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Show 1 0 Q The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, June 17, Tlie Wasatch Mountain Men $ X Hills Alive With Musket Sounds it O By Tom Wharton Tribune Sports W ntei r ' X V p ' : L - r X w y, C r f Sf x - They dress m buckskins and wear coonskin caps and carry tomahawks and knives on their belts They talk with a strange accent and mutter words like critter and varmit while loading muzzles with old s. powder horns Modern Huts The mountaineers camp m hnodern day huts and not so modern day teepee1!. They wear beards on their faces and moccasins on their feet. And the gnzzled men and the bashful boys make camp and fun almost at the same time. The Mountain Men of the Wasatch and assortea characters of a similar personality from places like Arkansas and Montana turn their backs on technology each June when they congregate at Sundance resort to match their wits and skills fire They rifles, I T'l--t t JV ' f f ' I 1 x - ,v i 4. ' , ''1. I V I vO if i - J 4 $ ' 1''!' : x ' v: t u)I x 7 V A A 1 1 V " jf . 1 t Mr , i- - t h H S ' , ' rjm i , t 1aV i I S y x h . 1 i I' G Ax'l X h"i 4U I Jf x r' 4 'W o V v n yiM, 1 v't X s. w sVV n Bad Bill, gun in hand, flings his tomahawk at a tree. Tomahawk v 'U . x I the J "-- 1 f i 4 - 4 g w x,t S . ' P Z iv; r I ; t ; rA" - & X A y i ,14 f 4 j, f ' r . - I . i t can be applied to any mountain man, of the 100 contestants who will finish their four-dacompetition Sunday from Sam to 3 p m. at Sundance. y They wear genuine coonskin caps in the traditional Daniel Boone style and they make buckskin shirts and buckskin moccasins out of the hide of deer they have killed with these modern do little to harm the effect as men, women and children compete, sell their wares, tell stones and revive their 17.721 muzzle-loader- s in the Lmted Stales Utahs Mountain Men of the Wasatch, the sponsor of the claims a Sundance meet, membership rifles muzzle-loadin- g You have to stalk deer within 100 yards to kill them claims Tex. Aith a musket, Shooting a deer this way gives the animal a sporting chance You can't nuss because you only have or.e shot and you can't rely on a scope to hit a deer at 300 yards fnendships are 0-r i ? i - x of 133. Bad Bill Watts and Big Tex Parker of Salt Lake are typical if the word typical Shooting a muzzle takes practice but it isn t any more difficult than shooting any ) I xU xxS ft I i I f $ i (abas Robert Redford) owns and Mt Timpanogos guards While wires and ski lifts and signs hover over an improvised shooting range and cars and cairtfiers and roads loom in the backround, the mountain men shoot at targets instead of varmits and critters t .. , x 4 ; v ; i i L With a cloud of smoke and a hardy high old mountain in the background, Watts fires his There t x ! , A. v A ic . tTf 4 ac Jy i " 4 1 But I S' T . 4 5 Xu i musket. Mountain men from all over the country are competing against each other at Sundance. other rifle, explains Bad Bill All the smoke and noise that nfle makes a is deceiving Shooting a musket is like shooting a noisy 22 muzzle-loadin- g at Heart Child person who is a child at e heart can relive his childhood world at while Sundance around these men who refuse to let the spint of the musketeer die A make-believ- He can think of the many times he built forts out of boxes and shot toy rifles at make-believ- attackers e Or, if a person is a history buff, he can forget that there is a modern lodge 100 feet behind him and that all shooting has to cease at 7 p m so a summer theatre presentation can be put on for the city folk He can think of Jim Bndger and Peter Skene Ogden and John Provost A history buff can recall the stones of the mountain men who roamed the area when there were no mads and when a man had to walk up a mountain rather than nde a lift to it Or, if a man has a little boy left m him, he can dream of owning his own musket and tomahawk and flint and steel He can dream of leaving a job in the city to fight grizzlies and bobcats. Men like Bad Bill Watts. Big Tex Parker Bear Claw Jones, Stumpy Vern and Raw Hide Radmall leave their city jobs every now and then of And they relive the dreams the Mountain Men of the W asatch g?iiSgj dis- tance in the stake record time 4-- 5 1 . x - covered Magazine c v' A" 4 x r? Muzzle Loaders NEW YORK ( AP) Magazine, a lightly-racedaughtei of Pnnce John, ppunctured the hopes of indys Daughter for the filly Triple Crown by winning the $117 000 CCoach-in- u Club American Oaks at Belmont Park Saturday Magazine, owned by Max Clacks Elmendoif Farm, trained by Lefty Nickerson and ridden Angel Cordero Jr , cuded the field fiom 10th place and drew out in the stietch to win by l' lengths oer C V Whitneys fastclosing Bag of Tunes i 0 2 27 before 32,555 on a misty, overcast afternoon Lady Love, a neck back of Bag of Tunes, nosed out the favorite. Poker Night, for the show spot as indys Daughter faded to 11th m the bulkv field of 13 Windys Daughter, who had won the Acorn and Mother Goose, the first two legs of the filly Triple Crown, led the pack before falling back after one mile in 1 35 3 5. just as Magazine was starting her lae charge on the outside x x, Victory At Beaumont of ! C vx ' '' N.. ij 'x. f t ' N'A . 1 .'M ,f Horse Grabs - Jr 'AsjV f These modem mountaineers practice their hobbies on a spread that Jenmiah Johnson d A ' ?' f J : t V V p c .i , old , C d x ' J? x v, s S'f - ' f r V V ' his muzzle - loading rifle so he can make sure it will fire properly. In 1 u vl 05 I f f muzzle-loadin- g razor-sharthrow tomahawks and knives at old tree stumps, make fires with flint and steel and revive the skills of the pioneers ar.d mountain men that once lived and worked in these parts 1 ! :i Tex Parker, Bear Claw Jones, Stumpy Vem and Raw Hide Radmall leave the city for fi.r days each june to seek their fortunes m the wilds of the mountains f 404 I Bad Bill Watts concentrates on getting Just the right amount of powder i SUNDANCE-M- en with names like Bad Bill Watts, Big I throwing is one of several types vf at Sundance resort. competitions Custom Buy one whitewall at regular price get the second at 60 saving! Air-Flo- at the 5 1 fourth Magazine, choice, paid $12 20, $7 and $5 after making her career record four victories in five starts She did not race last SAVE FROM $14.97 TO $24.87 ON TWO WHiTEWALLS! year as a Aarons 715tk? Hurlers Promise Help - NEW YORK (AP) Henry Aaron has worked very hard for his home runs but if some pitchers have their way, No 715, the one that breaks Babe Ruths career mark, will be his easiest. Id throw a medium fastball right down the pike, says St. Louis pitcher Reggie CleveIf hes going to get it land off somebody, it might as well be me. Dodger Hurler not if Los Angeles Dodger hurler Andy Messer-smit- h beats him to it. I'll lay it right in, he says. But Not to be outdone, Houston pitcher Larry Dierker says, I think I'd throw one right down the middle just to see what happened Come September, if Aaron continues at his present home run clip, he should be nearing Ruth's total of 714 homers By then the pennant races may be decided but the race to serve Aarons 715th on a silver platter should be just heating up. Already the vob'nteers are stepping forward Apparently a lot of guys who normally earn their hung by throwing baseballs past batters see Aarons 715th as a clout with a sfiCr lining and they wau to cash in on it Everyone for money, is in this game says Phd Hennm-ga- n Aarons shot heard round the world who'-- e paycheck is signed If by the New York Mets it's me, I'll tell him what's coming It will be a half speed fastball down the middle It will be like batting practice Id be a fool not to do it Cincinnati pitcher Jack Dildoesnt however, lingham, think so Endorsement 7 There wouldnt be any And if there were, theyd be the kind that would make you look like a jerk also Reds reliever Clay Carroll I agrees with his teammate don't want to be remembered that way, he says get the endorsements I'd be the goat. Met Tug McGraw thinks that being Aarons vic- tim No 715 could be financialId throw my ly rewarding best pitch and hope like hell he hits its, says the effervescent McGray who not only throws a screwball but sometimes acts like one I'd be a commodity Id always be m demand on me banquet circuit Dierker, who doesn't throw a screwball but still owns a for flakiness, reputation wasnt interested m the I wouldn't be doing it money to get into the record book or for the endorsements I might get Id ao it just for the hell of it, because it seems like a crazy thing to do Hd No Argument there's no argument that surrendering an histone But home run is one way to leave your mark on the game Tracy Stallard probably would have been forgotten as just another pitcher, but for one pitch, the one that Roger Mans deposited in the nght field stands at Yankee Stadium for No 61 in 1961. 30-5- 7 I dont want to be Tracy Stallard, Ray Sadecki of the Mets says Everyone knows who he is game that W3y Houston's Dave Roberts doesnt want to be remembered because of Aaron's bat either. I know that giving up the home nin certainly wouldnt be to the pitchers advantage There's a lot of other ways to get to be remembered and I d like to try those ways, he said going to happen He's going to break the record, It's But Id rather someone else give up the home run I know I'd rather be remembered as the guy who faced Aaron with 714 home runs in his last at bat in the major leagues and stopped him from breaking the record Trainer Named - San Diego pitcher Bill Greif interested m being recalled that w ay either The guy who gives up No 715 will be more infamous than I wouldn t famous he want to be that way Basketball isnt ws rmbered Performance Tire Special! 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