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Show Near-Record Entry List, Clearing Skies Add To BYU Invitational Meet Over 1000 Prep Tracksters Enter 34th Annual Spring Sports Event By DeMAR TEUSCHER Clearing skies and a promise by the weatherman of warmer weather and sunshine to come during the next two days gave added credence to the prospect that the BYU track .will be dry and fast Friday when the 34th annual Brigham Young university Invitational track and field opens its two-day stand. Final plans are all complete and all that is needed is a bit of cooperation from the elements to make the Centennial edition of the historic and tradition-steeped meet the greatest ever. Dr. C. J. Hart, 'meet director, said Wednesday. Wednes-day. Over 1000 athletes from junior and senior hlfh schools and junior colleges in six states have already sent their -entries to meet officials, and by the time the opening- ceremonies cere-monies roll around, ever 2500 athletes are expected to be on hand for the colorful spring sports festival. One way to get a good idea of the size of the BYU meet this year is to add 1000 girls who take part in the posture parades to the 1041 athletes already entered, then include some 200 tennis aces and the 15 or so athletes entered in the Centennial events. Opening event on the 160-event, two-day program will be the colorful and breath-taking junior high school posture parade, with girls from some 8 or 10 schools strutting their stuff in front of the stands for the coveted trophies tro-phies given in this event. On Saturday, the big day of the meet, the senior high r school girls open the day with their posture parade. This parade, which has been one of the big crowd plcasers in past years, will be again the most colorful spectacle of the meet. Miss Leona Holbrook. parade director, stated. Highlight of the meet will be the special Centennial events, eight of them, that are attracting the top athletes in the country. These events are attracting great interest already, Dr. Hart declared. de-clared. Two more ace track men have sent wqM to Eddie Kimball, BYU athletic ojrector and the man in charge of inviting athletes to take part in the special events, that they would be on hand Saturday. They are Lloyd LaBeach, Jamaica Ja-maica born sprinter from the University of Wisconsin, and Alex Scott, a pole vaulter from the same institution, and their acceptance ac-ceptance of bids brings the number num-ber of athletes in these events to 14. LaBeach is the lad who outstepped out-stepped the great Herb Mc-Kenly Mc-Kenly of Illinois In the NCAA 220 last year and is rated as one of the fastest sprint men in the country. He will compete against Eddie Ed-die Conwell, former NYU flash, Cliff Bourland and John Watchler, LAAC aces. In the 100 and 220 yard dashes. Scott, who wired Kimball that he would be on hand if studies permit, has cleared 13 feet 6 in. in the pole vault, and will compete com-pete against Fred "Tex" Winters and Russell Peck of the Los Angeles An-geles Athletic club in his specialty. special-ty. Running a close second for top crowd interest will be the battle among nine top athletes from Utah and Arizona for the coveted trophy which goes to the winner of the gruelling all-around title. Wilford "Whizzer" White, great Mesa, Arizona, athlete, -who won the title last year with a record-smashing record-smashing total of 6225 points, will be on hand to defend his title, and is favored to repeat this year. However, White, who won seven of the nine events last year and set up a new low hurdle record, will get plenty of com-; petition from a fellow Arizonian, I Don Hildreth of Glendale Union' high school. The husky Hildreth, who towers 6 feet 2 inches and weighs in at 1195 pounds, is rated as excellent in all of the nine events which make up the all-around grind, and is expected to give White a run for his money. Utah county standard bearer in the all-around events will be Russ .fillman. I great Payson high athlete. Other entrants include Jerry Louder of South Summit; Gerry McCandless of North Emery; Darwin Woodbury of ; . Hurricane and Norris Johan- ! sen of Morgan in the "B" I bracket. j Class "A" high school entrants! to date, besides White and Hildreth, Hil-dreth, are Al Garner ot Logan high school and Ben Glover of Box Elder high, an all-state halfback half-back on the championship Bee eleven last fall. Glendale Union high of Arizona is sending one of the top out-of- state contingents to the meet, in-1 eluding "Blazin Ben' Jewell, unbeaten un-beaten in 18 straight mile races; Kay Mayberry, who hurls the discus 138 feet and puts the shot 36 feet and Emery Harper, pole vaulter and high jumper. E. L. "Gene'' Roberts, one-time BYU athletic director and "daddy" "dad-dy" of the invitational, has sent word from Los Angeles that he was on his way and would get in Salt Lake City today. Gene is expected ex-pected to be in Provo Thursday. Roberts, who founded the me'et back in 1911 and helped to build It into the biggest, sports event in the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain area and one of the biggest in the country, will t A$ seen in California tropical SPORT SHIRTS by Feller Chucks One-Hitter To Baffle Browns By CORNELIUS RYAN United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, April 23 (U.R) If history repeats itself, today may be the day the American league pennant is decided. The Boston Red Sox, who lost to the New York Yankees Yan-kees yesterday in the first 1947 meeting of the two -teams, play the Yanks again today. Much could depend on this early season game as it did last year. In 1946 the setting for the second sec-ond Yank-Bosox game was the same New York had won the first game The score was a crushing crush-ing 12 to 5, and there were indications indi-cations that the old Yankee tradition tradi-tion still was good for victories over the Red Sox, who couldn't seem to whip any collection of players whose shirts bore the word "Yankees." But the Red Sox, who were favorites last year just as they are this year, came back in the second game and then it was the Yanks who took a 12 to 5 whipping. whip-ping. Some Boston baseball experts ex-perts said later that game was the turning point; when the Red Sox won that game their psychology became a winning one, and thereafter there-after they had no trouble with the Yankee jinx. New York apparently had the help of a jinx as it defeated Boston Bos-ton yesterday, 5 to 4, on three hits. A single and a walk in the first inning was followed by Charlie Keller's three-run homer. Ted Williams and then Sam Mele hit homers off the Yanks' Floyd Bevens with no one on base, and in the eighth inning Rudy ork hit a two-run homer to put Boston Bos-ton ahead. But relief pitcher Earl Johnson gave up two walks. John Pesky made an error, there was a sacrifice and then Keller hit a single to score a run. Tom Hen-rich's Hen-rich's long fly sent home the winning run. Great individual performances by Bob "Feller and Hal Gregg dominated yesterday's four-game card as each pitched a one-hit game. Feller; the Cleveland Indian In-dian righthanded strongboy, came up with the more spectacular spec-tacular game as he scored a 5 to 0 victory over the St. Louis Browns. He had a perfect per-fect game until the seventh Inning, when Al Zarilia, a left-handed hitter, lined a soft single to center field. Feller walked one man In the ninth, and struck out 10 batters during the game. It was Feller's ninth one-hitter. He has two no-hit games. Gregg gave up a double to Del Ennis in the first inning as Brooklyn Brook-lyn edged the Philadelphia Phils, 1 to0. He struck out four, walked walk-ed two and hit a batter with a pitched ball. After Ennis" hit, Gregg retired 20 men in a row. Feller got his offensive support sup-port from Joe Gordon, who hit a three-run homer, while Gregg got his one-run margin through the work of Jackie Robinson, who singled, stole second, took third on a wild throw by catcher Andy Seminick, and scored on Gene Hermanski's single in the eighth inning. Pee-Wee Reese saved the game in the ninth after a walk and an error by Robinson put a man on third. Nick Etten hit sharply through the box but Reese made a great stop and forced a runner at second to end the game. Robinson got two hits and now is batting .444. Cincinnati defeated the Chicago Cubs, 7 to 6, in a 10-inning game. Singles by Bert Haas and Eddie Miller produced the winning run. act as honorary referee at the meet. Word received from the Los Angeles Athletic club indicates that their eight-man contingent will arrive in Salt Lake City Thursday and will probably try to get a workout on the Y cinders cin-ders Friday morning. The four man group from the east coast, consisting of Les Mc-Mitchell Mc-Mitchell and Tommy Quinn, two of America's greatest milers and Irving Kinitisch and Eddie Con-well Con-well of NYU, will also arrive by air Thursday. LaBeach and Scott will arrive either Thursday evening even-ing or Friday morning. The Centennial mile, which features MacMitchell and Quinn, will be one of the highlights on the Saturday show. Because of the altitude, no runner, even ,the great Glenn Cunningham, has ever run a mile in the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain area under 4 minutes 21.2 seconds. Both MacMitchell and Quinn are consistently under this mark and meet officials are hoping that one or the other of these boys will turn in the fastest mile ever run in Utah come Saturday. Pitches One-Hitter ;w vF gam j "lit a v. : ii , -nit .... i Bob Feller Anderson-Christensen Match Gets Top Billing On VFW Fight-Card at Armory Tonight yoors 4 DAILY HERALD Wednesday, April 23, 1947 Padres Display Power In 12-2 Vin Over Oaks By JACK DA1LEY United Press Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO, April 23 (U.R) Any doubts that the San Diego Die-go Padres were of championship caliber were dispelled last night at least to the rabid fans in the vicinity of Oakland. The Padres put on one of the finest old-fashioned hitting displays dis-plays seen there in years as they routed the cellar-dwellers, 12-2, on 15 base-knocks, including Max West's home run with two on base; plus five doubles. TODAY'S SPORT PARADE Youngest DiMaggio May Wind Up as Most Valuable Player Says Bosox Boss Joe Cronin By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, April 23 (U.R) Dom Dimaggio, the "Little Professor" Pro-fessor" who patrols center field for the Boston Red Sox. may give them all a lesson this year and wind up as the most valuable player in the American league. Manager Joe Cronin insisted today. to-day. "Just let him get his base hits and he'll be there." Cronin said through a lip full of snuff as he watched the youngest of the famed Di-maggios. men .cage, with color." Naturally he has been m the shadow of his highly-publicized brother ever since he came into the majors, but slowly he is coming into his own and yet may overshadow the Bronx Bombers Big Man. Certainly the pitchers never eased up on the little fellow whose big brother murdered them. He didn't hang on Joe's coat tails, but whatever he got he earned earn-ed on his own ability. And while he's making it, the "Little Professor"' is taking care of it. A cigaret smoker, Dom never nev-er carries them. But when he "borrows" one he immediately The victory, so one-sided that Manager Casey Stengel of the Oaks gave up the ghost after the first inning of play, kept 4he Padres entrenched en-trenched in a first-place deadlock with the Portland Beavers the other surprise team of the circuit. If (he last meeting between the two is any criterion, tonight's battle between Jack Christensen of Logan and Wild Bill Anderson of Tremonlon in the main event wrestling bout at the Armory should be a honey. Last week. Christensen won the best two of three fall bout, but in the wild free-for-all that followed, fol-lowed, it took members of the Provo police force to quell the wrath of Wild Bill, who objected vigorously to. the roughing tactics of the Logan grappler. The two were rematched by popular request, and will continue their tactics of modified mod-ified mayhem tonight. The first bout gets underway at 8:30 and five boxing bouts precede the wrestling event. In the main event boxing bout, slugging Dale "Sailor" Jarvis of Provo tangles with Kenny Haya-kawa, Haya-kawa, clever Japanese scrapper who operates out of Salt Lake City. Jarvis won his bout last week with a first round knockout, while Hayakawa was dropping a close decision to Bobby Morries of Salem. Since Morries and Jarvis Jar-vis battled to a draw three weeks ago. Jarvis rates as favorite tonight. to-night. Bob Morries. the Salem clouter who is fast becoming: a local favorite because of his aggressive, hard-hitttng manner of fighting, meets Kikl Uarcia or Salt Lake City in the semi-windup. Ever since Morries put up such a terrific battle agains Jarvis, j the Salem youth has been a big (hit with the fans, and has not : failed to put on a good show in every bout he has appeared in thus far. In another feature bout that probably will not go the slated three rounds, Steve Tido of Provo tangles with Mike Majamoto. another an-other Japanese - American scrapper scrap-per operating out of Salt Lake City. Tido packs a terrific wallop in his right hand, and won his last bout via the knockout route in the first round. Majamoto also has the reputation as a power puncher and the bout is expected to end with one scrapper on the floor before the third round is through. Two good preliminaries and a pair of fast action battle royals round out the card, which is sponsored bv the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ute Post 2162. All proceeds of these bouts go into the fund to establish and operate a Boys club in Provo and to pay for equipment already bought as part of the cooperative youth program of the VFW and the Provo city recreation department. The Baseball Standings The Beavers, just as tough as they were last week when they knocked over the defending champion San Francisco Seals in six out of seven games, turned back Los Angeles, 4-3. San Francisco Fran-cisco recovered somewhat from its Portland debacle by thumping Seattle. 7-2; and Hollywood eked out a 4-3 win over Sacramenio toimark omer league games. San Diego clinched Standing behind the batting aI a : a. 1:111. .ll i me lacuurn nine itiiuw ! ,,...r v; ,;,o hk. the ever-present spectacles if' ;,.0 ,w i, k. didn't look like a .ball player s j matches Qn tne back is nis pic. ball player. But he is ture and an advertisement for his "He can field, he can nan the san Francisco restaurant, bases and he can throw," Cronin "Good advertising," the little added. "They don't come any bet- man grins. ter." I Yes, he can do just about any-Well, any-Well, then, is the more famed thing. Joe able to do more tilings and do1 them better? . . . , . PERMANENCE ASSURED I dont know anybody who HARRISBURG. Pa. U.R Re-e"ld Re-e"ld ,d any,more.orJd?.Ji an.y moving a sign placed in the win- a real ball player." And whether it's at bat, steaming steam-ing around the bases or playing out in the garden, little Dom backs up those words with a fluid grace which substantiates Cron- in's words. One look is enough to iuuw oi anuuitT (justness esiao- jlishment. a practical joker put it i in front of a funeral home. It read: "We Guarantee to Place You in a Permanent -Position." imarx mm as a Dimaggio, cut I from a smaller pattern than the its victory! lankv Joe of the New York in the first frame with a seven- Yankees. run outburst that sent starting Not tngt Joe evpr he, d Dom pitcher Ralph Buxton to the reach njs resent status o star. showers before he could get a. . m ... R(. s out. West clouted a four-! man the. master with two aboard in sixth to add insult to injury. Larry Barton, former Beaver recently acquired by Los Angeles, hit a home run with one man aboard in the ninth inning, but it wasn't enough for the Angels. Portland pushed across two runs each in the seventh and eighth. At Hollywood, the veteran Paul Gregory came into the game in the ninth inning with the winning win-ning runs on base for the Sacs and none out. He mowed down the visitors 1-2-3 to receive the "No." Dom said. "Joe never nev-er volunteered any tips to me about my hitting and I never asked him. It's better this way and we both know it, because Joe is on the rangy side and I'm stumpy. Anyway, we don't talk much about baseball." base-ball." Still, tartil last year the studious studi-ous Dom stood up to the plate with the same wide-open stance which Joe uses. Then he changed to a closer stance, stepping in to plaudits, but Ronnie Smith, whomeet the ball, and started to get hurled eight innings, was listed as the official winning pitcher. Neill Sheridan. 'Bones Sanders and Dino Restelli cracked out a brace of hits each as San Francisco Fran-cisco got back on the win track ofter its disastrous visit in Portland. AMERICAN LEAGUE W Chicago 3 New York 5 Boston 4 Cleveland 2 Detroit 2 Washington 2 St. Louis 1 Philadelphia 1 I Tuesday's Results New York 5. Boston 4. I Cleveland S, St. Louis O I Washington at Philadelphia postponed, cold. NATIONAL LEAGUE L Pet. 0 1.000 2 .714 .667 .500 .400 .40(i .25!. .167 Tuesday Results: San Diego 12, Oakland 2. Portland 4. Los Angeles 3. San Francisco 7, Seattle 2. Hollywood 4, Sacramento 3. WANTED ALL KINDS OF HIDES! Highest Prices Paid for BONES WOOL HIDES PELTS FURS and dead and useless animals. Pelt prices for dead and useless use-less sheep. Prompt Service UTAH HIDE &, TALLOW CO. S Miles West of Spanish Fork Phone 38 more power, proof was that he hit .316 and was one of the sparkplugs spark-plugs as the Red Sox romped to the pennant. On the field, Dom is all business. busi-ness. Difficult to talk to, he appears ap-pears reticent and retiring and admits openly that he "lacks SEE THE NEW SILVER CREEK UTILITY TRAILER All Steel Bed Complete with Tires Boat Hauling Arrangement Canvas Top $290.00 47 N. UnlT. Ave. AMERICAN SADDLER AT STUD "Hickory Chiefs Best Choice" Registration No. 17987 GRADE MARES $15.00 REG. MARES $25.00 $10 Extra to Bring Stud to Mares ANYWHERE IN UTAH COUNTY OLIVER S. MESERVY 390 North Univ. Ave. Phone TT Philadelphia Chicago . . 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