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Show y ''V ll lllll poor, copy mmmj.MiujMasamrj' f Run for Roses Today By Ed Schuyler Associated Press Writer - , ' The 110th LOUISVILLE, Ky. Kentucky Derby Saturday shapes up nbiu tiorl9 l.ililor I i , Vv- yi; P . rG f- - p t lyjbv tourist bonanza expected to iimieh Southern California during the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 12 (July may not be the gold mine the op-- : timists expected. The last I re-- I lease from the Los Angeles Olympic Organiz-lin- g Committee I 1 indicated nearly 70 percent of the ticket orders re- ceived through the mail had come from Southern California. That means the bulk of the spectators wont be staying in hotels or motels, and may even eat most of their meals at home. For those who received notification of their successful requests for tickets, the seat assignment process has begun and they should be receiving their tickets and seat assignments in June. Of the 363 ticketed events in the Olympic Games, 136 are sold out and 132 still have tickets available. The LAOOC has processed 349,000 ticket orders, including 31,000 from people who received acknowledgements last November and 39,000 orders sent in since last Aug.15. About 49,000 tickets are being retained on a wait list for sold out events where there is a reasonable chance of obtaining tickets. Since last summer, weve sold more than three million tickets using the system to give everyone equal chance to attend the 1984 Olympic Games. said G. Edward Smith, LAOOC vice chairman for ticketing. There is a weakness in the ticket allocation in that a purchaser had no control over the games to be seen. There was no way a purchaser could select any particular game or team to be seen. You could wind up with Korea vs. or China vs. Iraq, 125-2Iraq, 120-2which were scores of previous Olympic basketball games. Speaking of Olympic basketball, Charles Barkley claims he isnt a weightlifter, but admits he once liftblock so teammates ed a could move a goal. John Stocktons grandfather, Houston Stockton, was a triple threat on Gon-zag- a 1924 undefeated Universitys team. As a Stockton in height; now hes was only I was the fat boy in the choir in my fathers church, Stockton con0, as extremely competitive, missing some of the top horses and offering more plots than a cheap deflective thriller. Devil's Bag, Time for a Change and Dr. Carter, who were prime Derby contenders, did not make the race, but it's difficult, perhaps impossible. to detract from a race that has become a piece of Americana. Besides, there is quality in what will be the richest running of the 1' classic at Churchill Downs with a purse of $712,400 and a winner's share of $537,400. Post time is 3:38 p.m. MDT. "It's a good field, Jack Van Berg, trainer of Gate Dancer, said Friday. "There is no super horse in there w e know of yet, but it is a very competitive field. You can pick 10 or 12 horses, and any one of them could win." There is genuine speed in the race, and there are some good one-ru- n horses, whose jockeys will try to move at the right time and hope Wb Section B JMt tlicir mounts cun sustain a winning ilnve to the wire. One of the speed horses is lie filly Althea, who beat colts in the Arkansas Derby, while one of the stretch runners is her entrvmate Life's Magic, also a filly. Two fillies have won the Derby -Regret in 1915 and Genuine Risk in 1980. Other contenders who figure to be or near the pace arc Taylor's Special. Swale. Kali Time and Vanlan-dinghuThree other stretch runners to watch are Silent King, Gate Dancer and Vanlandinghams entry-mate- , Pine Circle. This Derby has a full field of 20 and even more human interest angles. At the first Derby, which was won by Aristides on May 17, 1875. w omen were not allowed into the grandstand without an escort. In this Derby, there will a woman jockey and a woman trainer. Patti Cooksey, who will ride So Vague, will be the second woman jockey in a Derby. "Historv was made when Diane on f vtltf Saturday, May Page Column Sec Page ll best-of-sev- An earlier mention of Eddie Tolan, Utahs double gold winner in the sprints in the 1926 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, brought a memory to Pat McKendrick. ley. think we have Adrian well; now its a question of getting everyone else well, said the Jazz's Rich KelI We had competition in seventh grade in those days and I was with ley. The Jazz averaged 115 points during the season and 122.4 points in the e Denver series, but in these three games against the Suns five-gam- ff nine-innin- fast-pitc- softball, and eliminate because of lack of partic-Ipatui- g teams. Slow pitch teams represented 43 NCAA schools, with 36 of these tlams In the. south. Fast-pitc- h womeifd softball was offered by 441 colleges and universities, with 44 from the south. sldW'-pitc- h Ols:n atiou .Wuril I'm surprise (Luowe school hasn't covered Us athletic field wU paper, since so many teamd look so good on W' paper, . . they are averaging points per game. Theyre not running and theyre not executing in their halfcourt offense. And theyre shooting like 42.7 percent Friday poorly night and 43.3 percent over the last two games. 98.7 100-yar- fast-pitc- 1 miles from Clmtchill $712,000 Duns in SdfurJdf 5 pmse for J yeai ukls May 5. 1984 Fbr Recorded Scores ports 11 best-of-fiv- fast-pitc- a) D.W Lukas hawed entry (hktas) b d R McCaughey trained entry t) Mutual f ek I best-of-sev- Tolan Keniemkered fast-pitc- i j Another trainer. Woody Stephens, will be a focal point of this Derby as he has been in the past. The weather forecast for Saturday calls for increasing cloudiness, a 20 percent chance of afternoon showers and temperatures in the low to mid 70s. Cloudy or not. wet or not. a Swale victory would be a bright moment for Stephens, who has spent a harsh spring and winter The Hall of Fame trainer, who won the 100th Derby with Cannonade. broke three ribs about two months ago and was hospitalized 2-- fessed. Losing Candidates i ,1 Dianne Carpenter will become the fourth woman to train a Derby starter when she saddles Biloxi Indian. a colt she owns. The others were Mary llirsch. 1937: Mrs. Albert Roth, 1949, and Mary Keim. 1965. 4 6-- 1. Norma Carr, the womens softball coach at the University of Utah, is not a booster of slow-pitc- h softball, h which has replaced the in many areas. h Even the leagues in Norma Utah are disintegrating, added. There used to be a league of young women players, where our high school kids could develop and our college players could compete h teams in the summer. But are fading and that means we will not have the farm system locally, where we have signed most of our local players. It isnt just in Utah where slow-pitc- h is popular. It was even more wide spread in the southeast. Florida State U. would have been the defending champion in AIAW slow-pitctournament. But the NCAA, in including women's sports, elected to feature nah tional championships only in a -- 1970. - r, 109-yar- t. -- t- . By Lex Hemphill Tribune Sports Writer PHOENIX The Jazz are back in trouble. Only this time, the trouble doesn't concern how to free up Adrian Dantley. Dantley got loose here Friday night and scored 31 points, but while he was handling the ball, the rest of the Jazz were standing around and totalling a mere 63 points, enabling the Phoenix Suns to waltz to a 106-9playoff victory before 14,660 fans in a sold-ou- t Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The victory gives the Suns a 1 lead in this Western Conference semifinal playoff series, with Game Four set here Sunday afternoon. So the Jazz are behind th. same eight-bathey were against Denver, with two differences. The positive one is that they cant be eliminated here because this is a the negaseries, not a tive one is that figuring out the Suns' defense will be more difficult than solving what the Nuggets were doDanting when they double-teame- d 500-pou- the Tolans, Eddie and Hart, at Bryant Jr. High, Pat recalled. We ended the spring with a field day, with all forms of competition. A lad from South (I cant remember his name) tied Hart Tolan in the d dash and they decided to have the run-oafter the baseball g game. Hart caught the game and his rival wanted the runoff right then. Hart was in his baseball uniform and spikes and felt the challenge was unfair, after he had caught a ball game. Eddie Tolan, never known as a fast runner until then, took the challenge for his brother and won by 10 yards, running in his baseball uniform and spikes. I had an artificial leg, but I beat d swimHart Tolan in the ming competition after Dick Romney, our playground coach, taught me how to swim without the leg, Pat remembered. I didnt call to brag about myself, but to correct that fellow who said the Tolan boys played for West Junior High.. HMMt Y( Call Local 662-435- 4 1-8- 237-202- 5 Phoenix Bounces Jazz, Nabs 2-- 1 Series Lead 5, ninth-grade- r"" Crump did it." said the Cooksey, known as P.J. "Whctlict I m the second or the 102nd jusi the prestige of being here and being able to participate is quite a thrill." Crump finished 15th on Fathom in tribune 5, 1984 noth iKENTUCK DERBY Associated Press Loserphoto Utah Jazzs Adrian Dantley finds going tough Friday night as Phoenix Suns Mike Sanders blocks lane in NBA playoff. Fehr. BYU Rule WAC Golf By Roger Graves Tribune Sports Writer Less than 12 hours DRAPER before BYUs Rick Fehr was scheduled to tee it up Friday in the closing round of the 22nd WAC Golf ChampiFehrs final collegiate onships tournament on Utah soil the vastly talented senior received an encouraging telephone call from his parents in Seattle. It was a typical conversation between parents and son. Fehrs mother and father inquired about his performance in the initial two rounds of the WAC tournament and wished him good luck. Then, almost as an afterthought, Fehrs father, Jerry, told Rick to go out and shoot a 66 and dont worry. So guess what Rick Fehr did amid overcast skies and a drizzle of rain, at Hidden Valley Country Club Friday? He obeyed his father, con66, and structed a charged from three strokes off the pace to waltz away with his second WAC individual championship in the last three years. "I'm going to call my dad tonight and when he asks me what I shot. I'm going to ask him what did you beamed Fehr, tell me to shoot? tourafter equaling the WAC 205 esnament record of tablished by BYUs Chip Garriss in 1970 at Hidden Valley. I thought about what my dad had said when I went five under on No. 16. 1 thought to myself, hey, if I make one more birdie I'll shoot 66 just what my dad told me to shoot. Perhaps it was a fluke, mere coincidence that Fehr happened to fashion a 66 In Fridays finale after his father told him 66 was the target h number. But there was nothing about Fchr's streuk of four birdies in five holes on the back nine that enabled him to transform a cardiac- - close individual race into a solo recital and guide BYU to its fifth co- nsecutive conference team championship by a stunning 17 shots over second-plac- e San Diego State. Fehr wasnt the only BYU opera tive who found Hidden Valley to his liking this week. His rounds of 68, 71 and 66 were without peer, but fellow senior Rick Gibson wasnt far in the e distance after a 67, 71 and 70 to 1 Column Page fin-Se- B-1- 4, flu-kis- BYU senior Rick Fehr, who rallied to three-shvictory In to set up birdie Friday. WAC golf, chips onto the 18tb green ot I I 1 "I just think we didn't shoot the ball well; I think we just missed mild altercation with the Suns' intimidation master in the second some shots, said John Drew when asked about the Jazz's offensive problems. Later, Drew added. We ll come back, I guarantee you we'll come back and play better. but this wasn't a night for optimism, not the way the Jazz played offensively. Theyre getting us into a halfa typical playoff situcourt game ation where it becomes a halfcourt game, said Jazz assistant Phil e Johnson. Td say there was an stretch where we didn't execute on offense, set screens or move bodies that really hurt us. He could have been talking about the whole third quarter, when the Suns outscored the Jazz and blew the game open, as they took an lead into the final period. It was still a with game (75-63:21 left in the third, but then Alvan Adams came in to join Larry Nance and Maurice Lucas in sparking a 14-run to the end of the period, giving the Suns their lead. The Jazz opened the fourth period with a 15-- 2 run of their own, but they never got closer than 11 points in the final quarter against the Suns, who shot only 41 percent in that final stanza as they coasted home with the big lead. Walter Davis led the Suns with 30 points and Lucas and Nance chipped in with 22 apiece. Lucas led the wih 14, as he continued to physically dominate Thurl Bailey after the Jazz rookie opened the series with a big game on him. Lucas was one of five Suns to take a defensive shift on Dantley. who had 21 points by halftime but none in the third quarter when the Suns blew the game open. I dont want to ever see Adrian Dantley have the ball, said Suns Coach John MacLeod, when it Was proposed to him that the Jazz offense seems to stagnate when the ball hits Dantleys hands. "He scored 31 and we were working like heck to stop him. We're just trying to be very aware of where Adrian Dantley is on the floor. Were not doing anything special. But Nance, who played a solid 41 minutes and whose 22 points were a personal playoff high, noted that the Suns were trying to slow him (Dantley) down and guard the other guys tight. Indeed, the other guys had trouble getting into the offensive flow. Darrell Griffith shot for the semaking him ries, and yet his 18 points were a bonus in this moribund Utah offensive effort. The only other Jazzman in double figures was Jeff Wilkins, who had to hit a baseline jumper in the final minute to reach 10. Rickey Green had only seven points and four assists, and his ineffectiveness signals the downturn in the Jazz running game. "No fast breaks, said Green. "The key to that is good defense and everybody running the floor, and I don't think everybody's running the floor. They're clogging up the middle. I really don't know what's going on. I just don't think we re making smart plays out there. Kelley, who was wearing a Suns uniform in the playoffs two years ago, explained, First off, the Suns do an excellent job with preparation. They know our plays inside out. and theyve done a good job pressuring us in key areas. They re not playing all-opressure defense, but on each play they have a designated guy whos the key, and theyre pressuring us. It's throwing us out of whack a little bit. But on the other hand, we had a lot of shots we're not making. Kelley, who was guarding Lucas for a spell in this game, got into a eight-minut- 33-1- 8 89-6- 4 quarter, and both players were hit with technical fouls. Kelley was called for a loose ball foul on a rebound. and after the call he made a move to get at Lucas, who backed off for the betterment of all concerned. "Nothing really happened." said Kelley. "Whatever happened between me and Luke was incidental to the game. We lost by 12 points. Nothing needs to be said about it. While the third quarter was the time the Suns really put this game away, as they did in Game Two in Salt Lake City, it could be said that they took command of the game in the last two minutes of the second quarter, when they ran off the last eight points. Counting the first six points of the third quarter, it was a streak of 14 unanswered points that See Page Column 3 4, 1 I Mavs Rip Lakers , Trail 2--1 Tribune Wire Services It was the Dallas Mavericks doing the laughing Friday night. They blew away Los Angein the same manles, ner the Lakers disposed of the Mavericks in the first two games of their National Bas: ketball Association series. Said Dallas Coach Dick , Motta said, We cant play any better than we did tonight. The Lakers are still the best, but it was nice for our kids to have a win tonight. It was good for them and good for me, the old man. Rolando Blackman scored a career playoff high 31 points. We were here at home and down 2 and we wanted to come out and do the best we could, said Blackman. Laker Coach Pat Riley said, "It was a great, great basketball game. The difference ob125-11- 5, 0-- viously was their outside shooting. They also did a much better job of handling our pressure. Mark Aguirre, kept under close guard by the Lakers in 43 and victories in the opening games of the series, hit 21 points. The third game of the series will resume Sunday afternoon with the Lakers leading 2-- knicks Win: At New York. Bernard King and Ray Williams sparked a 2 27-1- spurt that carried the Knicks to a 100-9victory over Boston and cut the Celtics lead to 1 in their NBA playoff series. King finished with 24 points while Williams added 22. Bill Cartwright led all scorers with 25 points for the Knicks, including 14 in the first quarter. Larry Bird had 24 points and Robert Parish 21 for the Celtics. second-hal- f 2 2-- Bucks 4s. iNets: At East Rutherford. N.J., the Millead waukee Bucks take a over the New Jersey Nets into game No. 4 of their 2-- 1 best-of-sev- Eastern Conference semifinal scries Saturday afternoon. |