Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-02 | Page 10 | Interest is Keen in A. C.-U, Game Tonight

INTEREST IS KEEN II U.lGiETOim Contest Promises to Be Bitterly Bit-terly Fought; Parade and Band Music. Otic of llio closest, hardest fought ami most interesting basket ball games of yuy.r 1 1 ci)ci.-tod tonight, when the LTni-oraity LTni-oraity of Utah and the Utah Aggie quintettes quin-tettes meet at the DesenH gymnasium in tlte first contest tlii.s your between the iwo hoop apgresations. The game will Ktwrt nrornptly at 8 o'clock. Apparently, Utah and the Aggies will light It out for the state championship this year, and, Judtfins from all available dupe, they are veiy evenly matched. In jsotnc quarters the Apsrles are thouglit to J have n slight advantage. The addition of Captain Uolo Spencer flnd Lester Jarvis, former West nigh school stars, to the ranks of the Aggies has been responsible for the boosting of t he l.o'aii stock, but to counterbalance this advantage the largest number ot high school stars entered the "U" this year that has ever before gone up at one time. Though mot,o them do not measure up to the standard of Spencer n- Jarvis. there are more of them, and it Ik thought, that they are a better bunch of pla. vera than the remainder of the Aggie frquad. l.olo Hpencer and Glenn Sumsion are slated to play the forward positions for the Aggies. Niels Nielsen will hold down tne center job and Lester Jarvis and I Andy Mohr t he guard positions. Clarence Clar-ence Ttudine and Orson Wright will etart at forwards for Utah; Merlon Stevenson, center, and Homer Warner and Will Koinney. guards. Sam Beal will probably relieve Vi right at forward some time durin- the contest. Students of the two schools axe taking a keen interest in the bal tie tonight, because- the victor is likely to he the winner win-ner of the state title, and the Utah cham-njons cham-njons are slated to play the Colorado champions for the conference title. Arrangements Ar-rangements for t he Interstate game were made at the recent conference meeting in Denver. The Utah .tud-nts will hold a parade before the contest and will bring their "bund to tho same Interest In the contest con-test hns risen considerably anions: them dunnt: the past few days. Much "pepper was displayed at the basketball rally yesterday yes-terday forenoon. Homer Warner will officially act as captain of the Utah five tonight for the iifst time. He is the only man on the Muad who made a letter last vear, and he has acted as temporary captain in all the games litis reason. The men elected him to the job by a unanimous " ot e. Keerved seats for tonight's game will e obtainable today at Stieknev's and the 'est ret gym. c