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Show r PACE TEN. THE HERALD-JOURNA- rt ...... UTAH, LOGAN, L, DECEMBER TUESDAY, 19, 1939. outb Cache Flays Hoop Tilt Shifted Ahead; Grizzly Game Tonight Coast Hoop Spartan-Bea- Scalzo Picked To Spoil U. S. Bow Of Venezuelas Chavez r Logan High Entertains North Cache Hoop sters In Region One Feature WELL QUALIFIED orts Year Reviewed By Ferguson DOMINIC Team GOES Begins Tour This Evening REGION ONE BASKETBALL BERKELEY University of CaliTonight's Schedule fornia's basketball squad, rated as At Logan High Gym: the second best team in the nation Logan Seconds vs. North Cache Seconds, 6:45 p. tn. last spring, today prepared for a workout against their Logan Grizzlies vs. North Cache Bulldogs, 8 p. ni. toughest foe of the season final Utah State Aggies vs. Cache Valley Coaches, 9 p. m. examinations. Thursdays Schedule Finishing their examinations, the Bears will take on the strong MichiAt South Cache Gym: five on December 22 in South Cache Seconds vs. Bear River Seconds, 6:45 p. m. gan State and will then depart on Berkeley, South Cache Spartans vs. Bear River Honrs, 8 p. m. a barnstorming trip which will take them all the way to the Fridays Schedule east coast and back. At Ogden: Play Aggie January 8 The opposition for the Bears will Ogden vs. Weber, 8 p. ni. BOSTON mO SOX ON PERSONAL mCOMMENDAltOM OF MANASES JOE two-wee- 6000-mi-le With the date having been changed last evening owing to a conflict in the school schedule, South Cache Spartans will entertain the Bear River high school basketball team scheduled Thursday evening at the Ilyrum gymnasium in asa on originally of instead night, Friday region one contest, planned. The change was announced this morning by Coach Con Watts. Beaten in their first region encounter by Weber Warriors, the a South Cachians will uncork to take the mighty attempt measure of Lyle Tripp's Bears, and a capacity crowd is expected to fill the Spartan gym for the contest. arrangements today Although were not definite, it is possible Cache Valley Coaches, that the member of the new Vulley Hoop at league, will play Utah Oil varsity South Cache after the game. If that be so, announcement will be made tomorrow. Grizzling vs. Bulldogs A brilliant basketball program will take the region stage tonight at Logan high gym when the Grizzlies tangle with North Cache. This contest was moved ahead since Logan city schools are to be dismissed Thursday afternoon. and the Logan Christmas baU is slated for the gym on Thursday evening. has Coach Glen Worthington for the lined up three games program this evening, beginning seconds at 6:45 when the Grizzly reserves. engage the North Cache comes at 8 The main feature o'clock, while at 9, the concludCoach matches ing attraction Dick Romneys Utah State Aggies All with the Valley Coaches. three games are expected to pro- dure plenty of court fireworks, Today f g HENRY McLEMOKK BV include a number of the best teams the country Bradley Tech, Dart-- I Columbia, Pennsylvania, Marshall mouth, College. Ohio State, Nebraska, Utah und Utah Aggies being included on their schedule. Because of their size and height, the Culifornians have already been dubbed the Brohdingnagian Bears." Coach "Nibs'' Price, known as the "Little Giant" of Pacific Coast basketball can put a team on the floor which averages six feet six inches in height. However, in I Sports Parade "' i f. Smithfield Second i j ho, 54-4- 10 13 j j . . j ! ; 1 4- ,Ir i ; Utes Defeat Oregon Stale Again ii 53-3- i( THE WANT ADS Basketball Results CALL 50 rden. 3SAZ- all-st- ar City and Auto Bowling Leagues Finish First Half In the Monday and Tuesday evening series, two bowling leagues, City and the Auiomobile, of play, completed the first-ha- lf with Heb's Pig Stand heading the City circuit, and Taylor Service coming out on top of the Automobile league. Heb's Pig Stand keglers won 33 games, lost 27, during the competition, although only .250 per cent separates the first team from the last team. Competition during the entire first half has been exceedingly close, and at times only a few points margin existed between opponents. Second places in the C'ty leage are Logan Laundry, and Anderson Lumber, each team having won 32 and lost 28. M. and L. Coal company came third with 31 and 29. Taylor Service maintained a good lead in the Automobile circuit with 43 games won and 17 lost .716 per cent. Carl Nelson placed second with 35 and 25, wh'lr Club Billiards achieved third at 32 and 28. The scores: CITY LEAGUE Final First Half Won Lost Pet. Pig Stand Loean Laundry Anderson Lumber Hebs 33 32 27 .32 28 31 29 National ..28 24 Herald Journal 32 36 -- M. & L. Coal Co American .650 .533 28 U4GAN L. 119 128 O. M. .187 136 180 192 .Teppson L. Messervy P. Darlev 110 R. Nyman R. Fulkerson Dummy A. Swinyard R. Anderson Totals M. & Handicap J. Larsen L. Fullmer .1. Mortenson G. Peterson H. Flnsign Totals -- 94 142 137 .116 169 94 ..150 151 166 148 166 207 816 924 L 1193,57 272(1 2R2 94 172151 178463 147448 159491 201-5- 56 951 2691 COAL 127 122 20 179 ..177 118 174 146 16.5 18.3 162525 117412! 177516 214543 92 965 2846 ..952 127 157 INDUSTRIOUS B.Y.U. Hoopsters Whip Ricks y. With 113 131 122 137 205 .942 o59 919 ANDERSON LUMBER Handicap one-tim- a goodly sprinkling of a nucleus around which to build a squad, Ben coach Bingham, at swimming Logan high, has been working his charges out during the past two weeks in preparation for the season opening on January 3. Bingham, a Logan high gradu-- 1 ate now attending USAC, will be upon such paddlers as Sid Cardon, Wes Bill Smith, Goodrich, frcestlve; Don Bateson, Bob Sidoway and Moroni Schwab, breast stroke; Cordell Lundahl, Allen Price, Loyal Seeholzer and Don Johansen, back stroke; and Max Cornia imd Mont Dunford, diving. Five schools have entered the state swimming league, including Logan, Bear Weber, Granite,, 2855 River and Box Cider. The complete season schedule is as follows: regulars as Totals 127 168 AMERICAN NATIONAL 381 J69 jolts. He has been boxing seven years. repelled Kid Chocolate, the e Cuban negro luminary, in Caracas in 1934. He appeared in Paris and London the followin year. He Logan Tank Squad Set For Season Opening LAUNDRY Yeates Railey Ga- CHAVEZ IS VENEZUELAS RING HERO During the past year in his native Caracas, Chavez has twit) repulsed FYeddie Miller, the t.v champion, as well as turned back Archibald and Scalzo, Archibald's title protected by the scnles of course. Chavez' blood is a mixture of Castilian Spanish, Negro and Guaiiros Indian, with the Indian predominating. His people go all the way back to the settlers. His Indian ancestors lived in the mountains of Venezuela. They were a hardy type and Chavez is the kind who tan travel 10, 15 or 20 rounds at a fast pace. It is his speed and ousy style which bring him so many victories, Chavez is accorded the same homage in Venezuela as Jack Dempsey is in this country. He has earned more than 200000 bolivas. about .$60,000 ,in the past year. ARCHIBALD MI ST Oil E VICTOR TITLE BATTLE It is said that Chavez present r'P started out an a h; dated1 honeymoon. He is here with his and manager wife, mother-in-laJess Losada, a Cuban. But stung by the criticism which followed the decision in his favor over Petev Scalzo in Caracas last Oct. 15, Simon Chavez announced that he was willing to meet Pete Reiilys warrior in Caracas, New York. China or at the North Pole, The 20th Century Sporting Club has no arena in Caracus, China or !at the North Pole, but Michael Strauss Jacobs does have Madison Square 'Garden in New York and so ith both belligerents on the si a. it was no trick at all to sign w .5X1 .516 .468 .400 2.59 Single game E Dunn 6.58 Single series B Clark team game Herald Journal I1154 Team series Herald Journal ..2950 Handicap jarring REX BURG, Ida., Dec. 20 i!.lfi team Brigham Young basketball from Provo, Utah, had little trouble Ricks beating College 77 to 49 Inst night. The Utah quintet led throughout. The halftime score was 33 to 17. Christensen. BYU center, ran up kane, Wash. 17 points to take scoring honors. Tennis America lost her ace when Don Budge turned professional and the Australians lifted the end of the year was prepar-- i the Davis Cup by winning three ing to move into the heavyweight1 matches out of five. ranks. Boxing Joe Louis, defending his Racing Challedon, Maryland- heavyweight title four tmes, de- bred colt owned by William Brann,! feated John Henry Lewis, Jack was hailed as the horse of the Roper, Tony Galento and Bob year. Pastor. All of the champion's vicTrack and Field The man of tories were either knockouts or the year was a Finn who now is technical knockouts. Billy Conn in the army'Taisto Maki, who wor. the light heavyweight title broke five world records in dis-- 1 by outpointing Melio Bettina in tances from two miles to 10.000 Madison Square 'Garden and at Her-she- Dec. 22. Square REALLY IS UNCROWNED CHAMPION Chavez bid for the title is pretty well along. Indeed, he may well be called the uncrowned ruler inasmuch as he has taken a decision from Scalzo, who. as related in the foregoing, knocked out Archibald, the recognized one in of those king, things. But Socker Scalzo contends he wor. seven of 10 rounds front Chavez and was the victim of one of those home towr. decisions in Caracas, Venezuela. I wouldn't know about that, but I am picking Socker Scalzo to spoil Chavez' New York debut. The former New York newsboy is likely to stiffen anybody, especially a charger like Chavez. Anyone sticking along with him for 10 heats is bound to he pretty well punched around. Chavez will stir up plenty of trouble, however. H is built for wear and tear . . . has a jaw constructed to take world. Alice Marble She won or shared in every one of the six major championships open to women. Here are the high lights of 19S9 in each of the major sports: Baseball Yankees won American League pennant by 17 games and Cincinnati the National league pennant by 4'-- i games. Yankees swept world series in four straight games and furnished six players for the American league team that defeated the National league, 3 to 1 m the game at New York. Joe DiMaggio, Yankee center fielder and batting leader of the American league, wtfh generally hailed as the player of the year. The 1939 season also marked the passing of Lou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman. Football Three major teams Tennessee, Cornell and Texas A. and M. finished the season unAUTOMOBILE LEAGUE defeated and untied. The shifting Final first Half of football power to the south and the return to favor of the running game as against excessive passing were two of the features. Nile Kinnick of Iowa was acclaimed the player of the year. Golf Byron Nelson, a promising Texas-bor- n professional, won the National Open by defeating Craig Wood in a second play-of- f round at the Philadelphia Country club. Team series Taylor Service ..2855 Nelson also went to the finals of the PGA tournament, but was defeated by Henry Picard of Pa. The women's title went to Miss Betty Jameson of San Antonio, Tex., and the men'i amateur to Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spo- Madison CTMVEZ all-st- j Beats Franklin hign-scorin- . at -- double-breaste- ' BY HARRY FERGUSON YORK, Dec. 20 4lT.lt A baseball team, a dazzling young boxer from Pittsburgh and a girl tennis player from California dominated the world of sports in 1939. The level of performance in all sports was high and in some notably college football was so high that no one competitor or team stood out above all the rest. But baseball, tennis and boxing provided these outstanding competi- NEW tors: The New York YankPes Winners of the American league pennant for the fourth consecutive year: victors over the Cincinnati Reds in four straight games in the world series; chief contributor of talent to the American league team that won the game. Billy Conn A fast, flashy boxer who defeated the best fighters in and division the middleweight then moved up to become light heavyweight champion of the Price's present first string are just .pygmies compared to his tallest five, averaging only six feet three inches skyward. Big Bill Ogilvie, 6'6" center, is the heart of the Bear offense. Ogilvie was third highest scorer in EL PASO. Tex., Dec. 30 dR The more I hear of the Sun Bowl the southern division of tne Pacific football game which will be pluyed Coast Conference last year, poshere on New Years day, the more sessing an amazing d push shot which is impossible to I am tempted to swap my blue serge for a pair of guard against Huge Guard chaps, my Homburg for a ten galBill Biggerstaff, 6' 5" guard, with lon Stetson, and stay here instead Ogilvie, takes care of the backboard; of going to the Rose Bowl. on defense and opponents seldom One of the teams that is going Ariget more than one shot against to play in the Sun Bowl is zona State College of Tempe, a this duo. Biggerstaff was a reserve bustling little town in the Salt end on Californias 1937 Rose Bowl River Valley just outside of football team. The other guard position is taken The college song is Phoenix. Home on the Range,'' the team care of by Captain Walt Bickerton, mascot is a little dogie, the floor strategist for the California Bickerton is known as school flower is the cactus, the team. buffalo and antelope play on the "Midget," because he is only six campus, the sky is blue all day, feet tall. He is the most aggressive member of the team. and anyone who says a discourThe two forwards are newcomers aging word about the team's to the first team. Dud Morgan is chances against Catholic Univer sity on New Year's day is liable an aggressive ballhawk, ambidextrous and capable of breaking up t0 be plugged with a six shooter. any bail game.. Bob Alameida is a . . steady performer, has a good shootI' s a rootin , tootin , football team of cowboys, and ing eye, and plays a good loor le onY thing the referee has to game. Coach Price will attempt to use watch out for is to see that the Starters take off their his reserves on the trip as much as tackles and Worthington will start Roy spurs before guards the kick-ofThat, possible, in order to give them game Junior Humpherys and either safety man against experience before the opening of Bertleson or Mac Maeser at for- - alul warning the He has who hreaks the conference season. a" n"n-n- l ward, and the center position is named the following men to take yet a question. Bob Gilgen is the Bill Bill the Ogilvie, Biggertrip: veteran, and will probably get staff, Wale Bickerton, Dud Morgan, the nod, but Sophomore Bill Ryan Bob Alameida, Bob Biles, Tom has been developing so fast that Bell, Jim Bailey, Thurston Davis, Gilgens position is not at all George Jung, John McGee and Dick secure. For guards, Glen has four Vieille. stalwarts: Captain Wayne Smith. tears into an enemy line like Allen W ilson. Burnaby Crookston a stamieding buffalo, and runs the and George Nelson. casabai -- "dslike a .rrd pinto a real Coach Jay Whitman's he n p,ain ,0. team is the only Cache Valley a "miendoiw de bull. 1 ,s region one member to walk off fensive player, largely because lie season with a victory in the uses his hulldogging ability to openers last week. He anticipates tackle. at Hansen Howard starting g Led by the center: Dean Andrew and Ray: pair ' nads his man high around of forwards, Wes and Les Downs, Hayes, forwards; Max Rich and1 the head and works down to where Smithfield Second ward M Men beBovd Barker at guard. Cannon would be and lets him sieged Franklin hoopsters to take Lowe Parkinson and Charles have it. My guess is that he will a 2 victory. Wes made 18 points, head the Bulldog reserves. brand some of those dude eastern- while Les registered 16. Big Improvement ers from Washington, D. C., before Every player in the Smithfield improvement Fifty Members over. PUt.s ripped otf lineup V h scored, while Cooke, guard of the among ' a,ds for Franklin, was high point man Cache squad has been noted durscored of the and schedule the conference evening with 29 points. ing the past week, and Coach was The scores: Con Watts will put a much wiser, 52 points. HisHepunting average touchthrew two C. T. F. P. SMITHFIELD 2nd on 35.42 yards. much smoother combination and kicked ten extra W. Downs f down 7 6 4 18 floor the Thursday evening points. passes, L. Downs f 8 0 0 lfi against Bear River, 1 N. Sorowther e 0 0 2 Especially are the reserves ini- coached is Stale Arizona by D. Sorowther g ... 2 0 9 4 proved. Last week, the Spartans Alabama the Dixie Howell, sharp1 2 1 3 led Weber by six points until shooter who is not new to howl B. Lowe g L. Smith 2 ...1 Ralph Maughan and Ariel Maugh- 1935 Dixie did the In games. B G. Downs 3 0 0 an, two of the stars, wore taken the did Don Hutson and pitching D l . 2 from the game by fouls. Then Geary i catching to beat the daylights out South Cache fell to pieces. ! t in Rose Bowl, the of Stanford 11 24 Totals 6 54 Starting against Tripp's Bears 1 1 come along fast as a FRANKLIN G. T. F. P. will be Ralph, center; Ariel and Dixie has This is his first real job Robinson f I! Doug Shelton, guards; Doug coach. he has taken and In two Morrison f . Long and Charles Schenk, tor-- , the Arizona years from nowhere squad is a wards. Luiulgreen o that There H possibility chamborder to the conference Stone g Watts will shift Schenk back i in to guard, sending Bud Oakes to pionship. His team specializesfoot- - Cooke g io o 0 20 and open, aggressive just, i o 0 2 forward. Oakes has been show-Hampton ball. ! 0 0 0 0 as has Corbridge Troy ing good work, 1 Cornish 0 0 2 Yeates on the forward line. ..... The report I get is that the Reserves t from over come wilt Arizona hoys Totals is 19 9 4 42 the Encouraged Spartan Tempe vm horseback and that of coach over the development c saU1UnR ex'kam1,s Grant White, guard. White roans, hibits a great deal of fight, and a.vuses, strawberry I th4 am P?" to is getting better on passing and ,or. 11 ford e Tl"y just to line reserves Other first II shooting. and will eat from a toughen lip, Claire are center, Cummings, i ''huik-wngion route, with jerky t Lynn Bradshaw, guard, and Fred as the standard dish. Walker, forward. SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 20 il.'.n The Catholic U. team wont be of Utah basketeers he western sue- University Bob Bunker, numbers a classy rn,ir;) made it two straight last night over bunch of sophomores who will 'ounlng of the Sun Bowl as it Oregon State, 39 to 20. The Utes Ur develop into a star team in a buj. on its squad a Intllan' Joe Guvon. Jr., a son of the won the first game Monday. or so year 4 The first half was nip and tuck, i J big chief who ran wild on southern ! U gridirons as a Georgia Tech half- with the Utah quintet ahead when back. If Junior is half as good as the whistle sounded, 16 to 15. In his father was, feathers will fly the second half, the barnstormers in the Sun Bowl. Because the oP appeared to tire. man was one of the sweetest runLeading scorers were Benr.ion ning, hardest hitting, men ever to with 12 points for Utah, and Mulder put on war paint and take that with seven for the visitors. In the preliminary, Utah reserves football under his arm. beat Weber College. 53 to 39. 1 will work for you honestly, ILNANCIAL AID consistently and economicalHOLLYWOOD, Dec. 20 (ll!i Georgia Coleman, former Olympic ly. diving champion, was assured of Drake 47, New Mexico 39. To reach cash buyers quickfinancial aid today for an operation Phoenix J. C. 46, Carbon J C. 33. to correct a liver ailment. A donor, ly, use The Herald-JournUtah 39, Oregon Suite 20. who asked to remain anonymous, Want Ads. Oregon 45, Baltimore 40. promises to meet all hospital ex-- 1 Brigham Young 77, Ricks 49. penses until after the operation is Idaho 37, Gonzaga 29. performed, W. W. Skelton, lriend Colorado State 50, Wichita (Kan.) of the Coleman family said. U. 49. BY HARRY GRAISoy NEA Service Sports l.'ditu, NEW YORK, Dec. 2o-- The ity of beak busters is on theun beat. It's about time. A1 Hostak and Fetey sca, 0 . , . take my word for it improve the class of two divisions' They are smackers from Smack ersville. Ceferino Garcia wont, in mv humble opinion, go mou; than round or two with HLte.- - Hostak Neither will any other middle, weight who is around at this time It would take a whale of a to wmp Hostak Billy Conn would have to star, much quicker than he has in the past to survive the Seattle kid, early fire. In belting out Joey Archibald and Allie Stolz and in other starts Scalzo looked like the finest feato. er since Johnny Kilbane. And now out of the tropics conies a new and colorful figUre to try for the world championship. His name is Simon Chavez, who flaunts !he vast amount of confidence he has in his own ability by tackling Scaho in his American bow . . a Totals 959 993 903 Fans Protest RAN FRANCTSCO, Dec. 20 (IMD Hundreds of letters from football fans poured into the Shrine East-We- st football game headquarters protesting the exclusion of Kenny Washington, great U.C.L.A. negro back, from the western team. Babe Ilollingbery, of the western team, commented: "We didnt select Washington simply because it would jeopardize all-st- ch 3 January It) ALL MODELS WITH SOEMTYI VALVE-fN-HEA-D ENGINES toads a given distance in lass timal ll the accelerator! CMC trucks any trucks carry maximum out-pu- January 17 Bear River at Logan. Granite at Box Elder. Weber (bye). Januury 24 Box Elder at Logan. Granite at Weber. Bear River (bye). January 31 Granite at Bear River. Weber at Box Elder. Logan (bve). Sir Henry Irving was the first P.ritish actor 41 be offered a knighthood. He refused the honor in 1883, but accepted it 12 years Bear River ut Box Elder. Granite (tye). February 21 Logan at Bear River. Box Elder at Granite. later. It will be most difficult for Joey Archibald of Providence to deny the victor a crack at the crown. Logan at Weber. Box Elder at Bear River. Granite (bye). February 7 Bear River at Weber. Granite at Logan. Box Elder (bye) February 14 1 La)gan i Never before have truck men felt so much power from a touch of our standing among the southern colleges. Nobody has to remind mo how good Washington is. We played against him for three years. I know plenty." them. at Granite Weber at Bear River. Box Elder (bye). Logan Exclusion of Negro January ' Weber at Logan. Weber (bye). 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