Show s. s Sports FIt F f i 1 Utes Uses compete in basketball and boxing events in 1958 r The Ute Tribe has been Involved Involved Involved In In- in many sporting events In the past The Ute Tribe Holiday Basketball Tournament Tournament Tour Tour- Is now going on In Fort Duchesne i MANY SPOUTS SPORTS have been featured by the Utes in the past Boxing and basketball are some of them An article concerning a basketball tourney in 1958 follows as it was printed In the Vernal Express April 3 1958 COLORFUL INDIAN NAMES GRACE ROSTER AS UTE HOOP TOURNEY OPENS THURSDAY Y Colorful American Indian names like Bird Hat Old Coyote Plain Bull Four Cloud and Turns Pl Plenty nty will adorn the rosters of teams entered in the second annual Indian All-Indian Ute Invitational Basketball Tournament which begins atthe atthe at atthe the Randlett Recreation Center in Randlett today Thursday y TilE THE HONOR of opening the three-day three tournament will go to the defending champion ort Washakie Indians of the Wind River Reservation in Wy Wyoming ming who will meet the Chiloquin Thunderbirds representing the Klam Klamath th Tribe of Oregon at 2 pm p.m. Thursday The final championship games and tribal ceremonial activities will be beheld beheld beheld held in the Union High School gym at Roosevelt Saturday night pin pm pm April 5 5 Tournament Director Homey announced ed that four games will be played d daily ily with the first session starting at 2 pm p.m. and the second session beginning at pm p.m. Each session will feature two games garries All games except the championship cham cham- championship championship cham- cham matches will be played at the Randlett Recreation Center EIGHT TEAMS from California Oregon Montana Montan Wyoming Colorado and Utah are entered in the colorful basketball tournament tournaments whiCh which is' is nS' nS annually nii WI by t the fie Ute Recreation Department It was announced that halftime half half- halftime halftime time entertainment on the on-the the last night of the tournament will feature tribal ceremonial dances with authentic Indian costumes TilE THE THURSDAY Y games schedule is as as follows 2 pm p.m. Fort ort Washakie Indians Shoshone Tribe Wind River Reservation Wyoming vs Chiloquin Thunderbirds Klamath Tribe Chiloquin Oregon 3 pm p.m. Pryor Braves Crow Tribe Pryor Montana vs Randlett Utes Ute Trl Tribe e U 0 Reservation Randlett Utah pm p.m. Arapaho American Legion Arapaho Tribe Riverton Wyoming vs Southern Utes Southern Ute Tribe Ignacio Colorado 9 pm p.m. Pala Redskins Mission Indians Pala California vs Fort Duchesne Huskies Ute Tribe Fort Duchesne Utah The Ute Tribe Recreation Department has been involved in many other activities besides basketball and a story about one of these boxing follows asit as asit asit it appe appeared red in the Vernal Express Express Ex Ex- Ex press April 3 1958 TWO UTE BOXERS WIN CHAMPIONSHIPS IN AAU TOURNAMENT IN SALT LAKE The Ute We Boxing Clubs Club's Johnny Cesspooch and Darrell battled their way to win coveted championship titles in the recent Intermountain mountain AAU MU Boxing in Salt Lake City March 24 2427 CESSPOOCH COPP COPPED D the lb Ib bantamweight title in the junior division by be beating ting tough Joe Martinez of the Sunnyside Kiwanis Club while overwhelmed Paul Jaramillo of the Salt Lake Rotary Boys' Boys Club in winning the Ib lb junior division crown Fighting the finals for championships were Leonard Lopez who lost a disputed decision to Ronald Coleman of the Salt Lake Rotary Boys' Boys Club in the lb Ib novice class and Charles a a Ib lb senior who was was knocked out in of of the first round by veteran Linnard Holsten of the Ogden e ats THE iI Ji UTE leam t c captured p ed second place team honors in m the tournament contest for the best ov overall rall showing First place was won won by the Ogden In preliminary bouts lb Ib Robert Jack lost by a close decision lb Ib novice boxer Roland McCook lost by a split decision to Ronald Wilkins of Orem after winning his first fight by a TKO Another novice fighter Ronald Murdock Murdock Murdock Mur- Mur dock lost a decision to Jesse Galligo after making an Impressive impressive im knockout over his first night opponent in the first round Rueben Cesspooch met methis methis methis his match in Ib lb senior division when he was knocked out In the third round by classy Abram Scott of the Ogden UTE RECREATION officials announced that an outstanding amateur boxing show will be presented before local folks sometime in the middle of April The Ute Tribal boxing team was Involved in boxing bouts that were sponsored by the Vernal Kiwanis Club in January of 1959 Th story printed in the Vernal Express January 22 1959 follows 1300 FIGHT FANS FRIDAY APPLAUD TOP BOXING CARD OVER OVEn 1300 enthusiastic fight fans Friday saw some of the fanciest fisticuff demonstrations demonstrations demon demon- ever seen seen in this area in two complete cards with professional boxing by the famous and amateur bouts by the Ute Tribal team and Salt Lake Rotary Boys' Boys Club in UHS gym Vernal Kiwanis Club officials who sponsored the event vent disclosed Wednesday that nearly w was s raised to insure that Uintah High School Scho l football field will get a Scoreboard TilE THE UTE Boxing Team won the amateur meet and took away a gold cup in an excellent contest and some very close fights Don Fuller of West Jordan knocked Cornell Olds out in the fourth ro round nd after knocking him down three other times Olds showed a lot of courage to keep coming LaMar Clark with a right to the stomach and a left to the to-the the button nailed his opponent Phil Paxton of Phoenix Arizona in one minute and 39 seconds seconds' of the first round J JAY Y FiL FULLMER'S RS opponent ri didn't show up so Don and Jay put on a real slugfest exhibition Boxing fans are pressing for another exciting evening soon soon Kiwanis officials expressed great appreciation n for all those who worked for this successful evening including those with donations and to the public for fine support r I 44 t 4 i J i 1 t i L 11 t tV ji A I i. i lit I n v tr f i f s f fA A Uintah basketball player fires the ball toward the hoop during practice |