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Show .'Spli-ts In 1 3 iC Cougars Bowio fast Nevada Five, 52-32; Beat SFU 45 -36 Brigham Young Cougars split their two games in the Reno in- ji vltational basketball tournament, losing to Nevada U, 52-32 in the "finale Saturday night after turn-' turn-' ing back San Francisco TJ, 45-36 . rriday. - - ' Nevada captured top tourney . honors by walloping the Cougars after defeating Colorado A & M Friday. The BYU crew battled its way into the finals with a 45-36 conquest con-quest of San Francisco univer- ; sity Friday night -vhile the-Wolf- pack were disposing of Colorado A&M 4Z-3Z. i Led by Joe Weight, Junior Child and Dwane Esplin, the Cougar crew employed a fast ; break, and made full use of ' their height to stop the San Franciscans, who had lost to Utah State and Denver.- After tipping Utah and Colorado in . their tour of the Big Seven baila- "ks.. J The; game see-satyoback and t f6rth in the first h&lfwith the Cougars playing ragged ball and unable to make their -shots count Esplin came through - with some timely shots and Jay Jensen did , some long-distance firing that Iqept the Cats in the ball game I The Cats led 27-24 at half time, but it was a vastly different 'Cougar crew that came out for tbe second half. Mentor Floyd Millet switched to a fast break and the Cougars, although not able to hit the hoop with any degree . of ' consistency, pulled away from their competitors. I Joe Weight topped the Cougar scorers with 10 points followed by Child with nine and Esplin With eight! Abe Rodriques and itoss Guidice were the leading scorers on tbe coast crew, the former racking up 13 points while the latter tanked 14. T- Utes Wallop Cats, 65-29 ISALT LAKE CITY Dispjay- "4flyg the form' expected of them eaii'er in tne season, .tne Kea-sklns Kea-sklns of University of Utah trounced Montana State's Bobcats, Bob-cats, 65-29 at the lite field house Saturday night. : Coach Vadal Peterson's smooth-clicking smooth-clicking five dominated the game from the starting whistle to gain back much of the prestige they lost last week when they were dumped by both "Washington State Cougars and San .Francisco u, . -': v Their triumph over Montana State appeared all the more im pressive in the light of the Bobcats' Bob-cats' showing against Utah State at Logan the previous evening. The Aggies barely beat the Mon-tanans, Mon-tanans, 54-50. JSmuin and Watson were the big gtins in Utah s scoring attack with 14 and 11 points, respectively, respective-ly, Arnold Ferrin, all-American goard, came through with 8 points and played - his usually good floor game. The- entire Ute squad played and ' practically, everybody broke into ,the scoring scor-ing column. For the Bobcats,' Kelly was high with 8 points. . BYU Esplin, f Weight, f . Beem, f Clark, f Walker, c . . Nelson, c . . Child, g . . . Whipple, g . Jensen, g . . . Totals USF Rodriques, f Driscoll, f .. Guidice, f .. Cnamee, c . Flaherty, c Gibson, g . . Bennington, g Totals OF 3 1 2 8 4 1 2 10 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 1 10 13 0 13) 3 0 3 9 0 0 0 0 3 12 6 16 9 15 45 G F T P 5 3 2 13 2 0 0 4 5 1 4 14 12 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 13 0 2 0 2 0 0 14 14 7 36 Halftime score BYU 27, USF 24. Free throws missed: BYU Esplin Es-plin 2, Weight, Walker, Child. USF Rodriques 2. Officials Bert Silva and Art Silva. College Scores Minnesota 51, Iowa State 41. Muhlenburg 57, Penn 50. Loyola (111.) 60, Indiana 53. Notre Dame 59, Drake 56. Texas A&M 51, Texas Tech 46. De Paul 60, North Carolina 53 (overtime.) .Kentucky 70. St. Johns 50. Sam Houston 64, Stephen F. Austin 56. Canisius 59, Louisiana State 50. Temple 47, Colorado 40. Marquette 55, Wisconsin 47. Syracuse 72, Bowling Green 70 (overtime.) Minnesota 51, Ipwa State College Col-lege 41. Detroit 69, Albright 61. St. Marys (Calif.) 68, Bradley Brad-ley 59. Sam Houston Teachers 58, Rice Institute 54. Long Island University 42, Tennessee Ten-nessee 32. Arkansas 46, St. Joseph's 36. U. of Oregon 67, Niagara 60, (overtime). Boston College 72, Fordham University 50. Holy Cross 45. Dartmouth 34. Akren 69, Ohio Universtiy 54. Baylor 54, Cincinnati 45. Duquesnes52 Miami (Ohio) 45. Utah 65, Montana State 29. Washington University (Mo.) 56 Illinois College 44. Loyola (La.) 55, Nebraska State Teachers 37. North Carolina State 68 Anderson An-derson 65. Ace Globe Trotter r "'I'd JVS i ,;v J 'ul 1 1 " BASKETBALL GAME Three Pro Cagers On 'Suspension List FORT WAYNE, Ind., Dec. 21 (U.R) Carl Bennett, manager of the world professional basketball champions, Fojet Wayne' Zollner Pistojw, today announced the suspensions su-spensions of three 'players, including in-cluding the famed Bobby Mc-Dermott, Mc-Dermott, "for insubordination,1 fiesides McDermott, sometimes! Called the greatest set shot in basketball, Bennett suspended regular Charley 'Shipp and rookie center Milo Komenich. an all-American all-American last season at the Uni versity of Wyoming Ted Strong, veteran forward with the Harlem Globe Trotters who play the Springville Kiwanis Christmas night. Strong is one of the. best trick shot artists in the game, and will be one of the lands the Springville crew must watch closely. Globe Trotters Meet Kiwanis At Springville One of the most colorful, as well as powerful, basketball teams in America will show be fore Utah county fans Christmas night when the Harlem Globe Trotters, traveling negro cage artists, tangle with the Springville Spring-ville Kiwanis five in the Springville Spring-ville gym. Led by the fabulous Reece "Goose" Tatum, who is rated by experts as one of the greatest living basketball stars, the Globe Trotters have piled up an en vious record against all types of competition, and no matter the score, prived side-splitting antics for the crowd with their clowning clown-ing and fancy ball-handling. Other bright stars of the Globe-Trotters are Ted Strone. sharpshooting forward. Louis Pressley, Zack Clayton, Bernie Price and Donald "Ducky" Moore all veterans with the team and the sensational newcomer. El mer Robinson, three year star at Fort Warren during the war. Against this veteran crew, the Kiwanis will pit Mrlon Ras-muson, Ras-muson, Maynard Bailey, Huck Dyer, LaVar Kump, Stan Neil-son, Neil-son, Jim Peterson. Don Overlv. Gus Black, and Elliott Cameron In their last appearance, the Kiwanis crew dropped a 62-38 decision to the strong Eckers quintet of Salt Lake City. Paris Denies Football W NEW YORK, Dee. 21 (U.R) --Alvin --Alvin 3. Paris, 28-year-old habitue habi-tue Of Broadway night clubs who admitted wining and dining professional pro-fessional football players and Introducing In-troducing them to pretty party glrls denied today that he had tried, to "fix" last Sunday's championship football game between be-tween the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants, Paris, who goes on trial Tuesday Tues-day on a two-count indictment charging him with attempted bribery, was quoted by his attorney at-torney as saying "I wanted to be a Broadway boy and a big shot, but I am innocent of this charge." The attorney, William V. Bres-lin, Bres-lin, said he might call Mayor William O'Dwyer and Police Commissioner Arthur Wallander as witnesses in Paris' trial. . . rpllpvi ng me: Dan My DeMar Teuscher Herald Sports editor RACING PIGEONS COMING TO PROVO Recently we received" letter from Ken Francis, owner of the Hobble Creek loft, ana - a well- known breeder' -and exhibitor of racing homer-pigeons. , w 4 Bell informs us that he U planning to organize racing pigeon club' in the vicinity of Provo and sent in a very interesting inter-esting letter to tell about the idea. -. : ,. - The letter in full ayi: J " Dear; Sir: i " . Just- recently I was invited by a few fellow frohi Provo, to help organize a racing pigeon club in this vicinity. I do believe that before such a club can func tion properly, we wilt have to have more members and public enthusiasm. . As you might know, this is rapidly becoming favorite favor-ite sport Few people, however, how-ever, know little of how a Provo Hoopsters Drop Red Devil Crew In 34-26 Till Paced by big Keith Sondrup, their six-foot, three-inch center, whose bankboard play was superb and his shooting accurate, the Prdvo Bulldogs turned in their best performance of the season Friday night on their home floor, stopping the invading Springville Red Devils 34-26. At that, the Bulldogs were erratic er-ratic and had to come back with a rally in the final four minutes of the contest to put the game on ice. bondrup led the offense with 12 points and played a nice game on defense. Provo grabbed an early lead and led all through the contest, although the Red Devils, led by Ray Black, who played a whale of a game, threatened all the time, grabbing the lead from the Dogs in the second quarter and third period, but were unable to keep their advantage. Black dropped in 11 points for the Springville crew and played a whale of a ball game. SPRINGVILLE G T F Eggertson, f 3 2 2 Bird, f 0 0 0 Black, c 4 'i 3 Christensen, g 2 1 1 Haws, g 1 0 0 Clegg, f. . . 0 0 0 Norton, g 0 0 0 Miner, g 0 0 0 Hales, f 0 0 0 Bjarnson, g. 0 0 0 TOTALS 10 10 6 26 PROVO G T F P Oldroyd, f 1 1 0 2 Laney, f 1 1 0 2 Sondrup, c 6 2 0 12 Ford, g 2 3 1 5 Brown, g 3 4 1 7 Cloward, f 3 3 0 6 Score by quarters: Springville 3 14 2126 Provo 6 17 2234 Officials Collins and Brooks. Court Handles 4 Damage Suits Lincoln Cagers Stop Wasatch 33-20 In Low-Scoring Game Despite their almost complete . the hoop with any degree of con- inability to hit the hoop from out in the court, the Lincoln high school Tigers triumphed 33-20 over Wasatch Friday night in the Tiger lair in a low-scoring tilt. Lavell Edwards and Jack Ferguson Ferg-uson turned in good floor games for the victors and led the scoring scor-ing with seven and eight points respectively. The Tiger crew rolled into an early lead, and maintained the pace all through the contest. Neither team was able to hit Oregon Defeats Niagara, 67 to 60 sistency, but Lincoln especially was way off. The Tigers worked the ball down the floor countless count-less times, but never could seem to find the secret of dunking the ball through the hoop. Wright at forward collected six points to lead the scoring for the visitors while Durrant and Anderson dumped in five points each to help the cause. club of this kind functions, rerardihe racing homer pif eon with little or no In terest. Most people know that this bird carried the messages in the last war. I believe the Herald could stimulate 'a wide-soread Interest in this county, if you would eive us znu puDiicuy. xoung ana old are invited to join this club. I am sure there are many .pigeon fanciers in Provo who would like to see a club like this come into being, who have, not heard oi our endeavors. Kendall Corbett, 478 South First East, Provo, would be glad to .give you an iaea ox now such a dub operates and the require ment tor joining same, if you will call on him. ' . we win appreciate this veryf mucn. i would like to hear from you as soon as possible. Any information in-formation you need, just drop me a line. Yours very truly, RELL FRANCIS "The Herald soorts dei rtment li always glad to help in getting la new project underway that wiu aid any sports lovers in the community. Racing pigeons have developed a large following follow-ing in many parts of the coun try, especially California, and annually there is -at least one cross-country race that attracts nation wide attention. SPORTS RENAISSANCE LOOMS IN PROVO Provo has always been known as the hottest sports town of its s.ze in Utah, and with all indications indica-tions pointing to the probability that the city will increase in size Deiore very long, p;-.ns are already underfoot to help tht city in getting an all-around sports program that will keep pace with the population increase. in-crease. This last year has seen the city make big strides in this direction, but the really big things are still in the olannine stage. Brigham Young university. one 01 tne major sports attractions attrac-tions in the area, is already planning an enlarsed stadium. and hoping hard for a field house capable of seating 11,000 persons Dy next year. Provo eolfers are comins in for their share of the sports renaissance ren-aissance with plans unde. way to enlarge the present nine-hole ccurse to 18 holes and improve the club-house. Timp park, home of the baseball base-ball club, is slated to cet a re model job sometime in the near future, and some civic-minded citizens are even laying the preliminary pre-liminary steps to a big civic auditorium. au-ditorium. The bigger and better sports movement will find a lot of fertile ground here in Provo. 5 7lP9(tS) PAGE JO .SS&WStW SUNDAY HERALD Who Can Blame Him? tfri II ii , sis1 I . fill i - A ' n mum ii m ! Fj v " -; "1 - f i '1 ' " , : , : . h If ;C f 't I"' I - ' J I t" Fh - - , I f - v . x I I I I - r- 4 t i J m. e Because wedding in their home town, Harvey, I1L, was planned before Illinois won Big Nine championship and invitation to plar UCLA in Rose BowL Jan. 1. end Frank Bauman is passing up Pasadena trip to many Dale Spilsbury, instructor of Arte and Crafte at University of Chicago. Grantsville Ekes Out 31-28 Win Oyer Scrappy Pioneers Lehi's rangy Pioneers threw a terrific scare into Grantsville's defending state champions before the Cowboys finally came through with a 31-28 win Friday night on the Grantsville floor. Led by big Johnny Meyer at guard, the scrappy Lehi quintet Cavemen Wallop Miners 56-38 As Durrant Scores 27 Points SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 21 (U.R) LINCOLN G. T. Madsen. f 2 0 Balser, f 0 0 Edwards, f 3 ' 2 Baker, f 0 0 Cole, c 0 6 Boulter, c 1 0 Aiken, g 3 0 L. Ferguson g 1 2 J. Ferguson, g 4 l1 Ford, g 0 0 BUFFALO, N. Y.. Dec. 21 (U.R) A towering University of Ore- The third district court todavi8n Quintet outmaneuvered Ni-had Ni-had received or difemsed of foiiViagara university in an overtime damage suits involving more arne before 6.000 fans tonight to; Totals 14 n than $150,000. 'defeat the favored easterners 67-. on : At : . . . i i ... . n . mnww M A i.irv rp,.rnl Q e w opening cumesv oi me i WASA 1 L-xl U. T 4 Big Kent Durrant held "old 0;home night" in the Bingham high 7 j school gym Friday night and 2 i when the firing was over the -N The Piston manager denied that; . . , season s tourm nasKeiDau aouDie-j lie-. E LOWELL. Mass.. Dec. 2U-.B)- the suspensions were a result of ! "w.iu,"r.,fc"n, "JL cffe," header here. Anderson, f. - . . . a iw.uuu sun aKdiiisi me union w;k . American' Fork Cavemen had 6 continued their unabated roll a, over all competition with a 56-38 win over the Miners and Dur- j rant had racked up 27 points. 5 33 1 Bingham held the Cavemen i even during the first period, then 1 reach of the Cavemen all during the first half. BINGHAM G Dimas, f 3 Pino, f 2 Knudsen, c 3 Hausknecht, g 2 Pullan, g 2 Crump, g 1 Hoffman, c 0 Culleton 0 T 3 1 6 0 2 0 1 0 F P 3 9 1 5 6 12 Two-hundred persons including Fort Wayne's recent losing 50 young basketball players wreistr,eak- The Zollners have won driven to the street r when' fire swept the five-story brick' YMCA banding here tonight, causing damage of $50,000 The .blaze started In the cellar and swept quickly through the first floor lounge, where the flames were confined except for only once games. in their last seven BROTHERS BATTLE BOSTON, Dec. 21 Two sets of brothers, tackle John and fullback full-back Veto Kissell rnd halfbacks Jack and Bob Farrell. opposed smoke sweeping through par- each other in the Boston College Aim. t a i i . . uijjuiis oi ine upper stories. noiy uross game 1 Hoover, f 0 Wright, f 2 Durrant, c 2 Leffer. c 1 Simmons, e 0 the railroad contended Heer suc-issiv virtnrv f-thP infant aa.:wtt. i a u,uuu sun against tne union; With score deadlocked 58- racuic rauroaa tuea Dy ine,al in regulation time. Oregon widow and family of brakeman poured nine points through the Jacob Heer. The suit alleged he nets in overtime to outdistance aiea irom injuries suaerea in an tiring Niagara five. civtiueiii si oaiiLTUii, lua,. dui MH MH MH MH!the Forker Pwer bean to tell ST f ana witn uurrani. aomg most oi ! Madsen. f TOTALS 10 17 GRANTSVILLE G T May, f 4 Jefferies, f 2 Sandberg, c 2 Lawrence, g 1 Fawson, f 1 Totals 13 13 12 38!rauron' f 1 AMERICAN FORK 0 1 0 1 0 put up a whale of a battle before succumbing to the Cowboys in the final minutes of the contest. Meyer dropped in 11 points to take high point honors and steal the thunder of Grantsville's ' all-state all-state Don Sandberg and Bill Jefferies. Jef-feries. Jefferies and May led the Grantsville attack with eight points each. It was the second time the Cowboys had triumphed over the Pioneers this season. LEHI G T F P Walthon, f. 2 6 3 7 Roberts, f. 2 10 4 Clark, c. .0 2 11 Meyer, g .......4 6 3 11' Peterson, f 2 0 0" 4 Peterson, f 2 0 0 4 Colledge, g 0 0 0 0 8 28 F P 3 6 5 1 0 0 8 8 7 2 2 2 was 1 i 'n ' eM Mtl7I.IMi Philcu KaUio Battery Hi Electric like new comb. Radio & Phonograph with 40 records 47.50 Remington Automatic Shot gun. Perfect shape. 32 Automatic Pistol Bicycle , t4.00 Men's and Ladies' Watch lowest orices. marantMd 1 Diamonds, new and used Expert Watch Repairing year cumbed from a heart attack. The family of A. E. Dalton sued the Denver & Rio Grande Western West-ern railroad and an engineer for $40,500 damages as an aftermath of an accident in May, 1945. whenjwon the nightcap, 59 to50 j-rui iui i waa rvnitru vy tf iieiiii civ cl Midvale crossing. Izene Goddard asked $30,000 j damages for the death of George I R. Goddard, who died last May i after a fracas in a Salt Lake City cafe. Defendants are Kervin Johnson, who allegedly struck Goddard, and Paul Sourlos, proprietor pro-prietor of the cafe. Illian Hasna sued the Independent Inde-pendent Ice Co. for S10.125 for injuries suffered when her thres-year-old daughter, Sharon, wa. struck by one " of the firm's trucks. 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 the damage, the red-clad visitors! Durrant, c IsQji and started the western quin- Curry, g tet off . on the right foot in its . eastern tour. Totals 7 18 6 20 Louisiana State suffered its Score bv quarters: first defeat as Canisius college, Wasatch 2 9 Lincoln 6 12 4 4 12 Murdock, g 4 Hoglund. g. 0 Dimmick. f 0 Hampton, g 0 Hartshorn, g 0 lOj 9 TOTALS 12 16 7 31 27 iFLYING START jj j AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 21 Jack Jj ; Gray, who has been on the job 10 Jji years, was Texas' basketball jj; coach at 25. 5 0 6 1 forged steadily ahead. 5 1 Peters and Murdock helped 2 the Durrant cause along with 10 0; points each to add to the total 0j while Madsen clicked for nine 2 j points as me r oriser onensive HELP WANTED jiwent into mgn gear aunng tne; ioums 24 iu v o, part i.ancinp. Mioh nw second half. Score by quarters: ! 21 Coach Ben F. Van Alstyne Big Jack Knudsen led thej Bingham 12, 17 25 13ays Michigan State's basketball Bingham attack with 12 points American Fork .12 23 39 G;ieam needs a eood center, an. 15 20; and sparked the drive that kept Officials Babcock and Su-j other forward and plenty of re-19 re-19 33! the plucky Binghamites within saeta. i placements. "t? r a girl who gfves a Adam hat r Champ Bowler rjPITr01vv7ra") (NEA TeUphoto) Andy Varipapa sits triumphantly atop the shoulders of spectators after winning the National Match Qarae All-star bowling tournament tourna-ment at Chicago. Ill Varipapa took the title trom previous Champ Jot Wilman. HS5ft J$ Come isn Hatci VJJ?i;i 4"f II quick. in today for an Adam ft Certificate. 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