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Show 16 I) Sports in Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, April 1?, 1970 7h Now By A Good Pcrpeelie Thiii" Its the Salt Lake Padres in PCL Ray Herbat Tribune Sports Writer The structure cf nuror league ha -- ehull has charged drasucally over the past 45 years, evolving from powerful, ownership clubs one-ma- n "v t v Baseball has always been popular in Salt Lake City , and the new PCL ? entry is bound to bring in fans. Hi it 11 JfcSL 5 to the present day when many of the major league teams own and operate their minor V'f league franchises. Salt Lake City, one of the pioneer members of Pacific Coast League baseball, has gone this route. And, for the Skiing Coach Quits U.S. Mens Team (AP) - S Bob Eckles, loft, and John Hall are junior college transfers from Snow DENVER Coach Henderson of the U.S. mens alpine ski team said Saturday evening he is resigning effective June 1. Hendersons announcement came during the spring meeting of the U.S. Ski Assn.s board of directors and alpine corapet itions committee, where the association took action aimed at cleaning up" amateur skiing. Wrote Melville wh' are plajing rol for Utah State unlieaten tennis team this jear. Don Aggie Nettcrs Sunday's Races Heres Tally Get Help Of Classics Tribune Special From Snow Raceway Parks grand 3rd Round feature to The Bonneville HUNTER 1970 Sunday will opening By Marion Dunn Tribune Sports Writer - LOGAN Ever body that junior college transfers play an important role in a university's football and basketball programs, but how about in other spoits? Well, two former Snow Junior College players are a big factor in Utah Slate's tennis lecord for the team's knows 0 season. Two Winners the Ford drag racing team, led bv Ed Teiry, as the drag facility stages the first of 23 shows scheduled this season. The opening is contingent on the weather, which was AUGUSTA, GA (AP) Here are the leading scorers after the third rend of the Masters tournament. -2Biliy Casoer, K lieie. Net sear the Aggies will new basketball arena in operation and plans call for construction of indoor Nelson courts in George Fieldhouse. When that happens the two junior college transfers believe USU will be able to compete with anyone. hae their Were Competitise USl plavs a not too much different from that Eckles and Hall followed at Snow. We know a lot of the other pbers we plaed them m junior college. We aie competi t.e, Eckles said. The two tennis st.us stjy in shape during the off season here by playing handball, and running around the track in the infield. "Utah, BYLT and Weber have a big advantage with indoor courts, but our day is coming when we'll catch up." llall believes. The Aggies drive lo games w ith coach Dutch Betnap piloting ore car and one of the plovers the o'ber. now Right n hedule be-au- paddleball Flew to Matches ' We flew matches las. a ear. hut it ate up all our to budget. This vear we took a vole and e'ected to drive to save money an have more matches." Eck'es explained. "And cone li Belnap Keeps things movn g on a trip like that so it is never dull. In f ut it is a loi of fun." Itall added. I'tali Soccer I .ea gue Mfi as 4 fYj V,h ng$ A United Livton 1 C B Incas B kicKe 0, BcuntfuJ 4 B 49 70 70. t. Gary Player -2- 1170 Charles ; Ccoay, Be-- 1 Aaron, Vancey, Dave Stockton, 79 precipitation. The gates will open at 10 a.m. with the first race scheduled at 2 p.m. Terry will be challenged by many local super stock entries, including Jimmy Olsen, of BountifuL year. Tcrrwny told Th Associated Press he was quitting for perI sonal reasons and because wouldnt want to stay the length of time I think the program needs. This, Henderson said, would be at least two more years, through the 1972 Olympic Games. If a change is made, it should be made now, so an incoming coach can build for the Olympic Games in 1972, he said. He -2-13Dave Hill, 7.' -2-14Takaakki Kono, 75 68 71. 2U Frank Beard, tarry 68 Bed Lunn, Hinson, 75. -2- 16Bert dy, Vrea Skiers Special to The 4 Tony Jacklm, 70; Bob (A) Cherles Coe, Hsieh Yung-Yo79 cox 77 Howe er, qualified. Miss Cochrans time for the one-ru- n of womrns giant slalom was 90.6t, while Mivs Beck had a 96 49 clocking Suzie Patterson, Glenda Stelma and Claire Blackman, all Sun Valiev, finished lih, 23rd and 32nd. respectively. "qaapasa 16' 74. 72 Steve 71 ; (A) Gay Brewer, -2- 21- Grier Bob Jones, 73? Ken Bruce Still, Crampfon, 222 Giles, fA Marvin Douqlass, 78 Dai Arnold Palmer, Sikes, 223 George Knudscn, 73 224 A! Geiberger, 73 77 74, Bruce Devhn, 74; R. H. 75 73 72 Despite some shortcomings which I readily admit to. Henderson wrote to Melville. the year Las been a success in many wavs. Two medals were won, the first since 1964 and the first gold ever. Both were won by Bill Kidd in the International Ski Federation championship at Val Gardena. Italy, and Kidd since has turned professional. 22e Bob Rcrburg V r' 226 Wilier Barber, 77 -2- 23Dean Refram, (A) denotes amateur. Pad Tip L.A. LOS ANGELES (UPI) -Ed Spiezio drilled a two-ruhomer in the second inning and Dan Coombs and Ron llerbel combined for a shutout Saturday night as the San Diego Padres blanked tiie High School Soccer n Other Intermountain skiers included Bn an Seeholer. Ixjgnn, Utah. 23th, 197.3; Ralph Petty. Salt Lake City , v Johnson, 73 220 Rachetto, 178.78, and Terry Palmer, 178.78. Ares Entrants nr.d Paul Hillman, Paik City WeM. 205.4.T. Tom McGhie and Boh City, and Whitney, Salt Pat Simpson. Sun Valley, dis- Terry WilMaurice Bembridqe, Rodriguez, 75 71 73; George Arch- Chi Sam Snead, Me'nyk, Julius Bor of, international fild competed in the event. Tschu-d- i had a combined time for two runs of 172 63 seconds. Gordcr's time was 1ST 04. Other Americans who finished ahead of Gorder included Rick Chaffe, 177.29; Paul 203. 11. . Chi top Univer-sii- Great Experience Henderson said it was a great experience, but added, if it had turned out to be a great passion for me, I would have stayed. He said he plans to return to teaching and ski coaching at Holdemess School in Plymouth, N.H., where he obtained a leave of absence to accept the one-yeassignment with the U.S. team. -2- 19- Craig Gorder, Salt Lake City, was 10th among the men, while Robbie Lynn Beck, a gal. also from Salt Lake City, was 14th among the women. of Utah, Charles, 72 Don January, Jimmy Wright, 7 Dan S kes, Deane 71; 7472-72- ; We. snoot, Tom Beman, Dick Lott, Tribune 199.87; Tom Richards. Moo- -2- 18- Otto ALPENTAL. WASH. Tschudi, a Denver University student, and Barbara Cochran, the U.S. womens teams top giant slalom ace. won the giant slalom run here Saturday in the Far West Kandahar ski race, but two Intermountain skiers came on well. S.L. Skier A Orville Greene, -2- 17- Place High A Division Highland 1, Granite 0? Olympus 9, West 0, Skyline 4, South 0; St. Marks 1. avi$ 0 East 1. South 0; Granite 0? Highland 4, OlymKearns pus 2; Skyline 4 West 0; St. Marks 4, Jtdq B ers DIEGO ab r h bi SAN Dean s$ r rfcl own rf hrra a If M Aviles pr OB O f VVeoster lb lb Gaston cf 8 LOS 4 0 0 0 4 o ? 0 4 0 2 0 4 9 10 10 0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 0 2 2 11 Scezio 3b Cann :ro C 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Coca'S p Mitrreti pn 10M Herbel p 0 0 0 0 'ta - Hf'bfl T 2 3 3 4 4 4 II WDavts cf Kr'C'1 rf WParker lb ,k s Garvey 3b Sizemore b Grbkwifl 2b Osteen p Crawford ph Lamb p ' 51 4 I 2 To'ai Total San D.epp 020 000 Let Angeles 880 888 5.- 22 A Soccer Schedule ANGELES ab r h b! Wills (All Garnet at 4 15) B D viaon Mcnoay Skyline vs. Highland at Sonnys.oe, Olympus No. 1 vs. Oivmpus No 2 at Sugar House. South vt. East at S verstde. Wednesday Skyline vs East at Sunnysrde. South vs. Olympus No 2 at Sugar House, Highland vs. O'ymp'" No. 1 at Sugar House A Division South Tuesday East vs. vs. at Riverside, Granite Highland KeArns at Sugar House, Olympus Vs. Skynne at Sunnystde, West vs. South at Rtverstde A D'Vision North Tuesday: Bountiful et Ooden, Clearfnd at Davit, Judge et Layton, St Mark s bye A Divston South Thursday East vs, Olympus at Sugar Home, Granite vs. Skyline at Sunnvside, Highland vs West at Riverside, Kearns vs. Scuth at Riv-er- 10 10 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4010 4 0 0 0 3 O 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 I O O 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 7 0 4 8 1 88 1 Division East 2. Highland 0; Olympus No. 1 6. South 0; Skyline 4, Olympus No. 2 0, Skyline 5 South 0. struggling Los Angeles Dodg- 80 18 104. INTRODUCING THE 1 VACATION TRAILER ,f, family affair. 7 (tei, VLT WHEEL ALIGNMENT BALANCE PUT TICES & ElAKE COMPANY mt st.aed West phMe w-rr- t o '1 TERRY IN YOUR n3 SHOCKS Credit Cords Accepted PAfCK'S ALIGNMENT A IS ttini 26 BRAKE SERVICE Lawton FFiu ov HAMPER iL3uj 195 North Main, Layton, Utah Coming fnrn Saf LakrTt.e th .SVcni-1 F 4 x a good thing. Without major league ownership in Salt Lake City today there would be no Triple-club. No Stranger While Salt Lake City recentthe PCL, tiie ly town itself is fcy no means a stranger to coast league baseball. Back in 19.5 the old Bees played at Bonneville Park and the opposition came from such places as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento and Portland. Bill Lane owned the Salt Lake franchise back in those old days and his most notable deal was to peddle Tony Laz-er- ri to the New York Yankees for five players. Thats how minor league owners survived back then. A Lefty Grove, a Babe Ruth or a Grover Alexander would turn up in some sn J1 town, show brilliant promise and the owner would peddle him to the big leagues for a bundle of cash. Nowadays, super scouting systems have all the young high school prospects pegged from as early as 15 years of age. These lads are later drafted out of high school or college and the boys future becomes meticulously laid out for him. You are an oldtimer if you can remember when the structure of minor league baseball began with Triple-ball, then regressed through AA, A, B, C and D ball. Low minors today consist of AA, A and rookie leagues. The new Salt Lake Padres follow in the footsteps of such great names as Lefty Gomez ? Dick Stuart , Sam McDowelL Tony Lazzeri . Enid Cos griff teas one of few women execs . After 1926, Salt Lake City dropped out of the PCL and League. joined the Utah-Idah- o Lefty Gomez was Utahs most illustrious player. Pioneer League In Salt Lake went into the popular and fast Class C Pioneer League. There are many oldtime baseball fans around town today who believe this was one of the best and most interesting leagues in which SLC was ever 1939, involved. Stars from that era were Bob Chesnes, Roy Partee, Tate, Con Dempsey, Nig Larry Jansen, while a few of the managers here were Eddie Mulligan, Tony Robello, Hub Kittle and Frank Later in the Pioneer League days, Ogden proudly claimed Bobby Adams and Frank Robinson. Salt Lake City returned to PCL ball in 1958 and won in 1959 while working with the Pirates. Cleveland followed Pittsburgh here, then the Indians and Cubs shared a working agreement at Derks Fld. Baseball hit its lowest ebb ever here in 1964-6while the Cubs had their base here. It was at this time that Salt Lake City was owned and operated by the only woman general manager in baseball Enid Cosgriff. After going into the red three straight years, Enid had to call it 5 quits. For the first time in years, the city was without professional baseball in i966. Then came three years of rookie league ball with the Giants and Padres. Fan interest began to build through this period of inex-pens- operation. The Diego Padres needed a base for its Triple-dub, Salt Lake wanted to get back into the coast league and the marriage was made last autumn when Peter Bavasi of tiie Padres announced that San Diego would operate a club hpre. Former Greats While there are many former greats who made it and are still making it big in the major leagues off Salt Lake City teams of the past 45 years, heres a list of some of the most prominent players to play here: Paul Strand, Dick Stuart, Tony Lazzeri, Earl Sheely, Gomez, Bob Chesnes, ODoul, Larry Jansen, Partee, Glenn Btckert, McDowell. Max Alvis, Truck Hannah, Dolph Camilli. Curt Davis. Thornton Lee and Ernie Johnson. Strand was like a machine in thoe early days. He holds the PCL record for most hits in two consecutive seasons an amazing 616! Thats more than a lot of players today get in a lifetime. Yes, baseball has certainly changed. Lefty Lefty Roy Sam Luc-che- si. Mexico Labor Law Puts Hole in Baseball Clause MEXICO CITY (UPI) -Mexico's new I ederal Labor Law, w'hich goes into effect May 1, puts a hole in organized restrictive baseballs clause. And Curt Flood didnt have a thing to do with it. The new law says a baseor any athlete ball player may not be sold w ithout his permission. If sold he has a right to a portion of he sale price. And he also must ;et one day a week off. Big League Rules The Mexican law covers the Baseball Mexican triple-League, a farm for some major league learns, and the Mexican Central, Northern and Southeast leagues, all organized under big league baseball regulations. Owners of the Mexican League clubs have been aware of the laws probable provisions for about a ye. and have already taken steps to meet them. We all have off days on - b-- en Luis Gutierrez, assistant general manager of the Mexico City Tigers. Day Off The law says every professional athlete is entitled to one day off a week. So we dont play on Mondays. If a player is going to be sold it usually means he isnt wanted or isnt needed by his club, Gutierrez said. If he doesnt want to go he can refuse. But he probaby wont play. And he probably wont get his contract renewed. When a player dues consent to a trade or sale he must get at least 25 percent of any cash involved. He also has a right to another five percent for each years service up to 50 percent. The players also have a say on how much they are sold for. 1,628 JOHNSON MOTOR Glastron Dorsett 1 Monday now, no games at all scheduled for Monhave days this season, said Jose Oil OUR BOATS .J-T-- Brands . - JBW1 j j llm w f $1 ,035 wCiji - 7m We are your exclusive northern Utah Terry Dealer 41 Enid Cosgriff She Kan Th Bees Vernon (Lefty) Gomez He Played at Berks Held Paul Strand nolds PCL Hit Mark baseball loving fan here, it is A Division North Thursday: Bountiful vs St Yarks at Rivers de, Clearfield vs Judae at Suqar House, Ogoen at Layton, Davis, bye. TERRY TRAVEL TRAILERS 3 USU 1, Weoer 12, Aim-arn- a 5, Houantfia B 1, 0 BYU C 5. Aemenn,a to Henderson, 45, wrote Marvin Melville, Salt Lake City, chairman of the alpine committee, that he agreed to try the job for one year. I now find, however, that I do not wish to continue another - 210 predicted to be partly cloudy with a 30 ppreent chance of 1, United A X Hot'and. BYU B 7 Bffln 1; Incas 6 2 4. S- -7- 09- Gent Llttler, 72 Thursday the Aggie netteis came back from a win over Ricks ju- -t in time to tangle with Boise on the home courts her? and the two former Snow Bob Eckles and netters were winners. John Hall Eckles is a senior and Hall a junior. Both are married, bolh think USU lias a fine team and both b?liee the fu-- 1 ui e is bright for the sport 0, Dick Stuart Fans Loved Him Here Phana c 773-317- 1 CITY ar 376-413- I LOWEST BOAT PRICES READY TO GO! GLASTRON, CLASSIC, 2 ACRES OF CAMPERS TRAILERS THE LARGEST RECREATIONAL DEALER DISPLAY IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. 'T' CRAFT, D0RSTTT, Ml ft WORK RhORMtD BV IORA I R AIM l MH IA1 IMS 4670 366-734- O pon 9 AC vitt cxcnJcil luSrua'wn ALUMILINE JACK PREECE MARINE CENTER Clattd Sun. A Mon. icyvi ! I I CARLS0N4 SHELL LAKE, 4303 South Stato ui, tot Tu. thro Sot. 1 So. 9th test . . 4103 So. Redwood Rd. 2705 Pcrleys VYcy . . r 262-268- 3 299-17- 75 434-32- 41 |