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Show HOOP GAMES START FRIDAY The eyes of the basket ball fans of the state will be focused Friday night on Utah county where the Nebo and Alpine division teams begin be-gin their struggles to decide the championship of the respective districts. dis-tricts. The Alpine district started last week when the Pleasant Grove team defeated the American Fork-ers. Fork-ers. Besides the regular league games played Friday, the Provo high school will meet the West high squad at the high school gymnasium in a practice game. This should lie especially interesting from the fact that the Salt Lakers recently defeated the cha five in an extra period of play. ITue outcome of the practice game should be an indication as to the rel-j rel-j alive strength of the two rival Xebo teams. Spanish Fork goes to Payson for I the opening league battle while Nephi comes to Springville. The j hitler game should prove of un-; un-; usual interest since those two teams : together with the Provo high school ;are considered among the foremost aspirants for the state high school championship. Both teams have , practically the same lineup as last year an know the game from A to Z. Only one games is played in the Alpine division Friday night. Heber comes to American Fork." for tne hitter's second game of the series. Saturday Ilcber meets Elroy West's classy little team from the Lincoln high school at the Provo bench gymnasium. gym-nasium. Although tlie latter school is the infant iu county athletic circles. cir-cles. West has succeeded in whipping whip-ping together a fine array of basketball basket-ball talent. The same evening Josh West's Lelii hoopsters Journey to Pleasant Grove where they will meet Harry Richard's basket shooters shoot-ers who already lead the league. The first practice game of the Young university five will also be played on Saturday evening when the L. P. S. university squad comes down from Salt Lake. Raskerhnll will hold the boards from now until March 1. and interest inter-est in the sport will increase as the race in the various divisions becin to tighten. The strength and ability i of I lie teams are so close that the 1 interest will be maintained to the ' very last contest, as it will be no j I one game for a certainty until the final games have been played. 1 |