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Show poomcopy The Suit Lake Tribune 4D Jazz Season Even Shorter? IS, 1981 Friday, February Weber Humbles Bobcats. 71-5- 4 tin ' f Special to The Tribune Montana BOZEMAN, Mont. State challenged Weber State to a game- within a game Thursday' ra m-free, throw shooting con-teBut the Bobcats, the worst shaking team from the line in the Big,, Sky Conference, should have kiteyn better. ieber, the best free throw shoot-in- i team in the league, connected on from the line and erupted points to coast to fop 9 second-hal- f a sparse gatha before victory ering at Brick Breeden Fieldbouse. fypntana State, which came into thl game shooting a league low of percent from the charity stripe, atijpnpted 34 free throws Thursday. the Bobcats were successful on 115 for a miserable 44 percent, rwas the difference in the game, MSU missing t,l tfrends of two-shfouls and vir-tf- y everything else from the line the Wildcats feasted on free v - C Bt ot jt ? ws. , - M they miss that many? asked or State Coach Neil McCarthy game. I knew they were miss--h lot, but thats amazing. I just w ifwe would have shot free throws did tonight against aspcll as weWeber lost at home). Kfjj) (when Ey tybody on our side was hitting tonight, and it thfj afree throws big difference. .sbfr, which remained in conten-ife- r the'Big Sky regular-seaso- n chi mpfOnship while climbing to 3 in lift tQagjje and 18-- 6 overall, com-- , pletea its season sweep of the Bobcats by completely obliterating Montana State during the final 15 1 minutes. After tiptoing to a halftime advantage, the Wildcats still couldn't shake MSU in the opening five minutes of the second half. In fact, the Bobcats forced a 1 deadlock with 15 minutes to play when Jeff Epperly buried a But from that point, Weber State outscored the Bobcats 16-- 4 to assume a commanding 1 lead with eight minutes remaining. And things only got worse for Montana State. After that decisive 16-- 4 run, the Wildcats went on a little 12-- 5 tear to The boost their advantage to Wildcats then merely cruised, with McCarthy emptying his bench. '1 Randy Worster, who popped in 29 points in the first meeting between the teams in Ogden, poured in 19 points and collected six rebounds to 7-- 22-2- 31-3- 47-3- 60-4- 0. Weber State. anchor John Price chipped in IS points, six assists and four steals, and Matt Hafterson added eight points in 14 strong minutes in place of foul-trobled center Tom Heywood Wildcat forward Royal Edwards, who picked up his fourth personal foul late in the first half, sat out the first 11 minutes of the second half but managed to score nine points and pull down eight rebounds in 25 minutes of activity. The nine points elevated Royal to the 12th position e Weber State scoring on the charts with 1,006 points. Doug also came off the bench to score eight points all in the final 20 minutes for the Wildcats. Montana State, which has lost eight of its last nine games since Coach Bruce Ilaroldson suspended three-yea-r starter Bethel Debnam, received 20 points from Epperly and 11 from sixth man Rob Shelquist. The Bobcats fell to 8 in the conferoveralL ence and With 9 minutes to play, Weber State was in desperate foul trouble. Edwards and Worster both had four fouls, and Heywood, Eilertson and Greg Jones all had three. But thats when the Wildcats put MSU away, with Worster striking for eight span and Eipoints in a lertson .six. The foul difficulties might have been a blessing in disguise for Weber, since McCarthy was able to rest several starters in preparation for Saturdays shootout Montana in against league-leadin- g Missoula. The kids did a nice job defensive ly, especially when we had several players in foul trouble in the second half, noted McCarthy. Thats two straight road wins for us and our confidence is up. We didnt shoot very well in the first half (only 36 percent), tut we came back in the second half and shot 52 percent in the second half. The difference that first half and second half was night and day. It wasnt a very fruitful evening for Weber's Heywood, who has enof the 1982-8- 3 joyed a good second-hal- f season. Heywood picked up his third foul midway through the first h.?1f and played only 21 minutes for from the night, connecting on the floor en route to six points. But Hafterson, who made all four of his field goal attempts, helped ease the pain of Heywoods loss with his eight points. J1 ' R v tj $ ii Pay'll in i1' h , if' ' hf ' Kill !, 'f h , 'Vi .. L tUsV- I h - 9 ; - 7 , i'1' ' ,V' tytik,i! , ' u i,i ill l, If vi K 'S . . - ' ' s ,$, k ,. "1 Ifi ' I' Jj. v J ? ' f T, tfi.lrn i. 'i V' f 7 7 ff, .w6 - a n a tf. '! 7 - 'C' ill Uf Air n m- S- gs - 1 ft1" . afr . Kevin Figaro Future Jazzman? all-tim- Tribune Sports Writer If Kevin Figaro ever does begin his NBA rookie season with the Jazz, hed better get here fast The season could get shorter and shorter at both ends. With the revelation this week that the NBA Players Association has set an April 2 deadline for a successful conclusion to its dragging negotiations with th owners, the possibility now looms that the Jazz' season could be shortened by seven games if the players decide a strike is necessary on April 2. This kind of news is probably more difficult to swallow for the Portland Trail Blazers, who make their iinal Salt Palace visit against, the Jazz Friday night (7:30 p.m ), than it would be for the Jazz. That's because the Blazers are almost certainly going to be one of the league's 12 playoff teams. And if the players call a job action on April 2, they would endanger not only the final two weeks of the regular season but also the playoffs, in which teams like Portland can make money (and in which all teams, including Uie Jazz, can reap the CBS television ' money from the playoffs). The player representatives from the league's 23 teams voted in les i Angeles Monday to set the April 2 deadline. Adrian Dantley, the Jazzs player rep, couldnt attend, so Rickey Williams, the teams alternate, represented the team instead. Dantley said Thursday he has kept in telephone contact with Larry Fleisher, the NBAPA executive director, and that all the (Jazz) play- - Senior Net: Starrett Slips By 2-- 9-- By Lex Hemphill Tribune Sports Writer Susan Starrett thinks a testy opening match in any tournament is just if you live through it. fine Starrett, the third seed in the Womens 40s at the USTA National Senior Indoors, almost didnt live through hers. She found herself trailin the third set before rallying ing to defeat Jeanette Paddock of ThursColorado Springs, 4, day In competition at the Salt Lake Swimming and Tennis Club. d Starrett and Dorothy Matthiessen had particularly trying struggles in their first matches Thursday, but they still got through. So all three national draws for the women the 40s, 50s, and 60s will head into their rounds of 16 Friday with all the seeded players intact Things also went pretty much according to form in the first day of the senior mens national indoors (45s, 50s, and 55s) at the Canyon Racquet Club, where Friday action will also feature the rounds of 16 in each of the three draws. Starrett came the closest to falling among the highly seeded players. And thats because, she figures, the luck of the draw didnt favor her. After all, she reasoned. Pad-doc- k is hardly the type of player youd expect to have to meet in the first round. Even though she lost in the round of 16 last year in her first 5-- 2 7-- 6, 6-- four-minu- te When you sell any 1983 Chevrolet ' I foul-plague- d u- By Lex Hemphill . fifth-seede- , rs crack at the National 40s here, she ble benefits of the long match. She also used the same weekend here to , said she hasn't played in a tourna- wm the Western 35s ; ment since October, when she lost in from Salt Laker Pam Honn, the finals of the 40 Clay Courts to And Honn (who, incidentally, Cathie Anderson, who is seeded first breezed through her first match f here. So she got her tournament test, Wednesday) was seeded ninth in the but it was almost too much of one. now-defun- ct 6-- 0, 6-- 1. 40s, while Paddock was unseeded. who was tentatively ranked fifth by the USTA in the 40s in 1982, had a tough first opSo, yes, Starrett, and a tough match too. ponent Almost too tough. After Paddock breezed through the second set to gain a split, she earned a service break in the fourth game of the third1 and held onto it until she found herself serving for the match at I thought it was a rather bad spot to be in, understated Starrett of No. Aurora, HI., a finalist here two years ago. I just turned off all thoughts that I was going to lose and told my- ' v self I could do 5-- 3. it, She started by delivering a backhand passing return for' 0 in the ninth game and she was eventually Then she held able to break to service to get level, and two games later, they were in a tiebreakers Starrett took command From an overhead with two winners and another backhand passing shot and she nailed down the tiebreaker 3 to win the match. 4-- 5. ll, 7-- I need every drop of match play I can get, said Starrett of the possi- - While all the seeds eventually did get through in the womens draws, perhaps the most surprising result Thursday was that Salt Lake's Kathy Rothfels, the champion in the 50s here four years ago, was knocked out in the first round by Denvers Myra Rhodes Another local, Veda Edman of Ogd den, won in her 50s match, going three sets to do it In the mens tournaments at the Canyon, a couple of high seeds fell in d the 45s George Gill of d RichNew Jersey and ard Schuette of Houston. Walt Massey of Atlanta, who had to survive a three-se- t match in the first round in the morning, dispatched Gill in the evening seicond round Scheutte went down to David Scott of Bethesda, McL, Other than that, it was straight-se- t time for the top four seeds in the 45s. And in the 55s, all eight seeds won easily in fact, there were no three-settein the round of 32 in this draw. In the shorter 50s draw, top seeds Russell Seymour and Bill Davis didnt even have to play Thursday. 6-- 4, 0-- 6, 6-- 2. first-roun- fifth-seede- sixth-seede- 4-- 5-- 7, 6-- 4, 6-- 4, 6-- 6-- 4. rs ers know whats been going on. . The players know there s a possibiliWe ty something will happen. He said had a yet." haven't meeting the Jazz players haven I actually been pilled yet on their willingness to strike, if it comes to that. The NBA players have been per- forming without a contract since the end of last season. Among the owners proposals are a $4 million limit on each team's player payroll and a scheme that would tie plavers income into a fixed percentage of the leagues revenues. The plan would also include modification of the current free agency set up, and the NBAPA balks at that, at least until 1966-8when the Robertson Agreement, which estabarlished the rangement, expires. And what does all this have to do with Kevin Figaro, you might wonder? Well, nothing right now. because hes not an NBA player vet But he is the prime candidate to become the Jazz's 11th man. the man whom the Jazz must add by decree of the league last weekend. court-decree- d Figaro, who was a college teammate of Andrew Toney's at Southwest Louisiana, has been playing with the Ohio Mixers in the Continental Basketball Association this season. He is scheduled to appear in Game Saturday, the CBAs All-Stand the Jazz are dispatching assistant coach Scott Layden to Albany. N.Y., to get a look at him there. Layforward-guarden has seen the once earlier this season, and this time hell be watching not only Figaros play but also how he moves on a knee he jammed a couple of weeks ago. Jazz officials spent time Thursday tracking down medical reports on Figaros knee ar d If he is the man. then Layden will likely bring him back to Salt Lake City Sunday, and if he passes his Jazz physical, he could be in uniform for Tuesdays game here against Washington. If the Jazz opt not to sign him, then they may look to either Kenny Natt or John Douglas, current CBA guards with past NBA experience. In any event, the Jazz will still have just 10 men in uniform for the game against the Blazers Friday and Sunday's game in San Diego. Once they add an 11th, Dant-ley- , who hasn't played since Dec. 17. would finally be placed on the injured list. SC3D SHOP THE for... JVj FAMILY SKI OVER INVOICE STORES On Factory Orders Only Expires Feb. 28, 1983 FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW YOU CAN'T AFFORD A BIG AD TJie Legislature is proposing to increase state beer excise taxes by $10.82, while leaving the tax rate for distilled spirits unchanged, is bad public policy for several reasons. First, such an increase would fall unfairly on the states working men and women. Second, it would hurt involved in the distribution and sale and their employees the hundreds of Utah businesses CHEVROLET 5650 So. State 262-34- 1 of beer. And third, it would encourage consumption of distilled spirits, whicf are distributed through a state monopoly, and thus contribute to the problem of alcohol abuse. Lets look at each of these issues more closely. 1 TAX REGRESSIVE SAVE J3 when you buy your Solitude lift tickets at Sears! geksisusM Drum Brakes Disc Brakes (Front Axle) ioa (Front or Rear Axle) , Repack wheel bearing 95 f tnlDAS) Most Vehicles BRAKSOP $ INCLUDfS MOST CARS AND IIOHT TRUCKS TRUST THE MIDAS TOUCH! r" I I I I on weekdays ea. $7 35TH HIGHEST on the mountain i'.;st equipment new and Looking at the current tax rates on beer and spirits from a national perspective, illustrates this point even more dramatically. Under the Legislative proposal, Utahs beer excise tax rate, which currently ranks 14th in the nation, would become the 6th highest The tax rate on distilled spirits, on the other hand, would remain the 35th highest in the country. Purchase your ski lessons at Sears for 7! DECREASED EMPLOYMENT ' in excellent condition 750 per Rental rales, skis, bools and poles day The Legislative proposal is also unfair to the businessmen and workers employed in the distribution and sale of befer throughout the state. Beer is a price sensitive product, and a legislatively-mandate- d price increase of the type proposed by the Legislature would result in decreased sales and decreased employment in the industry. This hardly makes good sense in the current economic environment. COUPON LUBE, OIL, & FILTER $1295 I SEE ONE 902 So. Main 1026 East 2100 ENCOURAGE ALCOHOL ABUSE Special ALL day lift ticket at Solitude, half day lesson and All day rental ol ski's hoots and poles. Weekdays 2050 per day 22.50 Weekends and holidays Of THl MIDAS SHOPS NEAR YOU SALT LAKE ClTY Mens and Womens Parkas 328-02- So. 487-082- 5 2851 West 3500 So. 967-939- 3988 Sold last year lor 65 0 While Quantities Last! "CHARGE IT on SearsCharge MURRAY So. So. State State 266-881- 1 262-246- 8 Finally, even though the Legislative proposal would use a portion of the revenue generated by the increased beer excise tax to fund anti-Dprograms, it would actually encourage alcohol abuse by creating a price incentive in favor of distilled spirits. The simple tact is that distilled spirits, the most concentrated form of alcoholic beverage, can be consumed in greater quantities and more rapidly per unit of alcohol than beer. Morris E. Chafetz, M.D., the founding director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, noted this fact in a recent letter to the Washington Post. WEST VALLEY CITY 6180 '4444 ed se e Rent your ski equipment at Sears! Save time Most Vehicles FREE BRAKE INSPECTION SAVE 2 Regular 9 49 Mldes brake shoes and disc brake pads are warranted for as long as yoj own your American, foreign cur, van or light truck (under 7000 lbs.) H they ever wear out, new Midas brake sheas or pads will be installed without charge for the shoes or pods or the lobar to install the shoes or pods. Additional parts ond-o- r labor required to restore the system to operational condition are extra. $9 at Sears Resurface drums Inspect wheel cylinders and prings Inspect hydraulic system New guaranteed linings', Readjust brakes Resurface roton Inspect calipers New guaranteed pads (Metallic ppde extra) Regular 12 when purchased Beer excise taxes are inherently regressive, and the Legislative proposal would place a severe burden on the states, working men and women. In 1981, almost half of all beer consumed in the United States was purchased by households with annual incomes of $20,000 or less. This group is already carrying its full share of the states tax burden and would be hard hit by a and inflationary tax increase that singles them out for special attention. In addition, it should be pointed out that the proposed tax increase would actually cost consumers more than it raises in government revenue. Since the excise is levied at the wholesaler level, it would b$ subject to normal markups at the retail level. Thus, although the proposed increase would raise $.79 per case, it would actually cost consumers $1.45 a case in outlets. . grocery stores and other It should also be noted that distilled spirits, which will not be taxed at a higher rate under the Legislative proposal, are generally consumed by higher income groups. While beer consumption is concentrated among working men and women, almost 65 of all distilled spirits were purchased by households with an annua! income of $20,000 or more in 1981. More than 25 of all distilled spirits were purchased by households with annual incomes in excess of $35,000 in 1981, while only 11.6 of beer volume was purchased by households in that income group. Thus, under the Legislative proposal, the tax rate of those with less would be . increased, while that of higher income groups would be left completely untouched. Salt Lake.. Murray 321-41268-557- 59 9 Dr. Chafetz commented: "But it doesnt take a chemist to know that the more concentrated the form of a drug, the more potentially disastrous its effects. When spirits become as cheap as beer or wine, the addicted or abusive drinker will switch to spirits to get more of the drug alcohol per unit o beverage." In this context, if is interesting to note that the Soviet Union is widely recognized as having one of the most serious alcoholism and alcohol abuse problems in the industrialized world, primarily as a result of the popularity of vodka in that country. To counteract this problem, the Soviet Government has recently begun building breweries to offer an alternative to the mere alcohol. As businessmen, and as citizens of this state, the Utah Beer Wholesalers Association cannot support this unfair, regressive and potentially socially damaging proposal. Call or contact any representative of the state legislature to voice your concern. concentrated form of 18 fry toft 944 Aiwtti r . j WMliniin teMcictfm 272-43- 1 |