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Show PROVO jUTAHQU PAGE FOUR ;Prp :C1sq ;(Eisi tests T . EraH?a!39 Cc : I 2 - ' " j ! s, I- i: il DENVER, UTAH WINTOSIIAR CIRCUIT LEAD BIG SKVEN" STANDINGS W L, PvU Denver 2 O 1.000 Utah 1 0 1.000 1,'tah Stale 1 1 .500 Wyoming 1 1 .500 R. Y. U 1 2 .333 Colorado 1 2 .338 Colorado State . . 1 2 .338 SATURDAY'S RESULTS Colorado 34, Ii. Y. U. 31. Utah 39, Colorado State 23. FRIDAY'S RESULTS Wyoming: 40, B. Y. U. 45. . . Denver 52, Colorado S3. Utah State 81, Colorado State 27. With Brigham Young: and Colorado State, two of the leaders lead-ers last week, each dropping- a pair of games on eagre invasions, Ienver and Utah today were in the driver's seat of the Big: Seven conference basketball race after games Friday and Saturday. Denver -walloped Colorado, 52-33. 52-33. Friday for its second victory, and Utah notched up a 39-23 triumph tri-umph over Colorado State Satuiv day in its first start. : Young university, which became be-came the early favorite for the title, dropped two close games on its eastern jaunt, losing Friday Fri-day to Wyoming at Laramie, 46-45, 46-45, and then dropping a hard-fought, hard-fought, 31-34 decision to Colorado Colo-rado Saturday at Boulder to end a disastrous tour. Colorado State had a similar fate on its western trip, bowing to Utah State, 27-34, and to Utah, 23-39. Tn notching up its first victory in three Big Seven starts, Colorado Colo-rado displayed a tight defense that the Cougars were unable to penetrate. The Buffs nursed a three-point, 15-12 half-time lead throughout the second half, staving stav-ing off several Cougar rallies to keep clean their record of never having lost a game in their field-house. field-house. Lanky Leason McCIoud, Buff forward, led the Colorado attack, dumping 12 points through the hoop. He got better than average aver-age support from his teammates, as George Hambur counted nine tallies and Bob Kirchner six. Diminutive B'vvane Esplin counted count-ed 12 points to lead B. Y. U. Young U was hampered by the loss of big Dale Rex who fouled out of the garae Utah's Redskins made their 1941 conference debut with an easy victory over Colorado State before 2S00 fans in Ute field-house. field-house. Vaughn Bennion, Utah center, sparked the Redskin offensive of-fensive with 11 points, . besides plaving a smooth floor game. Utah led. at half time, 25-13. Tough Loss Friday's loss to Wyoming was a heart-breaker for the Cougars, who led all the way only to see the Cowboys surge from behind in a rally led by Nick Krpan to win in the final seconds of play. With the Cowboys training, 4 2-45, Krpan swished the strings from far out; and then raced in a moment later to score with a close side shot. One point ahead, Wyoming stalled 45 seconds until the final gun. After Wyoming grabbed an early lead, the Cougars took over and held their advantage, except for a moment when it was tied 20-all just before the half, until Krpan staged his late-game, spree. Score at half time was 21-22 for the Cougars. Iie Shines Using his height to good advantage ad-vantage on both bankboards, big Dale Rex sparked the Cougar attack at-tack and was excellent on defense. The six-foot six-inch sophomore bagged 16 points for high honors. Dwane Ksplin, another sophomore, bagged 12 points from farther out for another fine performance. Actually all I had to do for uruve away in icii minutes uii it set vi i Miller "Geared-to-the-Road" tires, And I made my own terms what I call a really friendly AUTO RADIOS B ATTE HI ES on Easy Terms MILLER 127 West Center St. Provo rs. Cox Joins Cowling Mrs. Merle C. Cox of Provo has joined the staff of the Provo Recreation Bowling Alleys to do promotional work In connection with creating additional interest in women's bowling. : Mrs. Cox will take over her new post Monday. She will contact con-tact women's clubs and groups throughout the city to arrange for appointments at the ' alleys where instruction will be given beginners. be-ginners. ; She is well known here, having iived in Provo all her life Bill Strannigan, the former Colorado ace, led the Cowboy attack at-tack with 14 points, most of which came from way out. Strannigan's defensive work and leadership sparked the play of the Wyoming crew. Krpan's field goals near the end of the game were the only ones he scored. The score: Colorado FG F PF P McCIoud, f 6 1 1 13 Kirchner, f . . . 3 0 1 t Strain, c . ... 1 0 3 2 Hamburg, g 4 1 2 9 Oldham, g . 2 0 4 4 Hannon, g 0 0 2 0 TOTALS .... 16 2 13 34 R. Y. U. FG F PF P Gardner, f 4 1 1 9 Fullmer, f , .. . . 0 0 0 0 Esplin, f 6 0 0 12 Brink,-f . . . . . .T. 0 0 10 Rex, c ..1 2 4 4 Christensen, g 0 0 1 0 Nielsen, g 10 2 2 Ca r, g . . . . . . . . . . 0 0 0 0 Overly, g 0 4 1 4 TOTALS ........ 12 7 10 31 Half time score: Colorado 15, B. Y. U. 12. . WYOMING G. F. P Pf Gowdy, f .2150 Bentson, f . 4 2 10 2 Weir, c 11 3 0 Strannigan, g 5 4 14 2 Krpan, g 2 2 G 1 Sailors, f ........... 3 2 8 4 Kerback, g .......... 0 0 0 1 Muir, c 0 0 0 1 Butcher, f . . 0 0 0 0 Totals 17 12 46 11 B. Y. U. G. F. T. Pf. Esplin, f . . : 5 2 12 Gardner, f 1 0 2 Rex, c ... 8 0 16 j Overly, g ' Nielsen, g 0 2 2 1 4 4 1 5 0 4 0 2 Fullmer, f Brink, f . , Totals 19 7 45 12 Missed free throws: B. Y. U. 6, Wyoming 3. Half time score: Wyoming 22, B. Y. U. 24. Officials: Descombc3 and Blev-ins. Blev-ins. , I'VE FOUND THE EASIEST WAY IN THE WORLD TO BUY TIRES ON CREDIT" credit was too. That's credit plan (.! I i I TIRES - Iptne Leadership. to he Determined: In Five-Game - Cage Slate This Week ALPINE STANDING V. L. 1'Ct. PIeamt Grove 2 0 Loot) Aim ricon Fork ...... 2 Provo 1 1 -m n. y. high ...11 Lehl 1 2 .333 Lincoln .............. 0 5 FRIDAY'S RESULTS Pleasant Grove 41, 11. Y. high 28. Provo 40, Lincoln 16. American Fork SO, Lehl 23. Still slightly amazed by the torrid tor-rid basketball they have seen in only two rounds of league play, Alpine cage fans are in for their most thrill-packed activity to date this week, for five games at least three of which are of major importance are on the schedule. Pleasant Grove, which carved out a 41-28 victory over B.Y, high Friday, and American Fork, victor vic-tor over Lehi, 30,23, clash Tuesday Tues-day at Pleasant Grove, in the feature. Neither has been defeated, defeat-ed, so the game is for the district dis-trict leadership. The two old rivals Provo and B .Y. high each beaten once, stake a large share of their title hopes on a game Tuesday in the Women's gym. Provo hit the comeback trail Friday to down Lincoln, 49-16, while "Y" high was bowing to Pleasant Grove. Games Friday send Provo to Lehi, B. Y. high to American Fork, and Pleasant Grove to Lincoln. Lin-coln. Pleasant Grove's last quarter bombardment which felled B. Y. high; Provo's high-scoring onslaught on-slaught against Lincoln, and American Am-erican Fork's Impressive triumph featured an interesting second round in Alpine play Friday- PI. Grove 41 Y" High . .28 B. Y. high made a gallant bid to overthrow mighty Pleasant Grove before a large, vociferous audience in the Women's gymnasium gymna-sium Friday night, but the Viking scoring power, harnessed during the first half, broke loose with a second half fury that swept the Wildcats into submission, 41-28. Furiously fought throughout, the erame onened with a fouling melee, and Pleasant Grove record- i eu its first eight points on eight 1 charity tosses. B. Y. high took its only lead of me can game wnen ixn Hansen made a tip-in Bruce Dabling added add-ed a foul toss and Bud Harmon dropped in a set-up to make it - just arter tne secona quarter opened. Kelly Giles, spearhead of the Viking offensive, put P. G. ahead with his team's first goal, but Hansen tied the score with a free throw. Hansen matched another an-other field goal by Giles, but with the score tied at 12-all, Giles fired in two more quick goals and P.G. had a 16-12 half-time lead. Lloynell Harding, who was the Wildcat's best offensive man, looped in a pretty one-hander and Hansen sank a foul toss, cutting the Viking lead to a single point as the third quarter opened. Then came the turning point of the game. Elwood Sundberg, big Pleasant Grove- center, scored from the field just before' going out on fouls. Keith Bezzant replaced re-placed Sundberg, and whether ii was their change, a B. Y. high relapse, re-lapse, or the coming in of the P.G. scoring tide, the Vikings started going to town. Elroy West scored from close in, and Giles made two rapid-fire goals, making: the third ouartPf score 24-16. The last quarter was a - real point-f est, with Pleasant urove making 17 and B. Y. high 12. Giles' performance was one of the game's hirrhlights. He scored 10 points in the first half when the going was tough and 12 more in the wild last half. The entire Pleasant Grove team played a close-checking, ultra-aggressive style of ball. One near-fight resulted re-sulted when Byron Carter, who seems to have a habit of playing the trouble-maker role in Provo, ducked under Bud Harmon, spilling spill-ing the latter on the floor. As Carter left the game a minute later, Harmon "told him off" and the teammates pulled them apart as they began to square off. B. T. HIGH O. T F P Harding, f g 4 j ;':,rm'"'' ' 16 4 6 Hansen, c 2 8 3 7 Dat.linj?, g ".' 0 2 11 Smith, g 0 2 1 j (Iark- 8 0 0 0 0 fio.irrey. f 0 0 0 0 1 . 0 0 0 0 Ussmuasen, c 0 1 1 1 Okli-oyU, g 0 0 0 0 Totals . 8 23 12 S PLEASANT GROVE (. T. F. P. (Hi's, 1 jo Ctrtr, f 2 Kurniberg-, c : . . , . , 1 Wf st, 15 2 vaiKt"r, gr Tfaxter, f WrtKhr. f Itozzant, c At wood, if V' Ii ley, g . Totals 16 14 9 41 Seore by quarter: Pleasant (Jroe 7 lfi 24 41 B. T. Hl?h 4 13 16 28 Offieials: Collins and Bullock. Provo . Lincoln ......49 16 1 Bombarding the hoop from every angle in its most blistering scor- ing onslaught of the year, Provo high, school crashed back into the thick of the Alpine scramble for top honors by walloping a spirited Lincoln team on the Provo floor. Few teams could have stopped the Bulldogs Friday, Shooting from all over the floor, the Provo team made more than 30 per Cent of its shots, swishing the strings with 21 field goals at 67 attempts. Lincoln was just, the opposite off at the basket and although the Tigers played fairly good ball, they never seriously threatened the Bulldogs. Lincoln tok a one-point lead, but Mahlon Rasmuson, Walt (Pete) Prusse, and Junior Preece opened the scoring onslaught that carried Provo to a 9-1 advantage. Bulldogs led, 11-3, at quartertime, and 29-10 at halftlme. Before leaving the game at the end of the third quarter, Provo regulars hiked their advantage to 40-13 and the reserves continued the attack at-tack from there. Prusse, blond center, paced both teams with 14 points, while Rasmuson Ras-muson was getting nine and Preece eight. Tile entire team clicked well, passing through the Lincoln defense for close-in shots, and the shifting zone defense was sensational in holding Lincoln to four field goals. The Tigers made a interesting game of it but couldn't match nor stop the Bulldog offense. Bobby Foutin, Leo Farnworth, and Nolan No-lan Brown played well for the losers but couldn't connect with the hoop. PUOVO ' 03. . . - :i T. 3 1 3 1 3 0 1 0 1 0 F. P 3 9 0 8 2 It Preece. f . . Prusse. c . Rlt-hlna, k rolt'maii. Evans, f . . ) JarrtK, I . , Perry, c . . Phillip, is Foril, K ... Totals 11 13 7 4 LINCOLN Ci. 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 T. F. a 2 & 3 i 1 Foutin. f .. Farnvvorili, 1 I'.rown, c . . Hylunil, k Wells, a . . "oiitir. f , Trotter, f . A iken, c . . Peterson, g Penrod, MeBrkle, f 0 Totals ...... 4 13 8 1 Score by quarters: Provo 11 : 40 Li ncoln .3 jo IS Offieinis: Van Leuvan and Peek. 4!) 36 ' -w" Clrn w a: . covers delect Am. Fork Lehi .... 30 23 A speedy, little American Fork team, virtually counted out of the Alpine title race at the start c the season, kept pace with Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove's touted squad by toppling top-pling Lehi in a game at American Amer-ican Fork. With nearly every player participating par-ticipating in the scoring, the Fork-er Fork-er sped to a 8-5 lead at the end of the first quarter and were never nev-er headed, leading 15-11 at half-time half-time and 24-16 at the end of the third quarter. For Lehi it was the second defeat de-feat in league play and practically dropped the Pioneers from first half title consideration. Don Evans played good ball for the losers, and Ralph Roberts led scoring. scor-ing. Myron Chrystal tallied three field goals for six points and scoring scor-ing honors for the winners, ani Bill Pierce guard, and Earl (Hap) Holmstead, forward, came through with fine performances, LEHI ;. t. j". p. Evftnd. f 1 4 :i S Noatroni. f '. I f. 2 4 KolieitH, c 4 3 1 9 MlU-liell, B , 1 :i 1 3 Ash, B , 0 3 3 2 Hull, t ......... 0 0 0 0 3iiiy, g 0 1 0 0 Totals 9 :3 AMERICAN FORK T. F I talisetl, f . I I ol tnsted, f rM wa rdrt, c . Stra.sliurK. g I'l.n e, c . , Crystal, f ... I leun, f i . . M a i r, r . . . . . Rlrk, k 0 Totals . 10 Hi 10 30 Heme l.y uarter: L hi 5 11 Hi 23 Amei lenii Fork . S l. 21 30 Officials: Huttlo and Lamhert. DAWSOX TIUUM.M1S CORAL GABLES, Fla., Jan. 18 (V.V.i George Dawson of Chicago, won the Miami Biltmore amateur championship yesterday with a 4-and-2 victory over Big Jim Fer-rier, Fer-rier, of Australia. VANDAL, BOXERS WIN PULLMAN, Wash., Jan. 17 (V.P.) University of Idaho's talented boxing team last night defeated Washington State colege 4-3 in Na mitt card riddled by an influenza outbreak. ' ----- o ITT i a I H J B . t J t I : . ' 1 o ft Springville Tops Nebo NEBO STANDINGS W L, Pot. Juab (NephI) .... 2 0 1.000 Springville 1 0 1.000 TIntic 1 0 1.000 FayKon 0 2 .000 Spanish Fork 0 2 .000 FRIDAY'S RESULTS Springville 29, Payson 2$. Juab 31, Spanish Fork 23. Springville and Juab high cag-ers cag-ers set the stage for their important im-portant contest Friday at Springville Spring-ville by defeating Payson and Spanish Fork last week to remain undefeated in Nebo district competition. com-petition. ' In the other game this week, Payson, twice-beaten but still strong, meets Tintic at Eureka Friday. Neither Springville nor Juab have been defeated and the two are picked to fight it out for the title, so Friday's contest should produce the league favorite. Tintic has yet to be defeated and if it survives its test with Payson, the Eureka school will rank high In the loop. Springville ... .29 I Payson ... 23 I Grabbing an early lead and then coasting into victory, Springville Spring-ville Friday successfully began defense of its Nebo crown by turning back Payson on the Red Devils' floor. Holding a 10-2 lead at quarter-time, quarter-time, Springville retained a 19-13 advantage at halftime. Then, with Payson closing the gap to 23-19 at the end of the third quarter, the Red Devils were forced to stave off an attack to cop the contest. Big Elliot Cameron, captain and guard, paced the red-clad Springville crew to its initial victory vic-tory with 10 points. Melvin Tease-dale Tease-dale played a good game at forward for-ward and counted seven points. Payson was led by Clyde Heath, forward, who counted seven XssBdS 'V I. 1 (TPC3J Battle Fhis Week points. The Lions were unable to penetrate the Springville defense to manufacture a sustained scoring scor-ing drive. SPRINGVILLE Ci T. F. P. K. F.othwell, f 1 1 3 Toasedale, f 32 1 7 Johnson, e ................ 1 1 1 3 Cameron, g 3 . 4 10 Jensen, g .................. 1313 Clark, f 0 0 0 0 L Kothu ell. e O 1 1 1 Hailing, K 0 0 U 0 M inner, c 0 0 0 0 Totals 10 H i !J PAYSON ;. T. s. Hudson. I . . McMullin. X Hansen, c A mo. k Powell, g .. C. Heath, f P. Heath, c 3 2 3 0 . 0 (irlpas, g . . . 0 0 l.ant, f U. Heath, Tr.talu It J4 5 23 Seore by quarters: SjirlriRvilU, 10 19 23 29 Payson 2 13 13 23 Offieials: Chrisltaimeri and Sahey. Juab high school capitalized on its height to wallop Spanish Fork in Nebo district play at Nephi and retain a share of the circuit title. Eldon Llddiard, six-foot four center, and Udell Wankier, six-foot six-foot two forward, utilized their height under the basket to score 28 points between them, Liddiard counting 10, while Wankier tanked tank-ed , 18 counters. After a slow start. Juab applied ap-plied the pressure and led, 12-8, at halftime and 24-13 at the end of the third quarter. Both teams substituted freely. Alden Olsen paced the losers with 11 points. JL'AD G. T. F. P. Worthlnnton, I ............ 0 2 1 1 Wankier. t 7 4 4 18 Liddiard, c 4 6 2 10 Harnes, g - 14 1 3 Walker, g 0 4 0.0 I Juab .... .....34 I Spanish Fork.. 23 rT , beat has funny notions; HC T x 2c how cold it ... At moving tasi In winter time your car can be , o t nimble energy . AS U1 u To the land of sncw As any bear in u thc t.mo. Playing hide-and-scck ViCO tIcZ hibernate, Your car will nev o fast But will, indeed srt , , r, "Rear Yiii uv. That Mr. iser -,,,stc'rwe in where yi' Try U, ' " sWn of serr m, oil MFittlH6 C0IAPMlY . ... m RIFLE CLUB TO ELECT MONO AY Members of the Provo Rifle and Revolver club will meet Monday at 8 p. m. in the Armory building, build-ing, according to Jess Speckart, club secretary. Officers for the coming year wil lbe elected and plans for the indoor season will be made. All members are urged to attend as a National Rifle association postal tourney ; is now in progress, reports re-ports Speckart. Edgemont Defeats Sharon Courtiers Edgemont ward M Men defeated defeat-ed Sharon ward, 24-20, in Sharon stake basketball play Thursday. Tt was erroneously announced earlier that Sharon had won the game. ; MOST VALUA15LK FLAiKH NEW YORK, Jan. 18 (t'.H) Clarence Clar-ence (Ace) Parker, the Brooklyn Dodgers' , brilliant quarterback, today was named the National Football league's most valuable player during the 1940 season by the Professional Football Writer's Association of America. Rclliston. f 6 0 0 0 Sperry. f f .... 0 0 9 0 Newton, c 0 0 0 0 ltiebardson, g , 0 2 2 2 Morris, g 0 0 0. 6 Totals 12 22 10 31 SPANISH FOKK U. T. F. P. Allred,; f 0 0 0 0 Aievle. f 2 1 0 4 Biinih.-ill. c . 0 2 O 0 Hriekbank. g 0 2 1 1 SterliliK, p 0 1 1 1 A. Olsen, f 5 3 1 11 (1. Olsen, r 0 1 0 Cole. K .'. 1 0 0 S fiaidner. g 12 2 4 Stone, g 0 0 0 0 Hentii, s 0 0 0 Totals I . ' 9 12 5 23 Score by quarters: Juab , 6 12 2 34 Spanish Fork I 8 13 23 Olficials: F. Dixon and D. Dixon. man |