Show t t M MS S I IC A C Falters as C CU U Quits Basketball Buffs Will Concentrate On Toughening Plan By JOHN MOONEY Telegram Sports Spores Editor Despite professions of optimism at the semiannual conference conference conference confer confer- ence meeting last week the populous once-populous Big Seven conference at at least for the duration had taken t ken another setback Tuesday Tuesday- Tuesdays Tuesdays-at when the membership dwindled to five teams with the withdrawal withdrawal with with- of Colorado from basketball competition Now the Mountain States Intercollegiate Athletic conference conference confer confer- the home-and-home home squabble squab squab- ence which lost Denver university on ble after the Thanksgiving game must play a basketball season so abbreviated a theatrical censor would stop the show if he were given a preview of the season Colorado university's attitude was not surprising since it had been rumored all along that the Buffs had little desire to compete in a regular league schedule now that the navy has taken over its spacious field house The C. C U. U decision announced late Monday by President Robert RobertL L. L Stearns said It is evident that your training must include hard physical exercise as well as intellectual develop develop- ment Accordingly a compulsory physical education program has been instituted for all aU men effective at the opening of the winter quarter This will so tax our space and staff facilities that it has been found necessary to suspend intercollegiate athletic competition for the winter quarter This statement was in line with a Colorado university overture overture overture over over- ture reported report d just a month ago Monday exclusively in The Salt Lake Telegram in which the colleges and universities of the Rocky mountain region were polled in regard to their attitude toward dropping intercollegiate sports and concentrating on physical education and an intensified intramural program At the time of the voting it was believed eved very possible that intercollegiate athletics as we have come to know them would cease to exist for the rest of the war Then the more optimistic leaders took over and for a t time me it appeared the problem was solved with the conference voting to split the league into two divisions for basketball with a playoff in Salt Lake City at the end of the abbreviated season Utah BYU B Y U and Utah State were paired in a double round robin schedule on the western slope with Colorado Wyoming and Colorado State on the east in a similar setup Now with the Buffs always a contender or champion in league play missing Wyoming and Colorado State will have to carry carryon on This is not too promising since Colorado State too has been taken over largely by the services and the Colorado were reported plenty willing to fold up at the close of the football season The Fort Collins club has never been much of a drawing card in basketball and it is doubtful if the strained purse strings of C S SAC A C can stand much of a burden Wyoming has indicated that it would string along with the rest of the league but a game four-game schedule with the same team doesn't make for much of a hoop schedule in conference play Utah B BY BYU Y U and Utah State are expected to carry carryon on on the western slope although there have been hints of trouble coming from this quarter too i Vincent Barber Shop Outfit Takes Lead in Bowling Meet With Dave Chipman hipman pacing his his' team earn with a series the Vincent Barber Shop had an early lead ead leadin in n the team bowling competition Tuesday with a score of rolled Monday M night on the Southeast alleys While the score was below the record for the tournament It t should Come close dose to standing up for only a few series senes have been een rolled this year in league lay play The record set in 1940 is held by the Sealed Power team Joe Egnatic had a series to help out the top combination Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day night and the other members members' of the team were L. L A. A with 90 Gordon Wood with and J Jack JSck ck with Made up of Bill Hallmark Jeff Mans Mansell ll W. W T. T Jones Harry Coleman Coleman Coleman Cole- Cole man and Jack Brady the Peck- Peck Perry Ash-Perry team was second after Mondays Monday's bowling with a score oi of 2843 Hallmarks Hallmark's single g game me of ol 45 was the outstanding bit of Individual work In third place was the Gr Granite nite Mill and Fixture qui quintet tet which scored 2779 2779 Fred Fre l Sandberg had hada a series of to p pace ce this five made up Of himself John Holt L. L Rushton Clint Sylvester and Tom Gore Teams from th the Southside and Independent leagues will roll in inthe inthe inthe the tournament competition Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night but the big bids for top honors are expected to come Thursday night when teams of the Major league including the defending champions of BarnettI Barnett and nd Weiss will compete I |