The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 12

THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINER 12 Seek Men Title in District Play EVENING FEBRUARY 24 1948 TUESDAY Cougars Hope Ogden Men Hoopsters lo Open Four-Day Tournameni hi Weber Gym Wednesday Basketball teams of the Ogden district in men play promise a wide open competition of four days for the 1948 championship starting Wednesday at the Weber college gymnasium The opening game is scheduled for twelve o'clock noon -HIGHWAY Tid-Bits From the Sports World Abe Saperstein's world-famous Harlem Globetrotters proved their right to top billing over thenation by handing America's number one pro club Minneapolis Lakers a 61 to 59 setback the other night in Chicago stadium It was the 103rd consecutive vie-4 Bk -X3SSSy SwsPs BBSS Bowling Prexy Plain City hoopsters one of the standout teams of Weber county in Men play this season will be a hot contender for the Ogden district title in the tournament starting Wednesday at Weber gymnasium Plain City squad front row left to right: Harold Hadley Elmer Hipwell Verl Stokes Dee Cook and Blair Simpson Back row left to right: Alfred Charlton stake Men advisor Lyman Cook Ronald Skeen Kenneth Lund Grant Lund Wayne Skeen and Coach Clair Folkman To Get Tourney Post SALT LAKE CITY Feb 24 (AP) Brigham Young university's Cougars are definitely out of the NC AA basketball tournament in New York City But says Coach Floyd MiUet they knew last summer they would be if they won the Mountain States conference championship And their sights are set instead on the Metropolitan invitational tournament Coach Vadal Peterson of Utah university chairman of the district NC AA selection committee said he received official notice last night from the national rules committee chairman barring the Cougars from consideration despite the fact they have just about cinched the Mountain States pennant Use of Guard Brady Walker a fifth year man barred Brigham Young from consideration under a ruling of Dr Hugh Willett of Los Angeles chairman of the NCAA rules committee Peterson said Walker was played under wartime conference rules still in effect NCAA eligibility rules limit players to four years of competition Millet said at Provo last night "the Walker situation is nothing new to us We knew about it way last summer and cast our lot then "But we are definitely interested in a bid to the Metropolitan Invitational tournament And the fact that we have twice beaten last year's invitational champs (Utah) seems to put us in the running for an invitation there especially since Utah had very much the same personnel this year as last "Our boys have been improving all season and we feel they are ripe for a post-season tournament We know they would give a good account of themselves" So much for the Cougars Who then will represent the mountain area? That said Peterson is very much In the crystal baU department yet Peterson's own "Blitz Boys" winners of the Metropolitan last year and the NCAA tourney in 1944 are still possibilities but so are Denver and Wyoming second and fourth place holders respectively in the conference standings "Any one of the three may be invited depending on how the race comes out Peterson said "Denver at the moment seems to have the best chance of anyone but Denver also has the most games to play and all are away from home" He added that the committee will name its selection as "soon as possible" and said the season records of the smaller colleges in the Rocky Mountain conference just about rule them out of consideration Denver has games with Wyoming third place Utah and the cellar-holding Colorado A five left and Brigham Young tangles with Utah State in the only other conference game remaining a Denver Spanks Utah State By 17 Points DENVER Feb 24 (AP) Denver's Pioneers retained a chance to tie for the Skyline Six basketball championship and possibly draw a bid to the NCAA playoffs by trampling Utah State last night 71-54 Denver now holds the runnerup position in the league a half-game ahead of Utah's National Invitation champions Since first-place Brigham Young has been ruled ineligible for NCAA competition the runnerup is expected to be invited to the national playoffs Brigham Young was ruled out of the National because one of its guards Brady Walker is playing his fifth year of college basketball This is permissible under the Skyline Six's unique wartime eligibility rule but not allowed by the NC A A Denver spurted to a 10-1 lead over Utah State before the Pioneer first string turned sour After the Utah team had closed the gap to three points Coach Ellison Ketch-um sent in his reserves Denver held a 30-27 advantage at the intermission The first five minutes of the second half also were close and then Ken Jastrow Denver's tricky play-maker led an assault that shot the Pioneers far ahead Utah State Denver GTFP GTFP 10 12 CJorsenscmf mser 9 3 2 21 2 2 16 LJrgenanf Altermtn 6 4 3 18 OOOO Abramst Nelson 0 0 30 0 0 0 0 Murdockf Bergman 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Sehenkf Pavichf 0 0 10 2 12 3 Johnsone Weimnrc 2 1 3 3 14 11 Gilmorec Htckeyc 0 3 1 2 13 3 Child 'Jastrow 3 1 3 11 6 5 3 21 Donec Steinkcg 5 3 1 13 2 0 0 4 Murdork Yatesg 10 12 0 0 10 Vn Noy Pattern 0 0 0 1 2 2 4 Sorensong Wurtzg 0 0 10 Jeffries 10 0 2 DoUafhans 0 0 0 0 Lake View and Brigham Fourth will open the program at noon Wednesday The day's complete schedule follows: 12 o'clock noon Lake View vs Brigham Fourth 1:15 Twenty-sixth Ward vs Park City Second 2:30 Plain City vs Fielding Ward 3:45 Twelfth Ward vs winners of North Davis Stake Night Gaines 6 Huntsville vs KaysviU Second 7:15 Terrace Branch vs Melton 8:30 Tenth Ward vs Echo Ward 9:45 North Ogden vs Mantua Champions of the Ogden tour nament will qualify for the church finals at Salt Lake next weekend The runner-up will meet a Salt Lake team for a post in the finals The single defeat system will be used in the tournament Members of the all-star team will each receive an award and the outstanding player of the tournament will also land an award Bennett's trophy will go to the champions Four games will be played Wednesday afternoon and four contests are scheduled Wednesday night Champions will be crowned Saturday night Rulon Stanfield of Ogden hi the tournament director Other committeemen are: General district chairman Rulon Stanfield publicity Jack vert-sen presentation and program George Lark in timers and scorers Joe McCune team and floor management Clyde Howe finance Grant Garner Stake representatives are: Roy Atkinson Bear River: Rod Wheat-ley North Box Elder William Holmes North Weber: Lynn Judklns North Davis George Larson Ogden LeRoy Bisel South Summit Clyde Howe Ben Lomond Jay Porter Morgan: Marcus Pendleton Weber: Ttast Anderson Mt Ogden: Don Widdi-son Lake View Frank White Davis Jack Evert sen South Ogden Stake Utah Battlers Win Lose At Chicago CHICAGO Feb Two of Utah's four Golden Gloves contenders In the national tournament now in session at Chicago stadium won and lost in the first round matches here Monday Gene Walker of Box Elder high school Utah 118 pound champion knocked out John Hanley of Lexington Kentucky in his first bout Walker stopped the Kentucky boxer in 50 seconds of the first Van Sickle Wins Annual Ashton Dog Derby Event ASHTON Idaho Feb 24 (API-More than 5500 persons jammed this tiny Idaho mountain hamlet yesterday as Lloyd Van Sickle of Ashton drove his team of seven cross bred hounds to victory in the 30th annual AU-American dog derby New snow and deep drifts held Van Sickle's time to 48 minutes 35 seconds over the ten mile Course The pre-meet favorite Austin Neely of Teton Basin took second in 57:25 minutes He drove a five dog string of Targhee hounds David Clouse 15 Ashton was third in 61:30 and Ernest Harrig-feld 18 Ashton fourth with 81:32 Lowell Field of Gooding Idaho mushed his string of Siberian Huskies over the same course in 68 minutes 40 seconds to win the Husky race Van Sickle finished just five seconds behind and Lewis Price of Felt Idaho was third in 80 minutes Price opened the day long celebration by leaping from an airplane with his Russian Samoyedes Each dog has its own parachute Price a former paratrooper made the leap to demonstrate rescue methods in mountain country Mrs Alta Van Sickle wife of the derby winner was crowned derby queen round The classy Box Elder battler Joe Mabey Is Standout At Trap Card Joe Mabey Jr of Clearfield won high honors Monday in the money shoot at Ogden Gun club He shattered 48 out of 50 birds in singles Claude Armstrong and Alf Chris-tensen were in second place with 47 each Mabey won a leg on the challenge medal and a leg on the Bu-shell trophy besides $26 in cash Ralph Pugmire won the A-B event with 24 out ol 25 and a leg on the Cook trophy Bruce McQuarrie led in class with 24 out of 25 and a leg on the Armstrong trophy Bruce Walker cracked 22 out of 25 for Class honors Summary: Fifty birds Joe Mabey 48: Claude Armstrong and Alf Chris-tensen 47 Cecil Burrell Ralph Pugmire and Gil Bushell 46 Wib Cook 45 Bruce McQuarrie Gene McLain Charles Chandler Roy Ballantyne Bill Richardson and Nelson 44 each John Gealta Turner Anderton Ken De-Vries 43 Parry Freeman Hul-sey Cooley and Johnson 42 each Handicap 25 birds Alf Chris-tense 22 Anderton 20 An-derton Joe Mabey Jr John Gakta Claude Armstrong and Sessions 19 each The high wind necessitated the postponement of the SO-bird handicap feature until next Sunday Secretary Ernie Ford reports Horsld Bateman above is the new president of the Ogden Ctty Bowling association He succeeds Al Hunt Other officers for the 1948-49 season are: Lynn Foley first vice-president Harry Davis second vice-president Ray Mor-riss third vice-president Jack OToole fourth vice-president Howard A 1 Ungton secretary-treasurer Wessman Has Top Honors In City Loop Herb Wessman rolled a colorful 642 series for top honors in the tory for the Trotters who appeared in Ogden last December 26th Edgar Greene writing in the Chicago Tribune had this to say in part: "The sign on the marquee mentioned the stadium boxing show tonight and read FIGHT but it applied last night as surely as it can ever apply Tm had to fight yonr way into the arena fight yonr way to a seat and fight your way ant while an the basketball court the Harlem Globetrotters and the Minneapolis Lakers put on a shew that aaade the battle worth it "Ermer Robinson Trotter forward supplied the completing touch to the basketball drama with some help from the timer His final set shot he made them all evening was in the air as the gun went off A second later the ball swished through the hoop and the Globetrotters had won their 103rd straight victory while a record paid attendance of 17853 went mildly insane "The touted duel between Mi-kan holder of five scoring records in the National Basketball league in which the Lakers lead the western division and Reece 'Goose' Tatum bolder of the stadium scoring record at 57 points went undeniably to Mikan "Big George scored ten field goals and four foul shots for a total of 24 points while Goose managed 3-3 for nine points "Babe Press ley Don Moore and and Ermer Robinson divided the Minneapolis giant among them defensively and still couldn't stop him "Robinson the hero of the victory scored 17 points for the Trotters with teammate Marques Haynes adding another 15 For the losers it was Mikan with his 24 and Jim Pollard most valuable player in last year's Hearst Herald-American tournament with 18 who took individual honors In the final game of the evening the Chicago Stags defeated New York Knickerbockers 82 to 74" Carl Shubel of Preston wrote this comer some time ago as to whether the Trotters would beat a team like Utah or Our opinion is that they would During World War II the Trotters spanked the famed Phillips Oilers in a charity game Phillips has held the national A A title for five consecutive years The thirty-fifth annual invitation meet and relay carnival is scheduled for Brigham Young stadium at Provo April 23 and 24 Weber college cagers will compete in the Compton Calif invitational basketball tournament at Compton March 3 4 5 and 6 Sixteen teams will enroll The champion and runner-up will take Brt in the national junior college sketball series at Springfield Missouri March 23 24 25 26 and 27 Dud DeGroot will reeeive Salary said to be $12500 per year St West Virginia as football mentor His salary with the I A Dens waa $25000 Dud will get the difference between his Dens salary and West Virginia stipend or $12500 from the Dons for relinquishing his contract With the pro club This isn't is mils in these times Jack Dempsey will referee a mat program in Salt Lake and another one in Ogden in late March Jim Downing matchmaker of the Veterans of Foreign Wars announces however dropped a decision to Mel Barber of Des Moines Iowa In his second bout and was eliminated from the joust Gene Fullmer of the Salt Lake Boys club decisioned Bernie Whyze of Kenosha Wisconsin in his first bout Fullmer however threw one of his knees out of place in his second scrap and the bout was awarded to Gerald Labori of Gary Indiana 21 12 19 94 Totals 28 13 19 71 Half-time score: Denver 30 Utah State 27 Missed free throws: Utah State Jorgenson 2 Schenk 2 Gilmore 2 Child Done 2 Murdock 2 Van Noy: Denver Alterman 4 Jastrow 3 Steinke 2 Yates City Doubles league at Paramount Basketball Scores Bowl Monday night Joe Barney Sr was the runner By The Associated Press Colorado 56 Missouri 48 Regis 49 New Mexico 44 up with 617 and Bob Scott collected a 600 for third place King Wickwire had a 243 single game with Bob Scott next with 224 and Tokle Triumphs At Ecker Hill Idaho State 51 Montana Nor Herb Wessman third with 222 Pep Ready to Test Sierra MIAMI Fla Feb 24 OJP Champion Willie Pep and Hum-berto Sierra of Cuba will fight tonight for the world featherweight crown in a television test-taw bout staged by a "mystery man promoter Pep of Hartford Conn was favored at 13 to 5 over the tall skinny Cuban who is ranked as the world's No 1 contender Though this bout win not be televised Promoter i a ren ce (Kay Kantrowitz of Hartford who never staged 3 fight before-disclosed today that he is going to use the scrap as an experiment in his plans for making future matches "for television only" mal 43 Washington 51 Idaho 33 Wessman and Wickwire topped Eastern Washington 60 Pacific the teams with 1235 SALT LAKE CITY Feb 24 (AP) Lutheran 43 Denver 71 Utah State 54 In the singles division Joe Bar Fight Results By the Associated Press Jose Basora 181 Puerto Rico stopped Billy Cooper 165 Paterson 8 Arthur Tokle Norwegian-born skier renresentins the Norwav Ski Eastern Oregon 84 Northern ney Jr was high with a 630 se club of New York won the inter- ries Jack Parker rolled 616 and Gus Richardson 608 mountain and Utah open ski jumping tourney yesterday Idaho 74 Whitworth 77 St Martins 54 Central Washington 57 Univer sity of Hawaii 41 New York 59 St John's 54 LaSalle 59 St Francis 50 Jack Parker led in single game Pilots Have 21 On Roster BOISE Feb 24 (AP) The 1948 roster of the Boise Pilots baseball club was at 21 today with the signing of six players who have seen previous duty with the Pioneer league outfit Owner-President Hadyn Walker said the new Pilot additions included Gordon Williamson of Portland Williamson a peppery infielder hit 294 with Boise two years ago and before that played with Lewiston when the northern Idaho club was a member of the Pioneer circuit Members of last year's Boise team who returned contracts yesterday were William Franks of Sprjngdale Wash Jim Daniels Hollywood and James Ison Hood River Ore all pitchers Louis Ta-mone San Jose Calif third baseman and Neil Owens Fairview Ore left fielder with 242 Pat Mullen listed 236 Tokle bested ten of the nation's leading class A jumpers with leaps of 131 and 148 feet from the class takeoff at Ecker hill in nearby NEW YORK Freddie Russo 136 Rahway and Dennis Brady 136 Hartford Conn drew 10 and Joe Barney Jr 232 Anslev Long Island 65 Springfield 60 Thurman team won team honors parleys canyon A strong wind with 2796 In the Ladies City league Lu Vandals Lose to Huskies 51-33 MOSCOW Ida Feb 24 The University of Wisconsin today was in a second-place tie with Oregon State in the Pacific Coast conference northern division basketball standings following a 51 to 33 victory over the University of Idaho Vandelsv The Vandals tied up the game four times in the first half and at left over from the storm which forced postponement of the tourney Yale 65 Princeton 53 Duquesne 44 Geneva 41 Michigan 46 Purdue 35 Ohio State 60 Indiana 45 Wisconsin 59 Northwestern 54 NEW HAVEN Conn Ted Lowrey 176 New Haven stopped Sheppard 187 Newark 5 cille Chick was high in three from Sunday made use of the class JOHN ASZKLER- A takeoff impossible yesterday With the larger and newly-im Bradley 66 Oklahoma City 37 proved takeoff new American rec game series with 520 Nelson was next tied with Hill with 496 each Beulah Simmons led in single game with 198 Lucille Chick was second with 188 and Hill third with 182 Paramount Ice Cream NEWARK Primas Cutlar 150 Paulsboro outpointed Tommy Ciarlo 150 Waterbury Conn 8 Washington of St Louis 50 I in' ords around 300 teet had been ex pected Washburn 42 Wichita 40 The 22-year-old Tokle brother of one point held a 14-13 lead But Oklahoma 77 University the late Torger Tokle accumulated Washington forged ahead to lead led the team with 2236 PROVIDENCE I Bobby Richardson 159 Providence stopped Billy Brown 165 Manchester Conn 4 at halftime 23 to 19 1479 points to 1478 for Gustav Raaum of the University of Wash ot tcuador 30 Maryland 63 Clemson 61 Richmond 69 Washington Lee 57 The Idaho team ganged up on ington who finished second Arne Washington Center Jack Nichols in the first half allowing him only Virginia 62 Quant ico Marines 56 Ulland of the Norwegian Ski association one of six foreign jumpers entered was third two field goals However Nichols LEWISTON Al (Shiner) Couture 147 Lewiston outpointed Vince Callahan 146 Boston 10 6 foot-8-inch scoring artist found American 54 Loyola of Baltimore 48 Louisiana State 52 Mississippi 50 Ed Lopat Goes To Yankees CHICAGO Feb 24 (AP) Ed Lopat who topped the Chicago White Sox pitching staff in 1947 his range in the second half and emerged as high point scorer with 15 HOLYOKE Mass Teddy (Red Top) Davis 131 Brooklyn outpointed Timothy (Buddy) Hayes 128 Boston 10 Lash Mentioned For New Post BLOOMTNGTON Ind Feb 24 The trustees of Indiana university were scheduled to meet to with 16 victories has been traded to the New York Yankees for catcher Aaron Robinson and two Dons Offer Fritz $50000 Salary LOS ANGELES Feb 23 CAP) ST Charley Riley 129 St Louis outpointed Johnny Forte 130 Philadelphia 10 Eight Remain in School Series Eight games featured the first round play in the Weber county ninth grade basketball tournament Monday Valley rolled up the biggest score of the afternoon by beating River-dale 61 to 19 Other results: Riverdale A 49 Riverdale 7 Washington Terrace A 41 Washington Terrace 17 Wilson 36 Washington Terrace 9 North Ogden A 23 North Ogden 17 Wahlquist A 19 Wahlquist 5 Hooper A 25 Hooper 16 West Weber 17 Plain City 13 Ogdenite Takes Trap Honors SALT LAKE Feb 24 (Special) Ed White of Ogden won top hon Polidori Scores Quick Knockout SALT LAKE CITY Feb24 AP) Remo Polidori 160 Tooele Utah knocked out Bobby Berger 160 Los Angeles in 2:45 of the first round of a scheduled ten-round feature bout at the fairgrounds coliseum last night In a preliminary Buddy Washington 130 Ogden Utah and Pocatello stopped Tony Martin day to consider candidates among them former Hoosier Track Star The Los Angeles Dons would like to have Fritz Crisler University of Michigan coach and they're ST PAUL Mel Brown 164 St Paul outpointed Al Johnson 165 Indianapolis 8 has switched to Calvert bera Calvert is aiilder of Paha St Laekawmaaa CALVERT RESERVE Blended Whisk? -868 Proof -65 Grain Neutral Spirits Calvert Distillers Corp New York City ors in the annual flyer shoot of Don Lash for the post of athletic director The directorship was left open when Alvin (Bo) McMillin resigned to become head coach of the willing to let him "write his own ticket" if he'll enter the pro football fold A spokesman for the All-Amer the Salt Lake gun club here Monday White cracked 20 out of 20 and WASHINGTON Sonny Home 159 Valley Stream outpointed Smuggy Hursey 161 Washington 10 professional Detroit Lions College won more than $350 Ted Renfro Sr of Montana in rookie pitchers In making the announcement today Les O'Connor Sox general manager said no cash was involved Robinson notched a 270 batting average in 83 games for the Yankees last season The Sox will get two pitching prospects from the Yankees Kansas City farm club Fred Bradley and Bill Wight Southpaw Wight 26 won 16 and lost nine for the Blues and won a game for New York at the close of the season Bradley a 27-year-old righthander compiled a 13-4 mark for Kansas City last year Lefty Lopat came to Chicago from Little Rock Ark in 1944 ica Conference club indicated the Dons were willing to pay Crisler ternationally known trap shooter together with his son Ted Jr com CHICAGO Talmadge Bussey 137 Detroit and Wray Carter 132 Chicago drew 8 MOVING? peted Ted Jr high 17 out of 20 and Ted Sr 16 out of 20 White was the only one of the officials said they didn know if Lash had applied for the job but it was learned that he had probably last Saturday when he was on the campus as a judge at the Purdue-Indiana dual track meet After his graduation in 1937 Lash joined the Indiana state police Later he became an agent for the federal bureau of investigation at LaFayette Ind large field to go straight A high wind hampered all of the Billy Smith 173 Oakland Calif stopped Charlie Banks 172 Cincinnati 10 more than S50000 a year but General Manager Harry Thayer declined to set a figure "If Crisler is willing to enter the pro ranks he can't afford to turn down what we are ready to offer him" Thayer said The Dons who let Dudley DeGroot go late last season thought they had Carl Snavely of North Carolina in the fold last week but Snavely decided to stay in the south Pianos Furniture Electric Ice Banns Baggmgs Packing Storage Across the Street sr Across tfes contestants BRAKE Going Goshen SALT LAKE Remo Polidori 160 Tooele Utah knocked out Bobby Berger 160 Los Angeles (1) GOSHEN The nnlv fnm RE LINE AND REPAIR munitv with two CranH rirrmt SLADE TRANSFER Spinelli to Get Fistic Hearing CHICAGO Feb 24 (UP) Fight tracks Goshen and its population of 3073 will present nine days of trotting and nacins this summer 1 TRAVEL GOOD PAY fXt ADVENTURE Ul 1 EDUCATION I REGULAR AdVaBCiMinl Front End Motor A GI Repair YOU WRECK 'EM-SEE RACKHAM 601 29th St NEWBURGH Charley Donovan 131 Brooklvn i-nitnnintoH Dial 8944 Mannie Torres 136 Phoenix Ariz with purses aggregating more than $180000 Manager Mike Spinelli of New Chappuis Rights Are Transferred CLEVELAND Feb 24 All-America football conference draft riehts to Michigan Halfhark xork was called on today to show why he should not be barred from Illinois boxing for allegedly falsifying the age of his fighter Sam Baroudi who was killed Friday What whiskey tastes Perfectly Marvelous in an Old-Fashioned? 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