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Show Dechive State Closes Deseret Ucvs Presents rf Danner Sports Chapter 1940 Parade Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday, AfP , Vh-sF- 2!- - - I (7)4 Kls. LiVi ietes December 14, 1940. Of Champion o Vol. 360. No. 63. 91st Year - i t ? t OCy r lJ !? SU. V L J r" V High Iii Utah Weather Favors Sportsmen In Most Hunts An high of 45,000 deer, duck hunting unsurpassed in modem wildfowl history, an elk all-tim- e hunt which reached 90 per cent and pheasant hunting which was beslightly below par but only cause of the weather! ,n That, tn general. Is the recap of the 1940 hunting seasons In Utah. In the face of varied reports comdeer ing from the deer centers that were less numerous than a year Comago, the State Fish and Game mission, relying on dependable checking station reports, estimated the 1940 deer kill at an all time 5,000 high of 45,000, This Is aboutseason. more than were taken last over the sports ledger for 1940 mostly to take Inventory of Intermoutain sjferts stock, and secondarily to, 'do little boasting on what the sporting boys and girls Jiave done to put Utah and surorunding states In the sport. r light. HARD TO FIND Unusually quiet weather during the deer hunt made bucks hard to find. In some regions, many of the hunters found It difficult to locate female deer. Despite drought conditions during most of the summer and in the face of exceptions of large losses, the flesh condition for the game this fall was the finest ever as will be verified by any housewife who this year worked w ith venison tenderloins In the kitchen. The game department attempted a new plan on the pheasant hunt-th- is season more birds per day but less days. There was only one catch the first day was rained out and a blanket of six Inches of snow or more was spread out over the fields in the northern part of the state. This of course, put a premium on bird dogs, making hunting more difficult. Even with this handicap the sportsmen managed to bag their birds in most instances. The sports crop may fittingly be compared to a harvest of fruit or grain. Some seasons the produce Is a little more marketable than others; sometimes its value dives because of com- peting markets but nevertheless It is still other years it Is poor, grade-A- ; mostly because the seed failed to ger- ) minate as hoped, From our vantage point,, after hav- A 4, ........ ; Hack Miller r'rrs IngKaimfedthe 'rechfds YoT Thefast few weeks, we would catalogue Utahs 1941 sports season thusly. A fairly .lean year nationally but a chapter second to none on the Intermuontain sports scrolls. . With exceptions, Utah did not produce the long list of na tlonal sports figures that it has In several past chapters. This fact might be directly accountable to the European war and the active national war defense program which has tightened up all phases of industry which in turn retards the tempo of the ' t - sports, wheel . ' ' SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS LISTED . . But it is with graitficaUon that sports lovers look to the following significant achievements which have been instrumental in putting Intermountain color in the national sports picture: 1. Ab Jenkins net conquest of speed records in all events from. j - V , Hits At New ll t , Hunting BY HAROLD (HACK) MILLER , Modem as we are, weve rushed pell-methrough another Infinitesiyear, an annum so packed with events that only mal portion has been grasped by the human mind. . But before turning the leaves of our sports history to the potless pages titled 1941 lets pause" momentarily to scan back I t ajor Holes In 1941 Sports Parade Rlay. Engenj Robello, Melmer, Potts, Zimmerman Share Spotlight V X . 1 Armstrong, Cox Leading, Figures IiTCdneaftSliow - --'i, i. 4 kilometers to 3,000 miles. , , ' 2. Alf Engens victory in the national four-waski and national jumping championships and also Engens selection for the American Ski Association trophy. 3. Ike Armstrongs U. of U. victory in Big Seven Conference football 4 Colorado Universitys Impressive win In the Metropolitan Invitational Tournament In Madison Square Garden after winning the Big Seven cage cup. Frank Mehhefaod Gordon Giles' list of tennis championships in Eastern tennis tournaments. 8. Sara Sharmans trapshooting championship In the Grand Na tlonal Tournament. 7. A Utah sweep in the second season of Dass C Pioneer League baseball 8, Impressive play of John Geertsen In open golf tournaments during the winter season. The war kept such famous speed merchants as John Cobb and G. E. T. Eyston off the saline speedway at Bonneville this year and with the exception of a short excursion by Mayor Ab Jenkins mark was bumped up to 161.18 miles In July at which time the per hour, about four miles an hour above Jenkins old mark of last season. With the measured mile off the docket racing didnt hold the sports stage as it has done for the past several years. With speed racing In the background to some extent collegiate athletics, always predominant in the Rockies, took front center on the stage again. The crowning event of the 1940 spring season came when Colorado University made it a clean sweep In the. Big Seven with a championship In basketball, followed by baseball and track. BUFF8 WIN NATIONAL CAGE CUP But the Colorado sweep was not the selling point at the Buff camp. The fact that Frosty Cox and his great basketball machine rolled through the classical Metropolitan Invitational Tournament In the Madison Square Garden did more for Big Seven basketball than any item since the Utah Aggies made such a great show In the Garden in 1936. Later the Buffs went into the national collegiate meet at Kansas City, but tired from the Garden meet the Buffs took hats off to such great clubs as Kansas and Southern California. Frank Pottsaand his CU track team came through to make the season complete with a landslide victory over Brigham Young, in the soring showdown, Utah was third with 36. But the Colorado dynasty came to an abrupt ending when a gent from Denver named Henrv Wal smith, this fall planted a football between the uprights for a lean three points but enough to tie the Buffs and give Utah the cherished championship. While Utah takes credit for the Colorado downfall the direct cause is unmistakably the h toe, which would be framed and placed in the Utah showcase if the owner would peddle It for a reasonable sum. Having defeated both Denver and Colorado the Utes were fairly acclaimed champions, losing In league play only to a darkhorse Utah Aggie contingent The high school picture took a brighter hue when the annual state tournament was torn away from the traditional Deseret Gymnasium and stransplanted In the U fieldhouse. On the first day there Were more patrons seated comfortably In the "U bleachers than saw the state- - finals in the Deseret Gymnasium In 1939, meaning simply that upward of 2,000 more patrons saw high school jacket, hall games than ever before a crowning achievement for the preps. ' BIG THREE JOINS STATE SETUP Also Important In the scholastic picture is the light seen by the Salt Lake City schools for the first tine since 1933 when the Big Three merged with the Utah State High School Athletic Association. This enables all schools to schedule games freely between the two circuits and puts the city athletes back in "big time" competition. Utah missed her Ed Kingsleys and Helen Hofmanns in national golf competition. Our representatives in the open meets and the publinx event gave good accounts of themselves but at no time was Utah in line for a major golf championship. Most of the golf Interest was spread out over home courses. The season was highlighted when uave Sammy Snead and big Ralph Guldahl came to Salt Lake for n exhibition and thrilled several hundred gallery members with a exhibition, . dazzling The women had their day when Miss Fatty Berg, the mischle- Bce ARMSTRONG, COX On Page DUCK HUNT GOOD The Federal government gave the nations waterfowlers two months of shooting in 1940. The Utah and Idaho seasons opened Oct. 16 and wound up Dec, 14., Unsettled weather conditions in the first of November kept migratory birds on the wing and hunters who found time to get on the marshes with their decoys got their birds. The opening hours each day were set at sunrise. This plan worked smoothly during the first of the hunt when hunters starte4 at 6 41 but by the time Dec. 14 rolled around the starting time had worked back until 7.45. Quit ting time daily remained at 4 p tn. Goose hunting was up to par although shortened hours made it difficult to get these birds Inasmuch as they usually went Inland about 5 p.m. to feed overnight In the fields. SO i ELK ABOVE 1939 - Nearly 200 more elk permits were allotted this year than in 1939, yet the 1940 elk chapter shot 90 per cent as compared to 87 per cent In 1939. Elk hunting was improved to gome extent by heavy snows in the highlands, many hunting parties having to be rescued when they were snowed In the higher reaches. . 86-5- 6 Wal-smit- 7-- -- t I They re Intermountain Kingpins In Their Respective Sports For 1940 INTERMOUNTAIN SPORTS during 1940 tears ruled by these seven leaders. Beginning with Ike Armstrong who won the Big Seven football title for the "U end : reading clockwise the kingpins are Tom Robello, top pilot in Pioneer League baseball; Emery Zimmerman, second successive winner of Utah Open golf; Frank Potts, winner ft- Ab Jenkins s Bonneville Salt Flats, mecca for auto speedsters, was almost forgotten last year expect for two days in July when Mayor Ab Jenkins flashed his Mormon Meteor around the saline courses, shattering 21 world rec- -- World-famou- ords. Intermountain AU: Ecker Studio. M Men: Lovell, Wyoming. Auto Racing Ab Jenkins (161.18 Recreation: Guardian Benefit m p.h.) (Jenkins broke all existing sociation. records from 50 kilometers to 3,000 r: conThe doughty mayor-race- r centrated on sAiashing records miles). from 50 kilometers to 3,000 miles, and from one hour to 24 most of Archery State champion: Dean Green, them his own. His average for the grind was 161.18 Badminton mlleg per hour, nearly four miles State Mens doubles: Jack Chrisfaster than the worlds standard he set up last year of 15727 miles tensen and Bevo Beers, Logan. State mens singles: Jack Chrisper hour. tiansen, Logan. Jenkins, In tys State womens singles: Lola Brit-zelonslaughtshattered every AmeriLogan. can and world record for all disMixed doubles: Glen Worthingtances from 50 kilometers and ail ton and Marjorie Davis. standards from one hour to 18 Class B doubles: Bud Bankhead hours. and Junior Bertelson. Class 8 singles: Dale Olson. 24-ho- record-breakin- g l, As- Baseball 6-- 1 Pioneer League: Salt Lake Bees. Pioneer Shaughnessy playoffs: Ogden Reds. Industrial League: Gemmell. Semi-prTournament: Devils o Slide. Federation: Rio Grande. Independent League: Lark. , Big Three: East. State High School: Bingham. Bowling , Ironically enough, Alf Engen, three days after he lost the Intermountain Ski Jumping ChampionTwo University of Utah tennis players, Frank Mehner and ship to Einar Fredbo of the Utah Club, on grounds of poor Gordon Giles, saw competition in a host of eastern tennis tourna- Ski form, was crowned United States a season back lot of 1910 net and ments during the pres- Ski jumping Champion in the nabrought tional jumps held at Berlin, N. H, Mountain the to country. Rocky tige Feb. 23. combination The At the end of two graceful, started with the Arkansas Valley Harmon of the University of Cal- soaring leaps of 218 and 217, feet, tournament where they grabbed respectively. Alf broke the hard all the titles there were to be ifornia, Giles bowed out of the Eastern luck spell that kept him from winhad and then left that region. Both Tournament at ning the title In many previous Mehner and Giles reached the fi- Collegiate Tennis N. J, ahead of Mehner, meets. nals In the singles, Mehner defeat- Montclair, the latter going down to Eastern critics who reported the ing his traveling partner. The two Beilis of Pennsylvania. meet wrote: Engen won the nathen went on to win the doubles. The Izzy Utahns won two rounds in the tional title yesterday by an unFollowing the Arkansas meet doubles but lost In the usually wide margin as as judges Mehner find Giles traveled to Wilwere impressed by his mington, Dei., where Giles went AT FOREST HILLS form, the best in the meet, as well out In the early rounds of Middle went from the New Jer- as his distance in the leaps. States Tennis Tournament, and Mehner tournament to Forest Hills for Engens total for the jumps was Mehner went, on through to the sey New York State meet but lost 229 3, comfortably ahead of Merrill the semi finals when he lost to Hal the in early rounds to Joey Rich-bac- Barber of Connecticut with 2253. Surface of Kansas City. Mehner teamed with Bill Par-doPULL UPSET of the BYU to enter the1 round feating Izzy Beilis of Pennsi lvania, A week later In the National In- of eight in the doubles. But this Frank worked his way to the tercollegiate Giles and Mehner in Utah team went down in the next the doubles, pulled the tourneys round in straight sets to Elwood finals in the Central New Jersey Tournament at Philadelphia but big upset when they ousted Joe Cooke and Bob Harmom Hunt and John Williams. In the Giles quit the tennis tour before was forced to default when the finext round, however the Utahns the Forest Hills meet but Mehner nal match was postponed for four went out to the No. 1 seeded, went on to win the Ocean City, days, Mehner returning home for team of Bob Peacock and Robert N. J, championship July 19 by de- - the Intermountain championships. Glles-Mehn- , 7-- d semi-final- - .. ' ' Round Robin Championship: Joe Barney. State single;: Norm Shultz. State doubles: L. C. Sinrmons-HerFessman (Ogden). Top J. C. Net ter, Basketball Bill Hallmark. State Mont Carlson, of Mesa won the Big Seven: Colorado University Team championship: Marsh Pest Intermountain Junior Junior College tennis championCollege: Control (Ogden). Ladles singles: Creola Earl. ship at the BYU Invitational. Dou- Snow College. State High School: Ogden. bles winners were Clare Anderson hrett South. and Dean HIncklqy of Snow. a See ZABLE CHAMPS Oa Page I I Alf Nations Best Jumper Mehner Giles Win Eastern Net Titles PT&bJe Breaks Records - of his fourth Big Seven track title; Frank Mthner, Inter mountain net champion and star in eastern meets; Alf Engen, nations No. 1 skier; Frosty Cox, cage champ. b pear-perfe- e 6-- 5-- 6-- |