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Show PROVO (UTAH) DAILY -HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1943 PAGE SEVEN Wyomin St. Jolhnm's For Nation , Cowboys to 52 to 47 Extra Period Victory 11 V OSOAU FKAliEY , United Pre.. Staff Correspondent I NEW YORK, April 2 i;.R The i Cowboys of Wyoming university ! headed back to Laramie today with the huge silver trophy emblematic em-blematic of college basketball supremacy su-premacy in their saddlebags. The Cowboys' ears still rane with the thundering cheers of ! 18,000 fans who booted them home in an electrifying overtime game with the favored St. John's In dians at Madison Square Garden ; last night, 52 to 47. Minus the services of Mountainous Moun-tainous Milo Komenich, their high scoring center who was evicted shortly before the regulation game ended in a 46-46 tie, the boys from the west came through when the chips were down to carry off the mythical national court crown. They shut the national invitation invita-tion tournament champions off with one point in the added period , as husky Jim Weir fired five points and Chunkv Flovd Volker i added another for victory. Wyoming, newly-crowned NCAA champion, won its new laurels in the second tilt of a double header . which netted $24,000 for the Red Cross. Georgetown's Hoyas, the NCAA runner-up conquered the Toledo Rockets, 54-40, in the other contest. Big John Mahnken and little Jimmy Reilly led the victors with 20 and 14 points, respectively. But the game between the Cowboys Cow-boys and the Indians was the feature, fea-ture, with the national court crown the principal prize, and it ended in a mad finale that had the fans In a frenzy. Komenich, who handcuffed hand-cuffed Harry (Highpockets) Boy-koff, Boy-koff, St. John's six foot, nine inch center, left the game with one minute to play and Wvomine lead ing by six points. He had con- rriDutea points for scoring honors. . Then before the Cowboys could 5 organize, St. John's caught fire and drew to within two points, with five seconds to play. Swarthy Al Moschetti slipped through the defense at that point to tie the count and the gun went off with the score deadlocked at 46-all. Weir then rode to the rescue. He hooked in a one-handed shot to send Wyoming in front and as St. John's battled for the ball it committed a foul. Volker converted convert-ed to give the Cowboys a three point edge, Larry Baxter cutting it down with a St. John's penalty penal-ty shot. Then Weir came through again. Swishing in another ane-handed ane-handed field goal, Rig Jim drew f.V.other foul shot and converted to complete the Cowboys' final 'margin of victory. WYOMING (52) G. T. F. P. Pf. Sailors, f 5 2 1' 11 l Weir, f 5 3 3 13 4 Komenich, c 8 4 4 20 4 Volker, g 3 2 1 7 2 Roney, g 0 0 0 0 0 Waite, f 0 0 0 0 0 Collins, f 0 3 1 1 3 Boss Beaver IT 4S ."Z-sS-x ft I Mr V -4 - 1 t : ts " ' .- UP IALL" 3 ..-. a sJ. ; . c-.--. . v .l .fire-- :-..-.. - y , I I . .9 -- s 1 5 ' s Meiv Sliea, above, new catcher-manager catcher-manager of the Portland Beavers, warms up his vocal cords as his squad turned out for spring training training at San Jose. Calif- 5 Totals 21 14 10 52 14 ST. JOHN'S (47) G. T. F. P. Pf. Levane, f 2 2 1 5 2 Wertis, f 0 0 0 0 2 3 l 3 2 Boykoff, c 6 6 5 17 Moschetti, g 4 3 0 8 Plantamura; g . . . 0 O 0 0 Baxter, f 5 5 5 15 Gotkin, g 1 1 0 2 By HARRY (jRAYSOX , NEA Sports Editor ' ASEUIIY PARK. N. J. March 31- Lieut. jg) John Aloysius Hassett expresses the opinion that the war has hurt the New York Yankees less than any other club in the Amerioan League. Having played with the Yank ees, tne lieutenant snouia Know. but I suspect Joe McCarthy will miss Pvt. Joe DiMagio, not to mention Seaman Phil Rizzuto and a first baseman named Buddy Hassett. Ed Barrow had to go to all that trouble with the Philles to land Nick Etten as a replacement replace-ment for' Hassett, whose absence was felt when he was injured in the World Series. Despite his brilliance at the key position he played and his ability to bunt and swat a long ball, Rizzuto Riz-zuto may be the easiest to replace. The answer is George Stimweiss. In 25 years as a manager, McCar thy has never been as high on a ball player this early in tne going. 'Stimweiss is going to be my shortstop," asserts the usually Totals . . 18 17 11 47 13 ;Halftime score: Wyoming 30, St. Jdhn's 23. Regular game score: Wyoming 46, St. John's 46. Officials Of-ficials Pat Kennedy, Joe Burns. DETROIT ONE UP ON BOSTON BRUINS DETROIT, April 2 (IIP) The Detroit Red , Wings, National Hockey league champions, were one up on the Boston Bruins in their best-of -seven final series for possession of hockey's coveted Stanley cup today. A crowd of 12,562 watched the Wings tally in every period to dominate the Bruins, runners-up during the regular season, and win 6-2, last night. "Boston scored only once each in the first and third periods. '." CHIROPRACTIC The Drugless Way To Health! DR, E. L. AIKEN ft S2 W CENTER ST. "rhones Off. Res. 612 7; WANTED ALL KINDS . OF IHDES Highest Prices Paid for BONES WOOL HIDES , PELTS FURS and dead or useless ajilnmla. Prlt prices for dead and useless sheep . , Prompt Service UTAH HIDE & TALLOW CO. pnoNB ss It Milt Wewt of Spanish Fork Region 3 Track, Tennis Meets Set For Apr. 30 Here Region 3's annual track and field meet will be staged April 30 at the B. Y. U. stadium provided pro-vided the stadium can be obtained on that date, regional officials decided de-cided this week. The region will go forward with all spring sports, track, tennis and baseball, it-was decided. Louis A. Bates, Payson high principal, was elected chairman cf the region to succeed Lloyd B. Adamson of Lehi. Coach Glen Simmons Sim-mons of Provo high was reelected secretary. The regional tennis tourney will be the same day as the track meet. Instead of only the divisional division-al winner and runner-up being allowed al-lowed to enter teams each school in the region will be permitted to enter a doubles team and a singles player, it was decided. Winners cf the tourney in doubles and singles will, be recognized as regional re-gional champions regardless of previous contests. Eugene Hillman of Payson was placed in charge of the baseball setup. He will contact the various schools and draw up a schedule. Provo and Payson have signified their intention of entering teams thus far. It was reported the state prep association is considering possibility possi-bility of holding the state track meet at Provo May 7. Several schools of the region are planning to enter contestants in the state relay carnival at Salt Lake City April 23. City Court Preliminary hearing for Irving R. Anderson, charged with issuing is-suing a fraudulent check of $50 to Hank Smith of Provo, was set for Tuesday, April 6 when Anderson Ander-son was arraigned before City Judge M. B. Pope today. ultra-conservative McCarthy. "I believe he has a chance to be one of the greatest shortstops in the game." Snuffy Stirweiss is the squatty southern gentleman . from the Bronx who played so much halfback half-back at North Carolina. Stirweiss is still running. As the star of the Newark farm club and hailed as Joe Gordon's superior at second base at the same stage of development, he set an International Interna-tional League record last season by stealing 73 bases in 83 attempts, at-tempts, which is fair to middling these days when ball players generally gen-erally are supposed to be perfectly honest on the paths. Stimweiss moved from shortstop short-stop to second base for the Bears, and apparently has switched back again with eclat. Speaking of Stimweiss' base-.stealing, base-.stealing, Lieutenant Hassett, attached at-tached to the Navy Pre-Flight School at Chapel Hill, further stresses the all-round ability of Joe DiMaggio. "If DJMaggio were still with the Yankees he'd help Stirweiss with his base-running," asserts Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Hasset. "While fans rated DiMaggio a great hitter and center cen-ter fielder, ball players considered him one of the most dangerous base-runners in the business. And DiMaggio enjoyed trying to help a yoiing recruit like Stimweiss." Brady Walker Best Player Cowboys Met All Season Shelf on CONGA LINE 5 r - If " t -i HANK BATTLES JACK TONSGHT Cage C rowta BRADY WALKER Brigham Young Hoopster Touts Brady Walker, Young university's universi-ty's towering basketball star, should be rated all-American in the opinion of no less a casab authority than Ev Shelton, Wyoming's Wy-oming's great mentor who piloted the Cowboys to tne national championship. Sholton, in an interview witn Jack Cuddy of United Press, well known for his column, Today's Sports Parade, said Walker is far superior to Harry. Boykoff, St. John's touted all-American center. cen-ter. He further elaborated that Walker was the "best player we've seen all season." (See Cuddy's Cud-dy's column.) Wyoming's 6 foot 7-inch center, cen-ter, Milo Komenich, outplayed Boykoff in the Cowboy-St. John's game, but big Milo met his superior su-perior when he tangled with Walker Wal-ker in the three-game Cowboy-Cougar Cowboy-Cougar set at Laramie a month ago. In that series Walker outscored Komenich 18-15, 11-7, and 17-15 in the three games, respectively, for a total of -46 points to Milo's 37. The seven points Komenich garnered in the second game was his season's low. Coach Floyd Millet of B Y U says that Walker not only out-scored out-scored Komenich but "he outplayed outplay-ed him in every department of the game." Millet was happy that the Cow boys won the national champion- ship, rie couicm i neip aang that: "We may have been back there ourselves had Duane Esplin I'aen in school this year." (Esplin, twice all-conference, stayed out to run a sheep herd.) Drug Store Team Meets Gift Shop For Provo Crown AUbucas, 12, of Fordham clutches, ball while leading what seems to be a conga line-one, two, three, kick-r-as Brooklyn St. John's wins, 69-43, to oliniinat Bronx, learn from National Invitation at Madison Square Garden. Referee Pat Kennedy is about to call a txalt-:-or change of Btep. - - ; - - B. &. H. Drug Store and Shirley's Shir-ley's Gift Shop clash tonight at 8:30 at the Recreation alleys for the Provo Women's Bowling league championship. The classy B. & H. outfit won the right to enter a playoff with Shirley's by winning four points while Shirley's dropped four, Thursday night, to wind up with the two teams tied. B. & H. rolled up a total of 2166 points to trounce Mullett Jewelry, 4-0. Larry's Coin Ma chines, in rolling a high 2190, won four points from Shirley's In the other match of the evening, Hoover Hoo-ver Men's Weaf beat Lewis Ladies, La-dies, 4-0. : r T.rrvs had Well series, and tied with Hoover's for high team game with 789. Mildred Noland had high series with 554, and Lois Wright rolled a sparkling 205 for high individual game. y , Final standings: . W. L. P.C. Shirley's Gift Shop 65 35 .650 B. & H. Drug Store -. 65 35 .650 Hoover Men's Wear ...55 45 .550 Larry's Coin Machine. 45 55 ,450 -Lewis Ladies' Store .38 62 .380 Mullett Jewelry Co. . .32 68 .320 One of America's fiviation Industries In-dustries has developed a fully fiutomatic propeller" speed synchronizer syn-chronizer which holds all the propellers of a multi-engined plane at identical operating tspeeds. By JAOi (TDI)Y United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 2 (i:.l! -Basketball which seems to have become be-come a conttst of aiytude because be-cause of the inroads of glandular goens, mezzanine peepers and other performers approaching the seven-foot mark, attained the utimate in height last night when the University of -Wyoming team wen the mythical national championship cham-pionship at Madison Square Garden. The quintet operates from a campus at Laramie that has an altitude of 7,200 feet an altitude which gives most visitors a nose bleed. , But the New York price makers, blinded by their own skyscrapers. o,,r.v. Qa 'RiP- Rov" Harrv Boykoft of St. Johns, made the St- John s Today's Sport Parade j team ' an overwhelming favorite in last night's Red Cross final tor the national title before more than 18,000 fans in the Garden. Wyoming, unquestionably the better team, proved its superiority over St. John's by winning, 52-47, in an overtime game. Afterwards, the Wyoming coach --besnectacled Everett Shelton admitted that the Wyoming triumph tri-umph was due largely to altitude, not to the heights that could be measured by engineers, but rather to the heights attained psychologically psychologi-cally by a team that was determined deter-mined to win. Coach Shelton, a machine-gun sergt-ant in the last .war at Chateau Cha-teau Theirry and Bclleau Wood, said: "I have been coaching basketball bas-ketball lor :!0 years. 1 have handled othrr teams that apparently appar-ently were the eqi'fcl of my current cur-rent squad physically, but never have I bad a band of boys whose team spirit was such that you could almost see it and feel it. In every garni, I felt that the spirit gave us a sixth man the floor." This team, sparked by Captain Ken Sailors most brilliant per-foimer per-foimer to hit the Garden boards in years -knew it was making its last performance, because the entire en-tire varsity squad, and even the freshman squad is going into service. ser-vice. It wanted to add a new and brilliant chapter to the tradition tradi-tion of Wyoming basketball a tradition that long has been respected re-spected wherever the rearing Rockies cast their shadows. These, lads from the cloudlands were unimpresed when they came to the ' city of skyscrapers and were faced with Harry Boykoff of St. Johns, who measures six feet nine. They had a man who could take care of Boykoff. He was Milo Komenich, who boasts six feet seven. Coach Shelton explained after the game that Komenich packs power with his height, but Boykotf has only altitude alti-tude without power. Shelton said: "Although Boy,-koff Boy,-koff probably is the most publicized publi-cized basketball player of this season, there is a big fellow at the University of Brigham Yonmg named Brady Walker who is far superior. Walker stands six foot seven ,but he has everything the best player we've seen all season." Coach Shelton said it was a pleasure to coach his champions as they won 23 of their 24 regular season games, losing only to Du-quesne Du-quesne on their first trip east and on a small, cramping court, oo, because his meagre squad won the N.C.A.A. playoffs at Kansas City, and came on to New York to beat Georgetown in the N.C.A.A. final, before meeting St. John's last night the national invitation winner win-ner for the title. Their spirt gave him six men on the court in every game, he repeated. Still Pitchin fx.'--U X " 3 Portland Beaver Pitcher Fay Thoni-as, Thoni-as, above, .veteran Pacific , Coast leaguer, was still flinging 'em in there . as he and his . teammates started spring practice at SaaJose. NEW YORK, April ' 2 VV.) Sentiment and science Will be featured fea-tured in a symphony of brown tonight at Madison Square Garden Gar-den when Henry Armstrong, the ancient professor, tries to lick Lightweight Champion Uenu Jack, a precocious pupil to whom he mav have taught too niutli. Thirty-year-old A t- in v t von y reaches the peak jf his i -ich-u !: trail by -colliding in th.: bi-;13:mt ring light with you.ig B?.iu Jack who has known no reverse sir.cv' he rose to prominence by practicing prac-ticing the "perjetual motion" principles of hob and weave that Hammering Henry taught him two years ago. Though no title is at stake in this 10-round encounter, it probably prob-ably will be witnessed by more than 19,000 fans and should provide pro-vide a gate of more than S90.-000 S90.-000 - biggest boxing gross of 11(43. Pioneers Expect To Field Strong Track, Clot Teams LEHI--L.eh Pioneers, who re- cently completed a successful bas-' bas-' ketball campaign by winning the Region .l championship, are looking look-ing forward to track and tennis phjy. : Coach Dean Prior has .several experienced tracksters back in suit, including Jay Lambert, Paul Price, Dale Russon, Myrten Grant, Dale Kirkham, Maurice Taylor and Lowell Chapman. : The tennis team, coached by Joseph Robison, lost only Reed , Nostrum by graduation last i spring. I Among those Mentor Robison ! io counting on are Ralph Larson. ' R )i-;rt Calton, Earl Gray, Ray ' Bone, Ralph Wing, Harold Giles i and Don Dorton. In addition some younger play ers may bolster the ranks. These include Ralph Mitchell, Bob Gray and Don Holmstead. Guilder Hagg Has Finishing Kick By NEA Service NEW YORK Folke Kjelleras says that if a race between Gun-der Gun-der Hagg and Gregory Rice resolved re-solved itself into a stretch duel, Hagg would ama2e Rice with his sprint finish on cinders. Kjelleras has seen Rice's sustained spurt. Decathlon .contestant on Sweden's 1936 Olympic team, Kjelleras has commuted to New York throughout through-out the winter on the exchange ship Gripsholm. Kjelleras tutored Hagg. It might be, Kjelleras points out. that Rice couldn't follow fol-low Hagg's merciless pace. Hagg has done 8:01.2 for 3000 meters, about 250 yards less than two miles. 4. : ;v -I : I I ' i . S i ,-.a x .y -.-.; Xa" & ff i -in Wv I . . ' r t --y - -f r -1 - r in I'l'ft 'ir 1-ttt r n rti n n n n ncfn" f it ij'n rtilBI Lirjiil.1 n n n fiiffl nlfi liWi'iVu'uf fti 'ift'i ' ' r- 1,.. .A 4$. ?HiK-4rl' but this kind of talk can save wool v -1, 1 , . f- 1 . Mm Alt if! 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