| Show lor-act-o yomiB Salt fab ® Section C Sports — Six Pages of Activity PART 3 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH Utah Plans Two Ski Meets To Select Performers For Competition in Idaho — JANUARY 15 C 1939 I An Example of How AhlquistWon High Point Honors Cougars Lose Fred Weimer In First Half ColoradoansWill —WomenAthletes Perform in SlateEvent Ecker Hill Event On Rustler Hill By DON BROOKS T SUNDAY MORNING Ahlquist Plays Star Role in 53-3- 5 victoiy of Redskins With the hill in good condition the road excellent and plenty of parking space Utah’s best skiers Saturday night wereprepared to rip the lid off 1939 jumping com petition Sunday at 1:30 p m on giant Ecker hill A pleasant rip and more competition will be the reward for those who can plant their skis the longest distance down the hill from the takeoff for the jumpers Sunday will determine who will make up the team to represent Utah in the Sun Valley invitational January 21 and 22 Utah’s skiers will not ride alone however Late Saturday seven Colorado skiers ‘‘schussed’’ into town and announced they would attempt to take top honors back to the snowy slopes on the east side of the Rockieq Five of them are class A performers They are: Lester and Gordon Wrenn of the Steamboat Springs Ski club Ivan Hudspeth Hot Sulphur Springs Jim Mosley and Morris Birkett of Steamboat Two class B jumpers are Springs with the group Marvin Elkins and Frank Smith of Steamboat Springs In the forefront of the Utah entrants will be Einar Fredbo stylist extraordinary Einar who deserted Utah two years (Continued oa Page 4C) For the first time In Utah's brief but spectacular winter sports history a women’s skiing team will be picked Sunday afternoon to represent the state in competition across" the borderlines To the six winners in an open event to beJield over a thrilling slalom course on Rustler hill at Alta will go positions on a team to represent Utah in the Sun Valley invitational January 21 and 22 Sponsored by the Silver Skis Salt Lake City winter sports organization the contest will be held in conjunction with that or ganization's annual class Cand D slalom tournaments The three events will be held over the same course the women’s open to be run off first beginning at 1:30 p m The women riders will run the longest distance starting from the top of Rustler hill and skiing through about 15 gates to the foot of the slope The C class race will start about 100 feet down from the top of the hill while D class riders will "push off’ approximately another 100 feet 40-24 one-han- er Merlin Ahlquist Utah center is shown arching a long shot into the hoop for Utah He is guarded by' Gus Blake Hugh Bird intercolficgiate outdoor champion fourth and John (25) and Waynard Lowe (23) of Utah and Emmett Andrews (13) Bob Deason (8) and Jasper French (3) for C S C are shown Wall of the San Francisco Olympic 5 under the hoop Utah won the game club fifth and last Wallace Fordham Wesley flashy junior who a week ago set a new world record for 500 meters came up from second place oh the back stretch to pass Lou Burns of the Whirled through the final four cir- 69th regiment and go on to win the h run in 1:135 one and cuits on the new armory floor The seconds under his armory recLou former mark set last year by DENVER Jan 14 ID — The LARAMIE Wyo Jan 14 UP)— ord time of a year ago By his vicBy RUSSELL NEWLANg Burns was 3:118 mountain district will be repRocky tory he gained permanent posses- The Wyoming university - trustees scores OAKLAND Cal Jan 14 (AP)— Two team in resented by an eight-ma- n sion of the rainbow division trophy interviewed six coaches and exBan Romani Third clubbed from the hilly Sequoyah course changed the golfing pic- the national A A U boxing cham Wallace Scores in coaches American search their Handily Saturday Archie San Romani Francisco in April ture here Saturday as the field marched through the third round pionships at San h consection’s The Wallace scored handily beating for an athletic director and basketrecord holder was third tournament $500t) Oakland open testants will be determined by elimmile vic- ball and football coach to succeed of the with Lieutenant Richard Bauer of Burns 1938 tor by eight yards Dick Squires Willard (Dutch) Witte inations in the district amateur Setting the pace at the the Shore A C Elberon N J former 0 tonrnament in Denver March Ohio State star now running handsome Dick was pole fourth and Howard Borclt of the for the Home club took third place The trustees deferred naming of This district represents Colorado total ahead of Jack Harley of the Lenox Witte’s— successor or succes'sors Metz of Chicago with a 69th regiment national Wyoming and New Mexico HiH A A7Martln Witte of N Y UT until the regular meeting ttrbrfceld k bad last champion in authorized elimination tournaand of the tournathe New York March 1 have been the-ta- lk Don Lash the Indiana state po- A C EStripling of 1 Among those Interviewed Satur- ment had not E J (Dutch) HarORLANDO Fla Jan 14 (UP)-Wa- yne ments in those states will win the liceman ran the same type of race to compete in the Denver With Lash a double as an day was Everett Shelton of Den111 Sabin of Los Angeles will right he had a week ago in taking the added starter seeking barged in meet six men went to the ver reported to be holding the in- rison of Oak Park efspecial in 9:174 far slower post in the g meet Gene Makd of Portland Ore This will be the first time the side track for appointment as head just ahead with a spegovernor’s than his 1938 meet mark of 9:11 cial and John Borican of the Shore cowboy basketball coach fort of 64 Sunday in the singles finals of the Rockv mountain district has been Hoosier let his A The sandy-haire- d C Elberon N J who led all the Others called before the board officially represented in the nationThese two rounds set the stage Florida tennis championships former Indiana university team- way breezed in the" al boxing meet The team will winner in the were: Harry Gamage head coach p all set runner-uthe Deckard a Sabin mate Tommy defeated Elwood Cooke of for a hew leader and slow time of 2:164 to the the at from Dakota South Coach comparatively range university into came around then going pace drive down the home Portland Saturday in the semi- heavyweight class The stylish negro national pen- Armstrong of Chadron (Neb) Nor- in the 10 to win by yards tathlon and the bell lap 1 0 Mako won from mal Coach Weinbergen of Dick stretch Sunday at the end of which finals 1 junior Outstanding'performers in the anDeckard was second George scored by five yards over inson (N D) college Coach T E tournament startA C third of the New York the winner jvill find a purse of $1200 Hal Surface of Kansas City 4 nual Denver Elks Charley Beetham of the 69th regi- McCready of Hastings (Neb) col ing January 23 will be eligible to 2 6 ment former national lege Coach Astle of McPherson waiting compete in the district A A U Cooke who was definitely off his champion The Home club ace came (Kan) college Moves Into Lead tourney This meet has had A A blazing up from last place in the Okie Blanchard Casper Wyo game won the first game pf the U sanction the last four years fifth for tie a moved from Metz straightaway to nip Francis Slater high school coach one of those bematch and then through net errors Officials of the Rocky mountain of Fordham indoor A A U said it was planned to was not present place into the leadership Except ing considered virtually handed Sabin the set In Lash in second place Saturday champion for a bogey four on the seventeenth the second set he again took the make the regional tournament an for a few moments finished fifth annual event Steve Hokuf assistant Wyoming when he hooked an iron shot he first game behind Sanford Goldberg New York coach was on the but was Harcampus CD— 14 Five double faults in the first and BOISE Jan Andy would have equaled the competitive fireman from the Millrose A A not called before the trustees games of the final enabled rington former minor league incourse record Harrison tied it with third Sabin to win with a toss of only College Scores fielder and manager of the Walla Utah 53 Colorado Stale 35 seven birdies through some deadeye nine points B Y U 27 Wyoming 35 Walla Wash Elks semiprofessional putting and a remarkable recovery Colorado 52 Denver 31 Idaho 27 Washington Stats 18 from a trap on the eighteenth de baseball team was named manager Idaho Southern 34 Rich 32 d spite one slip when he Creighton 34 8t - Louis U 31 Greeley Matmen Win of the Boise club In the Joe Molair 53-3- 600-ya- one-tent- Coadies Seek Metz Moves Into Forefront Witte’s Post Of Oakland Open Field Denver Plans Ring Team mile-hig- 8000-met- er 72-ho- le er three-quarte- rs Sabin Mako Scrap In Net FinaL er 29-3- le super-golfin- 1000-yar- d 112-pou- 6-- title-hold- er 6-- 6-- er Ace Named 1000-met- er Play Pro Stars three-putte- In Final L A Grid Game Saturday new Pioneer league of the selection Announcement came from Haydn Walker Boise LOS ANGELES Jan 14 (AP)— Football bids a belated farewell owner who said Harrington would here base second for Sunday when the New York Giants champions of the National manage and play the Capital city Club Professional league and a powerful aggregation of pro players comHarrington 84 was a former St prising an all-stteam meet at Wrigley field Mary’s (Cal) college star and Revamped for the event the park signed with the Detroit Tigers in home of the Los Angeles baseball' kickoff 1925 with Slingin' Sammy GroOmed to play third base for club will accommodate 30000 spec Baugh Clarke Hinkle Lloyd Card-we- ll Detroit he was farmed to Toronto tators and sponsors of thesell-o-game and Erny Pinckert in the Seek of The International league in 1925 remained confident xf a field and Gaynell Tinsley and Perry Sanctioned the National throng by arm late his but injured throwing league as the only postseason ap- Schwartz holding down the end poIn the season sitions Shifted to second base he played pearance of the qamplons permitAgainst this combination the GiWith Toronto in 1926 and 1927 and ted the game’s profits have been ants have Ed Danowski Ward Cuff covered the same position for Fort dedicated to a charitable- - organiHank Soar and Nello Falaschi as Worth in the Texas league in 1928 zation Predictions that the battle would backfield starters and Tuffy and 1929 Hugh Wolfe Leland Shaffer From 1930 to 1933 he was key- be hard ' fought came from both stone sacker for New Orleans of camps where for two weeks or and others waiting on the bench Probable starting line-upthe Southern association and was more the squads have been trainN Ray Flaherty coach of the Howell YGLANTS second baseman for Seattle of the ing Tinsley Widethir Elmen It and 1935 Redskins 1934 tn Washington gtydahar Pacific Coast league IS Xufu Gentry Henderson erstwhile coach (Qua) and 1936 c Wlatrafc L'lotlay rg Uehnnger Injured in his last season wjlh of the Los Angeles Bulldogs and Parry rt Kinnard Seattle Harrington was unable to newly signed by the Detroit Lions Poole re Brhwartt Falaachl ' Ob Plnekert plev professional ball until recently are in charge of the Soar Ih Bauch Cardwell rh His Walla Walla team won 22 and while Steve Owen came out to Cuff Dannwsltl Hinkle fh lost only five games last year guide his Giants — Officiate Referee E W Coehrane ChiThe umpire Rum Bowen Loa Angeles: plan to send in its cago Harringtonjsats and throws right field Judge Ab Young Lo Angeles head most potent scoring threat at the Untetnan handed 1 i Ritter Detroit ar - ut Lee-ma- s: I A If all-sta- rs 29-1- set-up- set-a-n- ew 4’- — 25-1- photo-finis- h with Leslie MacMitchell brilliant New York university freshman veteran Gene Venzke of the New York A C Saturday night armory record of 3 minutes 72 seconds in capturing the featured three-quartmile run at the annual track meet of the Sixty-nint- h - -- five-ma- (Continued on Page 4C) Giants Will two-ma- -- Enthusiasm was running high Saturday night in feminine skiing circles on the eve of the open event Dick Kimball official of the Silver Skis reported late Saturday he had received the names of IT of the state’s best women skiers who will Boise Pilot ut slow-pace- By BILL BONI two-mi- 19-1- Slow-pac- down three-quart- 53-3- 15-1- fast-growi- NEW YORK Jan 14 (AP)— In a near A? By JIMMY HODGSON The University of Utah basjset eers who had been countedbut of the Big Seven title race Ijefore it started jumped backinfo the championship picture ip'lheir inaugural league contestSaturdtfy night by completely outclassing the Colorado 5 State college cagers TheUtah jitterbugs are one of thqspeediest teams that has ever represented the hilltop school They flashed through ten minutes of sparkling basketball Saturday to sew up" a 0 lead and then coasted home to a clear-cvictory which marks them as & team to be considered and considered seriously in this Big Seven title chase for 1939 The Colorado State college quint n which is more or less a aggregation Gus Blake center and Emmett Andrews forward was never in thg game with the of the league Utah dominated the play from the opening tipoff The Utea had "possession of the balt almost con-- " tmuously for the first ten minutes of the game so that the invaders This fast pair kept the ball away had only five shots at the hoop from the Cougars by employing during that time and were able to d attack built around make only one field goal a set plays Reserves Flay The Cougars’ cause suffered a Before the first half was over severe blow when Fred Weimer center fouled out with only 12 min- Coach Vadal Peterson had four reserves in the game and before the utes gone in the first half Although they hustled well Crow-to- n contest ended every one of the 15 and Allen could not match the men on his squad had a chance to show his ability under fire n assault Cowboys’ The score at the half read 3 The first half was a dog fight all — the way Both teams obtained plen- for the Indians That score was ru n up to 8 to s ty of shots some of them With Allen start the second half Emmett Anbut both were cold connecting from the corners for drews then got away for three senthe If and Young hitting his pivot sational long shots which put the shots for Wyoming the score never Aggies back in the game momentarvaried more than two points during ily but after that the Utes led by Merl Ahlquist started peppering the entire period The count was tied seven times the hoop and the score jumped to before the Farmers knew what before' interffilSslon in Hie second period Wyoming chariged its de- was happening That was practically the and fense from zone to man for man and sent Kuiper inside to the post in Coach Vadal Peterson rushed la his reserves but still the score mounted place of Young until the final gun Finds Range High scoring honors for the game ' to Merl Ahlquist W4th 17 countKuiper immediately found the went d hook shots ers The second high performer was range with and the Punchers crawled away to Gus Blake of Colorado State The duel between this pair Was lead Kuipep topped the a scorers with 13 points and Young tha highlight of the game'Thest two taliiea“I07"Clen AUen and Crowton pivot men are without question two played the Y’s best ball with Brink of the finest centers in the league and they hounded each other all outstanding in a substitute role over the floor Saturday as they batThe box score: WYOMING tled for the scorinig honors B Y U OTFP Without Blake OTFPi the Aggies would 6 1 1 13 Crowton f 1 2 3 4'Kulper f 3 10 71Wlnterholr I 2 12 6 not have much to offer Ha is an 4 2 110 2 0 4 4Youug o Weimer c 0 2 1 2 Clark g Chrlelnsn 1022 excellent shooter a great floor man -- er The promising youngster and the popular winged footer dominated Macthe running all the way Mitchell jumped into the lead at the gun held it for the first three and a half laps and then clung to Venzke’s heels like a plaster as they Game Early Blake Shines LARAMIE Wyo Jan 14 CD— Wyoming university pulled away from a half-tim- e tie Saturday night to defeat the Brigham Young bas university kctball team 35 to 27 In "a Big Seven conference game uniColorado defeated versity the B Y U team Friday night at Boulder 44 to 33 to jolt the Cougars at the opening of their conference trip 5 Tied going into the second half the Young their Cowboys used Wyoming greater height to score easily: qn follow shots Clarence Kuiper and playing the post Leugung whirl shots which put Wyoming Into a commanding lead" Attack L Gene Venzke Annexes First Mile In Three-Quart- regiment A A Indians Clinch ns the tenth Harrison's feat moved him up from a tie for tenth Friday into second position In third place was Ben Hogan of White Plains N Y with 206 Mabk Fry of Oakland followed with 207 and Marvin (Bud) Ward Olympia Wash amateur was in fifth spot at 208 Hogan and Fry carded 68s and Ward a 70 Saturday Horton Smith of Oak Park 111 leader at the halfway mark Saturday with 138Tslipped badly totake a 73 and fall back into a sixth place tie with Jimmy Demaret Houston Texas at 209 Out of Running Practically out of the running for first prize at the end of 54 holes were such noted performers as Sam Snead West Virginia who was the leading money- winner of 1938 Harold McSpaden of Winchester Mass: Ed Dudley Philadelphia John Revolta Evanston 111 and Mass Chicopee Harry Cooper Snead and McSpaden were bracketed at 2(2 Dudley at 215 Revolta at 217 and Cooper at 218 Snead with b74 Saturday experienced the most trouble with missed putts and misdirected fairway shots - rll ii GREELEY Colo Jan 14 State wrestlers won from the Denver university Pioneers Saturday 24 to 10 Greeley won three matches by falls and three by decisions while Denver won one match - — by fall and one by forfeit eeley 19-Year-O- ld Washington 41 Montana 33 Tulsa 36 Drake 35 Notre Dame 42 Kentucky 37 Arkansas 65 Texas 41 Columbia 51 Yal 30 Western State 51 Adams State 43 Minnesota 34 Michigan 21 Harvard 40 Princeton 30 Missouri 37 Oklahoma 33 Iowa 40 Purdue 41 Illinois 43 Chicago 33 Nebraska 48 Kansas 37 I c 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 Rlchina ( Cannon g Brink f Francla I Gunnel Ojerby 2 OIKrpan 2 0 3 4 K 2INeyman I 1 2 4 Qornigton 0 4 Morgan g OlKerback g 0 0 0 01 IOOO OOOO 10010 0111 0 0 0 00 13 51135 10 7 13 271 Total Halftime arore Wyoming 15 B Y U 15 Of finals Tavener and Gltdden sk e - e 4 ball-rustl- er back-boar- ds Tot ala Ahlquist Shines e was also the center Utah offense Saturday and he turned in a brilliant game Ahlquist was rated the No 1 center in the league last year and he is in line for the same rating again this season Maurice Watts who has been crippled for two weeks also per- formed brilliantly as he turned in 12 points Captain Jack Hardy and Hugh Bird played outstanding guard games and Bob Melroy did an Ahlquist Colorado Turns Back Denver 52 to 31 DENVER Jan 14 ID— Colorado basketball university’s team outclassed a Denver univertitle-bou- sity team Saturday-nlghtr52-to-31rl-n of-th- a Big Seven conference game The polished Colorado jnachine lead at the went off to a four-poistart and thereafter was never excellent job as relief guard e threatened holding a 23-- 9 The Colorado Aggies did not dismargin The bov score play the pep and spirit which DENVER COLORADO marked their performance at LoOTFP OTFP Cook-- f 1 0 1 0 Grove f 12 gan Friday but they never bad a Unger f 10 1 2lCrlbbeu f 05 05 31 15 chance to show anything because Slranngo f 5 1 11 lllBrauer f f dwell f 10 1“ the Redskins completely dominated 10 2IEstey 0 0 0 Bontwrgt f II 0 0 OITaburen c the entire contest and rushed the 3 11 3 1 1 7 Walters Harvey c 0 0 0 visitors completely off their feet Thrman gc 0 1 1 II Duncan g 0 10 Hendriks g 3 2 2 SlWalla g A crowd of about 2000 turned out 1 10 Willcoxn g luudiiwani 5 0 0 0 OlHall g Ravuscft for the contest which was dulled 11 9 8 31 by the lack of competition and obTotals 23 6 12521 Totals Half time score- Colorado 23 Denver 9 vious superiority of the Redskins and Herigstadt Officials Jueogllng The summary follows: nt half-tim- I 1 H (001 - UTAH Walls rf EmfrtvJf 6 3 8 2 2 0 c Ahlquist Hardy rg Bird Ip CaUister rf if 14 Lowe Melrov rg on Sorensen if Minn Jan MINNEAPOLIS (UP)— Ellsworth Vines turned his vaunted power here Saturday Don night to defeat Budge and knot the count in their professional tennis series at four triumphs apiece Budge used his backhand to advantage during the first set to win 6 to 2 Vines had considerable trouble with the net during this session and noticeably lacked control Ollis Haupt of St Louis who gave Lee a close race in the midwestern tournament at Cleveland is expected to provide the champion considOther- entrants erable opposition will include William J Nagle ot Manhattan N Y and Eugene Turner of Los Angeles Turner was the national junior champion in 1938 and automatically moves into the senior division -- Jean Tozzer of Boston Mass last year’s senior women champion also will be back to defend her laurels against such entrants- as Charlotte Walther of the New York ’b 1938 junior titlist Skating Audrey Peppe of NeW York Skating club Margaret Jane Vaughn of Philadelpnia and Polly Blodgett of Boston F P Pf 0 12 2 G Vines Evens Series With Don Budge Skating Champ to Defend Title ST PAUL Minn Jan 14 CD— this title since late last aumiper and' Young Robin Lea of St Paul won’t recently opped the midwest chambe old enough to vote for two more pionship at Cleveland to serve noyears— but he nevertheless Is one tice he is ready for all comers of tha real veterans in national The figure skating event will In' clude approximately 90 entries from sports circles Just 19 years old Lee will lit many sections of the country- - Comseeking ‘a fifth straight national petition will be in 10 divisions— sensenior figure skating championship ior men and W6men junior men in the'annual tournament here next and women novice men and womThursday Friday and Saturday en seniorpaIrS junior pairs dance The event will be a prelude to St pairs and championship fours Paul’s annual winter cariiival Three sessions are scheduled for Lee became tftate figure skating each of the three days with rechampion when he was 11 years ojd quired exercises in each division to won the national junior title at 13 count 60 per cent in the scoring and has reigned the national senior Free skating in which entrants perdivision since he was 14 form their own series of1 figures Quiet and unobtrusive young Lee makes up the additional 40 per has been preparing for defense of cent and a tireless Ha has surprising spring on his jumps and was under both baskets an night to taka the sphere off the Andrew Matson Blake s 6 D 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 h 0 0 23 21 COLORADO STATE Q T 5 rf It Deason Totals n 3 1 -d 1 0 0 0 8 0 0 P Pf 13 A 7 0 0 0 2 0 r ' 0 1 15 13 Score by halves: Tjnrcr Referee 1 7 53 12 0 n rg French Peters rf McEwenlf Jorgensen rg Gausman lg Mathews lg '13 6 0 1- 0 Johnson If Mahoney o Peterson Ig Touts 6 17 1 0 i LavlourL goffe ip BoRrien rf 0 5 35 16 n C Nielsen: umpire ss Collins French Boxer Wins European Title uard PARIS Jan 14 Tenet French challenger won the boxing European middleweight championship Saturday night with a victory over Champion Antoine Christoforidia of Greece who entered the Cbristoforidis ring an overwhelming favorite— he is 10 years younger than the Tenet— had the edge in points going into the eleventh round but broke -- his left hand He was forced to finlshr the fight on the (UP)-Edo- defensive r f- - h'V bf rw |
