Show JT r :t Hr e tarns Men Crown TWO EXTRA Daffy Hopes His Trouble PERIODS IN TITLE GAME EAST SIDE WIN FINAL Paul Shows Signs of Eighteenth Stages Hot Weakening Higgins Greenberg Firm Finish but Loses by DALLAS Texas March 7 UP) Score of 35 to 33 (Daffy) Dean Champs Come Through Battle Enables Five City Junctipn to Take Crown Home Great FINAL SCORES Ogden Eighth 85 Eighteenth S3 St Johns' S3 Twin Falls 21 JOgan Seventh 35 Third 28 Manavu 27 Dlmond 25 By JIMMY HODGSON Ogden Eighth ward retained its basketball chamLD S pionship Saturday night in a story book finish that went two extra chapters Burly Fred Turnquist leaped high in the air and slipped a d shot through the strings from the foul line to put the happy ending to a great tournament for the Junction City fans When the smoke of the final gun had cleared the dazed spectators found Ogden in front 35 to 33 It was a perfect finish to one of the best Mutual tournaments ever staged Ogden ran up eight points before Eighteenth even found the hoop and was in front 12-- 7 at the quar ter 3 at the half and 9 in the Some of the most third period cptlmisUo Eighteenth ward fans were ready to admit defeat at that point but not their valiant cagers Bob Benson pushed through three shots and his brother Dick added two more in true circus fashion to bring the Salt Lake titleholders within two points of the Ogdenites Bob Benson sneaked through the Ogden defense for the shot which " brought Eighteenth on even terms with its rivals for the first time Benson was fouled on the shot and had a chance to tuck away the contest with the free toss Bounces Out " Bob confidently heaved Che tall while the crowd held Its breath but the spheroid hit the back of the hoop bounced to the front of the Iron and balanced on the rim with the decision jat the game resting hi one-han- 27-1- CHAMPIONS it Nears Finish SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 8 1936 Cowboys Defeat Aggies’ Reserves 48 to 33 in Champions of Biggest Basketball League in the World Last Jess talka- tive member of baseball’s brother bad boys indicated today ho is weakening in his holdout fight with the St Louis Cardinals Not so however with Frank (Pinkey) Higgins Who said he was getting nowhere with the Before taking off for a round of golf Daffy declared: ‘‘I haven’t signed yet— but I sure hope to soon I haven’t heard a word I’d like to ’settle after a winter’s heavy trading and selling is training with the Dallas Steers "I’m just waiting” he said “Mr Mack hasn't said a word In several days— and neither have I" Higgins who picked up 310000 last season received a pay cut on the first contract offered but the second contained his old wages Now he wants more — and argues he's worth it If he’s worth 3100000 on the auction block J ri-ft-' ct result Collegiate Tract Title in New York five-minu- te ' Landis Sees Brisk Times For Baseball w -D- bemg-made-by Manhattan Wins Ken-esa- ft"? head of the University of Wyoming geology department to captain Cleo Petty of the Utah Farmers To Leave Sunday - : The titleholders will leave for Logan early Sunday morning by automobile with their next goal an inter-districollege Olympic battle with the winner of the district composed of Kafhjpaa Nebraska Missouri and Oklahoma collegians There was never any serious doubt as to the outcome of Saturday's game Coach Dutch Witts started three of his regulars and two subs against the Aggies’ lineup — and at least one of the subs Ray Einspahr looked better than either of the Cowboy first string forwards The Punchers got off to an early lead and although Aggies kept within a point of their foes for a lime they were never able to gain the lead and Wyoming pulled far ahead midway in the first half The score at intermission was 24 to 17 for the home team Big Lew Young led a second half drive that sent Wyoming’s margin soaringo put the game in "the bag Even then the Farmer reserves scored 15 field goals to 18 for Wyoming but their defensive play Was rough and ragged and the Cowboys tossed in 12 of 21 free throws the 83-3- 3 in Florida is working harder to get in shape for the baseball season that High Commissioner Mountain Landis Recuperating here from a throat ailment Judge Landis said today he feels "bully" weighs more than he has in years and will be on hand to toss out the first ball in an opener or two “It looks like the best season since the boom days following the war" he aaid During his stay here Judge Landis has been resting in the sun and driving over the near-b- y country Today his physicians let him play golf for the first time Trophy STAFF CORRESPONDENT Wyo — Wyoming’s Cowboys gained some doubtful consolation Saturday night by taking the third game of tha Rocky Moun- tain Conference hoop championship aeries from an array of Utah Aggie substitutes 48 to 33 Oeaeh E L- Romney used every one of hi nine reserve players while his regulars who had won the title by two decisive victories over the punchers Thursday and Friday sat on the bench The champions received the Rocky Mountain Conference championship trophy between halves of the final game the presentation aid HsJigurea it would take him a full three weeks to get ready for the season star third baseman Higgins of the Athletics and the outstand- NEW YORK March 7 (A’l-- For the first time since Ty Cobb’s day the Detroit Tigers had a holdout on their hands today Big Hank Greenberg clouting first baseman of the world champions told the Associated Press he had no intention of going to the Tigers’ training base at Lakeland Fla until he has Ironed out his contract difficulties "I read In the papers that Mickey Cochrane says ha won’t permit any players to work until they have signed contracts” Hank said “so Pm going to stay here for a while” Hank revealed he had not heard from club officials for two weeks and had received no answer to hie last-lette- r asking for better terms the balance than the champions had offered Dame Fortune favored the Ogden The big slugger declined to say team The ball fell away from the what salary he was seeking just sounded hoop and the gun shortly or how much ths club had offered wax after forcing the floor warriors He was paid aomewhers around into an extra period 310000 last season Neither team Could hit the hoop In the first extra period although Earl Maw of Eighteenth laid up a shot on the rim which once more did the balancing act before falling off the outside of the basket Again fickle fortune frowned at Coach Elmer Thorum’s desperate Charlie Welch quint and Two-Gu- n lifted his Big Bertha to stop play With the battle as undecided as the game started After a rest Ogden MADISON SQUARE CARDEN hushed 'the ball to the Eighteenth New York March 7 UP)— Climaxing Burton had and basket lanky Earl with a smashing three slaps at the leather but each their performance in the 1600 meters relay time it bounced off te hoop The triumph ball was finally snapped back to final event of the meet Manhattan team tothe husky Turnquist and he sprung college’s track and field captured the intercollegiate high In the air and planted the ball night A A A team title for the third squarely between the iron for the year with a total of 26 straight M Men basketball that made goal " points history Scoring in only five of the 12 Great Teams events but capturing three L Ogden Eighth outclassed the varsity of them the Jaspers from the side Balt Lakers the early part of the walks of New York coached by game with their brilliant passing Pete Waters asserted their supremand shooting but the tougher the acy on the board by a decisive margoing became the better Eightwhile a crowd of 10000 spectaeenth played Ogden Eighth was gin tors acclaimed their performances great in its victory and Eighteenth Yale and Harvard waged a hot was equally great in defeat Any battle for second place with the two teams that can put on the ex- Elis emerging in front with 18 Vs hibition that the two finalists put to the Crimson’s 1714 on Saturday night are deserving of points Manhattan's powerful t e a hi more Two the highest praise struck its first big blow in defense worthy squads have ever fought it of the title when Lou Burns lanky out for the crown and the veteran-EMRay To try to point out stars would sophomore one-tw- o in the 1500 meters run ran do an injustice to the other players Burns cams from nowhere on the They were two fine machines who last two laps and outfooted his did not care which players did the teammate to win by three yards in coring as long as the ball went the relatively slow time of 4 min— two teams well the hoop through utes 5 seconds deserving to play in the finale of Eddie O'Brien Syracuse’s specIn the tacular middle distance the largest basketball league star surworld to capture the vived rough going Consolation honors In the tour- - 600 meters final The Orange flier (Continued on Page badly pocketed and bumped around during the first half of the race shook himself loose just In time to outsprint Edgar Borck of Manhattan on the final lap and win by five yards O'Brien with no chance to take the pole and force the pace failed 'i threaten his own world Indoor record of 1:21 set this winter He was clocked in 1:217 BELLEAIR Fla March 7 CD— Nobody U' S A C Given LARAMIE this business” He apparently has recovered from a bruised leg suffered In a recent automobile accident Daffy 'has been training on golf —and golf has been ‘‘terrible ” he club Battle Laramie Qnintet Holds Lead AH During Tilt Young Star of Victors Philadelphia Athletics ing remnant of the Playoff i1 Zion Park CCC Team Takes Championship ZION NATIONAL PARK- -C C C company 1966 of Zion National park recently won the division four championship In basketball In the Utah league by defeating 7 Escalante camp team The game was played in the Panguitch high school gymnasium The Zion Park five played stead- ily throughot the game They played the entire game without a time-ousubstitution or a t The two teams broke even in the first second and fourth periods Escalante was outclassed during the CCC 22-1- third quarter when the Zion Park five ran up a seven-poilead nt Ogden Eighth ward captured the L D S basketball title for the second straight year Saturday night by defeating Eighteenth of Salt Lake City Members of the title crew are: Back row (left to right) Coach Owen Wangsgard Lloyd Sparks Earl Burton Fred Turnquist and Spence Wangsgard Front — Blaine Steele Ralph Wiggins Ed Thorsted and Clyde Hunter all-chur- Tribune Nominates Four Western Stars for Team shade behind this pair In the title By BOB GOODELL Written Expressly for The Sait Lake series he looked even better than Gardner but on a basis of Tribune performance he la made to concede LARAMIE Wyo March 7— Four an exceedingly slim edge to hia runwestern division aces are selected ning mate Cleo Petty Aggies’ Injured capon The Salt Lake Tribune’s was fully as good a forward Mountain conference basket- tain as Ryan this season hut his ab1636 ball team for sence from the champlonehip set Here’s the mythical aggregation: made It Impossible to consider him Kent Ryan Utah State and BUI for honors Lew forwards Kinner Utah Young Wyoming center Rollle ' All-Roc- State and Hugh guards For a second team the writer nominates Ralph Crowton B Y U and Ralph McClure Greeley State forwards: Willard Pederson Western State center: Ed Wade Utah State and Stan Christensen Wyoming guards Ryan’s splendid play was climaxed by a remarkable performance In the conference chamUtah’s four-yepionship series ace Kinner Is shifted to forward in the absence of exceptional performers at that position and also to make room for the giant Young a great backboard man who handles his huge bulk with remarkable speed He was the whole Wyoming offense in the title series and would be a credit to any team Kinner would be just as much at home at forward as at center and no Rocky Mountain honor team would be complete without him Gardner and Cannon are given first team places at the guard posts which present many talented play- ers this season All season long Gardner was the most consistent man on Utah State's great team while Cannon was B Y- U's mainBoth are excellent scorers stay and defensive men as well The towering Ed Wade Is only a Gardner Cannon Utah B Y U ar - Huskies Take Second From Oregon State Brevity Finishes First Hartman for In Final Florida Derby Mangin Plays Tennis Title Favorite NEW YORK March 7 Gregory Mangin ‘‘took a walk” into the final of the United States Indoor tennis championship today while Leonard Hartman whose previous athletic fame has been won in basketball rather than tennis had to grind down Frank Bowden to gain the other berth three times champion Mangin and In ths final for the fifth successive year advanced through the default of Wllmer Hines of Columbia S C who reported a aore throat and high fever Mangin and Hartman will decide the 1936 title Tuesday night when the first combined men’s and women's championships will bo brought to a close The final brackets in the women’s division were gained by Marjorie Gladman Van Ryn of Philadelphia wife of the Davis cup doubles player and former champion Norma Taubele of Naw York Mrs Van Ryn who entered the tournament for experience on board courts and without lltte aspirations SEATTLE March 7 Wb-- Ths University of Washington Huskies put a double cinch around ths championship of the northern division Pacific Coast conference hers tonight by taking their second straight game of the series 25 to 19 from the Oregon State college baseliminated Milllcent Hlrah 1 ketball t$m while Miss Taubele had soma trouh&lfkftme At the score was Wash- ble disposing of Mme Sylvia Hen-roti- n ington 13 Oregon State 11 0 8 Ths of France women’s final will be played Monday night Former Hurler Dies Hartman’s elimination of BowPitched Perfect Game den seeded fourth and two notches 6-- 6-- 6-- 4 3 3 above him at 9 provided the biggest upset of the tournament Following his smashing straight-se- t victory over Sweden’s Karle Schroeder in the quarterfinals Thursday Bowden was regarded as the only survivor capable of dethroning Mangin Bowden’s reversal of form today was just as startling as was his triumph over Schroeder although it in no wise detracts from Hartd man's It was victory Hartman's second upset of the tournament In the quarterfinals he put out Gilbert Hall seeded second in straight sets 6-- NASHVILLE Tenn March 7 believed (UP)— Tom Rogers 42 here to be the only man ever to pitch a perfect baseball game in ths Southern league died from pneumonia here today Rogers got his baseball start with the Nashville Vols In 1916 he accomplished the feat of allowing no runner to reach first base in nine Innings against Chattanooga COlIECr SWIMMING 30 Pittsburgh 48 Manhattan Delaware 50 Swarthirora 18 87 University University of low Wisconsin 27 Illinois 46 Vfc liinnssott 37 V 7-- B well-earne- 6-- Wins by Five Lengths Ties World Record Wright Rides Victor Miami Fla Brevity Takes March (UP) Equalling the world’s recofi for a mile and a Top in Books long Joseph E Widener’s Brevity won HIALEAH PARK — 7 fur- NEW YORK March 7 (UP)— Joseph E Widener’s Brevity by virtue of his victory in the Florida Derby today was mada a aeven to two favorita to win tha d running of the Kentucky Derby Frank J Cosgrove New York bet ting commissioner established the price Hal Price Headley's Holly-roo- d Is second choice at eight to one in the Cosgrove book with Marshall Field's Tlntagel quoted at 12 to sixty-secon- one ST LOUIS March 7 (UP)— Brevity was quoted a four to one favorite in Charles Burke’s winter book on the Kentucky Derby tonight after publication of news of the colt’s sparkling victory in the Florida Derby today C Y O Boxers Set Out On Honolulu Voyage SAN FRANCISCO March 7 boxers of the Catholic Youths’ organization of Chicago sailed from here today for Honolulu where they will take part in UP-T- a two-nig- ht welve tournament meeting amateur fighters of the picked Islands The party was headed by Father James Carroll and Included Coach Paddy Kane and Tom O’Connell C Y O boxing commissioner for the Chicago area Texans Enter Tourney ALPINE Texas March 7 UP)— The Sul Rooss college Lobos champions of the Alamo basketball conference will enter the A A U meet at Denver March 16 athletic officials announced today the 320050 Florida derby today over a field of seven star rivals It was the last renewal of that event Breaking into the lead within the first furlong the strapping bay literally ran away with the race to finish five length to tha good under stern restraint Dnieper owned by Mrs P A B Widener coupled with Brevity as an entry finished second with C V Whitney’s Bright Plumage half a length behind in third place Since February 22 when Brevity won the Washington day feature Florida talked of nothing but Brevity for the derby and will talk of nothing else now that it's over Equals World Record Brevity completed the mile and a furlong in 1:481 which established a new Hialeah track record and came up even with the world mark set by Discovery in winning the Brooklyn handicap at Aqueduct in 1935 Discovery was then a ao Brevity's performance as a is the more remarkable The race was a grand show for the players of form and most of the crowd of upwards of 20000 had a bet down on the handsome Widener colt The mighty roar Which usually accompanies a favorite's win was tempered by the fact that Brevity paid but 3250 to win on a 32 ticket 3290 to place and 3220 to show Dnieper of course paid 3290 to t place and 3220 to show Plumage paid 3260 for a show card This was the ninth and last running of the Florida derby Henceforth the fixture will be known as the Flamingo stakes The race was run under threatening skies and the Iqng delay at the Start made it seem likely that rain of 16 personals Aggie Wy- oming committed only seven personals allowing the Farmers few shots from the foul line Outstanding Star Captain Stan Christensen the Cowboys’ veteran guard was the outstanding star of the game rolling in 15 points 11 of them in tha first half and handling hia defensive duties in fine style Young played his characteristically effective game under both backboards and scored 12 points for second high honors Little Einspahr at forward showed an abundance of drive and scored three baskets in little more than a half For the Aggies Blanton scored nine tallies three of his field goals coming from long range Red Hanson tanked three field goals and speedy little Grant Andreason played the floor well Raeldon Goates looked particularly good in the second half and scored tha final field goal of the game with a tremendous toss for the longest ringer of the contest Technical Foul The veteran referee Ernie Quigley called only one technical foul Saturday that on an Aggie player Incidentally the colorful ’’Quig” worked an excellent series leaving d players and spectators with his handling of the games Laramie fans are eager to see the Aggies in action once more and an official bid has been entered to stage the inter district college battle here UTAH BTATX Blanton rf Andreaaon If 8kouaeii rf Henderson rg Garff Ig Hannon e Anderson If Goatea Ig McClurg rg Totals Elnanahr rf R Christensen Young c If Welgand rg 8 Christensen Ig Erickson rg 7 Kuiper rMf Hicks rf Sullivan e If Buttorff Longsndorf rg Bjorn ig J four-year-o- ld three-year-o- ld and-Brigh- (Continued on P West Signs Contract to Join Browns WEST PALM BEACH Fla March 7 UP) — Sam West St Louis Browns outfielder who has been holding out for more pay signed his contract at the training camp here today The terms were not disclosed 'West signed shortly after reaching camp from his Texas home I i-- Ufl |