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Show Nath miller r DESERET NEWS, Friday, May 23, 1969 ) f The Biggest Fish Wins! Golfers play fo.' prizes the one with the lowest net score wins. Baseballers play for victoties ones with the most runs win. Bow lers try to knock down tne most pins and skeetshooters try for the most broken birds. So why not have a fishing contest the man who takes the largest trout wins ? Thats whats going to happen. Verner Zimk and Gean Snow of Ziniks have come up with the plot. There will be five contest periods of two weeks each in the rainbow'. brown and native cutthroat divisions. They will give 40 k prizes in the run and close it out after 10 weeks or about Aug. 9. Thereafter the fun begins. The 15 winners will have ?. fish-ofThats like a play-of- f in golf, or an extra period in basketball, or an extra period in hockey. - iIM 8 tw'o-wee- T t, - . ,, t Y I f. - - syi ... sfi mi.rn if'is. Gets Title will take They these five winners to a Verner Zinik fishing water, provide boats, motors and one observer per boat and turn them loose. The biggest fish is worth the state championship. 4 ! Kb" v r. rM n ' -- l . i. a:. 4 i V , n - rj- - 5 'X This wont mean that this will be the biggest fish caught. Like in golf the man who wins the title doesnt always have the seasons best score be is the champion because under the pressure of jierformance hes the best in the playoff tournament. track hopes are strengthened by long jumpers BYU's WAC (l-- r) ? V. Pertti Pousi, John Robinson, Jim Blaisdell and Kari Palmen i , Lock, Leach Favor Nothing wrong with fishing contests. The big fish are the ones, according to our experts, w'hich should be taken to make more habitat for the smaller ones. Its agreed that a big fish kept is a deed well done. Argue if you want that fishing is luck and that the luck of the day will turn an average fisherman into a champion. So it is with other sports the best men dont ahvays win the golf titles, or the bowling banners or the boxing brawls. Theres luck on the putting green, too. Fun Is In The t . By GEORGE FERGUSON Sports Managing Editor TEMPE, AP.IZ. 440-yar- d - Brigham Young University is coming on strong for the Western Athtitles in letic Confeience track-fiel- d and golf. Lady luck came tlirougn with an assist for the Cougars in a quest to defend their WAC track and field title when Mike Fray of Texas-EPaso failed to accompany the Miners to Tempe. Fray was involved in a disciplinary problem. Fray was expected to win the 100 and dashes Fish-O- ff The fun in this contest, as this angler ogles it, 1 is the fish-ofHeretofore the grand prizes have gone to the hardened old contest winners. They cool their big fish until its time to enter them knowing the em and contests. of holes the weigh They loop stretch em and sometimes put in artificial eyes Lots of tricks. from last seasons runner-up- . f. for UTEP and to anchor a ie!ay team which lias posted the best time in the conference this year. 220-yar- d It was all a matter of skill for BYU golfers. Four Cougar divot dandies fired under par practice rounds on the rugged Goodyear Golf and Country Club, a layout 7,220 yards long with a championship rating of 74.2. Freshman Ray Leach was an absolute sensation. This slight greeme, who has earmarks of becoming the most fabulous golfer in BYU including history John Miller touied the Goodyear at Leachs round would have been a competitive record for the Robert Tient tion. Jons monster with fairway tiaps galore and water hazards for every Russian olive tree on the layout. Leach's long game was built for the Goodyear layout, that was obvious. It might be that the Cougar golfers will leave a great day on the practice tees, fairways and greens. But they served warning to favored Arizona State that it may take more than local knowledge to dethrone -- But not this time. You got to catch it in front of the judges, one of which I have been asked to be. ' for And the guy who draws me should win it seems that with all my luck and just a little of liis talent fishing ought to be real great on that day. I dont like it, though. Never went with anyone for that long that I didnt wet a line myself. Thats my idea of torture. Cant always play the game though. Someone has to referee it. Who knows, some of us might learn from the champion. Course 68. Had it been in competi- Track If, the defending cnampions from Provo. Friday ti prelims begin at 7 p m. (6 p m. MDT) on the Sun Devil oval. Golfers will tour 36 holes Friday and wind up with 18 Saturday morning for team and medalist honors. ack-fiel- d In a dual meet earlier tins year at El Paso the UTEP beat BYU by winning the final mile relay. Miner Mike Fray was responsible 74-7- 1 for 13 points. With the Cougars healthy to the man, the press did a on best times and distances and figured Fray's ab re-ta- sence virtually cinched a second straight track-fieltitle for BYU. Fray had run the dash at 9.3, a 220 at 20 7 and had anchoied a UTEP 440 relay team which clocked 40.3. BYUs best time m the 440 is 40 8. So Fray's loss is a great equalizer in satisfied. Thiee speodsteis from New Mexico missed the trip due to muscle problems which gave UTEP a better chance to offset the Fray loss. UTEP is rich with no longer figured the Miners to be favorites. hat haunted him most was a top four finish for BYU in the long jump ala Jim Blaisdell, Pertti Pousi, Kari Palmen and John Robinson and a cinch firt in the triple jump d d that event. UTE P is rich with speed- sters. But anyway you look at it Fray's loss eliminates top scoring spots for the Miners and elevates BYUs top dash-ma- n Gary Thacker to a better finish. Dy Pousi. BYU and Texas El Paso were so close that a key loss for either could mean the Robison was not entirely See WAC SRIXG, Page D4 After the scratch meeting, however, BYU coach Clarence track-fiel- , i d rr WPftJijPWtMM Save enough now to pay for your vacation in a new '69 Ford, at Petty's big f 3 LI t r. lat ASU Ace Cripples BYU LTD Sedan 4-P- ocr Includes: Die cast grille retractable exterior moldings bright headlamps color keyed carpeting pleated trim 390 $0 engine select shift cruisomatic. fcjtJI 2-- baseball, went for the Sun By NORM SHEYA Deseret News Sports Writer - You dont PHOENIX pitch to Paul Ray Powell unless you have to. Brigham ,3 You'll want to blow a baapipe when you see these and over 20G specials on '69 Fords at Petty. '69 University learned that the hard way here Thursday night as the State super-sta- r stroked a triple to dtive in the only run in ASUs victory. The win gives ASU, southe ern division champion, a lead in the best two of three series for the Western Athletic Conference baseball championship. The two teams conclude the series here Friday with a first game starting at 7:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m. MDT) and second game fif needed) starting after a short intermission. BYU had first base open twice Thursday night wnen footPowell, a ball star, came to the plate. The first time with a man on second and third and none out. Powell drew a walk. The second time, with a man on second in the eighth inning, he belted the winning , three Yong Arizona 0 one-gam- d bagger. Theyre saying here that this was perhaps the finest collegiate game m history. Th l o teams played nine innings in 1:34. The volatile crowd of This, as expected, was a loved evety second, cis maxtet piece LatryGuia, 16 1 on the year, and the pitcher m collegiate pitch-6,33- 4 : Devils while Richard Zinniger was brilliant in losing for the Cougars. It was a battle of lefties. Gura fanned 11 and Zinniger struck out 12 Devils. Zinniger gave up five hits and Gura limited the potent BYU lineup with base hits. BYU tlneaened only twice. In the first inning when Dane lorg singled and reached second on a ground out but died. In the seventh Doug Howard drilled a Gura fastball 412 feet to the fence for a triple with two outs. But Howard was stranded. For the Fourth ranked Sun Devils it was their 48th win against only 10 losses. Included in tha' record is a 5 4 victory over the mayor league Seattle Pilots. BYU is Zinniger and Gura were the real stars as they mixed sharp breaking cuives with dancing lastballs in masterful fashion. on the Zinniger is now season. Everyone agrees that it will take a superb comeback now for the Cougars. ASU has a stronger pitching staff. 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