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Show 2 . $ The Js.itt I, ake Tritium', Sunday, April 22, 1979 n r rji L " ss i f a h it h pp, mpht all the Il.i a t , ii i, to 0 i s i w m t he" Inane thic Rosetta rilmno ShtI- W l iloi ( i The Dallas Blae k H iw ks lux k had plenty to up Hum S.ilimlnv and thev w ill h.n e leety mm o to fill m the Kilo time Smul.i They ;n iiiiiim oil to lio leafing through tlio Jostons catalogue of championship hoc ko rings Monday night, the high fl nu; How ks who have won eight xtt, tight and 'll of thoir last 2'!, will tr to drive1 one more-mil- l into tlii1 Salt Lake Golden agios tflTH 70 coffin when Game 2 of the Jac k Adams Cup final series unfold, at 7 to p m at the Salt Palace Alreadv the Hawk faithful ate xmel ling the scent of the Cup and the attendant championship I mj; After all Dallas yanked the Inure u e advantage tiwav from the Failles with Saturdav s 5 2 w in at thi1 Palace to open the sen By Hi jm1 die h 1 - oe-- i of d wo e w Satin Dallas i cil! Inc h at S' it, I i he- 9 o it) " Y ILJOi lilt iniupll I .(lie s Id U ms s.od ' I don't think the l me w ,i , a idle at iv e of the t I' po id the I'ame We lust h id two or tl tee- e t die al ln-adowns thought we hid found pe tod m lal mg out solve s ill thea 1 lead ' Hut their goal was a power winch should play goal from a have1 heem i died ion Boh He'ssi in Then, tlmv went ahead on the1 break a wav when we didn't pick up a man wide open in the slot and the fourth goal w as lust under Terry file hardson's stick as he tiled to play it to a teammate," F.vans related Dallas' f.f'h dual was an Cot - i . - h'ii' P 1 M t t " i he I ' u i , i i i e i W-- I i i 111 - tle'i'n v ' i i . I nettel "What omicrned me the1 most was that our king line1 of Brian Ogilv ( i .i i Holland ke any Richardson had a had time with their line1 of (Cicmtv and (P.rad) Minot, iDaveo Gaidue-Smith the line ewpoiisthie lot three1 . sel oml pel mil D ill, s ph, d wh ih "I a unit hut all the wa.uh d hv "e.illinh l 'm i It a Hi i ai site of eiithl ,i s mm h as I tali i o,n Is .lium a I'anii- s I ve-- That s the omiliiu s lieu loo o i the Fai le s '1 lie re is n is, a In hi now that if N.dl Lake d a it w n Mondav night the Hawks imld s m p Hus series m fota Haim s ed spin is ( 'ml S dt Take t i hoe So turd i . m, t - m s" 'a tin- , 111 ( v l i 1 1 1 e ' I " me - law ks have cm I1, erne's at home uul ui n s a i ouple1 of tunaw a in 72 .uni (i 1 v,yjrt Iw XS t1 I i I I 'p P i' n- - I I rtNOfT its e i se-- ' his , then1 are six g one s left is sports and you have to overcome' down It make s the satisfaction of ( einiui4 hae k that much more gu-u- t I n'mombor in the PKilUil Stanle v Cup finals we lost the fit st panic to the ' Hoy Ix-m- Mimtieal Catiadiens til and tame hack to will the Cup fin Chu ago ' Kv arts H'eoun'ed But ' Tex" dt I admit that Dallas has I hcv ale1 a hlgll-s- i I dented te .nil a mini; team We knew that But tliev took advant U'e of then bleaks Satin (lav mpht and Rtelley plaved as well as I've even- see lum play I can't them In pl.tv auv oxpe-r- t By W riter Wee-ha- 1 God-fearin- 7 T p ' Ik "t.' fV g -s s' "Jl - An a i the Seattle Pilots drew a rousing tiT i 11i.il ought to he a baseball re'eord, hut it isnt ev en an American Teague record When Philip DcCates-&oBall the St Touts Browns, his business manager, Bill Fricl, telephoned him a a drab day "ft hen the Washington Senators were in town to for last place A inoining ram challenge the Brow-nhad abated but a dismal afternoon was in prospect .Fricl wanted permission to postpone the game and reschedule it as part of a double-heade"There won't Ibo a soul here, he said I'll lie there, Ball said "Play the game " I They played, for the owner and two or thiee friends and the woiking press. Perhaps a dozen strays wandered into the park to use the mens room John Ogden, the Browns' pitcher, never forgot that i game because he made three hit Crusty Bantam Ball was a crusty bantam who had been a cowhand and a railroader and, before that, a minor league catcher until a knife fight in a saloon almost cost him use of his left hand In many respects, Charlie Finley, owner of the A's, takes after him. Like Ball, Finley is a maverick, 'outspoken and combative Like Ball. Charbe is a e millionaire. Charlie got there selling insurance; Ball saved $1 ,(MK) on a salary of $70 a week, bought into an ice plant and parlayed that stake into a fortune. Both fought the baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw M Landis m Balls at every turn, both lime, P.owie Kuhn in Finley's .took the commissioner to court and both lost Like Ball, Finley runs the cheapest operation in s .the majors, with the lowest payrolls on the field and 'in the office. During spring training in 1920 when Ball's Browns stayed in a fleabag in West Palm Beach, Fla , a notice was posted that any pl.tv er -ordering pie a Ia mode instead of the single scoop of Vanilla or the unadorned wedge of pie on the table d'hotc dinner must pay the extra dime himself There the resemblance ends, for Ball wa-- - a Finley is j baseball buff supporting a hobby, wheie-art in the game for profit "How much docs that ball elub cost you" Ball Nwas asked bv his friend Harry Situ lair, the oil tvcoon , a year maybe a "Oh. Ball said. v ' i It 1 L y jt ow-ne- v ' tG r v ' N ,s 1 A t- - Latuls-boroug- w V i r ,-- 7 '"V A, Z' , , - 'j. o' ! f , i a J Jye V ' i T, i . Vte A ! , iYjc 0 - '- -t ' I , , X" self-mad- t . of ? if " M ' ' Wait v; As of late Saturday, there had been no protest, hut the riders had until 30 ,as dfe. . v. r . x ji " .. .MV:c V "Hi s V out of your mind." Situ lair aid "Yeah" Ball said How alxmt that rue mg stable "Youre .7' ' t y - , A al ' ' iv ex "(nine on h. by, iaK Th. it's whit Isiitiv No if .,-- J. I was saying 112 T ' v iw'1 ' 'f - - J r. . s' imrP feet" 7 4 - - , thiee-'million- , - t .v -- vv. , 1 J' V D Z 'V- . ' f ft.' J li v ?3t ?"f rtf : 5 j , 2t . tt r ,V 1 9H ipd f i'A , , A h- - d i, t 3 ! 1"? .4 - 5 - 1 ;.C S g -- jours" 7rlDur Photo bx of amateur class as he maker IL'lclitnli Widow i:i asce-n- t r 7 -- the in Satur'i.iy - 1 idea-hu- base-hal- t -- vt-- both teams did well Hampton Gucpms Right! Gulls Vin! mituiue el I rum Page D eteof shoe 1. ami eliso, neand Id am e ( (Copyright) t ,1 Olympus Reiters Special to Fin1 1 H Pri-hre- e I i t e ' In e 's ' t b t 1' m ive , u t h I M. Hill hi f.u t h'-v- I si thieve , nils had the Du ke s pound mg t he all d as first baseman John 11a tee! w itll 21 putorts i Castillo Mike Williams and Due Pat i1 e I on the liu! for the Dukes w ribune 3 2-- Tennis Tournament title And Olvmpus players dominated the 3 A 4 tition North Sanpete's Ander-oNeimer doul le x team f 0 victory ove-.advanced to vie torv With ah' ( Icht's Petcrson-N- e Ison duo for the A, ? A doubles t a math i n I e I u as w till the v ay he the eighth to te 'Hi, ms who awoke at 3j a t !e ase-- m -t 1 r 1 1 to Inipp. 11 a fii r the Dum s la Id ,1 s Die Gulls pi Ke d a w a v fi 0 tin It txt h w In 11 Kill 'ski dm I li and s( m s round out Siatel gave the (nibs tl t 7 J in the st vi nth v itll a two tin dim x- f rown Olympus' Curl Curtice ripped Murray's retry Bassett, 6 3, Ml for the 3 A singles honors while hrt teammates Mark Foote and Cliff Pavne ed, d 6 t r to team, t 1, Laytons coinplede the Olympus sw cep of the i lass e 6-- Morey-Poelde- J 1 f, - Ber-IoIi- ( e k e e t nt Hu- V in Muiiti s Burke Plummer defeated EPHRAIM f 4 here Kanab's Walt Su'urday to .n Snovv College Invitational He'll School the minutes after the official race results were posted to lodge a protest "There will he a meeting of our AM A representative Paul Holt, and the riders," Ashhv said Of couise, that was all predicated on vv higher there would he a protest It would he a shame, it seems, 0 It wipe V. het .ell's ride off the Ixxd.s was the toughest lull Ive ever hmix-and I've been doing it since was It Califm man veais old " the 29 year-olsaid Tve been coming here for six ve.iis Hex this is the big one It gets lt lot of public ltv It has a cputation," W he sell said 'We have the wen Id championship tulle limb at DoAnza in California eae h year and we draw maybe 500 or 600 speetatms and there's a huge prize of $5,000 m Hue1 one I exik at this crowd novel have' had anything like tills at home Wear You Down Whe (sell said the brush and the steep tei am "simply wear your speed down If you have a hike' that has enough power to keep the speed and momentum up, you can make it through anything But lt takes a lot of luck If Whetsell is protested and it holds up then unofficially, there would he a npe.it winner Californian Vinee who took home the Widow-makr title last year, went 952 feet m tin- exhibition class on his 75e) Triumph was standing in line if Icili me ahln s struck down Whetsell Alsu making oulst.mdmg rules were ( al.formun Rex llovey on his 5no Tiiiuh.i an 861 foot effort and m tha Neb rider Gary W addcll who went Hit feet on a Triumph Tandshoiough, whose rule was ques Honed fen a tonsidei able time by race ,fn nils, said "he was concent rating on out of bounds If you go over oi the top the pressure is always then1 that tliev will say you went out " And Hut's exactly what officials were doing fm ,1 long time, retracing Linel borough's route to pick up tire1 tracks I followed the1 pj(h up to alxmt 600 feet them lt narrowed out and finally disappeai eel The1 front wheel kept ommg up so I put my best forward to tot mme weight on the front and finally old rider the got over the lop said e r s -- Tx-agu- 4' n I. I d "Oh, Sinclair said, "that's different Charlie has had amazing success epilating the said Lee M.uPhatl, the Anu-rt- i an "way he does, from president, afte-seeing the .Oakland "He hasn't lost any monev vet but that s 'only because he has sold players Now even Ch.uhe admits that theyre at the bottom of the- cookie jar " The Oakland situation is the concern of the whole league, because when the A's sell i5 tickets, the visiting club gets alxiut $o(0 for transportation and meals for 10 men It is the loncem of both r lodging leagues, for with a metropolitan population of the National League Giants hav e to share the rfuarket with tlu- A's "Thats what disturbs me, MdiPhaii s,ml 'Tin "people out there tell us that San Francisco and an Oakland are separate and different l traffic across Hu- In there isnt much the fact is that in ( . ikl, end's he st y ears the Giant ulu-- i .were starving There has never been a ' V, ; Out of Mind . i s 7 - i fiundred-thousan- . T Widow-maker,- 1 , s o "fifty-thousan- ribune Sports Writer AIN -- The POINT OF top of the hill (mountain! is some 1,500 f, e t up from the starting xint dunged near straight up Now and then, there is foot high a gully, nuiybe a three ledge and brush so thick that a machete1 couldn't cut it Widowmaker Hill They call it Those who bring motorcycles to the imposing lorinn at the southern pet tnielei of Salt Take Valley call tl Hie Widow maker Hille limb On hand Saturday for the 16th animal assault of the Widowmaker was a crowd estimated by sxinsonng Bees Motoicyvle Club members at at between 18,000 and 20, 000 people They came to see if one1 of those motorcycle riders could defy gravity Officially, at least in the premier exhibition il.iss, gravity won Out-o- f Bounds Actually. Earl Whetsell of Oakview Calif , made1 it over the top on his 1080 Honeta But Bees ofltctals said he went on the way and while he held the highest ride of the day at 1,121 teed, the Californian didnt qualify for the Bees' special pi tze of $1,000 On a shghUy-les- s difficult hill some1 50 " yards to the west of "No 1 Bill Landstxirough of Santa Clara. Calif , did. m fact, top the hill in the 50!) expert class m a Yamaha 100 "Theme's no question that the lull went over was easier than the one the exhibition class is riding, admitted But, gosh, its a great thrill to come here to the gieatest of them ail and he able- to go hack home and say I went over Widowmaker Whetsell couldn't be quite as ecstatic oven- his rule Race officials speculated there would he a protest over W het sells ascent into the wild blue yonder Somehow, Whetsell and his friend, Geotge Tidwell, misunderstexxl the rule whuh states no two riders can um1 the same metoreycle in the exhibition class Weve alreadv disqualified Tid well Now, its up to the other rulers whether or not they want to protest Whetsells ride, Hill Captain Butch Ashhv explained THE-MOUN- Red Smith By Dick Rosetta 1 s 1 III in The Tigles, who fell helutid on Minor's first of two goals for the nigld Eagle poaDe ia 17 footer whte-Richardson admitted bounced in otf to take1 a 2 I Used m v wrtsC't on f lov d Thomsons two poals Kick Rowness Thomson rolxmnde-shot and heat Ridley to tie it. T and the1'! on a t on 2 powe-play assault, Thomson t )ok Ten Trip's pass edf the wnot and drove a ,!') fixiter to the lower h ft!,, a, d unuT 1 r e But then Dallas unloaded three of them stiaipht coals filial pet to make1 me! it m four the look easv At Widowmaker NEW YORK The city of Oakland, Calif known ken West, is San lo seune New Yen kers as Ft ancise-opoor relation across the Bay A hv p mI net of the Gold Rush of 1M'I, it was settled hv prospectors and sepiatters who crowded out the original inhabitants, Costoanoan Indians It has a I present population of 330,6.4 immoital souls, most of them industrious, nidi- viduals united by a common dislike for baseball Over a five year span when the A's were the best team on earth, home attendance topped one million only twice and then just barely. In the last two Reasons it has hovered around half a million, lowest $i the major leagues, and many of those customers 'got in for half price. For the first nine elates m Oakland-AlamedCounty Coliseum this year, crowds 'averaged 3,201, and last Tuesday night a game with . i Crowds New York Times . know on i ip iv s an1 he He Motorcycles Roar , i I " Oakland As, .No Problem - (title teiiHv than they did SatUldav miJit Thev w til force hoi k strongly k and the put out I v ai s wouldn't I in v the theoiv that we have to Ih- able to move tl e I a pies at e nil the opes with Dallas of out own end We had enough n ihhmg the home ne advantage lit the h ,tk iwav s to w in most hockey panics, " Fvanx said Imt Kuliev was the te Best of ell xei les . nul H , e What was the formula for "going ove. "Without sounding coiueited, 1 would say it was the planning of the building of the motorcycle Ron True, brother of Jim (the only rider to ever top the old Widowmaker some ' miles to the east), helped me m putting this baby together and he said we were putting it together just for Widow maker. When you say hillclimh. you say 1 widwonuiker," Landsbonmgh said The toughest part of the hill for unv ol the riders seemed to he the ledges ' It's lust like running into a table top, Tundsborough said "A ou hav e to lift up and gel over them or you've fizzled out baby Alxmt ')9 .5 the of percei!1 ndcis "fizzled out" Saturday afternoon on brilliant Utah afternexm Penguin Funs Pelt Bruins After Victory The Boston PITTSBURGH (APi Brums, threatening a 1 lean swee p of the Pittsburgh Penguins, were with debris and dirty words as they skated off the ice Saturday The1 assault came from a few who dozen Penguin partisans, and fall watched thenr team lose behind ,i I) m the best of seven National Hoe key Teague quarterfinal playoff series 1 Different Guys ' Thc-iI might he trouble challenged alxmt 14 different guy s to meet me outside," right wing Terry O'Reilly said with a winners grin after the Bruins finally reached the see urity of their toe ker remni The rmil trouble ahead is for the Penguins, who could be eliminated here Sunday night, and Boston Coach I kin Cherry clumrily Penguin fans of that as he left the le e Cherry held up throe fingers signifying three wins in response to other types of hand gestures from lie stands ' If you could have heard what .1 felt I had th y were saying to us to remind the people that we won thiee games, said Cherry, whose team has been a runnerup to Montreal 111 the past two Stanley Cup finals Drenched with Beer ' I got (Irene hod with beer, which I bked Out its going to cost me six hue ks to get this cleaned," he said of Ills soggy suit Meanwhile1, Penguins Coach Johnny Wilson was acknowledging the challenge ahead for his team Does Wilson have hope the Pen gums actually can win four straight You just have to figure on one game at a lime," Wilson said We didn't play that badly in the last two games A break here or then or a diffluent bounce of the puck and we may have won both of them " Boston won Hie game on a third ienod Kiwer play goal hv Rie k 1 1 I . Middle-to- In the lex ker room, right wing Peter lx-- was lamenting a goal that he said got away in the second period He put the pue k ill the net only to have it snatched out by Boston goalie Gerry Cheevers, he said ' He caught lt m his hand and said "The pulled 't back out (me k was definitely 111 Cheevers said he1 thought it was a legitimate save "lt could have been in Imt I didnt think so." he said Pittsbuigh fans responded to the deputed play by throwing paper cups and other litter onto the lee e ausmg a delay for cleanup Cheevers said the break helped Boslon and hurt Pittsburgh "They stopped their momentum Our team is a little older and that gave us a hell of a rest, he said "Hometown fans should never do that " Te-- The Penguins, who lost twice in Boston last week, took a lead at 3 16 of the periexJ when Gary McAdam drove a 30 foot slap shot past Cheevers oK-nm- fired his shot after Pete Mahovlich won a his first game sime he a shoulder separation on Pittslmigh's face-of- f in siistame-e- l March 10 a |