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Show 1 Sullivan, Fitz, Ketcliel, Gans, Dixon, Barry Are Roches All-Tim- e Gre THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943. LOGAN, UTAH, ield Fourth To TV of m M W Can't Sink Him Track Titlist Division M Men Meet Goes Into Semi-Fina- ls Builder Tonight at Wellsville Has Troubles , Sc P1 n. urali?: '" - t-- ;r By KAY NELSON 3asketball bench experts in the Cache division were today favoring Wellsville First and Smithfield 4th as the two M Men clubs which will be fighting Saturday night for the 1943 championship of northern Utah and southern Idaho. The amazing Smithfield club, sparked by Clint Nelson, Dean Rich and Butch Gutke, swarmed over the famous Mendon Eagle quintet last night as the division tournament completed its second round in the Smithfield gym. Leading 6 at the first quarter, Mendon drop6 at the half, and ped behind were then unable to get within eight points of the flying Smithfield stake 11-- champions. Defending . .1 1 1 1 U 4 . 1 1 1 h.cinn 1 champions, Wellsville First, had its hands full subduing a rugged and fighting Providence while other teams First ward in the to go into the championship bracket were Logan Nintn, which gained a close decision over Smithfield Third, and Logan First, downing Trenton Tonight in Wellsville the semi- finals will be run off, and emerg- ing from the four games will be two clubs which will battle Saturday for the crown. This department missed one out 5 of four predictions for last even- MtllmUle fi Providence ing's battles, and takes a crack at the field tonight: Tmtton Logan Mrs! T K P GTK P Smithfield Third over 1roviilenee 4 Kllrrman.t 2 0 0 4 ti 3 2 Rhmp.f First But the fighting Providence li b 111 Twitt hfii.f Andrew, f 6 fi Hulscc 2 ft team stands a good chance of wearHiildmitn c ! 2 ft 0 0 ft Cosvmftn.K Pmv.fr ing. down its opponent. The loser 00 o ft Prn ne.K Turner, of this tilt drps from the meet, 0 1110 orrnaen 10 7 I 21 10 Sparkman while the winner goes into the con0 0 ft 1 Jones iwr Hltkmxn ft 0 ft 0 solation finale. ft ft ft ft WGkht Mendon over Trenton In a battle which may be the best of the Totals round. The Eagles, if they get over Trenton, are favored to take the consolation title. The loser here also drops from the tournament. . 38-2- 4, .... r semi-fina- itk ls 4 33-2- 8 .ft 4 1 44-3- ft ft 4 1 1 1 1 (I J 1 lilt 1 .1 1 I 1 00 Utah Stater Wins Smithfield Fourth over Iogan First If the former North I ' , 4 AAU Swim Feature Cache high stars can keep up the pace they set in beating Mendon last night, they'll face Wellsville First in the finale. Wellsville First over Logan Ninth Although the defending champs conrused by the fighting club from Providence last night, and barely pulled out a win with a rally.they should come back stronger tonight and lick the Ninth. Reviewing briefly the games at g, last-quart- OGDEN, Utah. March 4 (I'D The annual intermountam AAU junior swimming championships opened last night in the Weber slum with Wayne Christensen of Utah State winning the featured medley race from Willis 300-yar- d Wynn of Weber college. Smithiield: Sparked by Ellerman and Andrew-former North Cache high stars Trenton stayed in the fight with Logan First all the way. Hud it not been for John Sorensen, former Mendon star now residing in Logan, the Firsti would have been doomed. But Long John was hot with his famous .ip-i- n shots and made 22 points. Bill Twitched made 11 to help the Logan cause. ReMatched March 26 Against Mendon, Clint Nelson made 19, Dean Rich 11 and Harold Gutke 10 for Smithfield Fourth. NEW YORK.March 4. (I'D Pvt. Durrell Hughes, one of the best Johnny Greco of the Canadian army guards in the tournament, again and Cleo Shans, rugged Los Angepaced the Eagles with 15 points, les negro lightweight, were signed while Zeno Anderson got 10. bout at today for a return r Best for Smithfield M.idison square garden March 26. Third, which lost to Login Ninth, Greco pounded out a decision was Winn who scored 16 points to over Shuns Friday night and was remain among the tournament's understood at that time to have high scorers. Ray Hayes, former clinched a title shot at champion North Cache star, made 17 for Beau Jack. But promoter Mike Ninth, however, to top Winns count Jacobs explained that the boxing at the first quarter, commission would not permit Gre- Trailing Wellsville First received a scare CO to go the title distance from Providence. Atkins. Pickett, because he is only 19 years old. Alder and Campbell kept the scrap "I have been asked to have Greco c so hot that third quarter score was fight for the Canadian armys 0 for Wellsville, and hnd the equipment fund", Jacobs said Providence boys convened some of "I picked Shans again because the their fouls, they might have won public was so pleased with the great Archie Darley was best scorer for fight he gave Greco " Wellsville with 14 to his credit. 100-yar- d 160-yar- 400-ya- pomt-gette- 5 ath-liti- 23-2- TWO - M ILEUS YORK, March 4. tf P) men from 20 colleges Forty-si- x e were entered today in the run at the annual IC4A indoor track and field meet at Madison square garden Saturday night. Defendingof champion Leroy Schwarzkopf NEW two-mli- i f Yale has not entered the event and may run in the mile. instead, . im ri if William Claybrock of Charleston, W. Vn.f claims hes unsinkable, due to peculiar floating powers, and proves it by taking a snooze on the water and balancing a brick on his forehead. In Frat Loop; Swimming Next LOS ANGELES. March 4.-- 0T" Henry" Armstrong may not be the fighter he was when lie held three boxing championships- bui the hurricane still can "Hammering first-plac- d, place-winn- 100-ya- 100-yar- d free style, stroke, rclav. All finals relay and will take place Friday beginning at d 180-yai- 160-jar- d 4 p. m For diving entrants there will be a running front dive, back due, e t, and back four optional dives. Fraternity league standings with boxing totals are as follows: Sigma Chi 8.l pion last November and now is 8.(6 Sigma Alpha Epsilon comeback. a making 701 The NBA does not now recognize Pi Kappa Alpha ."7 Angott as light weight champ. Sigma Phi Epsilon Greene said. "Angott has applied Delta lhi for recognition hut we have not Sigma .Nu 5tg extended it yet", the NBA head explained. Greene threatened that if Pep Bill tries to claim the lightweight title 1 he would lose his status as No featherweight contender in NB rankings. This group leiognies Jackie Callura of Montreal as fe ruler. NKW YORK. Mari h -d r Bill Gulilliii MiGie, rigid li imli d alibi r of he X i w Yoik Gi uiU. im Pi D J f ii mi out" for the tint lion JlUulOS DIO 10 1 1101 half-twis- jack-knif- Fiddler McGee Takes To Famine J T I"! .1 , Barney Ross Life d Pi HOLLYWOOD. M u.h Barney Ross' agent xml tml.iv th t several studios hue hut tor the DECISION right to film ttie fightu s lif. moiv. I Ross' agon, Lou liwm, said severOAKLAND, Cal , March 4. U -- Chut ley Burley, Minneapolis mid- al stars, including John Gu field. James Cagney, Giorge Haft and 'a dleweight, was awarded a dtciMofi over little Tiger Wade, of bunch of others", would like to y San Francisco, in last nights main Ross in films. event at the Oakland auditorium. Irwin said Ross still needs rest to The derision, a close one, came at recuperate from wounds suffered the close of a dull bout featured by on Guadalcanal, and that his condifew solid punches an many clinch-i- tion would not pt mill a peisonal and the fans shouting for action. appeal ance tour. I -- pot-tra- s, Fight With Armstrong Costs Broken Jaw Race Tightens iv mIg ed on the r mse 1 lie (Ini. s a In,; ;: nr iik i n p1 u uhiiit.iiily lettm -t la pi n s to icm tin on hi h- Ill turn tuumr he , is ilisoiud m Biinmik ixpluned hut it hi li lies the t irm foi htixch ill o in othir ouiipution he nutomiiii he reihssified in MiGie is marr.cd but h n no id,-vi- children. Ohtamed from the St Lou , Cards in 19(1 for pitihir Hmv Gumbei t ami cash, MiGio didn't live tip io expci tations In t, n xe sons with the Glints he v. on u iy eight against 13 losses. , ( rol light-heav- 4 A 220-ya- BII.LY ROCHE S BEST OF ALL TIME Left io right: Stanley Ketche!, w elter eightJ livan, heav) weight; and George Dixon, featherweight. Inset left, Joe Gans, lightueirhi njitJ Bob Fitzsimmons, middleweight. Sullivan saw real the BILLY' I ROCHE several Joe Thomas at By times. My father, John S. Roche, Famous Referee and Manager n tbc 32nd the seconded trained and John Flood best fight I ever saw. K John Lawrence Sullivan not the barroom and Ryan against him. The first weighed 145 pounds that boilermaker, " brawler -- was the greatest fighter time Sullivan met Charlie Mitch- noon, but rapidly gMW I ever saw. ell he knocked the Englishman middleweight, and was a k I The best in each division down out into the crowd in jhe third spectacular champion of that 4 round. vision when he was killed at 4 through the years? Well How would I rank the heavyPound for pound, Ketehel xl Heavyweight -- John L. Sullivan. weight champions? Well Middleweight Bob Fitzsimmons. perhaps the most formldabla rJ 'H Sullivan, Jack Johnson, Fitzsim- er I ever saw. Welterweight Stanley Ketehel. mons, Corbett, Jim Jeffries, Gene Lightweight Joe Cans Gans was considered the J Featherweight George Dixon Tunney, Jack Dempsey and Joe lightweight long before he knoj Louis. Science was LiT Arthur ed out Frank Erne Barry Bantamweight - Jimmy in aroI y I Johnson's middle name, Fitz was win the championship pay no attention to the Th J1 and flyweight classes. There the hardest hitter of them all. Old Master for i. etc no such divisions years ago Corbett punched Jeff around like years, had to reigned make the The oiigin.il i lass limits were a dummy before the California that caused his death befl mr, pounds for bantams, 115 for Grizzly caught up with him. You to losing it Battling Xeison feathers. 133 for lightweights, 142 couldn't think of putting Tunney Gans fought for 19 years, ml for welters, 154 for middleweight, in the same ring with Jeff. Dempin 20 fights of aj and anybody scaling more than sey was too easily hit, yet, in my ticipating than 20 rounds. that Vas a heavy. And that meant opinion, would quickly flatten Dixon was George ringside, not at some trick hour Louis. champion for four years, festJ in the early afternoon. Champions, Robert Fitzsimmons, the tall for Little Chocolate no longer able to make them, Cornishman with the toothpick for eight 21 years, frequently gradually increased class limits. legs, little head, long arms and weight to famous fighters. 4pi,, i Sullivan was unbeaten fotr 14 the shoulders of the blacksmith ist, he was equally efficient years, but, as I pointed out in an he was, weighed lSC'z in the ring short engagement or fighucel earlier piece, he is remembered when he knocked out Jack Demp- a finish. as the fat old man of 34 who sey the Nonpareil in 13 rounds Jimmy Barry, a grand was beaten by James J. Corbett. in New Orleans to win the middlestand-u- p fighter, knocked As bad as he was then. Gentleman weight championship in 1891. Casper Leon at Lamont, Fitz weighed only ,158 in '97, 28 rounds in 1894, to Jim, a remarkable boxer, required 21 rounds. the St. Patricks Day afternoon Dixon, when the Canadian-- t That gives you a rough idea of the solar plexus punch was born Negro stepped into the how formidable Sullivan was at at Carson City and he succeeded weight class. Walter ' Croot, his peak. Corbett as heavyweight champion. British champion, died after hj There were long stretches beHuge Jim Jeffries shook blood knocked out by Barry in 20 r fore and after the Boston Strong from his head before tagging a in '97. Barry was not quite tl Fitz in the eighth same after that, but boxed abet Boys knockout of Paddy Ryan at Mississippi City in 1882 that no- round of their return match in year, and retired undefeated. body could go four rounds with San Francisco in 1902. Im not seeing my selections i him, and they came from all over Ketehel won the welterweight the greatest tn the flatter the world to try it. championship by knocking out light of distance. - Utah State's nip and tuck fraternity intramural race moved to- hit wards the stretch this week as Willie Joyce of Gary, Ind., decis-tone- d Director H. B. (Hy) Hunsaker anArmstrong in a swim nounced that the annual Tuesday night Joyce suffered a 10 ' sore set March been for has tourney cheek" in the eighth round winter e.nd last night it was diagonsed as 11 and 12 to finish off quarter sports. Meanwhile, Sigma a jaw fracture Joyce will be out Chi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon were of circulation eight weeks. separated by a slim 14 points after SAE had moved up with the' team boxing first place. With winter carnival definitely called off, Director Hunsaker slat- ed a managers meeting for Friday for organizing next week's aquatic meet and the spring term program, which will determine the years top mural team. The Sigs, winners of the F. P. Champ trophy last year, have led the greek-lette- r circuit since the mat tourney last e national AAU awards. fall, but the two leaders have Dean will depend upon Cliff Bour-lantraded wins since then. 440 national champion and a Sigs Ahead blazing sprinter to carry on for in season. Backing SAE has "won championships this up Bourland will be Searles Tally, touch football, A basketball and in '42 NC boxing, and placed second to Delta high jump AA; Earl Audet, Georgetown trans- Phi in open house, while Sigma fer who tosses the shot beyond 53 Chi has won wrestling and "B" feet; Dick Browning, low hurdler, basketball, wrestling by a wide national junior AAU champ in 1940 and Warren Smith, half miler, sec- margin. In the swimming tourney, trials ond in the coast conference last in nine events will be run off on season. Doesn't look like an NCAA win- Wednesday and Thursday of next Both week, with finals Friday ner does it? But dont bet the mortgage on fraternity and department teams your pound of ground round. The will enter, with at least four t ntries dean warbles weakly in the winter required for each squad Defendbut he sings a mean spring song. ing swim champions are Sigma Chi i mi Foresters last Events Wednesday trials will take place Sammy Angott Not breast stroke, ii the free style, back stroke breast stroke. On Recognized As Champ and Thursday there will be prelims in d the diving class, back 4 UT Other first night winners wer? PATERSON, N. J., March Arthur Hicks of Granite in the NBA president Abe J. Greene tofree style, John Murphy of warned Willie Pep of Hartford, day eber college tn the breast the stroke, Marian Lucas of Weber gym Conn., not to attempt to claimSamin the women's free style, lightweight title if he defeats d Weber gym in the free my Angott in their bout at Madison March 19. style relay, and Box Elder in the square garden Greene said he had heard reports relay. that Pep, recognized in New York as featherweight champion, would take such action if he defeated Greco And Shans Angott. The latter retired as cham220-ya- JStr 1 3W - - ft v -- type I ' W?: able builder of champions in his job as traik coach lit university of southern California. The ol' dean still looks as chipper hits a slowbut the drac of his er beat when he looks over the list of his pet athletes who've been called up in the army reserves. Actually the den, usually the I 23 - Sherman has a staunch supporter in Dean (Champ) Cromwell, vener m 1 ipimp By LISLE SHOEMAKER United Press Staff CorresMndent LOS ANGELES, March 4.- -d It's a sad, sad plight, men, and Gen lost a hatful oi record breakers when Uncle Sam said I want you.Gone are: Hubie Kerns, NCAA '41 440 champ; John Waehtler, second in NCAA 440 last year; Walt Smith, national jr. AAU hurdles champ; Kenny Wren, leading broadjumper; Wilbur Thompson, NCAA shotput place winner; 1 NmilhfiHtt lliinl ogmi Ninth John Sanders and Vernon Wolfe, G r r p (1 T I' P ft vaulters. SkklinnM f 1 Tnnlmn f 12 ' leading pole 2 2 Mum ii f M iturUon t That group itself would be fully 0 u 2 I i:tflxrt t 2 Phillips capable of winning the title for the ft 7 1 lt All.-mu k i ihi J Trojans if it stayed in school. 2 3 ft Litrwn You see, what's worrying the dean 11 14 JR 12 11 9 3J Totals teams have won is that his Mendon Hmilhfifld Fourth the NCAA Trojan meet for the past eight GTK P dTKP 4 2 1(1 Andernon f Outke.f 4 2 2 10 years and there are doubts, strong 3 3 0 Ki hauls, f. Ellin, ones, if he'll be able to push what's 4 Miihner.i i Hit in the strainer up to the front. 4 Shelton. k 2 2 0 Nelson. s r 3 19 left 7 3 15 HuitheH.ic G lliily.mLg 1113 Cromwell, who calls everyone of 0 0 0 0 Hurtlnifln KHiHynnl 0 0 0 0 his men "champ" and thereby gets them to believing it themselves and 4 34 12 la Totals Score hv quartern. proving St In action, is by far the . .. It Mendon most colorful of the nations college Sinithfudil track coaches. He's beginning his 35th season at Provtilrm-MelKullr first ( T E P pi USC the only university Where he 4 0 2 2 11 Dnrlm.f Pit kett.f 2 has ever coached. ALL r f I ft 2 J 2 1ft 4 W MRUulmn.f During his reign he's led the M MuiiKhnn 2 2 J Hatr v 0 lii I) 2 K 0 YTroymen to II NCAA titles out of Mautfhan.ir Atkina k 3 0 0 the 21 held since 1921 more nation12 2 fir MatiRhn Camphell.K ft I hugg !! ? al collegiate track championships 0 0 2 I.MdiiKlinn than have been won by all the rest s 13 ntl e 5 2 3 Ar.liilwlil of the universities in the nation put 0 0 0 llunni'll His pupils have won 15 together. Olympic championships, 69 NCAA Tntnla 1111(11 and 1C4-titles and 33, count 'em Hcnre by quarters: y- tii . 44; M .MEN Tonights Schedule In Welsvi'le Junior High Gym Consolation Flight: 7 p. m. Smithfield Third vs. Providence First 8 p. m. Trenton vs. Mendon Championship Flight: 9 p. m. Logan First vs. Smithfield Fourth 10 p. m. Wellsvihe Fir?t vs. Logan Ninth z. Tci T- - Record HASKETIULL TOURNAMENT Last Nights Results Logan Ninth 33, Smithfield Third 28 Smithfield Fourth 40, Mendon 31 Wellsville First 38, Providence First 24 Logan First 44, Trenton 33 CACHE DIVISION r y- Logan Ninth, Wellsville First, Logan First Southern Cal. Coach Remain In Race For Coveted Builds Famous Basketball Crown J io U t |