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Show gg i nrrr" National Pn-A- "He s got enough experience now that pressure doesnt bother hinj, said the world's greatest player of young Miller. I think John will keep on improving for the next six to seven years. That has to come as bad news to a lot of people. was cancelled Monday due to heavy rain. Rescheduled for a 10 a.m. MDT) start, the final round will be televised over KCPX ch. at 4 p.m. 4 beginning t applications The search is on for a University of Utah football j coach. One. Tom Lovat. most popular Ute coach the past few seasons, has been retained to carry on the Ute grid program. He could get. the head job. An assistant at Notre Dame, under Ara Parsegian, sought the job several weeks, ago on the basis of rumors coach Bill Meek was leaving. He was told then the Utes had no position vacancy. Utes expect to receive ap- plications from many assistants. The prominent Utah job is an attractive one. a former Ute player, played under Jack is Miller had three birdies and one and he accombogey on his par of plished it with a fine iron game and only o luck on the greens, which filled with water as soon as workmen swept them clean. 36-3- 4 so-s- By Dan Pattison Deseret News sports writer Received during the The Utah Stars ended speculation Monday morning by calling a press conference to announce the trade of Glen Combs. Ronnie Robinson and Mike Jackson to Memphis for swingman Johnny Neumann. For Neumann and Robinson, it's a situation where one player is leaving his home and the town Memphis Im other is going back. to be going back said Robinson, who starred at Memphis State. I hope this will be the best thing for me. happy home, Anybody hates to leave a home town, said Neumann, but this may turn out the best for me. Besides, Ive always wanted to play with James Jones. Now, Ill get. my chance. Freeman and Wayne 1971. January, Hightower, Combs had been a starter for two years with Utah before he suffered a dislocated kneecap last year. It kept him out of 34 games last season and he lost his job to Boone. Utah officials are already sifting applications. The selection is expected to be handled with dispatch is It was speculation by the Deseret News sports writer Novice gal winners included Lisa Brinton, Maggie Long and Wendy Gibos taking the first three places, respectively. Novice boy winners were Mike Hugh Montmorency, Johnson and Taz Murray, respectively. Little Joan DeSilva captured peewee honor for the gals with Park Citys RiOie Ayres taking boys honors. ' The two events involved over half of the 1,000 Inter- mountain States registered Division-Unite- d Ski Assn., competitors season long competition. For junior experts and senior racers, the long road through the winter could end up ii national competition; for peewee. novice and intermediate youngsters only valuable seed points and for a higher the hope classifk ation. for This week's action will see junior and senior men and women competing for downhill honors at Snowbird Ski Resort in what should prove to be one of the most challenging events of the season. PARK CITY Intermedi- ate boys and girls launched the two days of racing here with over the weekend Provos Jim Jensen punching out a first place for the boys and Park Citys Doni Wald-mataking gal honors. Jensen was speedy down the Park City Pay near mile-lonDay downhill course as he clocked a 1.02:6 clocking to easily edge runnerup Rick Lowe. Snowbird, who registered a 1.03.06. Craig Bowcut. also of Snowbird, finished third down the course that n g tough bewas particularly cause of extremely poor visibility. Park City's Vicki Beck placed second in intermediate gals competition with Iverson, Solitude, third. Sunday's peewee and novice with racing wasn't any better bad as bit visibility evciy V, fj. See ski resuits on Deseret News Sports Scoreboard on Page ' Rennie Robinson . . . goes back hone Glen Combs . . . traded to Tams Deseret News last week that the Stars were seeking to trade Jackson. Combs, and Robinson to the Tams for Wilbert Jones and Neumann. The Tams apparently didnt, want to part with Jones. Neumann has been averaging 16.5 points per game with the Tams this season. He also had 164 assists and 143 errors. Combs had been averaging 8.0 and .364 percent from his speHe ciality the established an ABA record in 1972, when he became the first player to hit 40 percent from the three-poirange. Robinson, who figures to be a key player in the deal, had been averaging 5.0 points per game and 2.9 rebounds, while averaging 14.0 minutes over 22 three-pointe- r. V' Y o, - Bitter SUN VALLEY cold weather and timing problems harrassed both ski racers and officials here over the weekend as giant slalom competition attempted to get a place in the seed book. Though race results are not complete, officials did ferret out winners for the two days of racing. One of the biggest problems of the two-dameet was the inability to get all Saturday racing completed Saturday. That circumstance, along with timing problems, made the race of one of the most miserable in recent memory. . Far West skier Kathy Rodgers, fast becoming the hottest gai on the circuit, won both womens giant slaloms. She was trailed by Sun Valleys Cathy Butterfield and Salt Lake Citys Robbie Lynn Beck in Saturdays racing with Sun Valleys Leni Walker and Miss Beck following respectively Sunday Bruce Maliea won the junior expert GS Saturday with Sun y Valleys Allan Patterson ing the Sunday event tak- University of Utah's Fred Anderson, establishing himself as a senior frontrunner, won the mens GS Sunday with Fark West boy Steven Urie in that honors taking . classification a Cat, Big games. nickname Robinson picked up in his college days, will be joining his former college teammate Larry Finch with the Tams sports managing editor ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Things have taken a custom- ary strange twist during open- of Western ing weekend Athletic Conference basketball combat. Young, Brigham who en- and tered league war at was not supposed to win many games at home let alone on the read, returned with a win over Texas El Paso and a good, but losing, effort against 6 New Mexico, Colorado State, supposed to be one of the home court patsies, edged Arizona State and slapped WAC favorite Arizona, 84-7- 85-6- Utah, ranked among top contenders, lost road conflicts to both New Mexico and Texas El Paso. The only real weakling to emerge in the opener was Wyoming, drubbed at home by both Arizona Staie. and Arizona Its been this way ever since the WAC began, why should this year be any New different? moaned Mexico coach Norm who saw his EUenberger, Lobos fritter away an lead and hold on for victory over BYU Saturday. EUenberger is only in his second year as head coach, but he was around several years under Bob King. The victory left New Mexico undefeated through 12 games, in in the WAC and University Arena. BYU is and 1 in the WAC. 97-1- 7 0 7 The Cougars wUl prepare for a Saturday rivaliy against Utah at Salt Lake City. Tipoff is 7:30 p.m. BYU is- sure bridging the generation gap between its seniors and sophomores and freshmen," EUenberger copv - that. MtyiMM Johnny Miller jumped into in Crosby tourney Sunday with four-stro- Seven minutes into the second half, the Lobos had YU down 18 points. The game should have been over at that point, said But they moved EUenberger. their zone out, took us out of our offensive patterns, got us to standing around, and made 10 straight points. were only The Cougars down six with 2:30 left, but costly turnovers prevented them from getting into takeover position. Everytime we gained momentum to take over the lead, we turned the ball over or took poor percentage shots, said Potter. There were times I couid have torn my hair out. Then, 1 reminded myself there were freshmen out there. 1 think our youngsters are coming along just great. Among the freshman, Potter singled out Jay Cheesman, who scored 16 points on six of 11 goals, got six rebounds, in Potters words: and, Played extremely poised under some rea! pressure basketball. Doug Richards, in his cusfashion, tomary hustling tallied 21 on 9 of 15 goals and Belmont Andprson, playing lead ke favor. 70. two-und- er That's a cla-sColorado State. And while they say it is lust a normal thing in WAC play with home and away games, one must wonder if the Rams are not really better than anyone supposed them to be. Tite Rains have replaced Utah in the first round as the team most likely to upset the apple wagon. Of course, Utah played two on the road. But you cant lose your road games and win you have to break that service, to use a tennis term, somewhere along the line to succeed. And in this respect BYU might have turned a neat trick when it dumped UTEP in its iirst conference game Friday gets probation 3-y- ear Jackson was a Throw-i- n with the trade since the Stars had already waived him in favor of bringing back Bobby Warren off the injured reserve list. Big Mike was a starter at the beginning of the season. He was averaging 8.1 and 5.1 at the time he was waived. The trade brings the Stars roster to 10, with only nine players being able to dress since rookie Roy Ebron twisted his ankle in practice Friday and will be in a cast for two weeks. I hate to leave Sail Lake City. said Combs. My wife (Marsha) and I have a lot of friends in this community. If comes as kind of a shock. But thats pro ball and you have to live with it if you're going to play pro basketball. With the Tams, though, The Kentucky Gentleman might get his chance to start. The Stars and Tams have had many deals over the past four years. The first year (1970-71the Stars sent Craig Raymond and Bobby Warren to Memphis for Red Robbins and Mike Butler. Since that time, James Jones was signed away from the Memphis club after they forgot to pick up his option. But the Stars were forced by the then ABA commissioner Jack Dolph to part with their No. 1 draft choice 'for Jim Williams Rams took the lamed Arizona team apart at Colorado State Saturday afternoon by 18 points. It was a regional TV game and it looked almost as if it was a stage production with all parts memorized in the Rams' Long Beach 1972. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- a sore leg from the UTEP battle, got 16 points, in 24 minutes. BYU was positively slaughtered on its defensive board during the first half. In early going. New Mexico got six offensive rebound baskets. It was rebounding that motivathalfed the Lobos to a time lead. The board bulge for UNM at halftime was with 43-3- 3 The Cougars adjusted their zone the second half, bringing the point out farther, and shut off UNMs board surge. In the second half, BYU outboarded UNM Bernard Hardin, en route to a 20 point night, got the Lobos off to a fast start. But it was guard Gabe Nava bombing away in late going that kept UNM alive. He got 18 points. 2--3 20-1- Down in the first round The National Collegiate disappointments were Utaii and Arizona Tliis Arizona team, favored to win the title, was down by 22 points to CSU in the second half. Anzona appears to have talent, but was either caught napping at Fort Collins, in the battle on the Poudre River, or Coach Snowden has himself showboat problems. First-roun- Athletic Association prepared to officially open its 68th annual convention today in the wake of some of the most serious violations of its rules and regulations by California State at Long Beach. . University The California school was socked with a stiff three-yea- r by the Sunday probation NCAAs Committee on Infractions for a series of 26 violations in basketball and football. The Long Beach basketball team is currently ranked ninth recin the nation with a ord. However, the probation means that Long Beach State cannot participate in postseason basketball and football competition for three years, nor can those teams take part televid in any sion package. 10-- 1 NCAA-governe- The action against Long seBeach climaxed a ries of probationary penalties. Earlier, California State Uniday-lon- g versity at Hayward was pul on indefinite probation for ineligible using knowingly athletes in baseball and irack over the last four years while Cornell University of Ithaca, N.Y., was given a years probation for recruiting violations concerning two prospective hockey players. Dr. Stephen Horn, president of Long Beach, told the NCAA that all the persons involved in the schools infractions no longerer are with the univer- sity. Long tleaen state was found to be in violation of NCAA 22-1- Time New and again. Mexico threatened to blow the Cougars out of University arena. Each time, though, the determined Cougars surged back to keep 15,300 Lobe partisans tense. y 1 unbeaten mented. "They played tile toughest zone defense we've faced. They have good size and mobility amid their young players. Our timing and execution against their zone patterns were ridiculous. We were unable to execute. But youve got to give coach Glenn Potter and his gang credit for - i Tlie first basketball rounds, like first votes on election day in Maine, tell much about the upcoming season and with Utah down two. BYU and Colorado State quickly installed as the darkhorse, one might be ready to change his appraisal of the WAC situation. ), Jehnny Neumann . . . comes to Stars Watch out for the Rams ! kePf fighting back By George Ferguson By Dave Kadleck Division f JsX Y- - and snow flumes. Intermountain X Buf Lobos still Ski tOC 6 tS win DH, GS honors skiers launched racing campaigns on two fronts over the weekend with complete schedules at Park City and Sun Valley ski resorts. V v and Jackson are players caught in between. Glen has been one of the most popular players for the Stars since coming from Dallas with Ron Boone in a trade for Don weekend were applications from a couple of former Utah State coaches, Chuck Mills and Jess Cone. Both are at Wake Forest. Cone is Mills assistant. - & a V I : Summerhays is now head professional at a Daly City, Calif, public course and competes only part time on the PGA tour Closest to Miller in the windup of the first PGA event of the new year is Grier Combs Curtice and Ray Nagel. inasmuch as recruiting well under way. HfiCK (HILLER , Stars ship three for Johnny Ute brass braced for Lovat t SPORTS EDITOR ' 4 four-und- two-unde- He has the stamp of greatness," said Byron Nelson Sunday after Miller made an unbelievable recovery out of a draining ditcn on the 18th at Pebble Beach. Anyone who can make a shot like that has to be a pretty good player." Still later Sunday, Nicklaus predicted a bright future for the native of San Francisco, perhaps even as bright as his own. J Jones, who shot an even par Sunday for a total of 212, which is par and four behind the lead. Jones said he wasn't all that happy with his play Sunday mostly because of the rain and felt he could do better. Six shots off the lead at 214 are Torn Kite, Red Funseth, John Jacobs and Bruce Summerhays. Summerhays is a Salt Lake City native who was accorded status wlide competing for the University of Utah golf team. In 1966 he won WAC medalist honors along with six major Utah amateur championships, including the Utah State Amateur. He was one of the winningest amateurs in Utah golf history. The reason w.y everyone was saying all those nice things about Miller was r that he had shot a 70 in the rain and over an extremely soggy course lead with one Sunday for a four-shround left in the $185,000 Bing Crosby National Pro-A- PEBBLE BEACH. Calif. (UPI) Now they are saying about Johnny Miller the same things people were saying about Jack Nicklaus a dozen years ago. jywour j V Miller opens Crosby lead of the Bing Crosbv golf tournament 1 $' DESERET NEWS, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1974 Hnal round y w regulations governing amateurism, improper aid and extra benefits to athletes, institutional control and eligibility, ethical conduct, eligibility of athletes for regular-season and competition, recruiting and football practice. Besides its three-yea- r probation, Long Beach will be limited to 20 football scholarships and two basketball grants for the first year of its penalty. Normal limits are 30 in football and six in basketball. n post-seaso- d Once the Rams unlocked that Wildcat defense, even with a press, curtains closed on the Cats. Colorado State made it look so easy. full-cou- One could accept a double loss by Utah on a south swing, except BYU, considered far weaker at this point than Utah, picked one of the two plums. Utah picked nothing. . That full game might be erased Saturday when they in the Ute Wigwam. stage their annual barn-burn- The Rams are runners No one figured the Rams would run. But with Rudy Carey flitting around the court like a monarch butterfly, and big Tim Hall at finessing like a guard, there was no contest on the speed side. 6-- 1 6-- 8 The Rams did run and they ran impressively. Coach Jim Williams always knew how to fly the fast route but over the years lacked talent to take up the tempo. This year he has speed and men who will take the lane when its offered to them. Remember last year's Rams? They went to BYU in the Cougars first home game on the big floor and punished young Glenn Potters Pumas. That took BYU out of the race, really broke up the Cats chance for a third straight basketball championship. This year the Rams, in their first show, appea.' to be twice as strong as last time. Which means they will have everyone running scared tliis time. Last year, after a flurry or two, Williams wound in the WAC, sixth place. Right now hes leading the up won his first two on a friendly lap with New Mexico floor at Fort Collins. 9 Energy crisis hits Utes From the it never rains but what it pours de- partment; University of Utahs basketball dub two suffered road losses to New Mexico and Texas El Paso. The Utes were supposed to return on a Frontier flight at El Paso at 19 a.m. Sunday. It was cancelled. They toured Juarez, awaiting a flight from El Paso to Albuquerque. They finally got one at 3:30 p.m. They were delayed an hour in Albuquerque. They got to Denver at 5 p.m. and were scheduled on a 5:45 p.m. Western flight from Denver to Salt Lake City. It was cancelled. They were about to bed down in Denver when Frontier got them on a 9:45 p.m. flight. It had some mechanical difficulties, but finally got the Utes to Salt Lake City at 11:10 p.m. The penalty against Hayward State prohibits that school from any postseason play or TV' appearances in all sports while on probation. Cornells probation does not include any such sanctions and is little more than a slap on the wrist 1974VOLKSWAGENS Popular Clean Clear Colors j Hundreds of Bold Deeptones Delicate Quiet Off-Whit- es Wild Wonderful Accent Colors We will take your car in trade regardless of size, make or model Investigate our Excellent Finance Plan 3711 South Stale Ph. gat BENNETTS coLorizer, PaiNTS 262-640- 1 VOLKSWAGEN IHTERM0UKTA1N HIE "A FUN PtACtTQ SHOP" SAIT LAKE 'OCQEN |