Show Utah Clashes With Arizona Cow Boy Jim By DENNIS DIXON Sports Editor hf running Assistant Redskins take tonight a team strength is relatively sire skyline one of the top teams ff Border Conference last has showed a great deal this In open-d this year the Wildcats M Sen both Arizona State f Both of these ills have better than average 2 and were baten quite by the Arizona drubbed Arizona State in the cage opener for both In the second tilt of the year Arizona dropped Hamline in what proved to be a lot closer game than most people The Wildcats have a veteran team with a lot of experience under their The only letter-man lost to the Arizona cause this was who was lost through the graduation This year's version of the Wildcats is the best in recent years at Arizona and is favored by most experts that know how to take the Border Conference Their biggest threat is Bill Reeves who plays in the center Reeves has a good reputation in the Border Conference as being one of the best centers Utah's Pearl Pollard and Mannion will their hands full come Friday and Saturday night but should be able to contain Both Mannion and Pollard improve with each game and should by the end of the season be topnotch centers in their own Arizona's other big gun is their top tanked a total of counters last season and is well on his way to that mark this Utah's Redskins most people in the immediate area with the type of basketball they have been if the games played so far are any Coach Gardner's rebuilding is indeed turning out to be For a team that is just gaining experience in the main the Utes are playing The Utes started just a little slow mainly because of a lack of experience but have come a long way in just those first three The Redskins' danger lies in blinding All-American candidate Curtis Jenson and Gary Hale have led the Way in Utah's fast break What they lacked in the first game was a big man to tie this break Both Pearl Pollard and Jack Mannion were in their fighting but just didn't have the experience to make it But these two men have improved a great deal in the past two games and figure a lot more strongly in Jack Gardner's attack than they did Jerry the Ute jumping has amazed Utah fans with his rebounding The jumping one grabbed 17 rebounds in the last tilt with He is taking up a lot of slack in the height Bob Arizona will be one of the Wildcat big men to watch tonight when the Utes and Cats |