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Show SCHOOL ATHLETICS TORN TO HOOP G1E Indications Are That B. Y. U. Will Not Lose Single Bat-' Bat-' tie This Year. Among amateur athletics the' past week has been one of littlo action. The tirao has been spent largely in resting and in passing comment 1)y way of postmortem post-mortem op the recently passod. football season. Tho football season is now I duly buried and, beginning with this week, all the colleges and high Hchoola in tho state which havo not already begun will start earnest basketball training in the hopes of winning tho. state championship in their rospcctivo divisions. I , . In the high Bchool division the Ve-ber Ve-ber Stako academy of Ogden won Iho state championship laBt year, -while tho collegiato Dunting went to tho state university. Prom present indications it looks very much as though the state champs would end the coming season at the bottom. Captain Skidnioro is tho only man in tho school this winter who played on the regular varsity lineup line-up last winter, and as. yet he has been unable to get into tho practice because of an injury he received in the early part of the football season. The most promising material to bo unearthed in the past week -was Roger Van Pelt and Lee Simmons, van Pelt is decidedly a dark-horse proposition. Hq played a little with the preps last winter, but he was bo Blow and awkward awk-ward that the principal reason for hiB playing was to furnish amusement for the crowd. This year he has unwound about fifty kinks and can play rings around anyone else who has yot been out for tie center position. Loren Briggs, -who played for the freshmen four yeara ago, was expooted to .land this place without any competition thiB year, but in the game between the jun-lore jun-lore and the freBhies these two mon were pitted against one another, and Van Pelt not only outjumped Bnggs, hut hq caged si field baskets in the course of the gamo. SimmonB played forward and his speed and versatility mark him as another an-other player of the type of "Happy" Holmstead. Other men who are expected ex-pected to get out and make the boyB huatle. but who have not yet showed any signs of life, are Roy Mclntyro, ""Piggy" "Ward, Jack Travors, Marsh Abbott, Rex Sutherland and Leslie Paul. . " . The B. Y. TJ. and the Aggies are blessed with half a dozen stars each from which to make a. team. It is tho B. Y U. in particular that is strong and the judications are at present that tha Provo team will not lose a gamo this season. To begin -with they have both of the Greenwood boys. This -will bo the third year for ono and tho fourth year for the other, and both are players of the classiest type, Ono ia a center and the other a guard. Besides those two worthy wor-thy veterans, thoy have two other equally faat and experienced men in Bowen .nd Halverson, Both of theso men are forwards and play the game fast and furiously all tho tamo. Coach Roberts also has Jones and Taylor, two of last year's substitutes, -who, when given an opportunity, played the game in nice style. It was practically this team which for the two years preceding last year swept everything in the state beforo them and failed to lose a Blnglo game to eithor Utah or the Aggies. The Aggies do not have quite aa favorable fa-vorable an outlook, but they havo several sev-eral old men back and they .possess a fighting spirit "Which goes far toward victory. They cannot oe whipped by being told flo and they can always be figured a a strong possibility until the bottlo is all over, and thev nave boon defeated. Owen, tho big football .center, .cen-ter, is captain of Aha basketball team, and with tho help of Hugh Pctorson, ! tho two Brossards, Jones and Lauren? son, he vill havo something hard to beat when ho comes down this way to jjlay the varsity or tho B. Y. TJ. r |