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Show Thursday, January 16, 1941 THE SIGNPOST Weber Wildcats Face Crucial Weekend League Action Set for W. Swimmers Coach Ferron Losce has since the beginning of the school year thoroughly trained and prepared his swimmers for inter-scholastic meets. In the interview with Losee, he stated that the league schedule will be completed in a few days and will be posted. League competition consists of strong teams from Utah university and the Utah State Agricultural college. On January 31t 1941, Mr. Losce will take his fellows to the Senior A. A. U. water festival to be held at the Wasatch Plunge in Salt Lake City. Weber has always been one of the strongest entries. Much should be expected of our fellows again this year. On February 12 and 13 at our own gym, there should be a considerable amount of excitement because the Junior A. A. U. meet will be held. Other meets that Weber college will enter in are with Southern California's junior and senior colleges. Weber meets San Jose State college on March 17 at Ogden, and another Senior A. A. U. meet will be held at Salt Lake City in the month of April. The swimming team will leave February 21 to begin their week-end tour of California where they will engage in five consecutive battles. Without such outstanding members as Captain Wayne Christen-sen, who excels in the breast stroke; Albert Hobson, our 220 and 440 free style artist; Ralph Barnard, our only capable back stroke entry, and Clair Whitely, who is widely known for his excellent diving exhibition, Weber college would be only another school entry. Mr. Losee is devoting part of his working time in developing the Ogden high swimmers. These fellows will enter into competition with other high schools under his supervision.A. A. U. Tourney Is Scheduled February 12-13 BY KATHLEEN DAVIS Weber's pool will be the scene of the Junior Intermountain A. A. U. championship meet to be held Feb. 12 and 13. By far the outstanding meet on Weber's calendar, the tournament is open to contestants from all schools in the intermountain district.Following a slight holiday slump, Weber swimmers have no entered a heat of heavy training in preparation for this event. Ogden high swimmers are training in the college pool and will represent Weber county in the Utah league, making this strictly a high school league. Weber college is a member of the college leagues, competing against the A. C. and the U. of U. Awards will be given for first, second and third place winners in all events. There is still time for swimmers to start training. Those interested are urged to get in touch with Coach Ferron Losee. SMALLEY BROS., Inc. Jewelers (Jean Thomas) 2479 Washington Blvd. Phone 369 Newly TASTE-RITE LUNCHES (Formerly Johns, iVW. (Pat Feeny) For the Best in Candy Fountain or Lunches Wildcats Trim Dixie In 61-31 Game Weber college started the 1941 season in the Intermountain Junior College Basketball league Friday night with a bang by trouncing the Dixie Fliers, 61 to 31, before a full house at the 'Weber gym. But, in their second encounter at Albion, Saturday, they were forced in the final period of the game to take a loss, 43 to 46. In the first game, the Wildcat cagers lived up to their fine preseason build-up by running wild against the Dixie . Fliers. They started off with a 7-0 lead and were never headed the rest of the game. Coach Reed Swenson used every man he had and every man except two scored. The game was so onesided that the fans were cheering more loudly when Dixie made a basket than they did when Weber did. Co-captain Bob Sneddon and Jay Hancey were high point scorers for the home team with 10 and 12 points respectively. Worthen and Sullivan each bagged 10 points for the visitors. In the second engagement, a basketball thriller in every second of play. Weber lost out in the last seven minutes of the game. Coach Orville Hult used a non-experienced lad, Cannell, and Miller, a high school hero from Bur-ley, to eke out the victory. Miller scored 12 points and Cannell scored nine. Both cagers made a good percentage of their shots. During the game, Albion came from behind six times to tie the score. Six times Weber started a small rally and surged ahead but, the sharpshooting of the Albion players prevailed and the game was theirs. The score: DIXIE COLLEGE I WEBER COLLEGE GTFPI GTFP Woodbury, Blake, f . Chyn'the, B. Hafen, J. Turner Worthen, Sullivan, l Cox, c . . K. Hafen, T. Hafen, l n l o 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 Hancey, 2 Sneddon. 2 Childs. c 01 DeVries, 0 12 4 10 3 17 3 0 4 2 0 4 2 2 6 0 0 6 2 0 2 10 0 3 0 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 Gardner, 6 10Christ'sn, 2 101 Larson, c 0 0 OBoam, f 3 1 5 Green, g 0 0 2 Johnson, Manning, I Bell, g . 1 Peterson, Total 11 21 9 31 Total 27 23 7 61 ALBION WEBER COLLEGE GTFP GTFP Williams, f 5 2 1 11 Cannell, f .4219 Corn'lson, f 2 2 1 5 Richards, f 0 1 0 0 Millard, c 6 0 0 12 Sneddon, 13 4 2 8 Boam, f ...0 2 2 2 Hancey, f . .3 3 2 8 Larson, f ..1002 Bell, c ....0 0 0 0 McCombs, g 1 0 0 21 Childs, c ..3 3 3 9 Widmier, g 1 0 0 2 Gardiner, g 1 2 1 8 Butler, g ..0 0 0 O'Johnson, g .1 1 0 k Clayton, g .1 0 0 2 DeVries, g 3 4 3 9 Knee, g ... 1 1 1 3 -I Total 21 8 4 461 Total 15 20 13 43 High point men for Albion were Millard, center, with 12 points; Williams, forward, with 11 points, and Cannell, substitute forward, with nine points. For Weber, Chiles, center, and De Vries, freshman guard, were close on their heels with eight points each. In a preliminary game, Friday evening, the Weber reserves trounced the Ninth ward M men 46 to 31. The game could have been more closely contested if Childs, Ninth ward center had not of been removed from the game in the second quarter by Bob Bell, center for the reserves. The two centers exchanged blows on the floor and Referee Foley barred them from playing any more in that game. Childs is the six foot, three inch brother of Rawsin Childs who plays on the Weber college team. Briggs stadium is located in Detroit, Mich.; Shibe park in Philadelphia, Pa. America's Best Indoor Sport Have fun, gain health, keep fit playing our challenging alleys! MAPLEWAY BOWLING (Jack Barton) 416 Twenty-third Street Opened SWEETS AND 406 25th Street) JAYSEE CONTENDERS . . . Weber college hoopsters are active contenders for this year's basketball championship. The Wildcat players are in the back row, left to right: Clark Johnson, guard; Jim Larson, center; Bob Clark, guard; Rawsin Child, center and co-captain; Jay Hancey, forward; Bob Bell, guard; Ken DeVries, guard, '41 Basketball Spotlights In Intramurals Intramural basketball got off to a great start on January 6. From now on there will be games every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and all club managers will please find out the days on which their club plays. The faculty defeated the Vikings club in a hard fought battle. Mr. Espy was playing a fine game until he met with an accident that will probably keep him out of the line-up for a few weeks. Mr. Arlo Childs has really got what it takes to play basketball. Many of the students got laughs galore when Mr. Childs would hold the ball above his head and no one could reach it. He is just as clever with the ball as the Colored Ghosts. Challengers The Challengers are setting a hot pace for the championship. Manager Wayne Taylor says "He doesn't see how the Challengers could lose to the faculty." In fact, he has a few bets open on the game. The Challengers team is made up of men fro mthe Eighth ward and Plain City. The Ghosts downed the Letter-men without any trouble. If anyone is to beat the faculty, the Ghosts appear to be the team to upset them. They have a good combination with five tall fellows and three short ones, and with the height and speed they have, they can't be beat. Phoenix Wins Phoenix has chalked up one victory in each league, A and B. They have a strong team in both leagues. Their A team fellows got their experience in M men ball. Sigma won both of their games, but had to default one because they didn't show up on time. They have a very good B team and a fair A team. These games are free to the students and are played at noon three times a week. Pick your team and follow It through the tournament. Lettermen Out "I've stood for enough," said Tom Lawson, president of the Letter-mens' club. The Lettermens' club is the largest organization in the school, but they have the least number of men competing in intramurals.Last year was the first time in the history of intramurals that the Lettermen didn't walk off with the cup. The Lettermen are supposed to have made a letter in some line of sports, but looking at the intramural standings you would think it was an organization of the meakest and weakest type of fellows instead of athletes. "Are we, as Lettermen, going to stand for other clubs to stand around and brag on how they trimmed the Lettermen?" said Tom Lawson. It was agreed upon that all Lettermen should use their ability to their utmost. The "A" league games are played every Monday and Thursday. The "B" league games are played every Tuesday. All games are played at noon. All Lettermen will show up at the next meeting and game and will put the club back into circulation. 'Tom' Juice Served At Hangover Spree Dance and be happy! Rid yourself of headaches by drinking tomato juice. The "Hangover Spree" got under way as the "Rhythm Kings" swung into a "jumping jive" Friday, January 10. The dance was sponsored by the student body and it turned out to be a success. Celebration of the victory over Dixie began immediately after the game as the new orchestra beat out some swing. Sport clothes, or what have you, was worn by the fun seekers. Teachers and students alike enjoyed the "Spree." Losee, DeVries, Hancy Make News By Bob Dixon and First-Nighter Ferron Losee gets honorable mention in his own column on account of he is too busy to stir it up himself this time. Mr. Losee has done all right as a writer. The boys who play on the Wildcat teams often come around to him after he has cooked them to whatever shade of brown, black, or blue serves best to show up their varoius athletic virtues and human qualities. And when they do come around, they say, "Thanks for the lift, I didn't think I had it in me. Thanks." That ought to ue reward enough in itself, but the columnist's main business around here is the training of the local swimming team. Usually he starts the team off with the idea of getting used to the water gradually (half a glassful every four hours for the first three weeks) and ends up with the best back-stroker or the best girl diver, or what have you and what do you want? In basketball, which is the big excitement this quarter and Weber's main bid for sports supremacy, two boys are going to make names for themselves this season. They are DeVries and Hancey. The time to do it is this weekend. If ever a team had to lay its stuff on the counter without any preliminary bargaining, that team is the Weber Wildcats. Friday night they meet Snow college at Ephraim. Snow college has one pride, its basketball team. Coach Brindley of Snow can take a dozen bandy-legged sheepherders, give the other team 15 points, and- by a series of tricks of one sort and another cause the opposition team to wonder how it got wool over its eyes. However, we have faith in the straightforward, neat type of ball Coach Swenson offers up. You blankety-blank right. And Saturday the team gets it back at Albion in the local gymnasium.Hancey Bashful Jay Hancey is a little bit on the bashful side, and perhaps that is the main reason why one doesn't hear more of him. Jay was captain of Ogden high team last year. During the summer he watered lawns on the campus and talked unhappily about how he didn't think he'd ever get to be another John Steinbeck unless he could skip freshman English. He says he doesn't like English because it doesn't like him. But that doesn't apply to basketball. He plays forward, makes points by the pot-shot system (squat and then shoot, is tall, dark, and honest-looking. His course of study is a general academic course, and his pa's principal of the Madison school. DeVries Will Lope Kenneth DeVries is another hoopster who has to hold the pace this week-end. And he will. We can see him now, loping up from his place at guard and plopping a half dozen counters through the ring. DeVries showed up wrell in both the Albion and Dixie games. He is a great scrapper, a fine scorer, and a real dribbluvr dribbler. But personally he says he prefers steak to soup, and Snow college to Dixie. He played ball for the Marriott M men and for Weber county high school. His college course is automotive. A sportsman, he has been duck hunting with President Dixon a time or two. Like Hancey, he is a freshman. If you want your photo in this year's "All American" Acorn, see Loveland by Saturday. and Lynn Peterrson, forward. Center row, left to right: Bob Sneddon, co-captain, forward; Dick Tuscan, guard; Gage Rodman, guard; Les Gardner, guard, and Gene Green, guard. Front row, left to right: Blair Johnson, guard; Jerry Young, forward; Sid Manning, forward and Don Boam, forward. (Staff photo.) . Vocabulary Course Is Extended by Weber Athletes Apparently in every sport there is a terminology very descriptive to the athlete, but confusing to the layman. Swimming is no exception. So, with the cooperation of a selected group of tanksters, the Signpost will now attempt to replentish the vocabularies of Weber's coeds and a few misguided freshman. Coach Any four-wheeled jallopy. Dive Place where you don't take the girl friend. Noseclin A "haymaker" off its intended course. Drain Place to look for swimmer who hasn'5t come up for five minutes or more. , Turn Period at end of each length when swimmer reverses direction and takes a long cool drink. Crawl Method of navigation homeward used by athletes who break training. Backstroke Massage. Breasts troke Free style Sanford's imitation of an outboard motor. Duck Model whose walk is frequently imitated by athletes. Butterfly Overgrown caterpillar. Splash What happens when Whitely is slow about making up his mind. Water What you drink when you're training. Guard That guy sitting over on the table with a "True Story." Basketball Class Results Compiled The final results of the basketball school, held the week before the holidays, have been compiled by Melba Martin, chairman of the event. The affair was sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association of Weber college. "The school was very successful," said Miss Ida Stewart, instructor of the school, "and Melba Martin is to be congratulated. She did all of the work and I get the credit." The opening night showed an attendance of 111 girls. Of this number 55 completed the course and took the examination. Forty-eight of these girls who completed the course were from Ogden high school. The remaining seven were from Weber college. The girls who have passed the examination have not yet been notified, nor have their names been released for publication. The purpose of the school was to prepare Weber girls with sufficient training of basketball rules and procedure for the girls to successfully carry out their own intramural basketball tournament. BANK OFFICE SCHOOL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT BRAMWELL-PINGREE COMPANY (Marjorie "The Home of 2362 Washington Blvd. Sports "Tidbits" Reveal Weberite Won Army Berth Moffat Field Word has been received from Moffat Field, California, that Eldon Gardner, star play er of two years ago, has won a berth on the army basketball team which represents Moffat Field. The Moffat Field team has scheduled games with other army teams and junior college teams in cities throught the western states. Texas A. & M. After being badly outplayed during the first half of a football game, members of the team of Texas A. and M. college sat dejectedly around the locker rooms waiting for a tongue-lashing from their coach, Dana X. Bible. He entered on the signal for the second half, looked slowly around at each player, and turned to the door. Then he paused, looked back and said, "Well, girls, shall we go?" They won the game. Ambitious And then there was the intellectual chap who tried to organize a ski club in Hawaii. English Instructor Injured by Fall Intramural basketball caused no little embarrassment to a well-known instructor last week. Mr. Espy, English teacher, was intently guarding an opposing forward when the ball got away from him. Rushing in, Mr. Espy admittedly did the wrong thing. Thinking only of getting the ball away from his opponent, he administered a good kick that would have gladdened the heart of any Rugby fan. This caused the old pill to pick up speed, the forward lost his balance, fell against our hero's right knee, knocking him to the floor. Anyway, when everything was unscrambled, the 'poor guy found some torn ligaments, some hurt feelings, and some grinning onlookers.Ross Hawkins Jack Crane ROSS & JACK Lunch and Dining Room 364 25th Street Air Conditioned Fountain Service (Wlllard Jensen) OPEN ALL NIGHT OGDEN, UTAH Andelln) the Big Pencil" Ogden League Rematches Slate Weber-Snow, Weber-Albion Games By The Benchwarmer With the scent of kill tingling in their nostrils, with claws sharpened after opening season encounters, and with all of their animal instincts centered upon revenge, Weber's Wildcats will go into action this week-end to make two nights of basketball thrills that promise to be unequalled in casaba historv. Tamer Reed Swenson will not find it necessary to resort to pep talks to get his Cats into a fighting mood for either Friday's game to be held in Ephraim against the circuit leaders from Snow college or for Saturday's return tussel with Albion basketeers. No pep talk could inspire the Weber-ites to fighting pitch better than the well remembered defeats they suffered at the hands of Snow last year in the battle for league honors and with Albion last Saturday night on the Idaho court when the final quarter ended with a 46-43 cr-nrp rparWnc apainst them. "The race for 1941 honors is still wide open," commented Coach Swenson, "and when the final basket has been added to the scoreboards Friday and Saturday nights, Weber will show that she is yet to be reckoned with in the final team standings." Two complete squads will travel with Coach Swenson on the crucial trip to Ephraim. An extra team can come in plenty handy at the right moments as will be remembered from lastyears' scrappy tournament games. Albion will be met on Weber's home floor Saturday night with a squad who are in a far better position to fight the Idahoans than they were last Saturday when Millard and Cannell, two Burley, Idaho, athletes, put the skids under them at Albion. Led by Jay Hancey the Wildcat pack will probably consist of Bones Childs, Bob Sneddon, Les Gardiner, and Ken DeVries, with a great many of the other squad members probably seeing action, according to Coach Swenson. The fast, hotly contested match, that promises to be a thrill-packed encounter out of the sporting annals of college history, will be supplemented by another action-filled game between the Weber Reserves and another, as yet unpicked quintet. Such a double header promisee to fill the gymnasium to the proverbial roof, which, according to custom, We- berites will undoubtedly raise quite regularly as the game prog resses to a win for Weber. Junior college league standings are as follows: Won Lost Snow 2 0 Albion 1 0 Pet 1.000 1.000 .500 Weber 1 Mesa 1 B. A. C 1 Ricks 0 Dixie 0 Carbon 0 .500 .500 .000 .000 .000 The week-end schedule includes: Friday Carbon at Ricks (Rexburg.) Westminster at Dixie (St. George.) Weber at Snow (Ephraim.) Saturday Westminster at B. A. C. (Cedar City.) Carbon at Ricks (Rexburg.) Dixie at Snow (Ephraim.) Aibion at Weber (Ogden.) Abstemiously, facetiously, and arsenious contain all the vowels in their proper order. SPECIAL PRICES for WEBER STUDENTS (Grover Elgan) OGDEN BOWLING CENTER 2652 Washington Blvd. w fj! a e Siv war R Seventeen Men Receive W's During the autumn quarter 17 football players made their purple 'W's," according to Robert Davis, coach. Under his coaching, these fellows assisted in completing a successful football season. Last Friday afternoon Coach Davis initiated these 14 treshmen and three sophomores with an enthusiastic roundup in the Vocational building. Ends: Joe Peterson, Blair Johnston, Bob Allen, and Bob McGregor. Tackles: Wet Belnap, Sherman Evans, Grant Hodson, Fred Anderson, and Bert Ure. Guards: Lloyd Norseth, Kosea Wingate. Tailbacks: Ralph Thomas, and Sherl Holmes. Quarterbacks: Dick Tuscan, Dick Heirick, and Fred Simons. Fullback: Clair Aldous. Basketball Weber Wildcats defeated Montana State's basketball team by a sweeping victory during the Christmas vacation. Montana State is a four year college and its defeat lent encouragement to our team and hope for the attainment of greater victories this year. Dixie was also overcome by the Wildcats last Friday in the first confeernce game of the basketball season. Consequently, Weber has great faith in her men of brawn and expects to see them carry her on to victory throughout the future.WE ARE WITH YOU WEBER |