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Show r ft. - v,- - DESERET NEWS, WEEKEND OF MARCH 23, Indians powow, name cage team JOHLNNESBLRG Tap burned, broken body of peter Revson, second m his family to die following the vport he loved most, lay in a local mortuary today waiting the start of the final lap home nephew of the head the Revlon cosmetics uf empire died Fnday when his racer careened over the guard raJ on Barbecue Bend on the Kvalami Grand Pm track ut 160 miles per hour Reson, dashing, dark-haire- d rated Americas foremost road racing driver, was killed on impact Driver Graham Hill, a teammate, and others struggled to pull his hattereu body from the blaz-,nwreck but the racing star already was dead Revson was practicing for a race that was another step in !u quest to become the first rnencan to win the coveted wot Id racing car Kev son, -- g For years, he had kept driving despite opposition trom his fam 'y and the death of his younger brother, Doug, m a race crash in Spain in 14 t7 The Emergy High has a case Deseret News sports wnter (UPI) -- The BEflOn LEE By Gary R. Blodgett o mystery engineers who built and maintained the Ford shadow tar in which he died puzzled over what went wrong with the finely tuned piece of machinery that now is a twisted wreck Track officials said at first the cars steenng mechanism failed, but later they reported i suspension fault could have caused the accident One of a small band of Vmencans who rose to chalthe European-Latlenge domination of the Formula I international racing circuit, he to Jackie finished second , 'tew art, of Scotland, m driving championship fast year He won two 1973 Grand Pnx events, finished second m the Indianapolis 500 m 1971 and was scheduled to drive m the top American the-vorl- event again this year. ' K There was a big Indian powwow" at Ft Duchesne last weekend r Indians representing more than 30 tribes from a dozen states converged on the Ute Reservation But it was all tor a good cause v The powwow was for basketball tryouts to select the first basketball team Ad there was a turnout of more than 50 Indians from all over the nation said Wayne Post oft, coach of the team which is sponsored by the National Indian Activities Association Emery Countv, Itah ent what youd commonly call the complaint center of the state Residents of Castle Date Huntington. Orangeville and wurntv usually roll with the punches, mind their manners V letter to the editor means you know the publisher So when word filters from the central Utah area that something s rotten m the gymnasium you know they've gof a case worth hearing Ucordmg to several letters and phone calls citizenry down Fmery way are still hopping mad about Regiom Sevens basketball policv of holding a year ending Round Robin to decide who 11 go to the state basketball meets The system doesn't allow anv special treatment for re This is the first sanctioned Indian team, although vanous teams in recent years hrve claimed such a title, said Postoak This team was chosen by the MAA. sponsoring organization tor all Indian athletic activities with representatives from every region of the United States . t -- T o x speitate Hr J 2 da.... i. J The team is represented by the Klamath, Arapahoe Creek Assimboine, Crow, Mojave and Choctaw tribes Members are Alan Los Angeles, Spoonhunter, Dave del Feirro, Seattle. Clayton Small Billings' Ted Standingaoldier, Kansas City; Mike Tosee, Oklahoma City; only Ml tournament The two top and squads, respectuely, eain state tournament rights It all sounds fair on papT surety it a team goes through league unbeaten it will win the Round Robin, rea son league officials, who bolster athletn funds considerably by having the extra affair each year $ : It g team was chosen over the 1J3-S- the team with the worst reiord has to four 1 schools and the four remaining si hools automatically qualify for the doub'c elimination school 1 I-- eft - j - ft vA ft ft- - 1 to tbe start gion won lost records accumulated from Jan 'l of the Round Robin, always at the end of February the two months of league play does is wetd out a single fSftSv V An weekend and they left Salt Lake City via "the big bird for Baton Rouge, La , to compete m the National A U championship' The team lost to the host Baton Rouge Hawks, in the opening round Thursday We were entered in the team, a tourney as an berth that was given to us without having to qualify, We said Postoak. were gt anted the berth this year and next on the basis of our organization of an alllnd in, all American team J W4 An 11 -- member, all-Indi- the nation, was organized in Maynard Hart, Kansas City, Ron Jones, Portland, Don Track, Phoenix, Rod Miller Wolf Point (Mont ), Sonny 1 icer, Los Angeles, and Lew Goodluck, Billings Assisting Postoak are pete Homer Jr , assistant coach, and Dave Johnson, trainer Postoak and Johnson are from Kansas City, Homer is from Phoenix Many o the prospects who for the tea.n were directly off the reservation Others were living in subuibs of large cities, and all were said players experienced Posioak tried out slid most of the voung men who attended the tryouts were sponsored by the tnbe or famous Ind'ans m the He Ft. cage team, representing several tribes throughout, Duchesne to compete in AAU finals in Baton Rouge, La 'ports field like Arne Reyn- olds All of our players were 'hort by basketball 'tandai ds but we have a good team w ith The a lot of talent, he said exposure of playing m the U championships will give the team (and Indians in genand eral) a better image thats what we need Indians under the MW, have come a long way m the past few years Only a year ago it was a struggle to organize an all Indian basketball tournament which was held in Salt Lake year later the same group is organized m eight regions encompassing the entire nation The MAA not only sponsors local tournaments but wilt stage an ail Indian na tional championship tournament m Albuquerque, N M , May 21 24 This tourney will be comprised oi two winners in each o' the eight regions Players from the winning team of the national tourney, along with a few tournament all-star- probably will s comprise the team to be represented in next years AAU. said Postoak MAA also sponsors organ led boxing an rodeo and wed like to xpand into womens sports and junior olvmpies for our youth under 17 Ron Johnson, president ot the MW, believes there is no limit as to what an organization can do "But wc n Emery holding the gun fts need to promote the true Indi an image, he said Its true we use federal promote some of our athletic activities, just like binds to but we other organizations want to do all we can withou! federal help We build self esteem through self So without its ace in the hole. Kmery wilted in its next two tests, played m the next two days The Spartans were ousted from tourney play on the final night of the Round Robin, losing to Juab, the exact same Juab they d beaten to open the tournament It meant staying borne from Biovos big meet tor the tourth ranked school, one of the (avontes And when f it was as ( owleys ankle had had a couple of dav's good as new, ready for more basketball accomplishment gams some MAA of its such through ognition 'ft But program backfired. .,nd Emery was yo;r holding the gun After running through Regiom Seven competition like j flood, winning eight and losing none, the Spartans ventured to Round Robin action confident of faring well enough to go to state, and giving Sanpete Division winner Manti a good run for the Region's gold Then dunng an opening win over Juab, star center fracy Cowley injured his ankle Now lowley had been to t rnery all year like Jerry West is to the Lakers, like Kis singer to Nixon rec- greit athletes as Bitty Milts who won the Olympics gold medal tor 10,000 meters He represented the U S in the Tokvo meet inl9t4 lay-of- Mills and a handsome likeable Indian, handles much of the public relations for the MAA Hes a smooth talker and gets things done Its a sad way to run a region, said Emery Coach Brert Arnold after the nightmare was over Its stupid to go through two months if play and then say, that doesnt mean anything, the next three days will Arnold has sympathy from every other coach m the league Emery should easily have been our reprosen tative after the way it cruised through league," 'ympathued Richfield Coach Bob Cuff Juabs Duke Reul agreed Deeret flew scoreboard Solutions offered ABA standings WHL standings u EAGLES Port and Phoenii San Diego Seattle Denver Denver 105 STARS 103 New York til, Son Diego 106 Only games scheduled Saturday's tomes New York ot Denver (930 pm) Carolina at kenhjckv (810 Dm) STARS Ot Memphis (BO pro' San Diego vs Virgno at Har won Va (8pm1 (Only gome scheduled) 35 36 35 79 26 J 75 75 62 52 751 251 2J6 219 247 264 289 282 Friday'! Result Portland 5 Son Diego 0 Denver 8 Seattle 3 Saturday! Gomes Son Diego at Seottia Portland at Phoenix Denver at EAGLES GILLS BUCKS 5, George Cooper stood atop Hidden Peak at snowbird the other day and Ski Resort said This is beautiful This is n country I think I can bnrg the tit!" back to saU Lake City ' Coope wanted to get awav from his daily routine of box mg He gets up at 6 a m every morning and runs about uve mites around Sugar House Park. Then he rests until 2 pm and goes to the gym for a workout The Wi'orld Boxing Associations fifth ranking middleweight wanted to check out what he had heard so much the beautiful ski sceabout nery surrounding Salt Lake City and the area He wasnt But his converdisappointed sation always centered around He fights Larry boxing. B'asier Tuesday mght at Utahs Sports and Special Events Center, 7 30 His manager, Alan Moore,' aid, We were looking for a place to have more time to rain and then wake the town up aiid try to revive boxing in M the area experience corking with Marv Jensen hroughout Rex Lay ne s ca -- N U ! get a middleweight championship fight for George, too Moore used to work with Layne in the 50's He advised Jensen on his training habits Knowing the success of the Fullmers (Cene and Don) gives us the feeling that it can also happen here for George, Moore noted Geuige Foremans manager, Dick Sadler, as the perfect machine like boxer He is a classic standup boxer ard a good puncher He won the National Golden Gloves title in the lfpound division m 1966 and boxed in tne Olympic trials where he s He lost m the tuned pro in 1968 semi-final- Its a real opporturu.y coming up here, Cooper said It really tickles me to have two fights as quick as Im doing If you checked my rec-rd- , I only had two fights all last year It really disappointed me I know I m good But Ive never had a the chance to prove myself I feel 5 will up here. Plus the fact you get into shape up here running m atmosphere Its a lot better than running at sea level for me Cooper was born m Arkansas, but his family left there when he was 10 years old and moved to Oakland He has been fighting in gyms since he I used to was 14 yearr old look at the Wednesday mght fights and they got me interested in boxing, Cooper offered. I always wanted to do something m sports, but not with teams I'm sort of a personal guy I like to keep to myself I always admired guys like Ray Robinson and I thought to myself, I want to be like him ' Eut the main Ihrng is I always wanted to just be myself, have my own style I figured whatever I dd, I was going to be good at it Inactivity really has hampered him Its like a quarterback getting only one chance and then sitting on the bench the rest of the season, I used to hear them he said moan because they never got theur chance But Ive always trained every day hoping for a chance It was hard not know- Cooper has been referred to bv heavyweight champion ing when the next fight would come Athletic tvercise 9 2 40 tnider Brown ASU ASU 3 9 30 Alexander, NW V0r 4 Chond'er tie, Garda CSU, ond Kirby, A, 5 8 90 Pommel Horse 40 2 Allen CSU 9K Bi 4 gie till 1. 9 7' NM ASU Larson ASU i Sabey. A 9 05 Duo'cvl 8 83 and (shorn tie, turf!) Rhgs A Tie 5 ASO CSU 9 25 2 Repp NM 9 10 BYU 4. tie, Young and Bon ASU 1, Aiexonder ASU, 9 80 Vaulting V 75 CSU J Blevln ? Dndrick ArU 9 20 4 Young BYU, 9 15 5 Hoeger BYU 9 05 D oerne Bar Horizontal l 2 9 6 ASU 9 4) CSU Uedrici Zomora fie Hanson ASU ond CSU, 9 30 4 tie Day, NM Repp, NM, and Reuter A 9 15 I Bian AjU 9 M Parallel 8or Zarnoro CSU 9 1, 3 Krovity NM 4 8 8 tie Youno BYU Douglas, CSU ond Han on ASU 8 80 1 A Around Repp NM 53 40 7 5. 20 3 Moeger BYU Youro BYU 51 tO 51 03 4 5 ASU. Alexander Werst A 50 80 Teem Score, 1, Amona State, 31V 20 2 New Mevio 3)0 75 i Ari 307 4, no 309 35 4 Colorado State 5 Brigham Young j0 i 70 ard Bellmon, I 09 Shots on gool bv Portland San Diego Portland Goalie Diego Adams A- -t3 4jl 9 15 3, OcWl A - Prep baseball NBA standings Prep track Poland ii 6 7 6. 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(j M HOBBLE Atlonto 107 Ph loae'ohto 106 95 Capita! 1C9 107 Oetroit Kansas Los Angeles 99 CfKogofJ Vilwa kee 106 f'or!e ICl Phoen 126 Buffalo 119 standings 8pm, Frida?! Results Cottonwood 89 Highland V Bo ton 126 NHL ft' Oun'lerfinols Dick Bohmstedt o na 44 Saturday s Schedule i .0 pm Btily Martin v Vito' Gerulod e rdf Calif 5 pm Frontisck Halo Jon New York Piefky tiechoslarfokio vs Vlaso Vai na Jimmy Connors Belle vHI Itl Dick v Bohrntdf Los 9 30 pm Con icft GerukjiN Angel V, Martin ChrLten Kjhnke Viewmcnt 3 Westfi binghom 4 Granger East Pro tennis results ,0 Double Vfle O borne Robbmr to't 6 100, rt trookendea Twle Skyline Of course, thp best answer, in this corners opinion, to abolish Round Robins and let league standings determine who finishes where m league and who goes to state A home and away league schedule cant give undue home-couadvantage and gives impetus to Friday gaBes throughout the year 4 Rrijhton? Bountiful? Eastern Conference Attontic Division Won Last Pd Coopers goal title shot reer and what he did with Gene Fullmer helped us de cide on the area I know Man will also help - f AP) Result, ot round in tbe We,t Conference Gymnastic Aril Frdavs optional ern 00 ASU Fights Tuesday By Das Pattison Deseret News sports wnter gymnastics TUCSON, 9 Portland I s 2 S P--4 San Diego 9 First No period scoring Penalties Buhr 1 17, Misjuk 17 56 Second Portland period Hughes .,5 (CnmebeM) 12 37 2 Port tnnd, Campbell 27 (Hughes) 12 57 3 Pcvtfond, Wilson 9 (Haggerty) 14 39 Penalties Modlgan 8 26 Hoggarty 9 it O Pee V 26, Abgrail mrlor) H 50 4 Portland, Hughes Ihrd period 6 fPeters Von Horhtk) 14 30 5 3 fnrtand Hughes (Compbeil, 17 Viison) Penalties Modsgan 1? Boxer George Cooper, left, points out the splendors of one of Snow Bird to his manager, Alan Moore Utah's scenic wonderlands WAC T Ptt GF GA A 74 311 tS9 4 76 366 2J1 W Best solution yet urges automatic seeding privileges lor league champions during regular play There can still lie Round Robins if the administrators need the funds, but all the competition dunng the year wont be for naught Certain! v, Region Seven clubs need more league incen live. The case of North Sevier walking out of South Seviers gym because of poor officiating may be cited If that league game would have mattered the Wolves wouldnt have been as quick to leave Regions Eight and Nine both run Round Robins, bill with league champs automatically seeded to state For these leagues, according to a vanety of coaches and ad mimstrators, the system is more equitable 5820841 |