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Show 8 ) Tbe Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, March Colorado Earns Ski Title 5, 1978 FRANCONIA, N.H. The University (UPI) of Colorado outscored Wyoming by more than 40 points in the jumping competition to rally for its seventh consecutive NCAA skiing title Saturday at Cannon Mountain. Wyoming led Colorado by eight points going into the fourth and final day of competition, but Wyoming could not place a jumper in the top ten, while Colorado Suedrins Hrlay Ski Tram Karrs to Swedens powerful relay FALUN, Sweden (AP) team, undefeated this season, continued its winning streak Saturday, taking a clear victory in the 40 y event at the 29th Swedish Ski kilometer Games. cross-countr- Sweden, with newly crowned world champs Thomas Magnuson, Sven-Ak- e Lundback and Christer Johansson on the team, beat runnerup Norway by almost 17 seconds. 10-kilom- eter Win But it w as reserve Erik Wappling who clinched the victory, building up a good lead ahead of Norwegian Ove Aunli in tlie final two kilometers. The best Soviet and Fuuiah skiers wer missing meet that has lured a record 430 from the three-da- y 18 from nations. competitors Others skiing for Norway, third in the world championship relay at Lahti, Finland, last week, weie Lars-Eri- k Eriksen, Magne Myrmo and reserve Tore Gullen had finishers tied for first, fifth, and eighth. Tom Holmer Jensen of Colorado and Kare Herje of the University of Vermont tied for first with 223.6 points. Scott Sobozak of Middlebury College took third and Christan BerVgrav of Dartmouth was fourth. The University of Vermont finished third overall behind Colorado and Wyoming. Dartmouth was fourth and Utah fifth. The Catamounts had 114 points to edge by Dartmouth with 113.6. Vermont had trailed Dartmouth by 17 points going into the final day of competition. Vermonts Herje tied for first and Roger Holden was sixth. Ron Steele of Utah, the defending jumping in ninth place with 219.2 points. Utes Kip Sund-gaar- d and Scott Clayton were 10th and 11th respectively. Colorado also won the jumping team title with 48.5 points. Vermont was second and Utah third. The jumping competition ended four days of alpine and nordic events at Cannon Mountain and Bretton Woods, N.H. at tbe NCAA competition hosted by Dartmouth. Final team standings: champion, finished Javier Flores, left, instructs boxers, left to right, Danny Trujillo, Lee Gar- - i , Jr., Richard. Valdez, Tony Montoya, Nadan Hosea, and, front, Rudy Gonzales. cla Like Rings on Tree Trunk Boxing Follows Pattern By John Mooney Tribune Sports Editor Javier Flores has never given it a thought, but the popular Mexican bantamweight might be likened to a ring in a tree trunk. For more than 100 years, a student of sports can read the professional history of athletics as one would study the rings on a tree trunk. Each period or ring shows the domination of the sport by a minority seeking status, money and recognition. Big Paying Sports Hence, baseball and boxing the big paying sports available in the early years to young men who couldn't afford a college education show the development of the minorities through sports. Baseball was dominated in the early years by those of German and Irish ancestry, sons and grandsons of people who came from the Old Countries. And baseball offered the opportunity for advancement. The boxing history of the same time would show the same domination of the Irish and Germans. Those of Jewish ancestry also showed in the rankings and box scores of the period. Then there was a period of a preponderance of players and fighters of Italian heritage. The American Negro, held back by the color line in baseball and boxing, broke into the record books in collegiate football, basketball and track. Professional baseball, football and basketball would be poor products today without the black athletes. And the same would hold true for the college sports of track, football and basketball. Sport of Poor Kids basketball have remained the sport of and Boxing the poor kids, because so httle equipment is needed. In any large city, you can see thousands of youngsters in their temes" shooting baskets, playing one on one at almost any hour of the day . Boxing fell into disrepute for a time, but the popnlarity of Muhammad All brought thousands of youngsters back to the gyms, dreaming of amateur and professional championships, plus wealth and acceptance. It is not only the athletes themselves who profit from these sports, but also, the neighborhood kids have idols, goals and dreams. On every playground, you see youngsters imitating their favorite players, shooting, handling the ball and faking. It was the same in grandpops day, when kids were "Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth or Gene Tunney or "Jack Dempsey. Develops Following Javier Flores has developed such a following n Gloves gym among the youngsters at the on the West Side. Cookie Valencia and Ronnie Romero are other idols of the yoingsters. A youngster from the ghetto in the large cities, or from the poorer income families in most cities, has a star to hitch his wagon to. ' By watching his athletic hero, a youngster can see hard work can produce results and financied security. A youngster may take to hanging around the gym, boxing, training, working to develop into a copy of his idol, instead of hanging around getting into trouble with the law. The Police Athletic League offers friendship and understanding from the cops who are discovered to be good guys, too. But the main example comes from the Flores, the Valencias and the Romeros. They are the focal points of the youth of their neighborhoods, and as they go, so go hundreds of kids. PAL-Golde- CeMradD ISIS 121J 1 1 Wyoming 1 Vormont 114 4. 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