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Show PROVO (UTAH) DAILY 5 HERALD - FRIDAY, JANUARY' 8 1943 PAGE FOUH Phog Allen Mentors With Violating By ROBERT MELLACE NEA Service Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 8 Dr. Forrest For-rest C. Allen of Kansas University Univer-sity upbraids eastern teachers of basketball for professionalism. Although -- Phog Allen does not make pay-for-pay college athletics his .major premise, he accuses coaches in this section of playing the man instead of the ball, I in direct violation of the intentions in-tentions of the late Dr. James Naisbiith, the game's inventor. -. Drt Allen was coached by Dr. Naismith, who was at Lawrence for years. Describing basketball in the west as a beautiful game of checkers, the man who has brought 24 Big Six championships champion-ships to Kansas in 26 years decries de-cries eastern tactics of pushing, contact and slowing down the game "with lack of skill which would not exist if they followed the rules." This influence, according to Dr. Allen, comes from the professional profession-al game, which was cherished in the east, but never blossomed in his neighborhood. Wants 12-Foot Basket A one-time baseball umpire with a booming " voice which accounts ac-counts for his nickname, Phog puts the blame directly at the door of some of the east's leading coaches as products of professional profession-al basketball. Head of physical education at Kansas for years, Dr. Allen should know, something about coaches. He developed Dutch Lonborg of Northwestern; John Bunn, now dean of men at Stanford; Adoliph Rupp of Kentucky; Frosty Cox of Colorado; Charlie Black of Nebraska, Ne-braska, whom he calls the greatest great-est living Kansas athlete; Louis Manz pf Iowa State; and hundreds hun-dreds of successful prep school mentors. The Poppa Jayhawk believes officials for intersectional games in New York should be chosen from the east and west. To offset the current danger that taller boys will dominate the game, Dr. Allen would move the baskets up to 12 feet, thereby giving the smaller men a - chance and also making petter players of the giants. Gift Shop Team Clings to Lead Shirley's Gift Shop continues to lead the Women's City Bowling league. B & H Drug still holds the part of the runner-up post i but was forced to share "the 'position 'posi-tion this week with Hoover's Men's Wear team. Shirley's walked off with the top honors in the high team- ser-, ser-, ies with an aggregate of 2018 While Hoover's pulled up second Ivith 1995 and B & H Drug took third with 1918. B & H Drug " took the high team game honors' with 757, with Shirley's second , with 714- and Hoover's Men's Wear third with 702. F. Velde took the top spot in the high individual series with a 465 with L. Pope second with a 460 total. M. ; Collins was third with 4"36. F. Veldc also won the high individual game by rolling a 209 game. L. Pope closely followed fol-lowed her with a 207 and B. Cal-derwood Cal-derwood was third with 175. The weekly prize given by Shir-' Shir-' ley's gift shop was given to Mildred Mil-dred -Collins. Team standings: W L Pet. Shirley's Gift Shop .34 18 .654 , B Sc H Drug , 29 23 Hoovers Men's Wear. 29 23 Larry's CoinMach. .. 26 26, Lewis Ladies Store . . 24 28 Mullett Jewelry 14 38 .558 .558 .500 .462 .269 Collegiate Basketball ,.. - By UNITED PRESS . Virginia Miliatry Academy 41; AVilliam and Mary 38. ' Virginia 49; Hampden-Sydney 40. v Indiana State 57, Valparaiso 40. Washington and Lee 38; Roan-ake Roan-ake 33. Duquesne 35; Waynesburg 24.' Bowling Green 78; Findlay 33. Duke 60; Davidson 50. Utah Aggies 52; Idaho 46. Olathe Air Base 51; Missouri 42. .i - . r Villanova 41; Geneva 38. TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION . I: WORK WANTED ' WILL care for one child in my nome aunng aay wnne mother , works. .Inquire 242 i West 4th. North, apartment 6, upstairs. jlO FOR :: SALEMISCELLANEOUS USED sanitary cot, table, child's bed complete. 58 .North 7 West. WANTED ALL KINDS OF HIDES IBghest Price raid for . BOXES ! WOOL- HIDES PELTS - FURS -and dead or useless animals.' Pot prices for dead and useless sheep. r. ' ?' - Prompt Senloe UTAH HIDE & TALLOW CO. PHONE S3 . , S BIIIcs West of Spanish Fork Charges Eastern Casakd -VP $P Or fr P P J. ..iiiji m .nii ii ii i j. jiii.ii ij ii i, i m hi ju,i.ji imiji iij '.' "' ' " ' ' . ' ! I ii " ', Jf , Jt--''ll I SXS4 1 Dr.. Phog Allen uses contents of fcssf H: --.r r mi toilet kit to illustrate his m r W ' M 'H basketball theory. - &i fer Rose Puts Y' Grapplers Through Initial Workout Faced with tho almost hopeless hope-less task of building a team to defend last year's Western Division Div-ision prown with only one letter-man letter-man out for certain, Coach Paul Rose called first practice for the BYU 'wrestling squad last night. Rose has taken over the job left vacant when Wayne Soffe left BYU to become an ensign in the U. S. navy. Soffe piloted the team to two Western Division crowns and came through with a surprise victory last year. Rose is not too optimistic about the Cougars' chances this year because only one member of last year's squad is back. However, this man is big Reed Nilsen, Western West-ern Division heavyweight champ, who is helping Rose :with the coaching duties. Vir&e Taylor, 145-pound wrestler of last year, is in school, but it is not certain whether he will wrestle or not. So far only a few members of last year's promising frosh squad has turned out for practice. Russell Rus-sell Boyce, 175 pounder and Max Shafer, 165 pounds, are the only trosn numeral winners back this year so far. A sophomore with quite a bit of experience in high school and amateur wrestling is Wayne Lun- dy, who attended Wilhamette University in Oregon . last year. Lundy wrestled- for three years in Tngh school and is supposed to be fairly good. He wrestles in the 135-pound class. Other members of tne squad and their weights are: Gordon Wright, 165; Don Buswell, 160; Dwaine Nelson, 145; Marion Tree, 185; Dab Keelcr, 135; Junior Duke, 130; George Falles, 160; and Clyde Sullivan at 155 pounds. American firms producing air- cooled and liquid-cooled aircraft engines are turning out more horsepower, every 15 days than the industry produced during the entire period of World War I. Swift Sno Bird Art Devlin of Syracuse set com petitive record for Intervale hill with ski jump of 41 meters and won downhill race over Whitney trail course of ' about a mile In 1:36.3 "in college men's 'meet of Lake Placid Club 6 no Birds. Dev lin expects call to Air Force, WWJMWMWMWW!.WtW!...' "' " 1 'MWM-.A-,'.'M'WWj-m .. x ' - ' j , s " - s (; if ) - h : v;: :J V.j ' " '' ' " i ' i v f ' v $ J s 'I. f - A J ;' --. V I . ' f X s 1 V . . A , j h - . . i Regulations 'Hoop Sensation Harry Boykoti:, pound center at St. John's university uni-versity of Brooklyn. His coacb, Joe Lapchick, says Harry will be the greatest basketbair player in history.. Boykoffs only ;a;;Soplu r By FRED FITZSIMMONg A Big League, Bowler, Too Wrist and' finger action puts the book on the ball, determines its path. As a baseball curves from the spinning motion applied by tbe pitcher, so does the ball on the alley. . Bowlers using- the three-finger grip, and most do, can apply this spin almost .with the fingers alone. Two-finger grippers utilize the wrist more. I find - that better bet-ter control cornea from the more sensitive" fingers. You must find out how 'much hook to put ortvour ball, depend ing on where you lay the bail in relation to the sides of the alley. Ascertain how much spin you must apply to bring the ball into the 1-3 pocket. - , This x will come with, practice. Coordination of eye and hand Is required. 'You mst know where your fepot is 'on the. alley and twist the - ball . to get the proper spin. With the- ball back and above the shoulder at the finish of your. approach, the - hand will - be on top of it. r ' As yoa bring your , arm down in a straight line at the pins, turn your fingers in the ball and foi I low through until the hand is in the original position on top as the hall is released. - " NEXT: Spot and bead pla bowling. J:-& 'x-Kv:Xv:v:-:-:-:-: I - f ..:-::-x-: :-:-:: r ' . ... . Region 3 Cagers Degin 1S43;Play In Tilts To The 1943 basketball title chase in Region 3 will get off with a bahg tonight with all six of the Alpine Division teams seeing action ac-tion ahd four of the Nebo district dis-trict teams also In play. The headline attraction will be at Lehi, where the highly favored Provo Bulldogs take on the Lehi Pioneers, one of the two teams slated to give the Bulldogs some trouble. Provo is figured to take this one despite the fact it is played on the Lehi floor. The other highly regarded Alpine Al-pine team, American Fork, tangles tang-les with BY high on the Caveman Cave-man floor in a game that is expected ex-pected to be . a breather for the Cavemen. The Wildcats have yet to display a consistent scoring punch, and the Forkers are odds-on odds-on favorites. In the tightest game of the Alpine schedule, Lincoln invades Pleasant Grove in a game that is rated as strictly a toss-up. The Tigers have displayed a little the better scoring punch and should be given a slight edge, but anything any-thing can happen, as neither team is very strong. In the Nebo loop the defending champion Paysoji outfit runs up against a little Iknown quantity when it meets Juab at Payson. However, if Payson. utilizes its height and experience to the test advantage, the Lions should not have too much difficulty in winning win-ning this game. Tn- the other game Springvillo meets Tintic on the Springville floor in a tough game. Tintic has not shown too much power up to date however, and the Red Devils must be given a slight edge. Springville has shown a lot of "promise in many of their preseason tilts, and unless Tintic shows a lot more than is expected, expect-ed, the Springvillites will hit the victory column early this year. SPORT PARADE By JACK CUDDY United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (U.E) Meet the next lightweight champion cham-pion Jimmy "Wrecko" Greco of Montreal. It seems a bit previous to introduce in-troduce young Greco as the champion-to-be, when the current title-holder, title-holder, Beau Jack, is so new on the throne that his royalty is recognized only in New York and New Jersey. But 19-year-old Greco is evok ing press raves in New York while Champion Beau Jack, the dynamic ex-bootblack, of Augusta, Ga., is "hunting in the south. Greco displays his leather-toss ing wares again tonight at Madison Mad-ison Square Garden. He tangles with veteran Bill Speary in the eight-round semi-final to the Chester Rico-Bob Montgomery main event. Naturally Greco is favored to win. This dark-h a i re d Canadian fighter, who has the face of Sammy Sam-my Mandell, but the height "and build of Tony Canzoneri, may be making his last fight as a civil ian. He is to be inducted into the Canadian army Jan. IS. Youngr Greco,, son of a former acrobat, would like to get a de ferment or permission from the Canadian government to con tinue fighting during his train ing. He has two reasons: (1) He wishes to be the first Canadian scrapper to win the world 135-pound 135-pound crown, and (2) he is trying try-ing to pay of f a mortgage on nis parents' home ana tnars not tne old Horatio Alger Malarkey. Greco capitivatcd New York in his last Garden appearance. That was in a preliminary to the Tami Mauriello-Lou Nova bout on Dec 11. Greco tackled tough young Harold Green that night, and knocked him out in the first round. It was a thundering ses- 6, Could night "i?r fa. mm- WMteirs-S Spot; With Joe Winters, frosh ace, apparently on the inside track for the vacant forward post, and Grant Richins subbing for the injured in-jured Neil Welling at guard. Coach Floyd Millet sent his BYU varsity var-sity through a stiff drill Thursday Thurs-day night. Winters was looking very good at the forward post last night, and may be the answer to Millet's Mil-let's prayer for a forward that can score consistently. The lithe Davis ace was hitting the hoop with uncanny accuracy, and fitted fit-ted in well with the rest of the varsity combination. Welling, Who has a toe injury, was in suit last night, but did not do anything more than limber lim-ber up and shoot a little. Neil has been playing the guard spot left open by the departure of Bob Orr, who will return to thequad next week. Richins Good t Richins the former Provo high ace, looked good while he was with the varsity. He turned in some sparkling defensive work and cut in for several scoring chances On the whole the entire en-tire team showed more zip than ever befor this sason, especialy when it came to hitting the hoop. Millet is still stressing passing and footwork for the boys, tmt the Cougars are fast developing. Their passing is improving, and their eye for the basket is better. Once Dale Rex and Brady Walker, tow ering center and forward, hit their scoring stride, the Millet-men are going to be plenty hard to stop. The Cougars, who rank as favorites fa-vorites in the Western Division this year will open defense of the state crown they won last year by journeying to Logan January 15, 16 to meet the Utah State Farmers, Farm-ers, who have recently returned from an unsuccessful invasion of Montana and Idaho. Should the Cougars be successful success-ful in their quest for Western Division honors they will meet the Eastern Slope champs, who will undoubtedly be the Wyoming Cowboys in a two out of three game series in the Ute fieldhouse to decide the championship of the confernce. Outpoints Ezzard Charles CLEVELAND, Jan. 8 (U.E) Jimmy Bivins, Cleveland negro, today was only a step away from the wartime light-heavyweight Championship left behind by Gus Lesnevich when he joined the coast guard. Bivins, who will meet Anton Christoforidis, former -titleholder, for the National Boxing association's associa-tion's "duration" crown, punched his way to a one-sided 10-round victory over Cincinnati's Ezzard Charles before 10335 at the Arena last night. The United Press scoresheet gave Bivins every round but the second. Weighing 174, Bivins had a nine-pound advantage over Charles. sion in which both youngsters broke away fast to commit mayhen. But the combination .of Greco's smashing left hook and stunning straight right floored Green three times before the referee intervened. Young Johnny gets $750 for tonight's engagement a bout which isn't even part of the current cur-rent lightweight-title tournament. He can't get into the tournament for about six mpre months until he is 20, the age required for 15 rounds in New York state. But Greco, shy and softspoken, said: "When they see what I do to this kid tonight, maybe they'll give me a dispensation or what-over what-over you call it." Be Bivins - lay wsesfAftiai daycsnssn diars POCATELLO. Ida.,. Jan. 8 (HE) Utah State college's wandering Farmers ended a seven-game in- n5?V h-i if f I' I termountain tour here last nigbt by defeating Idaho Southern, 52 to 46. The Bengals made a fight of the whole game, leading at half-time, half-time, 28 to 24. Feature of the game was the ' performance of Jay Jensen, Idaho soutnern guard, who scored 3u of ' his team's 46 points. Jensen made 21 of his counters In the J first half. He made 13 field goals. Getting EXTRA MILEAGE IMPORTANT Every extra mile you get on gas and out of your tires, helps the "all-out "all-out war effort." That goes for the extra service you can get out of your radio, refrigerator, refriger-ator, stove ... in fact, every living commodity, including clothing. Buying a Granatwist suit is one way of conserving. You are sure to get a standard, tested fabric . . . carefully tailored to hold its shape through a long period of hard wear . . . in addition to smart style that gives you that well-dressed appearance. ap-pearance. Granatwist gives you everything that you can ask for of a suit of clothes. They just arrived in three new colors. col-ors. Blue, Brown and Grey. Come and see them. The most sm prising thing about these suits, is the price . We Still Have a Large STOCK OF OVERCOATS To Choose From If you haven't gotten one get yours for now and next year. Priced from mm Bob'Montgohtety To Fight Rico NEW YORK, Jan. & ttP r. Bob Montgomery, rugged Philadelphia Phila-delphia negro, is favored at 8-5 to beat young Chester Rico of the Bronx tonight in their 15-round 15-round Madison Square Garden bout, which is part of the tourna-ment tourna-ment to determine a challenger for Lightweight Champion Beau Jack. , is i |