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Show & Page 15b The Enterprise Review , September 22, 1976 Far better it is," said Theodore Roosevelt, to dare win to mightly things, glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victor)' nor defeat." Its Sunday night for me as I write this column and my stomach is already beginning to churn. Two big events are a world championship fight and the about to take place presidential debates. Certainly the debates will have a greater impact on the country but in terms of human drama, they are of equal importance. Nothing, I suppose comes close to the drama of a world heavyweight championship fight. I simply am not able to think of another event in the sports world that can cause me to be in literal pain as a result of nervousness. Its a feeling 1 can sort of get when I watch one of our girls skate for a gold medal or the seventh game of a world series or whenever I have $100 bet on any team in any sport. But heavyweight championship fights are unique. They can freeze you in history. Where were you when Ingemar Johanson knocked out Floyd Patterson with the "thunder" from his right hand? Not to pick on Patterson, but do you remember the night that Sonny Liston knocked out Floyd Patterson? Or when a young man then named Cassius Clay sent Sonny Liston to the i i I I i i canvas? It might be easier for you to tell me where you were when Kennedy was shot, but Id dare bet that they all made a greater impression than other sports events that year. When a man fights for the world championship he lays it 1 office PAierec? w coux hap m mg mx6THE RMUT FLAKEP THEY i - R3R50T TO PLASTER all on the line. In boxing winning is everything and losing is nothing. Tell me what happened to Patterson or Liston or Johanson? Liston died on drugs. Johanson seems to have lost most his money and turned fat like the rest of us. And Patterson seems to have taken a real psychological beating. I once remember seeing Archie Moore fight a Canadian It was on T.V. and the Canadian kept of Durell. name the by knocking Moore down in the first few rounds. Finally Archie Well" he got his acto together and put an end to the thing. said in an interview after the fight. "Ive taken a lot of physical beatings in my life, but Ive never taken a psychological beating. When I get one of those. Ill retire." And that I suppose is whats so dramatic about the next few weeks. Some good people arc going before all of us and they will be judged winners or loosers. Both Norton or Ali run the very real risk of taking a psychological something greater than a physical beating The Prince Column by John Prince beating. Ford and Carter are playing for all the marbles too. The first debate will probably be the most important. And again its a situation where winning is everything and losing is nothing. sit here this Sunday night, let me tip my hat as four men with a good deal more courage than to they say Ive ever displayed. Soon they will enter the arena. And they will dare mighty things, and they will win glorious or they will be losers. They will enjoy much or triumphs they will suffer much. But they will not live in the gray twilight with the rest of us and know "not victory nor defeat." So as I THE mv secmtL iTOASK5P THE COTRACTOR. (UGXFETEWCE FEE. SHE FCRSOT. BU J$$45?P. iwaup&p MS A 10 au Partner, Prince, luiglicinrich & Career. WHEW I CA06HT OP WITH IT. HE fJEVER LOOP f'l the bau i mrnzev the check to sdp m y veeosa they ter IT 60 CQ I StSWEP OP WITH AW AOIHPR TED HOOMFE7EWCE BROKER. I OLLSP MY IAM5R mo G0UMS6L16P ME THAT 10- THRDUStf. WCe - FOR IS MIU1MAE THESE QJU ItJCOM-PE- CWS. T HE A MOUTH FOR KAUMTS A02XWT5 101TH $300 M THEM: mS 7HE CHECK HE T IU THE MA IL W6E7 M0JT5 WHO Pragmatic Dogmatics The Importance of the Cow Counties by Kent Shearer Political analysts pay too little attention to the 23 "cow counties" outside the Wasatch Front. These are those other than Salt Lake, Utah, Weber, Davis, Cache and Box Elder. Although they contain only 20 percent of the states population, they vote in higher percentage than do their more populous sisters. In consequence, their impact upon It is state-wid- e vote totals is uneconomical to conduct public opinion samples of them which warps poll results. Their margins of victory often equal or exceed those of the Wasatch Front counties, enhancing their impact proportionately. In 1974. for instance, Washington and Iron Counties afforded Jake Garn a combined victorv over Wayne Owens in excess of Jake s losses to Wayne in Weber and Salt Lake In the recent GOP Counties combined. Gubernatorial primary, Dixie Leavitt s cow country margins would have brought him the ' up-grade- U i i .4 I 3 i ' i a 1 d. nomination had it not been for a large Vcrn Romnev vote in Salt Lake; Leavitt came into Salt Lake with a 5.000 lead, but left it (and victory) with an 11,000 deficit. It therefore would behoove a political aspirant to devote more of his attention to rural Utah than, at first glance, raw population estabfigures would justify. That premise lished. the question is how docs one do so. First. I submit, the candidate must shed himself of the preoccupation with the media and organization orientation occasioned by the Front's human impaction. Out in the open if you spaces, a morc'pcrsonal. informal and will, natural style is expected. It is these contacts, not a telephone blitz or slick TV advertisements, that make the difference. Secondly, particular attention must be devoted to local problems. Usually those in the area who adhere to your cause can provide you That failing, the local with an itemization. newspaper editor is a fount of information. Then you must devise solutions to, or ameliorations of, those problems. A clover-lea- f for Panguitch will never be discerned by a it may be sampling as a single concern damned important to the Panguitchers however, and youd best know and be prepared to Senator address the issue perceptively. Bennett, by the way. kept a notebook of these local subjects during both his 1962 and 1968 campaigns. Third, never patronize. The good folk of Moab arc, on the whole, both cleaner and more literate than those from Salt Lake. Dont act as though they arc not. Finally, dont let the rurals scare you to death. It is usual for rural candidates to freeze as they approach the Wasatch Front counties. It is just as usual for Wasatch Front candidates to feel out of their water as they enter cow country. Follow the foregoing rules. If they don't win your race for you, hopefully they will keep from being tarred, feathered, incarcerated by your bucolic brethren. you andor |