OGDEN CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1943 Patrolling the SPORT HIGHWAY with AL WARDEN Tigers Gained Last Title in 1916 Gilbert Moesingers Ogden high footballers will battle Davis high for the 1943 Utah class A football crown. The present Tiger machine can write a new chapter in gridiron history by annexing the championship. It has been years since the Tigers hoisted their last football crown. Several members of that sensational machine are still residents of Oregon. When one takes time out to select one of Ogdens all time scholastic elevens, the 1916 aggregation must be given consideration. Bill Glasmann, Louis Falck, Glen Dee and Elvin Wilkinson were the first string backs. Dick Marshall and Jack Kingsford were the reserve backfield performers. Glasmann has made about every all time Utah scholastic football team. He was a sensational open field runner, was a briliant kicker and was tops as a forward pass artist. Besides these sterling qualities, Glasmann was also a brilliant field general. Louis Falck went on to win all conference honors at Utah State where he was developed into a quarterback. George Erwin, Peck Falck, Rete Conroy and Vincent Conroy were the ends of the 1916 team. Bill Mohler and Rube Fox held down the tackle positions and they were powerful on offense and defense. Lee Richards and Junior Rich were regulars at the guard posts. The center position was capably handled by Harry Bagley, now a newspaper writer on the Pacific coast. Junior Rich is now a major in the medical corps in the United States army air corps. Vincent Conroy made all American honors with the navy and is now with one of the nations leading airlines as an executive. His brother, Rete, is principal of the Quincy school in Ogden. Rube Fox resides at LaBarge, Wyoming, and Louie Falck lives in Salt Lake City, as does Glen Dee. This corner recalls very vividly the 1916 Ogden team. East and west high schools of Salt Lake and Granite of that same season had powerful teams but they were not in the same class with Ogden. Several Tiger teams have advanced to the semi finals, but the 1943 team is the first one in many years to get a crack at the state finals. One of the standouts of the 1943 Ogden eleven is Owen Koch, one of the sweetest backs to grace an Ogden gridiron in more than 20 years. He is a marvelous open field runner, a brilliant safety man, and seems to be the main cog in the play of the Ogdenites. Gilbert Moesinger, veteran Ogden coach, will be leading the Tigers for the last time when they battle Davis. Moesinger and his 1943 team have a grand opportunity to write their names along side of the other Ogden champions of the past in the crucial test with Davis. And this corner believes that the Tigers will do just that. Bits of Sports Banter Russ Newland, Associated Press sports editor in San Francisco, provides this corner with some interesting data on Kid Scala and Jack Kearns, one time manager of Jack Dempsey. We quote Newland as follows: The kids last fight? There is a former fine little fighting man of the squared circle lying desperately ill in an Edmonton, Alberta, hospital and while the younger boxing fans may never have heard of him, the old timers will pause for a moment at mention of the name of Kid Scaler. Louie Kid Scaler, 56 years old, left a shoe shine stand in Worcester, Mass., to start a ring career there in 1903 and when he hung up the gloves in Seattle in 1914, he had engaged in 287 fights...He was never stopped nor knocked out until he fell out of the ring from sheer exhaustion in his final match nearly 30 years ago, with Johnny OLeary in Seattle...In view of this record it seems amazing that Nat Fleischers big record book, which is regarded as practically official, makes no mention of Kid Scaler...The Kid is a brother of Frankie Scaler, local boxing promoter; as well as Fred, who lives in nearby Mountain View. Another brother, Mike, is a resident of Spokane and retired food market proprietor...The entire Scaler family moved from Massachusetts to Spokane, from where the father branched into railroad contracting in British Columbia. Kid Scaler resumed his ring activities in Spokane and his first opponent was a lightweight long afterward to become prominent as Jack Dempseys manager, Jack KearnsKearns was a pretty fair fighter but Scaler kayoed him in three rounds...Kearns is credited with being one of the really shrewd manager in ring history and he showed first evidence of it by becoming the manager of Kid Scaler right after losing to him...Eddie Marino of Seattle was in the same stable...Some time around 1909, Kearns took his stable to Edmonton, as Frankie Scaler recalls it, and put on a display of managerial genius...He matched Marino with the Canadian lightweight championMarino lostThen Kearns fought the champ and lost by a ninth round knockoutThen he played his trump cardKid Scaler defeated the Canadian in 15 rounds. In some of his California fights, the Kid twice licked Billy Snailham, later a San Francisco refereeScaler lost on a foul to Oakland Frankie Burns, and in Spokane stopped Bobby Johnson, the present trainer for the San Francisco baseball cub and a former crackerjack fighter and later local refereeKid Scaler enlisted in the Canadian army as a boxing instructor at the start of World war I, but instead of boxing gloves as he was handed a rifle and shipped overseas almost at onceHe saw much action, lost an eye and suffered a leg wound and shell shock and has been hospitalized sinceWord received by his brother indicates the Kid is engaged in his last big fight now and we thought the oldsters would like to know about it. University of Utah will close one of the most disappointing seasons in Utah football history at the Utah stadium on Turkey day, Nov. 25. The Utes take on Jimmy Phelans St. Marys Gaels of California. The Gaels have been only luke warm this season but they are expected to give the Utah freshmen and 4 Fs a lacing. On the other hand the Utes may spring a surprise and upset the Gaels. Colorado was picked to spank the Utes without difficulty last week, but when the timers pistol blasted the end of the game, Utah was on the short end of a 22 to 19 score. With any kind of a break the Utes might have left, the field with a victory. They dropped an early season game to Colorado at Buolder by a lopsided score. Attention at the annual Ogden Livestock show athletic program indicates that Ogden fans want boxing at regular intervals. Plans are underway now for a mammoth two or three night boxing show for army men of Utah, Idaho and Nevada Proceeds will go to the infantile paralysis fund. Dates will be announced shortly and the army may stage a professional main event the last night to give the show added color.