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Show PAGE: EIGHT. " PROVO IUTAH) : DAILY "HERALD, : tTUESdAY, ' JUNE : 23, 1942 THE Today's - - - Sport By JACK QUENTirER United Prm Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 23 OLE) A free ride on the sport merry-go-round : Brooklyn fans and a number of baseball Boswells have been subsisting sub-sisting on a diet of crow ever since Joe Medwlck began his hitting hit-ting streak. The Flatbush faithful faith-ful cooled considerably on Ducky Wucky last season and insisted his ability as an orator surpassed his skill as a player. Until June 15, they refused to believe that he actually had Improved. The theory was that he was hustling only to avoid being traded. However, Medwick has shown his willingness, willing-ness, to defy the law of averages since the trade deadline was passed, and the neighboring bartenders bar-tenders soon will be hearing calls for crow au gratin, crow a la mode anl even crow ou feathers. . . . The news must have shocked the game's white fathers to. their rubber soles, but Bobby Riggs and Frank Kovacs each bet ?100 on themselves in an exhibition doubles match with Don Budge and Wayne Sabln at Forest Hills on Sunday. Moreover, the bets were made public in an announcement announce-ment over the amplifying system. P. S. Budje and Sabin won. Remember Rosemont, the golden-coated beauty who defeated Seabiecuit in the 1937 Santa Anita handicap?, Well, the old boy is tack in the news again. His two sons, Suncap and Supermont, are busily establishing a monopoly of Women Golfers Get Free Group Lesson Thursday Ladies' day activities at the Provo golf course Thursday will be preceded by a free group lesson les-son by Pro John Memering. Mr. Memering invites all wo men interested in golf to be present pres-ent for the lessdn between 8 and 9:30 a. m. A marked increase in golf interest in-terest among the Provo women is being shown, the pro reports. Jennie Ferrell, winner of the May leg in the director's cup play, has recorded the best score by a feminine golfer at the course this year, touring the nine holes in 42 strokes. Schedule of women's golfing events for the remainder of the year follows: June 25, qualifying rounds for the Sears tourney; July 9, putting contest; July 16, low net tourney, nine holes; July 23, low 'net on odd. holes; July 30, low net on even holes; August 6, one club tournament August 13, flag tournament; tour-nament; August 20-27, city tournament; tour-nament; September 3, low net and low gross; September 10, Red and Blue tournament; September 17, award banquet. JONES TO COMPETE DETROIT, June ,23 (V) Bobby Jones tentatively has accepted an invitation to play with the challengers chal-lengers in the Ryder cup matches at Oakland Hills Country club July 18-19, Walter Hagen, captain cap-tain of the challengers, announced announc-ed today. PRINCE Fairaoe RIPC, FULL, RICH TASTE AND AROMA WITHOUT BITE. AND IT$ SWELL TO FEEL P.A. ROLL UP SO QUICK, EASV, SMOOTH, AND TRIAL ITSS THE CRtMP CUT. TRy P.A. fine roH cigarettes in every nandy can L ! rK.7 nT v - : U HERALD Medwick's Hitting Surprises Flatbush the east's big two-year-old stakes. The former, a chestnut out of Sunrap, has collected the juvenile juven-ile and the National stallion for $22,905. Supermont, a bay out of Supremiat, won the Tremont and better than .$10,000. Owner W. S. DuPont, Jr., believes the latter Is the better colt . . . Ray Starr, Cincinnati's "rookie pitcher, hopes to win 20 games this season but he cracks, 'if I was smart I'd win only 15 so I'd have tvoom for improvement next year." ... It isn't my custom to pass out advice ad-vice to athletes, but I sincerely wish someone, would induce Henry Armstrong to abandon the latest of his comeback tours. Armstrong never was, is not now, and never will be a boxer who can escape punishment. He is a clasher who can go only as far as his once-amazing once-amazing endurance can .take him, and I'm afraid that it won't take him too much farther. Similar comebacks on the part of Tony Canzoneri, Mike Belloise and Freddie Steele have left me with rather sad memories. . . . Since it is my custom to ad dress official organizations, let's drop the pretense of the metric system in .track meets. The old hokus-pokus was dealt out again at the National A. A U Cham pionships at Randall's island, and again the customers were thrown into a high state of confusion. Just offhand, will all those present .who can translate 1,500 meters into yards and feet please rise. There, I thought as much. CARLSON TEN BEATS GENEVA RECREATION IJSAOUK W. I Pet. Carlson's ? 6 1 .857 Columbia Steel .... 5 1 .833 Geneva Steel 4 2 .'667 Firestone 3 4 .2D0 Pacific Pipe 1 4 .200 UPM Engineers 0 7 .000 Monday's Results Carlson's 10, Geneva 1. Columbia Steel 11, Pipe Plant 0. Firestone 12, UPM Engineers 4. Thursday's Schedule 7 p. m. Firestone vs. Pipe Plant. 8 p. m. Columbia Steel vs. Geneva. 9 p. m, UPM Engineers vs. Carlson's Carl-son's Behind the two-nit pitching of Gene Nelson, Carlson Sporting Goods pinned a 10-1 defeat on Geneva Steel plan Monday night. The defeat dropped Geneva to third place in the standings. Columbia Steel, with Pitcher Steve Nelson turning in a three-hit three-hit performance, continued their hot winning streak by blanking Pipe Plant. 11-0. It was the second straight shutout for the Steelers. Firesone maintained their position pos-ition in fourth place in the standing stand-ing by decisioning UPM Engineers, Engi-neers, 12-4. It was the seventh straight defeat for Engineers. Gene Nelson was the strikeout king of the evening, whiff iner 11 Geneva batters in the five-inning game. . The state emblem of Utah is the beehive adopted as a symbol cf industry by the Mormon pio neers. ALBERT'S GCfr IT IN PPES,TOO 70 -your -own In recent laboratory "smoking bowl tests, ' Prince Albert burned 86 DEGREES COOLER than the average of the 30 other of the - largest aelllnft brands tested . . . coolest of all I pocket of Prince Albert B11NCE ALBERT THE NATIONAL JOY SMOKE . TImpSo 0- PROVO SEEKS 3RD TRIUMPH OVER INVADER A determined gang of baseball players from Helper will attempt to quell Provo's belated first half drive in the Utah Industrial league race when the two semipro clubs clash Wednesday at 6 p. m. at Timp park. Provo holds , two triumphs over the Helper team, but both games have been cloe. In Timp park May 27 the Timps won, 8-6, and at' Helper a week later, Skipper Collins' outfit triumphed, 7-6 as a.result of a three-run rally in the ninth Inning. Garth Ford, ' youthful Provo righthander who handcuffed American Am-erican Fork earlier in the season, likely will toe the mound when the Timps and Miners collide, although al-though Manager Collins may decide de-cide at the last minute to choose one of his more experienced twirlert. Helper has been a thorn in the side of several of the Industrial clubs this year, and' only Sunday Inflicted a painful, 4-3 defeat on Magna-Garfield just when the MiUmen were making their drive to catch the league-leading Gem-mell Gem-mell club. The Timps expect a hard-fought battle Wednesday, and figure to be at top form for the game. The lineup probably will be the same as has played in recent games, with Bliss Hoover, Ernie Jensen and Mahlon Rasmuson in the outfield, out-field, Len Page, Lee Christiansen, Glen Berge and LaVar Kump in the infield, and Don Overly catching. In other Wednesday games, Gemmell plays the dangerous Brigham nine on the latter's diamond, dia-mond, and American Fork travels to Magna. Tennis Tourney Set at Spanish Fork Next Month SPANISH FbRK-Sponsored by the Spanish Fork recreation center, cen-ter, a tennis tournament is scheduled sched-uled to begin at Spanish Fork Monday, July 27. Quarter and semi-final matches must be completed com-pleted by August 7. Final matches will be. played at the high school courts Sunday, Aug. 9. . The Junior division will include all boys up to sixteen years of age and the Senior division will include in-clude every one aJove 17- and up. An entry fee of 25 cents will be charged for all who enter either singles or doubles; if any contestant contest-ant enters both singles and doubles, a 50-cent fee will be charged. Balls will be furnished for all matches. All who wish to enter must register with La Ray Alexander at the play center, or at Webb's Jewelry Jew-elry shop within the next ten days, so that pairings may be made. Awards will be given to all winners, these will be announced later. B. Y. I). Announces Basketball Dates Dates for Brigham Young, university uni-versity basketball games on the Cougars' barnstorming tour to the east next December have been announced an-nounced by Coach Floyd Millet. The Cougars will play Canasius university in Buffalo, N. Y., December De-cember 9. They will take on touted Long Island university at Madison Madi-son Square Gardens December 12, and meet Temple U at Philadelphia Phila-delphia December 16. En route home the Sons of Brigham will play Loyola at Chicago. A fifth game may be lined up with a midwest mid-west service team. A . ' i 4 'S - j f 'Y S ' 'A, , Helper Claslhi One-Two-Three-Kick! lfMI.iil.Mll.lW p - . 'ii - ,, V,, t Vrrj 1 J : :- A "4 p - .W x r 1" ;vv " s 1 'j Conga-fashion, Jimmy Brown of St. Louis Cardinals goes into a fine bit of interpretive dancing around second base as Carl Hubbell-of New York Giants, just forced, apparently takes part. Tim 1 II M M By IIARKY GRAYSON NEA Service Sports Editor NEW YORK, June 23 Pvt. William Conn sat in a Broadway Broad-way restaurant with a friend. "Who's that fellow with Conn?' asked one of the fight mob. "Well, you can bet it isn't his father-in-law," said another, "and that his name isn't Smith." You can see Pvt. Billy Conn grow in Ihe Army. The Pittsburgh Kid looks the 186 pounds , he claims to weigh. He believes he would come in at 180 if he tackled Corp.- Joe Louis next month. Although the broken bone in, his left hand has healed, Conn professes not to care whether ne meets the distinguished noncommissioned non-commissioned officer this year or not. "I'm the young1, lfsllow and can afford to wait," he smiles. "I'm not yet 25. He's past 28." Out of the sizzling 13 rounds turned in by Louis and Con at Yankee Stadium a year ago grew a mutual admiration society. You further sensed this when Conn dropped : into the clubhouse to see the heavyweight champion before be-fore the latter boxed his spar-, ring partner, George Nicholson, in the All-Sports Carnival at the Polo Grounds. A chuckling Louis took a gobti look at the natty uniform Mike Jacobs purchased for Conn asked: "Where you get them pants? Them's officers' britches. Boy, you really a cat in them clothes." Conn beamed. "I can get my uniform made to order if you can," he replied. "Ain't a private supposed to salute a corporal, champ?" cut in someone. "Maybe it won't even look right for me to fight a buck private," offered Louis. "If that's what's holdin' you back, it's the best reason T know for gettin' promoted in this Army," countered the challenger. Louis massaged a small lump Just below the knuckles of Conn's left hand, a souvenir of the collar col-lar ad's kitchen battle with Old Inflelder Jimmy Smith. "Tain't much," remarked Louis. "I ain't never broke my hand, but I get one just like it when I land a couple solid punches. That'll go away." "When it does, I want to get another just like it taking a poke atv you," cross - countered Pvt. Conn. "You get fresh," laughed Corp. Louis, "and I'll pull rank on you. You can't hit a superior officer." Or a superior fighter, the corporal might have added, were he not so modest. Here's one fight the Army can arrange in a jiffy. AU it has to do is give' Corporal Louis and Private Conn the green light. SEALS GET PITCHER SAN FRANCISCO, June . 23 (UP The San Francisco ' Seals announced today they had purchased pur-chased .Pitcher Ira Scribner from the Seattle Rainiers for an undisclosed un-disclosed sum. He will report Wednesday, Wed-nesday, v, - . Scribner won 11 games and lost nine for., the . Rainiers last year when they won the Pacific Coast league baseball pennant. m .... ..... ii m,,mmmm -I i J jr F 1, iThe Baseball Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. New York 43 19 .694 Boston ' 35 25 .583 Cleveland 35 30 .538 Detroit 37 32 .536 1st. Louis 31 35 .470 Chicago 25 36 .410 Philadelphia 28 41 .46 Washington : 24 40 .375 Monday's Results No games, scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Brooklyn 43 17 St. Louis 35 24 Cincinnati 35 28 New York 33 32 Pittsburgh 30 32 Chicago 31 35 Boston ' 28 -40 Philadelphia ....... 18 45 Monday's Results No games scheduled. Pet. .717 .593 .556 .508 .484 .470 .412 .286 PIONEER LEAGUE W. L. Pocatello 27 16 Idaho, Falls 25 22 Ogden 22 22 Salt Lake 22 23 Boise 20 25 Twin Falls 20 28 Monday's Results Idaho Falls 9, Salt Lake 6. Pet. .618 .532 .500 .489 .444 .417 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Sacramento 48 31 .608 San Diego 46 35 .568 Los Angeles 42 33 .560 San Francisco 38 36 .514 Seattle 38 41 .481 Oakland 37 40 ,481 Hollywood . 35 47 .427 Portland 28 44 .368 Monday's Results No games scheduled. Under New Management. T. W. (Ted) Evans Wishes to Announce That He Has Taken Over the Management Manage-ment of the ... Pioneer Park Conoco Station Located at Fifth West and. Center-; Sts. it The New Name of This Station is TED'S CONOCO STATION Darold Olsen, former manager of this station, ia now a Conoco merchandiser in Salt Lake City "wedlimesdlsiLyj, Brooklyn Casts Anxious Glances . At Oncoming Reds BY PAUL SCHEFFELS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, June 23 EE The Brooklyn Dodgers' decisive drubbing of the St. Louis Car dinals last week did so much to wipe the Red Birds out of the pennant picture that the rest of the National league tabbed Bill McKechnie's Cincinnati Reds as today's likeliest "team of destiny." Even Leo Durocntr s smoothly- geared outfit, which handled the Cards so easily m four out of their recent five games to gain a game edge over , the field, la looking look-ing past tonight's "twilight" game with the Pittsburgh Pirates, timing Its strategy to ward off the Reds' thrust. The perceptive pilot of the Brooklyns has scheduled Johnny Allen for duty against the Pirates but, in the realization that the Reds are ready to make their most serious bid to get into the flag fight, has timed three front line men, Whit Wyatt, Curt Davis and Kirby Higby, winners of 22 games between them so far, to pitch the first three games against Cincinnati. Brooklyn will have all the best of the schedule, enjoying another off day tomorrow while the Reds are occupied with winding up their two-game set with the New York Giants. The return of Dixie Walker to active duty will further help the Dodgers. Dixie, who pulled a muscle during the St. Louis series, was hitting .301 when he went out of action And will give the Flatbushers a potent outfield out-field trio. Joe Medwick and Pete Reiser are battling for the league lead with averages of over .350. Cincinnati's hot record speaks for itself. The Reds have won 13 of their last 17 games and seven of their most recent eight. During the string McKechnie's pitching staff, already accorded premier ranking in either league, has checked in with 12 full-time jobs. Paul Derringer and Bucky Walters are scheduled to toe the mound against the Giants so that Elmer Riddle, Johnny Vander Meer and Ray Starr should pitch the first three against Brooklyn. That leaves Gene Thompson, Der ringer and Walters to handle the remaining two contests. Thorn p son, running in hard luck this year, hasn't turned in a nine Inning chore since he pitched a one-hitter against the Dodgers on May 12. Zi vie Pins Kayo On Bobby Britton WILKES-BARRE, Pa., June 23 (DJ?) Fritzie Zivic, former welterweight welter-weight champion from Pittsburgh, scored a four-round technical knockout over Bobby Britton of Miami, Fla., here last night before 6,500 persons. - Zivic had little trouble with Britton, outstepping the southerner south-erner throughout. Clay Courts Net Champ Crowned ST. LOUIS, June 23 U.R Seymour Sey-mour Greenberg of Chicago won the national clay courts tennis singles championship yesterday by beating Harris Everet of Jacksonville, Jack-sonville, Fla., 5-7, 7-5, 7-9, 7-5, 8-6. William Talbert of Cincinnati and William Reedy of Beverly Hills, Calif., won the doubles title by defeating Charles Mattman of Forest Hills, N. Y., and George Richards of Montebello, . Calif., 6-3, 6-3, 6-3. O ANSWERS . TO WAR QUIZ Questions on Page Two 1. The wearer is a messenger. 2. Malta, with its small neighboring neigh-boring islands, Is only twice the size of the District of Columbia. Budding "DeJong isn't his old active self Victory Nilsen, Dixon To Entert Utah Open Golf Tourney Provo will oe represented at Utah's $1200 open golf tournament tourna-ment - at the Salt Lake Country club by at least two golfers, according ac-cording to John Memering, local pro. Mark (Pudge) Nilsen and Fred (Buck) Dixon are the two links-men links-men planning to match strokes with the best golfers of the inter-mountain inter-mountain area at the joust which opens Friday. Nilsen, No. 1 Provo player and winner of the Provo open held in May, shot a 32 at the local course Sunday evening, showing he is in top form. All season he has been shooting par-busting golf. Only 18 years old, Nilsen is a keen student of the game and has all the qualifications of a great golfer, including a steady temperament. Dixon is one of the most improved im-proved players, and has been recording re-cording some excellent scores. SALT LAKE CITY, June 23 (U.E) Three of Idaho's prominent golf professionals and a newedmer from Butte, Montana are entered in the Utah annual $1200 golf tournament tour-nament to open here Friday at the Salt Lake Country club. Top-notph golfers from seven states are entered in the meet, and the stiff country club course is expected to give the entrants a real test. The three Idaho professionals entered in the meet are Georgie Orulian of Idaho Falls, Huck Florence Flor-ence of Sun Valley and Chic Car-rico Car-rico of Pocatello are to take part in the meet. Several Idaho ama-tuers ama-tuers will also be ori"hand. The newcomer from Montana is Professional Ray Owen of Butte. Among other top-flight professionals profes-sionals to be on hand for the meet are John Geertsen of Denver, Sid Harman of Walla Walla, Wash., and defending Champion George Schnelter of Ogden. For One ip Full instruction course including: 16 flight lessons, as ' required . by the U. S. Government, before you solo for Our Civilian Pilot Course of Training just ended-Another ended-Another will start in the near future. Take ad. vantage of this special offer now - - . while you have the opportunity. Call Provo 058J1, or Call at the Provo Airport B.p. m Gardener in the outfield since he started that GardW BETTINA, BOBO FIGHT TONIGHT CLEVELAND, June 23 U Promoter Larry Atkins' bid to make Cleveland the country's wartime war-time boxing center gets underway tonight when Melio Bettina, swarthy Italian slugger from Beacon, N. Y., meets giant Harry 150DO or fiitsourgn in me reaiure match of a card of four 10-round bouts. Atkins predicted a crowd of at least 25,000 would turn out for the outdoor card in the Lakefront stadium. Profits of the show will go for purchase of a "bomber for General Gen-eral MacArthur." Bettina, third-ranking heavyweight heavy-weight contender, ruled a slim, 7-5 favorite in his rematch with Bobo. The odds opened at 3-2 and Atkins said he expected them to drop further with the "distinct" possibility that they would be even-up by ringtime. OQ0 Heavy White Sailcloth CARPENTER'S OVERALLS 2.29 Taylor Bros. Co. Week Only ipovsn |