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Show Slaclcseat I By FRANK K. BAKER Telegram Sporh Editor Random notes from world of sport: At five feet six inches tall, Dominic Dallessandro, the new Chicago Cub rookie, will be the smallest outfielder in the majors this year. Dallessandro won the Pacific Coast league batting title last season with a J68 batting average for San Diego ... and proved an exceptionally hard target for the hurlers ... drawing 82 free tickets during the campaign. If he lives up to his expectations, expec-tations, this "left-handed Hack Wilson" may succeed the Red Sox' Ted Williams as the rookie of the year. Jack Mattsen, the former Lincoln ward basketball sUr, weighs 250 pounds today, or about 60 pounds more than he did a few years ago when he was figuring so prominently in the ward's championship campaigns ... Provo and Monroe will come into the state high school tournament March 13-16 as the only two unbeaten clubs in the sUte. ' Kentucky horse fanciers are already conjecturing that it avould be quite a trick if Colonel E. R. Bradley took first, second, third and fourth places in the Kentucky derby May 4 . . supporting .this dream with the observations that - Bimelech waa undefeated as twe-year-old and likely will be the favorite, and that Boy Angler, Bashful Duck aad Bold and Bad, all pretty fair bones, are bis other ehalien- gers . , . which b stretching the imagination pretty far, inasmuch as net more than two of them are likely ta ge to the pest ... All Bradley horses have names starting with B . , . such as those mentioned above er Burgoe King ... Incidentally, Bradley horses have finished one-two upon two occasions ... Behave Yourself and Black Servant in 1121, and Babbling Over and Baggenbaggage ta 1126. Idaho and Montana universities are expected to press their case for full playing memberships in the Pacific Coast conference confer-ence schedule sessions at Palo Alto this week end, but even if they convince the other, schools they ought to be returned to full privileges, itll be two years before anything can be done (OatfenSS ea Iks IMtovkj rwl I '"'. - Bqckseat Driving - IOhumI riM fimin Pace) ut about It . . . The present round-robin football schedule, whicl excludes Idaho and Montana, has been approved through 1941 0( so any schedule in which the two inland schools might partid pat would not become effective until 1941. No player Ralph Guldahl, the two-time open cham nd pion; Sammy Snead nor Byron Nelson has had such i streak in modern competitive golf as Jimmy Demare a "has enjoyed on the winter links trail. In all kinds o wtather, the 2-yeaf-old Texan's average for 30 round was 71.4, so . it's no wonder he has won slightly ove '11 $6000 in the golfing wars since January 1. Roy Jack Flinchuro, 17-year-old jockey, is being hailed a h one of the year's best prospects inasmuch as he has alread; ta booted home more winners than such veteran stake riders ai Eddie Arcaro and Don Meade ... and young Flinchum hasn' yet completed his apprenticeship at Hialeah park. j AfleaiTTb alumriT aren't nard to keep satisfied, ae- cerding to Bob Hale's version of Vie Taufer's position as coach of the police athletic teams at the public safety build-in build-in tag . . . where the former University of Utah end is directum direct-um fog basketball, handball, volleyball and number of other tn sports by way of helping members ef the police force keep It la physical trim. |