The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • Page 47

I New Champion Looms for LDS Cage Tourney Sports Mirror by John Mooney Tribune Sports Editor Shortly after he was named head basketball coach at the University of Utah, Jack Gardner paid a visit to the Midwest Talking with newspapermen acquaintances there, Gardner said something to the effect "it was good to get away from the dog-eat-dog competition of the Big Eight Conference to the Skyline, where they don't take basketball as seriously." Jack was quick to 'correct the impression that he was going to a weaker league once the remark hit the press. The remark had been made in facetious fashion, Jack said, and didn't give the true picture. However, fans recalling this statement found it hard to justify Coach Gardner's interest now in returning to "pressure basketball," for the Big 10 Conference certainly is more rugged than the Big Eight or the Skyline in top-to-bojttom opposition in the conference race. Immediately, fans began to speculate over reasons for Jack's interest in another job. You can hear all sorts of reasons, but there's just one true reason for Gardner's that reason Is money.

Coach Gardner receives $11,300 annually from the University of Utah. In all probability, Gardner might remain at Utah were his salary boosted to the'offer tendered him by the University of Wisconsin. Utes Have Over-All Salary Policy The University of Utah has a certain budget for-athletic salaries. While it is true that the head coaches in football and basketball do not have salaries matching the head men at major universities in larger centers of population, it is a fact that the assistant and so-called minor sports coaches get a fair wage, and not as far out of line with similar jobs in other sections as the head coaching checks. It is possible that Wisconsin may have offered Coach Gardner as much as $3,000 more in salary than he is receiving at Utah.

The Utah athletic salary budget could would that increase. It would put one man's salary put of proportion to the other members of the staff, and that is not the university policy. So that's the entire gist of the decision facing Coach Gardner. THERE MAY BE other financial advantages in the matter of the university retirement plan that would make Madison more inviting than Salt Lake City. But, you can rest assured there is no inter-departmental friction on the hilltop and there is no squabble between the athletic department and the administration.

It is a question of money, plus the challenge that pinks every athletic coach beckoning his touch. when he sees a run-down program It's Occupational Hazard Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf said it several years ago when a of coaches and friends were holding court at the Hotel 'Utah: "If I were 20 years younger, I'd apply for the University of Iowa coaching job." WALDORF MEANT that Iowa had the potential to produce, but hadn't, and it offered a chance for a coach to make a name. Forrest Evashevski, that much younger than Pappy at least, took the challenge and has it made as a coach at Iowa. It was the same challenge that eventually snared Jack Curtice for Stanford. A school with potential, in a larger center of population and in a better bites every coach at least once in his career.

The non-coach may say, "But with the mortality in the coaching profession and-all the insecurity, why would any one in his right mind leave a spot where he had it made, to gamble at another school?" To answer that, you have to know coaches. they see a challenge they feel the same fever a man gets when he'll' hock everything and. quit his job to go prospecting for oil, gold or uranium. SOME SEE a challenge in rebuilding a broken-down car, or a run-down house. Others are intrigued by the possibility of buying a broken-down horse and getting him to the races again.

The sight of broken furniture calls for special interest on the part of some and others can't resist buying a farm that has been allowed to go bad, and trying to build it up again, A coach is only human in that he's tempted to tackle a job left unfinished by another. Gophers Go Grabbing Coach Gardner picked an excellent opportunity to let it be known he might be available at the right salary, with the University of Minnesota also shopping for a name coach. The Gophers, even more than Wisconsin, have to come up with a name coach and a man who'll give assurance on his past record that he can win. Athletic Director Ike Armstrong is on the spot with the Club" for his loyalty to Murray Warmath in the face of losing football. The Gophers also suffered through one of their worst basketball seasons this winter under Ozzie Cowles.

8 Clubs Eye Cage Meet Consolation Special to The teams remained in the running for the consolation championship oJ the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 36th annual All-Church senior basketball tournament following Wednesday's action. And, by the same toKen, eight teams the losers see no more action in this year's dribble derby. WEDNESDAY'S consolation results: Byron, 49, Boise Fourth, 33; Hill Spring, Canada, 57, Perry 53; Cottonwood Second 56, Bay 45; St. Anthony First 58, Oakley 49; Annabella 49, Seattle Ninth 43; Parowan Third 63; Sugar City 60; Victorville 53, Great Falls, Mont, 51; and Murray Second 56, Salt Lake 36th 51. In the final consolation of-the evening Hurray Second turned back Salt-Lake 36th as Glenn Smith md Dale Geddes combined heir scoring'talents for 16 and 5 points, respectively.

Byron 3 a had 12. Charles 3 arkes carried the brunt of 26th's scoring attack with 15, Ted Jordan 'tanked 14 and Hail Burrows finished with 12. Byron; with Don Lay and Frank Alexander hitting 19 and 18 apiece, had little trouble with Boise, despite the 14 )oint output by Joe Oakes. THE PAKOWAN Sugar City was nip-tuck all the way ith neither team enjoying a comfortable 5ead, -with the ex- option of Sugar's 32-25 half- ime margin. A personal scoring duel centered around Johnny Wood of Parowan and Glen Dalling of Sugar with Wood winning, 2221.

Dalling fouled out in the overtime and Wood hit three free throws in the closing minute to ice the victory. DONALD GURR and David Ortoh aided the Parowan cause with 16 and 12 counters, respectively, while Dalling had a lot of help from Gary Parkinson with 14 and Verdell Briggs and Delwin Virgin with nine and eight. Don Lay and Frank Alexander tallied 19 and 18, respectively, in leading Byron past Boise Fourth in an easy victory for the Wyoming lads, despite a 14-point performance by Boise's Joe Oakes. HILL SPRING, Canada, registered a first for winning a ball game in the LDS All'Church Rod McKenzie, Gary Salmon and Max Martin warmed up the hoop for 18, 13 and 12 points to offset a couple of 20-point productions by Perry's Phil Oyler and Maurice Whittaker. Annabella's Stan Cleave, the former All-Stater from South Sevier, still possesses that soft touch and poured in 29 counters while rugged Carl Tuft added 13 in subduing a scrappy Seattle Ninth.

Ninth's Jim Burns, with a deadly outside set shot, hit 17 and Theo Coombs 13 to keep the losers in contention. It took an overtime for Parowan to boot Sugar City out of the tourney. John Wood, who sank three free throws in the waning moments to ice the game, led Parowan with 22 counters. Don Gurr had 16 and David Orton 12. Salt Lake City, Utah Wednesday Morning March 25, 1959 Lomita Ward's Ron Farish (3) deflects pass I Evans (55) during Wednesday's play in LDS intended for Ensign Third Ward's RaJph All-Church meet.

No. 5 is Frank Burton! Wo Comment, Says Jack Jack Gardner, the basketball coach at Utah in demand to 111 the same spot at Wisconsin, arrived home with a terse "no lomment," as to whether or not he would take the Uhiver- of Wisconsin job. Gardner arrived late Wednesday afternoon via air from Indianapolis where he has been seeking some new faces lor next year's crop of frosh cag- ers. He immediately was besieged, with demands for' his Here's Thursday's Docket In All-Church Tourney Upper Bracket 10:15 a.m. vs.

Victorville. 11:30 a.m. Third vs. Washington, D.C. 4:30 p.m.

vs. Ogden 12th. 6:30 p.m. Lake 26th vs. Monument Park West Fifth.

6:30 p.m." Third vs. Mesa 15th. 7:45 p.m. Second vs. Annabella.

Lower Bracket 11:30 a.m. Third vs. Hill Spring. 12:45 p.m. Hollywood vs.

Logan 18th. 2 p.m. Jordan vs. American Fork Ninth. 3:15 p.m.

Second vs. St. Anthony. 7:45 p.m. Second vs.

Spanish Fork 12th. 9 p.m. Grove vs. Ivins. Hoop Tourney Boxes 78 ENSIGN 6S i 108 Hasvold Wilson 2315 3 311 F.Burton Lechmnant 51010 4 4 14 Farrish Evans 5 12 8 18 435 G.Burton Eyre 46412 419 B.Burton Zlclch 5 4 111 338 Weir Kener 1002 339 Hanson 4412 Dodson 002 Comstock 9 26 21 79 omIU Total! 22261458 14 87 3 2S And Minnesota has a larger basketball arena than Wisconsin, if Coach Gardner craves elbow room for his milk-sipping.

Whatever Jack elects to do, he'll have the best wishes it a good" of the fans'in this corner. At least we hope Jack will make a 21-point productio his decision and not play "footsies" with the two schools for two months before announcing his decision. Observation Ward If you've had a crop failure last year it's logical to think of hiring a new Gardner in the spring. Yank Chess Ace Draws in Meet MAR DEL PRATA, ARGENTINA, March 25 Bobby Fischer, America's 15-year-old chess master, figured in his second straight draw Wednesday in the international tour- nament here. Ludck Pachman of Poland topped the standings with two straight victories.

Wednesday he beat Herftan Pilnik, the Ar- 25 32 Parowan IS Sutrar City 16 gentinc champion, in 30 moves, aim-ray 26th GLEN DALLING, who played his last LDS All-Church one with 21-point production before fouling out in the overtime. Wednesday's results: Victorville Great Falls GROVE 4TH 60 GTFP 39511 Crrtis 2337 Johnson 11 4 3 25 Beck 0222 Iverson 0100 Carter 1635 Jacklin N. HOLIT'D 38 GTFP Bates 4119 Reese 2115 Pinkston 4119 Stapp 5 6 3 13 E. Bern 0200 C. Severn 1200 Martinez 0100 1" 2S 16 55 ToUls Pleasant Grove 21 North Hollywood 11 16 6 38 27 38 SO 27 28 38 Cottonwood Bay 14 10 29 Oakley St.

Anthony Byron Boise IB 3 28 30 10 3 22 11 HillsDrini! Perry 13 16 35 36 39 48 37 24 51 43 Smith Top Scorers Special to The Tribune PROVO Stan Cleave of Annabella Ward hit: Wednes- 51 day's high of 29 points to jump 5 smack into contention for the individual scoring champion- 33 Seattle Ninth 4.3, Annabella 49. 44 41 29 30 54 54 40 45 EASTER SPECIAL Western Hospitality vSSnpreme DRIVE HIGHWAY 50 FROM WENDOVER DftlVi YOURSELF SPECIAL Actual cost including dt hottl accommodation! covpU $1.00 "ROUND THE CLOCK ENTERTAINMENT" for II After p.m. Call II 9-US4 EIX CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, S. L. BRANCH 360 SOUTH WEST TEMPLE, S.L.C.

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Byror. 44 DOUE Beck, Pleasant Grove 41 Bill Curtis, Pleasant Grove 41 Phil Oyler, Perry 40 Ivan Christensen. St Anthony 39 Rowland Jones, Spanish Kor'K 33 Jack Lamoourne, Monument Pnrk Neldon Cochrane, BUndlne Don Mclntosh, American Fork Don Budge. Logan John Wood. Parowan 35 Wendell Sowby, Ivins 35 Darrell Johnson, Ivins 34 Bob Oates.

Mesa Bob Schwarz, Spanish Fork 34 Leon Mecham, St. Anthony 33 Glen Dalllnr, Sugar City 31 Dennis Newbold, South Jordan 31 Kirk Leavitt, Seattle 30 Jim Crittenden, Oakley 30 D.C. 47 8 0 0 16 Anderson 3328 Coombs 4 8 16 Felt 2113 Strinzham 1002 Swan OGDEN 12TH 51 Smith 8 1110 26 Bramwell 3639 Evensen 2437 Hancock 1202 Barclay 3517 18 IS 11 47 Totilj "I'VE BEEN SO busy since I arrived home, that I haven't even had a chance to talk to my wife," Gardner "I can only repeat what I have said before: the setup at Wisconsin is wonderful and would be- a fine opportunity and feal challenge for whoever steps in. However we like it very much here at Utah. Any decision would be a difficult said.

The Ute mentor 'and Utah athletic director Bud Jack attended national meetings last week in Louisville, during the NCAA playoffs. If was there that Wisconsin athletic director Ivy Williamson asked Gardner to visit Wisconsin and talk over the job. Destroy Horse LONDON, March 25 Slippery Serpent, who, fell at the 13th fence in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree last Saturday, received such severe injuries he had to be destroyed, it was announced Wednesday. Westwood Removes Defending Champs By Lyn Larson Tribune Sports Writer. be a new champion in the 1959 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints all-church senior basketball tournament Westwood Second -Ward of California made sure of that Wednesday night.

Westwood upset the defending champs from American Fork Ninth, 67-58, behind the stellar workmanship of Bill Treu, Bob Cormack, Oscar Larson arid Jerry Minson. In other championship games Wednesday Spanish Fork. 12th defeated South Jordan, 57-50; Ogden 12th edged Washington, D.C., 5147; Blanding Third Salt Lake 26th, '64-36; Lomita threshed Ensign Third, 79-59; Pleasant Grove toppled North Hollywood, 50-38; Mesa 15th routed Monument Park West Fifth, 51-37, and Ivins dumped Logan 18th, 73-58. Treu, a BYU letterman, and Carmack each tallied 15 while Minson, younger brother of BYU's Roland, and Larson each got 11. All-church performers Don Mclntosh and Elton Able scored 16 and' 12, respectively, while Loyal Iverson and Sherm Harris scored 10.

Westwood left little doubt that they didn't make the long trip from California just for the ride as they moved out to a 13-8 lead at the quarter, 3120 at the half and 51-43 after three. UNHERALDED Spanish Fork 12th knocked South Jordan's championship hopes out of- the window as Bob Schwartz flipped in 20 and Rowland. Jones 17 in gaining a 57-50 victory. first half was anybody's ball game but when the second lf opened Spanish Fork forged a 40-33 gap after three and then held off South Jordan in the last quarter. Dennis Newbold kept the in the game with his long shots and tallied 18 for the night.

Neil Stephens got 10. Ted Smith, a former all-conference eager at Utah State, calmly stepped up to the free throw line with 20 seconds remaining and dropped in two charity tosses to ice Ogden Twelfth's 51-47 victory over a good Washington, D.C., quint. Both clubs were seeded in the tourney. Ogden gave away height to the tall men from Capitol City but never let down after taking the lead.early in the final canto. Washington, with a couple of ex-Cougars, Dick Felt of football fame and- basketball letterman Jack Anderson, leading the way, maintained a lead until Art Bramwell put Ogden ahead to Anderson and Felt both scored 16 the losers while Smith led the pack with 26.

BLANDING THIRD'S well- balanced team rocked Salt Lake Twenty Sixth, keeping its championship hopes alive with a torrid second half performance that 'featured Neldon Cochran, who wound up with 13 points. Dave Stanley fired in 17 for the losersf The former Grayson Ward-, team, featuring such veterans as Morris Shumway, Swenson, Gene Dudley Rowley, Dee Hancock, and Bill Redd, took a little while to'get going but after a close first quarter, gradually pulled ahead and the handwriting was on the wall for the Salt Lakers. PLEASANT GROVE Fourth, which just barely stayed in the championship running with a one-point victory over St. Anthony Tuesday night, put on a sparkling exhibition of shooting Wednesday. MONUMENT PARK West Fifth gave favored Mesa 15th a run for its money about 28 minutes but then the class of the Arizonians began to tell and they spurted to the 51-37 victory.

Monument Park led early in the game on a basket by-Ward Barnes and again later when Dick Milne connected but the rest of the way it-was always Mesa 15th in the lead. Owen Skousen and big Bob Gates, who is play, ing his last All-Church tournament, were the big gunners with 16 and 14 points respectively for Mesa. IVINS WARD of Salt Lake gave Logan 18th a lesson in ball-handling and sharp-shooting in racing to a 73-58 victory in the final game of the evening. With Billy Maxwell clearing the boards and getting the ball down court on the fast break to Darrell Johnson, Wendell Sowby and Steve Heiner, Ivins displayed some precision basketball in gaining the quar-- terfinals. Ivins overcame a first-quarter deficit early in the second quarter on eight quick baskets by Heiner and Sowby while the big guns of Logan were silenced.

Score-by Washington Ocden 12th 17551751 14-22-36-47 7-18-34-51 GTF 3 5 4 lu Stephens 4208 J.Holt 1968 McMullen 5 9 8 18 Newbold 2426 Forman 0 1 0' 0 D.Fullmer GTF Hamilton 3117 Barney 0111 Schwartz 9 2 2 20 Jones 5 12 8 17 Pullman 0100 Hanks 0444 15 30 20 SO ToUli Score by quarters: South Jordan 8 Spanish Fork 10 20 22 17 57 BLANDING SALT LAKE 3Gth 36 TF 11 3 2 13 Cochran 4008 Swenson 4218 Redd 4208 Hancock 2548 Rowley Frantz 0 0 0 Heap 0100 P. Stanley 4008 Waters 1213 Hensiey 1213 2 1 1 5 Shumway More 2115 1002 Canburlong Weed 0000 Stanley 8 1 117 SS 13 64 Totals Score by quarters: Blandinc IS Salt Lake 26th 12 168436 S3 24 52 29 AM. FORK 9th 58 5 2 2 12 Able 2 7 6 10 Iverson 5 9. 6 18 Mclntosh 4508 Meyers 1002 Robinson 5 0 010 Harris WESTWOOD 67 GTF Loyd 3006 Treu 5 8 5 15 Burns 2224 Larson 4 3 311 Carmack 6 5 3 15 Huffaker 1435 Minson 27711 32 14 ToUIs Score by quarters: Westwood 13 31 American Fork 8 20 22 39 51 43 MESA 15th 51. MONUMENT PARK 37 TFP 2002 Nielsen 4 11 8 16 Skousen 5 6 4 14 Oates 3217 Hale 1213 Lewis 2215 Funk 2104 Shumway TFP Christensen 3417 Lambournc 5 4.4 14 Milne 5 4 3 12 Barnes 0000 Stohl 1313 IS 54 1.1 fit ToUU Score by Quarters: 14 15 3J Mesa 15th Monument Park 14 10 31 18 35 32 LOGAN 18TH SI IVINS 73 GTFP GTFP 700 14-Beeton L.

Maxwell 3 5 4 10 1113 McKenzie Johnson 11 4 1 23 4008 Smith Sowby 44317 2859 Ltavltt B. Maxwell 3529 3106 Ritchie Heiner 66214 3 11 8 14 Budge Rhoads 0000 2004 Long 22 21 ToUIl Score by quarters: Logan 18th 13 Ivins 8 30 'it 13 73 26 34 40 50 ni-WA DALIAN PIZZA DINNERS DELIVERED HOT i i lf CLUB CABANA LIKE THE BEST? ft latli men tKt quality loo DICK MNNION DIAMONDS for IASTIM BENNION'S BOYD PARK Uo tmrti Stttsfitd lot 95 Ycuri Water Ski SALE CONOLON Fiber glass laminated skis, reg. $49.93 CCHOLON Banana skis, glass laminated, regular $54.93 CONOLON Slalom ski, fiber glass laminated, regular $37.95 Coast Guard approved life jackets, reg. $495 $7.35 Life preserver ski belts, regu- $O9S SLEEPING BAG SALE! 4-11. CEUAQOUD BAG.

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