| OCR Text |
Show Rick - O - Chet counters from which to draw comparisons. At the Utah-Wyoming Utah-Wyoming football game the old salt was recalling facts and figures involving the two teams from games back in the early '50's. However, our shine for John Mooney appeared when he was observed using the hunt-and-peck method on his portable typewriter. type-writer. Surprisingly enough he is quick, a good 70 or 80 words a minute which is unrealistically absurd for a three or four finger punch. In a confessing manner we of the sports staff can now admit to using the same method of typing, except we're not quite as fast. BY RICK SORENSEN For nearly 20 years Salt Lake has been fed information and attitudes atti-tudes through the media of John Mooney via The Salt Lake Tribune Tri-bune sports page. Being the sports editor of that journalistic concern Mr. Mooney picks his own assignments, assign-ments, generally the more heralded events. The University football games could be justly considered the predominent weekend athletic attraction at-traction in Salt Lake City if not by its own merits, then by Mr. Mooney's presence. As the salt of a journalist increases, in-creases, so do his critics. John Mooney has his, nearly all 20,000 students at the University if no one else. It would seem this jolly soul possess the knack of creating adverse feelings among those who his daily column. Well John, we like you. Even though he journalistically annihilates our football team during its darker moments or knocks Jack Gardner's fantastic five throughout the entire season, we like him. He's got class, honest class. While many of Mooney's cohorts co-horts from other news organizations organiza-tions ramble from the tops of their heads, our boy takes the time to interview, question and find out. That is, in most cases. Sometimes he forgets during the basketball season but then all Gardner's boys need is more publicity pub-licity to swell their heads. Probably Mooney's greatest journalistic asset rests with his knowledge of the sports he covers and his memory of past en- |
