OCR Text |
Show Sports Here and There by Al Abletc Basketball is in the news more ways than one. Our local team took Murray as expected, 54-33, rnd this brings them up to tonight's to-night's game with Tooele with the teams tied for the top. Coach Allsop has all of his team in top shape but Hall. The big guard has a bad ankle. Johnny Erick-son Erick-son took over for him in the Murray game and Johnny looked plenty good. Tooele is a high scoring team. The Miners took them by ten points on the Tooele Too-ele floor but had to come from behind in the last quarter to do it. The boys from across the way tell me to write that one off the book. They say they lost their two top men in that one. So it looks like a toss up from here. The game has been a sell out for two weeks. BYU and Utah split their series ser-ies in Salt Lake with a near riot marring the last one. Something will have to be done about these games, and I think the sooner they bring in outside officials the sooner this feeling will clear up. With the Skyline games drawing draw-ing 4 to 6 thousand this could be done without causing any hardship. There is one rule that should be cleared up in basketball, basket-ball, that is the deliberate foul. With a player driving in for a sure setup to be pushed deliberately delib-erately and then get only a foul shot is something I can't understand. under-stand. Basketball in the East especially espec-ially is goin gthrough its toughest tough-est crisis. Sure shot gamblers, the lowest form of animal life, has snared it in its tentacles and unless something is done and in a hurry, it will crush it as sure as the sun comes up in the east. Now they have found an easy way to get to the players because they don't ask them to throw he games, just keep the points spread right. For instance it your team is a ten point favorite just see that you don't beat hem by that much. Now I deffer from a great, many . puople, - because - I have no sympathy for the players play-ers involved. They are not boys, they are men, about to be graduated grad-uated from college, supposed to be equipped to go out into the world, and take their place as leaders in their chosen fields. Men like Sherman, White, Warner, War-ner, and Roman, with the ability that God has given to few men, athletic at least. Me who could have written their own ticket had they chose to play the game professionally. For these men to accept bribes that in the long run was mere chicken feed for them to let their family, school, and friends, and most of all, themselves down, I just can't find any excuse. As for the sure shots, well they could walk under un-der a snake without stopping. But come what may in New York we will see you at the game tonight. AL o |