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Show Bartender's Cup Tennis Begins Oct 16 Event will Benefit Big Brothers, Sisters 16,, with the championship matches and post-tournament party scheduled for Sunday, October 24. Tournament organizers are looking for competitors and for local businesses to sponsor teams for a $50 donation. Individual players pay an additional $15 entry fee. The Racquet Club will run the tournament and donate court time, and Miller Brands contributes the balls, trophies, t-shirts, and the post-tournament refreshments. refresh-ments. The goal for this year's tourrnament is to raise $4200 for the new-BigBrothersBig Sisters progam. Agency director Steve Erickson said he is pleased and suprised at the response thus far, and at the open-arms reception for the youth program in the Park City area. "We plan to hire staff for our new office in the next two weeks, and to begin recruiting volunteers, so the publicity and recognition recogni-tion that the Bartenders' Cup will generate will be a marvelous boost for our efforts," he said. Anyone interested in sponsoring spon-soring a team or participating partici-pating in the tournament play should contact the Park City Racquet Club at 649-8200. 649-8200. The awards presentation will take place at the Sneakers Restaurant located at the Racquet Club on Sunday evening following the finals. Sponsors of the event are the Park Meadows Racquet Club and Miller High Life. The hunting and skiing season may be just around the corner, but tennis will be the topic in Park Citv this i October, as the Bartenders-Cup Bartenders-Cup approaches, inspite of what the name implies, the Bartenders' Cup is not a drinking contest. It's a tennis tournament, sponsored by Miller Brands and the Park City Racpuet Club. Each year, the proceeds from the tournament are donated to a local charitable organization. Last year, the event raised of $4000 for the Park City Pre-School and for Developmental Develop-mental Disabilities, Inc. For this season's Fourth Annual Bartenders' Cup, the beneficiary bene-ficiary will be Big Brothers Big Sisters, an organizations which provides volunteer adult role-models for children child-ren with one parent. Big BrothersBig Sisters will open a new office in Park City later this month to serve the children of Summit and Wasatch Counties. The week-long tournament is a team competition, with each team composed of three players, one "A", one "B", ane one "C" player. Men and women compete in separate divisions, and the tournament is open to a maximum of 45 teams. . Each team member plays an opponent of equal ability in an 8-game pro set, and one point is given for each game won. The team that compiles the most points in the rouna advances to the next round. Each team and each player is assured of playing at least twice, as there is a consolation consol-ation bracket for first round . losers. The tournament is set to begin on Saturday, October |
