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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD; SUNDAY, : DECEMBER - 27, 1942 "i n.i 1 inn Odds On Prop To 2 As IRos IBowl II IJL. IX u Mic 13 ears Sinkwich's Injury es By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor PASADENA. Calif., Dec. 26- BJ?) Georgia and UCLA headed into their training windup for the Rose Bowl today, as the odds on the game dropped to two to -one in favor of Georgia. The shift in odds they had been as high as three to one came as apprenhension developed over Frankie Sinkwich's condition. He was permitted to leave his bed yesterday, but he limped so badly that it Appeared doubtful whether he would be able to work out with the team before the game next Friday. If his twisted right ankle should keep him from further practice, he won't be in th? best shape. But if Frankie has any thing to say about It, he will be In the ball game for sixty minutes For the Rose Bowl is one thing he had looked forward to for a long time, and he wants to make his final college game something worth remembering. Bruins Tough-Georgia Tough-Georgia is likely to need its all-. all-. America ace at his best for the Bruins are going to be tougher than a lot of people think. For one thing. Coach Babe Hor-rell Hor-rell and his boys aren't conceding the Bulldogs anything not even when it comes to forward passing. pass-ing. Figures don't always add up to a true picture, but in the case of UCLA, they at least show that the Bruins are going to have some ammunition. Their statistics for the season do not approach Georgia's, but you can count that difference to some extent because UCLA played a harder schedule than the Bulldogs Bull-dogs and one game less. Georgia gained an average of 429 yards in its eleven games a total of 2,661 yards by rushing and 2,291 by passings UCLA's ten-game average was 2,63 yards with the rushing total 1,627 yards, and the passing figure 1,054. Sinkwich alone gained 2,187 yards the first player in modern football history to pass the 2,000 yard offensive mark and Georgia's Geor-gia's opponents were held to 1,251 yards on 'the ground and 642 yards in the air." TOLA yielded 1,217 yards on the ground and 1,097 in the air. The brunt of the Bruin attack ivas led by Bob AVaterfield. While his passing efficiency was not as high as Sinkwich's, he threw them when they counted. He completed 53 passes out of 125 attempts, but of those competitions 12 went for touchdowns. His favorite receiver was Lanky Milk Smith, who caught 16 of the throws for a to tal of 2R2 yards and three touch; aowns. The figures also show that UCLA's pass defense isn't as weak as generally supposed. The Bruins' opponents connected 81 times in 192 tries, but only five of them were good for touchdowns. Bombers Favored In Sun Bowl Tilt EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 26 U.i: Two undefeated football squads The Second Air Force Bombers of Spokane and the Hardin-Sim-mons Cowboys, 1942 Border conference con-ference champions began final drills today for their New Year's day clash in the Sun bowL The Spokane Bombers, service champions of the Pacific coast, rated as 3 to 1 favorites as the date of the annual border country bowl game neared. And win or lose, the boys in khaki will have the advantage of the bigger rooting root-ing section. Thousands of soldiers from nearby camps are expecteo to watch the game. TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION . f : FOB SALE MISCELLANEOUS ONE pair Anderson-Thompson skis. Length 6 feet six inches. One 'pair Northland jumping skis. Length 8 feet. Call 470 North 5th West. d29 ONE Chester White registered boar. One new Monarch range. Other furniture. Call I. J. 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After that, however, the Utes began to click and scored four consecutive field goals to go into a lead that was never seriously serious-ly threatened. The timely scores were made by Lannan and Sheffield. Montana started strong and near the middle of the first half were ahead 13-3. The Utah aggerga-tion, aggerga-tion, however, pulled within one point of the Grizzlies as the half ended. The Utes went into the lead twice in the second half, but also were tied twice before going into the final drive that resulted in the victory. 1 J11SUI 567flQ M B' By 1 LARRY GRAYSON NEA Service Sports Editor NEW YORK, Dec. 23 While the major and more prominent minor league owners view with alarm, Ray Dumont, president of the National SemiPro Congress, is doing something about base ball in war-time. Even though only a few scat tered minor leagues may be in operation in 1943, Dumont says organized baseball moguls nave nothing to fear as to the future pf the game following the war. His organization is adopting plans which he insists will make the sport hum more than ever before. The National Semi-Pro Congress is publishing a 300-page guide, edited to convince more industrial plants and towns that they should sponsor clubs in the spring. In January, to encourage baseball play, 100,000 copies will be mailed to service athletic officers, in dustrial firms, team backers and sporting goods stores. Unlike most organizations founded to govern athletics, the National Semi-Pro Congress Is continually spending money to de-vekj de-vekj Interest to bring out more teams. This money, has not come from organized baseball or athletic, ath-letic, good manufacturers, the groups which no doubt heneHt mostly from the efforts of 'the organization. or-ganization. Enlarging his structure with district dis-trict tournaments, national associations asso-ciations of leagues, umpires and scorers and a sandlot player contract con-tract system, Dumont discovered more teams were needed. So ho took all the profit from entry fees and receipts of the national tournament in Wichita, which annually draws about $50,-000 $50,-000 In two weeks, and started having hav-ing printed a year book In a one-man one-man crusade for the organization of more clubs. War, if anything, is causing a semi-pro boom, Dumont stresses. He estimates that 300 professional minor league players are now in war plants, many unable to return to organized ball. They'll want to continue iplaying in the spring. Many factories, which formerly frowned upon the idea of sponsoring a club will be represented rep-resented on the field. In the past there usually was not enough material available. The result was softball teams. Army teams, too, play an important im-portant part in the semi-pro setup. set-up. Fort Riley, Kas., finished in third place and Camp Wheeler, Ga., with Cecil Travis at third base, fifth in the 1942, national tourney. Baseball men once traced the decline of minor league and town team ball to the automobile and ability of people to get around the country. Next season, as Ray Dumont points out, gas rationing and requests of ODT will keep the folks at home in the smaller smal-ler communities. It will be easier than ever before to obtain backing back-ing for a club. Cowboys Defeat Albright 56-52 Wyoming's Cowboys broke even on their eastern tour Thursday night when they overcame an early lead and coasted into a vie-, tory over Albright college in Reading. Read-ing. Pennsylvania, 56-52. The Cowboys Cow-boys lost their first game to the "Iron Dukes" of Duquesnc, and will wind up their tour by appearing appear-ing in Madison Square Garden. The Cowboys have long been a power in intermountain basketball circles, and they are odds-on fa AU Set for East-West Game Tzf ,-;v' f- Y- Members of the East football team who'll meet the Western all-stars all-stars in San Francisco's New Year's Day Shrino Hospital charity football game give the kids a preview of the gridders after arrival on the Coast. Each child in the hospital wears the colors of an eastern team. Here is little Johnny, in center, with backs George Lynn, left, and Les Horvath of Ohio State and Nurse Sue Wootton. Georgia All -American "Off-Tackle" (Gene Ellenson, Georgia's left tackle who won honorable mention on the United Press 1942 All-America, All-America, tells in the following dispatch how it feels to be a mem ber of a Rose bowl football team.) BY GENE ELLENSON (Written for the United Press) PASADENA. Cal., Dec. 2 l.i: In the wild hilarious confusion of the Georgia dressing room after we had rocked Georgia Tech's dream boat 34 to 0, Coach Wally Butts raised his hand and said we could take our choice of the post season bowl games. After intensified deliberation ot about one-fifth of a second we ah chorused, "Rose bowl." This will give you some idea what the players as a group think of playing in this,, the vvoriu series of iootbait Individually 1 will try lo give you my impressions of hov it ieels to be a tackle on a Rose bowl team some "on tackle slants," you might say. Our first impresesion of Pasadena Pasa-dena was that all the women seemed to be wearing slacks, 'ihe city itself turned om to be very pleasant and clean place, bui we're not in the city proper. We are quartered at the Huntington hotel, a beautiful, dignified hostelry, hostel-ry, but if you try to walk to town it will seem like it is deep in the heart of Texas. None of the boys have met any Hollywood stars yet. in fact, we haven't seen anytning but the inside in-side of our room ana the practice lield. Strangely enough we don't mind, for somehow subtle conversation conver-sation and making eyes doesn't help much when a big UCLA guard is throwing elbows in your face. We have on tough game coming up and we realize it, and as we have found out, the only way for a bunch of country boys to win ball games is to work harder than the other guys. One of our boys has made the grade, even if by proxy, and has a date with Betty Grable. A fraternity-sent "Grablegram" did the trick and though it was meant to be a huge joke, it backfired to the extent that he got the date and the good brothers were out the four bucks the wire cost. We understand un-derstand that he is going to take her to luncheon. We are working out at tournament tourna-ment park, which is famous for having been the first site of the Rose bowl and having the only dirt in the world which is harder than cement. It isn't so bad, though and we have become adjusted ad-justed so that it seems like our regular field. Sinkwich's injury will have a marked effect on the odds but it will be tough on UCLA if they count him out. He's a champ all the way through. Remember that broken jaw? He hurt the other; ankle while engaged in a rough and tumble scrimmage as three scrubs hit at the same time. This is his last game and all the fellas hope that he has a good day. vorites to be the eastern division representatives when the eastern and western division champs meet to determine the conference title. The Punchers are led this year by Ken Sailors, diminutive -ball rustler and crack shot, who is "one of the best floor men in the nation, na-tion, and big Milo Komenich, six foot seven inch Russian 5 from Indiana. In-diana. Both of these boys played on the great Wyoming team of last year, which took second in the conference standings. . ' C ft Gives Slants on Game 9- Pre-Cotton Bowl Fever Surges As January 1 Hears DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 26 (U.P) Pre-Cotton Bowl fever began to make itself felt in this metropolis of the southwest tonight as the vanguard of the two competing teams--Georgia Tech and the University of Texas moved into town. The lothargy with which the populace has been taking the forthcoming clash between the Ramblin' Wreck, which is unbeaten un-beaten in its two previous bow appearances, and the Texas Long-horns, Long-horns, making their first bowi bow in history, showed signs o. wearing off following the busj Christmas holiday season. j Official optimism, at a low ebL for a week during the holiday rush, bounded upward again an predictions flowed freely that the game between the southeastern and southwest conference champions cham-pions in the 46,000 capacity Cotton Cot-ton Bowls Friday would attract at least 35,000 fans. Coach Bill Alexander and the first of three units of the Tech party arrived late tonight after a workout in Memphis. Two other contingents will arrive Sunday night and Monday. FOOTBALL RESULTS South 24, North 0. The All fJ7;:hiW ' stzzprj-- af. J 4 ' -1x2' fee URr w' lr -r'Mk Mmt jj ( W J A i MM? j if' ,fit; mm am lr ItBM t 5685 & pj'h U- 5si SPORTS HUDDLE Bj DeMAR TEUSCHEK Sports Through a War Year With Christmas only, a memory and the bowl football games on New Year's Day the only event of the season left to look forward for-ward to, the 1942 sports season is just about over. This year has been one oft the screwiest of many screwy sports year. However, How-ever, this year there was an even more grim reason for the ups and downs of the season. The coaches wore the bojfe who took it on the chin this year. The "old boy with the whiskers" gathered gath-ered to himself the greatest team ever assembled under one banner, the Stars and Stripes, and he left the boys who make their bread and butter on the basis of how many games they win on a spot. However, it wasn't only thr- players play-ers who left this year. It was the coaches, too. Upsets ran rampant this year, and who can exect anything else, with the athletes of America either trying to make up their mind to serve their country by going to school and learning, or to follow the inclinations of every red-blooded American and enlist. The ones who did stay in school were so busy trying to get to the top in the specialized studies they are taking- up that they could not be expected to be in top shape all the time. But despite rationing and other oth-er obstacles, sports flourished during the first year of this war, flourished not only in the civilian colleges, but in army camps, and in army and navy training schools. The army produced its two famous All-Star teams, who played the best in the nation for army relief, re-lief, while the navy came up with the Pre-flight teams, who met the cream of the college teams as well as learned to fly. So despite the fact that 1942 has been a war year, as 1943 starts to rise over the horizon, we take off our hats to the far-seeing far-seeing experts that have maintained main-tained that sports were the backbone back-bone of morale, both civilian and in the armed services, and the wise officials that decreed that physical fitness should be the slogan slo-gan of Young America. The records rec-ords of , the famous figures of sports nbw in the armed services bear out the contention that sports are vitally necessary to a nation at war as well as one at peace. No field of endeavor, especially one so far reaching as that covered cov-ered by the general term, sports, can go through a year without losing some beloved figure, and sports lost three in 1942, all toward to-ward the last of the year. Jack Doyle, who was known far and wide as a matchmaker for Ids setting of odds on a sports event, was the first. It used to be that without Jack's quoting odds, no snorts event could go on before the public. Two of the most tragic losses were those of Christian "Red" Cagle and f Big John" Bor-ican, Bor-ican, who died recently. Both of those boys stood for something, the cleanness and integrity in-tegrity that goes hand in hand with competitive athletics. Cagle was the greatest football player ever to don the uniform for the United State Military academy. He was the idol of kids all over the country. He was a natural leader of men, and would have made a great army officer. - American "Bowl" DoggoneGood t k 4 r-, -;v Patriotic spaniel has collected 300 golf balls on Auckland, N. Z., course and is still going strong. His country needs the rubber. Two Civilian Boxers Rated Above Pair of Champions in the Service NEW YORK. Dec. 26 (UP) Young Ray Robinson, New York's unbeaten negro welterweight con tender, is named "fighter of the year" by the Ring magazine which released its 18th annual boxing rankings Saturday. Corporal Barney Ross of the U. S. marines is awarded a gold-silver medal for having shed the greatest great-est lustre on boxing during 1942 by his heroism against the Japs at Guadalcanal. The No. 2 berth in the fighter-of-the-year competition went to Sgt. Joe Louis, heavyweight champion; cham-pion; No. 3 to Willie Pep of Hartford, Hart-ford, Conn., the New York-brand featherweight champion and No 4 to Henry Armstrong for his great come-back. The Ring's copyrighted rankings, rank-ings, which include both service and civilian boxers, rate two civilian civil-ian negro leather-tossers above two world champions now in the service. Young Robinson tops the welterweight division, with Champion Cham-pion Freddie Cochrane dropped to sixth place. In the light heavy division, Jimmy Bivins of Cleveland Cleve-land takes top ranking, with Champion Gus Lesnevich of the coast guard in second. Ray Top Fighter Nat Fleischer, editor of the magazine, explains that young Robinson was voted the fighter-of-the-year award after an examination examin-ation of records of 2,100 professional profes-sional boxers. His performance in 14 straight victories during the year were more impressive than those of any other fighter. How es) - Game Baugh Leads Redskins Against Pro All - Stars By ROBERT S. BARKDOLL United Press Staff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 26 U.R) The Washington Redskins, whose upset victory over the Chicago Bears brought them the world's Championship two weeks ago, face the stiffest opposition professional football can provide when they meet the National league All-Stars here tomorrow. The amazing Redskins knocked the football dopesters end over end when they not only outscored the Bears, 14-6, but outplayed them as well. What the football world was asking today was whether the All-Stars, All-Stars, with their wealth of first-class first-class material, could put a more powerful team on the field than the supposedly invincible Bear eleven. Expect 30,000 An expected 30,000 will watch the pro-bowl classic at Philadel- ever, Fleischer reprimands Robinson Robin-son for failing to meet two other prominent negro welters Sgt. Jackie Wilson of California ano Cocoa Kid of New Haven, Conn. Here are the Ring magazine' top rankings of the world's boxen-for boxen-for 1942: Heavyweight Joe Louis, Bob Pastor, Billy Conn, Melio Bettina, Jimmy Bivins, Tami Mauriello, Turkey Thompson, Roscoe Toles, Pat Valentino, Harcy Bobo. Light Heavyweights Jimmy Bivins, Gus Lesnevich, Ezzard Charles, Anton Christoforidis, Ken Overlin. Middleweight Tony Zale, Georgia Abrams, Eddie Booker, Charley Burley, Ernie Vigh. Welt erweigbhts Ray Robirison, Henry Armstrong, Sgt.' Jackie Wilson of California, Cocoa Kid, Marty Servo, Freddie Cochrane. Light weights Sammy Angott, Beau Jack. Willie Joyce, Allie Stolz, Tippy Larkin. Featherweights Willie Pep, Chalky Wright, Lulu Costantino, Sal Bartola, Mike Raff a. (Pitts bureh Jackie Wilson is listed 23rd.) Bantamweights Manuel Ortiz, Lou Salica, David Kui Young, Jim Brady, Ham Wiloby. Flyweights Peter Kane, Jackie Paterson, Joe Curran, Little Dado, Sammy Reynolds. Yankees Figure In Seven Major League Records NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (U.RV The champion New York Yankees figured fig-ured in seven of the 22 new standards stand-ards recorded in the books in the American league during 1942, official of-ficial figures revealed today. The circuit had broken or equalled 37 records in each of the two preceding pre-ceding years. The Yankees bettered three ol their own homer records, which topped both leagues: Most years leading the league in homers, 23 they made 108 last season; most years 100 or more homes, 21 ; most consecutive years 100 or more homers, 18. By winning 103 games, the Yankees also broke their owi. record for the most years winning 100 or more games, running their string to eight. Charlie Keller of the Yankees equalled the league standard for the player hitting the fewest times into double plays in 150 or more games, with only five slip-ups. Boston matched the league mark for the same division by a club with 9. 4 Roger Cramer of Detroit went to bat 630 times to equal the major league mark twice since it was his eighth season in which he has been at the plate 600 or more times. New York chalked up a new major league mark for double plays in a single game when they made seven against the Athletics. In the same game, Buddy . Has-sett Has-sett .and Phil Rizzuto recorded five double plays at first and short, the former tying the league record and the latter tying the major league records. Les Fleming Flem-ing of Cleveland also took part in five double plays at first. phia's Shibe park. Proceeds will go to the United Seamen's Service fund. For this game, which for straight football should be the best played anywhere this year, the Redskins are making only one change in their regular lineup. Dick Shugart has replaced the injured in-jured Steven Slivinski at guard. The latter, however, is available as an alternative . In the backfield, the superlative Sammy Baugh the dark wiry Texan who made champions out of a not-too-great team will pass, kick and run th way few men in football history ever have. Also one of the best defensive backs in anyone's league, Slingin' Sammy Sam-my will throw many a vicious tackle before the afternoon is over. Around Left Halfback Baugh, Coach Ray Rlaherty will start Andy Farkas, at halfback. Far- kas bulled his way the length of tne rieia to hang- up one of the Redskins 'two touchdowns against me isears. Kay Hare, of Oonzaera, will be at quarterback, and Ed Justice, another Gonzaga alumnus will appear at right halfback. About the Redskins' line little need be said after the way they outrushed and outdrove the vaunted vaunt-ed Bear forward wall. It is doubtful that the All-Stars can match their sarting lineup if they play the same tough game tomor row that they did two weeks ago. Across the line from the Red skins will be the greatest foot ball talent in the world. Head coach Heartley (Hunk) Anderson said he might make any number of changes in the All-Star lineup before and during' the game. "I'm playing no favorites," he said. "When a man's hot he'll stay in. and when he's going cold out he'll come.'' Today, however, it looked as though the Philadelphia Eagles' Tommy Thompson would start at quarterback; Bill Dudley, of Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, at left half; either Merlyn Condit, of the Dodgers or Dante Magnani, of Cleveland, at right half, and Happy Hopp of the Detroit De-troit Lions at full. Dot Hutson. Green Bay Packers' end, was for- bidden to play by hi3 physician. He has a cold. Anderson said he would utilize two system of play interchangeably interchange-ably the famous Notre Dame single, wing, and the T. East, West Stars In Heavy Drills SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 U! Heavy workouts began today for the 44 football stars from across the nation who make up the east and west squads of the annual Shrine benefit game at Kezar stadium on New Year's day. The east, under Coach Andy Kerr, was holding two workouts a day of two hours each in the Greensward, emphasizing offense around the sharp assing of All-American All-American Paul Governali of Columbia. Co-lumbia. Coach Babe Hollingbery called west squad together today for blackboard ractice this morning and scheduled a workout on the turf this afternoon. Both teams took it easy yester day, having one workout before sitting down to turkey dinner. Prior Picks Lehi Basketball Squad LEHI Coach Dean Prior has announced the basketball squad for the Lehi high school for the coming season. The players will include Dale Russon, Paul Price, Jay Lambert, Donald Dorton, Ronald Peterson, 'Maurice Taylor, Eugene Cooper, Ray Bone, Bob Calton, Darrel Allred, Spencer Dransfield. A team captain will be chosen prior to each game. . WANTED ALL KINDS OF HIDES Highest Prices Paid for BONES WOOL HIDES PELTS FURS and dead or useless animals. Pot prices for dead and useless sheep. Prompt Service UTAH HIDE & TALLOW CO. PHONE 58 ; 8 Mile West of Spanish Fork ; 1 'I |