Show basket ball nearly got its death blow basketball fans ot of this community and that includes nearly every man woman onlan and child in brigham city were mightily stirred in their feelings yesterday when cae announcement was made that president J B E moss llosa of 0 the state amateur basketball league had ruled blat box elder w uld have to meet the summit high which won the championship in the south half ot of the northern division to decide wh rii team should represent the division ill at the state tournament which will ba held in logan wednesday thursday and friday of 0 this week eek the news published the statement in ill the last issue that president moss had disqualified the summit team and declared anat the winner of the game between south cache and box elder would be the champions of 0 the cie division and would go to the tournament this statement was made by president moss to mr air john W peters who ulio represents the northern division on the board of oc control ot of the state amateur league and air peters re heated the statement to mr moss to be sure and was emphatically made to understand that the winner of the south cache box elder game would be 1 the division champions this conservation occurred last wees keeli on sunday afternoon about 4 mr moss aloes got mr air peters over the telephone and advised him that he had ruled that the vf winners in the two halves of the division would have to meet and decide which team should go to the tourney mr air peters reminded mr air moss of 0 his previous statement in which lie he had declared the summit team disqualified and mr air moss replied that any court of at review had a right to reverse itself some more things were said and mr peters lien made the threat that box elder would forfeit to summit and permit that team to go into the tourney that seemed to bring mr moss up standing andine Bt tor for he continued on pase four I 1 BASKET SALL BALL NEARLY GOT THE DEATH BLOW continued from first page immediately began to placate mr peters and point out the of at such action and urged that box el der should play the game with summit in braer order that everything might be regular and the tournament would not suffer as a result mr air peters asked mr ir moss if summit should forfeit to box bos elder would box elder be permitted to enter the cie tourney and was told that that would bo be all right mr air peters then wanted to know why it if box elder should forfeit to summit that team would not be permitted to represent the northern division in the tourney and the outcome of the argument was that tile the league oln cial stated that he recognized the influence upon the tourney which the presence of 0 the box elder county team will have upon it mr moss loss used all his persuasiveness upon mr peters to placate mm blin and get the promise that box elder would play the i game with summit on monody afternoon at logan lagan and thus dispose of the entire matter according to the rules of the game mr air peters states that the whole at af fair was mixed up by president moss himself and dox box elder repeatedly tri ed to get all the games played off last week and was endeavoring to arrange for the game with summit when the league president advised mr air peters that that game would not need to be played yesterday morning a meeting of the athletic committee of oc the high school faculty held a meeting and listened to the report of the discussions mr peters had had with president moss and after expressing themselves freely and indignantly upon the matter all but one voted to forfeit the game and let summit represent the division at the tourney Ilo however wever after giving vent to their feelings the members of the committee agreed that they could rise above the situation and accept what each man honestly felt and stated was the rottenest rott enest deal that had ever been handed out and send the team into the fight to a finish the team went over to logan yesterday afternoon minus who sprained his ankle saturday night and gave summit the drubbing of its life the final score was 58 to 18 and never at any time did the winners ot of the south halt half ot of the division havea ghost of a chance to cop the game in the absence of cornia played center ter and was high man in the scoring shooting ii 11 field baskets and four fouls foula out of five free tries dave watkins put tile the ball through eight times from the field and dasil basil fife shot seven of era em this victory dispelled all doubt as to dm bex elders claim to the championship pion ship in the northern division and means our team will be in the tourney aich chich begins tomorrow evening C W hall of portage was in town today on some matters of business mr air and mrs airs mark alark johnstone linstone Jo of omaha spent last week visiting mrs John stones parents mr and mrs airs W G gidney of this city they returned to their home yesterday mr eldred hatch underwent an operation today in the L D S hospital at salt lake city for hernia ills his mother went down h epst st evening to be at his side john leroy couch of collinston collingston Col linston was yesterday inducted into the coast artillery by the local exemption board and sent off to fort F ort colllns collins colo vate couch was in class I 1 of the selective draft notice is ir hereby served to the party i who took the purse containing money and eye glasses tram from office in cie t ie red cross wednesday at 12 to return tile the property at once and save the visit of an officer publicity and prosecution it Is absolutely known that one of two persons is the guilty one ad attorney henry seeger has returned from born wendover whither ne went with wilh willie to secure evidence in the case wiach tile the govern government ment lias has lodged against willie for being a draft evader during the week county clerk J G wheatley issued a marriage permit to allen alien R tanner and sarah G wakefield of grouse creek |