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Show ccrax, aftjl it, TTUh County, VUh SUNDAY HERALD rn Recre For BY U lowjraifenalr m mn fr fi n i j Top Track Stars Gear Utah Boxers Eye Trials For Event For New hopes, new records and new talent will be mixed into the 46th annual Invitation Track and Field Meet which gets underway this week at Brigham Young University. meet, which will The three-da- y attract an estimated 2,000 participants from schools in five western states, opens Thursday Junior high school, morning. high school and junior college teams will be competing in and track Thursday through Saturday. the western United States in the 0, stated. m t Pan-Americ- an Ticket Sales Soar Edgemont Slates For Pro Grid Gam Pony Loop Meet entries. Spectator is increasing, .he Among other things, fans will see performances by this year's special event stars, Rafer Johnson and Max Truex. Johnson, world decathlon 'champion, will compete against Skyline Conference champions Dick Millett and Dave Parker. Truex, meanwhile, will run the distances in competition with BYU's Gary Griffeth and Mattl chamRaty. Griffeth is while the in Raty is Skyline, pion a freshman runner from Finland. Mighty Max is considered the top distance runner in college track today. He holds the American record in the three-mile and set the collegiate two-mi- ) LAKE CITY (UPD University of Utah ticket manager Ted Jacobs en announetTi SaturSALT WILL BE AWARDED AT BANQUET fessional football gam between the San Francisco 43er and the Hew York Giants. ; The exhibition contest will be played on the University of Utah gridiron. Jacobsen said ticket requests have come in from all over the western states. Former Utah quarterback Lee Grosscup, top draft choice of the New York Giants, 'is expected to Other awards to be presented at see action in the Salt Lake game. the banquet will include: Bob Moorefield Memorial to the Utah County high school which has shown the greatest sportsmanship during the past year; Fisher Smith to outstanding senior athletes in By eight sports; Nate Morgan to the MANHATTAN, Kan. (UPD outsanding basketball and football Young player selected by team members. Gary Earnest of Brigham selection team second won J. Edwin Stein to the outstanding has senior athlete covering' all sports; on the all opponent basketball "KEYY"Man" presented by Radio team named by Kansas State V Station KEYY to the ('outstanding College. Earnest drew three votes in the basketball and ' football player for balloting conducted by all 15 excellence. voted the Thorn Rock Produc ts presented squadsmen at 1 the final in team No. nation's to the BYU free throw champion Poll. International and most inspirational! BYU foot- United Press Lou Pucillo, 9 guard for North ball player presented by the cenunit of tral the Utah Society For Carolina State, was a unanimous Crippled Children and! 'Adults. first team choice, followed by Tickets to the banquet may be Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati secured from any director or of- with 14 votes. ficer of the coaches club and at ' the First Security Bank, Knight A kilometer nearly Men's Shop and Hansen Candy Co. of a mile. Awards to Be Presented le BYU Golfers Dick Romney To Speak At Downtown Coaches Banquet Top Utes; Netters Lose two-mil- record last year. Continue To Fall Although the Invitation records in the high school and junior college divisions 'continue to fall under the onslaught of the young athletes, several marks set. last year should be able to stand for at least another season. Among the new records set in last year's meet was the new event. Bud high In the Spicer, a muscled youngster from Douglas, Wyo., compiled a total of 6,555 points hi the nine events, thus topping , the old mark- - set- by Whizzer White in University of Utah blanked Brig-haYoung University 0 Friday in a dual Skyline Conference tennis contest. The Utes won both doubles matches and all five singles. But BYU turned around and whipped Utah soundly 16 m 7-- one-ha- lf , E. L. Dick" Romney, Skyline athletic commissioner, will be the principal speaker Wednesday night at the Provo Downtown Coaches Club's annual award banquet. The banquet will be held in the Cannon Hall Cafeteria on the BYU campus, starting at 7:30 p.m. Romney, a former coach at Utah State, is considered one of the state's best and most colorful speakers. He is a brother of Ott e BYU coach, Romney, who also is a dynamic speaker. BYU coaches and athletes will be special guests at the banquet, along with university and LDS 1 all-arou- nd one-ha- lf . 3-- 0; - all-arou- WILLIE SCORES TRIPLE NEW YORK (UPD Jockey Brooklyn, N.Y., (UPD-Ital-lan- -bom . 10-1- third-roun- d 2; 16-1- 9. P-1- P-1- terested in the Pony League are invited to attend the Pony League meeting which will be hel Monday at the Edgemont Elementary School. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. All residents in the area with boys 13 and 14 years of age are encouraged $o attend. 8-- , , eight-coun- The Natural Bridge of .Virginia is 55 .feet higher than Niagara Falls. 1 . nd j 5-- , 7-- 5; 6-- 3, an K-Sta- te, me Joe Cow- in action in Europe. Harold Turley, Hy ley def. Dick Dixon, Saunders def. Gary Crandall, Steve Morgan def. Maurice Steve BenBallif, nett def. Rue Lawrence, Pearce-Cowle- y def. Doubles Pan-Americ- Paolo Rosi Gains Win Over Frankio " 3-- 0. Last year two of the special event stars set ne v standards in tLeir events. Pole yaulter Ron Morris (unattached) v a u 1 1 e d 15' 1" to break the record formerly held by Bob Richards. It was the first time a vaulter topped 15 feet in Utah. L. J. Silvester,-thweight man from Utah State, put the shot 54' 6H" to shatter the record held for 11 years by Wilbur (Moose) Thompson. BYU broad jumper Ben Brooks also added his name to the record books with a leap of 24 43i' to eclipse the record set by Herb Douglas Long-Tim- Earnest Honored Kansas State j 2-- 3-- 0; at ! in golf. to and one-timWyn Howe was medalist with A two 'over par 74. Golf Results: Dean James (BYU) def. Paul Menlove (U), Wyn Howe Church officials. Bimbo def. Dave (U), (BYU) Highlight of the evening will be ,1947. to 2tt 1 ball. ; BYU, best the At the time, the total by White presentation of the Dale Rex looked almost unapproachable. IVi. Errol Raven (BYU) def. Memorial Award to the "Utahn who has . done the most for athBut Spicer set new marks in the Dennis Merback (U), 2Vi-V- i; Dick def. (BYU) letics Paul and to Boyack shot vault during the past year." The put, pole push best ball, BYU, late Dale Rex was a one-tiahead of the other contestants Jonely (U), basketball star at BYU and a and register a record point total. World War II hero who was killed Wayne Pearce def. First Time Singles equals five-eight- hs V ' "t:Lv-- f 'l-ut:r- rs 6-- 3, 5-- 7, 6-- 2. 6-- 2, def. Ballif, if Saunders-Morga- n 9-- 7; 6-- 0, Turley-Dixo- n, 8-- 6, wjww4 : 6-- 4. HANDBALL . CHAMPS LOS ANGELES (UPD Bill Col- lins and John Sloan, both from Chicago, won the U.S. handball doubles championship for the third straight time Friday. They defeated Morrie Singer of Los Anof geles and Vic Hershkowitz 18-2- 1, 21-2- 0, :m 21-- 7. mm rm iijmi -- mi cmm m Ht? ; ' -r'- :-: ''" :':-- I.. '; .'?.'.':..!'.. - a suit: with a 3-- 5 cqiaaro "oot .'. Al Vinyl :. label? Leatherette Trimmed u f -- wow! hey 're Mere! lit makes this sturdy tail j 15' Glass Run About BOAT EVINRUDE ' cr tasters. Incredible? 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They'll attract somee Pro thing like 1,250,000 this year In la Dewey Longworth has been pro- park that seats about 22,000. fessional at the Claremont Country Club, Oakland, Calkf., for 33 years which may come close to being the national record. His club, incidentally, will host the amateur tourney next Friday an event which is supposed to cement good will beSYRACUSE, N.Y. tween the countries of North and Paolo Rosi, who once had South America.. . grand opera ambitions, today was California gets both cf the na-- warbling for a crack at lighttion's major swimming champion-- . weight champion Joe Brown. "I'm ready for a title shot snips this summer: the men's national AAU event at Los Altos, now," Rtsl declared after scoring technical knockout the women's at Red- a July over Frankie flashy Ryff of New . . ding, July York Friday night in their ' The Los Angeles Open Golf nally-televised bout at the War tournament, sponsored by the Auditorium. Memorial Junior Chamber of Commerce, Rosi, ranked fourth in the lighthas returned a net profit of $332,500 down through the years. weight division, floored Ryff twice This compares with a $64,000 def- midway through th third round icit for the same event in San and had Frankie defenseless when Francisco. It all adds up to a Referee Joe Palmer stopped the little matter o( good promotion. . fight at 2:45. "I knew I had him in the secOn His Way Again ond round when I hit him with a Who said Warren Spahn left hook and he grabbed me to couldn't win 20 games In a single hang on," chortled Rosi.. season for the 10th time? The way "Now I want nobody but the Milwaukee moundsman start- Brown," he added. ed the season an 0 shutout Rosi first dropped Ryff for over pennant contender Pitts- mandatory eight- - count with a burghsuggests that Spahn may hard right to the head. A left go on forever. ., hook ent Frankie to the canvas San Francisco Giants, If they for another t. Rosi then in pennant contention, expect moved in for the kill, but Referee stay to come close to the 2,000,000 Palmer wisely stopped the fight attendance mark in 1960, when at that point. natio- -- e, . Saturday's shorts: Lee Frankovich. former UCLA grid starr is bringing a band of 50 ; rooters from Reno in Kan Francisco for the opening of the &an Jjrancisco Giants' home base. ball season next, n hM Mn J aU be They'll wearing cowhov t , . of By nAL WOOD United Press International SAN FRANCISCO (UPD boxing trials at it Madison, Wise, April 28-3was announced Saturday. Coach Red Taylor ald Grant W McEwan, 125 pounds Louis Avil-l-a, pounds, and Don Miner, hat3. . . Howard Capps, professional at 137 pounds, will weigh in April the Desert Inn Country Club in 27 for the trials. Las Vegas, points out that Gene The winners of this elimination even in his crime, won Littler, in the will compete two tournaments west of Chionly in Games boxing competition Arizona. His victories have come cago in May. In the Tournament of Champions (three times), the Los Angeles, Pan-Americ- an 'I Fan Interest Increasing Edwin R Kimball, chairman of this year's meet, said meet officials are expecting a record too, m CITY (UPD Three Utah boxen will represent tennis number Interest, Pan-A- Reno Rooters So Be O n Hand For pening of Giants' Home Season SALT LAKE 1 T7 (1 FR n 3-- 1 SEAT 3 COVER CENTER 074 NORTH OP POST OFFICE Charge it ! e 75 Pay A Monthly Sh n ver s CENTRAL UTAirS FINEST STORE FOR MEN 16 WEST CmTER-PRO- VO |