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Show WEBER WINS TITLE BY VICTORY OVER BINGHAM HOOPERS Superior Accuracy in Basket Shooting Gives the Normal School Championship of Interscholas-tic Interscholas-tic Division for Second Time; Miners, Though Outplayed, Battle Hard to End of Contest. WEBER NORMAL COLLEGE of " Ogden won the 1919 basketball championship of Utah in the high school class when they defeated Bingham's hoop five, 44 to 25. in the titular match of the Utah high school basketball tournament last nijrht in the University of Utah gymnasium. gym-nasium. Malcolm Watson is coach of the championship team. Tills is the second time that Weber has captured the honors, the Weber team in 1913 taking the first position. These two teams survived the eliminations elimina-tions after the Branch A. C, the leading quint, dropped out Saturday. Bingham won from ypring-ville, while Weber defeated de-feated Wasatch academy of Heber. Last nipht's victory for Weber was the second over Bingham. Friday afternoon Weber won, 39 to 25, and last night's bat-tin bat-tin was nearly a repetition of Friday's match. Weber Maintains Lead. The main factor that won the championship cham-pionship for Weber last night was their superiority In basket shooting. Although Bingham showed some classy floor- work at times, the basket shooting was poor, and the Weber quint, after securing a lead, maintained it throughout and was never in any danger of being overtaken; The game was hard fought. Not for a minute did the Bingham warriors give up hope. For a high school contest the play was rough, fifteen fouls being called on Weber, while the officials caught the Bingham hoopsters in thirteen mlsplays. Many of these were of the personal nature," na-ture," but Jeppson, the big Weber guard, was the only man who was put out on the four personal fouls rule. Whitely, the sensational forward of the Bingham rive, was the only man from the mining town who could find the hoop for his team. Taking into consideration that Bingham wa-s 1 on the short end of the score throughout, Whitely's record of six field goals and eleven out of fifteen shots from the foul line, for a total of twenty-three twenty-three points,, was a big feat. George Knudsen, at forward, secured the other two points for Bingham, but Georse was off in his shooting last night, like the other members of the team. Forwards Are Fast. Weber's reliable forward. Scharie, ran Whitely a close race for individual honors, making six llekl baskets, with ten foul pitches, twenty-two being his total. His tossing has been the feature of the tournev. Jones, at center for Weber, played his usual si rang game, connecting for seven goals. Throughout he was in the middle of the frav, and, although the Bingham men watched him closely, he had little difficulty dif-ficulty in getting off for a basket quite frequently. j The defense of the Weber aggregation was strong, as usual. Jeppson played a ) sterling game throughout, and, although i he was sent out, his fast,- all-around guarding prevented a number of Bingham scores. George Knudsen, who was play- ing right forward for Bingham, was held down to a single goal. Gregorv, at guard, showed up well. Although Al-though his man, Schade, made twenty-two twenty-two points. Gregory played a fighting game and time after time intercepted a Weber pass and followed it up with a dribble down the floor, but he lacked lib--usual basket-shooting ability, or the Bingham score would have been much larger. Fouls Cost Scores. During the first few minutes of play the teams appeared quite even. Neither team could get a clean shot at the hoop and the ball worked its way up and down the floor. Finally. Whitely .started the scoring when he tossed in a foul a fter Jonpson was caught holding. Another foid shot for pushing helped Bingham. Schade evened up the score with a goal from the edge of the foul line. Whlioly sent Bingham ahead with a long shot from tho right, and, after Schade missed a foul pitch, Belnap evened the count at 1 al! with a basket. Uindsay then placed Weber abend by dribbling down the floor and connecting for a goal. From this point on. Weber was never behind. The latter part of the half, the Bingham guards relaxed in their vigilance, and Weber quickly forged ahead. Tho score at the half was 24 to 14. During the first period the field baskets and foul shots were divided up as follows; Field goals: Weber Snhad 2, Jopey '. Lindsay 1. Binchftm Whitely 3, G. Knnd- j sen 1. Foul goals Whitely, G out of h; j Schade, 4 out of 6. j Second Half Speedy. t Weber started out strong in the second j half. Jones started the period with a j goal and three foul pitches, and a basket by Schade weiv made before Bingha m ! . could find tho hoop. Whitely finally gnt ! one for Bingham. Two goals by Belnap ! and another basket by .Schade. coupled 1 with four free throws were made before j Whitely counted again with a foul shot. . Whitely then showed some spectacular: playing ami scored six points in a speedy ; ' manner tliat took the Weber boys off , their foot. However, Hchade fitia.Il v goi a field goal followed bv a free shot by, Whttely. S''!;ado finished up the scaring' ' with a perfect foul toys, making the score 41 to 25. Whitely in the J final session scored every point for Bingham. Weber Rooters Heard. Both schools were out in full force, the Weber delegation occupying the western section of the gym while f the Bingham rooters were opposite. With the aid of two competent cheer lcadqrs, the Weber scheel out yelled their opponents. Although Al-though the crowd was noti as large as in the other games, the gvrnnksium was well filled. j A pennant, given by the Western Arms, will be awarded the Weber quint. Much credit must be given thd university authorities au-thorities who conducted tfhe tourney. As far as the university wa ; concerned, the meet was run off in a smooth manner. The only hitch this year was the Branch A. C. withdrawal, and this action was due to the matching of tic Branch A. C. with the Webor team for the second time, after the B. A. C. had already eliminated the Weber team. However, the university was in no way connected with this action, as the officials of the titan High School Athletic association decided which teams would meet. The board fof control of the association will meet Saturday afternoon to decide what action jwill be taken in the Branch A. C case. This is the first time (the state university univer-sity has attempted to caire for the basketball basket-ball tourney, but in future years the university uni-versity will probably beta strong bidder. Lineup and summary:) W FBI. fit. Fd.d. Fr.T. Fl.G. T.P. Belnap, if o 0 0 6 Schade, rf ti 1?. 10 22 Jones, o 7 fi 0- 14 Jeppson, lg 0 0 0 0 Lindsay, rg I 0 0 2 Wiggins, lg 0 j 0 0 0 Totals- 17 J 13 10 44 BINGHAM. ! FdiG. Fr.T. Fl.G. T.P. Whitely, If G ' 15 11 23 G. Knudsen, rf 1 0 '0 2 Pahlstrom, c 0 0 0 0 Gregory, lg I o n 0 E. Knudsen, rg 0 0 0 0 James, c 0 0 0 0 Totals 7 15 11 25 Referee, Wid Ash ton; umpire, II. G. I Iticnardson. |