Show COUGARS RS MOVE TOW TOWARD RD PEN PENNANt PENNAN RED REDSKINS SKINS HOLD LITTLE CHANGE CHANCE AFTER DEFEAT Champions Humble Indians at Provo by 45 31 Margin in Crucial Ba Battle Battlo le leBy By FRANK K BAKER Telegram PROVO Feb 10 The 10 The wrinkled chieftain from Utah poked his head Into nto the jaws awn of B. B Y Us U.'s Cougar here last night on the basketball floor to see sec what made the d defending e ten din g champion growl so t much and had his ears chewed 45 Like the old man J who stuck his thumb into the 4 buzz saw however the Redskin doesn't 1 know e exactly x 11 C Y which tooth did the most damage 4 Of one thing hes he's definitely sure Two of the thc teeth teethe e the Cougar trainer Hunter Hubter was talking about extracting earlier in the week still are arc DIck in-DIck n Dick Grimmett at forward and Jim Hunter at guard guard and and they ac- ac counted for 31 points between them themy by y way of at f proving it would have been poor dentistry to yank them out of the he lineup Undoubtedly their threatened benching spurred them to great heights height One wonders if perhaps it wasn't part of the system to key them for or a great grent game Hunter Starts Scoring Hunter started the Y scoring when ho stole the ball from Ed Erekson Erek Erek- son on of Utah in the middle of the court and nd dribbled unmolested to the has bas keto ket et Grimmett then took up the cause with a vengeance nce tailing in itt a n pair of buckets and dropping in another from froman fromn an n open shot in the corner The Y was ahead 8 0 with five minutes gone Utah held a council of f war and immediately thereafter I L I shook hook big Sid Kramer loose for tor a 01 couple of buckets The Utes were never cl six points thereafter and often otten the marIn margin margin mar- mar gin In mounted to 15 15 with the score more than doubled on numerous OCt oc- cartons There is a yarn in history that tells about bout a tiny boy plugging a hole in ina a dike with his hand until grown men came along with shovels to save savea a land from train being flooded by the sea ea Utah sought to emulate the lIttle ittle Dutch boy here last night with witha a trio of crr erratic tic forwards but the they w were re as helpless as that boy would have lave been with a dozen holes spurt spurt- tag ing ng water at the same same time tune Small Forwards Smothered Miller Millar Erekson and Larson Larson re re- re larded as Utah's string first-string ca dl accounted dates accounted for only two field goals They were at a complete disadvantage dis dEs ad advantage vantage against the r rangy ngy and aggressive ago ag tag- Cougars Cougar especially under the he backboards After the Y MY victory was a conceded con conS ceded m matter Max Senior Rex Beckstead Beck Beck- stead tead and Paul Callus Callis saw service on the he forward line and their lankiness was wu more more of a match to the easing earing up Cougars While Grimmett and Hunter were gathering lathering as many points as the whole Utah squad made Byron Ne Nelson on elongated Cougar center was Icing his scoring ambitions ns to stifle he activity of Utah's only real seer seer- ng ag threat Captain threat Captain Bill Kinner Nelson Nellon scored only two points yet he be turned in one of the most brilliant games fames of his hb erratic career ca career ca ca- reer That basket waa was wa-s a I tip-in tip during th the first half halt Except for lor that hat split second leeond scoring effort Nelson virtually forgot all about trying to make points himself In fact he seldom eldom handled bandied the ball ballas as he be Kinner constant ly Jy Ills lib one aim was to prevent Kinner Rinser fr train from m getting the ball and m he did a rood good job of his assignment assign assign- ment Kinners Kinner's ten points on the narrow narrow nar nn row court with the rugged style of competition and Nelsons Nelson's per- per ce was fully as brilliant bril bri as his bis poInt 45 output 3 against Montana 1 State In two Iwo games eilmes last week Kramer was the star H He and Kinner were as great in defeat defeat de feat as any of f the Cougars in victory Whitman Sticks t to Defense e Captain Jay Whitman was off hb his usual shooting form repeatedly missIng miss mIss- Ing tag in the first hOll half With his basket accuracy y gone he switched to a defensive defensive de de- game and let Hunter make mak tb the scoring orini 10 forays ays into nto the tore forecourt court |