Show 1 1 Sp Sport Sports Sports' Mirror By By y JOHN MOONEY Telegram Sports Editor PROVO PROVO All All that glitters isn't gold weve we've found to our sorrow sorrow sorrow sor sor- row through past experiences so it was with something of a Were from Missouri attitude that we visited the Garden city Tuesday afternoon to get some hand first-hand knowledge of the alleged local enthusiasm for the proposed Red Cross benefit football tilt between Utah and B Y U 11 May 9 This dispatch has been written outside the city limits of Provo so it is the uncensored unbiased account The only beef we would have with Bill Coltrin's com corn out of this city might be that if anything they might be somewhat conservative It matters little to the man on the street to John Q Public and to Gus N. N Phan too that the proposed game is still dependent the on-the faculty and athletic c council uncil approvals of the two concerned institutions or that the Big Dig Seven conference conference conference con con- ference still stUl must okeh eh the game To the the- the only important matter is waiting for fox the two weeks plus to elapse before the game can be pla played ed To the doubting in Salt Lake City a trip to Provo would be a revelation it would cert certainly remove remove all doubts as to the success of the game In the first place Provo ns point out that the cent 50 admission admission admission ad ad- mission charge is the most reasonable ever offered for any first rate charity show The purpose of this moderate fee is to give as many persons as possible a chance to participate in the affair and and to t see a replay of the 6 66 tie between Utah and B BY Y U which caused s so much discussion last fall The sponsors of the game the Provo junior chamber of commerce know as well as the next fellow that business men have been and will be hit by various drives from now on So they realize that this will give the little fell fellow felly y a a. a chance to put in his four bits worth Here's Heres a section cross-section of the Provo reaction gathered from an afternoon of wandering around and about the main drag Bob Bullock proprietor of Bobs Bob's Place and president of the Utah the Utah Industrial Baseball league league Ill Ill be conservative and predict that 70 per cent of the Provo pop population lation will attend the game I believe m my b business siness place alone will dispose dispose dispose dis dis- dis- dis pose of worth of tickets Mrs Irs Margaret E Eastmond a st in o 0 n d executive secretary of the Utah county Red Cross Cross flIt It is a great project and one that everyone everone should be glad to help promote The Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross needs to carry its additional burden and this seems like a painless and pleasing way to help It is gratifying to know that our strong young men are willing willingto to put forth added effort that the weak and sick may be helped Clyde James president-elect president of Provo junior chamber of commerce com corn merce We merce We jaycees consider it a great honor to be allowed to promote this game for the benefit of the Red Cross After all many of the boys well we'll see in this game game may not be in school by bythe the ilie time fall rolls around And for those not needed by the armed services this game offers a great opportunity to do a alit lit little e for the boys going all out overseas i I John Krier rier manager of the Intermountain theaters theaters lilt It may seem odd for a man in the entertainment field himself to go out outon outon outon on the limb for an enterprise which is certain to hurt his business that night but Im I'm per cent back of the game How can the public lose when it must realize that 1 the half-dollar half admission admission sion price will entitle the fans to see a regulation football game between natural rivals 2 that the admission ion includes a gala novelty and patriotic display and 3 that all the money every I nickel goes to the Red Cross an established charity LaMar Maycock former officer of the jaycees and charter charter charter char char- ter member of Assistant Coaches club club The The game is a natural Everything points to a good turnout and why not After all aU where can fans get as much for their money as they can at this game There must be several thousand new faces in the Utah vaU valley y alone who have yet to see an Intermountain intermountaIn intermountain inter- inter mountain football game This is a fine chance for them to contribute to a worth worthy charity and still see a ball bail game J. J Edwin Stein time long-time B BY BYU Y U booster and a leader In the Assistant Coaches' Coaches club club This This appears to be the one big chance the intermountain colleges have for national publicity by taking the lead in this enterprise The Red Cross will gain naturally from such an enterprise but so will B BY Y U and Utah This is the time for sacrifice and hard work and Im I'm glad to learn that these collegiate leaders are active in setting the pace Garth Chamberlain regular tackle on the surprising 1941 B BY BYU Y U eleven eleven I I surely wish I could play but Id I'd probably get murdered The game looks like the type promoters dream about about- Utah B BY BYU Y U last fall and figured it should have won the game while B BY BYU Y U figures it ft t should have won because the Cougars led most of the game Im I'm sure the fellows are all proud to get a chance to do a little toward taking a clip at a Nip Earl Bingo Oss the P. P T. T Barnum of Provo who also manages the Woolworth store between B BY BYU Y U athletic contests con con- tests tests If If I were in Hollywood I would say this plan is colossal However being from Provo I will ill go on record as assaying assaying assaying saying this is the greatest athletic endeavor the two universities universities uni unI- have undertaken in years Well We'll have them hanging banging from the rafters This is the chance that the young too and too old fellows have been waiting for Provo hasn't seen a aB aBY Utah BYU-Utah B BY Y Utah U-Utah game for the last two seasons and wont won't see one until 1943 so a lot of fans will ill be there That's the way responded to our I questions There may not be the actual enthusiasm when the financial business o of buying tickets comes around but right now we wish seven faculty faculty faculty fac fac- representatives could make the trip to Provo Prove with us again Therell There'll be hard work on the part of the conference on the part of the athletic and faculty leaders of the two schools to make the deal click but consider these public spirited sportsmen sportsmen sports sports- men in Provo and Provo and Salt Lake who Lake who are taking time off from their duties to help Those men serve too It has been said that they also serve who only stand an and wait It is so for the greatest Humanitarian of all time said so but somehow its it's revealing in these days of boondoggling to se sea see seea a group who will do the hard work too |