| Show Where ere AL Are re Th They el N Now ow T T f 1 0 l i S Spid i M Morris Former Ute Ufe End Now Sto Stock k Broker 5 t- t r B By BILL JOHNSTON ST N Oni One of cit the gr greatest bo boosters at rs of ol of Uni University t of Utah Ufah athletic athletics andone and andone andone one one of tit Utah's Ws' Ws most active a alums sits in hi his his' office e in a downtown brokerage house and loudly e t the virtues of Redskin teams at the drop of a a. a t In hIs youth he w he-w was Vas one one- of 01 the roughest t j Roughest ends the the university uni ever had winning great acclaim acclaim acclaim ac ac- ac- ac claim for his ability ability- to brin bring down enemy ball was known as a topnotch play breaker and he's hes now known as as a a topnotch st stock ck br broker ker Thornton D. D S 5 Morris Moms 5 Is the gentleman in question u and p permits va watches he the Utes perform In Jn any and all sports with his favorite naturally enough being football Busy DUlY Little Spider A member of the board of regents at the university Is also chairman of the athletic council and Informally is 9 one of b bes bist lt friends a university athlete could have ha J 4 i S so named d because of ot his boyhood hero Spider Baum San Francisco Seal chu chucker ker back back- In th the days when Salt Lake was In in- inthe the Coast league teague learned his football fundamentals at East high school In 1920 21 under the capable tut tutelage of OU Not Nt a a ft Ball BaIt Player Flayer S I 1 was not much of ot a ball player playe in those days recalled case ot the school It was It was strictly a n authorities being hearted big bl an and giving me a letter East Enst had some som tough ball clubs around that time and the old league e. e with West L D S S. S Granite and Jordan was noted for fot the excellence excel excel- hence lence of ot its teams in inthe entered the university university-in the fall tall of 22 and went out fo for freshman football basketball and an track I 1 was the Ule most terrible hurdler in the schools school's history and an didn't didn t do much better in basketball basketball basket bask t- t ball he recollected and I wasn't wasn what you'd call calla a a ball of fire on th the thc gridiron I didn't burn u up the league I In 23 either cither which was my first ye year yea r runder under Tommy Fitzpatrick k he h hadded added but I finally got into stride and played varsity ball In in Sn 24 2 25 and 26 the last two years under unde Ike He played string first right en enduring end during durin dunIn those years and was team captain in io 1926 1026 During his tenure at the right flank the thrills were were many in number but the greatest thrill he ever experienced was was th the trip to Hawaii in 1926 and th the signal honor of oC being on the firSt firs mainland team ever to beat th the Islan Islanders lers on their theix own gridiron Ute Utes Undefeated 26 undefeated The team was vas winning eight straight and w we WC were an excited bunch of ot kids o othe on the b boat at stated Knute Knut Rockne had just beaten U US S C 13 12 and was going over ove to HawAII Ha Ha- wail to conduct a coaching school He was was o on the same boat with u us and we we certainly got a abig big kl kick k ou out of talking to the master We We bea beathe eat the Hawaiians 7 17 and Rock re ret ref the game There were a couple of other othe games that that- live in tn his memory memory- the Stanford game of 24 and th the theU theUS U US S C g game gime me in 25 Ernie Ernic Nev Never Nevers rs and a great Stanford team downed the Utes 28 In Palo Alto and an anThe The Thundering Herd with Jeff Jef Cravath all American all center whIs who wh Is now coach of U S C starring dr dropped p the he Utes te 24 24 0 graduated In the rail fall o 01 1926 and and- started working for ill telephone company I 1 had bi big plans about being og Mr Ir Ir Telephone n a a couple of f 5 years but but thing didn't work out that way he saidI said sald I 1 bought into Ure Pett Morris Morri in 1931 and here I 1 am Din and Sandy It is only natural that a n great reat athlete should have a couple o of 1 minded athletic sons and nd is justifiably or of Din an and Sandy Din Is 19 and Is a sophomore at the U. U J. J where h he played third string string- varsity end behind behind behind be be- hind Banard Hafen and Tally TaUy Stevens He Is a R member of nf the th university golf goll team and performed at E East st high where he was frs first String end endon on the great 44 team state all honors Sandy gain gained at fullback while at East and i Is quite some quite some shakes of a golfer him him- self He downed bi big bier brother Din Dinin Dinin in the finals for the Utah junior Junio crown last summer winning the match on the hole hoJe He Hel played l in tri the the- South North star all game ame last s 's summer but was was was' In inured In- In lured and did not turn out for or freshman ball at the U. U He is only 18 years ears old and his dad has Ih-aS grea great hones hODes for him o whenever youre you're looking for a dy wool the d Utah man man VOlt vou need look no further than the lire P tl Morri Co Sitting in I his office behind ri a hit big desk is Isa a hig man n l with witha a bi bin bic smile Th Thorn smile Thorn Thornton ton D P Morris Morrl athlete e sport sportsman man and mcl a a great guy Pete Giacoma who was quite a Ii boxer er in the days day when Mc ui lou lough's hs h's Arena was wa the home home- o of endeavor keeps keep his hand Inthe Inthe In Jn the fight game ame by managing mant ant and some soine I occasional na na promoting A At present Pete manages Paul Perkins Per Per- kins local middleweight ht sensation and Willard Chipman outstanding re featherweight from West Vest Jordan Pete also tends bar at Tedesco's L 13 Klub Tommy coached the University of oC Utah prior to to Ike Armstrong and later became n a a. top-notch top r official itt ill Pacific Pa Pa- Coast football circles is now itow commissioner of Pad Pacific ic Coast Con Con- ference Officials Officials' As S 5 n. n and nd roaches football at im an Oakland Cal high school E t-t t 4 S S 4 IA I THORNTON D. 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