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Show Section C Classifieds Sun Advocate Wednesday, August 22, Obituaries 1979 Black Diamond tourney begins Its golf tournament time again the Price area with the Black Diamond Open and Pro-Ascheduled to tee - off Friday, August 24 at the Carbon County in m Golf Course. The three - day tournament sponsored in part by the Adolph Coors Company and the Helper Mercantile Co. is one of the largest in the state. This years field will draw approximately 120 top professional and amateur golfers throughout the state to the local course according to Carbon Golf Pro Bob Droz. The Black Diamond tournment is listed behind the Utah Open and Vernals Superior Tire Classic in added prize money provided by local sponsors, reported Droz. The Pro - Am portion of the tournament will begin Friday at 7:30 a.m. with six groups scheduled to play in the morning session. The afternoon session, with starting times between 12 noon and 2 oclock, will see the remaining sixteen groups teeing off. Carbon Crunch Begins out Carbon High School quarterback Troy Miller gets ample protection provided by full back Steve Radar and guard Dan Munden during the team's first day of practice with pads Monday. Coach Jerry Dyer reported he was pleased with the Photo by Ravel! The first round of the Black Diamond Open will begin Saturday with shotgun starts slated for 8 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Call and the hard hitting that was exhibited but improvement in some areas is needed and the offense needs polishing before their August 31 opener. work one one Sport Spots Club. By WALTER BORLA Dino Santisteven. Dino is a son of Joe Santisteven who grew up in Helper. Joe was on hand, re - newing acquaintances with many Helper people that he had gone to school with. The usual problem of mis - placed and lost luggage, so Legion MVP selected Dave Maynarich, stocky catcher on the Helper American Legion baseball team this summer, has been named the first winner of the Vince Bonza Memorial Award as the outstanding member of the local Legion team. The award, inaugurated for the first time this year by Carbon Post No. 21 of the American Legion, is named in honor of the late Vince Bonza, Post Athletic who officer for years spearheaded the baseball program locally. Mr. Bonza suffered a massive stroke in December of 1978 and died one month later. According to the new athletic officer of the Post, Lawrence Buckley, and the immediate past commander, Jack Hatch, the award will be made annually to the young man selected by his team managers as the individual contributing the most to the team, not only in his capabilities as a player, but his attitude and conduct on the field as well. Maynarich is a 1979 graduate of Carbon High where he played baseball all three years there. He has played both first base and i (" Dave t f Maynarich catcher, concentrating on the latter position his senior year in high school and the last year in American Legion baseball. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Maynarich of Spring Glen, started playing baseball in the Helper WBBA program, came through the Babe Ruth league program and on to high school and Legion baseball. He has accepted a baseball scholarship from the College of Eastern Utah and plans to play for Coaches Curt Jenson and Jack Woodward of the Eagles next spring. field of outstanding to is expected professionals participate in this years event Droz reported. Leading the list of confirmed participants is James Blair of Ogden. Blair won last years An Black Diamond Open with a tournament record score of 133. He won the tourney be eight strokes over John Evans of Orem, another confirmed player for this years tournament. This years list of pros also includes the following top finishers in the 1978 tournament: Rusty Guernsey, SLC, 4th; Mike Malaska, SLC, 5th; Jon Fister, Bountiful, 7th; and Bob Rudd, Tooele, 8th. Other area golfers signed up for this week - ends tournament (Continued on Page 2) Golfers play in Open Two area golfers professional and amateur - took place in the Utah Open held last week - end at the Salt Lake Country Sun 1 1 -- - -- Santa Monica, Calif. With the exception of possibly one game, pitching was the dominate factor in the Western Boys Baseball Association tournament here last week. Home runs were not too common throughout the games played during the three days. This was not due to the distance of the outfield fences from home plate, Los Amigos field dimensions comparing favorably with the measurements of fields we have here in Carbon County, it was just that all the teams had the hurlers to hold down the scores. Helper's pitchers, Mark Nielson and Bruce Sherman, allowed a combined total of just six hits in two games, yet their team lost both of them. The curveballers were on the WBBA scene once again after an absence of several years, that is the pitchers who could be expected to throw curve balls almost half the time. American Fork Beehive had a little right hander who appeared capable of tossing a hook ball on every pitch with little effort, yet he lost the semi - final game to Western Hills of Kearns, the team that defeated Helper first. It seems that everytime you attend one of these baseball tournaments, surely someone associated with Carbon County will be in the thick of things with some of the other teams. The manager of the Alta team was Bob Wilstead. Mr. and Mrs. Wilstead, she is the former Shirley Judd, are natives of Price. Their son, Randy, started the first game on the mound for Alta and the little left - hander played first base in the other games, getting the only hits for Alta in the final game with American Fork Beehive for third place. The starting pitcher for Western Hills of Kearns in both the Helper game and the championship game was a youngster by the name of The final round will be held Sunday at the 8 a.m. and 1:30 starting times. Professionals and golfers in the Championship Flight will tee - off at 1:30 each day while golfers in the B and C Flights will tee off at 8 a.m. each day. A Flight players have their choice of starting times according to Droz. common when a group of youngsters are transported this distance, presented itself both coming and going. The victim both times was young Raymond Loy, an infielder - outfielder on the Helper team. Raymond misplaced his baseball uniform and equipment in a travel bag at the Los Angeles airport. Upon arrival at the playing field in Santa Monica for assignment to homes, Raymond's bag was not in the van carrying all the luggage. Calls back to the airport were of no avail and the later a trip back to the baggage claim area at the terminal revealed the bag still there against a wall where it had been left two days prior. Sunday morning upon arrival at the Salt Lake airport, all the bags and cases for the Helper team came off the plane and were claimed at the carousel but one. Western Airlines is still trying to locate one that belongs to Raymond Loy. A sad note hit the Helper team a day after arriving at Santa Monica. Mrs. Norman (Hope) Day of Spring Glen had made the trip for the games to watch one of her nephews play and word was received that her father, John Haycock, had died. Mrs. Day took an early morning flight back to Salt Lake upon receiving the sad news Wednesday morning. All the players on the teams in the tournament thoroughly enjoyed the major league game in Anaheim between the California Angels and Detroit Tigers. The stadium was about two - thirds full giving the youngsters ample room to roam around and get a birds - eye view of the action from almost every angle. The usherettes in the stadium were very tolerant of the youngsters as they moved about and WBBA players with their all - stars hats could be spotted in seats behind both dugouts and along both lines, even though their assigned seats were well down the right - field corner. A major remodeling project is underway at Anaheim Stadium as the field is being prepared for professional football in the fall of 1980. The bowl is being closed in to increase the seating capacity considerably in anticipation of the move the Los Angeles Rams plan from the Coliseum in Los Angeles to Anaheim Stadium. An example of real dedication to the boys baseball program came for all to see following the conclusion of the championship game between Butler All - Stars and Western Hills All - stars. Max McBeth, chairman of the WBBA Board of Directors, came onto the field in a wheel - chair to award the trophies to the championship Butler team and second place Western Hills. McBeth, from Tooele, is but a shadow of the giant of a man who once played basketball for the University of Utah. A diabetic all his life, Big Max is now suffering from kidney disease and losing his eyesight. He left the Veterans Hospital and a day on the dialysis machine earlier in the week to be on hand for the tournament. McBeth has been involved with WBBA since the inception of the organization in 1956, serving a two year term as president several years ago. And finally the winners of the WBBA prizes raffled off each year at the tournament. Region B (Carbon, - Emery Duchesne) took home most of them, again. The first prize, $250.00, went to Rick Lyons of Altonah, second prize of $100.00 to Vint Roper of Altamont, the ladies ring to Stan Thornton of Salt Lake City and the men's ring to Vince Garavaglia of Helper. It was Vince who won the top prize just a year ago when Sun Advocate publisher, Bob Finney, also won the second prize. Carbon County Golf Pro Bob Droz and Jon Passic both survived cut the Friday enabling them to play the remaining two of the days tournament. Passic shot a 72 the first two days to 74-1- survive the cut that was set at 152. Droz to shot a 76 remain in contention. Their bid to finish high among the 182 71-14- 7 first three rounds but an 87 on the final day dropped him down in the standings. Passic carded two final rounds in the 80s that and slashed his hopes of professional amateur golfers that finishing high. participated in the Both golfers will be largest tournament trying to avenge their in last held in Utah were showing dashed Saturday and weeks open in the Open Sunday when they Black Diamond each carded sad week1 and Pro - Am which end rounds. begins this week at the Droz reported he Carbon County Golf was happy with his Course. -- And so with the end of baseball, it's on to football. With new coaches at Carbon and East Carbon for the coming season and the return of the gridiron sport at CEU under Ed Cody, there promises to be plenty of action for local fans with a new outlook. H Ballet Ball It's been determined dance lessons are good for athletes but to dispel rumors, Rudolph Nuryev is not the coach for Goody's 2nd baseman and Mutual Furniture's runner. They and others in the women's league begin their year - end tournament tonight. (See related story page 4) I |