Show STA STATE IE TOURNEY JOURNEY STARTS TO IGHT I Leading Basketball Teams Be Begin Begin Begin gin Elimination Contest for Championship a Everything E Is ls in readiness for the open opening openIng openIng ing ot of the state basketball tournament at the Y M 11 C A gymnasium g tonight The rhe first four tour games will be pulled off oft tonight At p m the Salt Lake High school and Granite High school will meet at 70 L 1 D S first and Y M C A socon at Y M C CA CA CA A first and arid University of ot Utah and at and L E S second Those Interested in the meet are very much lunch pleased at the action of ot some of the secondary teams t ams In entering the tournament ment nent These teams apparently have no 1 chance to win but they the desire to show their good will and their willingness to toI I support Utah athletics by entering and taking a defeat with no compensation but experience The Granite Granito High school and Salt Lake High school have shown qualities of real sportsmanship throughout the entire bas basketball basketball season and are to be congratulated ed on doing their part to make this meet meeta a success Maddocks men at the university are also aiso anxious to do their part and al although although although though they have had no representative team this year ear will get together a strong combination of ot the best men of ot the vari various van vanous ari arious ous teams that they have been playing this season There are some excellent players at nt the university and it is ex cx expected pe td that the team Maddock sends down will be exceptionally strong The entire net proceeds of ot this tournament tournament ment are to be turned over to the school committee ommittee for tor the furtherance of the big bigall bigall bigall all western estern track met me t May MayO 30 O In view Mew of ot this fact it Is expected that large crowds will attend the games Rames ames The fight for tor first place will probably be he between the Y M f C A the L D S SI I 1 and nd the Aggles The Aggles have been 1 praised for tor the excellent spirit I they have shown shon all aU year and the game gameness gameness gameness ness with which they the have taken their defeats and come back for more Every game Jame has shown a marked improvement In luhe he team and now at the close chose of ot the seaon competent basketball critics claim that they are in a position to play any t tam am In the state an exceedingly close game The L 1 D S I V this year Jear possesses the strongest team that has represented the Institution for some time Hard H rd luck has pursued them and what games they the have hae I lost host have been lost by close scores They The Theare are playing pla ing better than ever now now and will b h hI prominent contenders for first place The Y M C A team is in the best and is playing pla better ball than It has any time during the year Jear and its supporters are quite sure that It will fin finish finIsh finIsh ish the tournament without a defeat |