Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-13 | Page 6 | Crucial Battle of Season Tomorrow

CRUCIAL BATTLE OF SEASONJOMORRDW Varsity and B. Y. U. Fives Will Fight for Mastery in Deseret Gym. Tho varsity basketball team will -reach tho climax of Its reason's work tomorrow night when It meets tho fant B. Y. U. aggregation In tho Deseret gymnasium. Jf Coach Bennlnn'a mon can win that gnrao they will have a good chanco to win tho championship nflcr all. but If they loso thoy will bo hopolessly out of tho running and tho remainder ot tlm season will bo simply a matter mat-ter of form, as Ilcnnlon will turn his attention largely to the development of his track men. At thn beginning of tho season Coach Uobcrtn of tho B. Y. U had doveloped a team of five reasoned veterans and tho team looked Invincible. Soon, however, "Lera" Greenwood, ono ot tho oldest and strongest of tho quintolte, was declared de-clared Ineligible and was forced to lcavn tho team. Roberta trained Bowman to take hla placo and lust had things working nicely again whon tho B. Y. U. faculty announced that Roborta would hava to dispense with the zcrvlcc-j ot Jonas. This was a shock, but Roberta had n new man In Egbert, In whom ho saw promlr.o. Egbert wua given a chanco and Immediately made good. Last night It waa reported from Provo that tho B. Y. U- had lost anothor man in Milton Chlpniao, who will accept n position in tho courthouso. Whllo this run of luck was hitting Roberts. Bennlon'ii men worn all showing better, form than was expected of them. Von Pelt, Beal nml Udy, threo youngsters who woro trying for the forward placed, developed Jots of speed and accurnoy. With Mclntyro and Brlggs bolh worklnn at center, that placo was well tnkon caro of. Captain Skldmoro, of course, was known to bo a groat guard, but no ono expected ex-pected that retcrson would bo r.uch a wonder on tho defense. Things movod along nicely for the varsity and each time they performed thoy showed themselves to have Improved until last Tuesday night, when they ran up S2 points against tho Montana university uni-versity team. In that game, however, Petcreoh's kneo was badly twisted and it Is probable that Bennion will not use him ajaln this season. Potoroon Is a classy track man and Bennion Is afraid that his kneo might get co lamo as to koop him from the track. Tomorrow's gamo will. In all probability, r.how Just about whoro ' tho championship of tho state will go. Manager Fcrron of tho varsity team expects that the big Deseret gymnasium will bo crowded with enthusiasts