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Show FRANK K. BAKER ' ' TELEGRAM SPORTS I0ITOR. f "a m Graduate Manager Theron Parmelee, the Ute coaching coach-ing staff and representatives of the High School Athletic association are to be congratulated for their cooperation with Deseret gym authorities in arranging for the new backboards with their scoring indicators at the gym this year. Installation of the new boards with their lights which flash on automatically whenever a ball drops through the basket is in keeping with the widespread effort by basketball agencies the country over to make the game more pleasant for the fans. With the new equipment, fans will never be in doubt about the ball connecting. Whether the spectator is sitting in the end bleachers and has his view partially obscured by the backboard or whether he may be watching players on other sections of the floor and thereby misses the flight of he ball, he'll be able to know immediately if the ball hit the target. For whenever it drops through the hoop, it will trip a trigger that turns on a red lig)it beneath and behind the backboard. So far as Coach Ike Armstrong is concerned, the Rose Bowl attraction is "just another ball game" this winter. The Ute mentor is planning to forego his customary trip to tha coast for the holidays this year, figuring be would rather watch Colorado play Rice at Dallas than see Alabama and California tangle at Psadena. If he carries out his present plans, Ike will go to Denver and accompany a C. V. group to Dallas aboard one of the many special trains being arranged. ar-ranged. The Redskin mentor figures he can't get too much first hand information on the Buffaloes. After dropping four straight games to the Buffalo herd, Ike is anxious te take advantage of every possible opportunity to scout tbem personally. per-sonally. Even with Byron White graduating in the spring, Ike figures he might see something that might prove valuable in preparing the Utes for next year's trip to Boulder. The proposal to shorten the famed Poughkeepsie crew race from four to three miles has evolved itself into a debate between the east and the west. In recommending that the distance be reduced, the eastern schools declared the primary purpose of their stand is to get Pennsylvania back into the event. ' Penn dropped out of the competition because of its inability, through lack of facilities, to train men for the four-mile course. Rowing authorities at Washington and California, who have been supreme in the annual classic during recent years, would like to see the longer route maintained. Coach Ky Ebright, whose charges won the Hudson river regatta in 1932, 1934 and 1935, has declared that the change "wouldn't make much difference" but also said that the "kids like to row the longer distance." Ebright contends that the Pacific coast crews row plenty of shorter distances early in season but that they "look forward for-ward te the longer test because the kids look en it as an op-j op-j portunity to prove how manly they are." In their recommendation to reduce the distance, the eastern east-ern schools contend that the last mile gave the Pacific coast . oarsmen an undue advantage. "The greater stamina of the men from the west coast always has made itself felt in that long, last mile, when most ef the eastern crewsmen crack under the gruelling pace," said Coach Rusty Callow of Penn. "It is a natural superiority," he continued, "because the boys from the west have a longer training period, more favorable climatic conditions and better opportunities to prepare themselves for the longer route.' The Poughkeepsie regatta -was rowed at four miles frpm 1895, its first year, to 1920. For a short period itj was rowed at three miles, then went back to the longer distance in 1924. . J |