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Show I fPAHF fi PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH VTtWJt O WKDNZSDAY. DECXMBZH SO. 144 DAILY HERALD PHS Sharpens Knife To Top Beetdiggers flAME TONIGHT AT SANDY T0 BE STATE HIGHLIGHT j JOEL. PERKINS i i ine umeiciKa rrovo nign eager, gunning for their fifth straight pre-season victory, will play their first game away from borne when they make the trek to Sandy tonight to play the Jordan Jor-dan Beetdiggers in a return engagement. en-gagement. J The Bulldogs, one of the classiest class-iest high school teams developed n Utah in recent years, will be frying to make it two in a row fever the Jordan crew tonight. Shey downed them a week ago y the top heavy score of 47 to The Lineup the best long-shot artists on the market last year, "whip' has not attained his old shooting form thus far this season but in the Granite encounter he played an excellent floor game while dunk ing eight points. His defensive pitying this year has been consistently con-sistently good. He is the best passer to attend Provo high since the days of Harry Suker. The other forward, Paul Davis, is one of the hot-shots of the team. He is replacing Huck Dyer in the Bulldog lineup. Paul hails from Payson where attended school for eight years. He came w r uiii wicii a juiisi anu 'A - - Players appear lined up for turns at dribbling as Bill Kotapres, 3. of St John's and Murray Satterfleld of Utah battle for ball at Madison Square Garden. Behind them are Arnold Ferrin. left, of Utes and Ivy Summer of Redmen. Brooklyn boys win, 39-36, evening corc with Salt Lake squad which beat them for national chanv pionship last spring. DeCrosa Defense For T May Quell Attack Vcrllme 1944 Is Phenomenal Year For U.S. Athletics By WALTER BYEKS CHICAGO, Dec. 20 0J.B Considering Con-sidering the limitations of war time sports, 1M4 was one of the most phenomenal attendance years in the history of America athletics. A United Press survey of 1944 athletics showed today that six of the nation's leading sports football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soft ball and horsa racing rac-ing attracted an average 13 per cent more fans during 1944 than in 1943. Annrnilm a I 1 v 9tQ KRfk "0 iravtitriri witrh.H th. ii'i' champion of the "T" formation, sports during the 1943-44 and &dm5t "f? hMen iiua anftK.ii m.u. i Nemesis to the T. Men on copy kkii nm.Ltn.i r i desks must have found them gue baseball, professional foot-.M f.n. By JACK CUDDY NEW YORK, Dec 20 (UJ9 Giddy goddesses of the gridiron certainly cooked up a goofy coincidence coin-cidence when they arranged for John (Ox) Da Grosa to be appointed ap-pointed head football coach at Holy Cross college on the same day that Army's great eleven was proclaimed sports team-of-the-year by a certain press associationnot associa-tionnot the U. P. The fickle fates thus made print-companions of the team that stands out as current college The RftHiffefr havp a ml i was a member of the snuari last est facing them tonight. Not only 1 year. tvill they be combating a jinx of tiot having beaten the 'Dogs in basketball in the last three years frnt they will be facing a couple tf real factors, Provo's noted defense, de-fense, and driving offense. Coach Glen Simmons' charges are rapidly assuming a mid-season polish as was noted in the Granite clash last Friday. Their defense is almost perfect, and they work together on offense like a watch. They have everything every-thing long shooting, passing, faribbling, height, and excellent coaching. The Provo team has developed into a five-man threat. Joe weight is recognized as one of Ihe best centers and bank board workers in the state. His playing has been very-outstanding so far this year and at present he leads the Bulldogs' scoring parade. He is a six-foot-plus boy who has a habit of controlling both bank-boards. bank-boards. He is but sixteen years Old. Jack Whipple, sensational forward, for-ward, is another of Provo's chief Jhreats. He was all-state last year nd appears headed for that recognition this season. One of Captain of this year's team is John Brinkcrhoff, one of the fastest men on any basketball court. He is but five feet nine inches but is also the best guard seen in Provo in recent years. His specialty is dribbling. He is also a high scorer, averaging close to 10 points a game this year. Completing the team at the other guard post is Jay Allen. Allen is also very fast and an established shooting artist. He got a late start this year due to football foot-ball injuries but is turning into a very important cog in the 'Dogs' machine. The Jordanites will be facing these boys when they take the floor tonight and not many fans predict anything but a Bulldog victory. In the first encounter between these two teams the Jordan Jor-dan boys threw a scare into the favored Bulldogs when they uncorked un-corked the fastest offense used against the Bulldogs this year. Their star was Crump, a little guard that made some incredible long shots. Crump and Wally Morgan, all-state fullback this season, were the sparks of the Jordan offense. West Needs Name Players To Boost Shrine Game Stock By HAL. WOOD SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 20 (U.R) Grid stars of the nation converge con-verge on San Franciseo today and tomorrow as the shrine prepares for its 20th annual East-West extravaganza in Kezar stadium. - With the Eastern squad, headed head-ed by Coaches Andy Kerr. Colgate Col-gate and Bernie Bierman and Dr. George Hauser, Minnesota, due. to arrive in town tomorrow, the West announced that it had com- Lincoln Expects Good Hoop Year; Has Veteran Squad 3By EDDIE DURHAM Lincoln high's chances for regional recognition have been improving with each game in which the Tiger hoopsters have participated, and though they jiave dropped all of their preseason pre-season games, there has been a marked improvement with each encounter. ; In the last game against Weber high of Ogden the Tigers showed Surprising ability and team work. They held the far superior Weber fire to a narrow 38-32 score. ; Many fans of the Alpine district expect great things of Lincoln's Jioop squad and the boys do not intend to disappoint them. The typical attitude of the fel-Jows fel-Jows is: "With the number of veterans we have returning, we should win the region title." I With this spirit prevalent jimong members of the team, Seat things may be expected of e Tiger hoop squad. Coach Lee Brooks has named his varsity squad as: Robert Hal-bersleben, Hal-bersleben, Paul Beck, Don Grif-Xith, Grif-Xith, Wavne Lewis, Stanley Cole, Karl Tucker, Kent Watts, William Wells, John Pino, Russ Hansen, Barrel Clogg, David Caulder, and Leon Isaacson. pleted signing of players for Its squad with the exception of two places. Unless the West, which Is headed head-ed by Coaches Babe Hollingbery. ex-Washington State, and Homer Norton, Texas A & M, is able to land a name star or two such as Glenn Dobbs, of 2nd Air Force the East is destined to enter the game as a betting favorite. Signing of Les Horvath, Ohio State's player of the year, gave a big boost to the eastern stock and Hollingbery has been busy trying to line up something that will offset the Buckeye blockbuster. block-buster. The best bet for stardom on the West appears to be Bob Kennedy, the former USC ace who was a standout in the shrine tilt two years ago. This year Lt. Bob played play-ed with the Third Air Force and is out west on furlough. The West announced the signing of two more players to bring their roster to within two of the limit One was La Verne Merritt, a hardhitting fullback of the Alameda Ala-meda Coast Guard, who was named on the second all-coast United Presse service team. The other was little-heralded F. J. Roberts, a 200-pound guard who performed with the San Francisco Coast Guard Pilots. While the East has been an overwhelming favorite on other occasions such as in the last year's contest the West holds the edge in victories, with 10, compared com-pared with six for the East. Three games, including the 1944 tilt ended in ties. Ferris Breathes Easier - -Gander Oat of Clink I could. Hagg, no fool, must be ' league setting an all-time high certain of his ability to pick em of 1,234,750 and the American By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 20 Dan I up and lay 'em down on boards or Ferris is breathing easier now : he wouldn't attempt it. ball, national league hockey. basketball and college football (70 colleges reporting). That total is the largest ever recorded for those sports during wartime and marked an increase of 26,812,061 over the total set in 1943. Crowd records for all of the nation's horse racing strips were unavailable, but the 180-day season sea-son in New York and the 168-day season in Illinois-drew a combin ed 6.759,353 pafrons, a boost of 1,500.235 over the two states' 1943 mark and indicative of the gen eral nationwide trend, according to the racing form. All of the team sports registered register-ed noteworthy increases with the professional national football Pilot Da Grosa of the Crusaders at Worcester, Mass., is as inmica-ble inmica-ble to the "T" as were the Laddie-bucks Laddie-bucks of nearby Boston who, on the night of their historic pisca torial tea party, heaved the oolong Into the harbor. He's the guy who thought up and demonstrated demon-strated the "subterfuged defense" to nullify effectiveness of the 7 attack. ' The sensational success of Col. Earl Blaik's Army team, in its second season of T" play, un questionably will stimulate widespread wide-spread adoption of the lightning formation among colleges not now using It But this growth is menaced by Da Gross's modernly designed defense, which may out-mode out-mode it. This struggle between the "T" and Da Grose's brainchild promises to be the most interesting interest-ing phase of football during the next few seasons. Although the Holy Cross men tor has given the gridiron a new deal in defense, we have heard of no alphabetical appelation be ing used to designate lt Perhaps Shoots for 300 Victories f' iwws. w111"1" - 4 fT8. x$ L i that Gunder Hagg is out of the cUnk. r ems, secretary-treasurer of the Amateur Athletic Union, narrowly nar-rowly escaped heart failure when he read blaring headlines that Hagg faced a courtmartial in I His feet appear to spurn the sur Greg Rice and some more step ped up indoors. Hagg easily could be another. Gunder the Wonder's free, floating style should take well to the boards. He is in no sense a pounder, doesn't stomp. Ostersund for being a day late in reporting for military service. It was the first time in his life that Gunder the Wonder was charged with being tardy. All Hagg's five-day incarceration incarcera-tion did was prove that despite his world-wide fame, the Swift a w e d e is no privileged character in his native land. Ferris, you tee, is in charge of Hagg's impending dis tance preform- a n c e s on boards. His coming means 3 u t s t a n ding ..;!? j success for the . inndoor season. Cunder Hagg Hagg and Hakon Lidman. the hurdler accompanying him, are under contract to report all tiieir doings in this country for Stock holm newspapers. The Malmo haberdasher might as well go ultra up-to-date and report his races via short-wave radio as he runs them. A walkie-talkie mike around his neck might prove the required handicap. There has been much speculation specula-tion as to how Hagg will react to indoor racing on wood. Everybody Every-body rambles in the exhilarating air of the Scandinavian peninsula. as trnie rljertbcre. renowned guide of the 1912 and '20 Swedish Olympic teams, points out, however, how-ever, Hagg, who will be 26 the last day of the year, now knows mmself better than any coach face. His stride, while long, is not too long. Traffic jams will cause Hagg little concern. The greatest distance dis-tance runner who ever lived is the Man o' War of the tracks. His idea of a well-run race is to break in front and stay there, set his own pace. Ernie Hjertberg, by the way, is now 77, and manages a news stand in New York's Radio City. Some fear has been expressed that Hagg will not like close. smoke-filled arenas. The answer to that is: Since when have mod- league enjoying one of the best seasons in its baseball history with 4,798,158 fans. Softball and basketball, which have developed into the nation's two top drawing cards, both enjoyed en-joyed banner years, according to official estimates. Basketball officials of-ficials here reported their attendance at-tendance at some 105,000,000 for 1943-44, a hike of 15,000,000 over the acepted registration of the preceding campaign. Softball once again was the No. 1 crowd attraction, according to authorities here, with a 1944 turnstile registration of 140,000,-000, 140,000,-000, or 9,000,000 more than '43. The international tournament at Cleveland drew 49,000, an all-time high. : MniF. HIT Tfl' " SANTA ANITA TRACK HAS "GO-AHEAD" SIGN em amphitheaters been stuffy? They clear very rapidly. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (U And with the current tobacco Santa Anita race track today had shortage, smoking won't annoy : the o-ahead from state manpow- uunder Hagg nearly as much r- the lack of it will bother the spectators. 1 W . TV - '"'-X'A $ f vm I U Is. ' v f a in i, I. f t?' j ft i i I ry 1 A ' Wvsl 'jr JL-r i ? TENNESSEE ARRIVES FOR ROSE BOWL CLASSIC PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 20 (U.R) The University of Tennessee Tennes-see Volunteers were scheduled to arrive today to begin smoothing off the rough spots for their bowl grid "classic" Jan. 1 with the University Uni-versity of Southern California Trojans. Fox Hunting Hobby Turns to Gold KALAMAZOO, Mich. (U.R) When a hobby develops into a $15-a-day business, that's news and for the man who gets the $15 a day, it's very good news, indeed. J. Glenn Loveless had worked I for the Kalasign Co. here for 13 years until the urge to get into the wide open spaces made him quit his job. He had made a hobby hob-by of hunting foxes in years past and recognized the possibilities of making the hobby a business when the Kalamazoo market began be-gan paying $6.50 and up for pelts. Since Nov. 1 Loveless has bagged bag-ged 25 foxes in 23 days and sees no immediate letdown in fox hunting. He operates 100 traps, the state limit, but has a reserve of 75 more. It's no red-coated "tally-ho" busines for Loveless, who travels 50 miles a day caring for his line. Ten miles of this is covered on foot. Farmers are giving him complete com-plete co-operation in his "hobby," "hob-by," recognizing the great benefit bene-fit they will derive from extermination exter-mination of the pests. One farm er alone reported losing 150 chickens to the predators. Tough Field Nominated For Santa Anita ARCADIA, Cal., Dec. 20 U.R One of the toughest fields ever nominated for the $100,000 Santa Anita handicap faces the entries in this season's classic according to tne list of 96 nominations an nounced today. The mile and quarter event will be run March 3. On the list, the second largest in tne 10-year history of the event were 58 winners of estab lished stakes in North America the past season. Happy issue, fresh from win ning the Hollywood gold cup and Dreaicing tne tracx record lor a mile and one quarter, was in eluded in the impressive array of winners nominated. Charls S. Howard led with the most entries, listing five of his seabiscuit colts and one the Porter Por-ter colt along with Lou Bre and Porter's Cap. Col. C. V. Whitney named four of his homebreds from Kentucky. Post graduate, top 2-year-old developed during the recent Hol lywood park meet, was among the coming 3-year-olds to be named In addition to Happy Issue, A G. Vanderbilt's Good Thing and Louis B. Mayer's Whirlabout were among the seven fillies en tered. Bull Reigh, Okana, and Paper Boy, all of which finished in the front in the gold cup feature, were also nominated for the Santa Anita An-ita event. eleven, aitnough they lost to a couple of service teams. They were tied by Dartmouth and Brown. Perhaps this innovation should This is only way Ted Atkinson can cool off. With the year's jockey be called the "D" for Da Grosa er director H. R. Harnish, who championship sewed up, the Toronto-born, Brooklyn-raised reins- and defense. Then the gridiron's granted the plant an employment ! man was aboard first winner when he resumed riding at Gulf- great conflict during the next few ceiling for the meeting opening I stream Park following a two-week vacation. He'll crowd his goal years could give the fans the Dev. 30, at Arcadia, CaL f 300 winners. " "D-T's." Prop Hoop Games: Wednesday, Dee. St Provo at Jordan, 3 p. m. Granite at Murray, 7:30 p. m. Spanish Fork at Lehi Cedar City at Beaver North Emery at Duchesne Nephi at B. Y. high. Thursday, Dee. 21 West at American Fork Wasatch at East S p. m. North Emery at Tabiona. Friday, Dec. 22 Provo at Granite, 8 p. m. East at Cyprus Carbon at South Summit Manti at Monroe American Fork at Eureka Payson at B. Y. high No. Emery at Roosevelt 2 p.m. No. Emery at Altamont 8 p-m. Logan at Box Elder ( league game.) Bear River at South Cache (league game.) Saturday, Dec. 23 Murray at Springville, 7:30 p-m. North Emery at Uintah. that's because of its brief existence. exist-ence. Da Grosa as acting head coach, unveiled it at Holy Cross early in the '44 season. It might be called the "V" defense because of its volatility and because it helps gain victory. Its essence is volatility. Instead of having a set defensive formation forma-tion for each play, the "subterfuged "subter-fuged defense" baffles the attack by keeping the formations constantly con-stantly shifting. Sometimes a five-man line is used, with four men in the secondary and two as safeties. Some times it's a 5-3-2-1 defense, a 6-2-2-1, a 7-2-2, or even calls its signals, it never knows what brand of defense it will face, or the exact locations of strength and weakness. More over, after the ball is snapped, the defenders are maneuvering in such fashion that the offensive blockers do not know how to fulfill ful-fill their assignments. It is particularly par-ticularly bewildering when a team tries to run off a pattern of attacking plays with which to create "angles." fense" works against any forma- tion, it was designed to combat the "T," because Da Grosa knew of no other defense that would do the job effectively. It proved successful last season at Holy Cross. The Crusaders came ii i . uirougn unDeaien oy any college v FENDER BENDERS Trojan Coach Predicts Victory Over 'Vols' This Is another of s series : of the New Year's Day football foot-ball bowl teams ed. py GENE FRIEDMAN t LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (U.R) The perennial mourners in the coaches' "union" will want to "s'uspend him for life, but genial Jeff Cravath of Southern Cali-(ed at present by injuries and los-lornia's los-lornia's Trojans is coming right ses through naval transfers, out anyway and predicting that Captain Jim Hardy, the quar-they'Il quar-they'Il win their New Year's Rosejterback who makes the "T" clck Bowl game with the Tennessee is regarded as the mainspring of Volunteers. (the attack. A real triple threat. Maybe it is because he has a, he adds to his passing, punting heritage to uphold because South-land running ability, a forte for ern California has won each ot; doing the unexpected. sending one of the potentially Standout of the entire team strongest of all Southern Califor-jis tackle John Fcrraro, 235- j nia squads into the Rose Bowl. !pounder who made a number of: one that got better with every .ail-American teams. His running' game it played. jmate, John Pehar is a six-foot, Moulding an offensive from the i seven-inch giant weighing 285, "T" Formation, the backficld has pounds, hampered a little, by lack striking power, although hamper-! of experience and inability to move his big frame speedily enough. The guards. Bud Curtis and Willard Wall, have come along its seven previous Rose Bowl tests, and maybe is because he has a deep-seated faith in the 1944, Trojan team which finisheo: its season undefeated though twice fied. "I think that in beating beat-ing such teams as San Diego Naval Na-val and St. Mary's Pre-Flight that we overcame squads stronger than anv Tennessee defeated," he The fullback. Duane Whitehead, rapidly after learning Cravath's system which calls for them to do the quick blocking for the backs. At the center post. Russ Antles, a converted fullback finds, his o SHUR I CN DRIVE -S O ( CARRY ME OUT TO 0 TH CAR AN' I'LL ) 0 T PROVE IT J said. "And that about sizes it up- ,Callanan are among the best on Fans, who have watched the the coast, with only negligible 1944 Trojan team in operation. yardage gained around them on have a feeling that Cravath is running plays. is the defensive star, working as previous experience invaluable, the key blocker in the "T" and I He is the team's iron man, having as a better than average ball j played more time than any other carrier. Currently, the halfback I squad member. berths arc manned by a pair of freshmen. 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