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Show . ' - -. 10 Sunday, March 28, 1948 SUNDAY HERALD Self Loiter Captures Men's Downhill Event As National in Sdi Races One At Sun Valley Switzerland. ?- Stlk VALLEY, Ida., March 27 U.fi An Olympic ikl Utm mimbr from Salt Lake City and an attractive Uni-vtrsity Uni-vtrsity of Washington skier won the men's and women downhill races today to open the 1948 national ski championships cham-pionships at Sun Valley, .'-. Jack Reddish of. the Utah Ski Club captured the men's events over the fast, 2-mile long course in two minutes, '28.2 seconds about six seconds slower than the record set Glowing Babe Comes Back To The Big Town NEW YORK, March 27 (U.R) ' Baba Ruth came back to the big town today, glowing with a Florida Flori-da , auntan and itrldding surely along the road back from illness. The bronzed and beaming Bambino Bam-bino stepped off the "Florida Special" at Pennsylvania station in the glare of phootgrapher's flash bulbs and said in his hoarse rumble of a voice that "I feel wonderful." It was good news for the group , of Ruth fans at Trainslde, and the robust appearance of the once- , nighty Niw York Yankee slugger slug-ger bore out his words. The Ruth , procession to his waiting automobile auto-mobile turned out a triumphal 'parade. Smiles of admiration were on the faces of the march- , ers instead of the worried looks . worn when the Babe left for Florida In uncertain health on Feb. 6. Tve made great progress," said Ruth, a massive figure in1 a white cashmere coat with ' the Inevitable cap to match, a he waved a stogie towards the fane. T gained about, 10 pounds." said the Babe, "and now I weigh 112 pounds. I still get those headaches head-aches now and then, but they're not nearly as bad as they were." Ruth underwent three opera- -tions last year on his throat and neck, operations, which reduced "him to a mere shadow of the famed outfielder who smashed out 714 home runs in his entire eareer, including 60 in one season. The haggard look that marked his face only two months ago was gone today, however. The Babe said he thought i he. would stay In New York . for "about a month" and probably wonld get to see the '. Yankees' first home game ef the aeasen aaglnst Boston on April ZS. Mrs. Claire Ruth, who accompanied accom-panied her husband on his trips through the major league . training train-ing camps in Florida, said he probably would leave for: Hollywood, Holly-wood, Cal., to observe the making of a motion picture based on his life on April 23. Also, in Ruth's arty was his male nurse, Frank elaney. CATFISH IN SKY NO JOKE SYDNEY, Australia (U.R) J. Kempley and Cass Singe were sent to the hospital by a fish 150 feet in the air. They were cleaning clean-ing but a rooftop water tank when stung severely by six-Inch catfish stranded . in the bottom. IIEYS VIEWS However, Jannette Burr of (8202 14th St, N. E.) Ssattle. skiing for the Seattle Moun-taittiers, Moun-taittiers, set a newrecord on the two-mlle-long women's course.!- .'''' Miss Burr slipped down the thick snow in 1:54.1. The old record rec-ord was, 1 6.3, made last year by Georgette Phioliere of France. All places, as announced by of ficials, were on the basis of preliminary pre-liminary times and were subject to later correction if necessary. Contestants in the meet partci- pated in practice, and exhibition jumps this afternoon near the Sun Valley lodge. They'll end the na tional meet tontorrow with slalom competition. The winner also gets the coveted Harriman cup, do- noted by Secretary of Commerce Averill Harriman. Behind Miss Burr in the wo men's race were Grace Lindley or Minneapolis, 2:00.4; Suzy Har ris of Salt Lake City, 2:01.3: Maude B. Banks; of Aspen. Colo.. 2.o.3, and Ann Volkman of Concord, Con-cord, Mass., 2:15.2. , ? Reddish was followed across the men's finish7 line by a Sun Valley Club Instructor, Instruct-or, Yves Latreille, whose home Is in Chicoutiml, Quebec, Que-bec, Canada. His time was 2:33.3. Dick Movitz of Salt Lake Citv. last year's national slalom cham pion, was third in 2:33.4. Others In the first ten finishers were Sarvey Clifford of Ottawa. 2:34.3; Barney McLean of Den ver, z:35.3; Leon Goodman of Sun Valley, 2:36.2; Alan Fischer of Portland, 2:38.3: William Farrell of Salt Lake City. 2:38. and Don Goodman of Sun Valley and Philip Phil-ip Puchner of Sun Valley, tied for ninth at 2:39.3. Infra-Squad (All. in1 o Day's Work', Per Windjammer II Takes Big Lead In Yachting: Event ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 27 (U.RX Windjammer II, on of the outstanding boats of 1847, tacked her way to a 30-ralle lead over 22 other yachts In ihe St. Petersburgh-to-Havana sa 1 1 i n g race xonigni. The 77-foot ketch Owned by Gerner Tullls of New 0rleans, La., reached the open waters of the Gulf of Mexico three and a half hours after the noon start in Tampa bay. However, she was penalized one .hour for beating the starting gun. The winner of the 284-nautical mile voyage will be determined on corrected time in three calsses. Some boat have an 11 -hour advantage ad-vantage over Windjammer, the scratch .boat. The Sailors which are fighting headwinds and a strong tide tonight, to-night, must finish the race by Thursday night. The'voast guard cutter Aurora and the Cuban gun boat Patria are patrolling tht course. By -L. C. Dunn A fellow earned JoKri Hanlon made news recently with a friendly gesture that will be remembered for a long time in the town of Heroule, Belgium. - Hanlon was U. S. Army Major during the Battle of the Bulge, ' when things were rougher than flying a kite in a tornado! To camouflage his men. Major Hanlon borrowed' bor-rowed' bed sheets from the people of Hemroule. This didn't do the sheets any good! Recently Hanlon told his nelgbhors in Winchester, Massachusetts, that he still owed, a flock of sheets to the people in Belgium. So the first thing you know, the whole town contributed. . . . . and Hanlon went back to Belgium to repay his debt, with plenty of extras. Well, John may never have his picture on the front of a - magazine, but I'll 7 bet he's Hemroule's Cover7 Boy for 1948; and many Belgians will have pleasanter dreams about Uncle Sam. If you've been dreaming about that new car you've ordered. . . . rest assured we're doing everything possible to hasten hast-en delivery! Your patience and understanding is gratefully grate-fully appreciated. - Mean- . jtime, keep your present car; l In good condition,: by having. I the experts at the STRONG; S MOTOR COMPANY, 1150 - Worth' Sth West, service ltv regularly! Phone 2309. Cambridge Rows Past Oxford In By Five Lengths LONDON, March 27 (U.B-Camr bridge university's light blue crew, goaded into a supreme performance per-formance by a loud little coxswain, cox-swain, overcame early blundering today and went on to 'defeat Oxford Ox-ford by five lengths in the fastest time ever recorded in the 94-year history of the world's oldest rowing row-ing classic. " Cambridge, winning a golden 50th triumph in the event, rego-tiated rego-tiated the four and half mile 'S' shaped Thames river course in 17 minutes and 50 seconds, surpassing sur-passing the old mark of 18 min utes and three seconds, set by the Cambridge crew of 1934. More, than a million persons in gala holiday mood and attire packed both banks of the historic river to get a fleeting glimpse of the sleek shells as, they moved swiftly past. j T Ball Team By RAY SCnWARTS Herald Sports Editor Given break in the weather, Brlgham Young university'! base ball team Is expected to hold ita first intra -squad game next Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon. , . r: So far the '' Cougar drills hay been confined principally.. . to throwing, and fly chasing, practice, prac-tice, with a little running and a few pepper games thrown in for good measure. - -... , The Cats heldtheir, first form al outdoor workout, last Wednesday, Wednes-day, but have not practiced cut-side cut-side since then, because of the snow storm, , which struck the area Thursday. ButCoach Stan Watts, who re alizes a great deal has to be ac complished by the tune his boys play their first game . against Utah on April lfl, hasn't been asleep at the switch. . . i Friday afternoon, for instance. he had his 50 some candidates working out in the men's gym. With the return of clear skies and warm weather. Watts la planning on plenty of outdoor work dur ing the coming week, he Indicated Indi-cated Saturday. He also said Saturday that he would start cutting his souad in the next few days. When the final fin-al cut is made, Watts will probably prob-ably have from IS to 20 boys left. This, he said, will be' about the number he will carry during the season. Although the Cougars only have their four Skyline Six games scheduled to. date. Watts said he was hopeful of lining up a few games with some of the Central Utah league teams, ' the Provo Timps and .possibly two or three other teams in the area. The Blue and White diamond brigade in all probability will go through their first intra-squad game at the Timp ball park, since Watts has arranged to hold two workouts each week on the Timp park piamond, with the other practlcees set for the stadium house field. une more worry was lined irora watts' shoulders Friday, when the shipment of bats and Cougar coach had ordered some timeago finally arrived. Now, if the batting cage, which he ord ered, would show up things would definitely start looking up. Those who have seen Don Bu shore, the swivel-hipped quarter back and halfback on the Cougar grid machine, play baseball, say he is a great long-ball hitter. I have never seen a guy his size slam the ball as far as he can when he getr a hold of it." de clared Oweri Dixon. BY high football and baseball coach, who was a teammate of Don's when the two ere playing for the Geneva Ge-neva Steelers in the Central Utah Leagu He7 also has a beautiful arm. Dixon added. ach Watts who was sitting nearby when Dixon made his re marks couldn't help but feel happy hap-py over what he heard since Don is among the Infield prospects for tne team. Watts, incidentally, has been pleased with the catching form displayed by Glen Ollverson, an other BYU football half back, wno was one or the best Softball backstops in the city last summer. Possessing a rifle-like throwing arm, unverson has a lot. of hustle and fight '-' lJKa it 0 ""1... ' -v, v Bill Holland holds on to the wheel for dear: life as hi anU f dirt track. Holland, second place winner in the Indianapolis 500-mile speed classic last year kept the car from overturninav . . y r' Denver Nuggets, Baylor U. Win Olympic Cage Openers Aimouin Jim cccies is con sidered one of the top diamond prospects in the university, indications indi-cations are that he will devote his time to Spring football. With Rex Olsen, the Cougars' creat for ward-passing quarterback of Jast season unlikely to return for an other year of college play. Ec clesNhas his heart set on the gain lng of the No. 1 signal calling post. An infielder, Eccles is said to be a great fielder and hitter by those who have seen him play. RUBBING IT IN YONKERS, N. Y. (U.R) A thief who broke into the apartment of Clarence Bleakley not only stole treasury bond coupons and a family heirloom but ate breakfast break-fast and left the dishes in the sink for Bleakely to wash. BULLETIN; NEW YORK, March 27. (U.R) Kentoeky'a "Rupp Riders," using neatral Madison Square Garden to score a stinging . tl te 17 victory over .their home-state rivals from the University of Lenlsvilie, tonight to-night advanced to the Olympic Olym-pic semi-finals along with Baylor, the Phillips Oiler and the Denver Nuggets. By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK; March 27 (U.R) The Denver Nuggets, national AAU runnersup, defeated the Oakland Bittners, 57 to 55 and Baylor university edged New York university, 59 to 57, today to advance to the. semi-finals of the Olympic basketball tourna ment before 9,251 fans at Madl son Square Garden. The towerins? Nueret from th' Rocky Mountains thus won the right to meet the winner of to night's quarter-final clash be tween the Phillips Oilers of Bart- tlesville, Okla., and Brooklyn's national Y.M.C-A. champions in tne national collegiate bracket Denver. led by big Vlnce Boryla'a t points, moved up with an artistic, professional-like professional-like performance In which' South American Horse Captures Double Event Race MIAMI. March 27. flJ.PUr.i W. Hooper's Colosal. whn ram. from behind in the stretch to win the first division of the double event stakes last Saturday, led every inch of the wav in th ond section at Tropical Park to- aay xo sweep both ends of the unique stake. By beatinsr Wonlforrf Fim', Delegate, who was the favorite today although he was third last week, the South American thoroughbred thor-oughbred became the third horse to complete the double. Armed won both sections of the inagural m io ana Westminster dupll cated the feat last year. It was a two-horse race from the start for Mrs. Lottie Wolfs nijaenc was a well beaten third ana Ed Voynow's Stud Poker a distant last in the small field. carrying 113 pounds, the same Impost under which he won week ago, Colosal surprised the crowd of 11,628 by taking the lead when the starting gates flew open and beating Delegate, a noted sprinter, to the rail. Jockey Ronnie Nash, who took the horse through on the inside on the stretch turn and saved enough ground to win the first ection, didn't rely on such tactics tac-tics in the second. He kepi the bay gelding moving mov-ing at a Smart cllo and Althnnsh he never7 did shake off Delegate who racea aimosi alongside the winner all the way, he made the most of his small advantage and Dooiea uoiosai under the wire a neck in front of the Woolford color bearer. Childeric was five length further back and Stud Poker about the same distance behind him. they piled up a If -point lead in the first half and then staved off a determined laat half rally by the CaliforniaiM to win out. Baylor's aggressive Bears, run ners up in the NCAA tournament, gained the round -of-four on a basket by Jim Owen, with only 45 seconds left to play in a loosely played rough house battle, the lead changed hands 17 times and the score was tied on 15 occas ions Denver's victory was tempered by the possible loss of Boryla. who wrenched his knee in the closing minute of the game and may be lost to the Nuggets for the remainder of the tournament The ragged six-foot, fenr-Inch fenr-Inch ex-Notre Dame star, whose brilliant shooting from the pivot and from outside was the major factor in Den. vers triumph, suffered a possible pos-sible torn cartilage and a severe sprain In his left knee. Tis doctor said It may keep him out of Monday night's game. Boryla hit for 12 of the Nuggets' nrst Z3 points in the first 11 minutes of play to boost his team to a 25 to 9 lead in the first half. After the Bittners had closed the gap to 35 to 23 at half time, he tossed in nine more markers in the final half to keep the Nuggets m front all the way. Oakland's roughness and Its poor shooting eye from the free throw line were mainly responsi ble for Its setback. The Bittners committed 22 infractions and lost two of their key operatives, six foot, five inch Warren Taulbee and Les O'Gara on personals. The Bittners connected on only 12 out of 24 attempts from the 15 -foot Taylor Talte County Ski Meet Honors ' SamATaylor,, Provo, and Barbara Bar-bara Stewart, Orem, won top hon ors in the Utah county Junior Ski tournament held Saturday at Timp Haven under the sponsor ship of the Provo recreation department de-partment and the Tlmpanogos mountain club.. T a y 1 o r captured the four way boys' title with 72ttvpoints nu me wumur oounoui iropny that went with it, while Kent Grover was second with 71 A points and Jack Christensen third wixn 71. Miss Stewart took the three way girls' crown with 58 points, secured on a first in the downhill down-hill and slalom and third place in xne cross country. Nedra Nut tall was second with 57 points with a second in all three events. Doremus Sumpter was third with 55 points with a first In the cross country, third in the slalom and fourth Li the downhill. In the men's slalom event, Taylor Tay-lor was first with a time of 40.1 seconds. Ronnie Carhart was second sec-ond with a 41.1 and Christensen third with a 41.7, Grant Turner took jumping honors with .a leap of 35 feet, followed by Allen Morgan - and Jack Christensen. The Cross country coun-try was won by Kent Grover in eight minutes and 12.3 seconds. followed by Taylor with? a time of 8:20 and Christensen with a 8:26.5. Christensen captured the down hill event in 24.3 seconds, with Morgan second in 25.4 seconds, and Carhart third In 25.5 seconds. Four girls and nine boys quali fied for the tournament, which was held under perfect weather conditions, according to Miss Jes- mark, while the Nuggets cashedjrector, who has handled the de- in on iz oui or IB. The Bittners. sparked by Don Marksdale, their talented Negro center, twice closed the gap to a single point during the second half at 46 to 45 and at 51 to 50 But a one-hander by Ron Liv ingstone and hook shot by Boryla in the next 90 seconds nulled: the xsuggets away to a safe lead Ward Gibson, with 13 points. also played a vital part in the Nuggets' victory, while Barks dale, who hit for 14 points, was uaxiand s nigh scorer. In the New York U-Barlor straggle, Owen's basket cli maxed a nlp-and-tack game in which the Bears were forced to come from behind eight times to win. The lead chanced hands nine times In the first half and the score tied four times before a free throw by Jackie Robinson gave Baylor a 27 to 26 advantase at half time. After five more lead changes and seven ties in the first nine minutes of the final half, the Vi olets pulled away to a 47 to 41 bulge at the 11 -minute mark for the widest lead enjoyed by either team during the whole game. C US IF YOUR MOTOR OVERHEATS! Specialized, Efficient " Radiator Service. AH LANDER'S -490 South University Ave. Phone 100 1 it , Central Utah Motor Co. i I t-'y L Wishes To Announce ,To the public that we have secured the services of Mr. Wells Richmond Who takes this means of of thanking the many friends who ame' in to see him and, extends a cordial invitation to others to come in and get acquainted. v o ' 4 r. )r. t SB lura m Ufi ; i s. it, BOXING & WRESTLING tails for the meet. Today's Sport Parade - i " Lad, If You Wan ta Become Big Leaguer See Cincinnati By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sport Writer TAMPA, FU, March 27 (U.R) Pack up your, glove and your cleated shoes, young feller, and take your business- to the Cincin nati Reds. They'll put you in the Major leagues faster than any other club in baseball. That's the promise of person able Gabe Paul, able assistant to Presiient' Warren Giles of the Redlegs. .Not only that, but the Reds have the figures to prove it Signing- of promising players play-ers is a. ragged racket these- Batters Have to Bear Down To Hit .350, Stan Says ' ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., March 27 U.tt Swinging two bats easUy in tanned, sinewy hands, Stan Musial of the St Louis Cardinals allowed today that hitting J00 "is easy" but you have to "bear down" to get your average up to .340 or .350. , And the National league Ditch ers might be interested in noting that the two-timer batting king xeeis "lit. and ready" and is preparing pre-paring to bear down hard in the season just a few weeks ahead. This is a new Musial they're seeing in the spring training camp of the Red- J birds. He Isn't even partlca-larly partlca-larly worried whether the board of strategy plays him In , the outfield or at first base, to which post he was shifted 1946. f "It doesn't matter to me," he grinned as he tossed one bat aside and prepared to take his practice licks in the batting, cage. "It might help me a little tojilay the outfield, as far as hittingnrcon- cerned, because I think the extra activity in the infield during the heat of July and August tends to' wear you down a bit But I'll play anywhere as long as I get my times a up. Since breaking Into the Major leagues he never has been under that figure, twiee winning the batting title with" marks of .365 and ,537 and VIICV AMI DlWIOf m passable .347. Musial, a slim six footer of catlike cat-like quickness, fell off to a .312 average last season when he had more troubles than Tommy Man- vllle. First he was hospitalized with an apopletic appendix And then his tonsils started .cutting up, m n ta days, with aU the Major lea; gue teams employing enough scoots to pack the average fanjttown baU : park. ' Bat Gabriel blows the born on the rest of them with a paid of proposition on reaching then promised land long before th lad who lets pocket lettuce Interfere with prospects. "Well go as high as anysafi' them for -the. kid who can bejpi major leaguer," Paul asserted. "The one thing they can be as- r surea or witn us is tnat they wont spend all that bonus money keen ing alive In the bush leagues." It is lncontrovertlbly true that v uivsk jrvuii(9Krr Miiuua iuua. time In- the Minors, being polished, polish-ed, before most clubs will bring them up to the big apple. And even when one of these J young sensations is given the double-o in the spring he Is ticketed for a trip down. Not so with the Reds, At least two of the Redlegs, third baseman Grady Hatton and pitcher Kent Peterson, never traveled the leaky roof circuit They came, were seen and had enough "Jo merit their shot t conquering Of the ethers en the roster, -Ewell Blackwell was kept , dawn itnlt una ,w V.A I.U ' Iy one year and one months and Frank Baumhelts made" the ordinarily long trip fromt . the depths of class C ball In a :' a year-and-a-half., v- Paul, serving his 21st year In, baseball although he is only & years old, admits that pushing tho youngsters Is a new system with the Reds. Under Bill McKechnie the club played conservative ball,' shying off from the kids who might make mistakes. But Johnny Neun, a product of the Yankees, goes for the youngsters and prefers pre-fers them even if they do make mistakes to get an open game and build quickly. "Some clubs have more money invested in their farm systems than they do in their Major league lea-gue holdings," Gabe explained. "They have to worry about satisfying satis-fying the customers down in the Minors as much as Jn the Majors. Ma-jors. And that means a long ten ure In the Minors for mosf, of. To most hitters, Muslal's statement that It Is easy to bat .300 mlgh sonld like a pop off. Bat . the Pennsylvania poker makes It as a simple ithelr young players;": statement of fact and has Giving the vounriter the figures handy to back It" I shot ahd riding with them al ready is paying dividends. That's the way the Reds obtained Lloyd Merriman. Stanford star who hslgned with Ogden, Utah, in the class C Pioneer league. He wal Jumped almost Immediately to class A and isn't too far at the moment from Crosley Field, Cincinnati. Cin-cinnati. "Our record of pushing the kids along swung him to l us," Paul said. And ' from all renorts " It's .going to swing a lot ot others in a gambling system that should pay big dividends in the near future. ... WED. MARCH 31st 8:30 P. M. ProVo Armory TONY ROSS . 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