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Show TOOELE OUT TO REPRESENT s. ypi Defeat L. D. S. U. in Title Game and Earn Right to Participate in State Tourney. Tooele 29 L. D. S. U 20 In one of the most thrilling- basketball contests seen on a Salt Lake floor, the Tooele hoopers yesterday won the championship cham-pionship of the Salt Lake division by defeating- the L. D. S. U. five. 29 to 20. The game was played on the Granite floor. The victory gives the Tooele quint the representation in the state high school tournament. The L. D. S. U. was favoriU to win the game, owing to past performances. The Gold and Blue won the division title last year and went through the league season without a defeat this season, so their supporters did not have any great fear of the Smeitermen. The Tooele team had everything to win and little to lose and played the game in a hard, aggressive fashion. The Smeitermen possess a much more rugged lineup than the Saints and they made their size count throughout the piay, both on tleups and in the general floor work. The game was no gentle exhibition, as may be gleaned from the foul tries of j the two teams. Sixteen fouls were called against the Saints and twenty-one were charged to Tooele. Four "personals" on each team were called. Tooele Leads at Half. Tooele took the lead at the start when Kirk rolled in a foul, but Haymoni tied the count on a like pitch. Another foul pitch put the Saints ahead and then Kirk came hack with another one-point goal. Mont Preece put the Salt Lake team in the lead with a field basket, only to have Staples put in two field goals in success ion. From this stage of the battle bat-tle until the end of the first half Tooele was never headed, and the first period en-Jed lj to 13. The scoring of 'the first half follows: Tooele Field goals. Staples (2), Kirk 2, Harris 1: fonls. Kirk 5 out of S trie. L. D. P. V. Field goals, M. Preece U. S. Preece (lj; fouls, Haymond S out of 1J tries. In the second half the Saint3 rarr.e bark strong, and hardly had the hall been to?s.ei into the center when Connie Hay-mond Hay-mond tied the s-ore with a basket from the field. A pitch from the fo il line put the Saints one ahead. Kirk tied the score with a free try, which proved sur-eful. sur-eful. Field goals by Harris and Cooper, the Tooeie guards, cave the .Smeitermen a four-point margin, and the Saints never came within thrr-e points of the visitors after that time. Early in fhe second half Captain P.n Claw-on suffered an injury to his knee, forcing i.'.s retirement. Tooele display-d a wonderful zuar-l Ifne. The Saints, when within pit-.hing distance dis-tance of the haaket. were covered ho (jui- kly that thev were f erred to shoot much faster than they have bn cusiorr.ed to in n gue r on tests. Cap' a in Fred f'oo;,er of the Srnelterrnen w;i nil over the floor and h:s K'jari won favorable favor-able comment from ail quarters. Tooele Is Superior. The Smel'Tmf n w-r? certainly the b?t tfrn yest.rday. Tl.Hr pas.;ng and a il-aro'jnd t-;i m work v. f-re superior to liios" i( the Saints. The ToopIp tr-arn i n x ten f if if j c, ,H is f o the S;i 1 r Take team's four. On trie foul pir.hing, Hay-rr.ond Hay-rr.ond zi twelve out of twenty-one. X:f-n arid Kit k rna !e nine pi: hea in sixteen a!" m p ' s. The two !"H!ns us."! d i f f c r f n t f vlf-q. i The Too tf-a m in a cra ppy and wry att-TPHve tpufn, while th- Stin!fl f-P f-P .nd '-n sp'-'-d. It was not nf fn that the Salt I-ake boys really had a charge to show 'h-ir rn'-tr.. owing to the tight p i a v i : . ir r , f t ; ; o visitors. Harvfv Kirk, with four fi-M goals, wan . hisrh scorr-r. I fe (rot several nr-at ' has- kft and din;, laved mull p''. Mnrt M arris, fit g la :d, phi;, fl bnllhi nt ball, bo - ii on the offensive a nd ) Vnd vv of . tit odiori, .-'fap- arri .srrli;m Old fh-ir '. p(,ar- of the floor work and (7,,rT , pla ved in sr" -'-'if ula r form. Thf Tooco . !' n'uld i,'.ve a jfood account of thtrn-' thtrn-' s in th tt,ii- mc-t. f Kor the Ha inf.", Sherrn J'r'-ff., at f"n- ( t"-r, and Mont free' e, at forward, never i-'n;f up The fh:ht. '),,. v.-oi k of triene , two lad f iiroutfjoiil fr;o r-'enon has b'-n ; cor," i h ' n t. a n rn u h T !n- c re I It fr,r t',p te,,if;' hho-Ainfc' ;m iij(; H,, nr. hfOth- ( ei.H, C'-ipTfiin fl'-n ) 'l.-i 'A-sori. wiin has ex-( ex-( p'r.en' ' rtii'-h !ro-jhle wl'h an Inlurr-'l kl.eo, showed Hi-'irtw. h-if w;i n fnrrr f,ijt ! (V.'ir.K fo hi hi"". Connie I f -t viriond was ( L-:(;.r'l'd an le has n-ver he..rt w.-it'hed I bCore arid di l not have rinj' h chari'e. Jerry Leaver, the freshman pi-ard. siiould become a star with another year's experience. ex-perience. A crowd estimated at 2000 saw the contest. con-test. Lee Simmons and "Willard Ashton, who officiated, ran off a fast game, despite the lartre number of fouls. Ljneup and summary: TOOELE C9). Fd.G. Fr.T. Fl.G. T.P. Staples, If 2 0 0 4 Kirk, rf 4 10 9 17 Stephens, c 1 0 . 0 2 Harris, lg 2 0 0 4 Cooper, rg l 0 0 2 Totals 10 16 9 29 L. D. S. L". (20). Fd.G. Fr.T. Fl.G. T.P. M. Preece, If 1 0 0 2 C. Haymond, rf . . . . 1 21 12 14 S. Preece. c. and rg. 2 0 0 4 Leaver, lg 0 0 0 0 Clawson, rg 0 0 0 0 Cooper, c 0 0 0 0 Totals 4 21 12 20 Referee, Lee Simmons; umpire, Willard Ashton. |