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Show : AMATEUR TALK; ! By TOMMY FITZPATRICK j ''I With the opening of school around i the first nf Vie year the athletic I coaches of the high schools and col- J leges nf I'tah will call out their basketball bas-ketball stars at once. Tho Influenza will also Interfere In this sport and only tho experienced basketball players play-ers will have a chance to make the quint at tho different schools, as th coaches will not have time to develop new material. Coach Joe Jen son Is back t the Utah Agricultural college and Is planning plan-ning on his team already, but he really does not know Juat what men will be back from tho army. Coach Roberts will have most of hla high school basketball bas-ketball team on his B. Y. V. five this year and alao expects to get a number of the other boys back at school. The 1 entire freshman basketball team, as i well as a number f other high school j stars aro back t tho University of j : Utah and tho Crimson's prospects look ' good right now. Coach Knapp will have a new team at the B. Y. C but ! the Logan boys are always able to hold their own. especially against any five that will meet them on the "Y" floor. Secretary C. Oron Wilson of the Utah High School Athletic association 1 1 .j poets la m a trat basketball ra-' ra-' son for tht high schools this year. The ' Branch A. C. won the alata title la.t ' season from the Boaelder high school ' after these teams had played a four- day tournament acatnnt the B. Y. U. ' and Tooele teams. I'oarh Chrlatensen ' Is still at the B. A. C. while "Coarh Webb will be In- chart of th hlnh . school boys at the B Y. V. Coach . Barlow haa taken Coach West's place , at the Tooele high school and Coach Twltchell. who Is a well known athlete ath-lete and athletic coach, will he In Dava Waan(;uard's place at th Bmelder high school. ... The InlveraUv of I'tah fool hall squad will go to Lou Angeles next a-s-son to meet th rmveratty of Southern South-ern California and the officials on the hill are trying hard to arrange a game with California or Stanford, to be played In Mlt Lake If thia plan falls throush Ws.hlngton or Oregon may be brought to Kait !ake as an added attraction at-traction to th Rocky mountain schedule. sched-ule. Ths anriual meeting of the Rockv 1 mountain conference will be held In -Denver during the Christmas holldsy. snd the baakelhall, baseball, track and : football "schedules will be- made up t The I'tah repreaentatlvea will l k:y I leavefor th meeting aome time an.und the holidaya. tr. Motten of the Colo. , radji college will leave for the Ra.t within the next week or so to attend ! th national Intercollegiate convention, j so (hsl he will hav some plans to Isy before th Rocky mounlaia aXXAOals for th future years. 1 |