Show 6B Standard-Examin- Ogden Saturday May 12 1984 er ten ODympn© 4 PolSfincs it tor LAUSANNE Switzerland (AP) — The Soviet-le- d boycott of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles has again highlighted the vulnerability of the Games to world politics and raised questions about their future The announcement that first the Soviets and then the East Germans Bulgarians and other Eastern-blo- c countries would 12 boycott the July Games has thrust politics high on to the Olympic reviewing stand — a spot it has occupied for at least 12 years And with the 1988 Summer Olympics set for politically sensitive and staunchly Seoul South Korea some observers have written off any prospect of trouble-fre- e games until after the end of this long-standi- ng 28-A- ug anti-Com-mun- ist decade Games over the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan As if the Soviet bloc boycott wasn’t enough there are now fears of ai African walkout as well prompted by the possible visit to South Africa of a British basketball team South Africa role of has been barred for years from now been reduced to the the Olympics due to its aparthostage of the politicians” foundheid policies The modern Olympics International Olympic Comed 88 years ago by Baron Pierre de Coubertin of France have mittee President Juan Antonio Samaranch says the Olympic weathered political conflicts before But in the last two decades “movement is stronger than evmore the Games have become er” But despite this declaration and more their own forum for he has called an emergency meeting of the IOC’s Executive political confrontation A terrorist attack at the 1972 Committee to deal with the 1 1 killed Munich and has asked for a in walkout Olympics an Israeli athletes and coaches meeting in Moscow with Soviet African boycott in 1976 marred President Konstantin Chernenthe Montreal Games and the ko United States and some 62 other The Soviet move has promptcountries shunned the Moscow ed speculation on two fronts: “The boomerang thrown by his predecessor landed straight in the face of Mr Reagan” the Lausanne daily Le Matin said referring to the 1980 US boycott of the Moscow Olympics “This is a terrible blow to the Olympic movement which has One is that the Olympic movement embodied in the IOC and its related federations is itself to blame for most of the trouble the other that it has nothing to do with it “The Soviets have nothing against the IOC and will welcome Samaranch to Moscow warmly” said one East bloc journalist whose country is among those pulling out of the Los Angeles Games “But the timing of their pullout an- nouncement was significant “It came while Samaranch was meeting with President ‘ Obituaries Myr 9 Reagan to get assurances for the prospects for John this on year “If it was just a matter of se- curity or commercialization the Soviets wouldn’t sacrifice these games” he said “but they are not going to listen to his rhetoric and then come to Los Angeles anyway” Meanwhile at Los Angeles the top organizer of the LA Olympics said Friday that Soviet officials apparently have “made up their minds” to boycott and said there is evidence the Russians are trying to recruit countries outside the Eastern Bloc to join the action Peter V Ueberroth president of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee said the Summer Games would be “dam- Soviets and showed that Moscow wasn’t too concerned about Samaranch or the IOC” the journalist said The issue he contends is aged very little” if the boycott is Reagan himself his strident pol- limited to the Soviet bloc icies towards the Soviets and his PGA’s senior' golf tour doing too well By BOB GREEN “When we started” January said “we were scratchin’ and clawin’ for anything we could get Now we’ve got 26 tournaments on the schedule this year and 30 for next year “That’s too many We’re gonna have AP Golf Writer CARLSBAD Calif (AP) — “We’re having the time of our lives” Billy Casper said “I’ve been waiting for this for two years” Orville Moody said - 5? i i I' Pi - i 4 t to start shuckin’ and cullin’ Most of our guys just don’t want to play that much I’ve committed for more tournaments than I want to play this year But I’ll never do it again “Arnold (Palmer) is only gonna play 12 or 15 (Gene) Littler is out with a broken wrist (Bob) Goalby because of his television commitments can only “We’re here to stay” Don January said The subject was the PGA’s seniors tour a new healthy growing circuit of some 26 tournaments for golfs over-5- 0 champions of years gone by “Frankly I’m surprised at the success we’ve had” said January the most successful of the seniors a member of the seniors advisory group and an unofficial spokesman “When we started (some four years ago with two tournaments) we didn’t know what we had or where we were going I don’t think anybody thought it would take off like it has” he said It’s reached the point he said that it’s something of an embarrassment of riches It’s growing too much c ' fields” A portion of the seniors’ success involves the format which calls for the pros to play two rounds with amateur partners with the pros’ scores counting toward their tournament total “It’s a nice mix of competition and nostalgia” January said “I’m proud of our guys” Goalby said “They play with the amateurs spend some time with them talk to them go to the cocktail parties And the people they’re playing with the affluent people who support our tournaments are our age They identify with us They’e been following us all their lives all our lives” And it’s fun “Yeah it is” January said in his slow drawl “You know the money’s there and you know somebody’s gonna win it and there is competition “But it’s a lot more fun now than it used to be “You’re not really worried about the money so much It’s not all that terrible important like when you were young play so many “I’m afraid we’re gonna have a tour- nament and have nobody show up Now that’s gonna make the sponsors mad and they’d have every right in the world to be unhappy “I think the problem may solve itself Natural attrition will take care of it I hope so We’ve got a good thing and I don’t want to see it messed up We’ve got good sponsors good money good and you were scratching to make a living By this time you ought to have a little socked away “Most of us we played against each other for a long time then drifted away for a while and now we’re back together again “The kids are all grown and gone Mama doesn’t have to stay home and sit on ’em She can come out and travel too It’s just a lot more fun” And for some it represents a second chance Take Moody for example The “OF Sarge” who won the 1969 US Open has had financial problems for the last few years He shed a club job a couple of years ago “to get ready for the seniors tour” he said And it’s paid off With his victory in the seniors Tour- nament of Champions Moody boosted his season’s earning beyond $70000 more than he collected in any year except his banner 1969 season Beens R KAYSVILLE — of 433 John Beens 69 R Kaysville died of a Tuesday May 8 1984 in 300 E N heart attack Newton Iowa enroute home from a vacation to Detroit Mich He was born Dec 24 1914 in Detroit Mich a son of John J and Zoe Mae Snyder Beens He married Vivian M Lacey April 15 1943 Salt in Lake City The was marriage later solem- nized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple was a carpenter was reared and educated in Detroit and entered the Armed Service in He He self-employ- 1942 He had lived in Kaysville since 1959 He was a member of the Kaysville LDS 18th Ward Surviving are his widow of Kays-vjill- e i J three sons J Milton Beens Durango Colo Maj Lynn R Beens Spokane Wash Bruce M Beens Maidens Va and seven grandchildren Also surviving is one brother Donald O Beens Oxford Mich J Funeral services will be Tuesday at 11 am in the Crestwood Stake Cen- ter 555 N 100 E Kaysville with Harold Smuin of the Kaysville Bishop 18th Ward officiating Friends may call at Lindquist’s Kaysville Mortuary 400 N Main Monday from 6 to 8 pm and Tuesday at the mortuary from 9 to 1 0 am interment in the Kaysville City Charles Wikstrom M ' SOUTH SIOUX CITY Neb — Charles M Wikstrom 65 former Ogden resident died Thursday May 10 1984 at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis Minn of complications from heart surgery He was born Nov 24 1918 in Ponca Neb a son of Verner L and Marie Goergen Wiks- trom He married Shirley Rudd Hudson Dec 22 1979 in j Ogden He had lived Swale goes Todd Shell is 49eir coach’s type Walsh goes after the athletes to build football power for win in Preakness all-arou- nd - BALTIMORE (AP) -- Swale rapidly emerging from the shadow of retired stablemate Devil’s Bag will try next Saturday to be- iu f r come the second Kentucky Derby winner in five years to win ' the Preakness Stakes A victory would also be a step toward becoming a Triple Crown champion like his sire Seattle Slew who won the Derby Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1977 Affirmed was the 4 f last Triple Crown winner 1978 A Derby-Preakne- 4 in sweep was registered the next year by Spectacular Bid and 1981 by Pleas- t ss ant Colony Both colts lost in the Belmont f Genuine Risk the filly who ' won the Derby in 1980 finished second to Codex in the Preakness Gato Del Sol the 1982 Derby winner did not run in the Preakness Last year Derby winner Sunny’s Halo finished sixth in the Preakness Chick Lang the general manager of Pimlico was highly critical of the of Gato Del Sol for not running in the Derby One of the owners and a was Arthur Hancock III Swale in by and - i I V V r $ f i co-own- i ers co-bree- co-own- ed runs in the colors of Claiborne Farm whose president is Hancock’s brother Seth Seth Hancock and his sister Dell also each own a share of Swale The day after the May 5 Derby Hancock said Swale would run in the 1 Preakness stahis if only blemate Devil’s Bag did not 4 V I f more-publiciz- i h - 4 ' I I Devil’s Bag the 1983 champion did not look ime pressive in winning the Derby Trial and was not entered in the 1 DerbyTwo days after the Derby Devil’s Bag was retired to stud when a small fracture was found in the right front knee He will stand at Claiborne Farm in Paris Ky under a $36 million syndication put together by Seth Hanock '4-m- V t ' I ed one-mil- - ile “I think Swale has a good chance of winning the Triple f Crown” 70-year-- trainer Woody Stephens said after the Derby Now Swale will get the chance He will arrive at Pimlico from Churchill Downs on Monday Lang said -- If Helena and! Missoula Mont Coos Bay Ore South Sioux City Neb Jonesburg in “Without the Derby winner you don’t have any race” Lang said “The Triple Crown is what it’s all about” v By CHARLES BRICKER Newspapers Kmght-Ridde- r REDWOOD CITY Calif — For weeks the experts who handicap the NFL draft have been tossing barbs at Todd Shell the 49ers’ No 1 draft pick One said he isn’t heavy enough at 219 pounds to compete in the National Football League Another apparently unable to find anything better to say said Shell “looks like a basketball player” The 49ers astonished a lot of people earlier this month by selecting Shell in the first round of the 1984 NFL draft the basketball self-appoint- ed back door player ducked under the to the 49ers press headquarters and dropped his lanky body into a seat behind several microphones Here was coach Bill Walsh’s kind of player — less a footballer than an athlete As a high school senior in Mesa Ariz Shell 14 and d ran the dash in 495 seconds in a pair of track meets He was his school’s and after only two days of training six-fo- all-arou- ot nd high-jump- 6-- 11 ed 440-yar- dc-cathl- ete in the pole vault leaped 6 Walsh seems to have a thing about track athletes Two years ago he signed Renaldo Nehemiah the world’s greatest hurdler to a contract and vowed to make a wide receiver out of him Now he was ready for Shell He sent his linebacker coach Norb Hecker to Seattle to clock Shell and other NFL prospects as they ran through a series of drills at a recent testing camp He wasn’t the best linebacker in the draft 11-- Nor the second best or even the third But Walsh seemed mesmerized by the young man’s speed and agility He saw in Shell a kind of lighter version of Fred Dean the 49ers’ designated “He ran the 40 in 45 seconds” Walsh said No 49ers linebacker is that fast Few 49ers regardless of position could beat that time And he was more than just a track dropout He led his Brigham Young team in tackles the last two seasons and The Associated Press named him an honorable mention As reporters pressed in on him after he arrived here Shell leaned forward with his wife at his side and adjusted one of the microphones exuding the kind of modesty they seem to manufacture at BYU “This is every boy’s dream to play in the NFL” he uSaid “I’ve watched guys like Hacksaw Reynolds for years and now I’m going to be playing on the same team with him” Someone suggested he could be an instant starter “Oh no” Shell said “I’ve got a lot to learn” When Shell came to BYU four years ago from his home in Mesa Ariz he was only 192 pounds But he has never had a serious injury on a football field and never had surgery Maybe he’s too fast to get in harm’s way He is indeed built like a basGive ketball player but he is not rail-thi- n him a few years and a chance to bulk up and he could look like a shorter version of Ted Hendricks When he finished his senior year at BYU he was no better than the 12th best linebacker available to the NFL draft “I was pass-rush- All-Americ- er an Mo and in Ogden He was reared and educated in graduating from Ponca Ponca Neb High School in 1936 He served with the 1940 to 1945 US Army from had worked in a steel mil! Chicago III in road construction He sort of worried about how good I was but after I went to the testing camps and had talks with people from San Francisco Dallas and the New York Jets I felt more confident” Shell said “They told me my weight wasn’t all that important One of the Dallas scouts told me they had linebackers like DD Lewis and Lee Roy Jordan who were kind of light and that they made Although he was drafted in the third round by the Denver Gold of the US Football League Shell seems to have turned his back on the USFL “I cut off negotiations with the Gold a month ago and haven’t heard from them since” he said He said the Los Angeles ExAll-Pr- o” press offered quarterback Tom Ramsey to Denver for him but that Denver refused the deal Anyway he said “the NFL is where I want to play I’ve always wanted to play with the best and with a team that has the ability to g?t to the Super Bowl” Although he has gained nearly 30 pounds since enrolling at BYU he wants to get up to 227 pounds He was at his parents’ home in Mesa when the 49ers called to tell him he had been drafted “Actually” he said “I was watching television and they had just announced my name as the phone rang I knew it was the 49ers” One writer teased him “Yeah but were you surprised that the call was collect?” he asked Shell smiled “That’s OK” he said “I’ll get the money Nebraska Iowa and Oregon He had worked for the Montana Highway Department from 1955 to 1965 when he retired He was a member of the Catholic Church He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Surviving are his widow of South Sioux City and two step daughters Mrs Calvin R (Diana) Hadley Ogden Mrs Rick D (Jewell) McCloy Roy and five grandchildren Also surviving are two brothers John H (Jack) Wikstrom Ogden and Primus C Wikstrom Dickinson ND Holy Rosary will be recited Sunday at 7:30 pm at St Michael's Catholic Church in South Sioux City Neb Funeral services will be at St Joseph’s Catholic Church Monday’ May 14 at 10 am in Ponca Neb Funeral directors Mohr Funeral Home in Ponca FUNERALS OLDRIDGE- - Funeral services for Edgar Oidridge will be held Mon at 11 am in Myers Mortuary Chapel in Ogden where friends may call Sun 8 pm Interment in the Ogden City 6-- Cemetery Services 11 at am at the Saturday Chapel of Flowers Mortuary with Bishop Harry Porter of the Ogden 6th Ward Officiating Friends may call at the Mortuary Saturday 10 am until time of services Interment Aultorest Memorial Park ODEKIRK-Funer- al for Laurel Odekirk will be held back on my contract” Carl Lewis feels best is yet to come LOS ANGELES (UPI) — If you want to appreciate the talents of world class track and field stars measure off 100 meters and imagine covering it in Lewis however doesn’t buy that line “I think people have separated us in their minds” he said “We Olympics and nearly sailed to the end of the long jump pit The officials measured the jump and shook their heads They remeasured it and the sports world has been shaking its head ever are different people No matter 10 seconds Or measure off 10 what I do in the Olympics peometers and imagine going those ple will still see Carl Lewis as since 30 or so feet in one second one person and Jesse Owens as Beamon’s jump was 29 feet 2 No not in your car In your another person xh inches In an event previously sneakers! Bea“We are in a different time won or lost by half-inchCarl Lewis does it And he and a different place” mon’s jump was almost two feet thinks he can run even fasten But the comparison is nonefarther than had ever Want a bigger laugh? Go out theless an accurate one Lewis is jumped before anyone in your front yard and pace off It was 80 home runs in a seaonly the second man in the 28 feet Stand at one end and world to be ranked simultason It was Arnold Palmer dream of running as fast as you neously as the best sprinter and shooting a 50 can leaving the ground at that best long Carl Lewis was a skinny jumper Jesse Owens line and returning to earth on was the first kid at the time top of the other line In last summer’s Athletics “Even if I didn’t want to think Right You can hardly sec the Congress national championabout Beamon’s record I’d be other line! rereminded of it twice a day” said ships Lewis put together a But Carl Lewis has made that markable two-da- y exhibition Lewis who will make his first jump routine And he’s sure he when he won the 100 and outdoor jump of 1984 on May can leap at least another foot 13 at the UCLA invitational ' dashes and the long jump Lewis quite simply is the The last time anyone tripled in “The ability is there for me to most accomplished athlete in the the national outdoor was in break it The motivation is there world He is America’s top hope 1886 for me to break it My goal this for carrying home a mess of gold At the age of 22 Carl Lewis year is to jump 29 feet I might medals at the 1984 Summer sits alone atop the track and not necessarily break the record field world And he believes he’s but that will come The ability is Olympics So great are his talents that he has already been only going to get better there now” Jesse the to 16 It was when Even before Lewis climbed to legend compared long years ago Owens who won four gold medBob Beamon roared down the what he says is a new level his als at the 1936 Berlin Olympics runway in the 1968 Mexico City domination in the long jump es 200-met- er was incredible In his nine meets in 1983 he won by margins ranging from 8 ' inches to a mon- inches with his average victory coming by an astounding 16 inches You have to look back to the 1920s and DeHart Hubbard to find a long jumper who so dominated the event Even Owens and Ralph Boston never established such a clear spread between No 1 and No 2 The medal picture at the 1984 Games in the long jump looks like this: If Lewis doesn’t break strous 31 Vi a leg he’s a lock for the gold If he does break a leg he still might get the silver Although the competition is much stiffer in the 100 it appears Lewis is headed for anoth- er gold medal In the 200 meters he is ranked second in the world behind Smith although he had he fastest time in the world last year a burning 1975 seconds to beat Smith and Larry Myricks in the TAC Championships Add to those three events the 4 x 100 relay and Lewis figures to make a strong bid for an four gold medals Ow-ens-equall- in in IN MEMORIAM In of Memory Brodv McFarland This darling little boy Gone to his Father above Was such a brave and caring one And oh so full of love! He came to us ten years ago And it was such a treat To have a little boy around Who was so very sweet! This little boy went through a lot He had a tumor in his brain We've never seen anyone so brave You'd never see him complain! We miss our boy so very much And so on the 12th of May We would like to remember him Because it's his tenth birthday!! Love Mom & Dad Julie and Jodi Florists Cit 7loai W Spciolii DISTINCTIVE FUNERAL 1506 Wash 1 vi In ! DESIGNS 394 4575 f I |