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Show CIIKiriAVI JUn Cougar Ute Battle Opens skyline-- United Prew Sports Writer DENVER, Dep. 23 aiE On eve of the second annual Skyline basketball tournament Brigham wift Young today Was picked to the three-da- y conrpetition hands-dow- n by the men who should ; know the coaches. Replying to a United Pres questionnaire the coaches votejd the Cougars who have been beaten only once this year and who are the defending champions, to with Denver in the fight it out next Saturday night. title game Wyoming was ) named to finish te A curly, sandy-haire- d guy with an amazing basket eye Max name Pierce the of plus an almost impregnable by American Fork defense Friday night broke the back but not the spirit of as fighting and gallant a basketball team as ever represented Provo high school. Sparked by the remarkable Pierce. American Fork's defending state Class B champs, who have been knocking i)ff everything in sight (A and B schools, alike) this sea PHS SHOWED 'EM Knswering charges that sc spirit at Provo high school was at a low ebb. me son, ran their consecutive winning streak to eight straight the PHS student body fumed out en masse for a ely downtown parade nday, preceaing oamc. a auer won the Fr game, great 0 a victory over the Bulldogs, but the Big Bulldogs' return battl with American fork. i by scoring Green went down to defeat fighting in the finest tradition ' I of the school. And through the first quarter it seemed as if the fiery Bulldogs would stun the favored Cavemen with an upset victory. They led 5 at the end of the first period and appeared to be headed straight for victory. ! But they couldn't hold Pierce, who also is an outstanding running halfback in football, in check, and the American Fork ace darted around the floor and faked the Bulldog defenders put of position, so he could shoot. And when his fired at the basket, it usually meant two points. The Bulldogs frantically fought to stop Pierce by ganging up on him, but he was too clever and needed just a frao tiarv of a second to aim and fire and many of his baskets were made while he was off balance but it was still seldom that he missed. His radar shooting gave the Cavemen a 4 half time lead and it was then that stout defense started paying dividends. Coach Randy Clark's "Battling Bulldogs" tried a roll ing, weaving style of attack in an effort to break through the tough Forker defense, but they couldn't do it often enough to overcome the lead built up by Coach Don Overly's d athletes. And they couldn't spring men free ori the outside often enough either. But even though the Bulldogs went to defeat at the hands of American Fork Friday night, they gained respect of every fan in the Provo high gym, for the manner hi which they carried the fight to Cavemen right down to the final second of the game. Even with American Fork lead ing 0 with less than 10 seconds left to play, they were still battling just as hard as they had at the start at the . il 1 M - j-- 9-- .' . third. Only coach Stan Watts of BY1, as is customary with the coaches, picked his team to finish second instead of first in the tourney and the coaches fallowed the same the numpattern in forecasting ber one team at the end of th season, Brigham Ybung. 19-1- ? Going To well-drille- H idl-sima- ) : over-tensene- ss ; . . " intra-squa- State Nay-lo- Ma-lone- T . li jl v vrr if gies fortunes have seemed to .United Press Sports Writer on the shooting eye of vethinge LOGAN. Utah, Dec. 23 (U.R) eran Bert Cook, a holdover from The Utah State Aggies, with a last team that won 10 and new coach and a host of new men. lost year's 10 conference contests. Their consider this basketball season season record for 1949-5- 0 was 18 Iheir year to get acquainted both with each .other and their and 16. Cook Good ppponents in the Skyline Six. But they promised today that hey might win a few ball games Cook, a junior, broke into the n the process of making the starting lineup in his first year with the varsity and his teamrounds. Seven lettermen are gone from mates and coaches say he's been ast years squad. Their reeular improving ever since. He drives boach, Jnf Whitesides, also de hard and shoots well from all for service with the Utah ranges. parted The Aggies open their conferJNational Guard. To take Whiteside's' Dlace the ence schedule Jaftf 8 against Kggies hired "Ccc" Baker, coach Colorado A and M, at Logan. pt Granite, Utah, high school for 6 years. Under his guidance teams won more state pranite championships than any other fiigh school team in the state. Dean of Coaches He's regarded as the dean high school coaches in the beehive fctate. In their schedule he Aggies have shown flashes of brilliance and an abundance of hustle and spirit. Thev ODened heir season with three straieM Lvins over Idaho State and Col orado University before thev Were edged by Oregon University, 4. They bounced back to take a tame from Montana State before departing on their tour of the There they dropped Jnidwest. tames to powerful Kansas and Kansas State and defeated Wich- ta University. la their early games, the Ag standings: Big 4 Dist. . W 48 38 29 29 29 26 25 . 16 . . United Sales . Carlson's Sporting Regal No. 2 Wasden Motor . . of . . . results: Summary 798 896 Bia 4 Dist. 797 805 Regal No. 1 Wasden Molor 89 835 y. league consTutive Major Enwling L. 12 22 31 31 31 34 35 44 PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. (U.R) 23 Utah university's touring basketball quint defeated St. Josephs here Saturday nUht, 70 to 57 Utah pulled to a coirim&ndinic lfad in the second half, after lead-i- n the first half by only four points, 40-3- 6. 6, ; U ' 1 A 1 f Sugar Bowl pioinips. T le L..&.U. one n( ih . i team.. . win M.n4 in ine mwi toutnesi country, ...ill .483 th Sugar Bowl boxing tourna- .483 mint on Dec. 28. Pet I. .1 ,w, . .483 T .433 iJr, 898; Big a 417 If o. 2. 881. .267 1 Hiah individual r: w oo- - wonoi ser es Hoop Results FRIDAY'S SCORES Iowa State 68, Drake 54. Stanford 77, Michigan 66. Illinois 75. Penn 65. Notre Dame 83, Purdue 70. Indiana State 68, Drake 54. Indiana 61, Butler 46. Arizona 90. Southern 56. Oklahoma A&M 62, Loyola (Cal.) 48. 36 Oregon State 64, Pittsburgh Wvomine 88. Oregon 57. University of Southern 55, Washington State College 47. San f rancisco Mate a Fresno State 63. Texas 68. Louisiana State 53 Southern Methodist 60. Ala bama 46. Texas Christian 58, Oklahoma Citv University 45. Texas A&M 50. Sam Houston State 45. East Stars Work Hard for Shrine Game on Jan. 1 CLARA, Cal., Dec. 23 SANTA The East Shrine team look ed forward to a Christmas week rnd of both work and play as out today eager to they turned - Wnm 4V,0ir. nanrp of the 11 ii'1 Lununu The following weekend sched ule was announced: Sunday- long morning workout and partya in the afternoon: Tuesday scrimmaee with the San Jose (U.R) !,,, ,.,,, lair J ivnvnuv 1 m Rosa No 2. 61H: ....-- h " M. S. Was-imer- ly I 79 810 Regal No. 2 Ralph's Radio 77S 879 Carlson's .... 85(1 778 ROO ?37 80i 749 787 J845 Yellow Cab Summary of leaders: Jmo- High team scrifls Wasde 532; UniteH' 2569; Sales, tor, RalDh's Radio. 2519. High team gams WasWn Mo. YOU CAN NOW BUY New '51 IN PROVO AS . . . DELIVERED FOR AS LITTLE on Coaches Bcrnic merman, ior- of Minnesota. Bob Voight 819251 V Grant, 603; D. HumDhrey. of Northwestern, and Tuss Mc 82124 21 den, 578. MJLauehrv of Dartmouth were on High individual oamps 836 25 run Tracy, 226; A. hand to watch the onsquad the Santa their 211. paces through Andrus, Clara turf yesterday. Final first half standings. 881 2P0 876 259 o I? 1597.90 B6-o- wmaa Utes Whip St. Josephs pre-seas- caj tional performance on taking the rebounds off the bank- boards. West Polishes News American Fork, led by Pierce, is one of the toughest Bowling Aerial Attabk teams in the state to beat os the boards and yet Provo conGeneva Ladies Btwjing league deCavemen on beat the both the and offensive sistently Handica For Shrine Tilt fensive boards Friday night. And, towering above all the standings W. L. Team rest of the Bulldogs in the play of the boards were Keith Metallurgical 25 . . 31 PALO ALTO, Cal., Dec. all-2325 (U.R) 31 western Personnel Strong and Dave Lewis. The Shrin 27 29 General Offices went rough two stiff Somehow Lewis and Strong found now spring in 28 star team 28 Ind are set for Safety their legs as they took rebound after rebound off the Payroll 30 workouts today 26 tomor more jw as they pre- two 33 23 bankboards by leaping higher and stretching farther Rolling Mill pare for the innual football than they had ever leaped or stretched before. classic. Summary of resu The Bulldogs were probably just a little too keyed up Metallurgical 927 )75 9382940 Head Coach Iarchie Schwartz as he for the game and trying just a trifle too hard to win, and Rolling Mill 881 H7 9022630 was all smile yesterday watched the sia d go through an this seemed to hurt them somewhat. The which inspired 938 192 968 2798 aerial worko Personnal caused them to fumble passes, on numerous occasions and Payroll 922 306 8842712 him tn nrpdirf "this year's team made them a little too cautious on other occasions. And, will have onchf the most danger914 944 967 2825 ous nnssinc fettacks ever shown Off. General because of it. they also missed a few setups that could have, 814 19 878 2611 Safety by the Wes, made a great deal of difference in the final outcome. On Christ Day the team will ers: lea of But if they can maintain the fighting spirit they Summary d scrim hold a fuf showed Friday night, the Bulldogs might be tough for High team gamef Metallurgical Image. 1075; Personnel, 96f: General Of somebody in Big Eight play. All they need to do now is fices, 967. relax a little and they'll be a darn rough ball club. High individual series Hannar, Louisiana And, this writer is sure of, one thing and that is Adamson, Met., 674 Norma Gen. he was never more proud of a Provo high learn than Met., 626; Veoma Done, Boxes Shoot for Off., 603. he was of the Bulldogs basketball team that played FriHigh individual game Hanna Sugar Bowl Crown day night. Met., 261: Mary Adamson, With Christmas near at hand, this writer would like Met., 223; Veoma Done, RATON ROUGE. L.a.. Dec. zs to personally wish all of his readers the very merriest of Gen. Off., 220. (U.R) louisiana State university's Handicap leagui boxin team may become the first Merry Christmases. three athlec organization to win chamThe Aggies Expect to Win Some Games in Skyline Six Race ; - e ZlVlil II At Utah's Oldest De PROVO lUMItR I HARDWARE CO. JH lflf CO. "YOUR FRIENDLY FORD DEALER" Ph. 1000 ProYO,Utah J ii 1 county, UUli streak game1.. winning L'.. . U4 navnne Won't Make Trip ous in seven guv ui meet Utah, Coach Watts steid the Cougars will cigiu played to date, any more until university's Redskins Wednesday won't practice Denver. Watts reach the after of in the they game oyening night Mountain States conference tour- said all his cagers, with the ex-in ception of Kent Durrant, are ney. tilt will good physical condition for the The Cougar-Redski- n get underway at 7:30 p.m. in the tourney. been bothered reDenver university fieldhouse. The Durrant ahas cold and won't heavy by cently will round df first second game said. His Watts the make trip. Denver. against pit New Mexio will on the squad traveling place bracket These will be upper be taken by Loren Dunn, a sophogames. more center. round lower - bracket First The rest of the traveling squad games will be played Thursday include Mel Hutchins and will night and w$l pitand-Uflh State Boyd Jarman, centers; Russ Hill-ma- n, Colorado against Montana Roland Minson, Joe Richey. A&M against 'Wyoming. and Ralph Olsen, fowards; and Harold Christensen, Bob Craig, Defending Champions Dick Jones. Jerry Romney and The Cougars will go into the Harold Montgomery, guards. second annual Conference tourney as the defending champs, and probably will W favored to win Pleasant View Cage their second Jpurnament cham- Team Wins 42 to 6 However, Wyoming, pionship. recwhich has a fine Pleasant Viewfs M Men team ord to date, is expected to give defeated the Timpanogos ward, for a top go Cats the rough 4?-Friday night in the opening honors. But Coach Stan Watts' boys rbund of second half play in the stake league. aren't expected to. have an easy Sharon Kenneth Ashton tanked 17 time of it against the Utes, even View to points to lead Pleasant added though the Redskins have been 10 Johnson of Ray some victory. difficulty winning having winners. the for to be points Utah late. always manages un and nrimed to play its best Cougars. For RADIATORS REPAIRED ramp aeainst theUtah-BYgame that reason, the Auto Glasa Installed is expected to be one of the highwhole the of encounters Specialized Work light tourney. AHLANDER'S will leave for The Cougar 490 Se. Dnitf Areioe Denver Christmas night at 6:30 p.m. via the Deliver & Rio Grande Western railroad. They will ar- - nwru SPIRIT RESURRECTED The PHS student body had a special present lor nay criticizing the lack of school Herald sports eaiior, wlwprovoked the parade with whis editorial into Mr. Schwartz's office. It brought " nhntn oi . I. 1" spirit. Rnhert Stowell , p . ,( v P.llhrPn: P ATA W IU 'olrvi-.iitovti OU1J liOinZ was labeled. casket since the "further use for no had thef next to Schwartz! and fob O'Connor (right) said by Gay ed to resurrect its school spirit. The "spirit" is person. fied omce were the con tinge which came too tne Meraia the role of (standing behi played PHS the th at American Fork by showing dejection , Coach Clark used eight men during the game Hal Holland, Ronnie Kump, Keith Strong, Dave Lewis, Paul Oldroyd, Burke Whitney, Alf Lee and Paul Kitchen and all of them played tremendous ball especially on defense. All you had to do to realize the kind of game the Bulldogs were playing Friday night was to watch their sensa- UUh in wo(rk a four- ing victori- - afternoon in the DU fieldhouse. and : mfJL R esurre c f Jfy & 36-3- game. Provo, T7 Picked to BYU Quintet to Leave Win Skyline 6 Monday Night for Meet Denver the next morn Brieham Young university's!- rive Hoop Tourney hasketball out Tuesday and will team, riding CAPi 36-3- SUNDAY, DICEMBER 14. 1950 JjoTuijst 8 By TOM LAWKIE MvM kivrikvn UCDAI '$0$mu ':,":: - - : , |