| Show 5 Backseat Driving Hoop Drill c S l w t I Smaller Ring RingBy I 1 FRANK K BAKER L J By r. r f Telegram Sports Editor i Colorado Serious About Upsetting Wyoming In Eastern Basketball Race Wyoming has represented d the eastern division for the last three years in the playoff for Cor the e basketball title but certainly wont won't havea have havea a snap p In reaching the championship series this year Even In defeat to ro the Brigham Young Cougars Cougal's the Cowboys looked i like a pretty good bet last spring to repeat this coming comin season with all alli i their wealth of material That was six months ago They're not such i outstanding favorites now and the reason Is Hank Iba Colorados Colorado's s sf f new coach at Boulder It sounds a n little strange to to be talking t. basketball now before the i football season is well wen under tinder waY vay but that's what they they're re doing at Boulder Boult Boulder Boul- Boul t der Just the same Iba Tha has been drilling a squad which includes the themen themen men not out for football for the last two weeks He has taught the freshmen more fundamentals than they everI ever I I thought existed our informers there tell us and the basketball men are convinced that Iba Tha knows his stu stuff and how to teach it 1 But it was hardly necessary for Iba to hold an early fall fail practice to convince them of that His brilliant record should be proof enough of his ability Iba's high school t teams ams were nationally known when he was in Oklahoma and his Mo Teachers went to the final game gamet t of the national A. A A. A U. U tournament two years eals ago ngo before losing by one to the Wichita Henrys Henrs point i 1 Walt Franklin qualifies for a II Believe It or Not cartoon wilh with the statement that he once played all the positions on tho the line Un except left end for Colorado university in a 3 game with Utah Aggles back In 1917 Six line positions In hi one game panic is va a record The same Franklin recently told friends at nt Boulder that In hi 1921 when C. C U. U played Oklahoma homa l and won 6 41 that the C. C U. U team played the last five minutes of the game with only 10 men It seems stems that Coach Witham substituted freely and finally got down downto to where he himself and didn't have an available substitute substitute substitute sub- sub left when one of the players byers was injured j Small Ring Forces More Action I In Boxing Battles es I Acting on the old theory that a cornered kid will lick his bullying I t and bruising opponent Promoter Promote Hardy Downing plans to make the ring smaller at McCulloughs McCullough's arena for the regular Monday night boxing shows When Hardy was at his own stand in the HipP Hippodrome theater the boys fought in a foot 15 ring When they moved Into the arena they were virtually lost in the spacious foot 18 ring The boys haven't been bun leafing but their bouts have lacked some of ot the and toe-to-toe toe exchanges that made the Hippodrome bouts so spectacular If not so skillful at times That was because there was I too much room In which to get away L With a foot 15 ring the aggressive fighter will b be able to w catch up I with his retreating foe toe and that worthy will either have to fight tight his way out or take it on the chin That means action 1 I I Adrian Elton the Santaquin southpaw is noted for his left hand I but his right LJ b as 35 dangerous a a. as his left True be he uses his' his southpaw for the heavy cannonading but the tho right ht sets the stage stae for tor the left I v. v hand Elton hits harder with his right than most folks figure harder L 1 In fact than most niost of his foes expect They grow TOW careless of the right Elton plants it and turns them themI i I t halfway around That throws them wide open for the old southpaw t and it seldom misses the target Odds and Ends of Interest Inter r 1 Here and There From Sports Sports' W World I That Sharkey feller was a bett better r money getter as a i than he be was when he wore the crown earning about four tour million j i shekels hekels as one of the ranks and only two hundred grand as champion i I If It youre you're wondering wondering- what became of at Pat Page af after r he was given the go by by University of Chicago officials in their search search- for a successor successor suc sue cessor to ro Stagg hes he's now coaching prep school players at the Montezuma Montezuma Monte- Monte zuma School for Boys hidden away In the Santa Cruz mountains of ot California Back Bac in 1928 when derbies were In style Judge Wally Steffen then I J CarnegIe Tech coach wore one and his team beat Notre Dame so j j 1 t. t the e boys went vent out and bought one for Howard Howald Harpster the new newl l coach Just before beCore the Temple game and the Tethers clicked ot off a I Victory over Pop Warners Warner's team am I I Go therefore and buy your our coach a derby I Ii i Were We're wondering Just how Ike Armstrong would look In n a a derby |
