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Show PAGE SEVEN n rvn r S "n nn ::H,WnLMi!i-:i i M 7 n v PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, 'DECEMBER S, 1940 rnn r1 f: . TT MM3 11 - f s i i u u REX PAGES T SOQRirJO; DON DIXON SUITES Young: university S aturday night unveiled a high-scoring basketball bas-ketball squad which smothered Weber college, 50-16, and run up a 70-40 score on a B. Y. U. aiumni team before 1500 fans in the Women's gym. Both the varsity and reserves and little trouble notching up onesided one-sided triumphs over alumni and Weber ttams Which appeared below be-low par. Towering Dale Rex,, sophomore center, paced the varsity to its free-scoring rout of the alumni, tallying 15 points, 13 of them in the first half. B. Y. U. took a 2S-15 lead at half-time and then ran wild in the final half, scoring more than two points a minute. Don (Sanky) Dixon was the big gun in the alumni atack, scoring scor-ing lti points. 10 of them off Don Overly, all-conference guard. ' After a slow start, the "Y" ' reserves hit their scoring stride to swamp a Weber team that couldn't find the hoop. Don Snow, Floyd Giles, and Bryce Christen-sen Christen-sen paced the "Y" outfit to its victory. WEBER G. T. F. P. Christensen, f .0 2 1 1 DeVries, f 0 0 0 0 Hancey, c . . .. 3 2 1 7 Gardner, g 1 3 1 3 Johnson, g. NNN.. 0 2 11 Larson, f 0 0 0 0 Peterson, c 0 1 0 0 Boan, f .. . . 0 3 2 2 Bell, g 0 0 0 0 Green, g 0 1 1 1 Manning, f 0 1 1 1 Reese, c 0 0 0 0 Sandland, c 0 0 0 0 Totals 5 15 8 16 BRrGHAM. YOUNG - G. T. .F. p. Gardner 2 0 0 4 Snow, .' 5 4 1 11 Chiistcnsen, c. 5 0 0 10 Giles g '.4 4 1 y Orr. g 2 3 2 6 Hunt, f 4 2 0 8 Erickson, c 0 0 0 0 Evans, g . 1 0 0 2 Totals 23 13 4 50 Provo Rallies to i Granite Quint, 28-24 BHIGHAM YOUNG G. T. F. P. Fullmer, f. .....i.. 4 0 0 8 vViemer, f . . . . 2 3- -2 & Rex, i 7 1 1 15 Overly, g. . 4 1 0 8 Nielsen, g 3 4 1 7 Esplin, f 4 0 0 8 Gardner, f . 3 2 1 7 Snow, c 2 1 0 4 Giles, g 2 0 0 4 Orr, g. 1 1 1 3 Totals 32 13 6 70 B. Y. U. ALUMNI Dixon, f Crowton, f . . , Giles, c Richins, g. ... Christensen, g. Wilson, f. Dixon, f Gunnell, f. . . Black, g Millett. f. G. 7 1 2 0 T. 3 1 3 2 F. P. 2 16 1 3 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 2 11 2 0 Totals 16 14 8 40 Score by halves: B. Y. U 28 4270 Alumni 15 2540 Officials Bullock and Collins, . . - Frovo high school basketeers, playing smart ball all the way, Friday defeated Granite, 28-24, here in a preseason tilt. Long range tactics that failed to click in the first half drew out tne famed Granite zone de- fense in the second half to allow the Bulldogs to come from behind be-hind in an exhibition of speed, ; spirit, and skill to defeat the Farmers. Provo's victory, its third practice prac-tice triumph of the season,' proved prov-ed that the Bulldogs have another outstanding team a scrappy, high-scoring outfit with ability to come from behind to win. Granite Take? Lead Granite started out as if it would make short work of the Bulldogs, running up a 7-2 score early in the game with nearly every player participating in the scoring. Just before the end of the period, Shemi Coleman tanked a long shot to bring the score to 7-4 at quarter-time. Unleashing a neat passing attack, at-tack, the Farmers increased their lead in the second stanza, but Walt (Pete) Prusse and Coleman began hitting their longer shots to tie the score at 11-all. Granite went ahead 15-11, but Junior Preece brought Provo to within 14-15 of the Farmers at half-time. With Prusse and Preece doing the scoring, the Bulldogs took the lead in the third period, lost it. and then took it again, holding the advantage until the final gun. Prusse tanked two fouls to start the third period and Preece sank a free throw and then stole the ball and dribbled down for a basket bas-ket to put his team ahead, 19-17 at the end of the third quarter, Fourth Quarter Mahlon Rasmuson started the fourth quarter with a neat side shot and followed it with a foul pitch. Coleman ndded another basket from way out, but Billy Jackson, Burtoff and Si Thompson Thomp-son scored to narrow the margin to 24-21. Preece flipped in another field goal from close in, and Rasmus-on Rasmus-on swishel the strings from far out to put the game on ice for the Bulldogs. Granite tallied three foul pitches with a few minutes to play but it wasn't enough to seriously threaten Provo. The Provo team still has a long way to go before it reaches the polished play of last year's team, buL.iJbfi...Bulldogs- Jiave a promis ing group this year that - is expected ex-pected to improve as the season ages. Walt Prusse played a bang-up game at center and came through with scoring when it was most needed. Junior Preece played his the ball and scoring eight points to pace both teams. Sherm Coleman, Cole-man, Mahlon Rasmuson, and Don Phillips looked good at times. Grant Richins played a great defensive de-fensive . game. For Granite, big Si Thompson and Billy Jackson, diminutive forward, for-ward, were the big guns, with Ken Powell looking good on defense. de-fense. , TROVO (2S) G. T. F. P. Richins, f-g 0 0 0 0 Preece, f 3 3 2 8 Prusse, c 2 3 2 6 Coleman, g 3 2 1 7 Phillips, g 10 0 2 Rasmuson, f 2 2,1 5 m m . w m m i inns mmm Upsot B. . High ' En' ProotiDD Till B. Y. high plavod heads-up ball for; more than three periods, then succumbed to a late rally to drop a 37-42 decision to a fighting Tin-tic Tin-tic team at Eureka Friday. The Wildcats moved into an early lead and held it until the final three minutes of play when Rex. Reid. heard-.working forward with an eye for the basket, sank three field goals from far out on the side to put his team ahead. B. Y. high had a team composed almost entirely of. reserves at the end. Roid was the big gun for Tin-tic, Tin-tic, tallying 19 points to pace his mates to n hnrd-fought victory. Erwin Hickman, center, also proved effective at. the basket, tanking 16 counters. Bruce Dalling, diminutive guard, paced the losers with an eight-point barrage, and Bud Harmon Har-mon and Lloyd Rasmuson also looked good for the Wildcats. TINTTC (12) G IN THIS CORN EH What - No Tail-Lisht? BY ART KRENZ Gear, cf. Reid, If Hickman, c Thomas, g Sorenson. g 1 Franks, f . . . 0 Brodorick 1 Taylor, g 0 T. 2 4 4 2 0 2 2 0 F. 1 3 4 1 0 1 0 0 P. 1 19 16 1 2 1 2 0 Mclntyre, g ........ 0 0 0 0 Totals 16 1G 10 42 B. Y. HIGH (37) G. T. F. P. Harding, rf 1 Harmon. If . 2 1 3 2 6 Hansen, c 3 Dabling. g 4 0 ...... 3 1 2 0 0 6 1-0 4 2 1 1 Smith. Rasmussen Godfrey, c 2 0 0 Clark, g Huish, g Baum, f 8 2 7 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 Totals . : .15 10 7 37 IRISH DEFEAT TROJANS, 1 0-6 LOS ANGELES In weather much hotter than either team, the Irish of Notre Dame eked out a 10-6 victory over their bitterest rivals, the Trojans of Southern California, in Memorial Coliseum today. TOTALS 11 GRANITE (24) G. Jackson, f .... 2 Thompson, f . 2 Gunn. c 3 Mackay, g 0 Powell, g 1 Fortie, g 0 Barker, g 0 Burtoff, c 1 Satterwaite, f 0 Taufer, f 0 10 6 28 T. F. r. 3 2 6 5 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 6 6 0 0 0 2 TOTALS 9 14 6 24 Provo 4 14 19 328 Granite 7 15 17 2424 Officials: Bullock and Collins. PKE-IIOLIDAY SAVINGS! Cash and Carry Prices MEN'S SUITS and TOPCOATS 61 LADIES' SUITS and COATS LADIES' DRESSES HATS Cleaned and Blocked PROVO CLEANERS 77 North First West Pfione 10 Football Scores U. S. C. 6, Notre Dame 10. S. F. U. 21 Texas Tech 23. Florida 0, -Texas 26. Citadel 6, South Carolina 31. Auburn 13, Villanova 10. Rice 6, S. M. U. 7. Build or Bust SO H4W NUhSES REFj TtiB COACH OUST HUNG AS PLAlS OA' ME...' ....'.-. - - : A DEiiiiS FAUil.lED OVER PiEOSEKHIS WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (CP) The Chicago Bears hit town today and promptly found themselves installed aa D-to-5 favorites to de-feat de-feat the Washington Redskins when they meet in Griffith stadium sta-dium tomorrow for the world's professional football championship. champion-ship. The R?Iskins' owner, George Preston Marshall, confidently predicted pre-dicted a capacity crowd- His prediction pre-diction appeared reasonably well-founded, well-founded, since all 33,033 tickets for the gam 3 have been sold and 101,500 reposes in the club's bank account. : The Bears, winners of the western west-ern division title, appeared to be in good shapj for the fray, with 'no known members of the casualty list. Bob Swisher, fleet 165-pound halfback 'who has been a main stay in the team's defense against passes vva3 back in form and showed show-ed no ill-effects from a knee injury in-jury which had threatened to keep him out of action, , But the camp of the Eastern title winners reported a less pleasing pleas-ing outlook. The Redskins' already-long already-long injured list grew longer yesterday yes-terday when Bob Masterson, veter-ln veter-ln end, pulled a lsg muscle during a morning workout. He was expected ex-pected to play tomorrow but no one would venture a guess on how long he could stand the pace. Yankees Unload Pouell To Seal ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 6 (CI!) The New York Yankees' house-cleaning house-cleaning program was undenvay today in a modest way. They unloaded Outfielder Jake Powell on the' San Francisco Pacific Coast league club as the minor leagues closed their annual convention. con-vention. Frank (Lefty) O'Doul, San FrancLsco manager, engineered the deal for Powell, and believed he could send the 31-year-old outfielder back to the majors after af-ter a season in the coast loop. The- Seals were said to have paid $10,000 for him. It was the first Yankee transaction trans-action since they were stripped of their championship laurels last season. Others may follow at the major league meeting in Chicago next week. Several clubs have contacted the anks about some of the men who played prominent promin-ent roles in New York's four- year championship reign. One-Sided Games Mark Sharon Play Pleasant View and Edgemont M-Mcn basketball teams scored easy victories Thursday in Sharon stake competition. Led by Don McKay, Pleasant View trounced .Vineyard, 41-20, while Edgemont ran wild in smothering Timpanogos, 4G-9. PAYSON, S. F, LOSE AT MAGNA Payson and Spanisn Fork basketball bas-ketball teams found the going tough against Cyprus and Murray Mur-ray Friday night at Magna. Payson Pay-son bowotl to Cyprus, 23-34, and and Spanish Fork took a 32-18 lacing from Murray. Payson held its own with Cyprus Cy-prus for the first period, tut with Knaus hitting the hoop, the Pirates pullecl away in the second sec-ond period and were never seriously seri-ously threatened. Murray, after a slow start, took the lead midway in the initial stanza and then opened up with a scoring spree in the third stanza stan-za while holding Spanish Fork scoreless to clinch the game. Springville Bows To Moroni, 33-21 Moroni hoopsters Friday came from behind in the final half to tip Springville, 33-21, at Moroni. Mor-oni. , 1 , Springville took an early lead and was ahead. 13-7, at half-time, half-time, but the Ik7roni crew solved the Red Devils' defense In the third period and took the lead from the invaders and never lost it. f. By way of stressing determination determina-tion to acquire sufficient weight to make him suitable opponent for Joe Louis next summer, Billy Conn, light-heavyweight champion, drinks milk between "rounds of workout "Y" Hoop Drills Attract 37 Frosh Thirtv-seven players answered Coach "Wayne Soffe's first call for basketball practice at B.Y.U., Friday night. Coach Soffe indicated he would trim the squad to 15 players Monday, Mon-day, with another cut in the squad scheduled later in the season. The turnout for frosh basketball practice prac-tice is a new record at B.Y.U. CHROME PLATED V0 Of WAFFLE IRONS BEAUTIFUL Afl nn LAMPS ItliO LOVELY ff KITCHEN CLOCKS vi Buy Them At tfi North University Avenue Phone 418 -i.-7aaj t' Gliineco Team to sst AH-Star The Hong Wah Kues, all-Chinese all-Chinese basketball team, meets the Utah Valley All-Stars Wednesday Wed-nesday at 8 p. m., either in the Provo high School gym or in Springville, accortTing to J. B. Lcyshon, manager. Including outstanding players from throughout Utah county, the All-Stars, formerly the Provo Lions, boast one of the strongest independent outfits in the state. The Chinese crew, which hails from San Francisco, plays fast basketball and stages a colorful show, according to reports. Hoop Officials Meet Here Today Officials of Region Three will meet here today at 2 p. m. in the fire hall to discuss interpretation of high school basketball rules and changes in officiating, according accord-ing to E. Reed (Lob) Collins, local lo-cal official. The meeting, which wras called by Bert Bullock, president of the officials, is open to all prospective prep officials in central Utah FREIGHTER SUNK NEW YORK. Dec. 7 (U.D A Berlin radio report heard by CBS today said that the British freighter Palmella of 1.578 tons had been sunk by a submarine 120 miles of the coast of Portugal. Gillette Ooior Sports Flash!! Tune in KOUO 11:30 a. m. 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