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Show -- -- Aggies Given Outside Chance A threeway tie stop standings. for second place is possible to the western division, while to the eastern the Wyoming Cowboys by one more win from Colo- Faus Favor At Hoop Title .700. In the intermountain territory, the Cats looked back on a sea- son not quite as successful as their three previous campaigns, in which they took the leadership, as they prepared to put their scoring machine in against Coach Dick Farmers. The Cats, needed only one more victory tc make certain their entry in the at Bozeman and Butte play-ofor the conference championship Even the most optimistic gave the Aggies only an outside chance to defeat the Bobcats on two successive nights. In the eastern division, the situation was complicated by the ff . To Fight Again ChlcaRO, Feb. 24 (AP) His two-rou- nd technical knockout defeat by Henry Perlick has not convicted Charlie White, once famous that he Is dohe as a left-hook- er, boxer. White, who was saved from out when being counted his handlers tossed to the towel at the coliseum last Friday night, admits Perlick knocked him down four times, but says he was stunned by a headon collision with the Kalamazoo, .Mich., lightweight twin at the end of the first round, which maae-hi- m 's a mark for punches to the second. White will seek another opportunity to show that 39 years, six of them in retirement from boxing, have not stopped him. Per-lick- which, University of Wyoming without mercy or quarter, mowed down the Colorado college Tigers to give University of Colorado a firmer grip on the tOp rung of the conference percentage ladder. The State. University, in fact could lose both games to C. C Giants Friday and Saturday of this week and still go into a tie for first place with the Tigers by defeating , Second Baseman Colorado Teachers Tuesday. of chances The Tigers tieing last years eastern division chamSan Antonio, Texas, Feb. 24 ' were considered outside a (AP) The newest sensation of pions best, despite the fact that for the New York Giants spring steady winning streaks, they had training squad Is blonde Eddie previously set the pace on the Marshall, second baseman obeastern side of the mountain tained from Bridgeport of the rahge. eastern league. Observers forecast the State Just seems as if I can't slam University against the Bobcats at a ball past him into the outfield Bozeman next month when the said Dave Bancroft. assistant three-gam-e will close the play-o- ff 1930 season; and It was generally manager. "He gets in front of conceded that the Bobcats bie every ball toand those that are grab he slaps down machine Frank Impossible three scoring over to first in and burns them Orland and Cat and Ward to make the out. If he can time over Thompson held the edge the sliver and gold. The Cats only hit , for have been beaten three times tills He batted almost ,300 seasoln, an unusual number for Bridgeport last year. the pace -- setting Bozeman aggre- gatlon, which has swept practically all opposition before It for four seasons, and have taken the distasteful end of the score from every other member of the division. But this is not expected to refleet on them in the piuyoit. Eleven games this week will Havana, Cuba, AP Kid Chocolate, close the season, but they aie ex- Cubat outN)iiited Me Iturrone, New pected to have little etieet mi )he kork, 10). Secure mmsumt ' 2 By Alan Gould (Associated Press Sports Writer.) Miami, Fla., Feb. 24 (AP) Whether or hot .the Madison exSquare Garden millionaires perience a major operation In the region of the box office in con- nection with' the Sharkey Scott fight show hext Thursday night, they have not lost confidence In the fistic future of this southern Florida center of soorts activity and pleasure hunting. Before departing for New York, where he sails next Friday for South America cti a business trip, William F. (Big Bill) Carey, the Gardens chief executive, made it clear he Intended to stick to his five year plan of promoting annual haaywelght shows in Miami, win or lose. Carey feels that due to circumstances which to part at least were beyond the Gardens - control. the Phil Scott-Jac- k Sharkey match was made an essential part of - the heaywetght program, In suite of a lack of popular ent thusiasm 'for it. Meanwhile, the Garden directorate will consider itself fortunate to break even on this weeks show or even to pocket a small loss. With the event only four davs off, the nrtual cash on hand today was not in excess of $80,009 As much more was considered as the equivalent of cash, in the form of definite prders and reservations. but the total advance sale of arouhd $162 000 compared unfavorably with the total gats of $407,009 for last winters show The attitude now is that if the receipts pass $250,000 three rous- Alan J.Gould -- - Lloyd Waner has just bought himself an air plane, which brings up the subject of the. athlete. Perhaps the youhg Pirate outfielder got the idea from his Joe Dawson, pitching team-mat- e, who is as much interested in the flying business as he Is to base-U1- L air-mtad- ad John McGraw, far from being reactionary on the subject once remarked he believed time would develop use of planes In moving big league ball clubs around the circuit This eventuality seems a long way off. Should It materialize, the entry of some Pacific Coast cities into the major leagues could be realized. The Southeaster league, with Havanna as a prospective member, went so far as to request authority for a compulsory flying clause being Inserted to the The magnates player contracts. explained this was necessary In order to make the schedule coned nections In the Cuban capital. The idea wag that a player who refused to fly would be subject to suspension but the National board of Arbitration in minor league affairs promtty squelched this proAs a result Havana failed posal. to loint the league. Young S trebling Is a licensed of all pilot the most boxers. Which recalls that the ing cheers will be given by all late Tex Rickard hearly collapsed hotel connected with the financial to the Bellevue-Stratfor- d operation. On this basis. Sharkeys at Philadelphia the afternoon of ekid would be around $60,000 and the first Dempsey-Tiinne- y fight Scotts $50,000. Last year Sharkev when he learned Tunney was received a flat $100,000 and flying down from his Stroudsberf training camp. The idea of one- Striding something like 165,000, As the combatants, all ten of half of the main act to his $2,000, them, swung into the final stretch 000 show being up to the air was of tapering off work today, there too much for Rickard, who never was no substantial chftoge in the looked with favor on flying at any prevailing opinion that Sharkey time. will win easily from Scott and Rickard, to fact, refused to beprobably knock the Englishman lieve It when I called him that out In shorj, order. day to break the news about of fisticuffs finds Tunney a sharp swing in favor of Victorio "Thats wrong. Turtney can't Cam polo to beat Johnny Risko In do that, yelled Tex. a what the boys expect to be a Gene, incidentally, after slam bang semi-fin- al to the main bumpy ride, felt almost as ill as Rickard when he arrived at the event Navy Yard field In South Phlla An Indiana man has invented daipiiiu m a ship - -piloted - - -by a cutting tool to be drawn Casey Jones. through sewers to sever tree America "a roots Hitchcock, Tommy ed , The-appro- Dummy Mahan A ; rado Teachers can close the season with a percentage of .700. C C., on the other hand, must win both games from C. U. to better Denver, Feb. 24 (AP) The tall Beyond the range the campaign end era of the Rocky Mountain closes with a two game series be conference basketball handicap, tween Utah University and 1930 edition, were studying the Brigham Young at Provo this mathematical chart today for week end. chances rtf keeping out of the cellar as the season drew toward its close with the Montana State Charlie White Bobcats again In an enviable position to clinch the title. MUSHER ESTABLISHES NEW RECORD . Sharkey to Win From PM! Scott - t Monday, February 24, 1930. THE JOURNAL, , LOGAN, CAOIE COUNTY, UTAH PAGE FOUR ach - Victim of leap In Parachute A San Francisco, Feb. 24 (AP) Fred Dummy Mahan a leading welterweight boxer, is dead, the victim of a parachute plunge a undertaken to cure him of i had which childhood malady a robbed him of his speech a!ad hearing. his Mahan fell 3,200 feet to t v death at Mills field yesterday after his parachute had failed to The fatal accident was open. . witnessed by a large crowd of spectators, including several deaf to mutes, who had gathered watch the drop. The drop was one of several efforts made by Mahan to regain He had his voice and hearing. made one previous parachute leap and a fast dive in an airplane. After these experiments he wrote that he could hear for several hours. Although dissuaded by his manFred Windy Winsor, from ager, ;t , t T fV , attempting the long leap, Mahan i i tit W climbed into the cockpit of a . ! ' af plane piloted by Colonel Harry A , W Abbott of Berkeley. V ' iI fool Abbott, inventor of a Artrl St proof parachute, said he Instructed Mahan by writing that fvv 5 . he was to count six before pulling the ripcord at the parachute. The t long drop, it was thought, possibly would restore Mahans speech and i hearing. Mahan leaped from the plane above Mills Held, but the paraEarl Kimball, driving for Rano, Nav., In tha Ogden, Utah, dog hours chute did not open and he plungdorby, drove tilt team 25 mttca to ban up a now mark of ti53.8 ed into the mud flats near the te win the event Death was instanairport. taneous. new polo ace, was in the flying .service major league clubs have Mahan, although only 23 years He was shot pilots this spring. old, was a veteran-of many ring during the war. few a notion The His right name was prevailed battles. down behind the German lines. ago that bench managers Frederico Mesa and he was a natural jump for Eddie years It was were more desirable than playing native of Tombstone, Ariz. leading American Rickenbacker, on the The boxer had fought two This was based for pilots. ace, to exchange auto-driviin part, as champions, Jackie Fields and fracas. successes flying during the big well as the theory that the Mushy Callahan, and last Wed- Harry Wilson, one of West Points master-mindi- upon be nesday scored a knockout over best could his greatest football stars has additional respon- Arizona Joe Rivers to San Frandone wings now and flew over to Dan- sibilitieswithout cti the field. Then along cisco. Mahan scored 54 knockouts ville, 111., last fall for a reunion came Bucky Harris and Rogers out of 100 fights t with the Army team before its lead worlds chamgame with Illinois. . . Al. Williams, Hornsby to was a clubs. There but the Big Johnson can speed ace of U. S. Navy flying pionship to sign playing managers. Train scarcelypitch would think of corps, was one a pitcher for the rush back Now the pendulum has swung New York Giants. any extended come-bac- k. tt-- i- -5 v ' ng ng trying ag&to-the successes of Mack and JAcQarthy, therefore, seems thoroughly Managing a major league ball lished. club Is complicated business. So both bench pilots. The season of 1930 will see is the task of finding a manager; that Is, a successful manager. every big league pilot directing Night Drkt Hour estab- Many have been called tried and the strategy JroAi the bench m The naval observatory soya that no Bucky Harris still discarded without yet standard side lines. la received from the sun when light no can necessity play but there is lzing the product or developing an 18 degrees or more below the Is It accurate yardstick of measure- for any second basing on his part and during those hours there ment The problem is of impor-itan- so long as the Tigers have Charley horizon, because eight of the 16 Gehrlnger to good health. 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