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Show FRANK K. BAKE R I TELEGRAM SPORTS EDITOR. jr"'-r- m J This is the time of year when it is customary to make inventory of the year's outstanding sports achievements and we are extremely pleased to note that Rocky mountain moun-tain incidents figure more prominently in the national picture than ever before. In beginning our teUoapett we have betn Inclined to lefei1 to the questions sent out by Alan Gould, sports editor for the Associated Press, in compiling the A. P.'s annual poll. He asks the sports writers the nation over to list their selections for the three outstanding masculine athletes, the greatest comebacks, and the most freakish happenings along with their other impressions of the outstanding teams, greatest disappointments, etc. Our vote for the greatest performance of the year, among men, any sport, amateur or professional, will go to Donald Budge, the California red-head who won the Wimbledon and U. S. tennis championship and was chiefly responsible for the return of the Davis cup to this country last summer. , In our opinion tha selectors must give a lot of consideration considera-tion to happenings right her in the mountains before naming the other two outstanding Individuals In the sports world for the past year. So we nominal Captain George E. T. Eyston, the English race driver, and Byron "Whlxser" White for the honors. Each of the men is a champion in his field. Captain Eyston directed the building of a speed creation and drove it to a new world's land speed record of 311.42 miles per hour on the Bonneville salt flats, all within the remarkably re-markably short time of eight months. The "Whizzer" set the collegiate scoring race this year, scoring more points on the gridiron than any other college football player in the United States. White is one of the most talked-about football players in a long while. His prowess on the football field coupled with his high standing in the classroom and candidacy for a Rhodes scholarship have stamped him as an outstanding personality. Here is an athlete who meet our most Backseat Driving (Ooollaoii fnea riseoSlas rase) dreamed-of qualification, for a star, an ace we'd all b proud to have our own tons equal! One cannot expect mere ef aa Individual than these two start aid this year. Captain Cysts made himself a world record holder la the meat spectacular event possible. While turned aa otherwise ordinary feetball team into an aade-feated aade-feated champioa and a contestant for the Cotton Bowl fame at Dallas, Texas, en New Year's day. Moreover, White met every tough sltaatiea with flyias; colors. Each aew test which threatened to topple Mm from his glorified pedestal proved only another challenge, sparring spar-ring him to now and freater efforts. He was a champioa all seasoa Ions;, Bot Just for a day. It is an old story now of how Utah led White and his mates, 7-J, early in the last quarter only to have the "Whizier" cut loose with a pair of touchdown runs. Any man who can evade as many tackier as White did against Utah and run 9S yards to a touchdown when his club needs a score as badly uCU, needed one then, or who can go to town as Byron did against Denver in the title clinching game and who can score more points than anybody any-body else in a nation of 140 million certainly is entitled to be called on of the three outstanding individuals. Utah produced one of the queerest freaks in its national ski tournament at Ecker hill, whereby Alf Engen was declared champion cham-pion under a system of measurements by feet and inches only to have Sigmund Ruud of Norway declared champion on a metric measuring system. The two stars finished in what virtually was a dead beat By some freak, the variances in the measuring system sys-tem brought about a fractional difference when the form percentages, per-centages, awarded by the judges, was combined with the distances jumped. That variance was sufficient to reverse the order of finish as first announced. And horse race judges think they have a tough time with their photo finishes! Salt Lake City sports followers rubbed elbows-with msny nationally prominent stars this year. Diminutive Bobby , Rigr! former Utah net champion. Is expected te earn a No. 2 dV I ranking for 1137, yet one ef the few beatings he took was administered by Joe Hunt right here en the Forest Dale courts in the state tournament finals. Local golfers ' saw "Ughthorae" Barry Cooper la a sparkling exhibit! oa ef the game which enabled him te be the country's loading money winner this year. After watching watch-ing Cooper trail each star as Lawsoa Little, Hortoa Smith aad Jimmy Thomson off the tee and then beat them te a frasxle on his Iron shots, the SOOt fans at the Country club went home fully satisfied that Harrys flS.ttt crop ef winnings was well Justified, |