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Show NEW CHAMPION II EVERY HIGH SCHOJJPORT f Former Title-holders Displaced Dis-placed by Newcomers Who Showed Their Superiority in 1916. j The year 1916 in high school sports i) marked the displacement of all the for 1 j mer champions. Ogden in football, j Branch Agricultural college in baskot-i baskot-i ball, West High school in baseball and Payson in track and field were the new monarchs to take the throne. Tho most popular sport in the Utah 1 high schools is basketball. No pastime (j in the west has taken such a strong , ! hold ou Utah boys as the hoop game. , j Practically every secondary school in j the state "plays basketball, and the Utah High S'-linol Athletic association makes : i it 'possible for four teams to meet iu , the final contests to decide the scholastic scholas-tic championship. The Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural college presented a machine that could holds its own with many college col-lege teams. Baseball did not prove much of a success. The sport was regarded as an 1 added expense and, although the local : and Weber county schools plaved the , game, the interest in the diamond pastime was at low ebb and it proved ' a failure from a financial standpoint. I Murdock academy, champions for i manv years in track and field, was : displaced by Payson. l'ootball enjoyed a prosperous season. Ogden again came into the foremost rank with its weil-oiled machine, and won the title. Prospects for the new year are bright. Basketball is as popular as ever, with several new schools in the race. The league season promises to bring forth many stirring contest?, al-. al-. though the Branch Agricultural college j reigns favorites again, j Track and field should flourish as a i result of the many new athletes in ! s.-hool and the departure of several : stars. The addition of the javelin ! throw is expected to make the meets , more spectacular. Ocden, with its champions, will meet I a different football situation next year with tho departure of the majority of j tho Tigers. Other schools in the league ; will bold over the majority of this year 's players. At the annual meeting of the T'tah i High School Athletic association sev- eral new rules of more or less importance impor-tance were adopted. ! One new state record in the discus ; throw was established. OGDEN HIGH GRIDDERS ARE TITLE WINNERS The 1916 season marked the re-entrance of the Ogden High school into 1 the foremost rank of Utah high schools. Winning ail its games, with the excop-. excop-. tion of one, the Tigers presented a ma- 1 (Continued on Page Three.) IE1 CHAMPION II EVERY Hi SGHQDL SPORT Former Title-holders Displaced Dis-placed by Newcomers Who Showed Their Superiority in 1916. (Continued from Page One.) i-hiii e that rivaled any high school eleven in the west. Ogden lost one game, and that to Davis county, but they reversed this defeat later by beating Davis 26 to 6, in the deciding contest. Other games won by Ogden were against West High, East High, Boise, Granite and Jordan. The -most thrilling battle of the year T3s annual East-West game, which the Panthers won in the final five min-1 min-1 utes to play. The score of this game , was 7 to 6. It was the West High's most glorious victory of the year and the Leopard's most bitter defeat. East High won many friends through-out through-out Montana by its wonderful game against the Billings eleven. Football fans throughout the Treasure state clamored for a game between Butte and East High, but the season was over and it was too late to arrange the game. Owing to inter-school trouble Granite would not play the ' West High, and Salt Lake authorities would not allow the East High to meet the Farmers. A player of the West High was declared de-clared ineligible during the final week of the season on account of disregarding disregard-ing the ago limit and all the Paiither y times were thrown out, giving Davis countv high second place in the race, with 'East High third. In Utah county Pay son presented a formidable eleven, holding East High to a 12-6 score and winning the remainder re-mainder of its games. Tooele Grants-vitle Grants-vitle and Eureka also enjoyed a fair season. BRANCH A. C. VICTOR IN STATE HOOP MEET Tiie first basketball championship to be taken to southern Xj tali was won last spring by Jack Christensen 's Branch Agricultural college quintette of s t-'edar Citv. It was Christensen 's fifth team in the state tourney, and without a doubt his best bunch." On the first night of the annual meet at Brigham City, Lehi trounced the Cedar Ce-dar City bovs, who were without the services of their coach, but in the final contest B. A. C. won back lost honors and with it the state title. Other -quintettes in the meet were: Tooele, ralt Lake division; Boxelder, northern dmsion; Lehi, Nebo and Alpine division. di-vision. The 1916 sea-son was p. successful one in all save the Salt Lake division. The play was fast, and Utah's reputation in L basketball was upheld by all the sec-ondary sec-ondary institutions. Christensen 's five was regarded fast enough to hold its own with the majority major-ity of college quints. The men were exceptionally speedy and three of the players had considerable experience in I previous years. Thorley and Griffin, iiew phi vers, fit into the machine in fine stylo. As previously mentioned, the divisions di-visions .hail a peaceful season, except the local section of the Salt Lake division. di-vision. The storm had been threatening threaten-ing all season and it broke when in the contest which would probably have decided the local representatives, several G ranite players were injured irj the game with tho West High. Action was then taken bv tho principals of Jordan. Granite, L. D. S. U., East High and West High, and they decided to withdraw with-draw from the association, leaving Tooele to go to the meet without playing play-ing off the division title game. PAY SON TRIUMPHS IN ANNUAL TRACK MEET The 1016 track and field season proved successful in the high schools, although but one new record was set up during the entire season. The annual an-nual University of Utah invitational track and field meet was won by the Tayson High school, with Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural college second and East High school third. Payson won the meet with four men Macbeth, Oberhaosley. Ballard and Mills. Macbeth raptured firsts in tin1 .100 and 220, while Oberhanslcv took the 440 fn, Mills the hurdles.' Bal-land Bal-land was the fourth man in the relay. The Br.lneh Agricultural college ath- letes proved a- disappointment to their followers. The Ceoar City boys were strong favorites for high honors, but ill fortune and ineligibility knocked Coach Jack Christensen 's hopes hard. The East High school showed a marked improvement during the past season, 'winning the Salt Lake division title and puttiug up a neat fight in the state events. Walter Hansen of the Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural college was the only athlete to set a new record, hurling the .discus 108 feet, 8 inches. The record was formerly for-merly held by Kay of Ogden, with 101 feet. Among remarkable performances during dur-ing the past season was the running of the 440-vard dash by .Leonard Bow-en Bow-en of tho B. A. C. in "a crippled condition, con-dition, due to a spike wound. Had he not been spiked it is thought that he would have established new record for the quarter-mile. Adam Seegmiller of B. A. C, in the SSO-yard run, set such a driving pace in that event that he had an easy time and was never in danger. His work was a feature of the meet. For the 1017 season the Branch Agricultural Agri-cultural college and the East. High loom up as the promising contenders for first honors. Paysou lost their star ah-Iptcs ah-Iptcs through graduation and that school is not regarded strong enough to beat out the other two opponents. BASEBALL FAILS TO AROUSE ENTHUSIASM Baseball in Utah high schools, failed to enjoy a very prosperous season. The first reason was that the Salt Lake schools, where the game is played most, withdrew from the high school association associa-tion and only match games were idayed. Trouble between the West tligh school and Granite prevented the two institutions from meeting, and also prevented the East High from playing the Farmers. The West High school had the better bet-ter club, beating all the other local institutions, in-stitutions, as well as the University of Utah. Such star pi a vers as M!vin Snelgrove, Allen Conkright and Maurice Mau-rice Stiefel were on the Panthers' roster. East High njso had a strong nine, but. inabilitv to hit in the pinches lost several sev-eral titrht battles. Baseball is not a paying sport in the high schools, as there is generally no admission charged and the school treas-urv treas-urv is drawn upon for the espouse incurred in-curred , on tho diamond. |