Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-01-25 | Page 12 | Veterans Lend Power to Cougar Hopes for Fourth Mat Kingship

V Veterans Lend Power to Cougar i. i Hopes for Fourth Mat Kingship Three Lettermen Bid for Places on Wrestling Team i Gillispie and May lay Return um PROVO Jan 25 BrIgham 25 Brigham Young wrestling hopes for 1934 ar are arc bright with three throe or more willing men trying out for each po- po sitton on the team To fill the places of such uch outstanding men mes as u Neff Smart Iman L Hales Half Hale Ray Haddock Vard Johnson land and Morris orris S Snell eU o chA b Cote i sent out the first call a month ago and was greeted with a flock of ot pros pros prospective e gr grapplers who nave have plenty o of strength and anda a willingness to learn but are lacking In experience For Forthe the put past three years year the Cougars Cou gars have dominated wrestling on the western sector lector both collegiate and A. A A. A U. U and hope to retain those titles th this year hence there i Ja Is plenty lenty of overtime work on the Uie Cougar mats these days Veterans Return The 1934 Cougar squad will be built around such veterans as Merrill Croft Crot Dell Young and Bog BOi Yorgen Yorgen- son on the latter captain of the 1932 Cougar team George Gillespie ant and Max ms arc also back in choo Chool th his year and while they have haveS no not turned out for ring rine work the other veterans have been working hard for forthe forthe the he first match of oC the season which u i s only a we week k away Tryouts tor o oU or orall all U positions were scheduled for tor Thursday Among those who will make a bid bic for lor or the team are Ire pounds pound Jerome Platt att a strong little lillic freshman from rom Can Canada and Owen Merrill Croft wh who won his letter etter while wrestling Jn In the pound x und class l last st year and Wesley Dave Hibbert Dale Despain and Louis Bryner all newcomers ar are making strong bids for the pound class Dell Den Toun f Stands Stand Out D Dell ll Y Young ung leads lead the tho prospects i ithe in inthe in inthe the 14 pound pound class eILtS but should mee meet plenty of competition In Reed Peterson Peter son and Smith Jacobs Jocobs L Luth th Baldwin IlIff Jeffery and Frank Jorgenson ar arthree are arc three well qualified wrestlers in th the pound pound weight while Bob Yorgen son Carl Murray and George pie will Ill bid for the pound sion ston Blame Blain Allan Dean Van en and Johnson have pews in the pound class claas while Golden Taylor lisp Hap Ison r and Jim Jin Durrani Durrant are trying re-trying hev weight class clas