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Show Utah BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham City, 8 Thursday, June 6, 1974 BOX ELDER ACTION SPORTS 723-347- 1 Goodliffe rallies, captures Open Brigham City amateur Reid Goodliffe came from behind in the Ogden City Amateur golf tournament Sunday to capture the event by two strokes. The steady Goodliffe went four under on the back nine to clip whiz kid James Blair with a 134. His last ditch rally included four birdies and five pars for a 31 on the stretch. The win was Goodliffes first of the season and fourth in the past two years in Utah amateur circles. Blair posted a 136 for second dampened the young golfers luck in amateur play this year. Ogdens Bob Bradbury was seven strokes off the pace with a 141 and third. For second right, Vern Sorensen, Moffitt in front. Six riders place high straight loss Six Brigham City riders came home from motorcycle races at Evanston, Wyo., with trophies Sunday. They included Duste Moffit and Vern Sorensen who caphardware. tured first-plac- e Also among the top finishers were Scott Longhurst and Bob Best who snared second-plac- e trophies and Bruce Ferrin and Kim Best who placed third. are members of They Vescos Racing team. GOeoirf&eDdl Oops (Legaon Brigham suffered City its straight loss Tuesday, falling to Clearfield in. an American Legion baseball second OUT AT HOME an out at home. Brigham City pitcher John Conrad puts tag on Clearfield runner to record wasn t enough, however, as Clearfield won the American Legion game, It 32. game on the winners diamond. Again it was a lack of hitting power which cramped the local iads style. They managed only four safeties off the slants of two Clearfield hurlers. homerun Only a fourth-innin- g with a man on by rookie Dwight Epperson saved Brigham City from its second consecutive shutout. Meanwhile, southpaw John Conrad was having a strong day League races tighten in boys baseball action The Stars and the Hornets tied for first place in the Valley American league during play last week. In other action, the Perry Panthers and the Tigers recorded wins in interleague play with the National league. In the International Mustang league, the Panthers in front with a 2 following last weeks action. The results of last week's play follow: Valley American WBBA League Wins by the Eagles and the Stars broke the ties for first and third places in Thursdays play in Valley American League. The Eagles led in their game with the Giants all the way, but k home runs by Don Anderson and Randy Smith, and a double by Eddie Rader combined with an Eagle error allowing the base runner to score, put the Giants to within one run when the third batter was finally struck out. Matt Tingey and Mark Cusick also hit doubles before Kevin Udy came on to stop the Giant rally. Bryce Tolman and Larry Hunsaker ield the Giants to only two runs until the 5th inning as their team took the game Brad Canfield and Robin Mozingo each recorded doubles for the Eagles and Kevin Udy scored four RBIs with his well hit homerun and double. Eddie Rader, and Steve Aoki were the Giant pitchers and left 10 Eagle batters swinging. The Stars were able to score in every inning of play as they defeated the Hornets for first place in league standings Thursday. Kirk Baty, Doug Nelson, Jeff Limb, and Eugene Christensen each racked up singles and Mike Jensen socked a double to drive across the Stars seven runs. Ryan Gardner was the only Hornet batter to record a hit-- a single-ana double-of- f the pitching of Brad Andreason. Gardner also pitched a good game for his team, striking out nine Star batters. back-to-bac- 2 d very-controll- Giants, 8 The Stars and the Giants played a very close game but the Giants were able to claim 6-- the win 9-- 8 in the days games. first of Mon- Giant hitters were Kipp Baty, Brad Andreason, Doug Nelson, Jeff Limb, each getting a single, and Dennis Gardner smashing a double to right field, and driving in two runs. Mike Jensen, Kirk Baty, and Brad Andreason shared pitching chores for the Star team. Don Andersons single and double, and Doug Talboes single were the only safe hits for the Giants, but they manged to steal five runs, to add to their two earned runs. Don Anderson, and Eddie Rader combined pitching efforts to hold on to the game that saw the Rockets But exouthitting Perry cellent fielding by the Panthers resulted in 13 Rockets left on base, and the first Panther win in interleague play. David Smith had a perfect night at the plate, five for five. Smith has now hit safely in his last ten times at bat. Grant Singleton, Mark Hill, and Scott Hill all singled twice, and Jerry Kapp and Mike Pulsipher each added hits for the Rockets. 13-- Tigers win. N & The second game of the day between the Eagles and Hornets was also decided by only one The game and a Hornet run, threat was ended when right fielder David Hofmeister made an oustanding catch. Bryce Tolman went all the way on the mound for the Eagles, and Rich Daines pitched the game for his Hornet team. Each team earned the same number of hits as they did runs. Bryce Tolman slammed a home run, while Eliott Hill got a double and Kevin Udy hit a single, for the Eagles. Rich Daines slammed a double and two singles, and Chad and Chris Holmgren each recorded w L 5 1 5 1 1 5 1 5 split their series. Alan Thompson handled the pitching duties for the N&Js. Thompson also singled twice. Art Huot made the only other base hit for the News Journal boys. Standings at the end week: N&Js W L 8 0 4 4 4 4 2 6 of the BC on the mound. He yielded just four hits and struck out 11 Clearfield batters. Bad Second Inning a bad second inning which put the visitors in a hole. The hosts didnt inflict the damage with booming bats, either. They chased two runs across on two errors, a bunt single, a sacrifice and a walk. They got another one in the third after Gardner tripled and came home when the ball got away from the catcher. Joe Perkins started on the mound for Clearfield and gave way to Curt Christensen for the final two innings. Brigham City now stands 2 on the season and will travel to Kaysville Friday for an 8 p.m. encounter which Coach Junior Yagi hopes will turn things around. Heres the box score: It was International Mustang League Bun-derso- Lowe, a leftfielder, ripped two home runs for the Cubs. Scott Stoker, catcher for the Cubs, made a pair of good catches for his team. In other play, the Pirates against their To The In- Perry Panthers 13 Rockets 7 On May 31, the Perry Panthers defeated the Rockets to even up the series between the two clubs. It was an exciting 11-- 8 university and Brigham Young university, along with Rugby Union personnel will be on hand to help establish a team and coach participants. All interested persons are Invited. Box Elder grad signs grid letter Box d at rapped the Wildcats, Lakeview. Wildcat hitters were Dick Roundy, two triples, Chris Hansen, homerun, Pat Engle, two doubles and a home run, Kirk Bemus, triple, and Cal Ogles, triple. Both Hink and Bucher scored on stolen bases from second. On May 29, the Panthers at dropped the Tigers, Bunderson, the Panthers were paced by home runs from Berletson and Mason. Keller pasted a homer for the Tigers. On the same day, the Perry Panthers scraped by the 6 as Evanoff cracked the home runs for the Duran and Woodruff each added another and played well defensively. In a May 30 contest, the Pirates beat the Wildcats 8 as Pirate hitters Parkinson with a double and home run, K. Drayer and D. Drayer with doubles each, Wol with two doubles and Jones with a paced the win. K. Bremus hit a home run, R. Bremus a double and Jensen had five hits including three homers and a pair of doubles for the Wildcats. the Small In a at Stars walloped the Cubs Lakeview. Home runs were hit by McDonald, Lowe, Nielsen and Earl. Good defense was 20-1- Editors Note: This is an article written by Division Nish denoting problems Utahs facing pheasants. A short the of history popular game bird in the Beehive State, and the loss of habitat it faces are detailed. Carrying Capacity It would require pages to fully explain all of the factors which to determine combine at any carrying capacity given time. In a nutshell it can be said that pheasants require The pheasant has been a resident of Utah for so food, cover and a place with for conditions long it is considered by many to right reproduction to be abundant. be a native. Utah sportsmen are fully Early records indicate that the Hon. M. H. Walker brought aware that in recent years have numbers the first pheasants into Utah pheasant about 1890 and released them on declined. During the same his farm at the mouth of Big period some have also observed a marked reduction in the Cottonwood Canyon. Subof food, cover and the sequent introductions, natural amount all nesting areas. In important an and intensive dispersal game the bucket has other words, in farm program resulted the establishment of pheasants in gotten smaller. all suitable habitat within the state by the early 1940s. A multitude of changes in our Releases from game farms environment, ranging from continued until the early 1950s more efficient farming to urban when research indicated that sprawl, are responsible for stocking game birds in areas decreased habitat and conalready occupied by wild sequently decreased pheasants. One of the biggest problems populations was a poor management practice and faced by the Division of Wildlife resulted in a waste of more than Resources and the sportsmen of three-fourth- s of the birds Utah, is curtailing this downreleased. This placed a high ward trend and hopefully price tag on stocked roosters reversing it to some degree. returned to the hunters bag. This can be done only through It became obvious that improved habitat and increased pheasant habitat was like a carrying capacity. No other bucket; it will hold so much and alternative will work. ring-necke- d FINAL signup set CLEAN-OU- T OF 973 LEASE CARS ONLY 3 LEFT 1 for Brigham Citys Slugger league which provides baseball competition for boys from eight till 12 years old is scheduled Monday, June 10, in the Rees Pioneer park bleachers. Harold Anderson is director of the yearly program which sees games played in the mornings at the city park. Signup 1973 CAPRICE NO. L19 $3000 FOR ONLY 24-1- mmmm SEED 1973 IMPALA Gaum on Page 9) FOR ONLY USED RUDDER RAFTS MAN 1 4 Construction Co. First Security Bank of Utah Peach City Ice Cream 1 - MAN 1 5.95 MAN MAN 2 MAII 30.95 34.85 12 1 7.85 1974 DEMO RETURNS - 21.95 & The National League of Boys Baseball is having a WONDERFUL Season REBUILT SWIVEL CHAIRS 15.50 LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF BRIGHAM -P- HONE 734-903- THE FIRST OF THE (2 only) 2 MAN 4 3 100 ALSO only) KAYAKS 17.95 NO. L69 0R 2800 FOR ONLY 39-2- 2 (Continued 4-D0- 1973 IMPALA COUPE NO. N39 CLOSEOUT ex- perience and research, both in Utah and the many other pheasant states, has clearly shown that this carrying is subject to wide capacity variation both within and between years. Because of this, pheasant populations fluctuate widely, not only from one season of the year to another, but from year to year. Resources Upland Game Supervisor Darrell Subsequent biologists. Wildlife of league 27-2- Generosity of our Sponsors Fife Rock Products no more. This phenomenon is termed carrying capacity by Slugger League ternational League opponenets. 10 a.m. Players from Utah State Saturday at Elder High school Lee DeWayne Sombrero, has signed a letter of intent to play football this fall at Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence, Kan. The halfback graduated from Box Elder High in 1973 where he was the Bees kicker. International tories Rugby, anyone? The state Rugby Union Is holding a practice for persons Interested In playing rugby in the Brigham City area at the Box Elder Junior high field A 6 Two National League clubs broke into the win column last Friday as they claimed vic- here Saturday Ringneck pheasants came to Utah in 1 890 r, The Cubs scored 26 runs to n clip the Small Stars at during International Mustang play last week. by Caryl Hepworth Rugby practice graduate, four-bagg- a single for the Hornets. Both games were marked by good fielding a few errors, and resulted in a tie for first and third places again. League standings are: Stars Hornets Giants Eagles Js 9 Also on Friday, the Tigers ended up on the long end of a 15-- 9 game against the N&JJs to Rangers Rockets Sport Kings cuOinie 32-2- 15 Trophy winners at motorcycle races in Evanston Sunday were, left to Kim Best, Scott Longhurst, Bob Best and Bruce Ferrin with Duste WIN TROPHIES 2 demos in stock so there's a large selection of models and styles. 1 PRICES UP TO 1000 OFF HURRY UP TO HANSEN CHSVR0UT 0USM08IU Whara Quality Kamalat. After Arte It Mmattaa 20 N.Main, Krieham Ondfi 32-4S- ll 723,329 |