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Show DAILY HERALD Friday, April 1. 1949 13 The Sports Beat By, RAY SCHWARTZ Herald Sports Editor They Coached American Fork High'sTburney Teams k'm the Mmf Appaml Year-in-and-year out the Provo Boat club's annual Memorial Day regatta constitutes one of the city outstanding sports events. With jthe possible exception of the Brigham Young university InvltaUonal track and field meet and relay carnival, no , athletic event In UUh county commands as , much regional and national recognition as the boat races. Both club officers and members are intensely proud of the record they have maintained in promoting promot-ing these races. And they have every justification for feeling proud. Sports fans, - generally speaking know a good thing when they, see one and that probably accounts for the fact that Memorial Mem-orial Day crowds of 10,000 are not uncommon at the Provo boat harbor, scene of the races. ; Run Off Efficiently Although the races usually start at 10 a.m. and run until 8:30 or 4 p.m., which is a long time to sit and watch any kind of event, sport or otherwise, few. of the 10,000 citizens leave the boat harbor until after the last race is run. That indicates the calibre of program the boat club offers the citizens of Central Utah. One of the big reasons the races are so well attended Is the fact that they are run off with smooth, clocklike clock-like efficiency. There is little wasted time . . races are run off on a schedule of about one. every 15 minutes. This appeals to all sports fans who don't like long waits. In addition, the race? offer thrills and action nd last year's race " program produced .some spectacular spills. Boating fans who saw the races are still talking talk-ing about them. Better Program Once again the races are approaching ap-proaching and Frank Coppin, the newly-elected energetic and highly-imaginative commodore of the boat club, is plenty hopped up over the prospects for this year's race program. The races in the past provided outstanding entertainment, but Coppin looks for an even better show this year. In the s first place, this year's Memorial Day races will be streamlined, with only the fastest boats . participating. This will mean that races will last only three hours instead of five and six hours as has been' the case in the past. "In past years," Coppin pointed out, "we've always tried to cater to the wishes of the racers. This year we're going to try to cater to the spectators." . Faces Tough Task For another thing, L. O. Turner, Tur-ner, Provo's No. 1 gift to the speed boat racing world, who holds the world's record for the measured mile in his particular class at 92.54 miles per hour, will send his Green Hornet II into action against a craft driven by J. A. Vanderpool of Delta, Colo., a great competitor and an experienced ex-perienced hand at the game. These two drivers should put ori a terrific race in the 10-mile, Governor's trophy event. Tommy Hill, the great California speed boat king, has constructed a craft that reportedly is the exact duplicate of the Green Hornet II. You can bet one thing, that vanderpool would like nothing better than to beat Turner. But from the way ol' L. O. has been going In the last couple of summers sum-mers he faces one whale of a task. Since the race this year will be a part of the Provo Centennial Centen-nial celebration, Coppin is anxious to have the races go over with a bang. " And what is more, he is quite confident they will. ii v f S 0i 0 n - i - - v'5 L!Z3 Earl "Hap" Holmstead, Grant Ingersoll, Leo B. Kelson and Don Overly (left to right), the four American Fork coaches whe guided Cavemen basketball teams Into state tourney play, will be among those honored Saturday night In a special celebration at tha American Fork high gym. Overly, who is the present Caveman eoach, is shown holding tha state tourney runner-up trophy, won by the 1949 cage team. American Fork To Honor Cagers At Big Celebration Places In Ski Contest Pfc. R. W. Taylor of Provo, former Brigham Young university univer-sity student now stationed with the 604 ACW Squadron in Freis-lng. Freis-lng. Germany, finished ninth out of a field lof 26 contestants in the cross-couritry event of the European Euro-pean Command Ski championships champion-ships held recently in Berchtes-gaden. Berchtes-gaden. The four-day championship included in-cluded jumping, cross-country, downhill and slalom events, conducted con-ducted by the Berchtesgaden recreation area under the auspices aus-pices of the European Command AMERirAN VnrtK American Fork will pay honor to better than one nunnren basketball players at a big home-coming celebration Saturdav niffht in the high school gymnasium here, be ginning at 7:30. Special guests for the , gala event will be all the players and their roaches who have represent ed the American Fork high school in state basketball tournaments back to 1921. The homecoming also will fea ture a basketball game between a picked team of BYU stars ana players of the local Commercial team. One-Handed Game The hiah school band, the cheer leaders, and a short period of one-handed basKetoau Deiween boys from "the 9th and 10th crades. will add to the fun of the evening. Numbered among tne "X" players play-ers will be Randy Clark, Joe weicht. Roland Minson. Jerry Romney, Jay Jensen, Kent Durrant, Dur-rant, Clark Greenhalgh and Rex Olsen. Playing on the local Com mercial team will be uon uver-i uver-i Paul Peter. Merlin (Duff) Shelley, Willard Deavitt, Evan Baugh, Keith ' Trane ana vaie Peters. , TTniHen of family budget tick et ither for last year or pur- I . i . t th. now 1040 tickets will be admitted free. Others will be charged admission The celebration is arranged under the direction of the city recreation committee with E. WnlinHrake. Mrs. Delbert Chipman and Mrs. R. W. Madsen, members, directly in cnarge. Welcome Addresses According to the arranged program pro-gram the townspeople will stand as the basketball stars of today and yesterday enter the gymnasium. gymnas-ium. -Principal Jesse M. Walker and Mayor Dafid L. Greenwood will give briefwelcome addresses and following the introduction of Earl ("Hap") Holmstead, the first school coach to take a team to the state meet back in 1921, he will introduce the three succeeding Moxhai who took teams to the tournament: Grant ("Rags") Ih- gersoll, Leo B. Nelson ana uon Overly. ' Tvi vear for the sixth time. the Cavemen have captured second sec-ond place at the state meet. The trophies won Dy me squaas tnoithr with nhotos of the teams and their coaches are attracting attention in a down-town window display. What the "well-dressed" player of three decades ago was wearing is evidenced in the photo graphs, contrasting wun me nany attire of today. First Tourney Team Coach Holmstead's first tournament tourna-ment team was: Reed Stewart, Ross Nielsen, Grant Ingersoll, rd Storrs. Frank Anderson, Orville Vance, James Shelley, Newell Hofhein, Elijah Chipman, Clyde Birk and Owen Lynch. The 1922 team he took to the , state meet had four new names added: Alton Storrs, Elmo Crookston, Earl Parduhn and Alex Karren. Again in '23 Coach Holmstead was there with a winning Alpine district team. New names on the list were Elden Chipman, Pete Conder and Dean Nielsen. - Seven years elapsed. In 1930 the Cavemen qualified for the state meet but this time one of the former high school stars was mentor. "Rags" Ingersoll had come back to his high school as coach. The players that year were Charles Miner, Francis Anderson, Eldred Nicholes, Thornton Birk, Sidney Skinner, Fay Chadwick, Stanford Steele and Gernell Crystal. Cry-stal. Took Another Team Coach Ingersoll took another team in 1936: Willard Deavitt, Frank Gaisford, Jr., Wayne Mc-Tague, Mc-Tague, Earl Brown, Lloyd Duckworth, Duck-worth, Byron Groesbeck, Ray Nelson, Sherman Greenwood, Rulon Carlsen, Ferrin Goode and Guy Richards. The next year, '37, a return trip was made with the names of Grant Hicks, Dale Peters, Jack Mayne, Douglas Strong, Max Hoggard, James McAllister and Bill Durrant added. Again in '38 the Cavemen made the state meet with Don Parduhn, Melvin An derson, Frank Parker and Gordon Lee added to the roster. Leo Nelson was coach in 1944 and his tournament players were Kent Durrant, Paul Peters, Eugene Steffen, Merlin Shelley, Morris Smith, Fred Robinson, Elmo Mur-dock, Mur-dock, Dale Steiner, Roland Mad-sen, Mad-sen, Melborne Whitby and Bob Karren. In 1945, Coach Don Overly was back from the war and his tourna ment team had added Stanley McAllister, Junior Chilton, John Bennett, Charles Little and Vern Clark. His squad again represented the . school in 1947 with Leland Hampton, Junior Hall, Bob Dim- ick, Leon Hartshorn and Billy Hoglund added. Coach Overly's 1949 tourna ment team reads: LeRoy Griffin, Max Smith, Don Peterson, Del- mar Fraughton, Loyal Iverson, Mark Grant, Max Pierce, George Durrant, Delbert Hoglund and Glade Steiner. Senior Scout Cage Tourney Set For American Fork AMERICAN FORK An in vitational Senior Scout basket- ball tourney, sponsored by the Alpine district, will be held April 9, 11, IS, 14, 15 and 16 in the American Fork high school gym, according to Wayne R. McTague, chairman of the tourney tour-ney committee. Invitations to enter the tourney tour-ney have been sent out to Senior Scout teams of Salt Lake City, Lehi, Pleasant Grove, Orem, Provo, Springville, P a y s o n, Richfield and American Fork, and arrangements have been completed for a 16-team tourney. tour-ney. The entry deadline has been set for Saturday at 6 p. m. and teams interested in playing in the tourney should contact Mr. McTague. His telephone number Is 398-R American Fork. All teams must wear basketball uniforms with numbers. Trophies will be given to firsi and second place winners and the consolation champion. A sportsmanship award will be presented on a team basis. A dance will follow, the game, slated for Saturday night April 16 and the awards will be presented pre-sented at the dance. Committee members, in addition addi-tion to Mr. McTague, include Lyman Duncan, W. L. Clements, Charles B. Walker and Floyc Loveridge. CU League Leaders Slate Meeting Officers of the Central Utah Baseball league and managers of the various league teams will meet Monday at 8 p. m. at the American Legion room of the Payson city hall, according to Don Kump, secretary of the loop. Anybody interested in the league is invited to attend the meeting. Plans for the coming season will be outlined and a schedule for the season will be drawn up. Kump said 104? officers a)s. may be elected at the meeting. Special Services. 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