Show c Bench Talk BY KOH TATA I Shaking the dust off its infant baseball at the university has had its trying moments before the boys in Red finally became championship In 1948 when the Utes first organized a baseball Coach Vadal Peterson had Tom help him Jn a game with BYU at Derks a Cougar batter hit a high fly ball near the third base boxes immediately adjoining the Redskin Catcher Glen tearing off his raced over to get the falling A fan in the front row of the boxes reached out to get the In the heat of the game shouted some vociferous invectives at the fan to kindly stay out of the playing Nielson made a beautiful catch to retire the Coach in the meantime was poking in the ribs to refrain from further in- With the side he finally quieted but when he learned from Vadal that the of his verbal on-s 1 o u g h t was non-other than a former member of the Board of Bazell remained in a quiet corner of the dugout for the rest of the in America The unusual spectacle of a group of kids following a home run hitter around the base-paths can happen only in where they can ask for rights as citizens and get The kids wanted the autograph of Earl Oakland outfielder in the Pacific Coast in a game between the Oaks and Los Angeles Umpire Cecil Carlucci wanted them off the It all boiled down to an old-fashioned rhubarb with the Le-vi-wearing citizens bumping chests with the blue-clad ball and strike all we want is an auto the kids The rhubarb resulted in the ninth inning after Los Angeles had moved in front of the hometown Oaks with a four-run With the bases Rapp belted a drive which was obviously going into the right field The kids spilled on the field when the ball set Carlucci frantically waved the kids off the field so all base runners would be able to touch the the youngsters did not like this infringement on what they regarded as their constitutional rights of liberty and pursuit of so they tore into the umpire just as their diamond idols do on The boss man in blue finally ceremonial wave out gave them a of the but what the they were going home Even Brigs Make There's been plenty of boners pulled in athletic but Soach Floyd Millet of the Young university quintet became even more conventional when he pulled one of the back in 1947 BYU played at Madison Square Garden and traded foul shots with City City college was ahead 54 to 52 with 22 seconds Joe on a brilliant dropped in the tying for the Hilty of fouled him as he was making the Nelson marched up to the foul line in preparation to put the Provo five and possibly Coach to the amazement of everyone ordered Nelson to waive the foul shot and take possession out of He but there was no further scoring in the regulation won 65 to 56 in When Millet was probed on his weird his reply was When Nelson scared he thought it put the Brigs ahead 55 to so he ordered the |