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Show P Wednesday. December 7, 1949 DAILY HERALD The Sports Beat By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Sports Editor n Il I There was a lot of 'talking at the Athletic Unlimited meeting in Murray the other night, but most of the speeches were rather short and entertaining and for that reason nobody seemed to mind in the least. While there was serious side of the meeting such as the proposal of Elwood Romney, president of the BYU booster organization, that a fund drive be launched to secure money for the construction of a Cougar fieldhouse, there also was plenty of the lighter prattle to keep everybody every-body happy and fairly contented. "That was one time I didn't get tired of hearing a lot of speeches," declared Harold Christensen, BYU frosh athlete, ath-lete, who incidentally gave an excellent short talk on why he elected to come enroll at BYU rather than accept one of several lucrative offers he received from "big time" uni versities. It's a good thing there was a lot of humor in the meeting, meet-ing, -because it was rather long and those attending probably prob-ably would have gotten a little restless if there hadn't been. r f TT.i.i 11 v ? - "i jl i l mrrt juei nuicnins, ine Dig cougar center oi wnom mu fans are expecting great things this winter, drew some of the first laughs of the evening when he said a few words, speaking with same poise and confidence he exhibits on the basketball court. "Coach Watts," he began his short talk, "told us in early practices that the general public seems to know more about our team than the players." Jack Whipple, veteran guard on the team, followed Hutchins as a speaker and also did himself proud and drew a few more laughs when he told why he decided to come to BYU. "I guess," he began, "it was only natural that I should come to BYU. I had a chance to go to Utah and Utah State, but didn't even considec it. Down in Provo, we just don't think of such things. "Randy Clark is another Provo high athlete who could have gone to Utah or Utah State, but like most Provo high athletes he decided, to come to BYU. To do otherwise, he figured would be doing something unethical." Eddie Kimball, BYU athletic director and former head football coach, ii invariably good for. a humorous saying or two every time he talks and Monday night was no exception. excep-tion. . . "The other day," he. said, "I was talking to Chick (Chick Atkinson, present head football coach at BYU) , and I saidt 'Well, Chick, it coufd have been worse.' 'How could II straight defeats be any worse,' he snorted. 'Well,' I said, I could have been coaching the team'." And, of course, there was the crack made by Floyd Millet, former Cougar basketball coach. "Some people say, and I'm inclined to agree with them sometimes, that I'm still working for BYU without getting a salary for it.". Matthew Cowley and Henry D. Moyle, members of the quorum of twelve apostles also were in fine fettle at the! banquet.' ! t "If you men want a fieldhouse as badly as you say you do, jibbed Mr. Cowley, "I can't think of any better way to get it than to have Elder Moyle here prophesy that a field-house field-house will be built" at BYU. Then the rest of us will have to. work to make his prophecy come true." In a few moments Mr. Moyle had his chance to get back at Mr. Cowley and he made the most of it. "I'm afraid Mr. Cowley as my senior will have to make: the prophecy." Then, he added with a mischievous smile on his face: "Anyway every prophecy that is made won't come to pass on this earth. We may have to wait until we pass into great beyond before we can benefit from some of them." Wyonmimg Rated Favorite Im Gage Meet Cougars Leave Tonight For Tournament By TOM LAWRIE DENVER, Dec. 7 (U.R) Wyo ming's role as the favorite to cop the first annual Skyline Six basketball tournament was given a setback today when it was learned that Leonard Larson, smooth-working forward, would not be in action during the tour nament when it gets underway tomorrow night. Larson was forced to give up. the hardwood sport in tavor oi his dental books. Coach Ev Shel- ton expressed the hope that Lar-. son would be bacK in acuon witn the Cowboys before the regular season started in January. Larson Lar-son is a senior and one of the imost reliable of the Puncher basketball players. Meanwhile, Colorado State college, a guest team in the tourney, tour-ney, also reported the loss of a top player. Out of action during the three-day cage fest will be Harley Beyers, a promising soph-omer. soph-omer. Beyers suffered a badly sprained ankle. One of the Best j Final plans have been made for the tournament, which prom-, ises to be one of the best everj held in the Rocky Mountain1 region. y'r L?i J . . I 'A r. -....... II -f ' Briffham Foung umver" sity's basketball team will leave by train tonight at 6:15 p.m. for Denver and the Skyline Six tourney. The Cougars will play St. Regis Thursday at 9 P.m. in the first round. Joe Nelson' and Roland Minson, the two Cougar aees reported suffering from colds earlier in the week, apparently have just about recovered. They both participated par-ticipated in Tuesday night's scrimmage against the Frosh and both are expected to be in top shape for the tourney. iTexan Takes Lead In Bowling Joust CHICAGO, Dec. 7.(U.B Young Bill Lillard of Dallas, Tex., led 48 high scorers into the semifinals semi-finals of the ninth annual national na-tional all-star individual match game bowling championships today. to-day. The 22-year-old hotshot, who led qualifiers in the opening-day trial last Saturday, rolled his way back into the lead last night. He fired 14234 in the final six-game six-game session for a 24-game total of 4,959. In second place was Tony Sparando of Woodside, Long Island,- N. Y., who had a total of 4,936. Joe $Torris, a Detroiter, trans- LOANS Anyone Can Understand 20 " d month repays $200 loan fMl Monthly repay , t5t 110.05 monthly repays 1109 SSftJl Monthly repays fSOt omci souks t a. 1 V -ia!S!3y Appoimt-aeau may be mad tmt after tours, Pfeose Its. KEN BOUSTOlt Msaamr planted to Chicago, vaulted into third place, close behind Sparando, Spar-ando, with 4,934. He moved up on the last six games with a sizzling 1,318, highest series of the meet so far. , t J iU HOME FREE This must be one reason why Joe Gordon .would quit the Cleveland In dians tor ine racmc uoasi League, so he could be near home. The famous second base, man exhibits a pair of brute , steelhead trout in his Eugene, Ore, hardware store. He caught them in the nearby McKenzie River. Besides Wyoming and Colorado State, teams in action will include in-clude Brigham Young, Denver, Utah State, Colorado A. & M, Utah and Regis college of Denver. Of the eight teams Regis probably prob-ably has the roughest row to hoe. The Rangers, National Catholic champions a year ago and run ner-up In the strong N.A.I.B. tourney in Kansas City, play Brigham Young in their first game Thursday night. The Coug ars are thought by many to be the team to beat in the forth coming campaign with a veteran team that finished high in the Skyline Six last year. Slight Favorite Should Regis get by Brigham Young they would then meet Wyoming, still a slight favorite before the dribble marathon begins. be-gins. Other first round games will match Wyoming against Colorado A. & M., Utah against Colorado State and Denver's host five will play Utah State. The tourney, to determine places of the teams from one through eight, will be played in Denver's magnificent new basketball basket-ball arena. Seating capacity at the present time is 8,500, and when it is finished there will be enough room 4.o seat about 14,000. Dick Romney, the Skyline's first athletic commissioner, has been In Denver for the past three: days getting everything in order for the games. Romney, former Utah State coach, said that his first six months as head of the league's athletic program had' been very satisfactory to him and1 that he was happy in his new position. - Best-Balanced Loop Of the Skyline basketball prospects, pros-pects, Rpmney noted that he thought the conference would be the best balanced hoop league in the nation this year. He especially especi-ally pointed to Utah's trouncing of Southern California at Salt Lake City last week. "Sam Barry, coach of the Trojans, Tro-jans, said he had his beet USC team in many years. Yet Utan gave them a sound beating," Romney said. "Yes, I'm very happy in my new job," Romney admitted. "I really enjoy this type of work and feel I'm doing the conference a lot of good. Of. course, I miss coaching deeply. A fellow can't just step out of coaching after 31 years of it and not miss it. But maybe I was lucky not to be coaching the way things went at Utah State this fall." The Skyline Six tournament will have four games each day. rTT V- ' V CLEAN-UP MAN Outfielder Roy Sievers, who walked away with rookie-of-the-year honors in the American League, cleans up around the house for his pretty wife Joan. The St. Louis sand-lot sand-lot product batted .306. knocked out 28 doubles and 16 home runs fov seventh place Browns. Basket-Hungry Pioneers To Be Tough In Stretch, Coach Says (Editor's Note: This is the sixth in a series on Skyline Six basketball prospects.) DENVER, Dec. 7 (U.R) Deaver university is going to have a ' milri f rf Ktic1rkf 'hnntfpv Dtsv.- neers that will be hard to stop by the time next March rolls around. This was the word today from Hoyt Brawner, coach of the Denver Den-ver university team, in reviewing team prospects for the 1949-50 season. "We're going to have a young team with a lot of hustle and speed. Chances are we'll start slow, but look out for us at the end of the year," Brawner warned. warn-ed. Outstanding Stars Gone from the hilltop hardwood hard-wood are several of the Skyline Six's outstanding stars of a year ago. Vince Boryla, the record-smashing record-smashing center; Jack Hauser, leading scorer, and Bob Salen, have left the destiny of Denver's basketball in the hands of young, inexperienced players. Two regulars from the squad last year are back for further duty. Paul Hickey, said to be much improved, will be at forward for-ward and Ronnie Johnson probably prob-ably will hold down the other forward post. Hickey is 6 feet 2 inches tall and Johnson is 6 feet 3. Good Looking Sophomore There are several good looking sophomores this year," Brawner noted, "and at least one of them will be a starter when we open up the season in the Skyline Six tournament next week." Probably the outstanding recruit re-cruit on the Denver team this year will be Dale Toft, A 6 foot 6 sophomore, with a good eye for All teams will play three games with nlaces from five through eight being decided during the Friday and Saturday afternoon sessions and places one through four being decided during the evenintj Barnes. The first four games will be played Thursday night. pivot and hook shots. Toft is expected ex-pected to give Denver some much needed height under the basket for rebound chores which has been a Pioneer sore thumb in recent seasons. Dick Gray, a former Denver prep star, looks like a sure starter. start-er. Gray is one of those players that doesn't let down from the opening whistle to the final gun. He's jvery quick, a good faker, and an excellent shot. Also, a sophomore. Gray is in for a lot of action. The ball handler and team director di-rector might turn out to be Fred Howell, a New York youngster, who Brawner believes will be one of the smoothest players in the region. Squad Men For reserves Brawner will l?e able to cafl on several squad men from last year's club. Art Patton, a center, Ed Callaway, Tom Benich, Myran Craig and Jerrold Morgan, 6 foot 9, have all im- kvroved and will give the team some much-needed balance. Sophomores who are being counted heavily upon, by the DU coach are Maceo Brodnax, a diminutive di-minutive player with speed to burn, Bill Hicks, Bob Lott, a transfer from Oregon and John McGaughey. Another transfer is Sid Ryen from Bremerton, Wash. Coach Brawner doesn't give his Pioneers too much chance to becoming be-coming a league powerhouse. He looks for Wyoming to be the best of the league teams with Brigham Young a close second. For a dark-horse, dark-horse, besides his own five, Brawner likes Colorado A. & M. It's doubtful if Denver will create too much of a stir in the Skyline Six in the 1949-50 season. But next year, and the year after, they have the makings of a real championship team. Ike Williams Faces Loss Of License By JACK CUDDY PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 7 (U.R) Lightweight Champion Ike Williams Wil-liams faced loss of his license as he went to today's commission inquiry in-quiry into his statements about a "fixed" fight. Before the hearing. Chairman George J. Jones of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania Athletic commission warned warn-ed sternly that Williams "had better remember" who told him Monday night's title fight with Freddie Dawson was "in the bag" for Dawson. Under Suspension Williams already is under suspension by the National Boxing Box-ing association for failing to go through a scheduled fight in Los Angeles. The Pennsylvania commission, com-mission, an NBA member,, indicated indi-cated it would honor the suspension suspen-sion after the Monday fight. "He'd better1 remember!" declared de-clared the chunky chairman from Williamsport, Pa. "Williams statements to the press in his dressing room before Monday night's fight reflected upon the integrity of commission officials; and we're ready to take action unless Williams can dffer proof to substantiate his statements." Williams kept his 135-pound title Monday night by winning a unanimous 15-round decision over Dawson. After the bout, Ike admitted ad-mitted he apparently had been given a "wrong steer" by the close friend who telephoned him the fix information at his Philadelphia Phila-delphia hotel Monday afternoon. The friend informed Ike that a gambling group had arranged for Dawson to win if the bout went to a decision. Ike "couldn't remember" remem-ber" the name of his friend. Hearing Slated Today's hearing was slated at commission headquarters before Chairman Jones and John Montgomery Mont-gomery of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania's Pennsyl-vania's two-man commission. A vacancy on the commission still exists, following the recent resignation resig-nation of ex-chairman Leon Rains. Jones was incensed at Williams pre-fight statements; not merely because of the fix insinuations but because Williams "failed to show the commission the courtesy of asking a member to attend his press conference." Centenniol Corner Olean, N. Y., Biggest Little Football Town In America By OSCAR FRALEY OLEAN, N. Y., Dec. 7 UJ Who's Frank Leahy and where Is Columbus, O.? There are only 25,000 people in this compact city in the foothills foot-hills of the Alleghanies but, if there is a bigger, little football town in the United States, it had better sit up and start yelling. yel-ling. This is the home of St. Bona-venture Bona-venture college which, in case ou haven't heard" produced such baseball immortals as John Mc-Graw Mc-Graw and Hughie Jennings. But it's a football town now spring, summer, fall and winters They've got a lot of learned doctors but ell the medical knowledge in the world won't cure them of the fatal bite received from the foot- tall bug. Gridiron Maniacs 1 They're incurable gridiron maniacs, ma-niacs, nice people, but just a little lit-tle touchdown touched. In the heat of the' golf season, it's a golf tournament to promote their gridiron club. Later on it's a gridiron clambake, clam-bake, Tuesday night it was their annual dinner honoring Bughie Devore, who held the reins at Notre Dame briefly during the war. Devor.e was one of the few lads who amazed Knute Rockne. As a freshman, quiet, likeable Hughie tackled a teammate so hard that the Rock cautioned: "We are in favor of hard tackling," tack-ling," but we frown on outright murder." Have Won 25 There have been reports from time to time that Devore, whose Bonnie teams have won 25, lost nine and tied one in four years, is destined for bigger things possibly an eventual return to South . Bend. But they are determined de-termined to keep him here. "One of these day they'll be rumoring that Leahy Is coming to St. Bonavervture," cracked William Wil-liam N. Davis, one of the gridiron grid-iron club bigwigs. Davis is typical of the ardent fan. A West Point graduate and a native of Georgia, he Is one of the hottest fanatics of the tiny Catholic college. Then there's 78-ycar-old Fred W. Forneis, Jr, three-time mayor of this city. The school needed a stadium, Forness built It even to the extent ex-tent of putting on overalls and personally directing operations. And businessmen like George Driscoll and Pat Dawson ignore their finances to bring in celebrities like West Virginia's Dud Degroot to tell the borderline border-line cases how great a man is Devore. Oh, the city's full of fellows fel-lows like them. -t? J Contract Expiree Last ear, when Devore's con- iraci expired, nugnie aeoatea several ot';er offers. It: was a city crisis. They managed to hold on to him and, with another year to go on, his paper, are doing everything within NCAA bounds to get him material. "It is 'more difficult coaching in smaller schools because the name colleges attract the best players," Devore asserted. "But you'd have headaches anywhere. That's part of a coach's life. Devore, who also holds out for the much libeled two platoon system,! clinched his spot in Olean's hall of fame in his last game this year. The "T" wasn't given much chance against bowl-bound bowl-bound Boston university, but St. Bonaventure won, 19-0. That knocked Boston university univer-sity right out of. a bowl game Spanish Fork National Guard Five Wins 50-27 Battery C, 145th Field Artillery battalion of Spanish Fork, pulled the first big upset of the newly-organized newly-organized local National Guard; league Wednesday night, byi trouncing the Headquarters Battery, Bat-tery, 145th Field Artillery battal-l ion team from Provo, 50-27, at the Provo armory. i Reed Nelson, BYU freshman1 star of last year, led the winners with 19 points, and his teammate, Lee Evans, dunked 12. Roundy, with seven, and Keeler, with six, were Provo's leading scorers. The win stamps the Spanish Forkers as the team to beit for the championship. League standing: W. 1 1 Battery C Span. F. Batterv B Neohi . Hd. 145th FA Bn Provo 1 Batt'y A Mt. Pleas. 0 Hq. 145th "A Gp Frovo u L. 0 0 1 2 Pet. 1.000 1.000 .500 .000 .000 fSliirrrrril I . II I III II II II IV. 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