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Show .!' - V r fljniiu v' Claims ogan, Mirror Grizzlies and the No. Baves, but the battle never really developed. The overpowering Bountiful height made its presence known from the opening buzzer. And the rebounding advanball control, tage, plus the Braves spelled Logans doom. In the first three tourney games Bountiful ran like the wind against Skyview, Kearns and Highland, so naturally Logan expected the same pattern Saturday night. The running never came. The Braves were methodical, precision champions. Little guard Cal Murri engineered the offense to big comrades Craig Campbell, 7 Larry Green, 7 Steve Tibbs and Paul Spring. And the big guys ree rushes. sponded with their Tribune Sports Editor Without a baseball bat in his hands, Dick Stuart would never be mistaken for classics. something out of But Big Stu, the former Bee would agree Marc Antony touched all the he bases when orated, The evil that men do lives the after them, 1 u gger, is good o It was Bountifuls game from the time the Braves overcame an early lead to the time the Braves fought off a furious Grizzly rally just as the second half opened. That spirited comeback by Logan from a halftime deficit to ties created the only real excitement among the 8,000 onlookers at BYU. Bountiful dominated the contest with the big man and only thorn Logans magnificent Robert Lauriski penetrated the call collapsing zone defease employed by the Braves. Lauriski, who tallied 26 points, to give him 116 for the four games of the tourney, tried gamely to keep his mates in the game, but this night it wasnt to be. After falling behind, at the mark as Braves Tibbs dumped in nine points everyone in the Logan sector kept waiting for the Grizzly charge. After all Logan had been behind or lied at the mark of every other tourney game so didnt it figure 0 28-2- 2 h 15-1- For Box Scores, See Page Col.1. Bees Sting Rams, 69-6Kearns Trips Bulldogs 7; By Tom Wharton A weary, but courageous Elder five withstood numerous High-anclaim third place Saturday in the and claim thrid place Saturday in the PROVO Box player. Take Stuart's case. For Scores, See Page But then, Highland hit six straight free throws and two fielders while the Bees had only a free throw and the score was tied at 39. 38 29. let a guy with the rep as a fancy-fieldboot the same play and theyll It must have taken a bad hop. Glenn Hits Pair Works Both Wavs Let a batter develop a reputation for having a good eve. like Ted Williams, the Waner boys, Rogers Hornsby, or Stan Musial, and the umps will call "ball time after time on the close ones if the good hitter doesn't swing. That reputation for hitting only strikes probably gives these good hitters the strikes" during a edge on maybe 100 season. But pitchers have some edges, too. Fred Sanford, the old Yankee, laI had a reputation for having mented, control troubles, A dose niteh, one which could be called either way, would be a ball. Steady Eddie' Lopat was known as a control pitcher w ho never walked anyone. The pitch the ump calk'd a ball for me W'ould stand a good chance of being called a strike for Lopat." Now Stuart, at 36 years of age and a free agent, is back from two seasons in Japan, trying to shake the rep and the trade name of Dr. Strangelove." Bee fans would like to see the guy make the grade. Baseball could use a few unhampered, blithe spirits tike Stuart and Rhodes. ,rd after all. the Mets put up with who Me! Throneberrv. Marvelous couldnt hit as well as Stuart, and may not have been a better fielder. y Observu'Ion Wartl ? Shot - The FORT WAYNE, IND. IAP) Fort Wayne Hornets hockey team was lnnoculated against infectious hepatitis after i member of the International Hockey League squad was stricken with the disease. Merv Dubchak is confined to his home and is expected to miss play the rest of the season, team officials said. ) Box Col. 1. He bobbles a hard hopper and the fans and writers agree, He butchered another chance. I d final round of the state Class A tournament at BYU. The Decs, due to a Region One round robin tourney, played six games in the last eight days, and appeared so tired they resembled the walking dead. Box Elder's largest lead came w ith a minute remaining in the first half at And there was Zeke Bonura, and Hank Greenburg, and even the immortal Lou Gehrig was no gazelle around the hassock, although somewhat more certain to catch the ball than Stuart. A reputation can make or break a ball Hotkey Team Gets the Class A finals, won by Braves. 28-2- 2 played on. mini-haha- It w'ent the other way. Campbell, his long, slim arms seemingly grasping at the iron hoop despite his being some 15 feet way, started firing shots over Lauriski and Laing. And his eight points in the second canto were instrumental in Bountiful halftime lead. the With Lauriski working outside, Logan warmed to the task as the second half opened. Taylor canned a long one, Lauriski jumped one in and Baugh hit a fielder from the baseline and with 6:42 to in the third quarter, it was tied at arm of Logan s Robert Lauriski in Lanky Craig Campbell of Bounti- ful takes a shot over outstretched first-sack- a 3, that it was only a matter of time before Lauriski, Steve Laing, Sid Groll, Kent Baugh and Terry Taylor would begin to connect? He was part Indian and part first was baseman, and another said "to have had the first dime he ever chuckle first-quart- first-quart- In Stuart's case, he is far from the wmrst fielding first baseman I can recall. Years ago, they wrote of Rudy York, a 28-2- 30-3- 0 But the evil that men do lives after them, to their regret, chagrin and detriment. Is page 12 Section B Furious Rally Rhodes visited with Herman and Jake Jenkins several years ago and I remember his analysis of his fielding: My fielding? Its not that bad. Sure they talk about it and write about and Leo brings it up all the time. But do you know how many errors I made in two years? Just tw'O. And one of those I shouldnt have made, Dusty prompted. C March 9, 1969 Sunday Morning bull-lik- Not That Had happy-go-luck- Salt Lake City, Utah 6-- 5 ft tape-measu- re c C 6-- 9 But every interview with Stuart starts off with a question about his fielding, homers. nothing about his Stuart is in the same situation Dusty Rhodes, found himself after the Giants cut him off the major league roster. I asked Herman Franks, then third-bas- e coach for the New York Giants, about Rhodes fielding, and his taste for hard liquor. Leo (Durocher, Giants, manager) made quite a thing of both of Dusty's Herman smiled. weaknesses, He wasnt a good fielder, but he wasn't the worst in the league, either. And a lot of guys who didnt drink, and who could field better, didn't help us to the pennant and World Scrips sweep like Dusty did. say m A 6-- interred with their bones. .John Mooney now a Stuart, free agent trying to catch on with the California Angels, is tarred with the Dr. brush, a dubious tribute Strangelove to his lack of fielding skill or interest. Any follower of baseball of recent vintage knows Stuart to be a poor fielder. Dr. Strangelove" iron vies with hands and stone fingers in describing Stuart's defensive lapses. Forgotten by most is the fact Big Stu has clouted 227 major league home runs, an average of 25 a year. He hit 35 homers for the Pirates and batted in 117 runs in 1961. And with the Red Sox, he whacked 42 homers and batted in 118 runs in 1962. But HS 62-5- 5 John Mooney s i By Dick Rosetta Tribune Sports Writer PROVO Geronimo rose again Saturday night in the George Albert Smith Fieldhouse and plucked Bountiful's first state basketball championship scalp as the Braves took a convincing victory over Logan High School's Grizzlies. It v.as billed as a classic battle between the No. Tribunes Sports By i T riy Highland's Biyan George then fouled Bee Gary Glenn with three seconds left in the half and after Glenn tanked both at halttime. tosses it was Highland tied the score for the last time with 6:20 left in the third quarter. Box Elder's Jim Sorensen and Gary Allred connected on field goals to give the Bees the lead for good. The Rams came within one or two points of the heroic Bees, but the Brigham City crew always managed to as the Rams threw up their full court, pressing, man for man defense. stay-ahea- Hero for a Day of Every Bee player deserves the title hero for a day. The exhausted Bees mounted a balanced scoring attack with Gary Allred and Dave Tolman each getting" 17 points, Glenn 12 and Steve Yates By A. T. Roberts The Kearns Cougars PROVO win over carved out a methodical the Provo Bulldogs Saturday afternoon in the BYU Fieldhouse. The impressive win earned Kearns fourth place in the final standings of the Class A tournament. Provo finished seventh. 83-7- 2 Kearns Roils Kearns, NORWAY (AP) VIKKRSlND, ski Bjoern Wirkola. Norway's 1966 world jumping champion, won the International Ski Flying contest on the giant Vikersund Hill Saturday. Wirkola soared 473 and 472.5 feet and was awarded 367.5 points. He edged Czechslovakia's Olympic champion Jiri Raska, who got 319.5 points for jumps of 456 and 461 teet. However, none of the 26 junipers from seven nations matched the powerful leap v of 511 feet made by Czechslovakia's Diviia before the competition started. Divila fell shortly after touching down and his performance could not be recognized as a world record. Lad-isia- The world record of 505 cot was set by Austras Reinhold Bachler in 1967. , c, on the shooting of George Thomas and Milt Chidester, quickly got tiie Cougars out in front, 13-and from that point Provo could never recover. This battle between Provo, undefeated champion of Region Four, and Kearns, the unbeaten kingpin cf Region Three, division two, eventually settled down to in- dividual scoring duels between Thomas and Chidester of Kearns and Craig Drury and Stewart Morrill of Provo. For Provo it was Drury, with a 21.3 league average, and Morrill, with an even mark, against Chides-ter- , 19.6, and Thomas, 19.3. The Bulldog For Box Scores, See Page 3, Col. 1. duo outscored the Kearns tandem, but junior Stan Ross more than made up for that slight difference by adding 26 tor the winning Cougars. 43-3- Foul Trouble Individually, Drury had Morrill 23, 20, Chidester and Ross 26 each and Thomas got in foul trouble early, sat out some of the middle action, then fouled out for good early in the fourth quarter. Kearns coach John Wood started an lineup of Dave Butterfield, Thomas, Gary Pearce and Randy Parks. They jumped to a lead at the end of the first period. r, 16-1- 2 Stretch Margin 10. Norse Ace Captures Ski Flying Honors play 28. Then Wood inserted Ross, who joined with Chidester in widening the Kearns margin. By the half the spread was and just before the end of the third quarter Kendall Peterson chipped in with six straight points to give Kearns its widest lead, Prow's David Porter, Drury and Morrill outscored Kearns, in the final quarter, but this time the Kearns lead was too great to overcome. Sorensen, Box Elder's renter, played a great defensive game and pulled down 17 rebounds. Sorensen, who has led the Bees in scoring ail year, had nine points Saturday. Highland Coach Larry Maxwell, realizing the weariness of the Bees utilized waves of substitutes in trying to wear the opponents down, but the strategy didn't work out to his liking. Blaine Smith led the Rams scoring with 15 and was followed by Don Branca with 12. George and Kent Nelson each had 10 for the Rams. 42-2- 8 65-4- 27-1- 6--6 Spring broke loose for a layup for the Braves, but Laing equaled it with a unherjumper t otie it at 30. Then, the alded Murri, who is overlooked for reasons other than being a foot shorter than his mates, hit two straight long jumpers and from there Bountiful never trailed. Mystifying Spells Logan was still close at the But the Grizzlies mark, were in the midst of one of those mystifying cold spells that struck nearly every team in this tourney. And from the 2:42 mark of the third quarter until the 5:56 mark of the third quarter the Grizzlies failed to score. And in a span which included the aforementioned spell Logan managed only four points. In the meantime Bountiful was speeding along and and Green baskets by Campbell, Murri, and free throws by Campbell, Bill Davies, Murri and Green spread the Brave advantage to a whopping 13 points third-quart- 44-3- Paul Spring, rugged 5 Bountiful star leaps for rebound over hand 6-- Sky View Tips Titans In Breath-take- , sec-on- 64-6- For Box - See Page Scores, Col. 1. 1 From there Logan reserve strength tried valiantly to keep it close. But the real issue had been settled and Bountiful fans knew it as the deservedly chanted Were No. 1, Were No. 1. ace Campbell led Tribune the Braves both in scoring with 18 points and rebounds with 10. It was only in the final two nights of the tourney that Campbell really came through to mettle. He had 28 points in the Highland semifinal. Green added 15 points and Spring and Tibbs had 10 each, while Murri added eight. For Logan it was Lauriski with 26 points. The rest of his mates didnt seem to want to shoot the ball as they have in other tourney games. Therefore Baugh had only eight points, Laing six and reserve Greg Nyman had five. The rest all had two each. himself to Sky View fans who jammed the BYU fieldhouse when, with one second left, his short jumper banked off the beard and dropped through. Because of its victory Sky View earned the consolation prize fifth place in the tourney while the Titans gained eighth place. Pehrson was phenomenal in the fourth period as he accounted for nine points and eight rebounds. He also stole the ball during an Olympus stall with 22 seconds remaining. n No Bearing I ; . - turned out that didnt have any bearing on the final score. The fourth period was close from the "" beginning. The Bobcats, who had taken r the lead on Hal Hansens two foul shots "T at the buzzer, jumped to a lead at the outset of thp last period. Dennis Emery put in a jumper for Olympus, but Hansen evened the score with two more foul shots. With 5:30 showing on the clock Sky View held a ! third-quart- 53-5- 0 - A SACRAMENTO. CALIF. (AP) girl with an engaging smile and the nickname "Peanut was named Sweetheart of California and the sports world Saturday. it Gov. Ronald Reagan proclaimed Debbie Meyer Day in honor of the Sacramento High School girl who won three gold medals in womens swimming at the Olympics in Mexico City last fall. And the Amateur Athletic Union prepared to present Miss Meyer at a dinner with its James E. Sullivan Award, given each year to the nations outstanding amateur athlete. Debbie won gold medals in the 200, 400 and freestyle swimming events at the Olympics in record times. In Sullivan award balloting in January, she narrowly edged Olympic teammates A1 Oerter, the discus thrower, and Bill Toomey, the decathlon champion. : As it Golden State Honors Teen Swim Queen - one-ma- n 55-4- Were No. 64-6- 3 d Doug Pehrsons jump shot with one remaining to play, returned from almost sudden death to defeat Olympus, and win the consolation championship of the Class A tournament Saturday. Pehrson, who first came to the atten- tion of basketball followers last season in the tourney, put on a show in the fourth period, then immortalized By Steve Rudman Tribune Sports Writer e at of Logans Steve Laing as the two teams battled for state prep title. lead. Brian Pavlish scored two free throws to make it Pehrson put in a hook and Sky View' led, Pavlish dropped in another basket and it was then Pehrson hit a foul shot for Sky View and it was 59-5- 6 59-5- Three Points Pavlish and Emery combined for tnree points and Olympus jumped in front, its first lead of the period. Olympus coach Ken Farrell called for time and instructed the Titans to go into a stall. This began with 2:06 remaining. The Titans weaved the ball expertly through the Bobcats until 22 seconds remained. At that point Pehrson stole the baH, dribbled down and shot, but missed. 63-6- rrk - Bountifuls Larry Green fires fast, shot. Kent Baugh tries to block. I I |