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Show "' jfr- - niir ((ifryi ,nl iinniiii gn-i-- m V idm infill m qq0ht 'fy''"ir"l f9 60 DESERET ., NEWS, Friday, December 8, 1972 ' By BRENT CHECKETTS Deseret News Sports Writer On a term loaded with young rookies, Salt Lakes Golden Eagles center Ron - NKW YORK (AP) How would your kid like a Washing- sanctioned by an outfit known as NFL Properties, Inc., ton Redskin hubcap for his which operates down the hall Christmas bicycle? Or maybe from Commissioner Pete one from the Houston Oilers if Roelles posh New York of' you dont mind taking a fices. chance on the wheel coming NFL Properties belongs off equally to the 26 pro football Or a Dallas Cowboys parka, club owners. Roelle says he a .Miami Dolphin lamp, a Min- has no control. Bob Carey, a nesota Viking pewter pitcher onetime Proctor and Gamble or a Philadelphia Eagle trash executive, operates the propercan? ties. on all the market. Theyre We get a 5 percent royalty Maybe a $17 95 NFL electric on the wholesale price of ap football game for the provpd products, Carey said. santa to drop under That means that $100,009 in your tree? Or even an NFL sales and thats wholesale, wristband to keep the not retail earns us prices sweat off jour hands while only $5,000. shoveling snow The 26 NFL dubs supposedHundreds of gift items carry tlu National Football League's ly will get less than $15,000 sanction in what has become a each as their share of the inullimillion doilar business. take. Rozelle is expected to The main pitch is to small fry announce soon that the relawho idolize Sundays heroes. tively paltry sums will be for charities fathers also lumped together Young such as helping destitute forbuy heavily. mer pro football players. stores from Department Honolulu to Key West bulge Youd think, looking at the with goodies bearing insignias stores array of NFL goods, of NFL teams. One large that nothing else could be dechain even has an NFL De- vised to grab your holiday dolpartment" in its stores coast lar. But. don t bet on it. to coast. We turned down one comStrangely, NFL clubs claim that wanted to pul out pany to reap little financial gam toilet paper with NFL team infrom the mushrooming entersignias, Carey grinned. "The prise. Profits of about $350,1100 idea would be to peddle Green annually are scheduled to go toilet in Dallas the Bay paper to charitv beginning in 1973. week before the Packers were Any item with NFL team or playing the Cowboys. You get must be the idea. league markings full-tim- during his senior amateur career were helping Spokane, teams to the Allan Cup. symbolic of supremacy in senior amateur hockey, in 1970 and seven-yea- r Golden Eagles center Ron Huston has shown steady improvement during his first year as a professional. last season. Huston began a close association with Eagles general A1 Rollins in manager-coac1970, when Rollins was coaching Spokane of the WIHL. Huston played for the Cran- - VOLKSWAGEN Ski Festival 37 1 1 So. State brook Royals that season, but Rollins, who was coaching Spokane, added Ron to the the for roster Spokane Bowl 'Biz' Adds Up News Special first PARK CITV annual Ski Festival will be held, at Park City Ski Resort y MADE IN FRANCE 10-SPE- ED DiemE 102 One Lay-Aw- Completely Assembled requirement: Tickets must be picked up before Sunday at any one of three Wolfes Sportsman Headquarters stores m Salt Lake City at One of the world's finest now in stock for Christmas 30-DA- Y ised. ay plus South State St.. Ogden or Provo. A NASTAR race will be run for all those recreational skiers who desire a timp through the gates. 250 FREE INSPECTION HOLLADAY SCHWINN CYCLE 6 4644 HOLLADAY BLVD. 277-262- YORK (UPI) -no business like bowl NEW Theres business for college football administrators wholl collect a record $7.25 million from the 10 leading games from Dec. 18 through New Sunday. Free skiing, 15 cent hot dogs and drinks, demonstrations by ski and binding factory representatives, a clinic on ski tours, trick skiing and a variety of other bonuses are prom- post-seaso- n Years ' Day. The Rose Bowl alone will shell out an estimated $2.5 million with identical shares of about $1.25 million each to the Big 10 and Pacific Eight conferences for the appearances of Ohio State and Southern California at Pasadena on Jan. 1. Loot from the other leading bow games descends from the $460,000 anticipated by each team in the Orange Bowl to $110,000 expected by each team in the Sur. Bowl at E. Paso, Tex. 1 In between are the Cotton Bowl at $ 435.000 for each participant, Sugar Bowl $400,000 each. Gator Bowl $250,000 each. Liberty Bowl $210,000, $200,000. Fiesta Bowl $170,000, and Peach Bow 1$140.000. IT S HERE! e r WHY WAIT - BUY TODAY! SEIBERLING FOUR 'Yry 'or 'C,' 'election Voice Price Sr Dick Heunion 166 So. Mam QUIETSmOTH - Did NEW YORK (UPI) you ever wonder how baseball star Johnny Bench would do as a golfer? Or how Gary Player would fare swinging a baseball bat? place $10,000 fans will gel how proin spoils other than the ones m which they acquired their fame at a m i n l -t vv o - d a y Well, sports their chance to see fessional athletes do unique TOMORROW next February. Olympics A HOCKEY athletic two-da- y SALT LAKE competi- GOLDEN EAGLES tion, with $122,000 in cash prizes. will be held Feb. 19 and 20, at Rotonda, Fla., which will pit 10 of the nations top athletes against each other in such sport as swimming, bicycling, golf, weightlifting, track, and tennis, bowling, baseball hitting. ping-pon- VS PHOENIX ROADRUNNERS g 7:30 P.M. SALT PALACE The athletes selected to participate in the event are Bench, Player, Joe Frazier. Johnny Umtas, Rod Laver, Willie Shoemaker. Stan Mikita, Elvin Hayes, Jim Stefamch and Peter Revsoy. TICKETS 4.50, 3.50, 2.50 $1.00 Off for Children 18Yrs.& Under The event will be videotaped for ABC sports network and will be shown on Feb. 24. FASTEST, ROUGHEST, MOST EXCITING Each of the athletes will compete in seven of 10 sporting events lie selects with the exception of his own specialty. The 10 competitive will include a e e run. race, golf. swimming, one set elimination, one-se- t d half-mil- two-nul- nine-hol- GAME! Reservations CALL events dash, bike 363-768- 1 e tennis ping-pon- g CHEVY VEGA 3b4-366- ln! Ikt In $$ The total payoff will date with Oklahoma on New be about $100,000 higher than Y'ears Eve, picking up its last year. Some sponsors fifth paycheck in merely will match last years Joe Paternos seven years as fees but others will have more head coacn, Georgia Tech's money for the participants. Liberty Bowl shot figures to The Orange Bowl, for in- be worth $210,000 and West stance, gets additional revenue Virginia can expect about from about 4,000 seats that $140,000 from the Peach Bowl. were added to accommodate But look what happens to the popular Maimi Dolphins. the that The Sugar Bowl has paid off Big 10 expects from the Rose its mortgage and therefore Bowl: can sweeten the pot for the Off the top come expenses contending teams. Some bowls have increased ticket prices or for the team, band, official conference representatives signed fatter television conand their wives, league tracts. athletic directors and football That $7.25 million total for coaches with their wives, the 10 top bowls sounds like a bo10s float in the Rose Pananza for the colleges but for Big at Pasadena and a few rade many ot them its strictly an assorted other items. The reillusion. mainder is split 11 ways and one share each to the commisConference teams that means 16 of the 20 in the sioners office and the 10 conare bound by ference schools. The shares, it leading bowls complicated schemes to is estimated, came to about with other $85,000 last year. members of their respective The Big 8 Conference, with leagues. So many hands dip five teams in into the pot none of them gets games, will divide narlv $1 5 nth. million among its eightifeams However, the independents Notre Dame, Penn State, West Virginia and Georgia Tech share only with the tax people. Bowl loot thus becomes an important factor in their athletic budgets. Notre Dame, expecting an estimated $460,000 for its OrPIT SIZE TAX ange Bowl game against Nebraska, shunned the postseason bowls for decades but surrendered to the linally money motive late in the 1969 season and decided to accept a Cotton 3owl invitation fof Jan 1, 1970. The Irish played in the Cotton Rovvl for two straight years but stayed home last holiday season. 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When a team plays only five home games during one month as we do this month, it is important to gain two points every chance you get. Ive ent years. Biggest thrills h Volkswagen Intermountain ownership of the California Golden Seals over the summer. Rollins recommended Huston highly to the organization. As a result, the Seals offered Huston a salary good enough to lure him away from e combined jobs into pro hockey. The solidly built has not enjoyed the fantastic scoring success with the Eagles he had in amateur hockey, but he is showing steady improvement. He currently has eight goals. 13 assists for 21 points. That's good enough to earn him a spot among the top 10 scorers in the WHL. Due to a surplus ot centers. Rollins used Huston at right wing early in the season. But Ron wasn't at home there, so during the November trip to Central League cities, he was mov ed back to center. Ron played it so well he was named Most Valuable Player in the Western International Hockey League four times. He had two five-gogames, two four-gogames and scored more than 30 goals four differ- LEASE A Call Dick McDonald Sk first-yea- Dn-Gri- p Bench Do year, Ron played the entire season for Spokane, as the team nabbed its second Allan Cup in three years, this time w ith Norm Johnson as coach. Roilins didnt forget Huston's prowess, and when the Salt Lake squad came under Huston is somewhat of an oddity. Like 10 other members of r the team, T.on is a pro. But unlike the others, he isnt 23 or younger. Instead hes 27. a ripe old age for rookie status. How come it took him so long to get to the pros? I could have played pro hockey before, in fact I've had short tryout stints with Portland and Seattle," he says. But I couldnt afford to turn professional. Im an electrician in addition to a hockey player. 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