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Show THE Y'LDCAT Page Four Wednesday. April 19, 1944 Wildcats Meet PHS Tomorrow Folowing up a year competition in basketball ball, the Wildcats of Y field a strong baseball of sports and foothigh will team this year. HU Westerner Five Win Tournament Under the guidance of Dave Crowton the Wildcat nine will hit the field this year in new uniforms Overpowering all opposition the and with much new blood. With only Bob Free, Dean Ash- Westerner basketball squad marchworth and John Lee returning to ed through the entire high school tourney with ten wins the diamond the BY nine will and no losses to lake the tournaplace many sophomores on the ment championship. ?q6ad. With Bob Perry standing above The team has spent the past week in preparing the field. Boys most other teams the Westerners turning out for practice include had little trouble in winning ten Dean Ashworth, Bob Free, John straight games. In second place were the RamblLee, Charles Craven, Gene RobinRussell son, Don Hanson, ing Recks. El wood Nelson, Mark GraThe Westerners team consisted ham, Grant Johnson, Eric Steine-ker- t, of Bob Perry, Bob Free, Jack Bob Morgan, S.tan Madsen, Gordon Lewis and El wood and Nixon. Sterling Broadbent, Jay Nelson. Arnold Mecham, who played The Rambling Recks were Paul second base on last years nine, Jennings, Dairrell Jensen (until the will not see action this year due tune of his induction into the to injuries received in a recent Navy), RoberJ Court, John Lee, automobile accident. Bob Morgan, Stewart Morley and The schedule of games for the lav Nixon. remainder of the year is as follows: April 18 Juab at BY (postpone ed due to weather conditions.) As 1 was laying on the green Wasatch ait Payson, Provo at Car- A small English book 1 seen,, bon. Carlyles essay on Burns was the edition April 20 BY at Provo, Payson So 1 left it lay in the same at Juab, Carbon at Wasatch. April 25 Payson at Calrbon, Wasatch at BY. Provo at Juab. Wasatch at Provo, April 27 BY at Payson. May 2 Payson at Wasatch. Carbon at Provo, BY at Juab. May 4 Provo at BY, Juab at Payson, Wasatch at Carbon. May 9 Carbon at Payson. BY at Wasatch, Juab t Provo. May 11 Provo at Wasatch. Pay-so- n at BY. hitra-mur- al Be-men- t, Mit-chcl- l, HH Wit nil lltf ! H- Time Oat by Mitch -- writers and sports coaches alike the Utah boys edged Dartmouth in an overtime period to win the official tourney championship. They then received an to play St. Paul iini a Red Cross benefit game. Again the were the underdogs. Despite injuries the Utah Utes were able to put on a last half spurt of power to trample St. Paul 43 to 36. ThK win obtained for the Utes the unofficial title of National champion Not only did the U boys astound sports critics as the Bulldogs of Rrovo high outplayed and outclassed any other team ini the Utah high school basketball tournament to win three consecutive games for the state crown. Winning over East high, Davis and Box Elder the Provo five proved that they were the team to win for Box Elder downed Weber. Davis downed Weber. Weber took Granite. Nice going Provo. Getting back to baseball, th Wildcats are starting out the season with new uniforms, and a new baseball diamond. The prospective members of the team have spent nearly a week in preparing the field for play. The Wildcats were scheduled to play their first game Tuesday a we went to press. Surprisng Well baseball seems to take the basketball potlight now as all tournaments have ended with local teams taking top honors in all The Indians of the competition. Unive: sity of Utah pulled rabbits jut of a hat to take the national collegiate basketball championship with a by smashing Dartmouth 0 hi of score an overtime period at Madison Square Gardenis. The story of the Utes amazing 42-4- climb to this favored .spot is a fabulous tale of luck. Entering the tournament against Kentucky the Indians were smashed in the initial game and eimin-ate- d. After this defeat they were invited to play irn the Western States Collegiate Basketball tournament at Kansas City when Arban-sa- s was forced to quit after an automobile accident in which an assistant coach was killed, and several players injured. Here the Utes showed their true colors and pushed over all competition with very little trouble to be again to the national tournament. in-vt- ed m-vitat- on Tennis Team Drops Games BY high school, who usually sports one of the strongest tenuR teams ini the state, are for the Provo Bulldogs Crowned Champs first time in many years having actrouble locating net talent, cording to word received from Dave Crow ton. In their initial game with Provo high school the Wildcats won one and lost three of the four tilts. Lee Knell, who has won the state junior singles championship in past years, was the only netter to win a tilt. It was the same story against Spanish Fork last night, again Knell won the only victory and the combinations of John Lee and Reid Merrill, and Dean Ashworth and George Ballif fell under the Dons assault. Jim Rawlins was also unable to overcome his Provo high sch6dls green-cla- d Bulldogs, running rampant oveir spdrts writers as well as strong casaba squads, smashed their way through three strong quints to grab the state basketball crown for the second time in three years. The Pm vo boys pushed over an East high five to win the opportunity of facing the tourney favorites,. the Davis Darts. With all those sports writers excepting from the home town betting for the Davis quint, Provo pulled themselves through to gain the final chance with Box Elder. The boys from Northern Utah proved no match for the Bulldogs and Provo was crowned Utah high school champions. -- Bay War Bonds and Stamps .V I. |