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Show 1 ' ' 71: TheSp oris By RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Sports Editor Tuesday, April 20, 1948 DAILY HERALD BYU Attempts to Secure Tvo Middle-Distance Runners For Invitational Track Carnival Th blood trickled down Karol BUI' right cheek. The blood came from a wound he had just received during a blocking drill which Assistant Football Coach Wayne Soffe was putting tome of his boys through as part of a recent Brigham Young university spring practice workout In the drill, two offensive men were trying to clear the way for another lineman acting as a ball carrier in an effort to develop the timing and blocking tactics for the quick opening plays which form such an important part of Head Coach Eddie Kimball's T-formation. T-formation. ' " - Bills had not only received a nasty cat on his cheek, but bad missed his block as well, lie was furious about it, too. Eddie Kimball, athletic director art Brigham Young uni- !a. a. l l ' r A t 1 . 1 versuy, luuay announced ejioris are Deing maae 10 nave "11 me have one more crack , at least two outstanding, middles-distance men run in the at this," he growled defiantly. BYU Invitational against the Cougars Clarence Robison. j maii right, let s see what he Robison, rated as the only Utah track man with a ;?n do," Soffe said his eyes glow- chance of placing on the Olympic squad, gave a good account ac-count of himself in the NCAA Invitational last year. If some other recognized middle distance men could be ob tained, Kimball said Robison's race against them would be made a feature of the 35th annual BYU Invitational this weekend.. Four of the world's greatest track and field athletes have already al-ready been lined up to perform in the invitational special events, which will be held Saturday as a climax to the meet. Among the stars expected to compete In the special 100-yard dash are Lloyd La-Beach La-Beach a 9.5 aecond sprinter from Jamaica who entered last year's meet and Bill Martinson, former B aylor university cinder man who has run a century already this year. The special invitation javelin throw featuring America's top Olympic spearmen. Dr. Steve Seymour and Martin Biles, will be held Saturday afternoon. In addition to the nationally- famous stars, junior high school, senior high school and junior college col-lege stars are expected to compete com-pete in the meet, which will get underway Friday afternoon with the junior high 'events. With applications from scores of schools throughout the inter around competition Include . the 100-yard and 440-yard , dashes, the boad jump, high Jump, thotput. discuss, javelin, jave-lin, 200-yard low hurdles and pole vault. Immediately after the all-around all-around contest gets underway, the senior high school class and A and B track and field trials heats follow at 9:10 a. m. The Saturday afternoon eventsJ will follow the flag raisins: cere-i money at 1:30 p. m. with the first track event to start at 1:35 p. m. and the first field event at the same hour. .The first special invitation in-vitation event will be the 100-yard 100-yard dash at 2:05 p. m. ing with satisfaction and admira tion over the former BY high stars fiery determination to raak; an effective block. The next time Bills didn't fail of his bloc. He whammed into t e defensive man in front of him and hit him with a terrific block as he and his partner cleared tie way for another "ball carrying" lineman. "Beautiful block, Bills, beautiful block," So fe su'd with praise fairly ringing in his voice. "That's the way we like to see it done. It looks like all It took was the drawing draw-ing of a little blood." the BYU football teams for the past couple of years. Maybe, the same kind of trend is , being experienced at all the colleges, but Indications are that the 1948 Cougar grid machine will be the hardest blocking and tackling and most hell-for-leather and swashbuckling team to represent repre-sent the school in a number of years. Pounding In Reports coming from the Springville grapevine say that Harold Norton, the Red Devils' great all-around athlete for tae past couple of years, is headed for the University of Southern California. Although he is a splendid . football? baseball, basketball player and track and field athlete, those who should know say he will drop all when he enrolls at Southern Cal. He Intends, It is said, to devote all of his athletic time to throwing the javelin. And, , it seems as if he is pretty fair at throwing the spear, too. He tossed it 193 feet the other oay in practice and that is several feet beyond the state high school record. BY High Meets Juab; Provo To Play Granite Looking for their first victory of the season, BY high's baseball team will nlav host to the Juah T&rTZeSJ&r county WP Wednesday after- the meet, said he expected more;noon on the BYU stadium field than 3500 athletes to be on hand 'house. The game will start at 4 this week. The junior high srhool girls' posture parade will be held Friday at 1:30 p. m. with the junior ihifh school boys and girls . track and field events to follow at 1 p. m. , . p. m. Coach Owen Dixon's Wildcats were defeated by Spanish Fork in their league opener last Wednesday Wed-nesday and will be out tq make amends for the defeat. The Wasps on the other hand won from Springville, last week. Soffe is more than just a little proud of the way the boys under his direction are taking to the rugged course of fundamentals that he. Kimball and Reed Nilsen are dishing out this spring. He ; calls them "my ferocious gentle men and he swells with pnde every time he says it too. "If you can do this type of stuff and enjoy it, then you can make this ball club next fall," he keeps telling his boys. And, his boys seem to enjoy it Immensely as they tear into each other with a ferocity that has been sadly lacking on BYU football teams the last couple of years. And, it really warms Sof-fe's Sof-fe's heart to see that kind of determination and spirit. Apparently Kimball wasn't kidding when he said before spring practice started, s'ress .was going to be placed on fundamentals In order to "build a rurged team.", Not only the linemen but the backs as well are getting plenty On nt ih MffViliuht nt tViP 1,1 region inree games a.laxv of track and field event! Wednesday. Carbon will travel to Phasis on blocking and tackling, gaiaxy 01 iracx ana rieia events c . ... , ; wK.n v,v.v. nnt urtma nr will be the high school all-around championship, which begins at 9 a. m. Saturday. Probably the greatest prep athlete to win this event was Wilford "Whizzer" White of Mesa. Ariz, high school who captured the crown in 1948 and 1947. Rated as one of the finest high school athletes to come out of the west, White established a record smashing 6225 point accumulation ac-cumulation last year for the nine events. The nine events In the all- i Springville for a game with the ! When they're not working on the Red Devils, while Spanish Fork I tackling dummy or the blocking will tangel with Payson on the ;sled they're doing plenty of "live" Lions' field. tackling and blocking. On Thursday, Provo high's Bull- "What are you doing Soffe?" dogs will play the first home en- somebody remarked the other counter of the season, when they 'day. "Trying to make these guys meet Granite high school in a Big so ferocious everybody will be Eight conference game, starting , afraid to play 'em?" at 3 p. m. at Timp park. The Bulldogs lost their first two conference games and will be out to try to pull down a victory, vic-tory, when they play before th home fans for the first time this season. LOAMS on your own SIGNATURE I5.0S monthly repays f0 110.05 monthly repays $100 S20.14 monthly repays S200 $30.21 monthly repays 1300 orrica hours s. m. t S a- Sally f a. m. to I p. m. Saturdays Appointment may h mad for after hour Phone S7S. KEN HOUSTON. Manager A new plastic made from oil and sand can be used to keep bread and cake from sticking to the pan. The new glaze is a silicon sili-con compound spread on the inside in-side of the pan in place of grease. "I'd sure like to see a ferocious ball club at BYU," he shot back. One of the reasons for this new-found spirit at the Cougar Cou-gar arid ramp is no doubt due to the influx of a large number num-ber of hlxh class freshmen grldders fresh out of high school. It is Just natural that they would have more fire, vim and vigor and imagination imagina-tion than some of the war veterans who have made up Homers Pour From Bats of PCL Sluggers SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 (U.R) Rabbits, believed in some sections to be nearlng extinction like the dodo birds, have been discovered hiding in Pacific Coast league baseball getting free rides over the outfield fences. With three weeks of the young 1948 campaign already past history, his-tory, exactly 100 home runs have been hit. And if that record keeps up, the PCL sluggers will pound out 866 circuit clouts in the 26 weeks of the race. The way big fellows like Jack Graham of San Diego and Fen-ton Fen-ton Mole of Portland are parking park-ing the so-called "Stitched apricot' apri-cot' beyond the outfielders, leads some of the veteran baseball observers ob-servers to the belief that the ball is livelier than at any time In history. Be that as it may. the fans apparently love it. Given near-perfect near-perfect baseball weather on Sunday Sun-day for the first time this year, more than 56,000 flooded into the PCL parks. In last night's lone game, the Hollywood Stars defeated Port land 3 to 1, smothering a Beaver bid for second place in the league. The game was tied 1 to 1 from the fourth until the ninth when the Stars drove two across. The fans get to look at new faces this week as the shift in competition sends Hollywood to Seattle, Oakland to Portland, Sacramento Sac-ramento to San Francisco and San Diego to Los Angeles. The Seals and Angels, who finished fin-ished the regular 1947 season in a deadlock, again are running 1-2 in this race but only five games separates the top from the bottom, bot-tom, so it still looks like a wide-open wide-open affair. r . (If. 0 h i ft W : . W ji d' - ' of y':i ) A Delegate. Stud Poker and Colosal, left to right, come poundihs aiwuiiu iujjivi jams viuunousc turn at c-orai iaoies. xia in the first division of the Double Event Stakes. Colosal won the photo finish. Today's Sport Parade Commentary For Olympic Games Newsreels Yill Be 'Americanese' By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK. April 20 (U.R) The United States stored its first victory of the summer Olympic games today and it came, typically, typical-ly, in the ail-American matter of popping off. Maybe it ain't the king's English. Eng-lish. But when you go to the movies to see newsreels of the games, the commentary is going to be in Americanese. At least we colonists are going to be able to understand it. The British will make the official of-ficial picture of the Olympics. But they also insisted that British Brit-ish commentators would describe the newsreels. It caused more commotion than Eleanor Holm's disqualification in 1936. It's easy to understand a howl at losing a look at Eleanor. But in the interests of crass commercialism, commer-cialism, and they say money is nice to have, dull British diction i promised to make a monetary dud out of the newsreels. The i shots began to promise a solution solu-tion for insomnia. For that broad A, clipped monotone delivery threatened threaten-ed to make a rest cure out of the current events cellulois earmarked for American consumption. con-sumption. Only the Harvard Alumni Assn. would have been In the know and professionalism profes-sionalism reared its ugly head before the amateur athletic Vjo 8I&i JJ ALL SIZES GESSFORD'S, Inc. 47 North Univ. Provo and Fort Douglas Golfers Lead State Loop Provo and Fort Douglas golfers golf-ers were out in front in the Utah iGolf association team race today j after they chalked up their sec-! sec-! ond victories of the season. The Provo and Fort teams are the only undefeated ones left in circuit competition following the completion of two rounds. Traveling to Logan Sunday, the Provoans took the measure of the Cache Valley boys, 9-4, while Fort Douglas was defeating Forest For-est Dale, 13-1 on the Fort Doug-last Doug-last course. Provo Mark Nilsen-W. Zabriykie ... 1 Gordon Crane-Jack Brim .... 3 Don Allen-Fred Crane ....... 0 -Ash Fielding-Jim Green .... 3 T. Worthington-V. Oberhansley 2 Total 9 Logan Ed Richards-Bus Howard .... 1 Pete Randal-Rulon Gardner- . . 0 Ev Thorpe-Glen Worthington 2 Grant Keaton-Burt Wignall . . 0 K. Vanderhoff-J. Schanveldt . . 1 Total 4 Novelty Keglers Edge Cleaners In Ladies Pin Loop Modern Cleaners, currently leading the Provo Ladies bowling league, were defeated Monday night by the last-place Larry's Novelty keglers, 2118 to 2061. In the other league contest, rolled Monday night on the Recreation Rec-reation alleys, the second-place B&H Pharmacy team defeated the Academy Hotel, 2226 to 2145. Maxine Allen took high individual indi-vidual series honors with a 530 and also the high individual game honors with a 214. Vera Olsen was second in the series honors with a 524 and' second the individual game honors with a 196. union with Cambridge under-grads under-grads , training, to become play-by-play interpreters. Few colonists ever hit well against such delivery of the king's English. Imagine waiting patiently to see the pictures of Michigan's Charley Fonville breaking the Olympic shot put record. So you go to the cinema, oops, excuse t, the movies, and hear this hypnotic hyp-notic jargon: "Well he-ah we ah at Wemb-len Wemb-len stay-dyum and that mighty colonial i mean American Sharls F'NTL is about to hee-uv the weight. Theah it goes! Oops, good show, F'N'V'L! . . . wizard! . . . simpleh wizard throw! Oh I say, that was jolly fine. Now heah they ah mezhring the toss and it's ah, ah, ah a winner. Yes indeed, in-deed, F'N'V'L has rahlly made his mahk." Put that in A flat and even a Gene Autry-Wild Bill Elliott double feature wouldn't save it. And there is plenty of proof that American moviegoers don't take to the British inflection when It comes to flickers. J. Arthur Rank, the British Brit-ish producer who will film the Olympics, recently sank some $3,000,000 Into a technicolor techni-color musical called "London Town." They held a sneak preview In three places in the United States and then ditched It. Most people walked walk-ed out because Sid Fields, the gerat British comedian, was unintelligible. So Rank got the idea and you get newsreels ala Americanese. And "Sharls F'N'V'L" becomes "Charley Fonville."' News of the celluloid victory comes right from Jim Rhodes, president of the AAU. Jim cal. loping In significantly on the i7Jra anniversary of Paul Revere' Re-vere' ride. What a daily double! Athletics Nip Bosox Twice; Yanks Defeat Washington As 1948 Campaign V Majors Open By CARL LUNDQTJIST United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, April 20 (U.R) Everything went according to plan almost.' The world champion Yankees crushed the Washington Senators as was expected. Eweli Blackwell of Cincinnati took up where he left off last year as baseball's leading pitcher. And a couple of rookies, Lou Brissie of the Philadelphia Phila-delphia A's and Hank Sauer of the Reds, lived up to all advance notices. I What's more the vaunted Bos-j ton Red Sox got three consecu-1 tive home runs. But they lost at double header to the Athletics. action today Wjth the Browns, at inax was aDoui me oniy uem , Cleveland and the Tigers at inai wasn i in me scnpi -tne a s Chicago along with a repeat per- and Billy Johnson whacked: two each. Blackwell, who won, 22 . games last year, - racked up number one without much -trouble as he held the Pirates., to seven scattered hits In, a 4 to 1 victory. The Bucs also got seven hits but Cincin- natl's blows were more po- tent. Rookie Sauer hit a home run with Grady Ilaton on bae and Bobby Adams also got a four-base wallop to provide the margin of victory. vic-tory. Walker, one of the surest sur-est fielders in the business, let the other run in when he mussed up a short fly. The rest of the teams get into winning the morning and after noon Patriot's day twin bill from the Red Sox, 5 to 4 in 11 innings and 4 to 2. It also was a little amazing to note that Dixie Walker, the "old reliable" from Brooklyn made a two-base error in" the outfield for Pittsburgh. The A's, despite a second inning lapse by Phil Marchil-don Marchil-don In whleh Stan Spence, Vern Stephens, and Bobby Doerr touched him for consecutive con-secutive homers, won the opener in the 11th. They scored two runs ' on Buddy Rosar'a double, singles by Pete Suder and Eddie Joost and a long fly by rookie Don White. Joose previously had fitted Into the script by striking strik-ing out three times, getting off to a good start In defense of his dubious laurels as Whiff-king of the American league. He fanned 110 times last year. The Red Sox picked up a final tally off Marchlldon in their half but It was a case of too little and too late. In the second game, rookie Brissie held the Red Sox to four hits and struck out seven. He supplied some of his own offensive offen-sive support by getting a two-run two-run single in a big fourth inning in which Joost drove in the other run with a fly ball. At Washington, the Yankees demonstrated they were still the Yankees by getting to . Early Wynn for seven runs in the first inning, then breezing to a 12 to 4, 16-hit triumph. Tommy Heni-rich Heni-rich hit a two-run homer to touch things off and Indian Allie Reynolds, who looked a little better as a hitter than as a pitcher, pitch-er, wound up the rally with a three-run homer. Rookie manager Joe Kuhel 'kept Wynn in until the ninth in ning when it would have been impossible for him to live up to his name. He was tagged for all 16 hits before being relieved. Connie Niarhos got three hits for the champs and Henrich, Charley Keller, Joe Dimaggio, George McQuinn, Phil Rizzuto formance by tho Yankees and Senators in the American league. In the National, the Dodgers play the Giants at New York, the Braves play at Philadelphia, the Cubs at Pittsburgh and the Reds at St. Louis. Yesterday's star Rookie Lou Brissie of the Athletics who held the Red Sox to four hits and struck out seven in a 4 to 2 vic- Uory which followed an earlier 5 to 4 Philadelphia victory. Big League Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 5-4, Boston 4-(lst 4-(lst game, 11 innings). New York 12. Washington 4. (Only games scheduled). NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 1, Cincinnati 4. (Only game scheduled). Probable Pitchers (Last year's won-lost figures, in parantheses). AMERICAN LEAGUE. , , New York (Lopat 16-13) aV Washington (Hudson 6-9). . . Detroit (Newhouser 17-17) at Chicago (Haynes ,14-6). St. Louis (Sanford 7-16) at Cleveland (Feller 20-11). (Only games scheduled). NATIONAL LEAGUE . Brooklyn (Barney 5-2) at New York (Jansen 21-5). Boston (Sain 21-12) at Philadelphia Phila-delphia (Leonard 17-12). 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