Show Comics Movies Standard-Examine- r Thursday September 1 1988 Local racer fulfills father’s request By DALE BUBLITZ Standard Examiner staff OGDEN — There is nothing unusual about a father making a request of his son Fathers are notorious for asking young sons to become good students and improve as citizens Jim Burkdoll's dad was more specific He wanted his son to go after the land speed record he once set on the Bonneville Salt Flats The late Keith Burkdoll had reached a speed of 180 miles per hour in 1985 to set the record in the Streamliner as Class “My dad had a dream to go out and set a land speed record” said Burkdoll “During my attempts it was important to him that I set the record Before he passed away he told me to keep going and get the record” There was no “win one for the Gipper” speech but the conversations proved equally effective The old Burkdoll assured his dad he would honor that request On the morning of Aug 19 1988 he fulfilled that promise by roaring his vehicle across the desert sand at an average speed of 20312 mph It was his dad who planted the love of high speed and fast cars in the younger Burkdoll’s mind The interest started with frequent visits to an airport rt track and was kindled by trips to the Salt 35-ye- ar go-ca- Eats “My dad first began taking me out there (to the Salt Eats) in 1961” the Ogden driver said “I saw a couple of guys from California go 300-plSeeing that sent chills down my back and I wondered what it was like” 'He learned soon enough and experienced some fear of the high speeds associated with the sport “It was scary no doubt about it” said Burkdoll “The only thing you use to judge your speed on those barren salt flats is those mileage markers They just stand there and seem to flash by faster and fasus three-foot-hi- square-number- ed ter” Burkdoll would eventually team up with his dad in the car they called the Little Bluebird He would be in the car to qualify it for records and his dad would break the records “You actually have to go through the clocks faster than the speed that has al- - ready been set” said Burkdoll “That’s the procedure you use” The Burkdolls did experience a letdown when the Southern California Timing Association the governing body that puts on the annual meets outlawed their car “They decided it didn’t have a full roll cage to protect the driver in case of a crash and that it went too fast” said Burkdoll “They felt it wasn’t safe to run it any faster so they asked us to stop and we built a new car” Following the death of his father and the ruling on his car Burkdoll found what he needed in Tallahassee Ea native Scott Gothry “Scott had raced motorcycles out there for a few years and we got acquainted” said Burkdoll “He offered the engine I offered the car and we became a team We flipped a coin to decide who would drive the car” Gothry’s engine a Yamaha TZ motorcycle engine delivered up to 130 horsepower It had to be geared up so high that it had to be pushed up to 40 mph before it took off “You’d bum a clutch out trying to get it started” said Burkdoll He said this is a whole different class of car than the more famous Craig Breedlove drove to even higher speeds and records “Breedlove’s car goes 600 or better and those guys have an unlimited budget” said Burkdoll “I go out there on a shoestring but spend everything I can save for my racing fund” The record-settin- g day did not come without a couple of dramatic experiences He awoke at 2:20 am and had trouble returning to sleep “I was in this big panic state thinking that anything that could possibly go wrong with the car would go wrong” said Burkdoll “I had a small mechanical failure the day before and I' was concerned about it” He finally got to sleep at 4 am but could sleep only an hour By 7 am he was in the car and next in line to go when he was startled by events involving the car ahead of him “The car crashed flipped on its side e and mashed up” slid about a said Burkdoll “The driver walked away from the wreck but it upset me I thought back to the dream as a bad omen and it all flashed through my mind” See RACER on 3D NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball ow ners continued their conspiracy against free agents into 1987 engaging in a “patent pattern” of that defied fair play and a free market Arbitrator George Nicolau in a harshly worded 81 page opinion delivered Wednesday found “there was no vestige of a free market” between the 1986 and 1987 seasons It was replaced he wrote “by a patent pattern of uniform behavior” in “deliberate contravention” of baseball’s collective bargaining agreement He found that communications between clubs were designed to further the boycott? Damages involving such stars as Montreal’s Tim Raines Detroit’s Jack Morris Philadelphia’s Lance Parrish and the Chicago Cubs’ Andre Dawson will be determined after this season avoiding any disruption of the pennant races - Nicolau’s decision will precipi- tate another round of multimil- damage hearings allow several of the free agents in the case the opportunity free agency ” for Seven players from the first case were made free agents again in January and Kirk Gibson left conDetroit to sign a three-yetract with Los Angeles bid-riggi- -- free-age- nt lion-doll- ar -- By DENNIS LARSEN Standard Examiner staff OGDEN — Not too many things take Mike Price by surprise But Weber State’s highly motivated head football coach admitted being dazzled by his team’s performance during Wednesday night’s scrimmage in Wildcat Stadium on a “We ended harda was note It good good scrimhitting and mage with no injuries A coach couldn’t ask for more” he said “I’m not going to get too high or too low Put it this way: Price is pleased” Quarterback Jeff Carlson compasses for 284 pleted with four and touchdowns yards fellow-seniWade Orton making five receptions for 111 yards and a TD Junior Rick Justice had four catches for 73 yards and two TDs Running back Willie McDonald carried five times for 89 yards and scored a touchdown while Fine Unga picked up 41 yards on five carries “We’ve never worked the play two-a-da- well-execut- ed 12-of-- or Standard-Examine- r Thomas Another arbitrator Roberts ruled last Sept 21 that clubs conspired against free agents between the 1985 and 1986 seasons Nicolau’s opinion was much more expansive and Performances dazzle Weber State's Price Judy Owens ers this hard in camp They’ve been up at 6:30 am and in bed by 1 1 pm But in between it’s been football football football and running running running We usually don’t run after pracand we tice during two-a-da- ys even practiced last Sunday which we’ve never done before” Price said “So considering how tough and demanding camp has been I was surprised to see how well we played tonight The team did a real nice job in getting themselves ready to play” he said defense only “The first-teagave up two first downs and m Ryan Schmidt (quarterback) chance to start at inside linebacker Cornerback Ken Beazer who was injured part of last season is back and playing well” said Price The only aspect of the scrimmage that bothered Price was the punting and PAT and field goal protection “I wasn’t pleased with the punting and PAT protection I’m not real happy about that and we’ll get that taken care of real quick I won’t go through that again” Price said “Our punter (Brent Chuhaniuk) didn’t punt poorly He can punt a he just had a bad lot better night I don’t know what’s wrong with our PAT protection and maybe I shouldn’t be knocking them until after I see the video Maybe it was just the defense threw the ball well on those plays offense nevAnd the second-teaer got a first down against the first-teadefense I did call a personal foul penalty on defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer that did well” just so he would have to keep the The only injury of any consefirst team out there for three quence happened during “nomore plays last week “McDonald and George Jack-so- n pads” practices Linebacker Troy Juergens who really ran (the ball) well and for the most part the offensive missed the last week of spring line blocked well Reid Leland a drills with a slight knee injury freshman redshirt has got a hurt the knee again during a drill m m among others things accused baseball officials of making offers “for public relations purposes” and of having “remarkable lapses of memory” in their testimony i He also found that American League president Bobby Brown and two AL club owners pressured Philadelphia Phillies owner Bill Giles not to sign Parrish one of the two premier free agents who switched teams by taking pay cuts Donald Fehr executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association called it “a story of deceit dissembling and conspiracy and said “the owners stand exposed as willing to make a contract and then deliberately violate it to collude and conspire to violate their solemn contractu-a- l commitments to the players to avoid their obligations to the fans to put the best possible team on the field” Barry Rona executive director of the owner’s Player Relations Committee mainlined the teams were innocent “Not only was the conduct of the owners consistent yvith guidelines established in! the Basic Agreement Such conduct it should be noted in no substantive ways differed from that of player agents and other represen: tatives of the players" Rich Levin a spokesman for Commissioner Peter Ueberroth said Rona’s statement would speak for the commissioner Economic experts hired by the union have proposed damages of between $20 million and $30 million in the first collusion case according to information obtained by The Associated Press The experts will argue the damage in the See RULING on 3D Bonneville’s Coach Budge fakes time to regroup reload By RANDY HOLLIS Standard Examiner assistant sports editor WASHINGTON TERRACE — Bonneville High doesn’t rebuild the Lakers just reload And after one prescason game now they must regroup too With the loss of such stars as Kendall Youngblood Jim Woolverton and Dave Balls to graduation veteran Bonneville High head football coach Thom Budge might be excused for bemoaning this as one of those rebuilding years that all teams must occasionally endure However Coach Budge isn’t complaining but now he must try to replace this year’s starting quarterback as well Junior Scan Sylvester was ticketed to take over g chores from Woolverton a the e selection starter and headed for New Mexico State on a football scholarship But Scan the younger brother of former Bon signal-callin- two-ye- two-tim- ar All-Ar- neville star Cory Sylvester — who led the Lakers to their only state football championship in 1980 — suffered a separated left shoulder and fracvicg tured clavicle in the Lakers’ be He’ll over last Taylorsville tory Friday sidelined from four to six weeks Senior Scott Kee will replace the fallen Sylvester with junior Matt Pollard providing depth In spite of that discouraging setback Budge is optimistically preparing for what he hopes will be another successful season at a school that has built a proud winning tradition in its football program — a tradition that few other teams in the state could match “This is just another year where we reload and get those juniors who didn’t play much last year to learn how to play on the varsity level" Budge said “We’ve got three or four returning starters and we’ll be starting six juniors this year who arc season-openin- See LAKERS on Coach Thom Budge 3D btandard-Examme- r graphic I - X X 1 xil l “new-look- half-mil- Running back Willie McDonald (right) runs around a defender and a blocker during scrimmage Wednesday night and-wil- ar i - a O X-— -I- - ! 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