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Show by Jim Murray Mnniripaiy (Dim pnirttg -Park City KJ wspiapoir Northern generals raid Confederacy again I 31 if I I II - i ?! i PageBl Thursday, March 10, 1983 - , .... ' W . - v Ss?. V.. 'I i ,.V, I ! i ' I Dual mogul skiing Old timers show the kids a few new tricks ,1 i , ' ' .v . i . Ml by David Hampshire Hey, everybody knows that bump skiing is for kids. You've got to have knees of rubber and legs of steel to take all that pounding. Once you get into your 20s, it starts catching up with you. Now, try telling that to Karen Huntoon Miller. Miller, a resident of Park City, put all the kids to shame Saturday as she slashed her way to the top prize in the American Pro Skiing (APS) dual mogul challenge at ParkWest. Miller is 33. The defending APS mogul champion. Miller outskied all the younger competitors, defeating 24-year-old Greta Paulsen of Snowbird in the final round to win the $1,000 first prize. The competition was held under threatening skies on ParkWest's Massacre run. Third place in the women's division went to Cassedy Stein of Heavenly Valley, California, while Caroline Wilson of Snowbird finished fourth. APS promoter Al Johnson said that Saturday's field of bump skiers included Australians, Canadians, Europeans as well as final round. Young caugni the eye of the judges and the spectators with a spectacular spec-tacular helicopter aerial. "If he hadn't thrown that helicopter, he probably wouldn't have beaten Cor-deau," Cor-deau," Johnson said later. "You used to think that freestyle skiing was for the kids. Back in 1976, the average age was 19, 20, 21." residents of several western states. In the men's division, Mike Young of Brechenridge, Colorado picked up the $1,400 first prize by beating Joey Cordeau of Sun Valley in the Third place went to Billy "Bump" Campbell of Bogus basin, Idaho. Finishing fourth was Billy Littlefield of Snowbird. Skiers were judged by their turns, aerials and speed. One of those who consistently con-sistently won the speed vote was Dean "The Machine" Murphy, who has a reputation for being the first to the bottom of the hill. "He does something different dif-ferent every time he comes down the hill. He's really animated," Johnson said. Unfortunately, Murphy was disqualified in an earlier round for skiing out of the course. Johnson observed that the average age of freestyle competitors seems to be creeping up as the sport matures. The average age of the top four men was about 25. "You used to think that freestyle skiing was for the kids. Back in 1976, the average age was 19, 20, 21 ... I think it has a lot to do with the age of the sport, too." That's not to say that there weren't any kids in the competition. com-petition. A lot of attention was focused on Park City's ... . .. I TOP: Brian VVilkos (lefO or i ..tk City anr1 vin Dunn of Denver get some air during Saturday's Satur-day's moul ch;)ll,ii,t ABOVE : The judges at work . photos by David Hampshire 13-year-old bumpmaster, Bradley Holmes, who made it to the finals in the 16-and-under division before losing to Chad Nelson, 16, of Snowbird. "Chad Nelson is his nemesis," Johnson said. "Nelson is the only person in the state who pushes him who's anywhere near his age." The winner of the 18-and-under division was David Lucas of Greensburg, Penn-sylania. Penn-sylania. A total of $6,000 in cash and airline tickets was awarded to the top finishers. The event, part of the KTVX Winter Sports Carnival, was recorded on videotape, Johnson said highlights will be shown on KTVX, Channel Four, at 10:30 p.m. Saturday. Satur-day. The Winter Carnival also included two other ski races in the area last weekend: a telemark race at ParkWest Saturday and a giant slalom at Park City Sunday. The results in both races include some names familiar in Park City skiing circles. Brad Makoff and Carl Dollhausen finished 1-2 in the men's 26-35 division of the teiemarK race. Ana victor Roy and Bill Skinner finished 1-2 in the men's 26-35 division of the giant slalom. According to Johnson, Roy has competed in three Winter Win-ter Carnival races this year and has won them all. "That's the third airline ticket he's won." The winner of the men's 17-25 division in the giant slalom also has a familiar name: Scott Hoffman, current point leader on the Rocky Mountain Pro Tour. For complete results, turn to the Scoreboard section. Johnson said that, by the time that the next Winter Ci'rnival giant slalom is held at Park City March 20, a new race category will have been created for people like Hoffman. Hoff-man. "We're going to start a pro division for those guys who are chasing all the citizens away." Strike up a little "Marching Through Georgia" music, professor, please. Add a little "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory...-' Never mind "Dixie." Folks down there are soon forgotten. Look away. Not since Sherman's March to the Sea have Yankee Generals wreaked more havoc on the Confederacy. Atlanta is burning, for sure. No more than Athens. Scarlett O'Hara must be wringing her hands someplace today. Prissy is boiling water. Rhett Butler is looking amused as if he knew it all along. Herschel Walker, it seems, is shaking the red clay of Georgia from his toes forever, and heading North. The underground railway is still working. Marse Vince Dooley can't even call out the dogs. But, has the United States Football League preserved the Union? In plucking Herschel Walker out of the ranks of innocence where the sweet magnolias blossom 'round everybody's every-body's door and they go to the Sugar Bow l every year, and transporting him to a place where he'll have to make due with the occasional Rolls-Royce or mink rug, have they solidified the American Dream by making Walker a General? What have they done for pro football? An upstart league always tries to find overnight credibility. The old AFL did it with Joe Namath. The" NFL did it with Red Grange and the Four Horsemen. But therein lies the rub. You see, pro football has the greatest gift in the world going. It pays not one red cent for its raw material. By the time it gets its product, i.e., four-second halfbacks or 270-pound line men, it has been refined, polished, advertised, sleek, new, a showroom model ready for instant sale. At no cost to management. Herschel Walker is an immediate saleable commodity. The buying and selling of him is headline stuff from coast-to-coast. It pushes multiple murders, war in the Mideast, presidential campaigns right off the front page. It leads the 11 o'clock news from Key West to Anchorage. If you never heard of the U.S. Football League, you have now. But who made Herschel Walker a $16-million dollar man? You. Me. The taxpayers of Georgia. The colleges of the United States. We're all part of this giant conspiracy that pro football is the beneficiary benefi-ciary of. I voted for Walker for the Hiesman. My colleagues discuss learnedly whether he's greater than Grange, the Four Horsemen, Horse-men, Jim Brown. Shucks, whether he's greater great-er than Gen. Sherman. We're all part of the hype. We got him off Tobacco Road and onto Park Avenue. You see, he runs pretty good. But if he only did that in the Olympics, he d make a nice living selling spiked shoes or insurance. But he does i! on the football field, and he's worth $16 million. To get him. ti.o new league broke its own rules, and pro football's rules. They say now, piously, that it' a "one-shot thing, an extraordinary circumstance " They'd like it to be. I mean, would U.S. Steel interfere with a system that got it free iron ore refined into steel ingots before it hit their docks'? Other industries pay dearly for their unrefined product. Baseball, for instance, maintains a widespread and costly farm system for its material to be processed Pro football's farm system is the American university. Pro football franchises get $14 million apiece from television for fielding teams that have Marcus Aliens and Freeman McNeils, Joe Namaths. and, yes, Herschel Walkers on them. It would seem to behoove them not to upset this delicate balance in nature. The colleges willingly collaborate in this cynical scheme of things. That's because they get the use of the product to swell their coffers for four years. The athlete willingly consents because he understands that four years of peonage will pay off in a pro contract. So. the colleges compromise their integrity, their reputation, and their credibility to participate in this charade. Will they do it now if they're going to lose their player after his freshman, sophomore or junior year? Does a college need to maintain a coaching staff of 14. a publicity office, a stadium seating 80.000. if its players are going to wear the old school tie only long enough to sign up with the New Jersey Generals? You bet the USFL wants to assure everybody this is a "one-shot" breach of the rules. But that's like a guy who's taken the last seat in a lifeboat telling the stranded passengers he's sorry. He's not going to do it again He doesn't have to. The symbiotic relationship between the pros and colleges is so mutually beneficial, the USFL has as vested an interest in keeping it going as the NFL. Or USC. But the door is wide open now for any college player, bored with the fiction he's a student, suing the pros to buy him the minute he makes the AP All-American or wins the Heisman or the Sugar Bowl. The USFL may have interfered with one of the sweetert arrangements known to science or ci..imerce. Like Sherman they inay have raped more than Georgia Like Sherman, they may find out war is hell. c 1983 Los Angeles Times William K. Evans Certified Public Accountant announces the opening of offices for the practice of public accounting. 1790 Bonanza Drive Park City Business Commons Building Suite 210 649-3486 J We Have a Better Deal! - '-'-L-'"r- " ON DEMAND NOW IN STOCK GL tffl Station wagon Go in the Snow with 4 wheel drive and front wheel drive! Selection Parts Financing Service I -easing SUBARU of MURRAY 5300Stxith Stau . Muuai Open Lati? 262-2661 |