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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY. JANUARY 13.. 1942 soaliLo' A, pee Scribe Discovers Following Louis By, JACK j UENTHER NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (U.E) Will all the .aspiring sports writers in the hcmse please move a little closer to .grandpa's rocking1 rock-ing1 chair and listen carefully to some hard-earned advice boys, don't waste away your time in ball parks, golf courses, fight stadiums, race tracks or tennis courts. Instead,- march right out and acquire yourselves a full-rigged military education, preferably one providing a bright, glittering uniform. For the good old days in which, sports writers needed merely to master their subject matter are as dead as a season ticket to Santa Anita park. More Important Don't bother studying theories of putting, the number of furlongs fur-longs in a mile or how many Bobby Bob-by Feller struck out in 1938. Forget For-get these things, arid concentrate on the manual of arms, Jane's "fighting ships," and the delicate question of how many stars of what color make a man a major-general. major-general. No snickering, Marmaduke, I mean it. I mean it because I have just -spent a day stumbling through the L mysteries of governor's island to Feonfirm the 'breath-taking news TthaV Joe Louis passed his army physical examination, which here-"ifcfter here-"ifcfter will be designated as the t-Vfcattle of Fort Jay a tnree Fhour embroglio of which I am the rirst ana mosi senoiui taa-ualty. taa-ualty. Tough Shift After one shift on Governor's island, embroiled in army protocol I can faithfully report that General Sherman was given to gross understatement un-derstatement and that all the years I have devoted to memorizing the nuances of sports have gone for naught. For in three hours I discovered : 1. That the ability to diagram anend run -or analyze -a mashie L shot isn't nearly so vital as the ability to distinguish between the number of bars and stars on" an officer's shoulder or to know whether a second lieutenant should be accosted as "captain." "mister," or just plain "hey, you." Don't Question a Sergeant 2. That the task of determining between a hit an error or calling a Jiorse in a photo finish doesn't compare with that of sensing that one never questions a sergeant if a major is within earshot or of realizing that one word from an M. P. equals 10 pages of instructions in-structions from the boss. 3. That areporter in a military ' encampment" needs more passes than a crap-shooter intent in run-. run-. ning $1 into $128 and that stepping step-ping between the colonel and the news tohotographer's camera is a sin far less forgivable than that of tossing a lighted cigarette into in-to an ammunition dump. These muttering may sound -trivial, but they really aren't not in these days when the navy is a partner in prize fights and football games, the army grabs the world heavyweight champ and all events are rated by the gold When you are annoyed br the smarting of dry. cracked or peeling lips here's an easy way to get relief. Apply gentle MenthoUtum over the Injured surface. This cooling, soothing sooth-ing ointment will quickly relieve the discomfort. And its medicinal Ingredients will assist Nature to mare quickly heal the Injured skin. Jars or tubes, 30c TO TRANSFER 1941 RECORDS See Us For: Transfer Cases File Folders Index Cards Transfer Binders Columnar Pads UTAH OFFICE SUPPLY, Inc. 43 East Center St. Provo Terrors Of Through Camp braid they attract s rather than the gate receipts. Hard to Enter I first realized , what sports writers faced Friday night when I tried to enter Buddy Baers dessing room somewhere in between be-tween captains and the lieutenants, lieuten-ants, junior grade. I was tersley informed by a seaman, first class, that after the seamen, third class, reporters came first. My suspicions strengthened when I visitpd navy headquarters in quest of one J. J. Tunney, a former prizefighter once known as the fighting marine. I strolled into in-to a long room whistling "Anchors Aweigh" and asked for "Gene." What the seaman, second class, told me was unfortunately first class of its type. Battles Answer Yesterday at Fort Jay, where -climbed under bayonets through barbed wire, and in and out of trenches while pursuing private Joseph Louis Barrow, I received my closest call. All morning I had been questioned so strictly that by the time I reached the third gate I rattled answers with the.glibness of Oscar Levant and with no thought whatsoever. The "particular sergeant at hand had called off my age, weight, height, home address and dependents depend-ents when somebody yelled, "stop, hold everything,'' and colleague Jack Cuddy came racing- over to jerk me out of line. It seems I wasn't talking my way past a guard at all, I. was enlisting in thf 63rd engineers. See what I mean. Marmaduke? First Aid Glass Starts Thursday A defense first aid training class will begin this week, with the nrst session, sjaieu inurnuay a.. f r 1 A. mi-J - 7:30 p. m. in room 27-M. Provo men scnooi Duiiains, announces Guy F. Christensen, chairman of first aid for the Utah county Red Cross, and chairman of first aid. evacuation and rescue under the protection division of the county civilian defense council. The class is designed to train such groups as air wardens, fire wardens, ambulance and mobile operators, rescue groups, and members of the general public who wish to attend. It is open to all men and women over 17. General defense first aid will be studied, as applying to air raids, gas warfare, bombing warfare, war-fare, etc. Provonian Plans Casaba Contest To develop interest in basketball basket-ball games, the"sports department of the Provonian, Provo high school's bi-weekly publication, is again sponsoring a weekly contest con-test throughout the casaba season in which students are submitting predictions of winners and scores of various league games. Rules controlling the contest eliminate all varsity basketball players and Provonian staff members mem-bers from entering. The most nearly near-ly correct score for each league game nets the guesser a one-pound one-pound box of candy. Only one entry is allowed for each game. ARMY TRANSPORT DAMAGED BY FIRE WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 UJ! The .war department today was investigating the loss of the 7314-ton 7314-ton army transport Clevedon in Alaskan waters but there was no indication that enemy action was involved. The department' said that the vessel was destroyed "by fire" and that the cause is being investi- - gated. Index Guides Alphabetical Folders Columnar Sheets Ledger Sheets Bound Books Pair Tee Off For Important Playoff Match LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 (V) Little Ben Hogan of Texas and Big Jimmy Thomson of California meet today in a David-Goliath playoff for the $3500 first prize of the Los Angeles open golf tournament. tour-nament. The match is an anticlimax to yesterday's final round, when Hogan, needing a par and a birdie on the last two holes to tie for first place, came through under pressure and matched Thomson's 282 for the four rounds. Today's play .means, however, that the victor will get $3500 and the loser $1700. Uphill Effort Hogan's brilliant finish was an uphill effort. As he teed off the 16th, he learned Thomson was already al-ready in with a 282. To win he needed two birdies and a par on the remaining holes. He could and did tie the husky Del Monte, Cal., pro with par on two and a birdie. Hogan, a dark-thatched mite of 135 pounds, - missed a birdie on the 16th when a downhill putt rolled 12 inches past the cup. And on the 17th he putted past the cup for his second par. On the 500-yard 18th with the chips down, Hogan smashed a 300-yard drive,. Then he took his No. 2 iron and whacked the pill to within 18 feet of the pin. He could spend only two strokes to match Thomson's score. The first brought him within three feet of the cup, and he calmly sank the second for his birdie. Thomson Consistent Thomson went into the early lead with a consistently better game day by day, cutting each round by one stroke. He parred the tricky Hillcrest Country club layout the first day with a 72. He made it in 71 Saturday, posted a 70 on Sunday and finished with a 69 yesterday. Hogan's four-day total was 70-70-72-70282. Harry Cooper of Minneapolis, who paced the field going into the final round, tied for third at 285, with Slamming Sammy Snead of Hot Springs, Va., and Chick Har-bert Har-bert of Battle Creek, Mich. The trio shared third, fourth and fifth money and won $900 apiece. Snead Blows Up Snead could have tied the win- : Hv, . ... v. f ."Jr. 1 rie was three under Dar coming to the 18th. After two shots put him in a gully below the green, a chip shot fell just short of the apron and rolled back. A second and third did the same thing. He finally reached the green and sank . his putt for an eight, three over par and a final round tally of 75. At 288 were Willie Goggin of White Plains, N. Y., Byron Nelson of Toledo, O., and Chandler Harper Harp-er of Portsmouth, Va., who won $350 each. Next at 289 were Herman Her-man Barron and Paul Runyan, both of White Plains, N. Y., and Horton Smith of Pinehurst, N. C. Tony Penna, of Dayton, O., carded 290 for a purse of $115, while Mark Fry of Oakland, Cal., and Dick Metz of Oak Park, 111., took 291 and won $90 each. Vic Ghezzi of Deal, N. J., and Jimmy Demaret of Detroit won $72.50 apiece with scores of 292. Low Amateur First low amateur was Johnny uawson or Hollywood, whose 293 tied hira with six professionals. Chet Leonard of Vancouver, B.C., Lawson Little of San Francisco. Dehny Shute of Chicago, Ray Hills oi juamaronecK, N.Y., and Johnnv Revolta of Chicago. Frank Hixon of Monterey Park, Cal., was second low amateur with 294. Drunken Driving Costs Oakie $500 HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 12 U.P Movie Comedian Jack Oakie was fined $500 in municipal court today to-day when he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while intoxicated. intoxi-cated. Municipal Judge Frank G. Tvr- rell suspended $300 of the fine but placed the actor on probation for three years and ordered him to surrender his drivers license for 60 days. When arrested by police on December De-cember 18, Oakie had protested that he "couldn't be arrested." Gus Backman to Address Lions LEHI The Lions club will present Gus Backman, salt Lake City, viee chairman of the State Council of Civilian Defense, to the public at a general mass meeting meet-ing of the citizens of Lehi called for Thursday, January 15, in the Lehi Second ward chapel at 8 p. m. - ;: - The public meeting will be pre ceded by -the Lions re g u 1 a r luncheon and dinner meeting, at which Mr. Backman and Mayor Dean Prior, local head of Civilian Defense, will be guests.0 Not more than one-fifth of the water in the ocean has a temperature temper-ature of more than 40 degrees Rookie Aqafn .''; is ml Chief Boatswain's Mate Bob Feller reports at Norfolk Naval Training Station. Cleveland's $50,000-a-year strikeout king will pitch for U. S. as a physical instructor.: ) Sport Spotlight BY PAUL SCIIEFFELS NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (L.Pt Press-box sports patter: Baseball one of the modern fallacies of the national pastime is the batting averages. Everybody Every-body watches them day by day during the season while the slugging slug-ging average is just something that gets printed in the baseball guide. Let the slugging average tells the real story. Take Dolph Camilla of Brooklyn. He led the National league in runs-batted-in and in home runs. Tops on defense, he was elected 194 l's most valuable valu-able player without a struggle. Yet his .285 batting average was a mathematical joke. Take j a look at the slugging tables. Tops is Pete Reiser, .558; next is Ca-milli, Ca-milli, .556. There's a 21 -point drdp to the next man, Johnny Mize while Joe Medwick was the 'only other slugger above v the .500 mark. Camilli's slugging average was a much better index of his plate power than the batting ngures You figure batting averages bv dividing the hits by the at-bats to three decimal places. To get the slugging percentage, divide the' total bases by the at-bats. Does i it work out, well glance at this example: He's up tour times in today's game and gets one hit, a homer. His batting average for the day is .250. His slugging percentage per-centage is 1.000. BOXING Bobby Ruffing of Long Island City, N Y., is headed for a title shot at Lightweight Champion Sammy Angott in March. . . All he has to do is defeat de-feat Chalky Wright in their 10-rcund, 10-rcund, non-title bout at the Bronx coliseum on Jan. 13. . . . They say Abe Greene, New Jersey's one-man boxing commisNion and current president of the National Boxing association has turned down the Republican nomination for mayor of Paterson three times. . . Two reported sufferers from athlete's footlights are fighter's Maxie Baer and Tony Canzoneri. . . Both are said to be loo kin e- for .spots in Broadway plays. . . . Abe Simon returns to the ring Feb. 2 in Pittsburg against Harrv Bo bo. BASKETBALL The east's cage situation may suffer sharp ciarincauon Wednesday night when two of this section's oldest rivalries send St. John's against Fordham and Colgate against N. Y. U. in Madison Square Garden. Sophomores are an annual, un known quantity on any quintet but out at Marquette they're more help than headache ... Of the 200 points scored in the first five games, second-year men have accounted ac-counted for 142. . . Incidentally. business is good for the Mar quette cagers in their first five games, they played before approxi mately 31,600 fans. FOOTBALL Moe Daly and Blondy Saunders, gridiron Go-liaths Go-liaths at West Point in 1926 are now pilots in th air corps and stationed sta-tioned at the Philippines . . . First of 1942's prospects is Bob Cash at Michigan State; he's only a freshman now, but give him time ... Talk is going the rounds that alumni wolves are stalking Coach Red Dawson of Tulane. -s', - f ' - J BEDROOM B01US SALE Select From 152 Suites AND GET A $20.00 MATTRESS AT NO EXTRA COST WITH THE SUITE YOU BUY! Cougars to Get Stiff Practices For Vyoming Tilt There's no let up on tap for Brigham Young hoopsters this week . with Coach Floyd Millet planning to, send his players through stiff practices in preparation prepar-ation for the Cougars' contest with Wyoming here Friday night. Tonight at 7:30 p. m., the Millet Men will go through a scrimmage session in the Women's gym. Coach Millet will split his squad for , a warmup session and also send some of the players against the freshmen. The game will be one of the big contests of the year in Provo, bringing as it does one of the conference's top teams for a game that is highly important in league play. Both teams notched up victories victor-ies in first round tilts in impressive impres-sive fashion, but Wyoming, defending de-fending championship club in the Big Seven, will enter the game as the favorite. However, the Cowboys Cow-boys were favored last year, yet bowed before the Cougars on the tiny Women's gym. Another big game is on tap Saturday night in Salt Lake City, with Wyoming playing University of Utah there. The Redskins' chances for a top spot in the conference large? depend on this contest. Utah State plays Denver and Colorado on an eastern jaunt, and Colorado State plays Colorado U in other tilts. SPORTS Huddle By GLEN SNARR 'ntxts: Army Takes Stars Intermountain athletic circles are missing some of their leading sports figures. That isn't the half of it they are likely to be missing miss-ing many more competitors and officials before the war is many months older. At B. Y. U., several sev-eral of the first string cagers may soon be called into service, and football players and track-sters track-sters are about ready to go. Owen Dixon, co-captain of last year's grid team and M-Men basketball player in Provo may have to go soon, and Sammy Mavrakis, Roy Jvans, and a number of other players are expected to leave to help their country. Carl Jones, ace trackman in the distance races, may te called, and several other tracksters are ready for - "" - Thevre Already In Already Ted Tibbetts and Vaughn Kimball booked for first string berths on the Cougar eleven elev-en next year are in the service. Other schools have also lost some crack athletes and expect to lose many more to the army. Parmlee Goes to Army Latest athletic mogul to go into service in Utah is Theron Parmlee, Parm-lee, graduate manager and tennis ten-nis coach at the University of Utah, who reported for active army duty as an infantry captain cap-tain today. Parmlee. called to tne service last night, believes he will be stationed here "at least temporarily." tem-porarily." His graduate manager duties will be taken over for now by his assistant, Keith Brown. Lose Second Hoops ter The Big Seven conference today to-day lost its second basketball player to the armed forces with the enlistment of Johnny Mey ers, letterman center on the Colorado State college basketball team. In the Navy at Denver. Meyers wound up a fine collegt ate career playing for the Aggies against Denver last, week. Cowboys Lose Player First conference player to go into service was Jack Putnam, Wyoming's touted six foot, six inch sophomore forward. Putnam checked out of school Saturday and headed home to Glendale, California, to take his army physical physi-cal examination. Frosh Competition Needed: With lowered enrollment at most conference schools and with a number of crack athletic fig ures going Into the army, it is apparent more than ever before that the Blr Seven needs fresh man competition at least for the duration of the war. RENO RED LIGHT DISTRICTS CLOSED REND, Nev., Jan. 13 u7J) Reno's three red light districts closed at midnight, police re ported. Closing was requested by army, authorities in view of the arrival or army men here in con nection ' with the planned start of a new - army - air base. Act Steeplechaser v. v. - v.- . . - r. . S 4 Joe McCIuskey i! Joe McCIuskey. now 31, is the nation's outstanding steeplechaser and is nearing the all-time A.A.U. track record for winning the most titles. He now has 23 and is out to get 25. In 16 years of running, run-ning, he has enswered the starter's gun 435 times, has emerged with 226 victories and a wealth of second and third races. Kovocs, Riggs Take Honors in Pro Tennis Tour CLEVELAND, Jan. 13 (U.R) Frankie Kovacs, California's clown prince of tennis" last night bested the once unbeatable Don Budge, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, in a pro fessional tennis meet before a near capacity crowd at the Cleve land arena. Kovacs, living up to his repu tation as a "court jester" clowned through most of the sets, although he did see to it that the crowd saw an exhibition of good hard tennis. Last night's victory kept Kovacs in first place in the $100,-000 $100,-000 professional tennis tour. In the opening singles match Bobby Riggs, who with Kovacs, left the amateur tennis ranks only a month ago, pushed back the former Davis cup star, Fred Perry, 6-2, 8-6. In the doubles show of the eve ning Kovacs and Riggs scored an other victory over Budge and Perry, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3. The standings to date: W. L. Pet. .700 .636 .500 .000 Kovacs 7 3 Riggs 7 4 Budge 5 5 Perry 0 7 For several years, the trophy for the winner of the Illinois-Ohio State football game was "Ulibuck," a 20-pound snapping turtle. says a. .4h,( r - SHUCKS, WHO COULDN'T ROLL '&A fast aHd EASY WITH PRINCS aidekt! J A3C F THAT CRUMP CUT SNUGS VOWH IN - ' THE PAPER WITHOUT BLOWltt kOUND OR AAESSlN UP. NO WONDER THERE'S SO MANY ffff) SMOKES IN A P.A. POCKET. TIN-ANP EVER; fJ'K H I ONE FEATURES XIESS WITH GCOD U V . TASTls IN PlPES.TDOf f '" if if-' ' ' fi tP? Kjtk RD tarsat Ukratnr1. stays in stride at 31. Track Worries How To Keep Spectators Away From Races AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico. Jan. 13 l!.R The Agua Caliente race track, seeking some measure to keep the customers away so it can continue to operate, today announced an-nounced cancellation of the $5,000 weekly public handicap. Walter C. Marty, general manager, man-ager, said Agua Caliente "has no ambition to become too big" and ordered the public handicap discontinued dis-continued for the duration. A good share of the spectators are lured by the rich prize, given each week for the citizen picking the most pay horses. "We plan to go along in the same modest fashion," said Marty, Mar-ty, "and for that reason we want no excessively large crowds."' Basketball Scores By UNITED PRESS San Diego States 27, California 26. Oregon State 53, Washington State 47. Gonzaga 56, Whitman 46. Michigan 34, Northwestern 32. Wisconsin 56, Chicago 24. Illono58; Ohio State , 49. Indiana 40, Purdue 39. Minnesota 41, Iowa 39. -Notre Dame 51, Syracuse 35. Bradley 50, Duquesne 46. Joe Leaves for Camp Wednesday NEW YORK. Jan. 13 CE Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis winds up a brief bit of business with the Naval Relief Society today before leaving for Camp Upton, Long Island, to be inducted in-ducted into the army tomorrow morning. . Louis, with his Co-Managers Julian Black and John Roxbor-ough Roxbor-ough and Promoter Mike Jacobs will assist in a brief ceremony of presentation this afternoon in which the navy relief organization organiza-tion will pocket a. check for $89,-092.01 $89,-092.01 as their share of .Joe's successful title defense against Buddy Baer in Madison Square Garden last Friday night. A break-down of the gate re ceipts of $189,700.55 will also be made available. Louis .went through a line of doctors at Fort Jay at Governor's Island yesterday and .was pronounced, pro-nounced, fit to fight for Uncle Sam. It was the most ballyhooed army examination ever staged and according to Louis, topped, any physical once-over that 'hc has received in his long ring career. New P. G. Pep Club Uniforms Are Shown , PLEASANT GROVE The first public appearance of the Pleasant Grove' high school pep club in the new blue and white costumes that are to be worn this season was made Friday evening at the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove-B. Y. high school basketball bas-ketball game. The outfits, traditionally worn by the girl members at the first league basketball game, consist, this year of matching royal blue flannel skirts and vests with white blouses and accessories. Choosing the costumes were the officers, Lorraine Wadley, daughter of Joseph Wadley; Lula Keetch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley B. Keetch; Irene Carlson, Carl-son, daughter of Mrs. Iva Carlson. Faculty supervisor is Miss Laura Banner. Many states of the union have state flowers and state birds chosen by a vote of the school children. In the past 20 years, mines in Minnesota have produced nearly 61 per cent of the domestic iron ore consumed by the steel industry. indus-try. 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