Show m Halt §vAx ghtfbtm Section D —" Thursday July 14 1988 ' Page IOII1WIIW ' : r ' J V-f- i v -- i Local Barber Moody Bear Watching :' - t V - Hi-- ""V f ? Sports Information 1 Call Call 237-200- 237-202- 5 kowdowii Pick? Crampton - - For Recorded Scores 1 Hi V ' BCDF 4 By John Gutman Tribune Sports Writer JEREMY RANCH — Looking for a favorite to win this week's $350000 Showdown Classic? According to Bruce Crampton you can choose the winner of a Senior PGA Tour event each week by looking at a list of about 20 players Those would be the top 20 money winners on the circuit give or take a few Eleven of the current top 20 are among the field of 72 that will compete in the Showdown Classic Friday through Sunday on the 6947-yarJerArnold Palmer-designepar-7emy Ranch course Las Vegas has made its choice for this week's event: It's Bruce Cramp-to- n a 1 favorite The Australian native won last week's GTE Northwest Classic is fifth on the money list and J i d 2 d 'v ¥& 2-- ": v - v:v- placed v second in last if year's Showdown The GTE victory in Kenmore Wash was Crampton's third of the year He was second on the 1987 money list winning $437904 and topped $1 million in total Senior Tour winnings earlier this year "There is no one on the tour who is as intense about his game as is Bruce Crampton" said fellow Australian — ioto Dy Pete Houaeshel Orville Moody the 1969 US Open winner shoots for his fourth Seniors Tour victory of the year at Jeremy Ranch yommg EVANSTON Wyo — In horse racing parlance the entries approaching the gate are HeadlnTheSand of Utah vs EyesToTheFu-tur- e of Wyoming But this imaginary race will be no contest HeadlnTheSand continues to be mired in archaic bureaucratic red tape that dictates there will be no wagering in Utah It's ol' EyesToTheFuture who continues to gallop away in this futurity grazing on Utah money along the way and whinnying all the way to the paddock with Utah dollars gathered in at the betting windows at Wyoming Downs just north of here ' It wasn't bad enough that Utah money helped build Wendover Nev subsidizing it to n casithe extent there are now a nos where there was once only a couple in the early '60s Now HeadlnTheSand even in peeking up how and then to see if it's still the 20th Century has the blinders firmly in place to obscure the recreational phenomenon unfolding at Wyoming Downs — a weekend pursuit that's siphoning yet more Utah dollars away from a state that daily it seems bemoans its financial plight There is no moaning up here on Dick Sims' sprawling ranch nine miles north of Evanston where racing is in its fourth season three days (Friday nights Saturdays and Sundays) a Week through Oct 2 Attendance is up — some 20 percent over r Peter Thomson "Crampton is playing very well right now" said Orville Moody Crampton's playing partner in the Legends of Golf tournament which the pair has won two years running "The other guys who are hot are Gary Player and Bob Charles but they aren't here this week" If you're looking for another favor-Se- e D-- 2 Column 4 ides Utah s Horses to Success 1987 n industry in Utah" claims Dave Freston editor of Western Racing News magazine based in Ogden "For instance the amount of money spent on a sale in this area will range from $20000 to $1 million" he said Freston is not someone a Utah legislator wants to confront on Capitol Hill His magazine goes out to 2000 subscribers each one according to Freston "tired of hearing diatribes about keeping 'sin' out of Utah Horse people don't consider themselves crooked dishonest rifraff and other titles that have been foisted on them by some Revenues — called the handle in horse racing — are up over the $136000 daily average of 1987 And who for the most part is responsible? You guessed it — folks and horses from ol' HeadlnTheSand country There we go again — providing the wherewithal for EyesToTheFuture to get 15 percent of all the revenues each weekend not to say anything about the Utah dollars coughed up to Evanston businesses "There's no question Utah has been the dominant impact on Wyoming Downs — both in fans and in horse population" said ML of the Downs Smith "We count on them fUtahn horses They run well here And they bring a lot of fans with them" Yeah right to the betting windows Lest you're thinking 'so what?' bear in mind Utah's quarterhorse breeding industry is surpassed by only three other states — Texas Oklahoma and California "Quarterhorse breeding has turned into a lawmakers" Meantime Wyoming Downs waits each weekend with open arms as crowds in excess of 4000 (capacity is 5000) pay to see the "sport of kings" which incidentally is the biggest spectator sport in the world As far as officials at the Evanston Chamber of Commerce know there has been no rise in the number of bankruptcies nor any appreciable increase in the crime rate because of horse racing nine miles north of town There has been a noticeable — and recorded — influx of Utahns "We knew from the outset that Utah would be the main support for the track" said Smith "We gambled on it" Win place and show probably Freston says one only need peruse a Wyoming Downs program each week to recognize the impact Utahns have had "Wyoming Downs wouldn't even have considered a track if it hadn't been for Utah's Fassel Saddened By Drug Arrests By Dick Rosetta Executive Sports Editor University of Utah football coach Jim Fassel citing a drug testing program in which "we've never had anyone tested positive" said Wednesday he "felt terrible" about the arrest of two of his players for allegedly selling cocaine to undercover federal agents and U of U police officers Fassel was at a vacation retreat in pceanside Calif when he received fullword of the arrest of junior-to-b- e back Martel Black and freshman red-shifour-year-o- rt defensive back Charles Patterson "My initial feeling is I feel terrible for Martel and Charles" said the fourth-yea- r Ute coach "You know we do drug testing and we've never had anyone test positive for cocaine The thing you never know about is someone who doesn't use it but sells it What happened will be for the authorities to determine" Black a graduate of Sweetwater High School in San Diego led the Utes in rushing as a sophomore (he was a Proposition 48 case and missed his freshman season) "susHe was still on a pension" from the team when he was arrested late Tuesday night "Martel quit the squad in late March and then asked to get back on the team prior to the start of spring ball in early April" Fassel said "At that time I told him there were some commitments he needed to make in order to live up to the standards we 220-poun- d Fassel-impose- d impose for the team He knew he was on suspension and the rest of the team knew he was on suspension" Black who rushed for 520 yards (including 118 in a game against San Diego State) and had four touchdowns a year ago did not participate in spring drills Fassel said he was planning to "review his status prior to fall drills to determine if he had met the team's guidelines "It's a sad thing — not just because of his football talent" Fassel said "It's something that will be with him for the rest of his life If the charges are true his football career is over" Patterson is ticketed as a backup corner to sophomore Sean Knox in Utah's defensive secondary alignd ment for 1988 Patterson a product of Lincoln High School in San Diego was a prep 0 pari-mutu- front-runnin- izSports Capsulezz Pioneer League Salt Lake 4 Medicine Hat TV Sports (JSPN CUE) 7 am 11 am ) Cubs — Golf British Open — Baseball Dodgers vs 5:35 pm — Baseball Mets vs CHE) Braves (USA) 1 7 pm — Boxing Costas Is Best Host NEW YORK (AP) — Bob Costas of honored as 1987's outstanding sports television host at Wednesday night's Emmy Awards for Sports Costas beat out Brent Musberger of CBS NBC's Dick Enberg and Al Michaels and Jack Whitaker of ABC "I am very pleased to win but very honestly not nearly as pleased as I was to be nominated" Costas said John Madden of CBS won his fourth analyst Emmy in a category that includ-- : ed Ahmad Rashad of NBC Dan Dier-dor- f and Tim McCarver of ABC and Billy Packer of CBS ABC's "Wide World of Sports" was honored as best edited series and the network's NFL "Monday Night Foot-ball- " won as top live series NBC was Quotable r teams "I've managed three and we've scored six runs It kind of reminds me of my present team" — Whltey Herzog All-Sta- j :"- - 180-poun- Ute Athletic Director Chris Hill said Wednesday "We're assessing the gravity of the situation It's alarming but we have to wait and see what the authorities come back with "It's the arrests bigger than the university If charges are filed and they are involved they would be ineligible as players and as students It's a major disappointment for all of us" Hill reiterated Fassel's stand on drug testing: "We have a sophisticated program that was implemented long before the NCAA program became mandatory We are constantly refining it We are concerned about our kids That's our responsibility" ! dollars and the state's horse industry You could combine all the states around and you wouldn't measure up to Utah's contributions in dollars and horses" said Freston It's not only the rush of Utahns to Wyoming that Freston takes note of "There are people who've moved to California to breed horses who would much rather live in Utah to do the same thing" One Utahn who's "back home" again because of Wyoming Downs is Vernal's Demar Boren whose horses have taken six firsts and six seconds at the Downs including a pair of firsts by thoroughbred Bold Triumph "I usually race in New Mexico in the summertime and Phoenix in the wintertime" said the Utah horse owner "This is the first time in 14 years I haven't been in New Mexico in the summer The purse structure here isn't all that good but I'm close to home" Is he hopeful that in his lifetime horseracing will come "home" to Utah? "In our business it's everyone's dream that it will be legalized in Utah Utah could be a very influential factor in racing But there haven't been any encouraging words and that's discouraging to us" To Boren and his fellow Utah trainers breeders owners and fans HeadlnTheSand status will be content with g to the EyesToTheFuture All the while Dick Sims ML Smith and all of Evanston and the Cowboy State — aka EyesToTheFuture — will listen to their cash registers sing multi-millio- pari-mutu- half-a-doze- —Photo by Pete Houdeshel won as a partner of Ben Crenshaw in '85 when the tournament was a team event Miller Barber is the defending champion of the Showdown Classic which he also it —Tribune Staff Pholo by Craig Harwell Striving to Beat The Heat? Try Water Siding! 7 Curtis Mickelson 13 in his first year of age class watr skiing competition has already earned one Excep 13-1- tional Performance run and can qualify for the American National Championships with one more See story: D-- 7 |