Show I a eat Driving Home and Home S Series ries I I hij FRANK K ic BAKER BAKER- Friday will be bo a b buy busy y day for Salt Lakes Lake sport port fans who have collegiate col col- col- col and professional wrestling collegiate basketball ski banquets and high school basketball to draw their attention Utah come to Salt Lake for two purposes Friday Tho The Farmer Fanner wrestling team teun wilt will oppose the Redskin grapplers at the university gym ym the afternoon and the basketball men from Irom Logan will t tn In at A 4 o'clock tangle with the utes on the t gym basketball court at 8 Devotees of professional wrestling will find their weekly menu at R R. Verne McCulloughs McCullough's wrestling emporium on Ninth South street In the Uie evening Utah h Ski club members will hold a banquet for the ski tiki riders at Gunns Gunn's cafe and one of the years year's most Important golf roll meetings meeting will be held at the Country club clab by bythe the state association Thousands of spectators will be drawn to these major and other attractions Play Should ho rI End End in Two Divisions At Identical Time To the golfers I reiterate a previous observation lf In which I 1 trust the association will make a a. few changes In the schedule for team play this summer Bummer LaS Last season the Ft Port Fort rt Douglas team finished r regular gular competition In ft Its division several weeks before the Country club wound up its schedule in 11 the rival division Consequently about a month ensued before the two tco teams learns met for the state championship Naturally fan tan interest cooled and I Imagine that Fort Douglas players loot some som of their enthusiasm before belore they finally got around to the title encounter The schedules can be arranged I believe so that the two divisions finish in the same week wook then the two finalists can go immediately ely into the championship fray without delay ConI Conference Basketball Series Should Be on Home Honl and Home Basis Dusis With the approaching approaching- playoff-for playoff the conference basketball championship cham chant we are ate reminded again of the unfairness in the present system whereby bY all the tho championship games are played in the home gym of one t team am Last spring Wyoming brought a capable team to U Utah and I lost a Q J ri r Gerles to Brigham Young university at Provo under conditions that were entirely favorable to the Cougars inasmuch as the spectators were Cougar partisans and the playing floor crowded quarters compared to what the Cowboys are re used to at Laramie This year yea the order will be reversed Wyoming will be Intile in inthe inthe the tile favored spot playing on its home floor and before friendly spectators f B. B Y U U. in all probability will carry carry the western division colors lors into Int th the Cowboy corral yet only a handful of western division n fans will be privileged to see the important all series I would like to ec a game five game series on ona a home and home basis Substituted for the present three game playoff all aU at one gym urn The tea teams s could play two games In the home gym rim of one team and finish the series aeries on the other side of the conference The Starting Start tart lug ing place could be alternated each year just as the whole series now is Each team would pla play before the home fans who always like Uke to see how their team fares against the champions from the other division Some argument no doubt will be presented on the ground of the extra tra traveling expenses expenses' and the additional time required by the ex extra extra ex- ex tra Ira games rl The additional games ramer however how would take eare care of the added t traveling expense ense which In reality wouldn't be much for the 4 10 or ot 12 n players carried on a basketball squad Several arrangements anane could be m made de regarding the time element Friday and Saturday games could be played at the first school The series could either cither be resumed Monday londay Tuesday a and d V Wednesday of the following week or delayed until Thursday Friday and ancl Saturday 10 so as to k keep p the games cames on the week-ends week and cut the lost school time to a a. minimum I ALWAYS AL AWAY FROM FROl HOME lE Under the present setup it is possible for tor a team to win wina a a. a division championship frequently and still n never ver ver- verget get a ac c championship playoff before their home ome suppo supporters For example xa the Cougars s will go to Wyoming this seal sea sea- l son Should r they lose out next season when the playoff will willbe willbe wille be e held in the western division and win the following year t they ey would be playing away from home In both efforts at atthe atthe the e cor conference f rence title |