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Show -i 10 Sunday, August 3, 1947 SUNDAY HERALD A Lifetime Treat To The Winner s Tangle With Magna Toda)5 Tflt ith House Of David 1 limp . Slate H s- ? Collins ClarP After First League Win f. The battle of the basement will .begin today at 2:30 in Timp park, and to tne loser will go tne spoils undisputed possession of the "Industrial league cellar at least ; ..for a few days. .. Participants in this battle will be the host Provo Timps 'f and the visiting Magna Mill-men Mill-men and there will be a lot of reputations and pas "grudges" come up for settle-r settle-r ment during . the tilt. For one thing, it has been quite time since the Timps have been knocked off three times in a row, nd the first half champs, who fiot so long ago were zipping hrough the rest of the loop like , i knife through hot butter, will e out to remedy the situation, ut fast. ' The locals still haven't forgot-en forgot-en that it-was these same Mill-nen Mill-nen who exerted their mastery ver the Timps twice in the first talf, and then started the Provo rew on the downgrade by ad-ninistering ad-ninistering their first beating of he second half, and nothing vould please the Collins clan bet-er bet-er than a win today. Then too, the Millmen are likely like-ly as not to start right-hander Merrill Johnson on the mound and -the Timps have a. beef of long "Standing against this -gent, having .faced his slants four times this " season and coming out on the "short end of the score three times In the process. This doesn't set at all well with the North park clan, and if anything any-thing can be done about making Mr. Johnson's afternoon a miserable miser-able affair, the Timps will attempt at-tempt it with relish. During the first half of the t. season, the Timps looked like. ' money in the bank, even in' I losing-, but with the first half ' y crown safely tucked away, a ; relapse set in, ami in some of their games this half, the lo-4 lo-4 cals haven't shown even a spark of their old-time brilliance. bril-liance. - This, however, doesn't mean -that the Timps aren't still one of the most dangerous teams in the 'league, and that they aren't apt to get back in the groove right away. If this is to happen soon. most of the Provo players would nrpfpi- it to hp aoainst Maoni The Timps will probably coun-ter coun-ter the probable use of Johnson by sending their own right-handled ace, Garth Ford, to the mound; Ford, effective as all get out in I the first half, has been relatively ineffective in his last three starts, f However, the big right-hander I has been given a whole week's t rest, considerably more than he fhad up to this point, and with! his arm back in shape, should be 1 i pretty hard to handle. j Also on deck .and a possible! ? starter, will be the other ace in! Rent A Car TAKE VOUlt VACATION CHEAP AS A BUS P. E. ASHTON CO. 119 So. University Ave. SADDLE HORSES FOR RENT Hour or By the Day Mountain Side Stables, Inc. 1400 East 8th North, Provo Phone 2685M STRICTLY RIGHT A Shoe that's really hep. Of handsome brown veal with thick chocolate rubber sole. Jogs head the shoe list for colorful, spirited carefree styling. AT Tayhor Bros. Since 1866 SHOE DEPT. Bearded Chucker 1 K w C -, Jit J-i" - - K 1 , -Si" Dick Wycoff, veteran pitcher for the House of David baseball base-ball team who 'will meet the Provo Timps here August' 11. Wycoff, who has been with the bearded wonders for eight seasons, seas-ons, was a former star hurler in the American association. Golf Entries Due Aug. 18 SAL TLAKE CITY, Aug. 2 (U.R) Utah golfers who are planning to enter the Western Golf Open tournaments today were warned to make sure their official entries are in by Aug. 18. Executive secretary Jack Ken-nan Ken-nan of the Western Golf association associa-tion is in Salt Lake City to complete com-plete details of the annual tourney tour-ney which will be held in the Utah capitol city Aug. 29, 30, 31 and Sept. 1. Kennan said entries must be in the Chicago office of the association associa-tion by the Aug. 18 deadline because be-cause no entries would be accepted accept-ed after that. Tickets for the Utah Centennial Centen-nial golf feature arc now on sale at the Centennial ticket office. ' I the hole of Manager Collins, south paw Marion Wankier. Wank hasn't had as much rest as Ford has, and probably will be held in reserve by the Timp skipper in case Ford runs into trouble. Lob, who used everyone but the batboy in his last league game with Helper Wednesday night, and even took a whirl at the second base spot himself, him-self, doesn't want such a thin; to have to happen again, and is hoping: that the Timps, who usually hit as hard and often as their opponents, will get a bit of luck. The locals will be in pretty good" shape for the tilt. Al Drake, second-sacker, is still favoring a wounded thumb a bit, but Lob can either use LaVar Kump or Mahlon Rasmuson at the spot. If Rasmuson plays the keystone sack, Leo Wankier will probably play the right field spot, or share it with Kump. In his debut with the Timps, Wankier got two hits in his only two trips to the plate and played nice defensive ball. The brother of southpaw Marion is also a hurler hurl-er of some renown, having chucked for Levari in the Central Utah league. 8.95 V 14tat4leUt Bearded Crew Boasts Good Win Record Another of America's , premier barnstorming baseball teams wili invade Provo Aug. 11 when the Timps tangle with the , powerful House of David nine on the Timp park diamond starting at 5:30 p.m. The bearded Davidites have been traveling around the country coun-try taking on all comers since 1919, and the current team is just as . strong - as any of the teams that made the House of David a power to be reckoned with back in the 1930's. "Doc" Tally, who has been with the team for S3 years, and Manager Man-ager George Anderson, who joined thfe team in 1918, before many extensive road trips were attempted, at-tempted, are the veterans on the team, but all the team members have had plenty of experience in baseball. Dick Wycoff, top hurler on the squad and a veteran of eight years' standing with the Bearded Beauties, once was a top notch hurler for Milwaukee of the American association. The chunky chucker with the curly beard still whips the ball in with plenty of speed. The Davidites have been play-1 ing before capacity crowds all over the United States, and have been turning in some fine performances. per-formances. The genial gentlemen usually manage to comb the other team out of their beards enough so that they have compiled an impressive win record in their tour this year. Noted for their splendid sportsmanship, sports-manship, the long-haired, bushy-bearded bushy-bearded lads are very scrupulous aboMt not using Ineligible men on their teams and do not play with teams using such men. It is the proud boast of the Benton Harbor, Mich., team that it has played all of the leading semi-pro and independent teams in the nation, with a winning percentage of .738 and they have long been noted as one of the outstanding barnstorming teams. Provo baseball fans should get a real .treat Aug. 11, when the Davidites bring their club to Provo Pro-vo to meet the local team. Softball Playoff Set For Monday; Upset Shuffles League Standings 'League Standings w L 1 2 3 4 4 5 Utah Valley Paint 5 Fisher Beer 5 Provo Flying Service . . 3 Log Cabin Inn . .2 Wasden Motor 2 20-30 Club 2 .900! .333 .333 .286 Wasden Motor shuffled the standings in the Major Softball league more than somewhat Fri day night as they climbed out of the league cellar and dumped Fisher Beer out of the lead by turning in an ll-fr win over the Fisher crew. With Cliff Mortensen chucking four hit ball, and Lynn Bell scor ing three runs, and hitting two triples and a single, added to Kimball Merrill's home run, the Wasden crew were in command of the game all the way through. Utah Valley Paint took over top spot in the league as they took the measure of the Log Cabin Inn crew 7-3. Garth Kump swatted swat-ted a three-run homer and L. Brown collected three hits to lead the winners attack. Provo Flying Service moved into third place in the league standings with a convincing 10-41 triumph over the 20-30 club. Paul Peay got three hits, including two! doubles and Goodrich homered ; for the winners. Cloward led the i losers with two hits in three trips ; to the plate. j Mr., Farmer: There is no Substitute for Minerals Life itself is dependent upon proper Mineral balance. bal-ance. Minerals of various kinds are of indispensable value in parts, of the body. The lack of any of these essential Minerals will affect af-fect performance of the vital functions of production prod-uction 'rind reproduction. Additional silage, hays, grains, etc. will not supplement sup-plement the valuable major and trace Mineral elements that are usually short in silage, poor hays and overgrazed over-grazed pastures. It is now known that a cow will draw Minerals from her own skeleton when she is not taking in enough to supply her calf and milk. It is estimated that the Mineral production produc-tion alone of a high producing prod-ucing dairy cow will exceed her own weight. In many cases her milk production will exceed her own weight by ten to twelve times. Milk is high in Mineral value. Feed accordingly, and make it Watkins. JOS. H. TAYLOR 751 West 1st South Provo, Utah Y M. II. Bird, Springville, (center); grins happily as Bean Park, bnilder ef the big new stadium at the base of ML Tlmpanogos, hands him a lifetime pass te the stadium as his prise for turning in the prise-winning name of Tlmpanogos BowL rerron Lesee, basinets manager of the stadium, looks on at the right. Timpanogos Bowl Chosen As Name Of New Stadium; Springville Man Wins Prize Ending a contest that attracted wide attention all over the state and brought in some 385 names submitted, a committee of six judges Friday night selected the name "Timpanogos Bowl" as the official name of the huge Stadium being built by Dean Park, Orem sportsman. The name brought a lifetime pass to the big sports arena to M. H. Bird, Springville, who was the first of some 31 persons to send in the name that was finally chosen by the judges. According to contest rules, if a name was sent in by more than one person, , A playoff between Utah Valley P01, 1 Paint, current league leaders in 833jthe Major softball league, and ,714. X7ocr1r Msttsu- 1i Tf half riinn.ri- up, to determine the other Provo entry in the county softball tourney tour-ney slated Aug. 7, 8 and 9 at American Fork, has been set for Monday night. The game will be played at the end of the regular night's .play, and' will begin at 9:45. Fisher Beer, a member of the Utah State league, and Major league first half fhamm hav ilronHv hopn ...... t . .v.lCu w . tuuruCy. The rest of the games will go nri d at ri i mn i nan ubi Paint and Fisher Beer will meet at 6:45 and Wasdens will play 20-30 at 7:45. Only the starting times of these games have been switched from the original schedule. sched-ule. In the final league game at 8:45, Provo Flying Service will meet the Log Cabin Inn team. This cram will h slaved iuat iprior to the playoff game be- tween UVP and Wasdens CARG 6D? THAT tieep k 1 IU7 If your CAR'S perfonrfarfoe' is luggiah-if it seems to have that "tired feeling" it's time to have our skilled mechanics make a thorough check-up. They, work with proper equipment and they use .only factory engineered and inspected part When they've done the necessary job-whether it's a minor adjustment or a major repair your car will be full of pep and ginger again. Why postpone your driving pleasure? See us soon! ANDERSON'S 241 West Center Phone 343 You'll find the men who know your tar best at tho j a. . the first postmarked would be judged the winner. The 30 persona who had the same idea as Mr. Bird, but were a little slow on the trigger, will each get a one-year pass te the arena, which is due to open soon. Ferron C. Losee, business manager of the bowl, said that plans for the formal dedication and opening show are almost completed and that a further an nouncement concerning them would probably be made next week. The committee of judges, com posed of Mayors Earl J. Glade of Salt Lake City: J. W. Oilman of Orem and Mark Anderson of Provo; Utah county commissioner Sylvan Clark; Fisher Harris, Salt Lake City attorney and Dr. T. Earl Pardoe, head of the BYU speech department, selected eight names from the 385 sent in and made final selection from those eight. Mr. Park, whose dream of a full-fledged arena capable of handling most any sport brought the big bowl Into being, eliminated elimin-ated many of the names when he told the committee that he did not want a name chosen that had his name in it "The stadium, when completed nd opened, will belong to the community. It is not a one-man show and I do not believe that any man should have his name connected with it," stated Mr. Park i One of the names that received (considerable backing from the .judges was Steel Bowl. Another popular name was Geneva bowl. Other names in the eight chosen by the judges for final consideration considera-tion included, Utoreum, Timp-adium, Timp-adium, Timpark, Uconogoa Bowl and Sego Bowl. Mr. Bird, winner of the month long contest, lives at 321 West Center street, Springville and is a garage employee there. He is an anjent sports fan, and promised prom-ised that his lifetime pass would not go to waste. mum TOO? sign Following the Ball By OeMar Tenscher Herald Sports Editor MIDGET RACING NEW 8FORT THRELI Provo sports fans who like a liberal dash of thrills, spills and chills thrown in for free to liven up a sports event are missing out on a good bet in the Friday night midget auto races held at the Utah county fairgrounds on an eighth of a mile track. The snarling, spitting little mldgeta that careen around that track every race night, and the devil may care attitude atti-tude of the men who drive them are enough te send shivers up the back of the moat sensation - hardened aplne in the business. It is little wonder that, as a spectator sport, midget auto racing rac-ing is rapidly attracting a huge following all over the United States and is rated as a big-time spectator sport, one that is drawing draw-ing an average crowd of . 6000 people per night all over the United States. For the men who race the speedy miniatures of the big jobs, the cards are stacked. The odds on death or injury are so high that one would almost Imagine that no one but an insane man would climb into the cockpit of one of the high-powered racers. Yet, every night, all over the United States, perfectly sane men, who during the day are kind to old ladies and treat their wives with the best of care, slip behind the wheel of a speedy death-trap and gamble their lives against the thrill of pitting their skill against one another. Yet, the midgets are not the most dangerous occupation occupa-tion that a man might have. As one champ from the East Coast put it, "Drivinr a midget mid-get racer isn't a whole lot more dangerous than taking the family for a drive on Sunday." And, as far as the Utah tracks Fisher Beer has been distinguished for its finer flavor since 1884 when folks were still marveling at the electric light which Edison had invented only six years before. Today Fisher continues as the quality leader. Favorite, of the httermountain Region Distributed Thrills, Spills Marli Midget Races os Two Spine-tingling thrills were a cent million at the Utah county fairgrounds Friday night, as the midget auto races provided some sports chills the likes of which haven't been seen in Provo for many a moon. . Harold- Adair, who eame through the night unscathed, walked off with the 10-lap event, and added an eight-lap warm-vp heat to his. laurels te emerge the only, double winner of the night, bat it was up to Stan Rock and Jack McCardle to provide the big thrills of the night at the expense of two cars and considerable con-siderable skin. Rock, one of the leading drivers on the local track, . skidded his speedy number 10 around a-curve, caromed off another car, and then somersaulted a couple of turns and skidded on its side down the track about 50 feet .while the entire crowd came to are concerned, the man is absolutely abso-lutely right. There- has not yet been a serious accident, involving any more than slight injury to the drivers concerned, on any of the Utah tracks, but the ever-present ever-present spectre of danger, riding the driver's shoulder, lures the paying customers in. The American sporting public are a group of peculiar people. They go to boxing matches and are vaguely disappointed if there isn't at least one knockout. They go to auto races In sort of hope that there might be a crack-up. It isn't that the people of America are getting sadistic In their tastes, it is just that they are seeking sports that are full of thrills for the spectator aa well as the participant. And midget racing rings the bell. Devotees of the sport, who have been at the Provo track ever since the first night that Ralph Miller started the races, say that the shows here match anything they have seen at any other spot in the country. So, for fans who like their sports menu well peppered with a liberal potion of spine-tingling chills, the speedy midgets beckon as the very latest and newest provider pro-vider of thrills for the sporting spectator. That Vacation Trip Will Be More Enjoyable If Your AUTO RADIO Is Serviced At ARTS RADIO SERVICE Phone 915-M by" Western Distributer Co., Provo, UUh Cars Crack Up its feet as if a giant hand wu lifting every spectator. Stan came out of the crash under his own power, considerably consider-ably shaken and bruised, and seemingly in pretty good shape, but his car and crash helmet were not so lucky. . Rock was given emergency treatment at the Utah Valley hospital hos-pital and returned to the track before the night was over, but his car was almost a total lose and his crash helmet mashed to about half its normal width. The second big thrill waited until the main event, but it brought just as big a chill to the hearts of the onlookers. Jack Mc- Cracken in his -colorful 108, mo mentarily lost control of his speedy racer and the car turned completely over, stood on end for a moment, fell back on its wheels and burst into flame. McCracken got out before much damage was done to himself, and suffered only minor abrasions and slight burns. The car took a little heavier beating, but should be running again in a few days. The good-sized crowd was on Its feet almost continuously from the trophy dash, which saw Pat Testori nip Stan Price in a thrill ing duel over four laps, until Adair crossed the line with the checkered flag in the final main event. The dare-devil crew, 11 of whom had midgets on the track, ably abetted by WUd Bill Anderson and his bigger Speedster, put on a real show for the crowd Friday, and some of the best races seeq on the local track this year wer run off for the Spectators. One of the feature attractions of the evening matched Pat Testori Tes-tori in his speedy red 73 against Wild Bill Anderson, driving full-sized full-sized number 27. Anderson, who showed a great deal of skill in keeping his bigger car on the small track, won the eight-lap race. Adair turned in his first victory in the third heat, beating out Stan Price and Bill Brown in 1:56.4 over eight laps. Brown won the first heat, a six-lap race, over Jack McCardle and Gil Broad-bent, Broad-bent, in 2:35. Howard Rock won the second heat,, the one in which Stan was injured, in 1:54.4 with Harold Adair second 'and Pat Testori third, keeping the winning pretty much in one circle of drivers. Judd Werner copped the semifinal semi-final 15-lap race in the fast time of 2:09, beating out Ken Williams Wil-liams and Bob Fergeson, two racers rac-ers who had not shoved up to expectations in the shorter races. Adair won the main event In 6:09.8, staving off a challenge by Gil Broadbent and Judd Werner, to cop the big prize of the night 46 West 1st North mmmmrn Ifeher Brewing Company f I bait Lake Cltjr I .1 |