Show o. o Arc for of HOOD Season I Friday rL I Eight Prep Schools Ready For Initial Contests in Stale Siale Ho loop Hoop p Sweepstakes kes V I West Test High Panthers Meet feet s U J Preps Leopards Tangle With VitI Saints Granite Invades Bing Bingham ham Mining J b Camp Jordan to Hook Up With Murray Six SL Thousand Rooters A Await rait Opening Signal S SIX O IX IS THOUSAND lusty lunged d high school rooters roote s will win get their first opportunity of th the c season to cheer their teams on to victory In in the Salt Lake City an and suburban divisions of the state basketball league on Fri Friday ay next when the West Test High Hight Panthers tear into the thc U Preps and the East High Leopards meet the thc Saints while at the same t time me Granite tangles with Bingham in the mining camp and Jordan tries out Murray in the smelter city Pr Preliminaries O Over r Preliminaries are about over ocr All eight teams have bate weathered heavy programs of or practice games at home and away all the coaches have juggled juggled juggled jug jug- their lineups In an effort to find tho the most effective combinations and have finally decided on their best bets the midyear exams have come como an and gone rendering some of ot the fond hopes InI Ineligible ineligible in- in I eligible and others who all term have suffered the blight of or ineligibility O. O I K iC for participation again The stage is set and the tho students at the various Institutions all hopeful of or backing a a. winner Inner are aro ready to let loose two months of or enthusiasm In the tho cIt city section the Saint-Leopard Saint battle should prove provo tho the more bitterly contested Although the U 11 preps have a a. big five tive of or capable and demonstrated considerable class fira In fir Ina Ina a practice game gme with the fast Murray high aggregation they are not expected to give Coach Homer Christensen's I s seasoned and scrappy Panthers too much trouble The tilt till will take place In tho Panther gymnasium Panthers Stable Stable- Since Thanksgiving Ing day when he lie took his quint to Pleasant nt Grove for fora a a. practice game Coach Christenson has used practically the same rive five In n every oven everyone everyone one of or a dozen contests until he has Mitchell Funk Hagen Hall HaJJ and Gregory Greg Greg- ory ory all all of or them experienced around all athletes working athletes working like mee a a. machine m If It there thero Is anything to be bc desired Inthe in inthe inthe the quint It might be a little littlemore littlemore more accuracy nt at the hoop but what the they lack in caging casing ability the they more than make up for in team pIa play and amI general basketball sagacity Gre Gregory ory at guard has lias proved a particularly particularly par par- dangerous player He Ho Is the West high scoring mainstay Mitchell has developed Into a first class and Funk Hall and Hagen are defensive defensive sive men of the highest caliber Rossiter Kos- Kos a six footer ma may give Ive Hagen a battle to hold the center Job fob The preps have haYe valuable men in Ellerbeck El- El lerbeck Douglas and Watkins and re refuse refuse re- re fuse Cuse to be counted out of ot the run run- ning I. I I D. D S. S T ss TI Leopard From this distance it looks as If Jt the theL L L. L b D. S.-East S. high game is as even a a. contest as could bo be framed Neither team has shown much class in its pre- pre schedule contests both having bating taken takena a fat Cat share of ot defeats But Dut both quita have improved steadily and though the lineups have been frequently reshuffled reshuffled fled tIed the mentors seem to have settled upon their happiest combination in time to oil up smooth running ma ma- chines tumor Rumor has it that Haymond star Saint Int forward is on the scholastic sick list and ma may not appear In Fridays Friday's game ame The loss of or this player would shako tho the Saint chances somewhat al althou although although al- al thou though h Cowley has shown to advantage in tho the forward berth Suburban Section In the suburban section a hot race Is unavoidable I livery vcr one of ot the quartet quartet quartet tet of or contenders Is conceded a a. chance Granite Granito has a strong combination Coach Baird has made the best of or his hll ran rangy n seasoned material and has made madean an Impressive earl early season showing He will have o had his his hands handt full however to win the opener as the are arc dangerous competitors an anywhere where and on their own floor where the initial Int- Int game Is scheduled are particularly difficult to humble Jordan lordan ordan Is 15 a slight favorite to win sIn sInover In over Murray but with the performing on their own floor the lie contest contest con con- test should prove a n morr merry battle Jordan Jordan Jordan Jor Jor- dan stock block was soaring high after several several sev sev- eera e era eral I impressive victories when the farmers visited Bingham last week weel and took tool a n 36 CI beating from the miners whom they had previously walloped wallop d. d The reverse has left the critics guess guess- Ing |