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Show t i nitrr Forland Grabs Top Teams Await Bridgestone Test J Second Victory j fr By Craig Hansell Tribune Spoils Writer PA UK CITY The Park Citj Spring Classie concluded here Wednesday with University of Utah star Turil Forland and Japanese skier Hiroaki Ohtaka grahhing their second wins of the three-racseries. Ohtaka. who also won Monday's giant slalom, narrowly edged teammate ikno Yamamoto. Tuesdays race winner, for the slalom win. Ohtaka's two-ru- n time was 21 (17 while Yamamoto came in t 2 By UX Hemphill Tribune Sports Writer Jo Anne Russell would probably have rather been in Oakland playing m the Virginia Slims Championships Wednesday than in Sal! Lake City helping to promote next week's Bridgestone Don tiles Championships Russell Rut. while the 23 year-olmay not hav o made her mark y et as one of the world's top eight singles players, she certainly has done so in doubles, and loeal tennis tans will diseover w hy when the Bridgestone i hampioiiships iKgin at the Salt Balaee next Wed nesday Russell, who is seeded filth in next weeks tournament with partner Rosie Casals, is the reigning Wimbledon doubles champion with Helen Cawley, as those two scored a ti 3. .! victory over Martina Navratilova and Hetty Stove in the finals "And Wimbledon was the Inst time I had ever played with Helen." Hunted out Russell Adapts ti Partners The fact that Russell seems to win no matter who she is paired with in doubles is pmil id her ability as a doubles player. e 1 with 1.21 74 .Salt Ifocky Mountain Former Park City skier Doni Waldman had a bet with her Sun Valley coach She won the bet but lost the race Doni bet the coach she would stand up tor her first run. She did and had tia second-lustes- t time. But the second run she had some trouble, lost a ski and saw a (xissible win fade in a split second. tribune Thursday Morning, March 30. HITS Xeclimi With Casals, she was one of the top doubles players on the tour. When Virginia she wasn't playing with Casals, she played a couple of times with Avon Futures ehamp Julie Anthony, and they posted a win over Virginia Wade and Franooise Durr, the team that Casals-Kussemust meet in the first round Wednesday. Slims-Bridgesto- ll Last summer, Russell obviously formed a gixul team with Cawley, and she also did well with Betty Stove with Cascades in World Team the Sea-PoTennis (they visited Salt Lake for a match last summer, and Russell played Chris Exert in singles and lost). rt Russell played several years ago with Lake City's Jane Stratton in several tournaments, and they finished second in the Canadian Open in 1975. Salt took Ohtaka. top right, his second American ski race in with his win Park City Wednesday's Spring Classic Slalom. Ohtaka, in Utah with three members of the Japanese B Team, has been competing in American ski races since December. Toril Forland, left, is no stranger to winning. The Wednesday slalom win is her 13th victory of year. sxMMUMMMca-a- Tribune Staff Photos By Craig Hansell Tennis Ball Can Act Strangely in Salt Lake f 21' SfNtrh Mirror In John Mooney f ; I rilntnr "'porl Ltlilor AC' sxak of "letting the air out describe stalling tactics, but when Basketball coaches ot the ball" to the Bridgestone World Doubles Championship is settled at the Salt Palace next week, that's just what will hapen to the tennis halls. Not that there will he any stalling when the eight liest women's doubles teams compete, but Harry James, who is running the show, has it figured the championship tennis ball does strange things at Salt Lake Citys elevation. Otis Cross, who is handling the advance publicity tor the tournament, is familiar with the altitude tricks liecauso ho was here a few years ago with the International Pro Track tour. In fact, the success of pro track in Salt Lake' as one reason why the World Doubles Championship was set for Utah, after three years in Tokyo. "I can still remember cheeking the box office he afterncMin of the first track showing and finding about $12,000 in the till, which indicated a sale of about 2,500 tickets. Otis laughed. "Then it started to snow late in the afternoon. But I'll never forget the sight ot thousands of people standing in line, ankle deep in the snow, to buy tickets that night. "When the sponsors decided it was easier to stage the tournament in the U.S. and televise it to Japan than it was to fly 16 contestants to Japan. Salt Iike was one of the first spots considered. w I ( Min t- - Selliiie; Points in The tournament will be held April the Salt Palace and will feature most of the top women players in the game. Only Chris Evert, who did not play enough doubles matches to qualify, will bo missing from the field. "The women's tennis association wanted the meet to lx1 held in the United States, and the Norton Accepts WBC Belt , Eyes Title Defense Against Holmes Ken Norton received the LOS ANGELES ' A World Boxing Council's heavyweight championship licit Wednesday with a declaration he'll defend against all comers. Undefeated Larry Holmes will he the first on his list I That bout, which must he held prior to June 15 under WBC edict, could earn the new champion $i million anil probably will he held in Las Vegas Recognize Spinks When the WBC withdrew recognition ol Dsm Spinks liccausc he decided to give Muhammad All a rematch before fighting Norton, the heavyweight division came up with two champions The World Boxing Assn continues to recognize Spinks, who heat Muhammad Ml "The easiest way to settle this is for nic ami Spinks to fight " Norton said on accepting the licit from WBC ITesidcnt Jose Sulaiinan at ceremonies in the llollcnlicck Youth Center "I don't think that will happen very soon" Sulaiman defended Ins group's action in taking recognition from former Olympic champion Spinks and awarding it to Californian Norton when he said. "We have done the pnicr thing" We followed our constitution and rules. We are trying to keep integrity and honesty in Ixixing. We will not allow lower and business to rule boxing" xiiutcd out again that prior to the Spinks-Al- i fight in fans Vegas on Fell, la, both hail agreed I'ur winner would defend against Norton, the No. challenger The WBC has agreed Ali could Sulaiman n Somrsnii-- c Promoter Bill (Hasmann of Ogden offers a couple ol explanations for the substitution in the main event on his Golden Spike fight card last week: "Marv Jenson asked that we get a substitute opponent in place of Jose (Angel Casitas and we brought in Jose Caba of Dis Angeles, who admitted to having had 86 amateur, hut just a couple of pro lights, and he proved quite I don't a surprise in lienting Javier Flores know where the story of the weight advantage came from, but Vern Gardner of the boxing commission weighed Ixith fighters and Javier ... weighed 122 and Cuba 124 at noon. he added assistant coach for Pat Hill, who was a part-tim- e Utah Coach Wayne Howard last fall, has been e named to a job. replacing John Pease, who resigned to accept another coaching position Gene Frantz, former BYU linebacker, has given up his profootball dreams and is doing very well as a manufacturers' representative in a Tom Carey, who clothing line in California died Sunday, played in the same Regis College backficld with Arnie IUtIht, who went on to Hall of Fame honors w ith Green Bay Mlerher to Don Tom was a former Hulsom and the Giants Column note coach at Judge Memorial High recently on Eddie Tolan brought back memories to Gail Bywater, who remembers those days at Ute basketball awards Bryant Jr. High banquet will he held April 6 at Tri Arc Travelodge with tickets at $15 and available from Carolyn Johnson at .5X1 M71 "Tally Burbidge. a retired xilieeman is around and atxiut and pouring eollee at Hie Foot printers' luncheons after a hospital siege . Coach Jerry Pimm ol Utah has taken over the percentage leadership ol WAC basketball coaches with a 730 mark for his four years and moving ahead of Fred Snowden ol Arizona, who dropped to .698. . defend against Spinks only with the Norton stipulation. Norton Inter agreed to take only $2im).ihki with Spinks to get $1 million for their title light Change Mind Spinks then changed his mind and said his first bout would he a rematch against Ali. w'i ch reMrtc(lly would earn him $.' million. "Tile Council was fooled hy everybody imnhcd Sol. liman said. "We were treated in had iaith." Norton said. "It is obvious neither Spinks nor Ali want to fight me." " The WBC. with representation in 92 had scheduled a bout Ix'tween Jimmy Young and Notion in Las Vegas last Nov. 5 as a championship Ixml. Init switched that monition when Ali said he would fight the winner before meeting anylxKly else. Norton won a decision over Young and that fight has become the basis for Ills recognition as champion nation.-originall- Won in Ring "I would have liked to have won it in the ring.' Norton said. "Now I will fight Holmes, and I'm willing to fight Spinks and Ali right off the hat, too" Norton, with a 4(M record, has lost in two title opportunities. He was knocked out by Gixirge Foreman in two rounds at Caracas, Venezuela. in B74, and lost a disputed decision to Ali at Yankee Stadium m New York in 1076 He had met Alt twi'-before in on title fights willin,,: die first when lie bl oke All's jaw and losing a split decision e players hated the jet lag of the flight to Tokyo." Otis added. Then there's that trouble with the South .African players not being welcome in Japan because ot the apartheid policies of South Africa. Some of the western arenas are tied up with basketball or hockey playoffs, so Salt Lake City was just a natural and I'm sure the women p' avers will approve of the site, he added. But getting back to the air in the tennis halls, he explained. "Ilarry blames) suggested we skip the Wilson Championship halls and use the Wilson Heavy Duty balls because the faster balls act funny at this altitude. "Also. Harry plans to open the cans of tennis balls the day the match to lot the hails get acclimated. 1 guess you'd call it. he laughed Stuff full-tim- . . . ( alioii an! Coaching has its perils, lint is there any tiling in anticipate than being fired anil still paid for eight years nr your contract'. nicer doubles ability cun to her strength as a servo-an- d "1 never really had volley player good ground strokes until 1 went to college (Trinity), because 1 never really she. had anyone to practice with, explains. Russell's lliroaki i akr d Mike Lloyd, skiing for the Central l)i ision, was third, followed by Japan's Katsuaki Ikeda and Cory Carlson. Central Division. Forlar.d. who also won Tuesday's giant slalom, dominated the women's field with a winning time almost two seconds faster than Sun Valley skier Pam Koonco Kurland's time w as 1.2.1 07 and Koonce came in w it h a time of 1.27 40 to lead a strong contingent ol Sun Valley skiers. Lani Walker. Sun Valley, was third foltowed hy April (lerard. Northern Division, ami Stacey Ward. g a Ik Top Seeds The pairings for next week's tournament, which will see $40,060 go to the winning team, were finalized Wednesday. The seedings were based on a doubles teams best three tournament finishes on the Virginia Slims-Bridgeston- e tour. Navratilova, who won this title a year ago in Japan with Stove, is paired with Billie Jean King, and they are the top seeds. They won five of the 11 doubles tournaments on the tour, and in the first round here they will play Greer Stevens and Mona Guerrant. Kerry Reid and Wendy Turnbull, who made the finals of four of the last six tournaments and won two of them, are seeded second and will open Wednesday against Kristien Shaw and Janet Newberry. Stove and Evonne Gixilagong. who won one tournament and were second in two others, are seeded third and will open against Marita Redondo and Trish Bostrom. The final opening-rounmatch pit s Casals-Russeagainst ll Wade-Dur- r. ( Page I Die Eagles lear End of Line Host Hawks Rosetta Tribune Sxirts Writer It all began 72 games and some 5Vs months ago and now the Central By Dick Hex-ke- League's regular season championship comes down to the final four games of the season, with the Salt Lake Golden Eagles and Fori Worth Texans in a dead heat for the lead with 82 points each. The records are identical to wins, 29 losses and three ties but the road the Eagles have to travel is tougher. Salt Lake hosts Dallas Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Salt Palace on Awards Night, but after that it's three straight games on the road to close the season. Fort Worth at Ilonte On the other hand. Fort Worth has three games at home and just one game away and the one game on the road is right in the Texans backyard at Dallas. Salt Lake, after Thursdays home finale, goes to Dallas for games Friday and Saturday and then closes next Tuesday in Kansas City. Fort Worth has Tulsa at home Thursday, draws Kansas City in Will Rogers Coliseum Friday, gix-- over to Dallas next Tuesday and doses at home with Dallas next Wednesday. To have a genuine opportunity to finish on top of the regular season standings. Salt Lake must win at home Thursday night against Dallas. Because, in Fort Worth, the Texans will be favored over Tulsa. Salt Lake will be chasing a rare, e win streak at home, having swept a pair from Kansas City and defeated Dallas Monday night. The fourth win would provide the Eagles a springboard into the final three on the road. It figures, that for Salt Lake to finish first and gain the home ice advantage for the duration of the playoffs, the club cannot lose more than one game the rest of the way. If the Eagles win all four of their remaining games, they would be a cinch to finish first since the next criterion, after total wins, is the numlxr of losses and then the numlx'r of goals. s four-gam- The alternate team will he Kat'iy Harter and Caroline Stoll. Stoll won the Scored More Goals Avon Futures tournament in Ogden last month If the Eagles and Texans each finish Russell, who left Salt Lake Wed- with 44 wins (figuring a sweep for each nesday for Balm Springs to practice club the rest of the way), the Eagles will with tutor Dennis Ralston, ranks 17th in have scored more goals since they now singles earnings but 9th in doubles See Page G-Column 1 earnings on the final Virginia Slims list 2, SCOTCH SO SMOOTH IT NEVER MAKES WAVES. i |
