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Show ' ;v, r s Drop Ute :. - . - -- , LARAMIE. Feb. 15 (U ft Uni- Jikversity of Wyoming cagers had f. flittle trouble in romping to a Vi.vvvJ.jr w c wj.ijAiai Young university 'here tonight in a Big Seven conference game. The Punchers ran wild In the second half to sew' up the . l ante ind, for another week J it least, keep their tight grip 1 : on the top rung of the con-j con-j .. .. f erence ladder. , The Wyoming crew jumped . ,-foto an early Jead at the outset, : and at half time, Coach Ev SheU ton s cagers had a 36-22 advant-age advant-age over the visiting Cougars 7 from Provo Utah. - The game was Wyoming all the way, 'as the Punchers had even less trouble in walloping the BYU team on the Laramie floor than they did In the first meeting meet-ing of the two teams in Salt Lake W cy- . . iwo men pacea ine Wyoming . attack. "Which swept the bewild ered Cougars right off their feetl - all during the contest, keeping them from figuring strongly in any -way. f During the first half of the i contest, it was little Jimmy Reese F who sparked the Puncher of-fense. of-fense. Reese was checked in the .'second half, getting only 'two points, but his total of; 18 points was ' good enough to -give him scoring honors for the night. When the Cougars finally figured fig-ured out how to stop Rese, Floyd Volker took over the scoring duties for the winners and dumped dump-ed in 11 points in .the riotous second half .walkaway to help Reese in the 'bucket parade. ue iuugars wen Friday night by a Colorado A&M team ine cougars were dumped resurgent who wnn their first Big! Seven conference victory with their 51-48 win over the visiting Milletmen. i The game was hard-fought, especially In the second half when the Rams surged cJ to get revenge for the shem lacuing inai tne cougars nanuea tne ville the r win for the Cougars. A. I 'It was Pete Sajevic, Ram guard, I wno greased the skids fopthe favored Cats, with a 2point performance, and a ..sensational brand of play in the final half. The Aggies tied -me score at z-aii wnn six minutes to go, .tnen forged ahead to stay, with one minute left, Herb Michealis sank a hooK shot to put the winners Uree points ahead their victory inargin. Ranpon aided Sajevic in rolling up lints for the Rams, hitting or 14 co Child paced the BYlrshot makers ith nine points followed . by lillmpr nrrl fUSrlr with covon , each .-- . . M.a ...w a. ..... . vw G F Pf Tp 0 2 0 Riegal 1 0 MichaeHs, f. 2 Doblef, i. . .2 4 2 2 1 0 3 1 on, f. ........... .7 rfield, f. 0 ix. f 1 Novak, c. 0 Hopper, g ,0 Sajevic, g. .. 8 Tiley. g L . .2 2 21 1 4 18 51 Totals 22 INNES Sporting Goods Headquarters Motors . -and-Saddles 316 West Center Provo, Utah - SEE OUlj: ELECTION OF BEFORE YOU TAILORED TO ORDER 2 SUITS for UP EXTRA PANTS AVAILABLE i 4-'k. Delivery SAVE YOUR MbkstE Fesler Inks Five Year OSU Contract COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 15, U.E) Wesley Fesler became Ohio State's fifth: head football coach in eight seasons, today, returning return-ing to the school where he starred as a player, signing a five-year contract he hopes will make-him safe from the downtown down-town quarterbacks. ' Fesler came to terms with the Ohio State athletic board? after a long conference last7 night, succeeding Paul Bix ler who quit after an indifferent indif-ferent season to become coach at Colgate. , Returning from Pittsburgh where in his fresman season last fall his -team won three out of nine game, Fesler takes over one of the nation's coaching hot spots. Ohio State, lon has ben a powerhouse pow-erhouse . in Big Nine conference competition, and its rabid alumni alum-ni and home town supporters are quick to complain if the. team falls to make an impressive showing. show-ing. . Fesler, who said he was reluctant reluct-ant to leave Pitt, where he was firmly established because of the hustle his team displayed in going go-ing through a back-breaking schedule, had Deen here since an-lv in 4Ka utaaIp HtcMiccino thfi job. He was the top choice pt State's new atmetic airecior. Richard C. Larkins, whjphad been his football teammate and room mate, when Feslf starred for the Bucks as eitf and fullback full-back in 1928, 1929, ,ahd 1930. The hew coachsaid he would come here as ysoon as possible to make arrangements for spring practice which v begins on March 25. He ir J8-years-old, married and has three children. IRby, Walcott k i Meet In Bout MIAMI, Fla..- Feb. 15 (U.R) The first boxing match ever scheduled in the Orange Bowl involving two negro fighters- was set today for March 4 between (Violent) Ray and Jersey Joe Walcott, both heavyweight title contender. Ray .was guaranteed $25,000 and Wolcott. who will arrive here tomorrow, will be guaran teed $15,000. Seats lor negroes and whites will he divided 50-50ihad plenty of fireOeft, by pinning at a ton price of $12. Ray and Walcott are regarded as top challengers for Joe Louis' heavyweight crown., Ray's manager, man-ager, Tommy O'Laughlin, estimated esti-mated that the fight would draw $120,000, in perhaps the biggest boxing program heJ4 here since the land, boom days of the late '20's, SCORES Utah 68,Denyer 38. Wyomhafg 70, BYU 47. Illinois 59, Indiana 50. Kansas 69. Nebraska 37. Iowa 56, Michigan 46. isconsin 54, Northwestern 42 Canisius 52 CCNY 49. Duke 64, Georgia Tech 54. ! BRIG HAM YOUNG G F Pf Tp Clark, f I Nelson, f . ........ Weight, f .3 1 Z 7 .2 23 .0.2 2 Beem, f. ,0 Walker, c. .I jChild. g. A 'Jensen, g. .... .... 2 :Esplin, g. .'. . .,S 1 Fullmer, g, ........ .2 ' Totals. . 15 18 14, 48 Half-time score B r i g h a m Young29, Colorado A.&M. 23. ree throws missed Brigham YounR, Nelson, Weight, Beem, pWalker. Child; Colorado" A.&M.. I n:.i rt n.riM c jevic 2, Tiley. GAS TIME MONEY GO FURTHER READY TO VEAR SUITS DOUBLE OR SINGLE BREASTED UP worsteds cheViots TWEEDS YU 70 Jersey Belter Stops Larkinx NEW YORK, Feb. 15 OJ.R) beaten Charley Fusari,-New Jersey's blond milkman, was con sidered. definite threat tp Hay ( Sugar pfiobinson's world welterweight welter-weight -crown today because -of the magnif icient manner ih which he battered veteran Tippy Larkin into helplessness before a sell out crowd at Madison Square Garden. The blond milkman fought . like a blond tiger as he floored the favored Larkin . five times to achieve a technical tech-nical knockout victory at 2;49 of the ninth round. . -- .As 18,494 fans roared their admiration ad-miration for Fusari's punching prowess, Referee Arthur EtonOvan stopped the bout 'in the ninth round last night to savjr Larkin from further punishment. Larkin, smeared with blood from cuts on his nose and in hih mouth, was oa the canvas for the fifth time. Though battened into helpless ness, Tippy was gamely trying to regain his feet again when Dono van motioned that the bout was - : i iS unisneor. AsyFusari of Irvington, N.J., registered his 48th consecutive professional victory, he amazed he "experts who had made 'him an 11-5 underdog. The rangy, rugged blond not only out-punched out-punched his more experienced opponent, but he actually out-boxed out-boxed him in several rounds. The crowd, which paid $115,-455 $115,-455 biggest boxing gate of 1947 was astonished at the manner in which 22-year-old Fusari landed left jabs and left hooks on the classy veteran from Garfield, N. J., who was riding a string of 28 straight victories. ? . AS Fusari registered his ' 34th knockout in his first major, test, he clinched a bout yith the winner win-ner of Friday's welterweight Garden scrap between Beau Jack and Tony Janiro. Charley will be favored to beat either Beau or Tony; and such a victory would entitle him to fight Robinson for the crown this summer. Jones Victor In Friday Mat Bout : iferiry Jones, dean of Utah rf-aDDlers. demonstrated he still Turp Taylor, Salt Lake City, two out of three falls in. the maijh event of the VFW fighcard Fri day night in the Provo armory: ' 5 Taylor, who outweighed- tne local idol by 25 pounds, got "the f irst fall, then the -former weltervj weight champ came back to dump the Salt Laker in ;hoth of the next two falls. - . Some action- filled bouts fea tured the rest of the card, one of the best put on in Provo this year.' Rcmo, Polidori, Utah mid dleweight, champ, boxed a three round exhibition with Bruno Gillespie. BYU light-heavy ace. J One pf the best bouts of the night saw .Bonoy rosier, coiorea clouter from the Salt Lake Rotary Bovs club.' crab a close decision Idver Jerry Olsen, BYU, in a 135 Dound bout. Most action-filled bout of the k night saw: diminutive Bert Wil " , f 1 J A..m. HvVai Williams oi ia i u . ii) uie uycuci . Bert fought undei- the colors of the Rotary Boys club. The good-sized crowd who attended at-tended the matches saw two national na-tional Golden Gloves champs square off when Paul Perkins, Salt Lake City, 160 pound champ and Floyd Richardson, BYU, 175-pound 175-pound champ, put on a 3-round exhibition. THREE DODGERS SIGN CONTRACTS f . NEW YORK, Feb. 15 U.R) , Southpaw pitcher Vic Lombard i and first baserfien Howie Schultzj end John Douglas signed with: the 'Brooklyn Dodgers today.' making a total of 39 players who have: agreed to terms with the Club for 1947. J Lombard), a 24-year-old 155-j pounder, won 13 and lost 10 with the Dodgers jtast season, racking up an earned-ruXaverage of 2.89.1 Schultz, a six-foot, six-inch j right-hander, hit .25a for Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, while Douclas batteS .307; with St. Paul of the American association. For every person working on farm there, is at least one other person whp makes his living by processing, wholesaling, transporting trans-porting or retailing agricultural ! products. :' MUDDY WEATHER RUINS YOUR SHOES! PROTECT THEM WITH TOP QUALITY Leather Dressings Fabric Cleaners ; Polishes - Saddlesoap v Suede and Gabardine . Dressing 'Brushes. - Cloths Shine Racks Shoe Trees (A11 Color Dyes KELSCH'S 1 SHOE REPAIR At Booterie 4j West Center 47? 38 -v. ."if " v. ' The University! of Utah Redskins Red-skins strengthened their grip on second place in1 !the Big Seven conference Saturday, night in Salt Lake City iby walloping Denver university 68-38 in the Utah fieldhouse. The win still h left the Utear' percentage points behind the Wyoming Cowboys, as the league-leading Punchers -put ' the skids to BrlghanV'Young , University In the' Laramie -half-acre." The Redskins lumped nto an early lead," butthe game went slowly for thefirst ten minutes. Then the Utes began to roll and posted a 31-18 halftime lead. As usual, it was. big Vern Gardner, Gard-ner, league-leading scorer, who paeed' the Redskins to their vic-toryf vic-toryf Gardner dropped in 17 points from his pivot post to top all scorers for the game. Denver's two scoring aces, forwards for-wards Ken Jastrow and Jack Hauser, were unable to penetrate the iron-clad Utah defense, although al-though Jastrow did , manage to hit the strings forxlO points to top the Denver offensive efforts. The win for the Utes was their third straight, and was far more one-sided than most people expected. ex-pected. The Redskins had a hard time beating Denver by only six points when the two teams met on the Pioneer court. The Pioneers showed plainly the effects of their tough game of the night before, when they lost to 'Wyoming, by a 38-32 margin. mar-gin. The Utah crew stayed on the heels of the league-leading Wyoming Wy-oming cagers Friday night " with a last half rally that hroke. the back of Utah State and allowed the Redskins to walk off with a 55-41 victory in Logan. It was sweet revenge for the Utes, because this same Utah State crew was the only team to beat Utah this year, and it was because of them that the Redskins were trailing Wyoming in the title chase. Arnie Ferrin took over the scoring duties in the first half, when big Vern Gardner was held scoreless for the first time in hi career, and kept the Utes In the ball game, with a 23-20 lead at halftime. Then, in the finajrfour minutes of the ball game, big Vern started start-ed to pour them in, four in a row, and the Utes pulled out in fronjt, never to be seriously challenged chal-lenged in the closing minutes. , Little Jimmy Cleverly, Aggie guard, was the best player on the floor. He dumped in 19 points to lead all scorers, and directed the Utag defense that held the Utes'in check so effectively during dur-ing the first 35 minutes of the contest. CAMPAIGNS FOR JAPANESE PRESIDENT TOKYO, Feb. 15 (U.R) A 48- year-old black-mustached lawyer "ft;om Sendai in northern Japan began a 100-day. soapbox speech campaign today advocating the elertinivnf a rfrPsiHont in nlnr nf Japan s present prime minister. The lawyer, , Naosaburo, Tad-ano, Tad-ano, is .loyal to the emperor system sys-tem and wouldxhave the president presi-dent 3be subservient to Hirohito. He will make one four-hour speech daily for 100 days The first cross-country longdistance long-distance telephone call was made . nm. between New York and San Fran - cisco in 1915. You'll be a happy Man and ' Save Money If you take your car to thex United Sales and Service for-r. 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V lllini Back Gets New Grid Trophy BOSTON, Feb. 15 (U.R) Quarterback Quar-terback Perry Moss of the University Uni-versity of Illinois Rose Bowl football team received the first annual Nils Nelson Sportsmanship Sportsman-ship Award tonight for bringing about the removal of an injured negro opponent who was playing a brilliant game for Iowa in a battle for the Big Nine championship. cham-pionship. The award.fAMrde at a trophy dinner attended by many of the foremost sports figures in the East, is to be given annually for the player who shows "a high esteem for the football code and an exemplification of sports- manship to an outstanding degree." It particularly honors. Nils V. (Swede) Nelson, Boston business man and former assistant coach at Harvard 'and Columbia, who long has been known as an out standing amateur sportsman. Based on a poll of coaches throughout the nation, the award was made to Moss on the .basis of his action in the gamewhicB Illinois won. from Iowa 7-0. Moss was calling signals when he noticed that Earl Banks, star negro guard of the Iowa team, had sustained a eg injury on a previous play Wheri he hurled Buddy Young star Illinois halfback, half-back, for a ,i ive-yard loss. ' Interrupting his signal calling. Moss directed'officials to Banks, who was removed fro mthe game because of his injury. At the time the .game was scoreless. After the game the Iowa coaching staff lauded Moss and nominated him for the Nelson award. He is a junior and native of Seattle. LWash., who starred at Tulsa be fore transferring to Illinois. 39 CREW MEN RESCUED HONOLULU, Feb, 15 (U.R) Aft 3d crewmen aboard the freighter Lake Sapor when she went aground on a reef in the Bonin Islands have been rescued by a navy landing craft and taken. to I i.uvy .aiming iran aim laneii i u nearby Iwo Jima, , Pacific fleet headquarters reported today v Job Time Ik .VjLi ' t it i k i -; f X.- Musial may Itvavc been far apart Fate Of Player Up To Chandler CHICAGO Feb.. 15 (U.R) Leslie O'Connor, general manager of the Chicago White Sox, said today it would be up to Baseball Commissioner Commis-sioner Happy Chandler to decide whether First Baseman Murrell Jones would be permitted to play this season. Jones today was given a three-. year probationary sentence in Monroe, La., on a charge of theft' of government property. ' j "It will be. up to Jones 'to file; an application with the White1 Sox for reinstatement O'Connor ! said. "Then we'll send it on to Chandler and hqwill have to act on it. ; "If he reinstates Jones, r then ! we'll offer him a contract. If we! get him he'U; leave with the! second group Of players for the1 training- camp." PASQUEL REFUSES COMMENT ON LANIER MEXICO CITY, Feb. 15 (U.R) Mexican baseball league headquarters head-quarters today refused to comment com-ment on reports . ex-Cardinal Pitcher Max Lanier was a holdout. hold-out. Jorge Pasquel, president of the league, was out of town and in his absence, no other official had o'ij uuuiniaiian. fasque previously announced he would go to Cuba within a few days to iron out "the diverse problems presented by the sign- ( piayers ior ux coming- Provo's Only Complete Gas and Electric Appliance Dealer - Let us furnish your appliance needs. 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Although close friends insisted Ruth still 'lis a very sick man," his wife said he had so -improved they were thinking of a trip to Florida or Arizona. More excited about going home than he was over hitting. a home run, the Babe, through his daughter; daugh-ter; Mrs." Julia Flanders, told reporters: re-porters: Tm going home for a little vacation and to get a change of scenery. I wapt to look at tne river from my apartment window." win-dow." Ruth managed to walk from the drab hospital room on the 11th floor to the hospital levator, but needed assistance from then on. Dressed in his familiar camel's hair coat, with a tan cap. to match, he couldn't hold back "the" tears as his nurse and a family friend .assisted him down the steps leading to the street DO YOUR FRONT TIRES SICESS WCMt Look Like,-this Like,-this or - this wur Due to cvatu t Faulty Wheel Alignment Will Waste your Tire Dollars Let Us Correct the Trouble f j At a minimum cost to you JUST GIVE US A RING Free, Pickup and Delivery. Service PHONE 97 WASDEN MOTOR SALES , 1131 North 5th West PnTt Work - tiA Worry Ho i Chrome !tm A crowd of 100 neighborhood Women and children had gath-: ered on the sidewalk. The Babe tried tr smile through his tears as his nurse . and his friend helped him Into a waiting automobile which sped him to his River-, ide drive- apartment over- -looking the Hudson river. ' There was no indication of when he would go back to the hospital. All of his belongings were taken from his room, although al-though hospital authorities yes-' terday announced that he was going home "only for the week- lend." His nurse, said Ruth would be back "if he doesn't improvf." but his wife told reporters that the Babe thought he could "go home and gain some strength." 'The operation was a success," she said, "but it will be a slow recovery. But he feels much better bet-ter and the headaches which caused him so much pain have disappeared." She denied that he had lost a lot of weight. 'He went to the hospital weighing 225 pounds," she said, "and he Is going out weighing 1S9 a loss of only 36 pounds and everyone knows that with a throat operation op-eration you lose weight." The Babe supervised while she packed his things at the hospital. T0C-III 0 T0C-0UT Mess FMTHft toEJ" On Tt9 L hocks .j -y. 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