Show Kinner Has 1024 Points I With Wit Eig Eight hl Games to tb Go A AI I 4 1 s 4 I ru 4 I i 4 y a yn r 4 fl V r g j i I I fr 4 y y r C 1 k 4 44 t il S 4 2 A i- i 4 44 I 4 y 4 T Tc c 4 c c'S S 4 I i i- i 5 O 4 y A C A iL 2 A 4 4 m sg R I 4 f 9 r rt Y i 1 r ri fr kc c cr r S Jr 4 K Kc c i 1 G I- I I S 41 a BILL KINNER Dozen points his average game Utah Center Celter On Only y Si Six Behind B hind Mark Set by Les Witt Witte By BILL McCREA 1 They called him Spindly Bill Bill- when he made the Ute Ut v varsity in his fruhman freshman year yeA year year-thle this long legged lad Iad who led lcd Ogden high school to a s state tate basketball championship in 1932 His His name Is William Kl K Kinner ner but he be is better known as M just plain Bill the He He is still referred to as as' Spindly Bill nUl in some ome sections of the Rocky M Mountain c conference but there Ismore is ismore ismore more more me meat t on those long shanks which support the present peer of ot all players in the skyline region than han was present three years ago when he enroll enrolled d at the tho university Bill has hai Already reached the goal for which all U. U college players play play- ers are to strive to score 1000 points or 01 more more In first class collegiate com corn petition He lie went over the 1000 mark in the final game of the Utah State series erles here ten days ago o. o He He now has 1024 points to his hi credit and credit and Utah has eight con COlt conference conference ference games lames remaining on on the 1938 1930 schedule u For three consecutive years this quiet unassuming lad has led th the western division scoring race and andin andIn andin in 1935 topped l both eastern and western division s sectors Already this this' season he has scored 51 points In four conference games and bids fair to again lead the pack But with all his is p point making Kinner I is not the prIma donna type who does nothing during the progress of a game but shoot baskets basket He is a ball hawk and rustler of ot the first order and although his position is at center he has stopped topped more poin points by playing sterling defensive lve ball than d do many many guards Team Built Around Him Wm Theres There's little this six Ix foot three inch Redskin cant can't d do with a b bas bas- s- s He has been as valuable to the Utah cause for three years years' as Elwood Romney was to the Cougars Cougars Cougars Cou Cou- gars Les Ies Witte was to Wyoming or any of the Golden Bobcats were to Montana State In fact Kinner has been the tho main mainspring mainspring mainspring spring of the Ute team l in his freshman freshman freshman fresh fresh- man sophomore junior and now his senior year but unfortunately with th the exception of ot his first year the Utes have ha hanot not been bl blessed with an abundance of ot basketball material Steadily Improves Improve He has hu gathered his 1024 point total In 81 games for an average of nearly 13 points a game Due to an ankle injury he played only a total of seven minutes in two of the 70 tussles and had it not been for this his average would undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly edly be belh higher gher Until the current season Kinner's Kinners Kin- Kin ner's ners record for conference competition competition com corn petition which includes 12 games a lens season on plus playoff games In 19 1933 3 and 1934 1 with B B. Y 1 U. U follows follows fol- fol lows IDS 1933 14 1 points 1934 1931 l 1 S points and 1935 points It Itcan Itcan Itcan can readily seen that is Improving pro each car His scoring record this season follows Weber college 10 University city sity of of- idaho Southern Branch 10 Nebraska 21 San Jose State 10 Stanford 18 Santa Clara 18 Drake 19 Utah Agricultural college college college col col- col- col lege 30 two games Brigham Young oung 21 two t games His present total for or the season Is 1 In 1934 Ides Les Witte V Wyoming Cowboy Cowboy Cowboy Cow Cow- boy southpaw artist compiled complied a I total of ot 1030 points Including all games in Inthe the national A. A A. A U. U tournament at Kansas City as well as those against college c tion This vas was the year the Cowboys Cowboys Cow Cow- boys won the R RM M. M C. C title defeatIng defeatIng defeat defeat- Ing B B. Y U. U in the playoff at Laramie Lara- Lara Laramie mie Elwood Hold Holds Record Elwood Romney the generally recognized American All star tar from B. B Y U. U and now coach at Western State scored 1213 points durl during g his four tour years years of college competition f for r the greatest individual scoring record in Sn R R. M. M C. C competition Elwood had the benefit of some long barnstorming tours toura into the midwest but he was also handicapped handicapped handicapped handi handi- capped serio seriously ly by injuries in his last year With only six points to go the 1030 total set et by Witte Is easily within his grasp but the 1891 points needed t to equal Romneys Romney's record isa Isa is isa a big assignment with only eight confer conference n gam games remaining If It the Utes should enter the A. A A. A U U. tournament as a n team Kinner mi might ht yet have enough games left lett to overtake th the mark set by the Cougar Cougar Cougar Cou Cou- gar wizard Coach Conch Vadal Peterson Peter on of the University of Utah says say Ki Kinner Kilmer ner Is the greatest player I 1 have ever ever h had d the privilege ge of working with He is a source of Inspiration to his team mates and always dependable Bill will graduate from the tho school of ot business at the university this June His gr grades des b have ve been well aver averaged during hl his college career |