| Show S 'S 5 p po o r t s Mirror By JOHN MOONEY MOONEY- Telegram Editor Erne Anderson knows whereof he speaks and it aint right Saturday Erne watched Mrs Walter Hansen tour Nibley Park ParkIn ParkIn In a 41 41 which is good shooting for a feminine golfer So Erne bet Professional Tom McHugh Mary Lou Thomson couldn't equal the feat All Mary Lou did was whip around Nibley in 35 which would make Kipling's description of the fairer sex miss somewhat One of the more encouraging aspects of the intermountain sports picture has been the way the athletic leaders have rallied to the cause in contributing mone money and time to tovar war var meas incas ures Nibley first opened with the state driving tournament with all the prizes being given in war bonds and stamps and young oung ladies ladles selling bonds and stamps to the gallery Forest Dale came through with a Red Cross tourney tourney tourney tour tour- ney Sunda Sunday with the e entire proceeds proceeds proceeds pro pro- going to this organization The Utah bowlers had already paid off a greater percentage of their prizes in bonds and stamps and the Pioneer league has lias agreed to allow a second star all baseball game in Salt SaIt Lake Lale under under under un un- un- un der the of The Trib Trib- une Incidentally despite the crepehangers crepehangers crepehangers crepe- crepe hangers sports seem to have done doneall doneall doneall all right for themselves in the first five months of the war Remember Remember Remember ber a few months ago when all the major golf tournaments were canceled Well now the P G A is getting ready for a whopper tourney tourney tourney tour tour- ney and the Hale America ranks are swelled by the greatest collection collection collection tion of players in golfing history Or take baseball When Bob Feller Hank Greenberg and Hugh Mulcahy led the parade of big leaguers into the armed services the pessimists concluded that baseball baseball baseball base base- ball would be lucky to last til the Fourth of July Well heres here's a afew afew afew few crowd totals weve we've been able to compile Largest April crowd in history Red history Red Sox at New York Giants-Braves Giants at Polo Grounds Yankees at Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton Browns at Detroit Even the Giants averaged a game for their first sev seven n home tilts Horse racing is in the same category When the Pacific coast tracks folded the critics of horse racing tolled the death knell of racing However er we notice that Herbert Ba Bayard ard Swope S chairman of the Turf Committee of America announced announced announced an an- Monday that June 6 will HI be Navy Army-Navy day at Belmont Belmont Belmont Bel- Bel mont Park in New York with the entire receipts over and above actual cost money and purses will go to war var relief This hardly seems like the ef effort effort effort ef- ef fort of a dying sport Betting has been above par on all the tracks in the country baseball baseball base base- ball baIl attendance has been setting new records even the Big Seven track meet Saturday drew one of the biggest crowds in years There must have been more than just hot air in those forecasts that I sports were in for a good season since the people wanted a respite from the war talk |
