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Show Q g CESEPET NEWS, December Wed-esda- y, r n 31, 1969 lili E2sc!x (Hi! IlIil'PT HiliMIUML Ci! a" LbU&fe UHIor I! !!!' V Hiriip '1 '!," !l U BYU Falls jjM? To Tough .11 Deseret Ten Years! I remember best the honor that came my way when elected president of the United States Basketball Writers Association, the largest organization of sports senbes then in existence. That was in 1S62 wThen I brought the Committee to our home grounds in Salt Lake City and we picked the USBWA-Loo- k Magateam. Billy McGi1 was on that Jerry Lucas and others. Along The Golf Trail It was good to have been on the golf trail fur several of the major tournaments, including two U.S. Opens and a PGA. Nor can I forget the day when, as guest of Bing and Larry Crosby, I played in the famed Crosby tournament at Pebble Beach. Its been fun to have partnered in tournament play with Billy Casper (is the Tony Lema Memorial), with Gay Brewer and many others in the Sahara Invitational. Once our team, headed by Jay Dolan, fed the Sahara tournament through the first day, only to be beaten by Mickey Mantle in the final round by a stroke. I remember the time I phoned my wife after being on military assignments for two weeks at San Diego, to tell her that I wouldnt be home for a couple more months because I was going to Vietnam a second time this occasion with Billy Casper on a golf assignment. That was an interesting tour tLe Philippines Open, days at Subic Bay, at Manila, then 71 stops in 17 days to every remote section of Vietnam ; running into Bernie Fisher the dav he made the famous pick-u- p at Ashau, which won him the Congressional Medal of Honor. Then the Hong Kong and Japan. And while that was an interesting chapter in this mans life it was no moreso than the first trip to Vietnam six months earlier as a war correspondent. And how fast that happened! The boss called me at Bear Lake where I was taking a little rest and recreation relief on waterskis and he told me to rush to the passport office and file papers as I was to be in Vietnam within six days. And I was, thanks to some great medical help Burtis Evans and Reed Clegg. Yes, I got Dm, by the needles packets of them. In this decade there were the Olvmple Games and It wrs my lot to be on hand for three of them and In this respect the Deseret News was very much ahead of its competition. My tra cling companions at the Grenoble Games were Lowell Thomas and Jack Simplot. We were joined by many others including the famed golf architect, Robert Trent Jones. My wife, Barbara, was my assistant reporter in two of these Olympic events and the women, Ive learned, can ferret out more interesting stories than we men can. 100-mi- le other half you couldn't have bargained for Utah's Utes for a billion. the In one of the greatest turns of basketball events the Utes scored 33 points to Californias four to take the game cross-countr- - inter-planeta- ry JI s, tfV P- yr i'n;, V ! 2-- 1 , . A i: v. v rl f T - vX v; es & je w- If i7; ,rvn i 4 s if flu i 4 . - 'M "x--. ' N $ Vr )q Utah never looked any worse than it did that first and never looked any half better than it did in the second L f ? V t b '"f? r 44-3- ' 4-- u - 96-7- 7 I -- 4 . 66-4- 1 . ; , . -- - 'X California im fo ft rei pf tp Wtk FotmI lot) UTAH (HI PS FT RES PP TP 38 2? 08 3772 Totals Coals, 51 fc fouis, 83 C, Percaniaoes learn rebounds, 5 zone and help establish a lead. And while the Cougars were able to close it with 12:21 remaining to in first half. Wake Forest pumped in 26 points to the Cougars 4 to establish a 1 margin with 6:12 remaining in the first period. Coach Stan Watts wasn't happy with his clubs play. He replaced the starting five with Viekko Vainio, a junior: Bob Davis, a senior; Gary Radunich, a sophomore, Larry Delaittre and Clyde Baker, a pair cf juniors. The new BYU offensive closed the gap momentarily but moments into the second half saw Wake Forest leading by 28 points, The Cougars changed lo' n in the second pe- riod in an effort to slow the speedy Eastern club. But slow basketball isn't popular with eastern fans. The Deacons tried to stall the final eight minutes of the game. Fans booed the move and Wake Forest resumed its attack. The stalling effort provided BYU with its only consolation that of outscoring in final half the Deacons, play. gar 9-- 1 Half. me score Cairforma 44. Utah 36 Fouled cut California Field toais Percents: Johnson. California Cl 17-2- 1 Utah M California 76, Foul tries Utah tS 7 Turnovers: Califom a IS, Utah IX Attendance- - 10,098. 34 9, Percent: when it came on to score points to Cal's 33. What happened? 47-2- 61 Deseret News Photo br W. Ctrjdetl John At halftime the Utes must have taken stock in their A case of the shames must have set in. Someone must have been embarrassed to call themselves basketeers of any sort. But when they threw up that second-hal- f basketball the Utes flew, Hollywood style, into action like Popeye on three cans of spinach. And that is when the Jekyles turned to the Hydes. The fact that California bad beaten Utah, the night before made the victory sweeter. Also California is one of the top teams on the sunset side of die nation and it is a leather in the Ute fedora to brush off the Bears. 86-8- 6-- 9 Whoops! California's Clarence Jchnson (32) pulled up short to shake Utah's Walt Hawkins (32), who goes over his back and picks up a foul. Utes' Early Lastr (30) and Bob Martin (11) get in on tho action. bas-ketba- The first half it was a case fumble and stumble, bumble. Utah used a zone defense and this merely slowed the Bears down. of Charlie Johnson, the life dribbler, put on one of the greatest performances the Wigwammers have watched. The little guy was great Then the Utes moved to a defense at the man-for-m- start of the second half and with the Bears turning ice cold and the Utes getting red hot the change came quickly. And the 10,098 fans on hand it liked Hillside heroes on this occa sion were Mike Newlin who played a superb game; Ken Gardner, who came awaxs in the second half to look like the Gardner of yesteryear, and big Jim Mahler, who played the game as If he invented it Mahler made some remarkable moves, pushed in some key points when the turn was in the offing. with their first-ha- play, froze lf at the basket and big Ansley Truitt on a couple of followups got the only points (four) while the Utes were banging the basket for 33. All that Coach Jim Padgett of California could do just didnt arouse his Rips. They had hibernated. Coach Jack Gardner on the other hand, enjoyed free substitutions as a matter of mercy. And when you show mercy to a team as cultured as California this has to be a triumph of a special kind. The Ute defense seemed to spur the spurt. The Utes tightened up in keyhole country and forced the play outside, or under the basket, as the second half opened. This rally might hare The Bears, too comfortable turned the Utes on for their 6-- 3 6-- 1 6-- 7 Saturday showdown with BYU to open the WAC schedule. During the first half Tues- day it appeared that Utah lacked the capacity to beat anyone and with BYU taking the gas against Wake Forest Saturdays game appeared to be a showdown of sloppy teams. Now the Utes will go into the game as the favorite. They showed what potential they have when they play as the Hydes play and not the Jekyles. The BYU-Uta- h game is Saturday, 8 p.m. in the Ute Wig- 70-4- 2. man-to-ma- wam, televised on Channel 2. All seatings been sold! 52-4- 2 1 life Bonnet Ignites Bowl Fever By DICK JOYCE Associated Press Sports What are you doing New Year's Eve? Two quarter- sophomore backs who didn't figure on starting this season plan to up the Astrodome's light when scoreboard Auburn meets Houston tonight in the 11th BowL It figures to be a game with Pat Sullivan of Auburn and Gary Moon Mullins of the host Cougars leading tne way. g Both teams are college football powers with 2 records and can exDlode on the ground and through the air. Houston, ranked No. 19. has rolled up an average of 38.6 points a game this seaAuburn. 36.3. son; high-scorin- 8-- d Touching off this long week of football activity Tuesday night was the second Peach Bowl in Atlanta where another sophomore. Eddie Williams. pounded out the yardage to lead West Virginia to a 14-- 3 victory over South Caro- lina. Bob Gresham scored for the on a Mountaineers run in the first period and Jim Braxton got the clincher run with only 23 on a seconds remaining in the nale, a balanced offense and the nations stingiest defense against scoring. offense Miss Ole The revolves around Archie Manning. a spectacular junior ouarterback who engineered big victories over LSU, Tennessee and Georgia this season. Mississippi finished with a mark. 7-- 3 comes on with the Dame show do wm at 2 p.m., EST. Making their first bowl appearance in 45 years the Fighting Irish will have to stop the Longhorns powerful ground game, led by NBC Texas-Notr- e quarterback James Street. Texas, winner of all 10 starts, faces Irish front lines that outweigh the Longhorns, one-jar- d rain-soake- contest played d Here's Tomorrow's Big be- fore 4S 542. The first major contest to get under way on New Year's Day is the Sugar Bowl, ABC. between 1:45 p.m.. EST, Arkansas and d Mississippi. The favored Razorbacks present a record, losing only to Texas in the regular season fi third-ranke- Bowl Slate Par-seghia- n, 1 game. After that, don't turn your TV dial NBC comes on with the Rose Bowl at 5 p.m., EST, and the Orange Bowl at 8:15 p.ra. In the Rose, oldest bowl of them aO, both clubs present solid running and passing Sophomore q n a r terbacks. Jimmy Jones guides fifth-rank- vs. Notre Dame Southern Tex. Cotton Bowl, Dallas ) 1:30 p.m. Arkansas ) vs. Sugar Bowl, New Orleans 1:38 p m. Southern California Rov Bowk Pasadena, Cafif. 5 p.m. ). vs. Michigan ) vs. Misso) Penn State Orange Bowl. Miami (10-8- against rl-1- ). d 4-1- (8-2- (10-0- 8 uri). 9-- 1 sixth-ranke- California. seventh-ranke- d Michigan. paced by junior QB Don Moorhead who helped the Wolverines knock off Ohio State this season. (7-3- ), 13th-ranke- d ed 8-- Mis-ssip- (9-1- ing the ball more often than He any other Wolverine. tossed for five touchdowns and scored nine times. Jones scored three touchdowns and passed for 12 TDs. Southern Cals attack alM) features tailback Clarence Davis, who piled up 1.275 yards in 282 carries and nine touchdowns. If Notre Dame knocks off Texas, emotion will be running high at the Orange Bowl where second-rankePern State tackles Missouri. The Nittany Lions have enough going a is being the underdog and strive ing to extend their almost 20 pounds a man. Notre Dame Coach Ara whose team compiled an mark, promised that it will be a hittin football e urbeaten string. Penn State Coach Joe Patemo was none too pleased Moorhead made good on 50 per cent of his pass attempts this season as well as carry- - p.m. d when President Nixon acclaimed Texas the No. 1 a team in the land follow ing the Longhorns triumph over, Arkansas. Hoping to land in,,' the top spot in the final Asso;; dated Press poll, to be con- -! 15-1- 4 The Pleasant Memories There have been some sad sides. Some of our friends and close kin have left us for whatever glories there are in the next worlds. But they left us with pleasant memories and for this we are in their debt. As the decade closes our thanks to the boss for letting us look at the w orld through reporters scopes and report them as weve seen thmgs to be. He's c2red to have his rerde-- s know about snch things and in this, as I said, this reporter has in most instances been the only area representative on handAlso a hand for m!!?dy fo her cere in keeping the home fire aflame, and for her help m so many ways in gathering the human interest happenings that have permitted this writer to perpetuate the pace. May the next decade be as exciting. And with our new play, it should be! 9 63-5- i and shake a certain defeat into a riotous runaway. And this came after California looked like the nations No. 1 team in running the Red men into the red with a 5 halftime edge. Ski-Do- Off the sports beat the boss sent me, and milady, to staff the inauguration of President Nixon. Events like this flushes ones patriotic pipes for sure when you witness such great traditions which such events are built upon. It was a thrill to witness in person the performance of our Mormon Choir on that occasion. There was one train ride I shant forget. It was y steam locomotives the last of the old from New York to Denver as old Berkshire part of the Golden Spike celebration. No people quite like railroad buffs and what great friends they were, and have remained. 89-7- For one half a ball game Tuesday you could have bought the whole University of Utah basketball program for a bag of shells from the Christmas walnuts. On The Gros Ventre Trail There have been less adventurous assigno ments like the trip with Monte Wight and Enoch Eskelson over the Gros Ventre trail from Pinedale to Jackson Hole. Or the numerous first trips around Lake Powell and along the wests waterways on boating exneditions. It was this decade which brought us Lake Powell and Flaming Gorge and many other wonderful resources. PA. basketball tourne. LaSalle upset previously to undefeated Columbia, win chair.piorship honors in the holiday tourney. Cornell 8 win placed third with a over Villanova. The game capped the Cou- gar road trip and left them 6 cn the season. BYU ts 4 on the road. The Provu Cats meet University of Utah Saturday at University of Utahs Wigwam to open play in Western Athletic Coherence action. Game time, 8 p.m. Wake Forest unable to match the BYU cagers in size, turned to general team speed to run up a comfortable 25 point first half lead. It was Wake Forests driving Gilbert McGregro who drilled his way past the Cou- The boxscores: By HACK MILLER pro-amate- The First Trip To Vietnam Spscial J-"- 3 Deseret News Sports Editor For ; Fasibreakir.g Wake Forest ed past Bngham Yourg University here Tuesday afternoon "by an easy io8-9, margin to win consolation honors In the Quaker Classic Both Sides Another great decade's just done! Ten exciting years for the world and an of us in it especially on this old sports beat! I was going to report a box score of where this reporter, for one, has been. And the things which have happened in the ten years just past. It would take volumes to list them. The counties regional and national basketball games, the NCAA finals, the bowl games, the football playoffs BYU in the NTT, Utah in the liberty Bowl and the Utah's two national final rounds in hrsketball with Billy McGills gang and Jerry Chambers crew. New PHILADELPHIA. Utes Show lB;iiiii"'!iitm!!UHaBaninarih;iiK'iiBnj!min!iiinrn,i aDd I Deacons Tha Past zine one $ t 4 I s Utahns Dominate Brighton Hosts Jrs. College Cage Summary Twedr,s RcMtts Chotfccr City Oawoc Colt mo 75 U Stilt (Third) Corral 63, V rov 58 89, (Cemttthen) V'tkt Forest 08. Yeung 9) AIKtlNdt Class! (ChtmpMShip) Ctt' h fcr V. City (Ccnsottto)) $ate T7 Ret 78 fTh.m Tennessee me 72, s (Sever'h) 76 Se 51 Idaho 77, St. Franc s. Fa 67 llEfk (ChaiwnsHtei O ahem l c -- j (Seventh) leea S ate 87. C ancm Kama State NeorasM S'at Holiday Festival (Conseiatooft) Gnonnett 85, College 78 (Third) Pennsylvar a 88 St Joseph's 69 (ChameiORShiR) Bonev. o ? n, Pwout 7S C Ci ' (Come) at tea) $ognem in ts ICO Harvard 89 (Cameo ship) Nortn Carolina 87 p Bovine Green Inv ta :eaJ Chant (Third) Kcly Cross 72 Provcence 68 (C scfrrjtomh.p) $1 Davdson K3 cvr Gator Bo1 (- C- 7 e I 55 Army 57, Virg ne Tech (7h rdl Stetson 64 V VI Si Far West Classic Or Cha.fteectsftte) asnn9'on Soutcm Cel Stt Seon (Sefh) 65, lMnos 51 (Thonl) hsP9M Sae. 59, Oregon Sae 56 Scuh ver Unive v V 6 (Chmpon$?p) 56, Texas &5 Kodak C assoc (Th.rd) Peru Sate 83 68 (ChampiewshiF) Georgetown loi Stamford II HaM . l IX (Third) t Vtrori tSevc-f- S mi, Fta 74 (Turn71 owl C assoc (Chame anshtp ) Carolina 84 Notre Dame Ha- - Utah PHOENIX, ARIZ. sophomore Dave Harmon out- played teammate c, t (Th rd) SUBFAC 77, Drake 75 (Cwnootfon) St Mary's Caiif 96, San Franc sea 84 Other Games Utah 96. Ca. ttrn. 77 &radey 91, Pepperdme 74 h .a Sa S Lcva in 92. New Mexo State 95, Sul Rose 75 Trusty HU Texas AA 89 6, Cen enary 60 Bayrr Toeri 75 Tennessee Tch 7 Georee Washington 86, Will 'em A Mary 78 BUI Ben-nio- to take the singles in the 11th annual Saguaro Tennis Tourna4-- 61 5, New MexJCO 91 Las Vedas Classic Houston 98 Sant 3 Bartra. oC 15 Rainbow Classic Vbe versify 67 (Cssclat nr) (Consetatio) ne 91 86, NavV Sof'r lewa 111, Pocesr 62 Vaioara'so 72 np'K 9t Ficda Souierf 68 Nvrrcane C as sk 73 (Ceesciatieit) Temple 90, PoodMttia Classic (Third) Furman 88 The C edel 71 (Championship Tears A&tt 9X Northwestern (Overtime lew 1 Classic - Senior (Championship) M ssrsitopi 63. Sxttnera Alabama 88. Florida 63 Sae Go h Caa't C o s (Chamesht) 16, Bcvon un 58 (fRsoat) 78, Hamas ' Ortgon IX C Florida U (2 Tennis Finale 6-- 6-- mens ment. Salt Laker Jim Robins won d'vision from the Bruce Nichols, PhoenLx, but was stopped by for the junBennion. Utah snow continues to pinch hit for the nations ski circle. Brighton Ski Bowl is performing honors this week when Diviit hosts Intermountain sion juniors in giant slalom competition at Mt. Millicent Saturday and Sunday. Entry fees can be paid up to race time. ducted . , 8-- 2-- 6-- 6-- 6-- ior boys singles crown. Harmon and Bennion lost in the doub'es finals to Cal Irvine's Earl O'Neill and Craig Neslage. In the two days of the tournament Bennion played eight 6-- matches. Hannon three the final day. 6-- played This weekend's ' schedule was to have been a downhill at Sin Valley. Jan. 10 was scheduled for giant slalom competition at Jackson Hole. The schedule now stands for at Brighton this weekend and Sun Valleys scheduled downhill at Jack-se- the G.S. n. Jan. 10. Entry fee is j $5. after Thursdays games, Penn State will have to stop a strong Missouri of-fense, led by Terry McMillan and Joe Moore, which can strike m the air and on the " ground. 1 , |