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Show INTEREST AROUSED FOR COMING GAMES Utah Quintette May Play With Colorado and Washington. With tho announcement that very likely like-ly the University of Utah basketball nulntettc will meet both tho Universities of Colorado and Washington this winter tho interest in the great Indoor gamo was greatly accentuated and many of the men who are good players but who were slow about getting out for practice appeared yesterday ready to play. Word was received yesterday by Coach Bcn-nlon Bcn-nlon from both Colorado and Washington Washing-ton asking for games, and as Bcnnlon Is very eager to develop athletic relations with the colleges of the northwest and to strengthen the already strong ties binding Utah to the Colorado Institutions ho was very much pleased with the requests. re-quests. Thcro Is one objection, however, to both contracts. Both teams want to coma to Salt Lake, a feature which In itself Is very encouraging, but both want dates earllrjr than Bennlon at thia tlmo wants to accept. The University of Colorado wnnts to come here during the Christmas holidays and tho northwostcrn coach wants to come here fof a scries of games beginnlnc on February 1. The basketball material at Utah Is the greenest in the slate and with only two or three weeks remaining before the Colorado games would be played Bennlon feels that his chances of winning would be dnngerously small. He further Intimates Inti-mates that even tho first of Fobruary Is loo early to hazard any big games and for that reason Is a little Inclined to look with disfavor upon the proposition. Last year Utah had a basketball team which wns probably the equal of any In the country. The east benchers made the Boulder qulntetto look like grade school players and established a most enviable en-viable reputation. In fact Utah won the championship of Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Colo-rado, Idaho and Montana and to hazard that on games so early In the season Is too big a risk to take, says tho coach. |