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Show .. .. . -- r.t.!.c--j -..- - i PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1938 , V f- lay MM Per ,.I)S fo l - . -y & j ir . ri I t- ' ' - - , 300 OFFICIALS APPOINTED TO HANDLE EVENTS More than 650 entry blanks v.orv mailed yesterday by Professor- Ohaijes J Hart, director of th- 1i Y. L'. Invitational Track 7 and FiMd meet, which Ls to be In M April 29 jmd 30. These entry idnnks. besides giving the coach space t list his 'performers, give all the rules of the meet and attempts to settle all questions of -lii'ihility. Th.sc will hi' returned to Prof. Hart and then the ta.sk of numbering num-bering all the athletes and getting get-ting the heats arranged will be undertaken. I H Hitfh Schools At the la.t count there -were ?t hi'h schools of Utah and 12 from out of the state. Supplementing Supple-menting thi.s main group are 14 junior high schools, seven colleges col-leges and junior colleges, and 13 m hool.- entering the girls events. )ffu ;-ils numbering 300 have been arranged for the two day arnival This is about one official of-ficial f.r every 13 participants. .I.-i rr.es K. Moss, Salt Lake City, w.il the refeiee for the meet and Yadal Peter strrtT'niversity of I 'tah. and Floyd Millet, Brigham Young university will be the- official of-ficial starters for the Saturday events. Glen Simmons, Provo high school, will be the starter lor the races on Friday. Other officials will be veteran workers in athletics. All -Around Champion Seven hundred certificates of activity will be awarded during the two days. A grand prize of a cold watch will be presented to the high school boy who is judged the all-around champion. The meet has been growing every year since its inception in 1911 and prospects point to a greater carnival this spring. Last year a total of 133 schools entered enter-ed the meet with 2,123 participants. partici-pants. The estimated attendance on Saturday reached 6500 people, including the entrants. A larger meet is expected this year, both m number of schools entered and the number of spectators. Yankees Picked To Repeat; Detroit and Cleveland Threats 5r Champions Will Meet Tougher Competition This Year, But Favored To Win After Close "National League Finish" NEW YORK, April 15 (tl.Ri George Kirksey's pennant picks in a nutshell: 1. New York Still the Yanks, the world champions. 2. Detroit Power and defense but still a little shy on pitching. 3. Cleveland Climbing under a new regime but not ripe yet. 4. Boston So Tom Yaw key finally gets in first division. 5. Washington Zeke Bonura does it with his. big bat. 6. Chicago Tough luck overtook the White Sox. 7. St. Louis On the upswing under "Old Sarge" Street. 8. Philadelphia Let's all root for Connie Mack. jJY GEORGE RIRRSEY Cnited Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 15 l'.H --Champions --Champions in 1936 and again in 1937, the New York Yankees will be first in the American Jeague again in 1938. They'll be champs all right, but this time it will be a 'National league fini.sh" not one of those 191;. game things as in 1930 oi 13 game things as last year. Detroit Is Better land can match the Yanks' "big two," Lefty Gomez and Charlie the Red. Ruffing, with Johnny Allen and Bob Feller. They have power generated by Solters, Trosky and Averill, but beyond that are question marks. What about their infield defense? Their long-time failing on the road? Their inability to win a crucial series in a pinch ? Oscar Vitt will build, the groundwork for a great ball club in Cleve- The league is moving up to the land this season but he won't be a SKEET FIELD OPENS SUNDAY Th skeet field near the mouth r f the Provo river will be opened I r-und;iy morning and sportsmen j are welcome u avail inemsfivch of th-- facilities, it was announced today. An attendant will be on hand every Sunday from now on, from 9:30 a. m. to 2:30 p .m. Tbt- .-keet field was made possible pos-sible through the efforts of the Provo Wild Life association. Any one is welcome to shoot on the i the Yanks won the pennant, grounds, officeis announce. ' On the pitching mound Cleve- Yanks but it won't quite catch them this season unless calamity overtakes the Ruppert Rifles on every front. Detroit has a better ball club than last year, Cleveland is immeasurably im-measurably better and the whole league is better balanced and stronger but they still can't beat the Yanks. The Yanks won 102 games in 1936. They won the same number last year. They won't win as many this season but when October comes they'll be crowned a 3-time straight pennant winner, one of the rare and great feats of baseball. base-ball. Yanks Can Be Beaten Every manager who talks about the Yanks says they can be beaten beat-en if they have tough luck. Good ball clubs override tough luck. The Yanks did it last year. They'll do it again this year if it happens to come their way. They are better bet-ter fortfied with reserve strength than a year ago. They have more and better pitching. They still have that mighty triumvirate of Joe DiMaggio (don't kid yourself; he'll sign and play ball for the Yanks at Col. Ruppert's rates). Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey. And f they have been beating the brains out of the opposition for two seasons. ' Tigers Have Power The Tigers offer Charley Geh-ringer, Geh-ringer, Hank Green-burg and Rudy York in rebuttal against the Yanks' murderers row. Last year Gehringer won the batting . title, Greenburg led the league in runs batted in, and York was the late season home run sensation. But I-Tgii S Monte Young's JAA E) amna! ITU TONIGHT AND SATURDAY LAST TWO NIGHTS! World's Largest Ferris Wheel felerry-Go-Round & Loop-A-Plane NEW MODEL TILT-A-WHIRL! Rides of All Kinds WOOLEN MILLS BLOCK FIRST NORTH and FIRST WEST . Follow the Searchlight! "miracle man" and produce a pen nant winner. His job is to beat off the Tigers for second place, not to wrest the title from the Yanks. . Off the spring record and events in the south many persons think the Yanks are cracking up. They think the Yanks may be surfeited with victory and have that "we are champs with their chin In the air" attitude. Wait 'till the bell rings. Then the Yanks will go to town. A prominent ball player, now with another contender, who once played with the Yanks, told me that in all his experience in baseball base-ball he had never seen a group of players with their mental attitude. atti-tude. He said, "they don't give a damn until the stakes are big, and the bigger the stakes the better they play. I don't understand under-stand it. It seems to toe contagious con-tagious among the players." Detroit, the club which will beat out the Yanks if it's in the cards, seems to be plagued by tough luck again this season. Schoolboy Rowe's comeback under un-der a black cloud, Tommy Bridges early trouble with an old elbow ailment (allright now but for how long?), Frank Croucher's leg broken. Any oiub that expects to menace the Yanks must be at full strength, and must be favored. Detroit will make quite a race of it. So will Cleveland. They'll both be up there with the Yanks but when the three of them hit the "last, long, mile" the Yanks will have that extra something which will carry them to another pennant. Nice Work If You." Can Get It if 'SL?S rJf -jiit J '' I1 - A couple of the gals go at it hammer and tong during a "world championship" champion-ship" bout for women wrestlers in Los Angeles. Although Clara Morten-sen, Morten-sen, right, the "Blonde Tigress," appears to be having a bad time in this photo, she defeated Mrs. Dick Rutherford with a body slam and won the titte. - Team Wrestling Bout, Headlines Park Ho-She Card Australian team wrestling with Hy Sharman and Kenny Mayne vs. Henry Jones and Orville Hul-linger Hul-linger will spotlight the card at Park Ro-S'he next Tuesday. The same rules of the previous matches will be in effect with ten minute rounds followed by a one-minute rest. This match team, an old timer in the grappling game, with a youngster just starting out. Henry nimseu, COUGARS AFTER CLEAN SWEEP Nothing less than a 7-0 victory will satisfy Coach Fred "Buck" Dixon's racketeers this afternoon when the Utah State Aggies come here. After last week's . heartbreaking heart-breaking defeat the Cougars want a clean sweep in the A. C. matches to get them ready for the return matches with the Utes. Tennis fans will get a taste of fast competition in the first and second singles matches where Captain Male Booth and his doubles doub-les partner Bill Pardoe play for the "Y." Opposing them on the Aggie squad will ba the veteran LOS ANGELES LEADS LEAGUE Los Angeles took possession of first place in the Pacific Coast Baseball league yesterday with a 5 to 1 victory over Seattle while Hollywood was dropping a game to Sacramento by the same score. Yesterday's win was the third in a row for Los Angeles against Seattle. Jack Salveson pitched four-hit ball for the winners Why Webber and Veach gave .up nine. Henry Pippen was nicked for 10 hits but he tightened in the pinches and. so pulled Sacramento through to its victory. Sacramento got only nine hits' from Beck. San Francisco ran its count to three straight over San Diego.J winmng 12 to 1 and clubbing Chaplin and three other hurlers for 16 hits. Lou Koupal was on the mound for the Seals. Van Fleet, picked up. toy Oak land when Judge Landis made free agents of a group of St.- Louis Cardinal farm players, pitched Oakland to a 4 to 3 victory over Portland. He gave up eight hits while the Oaks got to Hi ichor for only five. Today's games. Hollywood at Saci anient o. Portland at Oakland. Seattle at Los Angeles. San Francisco at San Diego was postponed until Saturday as part of a doubleheadei . . Rats and mice will gather where rice is scattered for quail, and after these will come the great diamondback rattlesnake. Rival Grid Squad Battle to 0-0 Brigham Young university's two squad football teams, the Greens .and the Whites, proved to be too evenly matched yesterday as they battled four quarters to a scoreless tie. Both teams threatened threat-ened to score during the battle, but neither was able to cross the last stripe. Before a small crowd of spectators, specta-tors, the Greens marched down the field to get inside the White's ten yard line twice in the first half. Late m the period only an unfortunate collision between Jack Cnristensen and one of his blockers block-ers prevented a touchdown. Greens Stopped Short Again' in the second half the Greens, led by the rambling Cnristensen Cnris-tensen and with Jackson Jewkes and Lloyd Brink assisting in the ball carrying, drove to the one-foot one-foot line onlv to be stopped by the strong White team. In the final minutes of the game, the Whites made their bid. Kenny Jensen, quarterback, intercepted inter-cepted a Green pass and sprinted 70 yards down the gridiron before he was nailed from behind. With four downs to make the ten ydrds to a touchdown, the Whites failed and the game soon ended. The teams were split up so that the Whites had most of the first string lmemen, but the Greens had the more experienced backs. The Wrhrte line of Waters and Leonard, ends. Bird and Knudsen, tackles; Lloyd and Gil bert, guards center, played well' esjf goal line stands. Few Plays Tried V Only about three or r were pulled by the two t as the Frosh do not Yrfs''t' the varsity system. T?s tried mostly by the Gr little success. Christj n not hit the receiver very v when he dl'J the cold-made cold-made catching the balitxLii. Eddie Allen, playiff for the Greens, playedp' all day. Allen looks now starter for next fall, espc-ci " he takes the game sertoxr: len weighs about 200 jx$5r and Ls a colorful perf cr - Coach Eddie Kimball 'wh-ed 'wh-ed by the showing ojf !J L but will give the tifflft " , more blocking and tackl -tice before the next gatnel ' 29 is the tentative daf v next civil war. ii? Newcomers to the acGZ.'i cially in the fullback pbi't tracted a lot of attention f day. Lloyd Brink ajld" Strom seems to have cut, r other applicants for ttd to choose between thesf$vi. not be done at this tlmeI'' :3 great at backing up: t' while Brink is a hard lr carrier and fine blocker.--- ."V., Ether first was used'.? esthetic on March 30, 11 2. rt mi i in i- v. 9 t , T.nAo I bn nrnmnrpr ows al the trtcks of the aportf Eft Hill, a recenUy.f and should be able to give Hul- returned letterman of some years 'M' Men Softball Starts April 20 Opening games of the "M" Men softball league will be run off April 20. Teams from Provo's nine wards are priming for the 1938 campaign. cam-paign. Early predictions place all the teams on an even basis. The strength of the various outfits out-fits cannot be determined until after the first round or two. Wednesday's games bring together to-gether Pioneer-Third, Bonneville-Fifth, Bonneville-Fifth, First-Fourth, and Second-Sixth, Second-Sixth, Manavu gets a bye. According to one authority, the 10 mo3t important trees in the world are, in the order named: date palm, coconut pahn, almond, apple, fig, mulberry, olive lemon, cinchona and rubber. linger quite a bit of help during the team bout. Should Be Interesting Hy Sharman loves Jones even less than he does most individuals and his partner Kenny Mayne is a fine grappler. All in all, this lineup has prospects of being a fine thing to watch. : In the final boxing bout Max Young meets Truman Harvey in an eight-rounder. In their last two fights these boys have gone to draws, but both are. hitting for a clean cut margin Tuesday. Max has fought two fights here at the park in the last two weeks, winning win-ning one and losing another. Harvey has not appeared lately, but has been fighting at other Utah arenas. Dick Diamond of Salt Lake City and Jess Christen of the Provo CCC camp will go six rounds in the special event. LeGranae carter car-ter and Kid Johnson, two lightweights light-weights who are willing, will pair off for a fourrounder. Something new in the line of battle royals will be offered by Promoter Jones next week, when five kids will be tossed into the ring at the same time. All these boys weigh about 120 pounds and love to fight. Rules state in this battle that when p. boy goes down he is through for the evening. ago. Booth and Pardoe will team up for the first doubles and should take their match rather easily. This combination looks good enough to take any couple in the state, and it is doubtful if the Aggies can scrape up much competition com-petition for them. The remaining netters on the Cougar team will be Gordon Snow, Grant Holt, Charles Fletcher and Grant Hansen. Snow will play third singles with Fletcher taking care of fourth. Snow and Fletcher will pair up to play second doubles and Holt and Hansen will play the third doubles. The matches- are scheduled to start at 2:30 tomorrow afternoon and the public is invited. Rain Storm Stops Track and Tennis -iinmi 5... r " - COLDVJELL LAVJfJ MOIVEHS That Will Keep Your Lawn Neat and Trim! AT REASONABLE PRICES Ball-bearing Mowers-Priced Mowers-Priced from and up Also Lawn Mowers with Solid Rubber and Pneumatic Tires. Dependable U. S. Lawn Hose in Several Styles, Sizes and Colors Non-Kinkable and Easily Handled PRICED 25 Ft. U. S. Premier Maroon Ai Aft Hose, eoupled . , . 45' 50 Ft. U. S. Premier Maroon Hose, coupled $2.79 Consolidated IVagon & Machine Co. ., PKOVO, IJTA 11 i Region Three h.lgh school athletes ath-letes didn't get a chance to work outside Thursday afternoon. As a result, a four-team track -.meet was called off at Spanish Fork, and tennis matches were postponed post-poned another day. The track meets in which Provo, Springville, Spanish Fork and Payson were scheduled to compete was held over until April 20. It will be held at Spanish as previously announced. Tennis Matches All tennis matches were expected ex-pected to be played off today, weather permitting. Although inclement weather has slowed up workouts, Coach Glenn Simmons is .rounding his track squad into championship proportions. The popular Provo high mentor has spent the early weeks in drilling into his boys "the fundamentals necessary for a winning team. The Bulldogs have- won the state title the last three years and are given a good chance of repeating. Several meets will round off the rough edges before the high school stars enter the state meet. . Changed to Salt Lake-State Lake-State association members shifted the scene of the big meet this year. Instead of being held in 'Provo as in the previous two years, the meet is scheduled for the University of Utah stadium in Salt Lake City. This may hamper the Bulldogs style somewhat but if the boys get through the qualifying meet in large numbers they will be favored to win the state title again. What the team is pointing for rii?htnow: plenty of points in ta? annual relay meet at Salt in a couple of weeks and f - SfV.v v ' :''' A few 111 " H' I - ?T C--w V:: . - -.,.. . ij? Their Sole Ambition to Supply the Wool f or --i;c HART SCHAFFNER & MAfi TOHIPILIS TTBSS. wB)iasTPisni)S' ft' A greater future hath no lamb . . forf wool loomed into Triple Test fabrics isiV. finest produced. 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