V2 day of fun-filled sightseeing and snowmobiling. Shuttle service will pick up and return you to your door. Open 7 Days a Week. Limited amount of reservations available, so book yours early. Call now 649-4922 MM ot.-un. f eb.12-13 Factory representatives from Rossignol, Salomon, K2, Pre, Lacroix, Authier and Pure Gold will be on hand to help you select just the right skis to try at no charge during these two days at Deer Valley. If you find a ski you'd like to buy, JANS will deduct the cost of your Deer Valley ski pass off the price of the ski! Join us for JANS DEMO DAY at Deer Valley February 12 & 13. dJ I O II 1 1 1 II 1 Park City: 1700 Park Ave. Deer Valley: Snow Park Lodge For more information call 649-4949, 649-8770. J The Quiet Worldpf -4b l!llfill ki J A Where the Little Things Are the Big Things ... Little things like - Bubbling Streams Architectural Control Wooded Lots Underground Utilities Breathtaking Views 20 Minutes from Salt Lake Reasonable Prices 10 Minutes from Park City Estate lots Vi acre plus, good financing available. Prices start at $30,000. Look for the signs and log sales office. m Open Seven Days a Week. pRTHLIN 649-7930 521-5386 by John Kindt . Before the Park City men's basketball league began in January, Recreation Director Bruce Henderson predicted - that the Claim jumper would be the team to beat. So far Henderson's Hen-derson's prediction is holding water. With three games played Claimjumper leads s the league with a 3-0 record. However, sharing the spotlight is Kamas Valley Lumber, and Irish Camel, who are also undefeated. ' Much of Claimjumper's success is attributable to scoring machine Kelly Mut-cher.who Mut-cher.who has averaged 25 points a game. Teammate Jeff Murnin is averaging nine a game. Kamas Valley Lumber's offensive attack is not quite as well defined as Claim-jumper's. Claim-jumper's. Mark Lambert has the third, highest average in the league with 18.5 points. Teammates Greg Potter and Kerry Lambert are not far behind with 1S.3 and 14.3 averages, respectively. This balanced attack proved to be too much for the Flyers Feb. 2 and Summit Sum-mit Lumber Feb. 7, as Kamas Valley Lumber downed both by scores of 65-60 65-60 and 77-48, respectively. The other game Feb. 2 pitted pit-ted Irish Camel against Jeremy Ranch. The Irish Camel won easily, 72-54. In Feb. 7's other game, Jeremy Ranch upset Cofer Chiropractic in a close game, 45-43. As the league now stands, Claimjumper, Kamas Valley Lumber, and Irish Camel are tied for first. Cofer Chiropractic, 2-1, is in fourth. The Flyers have an even record of 1-1 and are fifth in the league. Tied for sixth place are Park City Recreation Department, P.C. Nads, and Jeremy Ranch, all with 1-2 records. In the league's cellar are Summit Lumber and Slam-punks, Slam-punks, both 0-3. Summit Lumber, however, has faced the top three teams in the league, making its winless record somewhat deceiving. Summit Sum-mit Lumber's Dick Olsen has been averaging 16 points a game, the fifth highest in the league. . A list of the ten top scorers in the league and their points scored includes Kelly Mutcher, Mut-cher, 25; Bob Dowd, 19; Mark Lambert, 18.5; Jim Austin, 18; Court Nelson, 16; Dick Olsen, 16; Tim King, 15.6; Greg Potter, 15.3; Bill Dwyer, 15; and Kerry Lambert, Lam-bert, 14.3. All the teams have at least one player in the top ten scorers except for the P.C. Nads and Slampunks. Director Henderson said that is characteristic of this year's league. "It is the most balanced league we have ever had, as the leading scorers and the closeness of the teams' records indicate," said Henderson. Hen-derson. Henderson added that everyone is enjoying the competition more than previous years. Playing at the Treasure Mountain Middle Mid-dle School's million dollar gym is one reason. Also, the attitudes of the players seem to be better. "We have had only one technical foul all year," said Henderson. "Everyone is having a good time, players, referees, and fans." r There have been about 20-30 20-30 fans each night watching the games, which are held on Monday and Wednesday nights, beginning at 6;30. KPCW Memorial Bldg. Park City 649-9004 CALLUS... AT 649-3077 WE'RE HOT! WORD PROCESSING: Disk storage & printout TYPING: Legal Letters Forms Financial Resumes TRANSCRIPTION: Lanier 24 hour phone-in dictation Stenographic micro-cassette XEROX COPY! Individt gfcyZ forwarding RECEPTIONISTSECRETARIAL SERVICES: For individual or conference duties BOOKKEEPING SERVICES mm SECRETARIAL SERVICES 614 Main Street, Suite 307 Park City, Utah 84060 801-649-3077 . Becky Hynd, Manager Editor's note Since Jim Murray wrote this column in late January, Rex Caldwell has finished second in two other professional golf tournaments. Palm Desert Rex Caldwell, who has never won a tour golf tournament, stood on the side of the 18th green of the La Quinta golf course Sunday and watched as his opponent lined up a 20-foot putt half in sun, half in shade and with two breaks in it. If Keith Fergus made that putt, Rex Caldwell still would never have won his first golf tournament. If he missed, Caldwell would win $67,500 and become a tour winner. Everyone who ever came down to the final hole of a $10 Nassau on a Texas municipal needing the money to get home knew what Caldwell's play was there: cough, jingle coins, pretend to faint, sneeze, or, if that doesn't work, step in his line with a size 12 Footjoy and grind the heel in. Rex Caldwell could do none of the above. He had to stand there like some Boy Scout or wooden Indian and even pretend to smile as that 20-foot snake rolled right into the center of the cup. He must have known he'd see that $67,500 nor, maybe, his first tournament win ever. "That's golf," he shrugged as some heartless wretch thrust a microphone in front of him. Well, it is. And it isn't. I mean, why should these guys be allowed to sink 20-foot putts for all the money when the guys at Hustle Heights would make you putt it through a chorus of the quartette from Rigoletto or through a panel of fresh cleat marks or to a dog barking or threats to your family if you made it. "When I came up to that 20-foot putt, I knew that out there, everything breaks toward Indio," Keith Fergus said. "And I knew where Indio is." Well, with the guys we play with, someone would have been sure to advise him that the putt broke toward the ocean (150 miles away) or toward the Indian Ocean, or offered to read a break for him that wasn't there. The pro tour is a phony. These guys play golf under library conditions in a sea of politeness. Keith Fergus even admitted he spent the day smiling because, "Well, it was a pretty day, the sun was shining, the birds were singing. Any time you can be outside on a pretty day like this and play, I think you're pretty lucky." Rex Caldwell probably found the ambience much less inspiring. He probably remembers it as a day in the haunted house. For five hours, he had been playing impeccable golf, firing a near-perfect 65 at the treacherous La Quinta course in the Bob Hope Desert classic. One's first tournament win is hard to come by. It's a bar mitzvah, a debut, a signal you have arrived with the big boys. Caldwell birdied 17 while Keith Fergus was going into the water with his tee shot on No. 16, a two-shot swing which seemed to decide the tournament in favor of Caldwell. When Fergus made a bogey on the water hole and slipped to 24-under-par, or one shot back of Caldwell, Rex must have felt like tiptoeing in. On 18, Rex Caldwell approached brilliantly with a 7-iron which ended up seven feet from the hole. Nobody jingled any coins or rattled any cans or released any puppies but the chaos was all internal. He hit one of those stomach-clenching, spasm-ridden putts which bit off four of the seven feet and wound up wide of the hole. The putt would have changed Rex Caldwell's career had he made it. On the way to the 15th tee for the start of the playoff, the tied golfers murmured pleasantries. Recalled Fergus: "He said something like, 'Nice putt,' and I said something like 'Nice tournament.'" Note that, 25-handicappers. Caldwell, who just had his pockets picked, said "Nice putt" You can see these guys play a game with which we are not familiar. No wonder they go around shooting 65s. I mean, when they get to their ball, nobody's stepped on it, or kicked it into the rough, or even stolen it, for all of that. That's like playing baseball where the pitcher promises not to curve you or football where they promise not to hold you or boxing where they promise not to stick a finger in your eye. Or playing poker with guys who promise not to cheat. Keith Fergus is a nice enough young man, probably good to his mother, was in time for his wedding. May even vote Republican. But Rex Caldwell won the toss. His luck was still running bad. Again there was convent silence. But the uproar within forced him to hit the kind of shot you do when someone slaps you on the back in the middle of your backswing. He wound up under a tree where he had to hit a putter backwards. We all know the shot. He lost the hole, of course, the tournament, the $67,500 and the chance to join the big boys. Rex is almost 33 years old and he may not get within seven feet of immortality again. That's the trouble with golf. Almost any other sport, you don't have to stand there and watch your whole life flash before your eyes while some guy buries you and you can do nothing about it. I mean, you can go chasing after that line drive in baseball and try to make an off-the-wall catch. You can throttle the guy trying to catch a pass over your shoulder shoul-der and take the bread from your table in football. You can get off the floor in boxing, if you're of a mind to. You can knock a serve back over the net. In golf, you just stand there like a guy thumping a Salvation Army drum and try to smile as some guy rams you back into obscurity with a 20-foot putt. Here in this lah-dee-dah game, you don't even get to negotiate strokes. Keith Fergus has won three pro tournaments and $650,000 in his career. Twenty feet made all the difference. All I can say is, it's a good thing he was playing with Rex Caldwell and for Bob Hope's money. I know some guys, he would have had as much chance of swimming the English Channel in the shark season as making a 20-footer. He would have had a better chance getting home with the money through Central Park at two in the morning. Even if he1 did make the putt, someone would have piped up, "Very nice. But I just figured out I get two pops here." Golf as it should be is where you not only have to watch the ball but the caddies, crocodiles, human and animal, and nobody lets you roll in a winning 20-footer without a fight. Until the tour makes you play under combat conditions like the Saturday scramble scram-ble at Montalvo, these guys are not champions, they're pampered darlings. Pressure is when you got to make that putt looking over both shoulders at once. 1983 Los Angeles Times I I &t. 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