Show The Utah Statesman Monday November 30 1981 Women host Eastern Washingti in Spectrum hoop contest tonight little ruMv The girls art torn to light bat k and these twolossQ st ill a by Wendy Hansen The ladv Angies basketball team is weary from its fourth place finish in Classic but appears the Coca-Col- a mentally ready to play Eastern Washington tonight at 7:30 in the 1 Spect rum The team will be mentally prepared and from now on we are going to take games one at a time” said USU Coach Cindy Perkins “This will be the first time that these two teams have ever played each other We’ve had three days rest and we should put on a good show and play well against them “We've spent the past week concentrating on defense and offensive said Perkins “This was an area that we lacked in our showing at the classic both nights The problem against BYU was we weren't prepared the first half and the second half we were because we matched them shot for shot” Perkins said A Colorado State University ball handler is surrounded by a host of Aggie “It really was the first game of the defenders during the recent Thanksgiving Classic held in Logan The Aggies placed season and it showed us that we are fourth in the tournament hope to improve that record in the Spectrum tonight won't hunus they just 1 1 In 1962 a slender center named Zelmo Beaty of Prairie View College was the National Basketball Association’s number-on- e draft pick For that the St Louis Hawks gave him a $5000 bonus and an annual salary of $15000 After six seasons in St Louis and one in Atlanta where the franchise moved in 1968 Beaty became the second established NBA player after Rick Barry to jump to the new American Basketball Association By his own assessment Beaty feels he was among the NBA’s top five centers with Wilt Chamberlain Bill Rossell Walt Bellamy and Nate Thurmond when he jumped leagues At the time he was making $39000 from Atlanta while Chamberlain and Russell were in the $ 100000-plu- s salary range “I felt I had to make the move” he said By the time Beaty was finished in pro basketball flSUSU flSUSU flSUSU flSUSU flSUSU c c aM with eight NBA and four ABA seasons he had scored 15205 points for a 171 average in 889 regular season games Today Kareem Abdul Jabbar of the Los Angeles Lakers and Houston Rockets' Moses Malone each reportedly make more than $1 million The salary of the average NBA player is almost $200000 a year Beaty doesn’t harbor any jealousies about the huge dollars being made by today’s players In fact he sounds like a man who is on the side of the players “When I first came into the NBA I was manhandled by management” he recalled “I would go in to negotiate and they would tell me if you don’t play for me you don’t play for anybody “Well that was a fact You couldn’t move from one team to another unless you got traded So that’s what they had hanging over your head A player had to remember that management could shorten your career or put you out of basketball” flSUSU (1SCISCI flSUSU flSUSU flSUSU Have a favorite Professor? c c 78-6- 3 plan-in- flSUSU mflSUSU Ag volleybaDcfij whip Pepperdis: in Logan Hk! a GGQ- - c Cfcnnsoocaaafc asaccnni) c c c USU’s national QG3333EB 003203000000 a n I 1 1 d “Last Lecture” sponsored by the Honors Program and ASUSU dominations dne November 30 c SC386 or Library 361 Submit name of professor reason for nomination & yonr name & phone tournament-boun- GnciteQciiBCDciftaai? gd ActivitieeQaarajGCBGtSB o SADIE HAWKINS pictures are back Available at information dosk d vofcyW team made the eightlwwW Pepperdine Waves appelast mere sparring partner Tuesday in the Spectrum Aggies crushed the match by e the ‘1 nmD QaatocpQqiriima? FOR THE ANNUAL Beat) $1 When the ABA offered Beaty a four-yemillion contract he took it Because of the optkn year in Beaty’s NBA contract he had to sit out tbe 1969-7- 0 season before playing in the ABA By da the Los Angeles Stars had become the Utah Sun Beaty has made the transition from hardwoods) the business world He doesn’t appear to have followed the way of many a former pro athlete tun ed penniless athlete “There are a lot of sad stories about he says “but I can only blame them for that I w done pretty well with investments I was fortunate when I was a player I gothooM up with a guy who was involved in financial and we did a pretty good job as far as looking forward to the date I retired” forever Beaty knew he couldn’t play basketball He didn’t intend to spend money as if his career would never end QuJGcbcgio (Tf-fFlf- 1 2 Managing money never stops for Zelmo by The Associated Press helped u showing us the mistakes” Eastern Washington is coming of 8 season of a disappointing y ago and would like to prove than something of a fiukc EWU Coaches Smithpeters’ mx year record there a 108-5and with an impressive rtturt mg cast and a bumper crop reenutn year the Aggies should find them ' lx a tough customer “We have some very good plaven says Smithpeters “and if they jell could become a very good team" It might lx-- the best group of freshmen sime star guard Mane U came to Eastern Washington Loou 0 frontline player should break thi schixil scoring record tonight The Aggies take on the College of Southern Idaho on Tuesday and their last meeting on Nov 17 the beat them They then play dr University ol Washington on Dec 3 All three games start at 7:30 and 1 be played in the Spectrum a four-gam- of c 15-1- 2 13-1- 5 15-- 9 and 15-- 8 The Pepperdine matchh the Aggies’ final 1981 the final appearance and fifth their tuneup for the A1A at appearance to tional Championships State Florida held at - Afl Thursday and FridayPepper® the coaches feel t10 victory could give confidence at naWj Jafisrtnl! 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