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Show Sports Here and There by Al Abiett I I Last night (Thursday) the ru-! ru-! mors were very strong that the i University of Utah was going to ; lose their football coach, Cactus Jack Curtice. The great pass ' master has about made up his mind to take the headman's job at Stanford. I guess the offer was just tex .good to turn down. It had to be good because I know the man and his family liked our i school and our valley as a home. Stanford is big time and that is jof course the goal of everyone in the sports field, to leach the big . league. I Utah will miss the man be-j be-j cause he has done' a great, dial to publicize our state. Not may-lie may-lie too much by his football teams at the U. but by his personality and the high regard he is iu-ld in by his fellow coaches. This year Jack had a great year with his showing against the Army and 'the great job he turned in with the West team in the Shrine game. Myself I was surprised .that he took the Stanforci lob. i The Texas A & M offer would have been a different thing, and 'for a Texan to turn down Texas, , that my friends is news. Who : will be his successor if he goes, ! your guess is as good as anyones. My man would be Tally Stevens, : the former coach of great East High teams and now an assistant assist-ant at BYU. ! Of course the Salt Lake entry in the Pacific Coast League is still big news to the baseball fans of Utah. The organization has been formed, and although I knew only one' man that has had 'baseball background m the board of directors, it is composed of men from all walks of life. They are putting the stock on the market mar-ket at 5 a shari' in order that most everyone can buy some and in that way make it truly a community com-munity project. Haven't heard anything alxiut work starting on Derks Field, and this is a must if the- project is to succeed. As you know the coast league starts play in April, not teo far away. Our high school basketball team surprised their followers by taking Muiray m their debut in Class A. George Rekoutis was the big gun with 21 points. Experts Ex-perts tell me this boy is one of the best in the state. Their liext game is against another old rival as they invade the lair of the Jordan Beetdiggers tonight, Friday. Fri-day. Let us hope they stay hot. The big news in boiling this week was Tun Ablett's 300 game at his Tooele lanes. This was the |