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Show Kevicw - Thursday, December 10, 1981 - Page 11 f - v Stale (rvimiastics Mool Held , , if L 7?; 'a I; & ' - t f I - k The 1981 Class Four Baby State Gymnastics meet was held on December 4th at West High School in Salt Lake City. Sixly-lhre- e girls ages 8 years and younger competed for the top six places in each event and in the in-dividual Also the lop four scores from each event were com-piled for learn trophies. American Fork School of Gym-naslic- s entered five girls from the area including Kellie Watts, Amber Allridge, Jamie Jacobsen, Hollie Petersen 'and Leslie Durl'ey. Kellie placed second first place on balance beam, third place on floor exercise and bars and fin--"- ' '.l ice in vault. Leslie Durfey placed fourth on bars, fifth on floor exercise, sixth on vault, and took third place in the Jamie Jacobsen placed seventh in the and second on beam and fifth place on bars. Amber Allridge placed seventh on bars with a score of 8.4. Hollie Petersen placed in the top ten in floor exercise. First place team trophy was awarded to the Utah Academy of Gymnastics with a score of 129.4. American Fork placed a close second with a team score of 128.3 and the Bountiful Tags scored 118.7 taking home third. MK HOW DKIVIvS iii .M.indiiv niilil I'M. ( ilv l.t ;u',in- - liiiskrllmll i;;iinc. Utah Heisman Party Comes To An End By CAUL HAUFT Sports Editor The party's finally over in Utah. All the guests have gone home and all that's left is to wash the dishes and send the kids to bed. It wasn't exactly a party but this year's race for the Heisman trophy left most everyone wondering when their balloon would burst. It burst Saturday, December 5, 1981 at 5:55 p.m. That's when the Downtown Athletic Club of New York City announced that the winner of the Heisman trophy was Marcus Allen. It's hard to find fault with those who cast their ballots in favor of Allen. The senior running back at the University of Southern California became the first rusher in the history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association to gain more than 2,000 yards in a single season. Not bad for a player who used to be a blocking back on the same team as another Heisman winner - Charles White. But there was also a strong following for the local boy - Jim McMahon of Brigham Young University. Despite missing two games this season because of a knee injury McMahon passed his way into m the NCAA record books 55 times. I Fifty-si- x if you count a tied record. 1 Obviously the two top candidates 1 for the trophy were Allen and Mc- - Mahon but that wasn't the order in I which they finished. Surprise! A t sophomore running back Jrom the x University of Georgia, Herschel Walker, easily passed McMahon in . the balloting and grapped second J place away from BYU's star quar--! terback. It really doesn't take a genius to predict who is going to win ' the trophy next year. It also doesn't take a high I.Q. to predict some of the grumbling that is going to happen in Utah Valley. Some grumbling, already underway . courtesy of a publication in , Provo, is to the effect that BYU's , Sports Information Department in general and Sports Information Director Dave Schulthess in par- - ticular was responsible for poor showing in the balloting. Others will point to the fact that BYU plays in the wrong part of the country. That argument has some validity since Heisman voters tend to cast their ballots for a player from their general area and Utah didn't ' have many of the ballots this year. In I fact Utah only got 11 votes out of 1,050. So much for Utah's voting strength. McMahon only managed to gather 91 first-plac- e voles, which means (if all 11 Utah votes were cast for Mc- Mahon) that only 80 sportswnters and sporlscasters from outside Utah were convinced by the performance of the BYU quarterback. Still another gripe will be heard from one corner which will say that the writing and telephoning campaign championed by some local newspapers, radio stations and television stations backfired. This could have actually happened since people don't like to be constantly badgered by other people with an uncompromising viewpoint. But you'll never get a voter to admit that public pressure forced him to erase the name of Jim McMahon from his ballot and scribble in that of another player. Brent Musberger of CBS Sports was flooded with letters and telephone calls last month when local media made a big fuss over the fact that Musberger had failed to mention McMahon as a candidate for the Heisman trophy on one of his Sunday television broadcasts. The funny part of the whole situation is that Musberger didn't vote for the Heisman trophy this year. Perhaps the media told the public to write to the wrong person. And that's not all the complaints which will be raised. Another popular piece of grumbling will be that the balloting has turned into a political "contest and that the candidates' statistics aren't even taken into ac-count. The Heisman trophy is a great honor to the player who receives it but believe it or not the real balloting is still to come. All the politics, public relations experts, sportswriters and sportscasters, letter-writin- g cam-paigns and other sundry attempts to influence opinion will be thrown out the window later this winter when the National Football League holds its annual draft. Money is what really talks the loudest and you can rest assured that the team with the first pick is going to choose the best player. When the dollar starts talking the Cowboys, Chargers, Vikings and Colts start listening. It's even belter than an E.F. Hutton commercial. Perhaps the N.F.L. should award its own version of the Heisman trophy to the first player chosen in its draft. That choice is just about as objective a vote as you are likely to get. xxx NV K xx A XV" XvXXx X, X X s "x v -- I t;,;x tUl HUH) scores two ol Jll pomls lm itit; I.,. hi ;llnc his) wi-r- Thr"l'inii,Tr jnfi isKiik l!i ad . I.chi won Ilic mime mi Ihc hisl shot vti s P.G. .'Drops Game fo Lehi 53-5- 1 Tom Bird led all scorers with 20 tints but the Vikings dropped a close sme, to Lehi last Saturday. Trailing throughout the first half, ; as much as nine points, Pleasant tore put on a third quarter rally that Hored Lehi, 19-- to give PG a to start the final period. The Pioneers quickly took controll the next few minutes and jumped (to a 3 lead. Chris Kitchen sank pbaskelsand with Craig Hilton and Bird each adding one to Eidlock the score at 51 with just 43 mds to play. ffneVikes put good pressure on the Pioneers as the Lehi squad worked for a tie breaking shot. Junior Bob Barnes drilled a fade away 16 footer as the clock ticked to seven seconds. After a time out, the Vikes got an excellent shot at the buzzer, but it just wouldn't fall. Hilton contributed 14 points and Kitchen totaled 12. Pleasant Grove travels to Springville tomorrow for three games that start at 3:30 p.m. Next week's game at Spanish Fork has been moved to Thursday, December 17. to avoid conflict with the Holiday Bowl. ''ilil:i:ife , , - t - 1- - " v fsyt i v " " r 4 ' - - :v:'::: .v.v... t t li- IMIKI.ON' slwiols a hivup in hist uerks .),.id;in v,;im-- . i rnl..r MK """"'Tuiiicr (21) and Sid I l;iiist;cn lullow. 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