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Show 1 f Go i-. In gars w pip iggie&9 tes Hsiiii MuSfo 57-38- 1-40; Defeat Child, Esplin Set Pace As Cats Run Wild Brigham Young University's harpshooting Cougars, hitting their stride with a vengeance after several disappointing losses, walloped Utah State 62-40 before 2000 fans in the Springville high school gym Saturday night to rack up their second straight Big Seven Conference win. Rejuvenated Cats Wallop Colorado Buffaloes, 47-36 It was a confident and alert BYU team that threw up a tight defense around their own hoop and peppered the Aggie basket from all . angles to win a .clean-cut i victory over the "giant-killers" from the north. The Cougars, led by Rand Clark and Joe Nelson jumped into an early lead and were never threat ened. The Aggies began to look up a little in the . middle of the first half, but the Cats posted a 30-19 halftime advantage and were never headed. In the second half, with Junior Child and Brady Walker control ling the bankboards and Nelson, Clark and Dwane Esplin playing treat floor games, the Cats doubl ed the score at 44-22 with 12 minutes left in the bal game. Junior Child paced the Cougar attack, but he was followed closely by Dwane Esplin's 10 counters and Joe Nelson's nine points. Esplin, the Cougar captain, held the highly-touted Aggie shot-maker, Jimmy Cleverly, to two- lone field goals, and the alert BYU defense kept the Staters from making any real attacks on the hoop. ( j i every man on his bench in an effort ef-fort to find someone that could top the Cougars, but the BYU offense was clicking as never before be-fore this season and the Cat surge was not to be stopped. A revised lineup which played tenacious defensive trail and sparked a fair offense with its best passing of the year-, gave Brigham Young Cougars a 7-36 triumph over Colorado univer sity at Springville -Friday night. Rated underdogs for tne.u Seven tilt, the Cougars led the Buffs throughout, except for a couple of minutes in the opening phases of the , battle. They stretched a 21-19 half-time lead Ito 10 points after, five minutes of the second canto and were never threatened after that. BRIGHAM YOUNG G T F P Clark, f 4 1 2 9 Esplin, f 3 4 4 10 Walker, c ...3 1 1 7 Nelson, g 3 4 3 9 Child, g 6 2 1 13 Weight, f 2 4' 3 7 Gardner, g 0 2 2 2 Jensen, g 10 0 2 Fullmer, f 10 0 2 Hale, g 0 0 ,0 0 Beem, g 0 1 1 lj Totals UTAH STATE Van Noy, f . . . 23 20 16 62 Gilmore, f 3 Abrams, c - 0 Jones, g 1 Cleverly, g Hansen, f Johnson, f Ryan, c Sorenson, g L. 1 Jorgenson, g . . C. Jorgenson, f . . Chesbro, c ...... R. Johnson, c 6 2 0 4 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 3 1 Totals 16 21 8 40 Score at halftime: BYU 30 Utah State 19. Officials: Player and Mercer. Norse Skiers Top Jump Entry List IRON MOUNTAIN. Mich., Feb. 22 U.R) The nation's leading ski-jump classic March 2 on giant Pine Mountain slide will have Europe's four greatest skiers in the lineup, officials announced tonight. Arnold Kongegaard, who outjumped everybody in Norway Nor-way before entering; U. S. competition, Ragnar Baklid and Gustave Raunim, all of whom flew from Norway last week, officially entered Class A competition for the Pine Mountain classic. Eric Lindstrom, four - time Swedish champion, filed entry Monday. The Norse aces arrived in the U. S. last week in time to compete in a contest at Brattle-boro, Brattle-boro, Vt. They will battle for places in the national meet at Ishpeming, Mich., tomorrow and arrive here Monday with Lind- jrtrom for a week of practice. Entrance of the four foreign stars brings the elusive 300-foot leap a lot closer. Torger Tokle, the Norwegian star killed in World War II, came within 11 feet of the goal with a 289-foot record breaker here in 1942. 1 Kongegaard, who owns the Norway distance record of 285.8 feet, was considered a favorite for the 300-foot leap. Coach Floyd Millet started younr Joe Nelson at forward opposite Randy Clark, and moved Dwane Esplin to guard with big Brady Walker. Walk-er. This combination, with Junior Child and Morris Gardner relaying- at center, carried the brunt of the responsibility re-sponsibility for the Sons of Brigham, and seemed to click better than previous Y" combinations. - The defense was especially tight, with Colorado getting but few good shots. The Frosty Cox-coached Bi- Lsons. except for spurts in tne first half, played listless ball. They managed to stage a few short-lived rallies when little k. Walseth, substitute forward, was in the lineup. High point men were three Cougars, Walker, Clark and Esplin, Es-plin, who, tallied 10 points each. Clark's passing was especially effective, and Walker- controlled both backboards. Nelson played a good all-around game Colorado took a 4-1 lead, but a setup by Clark and Esplin's Es-plin's tail-in started the Cougars Cou-gars on a spurt which carried the count to 17-8. At this point Walseth staged a one-man one-man rally which knotted the count at 17-all. It was tied again at 19-all before Clark cared a goal as the half ended. Nelson dribbled in for a setup and bucketed two foul tosses to start BYU on a second hair' spree that ran the count 16 46-28 with three minutes to go. That was BYU's biggest lead, but it was whittled to 11 points as Colo rado's reserves bested the "Y" subs in the final stages of the game. Box score: COLORADO G T F P Huggins, f 2 3 2 6 Metzgar, f 0 0 0 O Robbins, c 0 4 2 2 Sharp, g ; . . . 1 4 3 5 Beattie, g 1 2 2 4 Walseth, f 3 1 1 7 Hills, g 0 2 1 1 Evans, f 1 0 0 " 2 Beseman, f 1 1 0 2 Allen, g 1 0 0 2 Bell, c . . 2 2 1 5 Totals 12 19 12 36 BRIGHAM YOUNG G T F P Clark, f 3 3 1 7 Esplin, f 4 3 2 10 Walker, c 4 3 2 10 Child, g 1 4 3 5 Nelson, g 3 6 4 10 Gardner, g 2 Y 1 5 Weight, f 0 0 0 0 Jensen, g 0 0 0 0 Fullmer, g 0 0 0 0 Beem, c 0 0 0 0 Hale, f 0 0 0 0 Totals 17 20 13 47 Officials Smith and Player. Provo Plays Sandy In Legion Joust Provo's American Lesion bas ketball team will battle Sandy in the opening game of the Le gion cage tourney wjiich opens Thursday at Cedar City. First round pairings were an nounced Saturday by Neil Davis, state Legion athletic chairman, as follows: 4 p.m. Provo vs. Sandy. 5 p.m. Salt Lake vs. Eph- ratm. 30 p.m. Milford vs. Og den 8:30 p.m. Kamas vs. Cedar City. The Provo team copped the district honors without losing a game, defeating teams repre senting American Fork, Lehi and Payson posts. The team is generally considered one of the strongest entries in the tourney and is favored to go into the finals. Saturday nig! The team roster includes La Var Kump, Don Overly, Mahlon Rasmuson. Don Whipple, Huck Dyer. Monte Petersen, Jay Al len, and Fred Crane. College Scores Janiro Scores KO Over Beau NEW YORK, Feb. 22 (U.R) Brown-skinned Beau Jack, the little Georgia shoe-shine boy who became the greatest gate attrac tion in Madison Square Garden history, was carried out of the garden ring on a stretcher last night after what may have' been his last professional light. Out of the ring he was carried tenderly after he had suffered a technical knockout knock-out at 1:03 of the fourth round ,in his welterweight contenders' battle with baby-faced baby-faced Tony Janiro of Youngs-town, Youngs-town, O. As a near-capacity crowd of 18.062 looked on in puzzled as tonishment, the dynamic Negro from Augusta, Ga., suffered the first kayo of his career when his '"trick knee" gave way under Ja niro s confident attack. Young, fair-skinned Janiro - who had clearly established his superiority at the time of the mishap -was battering the for mer lightweight champion near the ropes m the fourth round. As Janiro landed a hard left hook to Beau's .face, the bull-shouldered Negro fell backwards to the canvas can-vas on his haunches. As the roar of the crowd, which had paid $98,053, shook the garden, Beau sat there rocking back and fort has if uncertain whether to get up, until the count reached ejght. Then Referee Eddie Ed-die Joseph helped him to his feet. The lights came on. and many thought that Beau had been counted out. XN The referee, however, motioned for the fight to continue. Janiro tore into his opponent; and, as Beau tried to fight back, his left leg buckled under him and he again fell to the canvas. Joseph then motioned decisively that the bout was finished. Second Half Spree Wins For Indians SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 22 (U.R) The University of Utah Redskins Red-skins tonight put on a smashing last half drive to beat Colorado 57-38 in the Utah fieldhouse and move into a tie with Wyoming for the Big Seven conference leadership. Wyoming and Utah face each A. 1 . II 1 otner in wnai may De me cnamp-i ionship game next Saturday night at Laramie unless the Utes get) knocked off Friday night by lowly low-ly Colorado A'&M at Fort Collins, which would take the lustre off the "t'itle" game. The tall, fast passing Buffs started off tonight like they were going1 to make, a bail game ol it, and the crowd of 4500 in the fieldhouse were on their feet the greater part of the first 20 min utes of play. . Colorado led twice by one point margins in the first half, thanks mainly to the sharpshooting of guard Don Sharp,-who lived up to his name by sinking 10 points to take high honors for Colorado scorers. Utah held a 22-17 lead at the halftime, however, and in the final half, really got rolling. Big rVern Gardner hit for seven field goalds and three free throws for 17 points to pace the Utah attack Alert Arnie Ferrin, star U of U guard, was only one field goal behind with 15 points. GOLF TOURNEY SET FOR APRIL AVALON, Cal., Feb. 22 (U.R) The 12th annual Bobby Jones invitational golf tournament will be held April 11-13 at the Cata-hna Cata-hna Visitors' Country club, it was announced today. I COLTS SIGN !ACE PLAYERS ! BALTIMORE. Feb. 22 (U.R) North Carolina State 65, Dav- The Baltimore Colts of the All- America football conference announced an-nounced tonight that they have signed end Bob Masterson, and guard George Kinard from the Duke.New York Yankees in a straight 'cash deal. The terms were not disclosed. IU." 'I I tJJ . Tennessee 56, Vandcrbilt 2t. . Wisconsin 56, Ohio State 57 Navy 69. Muhlenberg 57 George Washington 51, 49. Western- Kentucky 56 George town (Ky.) 38. . Yale 57, Princeton 54. Boston University 62, Bow- doin 39. Michigan 44, Minnesota 25 Michigan State 70, Boston Col lege 49. Georgia 60, Auburn 45. Iowa 68, Indiana 46. Illinois 52, Northwestern 51. Kentucky 83, Georgia Tech. 46. St. Josephs (Pa.) 66, University Univer-sity Hawaii 53. West Virginia 55, Pcnn State 51. Western Kentucky Teachers 54, Eastern Kentucky Teachers 43. Drake 66, Washington University Univer-sity (Mo.) 37. Notre Dame 45, Canisius 39. Penn 73, Lafayette 61. West Texas State 62, Arizona 55. Butler 56, Purdue 48 (overtime. (over-time. ) Missouri 60, Nebraska 49. Texas 67, Rice 60. Babe Leads Pard Into Meet Finals - HOLLYWOOD Fla.. Feb. 22 (U.R) Babe Didrjkson Zaharias and Peggy KirkA and Louise Suggs and Jean Hopkins, today won semi-finals matches of the women's four-ball golf tourna ment here and moved into Sun day's 36-hole final round. Mrs. Zaharias and Georgia's Louise . Suggs appeared about evenly matched as they led their mates into the final round. Both were even with par for the 15 holes completed on both cards today, and each winning pair had a best ball of 35, one under par, for the first nine. The Denver national champion and Miss Kirk, of Findlay, O., eliminated Laddie Irwin, Mont clair, N. J... and Polly Riley, Fort worth, Tex., four and three in today's round. The Irwin-Riley combination trailed by five strokes at the turn, but made a slight recovery. Margaret Gunther of Memphis, teamed with Mrs. Margaret Becker, Beck-er, Englewood, N. J., and stretched stretch-ed their losing fight an extra hole by sinking a 30-foot putt on the 15th hole. Miss Hopkins had put her on tne spot witn a sensational approach ap-proach into the cup from 20 yards off the green, for a birdie two Miss Gunther matched her score, but the match ended in a 3 and 2 victory for Suggs-Hopkins af ter they shared the next hole. Greenberg Signs Pirate Contract NEW YORK, Feb. 22 CE Pittsburgh Pirates pennant hopes which have ebbed and flowed with the indecision of slugger Henk Greenberg, were at high tide, today on his final move to "play at least one more season." Greenberg made those pen nant hopes far from farfetched far-fetched yesterday when he reconsidered his decision to retire and signed a contract mat will make him the highest high-est paid player in national league history and perhaps in the history of baseball. The Bronx-born first baseman, first major league player to go into military: service in World War II, came to terms after a three-day conference with John, Galbreath of Columbus, O.. one of the new owners of the Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh franchise. Neither would reveal th ovart amount of his contract but when Greenberg announced several days ago that he was- retiring, Pittsburgh President Frank Mc-Kinney Mc-Kinney said "that boy is turning down the highest salary in baseball base-ball history." Such a figure would have netted net-ted him more than $80,000 a year, the price Babe Ruth once received re-ceived for service with the Yankees Yank-ees in 1930 and 1931. Galbreath said that one of the things worked out in the conference confer-ence was for Greenberg to play left field where a 20-foot wide pitching bull-pen will be constructed con-structed to cut off the area he has to -patrol. Not overlooked by the Pirate management was the fact that the bullpen . also will' cut some 20-odd feet' off the distance that Greenberg's " left-center drives will ha vi in rarrv in hprnm home runs in spacious Forbes field, one of the .largest parks in the majors. Armed Wins Rich Widener Handicap MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 22 (U.R) The! great Armed Won the $30,000 j Widenet" handicap at Hialeahj park today and had slim chance of taking over the world's money- winning record in another week. The brown gelding from Calu-i met Farm took the Widener -by two lengths after leading most or the way and added $43,900 to his bank account. His total stood at $459,775 after the race, and he needed $102,000 to surpass Whirl-away. Whirl-away. There was a chance that, if the field is large enough, he will be able to get it in the Santa Anita handicap next Saturday. He will be flown west in a four-motored plane. SUNDAY HERALD Sunday, February 23, 1947 II Park Ward Tips Payson 33-31 To Win Division 6 M vten Title Engen Triumphs In Cross-Country Cory Engen, one of the inter- mountain, area's greatest' skiers,! Saturday added another crown to his long list of laurels as he cop-. ped the intermountain cross country ski race, covering the 5 : mile Brighton course in 29 min-i utes and 32 seconds. j Junior Bounous, Provo ace and defending . champion, pulled in; behind Engen to win second place j in the fast time of 33 minutes and 56 seconds, while Harold Goodro, Wasatch mountain club skier, and: former winner, was third in 36 j minutes 35 seconds. ; A top field of skiers entered the event, and competition for the prized award was keen. Jack Walker, University of Utah, was fourth and Jim Langhlln, Alta, copped fifth place. , Frank Hirst, another Timpj Mountain club skier, took seventh place, covering the course in 44' minutes and 30 seconds. ' Park ward of Provo was crowned crown-ed Division 6 M Men basketball champion Saturday night after defeating Payson Third. 33-31 in the championship game at Pay-son. Springville Sixth won third place by defeating American Fork Third, 38-35. The Forkers placed sixth. Lehi Fourth placed fourth in the joust with a 32-25 victory BRAVES WORK OUT DESPITE COLD WIND FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.. Feb. 22 CJ! Manager Billy Southworth sent the Boston Braves through two hard workouts work-outs today despite a cold wind which swept their training field. Although all players were supposed sup-posed to report today, eight were absent, most of them held up by storms - which disrupted their traveling schedules. over Spanish Fork Third, which placed seventh. Consolation and fifth place winner was Laramie which trounced Vineyard. 54-36. ' - Park led, 13-10 at the first quarter, 18-13 at half, and 26-20 at the third quarter mark. .The game had a thrilling windup as Payson tanked two goals in the last 50 seconds to trim a six-point lead to two. Gerald Doerr, Laramie, was picked as the tournament's outstanding out-standing player and received , the sportsmanship award. Laramie won he team sportsmanship award. Tournament officials selected the following all-star team: Paul Burton, Payson Third, and Blaine Whipple, Provo Eighth, forwards; Chuck Peterson, Park, center; Glen Clark. Springville Sixth, and Dean Chipman, American Fork, guards. Utah Ice & Storage Co. Announces t Crystal Clear ICE CUBES And CRUSHED ICE Now Available for Utah County Patrons Prompt, Courteous Service For Details Phone Provo 1140 Ben Hogan Takes Three-Hole lead SAN DIEGO. Cal.. Feb. 22 (U.R) Ben Hogan, the National PGA golf champion, today took a three-hole lead over Britisher Dai Rees at the end of the first 18 holes in their $5,000 winner- take-all match. Hogan, the leading money win ner in professional golfing ranks last year, shot a four-under-par 68 against the English pro's par 72. Hogan's low medal score automatically gave him $1,000 of the prize money. A ACT!! Get Your Boat and Motor Now! Don't wait and be disappointed. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY on "MARTIN" and "MERCURY" MOTORS Lee Craft and Rubber Boats Innes Sporting Goods 316 West Center Provo CLOSING OUT SALE ALL STOCK REDUCED 20', o SKI DEPT. 33V3 NAVAJO BLANKETS 40 Christensen's Sport Shop 53 No. Univ. 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