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Show a7HIJIIIH.Himi.HIMM AMATEUR! 1 A JL-i IV By Tommy Filitrick fliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiHniiiiiimiiiiiiiuiiiiiitiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiffi naslum. Captain Sherm Preece has recovered from the Influenza and will - ha bask sw ths ink, with tin- Quid and Hlue mentor, snd the I.. T. 8. boys are out to scrap for the 1919 bunting In the 8a It lake division. Coach Joe Jensen of tha t'tah Agricultural Agri-cultural college is back on the Job and is trying to round up his former atarsfor the coming basketball sea- i "TJ7TTT TUB A hk 1MB a ill nut Btait srlmiil unltl the second week in Jsnaury, and Jensen will have to do soma hard plugging to get the men In shspe for tha state contests. Many of tha Aggie stars are back from their army work an dare expected to. return to Logan after tha holidays. Grantsville High school la looking for an athletic coach. Coach Richardson Rich-ardson has resigned, and It lanot known Just what position ha will take before school starts. Ha haa pulled Grantsville over tha rocks during tha last two years and has left the Grantsville athletic situation In the best shape that It haa been In for soma time. I Tug Warner, former University of Utah star, was in town yesterday to - saw hslla In sums sf his fen4a mm 4 will lesve today for Peterson, Utah, to spend the Christmas vacation with his parents. Warner expects to secure a coaching position around Salt Lake and la considering tha Ogden and Iavls County High school position. Klther school would surely be for- j tnnate in securing a man like i Warner. ... The athletes of the two Salt Lake High schools will be called together again Thursday afternoon to start the 1919 hoop sesson on Its way. This will be the first time that the Red and Rlack schools have taken the Jump on the other teams, and the end of the season may find ona of them at the top of the ladder in this division, di-vision, despite the fact that there will be a number of new teams In the lineups. Coaches Rlchardaon of the West Side and Briggs of tha East Hide are eager to get their stars tin- i der training and will start hard work at once. Pyke, DeWald and James are the old men back at the Panther gymnasium, while Heattle, Anderson, Romney, Henderson and Dor i us may he hack In the harness at the Leopard 1 coop. The Red and Rlack coaches I are determined to put up a fight for the atate basketball honors this sea-' sea-' son and expect fifty candidates out j to try for the positions on the teams. . It is likely that a class aeries will be arranged before the first team Is se-lrted se-lrted and the men making the heat j SMnwmg in thM games will be se-; se-; icrted for the first quintet. j The B Y. C. and the H Y. U. basketball teams will hsve to be watched closely this sesaon, as j Coaphea Knappjtnd Roberta are work- lug already to build up some strong I teams for the winter competition. l Let s hope fhat the Ogden fans will j start something up north to get the Junction City high school lads a real I gymnasium. The Tiger athletes have made the bent of tbinga long enough, and some real live Ogden backer) ought to come to the front and help the boys out In their athletic work. : The Orange and Black teams have al-(waya al-(waya been strong, and wlth a good j coach and a place for their training ' Ogden would be a thorn In the way 'of the other high school coaches. Hurely there is someone in Ogden who Is ready to take up the fight for ths boys and girls. Wilford Romney, former Cnlversity I of Ctah star, arrived In Salt Lake yesterday from Washington, where he has been In the naval aviation service. ser-vice. Woody expects to return to Waahlngton until he secures his discharge, dis-charge, snd will then finish his col-j col-j lege course at the university. His brother, Milton, will leave In A few I days for Ottawa, Kan, 'where he Is stationed at present. Mitt also ex-pects ex-pects to return soon lo tha univsralty-to univsralty-to finish up his work." Coach Rynearson of the L. D. 5. t said yesterday that basketball work for his team would not start until January ft, but his men are getting In shape every afternoon at the gym- |
