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Show 0 WEEKLY REFLEX 4 DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, JULY 20. 1978 Centerville llfins Softball Tourney Sports Announcer Etits A Sore Spot By DAVE WIGHAM Last week while watching the sports report on KUTV, their announcer, the well known Bill Howard, hit a sore spot with me and several other people that Ive talked to. THE REMARK was in reference to Reggie Jackson game because of the fever withdrawing from the he wasTunning Mr. Howard never did believe the story, it was later confirmed that Jackson did indeed have a temperature over 100, and that he felt that Reggie should "bring a note from his mother." To me this only proves that they put too much emphasis on the annual classic. All-St- SOME PLAYERS, Pete Rose and Steve Garvey to name a couple, wouldnt miss the game for the world Great for them. But put yourselves in the position of the players. If your boss gave you four days off to go and do what you wanted to do with your family would you want to play in another baseball game? Oh sure the game is for the They say the fans choose the players and the players owe the fans something Thats bunk. The players dont owe anyone, anything. Theyre treated like cattle, sold and bought, and are supposed to act like gentlemen s EVEN THE selections of the is becoming a joke The players, managers and even the press all agree on that point. The player's allegiance is to his club Its the club that game, pays his salary and if he gets hurt in the All-St- which players have done, and misses some regular games because of that injury, then its the club that is hurt not the league. - A group CENTERVILLE of softballers from Centei-vill- e came home from Black-fooIdaho this past weekend with the first place trophy in the Thomas Invitational soft-batournament. ll THE LOCAL team left Friday night and played in five games on Saturday winning all five and claiming the championship. Centerville was the only out of state club in the Idaho competition. The ten teams in the event were divided into two five team divisions and each team played the other four within their division and then the two top teams played for the title on Saturday night. IN THEIR first game the Centerville team came up against Riverside, a local team from near Blackfoot, with Centerville club pulling away with a 14--4 decision. Leading the way was Randy at the Darrohn who was plate, Kevin Barkdull and Robert Wright each picked up three hits with Dave Day and Dave Wigham each picking up two hits apiece. Kevin Jensen also hit a solo home run for the Centerville club. Second round action found the local club up against Bretts Mobile Home out of Idaho Falls, again the locals won 13-Big guns in this contest were Darrohn who again went 4 and Wright who collected four base hits. Barkdull was right behind with three hits and K. C. Ericksen collected two 4 4. IN THE THIRD game the IT JUST bugs me when someone jumps over a ball player from pulling out of a game, that means absolutely nothing, due to illness. Nothing is proven by those games. Sure the National League has won the most recently, but then the American League wins the World Series State Amateur Golf Tournament Has Strange Happening By DAVE WIGHAM Last weeks State Amateur golf tournament produced some of the strangest happenings in the golf scene in these parts for a long time . THE BIGGEST happening was the disqualification of four of the golfers for waiving a rule they obviously werent supposed to waive What the golfers agreed to do was repair their spike marks on the greens before putting the ball. Repairing these spiked marks is against the rules at the Ogden Country Club, site of the tournament And the rules set down by the United States Golf Association clearly states the penalty: PLAYERS SHALL not agree to exclude the operation of any rule or local rule and to waive any penalties in- curred. Penalty for breach of h play sides. "disqualification Actually repairing the marks is only a two stroke penalty, but agreeing to repair them before the match results in disqualification Apparently the four golfers agreed to repair the marks before the start of their rule-matc- of both round. SOMEONE SAW the infraction and reported it to the tournament officials who then made the ruling Some golfers Ive talked to say that as long as it was match play, head to head with your opponent, then there was no advantage Others say that the groups ahead and behind were at a disadvantage. Some said they shouldnt have been disqualified, others say they should have By DAVE WIGHAM - The four BOUNTIFUL local teams in the Automotive baseball league each picked up important wins in action last week with the big battle being the Bountiful and Viewmont game which was played on Wednesday at the Kearns diamond WENT BOUNTIFUL for the weeks action, Viewrecord mont also ran up a as did the Davis crew while the best effort was Woods Cross who won both their games. 1 Bountiful lost their first game of the week dropping an contest to the Brighton club. The young Braves came up with six hits but they also committed five costly errors Kevin Kott and Jimmy Perkins combined pitching efforts to hold the Bengals to nine hits. Big hit for the Bountiful club was a double by Jim Hill 6-- IN THEIR Wednesday bat- tle the Braves and Vikings pur on a hitting and scoring display with the Braves com- Bountiful in the contest and were aided by the Vikings who mishandled the ing out on top 13-- 7 picked up eight hits ball seven times Kevin Beyers went the distance for the Braves giving up five hits while Steve Knighton and Grant Hepworth worked the mound for the Vikes Big hits in the game was a double by Les Lemmond of Bountiful and a triple by Steve Knighton of the Vikings Bountiful THE ONE thing that all of them agreed on though was that the four golfers involved have all played enough golf that they should have known better One of the four disqualified players didnt repair a single spike mark but because he had agreed to do it he was disqualified. YOU HAVE to feel sympathetic toward both sides The UGA for having to impose the decision, it was a tough one to enforce I'm sure. The players were upset at being eliminated. One of them noted that he had done the same thing last year and nothing was done, he felt it was all right as long as both players agreed In any event you have to realize now that when you enter a golf tournament you better know the rules before you tee up. By DAVE WIGHAM - Now that BOUNTIFUL you've all had a week to determine in your own minds which hole is the easiest to play on the Bountiful, Valley View and Davis Park courses, heres what the computer says were the easiest holes for the golfers in the Menlove KEEP IN mind these scores don't indicate which holes were the easiest for each in- dividual golfer but rather which holes averaged out the easiest for the flights. High School 1973 graduates HioKp THE FIRST five years out of school has already crept up on us. There will be a class reunion on August 11, salads, Polynesian style rice at Viewmont High School The time will be 7 p m. The cost is $3.75 per person. Theres plenty of social ac- tivities planned with an Hawaiian Luau setting to set the atmosphere. PLENTY OF time to talk about old times and plenty of Polynesian food such as roasted pig, poe, fish, fresh exotic fruits, Polynesian ftC For those who still prefer good old American food there will also be com on the cob THE 1973 Madrigal, drill team, and cheerleaders will help you to reminisce over old times. If it's at all possible we would like to have your money mailed to us, Scott Elliott, 940 North 200 West or Dan Alder, 2909 South 625 West by August 4. This will give us an idea of how many will come. Dont forget! Mark your caledars and we will see you then. Going into their fourth game of the tournament the Centerville club held a one game lead over Billmeyers and their opponents in the fourtn game, Jolley Builders. A loss by Centerville would have thrown their division into a three way tie between these three clubs. Centerville however ended all possibilities of a playoff situation with a 29-- victory. Dave Day again led the hitters with a followed by Wigham With a game. Darrohn, Ericksen, Jensen and Rast all picked up three hits in the game with Wright, Barkdull, Jaggi and Ron Celia each picking up a couple. THE chmpionship game pitted Centerville against the club from Pocatello who were undefeated in their division. Final score was 15-- in favor of the Centerville crew. Dave Day picked up three hits as did Wright, Barkdull, Rast and Darrohn while Wigham Ericksen, and Jaggi collected two apiece. Four players from Centerville, Darrohn, Wright, Barkdull and Day all hit over .600 for the tournament while five others, Ericksen, Wigham, Jaggi, Jensen and Rast all hit around the .500 mark. Just-Voig- 4 scored ten runs in the middle four-fiv- e and six, to inning, break open from a close game. Viewmont bounced back in the week with Russ Cannon throwing a four hitter at Hillcrest with the Vikings Viewwinning the game mont was ti ailing going into the last half of the seventh inning but a two run rally gave them the win. 4-- DAVIS PICKED up another win with a victory over Holladay, which is Olympus. The Darts picked up eleven hits in the contest while their pitcher Jeff Emery held the Holladay club to just six hits 9-- 7 In their other game the Darts gave up two runs in the fifth inning to allow Kentucky Fried Chicken to nip them 3-- Up until that point hurler Mike Kirkpatrick had held the opponents to just three hits Again errors plague the Darts with four in this loss Woods Cross picked up win of the week with a 12-- win over Robintinos Dave Draper went the route limiting the opposition to seven hits while Ed Kent and Brad Hill picked up doubles and Taryn Hallows homered for the Wildcats. Then Tod Bailiff threw a three hitter at United Fence as the Wildcats took a victory. Again Hallows was the big stick with a double number one 3 1 LEAGUE ACTION is winding down this week with the state tournament just around the corner dw Courses Open. Attention all Viewmont U-- I'Jcodo Groce IJinc 7vjo, Bravos Split All-St- IF A PLAYER wants to sit out the game and be with his family for those days thats his business. If he feels obligated to the fans and wouldnt miss the game even if he had a cast on, then thats his business also. Next time Bill Howard misses a newscast and they say hes sick I want a letter from someone verifying his illness. of Pocatello, faced each other. Centerville came out on top by the score of 10-in a game that was played into a strong wind. Dave Day led the club with a game with Dan Rast, Ray Jaggi, Ericksen and Jensen, Wright all picking up two hits. t, 4-- WHAT IF, just suppose, that Jackson didnt have a fever and just said he didnt want to play m the game Thats his business and no one elses. If the leagues want them there that bad then make it worth their while Everyone thinks the ball players are money hungry, who isnt? two undefeated teams in their division, Centerville and By DAVE WIGHAM At the Bountiful course the lowest average was taken at the par 4 number 8 hole. At this hole the professional an golfers came out with 18. The average score of 4 Championship flight golfers averaged 4 11, A f lghters played to a 4.10averageasdid B flight golfers. The remainder of the golfers shot an average 4 24 which meant the entire tournament played this hole to a A 24. the AT BOTH the other courses the easiest holes turned out to be long par five holes. At Valley View the number 2 hole yielded to the goiters, the professionals averaging 4 68 with the Championship flight shooting at a 4 87 clip. 5 5 The A flighters went up to 58, B flight was 5 64, C flight 53 with the others shooting The tournament then averaged out at 5 32 for this par five hole. 5 67 IT TOOK FIGURING Ocraiil To By ROSELYN KIRK - LAYTON Floyd Nielsen. 2171 West Gentile, Layton, began in November to e build a sleigh. The sleigh was finished m time to enter it in some July parades, but Mr. Nielsen is having trouble finding a horse to pull the sleigh, which is now mounted on a wheeled cart for summer transportation. Cost Tennis one-hors- By DAVE WIGHAM - BOUNTIFUL tennis players in the area are invited to enter and participate in the annual Bountiful City tennis tournament which will begin July 25. ENTRY FORMS are being All flight golfers pionship and both averaged out under par with the Championship going at 4 65 B 4 73 and the A golfers at flighters were just over at 5 04 with the C group at 5.29 and the rest were 6 16. Again these scores were sent out by a computer. There are no doubt a lot of you golfers who have an easier time with holes not mentioned or a harder time than some that were mentioned. These are strictly scores taken from the Menlove Open and fed into a computer. REMEMBER, WHEN was the last time you won an argument with a computer? MR. NIELSEN said the building project began when Elias Dawson, 235 West Gentile, began to talk about having someone build a sleigh patterned after an original owned by a man m Kaysville. A relative brought the two men together. After the first contact, about Thanksgiving, Mr Nielsen decided hed attempt to build the taken at the recreation center on 400 North in Bountiful up until July 19 Entry fee for players 18 and over is $2 for each division entered, a player may enter up to three divisions. This tournament is set up for players of all skill levels with competition slated for the novice players, intermediate and advanced. sleigh. I have put all my energy into building, he said He was a building supervisor for the LDS Church for ten years, supervising the building of churches in Illinois, Tennessee, Salt Lake City, Not- tingham, England, Manchester, England, North Ogden and Milton. for both male and female. Each will have an open division in which anyone can enter, then each has a 35 and over and a 18 and under. Both novice and advanced areas will be offered in each of the categories. The younger players will be matched against those of comparable age with the 10 and under in one group, 11 and 12 m another, 13 and 14 year olds, 15 and 16, and finally the 17 and 18 age group. THOSE VJIO are sidered m tKenovice division are those players who have never taken lessons or those who are currently involved in slabs. MR. NIELSEN said he looked at the old sleigh and made the patterns for each part of the construction as he went along The red and black sleigh is nothing like the original. I just got the idea for it from the other. According to Mr. Nielsen, he was "allowed in free rein in making the sleigh. He decided on the black and red color with chrome trim. When it came time for the red upholstery, he took the sleigh to Abion, Idaho where Lillian Nielsen, his son's wife, helped him. The sleigh is also fully carpeted. lessons. Jn each of the divisions both singles and doubles will be offered Also a special or mixed doubles event is being offered. THE PLAY will begin Tuesday, July 25 and run through the 29th with the championships being held that night. During the regular play the younger players will be scheduled for morning play with the adults playing in the evening. The tournament itself will be a round robin affair with the actual matches being the one professional set format. The scoring of the game is a little different in that points are awarded one at a time rather than the 15, 30, 40 routine. THE FIRST player to win 4 points in a game wins that game, then the first player to win seven games wins the set and the match. The winners of this tournament will earn the right to represent the city in the Davis County tournament which will be held in August. THE ORNAMENTAL chrome on the front, back and sides of the sleigh was designed by a chrome specialty firm in Salt Lake City. He took the sleigh in a By DAVE WIGHAM - Kim NelBOUNTIFUL son is a long way from home but the former Viewmont High and Brigham Young University baseball player is doing what he loves, playing baseball 1977 im- after the United Airlines crashed in order to protect the site and prevent the loss of salvageable materials. Service Forest The appreciates the cooperation of the public during this closure DC-- 8 period. THE SIGNS that were posted on the access routes leading to Baer Canyon have been removed. HIGH GLOSS Interior paints finished the product which had been shaped and sanded. The body is made from plywood which is bent two ways to give it shape. The dash was constructed in pieces, with each piece being fitted and dowled to fit that curved section. Mr. Nielson sanded the dash to give it shape. He worked on the sleigh most of the winter since he had a stove to provide heat in the MR. NIELSEN began in the building trade m 1938, working in the Plain area in Weber County where he beganon the construction site of an LDS Church. Ive used all my energy to build. I cant really say when 1 began and I havent quit. He moved to Layton three years ago. Now that the sleigh is finished, he spent the weekend roofing an antique granary and was working on rebuilding some antique chairs during the interview on City-Warr- Monday. THE LEGS for one set of chairs were missing so Mr. Nielsen said hed have to make those. His project in making the sleigh got around by word of mouth, he said. People who he didnt know would strike up conversations with him saying, "1 hear youve made a sleigh." According to Mr. Nielsen, when winter comes, Mr. Dawson hopes to pull the sleigh with a small gray Arabian horse. But since that horse wasnt broken to harness the plan to put the sleigh in the July parades didn't materialize. MR, NIELSEN said he will take the sleigh to Tremonton m August and enter it in the Wheat Days parade since he knows a gentle horse that is available. He also built and painted the shafts where the horse is harnessed. He said that Mr. Dawson would come down to pass and inspect on the work that had been done. It took more time thinking and figuring than to do the job, he said. while Kim has collected JUST OUT of college, Kim overlooked in the THIS CLOSURE was started bending. Since steel cannot be heated uniformly, it kinks unless the work is handled in this way, he said. Other metal parts of the sleigh were molded with a torch while Mr. Nielsen used a piece of railroad steel for the anvil. kelson in Tennessee Doing Mis Tiling in Baseball was posed m December self. The runner shoes of the sled had to be put on cold. He tied the steel to the runner, drilled holes, put in the bolts and Kim baseball for a living. Wasatch National Forest Supervisor Chandler St. John has announced that the closure of Baer Canyon drainage above Fruit Heights has been lifted. truck to have the design made. Mr. Neil-se- n said he would have preferred dove wings instead of circules in the chrome design, but didnt have the expertise or equipment to work with the chrome him- garage-worksho- THE BUILDING of the sleigh was just another building project which required a lot of care. The antique sleigh was brought from Kaysville and placed in the corner of the garage where Mr. Nielsen has his workshop. I've just been fooling along with it. When 1 got something figured out, Id do it. "The sleigh is authoritative as far as Im able to say. Mr. Nielsen said he in a remembered going courting in 1915-1similar type of vehicle. The wood for the sleigh came from ash trees, except for some plywood which was used for the body According to Mr. Nielsen, Mr. Dawson obtained the ash wood from some trees in his neighbors yard. When the trees were cut, he took the wood to Salt Lake City and had it sawed in l'8 inch THE DIVISIONS set up are DAVIS PARK came the closest to playing to par as the tournament averaged out to 5 03 for their par five hole The professionals went to town averaging 4 A55, the Cham- Floyd Nielsen of Layton has spent six months building a e sleigh similar to the one he took courting in one-hors- draft but the Minnesota Twins sent a man into town to sign Kim to a contract, which he did. Ac- cording to sources after evaluating the draft, those they were able to sign, the Twins needed a third baseman and Kim was available. Kim is currently playing ball in Ehzabethton, Tenn., which is the Twins affiliate in the Appalachian League. This area is known to be a rabid baseball town where the and players are heroes celebrities. KIM WASTED no time setting himself up as a player. In their first home game Kim hit two out of the park Currently the club has an 6 mark four home runs and is hitting around the .350 mark. Mr. Nelson, Kims father and number one fan, indicated that Kim had called home and that he sounded more confident and enthused about playing than he had in a long time. "He lives with another one of the ballplayers in the basement of one of the fans They let them use the car and everything, he said they were baseball crazy in the area. KIM HAS been the starting third baseman since joining the club a few weeks ago and in his phone conversation he indicated that he has been working extra hard on his defense. Third base is a natural spot for this great athlete. As youll recall Kim was in football and baseball his senior year at Viewmont. In baseball he was a good third baseman and a good pitcher for the Vikes. All-Sta- DURING HIS career at Kim rewrote the records in several categories. During his final three years Kim broke the career home BYU, run record, and the single season runs batted in record with 59 his junior year. For his efforts he was named three years in .a row, as a sophomore he was named third team and then as a junior to the second team This past year Kim hit .346 for the Cougars with ten home runs and 48 runs batted in. THE MANAGER Ehzabethton has at been impressed with the play of Kim and promotion isnt out of the picture. If moved up Kim could go either to Wisconsin or California. Kim is one of three players on the club that werent taken in the draft but who were signed after. The incentive is there for Kim to move up the ladder, the Twins want him to develop and advance. Kim has the good attitude in that hes just taking it arStep at a time. IT COULD just be that the Twins foud themselves a sleeper in Kim Nelson. Only time will tell. |