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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Like Caesar of old. They came, they saw, they conquered, meaning mean-ing the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Chicago Comets. In the game : last Saturday night in the university uni-versity stadium, played before i some 18.00U fans, these two teams put on a show that will long be remembered by those that had the privilege of seeing it Stars like Glen Dobbs, and Leroy "Crazy Legs" Hirsch lived up to ' all their advanced notices. Both coaches, Cliff Battles of the Dodgers Dod-gers and Jim Crowley of the Rockets started their first 1 string players and they tried everything every-thing in the book. The Rockets started out like s jure winners and with Dckde-brun, Dckde-brun, Hirsch, Hoernschemeyer and Dalev in the backfield they got off to a 17 to 0 lead in the tirst quarter, but Hirsch was hurt and they seemed to lose their spark and tin- great Dobbs with the aid of Mickey Colmer took charge and the Dodgers finally won 20 to 17. The winning win-ning touchdown was made by Dobbs mi a sensational run, when he couldn't find a pass receiver open. The ball was resting on the Comets 8-yard line when the play started but Dobbs was chased chas-ed all the way back to the 35-yard 35-yard line then he found the open ing he had been looking for, and he went all the way without a hand being laid on him. Hirsch scored the first touch down for Chicago when hi' took a pass from Dekdebrun on the dead run and scampered 115 yards to pay dirt. Harrvis of the Dodgers showed why he beat McKmley 21 out of 23 times in college track meets when he took the kick off at the opining of the second half and raced the length of the field for a touchdown Dobbs brought the crowd to its feet when he stood on his own goal line and sent a high punt 80 yards in the air and it rolled the last 20 to complete a 100-yard kick. Btith lines played great ball and the spirit of these boys who play for pay was as great as any college team. Yes, pro football made a great hit with the fans of Utah and our hope is that a game of this kind is held every year. 'Hi is Saturday the North and South high school all-star game is being held in the stadium and according to the coaches the fans are in for another great game. Jim Lookabdugh of Oklahoma Aggies is in charge of the boys Cm mi the North and Howie Odell of Yale has the South stars. Coach Santistevan of Bingham is one of the men helping Lookabaugh Looka-baugh along with John Vranes, also a Bingham man. "Sanky" Dixon and Earl Ferguson are the aids for Odell. The three Bingham Bing-ham boys on the North team. Jack Knudsen, Billy Boren and Marvin Pullan are showing up well in practice and no doubt will see plenty of action. Ernie Hunick of West Jordan made my predictions look good when he stopped Buddy Washington Wash-ington in five rounds last Monday Mon-day night. I still say he can take Keith Nuttle just as easy but my bet is he never gets the chance. This boy Hunick will go places in the fight game if he has half a chance and I think Maro Jensen, his manager, will see that he gets that chance. Helper and Brigham City are still neck and neck in the second sec-ond half of the Industrial league. lea-gue. Helper beat Brigham m a classic last Sunday at Helper Zaccaria sent his ace lefthander j Mel Marlow after this important game and Mel came through 3 ! to 2. On Wednesday Max Pessetto pitched the Carbon nine to a 6 : to 3 win over Magna, while Brig-! Brig-! ham took Provo in a slug fest i 13 to 9. Salt Lake is on top in the sec-I sec-I ond half race in the Pioneer lea- gue. They beat Boise 3 out of 4 i in their series in Salt Lake to take a one game lead. Brooklyn sustained their 6 game lead in the National and the Yankees are in, in the American. Starting today on the Salt Lake Country club course is probably the greatest Western Open golf tournament in its history. his-tory. All of the big name stars' nave' been here all week tuning up their shots and some great scores have been posted. Jimmie Thompson turned in a 65 and a number of 66 and 67's have been shot on this beautiful course. But come starting time today and the heat will be on. I predict the winner will have to post a 272 or better to win this one. The year of 1947 will go down in sports history in Utah, and the way Utah fans have support-j support-j ed the various events has been a revelation. See you next week. AL |