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Show A Brcolilyh Slons RcMnsflii: s pr( CORNELIUS RYAN ! ; . UNEW YORK, Oct 24 GJJ& Bseball. men were cautious today in: their comment on the signing of Negro Jackie Robinson by the Brooklyn Dodgers' Montreal farm . team only the New York Giants said, they would scout Negro teams in 1946. - - .-Robinson, 26-year-old - former All-America halfback at the University Uni-versity of California at Los Angeles, An-geles, was the : first Negro signed to. a contract by a team in organised, organi-sed, baseball. Negro leagues Are not a part of organized baseball and Branch Rickey, Jr., who announced an-nounced the signing at Montreal yesterday, said that some ban players might quit the Brooklyn organization in protest. "If they come from .certain sections in the south, they may steer away . from a team with colored players," he said. . "But they'll .be back in baseball after a' year or two in a cotton mill." - -Hector Racine, president of the Montreal ; team which won the international league's regular-season regular-season championship, said he ex pected no opposition either from the league or from Tans. "Negroes fought alongside whites and shared the - foxhole dangers," he said, "and .they should get a fair trial in baseball." The Dodgers: signed Robinson after Brooklyn scouts had watched watch-ed Negro teams for- several sea sons. Dodger Secretary Harold Parott csaid the former., army lieutenant, who batted .340 in 100 games as shortstop for the Kansas City Monarch after his service release last summer, was the best or 25 prospects. ... , . Horace Stoneham, president-of tne Giants, said flu club would scout Negro teams next season. "We will look over the young Negro players,1! he said, "But we have hundreds of returning servicemen serv-icemen and only if they fail to make the grade will we have room for new players." Ballif Heads Athletic Council Crosby In Idaho On Pheasant Hunt Dr. Ariel S. Ballif, professor of sociology, has been named to head the Brigham Young university athletic council under the new setup of student special services. President Howard S. McDonald reports. 'Dr. Ballif headed the recently abolished committee on athletics and carries on with the -work of that committee plus new duties attached to this new Athletic Council. Council members besides Dr. Ballif are as follows: Dr. P. A. Christensen, J. W. Knight, Professor Pro-fessor C. J. Hart, K. B. Sauls, a" T T Arte An tiMPTni e9 ottil Ai c rin nf students and nrosidnt f (before today S', opening atudenthodv. Dr. Christensen will ! pneasant season. serve as faculty representative in the conference. As the university moves into its postwar athletic program there are many problems of physical facilities, building representative teams, and making and enforcing conference regulations facing the Athletic Council. At the first meetings of the announced athletic council under the new setup recommendations have been made wheih are now being considered by the president and university officers. TWIN FALLS, Oct 24 (OR) Bing Crosby was hunting pheasants pheas-ants in south Idaho today, hoping his opening day luck will be better bet-ter than it was. last year. The film and' radio star arrived last .nj&ht from his northern Nevada ranch, and was out in northside fields near Wendell this morning. Last year on opening day he got no pheasants at all; each day thereafter he got his limit. Crosby said he and his party would hunt in this area, for several days, then go to Sun Valley. 'Clark Gable and Gary Cooper are already at Sun Valley, where they were hunting ducks of the BOWLING CHAMPS SPLIT CHICAGO, Oct. 24 Because those who formed them are now with other teams, the Budweisers of Chicago, 1942 American Bowling Bowl-ing Congress champions, will not defend the title in the tourna-ment tourna-ment in Buffalo, -starting Mar. 14. MOST VALUABLE PLAYER ST. LOUIS, Oct. 24 U.R Out-fieler Out-fieler Stanley Wentzel of Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, who goes .to the Boston Braves next year, has been named most valuable player of the American Association for 1945 by the Sporting News, national na-tional baseball weekly. , HORSE'S DEATH MOURNED INGLE WOOD,- Calif.. Oct. 24 CU.R) Gay Dalton, colorful Cinderella Cinde-rella horse who gained his fame on Mexico's race tracks, was mourned by the turf today following fol-lowing his death from colic at the Hollywood- park stables. Jeff Heath, Cleveland Indians outfielder, got two hits in the same inning as a pinch hitter, July 25. 1939. NCAtoWdge Campaign On All Gambling ' CHICAGO. Oct . 24 dm The National Collegiate Athletic Asso ciation: studied new means today: for continuing its highly success-fur success-fur anti-gambling campaign for as many years as; necessary. Dr. -Wilbur C. Smith of Louisiana Louisi-ana State, chairman of Jhe N. C A, A. executive committee which ended two-day meeting yesterday, yester-day, called the program a'huge success.? ' He: said N. C A. members, which include most of the nation's leading universities, would pool their information at the N. C A. A. As annual convention in St Louis Man. -10 and! man a new 1946 program to counteract the "money menace.:; : - The N. C. A? A began cracking down on gamblers after the Brooklyn. basketball scandal last year, laying down a definite plan of attack at its January meeting this year. Kenneth L. (Tug) Wilson, Big Ten athletic commissioner and secretary-treasurer of the N. C. A. A. A., said association members were prepared to work for years in an exxort 10 stamp out oeping. Wilson said the job was squarely square-ly up to each institution. . Fight Results By UNITED PRESS " NEW YORK (Broad way arena) Lenny (Boom ' Boom) Mancini, 159, Youngstown, O., outpointed Patsy Spataro. 142. New York,. (8). NEW YORK (Park arena) Joey LaT Motta, 1561&. New York, knocked out Indian Gomez, 163, Havana, (2). AT LOS ANGELES Larry Bolvin, 124, Providence, R. I., outpointed Battling Rosando, 123, Mexico City (6); Roman Starr, 162, Oklahoma City, drew with Gilbert Whiteside. 159, Ocean Park, Cal. (6); Tiger Sheppard. 175, Houston, Tex., outpointed Willie Johnson, 169, Los Angeles, (6). 4 1 PAGE 8 PROVO. UTAB COUNTY. UTAH ; WBDWXSDAY. OCTOBER S4. 1HS DAILY.'HERALD terneid lucumfl I Around In PointinrrR re amsto 1 m By WALTER BYERS . CHICAGO, Oct 24 (UJO Rookie Bob. ? Waterfleld,, was. kicking tradition helter-skelter around the national football league today as ' he pointed his undefeated Cleveland Ram teammates toward . Practically every famous col legiate star who has turned to pro gridirons was a flop his first year before eventually hitting hit Ameche Heads Kew Pro Grid Team D3A CO-COACH OF ALL-STAR TEAM CHICAGO. Oct. 24 (U.R)-Coach Henry P. Iba, whose Oklahoma A. & M. basketball team won the national collegiate title last year, has been named co-coach of the 1945 college all-star team, Harry Hannin, director of the annual all-star game, said today. PETCHEL TO GREAT LAKES GREAT LAKES, Oct 24 El-wood El-wood Petchel, Penn State scat-back scat-back of last fall, has been assigned as-signed to Great Lakes by the Navy. Others Vorlted Harder to Get Less By NEA Service LOS ANGELES, Ojct; 24 Compared to Busher's earnings of $334,432 in winning 15 of 20 races, great fillies of other years had - to work much harder for much Jess. MJss Woodward (1880) first thoroughbred to earn more than $100,000, won 37 times in 48 starts to amass $118,270. Fir-zien Fir-zien (1884) copped 47 of 82 for $112,586. Los Angeles (1885) started 110 times, won 48 for $97,416. Yo Tambien (1889) got only $89,480 for winning 44 of 73. Pan Zareta (1910) boasts a record rec-ord for low, aside from her world mark of :57 1-5 for five furlongs. She won 76 or 151 to total $39,-082. $39,-082. Today she would have gone well beyond $200,000 starting merely in allowances averaging $3000. SEAT COVERS Tailored To Fit YOUR CAR Many Colors P. E. ASHTON CO. 191 South Univ. Ave. LOS ANGELES, Oct 24 (UJJ A corporation headed by Actor Don Ameche today was the new owners of the Los Angeles franchise fran-chise ' of .the professional Alii America football conference which includes teams- in seven other major cities. Ameche, new corporation president, presi-dent, listed the other stockholders stockhold-ers as Louis B. Mayer, executive head of Metro Goldwyn - Mayet studios; Actors Bing Crosby and Pat O'Brien; Benjamin P. Lind-heimer, Lind-heimer, executive director 'of Arlington Park and Washington Park jockey clubs; Leo Spitz, board chairman of International Pictures; and sportsmen Norman W. Church and Daniel F. Rice. , The franchise, which' includes teams in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, Francis-co, and Miami, was formerly owned by Ameche and sportsman Christy Walsh, but the new cor poration bought out Walsh s interests. COWBOYS RIDE 'EM STILLWATER, Okla.. Oct. 24 Oklahoma A. and M.'s football team has averaged- Z3 points a game this season. GULFSTREAM GEEGEES HALLANDALE, Fla., Oct. 24 Stable room for more than 1800 horses is sought at Gulf stream Park, where the thoroughbreds will run from Dec. 1 through Jan. 16. No more than 650 can be taken care of. WANTED ALL KINDS OF HIDES! Hlshcsi Prices Paid for BONES WOOL HTOES PELTS FURS and dead and useless animals Pelt prices for dead and use-ess use-ess sheep Prompt Service UTAH HIDE & TALLOW CO. 2 Miles West of Spanish Fork Phone 3$ Coaches Fail to Ma Ice Uss. of Best Points Of Modern T. Says Man Who Designed It By HARBY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor ' v NEW YORK. Oct 24 RalDh Jones considers;, most football coaches "play crazy.' What I mean." savs the orieln- ator of.tha modern X with man-in-motion, "is that they are of-, fens happy. They are- so black- board sca-rewy that they haven't time, to teacn stride, -Jt has become si sort . of tradition around the pro league. The, "freshmen jinx," veteran coaches explain, is either; because players underestimate the rugged- ness of the pro game'or they can't tetremt thm nrm flltmincrs thev left behind in college scrap books, t But Quarterback Waterfield, a big, handsome, guy who likes it rough, has come off the U.C L. A. campus-after, three great seasons to become the hottest back in the national league, mis lyu-pouna rookie, with' his gifted toe, pheno menal-passing land, shrewd quar- terbacking, is the No. 1 reason tho Rams have turned the N. F. L. standings upside ' down to lead the league with four straight victories. He is strictly major league in just about every' offensive department de-partment official league statistics showed today. Waterfield has hit 31 passes out of 03 throws for 499 yards and a ,477, average, which is comparable to winning 20 games in baseball's big -leagues.-."? - - He is the second best punter in the league with 15 boots for a 40.9 average; the second top point- after-touchdown artist with 13 conversions and the fourth best scorer with ' 28 points. And he also is married to glamorous Jane Russell, movie star. Waterfield has been, throwing form charts" out the window ever since he - picked- up a foot ball. He didn't know-he was a good punter until he began boot ing them for U. C. L. A., leading the nation his final year. He never once carried the ball or place kicked at U. C. L. A., but be made a bet with a Ram teammate team-mate on the -subject and found out how good he was. So now he has kicked, 13 out of 15 . extra points and carried the ' ball six times, scoring twice on the Rams' "naked reverse." t- ,, , - - . 'AX !- fundamental s tackling, the stiff arm and broken - field running among thim." 'Quite right, cuts in Harold E. Grange, the big Chicago insurance in-surance m an. I've seen coaches try to knock a half dosen -new plays into their - day before an All they sue Red Grange boys' heads- the important same. ceed in doing is setting everybody all; balled up. - mere is too much arm tackling. tack-ling. Can you imagine anybody stopping Doc Blanchard by reach ing for him? Blanchard runs right through fellows who come at him like that To stop the army tank. a tackier has to sail in with his shoulder and hit hard. Though it was one of the more effective' weapons, these days you rarely see a ball-carrier knock off a would-be tackier with a good stiff arm." Professor Jones, now a tutor without a team at Lake Forest College, 111., wonders why col lege coaches don't take advantage of the principal assets of his modern mod-ern T with man-in-motion. ' "With the exception of one disastrous dis-astrous year, the Chicago Bears have used the T as it should be employed since I struck upon the formation while coaching them in 1930. That's a matter of 14 years, during which time" they have found its: more valuable basic principles. . tYou would suspect coaches switching, to the T at this late date would benefit by the Bears' experience, yet the bulk of them monkey, around with their own ideas and with sad results." fThe modern T is naif between be-tween the old-fashioned T and double wingback," butts in Red Grange, who now happens to be the big Chicago insurance man. "The halfbacks are wide, splitting the outside legs of the tackles. In the old T, the halfbacks were used the oia T when I first Joined tbenvand -with lt. no team could run outside, tackle. The double wins' with the halfbacks back of the ends, was a great passing formation, so by com Dining tne xinest features of both; Ralph Jones in 1930 hit upon up-on the formation that Is the vogue today. "Trouble is that most coaches don't know .how to make the best use of it I have seen North western In three games this f alL ana not once' has the ball been thrown to the man-in-motion. Now the man-in-motion can' stir up trouble in a lot of ways He can take a downfield pass, pass. run ana, u 10 yards back, even punt i "But when Indiana saw that Northwestern had no intention of throwing -the ball to the man in-motion, the Hoosiers didn't even cover him." "Another thing I can't understand," under-stand," asserts Professor Jones, who coached owner George Halas of the Bears when he was an II linois freshman, "is why teams aon t tnrow me oau to tne man-in-motion while he Is in motion. The smart T team gives him the ball anywhere between his second sec-ond step and 15 yards out "Following each cjay the man-in-motion informs his quarterback quarter-back who is covering him coming com-ing up or staying back and the attack is directed accordingly. By giving the man-in-motion the ball while he is in motion, you keep the defense upset If you wait until he gets set the other side knows when the ball is going to do passeo - oy tne center. v . Grange has seen four Big Ten r teams in action this autumn,. nd l only- once has; he : seen the ball - passed from directly behind the ; line of scrimmage. - i , f "While it rarely goes for ,dis v tance, this Is one. of : the surest . piayt . in pto?laiLT stresses the Old Galloping - Ghost of Diinolsf With an end cutting across. ,tt, short pass is executed so rapidly , it is difficult to covert.. This. was one of Bronko Nagurski's more effective weapons.' --He'd .fake smashing into the line, rise up and chuck that snort pass. . "It takes tall back 'to do it which is one reason -why1 " T quarterback should ' stand , she feet" : Ralph Jones never saw r the present T - with man-in-motion untU Jio introduced it with the Bears In 1930-31-32. 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