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Show 7- Western Title I r. V t .r I I p : Cougar Trackmen Score Win In Upset; Brady Walker High Man With BY DE MAR TEUSCHER r " ' An underdog Brighara Young n university track team came through in the final two events of the day to nose ' out. a favored ? University of Utah crew 53 to 50 "and win the Western Division f track and field title. Utah State, the other team in the meet, com 0 piled a total of 41 points. It was iron man Brady . Walker who won thehneet for the Con rare. Brady heaved the Javelin 187 feet 1 Inch to pick up five points in the next ' to last event to put the meet on ice for the Cougars. AH in all. the lanky Nevadan ' had a busy day. He won the dis-" dis-" cus as expected, placed second in the shot put. and his unexpected ' victory in the javelin gave him 13 points for high point honors In the meet. The entire meet, 'as expected, . was very close, but it was evident from the middle of the meet on that BYU and Utah would bat tle it out for the team title. With only one. event left, the ; mile relay. BYU had 50 points. tUtah 43 and Utah state 4U, ana the Cougars had the meet, in the bag. Utah s crack - quartet Tan a beautiful race to cob ihat event fbut the Y pulled in for second f. and that was the meet It winners in the meet and three i Clean sweeps . in events in events. Wes -ji Thomassen of Utah, star sprinter $' for the Redskins, won botn dasn- ces to become one double winner. Clarence Roblson of BYU roared through the mile in 4:26.5. fastest time in the state this year, then came back a short time later to step the 880 yard run in 1:58.9 for the other double win. Utah State's trio ot weishtmen. Ralph Maughan, Art Gbttfredsen t, that order to score a clean sweep l in the hammer, while Thomassen, f Gilbert Tobler-and Vic Holtz gave ijutah all the points in the ,100 it yard dash. t In the surprise of the meet, Joe Nelson, John Larsen and Ron Stewart of BYU hit the tape one-two-three in the 220 low hurdles to get the other clean sweep. Many of the events had unexpected unex-pected endings. Randy Clark, who had been doped to win the pole vault for BYU had trouble and went out at 12 feet, leaving Cliff cooper ot uian iosnpiniortmtee, unexpected points. Cooper tied for first with Rulon Jorgenson and Byron Young of BYU. Vic Thurgood of BYU, boxed most of the way around the far turn, came booming In for a sec ond place in the 440 and three mighty welcome points for the Baseball Sunday MAY 18 PINNEY , vs. PROVO TIMPS (Plenty of good seats) Timp Ball Park 2:30 P M Tickets: Grandstand 65c, Bleachers 50c (includes taxes) MIDGET AUTO TV.' v Speed Tnrills Chills jSpills EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (Weather Permitting) MAY 23rd through SEPTEMBER PROVO FAIR GROUNDS STARTING MAY 23rd GATE OPENS 7 P. M. RACES START 8 P. M. Adults $1.50 Tax. Inc. Children 50c Tax. Inc. 13 Points Cougars, while Don Brown of Utah broke up the expected Aggie, Ag-gie, broad jump domination with a second place. It was an ideal day for a track meet, and the traek was lii .great shape, but no state records were broken, although al-though an enthusiastic croud of some 1500 persons yelled approval for the athletes, par-ticuarly par-ticuarly BYU. Jim Woodward of Utah came the closest to breaking a mark when he missed going over the bar as 6 feet 5 inches by a gnats eyelash. Woodward won the event with a leap of 6 feet 3 inches. The win gave the state track title to BYU, as all the dual meets had been won by one school apiece. It also qualified each place winner and the top relay -teams for a spot in the conference meet at Salt Lake City next week end. Summaries: Hammer Ralph Maughan. A; Art GQttfredsen, A: Frank Williams, Wil-liams, A. Distance 165 ft. 9 in. Mile run Clarence Robison, Y; Bruce Gardner, U; Russ Daniels A. Time 4:26.5. 440 yd. dash Garth Paxman, U; Vic Thurgood, Y; Reed Howes, A; Time 50 sec. HiA Jump Jim Woodward, U; Marvin Hess, U; Harvard Hinton and Joe Nelson, Y, tied; Height 6 ft. 3 in. 100 yd. dash Wes Thomassen, U; Gilbert Tobler, U; Vic Hotz, A; Time 10.2. Pole vault Byron Young. Y, Rulon Jorgensen, Y and Cliff Cooper U, tied for first place. Heightl2 feet. Shot put Art Gottfredsen, A; Brady Walker. Y; Ralph Maughan, A. Distance 47 ft. lO'i in. 120 yd. high hurdles Allen Smith, U; Ron Stewart, Y; Lloyd Page, Y. Time :15.7. 880 yard run Clarence Robison, Robi-son, Y; Elroy Lover idge, Y; Paul Kelly, U. Time-1:58.9. 220 yd. dash Wes Thomassen, U; Vic Hotz, U; Fay Jones. A. Time 22.2. ; Two mile Russ Daniels, A;, Iral Hill, A; Charles Llovd. Y.I Time 10:29.5. I Discus Brady Walker. Y; Ralph Maughan, A: Frank Wil-i liams, A. Distance 135 ft. 1 in. Broad Jump John Worley. A;! Don Brown, U; Jack Woodbury. A. Distance 21 ft. 10 in. vj-u. iv w uuiuicj-out- -xei-, awn, i,uuun j-oiscii, , nun o-.ew- - ". .0.0. p i"l :r ' a -iT 1 V! Ralph Romance. A; "H a 1 p h Mauehan. A. Distance 1H7 ft 1 .1 a l n Krariu w-tiiAi v. " ' . in. Mile relay Utah (Ralph Anderson, An-derson, .Don Brown, Vic Hotz, Garth Paxman); BYU; Utah State Time 3:24.0. RACES ( Stealing Second Didn't Pay Off ! V, si Crs - Harry Walker (4) of Philadelphia Is tagged out- at second trying a steal in the first inning after hitting a single. Eddie Miller of Cincinnati Cin-cinnati is making the putout. The Phillies drubbed Cincinnati twice, 5 to 3 and 10 to 5. South Wins Class A Track Title; Murray Cops Crown In Class B SALT LAKE, CITY, May 17 (U.R) Favored Murray high school rolled on to another easy track victory here today, adding the state Class B track title to its laurels, piling up 49 points, 18 points better than Springville and Lincoln which each had 31. Harold Norton of Springville was the individual star of the meet, piling up 24 points with first places in the shot put, javelin and discus for high point honors. , Murray scored in ail but six events in 'rolling up their triumph, and was ahead all the way. The crack Murray 880 relay team even came in for Unexpected points when it topped the record-cracking record-cracking quartet from Lincoln in thekhalf mile attraction. Payson high school was third with 24Vi points, 13 Vi of which were contributed by j Russ . Hill-man, Hill-man, who took firsts in the high hurdles and a tie for first in the high jump as well as running a lap on the mile relay team which won second place. Other scores of Utah county schools in the meet were Pleas-antxGrove Pleas-antxGrove 10: Spanish Fork 15?, State Track Meet Summaries Class "A c,:,. shot m,CMnhr T.ncan- Niohm .wn. m!i, Tr. w. Davis: Lindstrnm Tjjrhnn Tils tance 49 ft. 33i in Mile Richardson. East: Gallev. - ' L ' r ' worth Cache; Peter sonTrovo; Skidmore, North Cache Ashby n -:' .nnn v J ',ucar x.i v tri . a nut: t..in. i . High jump Duke. Provp; Clark. East; Flint. Davis; Jackson, Jack-son, South and Garner, Logan, tied. Height 6 ft. j in. m 440 yd. dash Edginton, South; Hartriggen, Davis; Salisbury, North Cache; Peterson, East; Adams, Granite. Time :51.6. 100 yd. dash Trask, East: Robinson, South; Adams. Logan: Cook. Davis; Moyle, Provo. Time 10.3. 120 yard high hurdles Thomas, Thom-as, East: Gregory, South; Byethe-way, Byethe-way, Jordan; Larson, South Cache. Time :15.3. Discus Gregory. South: Glover,. Glov-er,. Box Elder: Hansen, Weber; Lindstrom, Carbon; Bunetti, Jor- ,J T J A 1 A1 IK . i Pole vault Garner, Logan; Griffin, North Cache; McDonald, East: 8-way tie for fourth. Height 11 ft. 6 in. 880 yd. run Earl. East: Winkler, Wink-ler, Jordan; Montgomery, Davis; Hildebrand, South; Gallagher, South. Time 2:07.9. 220 yd. dash Trask, East: Robinson, South; Moyle, Provo; Cook, Davis; Adams, Logan. Broad jump Glover. Box Elder; Eld-er; Cook. Davis: Heslington, South: Keith, -Provo; Garner, Logan. Lo-gan. Distance 21 ft. Javelin fceary. South: Sherwood, Sher-wood, South; Ray, East; Sanders, West; Lindstrom, Carbon. Distance Dis-tance 177.1 ft. 220 yd. low hurdles Glover, Box Elder;! Hofstetler, Ogden; Gregory, South; Barron, West; Stout, West. Time :23.1. Medley relay South; East; Jordan: North Cache; Davis. Time 3:49.5. Mile relay Jordan; Davis; Provo: East; North Cache. Time 3:23.3 880 relay East: South; Davis; North Cache; South Cache. Time 1:34.1. , 2nd Annual Disabled American Veterans MEMORIAL RACE MEET Provo Fairground . MAY 29 - 30 -31 POST TIME 3:30 P. M. $4000 Purses the West's outstanding race horses . and jockeys. 7 thrilling faces each day FEATURE RACES " May 29th 1 Mile Allowance Race May 30th 1 Mile DAV Memorial Derby; for Utah Breds. May 31st Utah County Futurity for Utah Breds. . ; . x i mm, i ml Brewer Wins State Title SALT LAKE CITY, May 17 CJ rDan Brewer of American Fork today wrapped up the Utah state Class B singles crown, defeating his old rival Bob Kirkpatrick of BY high, 7-5, 6-3. The Manti high school doubles team of Stott and Hill "won the! state, doubles crown by defeating John Meyers and Orlin Wathen of Lehi, 7-5, 6-2. The win for Brewer over Kirkpatrick Kirk-patrick In the singles was sweet revenge, for the American Fork ace had lost to the Y high netter in the finals of the Region Three meet a week ago. and Lehi and American Fork 3 points each. Lee Nicholes of Lincoln Lin-coln won the 220 yard dash and Leo Hatch of Lincoln came through with a victory in the low hurdles. Class "B Summaries Shot put Norton, Springville;! Jones, Delta; Black, Springville;! uement. iuiara; curray, Wasatch; high. Distance 48 ft. 2Vi in. ; High jump Jennings, Hurri-1 cane and Hillman 'Pavcnn tia- Aneui. Snanisfe Fork- Kntriv' Muarry; MeKee and Bradshaw! Millard, tie. Heiaht 6ft. Mile Stayley, No. Summit; Ol- sen, Murray; Roberts, Uintah; Thomas, Sp. Fork; Hughes, Pan-guitch. Pan-guitch. Time 4:50.8. 440 yd. dash Benton, Wasatch Academy; Lewis, Lincoln; Morton, Mor-ton, Lehi: Stauffer, Murray: Men-denhall, Men-denhall, Richfield. Time 51.5. 100 yd. dash Hurzeler, Mur ray: Nicholes. Lincoln; Martines, Richfield Moore, Panguitch; Spencer, Kanab. Time 10.2 120 yd. high hurdles Hillman, Payson: Bellows. Payson; Ken nedy. Murray; Starley, Millard; Goodrich, Uintah. Time :16.1. Discus Norton, Springville; Jeppson, Cyprus; Bjamson, Springville; Richards, Millard; Urie, Cedar City. Distance 129.7 ft. Pole vault Brown. Kanab, Nowers, Beaver: Liston, Murray; Robinson, Richfield and Wilson, Hurricane, tied. Height 12 ft. Broad jump Benton, Wasatch Academy: Westover, Pleasant Grove: Giddings, American Fork; Mianes. Richfield; Nower. Beaver and Grant, Duchesne, tied. Distance Dis-tance 21 ft. 1V2 in. 880 yd run Spencer, Murray; Heaton. Valley; Peterson, Rich field; Burnside, No. Sanpete; uroesbeck, Springville, 2.03.7. Javelin Norton, Springville; Hilton. Pleasant Grove: Wood-; bury, Hurricane;. Peterson, gan; Brown, Kanab. Distance 176.2 ft. 220 yd. dash Nicholes, Lincoln; Benton. Wasatch. Academy; Mar-tines, Mar-tines, Richfield; Hurzeler, Murray; Mur-ray; Spencer, Kanab. :22.6. 220 low hurdles Hatch, Lincoln; Lin-coln; Rowe, Spanish Fork; Farley, Spanish Fork; Woodbury, Hurri- Roclcwood, Alder-HMman of BYU Win Division Net Honors Brigham Young university net-ters net-ters made a clean sweep of honors in the Western Division tennis tournament here .Friday and Saturday, as Lynn Rockwood won the singles, championship and Grant Hickman - Alfred Alder scored a surprise triumph In an all-BYU doubles finale. Rockwood 's victory was expected, ex-pected, with the blond Cougar stroke artist polishing off Bob Koch, University of Utah ace. 6-3, 6-4. But the doubles outcome definitely was an upset as the unheralded un-heralded duo of Hickman and SALT LAKE CITY, May 17 (U.R) South high school of Salt Lake City today upset, but Just barely. East High school to win the 1947 Utah Class A high school track championship by less than a point. A breathless crowd of 5000 cheered or jeered as the final score was announced giving South 701 points and East 69., a win by only ? of a point. uniy one state recora was broken during the meet! Jordan's mile relay team won in the fast time of 3:32.3, cracking the old standard set by Ogden in 1939 at 3:33.1. South came through for a sec ond place behind East in the final event of the day, the 880 yard relay, and hence scored enough points to win the state title over their old rivals. Beft Glover, one man track team from Box Elder scored first in the low hurdles and broad jump and a 'second in the discus for 21 points and high point honors hon-ors .for the meet. The Baseball Standings , A AliieriCQn LCQQU6 w Detroit 16 oston, ; 15 New York 12 L Pet .667 .577 .522 Cleveland 10 .500 Washington .10 .476 .462 .440 .360 Chicago 12 Philadelphia 11 St. Louis 9 (1st game) Chicago . 200 100 0003 7 1 New York. 000 020 0114 11 0 Lee. Maltzberger (6), and Dickey; Shea and Houk, Berra (9). Home run DiMaggio. Losing pitcner, xuaiizDerger. (2nd game) Chicago . . 300 000 0003 5 3 New York. 012 000 Olx 4 8 0 Lopat and Dickey: Chandler and Houk. Detroit .... 000 000 0022 7 0 Philadelphia 000 000 0011 8 0 Newhouser and Tebbetts: Cole man and Rosar. Home run, Evers. St. Louis.. 100 200 0104 11 0 Boston . . . 000 100 0102 6 1 Kindred and Moss. Early (2): Parnell, Zuber J(4) Johnson (8). Klinger (9) and Hayes. Losing pitcher, Parnell. Home run Pellagrin!. Pel-lagrin!. Cleveland. 100 000 000 01 5 0 Washington 000 000 001 12 8 lJ cane; McCandless, North Emery. :22.8. Medley ' relay Richfield; Valley; Val-ley; Spanish Fork; Uintah; Cyprus. Cyp-rus. Time 3:. 15.8. Mile relay Murray: Pavson: ; Millard; Uintah; Richfield. Time . 3:36.5, 880 relay Murray: Lincoln;! Delta; Wasatch Academy; Uintah.! Mor-!Time 1:34.4. 4r l i m n days of shortages and in times of y ?v J plenty. Fisher is true to Us traditions. You .If -j ' can depend on its quality first always. Jp 5 I H J hat's why it's the favorite of the inter- V. m r ffWSr 0tnf wished by its f i eltog, crisp tost M ' " Uttm Srcwiitf Cmpmf, Salt lh City ." " . ffSS'-" ' , - j. . , . ' : . I t j Pistribatesl by Westerat Dlstribatlag C. rrT UUli fa " ' ' - . ' I Alder teamed together beautifully to defeat Rockwood and Chaun-cey Chaun-cey Peterson, f-7, 7-5. ' Both Hickman and Alder played play-ed cool, steady tennis throughout. After they had won the first set, they started eut impressively in the second, but feu behind, 5-4. Here Rockwood got in trouble on his service, and with the count, 30-40, Peterson hit the net as he followed up a kill shot, o the point end game went to Hickman-Alder. Hickman-Alder. Alder then came through to win his service, and placed a beautiful passing shot in the alley at "match point" as he and Hickman Hick-man broke Peterson's delivery to win the championship. In the doubles semifinals, Hick-man-Alder defeated Dale Lewis-Duane Lewis-Duane Adams, USAC, 8-6, 4-6, 6-4, and Peterson - Rockwood downed Bud Harmon-Jack Thurgood, Thur-good, 6-1, 6-4. In singles semifinals, Rockwood defeated Con Deardon, Utah, 6-1, 6-2, and Koch defeated Dale Lewis, USAC, 6-4, 4-6 6-2. Friday's results: Singles First round Lynn Rockwood, x. aei. uusne Adams, A, 7-5, 6-4; Vernie Swenson, U, def. Keith Larson, A, 6-2, 6-1; Con Deardon, U, def. Jack Donovan. A, 7-5. 4-6, 6-3; Alf Alder, Y, def . Lee Ham-mell, Ham-mell, U, 4-6, 11-9, 6-4; Bob Koch, U, def. Paul Harmon, Y, 6-4, 6-3; Grant Hickman, Y, def. T. Hansen, Han-sen, A, 6-1, 6-0; W. Koch, U, def. C. Peterson, Y, 7-5, 9-7; Dale Lewis, A, def. Bob Williams, U, 0-3, e-z. Second round Rockwood, Y, def. Swenson, U. 6-1. 6-3; Dear don, U, def. Alder. Y. 6-3. 3-6. ill-9; B. Koch, U, def. Hickman. x, o-3; Lewis, A, def. W Koch, U, 6-8, 7-5. Doubles First round Jack Thureood- Bud Harmon, Y, def. B. Koch-Mac Pyke, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Rockwood-C. Peterson, Y, def. T. Hansen-J. Donovan, A, 6-2, 6-3; Lewis- Adams, A, def. Deardon-Hammell, U, 6-4, 7-9, 856; Hickman-AJder, x, oez. w miams-swenson, u, 6-4, 6-4. f lH.,....r Mmm f National League w L 11 10 11 10 12 13 Pet. .577 .565 .560 .524 .520 .500 Boston 15 New York 13 Chicago ; 14 Pittsburgh 11 Brooklyn 13 Philadelphia 13 Cincinnati 12 16 .429 St. Louis 8 16 .333 Brooklyn. . ,000 000 000 0 12 0 Pittsburgh. "200 000 02x 4 4 0 Melton, Taylor (4), Chandler (7), Casey (8) and Edwards; Ostermeuller and Kluttz. Home run. Greenberg. Losing pitcher, Melton. New York 000 100 000 023 11 0 umcago. 100 000 000 001 10 1 Koslo, Trinkle (11) and Coop er, Lombard! (9); Lade, Kush (11) and Scheffing. Winning) pitcher, Koslo. Losing nitohpr . j Boston 000 101 100 3 in 1 St. Louis ... 000 000 1012 6 0 Spahn and Masi; Pollet, Wilks (7) Grodzicki (9) and Rice. Lo. ing pitcher. Pollet. Home run Masi. Philadelphia 002 310 000 ft 11 n Cincinnati.. 110 100 0003 13 0 Leonard and Seminirk- HotiH Lively (4) Beggs (7) Riddle (9) and Mueller. Losing pitcher Hetki. Home runs Lukon, Mueller, Muel-ler, Miller. . Rent A Car TAKE YOUR VACATION CHEAP AS A BUS P. E. ASHTON CO. 119 Se. University Ave. 10 Sunday, May 18, 1947 SUNDAY HERALD, Ostermueller Pitches Bucs To 4-0 Win Over Dodgers By CARL LUNDQUIST . United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, May 17 (U.R) An old man, pitching with revenge in his heart and horseshoes in his hip-pockets, gave the Pittsburgh Pirates an amazing 4 to 0 triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers today' to-day' amazing because he gave up 12 hits without yielding a run. The eld fellow was lefty Fritz Ostermueller, who Is 40, but who looked In the pinches like' he was- 20. He never has forgiven Branch Rickey of the Dodgers for peddling him to the minors on May 30, 1944, only a few weeks before he would have become a 10-year man with certain seniority rights. The Pirates, who made only four hits but capitalized on them, started ustermueuer off with a 2 to 0 lead in the first inning when Hank Greenberg hit his fifth homer into the Pirate bull pen with Wally Westlake on base. ine uiants, nottest team in either league, ran their winning streak to five games, all won on a. tough western rosuS trip, when they nosed out the Ctrhsat Chicago, Chi-cago, 3 tor 1 in 11 innings. The victory moved New York into second place ahead of the Cubs who dropped from first to third while Boston took over the lead with a 3 to 2 victory over the slump-struck Cards at St. Louis. Warren Spahn gained his sixth victory without a defeat over the Cards, holding them to one hit and no runs for six innings, before be-fore St. Louis was able to score. Phil Masi with a homer and triple was the big gun for the Braves. Emit (Dutch) Leonard, cast off by the Washington Senators, also scored his sixth victory for the Phils, beating the Reds at Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, 6 to 3. The only runs he yielded were homers, Eddie Lukon, Ray Mueller, and Eddie Miller smashing them. The Yankees beat ' the White Sox twice by, scores of 4 to 3 at New York, coming. frbm behind in each game to wis. Joe Di GLASS BOAT ENTERS RACE LOS ANGELES, May 17 (L'.F) Boat designer Richmond Rust was enroute to Albany, N. Y., today, to-day, with a $6,500 glass outboard racing boat he will test for the first time in the big Hudson river race May 25. Rust is towing the laminated fibreglass racer cross-country. It will be 'Rust's sixth try for a piece of the I $10,000 prize money in the 150-mile race. During Dur-ing the war he helped design the famed PT-boats. You'll Like These Too 1941 DODGE SEDAN Heater, radio, seat covers, new paint and good rubber. 1941 PLYMOUTH SEDAN Heater, radio, new paint, new rubber. ' Wasden Motor Sales 1131 North 5th West maggio's ninth inning homer gave Frank Shea bis third victory in the opener while Spud Chandler chalked up his second in tha afterpiece. 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