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Show Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Utah took Denver fairly easy, and if they can put Wyoming a-way a-way Saturday night they are a cinch to get the NCAA bid from this district. As much as they beat the cowpokes in Laramie, the smart money says they are six points the best team at home. Wyoming also beat Denver so this game should be a good one for the great Arnie rerrin, Utahs I all American to say his farewell to college ball. It will be many a day before the intermountain fans see another one like him. He will go down with the greats of this conference and there have been a few good ones Bob Doll, Ken Sailors, "Swisher" Swartz, I Ernie Simpson, "Cat" Thompson, Brick Brcedon, Frank Ward. El-wood El-wood Romoney, "Sunny" Allsop. All of them ranked with the best in the country, and high up on the list will be the name of Utah's thin man Arnie Ferrin. This year's Utah Aggie team didn't win many games but the ones they won were against the best. They beat Utah in the season's sea-son's opener, and last week they pulled the upset of the season by topping the conference champions champ-ions BYU 68-65 and 65 points is no let down by the Cougars. They have one game left with Wyoming, Wyo-ming, don't be surprised if they sack this one up. Good fights in Salt Lake last Monday night. The two local boys won but they had to do battle bat-tle to do it. Paul Perkins beat Buddy Wright by a TKO in the seventh. The Salt Laker just had too much class for the boy from Hollywood. Wright absorbed a good deal of punishment but he never stopped coming in. Perkins has been doing most of his fighting fight-ing in Denver. Won his last 12 starts over there. Paul is just 18 years old. Smart handling, he could go a long way. Buddy Washington copped the decision in six rounds from the hard punching Freddie Maes of Denver. Buddy scored heavily In the infighting. At long range the Maes boy held his own. I understand under-stand they have Ernie Hunick matched with "Chalky" Wright for the top spot Tuesday, March 9. "Chalky" is the former featherweight feath-erweight champion of the world. He is just about old enough to start collecting his social security but he knows all the answers. Should be a good schooling for Hunick. Baseball is back on the sport pages with all of the big league teams in training. All of the local boys have left, Kent Peterson Peter-son to the Cincinnati camp in Florida, Herman Franks to the Athletics. Fred Sanford to California Cali-fornia and the St. Louis Browns. Bob Chesnes, I see has a sore arm. Bob was bought by Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh from the San Francisco club but he got his start with the Bees. He had his arm operated on last fall. How successful the operation was will be determined determin-ed this spring. Larry Jensen is getting ready to win 20 for the Giants again this year. The Utah colleges are going in for baseball this year for the first time in years. A great many local lo-cal boys will be out for the respective re-spective teams. For Utah there will be DelMar Schick, Jimmy Brown, Clyde Nichols and Frank Nelson. At the Utah Aggies we have Dean Stringham and Sergio Ser-gio Alvarez. All of these boys should make their squads. Too bad that these schools didn't see fit to hire a good baseball man to coach, because so much depends de-pends on the impression the college col-lege teams will make in their first year, and so much potential poten-tial talent will be lost by not getting the proper foundation in fundamentals. Bob Feller, they tell me will make better than 80 grand this year, so it might be an important part of a man's education. The bowling season is reaching reach-ing the tournament stage. Of course the top for our state is the colorful Ritz classic, where the entry list reads like the Who's Who of bowling, but this year their will be any number of meets Double in Ogden on the same dates as the classic April 2, 3 and 4th. This week end will be the Mock classic at the Ritz in Salt Lake and a six-game sweeper at Price. Starting the last week in March will be the annual Princess Prin-cess theatre round robin at the Gemmell club. Here is the line up boys so get that arm in shape. See you around. AL |