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Show PROVO : XVTkb) -SUNDAY - HERALD, - SUNDAY-,-- MARCH 1, - mil I PAGE 1 FOUR i m i in i i . - - - - .. Z l " : " Z ". "vTTP ' - . : , .1, . - - . , . " , . - . t " - . '7 '""7 uVuiiiniv Mii'h :mm . ikmmm , :. U e UoiroGlhi : U urn I SPORTS I Colorado HumUeS -Ban s Here Asa-And N. F.. HUDDLE By GLEN SNARB Simmons Earns 15th '' Tounuunnit Berth ' When the 1942 edition of the Provo "high school basketball team grabbed the Alpine district championship' cham-pionship' and the state tourna- i XUCUb , VCI VU lbH. itheyi became . the 15th Glenn t Simmons-coached team to enter ; the- cagef est. , . novo uoacB ; . lias Fine Record . , In the 15 trips his teams have . made to the , tourney,. Simmons has won the slate championship once In 1941 lias placed third twice, and captured two consolation consola-tion championships. He has sent : teams to the tourney for the last five years. Simmons Coaches 19 Tears at P. H. S. " Coach Simmons has served at - Provo high school as head coach since 1923, coming' to the Provo school after mentoring at Carbon : and later at Payson. Previous to 'that, he was a star on the great B. Y. U. team and captain of the football squad at the Y." He served with the United States Marines auring world war i. xt -was while in the Marines that Simmons earned quite a reputation reputa-tion as a boxer. Provo : to Field , . ' Strong Nine Again ; Because most of the players "are married and have dependents,,, the 1943 Provo ; Tlmp baseball team In the Industrial league, defend ing champions, Is expected to be about as strong as last year, ac- ' cording to Manager Lob Collins. ' Don Overly, Len Page, Lee Chris- ' t-Mmw (llo Bum T nVo. Vimn VBWU, ilVlM PITT HIHUrf sFran , Dudley, Spot Clegg, Deb " Dudley , and others are expected to be back on the Tlmp nine. One certain loss is that of Alva Jensen,; hard-hitting outfielder, Bow a dentist In the U. S. navy. Track Season To Be Changed -little v .Tfa 1 0A O traolr mhikii uHll son few changes except loss of sev- eral key men according to off i-- i-- cials. Although the Nebo district schools will likely close early, the track season wS be completed in plenty of time. In collegiate cir-; cir-; cles, the loss of a number of top-! top-! notch tracksters seems to be the only troutte. The B. Y. U. Invitation Invita-tion meet will again be a cynosure for prep trackmen from throughout through-out the west. Something ew For Baseball Patterned after basketball's ex- perimental "crow's nest" officiat- ing system, a new idea for base- "Got shoes on your .mind?" You can lead your dogs to wa?cr, but you can't make them like it. But you tan make them like Mansfields . . . famed "for fit. So if you've got shoes on your mind, do the hohorable thing by your feet . . . get a pair of Mansfields. Mans-fields. And if you want to.be the smart color bearer get , . MMSFIELD Barracks Drowns $5.50 - $7.50 LtfU Tfttif BLAT, BafTwW Brown wingtp axiotd. $5.50 Sitkf; Bpwtt, mae-cann mae-cann bloc her oxford with thtck re nib- 7.50 . f ' r tour . . BIG SEVEN STANDINGS . .' r W. 'Li: PCt. Colorado ... ........ 10 0 1.004 Brigham Young rT. . . 8 8 fill Wyoming 1 , 8 .700 Utah t . .............. 4 .688 Utah State 8 8 78 Denver t 10, .167 '.' . . . Colorado State 1 9 .100 Saturday's-Results ;,?.( . . Colorado. 52, Brigham Young 85. Colorado State- SO, Denver 38. . Friday's Results Brigham Young 54, Colorado State 41. VVyomlng 75, Utah State S4. BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 28 OLE) Any lingering -doubts about Colorado Colo-rado ' university's , supremacy in the - Big Seven this year were dispelled here Saturday night when the Buffs crushed the hard-fighting hard-fighting Brigham Young Cougars, 52 to 35. . -The; triumph, blasting the Cougars', Cou-gars', slim hopes of tieing the Buf fs gave C. U, its fourth conference con-ference championship in five years.,. Soon after the opening gun, the Frosty Cox-coached crew grabbed the lead, pouring on the heat to lead, 32-17, at half time. Young U struck back strongly in the second half but could never threaten the powerful Buffs. The Buffaloes, three basketball musketeers. Bob Doll, Pete Mc-Cloud Mc-Cloud and George Hamburg, dropped - in buckets ' from all angles of the Boulder fieldhouse bail umpires is being developed by Ray Dumont, who gave baseball its automatic home plate duster, the Jack-in-the-box microphone, etc This new system, called the "Eagle Nest" method, consists of having the umpire suspended in an unusual contraption' about 10 feet above the Infield. t The contraption con-traption is movable, so 'that during dur-ing slack moments the amp Can linger over first base. Then, when things speed up, he can press a button and! bingo hell be transferred trans-ferred to any place In the Infield. The idea is being tried Out and may be used in the national semi-pro semi-pro tourney at Wichita, Kansas, next summer. Dumont, it will be remembered, designed the jack-in-the-box . microphone, mi-crophone, which is supposed to embarrass players arguing with (he umpire at home plate by am- plifying their words over a public address system. fx TAYLOR DHOS. CO. MEN'S SHOP For 3 ir.,i tn boon iitie court with TJolora'do losing 1 the lead after they tied up the scoVe at r two apiece in .the first'. 15 seconds of play. . . v , B. Y. U. stole tip within eight points of the Buffs with Only five minutes' 'left to play but at that point Colorado's Pete Mc- Cloud, connected with a long shot to start Colorado on a scoring spree that counted tip 10 points in the last -five mimitea Dale Rex, lanky Brigham Young center, gave Colorado all-American all-American Bob Doll ' considerable trouble with his defensive work until Rex fouled out of the gam after 11 minutes of the second half had been played. After that Doll - managed ... to hit; with regt ularlty to take . high scoring honors . with 19. points, only one point above his temmate, Mc-Cloud. Mc-Cloud. " ' '' ,;:W. ''ij ; Esplin was ; high s- scorer for Brigham Young , shovelling if points through the hoop. Rex wai held down to only a single free throw after leading his team in their victory, last night over Colorado Colo-rado State at Fort Collins. , Coach Floyd Millet Substituted freely Friday night as his Cougars romped to a 54-41 victory over Colorado State at Fort Collins.. . The .- Young U , quint, obviously saving themselves for Saturday's battle, grabbed an early lead and were never headed. B. Y. U. poured In the points from the opening whistle to take a 16-9 lead, then boosted it to 26-15 at half time. From there on, it was a roughhouse battle, with the Aggies holding their own until a final "Y" spurt. . Although Bus Bergman, Coioag forward, copped high honors with 16 points, Dale Rex paced B. Y. U. with 14, while Dean Gardner pour- edittio:"- r- - In the other Friday contest at Logan, Wyoming really turned on the heat to swamp Utah State in a two-point-a-minute basket barrage. bar-rage. Milo Komenich and Bill Stran-nigan Stran-nigan led the Cowboys to an early lead which they never relinquished. Strannigan banged the hoop for 21 counters, while towering Komenich Kome-nich connected for 18. BRIGHAM YOUNG G. F. P. T. Fullmer, f 2 3 2 2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 Hunt, f . ... Gardner, f. . Jackson, f. . Rex, c Peterson, g. Walker, g. . Giles, g. ... 2 4 O 7 2 3 0 0 6 10 0 14 4 7 2 0 4 Moore, g. Esplin, g 2 Totals 22 10 17 54 COLORADO STATE G. F. P. T. Bergman, f 8 0 0 16 Eastlack, f. 3 1 2 7 P &rki 3 Woods, c. l Smith, g, l Hooper, g. o IfJtt f X Maeda, f. ............ 0 Ferguson, g. o Olson, g. O 4 1 4 2 2 0 O 3 Totals: 17 7 18 41 .. Half time score: Brigham Young 26, Colorado State 15. Free-throws missed: Colorado State 13,- B. Y. U. 8. . .Officials: Butler and Douben-meer. Douben-meer. . ' MORE BOOkS NEEDED . SPRING VILLE Librarians . at the Springville public library today to-day announced that more books were needed to fill the quota assigned as-signed to Springville in the recent re-cent campaign to " sret books for the soldiers' camps. , Those desiring to make contri- butions are asked to bring the books td the library, to date only 30 books have been received of the city quota of 100, the lfbrar- ians-stated. SAVE M0EYI HERE! 1 47 North University Avenue FLOOR SANDER FOR RENT " " ' " 5 f"'-v Trainer. Jim Tadley leads Athletics in calisthenics at Anaheim. Left inset. Connie. Mack, and, right, ' Frank Hayes, catching mainstay. , 1 , , .. ' .Mi... ' - i - ! Industrial League Plans for Gala Diamond Season; Bullock Reelected Utah's only independent -semi-pro league the State Industrial .baseball circuit today looked forward to one of its biggest seasons, sea-sons, following an enthusiastic meeting Saturday night of league officials and team managers in Salt Lake City. Bob Bullock of Provo was reelected, re-elected, president of the league, with Fred Tedesco as vice president. presi-dent. ' Darrell Kldd was named treasurer. Possibility . of a , seven team league with American Fork Joining Join-ing the present . set-up met with approval , of loop , officials, " although al-though no action will be taken on this i until the next meeting March 29. If any of the present six teams in the league withdraw, the A. F. team will . be included, Bullock Bul-lock said. American Fork has an excellent location for a team and would strengthen the loop officials of-ficials said, v ' Helper was the only team doubtful doubt-ful about the 1942 season. Gem-mell Gem-mell club has not made complete plans for the campaign - as yet, but : club moguls indicated that this would be taken care of at a meeting ; In the near future. . Provo, Brigham City, Magna-Garfleld,. Magna-Garfleld,. and Pinney Beverage of Salt Lke city reported everything every-thing in , readiness for competition. competi-tion. ".' 7 ,. I 7 - ( - MARKETS GLANCE w stocks'-irregular and quiet - Bonds irregular; U. S govern- ments easy. Curb stocks irregular. Cotton firm, r . - . 7V 6 1 I vrrsr- 4) ,i BLOZIS SETS SIIOTPUTf.lARK NEW, YORK, Feb. 28 J.R) Al Blozis, the 260-pound tackle of the Georgetown football team, smashed his . own world indoor shot-putting record by eight and a quarter inches tonight with an inspired heave of 57 feet,; -ln. only a quarter-inch short of the outdoor mark held by Jack Torrance Tor-rance of New Orleans. The Georgetown boy established the new record just , before Norwood Nor-wood Ewell of Penn State college defeated defending champion Herbert Her-bert Thompson of Jersey City, N. J., in the 60-yard dash and Fred Wolcott of Texas replaced Allan Tolmich of Fort Dix, N.J., as king of the nation's 60-yard hurdlers. Ewell defeated Thompson by two yards With a spurt in the last quarter of the dash and equalled equal-led the meet record of 6.2 seconds'. Thompson was second in the field of four with Herbert Douglas Of New Orleans third, and Joe Bento De Assis of Saopaulo, Brazil, pulling pull-ing up five yards in the rear. : Wins Coast to LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 (HR) The University of Southern California-track team, showing potent po-tent strength in all departments, walked, off with top score in a four-way meet at Occidental's Patterson field today. v .The Trojans, scored. 86 points In the 'handicapped . meet, Los Angeles college was second with 52 points and - Occidental third with 23. Glendale Junior college failed to place a man. ,. Many of the star USC performers perform-ers were kept out of the competition competi-tion and no records were broken. Best performances of the afternoon after-noon were by LeRoy LWeek, USC distance runner who turned in a 4:23 mile,, and Gill Green, Trojan Tro-jan high jumper who cleared six feet 64 inches. v Despite the handicaps given the three smaller schools, USC took firsts in nearly all events. J I . -r 3 4' Fairviciv Crouned Uahbail Champion Fairvlew South ward was crowned vanball champion of the Utah National Parks council, Boy Scouts of America, following the annual council . Explorer tourna- aientatuMlay-4ft-rth-ten'a gym- at Brigham sroung university. " The Fairvlew team, coached by Merlin Madsen and captained by Darrell Stewart, defeated Manti Center, 15-3 and 15-1, and then downed Provo Second, 15-5 and 15-12. , Provo Second, which had a first round bye, copped second place by beating Manti . Center 15-4 and 15-12. Only the three teams entered. en-tered. According to Or. Wayne B. Hales, council chairman of senior scouting, who was In charge, an appropriate trophy will be awarded award-ed the Fairvlew team. The winning team's personnel included Mr. Stewart Reed Mad-sen, Mad-sen, Leon Vance, Allen Anderson, Robert Vance, Myrth Miner, Ther-on Ther-on Rigby, Dwaine Jensen, Jay Johnson, Joe Knight Jacob Anderson An-derson and Hermitt Graham. G. M. Hinckley was leader of the Provo Second team with William Wil-liam Gay as coach. Manti's team was coached by Lloyd Nielsen and Gordon Harris, with Kenneth Anderson An-derson as captain. HOUSE WAR POWERS BILL WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 UJ! The bouse late today passed by voice vote , and returned to the senate the second war powers bill providing drastic penalties for violation of priorities orders and expanding the government's- power pow-er to seize private property needed need-ed in the war -teffort I ,--mmTmTT """"T"- "- ' ''i" . . .' ' - ....... f . .. .'It Dayhes Jewelry Optical -Coi. ' , 7 ; 7 7 0fSalt;JLale:aty ; 77;.'.; 7... ; V;- ;' .rr".U. ' Announce ' ': ' ": : -' The Now Office Ot ,V Dr. Lincoln A. Daynes ; OptD. t.o. :-r ; IN TIffi PRACTICE OF OPTOMETRY At VB3,WEst , CENTER. PROVO, UTAH Complete Optical Service. r New Office.- - All new equipment, the-latest and finest scientific in- . ' struments(; available for the examination and treat-7i . .! ment of your eyes. HdmiS DAJCLY . ; - " ; Phonel707; J V I " . " :',' . ' , i raining Camp BrieiFs BY UNITED PRESS . ST. PETERSBURG. -Fla. SL Louis Cardinal batsmen were doing do-ing double duty in their, hitting routine Saturday, despite the fact that many of them had been in training 1 camp for .only , a . day. Manager Billy Southworth, anxious anxi-ous to get the boys in the tune for a heavy schedule In jthe grapefruit grape-fruit circuit, started the boys out against his regular pitchers, then let the . mechanical pitching machine ma-chine take over, :- EL CENTRO, CaL ,: The 7 Tojugh program;, 'Manager . Frankle Frlsch- outlined to 'v take . excesa weight off, the-Pittsburgh the-Pittsburgh Pirate batterymen ; was held up yesterday on account ac-count .of bad weather, Most of the 1 squad', welcomed the ... ; layoff, nursing aches and 7 pains from three days of stiff . workouts. LAKELAND, ; Fla. Business Manager Jack ZeUer of the Detroit De-troit Tigers arrives today to talk terms with this year's crop of holdouts including Fltchers Schoolboy Rowe and Buck New-som, New-som, First Baseman Rudy York and Outfielder Dick Wakefield. Saturday's workout was spirited, with everyone but Pitcher Paul (Dizzy) Trout taking part. Diz fell in a lake while fishing and his head met an oar on the way up. CLEARWATER, Fla-The Cleveland Indian pitchers were : behind schedule as they wound up their first week's training train-ing today but Manager Lou -. Boudreau said, he was satisfied satis-fied with his two-a-day training train-ing drills. - "I have never been in favor of sending pitchers to training train-ing camp far in advance of the rest of the squad,", he said. "If you do, the batten take too long too catch up and -get their batting eyes." ANAHEIM. Cal.The Phila-delphia Phila-delphia Athletics went through their training .paces today without with-out Outfielder Bob Johnson, who announced that he definitely .was a holdout Manager Connie Mack told the Anaheim chamber of commerce com-merce at a dinner in his honor last night, that he considered the present New York Yankees 'the greatest baseball team of , all time. ' RICHMOND, Va. The Philadelphia Phils were en route today to their 3ilaml Beach, Fla training camp with assurances from Coach ' Bill Klltefer that : the club would not sell players unless the transactions would strengthen the team. TAMPA, Fla. The last of the Cincinnati Reds ' was accounted for by ., way of - contract signing today as Jimmy ,' Gleeson and Chuck Aleno agreed to terms for 1042. All of the 32 players were in camp, but near-freezing and wet weather curtailed , yesterday's workout to less than one hour. , DE GAULLE PRAISED BY DALADIER . , VICHY, Feb. 27 jJi Former Premier Edouard Daladier brought the name of Gen. Charles DeGaulle "Free French" leader, into the Riom war guilt trial today, asserting assert-ing Jftat "it was an honor for me to have named him a general, the youngest in the French army." ManavuTips A. F. Fotirih ': Ttow District Six M-Sfea teams finished i ..-.. Finrt Manavu ot Provo. , Secoad American Fourth. - -Third Prpvo Fourth.. . ' Fourth-iSprlngvlUe. First. , . Fifth Provo First. . , : -. Sixth Springvule Second. . Seventh Pleasant View. f Eighth Alpine. ... Manavu " ward of' Provo successfully suc-cessfully 'defended its district; six M-Men basketball championship Saturday night defeating American Amer-ican Fork Fourth ward, 46-37, in the finals rat . Springville. Provo Fourth "ward won third place in the . tournament with a 86-10 triumph over Springville Second, and consolation honors went to trovo First ward, which tripped Alpihe,' -82-25. Springville First ; decisioned Pleasant View, 28-22,' for fourth place honors. Lloyd Rasmussen - paced the Manavu team Into an early lead, then staged an amazing shooting lAvklVitliAN v. Aja kla f aatw FAWlt cAitiJtVvM ayiawv alia wsmu vv title,' scoring 27 points. ; - An all-star team announced by LeRoy Johnson, tourney director, following the meet Included Rasmussen Ras-mussen and David Mackay, Pleasant Pleas-ant View, at forwards; Gordon Lee, American Fork, : at center, with Reed Nllsen,'. Provo First, and El wood. Robinson, American Fork at . guards. ' On the second team were Woodrow Weight spnngvuie iinv; uoruon JMenuen-hall, JMenuen-hall, Payson Third; Ray Nash, Manavu, Dale Burgess, Alpine, and Glen Gardner, Provo Fourth. Sherm Coleman, Provo Fourth guard, won the all-around individual indiv-idual award for outstanding sportsmanship and as most valuable valu-able player. American Fork Fourth still have a chance to make the All-Church tourney. By winning the ' title, Manavu automatically qualified - for , the annual joust EVERSHARP 7 PCI AK9 CZPEJlTCt TGIGL CJT SITMCMipr 4 S00 Sawt tlrMatlaad Mt A dW ' 41 celonvsitM fe ' oia is sfSMstefiea i Utah Offic: Supply Co. 43 E. Center .St. Phone 15' |