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Show if 6B DESERET NEWS, Thuriday, April N, tfTygf 1969 Fairgrounds Speedway Readies For May By BRENT CHECKETTS Deseret News Sports Writer A new division for modified on turns racers, and extensive pit area improvements will be in evidence when the Fairgrounds Speedway opens for the 1069 season early next month. Ferrol Papworth, veteran Fairgrounds Speedway manager, said that opening date is tentatively set for May 3. Inclement weather could possi HacEs bly delay things a week, however. The new racing division at ihe Fairgrounds Speedway will be a B modified class in e which such items as rear ends, disc brakes and fuel injection will be disallowed. "Weve had a B modified division Pappreviously," worth said, "but none of the were in new restrictions effect. I think the new rules will generate more interest quick-chang- and banked last were season. Papworth and competition in the B group. Previously some of the B cars were equipped with e rear ends, disc brakes and fuel injection, while some were not. That caused a tendency for one group to dominate the division. of the turns on Fairthe mile grounds Speedway track is necessary because, of trouble encountered when the turns lt hopes the new will hold up jo1' the throughout upcoming season. this Biggest improvement year will be a pit enlargement that Will allow cars for the upcoming Tace to get in correct starting position in the pits instead of on the track. "It should speed up things considerably, Papworth said. All of last year s top Fair quick-chang- one-thir- d v..pivw''!! Hiller grounds drivers are expected back this year with the exception of Dick Simon, who has given up the local speedway circuit for national and world road racing. rear-engin- A champion Defending Dick Card will be challenged for his title by Terry Nish, Bobby Baker, Mel Andrus and Joel Terry. The latter Ls expected to be a top threat this year. "He was running real strong toward the latter part ' One More Boy At The Store Scores 53 son, ,wgs looking Lynn Jenkins, Charleys through some of the old LHC files the other day and came upon a list his beloved pater (Charley died in 1958) had kept. It showed some of the athletes, starting with Newel (Hod) Sanders back in 1925, who had worked at the LHC. Hundreds of them, really. Guys like Tuff ford, Vern Love, Flash Neilsen, Red Wade (both Ed and Ellis), Deb Young, Con Watts, Joe White-side- s, Dal White, Hal Gutke, Elmo Garff, Mouse Nelson, Bus Williams (I guess some of these men had first names), Golden Boy Van Noy, Hal Theus, Earl Lindlcy, and so on. Lin- Frank (Red) There was one special one Gilmore, who hosted Billy Casper and Pie aboard his carrier, the Yorktown, while he was commandpatrol squadron just off ing an the shores of North Vietnam three years past I mention Charley Jenkins because he was one of a special kind. Always had a place for one more boy at the store. Les Goates was another like Charley Jenkins. Lots of athletes picked up tuition money, got on their way, through Les and his Deseret News Sports Department. Might reach half a hundred the number Les helped through school many of them fighting a r. of 17,554 watched sensational performance. The Lakers guard, who once hit 63 points in a regular season game, went into the game averaging 26.4 points in the playoffs this season. r, .,lws&-K$tlai- a 1 S Winners of 10 NBA championship in the past 12 years, after the Celtics led at three periods halftime. The Lakers held a .advantage. There were 21 lead changes and 15 ties. Of late a lot of fellows and their femmes have been frisking about in the various spring ski the Gelandes, the costume cutups, and so events on. But there was one event this past week which should have a note about it Ever heard of the John Angerbauer Ski Club? Not a very big one, really. It was organized four years ago in honor of John Angerbauer, who at that time was cutting a cute caper at age 83. Since then each spring the club members have gone to Brighton for a brush with the Majestic and Mary runs. This year John A. skied the hill as usual. Hes uses the snowplow a little more than he used 87; and this might have been because of the varto iable snows. Another old timer, Erling Magnesen skied with the club's namesake. Erling reported: "This Angerbauer fellow is going to mix with the mountain one of these days. "He picks the hardest runs, the steepest hills. I like to ski with him, but he makes it hard to do. He offers a little more challenge than some of us ca.: handle. Things might change after this man Angerbauer gets a little ski time behind him. He uses the same old wooden slats hes had for the past 40 years, with poles to match. He might not like metal edges! The 1969 Fish Hooks For some years past it's been said that if Salt Lake City ever had a place big enough to hold a top boat and fishing tackle show it would get one. The Salt Palace has one. Coming in next week. And this, according to Jack Shapiro and others who are beating the drums, will be the biggest tackle display in the history of our hills. There will be at least $2 million In outdoor equipment exhibited, complete with 10x!J feet two of them. casting tanks Starts Wednesday, runs through Sunday. If you have wondered what the 1969 fish hooks look like here is your chance to know. I would guess that they are bent as usual, with farbs. Soccer Summary recently-complete- d Salt Lake County Recreation winter basketball program has been set for May 21 at Meadow Brook Golf Course. laturOn Junior loom A Division At SuQar HouvO Pork I ifl, Gormanio No 'j vs, 2 No. Cermonl vt, Roland Klckon, Gormanio No. ), byo. B Division At R'vorvdo Park 11.30 om, Hoiianoij vt. Berlin C Division At RlvortJda Park 10 0 m, Murray G'intt Na 1 VI. United No. I, Murray Gant No. 2 vt. - UflMH The banquet was originally Scheduled for tonight but was postponed, reports mens Ron Boren. ScNtdulg 10 No. Nn. At 1 o m 3. BorKn Sugar House Perk At 10 a m. lendioNo. I, Bfi!n No. Mo'iondio vt. Aiomanmo No. Nc. 2 va Fairmont Park t Alamo nmo No. I vt, Hoi ... 84-8- 2 CALIF. John Havlicek, the (L'PI) tireless Celtic, phrased it the best. West was just "Jerry great," he said. "With his 10 assists, that gives him 73 points." r veteran West, the from West Virginia, played, perhaps, the best game of his National Basketball Association career Wednesday night in leading the Los Angeles win over Lakers to a the Boston Celtics in the opening game of the league finals. He poured in his playoff high of 53 points including a pair of free throws that put his club ahead with four seconds to go. "That was a big 53 for Jerry, teammate Eigin Baylor smiled. Lakers coach Bill Van Breda Kolff, a West admirer, also was INGLEWOOD, and 33-3- 2 Russell and Chamberlain were almost even in the final statistics 16-1- 5 27-2- e Russell and his coaching predecessor, Red Auerbach, the Celtics, who played the Lakers Wilt to a standoff, Chamberlain said he wasnt going to do anything differently in the of player-coac- h next game to defense West, but Havlicek, the losers top scorer with 37, offered anoth- er opinion. "We feel well have to make 1W day. .000 120 Howell (111) OFT 3 4 Jones 9 3 4 21 Nelson 4 4 5 14 Russell 4 - 5 o Siegfried 10-1- Totals Totals 47 33 Angeles Boston record forum basketball BOSTON Soccer Tryouts Bryant 7 - 17 Chaney 0 1 2 1 Havlicek 14 - 9 37 3 0 2 49 Los FFlClAL STATE 32 23 24 24 24 111 0 30--120 Tryouts for two high school soccer teams which will compete in a Los Angeles tournament next month will begin Friday at 4:15 p.m. at Riverside Park. all-st- They will continue every Friday thereafter at the same time and place until ' m'd-Ma- 34--111 SEIBERLIFVJG ETsSf INSPECTION STATION 3 Performance Haiti TIRES w"...."". - FRONT-EN- D quipped: "This gives you people from Salt Lake City a first hand idea of the tremendous action youll be seeing next M' i'1 ALIGN. .aA M lerter I. br In year. Qq Qm, And Ill guarantee you h with a coach like Ray (Salt Lake Golden Eagles) youll be competitive. Hes one of the best in this Kina-sewic- ; country." Hodge, who for years has been a top goalie in the NHL, came to Vancouver from Oakland just recently. He had 20 saves in a brilliant night. h "I played with Ray back In the 1950s, Hodge said. "Hes a tremendous competitor, and you can bet he'll do his best to make Salt Lake competitive in Its $ M 5 Kina-sewic- :3l 1 first year. Charlie Hodge . . , tough competitor CaNa- Mflxcfji )h.mM 4- 4 3 9 changes in mind. Battle 24 15 Baylor Chmtorln, Counts 0 0 0 Crawford 4 - 2 10 Eoan 2 Erickson 0 0- - 2 0 Hawkins 10 Hewitt 5 21 53 West 10 a couple of adjustments, he said. "We have to experiment and Russ has a couple of A ANGELES (130) LOS OFT - 1 1 4-- Canuek-Buckaro- Final 1 Angeles Boston 9 Results Wednesday's Los Angc120. Boston UK Gamas Thursday's No oarrtes scheduled Laker Jerry West scores easy layup as teammate Wilt Chamberlain blocks Boston's Bill Russell. West scored 53 points in leading Los Angeles. By GEORGE FERGUSON Sports Managing Editor ' VANCOUVER. B.C.- -It was a dramatic introduction to Western Hockey League action for this writer, watching the Vancouver Canucks wrap up the Lester Patrick Cup with a (overtime) defeat of the Portland Buckaroos. A WHL record crowd of 14,902 hung on every hickory stick swing in awesome Pacific Arena before defenceman Mark Reaume won for Vancouver with a slap shot, af'er 69 minutes, 3 seconds of intense action. The Canucks did something never before accomplished in the WHL. They won eight straight playoff games, blankand Portland, ing Seattle, derstand why a hockey crowd can remain on seat's edge through sroreless periods, as in the first 20 minutes of action. Like football, hockey has its scoring strategy, power plays and "goal line" stands. Goalies Charlie Hodge of the Canucks and Dave Kelly of the Bucks were phenomenal on saves as the two teams battled through a scoreless first period, each team having golden opportunities to score off scrambles in front of the net. When forward Bob Barlow broke the scoreless deadlock shot barely with a above the ice in the second period, after 32 minutes of action, the match was held up 10 debris while minutes thrown by a jubilant partisan Cougars-Cowboy- lot Action-Packe- d to un- 9 NBA Playoff WHL Playoff Windup It was enlightening 2 said. points," Russell Auerbach added, if we continue to play this well, theyll never beat us. in 1965. 1960. BYU Coach Glen Tuckett, gave his charges Wednesday off after losing a pair to Weber State. The Cougars (4-in WAC and 18-- on the season) still have one of the top hitting clubs in the conference w'ith a team batting mark right around .300. s The will battle also at 2:30 p.m. on Friday and 1 p.m. on Satur- "Ordinarily, wed win with 118 ' ' hits. now the Boston general manager, werent discouraged. n tional Hockey League affiliation, went wild when Vancouver won its first title since . Chamberlain blocked 13 shots to Russells four but the Celtic outscored his archrival and outrebounded him Chambeilain said. "But we just kept running after them and the breaks went our way in the end." "I think Jerry's going to have a good series," the coach remarked. The second game of the playoffs will be held at the Forum here Friday night. The series moves to the Boston Gardens for a national television contest Sunday. "I don't feel scoring alone is what it takes to win, West said with typical candor after bettering his previous playoff title-hungr- y West and the tory. grin-nin- the nuck fans, clamoring ior 4 latter calmly went to the line and locked up his clubs vic- 119-11- And 2 117-11- 6 ' Howell fouled dou- Tied with Brigham Young for leadership in the northern division of the Western Athletic Conference with J a mark, the Utes would like to sweep the course. But the in WAC play) Rams (2-would. like tc sweep to get back into contention. Coach Pres ' Summerhays saved his .top pitchers for CSU. Mark DiGosio, Alan Ax- -, tell, Dick Hardy and Danny Prock fired 25 scoreless innings of baseball last weekend. All games are at Derks Field, Fridays first game starts at 2:30 p.m. with a doubleheader on Saturday starting at 1 p.m. In Provo, BYU will host Wyoming, lean and hungry after those embarrassing three games last weekend against Utah. In 25 innings, Cowboy hitters accumulated but five first-quart- in With the score favor of the Lakers, Bailey e "I feci Ive had better games with only 15 or 16 points but was of more value to the team. But I was fairly happy with my total game, he said. The guard, who has been hampered in recent years by injuries, hit 21 of 41 field goal attempts. He had a final period after quarters of 15, 11 and 10. Bill Russell, the venerable The University of Utah bleheader against Idaho State was rained out for a second time today, so the Utes saved all their firepower for a three-gam- e series against Colorado State Friday and Satur' day. 111-11- 120-11- 8 long-tim- 58-5- 6 In te Big Series Los Angeles went ahead for 0 with a jump good at shot by West from the corner with 3:08 to go. nine-yea- against Baltimore Unusual Ski Club for the Admission prices will be the J2 for same as last year general admission, $2.50 and $3 for reserved seats and 50 cents for children. West's UB 1 last year. C-Sta- L.A. Star Logans Main. ban-qu- If the weather favors us this season, it will be a good one,- said Papworth, who is to break the season athop.tendance record of 91,500 set crowd Most Utah Aggie athletes have two alma maters. One is Utah State U. The other Is the Logan Hardware Co. Not many Aggies went through USU without going by way of Charley Jenkins big store on The basketball awards Saturday. Utes Host By JAMES F. COUR Hoop Banquet opening with a tryout day this Bomb W.''' iiiniiiiiiiiiiniiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini type-write- Fairgrounds Speedway drivers will warm up for the May Canada. Other top returnees will be Bud Eastin and Keith Dickinson in the B Division and Bob Taylor and Jay Eaton in the full - tendered class. There will be some new faces and changes also. Kyle Dean will have a new car in the renovated B Division, as will Stan Robinson. Ron Dickinson has bought Simon's car and will run in the A Division with a Chevy of last season and had made improvements on his car over the winter, Papworth said of Terry. Andrus has purchased a e new car, which he plans to race on the Canadian-America- n Modified Racing Assn, circuit throughout the summer. That means he will be splitting his time between the Fairgrounds Speedway and tracks throughout the northwestern United Spates and was crowd the ice. Ive never cleared seen that much stuff thrown on the Ice In my smiled Bar-loentire career, the Canuck captain, after the victory. "And I was never happier to see it." Like football or basketball, strategy of both teams change after a score. Portland, a defense-mindeclub along the lines of Oregon State and Oregon basketball, had to move into a more aggressive offense. Vancouver went Into more of a puck control game, going for the better percentage scoring opportunities. It appeared inevitable that Portland would score. Forward Cliff Schmautz flipped it into the net off a scramble with seven minutes, 37 seconds left in the regulation 60 minutes. In the dressing room, elated Vancouver coach Joe (rozier d 0 BrAiUii Jih JOHN (3 from tSISERUNO TRUCK TIRES SEZ: HiWiy Service LET ME SHOW YOU . THE NEWEST O.B. John McHenry SK Solci Director SKI BOATS. 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