Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-14 | Page 47 | Hoop League Enlarged by Three Teams

HOOP LEAGUE ENLARGED BY THHEETEAfifiS. Board of Control Creates Two Sections in Salt Lake Division ; Northern Is Straightened Out. The board of control of the Utah High School Athletic, association met yesterday afternoon and cleared up several sev-eral puzzling situations. The redisricting redisrict-ing of the Northern and Salt Lake divisions di-visions was completed. It was decided that President James E. Muss act as arbitrator in deadlocks between divisions. A board of three members will be elected between divisions divi-sions to settle their eligibility questions and to take up other matters. In the case of a deadlock, the president will cast tho deciding vote. The Northern division puzzle arose over the proposed switching of Davis County high to Salt Lake and of merging merg-ing Ogdt n and WebT acHdcniv with the upper half nf the Northern division. The hoard voted to have the divisions arranged ar-ranged as last year, namely: North Cache, South Cache. Boxelder, Ogden, Weber academy and Davis county in one section and Coalville, Morgan (Continued on Following Page.) 00 THREE GITS TP BASKET LEAGUE (Continued From Preceding Pago.) Park City and Kamas in the other. In the Salt Lake division the addition addi-tion of L. P. S. V., Granite and Jordan made it necessary to form tivo sections. As arranged, the'East High. West Hifrh, Grantsville and Tooele will he in one and Granite, Murray, L. D. S. U., Jordan Jor-dan and Bingham in the other. The members of the board discussed the reinstatement of the L. 1). S. U., Granite and .Jordan high schools and all voiced their opinion that the move, was a good one and one which will promote pro-mote harmonv in the league. The members mem-bers also said they were considering the wishes of students by the reinstatement more than those of the school authorities. authori-ties. Inasmuch as the Salt Lake division has been rearranged the coaches are asked to meet this afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Hotel T'tah to draft new schedules. In the Northern division Representative J. W. Peters will call the schedule meeting. Prior to the board of control meeting the principals of the Salt Lake division divi-sion met and elected Osmon Justesen of Grantsville, member to the board. T. W. Benuion of the Sanpete-Sevier division and Jack Christensen of Southern South-ern division, were not present.