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Show PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1942 PAGE FIVE Georgians Sinkwich Tops All Brains But Uclans Don't Believe in Figures L Bv ROBERT MELLACE 1NEA iServit1 Staff Correrfondent PASADENA. Dec. 23 Statistics Statis-tics indicate that Frankle Sinkwich Sink-wich alone is enough to assure Georgia victory over the "University "Univer-sity of California at Los Angeles in the classic Pasadena Rose Bowl, Jan. 1. The Jaw, as the Youngstown wonder boy is -known at Athens, accounted for more yardage during dur-ing the regular season than all U.C.L.A. players combined. In racking up a new record, Sinkwich gained 2187 yards rushing rush-ing and passing. U.C.L.A.'s entire en-tire offense totaled 2136. Fortunately for supporters of the southern branch of the University Uni-versity of California, however, Babe Horrell and his Bruins do not believe in football figures. This is a very good U.C.L.A. team, as it demonstrated against Santa Clara, Stanford, Washington Washing-ton and Southern California, but Georgia is enjoying the adventure that goes with a transcontinental trip to the Rose Bowl and is the choice of this writer and many football men. MORE T1IAN SINKWICH Georgia has vastly more than Sinkwich. Charley Trippi, his sophomore understudy, for example, ex-ample, has helped the Bulldog cause to the extent of 1239 yards. Wally Butts, wishing to take advantage ad-vantage of Trippi's talent, worked work-ed him at tailback with his illustrious il-lustrious mate at full. Such a combination might take the field in the Arroyo Seco. ' Georgia's is a very orthodox single" wingback team which can pass like blazes as it proved against Kentucky and in the final period of the Alabama thriller. Wingback Lamar Davis leads the country in yards gained receiving re-ceiving passes, outruns the swiftest swift-est secondaries. End George Poschner is als6 a superlative pass-snapger. Big Bob Waterfield is the Sink-wicl Sink-wicl of U.C.LJV., although he seldom carries. He blocks, passes, punts, calls plays. He is a remarkable re-markable defensive player, but will have his hands full in the combination of versatility which shakes Georgia backs loose. U. C. L.A. has a break-away back in Al Solari and a line-cracking line-cracking fullback in Km Snell-ing. Snell-ing. The lines easily could be equal. STRICTLY OX THE QT Offensively, Waterfield operates at quarterback in the mysterious QT formation, which is nothing more than a single wing behind a balanced line with the quarterback quarter-back under the center as in the FOR A MERRY CHRISTMAS Give 8 m STILL HAVE A GOOD StLtUHUN DIFFERENT PRICE RANGES! DROP !N TODAY . . . WHILE YOU CAN STILL TAKE YOUR CHOICE! - "Lincoln Dumps Summit Cagers Playing without the services of Floyd Clegg, star center, who has led their attack all season, the Lincoln Tigers rolled to a convincing convinc-ing 27-17 winover Coach John, Verney's South Summjt, cagers in game played Tuesday afternoon in the Lincoln gym. The Tigers pulled into a lead in the first quarter, and never relinquished it. The South Summit Sum-mit cagers were alternately hot and cold while the, Lincoln boys played steady ball all the way. In the absence of the injured Clegg, the Lincoln scoring was pretty well divided up among Worthen, Aiken, and Rohbock. Aiken led with eight points while the other two hit the hoop for six points each. Ott and M. Lewis each connected for four points to lead South Summit. Box score: G T F P LINCOLN 27 Bylund. f 0 0 0 0 Worthen, f 2 3 2 6 K. Watts, c 1 2 2 4 A., Watts, g 0 1 11 Aiken, g 4 0 0 8 Rohtock, g 3 1 0 6 Tucker, g 0 Lewis, f 1 0 0 0 0 0 TOTALS , 11 7 5 27 SOUTH SUMMIT 17 Ott. f 2 1 M. Lewis, f 0 5 Maxwell, c 1 4 L. Maxwell, e 0 3 0 4' 1 0 0 O. Lewis, g 1 2 0 Pitt, f 0 1 0 Lott, f 1 1 0 Bursen, c 1 0 0 Wolstenhelnd, g .... 0 0 0 Jordan, g 0 0 0 Dexter, g 6 0 0 TOTALS 6 17 5 17 Score by quarters: Lincoln 9 14 20 23 South Summit 3 6 15 17 Officials: Greener and Peterson. T and the wingback parallel with the fullback and left half. Water-field Water-field either handles the ball as do all T quarterbacks, or moves out to leave, room for direct passes from center to the deeper backs. Coach Horrell's variety of defenses de-fenses from 5 to 8-man lines may confuse the Bulldogs temporarily, but the odds are that Georgia will get what it wants most in addition addi-tion to more than $90,000 In cash unanimous selection as the college col-lege team of the country. .katesrkis in BENNETT 272 WEST CENTER Sinkwich Slowed By Ankle Injury. But Shows Class . PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 23U.E An ankle injury slowed Ail-American Ail-American Frankie Sinkwich today to-day as Georgia worked out in Tournament park for their Rose Bowl clash with the U C L A Bruins. The injury bothered Sinkwich's running and also interfered with his kicking. Coach Wally Butts, however, said he probably would be all right in a day or two, but indicated he is taking no chances and will keep Frankie under wraps. rasaes Accurately Despite a sore ankle, however, Sinkwich turned in a passing performance per-formance that showed why he was chosen as the year'B outstanding out-standing player. Charlie Trippi, back, alternated on the firing end of the ball, with Van Davis, George Poschner, and Lamar Davis Da-vis on the receiving end. Butts said the team will spend most of its practice sessions polishing pol-ishing up on defense and running through plays and dummy scrimmages scrim-mages rather than intensive drills. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23 W.K) UCLA practiced today against their own "Georela" team with Noah Curti impersonating Frank Sinkwich and Leo Cantor taking the part of Charley Trippi to give the Bruins a chance at Georgia's scrimmage formations. Coach Babe Horrell indicated the Bruins would concentrate on methods of stoping the Georgia nower drives, spending: most of the drill on defensive tactics against the single wing forma tion of the Bulldogs. Rav Pierson. reserve fullback who broke his angle in the Oregon Ore-gon game, took part in scrim mages, and Horrell said he would be available for the Rose Bowl game. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23 (U.R) -Led by Slingin' Sammy Baugfl, the Washington Redskins recent conquerors of the Chfcago Bears for the national football league chamDionshiD. arrived in town last night to begin practice for their battle with the leagues' an siaxs at Shibe park on Sunday. XM : -7 ,f Iff I lit I III. fit Officers Probe Death Of Grid Star Red Cagle -o Fifth of 14 . Instructive article Br, FRED FITZSIMMONS A Big League Bowler, Too , Take a position tefcvard the back of the alley approximating the position between pie No. 1 and 3 pins, your target. The distance from the starting point is regulated by the length Joe Falcaro, match game chatti pion, sets Helen Laskari right. of your natural stride and the number tf steDs reauired to ad vance to the foul line. I find four steips suitable and the even num ber of strides makes for rhythm and balance. Stand erect and relaxed with the ball resting in the left hand and fingers in place. This is a natural posture with the weight resting on the left leg. The feet should be approximaely parallel, no more than two inches apart. Determine the best spot to lay your ball on the alley, watch that spot throughout your approach and finish. This spot may be anywhere any-where from six to eight inches from the right side of the alley, or left if you are left-handed. The condition of the alleys in a determining factor in the selection selec-tion of the spot. The ball will take more english on a worn alley. If you get a pronounced hook, find out how to close the edge you must release the ball to make it break into the 1-3 pocket. SPORTS HUDDLE Bv, DeMAR TKUSCHUK XHIOARS CONTINUE TRADITION , The stock of Big Seven uatKei-ball. uatKei-ball. already held in high repute oaut has taken another iump upward following the recent trip eastward oy tne Young university Cougars. TMe instrumental in drawing the huge crowd of 18,386 neonlc into tne spacious jjaauiow.. Square Garden. The huge crowd was completely for the Cougars, even while they were suffering from a bad attack of staKe fright that made them look like a high school team in the first half. The New York crowds like the slam-bang style of the ;f5jtrm tvnfl of ball. Thev throng the gymnasiums every time that a western team appears to watch the race-horse type or piay. it is a tribute to the Cougars, how-over how-over that thp crowd was the largest assemblage in the history of basketball to witness a game, and this in war-time, too. Utah State's wonder team of 1936 was the first of the Inter- mountain teams to capture the fancy of the fans east of the Mis- sisiKippi.. The Staters, led .V such men as Cleo Petty, ImhI Wade, and Kent Ryan, ran routhshod over any, and all oppo sition that year, and cllmaed their triumphs by being chosen as the American team in the uiympic Games basketball tournament that summer. Since that year the Big Seven teams have occupied a place in the limelight and they need not bow to any other league in the country when it comes to producing top flight cage squads. Utah fatate, Coolorado, Wyoming, and now Brigham Young have appeared in. basketball's "Big Time," Madison Square Garden. Utah university has taken periodic jaunts through the mid-west and has won many followers. To cap it all off, last year the Big Seven had the honor of placing three teams in the top fifteen teams of the country, a feat that was tied only by the Big Ten, who also placed three. Colorado held the top spot last year in the Big Seven rankings, rank-ings, but with the Golden Buffs out of competition this year, either BYU or Wyoming will take over the rejns HEBE 'N' THERE IN SPORTS Although Mel lleln, New Vork NEWYORK, Dec. 23 U Po lice investigated today the mysterious mys-terious circumstances surrounding the death of Christian K. (Red) Cagle, 87, former all-American football -star at West Point. Cagle died early this morning at Physicians' hospital fh Jackson Jack-son Heights. The hospital reported report-ed tentatively that his death was due to pneumonia, but , it was believed he had a fractured skull. An autopsy will be conducted today. to-day. Cagle, who ' was employed by a New York insurance firm, collapsed col-lapsed Saturday evening in the lobby of the apartment house where he lived with his wife and two children. He managed to make his way upstairs in a semiconscious semi-conscious state, and, before he lost consciousness, mumbled to his wife that he had been "kicked in the head." Telephones Wife-Earlier Wife-Earlier in the evening, Cagle had telephoned his wife to tell her he had been delayed but was on the way home. A while later, he was observed by tenants ten-ants and employes of the apartment apart-ment building slumped in a chair in the lobby in a dazed condition. condi-tion. It could not be immediately determined whether Cagle had been injured in a fall in the streets, which i were icy that night, or in some other accident or had been assaulted. The police reported that Cagle pointed to his forehead when he told his wife about being kicked in the head, but no marks were found on the front of his head. There was a cut on the back of his head. Cagle was rushed to the hospital hos-pital and for some timo before his death was kept under an oxygen oxy-gen tent. He was appointed to West Point from Louisiana in 1926. He won all-Ajnerican honors while playing with the Army teams of 1927-28-29. He captained the team in 1929. Just before his graduation, gradua-tion, he was requested to resign, his secret marriage to the former Marion Munford Haile on Aug. 25, having been revealed. Subsequently he was football coach at Mississippi A. & M. college col-lege and worked as bond salesman sales-man for a Louisiana concern. Tn 1930-31-32 he played pro football for the New York Giants and later had an interest in the Brooklyn football team. Zabriskie Wins Golf- Tourney Walter Zabriskie, senior student, stu-dent, will be awarded the prize as the Provo high golf champion of 1942 after his victory over Fred Crane in the finals of the annual fall tournament at Provo high. The tournament has been sponsored spon-sored as a continuation of the spring and summer golf program and 'has been conducted on an 18-hole. handicap basis, reports Glen Kenner, Provo high golf coach. A prize of four golf balls will be awarded Mr. Zabriskie for winning the tournament, three balls bo go to Mr. Crane as run-ner-) and two each to Mark and Reed Lassen, who lost to the finalists in the semifinals. Pn the semifinals, Zabriskie defeated Mark Lassen 2 and 1; and Crane won over Reed Lassen by the same count. In the finals, Zabriskie was tied with Crane at the end of 18 holes and two additional ad-ditional holes were needed before Walt won, one-up, on the twentieth twen-tieth hole. Collegiate Basketball Niagara 46, St. John's, (N.Y ) 40. Temple 49, Philadelphia Coast Guard 42. , Great Lakes 55; Glenview Ai. Albright 56; Cornell 29. Southwestern 44; Springfield Teachers 21. Stanford 46. Santa Clara 44. St. Mary's Navy Pref light 53; California 35. Utah 45; Montana State .so. Utah State 76, Weber college 37. Giants center, has retired from professional football, he has lert a record behind that will he mighty hard to match. He missed onlv, one game out of 156 championship cham-pionship games while with the Giants, and In twelve years he only had to take time out in Awo games. He was never known to make m. bad pass, and was rated the top pivot man in the National loop for eight consecutive years. COUGARS SHOULD ARRANGE HOME GAME-s Why .don't athletic officials of BYU arrange a game with some strnntr inHrtndent team before the Cougars have to go into their western Division scneauie, that the home fans will have a r-Vi ari-o tn ua thnm, Tllav. After all it is the local fans who pay good money to see tne cougars play and- to make basketball a paying s!port at the Y, and while they have read a good deal about the Cougars, they havent had a chance to see them play. Why couldn't the Cougars play with Ft. Lougias, or tne yearns ico.ni, w arrange a game with Ecker Studio Stu-dio team. Any one of these teams could provide some sort of competition compe-tition for the Cougars, and the fans would come to see just how good these Cougars are. Yanks Top rteldtng A. L. Team NEW YORK, Dec 23 UJ! The champion New York Yankees won team fielding honors in the American Amer-ican league in 1942 but individual honors went to the Boston Red Sox and Cleveland Indians, official offi-cial averages, showed today. Only two percentage points separated sep-arated the first three clubs in the team competition with the Yan- keeg compiling a mark of .976 in 154 games while committing only 142 errors. Cleveland and Boston tied for second with .974. The Indians In-dians made 163 misplays to the Red Sox' 157 but handled 6185 chances to Boston's 6006. The RedSox and Indians dominated domi-nated the i all-star individual defensive de-fensive lineup, however, Boston placing i six men among the top players while the Indians landed five. The Yankees, St. Louis and Chicago each had one. Double plays "fell off last season sea-son to 1207 and for the second time in the junior circuit's history there were no triple plays. Fielding for the league dropped just one point to .971 in '42. Best first baseman was rookie Les Fleming of Cleveland with a percentage of .993 for 156 games, just one point above Tony Lur pien's mark of 121 games for the Red Sox. ' The Red Sox' ' Bobby Doerr paced the second sackers with .975 for 142 games, a mark two points over that of Don Gutteridge of the Browns for 145 games. Leading third baseman for the second straight year was Keii Keltner of Cleveland. He registered register-ed .945 for 151 games. Lou Boudreau, manager of the Ijidians, brought additional honors to his club by leading the shortstops short-stops with .965 in 146 gmaes. Walter Judnich of the Browns, Roy Weatherly of the Indians and Ted Williams of the Red Sox led the outfielders. No catcher worked in 100 games last season. The three leaders lead-ers were Buddy Rosar of the Yankees with .996 for 58 games, Otto Benning of Cleveland with .992 for 78 and Johnny Peacock of the Red Sox with .988 for 82. In '41 five catchers caught in 100 or more games. 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If there should be no state tournament, the unofficial un-official state champion would be claimed on a basis of records. On this premise, it would hurt Granite's chances no little to have two losses to the Provoans chalked chalk-ed up against them and they will be out gunning for bear. On the other hand, Provo can hardly afford to have their victory string stopped at this point, so no matter mat-ter which way you look at it there is going to be a whale of a ball game played in the Provo gym tonight. The veteran Provo team, which up to now has been led by the sharpshooting of Rand Clark, will run up against a team that is just as dangerous offensively as they are, for in Dick Ence and his teammates, the Granite outfit out-fit packs a powerful wallop. The first game between the two teams w'hich Provo won 30-26 was a thriller from beginning to end and HRIVER'S The Best Place To Buy the Best Gifts for Men HERALD the game tonight should follow in the same vein. This game will utterly take the interest away from the other three games in this region. Dave Crow-ton's Crow-ton's BY high Wildcats tangle with Springville today in game that should clear up the muddle surrounding the strength of these two teams a little. Payson, which is supposed to be the power in the Nebo district, plays host to American Fork, and the ensuing tussle should give fans a little clearer picture of how strong the Forkers will be this season. In the only other game played in this region tonight, to-night, Lehi takes on the invading South high team from Salt Lake City in a return game. Majors Revise Training Plans NEW YORK. Dec. 23 (U.R) The entire spring training program of the maior leacrue baseball clubs faced drastic revisions today and possiblity or posiponemem or uw season's opening developed as five clubs claimed a switch to condt-. tioning sites close to home. The New York Giants, St. iuis Cardinals and New York Yankees followed a 24-hour-old move by the Brooklvn Dodeers. by aban doning their 1943 Florida training camps to help curtail wartime transportation problems. The Phiiadplnhia. Athletics announced plans to train at Savannah, Ga., several days ago. |