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Show While You 're tit it, Take There used to be a time when the rules of a game were sacred. Oh, the lane was widened in basketball and spearing was outlawed in football but, generally, rules were rules and you didnt mess around with them. But now changing the rules of the game is an annual ritual. off-seas- Owners and Commissioners meet in hotels, trying to improve their games by stroking typewriter keys. Not that all change is bad. Rules need to be updated periodically. But instead of worrying about drawing more lines on a basketball court, adding statistics to the box score and making it easier for a football team to score, the Powers of Change should consider the following rule changes. BASE BAIL: The g Run Batted In It. must have taken baseball geniuses all of 10 minutes to come up with this one. Under this rule, a player who drives in the run is credited with a RBI, even if that RBI came in the first game-winnin- go-ahe- game-winnin- g game. A more appropinning of a riate alternative, and a more meaningful statistic, which has been suggested by several people, is to credit a player RBI only after with a the sixth inning, when it will usually be more important. Make it legal again. The spitter What could be more natural than a man using his own saliva to make a pitch more than a transient? Grease and other artificial lubricants should still be outlawed, as should the scuffed or cut baseball that can be thrown. Admittedly, this change, may be only superficial. When was the last time an umpire warned someone for throwing a spitter other than Gaylord Perry? And if you think hes the only guy throwing the pitch, I have some land in Honduras Id like to sell you. The knockdown pitch (Not to be confused with the brush back pitch.) An umpire can now warn a pitcher about a knockdown pitch and eject the next pitcher who throws one. But why 20-- 0 a Lk at These Changes game-winnin- g . the warning? Throw the guy out. It would put an end to the idiocy that has existed in baseball with reasoning like Well, he threw at my guy so I have to throw at two of his. On the second offense, suspend the pitcher, and on the third throw him out of baseball for a year. Poes baseball have to wait until someone is seriously injured before putting an end to it? And why, after dodging a 90 mph fastball less than an inch from their heads, do hitters drop their bats and then run for the mound. The sacrifice As the rule is now, a player who bunts a man from second to third is awarded a sacrifice, but a player who hits the ball to the right side of the infield, also advancing the runner, is not. Both players have given themselves up, or sacrificed, and the scorecards should read that way. FOOTBALL Pass Blocking Abolish that allows an offenrule absurd that sive lineman to extend his hands while pass blocking. Under this rule, Truman Capote could step in as right Its another - guard for the Chargers. to officials football attempt by of the side offensive strengthen the game. But good fans enjoy seeing a defensive game rather than two linemen push each other with their hands. Football is supposed to be a hitting sport, not a class in sensitivity training. 260-pou- The clock The Incomplete Pass pass, incomplete now stops after every team for offensive the rewards which its incompetence, particularly in the The rule last minutes of a sogame. that the clock should be changed in the last stops for a completed pass each half, of rewarding minutes four the offense for a good play and penaliz- clock on an incoming it by running the - I dont suggest any BASKETBALL rule changes. The game has been prostituted enough by idiotic rules such as timeout and the interprethe tation of the charge rule. What basketball needs is consistent officiating, not more rules. Say, this rule changing is pretty fun stuff. Lets say all of us get together in Hawaii around the first of the year and see what we can come up with. And dont forget your rulebooks and typew- - riters. Page 4B South Edition Lakeside Review Wednesday, July 20, 1983 Utah Club Hosts Competition BOUNTIFUL The Utah Figure Skating Club held its annual Copper Cup competition last Friday and Saturday at the Bountiful Ice Rink and the club had several performers who placed in the meet. In the pixie division, which consists of girls under 8, Angie Lawson came in first, Andrea Hartvigsen finished second and Laura Foot finished third. Foot, a 6 year old from Kaysville, also won the Copper Cup award, given to the most inspriational skater in the competition. In the preliminary ladies division, Amby Pew finished first overall. and Jaunice Tamme came in second. Stephanie Hartvigsen was second in group two of that division. mens In the division, Jason Rowley finished first and Clay Sniteman came in second. In the subjuvenile ladies group, one, Heather Sniteman finished first and Bethany Yeates was second. In the intermediate mens sub-juveni- le division, Wayne LeFevre came in second. In the novice ladies group one, Holly Cook finished first overall and Kimberly Peck took third. In group two of that division, Jana Blackburn finished first and Lara Robertson took second. In the novice men, Jeff Wassom placed second. In the junior ladies, Janet Nate took third behind Merrilee Rowland, who finished first. i t Christine Adams won the intermediate ladies group one and Kirsten Novak took second. In intermediate ladies group two, Lisa Herzog placed first and Roxanne Rees was second. In solo dance in the preliminary ladies category, Barb Howard took first. Janet Wadsworth finished third. In the junior ladies solo . dance competition, Holly Cook placed first and Kathy Searle finished second. In the Artistry on Ice competition, where skaters perform to music chosen by a committee, Jill Rowley and Kenna Baily won first places in their divisions. Roxanne Rees finished second and Lisa Herzog third. t i Li I il 1 t. t. t, SNITEMAN, left, a 9 year old from Farming-toskated to the theme from "Superman' in last week's Copper Cup Competition in Bountiful. Jana CLAY n, )l Blackburn, right, also competed in the two-da- y competition. Afhlefic Facilities Are By SCOn MONSEN Correspondent Over the past few years interest in exercising and physical conditioning has steadily grown throughout the country, as well as here in Utah. However, in the Davis County area, one of the fastest growing areas of the state, public physical activity facilities are lacking, especially in the central part of the area. There are only two public recreation centers within reasonable reach of area residents: in the Kaysville to Clearfield area other than outdoor swimming pools. The Bountiful center, though not a complete facility yet, is used heavily throughout the year. Bountiful has the areas only ice rink and it is operated up to 20 hours a day in the winter and the citys swimming pool has as many as 400 people a day using the facility during the summer. Also featured are weight rooms and two racquetball courts. The only thing we are lacking are more courts and a gymnasium, said John Miller, of the ice rink. In our r plan, we have six new racquetball courts that will be added. In the summer months the two courts are enough, but in the winter we wont have any trouble filling eight courts. There are no plans at this time for adding a gym to the complex, Miller said. Probably the most frequently used part of the center is the ice arena. Being the only ice rink in the Davis area, the ice surface is used for all local hockey prac- tices and games and also must accommodate the increased public interest in winter sports. The ice is used from about or five-yea- in This Area estimated that the aver- built. Obviously, admission charges would have to help defray the building and operation In Layton, indoor sports cost, but Cook said he didnt know if they would eventually pay for the facility. However, Cook pointed to many other benefits that he felt would have been derived from the center that would have justified the cost. If people get robbed they are always the first people to complain that why dont we have something for the youth to do besides get into trouble,' he said. I think it is possible that a facility like this could lessen the facilities are limited to one old, small swimming pool. . ,We most definitely need a facility here in. Layton, said ' Carter Cook, Layton City recre- ation supervisor. All we have right now is the National Guard Armory, which we share with the schools and the National crime rate. Guard. But all it is is a small It would be easier for people to Cook into better condition and continued. get gym floor, We cant use the lockers or any stay that way, Cook continued. other part of the building. We My father has had two heart have to run all of our little leaattacks and I wonder if a faciligue basketball there. Its too ty was available if he and others bad too, because interest in phy- could avoid these things from sical conditioning has really ta- happening. I feel that if it saves a life or keeps a youth from ken off. Two years ago the voters of getting into trouble it would be Layton had an opportunity to worth the cost. I realize that not build the largest and most mod- everyone would use the comern public recreation facility in plex, and those people dont the state, but voted it down in a want to pay for it, but I think -"subsequent bond election. everyone would benefit from Sometimes people think of a it. The outdoor facilities in the complex as just a gym, Cook said. But we planned a very area are slightly better. Last large facility,' second to, none in , year a new softball park was the state, with a jogging track,. completed along with a walking 13 racquetball courts, along park near the high school but with the gym and pool. the area is still hurting for inCook admitted the size of the door facilities, Cook said. The city has plans to build a project may have been its down-- , fall. I think it may have been new swimming pool, which just too big for the voters to would be larger than the existaccept. It kind of took their ing structure. The need for the breath away, but if we were to pool is just as critical as for the . al- Cook rems, age home owners property tax bill would have increased about $75 a year had the complex been . One in Roy and Bountiful city recreation center. There are few public facilities build another center now, we would get much less for the same amount of money it would have cost us. six in the morning until after midnight almost every night so we are only closed about four or five hours a day, Miller said. There is a new rink being built in Ogden, which should be ready this winter, and that will really take the pressure off us, even more so than the new rinks that have been built in Salt Lake. The Roy Complex offers a full range of physical activity facilities (except an ice rink) including an indoor swimming pool, gym, weights and, as is the' case in Bountiful, only two courts. Rviw yms, , , . . ,yju cav gst iaj ous-- r i?aiu; to RiooA-aym- , recreation center, according to here for them so they dont have the last one. We are a to leave town just to exercise, hesitant because last tin to operate because of its age said Cook. and it is so small and crowded Although there are no definite put a lot of work into that it is hard to swim. All you plans to build a new complex at people told us they were I can do is just stand there in the this time, it may not be a dead us but they didnt come water to cool off, he said. tl issue, according to Cook. Right now we have a senior We would like to bring it up in the election. So, we wil citizen group that goes to Clear- before the voters again in the to organize it well and pre field several times a week. It future, he said. 'But it probagain, ftiaybe next ye would be nice if we had a pool ably wont be as big a project as later. Cook. The old pool is expensive i |