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Show .i 'I - f PRO VP- "(UTAHT SUNDAY HERALD. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1942 ProvoLehi Set Fast Pace In Alpine Cage? Campaign; Payson, Spritigville To Clash ForNebq League s .'I. ' .I,-, . . " . " . r ' , in , , i, . 1 1 ; a? Pioneor3 Topple B. From First Place; rovo A. F. Win Pi Y. Battline neck and neck in a torrid Alpine district , title race. Provo and Lehl-prep, cage teams ' face tough foes this week as Play enters the second half. " " Lehi, which eliminated B. Y. ' i high from the1 first place tie with 25-19 triumph" Friday aCLehl. , , ? faces the.strong Pleasant Grove J five this week in a feature game. Provp Trtrnnhri S Coach GlennSimmons' Provo ,t quint, which .blistered the basket with; a second-half scoring spree to humble Pleasant Grove, 47-28. hereFrlday, tackles the second-, second-, place American Fork quint in the .Bulldog gym. In the other game 3 this week, B. Y. high, still in the Provo. ALPINE STANDINGS , : r W. I Provo ; 4 1 Lehl ..... 4 1 B. Y. high 3 2 American Fork 3 2 Pleasant Grove ' 1 4 Lincoln . . ......... . 0 S y "Friday's Results Provo 47, Pleasant Grove 28, Lehl 23, B. Y. high 19. American Fork 34, Lincoln This Week'w Schedule American Fork at ProVa Lincoln at B. Y. high i - Pleasant .Grove at Lehl Pet. .800 .800 .600 ,600 .200 .000 29 It's Good For Two Points! Mahlon Rasmuson, Bulldog forward, races in to make a basket as -Provo trounced Pleasant Grove, 47-28, here last night. Harry Suker, classy Provo center, is just back of Mahlon Pleasant Grove players shown in the action picture pic-ture re Keith Bezzant (behind Suker); . Stan .Walker (No. 12)and Elroy West, foreground. After a nip-and-tuck first half, the Bulldogs pulled away from their rivals with a red-hot scoring attack that netted 31 points in the final half. : . " i 1 -American Fork demonstrated it will be a strong threat to Provo's top position this" 'week by outlasting out-lasting a game Lincoln quint Fridays Fri-days 34-29. Displaying a- brilliant defense that completely handcuffed "Y'-' high Wildcats, the Lehi Pioneers poured on theeteam In the second half to win their fourth victory in five starts. N-s Neither team did much scoring in the first half, with Lehi leading, lead-ing, 3-1, at quartertime, and holding hold-ing a 5-all tie at the half, but In the third .period Lehi ipoured in 13 (points and added seven . in the last quarter.. Don Russon, g clever shooting Pioneer forward, led his team with 14 points, while Clyde Lam-fcert Lam-fcert and Reed Nostrum clamped down on big Don Hansen and held him to seven counters. Dick Dab-ling Dab-ling led Wildcats with eight counters. count-ers. Bulldogs Shine Provo played alternately good ind bad, .basketball to whip Pleas-tnt Pleas-tnt Grove. In the first half, Kelly fJilen, brilliant Viking forward, for-ward, kept his team Very much In the game, and the Bulldogs K held only a 16-14 advantage at the intermission. In the second half, after the Vikings had tied the score at 16-nll, 16-nll, the Bulldogs suddenly got hot at the basket, tanking shots from all angles and completely smothering smoth-ering the tiring Pleasant Grove quint.. last Half Spree For the last 12 or 13 minutes of the ball game, the Bulldogs could do no wrong and looked like a state championship quint. Harry Suker and Mahlon Rasmuson Ras-muson paced the Bulldogs to victory vic-tory with plenty of help from classy teammates.' Suker, sinking a pair of colorful tip-ins and turning, turn-ing, in a bang-up game, tanked 13 points, and Rasmuson swished in 12. Garth Ford, one of the finest guards in the state, controlled the defensive banker and still found time to score 10 points. Rand Clark played flossy ball and garnered gar-nered nine counters. Max Evans and Dwaine Mecham alternated at the other guard spot effectively. Cavemen Win Lincoln fought American Fork to a standstill in the first half, trailing only by one point,-15-16, at half time, but the Cavemen came back strong after the Intermission and" soon took over control of the ball game. The third quarter score wu 27-21 for the Cavemen, who staved off a Tiger rally to win their third victory. Wendell Hansen paced Coach Don Overly's crew to victory with a 16-point hoop barrage, while . Bob Foutin topped Lincoln shooters shoot-ers with 10 points. - AMERICAN FORK (34) G. T. F. P. Hansen, f 6 3 '16 Dealt f 3 2 0 6 Durrant, c 3 2 0 6 Pierce, g . . 1 0 0 2 Burke, g 1 5 2 4 Peters, f 0 0 0 0 luir, c 0100 Coddington, g ...... 0 0 0 0 - ' i j FSJit SMSMWtWt 4 9- v2 0 I. F. Club Names Playing-Manager IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Feb. 7 (UJ?) Lou Garland had been chosen chos-en today to continue as business manager of the Idaho Falls Russets Rus-sets baseball club, in addition to taking- over duties of field manager man-ager for the 1942 season. Garland, business manage?" of the club since it was organized, Provo's Chances For P. L. Franchise Hinge On League Meet Sunday Provo's possible entrance into the Pioneer league this year will likely be determined a week from today when officials of the strong baseball circuit meet at Idaho was retained at a meeting of the ! Falls to map ptans for operation in That Provo will be the first choice if either Boise or Twin Falls bows out was indicated heC Friday by Bill McCorry, manager of the Ogden Reds, and Claude Engberg, secretary of the Salt Lake Bees. new club owners. He and five Idaho Falls business men purchased pur-chased the- Russet franchise from Sam Collins, Lewiston, Idaho, last week. The purchase price of the franchise fran-chise was not revealed, but it was reported to be "about $6,000." West, g 1 1 1 3 S. Walker, s 0 5 2 2 jAtWood, 1 0 0 0 0 SWenson, g .1 3 1 3 Mathews, g 0 0 0 0 Totals .......... ' ; LINCOLN Aiken, f Foutin, f Conder, c . watts; g Peterson,- g. ...... Ryan, f ...... i. . Byland, t ..... Worthen, g 14 13 (29) .. 0 . 3 .. 3 . 0 . 1 0 . 0 .. 3 6 34 0 10 8 0 4 0 C 7 Totals 10 16 PROVO (47) 8 28? Rasmuson, Clark, t .. Suker, c Ford, g ... Mecham, g ttvans, g . -6 3 6 4 0 1 12 9 13 10 1 2 Total Score by quarters: Provo 11 Pleas. Grove ..... 8 20 15 7 47 16 14 Officials: Hillman and 32 47 10 28 Wilson. HIGH (19) 10 12 9 29 J Totals Score hy quarters: American Fork 9 Lincoln . .ij. ' 6 Officials: Christensen and Chris-tensen. 16 15 27 21 34 29 PLEASANT ROVE (28) ' G. T. F. P. Giles, f 6 5 3 15 .U-tWalker, f, 0,0 0 0 Betzant," c . . .". 2 . 2 15 B. Y. Dabling, g . Baum, f Hansen, c Oldroyd, g . . . . Paulson, g Hart, f Free, f Huish, f Johnson, g ... Jenkins, g . . . , Totals . . LEI Russon, t ... Nostrum, f . . . C. Lambert, c JLamfcert, g . Stoker, g ...... Carson, g Dorton, g .' . . . Totals Score by quarters: B. Y. High Lehi .3 3 2 8 .0 0 0 0 .3417 .0411 .0 4 3 2 ,0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 0 .0211 . 0 1 0 0 . . 6 18 7l 19 ) .5 9 ' 14 .2 4 2 6 . 0 0 0 0 .0 8 3 3 . 1 0 0 2 . 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0 . 8 21 9 25 1 f5 9 19 .3 5 IS 25 Officials:. Dixon and Beck. The two made a tour of the city with Clayton Jenkins, secretary of the chamber of commerce, Bob Bullock, No. 1 baseball booster here, newspaper men, and other supporters of the move. Possibilities Possibili-ties of operating in the league here next year were investigated by the duo, who .will report their findings at the approaching meeting. meet-ing. I Bcise, Twin Falls In the league set-up at present Twin Falls is having financial difficulties and may not be able to go ahead with operations this year. Boise under Hadyn Walker is : also a question mark in the loop, although the Idaho capital is expected to remain in the league, possibly under a different ownership, owner-ship, j If either of these two clubs fail to operate, Provo will, be Invited to join the league, officials indicated. indi-cated. The league will make its decisions at the Idaho Falls meeting meet-ing next Sunday. Meanwhile, Provo boosters are making plans to make application to join the league. The P. L. visitors indicated that the league would waive certain restrictions to . enable Provo to operate with a minimum of expense ex-pense this first year. Use Timp Park For instance, the present Timp ball park will be used with only minor remodeling, and with daylight day-light saving time in effect, twiEght ball could be played almost entirely, en-tirely, thereby eliminating the huge expense of lighting the park. Bleachers would have to be added and the park improved. , AWARDS VOTED B. Y. U. GRIDDERS 18-1 Shot Wins llialeah Feature Lead (f'juz HERALD $ Red Devil Five Whips Juab; Lions Trip , Spanish Fp: LeadershiD in Nebo competition today is shared by Springville and Payson, but only one or tne wo will atin be on top after this week's schedule, which sends the No. 1 clubs against each other at Payson Friday. . , c , : SDrinfirville retained its share of the lead by trouncing Juab, 37-31' and Payson defended its piace with 35-24 triumph over Spanish Fork in games Friday. r. Hold Lead Although the Red Devils held a substantial lead throughout Its game with Juab, the Wasps con tinually threatened and staged a W. L. Pet. Springville 4 1 .800 Payson 4 1 ou Spanish Fork 2 3 .400 Tlntlc 1 3 50 Juab 1 2 Friday's Results Springville 37, Juab 31. Payson 35, Spanish Fork 24. This Week's Schedule - Springville at . Payson Tlntlc at Juab last quarter rally that was stopped just in time by Coach Art Hughes club. Mel Teas dale and Johnson paced Springville with nine points apiece, while Higginson,. topped Juab performers with 15. Payson had less -trouble with Spanish Fork, piling up a 21-7 lead at half time and coasting to an impressive victory. Top Scorers-Dick Scorers-Dick Lant and Powell topped the Lions' versatile attack, while Alden Olsen and Max ' Gardner were the only consistent scorers for the losers. Besides the Springville-Payson clash this week, Tintic and Juab play at Nephi. Spanish Fork draws a bye. SPRINGVILLE (37) G. T. Teasdale, f .......... 4 G. Clark, f 1 Johnson, c 3 Eggertson, g 2 Miner, g Z Hansen, f . u 1 Rothwell, f 10 Crane, g Q 1- F. P. 3 19 1 3 3 0 1 0 0 2 4 7 2 9 37 6 3 3 0 Promoter Regrets Action In Patching Axis Relationships Totals 14 19 JUAB (31) Byron, f 1 Newton, f 4 Garret, e , ; . . . i :Jt 2 - lM of the treatment he' "wburd-rVdetv'e.' Clark, g 0 Higginson, g 6 Beiiiston, f 0 By JACK GUENTHER NEW YORK, Feb. 7 OIRV Still- man's gym isn't a place you asso ciate with international treaties. The fight mob hangs out there. In the typical gym tradition, the rickety old building reeks; of smoke and sweat. The stairways creaa. When the boys pound the bag, paint falls from the walls, Yet, it was in Stillman's today that I heard a story that was as much a tale of international up-lomacy up-lomacy as it was of boxing. It waa Paul Damski's story of how he settled eight years of World War antagonism between Germany Ger-many and Italy and unwittingly laid the foundation of what we call the Axis. Daraski fled from. Germany. In 1933 and came to America as man ager of Walter Neusel, Eric Seellg and Gunnar Barlund. Berore tnai he had spent 14 years as a boxer, manager, small-town promoter and finally director of the biggest of the German fight, arenas, the Berlin Ber-lin Sports Palast. . It is in the Sports Palast that his story begins, in 1926: "Max Schmeling was light heavyweight champion of Europe and he had beaten everybody in sight except a boy named Michele Bonaglia. Bonaglia had won 23 straight fights and held the title of champion of Italy. The match was a natural, but nobody could sign it. Germany and Italy had fought each other in the war and they still, were hostile. "Schmeling waned to fight but ne was airaia 10 go 10 itaiy De cause he knew that he might be hurt. The countries hadn't met in sport events since the war. Bon aglia similarly was willing to fight but he was afraid to come to Ger many. So I had two willing fighters fight-ers and an arena. I went to Milan to talk to Bonaglia myself. "I had an easier time than had expected'. The Italians were eager to have their boy fight Schmeling but tljey were skeptical 1- j . U.S.VJiUOkeh Coast Hight Dall v4 5Ji 1 SACRAMENTO, Calif., Feb. 7 oJURThe western defense command will approve night baseball on the west, coast unless war conditions change. Gov. Culbert Olson an- nouncea loaay., . j uovernor uison saia ne naa Deen advised of Ihe" status' of night, baseball by Lieut. Gexu J. L. De-,,-: Witt, commandant of the; western defense command. M ' s "The enemy situation, however, S cannot be forecast," the governor z said, "and what it may be on April 2, 1942, the date the season opens, r Is entirely 'a matter of conjee-; 2 ture. v r .- .-t.-r...-. T with him came 400 Italian newspa permen, diplomats and officers, rr Schmeling knocked out Bonaglia f- In one punch, before 12,000 people. Incidentally, when you read that, Hitler-has addressed 25,000. people at the Sports Palast, just laugh. You can't pack in 14,000, and I know. !3 4 Bailey, f Peay(i c . 0 0 0 7 0 2 1 0 0 3 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals Score by quarters: j Springville 7 juau o 12 21 7 31 Brigham Young university's athletic ath-letic council Friday approved awarding of 29 varsity letters and 22 frosh numeral awards, according accord-ing to Edwin R. Kimball, head coach and athletic director, who recommended the awards to the council. Seven sophomores, 12 juniors, and 10 seniors are included in the varsity awards. The 10 who graduate grad-uate are Garth Chamberlain, Dee Chipman, Owen Dixon, Roy Evans, Dean Gardner, George Jackson, GailyLewis, Sam Mavrakis, Gene Risfta, and George Wing. Other award-winners are juniors jun-iors Mel Anderson, Jim Hecker, Gordon Lee, Jerry Marking, Mike Mills, Grant Mulleneaux, Reed Nilsen, Bob Orr, Ted Tibbetts, Mark Weed, and Herm Long-hurst; Long-hurst; sophomores Fielding Abbott, Ab-bott, Ken Bird, Wes Bowers, Dee Call, Howard Holdaway, Vaughn Kimball and Clair Lloyd. Freshman numerals will be given giv-en to Lew Truman, Gene Peterson, Peter-son, Cy Thompson, Grant Richins, Vallarr Ranson, Ed Ure, Cloyd Tobbler, Duane Warner, Forresf Wagner, Russell Boyce, Max Sha-fer, Sha-fer, Rex Miner, Howard Boswell, Leland Baxter, Thayne Stone, Glen Oliverson, Dale Butterfield, Fred Whitney, Shirl Kimball, Ar-vil Ar-vil Reid, Bob Liday, Rex Olsen, Marcel Chatterton and Derald Mulleneaux. Mel Ott Accepts Salary In Bonds NEW YORK, Feb. 7 UE Mel Ott became the first major league manager to accept 10 per cent of his wages in defense bonds when he signed a two-year contract as playing manager of the New Pork Giants yesterday. Ott; who will play rlgh field for the Giants, relporbedly will receive $25,000 a year. He succeeds Bill Terry, who moved into the front office. By JOHN B. McDERMOTT HIALEAH, Fla., Feb. 7 UE Albert Sabath's stout-hearted Al-sab Al-sab made ah inglorious debut as a three-year-old today, finishing sixth in a field of 10 in the 10th running of the Nahamas handicap at Hialeah park. The big bay "rags-to-rlches" colt of 1941 was lost in the pack from the start as Mrs. A-. F. Sherman's 18-1 shot, American Wolf, upset a classy field to take first money. H. L. Myer"s Sheriff Culkin showed his heels to W. L. Brann's Challedon and Glen Riddle Farm's War . Relic in the sustaining $1,-500 $1,-500 British West Indies feature. Sheriff Culkin jumped to an early lead and never was headed, winning win-ning by two lengths. Challedon was second; War Relic, third, and Woodvale Farm's Our Boots, fourth. It was Alsab's first defeat in the past 11 starts, his victories last year having made him a heavy favorite in the winter books to win the "Big Three' of turf-dom turf-dom the Kentucky Derby, the Pimlico Preakness and the mont Stakes. 20 27 26 37 31 Officials: Collins and Bullock. SPANISH FORK (24) .. G. T. F. C. Allred, f ..3 4 1 A. Olsen, f 0 G. Olsen, c 0 Nielsen, g 1 Greer, g 0 Close, f 0 Cole, g 0 Simmons , 1 M. Gardner, g 4 2 6 1 0 2 0 2 5 P. 7 1 1 3 0 1 0 3 8 Bel- Hockey Contest Benefits Army BOSTON, Mass., . Feb. .7 ttE The army relief fund received $14,000 today from a 4-4 two-period two-period exhibition game between the one-time National Hockey league All-Stars and the? .champion .cham-pion Boston Bruins. ( ' A sell-out crowd of 14,662 saw the game Friday night at the Boston Garden. It reached a comedy climax :. when . the full squads of both teams jammed the ice and? fought "good-naturedly for the puck. The Bruins took a 3-6 "lead In the first period as the stars of hockey's golden era the. late 20 and early 30's had trouble' keeping keep-ing on their feet The stars went ahead In the second on a goal by Busher Jackson, former Toronto winger now with Boston. 'Rookie Bruce evened the count and spares of both teams' jointed In the circus ending. Totals 9 22 PAYSON (35) 6 24 Lant, f C. Heath, f ., Menlove, c PoweU, g .... L. Simmons, g 1 Heath, f : . , . McBeth, f Greggs, g H. Simmons, g 4 2 2 "4 0 0 0, 1 0 1 5 4 2 6 3 2 0 0 8 6 5 9 3 2 ,1 9 33 Totals 13 23 Score by quarters: Payson 12 21 29 35 Spanish Fork'...o0 7 16 24 Officials: Hoover and Van Leu-ven. Deer May Be Fed Leaves in Winter SALT LAKE CITY, Feb 8 Utah's deer are having "vitamin troubles," and as a result street cleaning and refuse disposal departments de-partments ;tn Provo, Ogden, ; Salt Lake City -and . various . other towns. In Utah may be asked ' to cooperate with, the fish and game department next fall In supplying supply-ing leaves which have fallen from trees and have heretofore ' been burned. S - . -. Director Mark Anderson of the game department reported experiments ex-periments are to be made In the future to determine If the leaves can be salvaged and used to vary the diets of big' game on winter feeding grounds. . .-. ' x j Apparently ' there is a forage deficiency and the department is seeking a way to correct the situation. sit-uation. . ;fr.f.y . : s j . -i . . Deer; on, winter , ranges now overcrowded to some extent have difficulty finding their own food during the heavy winter- months. Thus It was -that a deer feeding program was sUrted to keep the animals from dying off ? i .V Hay was the mainstay diet given giv-en the animals, but it' is not sufficient suf-ficient to sustain life over a pror longed, period. The deer must have other-kinds of food to keep them 1 from-winter-IrilHn-' -' ' So we held a banquet and I made a speech. I talk nine different languages now but I didn't talk Italian then, so I gave the speech through an interpreter from the consulate. 1 . "I told the people at the ban-' quet that the war was all over and it was silly for people to be suspicious sus-picious of each other. I said, 'We in Germany have come to you. and now you should come to us. We'll build a bridge of friendship to you and you one towards us. Sooner or later the bridge will meet somewhere some-where In the center and well be as one.' "They gave me a big hand for that. Bonaglia came to Berlin and ' "The only man who felt bad after the fight was Bonaglia. In the .dressing .room he. stood with a telegram from Mussolini in his hand, banging his head against the wall as hard as he could and crying like anything. But the. 400 people who had come - with him 3 knew that he had been whipped in a fair fight and they were satis-fied. satis-fied. ' . . ,3 "They got together with Ger-v man brass, hats and had a fine time. ., The . diplomats became friendly and soon Italian and Ger- u man athletes were visiting back rl and forth. It wasn't long before ; good relations were established M again.. Slowly'' the bridges of 4 irtenasmp were ouuc up, just nice I had said. bridges met. And finally, . those You know where? "They met at the Bremner pass." I asked Paul if he would like to return to Germany. - t "Jack," he -said, "ifledfor my life two days after Hitler came into power in 1933 but I'm going back. On Monday I get . my American Am-erican citizenship papers and when ' I go back it will be 'an: American citizen. What Pd like to do is ride at the head of a parade of American Amer-ican soldiers, grin at those Naxis and spit right at their eye. You see, Mr. : DamskI ' regrets his peace making. 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