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Show provo lJUtah). .daily herald, Thursday, decemberi9, i94o PACE SIX HP'S - I ( ( ) f IT Jt1 (P A wf1 ii ii km w k ( -a ..a VT VJ- -JW, LEHI, P.O. TESTS.!. TEAMS; DONS, LIONS SLATE TWO TILTS (in state basketball attention this week is focused on central Utah cage teams, which swing into action ac-tion Thursday, Friday and Saturday Satur-day in a series of preseason hoop games against some of the top teams in the state. Tonight at 8:30 p. nr.. Lehi hasketeers welcome South high school back into the state am-letic am-letic association, meeting the Cubs in the South gym. A preliminary prelim-inary game between Lehi reserves and the South class B team is slated at 7:30 p. m. Vikings IMay West Another Region three team that will welcome a Salt Lake City team back into the state set-up is the touted Pleasant tirove quint, which meets West " high i riday in the Deseret gym. Spanish Fork and Payson play douoleheaders tonight and Friday Fri-day against Cyprus and Murray. Payson meets Cyprus tonight while Spanish Fork lakes on Murray Mur-ray in lilts at Spanish Fork. Friday Fri-day at 3 p. m., opponents will be switched for contests at Payson. H. Y. high gets another test Friday nighi, meeung Manti high school at 7:45 in the Women's gym. Manti was tripped by South i'.inery Wednesday, while B. . high victories aver Tintic, Granite, and others to its credit. The Wildcats Wild-cats are favored. Pruvo Meets Granite With five preseason triumphs behind them, Provo Bulldogs attempt at-tempt to mane it six in a row Friday Fri-day when they invade Granite for a return engagement with the Farmers. Provo nosed out the Granite machine, 28,24, in an earlier 'game. The Lincoln vs. Springville frame scheduled for Friday has been postponed. Lincoln Saturday battles Tooele in the Lincoln gym. Tooele earlier defeated the Tigers. Dner fiddlier n Ilealanis 7 I00CATS AGAli DEFEAT OMAHA HONOLULU, Dec. 19 (C.I!) The University of Denver football team defeated the Healani club 7 to 0 here last night before 13,000 persons on a rain-swept field. i Two consecutive plays that gained 64 yards, and a tight goal-line goal-line stand gave Denver its second victory of its Hawaiian invasion. The visitors defeated the University Uni-versity of Hawaii 19 to 10 last Saturday. The game was rough. Denver twice was penalized for unsports manlike conduct half the distance of the goal for kneeing. The rain surprisingly hampered the Hea-lanis Hea-lanis who are used to playing in drizzles, and three times they fumbled at strategic points. ' BOZEMAN. Mont.. Dec. 19 rtJ.P) Montana State college made a clean sweep of its two-game series with Omaha university last night, eking out a 31-30 victory in a fast-and-furlous intersectional basketball bas-ketball game. Omaha's slow-breaking style proved a puzzle to the Bobcats who Tuesday night pulled away In the second half for a 52-32 -victory in the first meeting of the two quintets. un'iins, Ziyis Olas! NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (U.RJ The curtain comes down with a bang tomorrow night on Madison Sauare, Garden's year of boxing with two-hard hitting champions, both crowned- in 1940, matching their dynamite before a near-capacity throng in the house that Rickard built. Anything can happen in this grand finale of big-time boxing when Fritzie Zivic of Pittsburgh, king of the World '3 welterweights, squares off against Lew Jenkins of Texas, the lightweight ruler, in a 10-round, non-title bout. However, there is a tradition that a good big man can alway3 beat a good little man. Hence, Zivic, the 147-pound boss, is the 9-5 favorite to beat smaller Jenkins, Jen-kins, top man, of the 135 pounders. The English birthrate was the lowes ton record in 1932, being only 15.3 per 1000 of the population. Overly Leads E, V IT ji-. To ' 47-39 Ji riumph Over Coast Quint SANTA BARBARA, Cal. Dec. to conquer on the heels of last 19 (U.P-Brigham Young university rated "one of the teams to beat" in the Big Seven basketball con- night's convincing 47-39 triumph over Santa Barbara State college. The Cougar's barnstorming tour Bees Angling for Salt Lake Chucker SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 19 U.R The Salt Lake Bees of the Pioneer Pio-neer league are angling for Pitcher Pitch-er A. Emmertson, lanky right-handed right-handed Salt Laker, who is the property of the Idaho Falls team. The Bees general manager, Eddie Ed-die Mulligan, said he had approached ap-proached Joe Devine of the New York Yankee scouting system, about securing Emmertson. The Idaho Falls club is a Yankee farm. ference, today sought new fields carried them to San Diego where they' meet the San Diego State Aztecs tonight and Friday night. Brigham Young took advantage of Santa Barbara's slow start in last night's game and ran up a pix-point, 26-20, lead at halftime. The Cougars increased the lead in a rough and tumble second half. Don Overly of Brigham Young was high scorer, with 12 points. Gurrero and Lowell Steward, each with 10, were high men for Santa Barbara. Thomas Jefferson, third president presi-dent of the United States, is credited cred-ited with invention of the swivel chair, in 179G. Bulldogs Tip Bingham; Engage Granite Friday BETTLN'G SETS RECOIU NEW YORK, Dec. 19 (U.R Despite De-spite the supposedly adverse influences in-fluences of wars, national elections elec-tions and unseasonably late springs, the lure of the thoroughbreds thorough-breds remained potent enough to inspire an all time record betting turn over of 426,017,867 at the nation's racetracks during 194Q- In a game that at times took on appearances of a foul-pitching contest, a rough and tumble mix-up, mix-up, and a Bingham walkaway, Provo high school cagers notched up their fifth preseason victory of the season, defeating Bingham Miners, 35-32, in the Provo gym Wednesday, Trailing 12-1 at the end of the first quarter, the Bulldogs rallied to take the lead in the third quarter, quar-ter, lose it, and then break a tie score in the closing minutes of the game to triumph. Uulldogs Play Farmers - Their sixth practice encounter awaits the Bulldogs Friday when they trek northward to battle Granite's Farmers in a return match. Thirty-one fouls were called against the over-scrappy Bingham crew Wednesday. The Bulldogs failed to take advantage of their BY ART KRENZ Ready for the Bell IN THIS CORNER --k r 7 2ss. 8 VfwCiJ W-.?" F O.B fiaer Rift for a (isher-mia (isher-mia ibin a handy ivio-rude ivio-rude motor to speed him effortlessly to bis favorite fishing spots ! It'f a useful gitc that he will enjoy tor yean . . . inexpensive to buy - . . lime Davmenrs KvaiU Fat-tor; able. Call and talk it over I FLY BOOKS 31.H9 ... D.25 FLY RODS 1.25 to 20.i Rubber Boots for Fishing and Hunting 6M) ' AIR RIFLES GUNS 17 NORTH UNIV. AVENUE free throws, converting only nine, while the Minors tanked eight out Of 14 tries. From the beginning, the contest was a rough, scrambling affair. Both teams looked ragged, passing pass-ing wildly and making frequent errors, Provo particularly was off in its shooting. After Bingham took its 12-1 lead at the end of the initial stanza, Provo staged a second quarter rally to close the gap to 15-16 at halftime. Take lad ' Early in the third quarter, the Bulldogs went ahead, 20-17, but Sergei Alvarez sparked a Miner drive to put his team ahead 26-21. Mahlon Rasmuson and Walt (Pete) Prusse tanked baskets to give the Bulldogs a 27-26 advantage advant-age as the fourth quarter began. Bingham twice came from behind be-hind to tie the score. With the count at 31-all, Prusse tanked a field goal, and Rasmuson and Grant Richins scored foul pitches to clinch the game. " Provo displayed again that it has the power to annlv the Dres- sure when the going gets tough, out the Bulldogs failed to show tne polish of earlier games. , Bothered somewhat by the aggressive ag-gressive style, particularly at the first, the Bulldogs found ' their scoring stride after the first quarter. Mahlon Rasmuson tanked tank-ed twelve points to pace all scorers. scor-ers. Stan Long and Ike Collen paced Bingham with 10 counters, while Prusse turned in a good performance per-formance to collect nine points. Provo's defensive power overshadowed over-shadowed its offensive strength in the game. Sherm Coleman, Don Phillips, and Grant Richins looked look-ed good on defense. PROVO G. T. F. P. Rasmuson, f 4 11 4 12 Preece, f ....1 1 0 2 Prusse, c 4 5 1 9 Coleman, g , . 2 4 0 4 Richins, g 1 8 4 0 Perry, f o 1 0 0 Phillips, g. 1 1 0 2 Totals 13 31 9 35 BINGHAM G. T. F. P. Suseata, f .......... 0 11 1 Alverez, f .......... 4 2 1 9 Long, c 4 3 2 10 Collen, g 3 8 4 10 Mattice, g 0 0 0 0 Nelson, f 0 0 0 0 Nichols, f 0 0 0 0 Poulson, c 0 0 0 0 Gleason, g 1 0 0 2 Totals 12 14 8 32 Score by quarters: , Provo 1 15 27 35 Bingham 12 16 26 32 Officials: Kump and Buttle. DENVER HOOP JOUST OPENS DENVER, Colo., Dec. 19 (CD-Denver's (CD-Denver's invitational round-robin basketball tournament opens here tonight with six top teams from colleges in the south, the Pacific coast and Rocky mountains entered enter-ed in the three-day series of contests. con-tests. The field includes Marshall college col-lege of Huntington, W. Va., high-scoring high-scoring collegiate team of the nation na-tion last year, and Oregon State college, 1940 northern division Pacific Pa-cific coast champions. 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