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Show Mack Hiller f mriRi'oati fy. miiaiiiittiiiiiii DESERET NEWS, Friday, August 22, 1969 ,U &! mb $ I He Can't Play In Utah Open Bv GEORGE - OGDEN Medalist Mike Wagstaff led 32 amateur hopeful-: into first round match play Friday at Ogden Country Club in quest of the Utah State Amateur golf title. The Utah Open golf classic the past several .years has fallen about as flat as a brides biscuit. It was such a wonderful tradition, steeped in glory. It was the golden event of the years sports schedule. Then Utah gambled with the Professional Golf Associations tournament bureau for $5,000 and lost the annual September classic which was , , partly financed byrea- .......... fcon of the conflict with the World Series bf Golf. , ; f Whether that was a wise gamble or not ! be argued a long time, but we no longer jiave much to offer in bur biggest of golf tournaments. Will What we '4 do, ' ' By HARTT i Wests biggies went, there were the Ellsworth Vines, the Harold Bountiful Get Used To Each Other d It isnt that the kids arent good enough to four-iro- n next to the flag. Its that we see lip a hem in every round of action there is from the high Ides of March to the low tides of November, feome of them see each other more than they see 6ieir own families. it was good news the other night when said that Johnny Miller, our brighest hope on the PGA tour, was stopping off in Utah ong enough to get on with his marriage plans and that for his batchelors party he would participate n the Utah Open. So i Someone ( The Boost It Needed Johnny would have given the Utah Open the boost it was begging for. He would have been that something that the Utah Open could have hung its golf hat on this time around. Just when everyone was elated about the pews it was ruled that Johnny Miller couldnt play he was ineligible for the Utah Open. He doesnt he has a tournament playing carry a PGA card card. I Its a closed shop and if you Card you cant play. I dont have a PGA which I know its an Open tournament means everyone can play whom they invite. ; Its also incongruous that Johnny can play (or the $6 million in PGA tournament moneys but ant play-- for a packet of three golf balls in our ' 30 th Wards Thurs- day night. But both came through in extra innings to win games and reach fast pitch finals in Softball the 1969 Tournament. Canoga Park will battle Chula Vista at 8:45 p.m. in finale at George Morris Park, 2300 South Se- This year, with the big event at Oakridge Country Club starting Sept. 11, everyone was hoping for just one name. Just someone a little kids who go for golf brighter than the week-enballs, sox or silk hankies in the summers 50 natches. 1 W1XOM Things couldnt have looked bleaker for Canoga Park and and a lot of others. I j Jtah Open. cond West. Bountiful 30th faces surging Burbank 2nd. Slow pitch finalists are the slugging Mesa 22nd, who Magna's Lisa Wins Fifth In Olympics Deseret News Special ' SAN DIEGO, -- CALIF. Magnas Lisa Kuida garnered a fifth place in the girls 11-1- 2 f f age groupindi- vidual medley in the Nation al Junior Olympics here Thursday. Kuida, com-- i with p e ting t h e nations lii- - , top swimmers, rec orded a Lisa Kuida time of 2:42-7- . Carol Rusis, Westland, Mich., set a meet record in the event with a time of 2:37.7 bettering the old mark set by Suzi Keats, Baltimore, Md., 2:38.2, 1968. They Gave It A Try Lisa is representing District which includes Arizona, Idaho, Southern Nevada, Texas. Colorado, New Mexco, and Utah. She was a tuple winner two weeks ago at the Sandia Olympic Pool, Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the regionals. Her coach Darwin Killpaek Is also representing District 10. lie was voted to coach the districts swimmers in an election at the regionals. 10. j Billy Korns president of the Control chapter of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Professional Golfers Association, explained it this vay. i JWe have this rule and when we heard Johjiny could be with us we were excited. Then we 6hficked the PGA rules and found that it is a national PGA policy that you have to have a card from the PGA or you cant play. If ycu have not See MILLER on rage J 0 WHmk IFir By KEN RAPPOPORT I (Associated Press Writer Jhis is the night O. J. Simp-so- p takes his shirt to the rlijanrrs. Whether or not he cleans out the Baltimore Colls, well, thats another stpry. limpson, Buffalos glittering rookie running back, will probably get more dirt on his jersey this week than last, w&en he only played a few minutes, this time the Bills take on Baltimore in one of twjo pro football exhibition nevertheless learned a valuable lesson: If you dont hit the hole, you dont get another chance. The backs come up too fast. Also on tonight's card is a game between Chicago of the National Football League and Houston of the American Football League at the Astrodome. s loss to Detroit, but to see more action even against the Colts Mini Max Anderson 'though v3l start in his place. The NFL Colts, who fout.d the Jets too much to handle in last years Super Bowl, have taken three straight exhibitions from AFL opponents. The Bills, who claimed Simpson in the draft after finishing with pro football's worst record, have wan one of three exhibition gamps this summer. Their victory came over ait NFL foe, the Washington Redskins. Simpson, used mostly as a decoy in his first pro game, Houston, which lost a thriller to the Colts last week, cs tonight. lie saw limited duty g ,1m wteks in last fig-u;- Most contestants agreed 17th mateued No. 12 as Ogden's toughest hole. Betley would have shaken any foe on the back side. 3D, After going out at he birdied the 10th, 14th, 16th and 18th for a 32. 17. Club. Becker was going into No. 17 and faltered. Marty went against a tough I't.ih State sticker, Doug try p.m. In the Attention upper bracket was centered around the opening match of defending champion Tom Christensen and a heavy favorite, Reid Goodliffe. Also in that same bracket was another big favorite, Paul Langager, who was to face Terry Palmer. Bob Betley, the strong-hittin- g Ogden poliemean, was right behind Wagstaff in qualifying with a 71. Betley, also in the upper bracket, went against talented Rick Preece, who aho learned his golf oil the Bonneville fairways. Arnie Veterans Ferrin, Club and Ogden Country Salt Lake Loren Moench, Country Club, fashioned 72s. Ferrin, who is dropping out of match play because of business commitments, was four under going up the 17th fairdouble-bogeway and finished bogey. Also at 72 were Magna's and Newbold Veil young Marty Becker of Ogden Coun Deseret News Sports Writer Even after the I and afternoon found at 1:30 that the Vilen. There was no fuss, no muss for qualifying. It broke off even at 77 and one of the 7Ss was carded Here are Mondays qualibasketb''l by Utah State fying scores : coach, LaDeil Andersen. FRIDAY'S FAIRINGS Lswtr Brack! Donnie Branca nvght well Blomstrom vj. 04 am. have thrown the qualifying Mik Sweel, 12 Tom a m, Tea Tyer vs. Mike McGuirs 30 Tim Dickinson, into a playoff, lie was as2S Verl Newbold vs Hal Young, e sessed a Grea Sharp vs. penalty oil vs Ray Bubois,44 30 Marly Becker vs. ken Clerk, the 15th green for not mark52 Slava Wathen vs. Doug Vilven, Mika Chapman; 10 am. ing his ball and missed the Jack vs. Ga.y Hcxer. cutoff by two strokes. Upper Bracket 10 0 Paul Ungaqer vs. am, Ron Abeaolen Wagstaff had a fairly good Terry Palmer; 10 16 10 24 vs. John Sochor; match-placard in Monday's vs Jim Jensen, 10 22 BooD ckBelley vs. Glt.i Jersen vs. He fired seven Rick Pree, 10 40 qualifying. 10 48 G eq Passic; Lorin Moench vs. birds and four bogeys. ILs Terry Jim Farrell vt. Monsom 10.56 Tom Christensen VI, Jav Onne, 11 04 three birds in a row, Nos. 5, 6 Reid Goodlills. and 7, would have given most Thursday's Oualitier Mika Wagstalf, 70, Bob Betley, 71 any match play foe fits. Verl Newbold. Lorin Moench, Am e Ron 72; Becker, Marty After a bird on No. 1, Mike Ferrin, Abega.en. Tee Tyler, Jim Farrell, 73; Mika Dick Sleve Carlson, Wathen, bogeyed the next two. Then he McGjire. Glen Jensen, Greq Sharp, Blomstrom, got his birdie string and Paul Lanaaaer, 74, Tom Hoxer. Rick Gccblitte, Gary wound up going out in 33 Reid Dubois. Terry Monson, Preece. Roy Tim 75; Douo Vtlven, John Socher, pops. On the back side, he D ckinson, Jay Den Jack Chapman. the 10th. 13th and 11. ii. 76 Jim Jensen, Holley Frever, Hal Greg PasSic, Ken Clark, Tarry He took bogeys on No. 16 and Younq. Palmer, Mika Swaal, 77. hare-nnssin- g two-strok- - Waa-sta- t! s ' y y, d Marty Becker, left, medalist Mike Wagstaff hash over Utah Amateur efforts. Junior Title Pits Canoga Park, Chula Vista; Bountiful 30th Faces Burbank In Senior Test s, he Zell Eatons, Wagstaff, who cut his golf teeth as a shop boy at Bonneville, spent three years in the U S. Air Force and then golfed for University of Utah, fired a par 70. won the prestigiWagstaff ous Salt Lake City Amateur title in 19S3 and then had a dry spell on the Utah golf circuit until this year when he won the Western, Amateur at Tooele. Mike went into first round match play against Gary division lower in Hoxer action. The contestants will play rounds two scheduled Friday and Saturday and finale wind up with a Sunday. Morning round of the Sunday test begins at 9 a.m. e mostly, is sit around dnd browse on a few beans and biscuits and fcuff about the good bid days. What we iave most of is the The past. present doesnt excite us. We cant shake the shackles of the old days when the Hogans, Nelsons, Palmers, Finster-ivaldCaspers, Rosburgs, Olivers, Demarets, Mangruns, and so many others came to the Beehive State for our annual event, Ammotaiir Onoe FERGUSON Sports Managing Editor iiMiuHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiminiiyi,, j QJ 33-2- 9 will play Chicago for the first time. The Bears are fresh from a convincing victory over Green Bay. Houston Coach Wally Lemm said backup quarterback Don Trull wi'l start against Chicago. However, Pete Beathard, thp No. 1 signal caller, also will see action along with Davis and rookie Bob Naponic, Lemm quarterbacks Bob said. Beathard has completed 29 passes for 413 yards and three touchdowns in the two games hes worked. Trull. n one game, completed 5 of 15 for 35 yards and one touchof 55 down. Although veteran quarterback Jack Concannon has been doing most of the signal calling for Chicago, indications were Virgil Carter would start against the Oilers. jlouston also must contend picked up 25 hits and 29 runs Thursday, against surprising Westchester Friday at 7:30 p.m. Westchester managed to do what no one else has done, silence North Jordan 6th at The latter won 24-- 6 Wednesday with four homers. Junior slow pitch showdown is rugged Phoenix 10th and smooth fielding Westminster. Phoenix teams are seldom easy to stop, and Phoenix 10th seems to have one of the best teams from Valley of the Sun in a long time. Westminster has stopped 17-foes by scores of 10-10-and 11-havent They yet been forced to play their best. But back to Bountiful 30th and Canoga Park. Bountifuls defending champions waited 13 innings before Long Beach 3rd made any serious mistakes. In that inning, some 4,000 fans watched a hit batsman, walk, fielders choice, passed ball, and error produce two runs. Long Beach hurler Ed Klecker, who notched two nohitters earlier, had a 1 lead at one time, but Bountiful came back to tie it in the late 2-- innings. Burbank 2nd showed the class to win the title when they stopped Monument Park West 5th R. Smith had the key single. Canoga Park faced almost certain defeat when Whittier 7th, aLso California, filled the bases with no outs in extra in nings. But cool Rod Morten son the next three got straight, the last two on strikeouts. When his mates came to bat in the bottom of 3-- 1. the ninth, Dave Haws a double over the centerfielder that sparked three runs and a lead that stood as the final score. Whittier had a claim to fame even at that, being the first tournament team to score on punched 6-- 3 Canoga. Defending Junior champion Chula Vista burst the Taylorsville (perfect game Monday) bubble They did it the 4-- 2. hard way, tying 'the game with two runs in their seventh, then winning last-chan- J. T with Gale Sayers, mercury-quic- k Chicagos runner. The games touch off a flurry of weekend activity. Saturday night finds Cleveland, NFL, at San Diego, AFL.: Kansas City, AFL, at Los Angeles, NFL; and San Francisco, NFL, at Denver, AFL, e action. In NFL in games, its Green Bay at Dallas; Washington at Atlanta; Minnesota vs. St. Louis at Memphis. Tenn., and Pittsburgh vs. New Orleans at Baton Rouge, La. Miami visits Cincinnati in the only AFL inter-leagu- pairing. Monday !n two games night, the New York Jets play at Oakland in an AFL clah and Detroit, NFL, takes on Boston, AFL, at Montreal. Mean while, Washington veteran linebacker Mike Morgan to the New traded Monument Park West 5th player scores here against Burbank 2nd, but Six h a. First 1. 1 'Poy Yucaipa 11, Idaho Falls Eighteenth Twin Fells Third 10, Peredise 4 Orleans Saints Thursday for rookie defensive back Dennis Hale. The Redskins also cut Gary Lane, former New York Giant quarterback who wras given a try as a running back. The Gian's asked waivers on fullback Henry Dyer, who had been their leading rusher in two exhibition games. Coach Allie Sherman no reason for the cut. gave Friday's Schedule Senior Fast Pitch Vista vs. Canoga Park Second; Third 5:45 pm, Taylorsville and Fifth Fifth vs. Whittier Seventh. , Senior Slew Pitch m Mesa p Championship Twenty-Secon- d vs. Westchester; Thud 5 S pm, West Suburban and Fifth vs. North Jordan Sixth. Junior Slew Pitch 7:45 D m., Phoenix Championship Tenth vs. Westminster; Third end Fifth 5 30 p.m., Merced vs. Twin Falls Seventh, - TARTAN hMtag Trailers I BNknWHK. ) Stovt, Dnette, Smk. Sleep CleMdai-H- t, Ice OO Box tg MBS 466-415- Vat.! i 1 33rd So. A State D0UJ C30OTGDG nsL oil. OH ILAS:3 FASTER a fins BINOCULARS Lj m Iy MON TUES. & WED. Cantar Focus. Caatad Optice, Prismatic long, Mada by Swift and Andaman. 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Hyde Park O e d e n via a single by Greg Wilkes title games Friday night, with and double from Gene Amo-nett- brief award ceremonies folIt was a night for extra lowing. The smooth-runnin- g tourney pitted 112 teams inning games. from throughout the United But for the nights slugging States and Canada. match coud no one honors Thursday'! R MU Its Mesa 22nd. They blasted a Stmor Fast Pitch 10-- 0 lead after two innings and (Consolation) Anaheim Third 4, Lehi Fourth 2 hit the slow pitch high and far Van Nuys 2. Pocatello West to overwhelm Suburban, Championship 29-Bill Burbank Second 3, Monumer t P r k Joe Sorenson, Steve Hale and Wecl I eSueur, Bountiful Th.rtieth 4, Long Beach Third 2 (13 innings) Doug Ashby smashed homers Slow Pitch Senior for the victors. ' Consolation h it $36so Reg. NOW $34 Easy Convenient Budget Terms $44.50 |