Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-03-03 | Page 18 | Backseat Driving

FRANK K BAKER Utah big problem this week-end week in their championship basketball series with Wyoming at is is to key themselves into the proper competitive frame of mind The have not been overly consistent this season and their western division title came almost too easily for their own I good Even though the Cowboys Cowboys' dont don't rate so strongly on paper the will do well not to underrate them because they are arc tr traditionally hard to beat on their half acre floor at Laramie Wyom Wyoming ng is so 50 determined to make a showing in hi this series that the boys worked out on the Sabbath holding a hard practice only a few hours after Colorado college put Greeley State out of the eastern division race with a 41 37 victory SatUrday Sat- Sat L biday day night While the are riding the odd miles to Laramie Lara Lara- mie nile in the comparatively cramped accommodations of an automobile Wednesday and Thursday the Cowboys will viII be keeping in good physical trim and frame of mind in well- well tapered practice sessi sessions Tho The eastern division champions are therefore hopeful that they can get the jump on the Aggles in the tho first game when the defending champions will not be familiar with the tho tremendous size of the Laramie floor 2 Word Vord comes from Laramie that hat Wyoming partisans Ire are re afraid Coach Willard Villard Dutch Witte Vitte wont won't be able to scare away a threatened inferiority complex Glowing stories about the ability of Captain Cleo Petty Ken Ryan Rollie Gardner Ed Wade Vade Eldon Watson Watson Watson Wat Wat- son son and Shelby West Vest have pre preceded eded them to the Wyo ming g campus Wyoming has already begun to regard the as a new wonder team to anticipate their invasion inva inva- sion with something akin to awe T 0 If the can peak themselves to a point comparable to the their r Logan performance against Montana l State th the tho Wyoming pessimists will vill not be disappointed for Cor in that series the had scoring punch galore rustling smoothness smooth- smooth ness to waste and rind energy to burn But ha have e no not always been so impressive They fell before a crippled B. B Y U. U team in the first game of the thelast last regular series o of the season They dropped a point one-point thriller to Utah after Conference All-Conference Bill BilI Khmer lUnner went out of the he game on fouls And they were none nono ono too impressive in ina a couple of oth other r victories ies by sm small margins f i I do 10 J riot not o mean to discredit Aggie victories I am simply pointing out the fact that they have ha had their erratic mo mo- 1 ments r Favorites though they be the may well be reminded that a team always has its work cut out for it when it invades the ike Cowboy corral The Cowboys are reported in top trim Lew Young giant center has been favoring a a l lame me ankle but the Associated Press lays he will be ready to go at at- top sped by Thursday T are in a favorable spot because they have more genine genne genuine gen gen- ine ne shooting threats than Jhan Wyoming boasts Not one of the Cowboys Cowboys Cow Cow- b boys ys is a high r high ranking king scorer among t the e eastern division lot Young the center is the leading l light with points yet yetis he is 33 3 points behind Babcock of D. D U. U Hicks the forward s scored red 97 points in 14 games and Sullivan the standout guard gathered 91 in 14 games In comparison Ryan scored for the A. A C. C in an even dozen games Watson got Gardner 86 a and d Petty 80 The Cowboys may be expected to tr try to cut the down with defensive play to make the visitors play the eastern division tempo as as Greeley State did against the last year i x BASEBALL LINGO Baseball fans of Puerto Rico where the Cincinnati R Reds d have one into into spring training have a language of their own neither J English nor Spanish In their vernacular a two base bill is a tub a strikeout is a an and the shortstop is I COACH KAYOED Coach Cliff Scott of Lucas Kan high school will t stick ck to coaching o ng hereafter His boys weren't doing ng so well in an f ama amateur boxing tournament so Cliff donned the gloves himself him him- self u in the light-heavyweight light class Austin OJibway represent representing rep- rep resent resenting Haskell Haskoll Indian institution kayoed him in the sec sec- J on mid ond round