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Show ! CONCLUDES IIS ; lilS TRIP Basket Shooters Will Return Re-turn Tonight After Tri-umphal Tri-umphal March Through : Wyoming-and Montana. j PLAY FUTURE GAMES IN THE DESERET GYM Tremendous Interest Cen-j1 Cen-j1 ters in Friday's Brittle V With Aggies; Strained Relations Denied. , The University of Utah basketball tira "will return today from its suocess-northern suocess-northern trip through Wyoming ami '.Montana. Tomorrow Coach Nelson H. SNorgren will begin drilling his men for jiie game Friday night with the Agri-tultural Agri-tultural college team. His men are said io be fit and should gi.'o the Aggies a .strenuous run. The dope seems sughtlv lo favor the university iu tho coming i ame, although the strength of the I jortnern team is still a matter of eon-1 eon-1 lecture. ' The Aggies, according to information jrom Logan, are keenly desirous of low-;nng low-;nng the crimson colors. They are still I jmarting under their football defeat, ind every effort has been exerted by ihc team to humble the university atli- Ittes. that the farmers have a strong Iram is fairly sure, and that the team rill fight to 30 per cent better advantage advan-tage when in the presence of univer-lity univer-lity rooters and colors is likewise certain, cer-tain, with the result that local fans ire hesitant in backing tho local boys. Players Improved. i Coach Norgren's players are in great ihape. according to messages from Bill Slaughn, manager of the team, who is on tiie trip, tie said in a recent tele-para tele-para that tho players had rubbed off I lot of the rough spots and were going such faster than at the first ot the ifason. In the north they have had Several hard battles which have shown iem their strength and also have taken v dme of the overconlidenco out of them. " the university players, after the game ith the speedy Brigham Young college iam, instantly came to a correct judgment judg-ment of their ability, and now Coach orgren is not so much worried about jvercoLfidence. The boys get his point if view and know that they will liave ti keep going at top speed to win from lev of their opponents, j 'The eight players have' had plenty of tjortunity to 6how their worth to tho I Bach, and most ot them eagerly embraced em-braced the opportunity to make the lest of it. Coach Norgren has now two :'.od lives. lie will alternate them in ,tost of the games, so that each man, till play a large portion of the time. )his scheme is necessary, owing to the ;ivy schedule for this year. For in-iance, in-iance, on the Xonday "following the bine with tb-3 Aggies, the champion ilinois AtlWtic club team will arrive i Salt Lake. They will tackle tho irsity 7onday night. Local fans, en-.rcragfrd en-.rcragfrd by the recent showing or the (ayvvG, are fairly confident or a vic-ri vic-ri over the celebrated eastern team. it Deseret Gym. ''la order that tho downtown fans wy have a better opportunity of seeing liture varsity games, the management 5 arranged for games in the Deseret jmnasium. The next two battlos will t Etaged thore, both starting at 8 'eloek. The downtown public is disiu-ined disiu-ined to go up to the university heights ir anything short of a football game, 1 past results have shown, and hence-Inh hence-Inh they will have their local favorer favor-er near at hand. jXhe men on the varsitv crew who look kc Biuo prospects for first team berths ie Captain Eldon Beal. Briggs, Rom-V, Rom-V, Knowlton, Udy, Clark, Packard, .clntvre, Van Pelt find Abbott. Tho 'fiibility of-Packard has improved the liMty chances a wholo lot. Tho A. C. Ilally withdrew its objection to tho r player, being convinced through e reports of Professor Walter A. Kerr 1 " tho university of the veteran's A' IpMlity. 1'espite recent reports, Professor Kerr aintains that athletic relations be-veon be-veon tho1 two conference members iu tan are good and growing better. Ho aorsed the AggieB' action in regard lino Packard matter and gave as fur-Jer fur-Jer evidence of tho fairness of the ('thorn authorities in regard to Utah :e fact that their represontativo to the Oky mountain conference withdrew ' objection to tho namo of Packard ncn ho was shown through figures, re-Ms re-Ms and letters that the former B. Y. .star was not a professional, tmversity students will hold a rally Borrow in honor of their homecoiu-I, homecoiu-I, according to popular sentiment at |