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Show BYU Cagers -Leave FOF 1LOS Aiageles Toiamey Cougars Vill Face Montana , Wednesday In First Contest; 13 Players Named For Trip Brigham Young university'! Cougars leave Provo at noon to- I day for Los Angeles, where they will play, In the second annual Los Angeles Invitational basket-bait basket-bait tournament, scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Coach Floyd Millet has named IS players for the trip including Vm Joe Nelson, Joe Weight, D. Ray --Fullmer. Russ Hillman and Vern Whatcott, forwards; Kent Durrant, Ike Beem and JJick Jones, cen ters; Randy Clark, Jack Whipple ' and Roland Mlnson, guards. Accompanied by Millet and 1 "Stan Watts, assistant coach, the f Cougars will travel to Los Angeles bv automobile. They will be loin ed in Los Angeles by two other team members, Bob Craig and Prep Quintets Face Heavy Holiday Slate There will be no rest during the Christmas holidays for the BY, Provo and Lincoln high school cagers, with the. Wildcats playing three pre-season contests this coming week, the Tigers two and the Bulldogs one. Coach Rex Olsen's boys will start the week's activities off Monday, playing host to Granite in a 4 p.m. game in the women's gym. There will be no sophomore encounter, it was reported. The Wildcats will be anxious to defeat the Farmers, since Granite is one of the two teams to hand the Wildcats a defeat in pre-season contests to date. Springville's Red Devils, upset BY high, 32-29, Thursday night, for the only other loss suffered by the Wildcats. Payson will come to Provo Tuesday night for a game with the Wildcats in the women's gym-- The game will get underway at 8 p.m. and will be preceded by a sophomore game at 7 p.m. . The Wildcats defeated the Liors 34-31, last week in a game played on the Lions floor. The Bulldogs and Tigers will wing into action Wednesday night, with Provo high playing Park City, a team it defeated early m the season, on the Big Green's floor and Lincoln high meets Grantsville at Orem. On Thursday, BY high will play at Jordan and Lincoln at Tooele in final pre-season encounters for both teams. Lehi Fifth Whips Alpine 4th, 44-36 LTHI Lehi Fifth ward, first h.lf winners of local "M" Men play, dropped a 44-36 decesion to Alpine stake's Fourth ward, from American Fork in a practice game, played on the Lehi high school gymnasium floor. Robinson, Hansen and Mur-dock. Mur-dock. with 12, 11 and 11 respect ively, laid down a barrage that was too effective for the locals, whose high scorer, J, B. Cooper, with 13, carried the brunt of the attack. After a see-saw, close first quater, the visitors were ahead 26-20 at half time, nd theisjead was never seriously reduced after af-ter that. Clarence Osterhues, a pair of guards. Millet reported his team m up- too-shaoe for the coast invasion. with the possible exception ei Fullmer, who suffered a sprained ankle in the La Salle university game, played during the Cats recent re-cent eastern and mid western tour Millet said Saturday afternoon he was not sure whether or not Full mer would be able to play in the tourney. Will Drill Mondar The Cougars, the Skyline Six conference's defending champ ions, will hold a prertourney workout in Los Angeles Monday evening. They won't begin their tourney Dlav until Wednesday, when they tangle with Montana university, their firsUround opponents in the top bracket. Wyoming, another Skyline Six conference team and rated one of top quintets in the loop this season, sea-son, also is playing in the tourney and will meet North Carolina State in the lower bracket in its opening contest. . High-Scoring Cougars Other first round games include ! Marshall College, last year's tour nament winner, vs. Pepperdine and Hamline vs. Loyola of Los Angeles. The high-scoring Cougars have racked up a total of 476 points to 462 for their opponents to date and will aet into the tourney with a pre-conference play record of six wins and two losses. They rolled up their biggest score in defeating San Jose State, 73-67, on Dec. 18. They also de- keated the Spartans, 60-47, the night before to make a sweep of a two-game series. Capture Fans' Hearts On their recent eastern tour, the Cougars won from Muhlenberg College and Valparaiso university and lost to City College of New York and LaSalle university of Philadelphia. They have also scored two victories over Idaho State College and the alumni. It will be the second year the Cougars have played in the Los Angeles, tourney. They played in the last year's inaugural meet and pulled the biggest upset of the tourney when they knocked off Arkansas university in their opening open-ing game. Subsequently, however, they were eliminated. The Cats also captured the hearts of basketball fans In southern south-ern California with their colorful, driving and supremely-confident style of play Bowl Brief 8 Bears Reported Behind Regular Season Form By UNITED PRESS BERKELEY, Cal, Dec. 25 (U.RV- Coach Lynn (Pappy), Waldorf of the University of California today dismissed his football squad lor a two day Christmas holiday, ad mittlng that his boys "are far behind their regular season form." Waldorf did concede, however. that the Golden Bears were "catching up a bit" as he directed them through a light workout yesterday yes-terday in preparation for their New Year's day tussle with Northwestern North-western in the Rose bowl. The Bears will gather at Riverside, River-side, Cal., Monday, for what Wal dorf promises will be: "intensified training." ; Pardon My Glove PASADENA. Cal., Dec. 25 (U.R) The Northwestern Wildcats, who will meet California tn the Rose bowl, Jan. 1, today were guests at a Christmas party in a-local a-local hotel and later attended a radio show in Hollywood. The players still were limp and worn from a bruising scrimmage session yesterday. Coach Bob Voigts, commenting on the drill, said that his players "showed me a lot of improvement. but still need some work brushing up on timing and play precision." TUMBLE REPEATS ITSELF WARE, Mass. (U.R Little Pa tricia Limbacher fell while play ing in her yard and broke two bones in her left arm. Less than four months later, she fell again and broke the same two bones. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 25 (U.R) The West football squad, which meets the East on New Year s day in the annual Shrine game today suffered what Coach Jeff Cravath described as "'a hard blow" when halfback Jack Kirby was placed on the unavailable list. Kirby, hard-hitting University of Southern California star, suffered suf-fered a chipped wrist bone during yesterday's scrimmage. It was announced an-nounced that Kirby, a fine open field runner and a talented pass receiver, will not be able to play against the East. - j ; X fv rrr:) r - i Sports Scene Also Had Its Daffy Moments During 1948 Gypsy Joe To Meet Stojack For Mat Title Frank Stojack, the Pacific Coast Junior heavyweight wrestling wres-tling champion from Tacoma, Wash., will put his title belt on the block again Thursday night In the Riverside Roller Rink arena. AnJ Li- . ... . - miu, ins uppuneni win- De none1 4 other than Gypsy Joe, who earned Santa Susana stakes, won by Mrs. By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sport Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 25 (U.R) This has been a busy year in sports', with grim struggles for titles and headlines and money but at times there were lighter moments which produced daffy developments develop-ments you may.have overlooked. For instance, there was the the right to meet the champ by mauling Bob Cummincs into de feat last Thursday night at the Riverside arena. The championship champion-ship event will be a best two-out-of-three fall, affair with an hour's time limit. Jack Corvino slipped this punch, but he never saw so much boxing glove in his life. Joe Castenedo fired after taking a left jab in a flyweight fly-weight bout with big mittens in Chicago's Catholic Youth Organization Organi-zation championships. HAMMOND, La., Dec. 25 (U.R) The North Carolina Tarheels put business before pleasure today in tuning up for their Jan. 1 date with Oklahoma in the Sugar bowl at New Orleans. Coach Carl Snavely scheduled a morning workout, then planned to release his players for the afternoon after-noon so they could attend the races at New Orleans. The wnoiei The famed Iowa Colored Ghosts squad will be guests of the SugarXfe coming to town again this bowl committee at night. a dinner to- The teeth of tiger sharks are of perfect ivory. Big Percentage Of Elk Hunters Are Successful FRESNO. Cal., Dec. 25 (U.R) The Colorado A. & M. football squad is expected to leave Fort Collins, Colo., tomorrow for its Raisin bowf date with occidental While in Los Angeles they will here. New Year's day. attend the New Year's Day Rose . Bowl activities and game before heading for home. On their return to Provo, they will meet the University Uni-versity of Nevada on Jan. 3 and 4 in Las Vegas. Pepper Martin to Skipper Miami MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 25 r.R John Leonard "Pepper" Martin, former base-stealing artist of the St. -Louis Cardinals' "Gas House Gang," today was named manager man-ager of the Miami tourists' in the Florida International league. Martin received a one - year contract following negotiations between Branch Rickey, president presi-dent of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and tourist officials. No salary terms were announced. Miami recently re-cently signed a working agreement agree-ment with Brooklyn's Ft,. Worth team in the Texas league. The firey 44-year-old Martin will be a non-playing manager. He will report here in February to make arrangements for the tourists' spring training camp at Vero Beach, Fla., which opens -in March. .Eighty-five percent of t,e state's elk hunters were successful success-ful this year, according to D. M. (Mike) Gaufin, supervisor of big game, Utah Fish and Game department. de-partment. There were 910 hunters went into the mountains this fall, and 772 of them came back with their big game animals. Manti and Cedar Mountain areas, ar-eas, opened one week early, but snowed oat. were toughest hunting hunt-ing this fall. The Manti gave up only 64 elk to 200 permits. Cedar Mountain, gave eight out of 20. The day of the elk opening on the Manti and Cedar Mountain 20 inches of snow fell, trapping several parties and keeping the rest out of the highlands. Roads were impassable and the elk herds were out of reach. SUNDAY HERALD Sunday, December 26, 1948 7 Sporting Goods Five Slates Game With Colored Ghosts winter. They will play the Oscar Carlson Carl-son team of the city recreation league New Year's night in the Provo high gym! The game will get underway at 8 p. m.Jand those who saw last year's enounter between be-tween the two teams will tell you it was one of the most hilarious evenings they ever experienced. With all the bowl games scheduled sched-uled for New Year's Day Reed Jones, manager of the Carlson five' who is promoting the game, has decided to call the encounter the "Fun "Bowl." And, a laughing laugh-ing good time is expected for all who attend the game. The colored ghosts have most of the legendary stars back from last year's team ... such players as Suitcase Sullinger, the king of basketball; Pete Hood, the hidden ball artist: and Lowe Clark, the 19-year -old schoolboy wonder, who has the biggest hands in the cage sport; and Boots Jackson, Jack-son, all-American player from Florida A&M and one of the game's greatest dribblers. Sullinger, a 6 foot 6-inch giant, is an amazing combination of a clown prince and basketball finesse. He is the star of the team and a natural-born comedian. The team .features a smooth, tricky ball-handling attack with some of the hottest shooters on the American court today despite their comedy routines, which include in-clude football, baseball, step-ladder step-ladder hidden ball and slow motion mo-tion acts, the Colored Ghosts; who were world champions last year, have won 31 games without a de feat this year. Last year, they won 138 games and lost only one. The Carlson five is currently tied with the Gessford's for the leadership of the city recreation league and Jones calls it his "greatest team." Jones, who like old man river, just seems to keep rollin' along is still playing for the team besides laning care ot tne managing duties, and is one of the top scorers scor-ers in the league this year. He a veteran of many basketball campaign once,, starred for Bax Leyshon's Geneva Steelers. . Other veteran Carlson players include Maynard "Bailey, former BYU star; Huck Dyer, one of the greatest all-around athletes ever turned out at Provo high; Bob Perry, former BY high star; and Bruce Osborne, a fullback on the Cougar football team the last two years. One of the brightest new stars on the team is Ed -McDonald, who is leading the city league in scoring scor-ing at present with 54 points. He led the junior college conference in scoring last year while playing play-ing for Dixie Junior college. He plays forward for the Carlson quintet. Ralph Erickson, former Snow college star, is the first string center, and Edgar Acquin who transferred to BYU from Louisiana Louisi-ana State this year, is a fast, tricky guard. It will be interesting to see howj oiojacK, lormer college and pro-j fessional football star, handles the Gypsy and his Pier 6 tactics. The champion, who never was defeated defeat-ed during his collegiate wrestling days, prefers to wrestle clean. In fact, according to reports, Stojack several weeks ago refused re-fused a match with the Gypsy hi the northwest because of the Globetrotter's famed and punishing punish-ing bear-hug, back-break hold. With this hold, the Gvdsv rams his opponent back-first into the,; vada. corner or tne ropes. Alter a couple of doses of this medicine, said opponent is generally rendered ren-dered hors de combat. If you don't think so, just ask Mr. Cum-mings, Cum-mings, a guy usually pretty capable cap-able of taking care of himself. After Gypsy Joe had worked him over a few times with the hold last Thursday, the rugged Milwaukeean probably wished he had "stood in bed." And. Cum-I mings is the guy who broke a German officer's back during World War II and left him in the snow to die with the knee-type back-break hold. In the final analysis, it prob ably will be the Gypsy and his back-break hold against Stojack and his airplane spin. The Tacoma Ta-coma matmarv is one of , the best airplane, spinners in the business. Several weeks ago Stojack suc cessfully defended his title in the Riverside arena against Billy Weidner, the Boston strong boy and former Alaskan lumberjack, defeating him two falls to one and utilizing his airplane spin to good advantage. The Stojack-Weidner match, incidentally, was one of the greatest great-est grappling battles seen in Provo in years. It was an exceptionally excep-tionally clean match, considering so much was at stake. It had a distinct collegiate flavor to it. However, Thursday's match most likely will be entirely different dif-ferent from the Stojack-Weidner event, if for no other reason than the fact that the Gypsy will besin the ring. The. mere presence of the Gypsy in the ring is almost enough to insure a wild, Pier 6 brawl. The semifinal event, Rabbit with Candy Kane in the money. Could you think of a bet ter Christmas-Easter parlay? And then the Phillies tugged at the smile muscles of your kiss er when they announced that henceforth and for evermore they would "stop paying big money" for established stars and concentrate concen-trate on development of young players. That is, undoubtedly, a reaffirmation of their 1901 policy. Sensational Announcement Then there was the sensational announcement that the University of Hawaii would open redoubtable redoubt-able Army's 1949 football schedule.- Yes, it's the same U. of- H. which engaged in a thrilling 73 to 12 defeat at the hands of Ne- The Detroit police moved into the act by setting six world pistol shooting records. Which reminds us, boys, that there is a law in Detroit against ogling the gals. They held the annual Valdosta- to-Waycross bicycle race in Georgia. The winner, a Western Union boy, was .reportedly dis qualified as a professional because he took a tip while delivering a telegram. In Greece, troops were called out to protect the Olympic flam carriers from the guerrillas. You can't have it much hotter in the old town tonight. Near Scandal . The closest approach to a scandal scan-dal involved the Olympic athletes. There were reports that the girls visited the men's Camp frequently at night. The upshot was that 250 women a'thletes were moved farther far-ther away. Can you imagine? . Probably the most intriguing bit of news of the sports year came out of Korea. This little tidbit concerned the fact that one Lee Hynx, a muscular muscu-lar citizen who tossed bar bells, and such, bettered the world mark by 13 pounds doing the 214-pound snatch. There was, also, the damage suit brought against the Boston Red Sox by Mrs. Mary Corri vein. The lady demanded $1,000, claiming claim-ing injuries had been sustained from a ball hit by Lou Boudreau of the Cleveland Indians. The gentlemen who own the iRed Sox should sue her for even daring to bring up his name. Do you remember what Boudreau Bou-dreau did to those Red Sox with his bat in that American league playoff? Lehi Sisters to Make Hawaiian Basketball Trip LEHI Bessie and - Leona Col-ledge, Col-ledge, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Colledge, will leave in early January for a jaunt to the Hawaiian Islands as members of tha HtfH0n Shflmrnrlri ffirlc' hot. ketball team, which is scheduled; to meet some of the leading girls' teams of the islands during the trip. Learning basketball as members mem-bers of the Girls' Athletic association, associa-tion, at the Lehi high school, the sisters were members of the original orig-inal seven girls that made up the Utah General depot's, basketball team, which won 75 games in 76 starts during 1944-45, and which twice, without a loss, captured the western command's tournament tourna-ment on the Pacific coast. They having been playing with the semi-pros since that time, hanging hang-ing up enviable records? meanie, who Is returning to the Provo ring after an extensive series of match deep in the heart of Texas. Red Lyons, the tricky and cun- bect mng meanie from Beaumont, Gallup. N. M., is one of the last frontier towns in the Indian country. two-out-of-three fall event with a 45-minute time limit, will bring together "Jack, Carter, a newcomer from New Zealand, and Floyd Hansen, the veteran Salt Lake Tex., will take on Salvador Flores of Mexico City In 'the one-fal, one-fal, 30-minute preliminary. The show will begin at :30 p.m. FRANK STOJACK Championship WRESTLING Thursday Dec. 30th 8:30 p. m. RIVERSIDE ROLLER RINK 1150 West 12th North MAIN EVENT FRANK 8TOJACH Pacific Coast Jr. Heavyweight Champ VS . 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