| Show April 6 1973 Page 16 Kucjby team wins Pair at Y NEW YORK AP —It would cost $1490000 a year to field baseball’s Gold Dust Team a squad made up of the highest salaried players in the game ' according to position The signing of first baseman Dick Allen to a three-yea- r $675000 contract by the Chicago White biggest the trend paycheck-emphasize- d toward skyrocketing salaries in professional sports Sox-baseball- ’s The $200000 yearly contract is replacing the once staggering $100000 figure as the price tag on the diamond’s superstars but baseball still is a struggling fourth behind pro basketball hockey and football in average salary Here is baseball’s new lineup based on estimated and known paychecks for the 1973 season: 18-kar- at IB — Dick Allen White Sox $225000 2B — Joe Morgan Reds $90000 3B — Brooks Robinson Orioles $110000 SS — Luis Aparacio Red Sox $100000 OF — Hank Aaron Braves $200000 OF —Carl Yastrezmski Red Sox $165000 — OF C — — $165000 Gibson NO YES varsity baseball team Please consider this poll carefully as it maygnite some action toward the birth of a baseball team here at Utah State State whether or not you would be interested in a team and whether or not you would be willing to lend a little financial support WHY OR WHY NOT? The tea m is equipped with both a pitcher Carlton and righty Gibson but if either got into trouble a call could go out quickly for Tom Seaver of the New York Mets who wouldn’t hurt the financial status much with his new $140000 contract of the Frank Robinson California Angels sits in the wings in the outfield with his $150000 agreement He could also be the designated hitter Please deposit completed polls left-handed the Student Life editorial office 315 of the UC in J room Gold dusters a reality? baseball has other s players in the $100 bracket-includinJuan Marichal of the Giants and Pete Rose of the Reds — the national pastime is still being upstaged by rival sports in the financial care of its athletes Although 000-plu- g Pro basketball is the leader in with average of the National salareis Basketball Association figured at around $52000 Kareem Abdul Jabbar is earning about $400000 annually this cateogry The National Hockey League fixes its average at $40000 and the National Football League at around $33000 Baseball’s is around $28000 The average cream like has risen big money to the top In this age of sports affluence a favorite parlor game is that of present baseball salaries with that of Babe Ruth Reds The Babe home run king of the 1920s made $80000 a year He didn’t pay any income tax and hamburger was 20 cents a pound Phillies This sports poll is dedicated to finding out whether students at Utah State would be interested in supporting a $160000 Johnny Bench Steve Carlton IN A BASE- BE INTERESTED BALL TEAM AT UTAH STATE? Cards comparing $110000 P P — Bob Mets $165000 WOULD YOU tourney Mays Willie STUDENT LIFE SPORTS POLL By Bill Essex SL Sports Staff Aggie Ruggers won ' two of showing was also made by Tui Halaufia Mike Collette Andy third in the nation) Dr Ben Norton USU’s Rugby Coach said that a match with the A team would probably have ended in an Aggie defeat and not allowed USU to continue in the three matches to take consolation honors at the BYU Rugby Tournament last weekend USU tied with BYU’s B team tournament fer the first game of the tourThe second game of the series nament was a 18-- 0 shut out against the 7 The Ags were leading up University of Utah on Saturday of until the last five minutes play morning when BYU completed a try to tie Lane Wille and Knute Rockne comBYU then the score up each completed a try for USU pleted a disputed conversion and Andy Alexander kicked two pulled two points ahead as the penalty goals and two conclock ran out versions for a total of ten points The final converstion was apMike Collette was named as the pealed and both the USU and most valuuable back by the U of BYU coaches agreed to call the U team match a draw USU’s final game of the series John Seagar BYU’s Rugby was against the Provo City Coach is reported as having said Rugby Club and resulted in a 10-- 0 that his team played so poorly Aggie shut out Wille and Rockne not deserve to win that they-diagain each completed a try USU then conceded to treat the Alexander scored a two point match as a loss in order to enter conversion the consolation competition Had Coach Norton said that the the Aggies continued in the showing in the tournament was regular tournament the next characterised by good hustling game would have been against by the forwards good tackling the BYU A team (which is rated and a generally good defense Lane Wille and Jeff Jorgensen did an outstanding job in the tournament Coach Norton said A good Alexander 18-- 0 USU has a record of three wins one loss and one tie for the season This Saturday the Aggies will again meet U of U in Salt Lake at 10:30 am On April 11 they will play the BYU A team at 4:00 pm on the field behind the East High Rise USU will play a home game against the Park City Rugby Club on April 14 at 2:00 pm d ‘ Hansen USU took 23 players to the tournament and allowed all of them to play in at least one game Coach Norton said that the weakest team was fielded against U of U in a game that resulted in an Aggie shut out 11-- 1 Holger Knute Rockne and Wes Innes J Rugby practices are held at pm daily on the Quad Anyone interested in playing should attend a regular practice session 5:00 BYU’s A team won the tournament championship The Park City Rugby club took second SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES DISPLAYING THIS POSTER by Ken Passarella number of things to talk about today First off it’s sad to see that my baseball poll didn’t cause the response that I had expected Since running the poll 23 ballots have been turned in Of the 23 21 are in favor of fielding a baseball team here at Utah State A l! 1 I m television starting at 11 am Tomorrow there will be a soccer game scheduled to begin at 3:30 behind the High Rise dorms At 2:00 tomorrow on the Quad there will be a lacrosse contest between Utah and Oregon State Lacrosse is a fast rugged sport and well worth watching I knew it had to happen sometime and it happened at the worst possible time The Utah State women’s basketball team finally lost a game In the finals in New York this past March the gals lost their first two games Coached by Fern Gardner the team went into New York with a spotless 12-- 0 record and the In- The poll is being run again in hopes that a few more students will voice their opinion in this matter Maybe it’s a little far fetched but I’d like to see a few hundred ballots turned in so that we may have a more accurate picture of how the students feel on this matter I termountain Final balloting in the Pizza Hut don’t know all Championship it’s the details but Basketball Classic shows that safe to that the team did their say Bob Lauriski will be representing the best women’s best Utah State on April 14 Bob nailed team inBeing the Intermountain area is down eighth place on the strength an honor Hats off to Fern of 53200 votes Lauriski will team quite and all the girls for their outup with other West stars Ed efforts all season long Ratleff of Long Beach Larry standing I don’t know what right Herm Hollyfield of UCLA Swen Nater UCLA Olsen and the ASUSU Executive Doug Little Oregon Ruben Southern Council have in challenging the Triplett Methodist Mike Bayer Sacred Student Life staff to a game of Heart Larry Moore Texas-Arlingto- n Rich Fuqua Oral Roberts and Steve Mitchell of Kansas State The East squad is headed by former Olympian Doug Collins of Illinois State and Dwight Lamar of Southwestern Louisiana The game will be shown on national Basketball Apparently Herm and his cohorts are totally unaware of the talent that abounds on our staff Such names as Jody "Doctor J" Burnett “Jumpin’ ” Issac Martin Steve “Rattlesnake” Brown and countless others See you Tuesday Herm |
